Saturday, August 22, 2026
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I’ve been on a bender lately of reading books about gender, specifically a lot on the experience of women in society, and it’s radicalising me in the best way possible. Many years ago, during my trip through Europe in the summertime, I was lucky enough to spend some time with a…
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Life
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It’ll be wasp season soon —he says, well aware that the very idea of “seasons” is an increasingly futile one— and so any slight buzzing has me frantically…
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Last night I had the most vivid dream. I had travelled to a large house with my son with the express purpose of him purchasing a Smart ForTwo car off the…
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Cringe: “Thank you for trusting us with your information.” In an email from a U.S. online pharmacy (owned by a huge health insurance company) requesting…
Tech
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A terrible email to receive, and likely the first of many.
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I caught wind of the news that MacStories is back posting on X, the “everything platform”, and that seems to have caused some backlash. I am not a reader of…
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This is absolutely amazing. A Walkable ASCII Cyberpunk City in One HTML File
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From GitHub’s blog post, The August 17 outage, and the work ahead: Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. Holy shit. That…
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Good posts from Moonwriting and Olly about the benefits of using a website platform and why you might not want a fully DIY website. I agree with the points…
Writing
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This is the third installment of my series called Hitting the Digital Brakes, where I explore my journey into the use of technology and on ditching some…
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After enjoying a trip around Japan in the company of a thirteenth-century woman, today’s Women in Translation Month choice has us returning to the present day,…
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