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This screenshot basically sums up “the internet as we know it”. For the past decade or so the social internet has consisted of a handful of websites that the vast majority of people frequented. The …

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***I can sensationally declare that I haven't seen a single film that came out in January 1985. …

May 1 – June 21, 1521 (Hellerick) Propelled by fear, habit, and a steady wind at its back, the fleet sailed south by southwest out of Cebu City for almost 24 hours, passing between the …

Now’s the time to finalize your planning for Scouting America’s high-adventure offerings for summer 2026. The registration window for 2026 treks at the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve, Northern Tier National High Adventure Program …

I've been invited to guest over at the excellent Indie Tsushin, so you can find my latest post over there. I wrote about iTA-Choco Systems's excellently strange Rodem the Wild (Yaken Rodem, 野犬ロデム).

Happy Holidays! For many years I have posted the books that the Genea-Santa has put under my Christmas Tree. This year was a big haul of new books to read! I hope that now that …

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Happy Winter Solstice! In honor of Winter Solstice, I've made an updated list of popular flashlights. Today is the day you're most likely to need a flashlight in the northern hemisphere, and I have some …

Join the Knife Steel Nerds Patreon if you want my next update on the Crucible situation as soon as we know what happens with the bankruptcy sale. Video YouTube video for the following information: The …

The blog is about building a small fictitious terminus based on a location in Oberfranken, it is merely an amalgam of features of existing locations in Fränkische Schweiz, in short, a plausible fiction. It is …

When I built 37035 the one detail I neglected to add was the Scottish ‘car headlight’, added by both Eastfield and Inverness to 37s (and some 26s) before the introduction of the ‘sealed beam’ square …

A bit of a photo dump today. When I was last at Steam in Swindon, I took some shots of the traverser at the back of the sheds.

It's time. After 12 years of writing about cities with a Rust Belt perspective on this platform, I'm closing it down. And no, this is not an April Fool's joke. I'm moving on to a …

In the past several years I've seen a number of posts attacking the company AirBnb, which is fine, but often they go further and attack the general concept of short-term housing rental outside of hotels. …

Some good news: Caltrain is working on a level boarding plan, as documents requested under the Public Records Act attest. Their "Level Boarding Roadmap: Technical Task Force Platform Report" dated April 2024 is a reasonably …