Sempre me orgulhei de ser um usuário agnóstico de aplicativos. Você usa tal app? Tudo bem, eu me adapto. No fim das contas, o que importa é criar um hábito de uso e acompanhar notificações. Alguns são mais fáceis do que os outros. Mais recentemente, tenho sentido o peso dessa escolha: está difícil acompanhar tantos apps de comunicação diferentes. Quase perdi o aniversário da minha sobrinha por não ter visto uma mensagem de minha irmã. Tenho dificuldade de acompanhar grupos de mensagens e…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Nurse! Bring me my chart!Thank you, Nurse. I see that ABBA are still holding sway over the UK Top 40, as they have been for several weeks, thanks to Dancing Queen.But there's a new king on the neighbouring album rankings, courtesy of The Best of The Stylistics Vol. 2 seizing the Number One spot from the Beach Boys.But man doesn't live by music alone. Sometimes, he needs to see grown men…

A jet carves a contrail over the Boulder Theater and the rest of Downtown Boulder, Colorado. The post Boulder Overflight appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Toby helped with this patch application; he cut the thread for me a few times, whether or not I wanted him to. It’s been years since my last needlepoint project (a belt for a boyfriend … who was an ex-boyfriend before the belt was done), and I wasn’t very good then. I’m worse now – but just competent enough to sew a patch onto a hat. In the video below, I tacked the corners down…but I recommend, after sewing on a second patch at home, that you instead use four pins to keep the patch in place as…

By chance I began reading Struggle or Starve on the same weekend that, for the first time in nearly three decades, the Orange Order tried to march along Garvaghy Road in Portadown in the north of Ireland. This sectarian intimidation is supposed to arrive out of the irreconcilable differences between Protestant and Catholic, and only the Irish state can possibility prevent catastrophe. But there

React has useOptimistic for after you act. There's nothing for before.

Over the last few months, there seems to be a growing “device free classroom” movement. Most of it seems to involve faculty who are eager to shed the burden of complex and often ethically and technologically problematic devices and hope that students follow suit. As I blogged about a few weeks ago, faculty have started to go back to older technology in the classroom including slides to subvert our collective dependency on digital tools to mediate the relationship between our students and what…

some strong feels as I try to navigate this.

One last thing about blooger's recent rapid enshittification - starting Tuesday this week, each time I open blooger's dashboard blooger's AI bullshitter begs me to use it rather than myself. Fine metaphors abound. Whether related to the improving - more are now updating again but many still fucked-up - blogrolls.... who knowsRest in Peace, Stanley (after Elkin). As long as we kept the lid up and the bathroom door open he never used the litter box (he would if we left the lid down or…

The Trump Department of Justice has been trying for some time now to force states to give up voter registration information, so Trumpers can purge them of likely-Democratic voters whom they will charge with being non-citizens. They’ve been losing, but let’s check in on their progress anyway. The Current Score The Trump Department of Justice wants to ignore the fact that the US constitution says states are in charge of elections. They want to impose their restrictive ideas of who should vote, no…

I’m a big fan of (nearly) all the Resident Evil video games and I probably should be ashamed about how many hours I’ve spent playing them (particularly part 4 & its remake). If you follow these pages you probably also know I think Zach Creggers’ BARBARIAN (2022) & WEAPONS (2025) are top tier when it comes to modern horror (I may have even spent most of last year obsessed with the iconic character Aunt Gladys and pretty much filled KT’s Instagram with back to back photoshopped tributes to her).…

Since I switched to GNOME and Wayland on my desktop I have been missing XScreenSaver. JWZ is rightly not planning to add support for this unless there are some significant changes in GNOME. I felt left out whenever I saw a new version with new hacks being released. Recently I stumbled over retrosaver by c-premus. It is basically a workaround to run the hacks on GNOME Wayland. It doesn’t lock the screen and leaves that to GNOME, so it isn’t really a replacement for XScreenSaver. At home, this is…

ANAKIN SKYWALKER, SAESEE TIIN, & CLONE TROOPER STAR WARS: CLONE WARS (HASBRO) “In this time of galactic civil unrest, Anakin Skywalker sets off on a spiritual quest that foreshadows his dark destiny. Obi-Wan seeks to give strength and encouragment to his gifted student and through his guidance, Anakin is awarded the prestigious title of Jedi Knight. Meanwhile, Yoda, Mace Windu and the clone troopers battle a massive Separatist droid army that has suddenly attacked Coruscant. Led by the cunning…

Pre-Code Crazy is the monthly series here at Shadows and Satin and over at the blog of my pal Kristina, Speakeasy, where each month we recommend a pre-Code film for you to watch on TCM – we never know what the other has selected until we post, and we try to never pick the same movie! I’m usually hard-pressed to find a pre-Code recommendation for October (and a film noir pick, too, for that matter), because TCM is so jam-packed with scary selections. But this month, TCM is serving up a veritable…

Here we go!!! The Workshop Covington website is live! Check out WorkshopCovington.com and see the assortment of classes we have lined up for the first half of 2027. We are excited to offer both a range of class types and experience levels. There will be chair making and tool chests, marquetry and design classes, even a chance to play with fresh milk paint. Take a look around the site and see the details for each class. Mark your calendars, class registration opens on Wednesday, October 7th at…

17:55 - Just me, Geralt, and Roach. (I didn't change the date on my calendar.)

When Japanese immigrants came to Hawaii to work in sugar and pineapple plantations, they brought with them their zori sandals and these caught on with the locals. Hawaiian companies began making their own versions and they soon became the quintessential island footwear, worn by everyone, everywhere. ‘Slippahs’ is the Hawaiian ‘pidgin’ word for these sandals and it’s the name most people use for them today. In Hawaii, it’s considered polite to remove you outdoor footwear before entering a home,…

What is this?My monthly look back on my running – and my general health. Reflection helps me with the now, the next and the further future. It's all good.Previous run note: April 2026. None for May to August, so this one picks up from there.Since AprilMay: ran 135 km in the month. Lots of London runs. A few days off late in the month to rest right leg tendinitis.June: fine. Ran about 150 km in the month, including a half marathon distance along the canal.July: increasing pain on the left side…

This year I'm fortunate to be celebrating a few 10th anniversaries. One of the big ones is that this blog is officially 10 years old! This post is the 1285th post I've written on here, and I still love this part of myself. I've written about how it's helped me as someone neurodiverse, some reasons about why I think you should blog and reflecting on hitting 1000 posts (which is even more wild that was 2 years ago!! I swore it was more recent than that), and I've definitely got a number of other…

Early Tuesday morning, my partner was rushed to the ER after his back gave out at the gym (he was on his second working set of hack squats). He spent the day in the ER waiting patiently to have imaging done. Fortunately, the doctor didn't see anything of concern on his CT scan, but determined that due to his very limited mobility (he could not walk or stand without assistance) he would be kept overnight. He was discharged yesterday and is relaxing at home. The pets and I are happy to have him…

Let us start October off on the right foot with an exciting new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee Links. Oh no, whatever will I do? 1 | Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots (Sarah Perez for TechCrunch. Sep. 30, 2026.) One may think that your favorite (I hope) feed proponent would be outraged about Reddit discontinuing its RSS feeds. To paraphrase the Reddit community: “Well ackshully….” Why in the world would I want to contaminate my feed collection with Reddit?…

We played the twenty-third session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was as follows:Llombaerth, CG elf thief 4 (Adam)Mirkle, N human fighter 3 (Maya)Rhonodel, NG elf cleric 1 (Jack)Zommernar, CN elf fighter 2 (Nael)Egbert, human necromancer 1 (NPC)Bilodeau, man-at-arms (NPC)Graves, man-at-arms (NPC)Brazile, halfling porter, and his dog, Ripper (NPC)Ejiofer, human porter (NPC)Lendeborg, human…

While trying to see where that Glenn Ligon Condition Report came from, I was lowkey surprised to see it had not been considered part of the Monsoon Art Collection, though the two other, larger Ligon works are. I was also midkey surprised to see the Monsoon Art Collection is still online, as if it wasn’t all being liquidated at Christie’s this week. Monsoon Art Collection’s David Hammons’ African American Flag, 1990, ed. ?/10 Well, almost all. I was highkey surprised that David Hammons’ African…

image by AI; not my prompt As I’ve said repeatedly on this blog, I have a love-hate relationship with AI. I don’t think it will be around much longer, as the bubble bursts and the AI companies all go broke. And in the meantime, I’ve found it an excellent learning and brainstorming tool, when used carefully, and as the internet gets more and more enshittified, it’s provided me with time-saving workarounds for shoddy, ad-infested websites and buggy, poorly-designed ‘apps’. But what I’ll miss most…

I read five books (four of them Reacher), watched Kurosawa’s Cure and Hitchcock’s Rebecca, fell in love with a Japanese EP, and wondered why September slipped through my fingers. -- Read More

Have I mentioned lately that I love the 65:24 aspect ratio? Allow me to demonstrate.114 words · 4 images

I just published to Github the assets for an image review queue tool that I made with Codex, to run alongside chats in a docked side panel. Theoretically, you can just paste a link to this repository into ChatGPT Work and tell it to install this, and it probably will after you approve permissions. Note: I am not a programmer and have not reviewed any of this code. Use at your own risk and use your best judgement. Have ChatGPT examine it for problems before you install if you want! I use a…

Since it's the first day of October, I'm thinking it would be fitting to start the month with a post about Oktoberfest. 🍻 Last night, Danny and I attended the Oktoberfest festivities at a local German beer garden, which are continuing until October 11th. We had delicious German food (pork schnitzel, spaetzle, and pickled red cabbage) and a liter of beer each, and we enjoyed some live music that involved lots of crowd participation. Lots of raising our beers in the air, cheers-ing, and chants of…

In the beginning, the Oracle was just a computer program. Synthesised and distilled from all available words; the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of humanity. It was initially seen as a simple word generator; a calculator for words, as some would call it. But as it grew in capabilities, devouring enormous amounts of information, many of us soon saw the result as something more. The machine seemed to have internalised a complete model of the world, having insights that no single human could…