I love guest posts about people’s relationships to their bodies, especially when those bodies are changing and there’s this burst of new discovery. Even better when those discoveries are hot and full of joy. So I’m especially delighted to welcome this week’s guest blogger – she’s here to share a gorgeous story that combines exquisite […] The post Guest blog: Newly becunted – sex and healing after vaginoplasty appeared first on Girl on the Net.
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“Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone. ” — Berry Gordy, Jr. Last weekend we had the opportunity to take in the ‘Magic of Motown’, a combination history lesson and music concert. Think The Supremes, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, The Commodores, The Jackson Five. It’s hard to conjure up an image of a Motown tune without waxing nostalgic… humming a few bars,…
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is to write a blog post every day of the month. Programming languages have many ways to combine literal strings and variables. For a decade now, we in Python land have been able to enjoy the beauty and elegance of f-strings. f-string is a string that is prefixed…
This week I really enjoyed the podcast about compression (The Hutter Prize) and the one about seashells. Quote of the Week “The thing about the future is that it keeps happening without you.” Normal Warren Ellis Leadership Board Meetings: Your Notetaker Is Not Welcome Here - this might be true for more meetings.
Welcome to Friday! A chance to reflect back on a busy week, two narrow gauge train trips and a few project updates. You know the routine now, so if the kettle isn’t on, give yourselves a minute to sort that before we start…Sunday seems a long time ago now - but it is where we start this morning. A lovely trip on the Corris - somewhere I’ve not visited for some time. It appears not much has changed and that is good with me - as the size, character, warmth and friendliness of this little railway…
2024 fantasy, linked to the Uncertain Sanctuary series. Raisa is a lawyer who gets tapped as the advocate for a newly-discovered alien species. By the time she gets to the world, one of them has been killed…
I left Twitter before it became X. Not in some grand, principled exit — no manifesto post, no “see you on Mastodon” farewell thread. I just quietly stopped opening the app one day, and never really went back. By the time Elon Musk’s name was on the masthead, I was already gone. So when people ask if I miss “old Twitter,” I have to clarify: I don’t miss what it became right before the sale. I miss what it was years before that — a smaller, weirder, more sincere place.
One Night Only (2026) • View trailer3.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for frequent profanity, sexual candor and surprisingly little nudityAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick BangAlthough one first must accept this film’s ridiculously unlikely premise, what follows is an unexpectedly delightful romantic comedy, highlighted by Travis Braun’s continuously cheeky script and two stars who share a Periodic Table’s worth of chemistry. Allie (Monica Barbaro) and Owen (Callum Turner) bump into each…
Duncan Rawlinson created this image using artificial intelligence, blending digital techniques with a contemporary art approach. A column of deep red descends through a narrow passage flanked by textured walls of dense green and blue. Midway through its fall, the flow encounters a jutting form of bright orange that splits the column into two braided streams, which reunite below around a wedge of cool blue. A sliver of yellow and violet punctuates the orange obstruction. The composition centers…
"A Dry, Quiet War" is a 1996 science fiction novelette by Tony Daniel. It is about a hero from the war at the end of time who returns to his home planet only to find more trouble. Non-Spoiler Summary In A Nutshell: "A Dry, Quiet War" follows Henry Bone, a man who for the past fifteen years has been serving in a future war - a big one at the end of time itself. He returns to his ranch on the planet Ferro and tries to start up a normal life once again. He begins distilling whiskey, and slowly…
2012 RingZero Game Studios Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, Nintendo Wii Founded in 1997, RingZero Game Studios is a game development company based in Thailand . The studio is often known for making casual and family-friendly games on iOS, the Wii, and the PSP. Back in the PS3 era, however, they attempted to break away from their usual mould by thinking bigger. That opportunity arose when they began work on a mysterious game known as Shutter Jack. Information about this game is scarce,…
The best thing that happened this week This week has been all about wrapping up the last bits of work before I head out for a one-week holiday. It's always very hectic to get everything done, because there's no pushing things to next week. But I'm 99% of the way there now and it's nice knowing I left things nice and tidy for the team. After a lot of waffling and research, this week we took delivery of our new treadmill. We went for the Flow Fitness Runner DTM400i and so far it looks like a…
I have some tripartite brand extendery for you today. The three beers are from Horizont of Budapest, who made one beer, and then tried to sell tweaked versions of it to idiots who just want new, slightly different, beers to satisfy their weird cravings. Fancy that!Our basis point is Hazy Queen, an IPA in the New England sub-style; 6% ABV and a bright and sunny opaque orange colour in the glass. The can says it's juicy and it certainly looks like juice. There's a sweetly citric quality to the…
AI about to be disrupted with a move to local compute - your phone, your computer - driven by a swarm of agents.
Owning media again This year, one of my aspirations is to rely less on the big streaming services for my entertainment. Why? Well, for one thing, if we give too much power to large corporations by getting overly attached to their services, that leads to monopolies, inequality and ultimately, democratic decline. How’s that for a positive opening? Finding alternatives is easier said than done, because Tech Morality is Hard, and I would generalise that to “Corporate Morality is Hard”. Namely,…
I had determined not to post about Castle Map despite it being written about extensively elsewhere. There are already hundreds of maps of castles around the world and, although I have nothing against AI-generated maps, this one struck me as particularly uninteresting.That first impression wasn't helped by the site's design. Castle Map takes the illegible grey-text-on-a-black-background AI design
August 7, 2026 Let’s check in our bank employee, with career goals clearly in her focus! She’s chosen to dress in a manner reflective of the way the upper executives dress, while still keeping a foot firmly planted in her current position. It’s a balancing act to clearly appear “promotion-worthy” while at the same time not alienating or offending your current co-workers… In order to help her in her focus and shopping discipline, our heroine has chosen this painting and color palette as her…
Not a bad day but the wind still cold. Did all the lawns and finished cutting the hedge. Went out with Bill Edwards. Stars and Nags Head. Saw Keith.
Bandcamp Friday - 7th August 2026. I only just remembered to to get this one in the nick of time with a little over a hour to go on. I’m a big fan of this type of heavy dub steppas productions of traditional cultural sounds. This is Violinbwoy’s take on a Belarusian traditional song. A beautiful interpretation by Laboratorium Pieśni remixed for sound system play by Violinbwoy in his laboratory. A tune gathering the ancient spirits - from that time to this time… play it loud and feel the…
“I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Live)” by U2 Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that feels like a prayer. That isn’t by Madonna? Hmmm (I mean like a prayer sure does feel uplifting, right? What a song!) In that case I’ll take a specific version of a song that always makes me feel uplifted and joyous —I don’t pray, is that what it feels like for believers? The original version of this lives on a classic album, a top 20 of all time…
A while back, I refactored REDbot to separate out a HTTP message linting library. httplint checks about 325 aspects of HTTP messages, covering the syntax and semantics of almost 200 HTTP header fields. Then, I got curious: what happens when you point it at Common Crawl? Its availability on AWS brings the opportunity to do a large-scale survey of how HTTP is used and abused. With the help of Claude Code, the result is cc-lint. Pointed at over 120 million responses from nearly 50,000 sites, the…
Okay gang, hold onto your shorts, as the New Progressive Ruin is launching next Monday! I’ve been working in a secret laboratory, tinkering with templates and japing with jpegs, and I think I finally found the right formula to freshen up this site. I won’t bore you with details (“What? Who are you, and what have you done with Mike?”) but one template I was working with, that I sure was The One, turned into a huge pain in the Athol, Idaho, so I pivoted mid-stream to another and found that it…
Here's a pair of especially nice photos of Disneyland, circa September 1959. Only about three months after the Matterhorn, Monorail, and Submarines debuted, which was an exciting time! It seems that the photographer was attempting to capture the general ambiance of Tomorrowland in a single photo, with the Mark I Monorail ("Li'l Stubby"), the crowds waiting for their Voyage Through Liquid Space, and the venerable Skyway overhead (with a cameo by the Astro Jets to the right). I usually think of…
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Despite my best efforts to focus on the books which are languishing on the TBR, there are occasions when my eye is caught by a fascinating new title and I have to source a copy to read straight away. That happened recently when Grant shared his thoughts on “The Name on the Wall” by Herve Le Tellier (translated by Adriana Hunter). He’s an author I’ve meant to get to for ages, but the subject matter of this one sounded irresistible; so inevitably a copy made its way to the Ramblings and instantly…
Out of the drafts and into… About a thousand million years ago, I decided to follow up my mildly creepy little C64 text adventure Escape the Dragon Caves with a lighter sci-fi offering, written for the same hardware. Everything went pretty well I thought, until it didn’t. But the great thing about ideas—especially ideas that mostly exist in a notebook I can leave lying around the house—is that I can come back to them whenever I have the time, will, and courage/stupidity to try again. Like now,…
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We have a polytunnel. At 17m x 9m its footprint is quite a bit bigger than the 2-floor area of our house. At one time we had a straggly grapevine trained up a trellis inside the tunnel. A friend, who knows a thing or two about wine came to view the tunnel when it was new and the plastic was clear and clean. I asked him: if were were to propagate our vine and have a 17m run of plants suitably pruned and fed and cared for, how much wine might we get in a good year? Oh, he replied, a bottle a day…
