Guest Post by: David Tonaszuck A reflection on the Gospel of Matthew 13:24-30 Dear Friends in Christ, There was once a boy, not much older than fourteen, who wandered the dusty back roads near a small farming town at the turn of the century. He was an orphan, left to fend for himself in a … Continue reading Rest for the Weary: Trusting Jesus to Lighten Our Burdens The post Come and Meet Jesus at the Wedding Feast first appeared on The Simple Catholic. The post Come and Meet Jesus at the Wedding…

There's nothing quite as satisfying as coming home to a slow cooker that's been quietly working its magic all day. These Slow Cooker Shredded Beef Tacos are packed with rich, savoury flavour, featuring tender beef brisket cooked low and slow until it practically falls apart at the touch of a fork. A blend of garlic, herbe and smoky chipotle creates a deliciously robust filling that's perfect tucked into warm tortillas and piled high with your favourite toppings.Whether you're feeding a hungry…

Barely transport news Some transport stories are barely newsworthy, but still usefully fill space. 🚡 As part of Befriending Week in November, free return trips are being offered on the cablecar to lonely people who'd like to share a cabin. "Designed to spark conversation and tackle social isolation, passengers are encouraged to exchange questions and stories during the journey," also you get a free hot drink. The last slot sold out last night, sorry, so you could just try striking up a…

Trump Appeasement Syndrome, Part I: Cassidy Hutchinson All his adult life, Donald Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants he can control, and whose only job is to stroke his... ego and tell him exactly what he wants to hear. And now that he runs the entire federal government, whose vast resources are actually owned by the American people and supposed to be used on their behalf, he has put in place Cabinet members and agency heads who understand that their sole job description is to keep…

Every piece of trash is carefully organized by color, folded and stored in piles before the ceremony. Just because it has no apparent use, or its use has ceased, doesn't mean it's not deserving respect.

Pike #10 of the season - chipping away at my 50 pike target. Aware that I only caught one last November (although it was the fish of the season) and none in February - need to get ahead before the conditions change.

On not-so-rare occasions, I get to play board games before they’re fully polished. There’s something about seeing a game struggle through its growing pains, watching its knobbly limbs grow lithe and athletic, its protrusions smooth and frictionless, that recalls editing a novel for publication or appraising frames for the final cut. Most of the time, this process is a hard one. “Murder your darlings,” Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch said of an author’s finest phrases. Cut them down to size. That’s…

Power Cat 2026-10-13 yowza

Photo by Андрей Сизов on Unsplash. Someone asked me “what is Jev?” after my setup post, where it got one line as my judge model. I gave the short answer, but I realized it might be neat to write up my actual agent usage of Jev over time. Every Jev call Oh My Pi makes writes a model_usage entry with a purpose field into ~/.omp/agent/sessions. I pulled all of them, from the night I set it up on September 30 through October 11.

This is the time of year I feel a pang for the Northen autumn. The temperature in Houston, as I write on Monday, is eighty-six degrees. The trees are as green today as they were last month and last April. Butterflies still flit in the garden, as do the anoles, green and brown. Years have a circadian rhythm as do our days. Mine is definitely Northern, Ohio by way of upstate New York, and my clock is always off. Our front yard was the deepest on the street, lined on the right with four silver…

Tuesday 13th October 2026 I popped over to the Isle of Wight on Saturday to sample yet another new bus route – this one introduced on 27th September by Southern Vectis thanks to the Isle of Wight Council’s Bus Service Improvement Plan. Route 33 runs between Newport and Ryde bringing a bus service back to the village of Havenstreet after an absence of 11 years and, as a bonus, visitors to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway’s main station at the southern end of the village is also now reconnected…

Ethan Marcotte is tired of all the recommendations and suggestions in internet services. For the most part, I am, too. At the very least, I dislike how much they feel imposed or as a default, as though my use of most services should flow through the suggestions they provide. Even calling them “suggestions” or “recommendations” feels a little bit generous for sites like YouTube — where continuous playback to an automatically selected video is on by default — or Instagram, where algorithmically…

Adam Engst of TidBITS has a nice roundup on why we need apps that need Full Disk Access on macOS, and what we really need from Apple for these apps. macOS need to keep up with the times and provide customers with a secure and private environment while maintaining the openness of the Mac. I hope Apple is serious, and aren’t just looking for quick fixes. iOS is where a lot of us are spending time with, just because iiPhones are with us always, and all the apps are on it. But macOS is where most…

This is the first installment of my Fall 2026 Trail Drive during which I will restore the equipment I've collected from John L. Oliver's Pan Handle Rusty Route and Earl Benteler's Allegheny.Having successfully reorganized my workbench and created space for the staging cabinet beneath the layout, I decided it was time for another Trail Drive. Click HERE for the post that explains the Trail Drive concept and HERE for the current posts with that label. There's a specific reason for undertaking…

Time to move outside the barge, and work on the stern. A series of wire pieces are cut and superglued in place. Over this, slips a couple of laser-cut card parts. To cover the wire ends, a thinner card piece fits over the top. This reads quicker than it turned out to be. I used a piece of MDF as a spacer for the bottom rib, but did the top by eye. It's not perfect, but OK. Leftover wire has been used for the tiller, although it deserves a bit more colour than the plain black I've painted it. To…

Lately, I had the wonderful experience of going to a club without dancing, smoking, or drinking twice. Basically, I was invited to a Latino club in Shanghai by two different groups of my friends. Since I am at a certain point in my life where I avoid dancing by any means, accepting these invitations was by far one of the most absurd decisions I have made in the last couple of months, and oh boy, I made a lot of them; something that needs its own story for another day. While the first time was…

Tags: #nature #walking #dispatchesIt’s always the question, which way to go. See, I wanted somewhere with a view, somewhere with a little turnout so I could sit in the shade and not be right on the trail. It should be a little private, a bit hidden, so I could sit and have a think without every passerby just having a look and feeling obligated to say “Hello”. So I parked in the upper lot, a tiny six-spotter with two big oak trees and a garbage can. Well, there used to be a garbage can there; I…

I've always associated autumn with coffee shops, probably because of all-day study sessions and how my friends and I used to spend hours at Panera Bread back when it was still a decent establishment. In 2021, when I went back to college to finish my degree, my first semester also started in autumn, and I had an entire rotation of K-town cafes where I'd study after working from home all day. Since moving to Taipei, I've only had one cafe that I frequent regularly, but they have two-hour limits…

I'm very excited to check out today's figure as it's one of the 2026 releases from Formo Toys' Legends of Dragonore line: Horri-Dame! If you're not familiar with Legends of Dragonore, this is a toyline heavily inspired by 1980s 5.5 inch scaled barbarian fantasy toy lines. You know, Masters of the Universe? The line has some serious MOTU fans and creative talents behind it like Emiliano Santalucia and Joshua Van Pelt, so you can see the MOTU influence in Legends of Dragonore. Horri-Dame is a new…

hi happy monday!! my birthday is tomorrow and i do have plans but due to the nature of weeknotes you can find out about it next week. this week was sort of crazy because i felt as if i did nothing but i actually was busy but the majority of it was not fun. nick hurt his back. first he blamed the mattress that i don't find an issue with but i can sleep anywhere in any position so i'm not helping his case. so we swapped mattresses out, and then got a mattress topper which maybe we couldve just…

This is also known as The Pity Laugh and it somehow manages to save your terrible joke from being a complete bomb. See, now you didn’t serve up a dud that hit dead air. No, no, your humor is just a little high brow and hard to understand, that’s all. AWESOME! Join our Facebook group. Want a new awesome thing every day? Sign-up here: Photo from: here The post #573 That one person who laughs when you tell a really bad joke appeared first on 1000 Awesome Things.

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I was talking to Daniel about our Substack project and this came out: I know it can't go 100mph. I'm just impatient. And I'm usually a patient guy I guess I just really want this to be something and I'm coming to terms with that bit by bit, in real time, forever, always. Wanting things is one thing. Wanting things out of a creative project is something else. We all want things. We all deserve to want things. But if you want things in relation to something you are making, and the thing you are…

It tastes great.It has no calories.Everyone loves it.It is also alive.This is an odd one. It's an obvious dig on 80s consumerism. Its commentary is spot on really. I can't fault it for that. Not quite as good as "Robocop," but still good. But is it good horror?The Stuff (1985)Larry Cohen’s 1985 horror-comedy, The Stuff, concerns a new dessert that has become the talk of the nation. It is irresistible. No calories, great taste, and everyone is fond of it. There is only one catch: it is alive.We…

This post is aimed mainly at folks new to the fields of short fiction and illustration, or those who don’t have extensive connections to professionals. My platform is small, but it’s worth using it to boost a warning. In a nutshell Back in 2025, a new publisher bought four magazines owned by Dell and one owned by Gordon Van Gelder: Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy and…

Cortlandt Alley – New York, New York I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I don’t usually do any deep analysis when selecting places to photograph. If something seems interesting, that’s good enough for me. That’s the case with today’s image. In the past, it took considerable effort to track down a location that I photographed in the city. That was the situation during my Paris series, where I also walked around the city and snapped pictures. I often had to find landmarks and use Google and…

It's October. New month, new agent-shell update. If you missed the last post, have a look at the 0.78 update. While the latest changes are focused primarily on bugfixes and polish, we have a handful of new features too. As usual, this post showcases highlights, but please check out the full list of changes if you're after the nitty-gritty. What's agent-shell? agent-shell brings your favorite AI agents to Emacs, keeping you at home: familiar buffers and bindings, no terminal emulation. All…

[This is a guest post by Sophie Huiberts, being an expanded version of a post on her own blog. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When you prove a theorem, you are imparted a responsibility to the field of mathematics. At minimum you need to explain what you did, including which steps required new ideas and which steps are already well-known. More substantively, you are expected to nurture the literature. If an important idea was poorly…

For the past two years, I've been working with a client , an enterprise software company (built with Ruby on Rails, of course), particularly in the niche of software used by enterprises of all sizes + MSPs and IT administrators for real businesses like law firms, municipalities, architects, hospitals, manufacturers, financial institutions, and government agencies.Working with an enterprise software company has revealed a whole new world of B2B software companies and managed service providers…