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Son Of Mustang Ford [1990]So I was still in high school when the first couple of Swervedriver EPs came out. These were Rage classics that we taped on VHS months before we could ever get our hands on the records. I mean we lived in the...
There is a word barakah in the Arabic language–and in Hebrew and Swahili–that is usually translated as “Blessings” in the English language. The concept of Blessings is among the most universal of human ideas–and among the most alien to...
June has whizzed by. Been on holiday, had more birthdays. Updates here 24 posts this month including my 300th collected 34 links for Junited which was a whole bunch of fun Progresses elsewhere a very minor home sewing project that took...
Open source (GPL licensed) macOS terminal with vertical tabs and notifications for AI coding agents. Built with libghostty. The vertical tabs support agent status and currently running server URLs. The CLI enables automation and...
Reviews / June 30, 2026 Integrati… Disintegrati Franco Leprino Eleven, 1977 The work of someone called “McPanda,” who seems to have evaporated after the LP’s release, the front cover art of Franco Leprino’s 1977 Integrati… Disintegrati...
There is so much more to the internet than your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, and chat GPTs. And these things are not known by the general masses, not because it's a quality problem, but instead it's a discovery problem....
They found a body in my lake. Actually, worse: they've found pieces of a body in my lake. It started with someone coming across a floating arm while out on their boat. It's been a very hush-hush investigation so far, but I think they've...
Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series.A class action lawsuit was filed in California on June 25th against Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, the three companies that dominate global DRAM production. Counterpoint Research puts...
Read & enjoyed: Book Review: The Dialectical Imagination: Scott Alexander on Frankfurt School Who Took A Sh*t In The Austrian Pavilion?: An inquiry into the curious incident at the Venice Biennale. Programmer Science Fiction The...
£2 for a plastic cupHere I go again, on a stunning walk in the South Hams. This is an easy one, to a special place. Catch it right, and you can walk on a sand bar - with waves lapping at your feet to the east and to the west and visit...
It wasn't always like this. In the early days, video games were for everyone. Games like Pong and Space Invaders could be enjoyed by players of any age. Pac-Man fever wasn't only an affliction of the young and old, everyone was...
Hello, loves! We have a tricky problem ahead of us, but first: the tests are too slow. Nice result, very pleased. How slow are they? Well, according to pytest’s final report, 2.4 seconds. But since PyCharm waits a moment before running...
What is Il Cinema Ritrovato? A few years back at a Bologna dinner, an important person with far more right to speak on these matters than I have, announced that for them, Il Cinéma Ritrovato was not a festival, but a museum. They spoke...
There's a lot of "small web" navigation tools out there now - bukmark.club, Marginalia Search, indieblog.page, The Forest, ooh.directory, and eighteightthirtyone are just the ones I have bookmarked. These are fun! I don't expect to get...
I’ve been writing some non-printing characters to a file. But when I concatenate, it appears empty. cat log.txt # Nothing here 🥺 cat those non-printing characters with -v: cat -v log.txt jjjj:wq^M%