Evidently we are now on track for our seventh prime minister in (checks watch) fifteen minutes. The Met Office has issued a rare red warning for 09:00 on Wednesday to 21:00 Thursday for parts of England and Wales.This means the heat is likely to bring impacts to health and could be a danger to life, but also a risk to infrastructure such as power supplies and transport.Temperatures will increase significantly in the next few days with the potential for 38 or 39C by Wednesday and Thursday.…

100 lifetimes ago, I worked in a record store. The manager wouldn’t let us play Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville, and instead tried to helpfully suggest…Shawn Colvin. In hindsight, it wasn’t the worst choice. But at the time, it seemed kinda awful? Colvin just wasn’t writing stuff like this: And the license said you had to stick around until I was deadBut if you’re tired of looking at my face, I guess I already amBut you’ve never been a waste of my timeIt’s never been a dragSo take a deep breath…

Longtime DNR contributor has a new book out today: The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis.This week in NYC, visit the live event: Devin O’Shea and TrueAnon hosts Brace Belden & Liz Franczak at The Bell House on June 25th.Founded in 2021, Do Not Research is a reader-supported publication:CHAPTER 16: The VP Fair“This Veiled Prophet Fair’s the biggest farce,” said Big Daddy, correspondent for the local access program World Wide Magazine. Visiting the…

2026-06-14Hello! I published this article a little too early for folks subscribed via newsletter. You're welcome, I guess?This would be a perfect article for Juneteenth, but I'm already starting to forget details of this adventure so I better start writing it down now.I've been to loads of local events, including arts markets and car shows, but because I'm a history nerd, I couldn't resist heading to a local walking tour uncovering the Underground Railroad that ran through a canal and…

(Photo taken right after we finished setting up. The Market didn’t open for another couple hours.) On June 14th Sarah and I ran a booth featuring my art at the Fremont Sunday Market. We had made prints, buttons, key chains, stickers, zines and posters. It was the first time we had done a market and the first time we’d sold merch in person since we’d been to comic conventions decades ago. It was fun. It was hot. It was educational. There’s nothing like doing something to discover what you hadn’t…

Introduced in 1955, the original Bodyguard snub was a shrouded-hammer, alloy-framed Airweight .38 revolver that later became the Model 38, while its steel-framed counterpart was the Model 49. The original Smith & Wesson Model 49 Bodyguard J-frame. Using a shrouded hammer with an accessible spur, it was DA/SA Then, in 2014, the M&P Bodyguard .38 hit the scene with some significant changes, including a different internal lock work, an ambidextrous cylinder release, and a frame made lighter via…

Today marks the 85th anniversary of Barbarossa, a massive land invasion that was led in many places by small groups of guys hanging on to motorcycle sidecars. The 1920s German Reichswehr, officially restricted from the possession and use of armored vehicles and tanks but still well-aware of the successful factor of speed in military operations, became enamored with motorcycle troops (Kradschützen) to augment other Schnelle Truppen (fast troops) such as horse cavalry and bicycle troops, the…

If you are reading this blog, you likely already know that “America’s Tall Ship,” the 269-foot steel-hulled three-masted barque USCGC Eagle (WIX-327), started life in 1936 as one of the quartet of John Stanley-designed Gorch Fock-class school ships (segelschulschiff) for the German Kriegsmarine (Gorch Fock, Horst Wessel, Albert Leo Schlageter, and Herbert Norkus), followed by Mircea for the Romanian Navy. Horst Wessel (the future USCGC Eagle) at the Mürwik Naval Academy in Flensburg, Germany,…

Sadly earlier this year I was made redundant from my Software Developer job. Looking for a new job has not been fun, but a few common themes have emerged that I wanted to share. My hope is that these will help others to put things in place that may help them in the future. Go to events and meet people Something I have said often is that I enjoy going to events or conferences, like NDC London . These are great places to hear interesting talks, however that is not all they are good for. When you…

ome very interesting things on the schedule for today. For instance, Merv Griffin's lineup is a classic of the time: Phil Silvers, Shecky Greene, Red Buttons and Charo. That had to be out of control before it even started. And then there's poet James Dickey appearing on Bob Cromie's Book Beat, discussing his first novel. You m

A short documentary about music formats, streaming, and the quiet thing that disappeared when your library became endless. Oh, and a musician (me!) trying to work out whether the music changed, or I did.

Food flowed into western Craftlin over the Delving Plateau. Deliveries were made daily across the region. In the days since Apocalypse nary a morsel was received. Torn intended to follow the paths of delivery to their sources. These roads would lead to food with no need to explore the other regions at random. They were required to feed Craftlin. They failed and so Craftlin must find their rightfully earned sustenance and seize it.

Tower Dungeon by Tsutomu NiheiI was trying to get together some other new posts, but those are slow going so here is something that has been rattling around in my brain- how much recent media there is that is based in a dungeon. I listed a chunk of it in the Why Megadungeons post, but at the risk of repeating myself, I did want to separate it out into its own thing. I also tried to limit the media to roughly the last ~10 years. I think benchmarking the last decade also helps illustrate how much…

Ten years. That’s how long the glazing putty held on my first set of windows before it started cracking, pulling away, and letting water in around the glass. I had done everything right on installation day. Primed the rabbets. Used quality putty. Let it skin over before painting. But ten years later, those windows were […] The post Why Glazing Putty Fails Early (And How to Make It Last 30 Years) appeared first on The Craftsman Blog.

A beautiful site that’s easy to read might be the product of someone who is comfortable with the corporate world, but not necessarily. Instead, it may simply show an allegiance to their craft. Principles of design and typography have been honed over hundreds of years. Those who learn them care about something bigger than what is implied by corporate or commercial. Source: newsonaut: news, technology and other stuff All while realizing that “beautiful” is indeed subjective. To be clear, I…

For example, you could email people, which works better in spaces like these where pretty much everyone exposes their email address. Engender the conversations you want, the appreciation for their work you value, and the reciprocal relationships that could help you all blossom together.— ImperfectI like people who put their money where their mouth is. Today I got an email from Imperfect. They noticed I linked one of their posts in my Junited page and asked me what I think of it. This was the…

By Peter D GraySelf Published5e/OSRLevel ... 4? Farmer Jebsom has a problem – half his farmhouse, along with all of his family fell into a sinkhole that appeared beneath his farm’s foundations. Now he is desperate to get his wife and children back from the mysterious depths and is willing to give 20% of his farm to anyone succeeding in returning them to safety. This seven page backstory uses one page to describe nine rooms in a tunnel complex full of bugs. A general overview with a lengthy…

Entropy Arbitrage Next Today marks the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Cap-Français, where (oversimplifying) the French occupiers, trying to stop the Haitian Revolution, made the mistake of fighting each other and recruiting slaves for the front lines with the predictable results of giving everybody the opportunity to rise up against the government. Over in Europe, Croatia celebrates Anti-Fascist Day, celebrating their World War II uprising against the Axis occupiers. And with that, on…

McGonagall, thou shouldst be living at this hour...'Twas in the year twenty twenty-six, on the twenty-second day of June – Which many political commentators and others said was not a day too soon –That the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, stood outside 10 Downing Street and announced his resignation To the reporters and cameramen assembled there, and also to the nation.His successor is expected to be the popular King of the North, Andy Burnham,But, when it comes to the fortunes of the Labour…

This is the most overwritten book I've ever read. Unfortunately, Alan Moore knows exactly how much polysyllabic pressure it takes to transmogrify base coal into precious gems. With lines like "his shaved suede skull made him look like a wilted thistle" and "There was a rumour of pink lipstick circling her mouth" you know you're in for a treat. Even better than the joyful prose of Bob Mortimer's Satsuma Complex. I'm also pretty sure Moore is actually a wizard. I've just finished reading a book…

In Saint-Omer in France there was a Benedictine abbey called the Abbey of St. Bertin, founded in 638 and existing right up to the late 18th century. It was closed during the French Revolution, ordered demolished in 1830 (except for the tower), and then damaged due to World War II.A record of several decades was found in the abbey. It is not assumed that it was written in the abbey. The current hypothesis is that the record was made in the court of Louis the Pious and continued during the reign…

(All references in this blog post can be found in the main article the post is about which is here.)Recall that \(R(a,b)\) is the least \(n\) so that, for all 2-colorings of the edges of \(K_n\), there is either a RED \(a\)-clique or a BLUE \(b\)-clique.\(R(k,k)\) has been well studied and is often called \(R(k)\).However, today we are concerned with \(R(a,k)\) \(a\) is fixed and \(k\) goes to infinity.1) In 1995 Jeong Han Kim showed \(R(3,k)\) is asy \(\Theta(\frac{k^2}{\log k})\). At the…

× On May 21, Paul Krugman wrapped up a long argument that the European continent isn’t really in economic decline. With one exception: Europe, he writes, “can’t be sure that it will always have access to new technologies developed and produced in the other superpowers,” and “the risk of being cut off from strategically important technologies, once minimal, is now very real.” Twenty-two days later a US directive switched off a frontier AI model for every non-American (well technically -…

For those who subscribed to my RSS feeds you should, at some point, see a new title. It’s taken me far more tweaking and PHP hacking than I would’ve liked but it’s been irking me and now, I hope, it’s fixed. I’ve also removed some plugins around Webfingers, Webmentions, ActivityPub and the like, largely while I process my learnings that prompted me to write this post. Please note that I changed the title from “On the indiefediactivitymastoweb” as I didn’t want it to come across as snarky, yet…

This pretty much nails it.Yesterday I took a short trip. I began with a ride on the local Hyperloop, which ran through a tunnel dug by Boring Company. Then I used my neural implant to summon a fully self-driving Tesla robotaxi. While enroute I read the latest news from the Mars colony.OK, none of that actually happened, because those products don’t exist. There are no working Hyperloops. The Boring Company has not dug any commercial tunnels. Tesla has a few self-driving — though not fully…

Thank you to my local paper, the Lexington News-Gazette, for inviting me to write a monthly guest column this summer. My first commentary appeared last Wednesday and focused on Juneteenth. My small town hosted another wonderful celebration on Friday. I can’t wait for next year’s — and what I hope is a massively better political landscape. More on that below: June 19 is Juneteenth National Independence Day, America’s federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery. Though the Emancipation…

Version 4.6 of Mastodon Collections introduces lists of users to make it easier to find accounts on specific topics.When Bluesky launched, they had the great idea of Starter Packs. Essentially, these were user lists focused on specific topics. Anyone interested in TypeScript could find a TypeScript Starter Pack and then follow all, or even just individual, accounts within it with a single click. The idea quickly arose that this would also be a good idea for Mastodon, because finding accounts,…

En route from Singapore to Seattle, via Tokyo. Air travel lets us experience the elapse of time without locomotion. We remain in our seats while space changes around us. A portal opens, one place is left behind, and another waits without yet becoming real. There is always uncertainty in that interval. Flying is the suspicion of space and time. We are trapped in a tiny bubble above the sea. A metal shell protects us from lack of oxygen, extreme low temperature, and deadly radiation. Inside, it…

"Owensboro Messenger," January 29, 1911, via Newspapers.comEarly in 1910, American newspapers breathlessly carried the story of what appeared to be a particularly shocking double homicide. This account comes from the "Republican News Item" for January 6:The mystery of the death of Miss Grace Elosser, of Cumberland, Md., and Charles E. Twigg, of Keyser, W. Va. her fiance, appears as deep as it did shortly after the bodies of the couple were found on the settee in the parlor of the Elosser…

Over the years, I've worked for organisations with various levels of risk tolerance for business travellers. Some have been (rightly) paranoid and others have been (wrongly) placid about the threats their employees face. The fact is, individuals are often targeted for espionage, blackmail, or other state-sponsored attacks. Here's a list of some of the different advice I've received, roughly sorted into levels of suitability. Start at the top and work your way down until you reach a suitable…