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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It is time four our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. If you enjoy the links, you can follow via feed (although I personally recommend following the main site feed for all of my postings). Links from around the web 1. RFK Jr. Announces Plan to Teach Americans to Cook (Elizabeth Weibel for Breitbart. March 4, 2026.) I...
Quoted Mallard Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology (allaboutbirds.org) The oldest known Mallard was a male, and at least 27 years, 7 months old when he was shot in Arkansas in 2008. He had been banded in Louisiana in 1981. I subscribe to Cornell Lab’s All About Birds RSS feed. Through the feed, I...
Replied to Terrible Anime Challenge: Kanojo, Okarishimasu Season Four and Contemplating A House of Card’s Structural Viability by infinitezenith (The Infinite Zenith) [O]nce one accepts that Kanojo, Okarishimasu is a thought experiment, of what happens when a premise is pushed to its logical conclusion without...
Yesterday, I made up for missing an entry in my new daily Pook-Emu Bee links series. Today, I publish the links early in the day (which is when they should be published). Links from around the web 1. Wildflower explosion only 4 hours from LA — but it won’t last long (Katie Jerkovich for the New York Post. March 3,...
Replied to Feature: 30 Pokémon You Probably Forgot That Deserve A Second Chance by Tim Rattray (Nintendo Life) While the most popular Pokémon take centre stage for the franchise’s 30th anniversary, I figured space should be made to honour the PokéMisfits that didn’t stand the test of time. These include oddities...
Motorola and GrapheneOS announced a new partnership for developing phones that meet GrapheneOS’s security standards (see Motorola News and GrapheneOS Forum Post). This strikes me as good news after GrapheneOS ran into problems related to what Google publishes related to Pixels. I have a Pixel 6a with GrapheneOS...
I missed posting daily Pook-Emu Bee Links yesterday, but we are back in business on this rainy (in Brooklyn NYC, at least) March 3, 2026. Links from around the web 1. On veteran rival’s turf, Nepal’s rapper-turned-leader takes a swing at power. (Sahana Bajracharya for Reuters. March 2, 2026.) Out with the communists...
I am late with today’s selection of Pook-Emu Bee Links, but we need not allow a backlog to form (I have enough backlog as it is). 1. The Eerie ‘Blood’ Moon Will Grace the Night Sky Next Week, Thanks to a Total Lunar Eclipse (Margherita Bassi for Smithsonian Magazine. February 27, 2026.) Sounds neat but New York City...
I run EndeavourOS on my main workstation. I recently switched from XFCE to Cinnamon due to having flickering/performance issues with XFCE after a Nvidia update. I was still using XFCE’s Thunar as my file manager. However, I ran into a strange bug starting yesterday where toggling “show hidden files” caused Thunar to...
Welcome to edition four of my Pook-Emu Bee links of the day. Pokemon turns 30 today (although as an American, its birthday from my perspective is September 28, 1998), so we will need some links for the occasion. 1. Imagination in Pokémon Red and Blue (Nicholas A. Ferrell at The New Leaf Journal. November 18, 2022.)...
I checked the top NLJ backlinks on Ahrefs (the limited free selection). I saw Grokipedia: I understand that Grokipedia is the X AI answer to Wikipedia. While I have some documented issues with Wikipedia, I am inclined to doubt that Grokipedia is the answer. But I was curious how it referenced my review of the anime...
Posting links for the third edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. Links from around the web Maduro’s Ouster Creates Existential Crisis for Lukashenka (Dmitry Bolkunets for Jamestown Foundation. February 25, 2026.) …Minsk owed Caracas approximately $1.44 billion under these agreements … For years, Lukashenka systematically...
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