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It's only been a couple weeks since I decided do all of my blogging/writing from One Big Text File and I love it. There is zero friction. All of my…

"Mondragón has become a beacon for the co-operative model, as a more humane and egalitarian way of doing business that puts “people over capital”. Every worker has a stake in…

Kickstarter plant project failed; tevaplanter killed my orchids and ferns.

Under a white sky, the rambling old white lilac is beginning to bloom. Half an hour past sunrise, the first, tentative raindrops on the roof.

Mike is on "Staycation" today, yesterday and tomorrow. Our regional recovery convention, The Conference of the Lakes, is taking place this weekend right in my backyard in the hamlet of…

One day when Maria Callas, Carla Mocenigo and Battista [Meneghini] were on the Lido Beach in Venice, a young man that Carla knew approached them, inviting them to a party…

https://twitter.com/thestustustudio/status/1783702628221792310 I still feel uncomfortable with all three usages of "trespass" in the final section of the tweet.   Selected readings "You will be trespassed automatically" (8/1/23) "Not permission, to…

As I rummaged through my old blog posts recently, I couldn’t help but notice a recurring theme: Twitter. Surprisingly, amid the clutter of musings and reflections, Twitter stood out as…

Chris should be done with the chair above by the time you’re reading this. As I write and schedule this post, he’s doing the “make pretty” on the arms, legs…

Fujifilm X-T5 and XF 90mm f/2 R lens.

Challengers is a good and original movie.  Imagine a 2024 rom com, except the behavior and conventions actually are taken from 2024, and with no apologies.  The woman says the…

Websites That Forbid Other Websites From Linking to Them – Pixel Envy: Some of these are even more bizarre than a blanket link ban, like Which? limiting people to a…

A lifeguard station stands empty on a cold day in Galveston, Texas. The post Danger! No Lifeguard on Duty first appeared on 75CentralPhotography.

I admit this might be a bit much, but, to be clearthe title of this journalis called The Book of Chaosand so . . in fairness to the topic, yesI…

They say project yourself, But I’m an Edinburgh man myself Manu’s post on how marketing himself makes him feel uncomfortable has been doing the rounds recently. As ever from Manu,…

They destroyed my life…and now they want to keep quiet.  –  Daegun Chun Traffic Jam (#694)   The first exoneration of a victim of “sex trafficking” hysteria has come, 14…

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This is the thirtieth part of a fiction serial, in 754 words. During the next two years, Hettie’s life changed a great deal. Edward got his long-desired move to the…

Fix A Drink – Chris Janson

Over on another site, Anoneuoid asked how to track down the past owners of a manuscript of a classical text such as the “A” manuscript of Herodotus in Florence (manuscript…