I was unsure about the title for today’s foray into the cartoon universe…it could have been “It Looked Familiar: City Government.” First, an announcement from our mayor: 17 new public bathrooms. Across all five boroughs. Because you can’t wait — and you shouldn’t have to.— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@mayor.nyc.gov) 2026-09-16T19:29:21.872Z The critical information: But let’s look at the cover poster: That’s pretty obviously the Empire State Building in the center, but are the other buildings…

The other night Emily asked me "What fictional band would you want to see?" And it got me thinking. After some thoughtful consideration, I answered her.We had a nice little discussion and then I was like, "oh, maybe this would be a fun article."I jotted my ideas down and then invited her and Dash to contribute their own thoughts!Gardiner's PicksLimozeen / Sloshy / TaranchulaHomestar Runner is an amazing thing. If you haven't seen it before, you're missing out. Not only is it an incredibly…

I miss magazines. There's something special about settling in with a collection of interesting quick reads that don't demand much effort. The glossy paper, the cool pictures, the occasional jokes... it all added up to a great reading experience. Magazines still exist, of course, but they're a shadow of what they used to be. They're smaller, way more expensive, and stuffed with ads. In a world where breaking news and interviews hit instantly online, magazines struggle to justify their place…

I am tired this morning--it's a good tired because of a more intense week of good stuff, but a good tired is still tired. Let me collect some fragments before they float away:--One of my colleagues at Spartanburg Methodist College has been bringing in watermelon from her garden, which seems miraculous to me. I've never been able to grow the larger, slower produce: winter gourds/squash or melons. I've been feasting on melons that someone else has cut up for me--a real treat.--I was asked to be…

needs to be shinyThe after on top and the before on the bottom. Chucked it in my drill and ran it on 220 grit sandpaper. The action not only shined it, it also removed the burr on the slot sides.hmm......Not quite done with the screws. Got the heads and slots cleaned and shiny. I cleaned up the threads on my grinder with a brass wire wheel. I had a steel wire wheel but I found it to be too aggressive and it left scratches that made shining up harder.first coatI might be able to get away with…

South Kensington Walking Tour exploring some of the Best London Museums. I have history in South Kensington – lived there for a brief period when completely skint which might sound paradoxical but it was a great place to be broke. The streets were so rich with curiosity and characters you wouldn’t associate which such an affluent area of London. And the museums with their free entry were great places to while away spare hours. But during that time I never really looked into how South Kensington…

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wienWhile in Austria, do like ...fascists? I don't know if it is the weather, the German language, the asfixztion I feel the minute I'm in a german-speaking countries or what, but I feel pretty much depressed. I feel like I'm in a dead knot and I'll not get out ever again. I remember the times I felt exactly like that, I remember living alone in a tiny apartment, I remember the summers I had spent taking care of my little brother, I remember traveling without any objective, staying in…

Finally had a chance to go look at why my Raspberry Pi hasn't been doing what I need, so I go to grab it and I see the Ethernet cable that's connected to it is totally unplugged from the router, so of course it wasn't connecting...anyway it works now.

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Grand Haven (2026)I would quit all social media, Mastodon included, except that it makes me feel unseen. I don't mind being alone, but I don't enjoy being invisible. On the other hand, maybe being invisible is better than being angry and distracted all the time. It's my wife's birthday, so today will be spent doing everything and anything she wants to do, because I love her. Spending nearly all day away from computers is good for me. ✍️ Reply by email

I registered the words she-punk in 2018 when it became apparent that the words were being exploited commercially without proper acknowledgement. In academia this is called plagiarism.You might not believe it, but the term didn't exist until 2015 when Gina Birch and me proposed a documentary idea to Andy Linehan at The British Library, followed up by a commission to show the work-in-progress of Stories From The She-Punks: Music With A Different Agenda at The British Library's celebration of 40…

engroggen: to make or become groggy

This evening, I volunteerd as an art guardian at Sickhouse for the GOGBOT Festival.

Perth2026 September 17 (Thursday), 6:00PM· ALIA · conferences · SLWA · The 2026 ALIA West conference was held on a Thursday and Friday in September 2026. I'm not a librarian, and was attending as a Wikimedian partly to help with the idea of Wikifying a Conference. The venue was the State Library of WA, and it's good that the café there opens before the library itself does, because we got an extra hour of talking time. (It's a clique but so often true that conferences are about talking to people…

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Piqued by Peter’s recent post on Core Web Vitals I decided to submit my own home page and a post to PageSpeed Insights. The results were not perfect, but perfectly satisfactory; 99, 98, etc. But there is a bigger problem behind the scenes. Any time I change anything at all on the site -- a new post, a minor edit, major upgrades -- it becomes unreachable for about 15 minutes. The log files tell me that the maximum time allowed, which is 4 minutes, is exceeded, often 2 or 3 times a minute. Then,…

11:37 - Had a doctor's appt this morning. What's on my agenda today: grocery shopping, coding on Neocities, and making my first chicken casserole. Playing Tomodachi Life and watching K-drama in between.

In my new year post I wrote that I was happy with my Neovim setup and didn’t want to spend endless hours rearranging it anymore. Well. I went through the git log of my nvim config today and there are 12 commits since the end of June. In my defense, most of them removed things. But I should still write down what changed, mostly so that future me knows why the config looks the way it does. It started with startup time Neovim had started to feel a little slow to open. Not slow like an IDE, but…

Went to my local shoestring arthouse flea-pit last night to see the original Planet of the Apes flick. Odd to sit down and watch in full a movie that you’ve effectively seen many times over, but only through the accumulation of a patchwork of quotation and parody, plus random chunks presumably half-watched over the edge of a book on the tiny screen of summer Sunday TV re-runs as a child in the 1980s. As a result, the story is doubly spoiled: not only do you know where it’s going, you already…

1988 Magnetic Scrolls / Rainbird Platforms: Apple II, Macintosh Fish! was a graphical text adventure from Magnetic Scrolls, released in 1988 across a wide range of formats including the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amstrad PCW, ZX Spectrum +3, Archimedes and IBM PC. However, there remains some uncertainty surrounding the fate of planned Apple II and Macintosh editions. The excellent Magnetic Scrolls Memorial lists both versions, but notes that circumstances surrounding the release of Fish!…

More publication news! This month I’ve actually had 3 co-authored publications come out and hot on the heels of the mélange paper, a rather different piece of work I’ve contributed to has just come out: the latest assessment from the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise known as IMBIE to its friends, has just been published in Scientific Data. The paper is open access here: Otosaka et al., 2026. It’s the third (at least) in a series of articles monitoring the health of the ice…

I am fully grinning from ear to ear as I write the intro to this post. The fabulous @EuclideanPoint – who has written here before about letting a kinky stranger hand her control, a very kinky interrogation, and denying a partner’s orgasm – is back with another phenomenal guest blog. This time it’s her who […] The post Guest blog: Please please please… deny me appeared first on Girl on the Net.

The end of summer. The last stragglers back from holidays. Yellowjackets everywhere. Tired sweetpeas starting to show their age. Tomatoes ripening faster on the vine, some going soft before I get to them in the sauce pot, then into ziplock bags destined for a spot deep into the freezer. I’m even starting to think about getting the garlic ready to plant before the first frost. It all starts to move pretty fast right around now. Speaking of fast, as Canada is suddenly accused of nuzzling up to…