I recently learned that there is a large cat colony on Rikers Island, where hundreds of feral cats have been living for many years (most of the original cats had been dumped on the island by employees of the large correctional facility there). The cats are cared for by volunteers with a group called Rikers […] The post 1915: Bill Nichols, the Cat Who Could Have Been a Rikers Island Hero appeared first on The Hatching Cat of Gotham.

“The Black Lodge” takes its name from David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks”, and the TV show’s occult informed “extra-dimensional location”, “a place of pure evil through which all souls passed on the way to perfection.” Despite this sinister source of inspiration the track is, in fact, a proper, propulsive (Halloween?) party starter. Chugging, forcefully marching, on playful, percussive programming, while sound effects dive bomb and belch. Mad scientist Tesla coils buzzing. “Max Gate Inc.” kicks a bit…

The consequences of Silver and Lead continue to spin out throughout the fae communities. Turns out that it really messes with your head to have memories of 2 lives lived - especially one so dramatically different than the real one. We are also seemingly close to ending the major story arc for Rayseline (if this book wasn’t the end of focusing on it for now). Very few people crazily jump straight into book 20 of a series, so I’m assuming if you’ve made it this far and are perusing this review to…

By this time most years, we have visited the orchard at least twice, spending hours picking apples of every variety. Our first visit, usually in September, brings us galas, empires, jonagolds, and cortlands. We roam the rows looking for the right apples to pick: crisp, bright, stems easily coming off the tree. We look for some lower on the trees so that Zoya can reach them; we look for some higher on the trees which haven’t been as picked over by the crowds. We fill a ten-pound bag (sometimes…

"Jenna and Val cannot take criticism to save their lives," Marshal Knight wrote in his DWTS recap last week—and Val proved that to be true, and won't be on the show this week.

Wizard stuff King’s Cross, yesterday. The Harry Potter industry continues to thrive. It must be one of Britain’s biggest cultural exports. Quote of the Day ”Potentially, TV can transform the Presidency into a monarchic dynasty. A merely elective Presidency scarcely affords the depth of dedication and commitment demanded by the TV form. Even teachers on TV seem to be endowed by the student audiences with a charismatic or mystic character that much exceeds the feelings developed in the classroom…

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On February 3, 1971, NYPD Detective Frank Serpico was shot in the face during a raid on a suspected drug dealer. He was rushed to the hospital; the bullet severed one of his auditory nerves and left bullet fragments lodged near his brain, but otherwise he recovered. The shooting quickly drew attention – because one year previously Serpico had brought evidence of widespread corruption to the New York Times – evidence that they quickly wrote up in a front-page article and which spurred then-mayor…

Today I learned: ICANNWiki is an independent and not-for-profit encyclopedia about Internet Governance, unaffiliated with ICANN. It contains 11,046 articles. To contribute, read our content guide, then request an account. It’s an unofficial wiki, though ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) does sponsor it. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-10-21.

A Man, A Woman & A Hippopotamusby Selima HillGenres: Poetry Pages: 269 Rating: Synopsis: Selima Hill’s twenty-second collection A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus presents ten sequences of short poems, prose poems and short pieces on relationships and doings between people, animals and the world at large. I borrowed Selima Hill’s A Man, A Woman, & A Hippopotamus from the library pretty much just because of the title (and cover), I must admit. I really wanted to know what the hippo had to do with…

Two stories about AI and attention surfaced within a day of each other in mid-October 2026, and on the surface they share nothing. That is why I want to set them side by side.In Hong Kong, police had already launched an AI-powered national security platform for school pupils at a ceremony on October 6, 2026; the story reached a wider audience when Hong Kong Free Press reported it on October 13 and Global Voices republished it on October 16. According to those reports, the tool lets students…

Speaking Esperanto with the kids isn’t about Esperanto.

Digital Eclipse’s final Spyro game for the GBA went in a different direction from its predecessors. Rather than being another straight take on the established formula, Attack of the Rhynocs goes for a more open-ended adventure that sees you travelling between connected worlds and completing quests. While it lacks some of the immediacy the series ...Spyro: Attack of the Rhynocs was first posted on October 20, 2026 at 6:16 pm.©2017-2025 "Hardcore Gaming 101". Use of this feed is for personal…

A feature I sometimes forget is present in NetNewsWire is that you can change its theme. That is mostly because I set it years ago and forgot all about it. Dave Marquard recently created a theme repository. I quite like Ember, which looks very nice on my Mac and iPhone alike — aside from the link hover — and Atlantic Breeze. ⌥ Permalink

Tasting History with Max Miller is must-watch YouTube for me. Miller is a wonderful storyteller, and his show melds interesting history lessons with period-appropriate recipes. As it turns out, he’s also a fan of board games. His new game is now live on Kickstarter. If you haven’t watched the show before, you should give it a try. Before jumping in, you might want to know more about hardtack and garum. The “clack clack” sound of smacking two pieces of hardtack together comes up regularly. It’s…

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. James Elkins’s novel Stories, Like Illnesses is truly uniquely told and a mesmerizing treatise on memory and self. In his own words, here is James Elkins’s Book Notes music playlist for his…

Brent Simmons: We’ve released NetNewsWire 7.2 for Mac with a new column view layout: choose View > Use Column Layout to switch. (Choose it again to switch back.) This is a new feature in the sense that the previous version of the app didn’t have it — but NetNewsWire of Yore, before the 2018 reboot, certainly had this feature. Even NetNewsWire 1.0 had this feature! In fact, back in those days it was the only layout. In some ways this is the oldest NetNewsWire feature and we’re celebrating its…

# The past couple of weeks have been tough. I'm not entirely sure why, but my mental health has taken a downturn. It doesn't feel like the meds are really doing anything at the moment, and I've been increasingly restless and fitful during sleep again. Yesterday, I had to go back to the doctor's as the pharmacy was having problems getting hold of my repeat prescription so we also discussed the current situation. I've had an almost constant headache for the past 7-8 days, occasionally dipping…

Now that we’ve closed the cover on Baking with Dorie, we are full steam ahead on Dorie’s Anytime Cakes. (By the way, if any of you subscribe to Dorie’s newsletter, she gave TWD a super sweet shout-out in the most recent one.) Fall is prime-time baking season, and getting this First-of-Fall Apple Bundt in the oven will make your house smell like a pot of mulled cider. Cinnamon, brown sugar, maple syrup and apples…does it get more cozy? The mixing method is easy and standard, and the Bundt tin…

Tonight I watched The Odyssey at the BFI IMAX (and so completed a 3 month odyssey of my own).

I started building Handmade right before I put out the previous blog post. I needed something to start building because, boy... a blank folder with an index.html document is quite daunting. So I started writing the first tool(?) on the site, which I am just calling my Tome. I wanted a place where I could keep documentation about the things I learn in my life. Basically, a personal encyclopedia. I started with some very basic CSS for a nice readable font, some dynamic styling for light/dark…

Anthony Cimino offered the closest thing to an official response we have seen on the leaked Anthropic draft bill I covered on Saturday. His response indicates that Anthropic address specific concerns on the margin. But he does not understand, or at least does not acknowledge, what was centrally wrong with its draft bill and its decision to circulate that bill. The situation is quite bad. Anthony Cimino: I lead our federal affairs team at @AnthropicAI and wanted to share a few thoughts on the…

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours G.Kelly in happier days This week, I was so saddened to confront the long-closed-up premises of G. Kelly at 444 Bethnal Green Rd – which shut in 2018 never to reopen – that I realised I needed to publish a belated elegy for this beloved institution which served pie and mash to loyal East End customers for over a century. Sue Venning of G.Kelly pie and mash (still open and flourishing at 526 Roman Rd) kindly outlined the genealogy. “Samuel Robert…

Back in September the Jiyugaoka Muse Square openedOn the first 5 floors there are shops and some eateriesThen on the 6th floor is office spaceAnd from the 7th floor up to the 15th are apartments(When we moved to Tokyo back in 2018, there were several buildings with shops and eateries here)I checked out Ikedayama, a bakery, their main shop is in Gotanda which I visited pre-pandemicrenewed area now

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Holy shit, I didn’t know what I was missing out on. The other day I was setting up a new home-server for a friend, they’re technical, but I don’t think they will tinker too much with the media stack I got them started on. Before I started setting up the server, I knew I wanted to use Docker to run stuff, simply because it’s simple and convenient. But I wanted to see if there were any better alternatives to what I was already using, Dokploy. I found Dockge and Komodo. Both look minimalistic,…

I'm writing this blog post on the same day as the eMudhra Intermediate CA compromises news was published so the memory of what was required from me and unfortunately volunteer maintainers today is still fresh and top-of-mind. Fixing the systemic issues that many open source projects faced today takes longer than a day of hurriedly patching everything and publishing advisories, so I'm leaving these as notes for future us. I'm only writing from the perspective of the Python ecosystem, although I…

What’s going on, Internet? Just got back from seeing Hilary Duff at the Spark Arena (on a Tuesday night, whooo). Great show. I wish I knew her music more as I would have loved to be belting out the lyrics with the rest of the crowd. Definite millenial energy in the crowd. Loved it. Hey, thanks for reading this post in your feed reader! Want to chat? Reply by email or add me on XMPP, or send a webmention. Check out the posts archive on the website.

I have been dying (ha) to write this post, and definitely meant to do it sooner considering I first saw the newest and greatest Resident Evil (2026) in theaters the 25th of September. But, better late than never, as they say. If you don’t feel like reading this whole post, I’ll just come right out and say that you should absolutely go see this movie ASAP and definitely catch it on the big screen if you can! Whether you’ve never seen a Resident Evil movie before, hate all of the ones you’ve…