As fuel and grocery prices soar and the chatter of impending shortages across the country grow louder, most Americans find themselves in what increasingly feels like a downward economic and mental spiral. A spiral that has been facilitated by the Trump administration’s inane policies. A spiral that almost certainly will only intensify as more of ... Read more The post The inequity of cruelty in unspeakable times appeared first on Shay Stewart-Bouley.

This is the Monday Pressing Concerns! It features a reissue from Shotmaker and new albums from The Van Pelt, My Pet Fossil, and Carry Ripple. Check ’em out below. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or donate here. Shotmaker – Mouse Ear [Forget-Me-Not] (30th Anniversary Edition) Release date: September 18thRecord label: Solid BrassGenre:…

I came into a large stash of expired, but cold-stored Fujifilm Neopan 400 a year and a half ago. After shooting a couple dozen rolls, I was starting to think I didn’t like this film very much. I prefer more native contrast in my films, I find the grain structure to be intrusive rather than pleasing, and altogether too often I find the middle grays just blend into a blah mess. (Don’t you love my highly technical photographic terminology?) Then I developed two rolls of the stuff in Bellini…

You’ve tried Slimming World, Weight Watchers, weight-loss jabs, Aunty Jean’s herbal concoction, but nothing works. photo by Alan Cleaver It’s time to sing! Singing together is a fabulous and easy way to lose weight while you’re having fun. Here’s how it works no time to eat — you’ll be so busy having fun and concentrating on the songs that there will be no time to eat. Also, choir rehearsals tend to be at awkward times: too early to eat beforehand and too late to eat afterwards. no money left…

8691/21610I've always dreamed of coming to Newhaven ever since I heard it existed, yesterday. And today my 24 hour long dreams came true. I came to Newhaven, as we're filming Zak the Ripper here tomorrow. It was a wearying journey. I was still a bit under the weather with my low key man flu and my high key man cancer. I'd hoped to record a Newsround before Ieft this afternoon, but my brain was fuzzy and none of the news seemed that funny, so Newshounds will have to wait until Wednesday for the…

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne, 'Notebook' 1842 It’s autumn again. Where did the summer go? Summer was a scorcher of a season here in Las Vegas. We braved the heat, but we were ready for it to end. We’re all stoked for autumn. I’m not fond of the shorter days, bare trees, and all the pumpkin mania that has hit the markets… pumpkin spice this, pumpkin-flavored that. And then there’s all the Halloween stuff right…

A thousand curses on whoever decided to reorganise the main navigation on Github so that "Agents" comes before "Actions". While I'm not a fan of "Agents" in the first place, I reluctantly accept that they're a part of Github. However, I am also old man shakes fist at clouds dot gif. On mobile, the navigation collapses into an overflow menu. I am not convinced this is a good choice anyway but that's the trade-off they decided was best for them. What it has resulted in though, is that on my phone…

Claude helped me write this. Mostly quotes and fact-checking. I catch myself wanting to stress the “mostly,” and that is the whole subject of this essay. It’s September 2026. By September 2027 I don’t expect to be using Claude to write blog posts. Because I don’t expect there to be blog posts by me to write. I won’t be a writer. I won’t be a programmer either. And I don’t know what a man is for, after that. Солярис (1972) by Андрей Тарковский In 1908, Alfred Adler suggested that contributing to…

I got my nails done! It was actually a new years bingo item for me, and it has been for a while. I've just never gotten around to it! I got BIAB sparkly blue nails :3c with the intention to try colour match my sites background... but it didn't come out perfect. Altho I still like them!! I've gotta go get infill every 2-3 weeks but I think its worth it since I rlly fuck w longer nails rn and the extra strength is rlly nice compared 2 just raw dogging it!! The start of this week I was still a…

1964 war/comedy, dir. Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott: IMDb. After the bombs fall, only three people are left alive… and they can't get on.

Around a month ago, during one of my occasional stays in the big, bad city, I took a trip to The Paperback Bookshop and ended up leaving with a couple of books, both by the late Spanish writer Javier Marías. While I’d already covered one of them on the blog, many, many moons ago, the other was a book I’d long been wanting to try, and (spoiler alert) it didn’t disappoint. However, if you want to know exactly what kind of book it is, I’m afraid I’m still not entirely sure. You see, Uncle Javier…

I’m not getting any less mad about this, didn’t you hear me the first time? The New World, when the Old World was full of all kinds of people, had nobody. NOBODY WAS HERE. THEY ALL CAME HERE FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE. Everybody here was at some point AN IMMIGRANT. And yes, I’m shouting, why can’t we get this into our tiny brains? This first ran Feb. 26, 2024, and I learned it because I was working on the profile of one of the scientists figuring out where we all came from, for a magazine, Hakai, that…

Personal notes for week 39 of 2026

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Inset day. Not one we were super-primed for, but I have Fridays off anyway. We’re in the old town and bump into neighbours – our kids are already school pals. Loose arrangements for pub later. They get waylaid, but we head out anyway, and make for the Jenny Lind. Early evening on Fridays they have a folk session, so we dip in for a drink and a listen. R’s perched on a tall barstool cupping apple juice like it’s moonshine. I see Katie Rose’s family and say a very warm hello, and we get to…

This animated map shows the movement of the land that now makes up the United States (outlined in red) over the course of 540 million years. It was recorded from the Pangea Map, a new interactive map that “lets you explore 540 million years of continental drift, from the Cambrian explosion all the way to the present day”.Maps such as Esri's Dance of the Continents, GPlates and Ancient Earth Globe already allow you to explore how the Earth has changed over time through shifting plate tectonics…

There is nothing more satisfying than owning, end to end, the software and the hardware you use without relying on abusive cloud corporations. Internet is us, not them. Break free from censorship. Learn how to self-host at home, and be truly libre. In the past, self-hosting was easier. You just had to open a port on your router and forward it to any machine at home.1 Nowadays, the shortage of IPv4 addresses means routers share the same IP across your neighborhood. Requests are routed using…

In the last essay I argued that a certificate records the completion of a process and says nothing about whether judgement was formed. I left the story at the point where the file has been tidied and somebody has been given the job.How they arrived matters less than we assume. They may have been promoted. They may have moved sideways during a restructure, into a role nobody quite remembers deciding to create. They may have been hired from outside entirely, on the strength of a document. All…

You point out where you live on a map app but I already knew the name of your neighborhood because I tracked what direction you took from two different stations on two separate occasions and triangulated the likely location of your house. “Oh, interesting,” I say, breezily, taking mental note of the exact door number. My hair, out of its typical tail, is a loose curtain over the magic glow of your phone; I resurface through the smoke and make sudden contact with the newly gentle, off-guard tilt…

The market for independent beer may have contracted somewhat, but the breweries can still put on a show. A couple of weeks ago the Dublin Beer Festival returned to the Ring Hall in the RDS's horsey bits for a third year, with an impressive array of beers from local and foreign breweries. There was much new and rare to be discovered, so let's begin.For me, the beginning was O'Hara's and Le Chéile, a lager. I was interested to see "Brewed in Dundalk" on the tap badge. O'Hara's has taken ownership…

September 21, 2026 Autumn shopping – so much fun, so much stress! When in doubt, don’t. Take the time and effort to figure out what you need, what you REALLY want, and how it can be happily integrated into your wardrobe. One among you is longing for this skirt, to use as a “keynote” item for a quick weekend trip with her sweetheart. She’s a big fan of crewneck sweaters, button-front shirts, and flowers… So first let’s admire this lovely thing: Skirt – J.Crew She likes the Slot Machine approach…

TL;DR. The final result The alternate version of this image does not exist. Scroll on! This summer has been quite busy. Before August, before something that I still don’t want to discuss happened, my dad and I prepared the interior framework for a wooden deck. We have plenty of space but almost none level enough for a table to be steady. Also, the summer sun is incredibly hot, and we are lucky to have a huge linden tree that we can use to provide some shade. When we moved into this new house,…

This is what they do- and they're pretty damn good at doing it!

Daily Drawing 995

There are certain noises in life that a sensible man learns to recognise, and one of them is the faint, nagging ache coming from the lower back which, when translated from the language of bodily complaints, basically means “pack your gear away, you idiot.” As a previous sufferer of sciatica (6mths of hell), I am normally reasonably good at listening to such warnings, although apparently there is a small but extremely stupid part of my brain that believes pain is merely the body's way of asking…

So I asked for some questions/post suggestions a while back, and in comes customer Sean, trying to kill me: “I stumbled upon an Instagram post the other day regarding a story from the ’60s where Superman goes to the future and visits the grown up iteration of the Legion of Super-Heroes. “He walks through a hallway with sculptures of the Legionnaires who have perished in battle–Ferro Lad, Invisible Kid, Chemical King, etc., and Brainiac Five (who is smoking a pipe!), shows Kal , via tele-screen,…

Parade photos. Yeesh. You know what I mean! It's like a twice-removed version of actually watching a parade that is mostly just an obstacle to be avoided. But I don't want to complain! Well, maybe a little. Today's images are from a "Pooh For President" parade from October, 1972. This was the Silly Old Bear's first run at the White House; GDB friend Chuck sent us some Pooh For President photos from 1976... see those HERE and HERE. Luckily, today's photographer managed some level of…

Captain Ron (1992)

Prior to 2014 I didn’t keep any kind of record of when I bought books, where they came from or anything like that; and the list I’ve kept since then has been very useful! However, one thing which Amazon does do is tell you when you acquired a book, and apparently in 2013 I obtained a pair of interesting non-fiction Rebecca West Viragos, one of which was “A Train of Powder”. It’s a book which has been on and off the TBR many times in the intervening years, but I had somehow never actually read…

Well builtYork’s New Walk is a tree-lined path running south along the bank of the River Ouse that was new in the 1730s. It was laid out as a recreational path, a pleasant route for visitors who fancied leaving behind for an hour or so the hustle and bustle of the city centre. In the recent heatwave, the Resident Wise Woman looked at her map and found the path and thought it would be just the route for us after a hectic morning in the city centre. The shade alone (provided by a mixture of…