The Emu Café Social
Nicholas A. Ferrell
The Emu Café Social is a social-publishing site powered by WordPress. Members will be able to use the site to post about what interests them and discuss their external projects. While the site is conducive to short-to-medium-length posts, it also accommodates longer-form writing. By advertising feeds and user profiles, it will be easy for visitors to follow individual writers or to follow the project as a whole. In general, members of the site can and will post about subjects of interest to them.
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I became aware that Grokipedia, the Grok-powered AI answer to Wikipedia, had cited to my NLJ article Outline Guide to Persona 3 FES The Answer. I previously wrote about Grokipedia making questionable use of one of my anime reviews. But it cited to my Persona 3 article for its entry Characters of _Persona 3_ (see...
Replied to Linkfest #35: Diasimocracy, Four Loko Collectors, and What It's Like To Survive A Grizzly Attack by Clive Thompson (The Linkfest) I live next to the Gowanus Canal, a phantasmagorically polluted industrial waterway in Brooklyn. Touching it with your bare hand would give you, like, syphilis or something. I...
The Pook-Emu Bee, your favorite (or “favourite” if you prefer British English) daily links collection, returns after taking two days off for Newsletter Leaf Journal Saturday and Easter. 1. E-Bikes = Freedom (Matthew Morgan at World of Matthew. April 6, 2026.) The “Why the hatred of e-bikes?” section summarizes my...
Quoted Ad Blocker Usage and Demographic Statistics in 2026 by Backlinko Team (backlinko.com) Indonesia has the highest national ad-blocker penetration rate (40.1%) [according to GWI]. I came across an article on Backlinko featuring statistics about worldwide ad blocker usage. Different surveys noted in the article...
Quoted Unexpired :o 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXIV by N.A. Ferrell (The Newsletter Leaf Journal) Issue 274 of The New Leaf Journal features links to three new NLJ leaves and 15 ECS posts, 24 links from around the web (concluding with an Easter flavor), a link to a rubbery Mondrian game, and other news and notes...
Quoted FROM PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) (Truth Social) WE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History, for one of our incredible Crew Member Officers, who also...
Quoted Inflatable Easter Bunny in Columbia Street Waterfront District (2026) by Nicholas A. Ferrell (The New Leaf Journal) I went on the hunt for a new inflatable Easter decoration to share. I found one in neighboring Columbia Street Waterfront District, this one being about a one minute walk from the foot of the...
Quoted Penelope, the Bronx Zoo Platypus That “Faked” a Pregnancy and Then Disappeared by Ellen Gutoskey (Mental Floss) Penelope came to the U.S. from her native Australia in April 1947 with two other platypuses, Cecil (a male) and Betty Hutton (a female). The news made headlines across the nation: It was only the...
Quoted More Classic Capcom Titles Have Arrived On Steam, But, Of Course, There's A Catch by Jack Yarwood (timeextension.com) [T]hese new releases are simply reissues of the GOG versions we've seen published over the past two years. However, they are already proving divisive with members of the gaming community. This...
Yesterday I shared Discover more of the Fediverse with tags.pub in my Pook-Emu Bee links for the day. The post introduces a new feature for the ActivityPub for WordPress plugin: Subscribing a site to the tags.pub relay for hashtag boosting. It provides the following instructions for self-hosted WordPress sites such...
Quoted Takopi's Original Sin [Anime Review] by Cabbage (Cabbage Sorter) This anime feels bait-y. Something about the families and the abuse being suffered, it's too clean and clinical feeling, the abusive parents are too perfectly cruel, all of them being hateable. I was also frustrated by the lack of intervention...
Another non-Saturday day ending in -day means it is time for a new set of Pook-Emu Bee. However, this will be our last Pook-Emu Bee until fun Monday. Tomorrow, Saturday, is newsletter day (which comes with about three Pook-Emu Bee’s worth of links from around the web. Sunday is Easter. I figure I can give myself...
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