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Having just fulfilled our vow to read at least one story from each issue of Weird Tales with a 1924 cover date, let's get cracking on 1925, with three 1925 stories from Frank Belknap Long, a fancy dresser with exciting hair. We were just...
Made a couple of more tweaks to the CSS. Dove deeper this time, used Claude to help me figure out how to get to these elements in the CSS: footnotes’ anchor (the super-text number) and the arrow leading back to the original post. Looks...
Pick up a fossil and you are holding evidence of a life.Not merely an old rock. Not an attractive geological paperweight. Not something the Earth made solely to tempt us into climbing unstable slopes in inappropriate footwear.A fossil is...
While I’ve visited Chicago many times in the past 15 years, they were usually for Market Days – the LGBTQ+ street festival held every August. During those trips we rarely ventured outside of Boystown, the bars or the nightly late-night...
I’ve been toying around with pinhole photography of late, and picked up a Mia Mezzaluna 6x9 camera. The banner image is a 10 minute long exposure I took of myself. It was quite fun trying not to move for that long and I entered a weird...
From Michael Bracewell’s novella The Smiths, in which the narrator describes first hearing ‘Hand in Glove’:And was there some stratum of attitude, somewhere in the lower register, that brought to mind the interior monologue of a drily...
For the record, the only agents I have representing my work are Booklyn; who focus on placing reasonably-sized art-on-paper at institutional collections, especially within the U.S. They've been instrumental in getting my work into a...
Me too, mancub, me too. Herself incubated what may possibly be plague at Bloodstock and is therefore in the Plague Cell (our daughter’s old room) once again. The internet is acting like an elephant is sitting on it. The humidity...
Julian Chokkattu • Wired “It’s proof that it can be done—if companies wanted to make eminently fixable modular products, they could,” Proctor says. “There’s no technological reason why they can’t do it; it really is what they’ve decided...
From Presentation of the Gutenberg Prize 2026 by gutenberg-gesellschaft.de:Behind this playful gesture, however, lay a serious mission. Through “Hacking Gutenberg,” Spiekermann is seeking support for p98a.berlin, a unique workshop and...
On 2 August 2026 Anthropic began watermarking the text that new Claude models produce - their support pages cover which products are marked. The watermark is not a hidden character or a bit of metadata. It is statistical. A secret key...
Carlo Bramanti is a designer and writer based in The Netherlands.We literally told you not to research:The Conspiracy to Rule the World, unknown author and dateThe following text is an excerpt from my book “Conspiratorial Design -...
“Have to be mindful of chicks and tiggers!” - said by me this morning when I was thinking of ticks and chiggers, but from now on I’m saying it this way!Hello friends! We’ve made it to a new week. We were lucky enough to have a cool front...
A rare low-humidity morning begins with crows heralding the sunrise and a screech owl trilling in the distance. Yellow clouds fade to white. A bluebird begins warbling as I open my laptop.