Some things are looking up for me. I can see my toes again when I look straight down. Over 1/2 of the swelling and fluid build up is gone. I still think the fluid build up is what is causing my pain when coughing. As my chest expands to cough the fluid is putting pressure on my chest cavity. The swelling and fluid build up I had with my hip operation was mostly gone within 7-9 days. It ain't happening as quick north of that.still squareThere is a wee bit of gap at the front but I'm not going to…

Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. Blackout is a 15 page module for Mothership by Martin Orchard with art by Zach Hazard. In it you venture deep into an industrial colony to restore its power supply; but you’re not the first team to…

Keep an eye on Move Tab to Another Window – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) as I just submitted this extension which... moves tabs to other windows! Works well with Window Titler #projects #firefox

Huge milestone. We have finished getting the acres of wood on the walls of the main house. Although we still have the front porch to do it’s not water tight yet so we may leave it until later. So that frees D up from months of wax on wax off to start decorating outside. She’s starting on the cabin and is painting the first coat of the chassis in matt black.

You can’t make this up! I was checking out a documentary called The Lynchpin of Bensonhurst.[1] It’s a long story why, but I was brought up in that neighborhood. It was the story of Dominick Santamaria aka Dominick Montiglio, an important member of the Gambino crime family who was brought up by his uncle Nino Gaggi. Nino was arguably the most notorious capo of the Gambino family. I only needed to check out something in the first few minutes, but something caught my eye and that impelled me to…

Last week, a MetaFilter member posted a link to what appeared to be a new website for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig’s decade-long project to make a “dictionary of made-up words for emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express.” The polished site includes everything you’d expect from a publisher’s promotional book site: an author biography, press mentions, and links to buy the book on Amazon. Strangely, it also includes the entire text of the book, from its…

A tower crane reaches into the sky in Downtown Celina, Texas. The post Under the Towering Crane appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Likes We Ran a Huge Social Experiment on a Whole Generation. It Turned Out to Be Terrible | Pootlepress by Jamie Marsland. Like: “Wait. You knew it was damaging mental health, sleep, attention and social development, and your response was… to give younger children even more access?” And we will say: “Well, yes. But everyone else was doing it.” A clear succinct run over social media & the young. Personally I think there might be something in making the vendors made efforts to fix social media…

I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model. Source: The…

Welcome to a new Work in Progress Wednesday, we start this week with Alan K and som MDF buildings he is putting together for his WW2 Commando game at this years Open Day. Next up and Marcus W has made progress on his ruins and what looks like some new pulp adventurers. Nice of Marcus to leave the paint colours he used in the picture. Sticking with Marcus and we also have some progress on the pterodactyl monster and armoured Spug. The members obsession with the Quar continues. Mark J has…

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop The weekend was not nearly as long as I wanted it to be - ever notice how 48 hours as a system of measurement is like, highly unreliable? Anyway, here's the pokemon from the last few days. Two icons, some filler and something I'd file under "oh absolutely not" Enjoy Thu 06/11/2026 - Yanma I think for my own sake I'm going limit myself to the "just a bird" type thought exercises to the bird pokemon because if I extend that to…

You can cut and paste all of the comments I made about scavvies and heavy stubbers to apply to scavvies with grenade launchers. Essentially it boils down to the fact that I wanted to make this figure and Lumpy Mo will get used in a variety of different games systems!Read more »

Three months ago, I moved from hugo to BSSG for this blog (and my work blog). You can get BSSG here. I’ve been really happy with BSSG, and a couple of recent changes by Stefano have made it even better. Less content, less to generate I have a minimalist blog. A list of posts on the front page, and generally text-only posts. I like it to load fast even though it is running on a Raspberry Pi 4, along with a couple of other bits. This means that there are some features of BSSG that I do not use,…

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Town Square. A script that creates a little town square in your website’s footer. (Scroll to the bottom of the page to see it in action.) Anyone online gets a stick figure and can chat with other people. Made by Brazilian developer Cauê. Firewood Splitting Simulator. A firewood splitting simulator, just because. Tip from Rennan. LinkedIn Badge Generator. An…

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of Custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous. [...] Am I to view the Stupendous with stupid indifference, because I have seen it twice, or two hundred, or two million times? Some notes on Sartor Resartus, Thomas Carlyle's "Satirical Extravaganza on Things in General:"1 I loved it and eagerly recommend it to anyone who might be on the fence. I…

I’m convinced that AI will not destroy our need for personal connection, humanity, stories, and expression. The reason I’m so convinced of that is because of one word. Culture. When people talk about AI, they underestimate the power of culture. As in common values and thinking. The slow, invisible force that decides what actually sticks in our lives and what doesn’t. Here’s what most people miss. When something new arrives, it has to pass through culture before it changes anything. And culture…

Yesterday I found out about a site called intheweights.com , which reveals which people are “stored” in the weights of large language models. Those “weights” are billions of numerical values by which these AI models encode their knowledge. If you show up in them, the model considered you relevant enough during training to recall without tools such as web search. The site queries several models to figure out who a specific person is, combines the results, and assigns a strength score. According…

"Wonder Woman" by John Legend Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song would you use to describe your current relationship? - Wonder Woman by John Legend As if there was another possibility, LOL. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile

After reading Flamed’s post, I took James’ quiz too about your character as a member of the blogging community. Here are my results: You are a Author You love writing and have a growing backlog of posts on your website! Words are your best friend and you're always thinking about what to write next. You are also a Culture maker You love to help push the blogging community forward by starting discussions, encouraging thought, and sharing what's on your mind. Other archetypes Explorer To you, the…

I’ve been a GrapheneOS user for years now. Back in 2022 I switched away from /e/OS on a Samsung Galaxy S10 to a Google Pixel 6a that I had bought, because at the time it happened to be one of the cheapest devices on the short list of officially supported Pixels. However, my history with Google phones goes way past the 6a and ever since I got my first Nexus, every single piece of Google (branded and manufactured) hardware that has passed through my hands has eventually broken on a hardware…

I’ve been moving our CI off GitHub-hosted runners onto our own arm64 hardware. The plan was straightforward: a pool of ephemeral runners on a dedicated CI box, and each test shard spins up its own MySQL, Redis, and ClickHouse as service containers, all under rootless Docker.

Nice backpack! Yesterday we saw an ad for a free spot in a shared living community. It was a spot for a tiny house in a big land shared with 10 other families. We applied right away but unfortunately they already had found someone. I lived in a tiny house village once in the past and I miss it deeply. I loved being able to connect with my neighbors at the shared kitchen. This lost opportunity made my heart sink. I'm unemployed and somehow disabled at the moment, I'm feeling a bit lonely. I…

From The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy (Basic Books, 2017), Kindle pp. 151-153: Up to that point, developments resembled those of previous Cossack uprisings, but Khmelnytsky changed the familiar pattern. Before marching northward, capturing towns, and confronting the commonwealth army, he went south in search of allies. In a dramatic reversal of established steppe politics, he offered the Crimean khan his friendship and an opportunity. The cautious khan allowed his…

There were two clients who basically were paying for ChatGPT…to argue against itself. – Rob Freund My friend Chester Brown, the well-known comic book artist, plays Merlin in this video from Sook-Yin Lee‘s new album. The links above the video were provided by Jesse Walker and Dan Savage; IncarcerNation; The Onion; Mike Masnick; Ryan Marino; and IncarcerNation again (x2). R.I.P. Joe Negri and Gene Shalit. “Never” really does mean “never”. The best satire cleaves close t

Percy Montgomery "Monte" Barrett was an American author, newspaperman and cartoon writer from Mitchell, Indiana, who co-created with artist Frank Ellis the original "spunky girl reporter" character, Jane Arden – cited as the prototype for similar characters like Lois Lane. More importantly than having co-created an internationally syndicated daily comic strip, Barrett had a brief stint as a mystery novelist during the early 1930s.Barrett wrote three novels, The Pelham Murder Case (1930), Murder…

Rajasaurus narmadensisIn the humid, fern-thick forests of Late Cretaceous India — about 67 million years ago — a flash of red moves between the tree trunks.Think oxidized iron and dried blood — deep crimson-orange broken by pale white striping and bold black bands along the flanks and tail. In dappled forest light, those stripes would fracture the animal’s outline, a trick modern tigers use

Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. The Ford Motor Company releases a slick whitepaper making the alarming claim that they’re concerned their popular F-150 pickup trucks might soon spontaneously burst into flames. The report features a fancy animated graphic depicting a line of vehicles catching on fire, one after another, and concludes by acknowledging that this “possible future” would be bad, but that there’s nothing they can do about the issue so long as “less cautious” automobile…

Spokenly I came across spokenly via this YouTube video At first I was reluctant to install it assuming that I will need to create yet another account just to use the app, but that was not the case. They have two completely free options: First one where Whisper and Parakeet models are used locally. There are other models that can be run locally, but the size of these models keeps growing bigger and bigger. In the second free option, if you do not like these models, you may choose other API…

less metadata, more feeling I'm grateful to have fallen asleep most days of my life; I could probably count on two hands the number of times I didn't. There are phases where it happens naturally, and phases where I struggle (often when I'm more electrified through dealing with digital things). So I've tried to figure out some kind of process for when I don't fall asleep easily or automatically. Maybe it can help you? I think of it as 'layers' that can be folded into each other like dough, not…

CSS is hard and it should be hard. For good reason:CSS isn’t just a complex language, it’s one of the most advanced graphics, layout, and typesetting languages available in computing.The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it’s damaging our health – this is why burnout happens - Baldur BjarnasonHard isn’t a negative label. You know what else is hard? Applying silicone sealant to waterproof bathroom fixtures. It’s hard enough that such expertise are worthy of a…