As a group, we may be only one bake away from finishing BWD, but as a lazy member, I still have a couple more to go. I can now scratch Cream Puffs with Crackle and Cream off my list. Choux pastry is one of my favorite things to make, so I don’t know what took me so long to get to these. In fact, profiteroles have a spot on my dessert top 5, so I was happy to take Dorie’s “Playing Around” suggestion and fill my crackly puffs with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. I don’t normally go the extra mile…

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Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 21st August 2026 Originally published here: https://thesleepingshaman.com/reviews/street-tombs-existence-corruption/ The inexorable march of New Mexico’s Street Tombs upon the death metal underground has been relentless, with their 2023 debut ‘Reclusive Decay’ doing some good things combining classic death metal groove with rabid underground punk and hardcore. They’ve been killing it on tour for years at this point, and are now ready to give us the follow…

Everyone loves a good debunked movie myth, especially if that myth is a stubborn one that will never fully die, thus providing lots of future opportunities to pipe up with “Did you know…?” But what if the debunking is too … Continue reading →

Harris Creek weaves through the landscape at North Texas’ Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge. The post Creek Bend appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Whippletree. A sad sphere with ammonia seas. The people cough through their rebreathers. Here, the Age of Sailing never quite left, and they have built great wooden ships treated for their caustic seas. This planet is a shithole. On Whippletree we met a woman. Her name was Cassandra Yuan. She's had a ship stolen, by some rakehell Noble. Gone three weeks. The offer was for 80kcr. I talked her up to 100kcr. We shook on it and she mustered her crew. In the meantime, I practiced medicine on the…

It's strange how quickly momentum can shift in these AI races.Two months ago Anthropic was in the dirt compared to OpenAI. Astra had just crushed everything, and Anthropic was falling massively behind. At least according to vibes, and Twitter, and overall sentiment.Another major AI vibe shift is happening. The tech is moving so fast that our collective reactions are emotionally exaggerated.Finding the Middle in AI Narratives (2026)And then in the last 2-3 weeks everything has inverted again.…

Hey Darling Ones, Yesterday I had to go back to physical therapy because my left ankle is being a little bitch. I went to a podiatrist a few months ago and she thinks it’s my lymphadema causing the woe. I’ll skip telling you how I was, and kinda till am, a salty, petulant brat about the whole thing. Instead, I’m gonna tell you abut the weird thing that happened. Because the American healthcare system is so awesome and efficient, I had wait six weeks for this appointment and go to a clinic in…

Somehow this blog has (d)evolved into just being about hiking and buying Teslas, but here we go. Ten years ago some of my good friends Todd and Elaine organized a hike around Mont Blanc...

Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Digger dances on the knife’s edge between farce, satire, physical comedy, environmental pleading, and silliness, all sketched in broad comic strokes that border on self-parody. An unrecognizable Tom Cruise portrays a bloviating oil baron who dwarfs the other characters, turning them into padding that fills an over-stuffed movie that proves heavy-handed as it evokes memories of better out-sized satires. Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant Dr. Strangelove comes to…

If you’re making music and are concerned your creative efforts are being buried in an avalanche of rote AI-produced and AI-promoted competition, the bad news is you’re not wrong. My inbox — and as someone who writes about music, I’m not alone in this — is full of stuff that strives to be taken seriously, but whether it’s bland press releases or even blander unconsidered automated music, it is taxing, and getting through it all takes time, and doing so is dispiriting. Perhaps worst of all, the…

Spoiler-free. Celeb Traitors S02 airs soon and a lot of the cast are on Taskmaster, so if you like Taskmaster you might like Celeb Traitors! The Celebrity Traitors (UK) S02 is airing October 1st, 2026 and is an excellent entry point to the series for people who aren't regular reality tv fans. I got into watching The Traitors when the first series aired in October 2025! Since then I have watched... a lot of series and it also got me into Survivor, which I don't recommend to anybody. This series…

Serde is an amazing serialization library for Rust and it has been a huge reason why I felt productive with it for years. However already while at Sentry I got quite frustrated with some of the limitations with it but actually replacing Serde is tricky because of the might that it has in the ecosystem. Also because it’s quite hard to actually do better without also making some potentially painful compromises. Here are three examples of Serde corner cases that show poor interactions of Serde…

We went to a coffee roaster recently that had one of those Fellow Espresso Series 1 coffee machines on display. I’d only seen this on James Hoffman’s review, so I was surprised at how big it was. It was wider than my 13-inch MacBook Air, and much deeper. James mentions the size, but it’s a different experience entirely seeing it in person. It reminded me of when I got my first Sun Ray box at uni in the 2000s, and how I thought it was even smaller in person than I expected. Or thinking the Queen…

There’s often a short window between realizing the right thing to do and doing it, where a person goes crazy for a bit. For example, I went temporarily mad the other day after getting home from the gym. The garbage truck had left the bin in front of my parking spot, so I had to get out and move it. I parked, unloaded my things, carried them up to my second floor unit on my wobbly quads (it was leg day), then I plopped into a chair to take a breath. Then I remembered I had groceries in the…

Last Thursday, a renewed cycle route, the F12, between Woerden and Utrecht was officially opened by a representative of the Province of Utrecht and councillors from the two cities. The route is about 18 kilometres long and runs entirely through …

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June 2015 This was the last day of a 5 day trip to North Wales and hence I had to drive home at the end of the day. I also wanted to visit Caernarfon Castle before it closed for the day. I therefore made a fairly early start and left my campsite near Holyhead to drive over to Caernarfon. This meant I didn’t really bother to pack up the tent etc properly, just shove it all in the boot and go – I can sort it out when I get home. It was an easy journey on the A55 over Anglesey, but there was a bit…

According to the American Kennel Club's website, "the official term for dog shows is conformation — as in, the act of conforming or producing conformity"1. Already this reads like something that Jonathan Swift would write to satirize eugenics. "To conform" is the language of early-2010's young-adult dystopia, of a poster viewed through the They Live glasses. Nevertheless, the paragraph gets up, dusts itself off, attempts to justify its thesis: The official term for dog shows is conformation —…

Why this photo? Because the accordionist pictured above, who could easily be a stunt double for my father-in-law, is none other than Krist Novoselic, the former bassist for Nirvana, performing two years ago. Here he is in 2023 with Geddy Lee (I would love to hang out and jam with Geddy — and hey, Krist too!): Another pic of Krist: By the way, it pleases me to no end that a member of Nirvana has embraced the accordion. I’m glad to be in good company. I haven’t seen a photo of him in several…

Brought to you by Peter Elbow. I'm deep in revisions for Triangle U and working through some thoughts on what makes a great Anomaly for play. I share those with you now! An Anomaly acts on the world in the service of one thing only: the psychic impression that created it. It moves towards this feeling with drowning desperation. It reshapes the world such that its desires can be more easily fulfilled. Like we do. It just does this by warping Reality. An Anomaly performs its Impulse in such a way…

Sometimes new design phenomena slip past even those of us who are most in tune with the happenings of the built environment. Such is the case with whatever the hell is going on with commercial ceiling fan design. Being a member of the renting class, a ceiling fan is something that is beyond my scope of purchase. All that aside, when I found myself trying to find inspiration for how to update the one in my apartment (which has very hideous lighting elements) what I saw genuinely shook me to my…

Just a quick note to call your attention to the fact that Judge Colleen McMahon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York will not stand for being jerked around. One can deduce this from her September 21 order (see below) in Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney, a copyright case pending before her. Well, I guess it wouldn’t be a “deduction” because she expressly said it: “I will not stand for being jerked around—and I am indeed being jerked around—in this manner by any lawyer who…

I’ve had a particularly annoying problem using the GitHub website since earlier in the year. Often, pages will hang while loading and then leave me with things like this: The increasing use of client-side JavaScript on GitHub doesn’t help when this happens That problem is caused by requests for CSS and JavaScript files on github.githubassets.com hanging, with Firefox giving up after a while. That leaves the page with broken styling, missing data and other problems. I can easily reproduce the…

There was something for almost everyone. Andy Burnham's speech at Labour conference was what most of the party's voters were hoping for. It began with a restatement of ambition on housing - more leaseholder reform, a curtailing of right to buy, greater local authority powers over private rental, and the option of expropriating slum landlords and empty houses. Reducing deposits to 2.5% for new builds for first-time buyers, which was pre-announced at the weekend, sounded like it could have been…

It's a weird feeling to have a game you worked on be re-released and to see your translation revisited 11 years later. I'm not gonna lie, there are a lot of things I would've changed if I had, at the time, all the knowledge I currently have, but I guess everyone would do the same if they could. The original translation is still in the game, and it's from a time when gameloc was just being restarted in the Brazilian market so, for many of us, we were going blind and just trying to do our best…

Here’s a bunch of stuff: I was just checking the mail and I heard a woman yell, “PUT YOUR POOPOO IN YOUR POCKET” and I kind of just froze because I don’t even know how to respond to that? It seems like an insult or a threat but turns out it was an elderly womanContinue reading "PUT YOUR POOPOO IN YOUR POCKET."

So here’s this concierge service for billionaires that can arrange pretty much anything for their clients. Our heroine looks after a number of them and has moved to New York to avoid the fallout from a failed romance with the company head based in London. She ends up caught in the crossfire in a commercial dispute between two billionaires. It would be easy to dislike this book — everyone is rich, successful and beautifully groomed with much name dropping of luxury brands. Fortunately Ms Swan…