The Emu Café Social
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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Liked Nagoya 2026: Shin-Makushita (新幕下) by hochiyama (Tachiai) This helped me, a 30-plus year sumo fan learn the concept of 'tatakiage / 叩き上げ'. A tatakiage is actually my favorite type of recruit, one who comes straight from middle...
It has been five days since the last edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. While I ordinarily publish links in the morning and it is now the evening, I submit some late links today to keep the backlog under control. Today (June 23, 2026) was...
Liked Daily News Stuff 18 June 2026 by Pixy Misa (ai.mee.nu) Amodei is every bit as much of a weasel as Sam Altman. And while Altman is a sociopath and a compulsive liar, Amodei is something much worse: He's whiny. I look forward to...
Liked Nobody clicks your share buttons by Derek Hanson (derekhanson.blog) The UK government ran one of the most thorough studies on this. When GOV.UK added social sharing buttons, they tracked usage for 10 weeks across 6.8 million...
I missed Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday and am late today, but we can hardly let a backlog grow… so let us link today. A black Cybertruck seen parked in Brooklyn Heights. I took this photo on June 18, 2026. 1. Peeved NYC students,...
Time for a new edition of Pook-Emu Bee links on this very pretty (in Brooklyn, at least) June 16. I took this phone on June 14, 2026, to send to Victor V. Gubo. 1. SCOTUS To Newman: Drop Dead (Josh Blackman at The Volokh Conspiracy. June...
Replied to ☕If you want to buy me a coffee by Simon (Firesphere.dev) Just black coffee please. Or a double espresso. In the evening, I might like a black liquorice tea to fall asleep to. But, in general, just a black coffee. Simon at...
Monday is a fun day. One reason Monday is a fun day is because it marks the return of Pook-Emu Bee links after the weekend. Speaking of the weekend, I published links and commentary to enjoy in Saturday’s Newsletter Leaf Journal 284. My...
Liked AI review: Time Witnessed by Fake History Hunter (Fake History Hunter) Also woman is merged with a table, although the witch fear wasn’t that big back [in Medieval London] (yet) I’m pretty sure someone walking through tables would...
Liked 9.0.0 — Growing Up by Matthias Pfefferle (ActivityPub for WordPress) One piece was missing, though: other people couldn’t add your WordPress blog to their lists, because your site never told their server who is allowed to do that....
I have an assignment I need to finish today. But I will not let that stop me from capping off the work-week with one more edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. Pook-Emu Bee will be off tomorrow for Newsletter Day. The scene behind my second...
According to a May 27, 2026 report in Marketing Brew by Katie Hicks titled Why so many brands are releasing music videos, ” it seems brand-created music videos are making a comeback as marketers are increasingly feeling pressure to...
Favorited The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book by Wouter Groeneveld (Brain Baking) I claimed that Good Blogging Habits Yield a Book Each Year of more than 80k words. That means compiling a hefty tome to compress all these...
Replied to My site now supports webmentions by Michael Harley (michaelharley.net) Ok you guys, I did it. I finally have webmentions working on my website. It's something I've always wanted to do but it seemed too complicated with my...
I missed Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday, but I am making sure to make up for it by starting this post yesterday. I took this photograph of the Marina at Brooklyn Bridge Park on the morning of June 7, 2026. 1. Uzbek Fighters in Syria Face...