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Oh man, did I enjoy this "choose your own adventure" (COYA) book. If you're a regular reader, you may recall my previous reviews in this genre, but this new volume is the best one yet. Yes, it's a new volume. The publisher, Chooseco, is once again adding new books to the venerable series. This one was released in 2025 and is written by Cristin Bishara (with illustrations by Sofia Cavallari.) If you're also a fan of COYA books, you'll love this one. It's finely crafted,...

If this moved you, consider subscribing to support my independent work. There’s no institution behind this, just me, writing my heart out and trying to make sense of the world with you. We’re building something thoughtful, bold, and deeply human. I’d love for you to be part of it. 💌The Cut recently published an essay that ricocheted across group chats, and if you haven’t read it, here’s the gist: gen z women are paying rent for boyfriends who don’t work. Young women are...

Am I scrolling too fiercely or I've had relatively mixed luck with computer mice over the years. I bought a Cyborg Rat 7 when I was competitively playing Starcraft 2 during the beta, so like early-mid 2010 and I didn't need to replace it until 2021. Because I'm a weirdo who had already changed both my midi controller and my mechanical keyboard to a white color scheme, I found a white Rat 8 available once my 7 was dying and snatched it up. Changing of the guard, 2021 The...

The temperature dropped by about ten degrees, bringing clouds and even a little bit of rain. I went in search of a pair of jeans for the first time in a couple of months, putting away the shorts for a while. I promise I’ll never complain about regular old ‘mildly warm’ British weather ever again. It’s lovely right now. Work-wise, this week was a challenge. There are some big changes happening that bring some uncertainty, and by the end of the week I felt that I was even...

Dolly Parton, pop culture titan of the 20th and early 21st Century, has sadly passed away at the age of 80.Parton was born in 1946 in Tennessee and became one of the United States's best-known country singers. She was known for her musical giga-hits, including "Nine to Five," "Jolene," and "I Will Always Love You," as well as her acting career and her philanthropy, including an international literary programme for children that positively impacted millions of lives.I...

If you disagree with the powers that be, that are poisoning your food, your water and air for money, bombing children and waging war around the world, trying to surveil and control every aspect of your life, they gonna call you violent extremist, they gonna label you terrorist, and all the puppets of the cabal gonna justify it. Today the United States of Pedophile Warlords of America just declared a small volunteer anarchist collective that hosts open-source software and...

Three Ways To Destroy The State There are three ways to destroy the state; these are from a position of weakness, a position of strength and from outside. But it takes a people apart from the state to destroy the state, because only those who live separate lives from the state are able to replace it.There is no state of nature or natural state of man. There are two groups of persons or two states of being. Neither is natural there is no natural condition we need to get...

Charulata(The Lonely Wife) is my favourite film from the great Indian director Satyajit Ray. With the exception of directors such as Hitchcock, Chaplin, Kurosawa and Bergman, very few film directors have ever had as much control over their respective projects as Satyajit Ray had over his: working as director, producer, scriptwriter, as well as creating his own storyboards and marketing materials. Charulata was Ray’s eleventh feature and was his favourite from amongst his...

How many Halloween cardigans does a goth librarian need?

Some more links today! Two new links here, but the others are from my shared Raindrop folder. I decided I'm going to empty that one out and forget about doing a "post roll-off". Why People Quit Blogging | Unattributed via Bubbles TIL: Opening a 3 digit lock by Alcides Fonseca—some locks are notoriously easy to pick; glad I don't use this type. via Bubbles Shoe lace techniques for different foot types or ailments. : coolguides—I am sure I found this by searching when my...

If a subscription-based app requires a login just to look at it, I delete it. If a website requires me to disable my ad blocker before I’ve even seen it, I move on. #LifeIsTooShort

More scenes from the Lower Salmon and Snake: tawny grass, jagged stone, sparse trees, hazy air and a blessed ribbon of water were very much the themes of this summer float. This section of river alternates between gentler, though still deep, valleys and craggy gorges. Columbia River Basalt is unsurprisingly abundant, but to my pleasure most of the tighter canyons were formed of intriguing dark metamorphics from the island terranes that smacked into North America back in...