When your friend is playing backup in a free concert in the heart of your city on a Friday night, it is required to leave the house.Currently Listening: DYAN “Looking For Knives”Reply via email

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 12th June 2026 US death metal newcomers Goetia have risen from the ashes of Washington DC’s Perpetuated, and have been getting talked up by a number of people I respect online so I thought I’d give their debut full length record ‘Mortuary Cult’ a go. Based on experiences they had in an old graveyard in the city’ suburbs, expect some super fast and tight death metal carnage. ‘Mortuary Cult’ is out now through the venerable Carbonized Records. After the…

I thought it would be nice to take the scenery in for a bit.

Creative life Zine in progress I’m collaborating with a tinned fish company on a zine about beginner-friendly tins. Most of the text is done. Some of the art is done. Art cards I created a profile on ATCdex for my cards that are available for trading. Three people reached out to trade with me so far! TV shows I finished watching La Brea. The premise is interesting, but the dialogue and acting are just not good. I can’t recommend the show. I started watching Interview with the Vampire, the 2022…

Today’s topic: The Romans: a 2,000-year history, by Edward J. Watts. I found it fascinating, but didn’t entirely like it. As the subtitle hints, Watts refuses to take the usual approach of ending the history in 476 CE. He carries the story forward to 1204, covering what historians (but not contemporaries) called the Byzantines. To the end of the state, its rulers and inhabitants called themselves Romans (Ῥωμαῖοι). Indeed, the Arabs took them at their word and called Anatolia Rūm, which is why…

On the early afternoon of the day of the summer solstice on this year, I spent an hour with fellow volunteers of San Francisco's Civic Joy Fund, in the Tenderloin Weekly Cleanup community event. [ in progress... ]

red monster Monsteras look cool and jungle-y. Not so much when bathed in spooky red light from below. This is the Sunday evening scene from my recliner.

The n queens problem is to place on an n × n chessboard n queens so that none attacks any other. This means there is only one queen on every horizontal, vertical, and diagonal line. When n is a prime number ≥ 5, it is sufficient to place the queens on a line that has slope 2, 3, 4, …, n − 2. (The slope cannot be 1 because that’s a diagonal. And it cannot be n − 1 because n − 1 = −1 mod n is also a diagonal.) [1] Here we imagine the top and bottom edge being identified. Geometrically, this makes…

I think I used it for a week before I figure out that you can press the metal thingy below the rings to open them. Made it a lot easier to open and close them without fucking up my nails and nail polish. It works a lot better in general if you have less stuff in it.

The first recording today starts with the end of Tracy Beaker. Then, excitingly, there’s a trail for the new series of Doctor Who. Then it’s Spirit Warriors – Young at Heart. The warriors find a lovely meal laid out for them. They meet the beautiful Madame Ching. And her friend, the curiously childlike Tai Fei, who doesn’t speak and bonds with young Jen. After they venture out, Tai Fei follows them, so Jen takes him back. The rest of them have arguments when they find some green confetti.…

shine a light into the shadow formed by my intercession with the light that shines behind me my back light too and i think it says yes, yes yes don't catch up don't catch up i think it says, don't catch up what the front light says? i never thought never thought other things said all sleep's paralysis Yesterday :: Sunday, 21st June 2026

Whiplash is what happens when change occurs without communication. The gap between what leadership knows and what everyone else knows is where most work whiplash gets manufactured. And the only thing that closes that gap is treating “who needs to know about this?” as a non-optional follow-up question every time a decision gets made or a priority shifts. — Molly Graham, Work Whiplash Thanks for still believing in RSS! If you'd like you can reply via email.

This week my guest is Pedro Cora. He’s a guy from the Netherlands that love photography, games, and also self-hosting. You can follow him on the Fediverse at @pcora@mastodon.social, and also subscribe to his RSS feed. Today, here are his topics ⤵️ Safari Underrated. For me, personally, I have used Safari since I started using Macs and I find it lightweight and easy to use. I like the simple UI and that it is not resource-intensive. Since I am pretty picky about websites, if it does not work in…

Magical musical musings and insightful interview conducted by the marvellous John Matthews. It has been what feels like a very long weekend at Convenanza, the boutique electronic music festival that takes place annually in the beautiful surroundings of a medieval castle in Carcassonne in the South of France, and I’m starting to feel the pace (and my age). Over the past three days I’ve witnessed some amazing live acts and DJs and eaten and drunk to my hearts content, but now it feels as if it’s…

On June 21, 2026 I switched the site from Jekyll to Astro and rebuilt the theme from scratch. Here's why.

Through a glass, brightly A window in a lovely old Yorkshire hotel Quote of the Day ”The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.” John Maynard Keynes C.f. the current AI ‘investment’ bubble Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Abdullah Ibrahim | Bra Timing From Phomolong Link Long Read of the Day Sovereign AI is really hard to achieve This is a really sobering read from Anton Leicht on what Europe would need to do to achieve AI sovereignty. It was prompted by the fact…

This article was originally (partially) a thread on social media,which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. This time we”ll be looking at ‘De boerendans’ (the farmer’s or peasant’s dance) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, from c. 1567.I love Pieter’s art & of course I love art that depicts an era generally still considered to be bland, dark & horrid, as also being a bit fun. Adorable, big kid dancing with little kid, I…

On the blog this week, we’re talking about melting down, and not just because summer in the northern hemisphere is hot. Add your thoughts here. In honor of the recent release of The Elusive Earl as an audio book (see Apple, Spotify, Audible, and the library channels), I’ve discounted the ebook edition in the web store to $.99 for the rest of June. I’ll probably discount The Besotted Baron next month, so if you don’t yet have that ebook, be patient and save a few bucks!

Another bit of nostalgia to file under: Things that influenced me beyond measure.Currently Listening: Depeche Mode “New Life”Reply via email

Once a month my coworkers and I play a game together. This is the story of a game that I worked on for 47 days, a game meant to be played for only 30 minutes at one of those sessions. My turn to host our team’s online “Social” was on May 28, 2026. Far in advance, I already knew what I wanted them to play. This game was just an idea in my head, but no matter: I figured that I could manually “run the game” by hand using ChatGPT. My personal philosophy is to first do a thing 100% manually, then…

Photo by Garonzi Stefania via Wikimedia CommonsA pizza wheel — also known as a rolling pizza cutter or just a “pizza cutter” — is not a great tool for cutting pizza. I know that’s a statement that’s going to anger a lot of people when I say it, but it’s true. I’m hardly alone in saying this — Wirecutter, Eater.com, and plenty of others have noted the same drawbacks. But anyway, let’s go through the many reasons why pizza cutters are not fit for the job they’re named after.First, it’s hard to…

Fables de La Fontaine - Epinal (public domain) Earlier this year, Antrhopic announced a large language model (LLM) called Mythos, a model they claimed to be so powerful for finding software exploits that it was too dangerous to release to the general public123. Instead, they provided a limited release of this model to select organizations as part of Project Glasswing4. Then, last week, Antrhopic released a version of this model called Fabel5. Current subscribers were allowed an entire three…

☀️ Happy Summer Solstice everyone. As a Humanist I feel like celebrating specific scientific world events. Also I kinda like the fact that the first day of summer is ‘linked’ to Father’s Day and Mother’s Day is linked to the first day of spring. The next one is the Autumn solstice.

Beautiful art from No Score Draws to commemorate Cabo Verde’s first ever goal at a World Cup, scored from a long range free kick by Kevin Pina. The post A Cabo Verde shock on the card appeared first on Playrface.

I can’t talk to people, especially women. From the start, I have had this problem. With people whom I think are richer than me or in a better condition than me, my voice automatically goes down, and I start acting like that woman who is around a group of her boyfriends, just staying there in silence, maybe looking at the phone, but I don’t like to use the phone other than in my personal space. I don’t even like to watch pirated movies, just sitting there observing everyone. And with women, if I…

When I was a teen, I liked buying incense from the alternative/hippie stores downtown. I burned it in my room, with the windows closed, and never gave a thought to what I was inhaling or what it might be doing to my lungs. As a middle-aged person, I've given up on incense, but I have many, many scented candles. Some of these have a story: they were gifts, or were acquired on a trip or other memorable occasion. Most are without provenance: I have utterly no recollection of how or when they were…

Next tickets available 18th July for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields Ron McCormick photographed Whitechapel & Spitalfields in the early seventies and these pictures were exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1973. Hessel St Royal Oak, Whitechapel Rd Old Montague St Blooms, Whitechapel High St Old Montague St Old Montague St Princelet St Black Lion Yard Fournier St Brick Lane Club Row Brick Lane Settle St, Whitechapel Great Eastern Buildings, Quaker St Woodseer St Great Eastern…

So the management company called us last Monday and sent a guy to check out our fan last Wednesday(They said that it would take about an hour)What I was impressed with was this...this thing that has tape (green) attached to plastic filmHe used it to cover areas that he didn't want to get dirtyThen he took the fan apart, measured things and took photos of thingsHe said that easiest way to fix

…was the day I finally stopped over-optimising my plain text lists Moving my tasks away from apps to plain text lists was supposed to simplify everything. To take the pressure off. So why have I spent so many years optimising them? Because I didn’t understand the job they did best. Every task manager does these 3 things Before getting on with the doing, task management requires you to identify three main things — What needs to be done, broken into discrete steps When you can realistically do…