What a blast.

Likes Somewhere between a luddite and a cyborg by who even knows. Doing a masters in computer science and AI has been a surprisingly soul searching endeavour. My memories of enjoying tech as a kid were usurped by this ugly reality of spying and grasping and selling. I do still love technology, just not the industry it has become. I enjoyed the list of the way she would like technology and our relationship to it to go.

As of Friday night, November 6, 2026 (US time), multiple email admins on the Mailop mailing list (and elsewhere) are reporting seeing messages rejected when sending mail to Microsoft Outlook Consumer (Hotmail/Outlook.com, not Microsoft 365), meaning domains like outlook.com and hotmail.com, if the sending domain has no DMARC record present in DNS.My understanding is that the mail is being rejected even if messages are passing SPF and DKIM authentication checks. The NDR/SMTP rejection is: 550…

An end of week recap “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin (New Chronicles of Rebecca) In my first summation of the month (and the first since returning from my hols), I will describe today’s missive as a half-wind, since it’s rather short. I did what I could in under two days, but all being well, things should return to normal next week. From today until 13th November, the USA is marking National Book Award Week 2026,…

One of my favorite contemporary poets is Deborah Warren, who lives in Massachusetts. She’s smart, technically adroit, has a musical ear and a sense of humor – rare qualities among poets today. Some of her poems stick with me, memorability being a prerequisite of first-rate verse. My mind is associative. One thing leads to another, not always for conscious or logical reasons, though sometimes the linkage is obvious, as with her poem “Down-to-Earth”: “In the field the coyote yip-yips imminent…

It was Bandcamp Friday today, and guess what, the newest Notwist album kicks. I grabbed some other stuff — some jams from Hagane for some video games I've never played ("Hyperfight 2" is a dumb name but that soundtrack is my shit), new Syd, new Sampa the Great, new Girl Ultra, new Sylvan Esso, one or two other things. And Cxldr3 had his whole discography on sale for like $4.20 (blaze it). comments

A 2-day Slovenia travel guide covering Ljubljana’s old town, the castle hike, walking tours, and tips on the Slovenian language.Some notes on the Slovenian language As with most Slavic languages, the j is pronounced like the English y/य, so “Ljubljana” is pronounced “Lyublyana/ल्युब्ल्याना”. You might also see a caron, an inverted cap(◌̌) on some letters, for example, č, š, and ž. Imagine the caron as h to get the pronunciation. č is pronounced like the English ch/च š is pronounced like the…

This image was taken with a garage sale Nikon N90s film camera. The Fomapan Retro 200 film was then stand developed in Caffenol C-L for 70 minutes and the negatives were camera scanned into a Fujifilm X-T5 with a Valoi Easy 35.

~ Read more about /photo pages at Let's Make /photo Pages, by Robert Birming.

Saturday 7th November 2026 It’s been Bus and Coach Show time again at the NEC in Birmingham this week, and although I went along once again to see what’s new, I struggled to see much change from the jottings I made after the last Show, held two years ago in 2024. As usual, vehicle manufacturers all had their latest models on display with lots of coaches looking impressive but for those interested in buses, it was all a bit underwhelming, although two new names from overseas (to me) were…

The First Head Rolls We wrote yesterday that while Harmeet Dhillon might be the first rat to depart the S.S. Trump, she would not be the last. We thought one of the Cabinet secretaries would go next, but it was actually one of our runners-up who was given their pink slip late Friday: Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Click here for full story

Saw Grateful Shred in Austin, Texas, at the Historic Scoot Inn. Actually, I don’t know why it’s historic. I was thinking of it as a newer venue, but like somebody said a while back, when you think something was X amount of years ago, add 10 and you’re much closer. So it’s been around for a while. It’s not a place I’ve knowingly been to. What a great size of venue. That’s the one. Anything else has gotten too big. Don’t know how many people it seats, but it’s wonderful. Grateful Shred is a…

Despite having watching Twin Peaks countless times in the past three decades, I’m still discovering new things about the show. For example, there is a ceramic duck cookie jar found on the Double R Diner set. As one of three cookie jars in the diner, I thought for certain the duck one appeared often throughout the... The post Twin Peaks Set Decoration – Twin Winton Duck Cookie Jar at the Double R Diner appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

The 1957 Miss America pageant brought glamour, television attention, and a memorable hometown celebration to the small South Carolina community of Manning. Held in Atlantic City in September 1956, the competition attracted an estimated 40 million television viewers and ended with Marian McKnight taking the crown. Her winning performance, inspired by Marilyn Monroe, helped make […]

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Another one of those videos which makes you realise how dull the modern railway is compared to the blue diesel days almost 40 years ago. Has anyone got a time machine?

A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Robert E. Briney DONALD HAMILTON – Death of a Citizen. Matt Helm #1. Fawcett Gold Medal, paperback original, 1960. Reprinted a number of times. Donald Hamilton has been a full-time writer and photojournalist since 1946. His first three novels were published in hardcover by Rinehart; all subsequent ones have appeared as paperback originals. In 1953 he turned from suspense and spy fiction to westerns, and over the next several years published five superior books in this…

It’s 05:05 am, I’m groggy and really need to sleep but my mind won’t shut up. A perfect time to jump in on something I saw on Mastodon just now: knowvember! these are the questions I will attempt to groggily answer so I can hopefully go back to sleep as we fly out today A photo A picture taken in a Dublin restaurant of a clock that’s not running and the text below stating tempus fugit (time flies) while tempus definitely doesn’t fugit on this clock entertains me to no end Name or nickname The…

It’s 05:05 am, I’m groggy and really need to sleep but my mind won’t shut up. A perfect time to jump in on something I saw on Mastodon just now: knowember! these are the questions I will attempt to groggily answer so I can hopefully go back to sleep as we fly out today A photo A picture taken in a Dublin restaurant of a clock that’s not running and the text below stating tempus fugit (time flies) while tempus definitely doesn’t fugit on this clock entertains me to no end Name or nickname The…

The fallout from the 2026 midterms continues, and the knives are out. Many Republicans are blaming Donald Trump for the bloodbath endured by Team Red. For example, Eugene Volokh recommends this essay by Bill Otis as "worth reading".There is plenty in Otis' essay which I think is just plain silly. The notion that Republicans would have performed better had they committed to a land war in Iran, and that Trump's main failing there was that he didn't have the "statesmanship" to sell such a war to…

I have uploaded a markdown version of my daynotes site to my shared server and you can click here to view that version in Dave’s markdown web browser. One thing I notice is that HTML links are not rendered.

I'm too tired to write, but, also, I spent most of my words on my bigger projects today. I think that's a win. 🌲 gonna night 🌼 go night 🌱 touch night 🌳 grass night 🌷 now night PS: I'm rebooting DMail (or something like it). If you want to be part of history, drop your email address here: combatdavey.substack.com Be good to yourself. If you enjoyed this post, click the little up arrow chevron thinger below the tags to help it rank in Bear's Discovery feed and maybe consider sharing it with a…

As mentioned yesterday, I’m going to attempt to finish my novel Road Closed, which sits at around 83,000 words, 20 or so chapters and is an unfinished mess. Every day I will update what I’ve done, even if it’s nothing. The initial updates will be a bit more than nothing, but mostly about planning and organization, two things I can be very bad at. It’s going to be fun. My first task is to choose what tool to write with. As I haven’t written fiction in quite a while, I don’t have a go-to piece of…

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Well, not literally. I’m not sure I would want a living, sentient treadmill. But due to our patio being unavailable because of ongoing construction on the property, I’ve had my trusty treadmill in the folded-up position, to allow stuff to be stored in the office. And yes, I have a treadmill in the office, it’s right behind me as I type this! But as of tonight, most of the extra stuff has been moved out and the rest has been shuffled about to make room for the treadmill to assume its normal…

This week I made gnocchi, planted garlic, harvested carrots and cut down perfectly good flowers. I also learned I can't be trusted to babysit garlic for any length of time. The Potato Trials I made mashed potatoes for dinner specifically so I could have on purpose leftovers to make gnocchi the next day, because the...Read More

Andy Warhol, VIP Ticket — Studio 54, 1978, synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on canvas, 8 x 14 in., photographed at NYPL by @cmonstah Los Angelena and greg.org hero Carolina Miranda just posted a Friday night signoff: the Studio 54 drink ticket painting Warhol gave to Truman Capote in 1978. The painting went to the New York Public Library as part of Capote’s archive in 1984, and because it’s archive, not art, it’s not catalogued with basic information like the dimensions. I measured it; it…

Last week I finally had surgery after almost three months of effort to get myself fixed. It went very well, better than anticipated actually, and ten days later, my recovery is progressing nicely. The first few days, though, were more challenging than I expected. Pain meds helped a lot, save for the expected adverse side effects. But I survived and am feeling much closer to normal again. I think I might appreciate ‘normal’ a bit better than before. I still have steristrips on my incision and…