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I stand in my kitchen, with the hum of the kettle boiling, and inevitably I glance at the windows of the apartment across. Bright in the morning sun, their laundry flaps in the wind, heavy with moisture, hung at weird angles along the...
Spittlebugs made this, 28 June 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 29 June 2026 Sunday morning started foggy so there were only five of us for the Schenley Park outing. Four are pictured below with Charity Kheshgi holding the camera. By the...
Excitement about returning to Venice and meeting Chicken and the hardness of my bed mean that I’m up early. Almost as soon as I start walking, I see Dante’s tomb ahead of me. I walk up to it and peer in. Nobody else is around. There’s...
This is the weekly visible open thread. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. ACX has an unofficial subreddit, Discord, and bulletin board, and in-person meetups around the world. Most content is free, some is...
The Frock Flicks team is a taking a little summer break, so we’re repeating some
Written by MichaelIn our last meeting, we came across Mrs. Halibut, who is concerned because her daughter Gabby is stuck inside this cave. But before we can do anything, she tries to go in after Gabby, and gets caught in the small...
I was recently featured on Hidden Voices, a website that celebrates indie authors. Source
Love these flower pride flags.
Georg Szalai and Alex Weprin for The Hollywood Reporter: In a major move that reshapes the media landscape, Comcast plans to separate into two independent publicly traded companies through a tax-free spin-off of NBCUniversal and Sky, the...
My wife and I recently returned from a holiday in England and Switzerland, and I took the chance to experiment with not writing here. I think it was a good break, not having to think about what to share here, and just being able to...
Koi.
In a previous post, I discussed several chart forms that can be used to illustrate time-series data with seasonality and trending. The post was inspired by a blog post at the Energy Institute at Haas. I held off on discussing one of the...
“I’m not sure if it’s a New York thing or not, but I love that small business owners have artists paint the sides of their trucks with absolutely outlandish graffiti scenes. These panel trucks roam the city with just some hand applied...
The attempt to limit contact with Jews in public and keep their public authority diminished forced them to wind up being more crucial than ever to society.Canon 69 of the Fourth Lateran Council decreed that Jews should be prevented from...