(LLMs were used to help organize and translate this post) A photography collection Light and Shadow explores the ephemeral scenes created when light and darkness interact with the world around us. Shadows and beams of light become more than simple variations in illumination: they create shapes, objects, and patterns that seem to emerge from the scene itself. What fascinates me about this approach is its fleeting nature. These shapes and patterns may appear or disappear in the next second,…

(LLMs were used to help organize and translate this post) A photography collection Beauty in the Beast explores the aesthetics of decay in urban and industrial environments. Abandoned buildings, forgotten objects, and the gradual degradation of things are recurring subjects, offering a different perspective on places and objects that are often overlooked or considered ugly. There's something fascinating about the way entropy reshapes our surroundings. As things deteriorate, layers emerge,…

The Yorkshire Garden Railway show returned this year, to its spiritual home - Elsecar Heritage Centre. I like the site. While Barrow Hill, the location for a few years while the heritage centre was being refurbished, is great for us train enthusiasts, it's not somewhere to take the family. If you are setting up a layout or longish trade stand, the wobbly floor is a nightmare. A proper exhibition centre is much nicer, and there are craft and antique shops for non-enthusiasts. And for both, there…

It's the weekend, and that means double feature time. Though I am likely to hit more double features snce I still have a lot of movies I want to watch. I wanted to get some movies that could have some monsters I could use in Jackson, Sunny Valley, or even Valhalla and I wanted to stay within my time period. So tonight I decided on a mini monster marathon with two movies I have tried to watch before and never managed to finish.That probably should have been a warning. Still, I am nothing if not…

It was the run I have been waiting 16 years for - spectacular fight and a new PB pike was in the net. I'll cut straight to it, 28lb 0oz of beautiful River Wye pike. F**king brilliant!! And my luck didn't end there. I normally pike fish alone, but this time the baliff appeared and witnessed the weigh-in, then a girl on a bike arrived and took the cracking photo above. It took 16 years to beat my previous PB of 25lb 4oz - but I'd really like to beat this one much quicker - getting close to the…

We never leave out our four legged friends here at Action Figure Barbecue! While our dog, Zoey, has volunteered to write special reviews on toys over the past few years for 31 Days of Toy Terror (she enjoyed all of the kind remarks and praise she got), this year we've decided to give Krypto a turn. We adopted Krypto in August of 2025 and he has made himself right at home. He's a very mellow, pleasant little guy with a very serious stare. Ready to read a (dog) toy review written by our poodle/…

This article was originally 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. Let’s check out ‘Outlaw King‘! You can see the trailer here: I love knowing which year it is, makes looking up errors much easier Not bad, candles are only there because they’re needed and there are some colours! What’s with the mullet?Chris needs a better barber.The chap on the right looks much nicer.Also look, there are…

It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot…

My college buddy has been trying to get me to visit Nepal for two decades now. It seemed like I would get there earlier, but I did not. When we caught up a year ago, I swore up and down that I would go see him once I could travel again... and I finally made it. A few photos from that trip to Kathmandu and Pokhara, October 2026. When we arrived in Kathmandu airport from Delhi, it was pouring buckets of rain. I thought I'd known what momos tasted like, but I was not prepared for how much better…

Jamelle Bouie wonders why nobody in the press bothers to pin people to the wall on the weirdo views and rants of their biggest donor. They don’t mind accepting this guy’s $200M leading up to each general election – will someone remind them of his values and how he’s out to destabilize what’s left of the fabric of society? Probably not … because this is how the American system has always rolled – the rich get to have their say – the rest of us are relegated to yelling into the bot filled Twitter…

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Food Around the Clock – New York, New York I shot this picture somewhere in Times Square. Given that they serve breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late night, apparently they pretty much serve food around the clock. Though I can’t tell if they are actually open 24 hours. The black-and-white conversion works well here. There’s a nice shine and glow to the image, and the lack of color simplifies the photo. However, I like the color version too, and the red neon is a real bonus. I included that version…

Web apps have trapped everything in a single, unyielding window -- the browser. Everything just exists inside the single rigid container; we can’t juxtapose, align, overlap our apps experiences without creating whole new frames. This has resulted in web browser vendors attempting to re-create the windowing capabilities of an OS inside a web browser, but ignoring the power of the operating system’s own windowing capabilities. It seems inevitable that we are to continue this struggle with the…

USA.gov on How, When, & Where To VoteThe Ballot Brief, a nonpartisan elections guide. Calendar of dates. Look up info for your ballot by putting in your ZIP.Vote 411. Personalized ballot & candidate info for voters. Local, state, or federal. A nonpartisan site run by The League of Women Voters. All responses come directly from the candidates, unedited.The Democracy Download: A Mini-Course on Countering Election Misinformation. A short free online course by the American Civil Liberties Union.I…

[This is a guest post by Shaoming Guo – T.] Several math colleagues and I are preparing to launch a new journal. As we considered which values we wanted the journal to uphold, we realized that there may be many other values worth exploring as a community, potentially through the creation of additional journals. We would like to use Terry’s blog to open a discussion of these possibilities. There are many dimensions to this discussion: what journals should aim to accomplish, what kinds of…

Fremantle2026 October 18 (Sunday), 11:11AM· MediaWiki · Wikimedia · Git · Composer · When installing MediaWiki extensions with Composer, it can fail for extensions that are hosted on Gerrit. For example, here PluggableAuth is not able to be cloned from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/PluggableAuth and is prompting for user credentials: $ composer update -o --no-dev Composer could not detect the root package (mediawiki/core) version, defaulting to '1.0.0'. See…

Subscribe and Listen: https://youtu.be/ruR4YnwCo6c🎙️ The “Rough Topics” EditionWelcome to What The Fudge for Sunday, October 18, 2026. This week, we are trying another format. Instead of a specific company breakout, we are organizing by rough topics: AI in the workplace, AI security paradoxes, AI infrastructure, venture capital funding updates, and merger and acquisition updates.💼 AI and the WorkplaceIf you are consuming AI in your current workplace, there is a very good chance that you have…

Today was quite busy and full of excitement! We went to a bunch of activities and had a ball! The day kicked off with Clarkson and me going to a carnival event for his school, where he was excited to go on some bounce houses. Then, we drove over to the Tatertot Con Year 3 I had just recently discussed being excited about. When it officially kicked off at 12 PM, it became busy quite quickly! A number of vendors and creators were there. Near the entrance was Go Getter Gamez with their usual…

(Note: This post has spoilers.) I didn't plan for this, but this is the fourth book I've read consecutively that have multiple narrators. (The previous three books were Exit Party, Time Travel for Beginners, and Hollywood, Ending.) But, for my taste, this is the weakest book to employ this technique. (Seriously, spoilers in the next paragraph.) Worse, the majority of the narrators are unreliable. It is one thing, in my humble opinion, to ask the reader to spot the unreliable narrator. But to…

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The suspense and drama of postseason baseball is exciting, but it also slightly spoils my preferred mode of enjoyment, which is putting on another low stakes regular season game to provide company in a relaxed evening.

a raccoon I ran into on my walk home

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A family member needed to move from Seattle down to the LA area in a hurry last week, and the best car I had to move a whole apartment's worth of stuff safe and dry was our VW ID Buzz van. But it is an EV and I did wonder how it might affect a long trip, but headed out in it for the first leg of my journey.This would be my third EV road trip of over 1,000 miles (here's: 1 & 2). This time, I went around 2,600 miles, from Portland up to Seattle and back, then down to Ventura, Los Angeles, and…

For as long as I've been alive, I've been entrepreneurial. Excited, eager, always wanting to start things. Someone I've known for a long time recently described it as a compulsion. It is. About 12 years ago, I started a non-profit in Mumbai that taught underprivileged children how to code. (Here's that story.) This year, I handed it off completely to the local team. They took the bones of what we built and turned it into an excellent local organization, Tinker Qubits. I have often found myself…

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16 October 2026 in Melbourne, supported by Primitive Ring and DB4.Again we find ourselves in Thornbury, beholden to some of Melbourne's worst night-time public transport. Getting home usually means just missing a train and having to wait 40 to 60 minutes for the next one, or getting on the very slow 86 tram. On the train on the way there we realised it would be replacement buses for the journey home, as an added treat.Yeah, I am not a big fan of High Street but it's hard to avoid, and I am,…

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I have access to a Large Language Model. It can do things for me. Most anything I can imagine done with ones and zeroes. It used to be that I’d come up with an idea, and then had the puzzle part where I tried to make the code fit together so it did the thing I wanted it to do. Alan Watts tells a story: See, there’s this guy, a farmer, who ordered a helping man to come in and found that he was an extraordinarily efficient worker. For the first day he put him on sawing logs. And he sawed more…

With the Anthropic IPO gathering pace - and chip stocks just posting their longest losing streak since 2008 amid worries about AI debt, I thought it'd be worth writing up some of my thoughts I've put together while thinking through what may happen. By no means is this meant to be exhaustive - just a list of what I think is the most interesting to think through. Before I dive into the scenarios, while I'm sure there are going to be failures and mispricing of asset classes - like any huge…