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  1. ewen
    you alright, mate? 🇬🇧 More info

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    barbie and bell hooks
    The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is – it’s to imagine what is possible. bell hooks https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/hooks_Love_As_The_Practice_Of_Freedom.pdf I thought Barbie was a solid film. Powerful tonal shifts, a …
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  2. Epsilon's World
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    Atari 2600+ has arrived
    Happy New Year 2024 to everyone! It is kind of strange for me to decide to get an Atari 2600+ system, and yet here we are in 2024! The reason I say this is because …
    By Epsilon, 2,510 words
  3. BLCKDGRD
    By Jeff Popovich. 🇺🇸 More info

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    for some the extermination of the cancer is inseparable from the decreation of the city others associate the decreation with an unstoppable flow of leakage while others associate the decreation with falling rates of profit and the barely perceptible appearance of the human body
    C and L and me went to Hell in Michigan this past weekendWiki's Four Theories on Hell's name:There are a number of theories for the origin of Hell's name. The first is that a pair …
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  4. Small Scale World
    Plastic Toys Soldiers, everything plastic, toy or military, including farm, zoo, space, Wild West, and all other plastic toys, models and playthings, logos, lingos, company histories and nomenclature. By Hugh Walter. 🇬🇧 More info

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    D is for Driving Test
    Not sure how a couple of these images will show, but you'll get the gist if you're not already familiar with the set, which I thought we'd looked at here at Small Scale World, but …
    By Hugh Walter, 81 words
  5. Greater Greater Washington
    Builds informed and civically engaged communities who believe in a growing and inclusive Washington region and speak up for livable communities for all. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Time zone: How documents from the 1930s shed light on DC’s land use today
    The National Capital Planning Commission’s 100th anniversary is this year, and I was very chuffed that I was invited to present, alongside some distinguished planning professionals, at the kickoff of its centennial celebrations on January …
    By Alex Baca (DC Policy Director), 1,148 words
  6. The Urban Fly Fisher
    A satirical look at brownlining... By Alistair. 🇬🇧 More info

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    New stuff.
    I just don’t get it – while everyone is out buying new rods and reels I just buy some essentials. A new 4 weight fly line, a new fly box and some polaroids – the …
    By Alistair, 85 words
  7. CINEBEATS
    Film Journalism by Kimberly Lindbergs. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Oh Nellie, My Nell: Remembering Julie Harris 1925-2013 in The Haunting
    “Hill House has stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Within, walls continue upright, bricks meet, floors are firm, and doors are sensibly shut. Silence lies steadily against the wood and stone …
    By Kimberly Lindbergs, 67 words
  8. The VPME | New Music From The Von Pip Musical Express
    The latest new music releases, gig reviews and interviews. By Andy Von Pip. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Bess Atwell – Release Myself
    How do you follow up on a widely acclaimed album? Simple, get Aaron Dessner from The National, renowned for his collaborations with artists like Taylor Swift, Ben Howard, and Sharon Van Etten, to produce your …
    By Andy Von Pip, 574 words
  9. The Echo Chamber
    Education...education...education. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Full circle – or a happy ending.
    Full Circle
    By ijstock, 9 words
  10. Twenty Four Frames
    Notes on Film by John Greco. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Johnny Staccato
    In the 1950s television, there was no one cooler than John Cassavetes’ as “Johnny Staccato.” Cool Jazz, hot women, and bad dudes. The setting is Greenwich Village. “Peter Gunn,” a more successful show in the …
    By John Greco, 58 words
  11. Brewing In A Bedsitter
    Adventures in small batch homebrew. By DaveS. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Terroir - putting the locally sourced boot in
    All beer geeks like to occasionally have something that reminds us of when we were first getting into craft beer, so I enjoyed seeing some proper Beer Discourse triggered by a Matt Curtis article yesterday. …
    By DaveS, 581 words
  12. Igor Pak's blog
    Views on life and math. 🇺🇸 More info

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    The power of negative thinking: Combinatorial and geometric inequalities
    It’s been awhile since I blogged about mathematics. You know why, of course — there are so many issues in the real world, the imaginary world is just not as relevant as it used to …
    By igorpak, 2,073 words
  13. Direbane: An RPG Home Brewed Repository
    An abode to share artifacts, simulacra, histories, and other items of note related to ongoing years adventuring. By Matrox Lusch. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Perrin Conventions and Cinematic Death at DunDraCon #47
    (George the Gnome Barbarian.)Mere weeks after D&D turned 50 years old, DunDraCon 47 was held (should have been #49, exception years were DunDraClone in 1982 and the Covid shutdown year 2021), showing the gaming convention's …
    By Matrox Lusch, 754 words
  14. School of International Futures - Blog
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    Shaping equitable futures: integrating indigenous perspectives
    A guest post by Dr Cheryl Doig, visionary Futurist and Founder of Think Beyond in New Zealand. In September 2023, Cheryl hosted a series of webinars and training sessions in collaboration with the School of …
    By SOIF, 801 words
  15. s c o t t e r i c p e t e r s e n - Writing
    By Scott Petersen. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Multichannel Audio Devices and Linux (not a love story)
    Something has been bothering me for some time since moving to PipeWire on my Linux boxes, and that is the way multichannel audio devices are handled. As we all know (and loath), Linux audio is …
    By Scott Petersen, 106 words