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This is a cake I posted back in 2009: "Because crime doesn't pay, kids." And this one I posted in 2011: "It's kind of a mix between 'shushing' and 'churning.'" Well recently, Deirdre M. sent me this cake: Three wrecks of the exact same...
Julia (she/her) is a brand designer and a long time stationery lover who shares her adventures in fountain pens, inks, planning, and journaling over on YouTube (@Julia-here) and Instagram (@hi.juliahere). Background & PrepHey there!...
Summer has well and truly arrived. School is out for the kid, my FiL is here to help take care of him for the break, and temperatures are supposed to hit 100 this week. I can only hope the high temps and the potential thunderstorms keep...
Link: Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs, by Joseph Cox at 404 MediaI find this very funny:“Companies are deliberately making their AI tools speak like cavemen in an attempt to stop burning...
Art & Anita Art Thomas (1934 - 2026) was there for me, early on, during the Afrigeneas Era (IYDK, NYK), helping me develop as a family Historian and a better researcher. With much respect, I would affectionately call him; ‘Da Man!’ Now,...
In this short video, I walk through how futurists and strategists use the Three Horizons to: You’ll see how all three horizons exist at the same time, and why change is often slower than it looks—right up until it isn’t. If you work in...
Link: The Quiet Erosion of Collective Action Under Digital Surveillance, by Gina Romero in Tech Policy PressThe most important outcome of increased surveillance is a chilling effect on free speech and expression. As Gina Romero, the...
June 2026 John Rocque’s 1746 London map For some time, Matt Brown, writing on Substack’s Londonist: Time Machine, has been colouring-in the most detailed survey of London of the 18th century. Across its 24 sheets, thousands of alleys,...
A while back, Mary saw on the internet a guided butterfly holiday in the mountains of Southern Greece. While it was far more expensive than our usual package holiday deals, it would drive us to specific places to see a huge number of...
Need some tips on how to get past The Vortex? It's the story of BBC2's Douglas Adams and Dungeons And Dragons-inspired game show, The Adventure Game!
Both the ones I tried were… fine. Too sweet for my taste, but otherwise unremarkable. I don’t harbour strong feelings for the flavour, smell, mouth feel, or texture. They existed in a can, I drank them, then got on with my day. Another...
Photo by: Ailbhe Flynn via Unsplash I was into photography many years ago (like over 40 years ago), and in all this time there have been several significant changes. The single biggest is the change from analog film based photography to...
There’s something incredibly freeing about going “fuck it.” If there wasn’t, we wouldn’t have dozens of people making celebration videos of them quitting their jobs, something that is ostensibely really bad (you were getting screwed over...
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