I take a right turn at the end of the bicycle path onto Pelzgasse on my usual way towards Westbahnhof. "My technology rules aren't strict enough", I think as I feel the smartphone in my pocket. It's there. Even with all my restrictions in place, its mere presence stresses me out. "Should have swapped it for a dumb phone", I think. I park my bike in front of Westbahnhof and buy a new physical notebook at the local bookstore, in order to log my Digital Declutter for the upcoming 30 days. Day 1…

https://insitze.com/blog-posts/ How does one lose grip on reins of a fleeting desire? Picture this: A horse and a house; who clutches the reins? The horse goes worse on bumpy terrain, While the house draws itself a blank – Something of a foreign expressionism. These thoughts tumble in tonight, whilst On a soft glow bedlamp inner-led parade A sour note and e superscript Make a constant companion To brighten the dead of leaves Littered by the burden Scattered by such decadent breeze Hunched…

The NRL Grand Final weekend combined with a Labour Day long weekend gave us the perfect excuse for a proper first road trip with Ophelia - our Geely EX5. Orange fit the bill: about three hours west of Sydney, over the Blue Mountains, with enough around it to fill a weekend. Orange is about 220 km from our home, and with the extra driving we had planned, the trip would give us a chance to test out the charging network. Getting thereWe started off the trip with breakfast at home. We also packed…

When the first one of these movies released, I straight up did not hear about it once. I had no idea it existed. It came out when my life was changing a lot, very rapidly - I'd lived in the Bay Area for the better part of two years when it released in 2013, and I was beginning to find my friends and make big decisions about how I wanted to live and spend my time. So I quit watching movies in theaters for a while. And I honestly, don't think I would have watched this one even if I knew it…

It has been nearly 7 years since I last read a novel by Kelley Roos (the penname for William and Audrey Kelley Roos). Looking back at my reads for this writing duo, it has felt a little bit like an experience of diminishing returns, with my favourite reads by them being the earlier titles. My favourite Roos novel to date is The Frightened Stiff (a book which was adapted for film in 1943 under the name A Night to Remember).

Welcome to another The Simple Catholic Sunday Funnies! Growing up, one of my favorite parts of Sunday was flipping to the comics section of the newspaper: a little pocket of humor, color, and light-heartedness to start the week. Now, in that same spirit, I’m excited to share this weekly collection of wholesome, funny Catholic comic … Continue reading The Simple Catholic Sunday Funnies: Episode 41 The post The Simple Catholic Sunday Funnies: Episode 41 first appeared on The Simple Catholic. The…

Hi everyone and welcome to my Sunday Meals of the Week post. Every Sunday I like to do a recap of all of the meals that I have enjoyed as my main meals over the past seven days, and from the feedback that I get from all of you, this is something that you also enjoy seeing!I like to cook, and I like to eat, and I don't ever want any of it to be boring. Now, in my golden years, I find myself having had to go from cooking for a large family down to cooking for just myself. I also find myself…

LONDON A-Z U is for Underhill As we head towards the awkward end of the alphabet London's suburban pickings get slimmer. I discounted Upney as too well known, Upper Belvedere as too focused and Uxendon as too obscure, instead plumping for a decent-sized U with an ultra-prosaic name. This Barnet neighbourhood is so named for the exceptionally obvious reason that it's under a hill, this hill, hence Underhill. In the stagecoach era Barnet Hill was one of the first major obstacles on the Great…

Sunday Q&A Going to ease back into this, with a Q&A, but one less structured than would be normal. We got some good letters this week, but will likely run some next weekend, and will integrate some others into this week's postings. If you're still working on the headline theme, we'll tell you we had to hold an item headlined "The Senate, Part II: Texas Race Has Turned into a Real Soap Opera." Click here for full story

Climate spread: The cost of warming for Italy’s public finances and economic growth Fotografia di ritratto con Lorenzo Morandi | Il processo creativo in Affinity Italy’s mythic ‘month off’ in August was hard won. It would be good for us all | Jamie Mackay Towards a personal online third-space Ordinary Abundance Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

In the mid-1960s, prompted by a bestselling education book, a classroom approach called “Values Clarification” spread swiftly among elementary and secondary school teachers. The thrust of the approach was to have students use textbooks and instructional materials to identify their values and reflect on them in discussion, writing, and small-group work where those values would often came into conflict. In effect, help students work through their positions on such values as patriotism, truth,…

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. Some items show up on disquiet.com before this post, in which case I don’t repeat them. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also…

Comic Justice No. 1-6 Cover Date: October 2005-August 2006Script: Alex Ross, Jim KruegerPencils: Doug BraithwaiteColors: Alex Ross (painting) Letters: Todd Klein Bird's Eye View The villains of Earth start seeing the same nightmare: the world being destroyed in a nuclear holocaust despite the Justice League's efforts to save it. They band together and begin their plans to save the Earth in their own way. They begin by attacking each of the members and discrediting them in the eyes of the…

Hello Janet. A new case I’ve never experienced with LGD and coyote. A Maremma x Pyr cross was raised with milk goats and free range chickens to dissuade coyote. It’s a small operation, about 20 acres. As he grew, he literally filled in to the job at 147lbs of lean watchfulness. They never had issues […]

Among Clive James’ books, perhaps the least read is Gate of Lilacs (Picador, 2016), a book of poems mostly about Marcel Proust and James’ imminent death (he would die in 2019). The poet taught himself French by reading Proust and a dictionary across many decades. Proust and his masterwork were essential to my education as well. I first read the Scott-Moncrieff translation, Remembrance of Things Past, over the summer of 1971 while managing a miniature golf course – a silly setting Proust would…

10 Mystical | INDEX | 12 Toss Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning. Hongdian Black Forest fountain pen, EF, black ink on 120 gsm paper.

Last week I merged PR #8913 into django CMS core. In a local, uncached benchmark, it took a permission-heavy menu on a 4,000-page site from 11.7 seconds to 105 ms. The fixes removed repeated work hidden in ordinary list operations, a pattern I’ve seen in almost every codebase I’ve worked on. The problem: loops inside loops Building a menu tree, applying menu modifiers, downcasting plugins, and checking page permissions all touch many objects at once. The modifiers handle soft roots, navigation…

Back after a slightly longer than usual hiatus. I’m not giving up completely yet, at least for now. I was planning to run this SQ around the (re)launch time, October 1st, but, you know, life happens. alityke’s post Diororiginals Diorella & Dune reminded me about that launch. I am sure that all of my current […]

We landed at MCO Orlando International Airport and as soon as we were in the terminal I saw a familiar site. I’ve always enjoyed that this particular airport has such a prominent master clock system throughout the entire facility, and one of the old school analog clocks was visible right near our gate. These are not the original clocks that were in the facility when I first landed at Orlando in the late 1990s. At that time they had a Standard Electric Time branded synchronous (with second…

A chance spot on the Ian Visits newsletter presented me with the chance to tick off somewhere I've always wanted to visit, but never found the time - Acton Depot. Home to the bulk of the London Transport artefacts collection. The depot doesn't host that many open days, and by chance this time it was a Friday/Saturday session, so I quickly booked the end of the week off work, and bought myself a ticket. Weirdly, this works better for me than weekends, which are in short supply at this time of…

Someone on Reddit shared a prompt for making animated explainer videos with Claude. I tried it with a topic I know well, Docker containers. I pasted it into Claude Code, put in an API key for the voice and music models, and left my desk. When I came back, there was a finished 57-second film. Claude Opus 5.5 had written the script, drawn every frame in code, directed the narration, edited the music, synthesized the sound effects, mixed it all, rendered the video, and had it reviewed by a second…

Subscribe and Listen: https://youtu.be/y2V2qPF3dB8🎙️ The “Format Change” EditionWelcome to What The Fudge for Sunday, October 11, 2026. Once again, we are testing a new topical structure this week to move quickly through an overflowing news cycle across frontier labs, federal policy, venture capital, neural interfaces, cybersecurity liability, and physical infrastructure.🏢 Corporate Moves: Anthropic Outreaches and Cloudflare’s Deno AcquisitionAnthropic dominated headlines with an expansive…

A pre-order page for THE SOLAR GRID hardback has been created. After being strung along by a handful literary agents, editors, and publishers for the better part of the year, it seems that the punk-rock self-publishing route is all I've got. Agents cannot seem to bring themselves to represent the work, and mainstream publishers cower at the thought of putting it on paper. I understand; it's transgressive and hard-hitting and the publishing landscape is not what it was in the days of Metal…

Mattel released the first series of Halloween themed Hot Wheels cars back in 2002 with the Halloween Highway series and they've been pretty consistently releasing themed car sets for All Hallows Eve ever since. I'm not a huge collector of toy cars, usually only those connected with a franchise I like such as Ecto-1s or Batmobiles, but as a sucker for all things Halloween these definitely caught my eye. Actually, I should be honest and say they caught the eyes of my parents. Yes, I'm in my early…

Early morning mission - five Wye perch & this 10lb 12oz beauty. River is rising - perhaps the autumn weather is finally on it's way...

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…

最後的柏尼·羅登拔(Bernie Rhodenbarr) Posted on Oct 11, 2026 “The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown” 是卜洛克雅賊系列的最新一本，大概也是最後一本，且不只是雅賊系列的最後一本，也高機率是卜洛克的最後一本小說作品。但是出版了之前全部系列書的臉譜出版社，卻遲遲沒翻譯這本書，於是我在生成式AI的幫忙下，中英對照地看完了這本。 故事就是柏尼穿越到了平行時空的紐約，並再次與好朋友凱洛琳一起行竊。當柏尼穿越到了這個平行世界，他也取代了另一個柏尼——原本就存在於這個平行世界的柏尼，所以小說中有一段情節，就是柏尼身陷麻煩之中，他必須推理出在他穿越之前，原有世界柏尼的行動。我讀到這邊的時候，覺得很有趣，很有穿越時空的推理小說感覺，原有世界的柏尼，他是怎樣的人呢？有什麼目標，又跟誰見了面，做了什麼事等等。可惜到了故事終局，推理的部分是草草結束，讓我感覺有點可惜，就好像之前讀森見登美彥的福爾摩斯凱旋歸來，有趣的世界，穿梭在倫敦與京都的福爾摩斯，最後的發展也是一言難盡。…

Note: this was an in-person session at the Cauldron convention, played by 23 players from 22:00 to 02:30. Adventurers Alberich of Seven Tongues, human magic-user level 4. 5’1” / 1.55 m, 155 lbs / 70 kg; white hair; brown eyes; milky white skin tone; 5” scar. Cautious, disturbed, fussy. Alellion Urdithhilemir / Greenhickory, elf fighter level 4 / magic-user level 4. 5’1”, 100 lbs; horned hair; tan eyes; pale grey skin tone; pentagram-shaped birthmark. Bloodthirsty, impish, rakish. Apad Barneman,…

Links Posted to Thoughts The Week of 10-04-2026 There were 5 links posted this week. 10/08/2026 @14:59 A unique piece of Internet history: A packet from the RFC1149 implementation is up for auction at Christie's!We implemented the Internet over carrier pigeon (RFC1149) in 2001. Twenty-five years later, one of the packets from the experiment could be yours!Obviously I don't expect many to be interested in buying one of the slips of paper from the experiment, but I think the whole saga is a…