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(The second part of a series reconsidering Dave Sim’s Cerebus The Aardvark on the occasion of me actually finishing it. As before, I’m not worrying too much about spoilers or trying to draw attention to particular moments or bits of art: this is just me writing about it.) Previously: Dave Sim’s Cerebus, a planned 300-issue comics series, launches with a series of Conan The Barbarian pastiches, which rapidly spin out …

It’s been a wet winter so far. Some 177mm has fallen in Wanstead – already 122 per cent more what falls in an average winter. But the amount pales into comparison with the Lake District. Since December 1st 1360mm has fallen at Honister, a station close to Seathwaite which proudly proclaims itself as ‘England’s wettest place’. Over a calendar year the area usually sees 5.6 times the amount of rainfall …

A personal philosophy In order to be a modeller of railways there needs to be a model railway. It doesn't matter if it is a loft or an Ikea box, there has to be a railway, otherwise we are mere collectors of things in boxes. Occasionally, a thought begins to become a concern, why build a model railway and why choose a particular subject? My obsession, for it is an …

The last in our series of seven key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism is the Ineffective Left. The far left continues to be ineffective in catalyzing change. The left, particularly the far left, is more inclined to support the changes needed to move to After Capitalism than the right, but it has been […] The post Ineffective left driving towards After Capitalism first appeared on Hinesight....for Foresight.

My husband and I had a huge amount of fun on our trip to St. John last February. You might remember Lena's Spring Break posts from that trip, or the underwater photos of some Mattel mermaids. We had such a good time, in fact, that as soon as we got home, we booked a trip for this February, hoping to re-create the magic. Following through on that plan, last week …

I run a small Mastodon instance, and recently I've migrated it from a Docker container in Digital Ocean to my own Kubernetes cluster on Hostinger VPS. Here's how I did it.

“Koliada,” tapestry, by Olha Pilyuhina Just a few weeks ago I began a new semester at the University of Tulsa and also, with much excitement, kicked off my stint as a Tulsa Artist Fellow. I consider myself extraordinarily lucky to be part of this year’s multi-talented cohort, and I look forward to collaborating with each and every one of my colleagues in the program. My first year with the Fellowship …

“An X never, ever marks the spot,” Indiana Jones once famously stated. Only in this one particular case, it totally does: When Twitter became X, it very much felt like the official end of the Twitter era. I think this very concretely means two things: 1)The landscape for social media discourse has fragmented completely. Over on Bluesky, John V Willshire and I started chatting about this, which turned to him …

January was yet another month of snow and bitterly cold weather. There were large snow piles, kids on sledges, swathes of ice covering…

Composer Walter Mair’s music is everywhere and you might not even realize it. Perhaps you’re aware of the titles with his name on the marquee: the Apple TV+ show Liaison, starring Eva Green and Vincent Cassel; the memorable, Megan Fox-starring horror flick Til Death; and, recently, the 2023 reboot of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. He’s also contributed score cues to everything from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to …

Last year, on my birthday, I released a book. Maybe you read it? It was called WINDBURN WHIPLASH, the first full-length installment in the Streets of Flame series. The next book is called HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT. It covers, as one does, the next part of the story: Now that Zaya’s figured out how to win again, now that she’s resolved to help not just her son but everyone in Yemareir who’s …

This is a 2,000 word post about the last 18 months and what happened to me during them. It contains a lot, and I thank you for your indulgence. A year ago, both my parents died. My dad in January and my mum in February. They were on opposite sides of the planet but had a number of things in common. Both deaths were unexpected - dad's was a late …

I asked DALL-E to draw a flowchart on how to make a decision. This is spot on.

In the last issue of Own Your Web, we looked at blogrolls as one way to improve the visibility and discoverability of our sites. Whether or not you want to add a blogroll to your site is a matter of personal preference. But there is something else which probably everyone with a personal website should do: adding an RSS feed. What’s RSS? RSS, which stands for either “Really Simple Syndication” …