I was delighted to learn that talks about returning the Elgin Marbles to Greece have collapsed, apparently because the Greek government is insisting the return must be permanent, and the British Museum is (fortunately) prevented by law from giving away its treasures. Of course the marbles should stay where they are, if only because they inspired this great sonnet by Keats – On Seeing the Elgin MarblesMy spirit is too weak—mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined…

Morning at North Texas’ Hagerman National Refuge. The post Hagerman Morning appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

This summer I spent a week at Plum Village, a Buddhist monastery in the southwest of France. And this place held up a mirror in a way that I didn't expect. There are lots of ways in which this retreat changed me as a person, but here I want to discuss one specific thing that happened there. Plum Village made me realize that I have grown cynical. ParadiseIt went roughly like this. I arrive at a beautiful place – an open area amid the farmland with a few buildings sprinkled around, and beside…

I have a weird setup for my laptop. In summary, I have been irrationally scared of running Fedora on bare, dual-GPU metal, so I run it in a virtual machine with Hyper-V on Windows as a hypervisor. The idea was to let Windows manage GPUs and power management stuff like hibernation, and then use Fedora as my main UI to the computer. This has worked surprisingly well, but that’s only because my expectations were low to begin with. The VM can barely access the hardware of the underlying machine: it…

I broke down and decided to buy a pumpkin pie frappe. I know, total white girl mode. LOL. It was actually not that bad. Of course I got it from my local coffee shop and not that corporate star place. I’m not completely sure of them though compared to other flavors but overall they aren’t bad.

Hello from my home in Helsinki! This is NordLetter #124, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. To follow the series, you can subscribe here. A new NordLetter will land in your inbox every Sunday. Not a fan of newsletters? No problem! You can read previous editions here. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed. You can reach out to me by replying to this mail. I am also posting on Mastodon. The view from the other side Is different. For sure. I love going to tech events in…

About 40 of the Interop 2027 proposals which I think are of particular importance to the web developer community right now. Check it out, and show your support by voting for the ones you like.

VoidTime stopped.Or so it seemed.For him, floating in the void, nothing worse could happen.The loneliness wan't like anything he had experienced before in his life -- perhaps, he thought, to anyone in anylife.After all - he was the first to get into this situation, he supposed.Strangely, he didn't feel the terror he should have experienced in expectation.He felt oddly optimistic that something eas going to happen.Soon.Time went by.He tried to remember how he had found himself in this…

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Signs and sensibility Chris5156 Thu, 24/09/2026 - 10:01 The one great attempt to make London’s streets logical - and how one retired chauffeur’s favourite routes changed the way you get around the capital. https://roadsorguk.substack.com/p/signs-and-sensibility

Weird Terminology and Acronyms Apophenia: the brain’s natural tendency to create patterns from inputs, whether there are intentional patterns there or not. Wikipedia has a whole lot more information! Genre: one of those wide-open words folks can get lost in the weeds defining and defending. In this episode, we mean subject matter, theme, setting, and expectations. For example, the zombie survival genre as defined by work like The Walking Dead, The Last of Us, or 28 Days Later. There are…

A vulnerability alert can tell a technician that a product has a serious flaw and still leave the most immediate question unanswered: which of our systems are affected?If the product name is ambiguous or the affected versions are unclear, someone has to reconcile the record with a vendor advisory, an inventory, and whatever the installed software calls itself. At an MSP, that uncertainty can carry across several customer environments before anyone can give a client a dependable answer.That is…

I just read Sarah Jeong’s Bluesky thread on her ridiculous layover in Iceland after her flight to Portland got diverted because of a medical emergency. It gets wilder with every post. Either this is gonna become a A24 movie ora new Knives Out joint. The post Sarah Jeong on her ridiculous emergency layover in Iceland appeared first on Cultrface.

I said I was going monogamous with a man, but we agreed that he wouldn’t get his vagina surgically turned into a penis because I wasn’t going to break my vow of never sucking dick. As for monogamy, both me and my partner don’t want any mid- to long-term partners aside from each other, but we still have a hang for orgies, so we reshuffle the pseudo-polycule for our orgies every other week. This way, we stay monogamous except where monogamy is annoying (in bed). To do that, we’ve both become…

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Day twelve in Tokyo. Kotoshoho kyujo. This is not a surprise and is Fujiryoga will pick up the walk-over win. Kotoshoho certainly got his bell rung yesterday and should probably be out the rest of the tournament. This, being sumo, he’s got at least a day. I’ll report when I see anything about tomorrow. The … Continue reading Aki 2026: Day Twelve

This morning I woke up feeling pretty tired. I thought I slept well, but I guess maybe just not enough. My brain and body both were feeling tired and as if they didn’t feel like going. Yesterday I did my deadlifts pretty early in the morning and didn’t feel like it then either. Those felt pretty good. Even the moderately heavy final set at 270 pounds felt good. I grabbed a shower after that and lounged around hoping to get the gumption up to get an actual WOD in. I hadn’t slept enough or that…

This floor-lamp I ordered from Ikea (The KLÖVING) refused to adequately screw onto its damn base. A quick look online revealed that wobbliness is indeed a common issue among buyers. I could've returned it and exchanged for a less pain-in-the-ass lamp, but who are we kidding? I wouldn't be me unless I attempted an unnecessary roundabout problem-solving idea. Black aluminum wire to fashion a closed hook atop the lamp, and hook clips to secure a [too long] boxing-bag chain between the lamp and and…

I’m so sad because Instagram has become the main display for a brand. Not because it’s not cool, but because it’s a third party. Error happened.

Programming frameworks come and go. They usually get slowly mothballed as developers move on to something new, shiny, simpler, faster, or more interesting. It’s not often they just… end. Like, that’s it, we’re done, it’s finished. Thank you and good night.I watched DHH’s latest Rails World keynote and I found it fascinating because this is kinda what he was saying about Rails as we know it – without actually saying it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXYDHH declared that hand-crafting…

Today’s TDC says Here’s an image of actress Olive Thomas likely pretending to be a jazz drummer. Share an unlikely song you can imagine her laying down the drum beats too. Olive Thomas (LOC) flickr photo by The Library of Congress shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) I think this track by AC/DC would be a good one for her to try, actually.

Splatoon Raiders 2026, Nintendo My rating: Loved it! This is an absolute masterpiece. From the very beginning of the game it bombards you with style and personality, and the moment you take control of your character is the moment you fall in love with it. It is satisfying, rewarding, challenging and absolutely chaotic, but it does such an incredible job at introducing its mechanics incrementally that you never feel overwhelmed at all, even if all the things happening on the screen are quite…

Welcome to the Thursday Pressing Concerns! We have new albums from Psychic Flowers and Homework that come out tomorrow (September 25th), as well as an archival release from The Catburgers that also comes out tomorrow and a brand-new LP from Deady that came out earlier this week. Check them out below, and if you missed Monday’s blog post (featuring Shotmaker, The Van Pelt, My Pet Fossil, and Carry Ripple), check that out too. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory…

Sometimes I get Facebook friend requests from people who read this site. I decline them, and I feel a little bad about it. I’m simply trying to keep my Facebook friend circle limited to people I know on some level — family, friends, colleagues. For all that’s wrong with Facebook, it remains an incredibly efficient way to share personal and family news. I set such posts so they’re viewable only by friends. Fortunately, that’s a minority of my posts — and my Facebook profile is public and you can…

In this episode, Breandán Kearney sits down with Edward Vandermeersch of Rolling Hills brewery in Oudenaarde to discuss family and Oud Bruin. The post EP057 | Rolling Hills appeared first on Belgian Smaak.

10:53 - Was early to my appt so stopped by a nearby cafe and splurged on a cup of coffee and bag of beans. The guy was a good salesman and I am almost done with my current batch. This wasn't part of the budget. :[

I recently featured New York in 1.67 Million Buildings - a building age map created by Block and Paper, who have developed similar animated timelines for 80 other US cities and lots of other cities around the world.One of those other cities is Los Angeles. However, if you want an even wider perspective, Parcelscope's Every Building in Los Angeles County lets you view an animated construction history for the entire county. Their map visualizes nearly 3 million buildings constructed since…

by Zach Leatherman With these seismic changes, I will continue to make the argument that craft defined as caring about the quality of output (independent of the tools used to generate the output) is more important than ever. Caring about what you ship will always have real-world value to visitors/consumers/users real people.