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Eighty entries for a blogwagon is more than anyone could hope for, except actually it would’ve been nice to have had 20 extra blogposts to fill out a nice, round d100 table. I guess we can’t all be ktrey of d4 Caltrops. Oh well. Here is...
When I took the Kyiv - Chișinău train last summer, I must admit it was not my best journey. Having boarded it just a few kilometres into Ukraine at Mohyliv-Podilskyi, it then crawled its way across Moldova, on a circuitous and slow route...
Using a name that isn’t your everyday name when your Starbucks barista asks you for it is a small powerful act. It won’t do much to defeat surveillance capitalism, but it’s very good for personal bravery-building. “I am, today, who I say...
Now that I’ve finished listening to Stephen Fry’s audiobook of Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, I’m dreaming of an adaptation of His Last Bow starring Brent Spiner and LeVar Burton. 📚🍿🖖🏻
I write about masculinity so you feel less crazy and more vindicated. Subscribe.First, a huge announcement and honestly a bit of a pinch-me moment for us: Marc Maron is coming on Boy Problems, and we’re doing it live!!Marc has spent...
Om Malik–GigaOm founder, True Ventures partner, and one of the writers who, as the article I’m linking to puts it, taught Silicon Valley to read itself–died on June 24 after a long road with his heart. He was 59. I corresponded with Om...
The following extract from the work-in-progress is a narrative of the prosecution witness Jesse J. Norgaard third trial testimony. And for the third time, Norgaard told how Roscoe Arbuckle allegedly tried to bribe him for the keys to...
Whooper swan with young on nest (photo from Wikimedia) 26 June 2026 This week I received a video from our friends in Finland where the whooper swans (Cygnus cygnus) have returned to the lake outside their cottage. When we visited Finland...
Modern ideas of race and racism are largely based on skin color, but the Middle Ages saw many other factors. To quote (again) Regino of Prüm:"Nor should it be forgotten that, just as different nations of people differ from one another in...
I wanted to jump in here quickly and assure folks who are looking for the next posts on ark that they are coming. A combination of events slowed me down temporarily. But I’ve got Part 4 partially done and I will get it out as soon as I...
Dostalo se mi možnosti přednášet na OSSConf v Žilině. Tak se tam do toho pustím hned dvěma přednáškami.
Welcome to this week's Link Dump! Our hosts for this Friday are Goldie and Brownie!Because why not.A plague outbreak from over 5,000 years ago.A case of explosive revenge.A medieval communication network.How angry fishermen saved the...
Noah Smith shared a note he’s shared about phones a few years ago – “15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.” It hit hard.
I'm not paying seventy bloody quid for an official PS5 controller - so I found a knock-off version for a smidge under £40. And this one has lots of unnecessary blinkenlights! Gamrombo is the consumer-facing brand of the generically named...
So Britain will soon wave off yet another prime minister; they’ve been dropping like flies ever since the 2016 Brexit vote. At the Guardian, John Crace snarks that come Remembrance Sunday they’ll need more space around the Cenotaph for...