Everybody loves Terry Long. Women want him. Men want to be him. Even after their divorce, his ex-wife remained obsessed with him. He had it all. The perfect man. Everyone’s fantasy made flesh. That is, at least what writer Marv Wolfman would have had you believe. Marv Wolfman, probably. This is because, most people – myself included – assert that Terry Long was a self-insert character for Marv, someone who was a few years younger, arguably better-looking, and a total babe magnet who had pulled…
Lady C: The Long Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by Guy Cuthbertson published 2026 Oh what perfect joy this was. I read DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover when I was a teenager, because of course we all did – banned for years, controversial and full of sexy bits. I was a keen reader of Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics (1970s literary feminism at its finest) and she had a long section on Lawrence, and particularly on Lady C. I read it through her eyes as a male-dominated fantasy, and…
# The Big Idea Being wrong is unavoidable. The real damage comes from allowing a bad assumption to shape everything you build on top of it. ## The flattering version A few years ago, we sold smpl, the coworking software company I had built with two close friends. An acquisition gives you a tidy ending. It becomes easy to look back at the decisions you made and imagine that they must have been good ones because, eventually, things worked out. I know better. When I think about smpl now, I see…
Cory Doctorow: “Age verification” means that everyone who does anything online will have to submit to fine-grained tracking and recording of all their online activities. This nightmare is the surveillance advertising industry’s fondest dream, a world where it’s literally illegal to avoid their tracking, all in the name of saving kids…from them!
USA soccer fans show their allegiance prior to the u.s. win over australia in seattle on june 19. The first clue to my cluelessness about the current popularity of professional international soccer among Americans was the grandkid wearing a Lionel Messi shirt. He’s 9.That popularity is abundantly obvious right now as media coverage of the World Cup is everywhere, maybe bumping your favorite sport and team to a smaller headline. Fox Sports is showing all 104 matches live on one of its TV…
tag(s): #books #pic #link-post Remember when I mentioned I was behind on my RSS feeds? Well, almost a month ago, Nathan posted about his (mis)adventures getting libraries cards in different counties. The post unlocked some memories... The perilous journey to my Astérix comics I was about 6? maybe 7? I am texting my mom as I write this. Maybe she gets back to me before I finish the post :) Anyway, we lived outside the City of Buenos Aires, on the western suburbs. Which were not (and, are not?)…
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Today I have been trying to set up webmentions on my website. Brennan Kenneth Brown has a great article that goes through his process for setting up webmentions: How Webmentions Work on brennan.day. I learned that I need to set up microformats which I believe I have done correctly. It seems to be coming back correctly using this tool: PHP Microformats Parser The downside is I actually need some likes, reposts, replies, mentions and comments to test everything out. Let's see if the fediverse can…
2026-06-23Back at the car show...Hello! First, a technical note: I've blocked AI bots from scraping this website. The arms race will continue, but hopefully I can be sure that humans are the only ones reading this.For the past week, I've been on an unofficial hiatus as I pry myself away from the photography world (a bit) and get some work on spring cleaning.Today's photo is a simple one. It's the front of a car. I checked it against some references online and it seems to be a Chrysler Newport…
Review yesterday, giveaway today! I enjoyed the Uni Kuru Toga Metal in Orange, but it won’t be my primary Kuru Toga, so let’s give it away! This is my review model Uni Kuru Toga in Orange, with an 0.5 mm mechanism. If you are interested, read the rules below and enter away! Uni Kuru Toga Metal Mechanical Pencil Giveaway
I didn't do anything special for solstice this year. It's fairly hot in south west England - 24° C - and it'll only get hotter this week with highs of 34°. I had a quiet day in, cooking and cleaning. I've been struggling with feeling stuck in a rut lately, which led me to experiment with a manifesto against ruminating, inspired by (but unrelated to because it is not about games) seeing entries [(1)] to manifesto jam 2026. As a nod to the solstice I decided to watch some folk horror, A Warning…
Have you heard of the Croquembouche [CROCK-you-EAM-butchy]? It's a French thing.Well, if not, here's what it's supposed to look like: So kinda like old, cobweb-wrapped monkey bread. But in a yummy way. Well, a certain anonymous person - who shall remain unnamed to protect her anonymity - found this gem at a wedding which she may or may not have anonymously attended: I believe her exact words were, "it looks like some kind of primitive jungle cake being attacked by a swarm of lactating…
A requirement for staying sane while working in public as an open source maintainer is realizing that every issue, PR, and piece of feedback is a present, not an obligation. You can accept it, ignore it, and use it partially or not at all. Except… For years, as lead of the Go Security team at the time,1 I’ve told new team members that it doesn’t apply to vulnerability reports. No, vulnerability reports are special. Security researchers are doing us a favor by reporting things confidentially…
Responding To My Former Web Host TOC: Part One Part Two Part Three I got an email yesterday that was somewhat unexpected. My former hosting service asked me to send an email about why I had closed out my account. This is something I haven't experienced before… A company that wants an actual email, they don't just want some form or survey filled out. They want to actually hear everything that I have to say… Well, I decided that I would take them up on it. And now, I am presenting this email to…
There’s the more modern Shanghai, beautiful lanes full of expensive yoga studios or artisan coffee shops, lined with the London Plane Tree (法国梧桐) and the Wukang Mansion (武康大楼), and renovated parks like the North Bund (北外滩) and West Bund (西岸). There’s also the Shanghai as the international metropolis and a symbol of China’s rising economic […] The post Cake and Timepieces appeared first on Jaap Grolleman.
For no particularly good reason, here, have some pictures of flowers and plants from around my house that I’ve taken in the last couple of days, which I then photoedited to look dramatic and possibly gothy. In order: Dahlia, Gooseneck Loosestrife, Sempervivum, Day Lily, and a bunch of peaches which now look like alien eggs. Don’t get too close, there’s a surprise inside! — JS
America, I need to address you like this again, hopeful and hopeless and frustrated with those who wave their fist and scream for justice and anarchy or for whatever else comes in-between. I see them often too, those who call themselves the political justice warriors, and I see how they scream for our government to do their job.I think about this.I think about this the same way I thought about how the dog peed on the floor and rather than clean it, I pretended not to see it so Mom would notice…
Although Charlemagne is a famous name, and we know a lot about him, his descendants and the events of the Carolingian era are not well-documented. There are a handful of chronicles written by various people, as seen yesterday, and Regino of Prüm was one of those chroniclers.We know for certain that he was a Benedictine—probably at Prüm (in modern Trier, Germany)—and became abbot of Prüm from 892 to 899. Later he was abbot of St. Martin's Abbey. He became abbot at Prüm when his predecessor…
Juvie on the “runway” at 62nd Street Bridge, 20 June 2026 (photo by Jeff Cieslak) 23 June 2026 Halfway into the 2026 Peregrine Season I thought our region would have lower than usual nesting success because we had fewer active sites than last year. But peregrines always surprise me. This month observers found fledglings at two bridges that weren’t on the list: 62nd Street Bridge and the Rt. 40 Bridge at West Brownsville. This adds two nests and 4 young to our regional total. Woo hoo! 62nd…
Inland, they have a red warning for heat up to 40°C. We only have an amber warning. It’s 24°C where I am.
"The Road Goes On Forever" by Robert Earl Keen Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Describe the perfect song for a road trip and why it works. - The Road Goes on Forever by Robert Earl Keen The song is basically Texas outlaw mythology compressed into four minutes. Sonny and Sherry are not heroes in any moral sense, but Keen writes them with enough speed, grit, and sympathy that I just lean into it. It is kin to “Pancho and Lefty,” “Me and Bobby McGee,” and old…
Open source web application for learning to play piano that listens to your MIDI instrument input while you play to songs displayed as sheet music or falling notes, both with extra notation to help beginners such as named notes (alphabetical and fixed do) and colors (Settings icon on top-right → Display → Visualizer ). You can also free play, choosing different instruments, and record your own performance into a MIDI file to use later in your DAW, or load custom ones.
i really vibed with his music. have not watched any of his interviews before a couple of days ago, but now that i have, i feel even sadder. i don't like many people or many musicians, and it's sad that he's gone. his music was a quiet presence in my life for many years, his art has supported me throughout some hard times. i don't really have much else to say, other than that. he seemed to value freedom, honesty, and the connection between people. i treasure that as well. stupid fucking…
This section of a great interview with Magic Tuber Stringband in the June 2026 copy of The Wire really struck me. It relates to the influence band member Courtney Werner’s field recording work on a former nuclear weapons production site in South Carolina had on the band’s Heavy Water album. “Werner’s field recordings appear on every Magic Tuber Stringband recording, sometimes as a textural element added after the music was played. But on Heavy Water, found sounds are used in a more interactive…
In April, Jonathan Pike, a professor of philosophy at Open University, submitted a formal complaint about the appointment of his colleague, professor of philosophy Sophie Grace Chappell, a trans woman, to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029 subpanel for philosophy. [Detail of cover of Transfigured by Sophie Grace Chappell]That complaint has now been dismissed, according to Professor Chappell, who, in an email and also on Facebook, wrote: “On June 15th… UKRI’s independent adjudicator…
While I ran websites and newsletters before, I've only been blogging for almost 2 years. By coincidence I found Bear, and I immediately got drawn to it. Not only did it look like a good platform, it also hosted a great community. So while I got started, I got to know other bloggers and learned from them.I enjoyed my blogging experience. And my blog grew. I added snapshots, app reviews, ... And the more I published, the more visibility I gained. People started to reach out to me. People linked…
Learn how Expressive can improve a Laravel application by keeping Eloquent as the database layer while moving business logic to fully typed objects. Read more
Always fun to update this collection of Hawkgirl/Hawkwoman pics from time to time. Hawkgirl truly is an iconic character with a rich history. Hawkgirl's History
Your monthly hit of all the things that are fit to print without a better place to live. Today is election day here in New York City, so again a reminder that if you are a registered Democrat and live in NY-12 today is the final day to vote for Alex Bores for Congress, and as per my argument yesterday that this matters a lot for ensuring we have a sensible Congressional response to AI. RIP FiveThirtyEight ABC and Disney completely take down FiveThirtyEight and all its articles, after telling…
We constantly see different variations of "just build it, you can make it better later" on LinkedIn and other places dedicated to recycling cliches. Normally, the writer is a CLUMS (short for cliche-loving, unimaginative, mindless soul) who labels the opposite approach as perfectionist and rejects it on that grounds. In practice, what CLUMS has in mind and rejects is not perfect, but only well-built (perfection goes well beyond their imagination). Of course, CLUMS is not suggesting that sloppy…
