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.
Latest Posts
Favorited I learned about an interesting YouTube video about visual novels titled A Defense of Visual Novels: What are They and What They Do Well through an email exchange with the creator. I have been collecting materials for a future...
Reposted How to disable WordPress 7.0’s new AI features by Rodrigo Ghedin (manualdousuario.net) If you don’t see the value in or are wary of an infusion of generative AI on your website, blog, or online store (a plausible concern, I must...
I have more work ahead of me today. But once again, I refuse to let work stand between me and another edition of our regularly scheduled Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Can an ESPN analyst revive the Scripps Spelling Bee? (Molly Liebergall for...
I have a busy day ahead of me, but not too busy for Pook-Emu Bee links. Before getting to links from around the web, I note that I just published the sixth and final part of my New Leaf Journal sixth birthday project, Be the Blogger You...
I am a bit late on today’s Pook-Emu Bee links, but the links are better late than never. 1. Ghost CMS SQL injection flaw exploited in large-scale ClickFix campaign (Bill Toulas for Bleeping Computer. May 24, 2026.) PSA for those of your...
Reposted The Art and Science of Kashmir’s Pink Tea by Sribala Subramanian (atlasobscura.com) The first step, a prolonged boiling of green tea leaves with baking soda, involves a bit of chemistry. Certain fermented teas, when boiled with...
Reposted The Poppy Lady: Moina Michael started a movement for veterans by Sara Freeland (news.uga.edu) 'During her lifetime, if you adjust for inflation, poppy sales raised $3 billion worldwide, most of which went directly to veterans,'...
The Pook-Emu Bee links return today for Memorial Day, a day for remembering those Americans who gave their lives in battle. I put together some suitable links for the occasion to lead off today’s Pook-Emu Bee. You can also see some of my...
I was too busy yesterday to put together my daily Pook-Emu Bee links. I am busy today as well, but not too busy to take a link break. Article Links 1. Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore (Amanda...
Replied to ATmosphere 1.0.0 — Liftoff by Matthias Pfefferle (ActivityPub for WordPress) When you publish a post, ATmosphere shares it on Bluesky and stores the full article on your AT Protocol account as a structured record. Bluesky...
Reposted Meloni Visits Baku to Cement the Italy–Azerbaijan Strategic Partnership by Vasif Huseynov (The Jamestown Foundation) Italy is Azerbaijan’s largest trading partner, and the economic ballast underpinning the political relationship...
We are having a second consecutive 90+ degree day here in Brooklyn today’s Pook-Emu Bee links are warmer than the outside temperatures. According to the Marathon atomic clock by window, it is 84.4 degrees F there (which is about 6 feet...
I had been sitting down to churn out today’s edition of Pook-Emu Bee links when work fell into my lap. But it is now lunch, and lunch means it is time for links. 1. Humpback Whales Sometimes Hold Their Mouths Open for No Clear Reason....
Monday is here. So too after taking the weekend off are my Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Maniac strangles 7-year-old boy in Brooklyn park: cops (Dean Moses for Brooklyn Paper. May 18, 2026.) These sorts of troubling Brooklyn headlines are...
After two missed days due to having many work assignments, I return with a new edition of my Pook-Emu Bee links. Of course, there are no Pook-Emu Bee links tomorrow because of the newsletter and Sunday is hit and miss, so I encourage you...