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Canadian writer/director Meredith Hama-Brown’s debut feature, Seagrass, is a moody drama about a troubled interracial couple — Judy (Ally Maki) is Canadian-Japanese and Steve (Luke Roberts) is White — who vacation with their two young daughters — ages eleven and six — at a self-development retreat on a remote island off the coast of British […]

Artist: Orphalis Album: As the Ashes Settle Year: 2023 Genre: Technical Brutal Death Meal Web: https://orphalisger.bandcamp.com/ / https://orphalismerch.bigcartel.com/ Country: Germany Quality: 320 Kbps Tracklist: 1. As the Ashes Settle 2. Ritual of Conflagration 3. Watch Them Descend 4. The Wolves Draw Near 5. An Effigy to Humanity 6. Staring into Ruin 7. Moon Supremacy 8. From Shadows Arisen 9. Labyrinth Configuration 10. To Embrace Defeat 11. Crowned in Hatred Witness: …

Most of the time, I am prompted to write about birds and other wildlife that I have encountered recently while out and about exploring. Today, I am writing about a bird precisely because I haven't seen it recently, or at all this entire 2023-24 fall-winter season.Rough-legged Hawks are special birds in California's Great Central Valley, and certainly one of my favorite raptors. For one, they are simply gorgeous hawks. But …

Hello Darling Ones, I feel so foolish. Last night I spent roughly six hours in the ER only for them to determine I was NOT having another stroke. While this is a load off my mind, it feels like I wasted everyone’s time and money because I’m melodramatic. UGH! Around dinnertime, I called Sister #4 to take me to the hospital. I skipped 911 this time because I didn’t need …

Anarchism has always had a mystification about it. It’s a political philosophy at its origin, but it always runs into trouble with real-world applications. Living Anarchy on a large scale? Unlikely. The idea itself feels impossible. Still, when we consider the historical lineage that planted the seeds for Anarchy, a broad spectrum of both individually and socially liberating ideas reveals itself. Further, one of history’s most overtly radical and violent …

Americans call this a drain, but British people call it a waste. As I'm only about a week out from having to prove to the government that I've become adequately Anglicised to be allowed to stay here—I'm going to call it a waste. Anyway, it turns out that this is one of those jobs that you don't have to call a plumber to do for you.Okay, cards on the table …

17 Feb 1890-29 July 1962 Today is R.A. Fisher’s birthday! I am reblogging what I call the “Triad”–an exchange between Fisher, Neyman and Pearson (N-P) published 20 years after the Fisher-Neyman break-up. While my favorite is still the reply by E.S. Pearson, which alone should have shattered Fisher’s allegations that N-P “reinterpret” tests of significance as “some kind of acceptance procedure”, all three are chock full of gems for different …

The Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC) is an electromechanical analog computer that uses gears and cams for its mathematics. It was a key part of military planes such as the F-101 and the F-111 fighters, computing airspeed, Mach number, and other "air data". The rotating gears are powered by six small servomotors, so these motors are in a sense the fundamental component of the CADC. In the photo below, …

In the ancient world, people tended to see rival nations as ruled by illicit tyrants, while their nation was ruled justly by a king. Two centuries ago when religion was first declining, many predicted that crime would greatly increase as a result. It was mainly fear of God, they said, that kept most from committing crime. But then crime came down.Centuries ago, there was widespread skepticism about joint stock companies, …

I did it. I deleted my profiles on Mastodon, Bluesky, and Twitter. Now it’s time to write down All the Thoughts™, as is customary. I am now one of the enlightened, free from the shackles of the perpetual scrolling machine. I must broadcast my decision to the heavens for all to enjoy. Sarcasm aside, I have been bored of the timeline era for a while now and an election year …

A complicated, fussy, boring week. Lachie took E up to the peak district for half term. The first night he went away, just as I was drifting off to sleep, i heard a strange mechanical noise from the bathroom. Spooked, I bravely got out of bed to investigate and found my electric toothbrush had turned itself on. I now own a new toothbrush. Today I pulled out 31 headlice from …

Episode 20 of the 1950’s saga of Filipina superhero Darna versus Valentina is here! Last episode, we saw the entire country react with shock to the terrible massacre of the town of L. Darna vowed to destroy Valentina’s snake army, and flew off with Ding to find them. This week, we see Darna/Narda and Ding land in a town called Santa Barbara. Oh, and guess who else seems to be …

With the UK’s most prestigious film awards returning this weekend (Sunday 18 February), it’s time to enter into a round of foolproof predictions on who will win at the 77th Baftas. The Baftas are traditionally seen as an indicator of Oscar winners, so the outcome on Sunday night will surely be seen as a predictor for the Academy Awards on 10 March. The post Baftas 2024: Our predictions appeared first …

Receiving comments about my usage of "light" mode makes me less inclined to use dark mode - Tagged: Rant, Skepticism, We live in a society

Parisian bass player Cédric Caillaud has very original and specific ideas about how to expand on the tradition. “There are plenty ways of creating new things in the standard repertoire.” He will be back in New York next week. More than two decades ago, Caillaud, as ambitious young lions are wont, started to check out the Big Apple scene. Now he’s reached the age of forty-eight and takes along his …