blue cheese blues
"Depression is like… when you don't want cheese anymore. Even though it's cheese." — Jenny Lawson depression is like… “when you don’t want cheese anymore. even though it’s cheese.” not even the…
june 2026 capsule
So, where have I been? Two of my poems were published in Mouthful of Salt's Spring 2026: Savory issue. These are my first publications since getting back into writing and I am hoping to continue…
Ethics of being a breeder / Animal Husbandry
When people talk about animal care, especially small mammals, the conversation can become extreme very fast. One side can make it sound like keeping or breeding animals is automatically wrong. The…
Ian Wright’s 185 goals for Arsenal
Ian Wright Wright Wright! The post Ian Wright’s 185 goals for Arsenal appeared first on Playrface.
Junited 2026
Junited 2026It’s June again, a month of many special occasions: Pride month, my birthday, and Junited! I’m very excited for this. Junited is simple, and basically what many bloggers…
Misaligned Markets podcast teaser
Transcript Welcome to the Misaligned Markets Podcast. I'm your host, Mike. I'm also the writer of the Misaligned Markets blog.Fundamentally, Misaligned Markets is a project about a marriage…
Beachhenge linkage
On the scale of stupid things the US government is doing this is pretty small, but they appear to be banning the census bureau from any effective methods of privacy-preserving information release,…
The world’s smallest football league
TIL: The Isles of Scilly Football League is the the smallest in the world with only two clubs: Woolpack Wanderers and Garrison Gunners. The post The world’s smallest football league appeared…
bender bender goin on a bender
minecraft bender... i have brought and installed like 10 games that are not minecraft and are currently not playing them for minecraft this is how you juice your time lemons people!!!!!! play the…
glint /// terminal app
codex.humdrum.me One more terminal app for good measure! Been working on this one for awhile now and it's already my main driver for writing anything. It's designed to be a standalone text…
From Brooklyn To The North Pole: How Leonard Sussman Photographed The Beauty And Fragility Of The Arctic
Leonard Sussman photographed ice that may soon disappear. In From Brooklyn To The North Pole, he follows a 52-day journey on the USCGC icebreaker Healy, traveling from Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian…
Redefining Movement: The SCAN Revolution
By Maddy Peterson In the early 20th century, pioneering neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield made a groundbreaking discovery. While in the operating room, Penfield stimulated various regions of the motor…
Vantor's Open Satellite Feed
I'll walk through Vantor's open S3 bucket of satellite imagery that they launched this year.
GSoC - Working on Marknote
Overview I’m working on Marknote to introduce a block-editor inspired by popular note taking apps such as Notion. A block editor is a modern text editor that allows you to insert elements such…
Mixtape, June 2026
The year’s half over. We made it! Let’s celebrate. Shye – If Today Was Yesterday Dream Pop / Shoegaze Shye is a Singaporean dream pop artist drawing from The Best Influences imaginable:…
Midjourney Goes Medical
This first ran in the Solo Founders newsletter, covering the people, companies, and ideas shaping the rise of solo founders.“By VC standards we should either ‘conquer the world or die…
Silver Avenue SE in Albuquerque: a bike boulevard with bones…and a bark (and a bite).
A few years ago, I explored what Arlington County (Virginia) was telling me was a bona fide bike boulevard.  I mean, it had to be: all the street signs in the area used the words “BIKE…
The Harvest That Should Not Have Failed
In the early reports that circulated among agricultural monitoring centers during the late 21st century, there was nothing immediately alarming. Crop yields were still being recorded at levels…
The Body in the Lake
They found a body in my lake. Actually, worse: they've found pieces of a body in my lake. It started with someone coming across a floating arm while out on their boat. It's been a very hush-hush…
There are no "necessary" cookies
For most websites, the cookie popops give you an option to "Accept All" or "Accept Necessary" cookies and the "necessary" component is utterly stupid. Now. When you're signing into a website, cookies…
Monthly Dump
Read & enjoyed: Book Review: The Dialectical Imagination: Scott Alexander on Frankfurt School Who Took A Sh*t In The Austrian Pavilion?: An inquiry into the curious incident at the Venice…
Best thing you’ll see all fiscal year: I Love Boosters
I went into Boot Riley’s I Love Boosters with some trepidation. Sorry to Bother You, Riley’s previous and first movie, felt so distinctive. So subversive, so slyly goofy, so warmly funny…
Book of the month: Jeyamohan
If you’ve never heard of Jeyamohan, I wouldn’t be surprised. Until recently, his work wasn’t widely available in English outside India. That is starting to change: next month…
30/06/26 - Burgh Island from Ayrmer Cove
£2 for a plastic cup Here I go again, on a stunning walk in the South Hams. This is an easy one, to a special place. Catch it right, and you can walk on a sand bar - with waves lapping at your feet…
Film Grain Synthesis: The Most Disruptive Yet Underrated Encoding Technique
Introduction When people think about video compression, they usually think about increasingly sophisticated coding tools.Over the last thirty years, codecs have evolved through: Modern codecs such as…
dprint 0.55: npm specifiers and node resolution
dprint is a pluggable and configurable code formatting platform that unifies all your formatters—run one command and format everything. Version 0.55 is a substantial release, but this post will focus…
Grilled Pork Tenderloin
Recipe Tips A few simple tips can make a big difference here, especially when it comes to keeping the pork…
MuseLetter #399: When the Saints Go Marching Out: New Orleans and the Resilience of Cities
MuseLetter #399 / June 2026 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version This month’s MuseLetter is an exploration of community resilience via two related articles. The first is about the…
A Coffee Culture Grows In Nepal
The scent of floral honey and rose fills my senses. I’m at a barista training in Nepal, surrounded by attendees carefully measuring the water temperature in their kettles before pouring over…
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe > a half-assed review
a half-assed review"> For the first time ever Mortal Kombat Warriors battle with DC Universe Super Heroes in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. Back in 2013 when I was still living in the UK and got my…
Selective disclosure, Google Wallet, and a halo2 model
June 2026 · 2 min read Selective disclosure, Google Wallet, and a halo2 model Selective disclosure is already part of the digital identity language in Europe, and Google Wallet now has an…
Scour - June Update
Links between articles, easily grow your feed after reading one, a UI makeover, and more.
Why Materialism is Baloney
• " Consciousness " is a generalization of the only thing we directly encounter: " experience ". • " Matter " is inferred from regularities within experience . • Physics describes relations,…
loving art
when the person you love makes something, makes art, do you love it because it's good art that speaks to you, or do you love it because the person you love made it ? i used to think my love would be…
june artlog
it's the june artlog! this is an interesting one ok. good manifestos from the jam, interesting updates on the ganbreeder stuff (i'm planning on hosting a secret horses jam!), maybe even an ambitious…
Clarence Thomas Says The Quiet Part Out Loud: This Is About Enforcing Gender Roles On Everyone.
Go ahead, tell me I am over-reacting.
Warp Point
Web directories eh? Now that SEO spammers have stopped spamming them, they’re becoming cool again, and I was impressed with Warp Point: a web directory dedicated to one of my favourite…
Colored Vinyl Heaven
At the start of this year I saw that Scheme Records was releasing an album from a band called Feels Like Heaven . I'd never heard of the band, and if I'd seen this record out in the wild I would have…
ESPC Webinar: Evolving EU Regulation of Tracking Pixels
If you've been watching data privacy developments in Europe, you already know that the current rules around open tracking (pixel tracking) in email marketing are ... messy , to put it mildly. The…
RAINBOW CAPITALISM 2: FROM BAD TO WORSE
Welcome to Trans Tuesday! The commodification of trans rights under capitalism has always been complicated... The post RAINBOW CAPITALISM 2: FROM BAD TO WORSE first appeared on Tilly's Trans Tuesdays.
I’m joining The Type Founders!
While part of an agency, you’re always hoping to land that dream client: An organization aligned with your own interests and values, with stakeholders who support honest and open collaboration,…
How Artist Corporations became law
The Artist Corporation (A-Corp) is a new legal business form designed specifically for artists and creators. It simplifies shared ownership, protects creative missions and intellectual property, and…
Casual censorship and accessibility issues online
say kill say suicide say death say rape omg its not going to hurt you please dont blur your text
Unlocking Peace of Mind with the Smith Manoeuvre: Turning Your Home into a Wealth-Building Engine—Without Sacrificing Today
For many Canadians, homeownership is so much more than just a financial investment. It’s where our children grow up, where we host Sunday dinners, and where we build our lives. Because our homes mean…
Harvest Time
Not sure why everything is ripening all at once, but I have a crop of new publications out right now, with more to come in the next few weeks.God's Cruel Joke has published two bleak horror poems of…
01.002.12
Finally an update, and let the games begin!
Safe human-friendly multi-agent setup
Like everyone else I've been playing with agents. But I had two problems: I didn't want to --dangerously-skip-permissions and give Claude access to my entire computer unsupervised. Besides…