There’s a pile of dirty dishes in the sink, and the one you need is at the bottom. Directly pulling it out means disrupting the balance. They’ll fall and potentially break. Instead you need to rinse each one starting from the top and load the dishwasher. Or at the very least, put them in a separate pile one at a time. It’s not as direct, but it’s least disruptive, and that’s effective. Some parts of our inner world are like this stack of dishes. You can’t just directly change one thing you…

It's time for a dev blogger's favorite topic: blogging about my new blogging setup. After migrating my blog from Hexo to Eleventy, building a photography website and creating a personal one-pager, it was time to find a new digital home for all my projects.If you notice any issue after the migration, please let me know. I redirect the RSS feed to the new domain, but you might want to update the feed URL in your reader.MotivationI've been maintaining three different websites under two different…

Logged into Facebook for like 30 seconds, saw someone share an AI generated political cartoon of your typical blue-hair anarchist saying ACAB and saying we don't need the police. Second panel was the same person going to the police station to report the theft of her iPhone. Obviously this person knows no anarchists because I assure you they're not buying iPhones and the only reason they might bother to report its theft is because they need the paperwork for something. 1/2

I started writing a lengthy blog post about trust and my lack there of it around the midterm elections. I was going to get into a deep analysis of why I feel this way. I stopped writing and subsequently deleted that post because it was depressing me. Here’s my deal: I do not trust that U.S. citizens will make the sane choices for the midterm elections on Tuesday. I know what polls say, but polls haven’t been on target in years. And even if U.S. citizens were to make sane choices in Tuesday’s…

From An Ode to the Return of Standard Time by James A. Reeves:Let’s celebrate the end of Daylight Savings Time, my favorite moment of the year because it brings the night closer. And if you’re staying at a motel, you get a free hour. Changing the clocks should be the year’s biggest celebration with fireworks, parades, and gift-giving. Because if we can rearrange time, we can do anything we want. Invent new colors. Add more days to the week. Reset the internet to 2009. Have a functional…

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that westerns are now the most controversial genre of film but they are certainly a genre that nearly everyone has a definite opinion about. You won’t find many film fans who are neutral about them. I was raised on the Sam Elliott/Louis L’Amour/Hopalong Cassidy/James Garner side of […]

I’ve been kicking the tires over at Plot Warren during the past week or so. Readers, writers, and artists might find it an interesting place for reading and posting work. It’s 2026 and I want to talk up places that a) have a clear AI policy and b) a clearly anti-AI policy. I found out about the site via a Discord for indie writers. I’m not really the target audience, as I don’t write webcomics or -novels or serials.1 I have nothing to import from sites that are shuttering. I don’t need an…

Omniscient Reader's Viewpointby Sleepy-C, Umi, singNsongGenres: Fantasy, Manga Pages: 240 Series: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (manhwa) #4 Rating: Synopsis: Dokja has his hands full dealing with the relentless monster attacks, as well as Landlord Coalition’s schemes. But when Junghyeok Yu disappears amidst the chaos, he’s faced with a chilling question—when the main character of this universe dies, what happens to the rest of the world...? Not wanting to find out, Dokja sets out to look for…

Usually, I'm not a big fan of taking the bus, but it's a much better experience with this kind of company. Nothing more to add to this one. It was a dog on a bus. Slow day, apparently.

Please click on this link for my YouTube and Substack review of Frederic Malle Northern Love. The post is not behind a paywall and you shouldn’t have to subscribe to be able to read it. Persolaise The post Frederic Malle Northern Love review (Bruno Jovanovic; 2026) appeared first on .

On this day at 3:59pm in 2016, we were blessed with this iconic segment from Lauren and Hacker T. Dog on BBC’s CBBC programming block. We’ve not been normal men, just innocent men ever since. And if you were wondering what it meant, Phil Fletcher, the puppeteer behind Hacker T. Dog, said it was nonsense said to make Lauren laugh. The post Happy 10th anniversary to we’re just normal men, we’re just innocent men appeared first on Cultrface.

screen shot from Patrick Lancaster video from Mariupol on the front lines of the war in Ukraine, 2022 “What a beautiful world it could be, emptied of people.” — Kezia, a character in Ray Nayler’s novel Palaces of the Crow I grew up, as I suppose most of us did in the west, believing that there were ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’. No explanation was needed other than the fact that some people were just ‘evil’. As I got older, I grew increasingly skeptical of this convenient dichotomy, as I started…

It sometimes seems like it’s easy to overlook the magnitude of Robert J. Sawyer’s contributions to speculative fiction. He’s friendly, avuncular, and approachable — hardly the demeanour of someone who has taken home every significant award in the genre. Now 66, the affable Canuck can make a reasonable claim to being the most Award-winning science fiction author in his country’s history. His office is littered with trophies: the Nebula, Le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, the Seiun, the Aurora, the…

This blog post is a weekly update of my journey in Djangonaut Space , an 8-week mentoring program for future open source developers in the Django ecosystem. Series: 3… 2… 1… becoming a Djangonaut Djangonaut Log 1: Lift-off and first week in Djangonaut Space Debugging a flaky test — how I methodologically tamed an annoying bug Assumptions are sneaky Djangonaut Log 2: Leaving the atmosphere and first merged contributions Djangonaut Log 3: Into the orbit! (you are here) This week was a bit slower…

This week’s Culture.pl newsletter previews All Souls’ Day in Poland in an article by Gabriel Stille from October 2025, when the Far Outliers were visiting historic Sandomierz, where we attended a large open-air mass in a large hilltop cemetery above the city that was filled with flowers and candle lamps. Here are some excerpts from the article. One of the most important family holidays in Poland, Zaduszki sees people all over the country gather to visit the graves of their loved ones.…

Image source: IMDB Pushover is a noir ripe for rediscovery. Until Fredrik Gustaffson– one of my favorite film critics– mentioned it in a post about director Richard Quine, I had never heard of it despite the big names behind and before the camera. With Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak in the leads, as well as a subplot involving surveillance, it’s tempting to describe Pushover as a spiritual mashup of Double Indemnity, Vertigo, and Rear Window. And yet it has a special atmosphere all its own. It is…

Last Friday afternoon I went into town to check on Matilda, the one-footed pigeon. I do worry about her but she seems to be managing ok. I’m sure I could find her a permanent home in an aviary if she was really struggling but I think she prefers her freedom. When I arrived I spotted a pigeon alone, on the ground, all fluffed up in a tiny corner of dryness where all around was pouring rain and an Artic wind. I threw seeds on the ground and the rest of the flock descended while the fluffed-up…

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This has been the busiest week in the history of this publication. We published 12 articles across a wide array of topics from four authors! Find more about those articles below!And make sure you check out the end of this article where we drop some exclusive content! Uppercase Uppercase is a daily word game featuring a new, human-made puzzle every day! Check it out. Play For Free ArticlesThe AI infestation of Steam Next FestOkay, technically this was from last Saturday, but I didn't do a Week…

It’s hard to believe we’re now in November, and only days away from a consequential midterm election in which I hope a majority of American voters will finally put a check on the Trump administration’s obscene mendacity and corruption. There’s not a lot of movement at the top of my chart, as “Marianne” by Fontaines D.C. remains at #1 spot for a third week, while “Stone Over Water” by Death Cab for Cutie amd “I Feel Hope Coming” by Alabama Shakes maintain the #2 and #3 spots for a second week.…

I loved this display in the local Barnes and Noble. The City Spies series was prominently displayed -- I’ll try these out sometime.

Standishgate Market Place Statue of Sir Billy Boston (with Wigan scarf) in the newly renamed "Sir Billy Boston Square"

October is over, and so is Spooky month. Which is a shame because I stumbled into this very weird game that would have been perfect for the season. But you know what? What the heck let’s play it anyway. Halloween is a state of mind. In SQUINT, you are an eye. The destructive eye of a giant squid, and your gaze destroy everything in sight. You just have to focus it at the right angle. Which is no easy task because of the weird shape of your eye. You have to manipulate it like a lens to aim the…

Wie Ihr wisst, sind wir mit zuverlässiger Regelmäßigkeit für einen Zwischenstopp auf der Fahrt in den Süden im schönen Altmühltal. Und wir haben dort auch schon so einige Gasthöfe besucht. Ob im Schneiderwirt in Hirnstetten,… Der Beitrag Unser Altmühl-Favorit: Landgasthof Euringer erschien zuerst auf Sternestulle.

In case of a misaligned superintelligent model, old aligned models are our best allies.

Quoted Africa surpasses Europe in Catholic population; Church leaders highlight missionary role by Father Don Bosco Onyalla (EWTN News) According to the latest statistics published by Agenzia Fides, Africa’s Catholic population has now surpassed Europe’s, rising to 288.3 million compared with Europe’s 287.2 million. Africa now has the second-largest Catholic population, after the Americas, which the organization counts as one region. EWTN, citing to statistics compiled by Agenzia Fides, reports…

Updated my post on tools for discovering the IndieWeb to include Bubbles, which I’ve been enjoying a lot recently.

# Introduction I wanted a simple way to try local AI on my computer when I need to experiment, both a LLM to chat with (with web search and image recognition) and a model to generate or modify images. Most guides require installing a lot of things and choosing models among thousands of files, so I made a small project doing it for me. => https://git.coopix.eu/public/braindead-local-intelligence braindead-local-intelligence project page The name is a bad pun, "braindead" because you just start…

This Halloween was a blur. On top of my aggressive posting schedule, I was working a lot, too.So let's see what I accomplished this past month.October Horror Movie Marathon My theme this month was "Small town horror," focusing on movies between 1985 and 1986. I expanded it to 1983 to 1987 to cover my high school years, and again to cover 1980 to 1989. The theme I discovered was "Horror Comes Home." I dealt with movies where the horror was largely local. You no longer went to some strange land…