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Yes, it's me, I'm back! A month in Japan and two or three weeks when I was busy doing other things have prevented surveys, but I should be OK for a few weeks now. (No promises!) If you want to see what I did on holiday I am creating a record here, it is mainly trains but there are a few beer...
acim
It all started with this book called A Course in Miracles, given to me as a gift. My first reaction was "cool … I always wanted to learn how to perform miracles". Then I began peeling away the shrink-wrap and was in for quite a surprise. Definitely not a book on magic tricks or any sort of...
Adrelien
On the morning of September 27, 2024, people across western North Carolina woke up, picked up their phones, and did the thing everyone does. They checked on the people they love.The phones were fine. Charged, dry, fully functional. And completely mute. No bars in Swannanoa. No bars in Chimney...
ardens-asides
When people ask me what got me into writing poetry, I always say Emily Dickinson. She awakened my love for poetry, and I carry many lines from her pieces in my heart (and plan to have one inked on my clavicle hopefully later this year in a blend of our handwriting), but it would be more honest to...
Barbecue17
I really appreciate the great response and kind comments I've received for my review of Count Ironmoon from Fresh Monkey Fiction and Big Bad Workshop's The Order of the Crimson Moon toyline so today I'm excited to check out Major Noir, another figure in the line who pays tribute to the Action...
anon0
For the Gamers and hardware enthousiasts among us,.. I feel like it has been the worst news week in gaming for many years! To wit: New console prices (of exact same devices that came out yeeeears ago) up by 100 to 300! The three sole manufacturers of RAM in the world have done cartel style price...
Thomas Bardenett
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.Everyone in the United States knows these words. They have been ingrained in us since...
draggle
Didn’t Watch: See Seasonal Impressions I watched way too much anime this season… 22. I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class — D+ They start dating in six episodes. Also let’s rank all the girls by how pretty they are. 21. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime S4 — Ongoing...
Challenger Tom
Sequoia National Forest Road 13S04 (Buck Rock Road) is an approximately 4.49-mile-high clearance dirt corridor. Buck Rock Road begins at Forest Road 14S11 (Horse Corral Road) in Tulare County and terminates to the north in Fresno County at Forest Road 14S02 (Burton Road). Buck Road is the point...
Chris Debenham
I have been cleaning up my music collection, which I have ripped from CDs over the years, finally getting around to tagging them properly. I used MusicBrainz Picard to tag my music, but what I didn’t know is that it was adding a bunch of tags which contain ‘PMEDIA’ (even in places like the...
Rory
I’ve been lining up banner photos for the remaining months of the year, all of which are from last year (like almost all of the others so far); this month’s is from Sanna in Ardnamurchan, which we’ll be seeing again in a couple of weeks. I’m two camping trips behind on my Ardnamurchan photos, and...
Abhinav
Search for split kb continues
jt-ai-meets-mindfulness
Recursive self-improvement may be the single most important force driving AI toward technological singularity.
thekelvingreen
Kev Walker, 1991: Kev Walker, 1997: Kev Walker, 2000: Kev Walker, 2001: (This is the sequel to the 1997 series above.) Kev Walker. 2023: So many styles, all good.
replayremake
Andrew
america, declaration-of-independence, freedom, society Read this piece in Compact Magazine from James Vaughn, a historian, at the University of Chicago and find myself quite amazed by the unique historical event that is the 250th anniversary of The United States. The Persian and Roman empires...
Mr. Karswell
As mentioned in my intro to the previous post, THOIA turns 19 in a few weeks (July 12th to be exact!), so let's spend the lead-up to that date with a few scary stories that made a huge impact on Mr. Karswell as a young 6 year old just discovering comics in the 70's. My grandmother had taken me...
andrei
FATALITY LIVES THE DEADLIEST TOURNAMENT IS BACK WITH ALL THE KOMBATANTS AND THEIR UNIQUE FATALITIES. We basically skipped this title for a lot because we had so much fun with the Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe fights, and by the time we got tired of that, Injustice was released and we...
prasangika-matters
Alexander R Pruss
Suppose we have an infinite regress of chickens and eggs, with no first item, and suppose that if there is any last item, it’s not a chicken. Plausibly, then: The plurality of the chickens explains the eggs. But also plausibly: If x has an explanation, then x has a fundamental explanation....
adventuringalone
Just a quick update on the Barbarian in San Silibia project. I'm still working on it, I just have not had time to really sit and write anything out. I did take time to generate all the remaining prompts for this play-through of the game and I have 16 entries left including the epilogue. Doing this...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; We must hang together gentlemen . . . else we shall most assuredly hang separately. ~Benjamin FranklinHappy Independence Day! And “happy” is the appropriate greeting for this long weekend. The Declaration of Independence was the first...
abagond
James Earl Jones reads the most famous part of Frederick Douglass’s speech given on July 5th 1852. The Declaration of Independence, signed on July 4th 1776, said all men were created equal, but the war only freed White Protestant men of property. US history since then can be read as the slow,...
Anthony Isola
Don’t fill your retirement plan with regret. Start planning now by reading this week’s terrific links. Money won’t be your biggest regret. The Retirement Manifesto Don’t follow the herd. Meaningful Money What’s your investment philosophy? Morningstar Do alternative investments belong in your...
Tim Carmichael
On July 4, 1776, a group of determined men signed the Declaration of Independence, announcing to the world that thirteen colonies would no longer live under the rule of a king. They declared that liberty, equality, and the right of people to govern themselves were worth fighting for. That moment...
dmtorbi
PREVIOUS: GROWTH for OverDoing (#4c) SITE : <—— …. A Step-by-Step Guide CORRECT Over-functioning (cont) 1= Self-Awareness 2= NOT perfect 3= Boundaries 4= Health 5. PRIORITIZE (cont) • To effectively set priorities for work tasks throughout the day & week you need a realistic &...
Andrew Doering
I wanted Tailscale running on my reMarkable Paper Pro so I could reach SSH and a couple of internal services while traveling, without carrying a laptop just to jump through a bastion host. The tablet is already in devmode, it’s Linux under the hood, and Tailscale ships an ARM64 binary. On paper...
jlmc
tjschanaman
logical-minds-only
How to create equity and secure it from predators
TomCat
Last year, I tried the first of Benjamin Stevenson's Ernest Cunningham novels after some initial skepticism, but Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone (2022) sold me on Benjamin's hilarious, classically-styled meta whodunits and quickly followed it up with Everyone on This Train is a Suspect...
jesusrrodriguez
La exigencia de una perfección algorítmica y el miedo al tribunal digital están domesticando la escritura. Cuando se anula el derecho a la duda y al error, el ensayo muere.
Jonathan Green
Available for pre-order now is The Iron Code, an anthology of short stories celebrating the life of legendary fantasy author David Gemmell, published to mark the 20th anniversary of his untimely passing.The anthology has been edited by Ian Whates and is published by NewCon Press. It includes epic...
thearchivedstories
RomanInUkraine
I think this video is speaking to a MINORITY view in Poland. Poland has been a great ally of Ukraine. As Józef Piłsudski’s said: “There can be no independent Poland without an independent Ukraine.” Poland and Ukraine suffered much more at the hands of Russia or Nazi Germany than they did from each...
Steve Saideman
I am in London, having finished a two day Civil-Military Relations Network workshop, our very first, on Command. Run by Phil Lagassé, it considered from many angles and all over history what it means to command a military and who has the authority and such. The moment resonated quite a bit for...
adamfineart
A recorded lecture providing a brief insight into the process of rebuilding the oeuvre of female artist Emma Soyer, nee Jones (c. 1809-1842). The lecture is presented by Dominic Sanchez-Cabello and Adam Busiakiewicz and was originally devised and delivered for the Royal Academy in June 2026.
dignitybydesign
miquel-tort
El decrecimiento no es una opción ideológica, es una respuesta a una evidencia física: el metabolismo de la economía humana ya ha excedido la capacidad de regeneración de la biosfera.
kyojin
M1A1
1 Therapist - “I think you should morn the children you’re not going to have… as if that loss was measurable and as tragic as it feels.” Drew - “I am trying to but it’s hard since we still talk.” Therapist - “I fall on your discernment of whether us seeing each other is too hard on you or...
Bret Devereaux
Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States. This is going to be a bit more of an open musing than an argument as compared to previous years (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) because my...
CLM
It’s time for #6degrees, inspired by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. We all start at the same place as other readers, add six books, and see where it ends up. June’s starting point is Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke, which has taken the book-reading world by storm. I started this...
ecoquant
Jeff is a professor at University College London. What the Whitehead Prize is all about.
A Good Reed Review
By Ande Jacobson Linda Castillo’s ninth Kate Burkholder novel is Down a Dark Road. This time, Kate finds herself face-to-face with an old childhood friend in a desperate situation. The Prologue starts out two years earlier detailing the commission of a horrific crime. Kate’s childhood friend,...
alysterwho
I made a salad. It's made with tendril peas that I grew myself. I added feta, olive oil, parmesan, olives, and diced tomatoes. I grew the microgreen tendril peas in one of these trays. Look at the roots on this thing, I kept some of the growth on these so I can harvest 2 or 3 more times. Added...
lunarhades
ArcaneNibble
But why? There has been a longstanding shitpost that "Win32 is the stable Linux ABI". A huge amount of software (including/especially older games) designed for Windows works just as well (or sometimes better) on Linux when running via Wine/Proton. Meanwhile, the solutions for robustly packaging...
Anton Katunin
A friend recommended this book, and I'm very grateful as that could be a book of the year for me. The book talks about value measurement, games, and the philosophy behind it. I got multiple interesting perspectives for myself. Inability to measure things that matter and sliding to focusing only on...
Anas Ismail Khan
At the time of writing, hardly anyone needs an introduction to Linux or Python or Ethernet or Android. If you, the reader, are an avid enthusiast with a computer-science degree or experience, you may be tempted to stop reading because you think you already know where this post is going. I urge you...