I relate to the struggle of juggling hobbies and the guilt that comes with not dedicating enough time to them, as reflected in Ludalx's video.

I spent the summer of 1974 researching my dissertation in London, and a lifelong love affair began. The World Cup started in Germany shortly after I arrived, and I saw at least half of the games. The…

I'm a dreamer. I always have been, but after years of hustling my ass off and only receiving the Temu version of those dreams...I have kind of turned into a cynical asshole. The reality is, I think I…

AI-generated poetry is preferable to human-written poetry? Oh, we are actually done for. The authors describe the reason in the results: The AI poems are more accessible. My house is full of cowards…

Red Threads (我很爱你 / I love you very much)digital video/machinima, color, sound, 12 min, 2022, ChinaCreated by Yuchi MaYuchi Ma’s Red…

In May, the Guardian published a list of the 100 best novels "as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide." They just gave ranks, but I was interested in total scores--how much…

I have read a lot of fiery op-eds over the years, but I haven’t read many as hot as this one by Camilla Long in the London Times. Her subject is the abandonment of women by supposedly feminist…

What comes next when the stage you’ve stood on nightly for years is no longer the center of your life? Jon Lampley answers that question across ‘Notes To Self’, his sophomore solo…

Interlude 2: Doesn't look like a good day for inviting Honda to lunch, huh? This part is from Honda's POV. Hallway in Front of the Staff Office: 13:05 (Lunch) — Rainy Honda leaves the staff room…

A small crowd, a giant control room overlooking the water, and a set of songs Gabriel had nearly forgotten how to play. Peter Gabriel has released ‘In the Big Room’, a live album drawn…

I recently used Devin CLI to build iamspeed.dev, an LLM streaming benchmarker that measures Time to First Token (TTFT) and tokens per second in the browser. The model I primarily leaned on was GLM…

I’ve recently completely revisited my Neovim config and took the extra mile to also streamline how it manages LSP, linting, and formatters. I had enough to remind myself to maintain and sync…

i am now reading hunger games again.

I know how reality works. I know that everything I want already exists. I know that the universe is always bending toward me, folding time and space to support me, that Source loves me without…

In his NewsNation Reality Check show, Ross Coulthart accused Lue Elizondo of being a part of the conspiracy to suppress the truth about UFOs. Coulthart alleged, without evidence, that…

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For as long as I've been doing my own laundry, it's always the same show over and over again. I have no problem sorting it. Whites, lights, colors, darks, whatever. Lugging it down to the laundry…

Obsidian has been my primary personal knowledge management solution for years. S

Everyone has an opinion about the marketing automation landscape, and who’s winning the market. But most of these… The post The state of marketing automation tools in 2026 appeared first…

Sure, Del Toro's "Frankenstein" was technically a "better" movie, but I'll put money on "The Bride!" being watched and enjoyed 20 years from now, while…

We don't skip yoga lightly, but today was the graduation party for K, who is the granddaughter of/lives with one of my oldest, dearest friends — and we were NOT going to miss it! K and K being the…

Last day at the beach! I still have done nothing. :)

I have never changed my mind so quickly and thoroughly as I have about the f’ing arch. Now that I’ve seen it, I support it completely. It is the perfect monument to the man and the…

What’s the strongest reason(s) not to believe there’s a reasonable chance that some of the seemingly less explicable UAP sightings could be an artifact of alien life? I think the general consensus…

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I thought Linux package management was broken, but then a small annoyance I experienced in Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC made me reconsider. To put this in context, it happened […]

In which the party starts a new episode by fighting an old foe.

From the U.K. Daily Mail, Venezuela earthquake rescuers discover collapsed buildings were ‘held up by STYROFOAM’ as catastrophic death toll reaches 1,430. Styrofoam. Not concrete. The…

Deaths linked to London air pollution fall 40% | GuardianClapham Junction's Battersea eats & backstreets | Hungry PassengerManchester's successful transport incrementalism | Mobility…

I think I made the mistake of listening to Dia’s 2025 Steve McQueen Bass Symposium while driving, instead of watching it. Now as I scrub back through to find various salient points again, I…

The story of sheep begins long before shepherds, wool sweaters, and stone fences. It starts in the rugged mountains and open grasslands of Eurasia, where their wild ancestors evolved into some…

animalmagazine:ALT“On Being a Mule of the World: Reflections on Race, Gender, and Species Transition” is the latest nonfiction essay from ANIMAL by @liondrakes ☀️“‘Mare’…

mini-article is up front, dev update is further down it's something i've been thinking about a lot lately. i'm not someone who naturally comes up with new game mechanics, i'm much more of a…

Avatar and SNL wouldn’t exist without Canadians. As in, the highest-grossing movie of all time and one of North America’s most culturally-defining TV shows. How this could be true and Canada could…

Your greatest successes will come from some of the smallest actions in terms of meeting people. You will cause a “stacking effect” the more you meet and connect with people; conversely, people cannot…

Goat and Sheep Mineral: Our Experience When we started raising Dairy goats and American Blackbelly sheep in 2021, we knew that providing loose minerals for goats and sheep was essential for their…

Summary for those who don't want to read this whole article: Super-hot pepper leaves taste good and have caused no ill effects for me. All the details I reported in August last year that I invented a…

The pressing issues in Australian politics are not the lack of shared values but low productivity and greed. This is where reform efforts should be focused.

Retroarch gets installed to ~/Library/Application\ Support/Steam/steamapps/common/RetroArch I had to disable the PS5 button support in mac to get it to work inside retroarch Retroarch also picked up…

As part of Britain’s new high-speed railway project (HS2), six tunnel-boring machines have been driving through clay, sand and ever-shifting ground beneath the streets of London. They are…

Wow, you're right, those are cool!

I've been trying to show this for years with maps of car-free households, but there was a great example recently that used voting patterns directly. Last Tuesday was the date for party primaries in…

books, when they're hard, ask you to make meaning out of the abstract. movies, when they're hard, ask you to experience unpredictable images, sounds and places. videogames, when they're hard, ask you…

820 Speight Ave, Waco, TX Samuel Palmer Brooks (December 4, 1863 – May 14, 1931) served as President of Baylor University from 1902 to 1931. He is one of the most consequential figures in Baylor's…

Collection of officially licensed 1993 Mario, Luigi, Peach and Yoshi slippers from Japan.Source: hog-a-japanMain Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings

The launch of Community Strong Australia was a strategic move to position independents so they can offer a positive alternative to the two-party system.

The performance cult wants everyone to be exceptional. The data, and basic organisational reality, suggest otherwise.

Adding self-hosted Mem0 memory to Hermes Agent with pgvector and Ollama, plus the footguns I hit along the way