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When you read about Android apps these days, the conversation often revolves around the biggest names on the Play Store. Productivity suites, social media platforms, subscription services, AI tools, and whatever Google happens to be...
I remember what a tear-jerker The Light Between Oceans was so I was not expecting an easy read in A Far-flung Life but it took nearly all of the 430 pages to get from tragedy to the promised resilience. This epic novel set on an...
From 1907 or so, a postcard of “New York. The site for the Tunnel Terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad 34th. St.” Why would people want a postcard of a construction site? Particularly one with a photo so blurry that someone familiar...
Take a new look at some Mike Wieringo sketches -- now in 3D! The post Mike Wieringo — in 3D! appeared first on PIPELINE COMICS.
My first radicalizing event was the loss of the Democratic candidature by Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton. (And of course Trump's election.) My second radicalizing event was covid. And now my third radicalizing event is this heatwave....
A NEW ONE-VOLUME history of punk, researched and written by Czech authors Vítek Formánek and Eva Csölleová, includes memories and recollections by musicians from across the punk spectrum, including the anarcho-punk scene. “There are,...
Translated by Jesse Kirkwood I love Seishi Yokomizo’s Kosuke Kindaichi mystery series and have read all the books currently available in English from Pushkin Press, of which this is the eighth. Originally published in 1948, She Walks at...
From The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy (Basic Books, 2017), Kindle pp. 159-161: THE TURNING POINT in the internationalization of the Khmelnytsky Revolt took place on January 8, 1654, in the town of Pereiaslav....
The sign on a grocery store in Electra, Texas. The post FOODMARKET appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
24th June 2026 A guided tour of the High Court injunction against “persons unknown” Jun 24, 2026 * Yesterday it was reported that Oxfordshire County Council had obtained a High Court injunction against those placing St George’s flags on...
We have a creek that runs down two sides of our property, which was a real selling point of the house. There are even two footbridges! I’ve loved being around water my whole life, yet I didn’t appreciate until we moved in how much the...
For a woman with a reduced summer schedule, my blogging gets off schedule more than I would have expected--I did not plan not to write for the past 2 days. On Monday, I did some intense grading and got grades turned in for the online...
I have published my first PixInsight script: ParallaxStarLayers. The idea behind it started with a simple observation: astrophotography images are usually presented as flat final images, even though the stars in them exist at very...
Let’s be clear on the background mess, before the personal attacks start, this is not about individuals. It is about patterns, systems and ideas. The danger is that criticism becomes an #adHominem argument – “you just dislike this...
Just a quick post to recognise a couple of awesome things my kids have done. I’m proud of them all the time anyway, and think they’re brilliant. Who doesn’t, I guess? It’s magic how we ignore the macro picture and focus in on the...