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…

Day Five in Tokyo. Checking in with the infirmary, Nabatame is kyujo with mumps. It’s a rather sad prospect if he can’t return to the tournament because he just crawled back into the division after having knee surgery. We hope he has a speedy and full recovery allowing him a quick return. Tanji received the … Continue reading Aki 2026: Day Five

Every app that lets you post to the various twitters these days has useful tools for composing threads: you know, those chains of posts linked to one another. Yet the platforms themselves - X, Mastodon, Bluesky, even the one literally called Threads - don’t offer a decent way to read them. This problem is as old as the original Twitter, and it has spawned an entire category of websites, browser extensions, and bots. Just search for “thread reader” or “thread unroll.” I like learning from Derek…

Every app that lets you post to the various twitters these days has useful tools for composing threads: you know, those chains of posts linked to one another. Yet the platforms themselves - X, Mastodon, Bluesky, even the one literally called Threads - don’t offer a decent way to read them. This problem is as old as the original Twitter, and it has spawned an entire category of websites, browser extensions, and bots. Just search for “thread reader” or “thread unroll.” I like learning from Derek…

I feel kinda stupid for even saying this, but it’s probably worth saying anyway: companies are not people. Companies don’t make decisions. Companies don’t decide who they want to donate money to. Companies don’t feel shame. Companies don’t learn from their mistakes. Companies don’t have political orientation. Because companies are legal entities, they're a bunch of papers, letters and numbers. That’s what companies are. When you’re mad at a company, figure out who is actually responsible for…

At a few minutes after eight o’clock last night, in an upstairs theatre on a Soho alley, you’d have had a job persuading me that Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” is not the greatest song produced by the 20th century. Its performance came towards the end of Woody Sez, a stage show devoted to the life and work of the great poet-troubadour of America’s working class. David M. Lutken, a Texan actor-musician who once studied in London, devised the four-person show (with its…

It’s the Thursday Pressing Concerns! We’ve got new albums from Perennial, The Drin, Scarves, and Mr. Husband down below. Check them out, and if you missed Monday’s blog post (featuring Dagwood, Soda Gumball, Blimps, and Plum), check that out too. 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. Perennial – Modernism Release date:…

Mark 2026 down as the year that I stopped thinking my blog stats, the pageviews in particular, mean very much. I still check my stats several times a day as if they do. Habits built on obsession die hard. But for years I treated that number as a kind of badge of honor, of proof of relevance. If Down the Road got more pageviews this year than last year, I took that as evidence that the blog was growing and that more people were reading it. I don’t believe that anymore. I think it’s never been…

I finally built something I wanted to build for ages - I build me a VS Code theme based on my website colors called Cita Theme.

A large part of the duties of the British scout squadrons in WW1 were escorts, attempting to keep the arguably more important reconnaissance and bombing machines from getting shot down.That means that they need something to escort, so I've made this 1:144 scale RE8, nicknamed Harry Tate by the RFC. It was intended as the replacement for the BE2, that had suffered so badly in the days of the Fokker Scourge, and it was certainly an improvement over that type as a fighting machine. However, the…

Things are…good? Not perfect, not terrible, not particularly efficient or organised, but all the same, I am doing things I like, I am (I guess) pleasing myself. Lots of wok on, which I am happy to do, because there are lots of things I want to save for, and pay for, things like ink orders and supplies, birthday presents for people, trips away, new shoes (like last month!), tea (Black Assam, so good!), maybe some new blinds for the study. Just being human and alive and still here, and getting…

Last night I did visuals at Algorave Decelerate for Pondskater. As I usually do, I used Picodevil, and the thing about Picodevil is that you need video clips to play with. I was thinking about the kind of mechanical, rhythmic movement of Pondskater's music, and about the focus on BPM that the event naturally calls to, and then I thought of Dina Kelberman's feature length film The Goal Is To Live.Which is a beautiful film which takes clips from the TV show How It's Made, and decontextualises…

Imagine retiring early at 34… but not on the back of a decade at a US tech giant, selling a start-up, or even retiring from the Premier League, but after crossing the globe on a bicycle and then finding an edge in the early prediction markets. Few of us will follow a path like that of Pablo – a Spanish FIRE-ee who declared the game won in 2022 – but his unique story can inspire anyone headed towards FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early). A place by the FIRE Hello! How do you feel about…

Nowadays I am reading John Grisham: The Pelican Brief. There is a man called Khamel in it, who is a killer. And this man came back in my dream. It seems I had really been immersed in this book. Khamel had to kill a few women. He planned it meticulously. But he failed while abducting one of those women. Somehow he sedated her and she was so delirious that she touched a scorpion on a boat. The scorpion bit her and the killer did not want her to die that way, so he touched the scorpion and threw…

One of the oddities of our age is that there are two apocalyptic sensibilities that have captured two almost completely distinct groups of the scientifically literate not least among the youth: one can be found among those concerned with the effects of global warming produced by human (technological) activity. Scientifically literate apocalypticism is what concerns me in this post. The other can be found by people concerned about and often working in the development of artificial intelligence…

Thinning things down these last few months, probably a year since we decided to build the workshop studio at the end of the garden, didn't yet take care of everything. Currently, much of our equipment, furniture and hand tool gatherings are in a 40-foot container or in my house kitchen where for three months we have been keeping our work a living entity as we continue videoing and making in a slightly more confined space. Outside, Mario is currently laying the paving blocks and it's a big job.…

A year ago when I painted up some Iron Claw space pirates in a Star Wars rebel commando scheme, I didn't imagine that I'd slide down a slippery slope that led to converting Bob Olley sculpts as Yoda, Jabba, Lando or Boba Fett. It's been a brilliantly fun project that has challenged me in a lot of ways - tracking down obscure miniatures from defunct companies, repurposing them or converting them in new ways.For the record, I have made 22 rebels and 25 imperials, plus a saarlac pit. The last pair…

I can’t remember the last time I went to the theatre. I forgot just how unlike any other form of media it is. Emma Rice Company’s production, Tristan & Yseult, is utterly delightful, enchanting and evocative. An adaptation of a 12th century legend, the play follows two ill-fated lovers, cramming in explorations of duty, debauchery, love, hate, and forgiveness in its two-hour runtime. Top marks for the pre-show and interval performances; the musical ensemble are true professionals, in every…

I've been urging myself (again) to consume less and create more. I'm being bombarded with all these information and yet I've produced nothing. Too much input, but not enough output. So now I sit down. My journal in front of me. I'll be listing my interests and possible projects I can begin outright. Start small. Okay, here we go. Drawing - sketches of tiny figures (very doable, at the comfort of my office desk) Photography - one photo a day (a bit challenging to find something interesting in…

Trust me #123F.E.A.R. by Ian BrownWhen The Stone Roses broke up in 1996, things didn't exactly go quiet. By that time, the band had left a huge legacy through their music, art, personalities and style. Post 1996, there is plenty to discuss and debate around; drugs, guitars, vocals, Mani joining Primal Scream, Squire at Knebworth, Reni's brief flirtation with The Rub, the sad fact that Reni hasn't drummed on enough recorded and released music, Brown's solo work and collaborations (especially Be…

Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is one of my favourite books, so I was intrigued when I saw that it was the inspiration for Rose Tremain’s new novel, The Housekeeper. I’ve had mixed experiences with Tremain’s books in the past, but I knew I would have to try this one. The Housekeeper is set in the 1930s at Manderville Hall, a large country house in Cornwall. Lilianne Maria Danowski has been housekeeper there for several years, having left Poland with her father as a young girl. Danni, as she is…

I’ve noticed that movie trailers have started featuring '70s and '80s rock music over the past decade. Here are some examples: Suicide Squad — Official Trailer 1 (2016) — “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Queen, 1975 Justice League — Official Heroes Trailer (2017) — “Heroes,” David Bowie, 1977 Thor: Ragnarok (2017) — “Immigrant Song,” Led Zeppelin, 1970 Ready Player One (2017) — “Jump,” Van Halen, 1984 Dune (2020) — “Eclipse,” Pink Floyd, 1973 The latest one that really surprised me is The Hunger Games:…

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My last post on The Tale of Genji looked at the fate of poor Tamakazura, and how Higekuro’s bold/atrocious advances finally sealed her fate, but as I alluded to at the end of the post, there are far more people affected by the bearded one’s actions than just his unfortunate bride. Today, then, we’ll be focusing on the ripple effect of this marriage, with many people suffering as a result of Higekuro’s decision to take a new wife. As you’d expect, putting an end to an existing marriage doesn’t…

The lamp on my office shelf glows solid red the instant my camera goes live, and turns off the second the meeting ends. Nobody has to knock and wonder. My wife, a kid, the dog-walker — anyone who glances in knows I’m on camera without me saying a word. And by my own stubborn definition, that little bulb is a robot.

Here’s a question worth more than most of the AI hype takes clogging your feed: what happens to your velocity the day your frontier provider changes the deal? Raises the price. Deprecates the model you tuned your whole workflow around. Throttles you at the worst possible moment. Or just decides your use case, your industry, or your country isn’t one they want to serve anymore. If your honest answer is “I’d be dead in the water,” then you don’t have a strategy — you have a dependency. And it’s…

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So where will the next crisis come from? AI? Interest rates? War? Something else? While much analysis focuses on one element at a time, the real crisis only becomes visible when we combine all the individual fragilities and study how they interact and feed on each other in a vicious loop.

Voluntary behaviour is shaped by what follows it. When an action brings something pleasant, the odds that you repeat it go up. When it brings something unpleasant, they go down. You never have to decide any of this: behaviour adapts to its consequences whether you notice or not. Underneath that sits a second layer that is easy to miss. It is not only whether a reward arrives that counts, but when and how often. The same behaviour with the same reward can be learned fast or slowly, and can stick…