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Photographer: John ChumackSummary Author: John Chumack Shown above is an impressive sun pillar that caught my attention as the Sun was setting one day last month while driving near Yellow Springs, Ohio. I first noticed it in my rear-view mirror, and when I found a spot with an open view, I pulled off the road to get a better look. Pillars are vertical shafts of light extending upward or downward …

Morning all, happy Friday to you. There is no real time to dwell on Wednesday’s result and – perhaps more importantly – performance, as we prepare to face Newcastle. Having just played a game against a team who shit-house their way through 90 minutes, it’s going to be more of the same tomorrow night. They waste time, they’re physical, they’re constantly in the face of the officials, they elbow people …

Architectural Review Reparations as reconstruction Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò’s Reconsidering Reparations argues that reparations for racial injustice and colonialism, as found in Shenaz Patel’s Silence of the Chagos, must take the form of imagining and constructing new just worlds The post Reparations as reconstruction appeared first on Architectural Review. Kristina Rapacki

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Just been a week for surprise comics news, I guess, as Marvel has finally announced that they’ll be doing an Uncle Scrooge McDuck comic: Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime. Multiple covers, natch, with the “main” cover as such: …and feast your eyes on the Alex Ross variant cover: Now, if you read the description of the comic at the link, it certainly sounds like the most Marvel-type comic they …

APHEX TWIN [THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE] After a career fuelled by strange rumours and obstinate behaviour, Richard James – the contrary, sleep-deprived, tank-driving genius behind Aphex Twin – is finally ready to open up, or is he? Ken Micallef flies to London for a closer look at James’ sunnier disposition. Photos by Tim Owen. Back in the summer of 1994, when Richard James was still the poster boy for ambient …

TT Combat released new miniatures for Rumbleslam and Carnevale:Link: TT Combat

CHOPPER (C1-10P) STAR WARS: RETRO COLLECTION (HASBRO) Fun FiQ Fact #0040: There are two characters in Ahsoka whose original actors reprise the roles. The first was David Tennant as Huyang, and the second was Dave Filloni as Chopper. You gotta keep those Daves around! Can you be into Star Wars toys and not just love a good Astromech Droid? Of course not! Every good story’s got at least one of …

I lovd the dear haunts of the sweet solitudesThat round its lome walls in the circle do lyeWere no living thing all the season intrudesBut a bird or a bee humming wearisome bye& Ive hunted for spots by the brook & have foundThe lonliest existing an hour to abideWith nought but the green light of trees flitting round& the shadow that seemed stretchd asleep by my sideFollow me for daily …

One of the most humbling aspects of our Universe is the knowledge that, with enough time, all things will eventually pass away. New stars and stellar systems, while they’re expected to keep forming for many billions or even trillions of years to come, are on the decline, with the current star-formation rate only about 3% of what it was at its peak some 11 billion years ago. Planets like Earth …

There are some books so raw with emotion that it is almost painful to read them: My Name is Million is one of these. Published anonymously in 1940, it is a memoir of the terrifying first months of the war by Lucy Zoe Girling Zajdler, an Anglo-Irish writer (who published as Martin Hare) who was married to a Pole and living in Warsaw when the war broke out. Writing from …

This essay originally was published on December 14, 2023, with the email subject line "CT No. 195: Moving past the Buzzfeed mythos."I'll admit that I talked up Buzzfeed as much as any pundit in the early 2010s. The new digital darlings were more upbeat and generalized than the folks in the Gawker network. They were innovating with digital tools and interaction, especially in their quiz department, and hiring talent whose …

Solar panels can dramatically cut the running costs of a home – but usually, only the well-off can afford them. How do we help those who can’t? CC-licensed photo by Oregon State University on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam. It’s Friday, so there’s another post due at the Social Warming Substack …

Here's a first. All being well, as you read this, I will be taking park in Model Rail Scotland with the World of Railways stand. Glasgow is a show I always wanted to do with Melbridge Dock, but never had an invite. It's a very long journey, a 5.5 hour drive I've not looking forward to if I'm honest, but we are exhibiting, and they need someone who can talk …

As of this writing I have 8 drafts in WordPress. Some of them are more than a year old. Aaron Jorbin has a post called Leap Day is Delete Your Drafts Day! Jeremy Felt replied with a post saying that he would be participating. He wrote something I identify with: Some drafts are fun markers in time and are hard to delete, yet still somehow impossible to publish. Even just …