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Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality: To make room for the daimons is to set a distance between us and them. This enables us to reflect, and reflect on, them; or, perhaps more accurately, allows them to reflect themselves through us....
Wigan Wallgate This and more in today's update to Northern Folk Archive here - https://northernfolkarchive.pagecord.com/wigan-town-centre-13-august-2016
I wrote a few days ago about House of the Dragon Episode 1. being a bit lukewarm and in my opinion muddled and disjointed. I don't regret saying that, but if I thought it was slipping away in quality, action and script content I was...
Engrossing sort of sci fi in which a black 25yo woman in LA gets mysteriously called back in time to a plantation in the antebellum south whenever the slave owner’s life is threatened. Really powerful and horrible exposition of the...
From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 2-3: While the disintegration of the Soviet Union had been underway for some time, it became irreversible on December 1, 1991, when the...
I liked Pride so much better when it was one day celebrated by grass-roots organizations than a whole month ballyhooed by major corporations with rainbow-hued consumer goods, and with hypocritical expressions of solidarity from...
The Tent of the WickedRobert SwitzerNew York: Signet, 1956128 pagesWe begin in a despot's bedroom. Six soldiers enter, one throws the light switch, and the country's president is ordered out of bed. His mistress is a sound sleeper.This...
Over the past few weeks, conversations about TownSquare have appeared in GitHub issues, emails, Hacker News threads, blog comments, and private messages. People have shared ideas, feature requests, bug reports, screenshots, and stories...
Lopburi is the capital city of Lopburi Province in Central Thailand. Lopburi is littered with historic ruins, and the city made global headlines when it was overrun by monkeys. The city is on the Northern Line that connects Bangkok and...
So much fun. Pixar's still got it.I went to see it with my daughter, who's 37 now and still insists that we see every new Pixar movie in theaters. She was so into it. When Bonnie's friends weren't being nice to her, Jess leaned over and...
A tiny game made with PICO-8
A very exciting development has come from our recent Raiden post, with source code recovered for two long lost Imagitec projects – the unreleased Amiga/Atari Falcon versions of Raiden and the ambitious sci-fi adventure Space Junk. The...
For some time, the Facebook algorithm has been pushing posts from a group called "People Fighting Against the Marten" onto my feed. I have found it pretty amusing. The group is full of personal stories, tips, and tricks from people...
Looks Unfamiliar with David Quantick talking to Tim Worthington about Timeslip, Black Hearts In Battersea by Joan Aiken, Elephant's Eggs In A Rhubarb Tree, Boxed by Mike Oldfield, Bright's Boffins and more...!