Reposted from 2023, when I wrote this as a serious post. Irrelevant now because of her death, but it seems appropriate for me to re-express my tribute to her. Imagine how totally different American…

Hello! I am super uber busy with school at this moment, hope everyone is having fun in their first week of school, even though I started early.

01. Bunny X - Love On a High Floor Love On A High Floor by Bunny X 02. Shelajit - Tang Dynasty Tang Dynasty by shelajit 03. Stare Away - In Absence In Absence by Stare Away 04. Margo Price - Days of…

It’s not clear how many people realized it in 1975 or 1984 when Andy Warhol made these portraits of her, or in 2012, when Christie’s sold them as a “prime example of American…

In May 1942, the high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague”, was attacked in Prague by Czechoslovak resistance agents in an assassination operation…

South Attleboro, Massachusetts – May 26, 1963 At 3:10 p.m. on May 26, 1963 a lone pilot took off in a single engine monoplane from the Woonsocket (R.I.) Airport. Shortly after 5 p.m., while…

Just a few days ago this little project was the poor brother of the two projects that succeed it. But hey – things change and this is now a VERY useful tool – I hope you enjoy. Before the…

One of the things I’ve spent a significant amount of time on is some Agent Foundations-adjacent philosophy work.While I’ve put together reading lists and simulation environments, I have mostly…

I wrote a whole other post that was super long just talking about how shitty I feel but frankly rereading it made me sick lol. Coping is the mechanism in which we as sentient creatures use to process…

Not quite fried, not quite caramelized, they sizzle and crisp and caramelize in a good amount of olive oil along with smashed garlic, resulting in what can only be described as frizzled.

Among the older things I put on the web were fansites: Bebe Ads Ronny Vardy Fan Stew & The Negro Problem Lyrics These are run with WordPress. I did some maintenance on them today. Not…

8/25/2026, 5:40:16 PM There’s some confounding chords in the Link to the Past ending, apparently.

I recently saw the Sergei Loznitsa movie Two Prosecutors and was impressed enough that I decided to read the novella by Georgy Demidov that it was based on. I’m glad I did so, and I’m…

Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 makes me melancholic about summer, again . It's been colder for a while here where I live. I'm not good with lower temperatures nor the humidity 1 , so I await autumn and then…

8/25/2026, 5:37:53 PM I’m enjoying cooking again. This makes me look like a simpleton, but I think watching Culinary Class Wars and imagining I’m up against some time limit and tough judges is…

(men’s bodies and tons of man-on-man sex, in crude street talk, so thoroughly unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest) About a single collage of mine, call it DNMe (‘Dick And…

The estimated number of available (usable) nuclear warheads per country since 1945. Data available on data.world. First as stacked bars to show the totals. Current count is behind country name. Next…

the moment when I realized how much I was using my hands to talk… :’) catch me waving my hands drawing live at twitch.tv/chibirdart, in 2 hours @ 4:30 PM PST!

Week 34 of 2026: lowlandsI went to a festival! I've added a new section called "listened" to deal with that, but I must warn: I wasn't really there for the music, I mostly just enjoyed…

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.- Herb Stein, Senior Fellow. American Enterprise InstituteWhat HappenedTrendForce says memory's share of CSP (cloud service provider) spending…

cw: smoking Since my last relapse post, I've struggled on and off to maintain a general sobriety from smoking cigarettes. I bought two packs the other day despite telling myself I would only get…

I woke up at 06:45am.The weather is sunny.The temperature is 80°F.It feels like 85°F.I noticed:Renee Gladman writes how I write in the way I want to writeTexts I visited:My Lesbian Novel by Renee…

weather: ☀️ melting critters: fuck going outside today, honestly the proust questionnaire was floating around bearblog some months ago--let's do the rosanna greenstreet one from the guardian what is…

It was reasonable for officers to conclude that evidence or instrumentalities of the crime would be found in the car used in a robbery. A mistaken description of the location of the car in the…

In most elections in the United States, we have "first past the post voting" in which whoever gets the most votes wins.

Many games have a demo mode whereby footage of gameplay is shown if the player idles on the title screen for a certain amount of time. Most such games include a few pieces of demo footage, sometimes…

I thought it prudent after the last entry to refrain from further comment on Bartz until after all appeals were timely filed. Two were: Edelson, PC v. Anthropic PBC, No. 26–5391 (9th Cir., filed 18…

In last week’s edition of Dense Discovery, publisher Kai Brach linked to an article, written by Kate Wagner, challenging the notion that our phones are over overpoweringly addictive. But they…

Spotify lets you request all the data it has on your account. It provides a ton of data, including detailed data about every track you’ve ever played on the service … Continue reading…

I dislike using “medieval” in any sort of negative context, since that has been done so often and so unfairly. This time, however, I will, and that’s because, historically, fighting about words…

On the second day of a road trip I took last year, my trunk was already full and my mother was sharing the back seat with four bottles of wine, two hats, a few liters of apple juice and a box of…

“ T he [Iranian] regime [massacred] up to 40,000 in just two days in January. Since then, an execution spree has killed hundreds, many hung from cranes in public squares. Still more remain on death…

I seem to have a thing for catching a crime series and going as far as I can with it. This book was part 4 of a series of 6, makes you wish there were at least 5 more. Robert Dugoni needs to learn…

The following notes were taken from Noah Rothbaum’s The Whiskey Bible. Each grain has its own flavor notes and attributes. Here’s a quick breakdown of the four most popular for distilling. Corn has…

I'm still cooking.

Four years of living in our home feels different without Cocoa. We’re still figuring out how to make this house feel warm again while holding onto the pieces that will always be hers.

Links for you. Science: Scientists find evidence for two origins of life on Earth. Life may share one ancient genetic code, but new evidence suggests free-living cells emerged independently twice.…

In the last version (1.5.2) I added the Contrast group blend modes: Soft, hard, vivid, linear and pin light as well as hard mix. But that picker menu was getting awfully long and it could sometimes…

Part 2 to this post I'm of the belief that art isn't just a "product" . The end result is one of many representations of the artist. Their motivations, frustrations, anxieties, and desires can all be…

Oh, I'm all in Catch me when you realize that I'm falling Outside of the shame, we're all insane I don't wanna fake it, I don't wanna waste my life

My hobby: following GOV.UK to look for interesting announcements. Today was an update on the MOD’s Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce which was previously announced in June during London Tech Week. I…

Ignoring this site for as long as I have has led to it being broken for a couple of months. If you’re seeing this post, great! It works again. What happened? Well, my site’s been running…

* Lorris Chevalier, When Garlic Defeated the Magnet: The Long Life of a Medieval Natural Belief , at "Medievalists.net" * Rob Alspaugh, Deriving Ought from Fitting? , on St. Anselm's use of…

Scripts and instructions for migrating a VBulletin5 system to Discourse

I don’t usually, but did today. I stopped at a Starbucks I used to frequent because I had some time to kill. I figured if I was going to sit for a while, I would be a considerate person and…

There's a term I like: 'innovation theatre'. It's used to describe when a business does things that look like innovation but really aren't. Hackathons with no real meaning,…

Yesterday, I offered a Toy Model of how God could give infinite chances to someone and they could still reject him. The crucial assumption of the model was that it might take multiple good choices to…

Augustine, Letters 213.1 ( Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum , vol. 57, p. 373; tr. Sister Wilfrid Parsons): In this life we are all mortal men and the last day of this life is always…