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The History of the Lombards by Paul the Deacon drew heavily on other works, especially about prior times. One of these was a 7th-century work called Origio Gentis Langobardorum ("The Origin of the Langobard People"). From this work Paul...
A gas boiler puts out roughly the equivalent of 2.2 tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution every year. That's a Range Rover, per home, every year.From: "Pump Action", Private Eye, no. 1681, 7 Aug 2026, page 13.I can't help myself. I went and...
After nearly quitting stock photography, I realised the bigger problem wasn’t just falling royalties but my own habit of shooting oversupplied, random subjects with little commercial strategy. Amazing Aerial and tools like OpenGridWorks...
This is to you folks. This is to you, the moms, the dads, the married and to the divorced and all the in-between people in this world. And this is to you too.Absolutely, this is to you!This is to the kids, the sons and daughters,...
On July 28th, Jorijn Schrijvershof announced the incoming closure of toot.community after burning out from dealing with spam, moderation and technical issues. It is perfectly understandable, and I am thankful for the three years I spent...
I build my own FreeBSD packages using poudriere. I do this for various reasons, which include: Getting security updates faster because I build nightly Some packages I install use non-default build options One of the monitoring checks I...
Watched: The Invite 🍿very funny and quite poignant, with some great performances. I’m now keen to see the Spanish original.
Bun 1.4 came out yesterday. It's an action-packed release. I created a build matrix that compares versions 1.3.14 and 1.4.0, and looked at the various sizes of the built binaries of github.com/peterbe/gg2. The results are as follows: Bun...
If you actually run a D&D campaign, Backdrops is just the sort of crunchy goodness that the doctor ordered. If you’re looking for reading material, on the other hand, give this one a pass. Originally Published June 27th, 2002 CONTENTS...
What do Norman Mailer and Charles Dickens have in common? – Crimereads. The Nogood Book – Fonts in Use. Vintage Egyptian cigarette packages – The Daily Heller. #radar
Fremantle2026 August 21 (Friday), 8:14PM· copyright · metadata · British Library · Sharing British Library open metadata with our communities, August 2026: This policy reaffirms the British Library’s commitment to making metadata as open...
It’s Friday, so it’s time for the Book Blogger Hop again, hosted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer. I’ve made my own image from a stock photo (credit: Anna Shvets) to avoid adding images created via generative AI to my blog. Feel free to...
Prichetnik combines a common prefix, root, and suffix to make a culture-bound and fairly precise meaning. I noticed it in Ursa Major (Большая медведица, 1870–71) by Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, in a description of the ostentatious Easter...
catching myself falling into bad habits again. it really takes so little for all my carefully cultivated resilience to fall away, huh? check your phone every 20 seconds for a notification. become so paranoid that you hear the phantom...