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My new book, Intervals of Darkness, with 14 weird stories, is now out. You can buy it as a paperback or eBook more-or-less anywhere in the world, including UK eBook | paperback US eBook | paperback From the ghosts of marching soldiers haunting marshland to delivery drivers lost in nightmarish tower blocks, and from reanimated skulls to psychogeographers encountering ancient spirits on council recreation grounds, it’s a wide-ranging collection direct …

Charli XCX and Lorde's 'The Girl, So Confusing Version with Lorde' is the winner of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize. Charli's first Twenty Quid nomination was in 2014… The post Congratulations to Charli XCX and Lorde: winners of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize appeared first on Popjustice.

Needle lace is made using only a needle and thread: You make the lace from scratch without a fabric base. There are different types of needle lace. In this video tutorial I’ll show you to make flat Venetian point lace. I’m making this Venetian needle lace motif for my hand-embroidered Edwardian mixed lace blouse. Venetian Needle Lace What Is Needle Lace? Needle lace – aka point lace or needlepoint lace, …

It was a fun night at the ballpark. LFGO’s

BOUGHT:Dracula Book 1: The Impaler (Orlok Press) I'll be the first to admit that I don't understand Kickstarter, and how it works in today's comic book publishing field. I mean, the concept of creators crowd-funding directly from their would-be readers and thus negating the need to sell a book to a traditional publisher makes sense to me...even though it sometimes boggles my mind that some of the most talented, most …

In case you’d got the wrong idea about how the ’regulatory state‘ is supposed to work Regulation and regulators are in the news again – the Grenfell tragedy, water companies and social media. Here’s how regulation works: The present-day regulatory state is not an intrusive government intervention, it’s the invention of the post-war neoliberal economists. It was designed not to protect consumers but to shield capital from democratic control. Since …

There’s a million reasons why you would want to record audio coming from your browser, some — innocuous, some — nefarious. You can definitely record blank video with just the sound in OBS, but that’s not necessarily what you want. So to record just the browser audio on Linux, you will need two applications and a fairly recent Linux distribution that has the new PipeWire audio system, preferably installed by …

The last picture show, Christopher Soukup

The end is now the beginning. It’s time to close my chapter of limiting beliefs and feeling stuck and begin writing a new chapter on a blank canvas. I find myself writing from Santiago de Compostela, the famous ending point of the Camino de Santiago. Those who have followed my journey know that I’ve walked...

The other week, the Internet’s most beloved creepy snowman wrote a blog post where he showed how to use a little Python to group states by their number of electoral college votes to make a table like this: Electors States PopPct ECPct 3 AK, DE, DC, ND, SD, VT, WY 1.61% 3.90% 4 HI, ID, ME, MT, NH, RI, WV 3.04% 5.20% 5 NE, NM 1.22% 1.86% 6 AR, IA, …

This one almost killed me so the next will likely be an, um, Fall/Winter guide. Also it's getting well-nigh impossible to get usable jacket art off the web (either that or Typepad can't work with what you've got) so there's not a lot of that here either. Thanks as always for reading. Equipment: Sony UBP-X800 multi-region 4K player, Sony KD50X690E display, Yamaha RXV-385 A/V receiver. Alphaville (Kino 4K Ultra) The …

This is really just an extension of this post: http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/abusing-you-was-by-the-book-documenting-two-years-of-abuse-from-game-journalism-after-sharing-my-metoo-the-whole-painful-story-all-in-one-place If you are not aware of the situation, read that instead. I’m posting this because I need to scream. It’s better than silence. “Abusing you was by the book” (documenting two years of abuse from Game Journalism, after sharing my #metoo… the whole painful story all in one place) Today I had another grieving outburst about game journalist and the …

Week #707 As one project wanes another waxes. The amount of time we’ve been spending on the Miami project has decreased. They’re in good shape; onboarding customers and prepping for raising a round of investment. The features, bugs and tasks are at a minimum as they want to be stable and get customer feedback. Which means we have more time for some VR projects. The video team has handed over …

Why was a medieval note on the world's regions added on a scrap of parchment at the end of a Roman geographic work (Leiden UB, BPL 68)? From India to Ireland, Cappadocia to cannibals, the note's mixture of fact and fiction showcases a reader's interest in the bounds of their known world.

It was a kinda-off month in terms of mental health, which I'm still blaming on just one big day of drinking back in July. Feeling much better now in September! Notable I turned 38. Kind of a nothing birthday. I did get to go out for an afternoon with my sister and some besties so that was nice. I did a Ken Barber lettering workshop. I've been wanting to do …