Aaron Worth (editor)British Library From the peaks of Eryri to hidden valleys and haunted mines, the storied landscapes of Wales have inspired centuries of myth and folklore. Over time, these tales of the unexplained and the Otherworld have formed a unique strain of weird fiction. Continuing the British Library's 'Gilded Nightmares' series of lavish hardbacks is this rather fabulous collection of stories exploring the darker side of Wales. One only needs to glance at the Welsh flag to…

It’s New Music Friday, and my queue on Record Club keeps growing…

I thought about inhaling the stars. Metaphorically, of course Well, I've done it more than I can remember. Our Sun was my first choice but it felt lacking for some reason, so I added a couple more, maybe those from Orion? I breathe in the light from these heavenly titans into my chest and let my heart pound and squeeze it into some form of light energy that my stomach can hold overtime. I spread the excess around what I believe is the zone that the invisible rest of my body occupies. Why?…

A podcast named Designed in California: Expertly-told stories about the 50-year history of Apple and the world it created, from Jason Snell and Myke Hurley. We cover the entire range of the last half-century, from Apple’s earliest days in a garage, to the rise of the Mac, to the return of Steve Jobs and the creation of some of Apple’s most iconic products. I jumped on the Kickstarter when it was originally announced, and the other day I started listening to the first few episodes. And I didn’t…

Oldham Corporation Transport operated electric trams and Leyland buses in Lancashire from 1900 until joining SELNEC PTE on November 1, 1969.

My first Bartz album. My first Bartz album. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Looking to acquire some early Bartz on Milestone and this one is a great start. A live album recorded at the Left Bank Jazz Society in Baltimore in 1969. The sound is sublime so it feels more like it’s a studio recording.The band is brilliant with Bartz on alto, Woody Shaw on trumpet,…

Tammy had these amazing trophies made for the inaugural Grandpa Don games at this weekends Olson Family Vacation. 🧡

I kinda fucked up by merging the line art with the paint layer but ... lets see how this goes

The Firefox team are asking us to weigh in on proposals for Interop 2027—what features should browsers be concentrating on implementing or improving. Here are my top five: Web app installation via <install> and navigator.install(). Prompts the user to install a progressive web app. Speculation Rules API. Hints to the browser to proactively download pages in the background so they appear instantly when the user navigates to them. CSS var() in size container queries. Such as @container (width >=…

Omniscient Reader's Viewpointby Sleepy-C, Umi, singNsongGenres: Fantasy, Manga Pages: 248 Series: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (manhwa) #3 Rating: Synopsis: With all the food destroyed by the goblin, Dokja’s group is forced to venture into the dark tunnels teeming with vicious creatures. But in the cruel new world, monsters are not the most dangerous enemies. When the atrocities committed by the “Major Group” come to light, chaos ensues in Geumho Station. And amidst the bloodshed, Huiwon’s…

Sorry if you received a copy of the previous Weeknotes a second time by email. That issue is fixed. I turned 51 this week. It was an unremarkable flipping of the calendar other than it was near 90 degrees in mid-October. It’s surreal when it gets this warm in the autumn because it feels like summer but no birds are out doing their thing, so there’s this kind of eerie silence broken only by ever-present crickets. Unseasonably warm weather in October but no summer birds I treated myself to a new…

Katie Zacharia fired after five days as White House press secretary: Zacharia had a rocky start to her tenure as press secretary, hosting a widely panned first briefing on Tuesday. She had also faced questions over her legal credentials after admitting she did not pass the bar exam. Not even half a Mooch.

In Samuel Abrahams’ debut feature a documentary crew turn up at the palatial stately home Ravenhyde Hall to make a film about the life of its enigmatic owner Lady Isabella. Yet it soon transpires that things are not as they seem and the director becomes drawn into the eccentric aristocrat’s self-absorbed world. I’d been wanting to see this for a while but it had a limited theatrical release and is now on Amazon Prime. If you watch it don’t assume that the knockabout trailer or opening segment…

💭 Yeah, yeah I know. Meta-blogging is over-done but I'm gonna talk about it anyway 😁 Initial Design When I originally built my /now page, I didn't put a whole ton of thought into how I wanted to structure it in the long-run. To just have a semi-nice list of things displayed was the main goal, with data organization being an after thought. With 11ty supporting JSON data files, I figured this would be a good format to structure my data with so I could template it into a page. For the initial page…

"I used to send a list of 40 books of novels and poetry to the newly accepted students." — Juhani Pallasmaa, Designers & Books This morning I woke up reading a passage from Desiderare, a novel by the Italian neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara. In the passage, two characters are waiting for a bus near the ancient Temple of Segesta in Sicily. One of them begins describing an imaginary garden. The passage brought me immediately back to Juhani Pallasmaa. As he wrote in The Atmospheric Sense: "When…

The last vacation made me want a better camera than the one in my phone. Especially one with a telephoto lens, so I could take pictures of animals from a safe distance. Today we were at a wildlife park and I was able to take some portraits of some residents with the camera I bought. Here are my favorites, all unedited. While I’m generally skeptical of zoos because of the conditions in which the animals are kept, this wildlife park was a really positive exception. (Most of) the animals, all…

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We’re getting close! Only a few more days and SPIEL Essen 2026 will be opening its doors. Since you’ve probably already seen a lot of most anticipated games lists, pre-order lists, and other shopping guides, I thought I’d instead give you some suggestions of other things to do or look out for. Because let’s face it: if you’re reading this, chances are you have way too many games at home already that you should be playing more instead of buying new ones, right? So here are a couple of things I’m…

This update covers Sunday 10-11-26 through Friday 10-16-26 (icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 A shorter update than usual. A journey is finally at an end, though another will start soon. 📕 L. finished her last week at her awful library branch. She will take over at a much better branch starting on Mon 10-19. 📜 Another change of scenery is imminent, due to our upcoming weekend getaway. ❤️‍🩹 Not as many walks this week due to weather and time constraints. I hope that on our weekend trip, we will…

skryblans (the site) is still here. Scribblans (the author – me!) is also still here. Putting the two things together might lead you to the reasonable conclusion that there could have been some newer posts on here well before now. But of course I don't expect you really cared, and you were perfectly happy with all the rest of the posts continuing to brighten your days on Bearblog, and elsewhere on the Indie/Small/Tiny web. Fair enough. Me too. For example, I saw the Imperfect and Unstory thing…

As announced a few weeks ago, the SAIR Open Math OS is now soft launched. It offers services and web interfaces similar to frontier AI models, though currently we are hosting existing open math models (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Kimi K3, and GLM 5.3 Flash) which are roughly a year or so behind the current frontier models in capability; so not able to perform “one-shot problem solving” of the type we have heard frequently about in recent months, but capable enough for many other useful mathematical…

Adventurers Character Race Class Description Ainsley Human Ranger level 1 An older gentleman with a groomed moustache and a wooden pipe in his mouth, covered in dark green cloak. Aurella Elf Fighter level 1 / magic-user level 1 Exiled and chased out of her tree commune, she now wanders the Wilderlands. Herbaecious Roncule Human Druid level 3 A sun tanned, grubby, dried-berry-looking fellow dressed in green cloak. Chews a large cigar. Kenso San Human Fighter level 2 An arrogant and self-assured…

I know what you're thinking: Jasper hasn't had a new keyboard for ages. What remarkable growth and maturity.126 words · 1 image

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I've been working all month on the story for the Indie Web Fiction carnival, which I am hosting, but the plot got so good, that I am on draft 4... I hope to finish by the last day of October even if I do not revise it; I reserve the right to change it after a month when I actually revise... it might be too long to revise in one day. ????#writing #indieweb_carnival #sunflowers #fictionThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.

Please do not understand me too quickly. Came across this quote via an old interview with Richard Ayoade when he was asked what he would change in the world. “I suppose maybe, maybe a slight slowing down.” “Of the world?” “Yes, of quickness, to feel that comprehension has been reached.” The quote is originally from André Gide’s Les Caves du Vatican. « Ne me comprenez pas si vite, je vous en prie. » Not sure I have the stamina for it right now but would like to read it eventually. Apparently…

Hi! I published an extensive Minecraft post about German BedWars and compared it to Hypixel variation. You'll learn the history of German BedWars, what Hypixel got wrong and my personal experience.

The Transformers Civil War continues to rage on their homeworld of Cybertron and also Earth, which the Decepticons have identified as ripe for fuel exploitation. New reinforcements have arrived on both planets via the intermediary world of Nebulos, and the Autobots are rejoicing at the return of Optimus Prime, restored to life as a Powermaster. However, the threat of the time-travelling Decepticon warlord Galvatron remains and a new threat has been located in deep space: the mysterious…

This was mostly written in a bit of frustration over the usual "this social media is bad, let's all get out of here so we can feel like we're doing some moral good!!" after Bluesky was found to be promoting Attie's AI features on Twitter, but interestingly such promotion is nonexistent on its own platform. But I'm tired man lmao. Being an artist is tiring in this day and age where how well you do is highly dependent on the Algorithm, your work is essentially free use by both generative AI &…

46 years into this thing and I’m still learning! Man what a life. A quick reflection: Ran Inevitable at the pub game last night. Offered it as the start of a 3-shot but I think I won’t continue it. In attendance: my cohost’s wife filling in for a no-show, the sister of one of my regulars (who was totally baffled by showing up for the finale of Deathmatch Island last month; I told her to come start a new thing), a couple new guys, brothers I think of one of my regulars. And one guy who, sure…