Eat what the chefs eatWear what fashion designers wear (and not what they design)Dance to the sets that DJs listen toRead the books that writers revisitWatch the movies that filmmakers watchTake the…

I can't remember the last time I didn't go to the shop during the day and made sawdust. I had gone to the shop in the AM to get my ear muffs. At that time I had fully intended to haul the lunchbox…

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-41. Wherein the slopbros won’t stop Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, web, commons, ethics This is a rant yes but well deserved.…

Sügis on kohal, sajaga! Pakkudes värviküllust ja silmailu. Autumn is here in full force! Offering a wealth of colours and a feast for the eyes.

Bookmarked https://youtube.com/watch?v=aWba8j5W4Lc. Very important to watch from time to time. Stop hunting!

My end-of-week morning reads: • Inside Bessent’s Treasury: Tension, Turnover and Unmet Economic Goals: Ahead of midterms that could turn on high prices and borrowing costs, secretary dresses down…

My Friday plan fell through and I spent twenty minutes in one shoe trying to save the evening. When a plan falls through, you don't have to replace it. What's left is still an evening.

I have an issue with generosity. I had such an empty childhood, I was so starved of love and attention, and praise and kindness, that now, about 20 years into dotage, I still feel that deprivation…

Caution (2009) STATUS : Sinking unwept into oblivion TODO : Find a compass WATCHING : Nothing worth watching LISTENING : To the sounds of crickets ✍️ Reply by email

What happened this week?A shorter note this week due to time constraints. My planned sprint to half-term felt like a slow crawl. Some highlights:A high-energy kick-off meeting with the…

So, sometimes I like to go through my PTU tube folder and see what I can make using these old tubes I purchased long ago. Yesterday while I was busy creating tags for members of a tag group I stopped…

I woke up at around 3-4am this morning and I suddenly had the following thoughts. I realized I no longer have meetings with friends: the ones with one to two...

I’ve always thought FUBAR and SNAFU were great names for a pair of terriers, but YOLO and FAFO are not terrible either. From: Terrierman's Daily Dose To order the book. .

Clara saw this live webcam feed of Sydney making the rounds earlier this week, and it’s a lot of fun. My colleague suspects the camera is mounted behind his old school in Kiribilli, on the…

You have been running on the same five values for years. You just never wrote them down. Twenty minutes fixes that.

Ax Noon #2

Climate activists don’t always accurately portray climate science I fact-checked a climate mobilisation talk – and there are considerable issues jamesozden.substack.com Theories of Change for…

Two issues he blogger Ruben Schade, who says he’s an “aspiring human” that’s “into retrocomputing”, has had bouts of depression. He was being trolled online. I…

If every sentence you write ends with an exclamation point, the mark loses all meaning! Please stop! This isn’t a good way to write! It is almost as bad as SHOUTING IN YOUR TEXT MESSAGES FOR NO…

October 9, 2026 Our heroine, the professional listener, is overwhelmed by how many clients she has right now… Calmness is in short supply! So let’s draw our own personal relaxed mindset…

Recent Comments dog run — Jeff: “Maybe she’s been so eager to get into your garage all this time because she wanted to ensure that you had extraction tools should her…”

Between my wife and I, I’m the better bullshitter. “You can talk about anything with anyone,” she always says, “and keep talking for ages.” She, meanwhile, more…

Four or five years ago, m'sister was visiting from England and we went to Red Mills for some mmmm good sheep-muesli and a bucket. I was between Lidl-special gumboots, and Sis mocked my cheapskatery…

I’m tired this morning, but I don’t need sympathy. Slightly under the weather and getting up early to support my eldest going to college (her bus is just after seven!) is taking its toll - but it has…

Reading Time: 38 minutes   WHY HELLO AGAIN HELLO! I *missed* you! No, really, I did; I even woke up at 6am last Friday in a sweaty panic that I had a Curios to write and no links to fill it with…

Life Ηη got up and did all of his homework on Saturday morning, instead of coming to wake us up at unfeasibly early o’clock which has thus far been the normal order of things. I could hardly believe…

Liam's Log 2026-10-09 Updated my now page. Specifically updating some Uncleing and what I've been thinking about online. Added Some links and thoughts in the wake of the news about Cornell

Folks, I’m recovering from Covid and am taking a week off. Possibly even two. I’m not at death’s door–no fretting, please–but I do need a break. I’ll be back when…

Friday joie de vivre.

Do you wake up every day, spend thirty minutes on your phone catching up on the world’s doings, silently adding stress to your day by prematurely overloading your brain with as much informational…

Basil sniffed the recent piss on the lakefront trail like it was a goddamn newspaper. Out-of-town piss.

I live in America which means I have the rights to exercise reasonable free speech as permitted by the law. All posted content(s) on this website are my opinions only which means they should not be…

This page is auto-generated from Github Actions workflow that runs every day at night and fetches the 5 latest articles from each of my favorite blogs.

Digital Swamp Log - Q3 2026 Dear reader, This quarter has been insane! Family drama, work drama, work changes, music festivals... I burned bright to celebrate my 35th lap around the sun. But I…

An automatically generated look at today's numbers.

I’m not going to make hard and fast promises. This should already be finished, but of course I am still unpacking and today my body decided it was a very good idea to wake up with a low fever.…

i can't believe anyone would say that

Tonight, at the partyI was DJing, I had a friend give me a suggestion for the last song, and I kind of told her, in no uncertain terms, to get stuffed. She was a bit butthurt, and all that kind of…

Got a story you want to share? We’d all love to hear it. The post The Stories We Tell appeared first on emptywheel.

Welcome to the party! It is a beautiful October day out and I did get out for morning sunshine (gotta boost the Vitamin D level) but I also created a new post today. Hope you will have a few moments…

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A fun idea, but lacks the originality to really make a big splash.

Bozo the awful clown came to town. Streets were shut down. A corridor was cleared from the airport where his gaudy plane had touched down to the old War Memorial coliseum. It has been renamed since.…

One of my favorite places must be here. This place always seems like a home to me. A nice family owns it and I’ve been coming here for some time. It’s good to sit. To think. To write. Never feel…

Hey there. Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week: #1. AI, burnout, lack of incentives… Developers are not okay (10min). And that seems to be a trend in the whole sector. #2. Here’s…

Coming up on the anniversary of being laid off, I’m thinking about what I’d like to do differently in year 2: Find people in the east end of Toronto who want to play some jazz once a week. I’m…