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Fri Jun 26
On the last Friday of each month I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. “I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to...
Thu Jun 25
These are not the dog days – they come in August when the dog star, Sirius, is rising – but, by heaven, they feel like it. It's proper hot, as we say around here, and more to come tomorrow. At least the butterflies are loving it – to the...
A mission post by Lieutenant JG Sean Morgan, Lieutenant Weho Lape Sabril, Ensign Miles Archer Mission - Lick Your Fingers Clean The ship joined the orbit of the moon Regula 23 was in geosynchronous orbit above maybe a half hour ahead of...
June 2026. Gyumri. Armenia. As so often, the demographic chart for Gyumri tells you quite a lot. A five-fold increase in 60 years, followed by a halving of the population after natural disaster and the demise of the Soviet empire in...
Spudwig Wright was a potato, and not a particularly attractive one at that. Rumour had it that there was more than a bit of rutabaga on his father’s side of the family. And even if that wasn’t actually true, he certainly had the looks,...
Heya! So, James recently made a blogpost opensourcing the python script he used to generate his various personality quizzes! (Blogger Archetype quiz, what microformat are you, etc.) At the end of the post, he says this: And if you feel...
TALKIN SHIT Most of these I do for me I-guess-this-is-just-gonna-be-a-format-I-use-from-now-on photography
I have no idea what I’m going to say here and I don’t want to sound like I’m out of touch (but I really am out of touch so forgive me). So there’s this girl I invited to watch a movie, and I do kind of like her, and I do know that my...
(image courtesy of eliapelle) "how do you stay connected while practicing digital minimalism, and how did you/do you plan make the switch to more intentional digital interactions?" wow, what a juicy question, past me! i'm so glad you...
The leap comes when we realise that non-intentional preparation actually IS preparation, just in another form. Because it's more enjoyable than the forced stuff we have to do for a specific game, we do more of it. And it changes what we...
