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I guess it was the heat that got to people’s brains. This week I more than ever in the just about nine years I’ve been on Mastodon I had to block and mute and filter to keep my timeline…

Weekly nuggets of triviality posted every Sunday each with a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information, read weekly or dip in and out

May 7 - June 28 It's been 3 weeks since my last blog...been super busy... Exercising Not running as much as I wanted for these weeks, I mainly blame the weather (it's my first winter in the southern…

I should maybe create a Thinkpad category. NYCBUG’s having a social meetup on July 1st; stories about BSDCan will be told, I’m sure. When Dystopian Sci-Fi Ruled the Cola Wars. This seems…

I grew up on the outskirts of one of a major city in Ukraine. We lived in a 2 bedroom apartment, that was literally a 2 room apartment. There was a small kitchen, shower and toilet rooms, small…

Surrender as a life strategy, democracy's bullshit, AI doomers, tiny experiments in uncertainty, Vonnegut's life advice, and rest in peace Om.

The weather is… infuriatingly tropical, but tolerable (we’re used to the heat this time of year, but the dampness is relatively new), and shifting all my morning meetings to my standing desk has…

The body can feel power before the system has received it; the discipline is learning to hear what the boat, crew, and water report back.

how to get ahead

Midway through Game 4 of the NBA Finals, the San Antonio Spurs had the biggest lead in NBA Finals history — twenty-nine points. They ended up losing by one. One word explains most of it: momentum. I…

Saturday morning, on the 27th, I asked r if she wanted to interact with people today. We were still in bed, a bit cool from the rain in the middle of the night, and she said no. I was kinda hoping…

8611/21530Tomorrow I resume my chemo treatment, so today I made the most of having some energy and an appetite and did housework, gardening, mended a loose bit on the shed and even attempted to paint…

GAMA-1 Technologies is yet another company to blacklist. Even if you aren’t a member of the Software Contractor’s Guild, I’m going to share this with you. What makes it worse is the…

Happy Bunday! Thanks, Jordana and bunny Puffet! Jordana says that “Puffet [is] showing off her new molting furstyle.”

A while ago I asked a question: “Which of these feels most true for you right now?” Then I gave six plausible responses to choose from. I thought the answers might be all over the place. They…

Sunday Asides #101 The Obamas have been outside lately with the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago this past Juneteenth weekend, and I gotta say, seeing them and hearing them…

_Almost Timely News: 🗞️ How To Improve Advertising with AI (2026-06-28) :: View in Browser_ The Big Plug 👉 My new course, GEO 201 on competitive GEO measurement, is now for sale. Content Authenticity…

One of my friends led me by the hand through the crowd That sounds like an insignificant detail but it really wasn't It was Nightmass at Dark Mofo and I was there with two friends (S and F) who are…

Here are a few interesting things I came across this week. Tasted Whittaker's Nelson Pear and Manuka Honey chocolate for the first time. Amazing. Krish Ashok's video on how Omega-3 supplements are…

Let the wear on your pen be your badge of honor. It reminds you that the magic isn't in keeping things perfect, but in the messy, wonderful, and fun process of getting things done.

Reading Time: 2 minutesHere’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful! Blog posts from the past week Books that I’m reading I read for a…

I don’t do lie-ins but somehow it was 10am when I stirred this morning… I suppose I see them as indulgent and I have responsibilities. Dogs don’t walk themselves, during the week work doesn’t make…

♡ after a long social media and creative break, I set up my online portfolio again and even made new art! ➜ thedoodlenoodle.com . ♡ despite being in a heatwave, our living room temperature never rose…

I'm stumbling out of bed and into the bathroom where I open the mirror cabinet swinging it wide open to clumsily grasp for my contacts. I deftly assign my contacts to each eye, then brush my teeth,…

I got an email this week from my online Japanese school that I’ve been learning from for the last 4 or so years. I had taken a class from the head teacher years ago and at the end of it, she…

Links I found interesting in week 26 of 2026

Hello all. It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these. It’s been a while since I’ve posted much of anything. I’ve even stopped posting so much on Mastodon....

OK, yes that is an old joke, but I do have a slight mystery over the CO alarm. This first happened last year, and drove me round the bend. A chirp every 49 seconds. This is normally a smoke alarm…

I’d like to get a Now post out every Sunday evening. Today’s will be shorter than Now, 21 June 2026. It was a week of Good work, with a lot completed and very little sense of time passing. By the end…

This month's Field Notes flows from Formula 1 commentary to a Studio Ghibli stage adaptation to an elaborate royal dolls' house. What connects them all is craft, care, and people who refuse to cut…

The Birth of v5, 28 June 2026 (in which a tollway's idle question — could we build our own things on this? — came back as a republic in the north with a Monday; in which we cut a door into the...

Dit weekbericht bereikt je vanuit onze heerlijk afgekoelde achtertuin. Ik hoef je niet uit te leggen hoe het de afgelopen dagen is geweest toch? De afgelopen nacht voelde een kruising tussen een…

A lot of sunshine today. Quite warm at times. Cleaned both the B cars. Had a lot to burn including big pig. Started to hoe gravel patch round house. Very dirty.

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk,…

Try as I might, the picture ended up being a flatlay after all. Technically, I wore a different top; that one, however, was a last-minute swap and this one is closer to the original vision. Headwear:…

Get Up and Go has entered my timeline. Here she is again, full of ideas and ambition. She arrives a few times a year and, when she does, everything suddenly feels urgent. Everything needs doing.…

Baffled and a little scared about this cake that appeared in the communal fridge at the art centre Soolagna teaches at last week. Soolagna’s assistant teacher’s name is Maha, my name is David and…

Happy weekend! Here are some links to things I've been reading that you might also enjoy: 1. It's been a while since my last weekend newsletter. Below, two excerpts from each of my five…

Zippy the cat. He doesn't get quite the same exposure here as the other two, George and Bungle. He's very much an individual, hard to catch on camera, no pretty boy poser. He's the one that stays out…

"Evolutionarily, it seems implausible that children be so hard. You don't think it's.. suspicious?".

My cats are weird in the best ways. A couple days ago I was giving Jenny belly rubs when she suddenly flopped over and trapped my hand. Just when I accepted the fact that I wouldn’t be able to…

Mein köpflicher Haupt-Prozessor läuft gerade #shice hice. Deshalb nur kurz und knapp: Haltet durch, #rinjehaun und immer schön viel trinken!

Life The low point of the week was the builder laying the bathroom floor tiles without checking with us how we wanted them. I don’t think me or Σσ thought we had an opinion until we saw how they’d…

Keeping it cLEAN: Rebuilding My Paper Setup in One Week

I haven’t posted in a while, Mainly because I have actually being enjoying life much more than usual, Therapy has been going well, I’m enjoying watching my grand daughter getting old and…

Hi. Another week, another week in review. My goals for last week were to have fun, draw, and do as I like. And I have to say, I indeed completed all those goals. From Sunday to Tuesday, I went to the…

Week 25 summary - Back in cold, wet Sydney after Seattle, Path of Exile 2 league grind, and remembering Om Malik.

Discover what does resilience mean in prepping. Learn how to adapt and recover effectively during disruptions for a secure future. The post What Does Resilience Mean in Prepping: A Real Guide…

What are your earliest memories of receiving mail? A few magical ones come to mind for me. I got occasional greeting cards from great aunts and relatives who lived far away. The sentiment…