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Yesterday on my lunch break I ran down to M&S at Union Square to get a few things. As I was leaving I noticed three people crowded around something on the ground next to the carpark. It was a very tiny baby pigeon – or so I thought –...
Alex HoustonandElmer Burn Your Bra, BabyWillex Records 45-72-14Willex Products, Inc.Omaha, Nebraska1972From I've Got a Song to Write--Kent Westberry's Story: 60 Years in Country Music as a Songwriter, Singer, Record Producer, and...
This film has had quite a strong online promotional presence and like many when I first saw one of the Bboy Malone videos pop up on YouTube I thought it was real; some kid literally crying about the state of the world and its not as...
Had to chuckle quite a bit while reading this article: Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape 😂 Besides the initial Dickover, there are: AI-horning Captchore Quit-shaming Cart cling...
This changes effectively nothing I care about and continues to be completely laughable. Apple has rearranged payment options, commissions and eligibility rules for alternative distribution, but there are no changes whatsoever to the...
After reading What software do you use daily in 2026? on Lobster, I learned about Chafa. Described as: The premier UX of the 21st century just got a little better: With chafa, you can now view very, very reasonable approximations of...
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Mamma mia, here we go again … Just one off season where the local women’s football scene has a normal, that’s all I ask. I might as well ask for a proper rain shower in England in August 2026. The sun has made me mad, obviously. Hastings...
Photo postcards, known as “real photos” by collectors, are premium collectibles because of the details that seem clearer than on many other postcards. They, along with other types of postcards, were what led me into writing my blog. It...
Did a fun collab with Dominic Boyer for the demented Elon Magazine, which I should be able to tease soon. Tomorrow I prepare my Dresden presentation and take care of some admin. Season 1 and 2 of SILO were good. Season 3 is frustratingly...
I feel like people checking recent posts here are going to leave, thinking, “This guy is really into birding and running and not much else”. But there’s more to me than that. I have other hobbies! I have opinions! I write lists! But I...
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High gas and oil prices may be hard on working class people, and on supply chains, but they’re good for progress on the climate crisis. I’m optimistic that cheap EVs from BYD, Slate, etc will help both sides of this tradeoff. Ideally gas...
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 109-110: The last two years of Duterte’s presidency were dominated by the pandemic. Although blame for what,...
The Outside Lands concert in SanFrancisco was a while ago, but the city has yet to paint over the signage-mural things, so I got to enjoy these indeliblefunk signage-murals.