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Last week Both tardy and sparse weeknotes. Sparse as I had my shingles vaccine last week which took me out for a day, but better a day feeling unwell now than a potentially unlimited amount of unwellness in the future. Puntcon My...
Hoping it ends soon 🤦
After going for a swim with my Apple Watch on, it stopped working the following days. Already two years ago, when I went swimming in salt water, its function to blow out water stopped working. Now, the final blow—or no blow, which might...
New US sanctions against the ICC will lead to anonymous judges, a la Peru. Continuing to weaponize the US monetary system will promote financial alternatives, ultimately killing the US dollar. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026…
You might be wondering why I’m already back hiking since I walked more than 40 km just a few days ago. And the answer to that is that I’m not hiking. This was a short stroll to briefly visit a church that would normally be part of the...
A second post from sunny Coventry on the Beer & Pubs Forum big day out. We'd done the historic inns with wooden beams. We'd drank Bass and been non-members in the members club.Next up was a micro, followed by a walk out to a trio of pubs...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC had me wondering what to do. It asked: Create a piece of media that puts a positive spin on clowns. They are actually really sad...
during the ecstasy, the lovely, the i-forgot-life-can-be-so-lively lovely
It finally rained! Praise whatever god you fancy, or just praise Jibbers, but today is the day I remembered that water can fall from the sky. I wrote about the lack of rain earlier this month, but finally, 49 days after our last...
On my last day in Berlin, I went to the second to last museum on my list: the GDR (German Democratic Republic) Museum.1 This museum was created to commemorate and showcase to future generations how life under the GDR was like which is...
For years, climate breakdown was treated as distant, a problem for activists, scientists, future generations or places somewhere else. That blinded view is now harder to sustain. Heat, fires, floods, crop failures, infrastructure...
A quicker - and only moderately more sarcastic - way of getting caught up on Marvel's watch list ahead of Avengers: Doomsday.
Preview of a post on Substack: a second book chapter (on jazz poetics), and a survey of the critical field--jazz/poetry, critical legacies, collective remembrance. Fifteen years after Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward edited The...
A social media strategy focused entirely on the competition is in bad taste. There is nothing wrong with highlighting your strengths in comparison to theirs, but it becomes exhausting when that is your entire message.I want to choose...
The first time the Honda Fit made me stop and think "huh, maybe that is a useful car?" was when I read this review at Cool Tools where it sounded like it was as handy as a small truck, got over 30mpg, and was reliable as hell.For years...