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Reading Time: 33 minutes I ought to be in Slovenia right now, hanging out with nice internet people and thinking about nice internet things, but instead I am in my kitchen in London, in my pants, a bit tired and hungover and generally feeling quite resentful at the fact that things like ‘needing to earn money to eat’ have prevented me from travelling to Naive Yearly. To all those of …

I recently entered the Shropshire Shufflers’ Severn Bridges 10k in Shrewsbury (after a little bit of a kerfuffle where it wouldn’t accept my affiliated club name) and ran with Gaz to celebrate his birthday. Never expected Gaz to choose a 10k to as a birthday celebration and yet here we are; I like to think of it as my good influence as a long time runner Katie, at lifeofamissfit… Source

a daytime picture of the pike place market sign with a fancy vsco filter on it. this is one of the first pictures i took in seattle ten years ago. we’ve lived in this city for almost a decade now. seattle belongs to more people than the ones who can afford it. I’m traveling this week and I spent most of my writing time on my public testimony against the …

Astronaut Kate Rubins points at the "ISS Voting Booth" where she voted from the International Space Station on October 27, 2020 (NASA) The astronauts who are currently stuck in space thanks to Boeing's little mishaps will soon be voting in the upcoming U.S. presidential election between vice president Kamala Harris and convicted felon Donald Trump. They were supposed to come back to Earth after just eight days and given the …

Deserter Pubcast · Beers in Bermo: all the latest news about pubs, drugs, crisps and slacking off (Sept 24) In this episode: *** Source

Neil Madden recently wrote a blog post titled, Digital Signatures and How to Avoid Them. One of the major points he raised is: Another way that signatures cause issues is that they are too powerful for the job they are used for. You just wanted to authenticate that an email came from a legitimate server, but now you are providing irrefutable proof of the provenance of leaked private communications. Oops! …

Or in this case, six bags full. New Clients often have no idea how much waste I am going to generate, when I spend a morning (or afternoon!) in their garden.... To see the rest of this article, please hop over to Patreon.

The GameSky Team is the 2024 Spiel des Jahres winner. It was already getting many positive reviews before it was nominated. What surprised many people was it went on to win. This is a strictly two-player game, and the SdJ has never been awarded to such games. Sky Team is a cooperative dice game about landing a plane. You are pilot and copilot of a plane, and you must collaborate …

My Old Ass (2024) • View trailerFour stars (out of five). Rated R, for drug use, sexual candor and frequent profanityAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 9.22.24Canadian writer/director Megan Park’s new film is one of the summer’s sweetest surprises: a deeply moving, intimately emotional, and tartly humorous coming-of-age saga ... but not in the way you’d expect. Although Elliott (Maisy Stella, left) doesn't initially …

WowHaus 1970s Marcial Echenique modern house in Cambridge 1970s Marcial Echenique modern house in Cambridge A remarkable listed building as well as a renovation project, this 1970s Marcial Echenique modern house in Cambridge, is up for sale. 1970s Marcial Echenique modern house in Cambridge (image credit: The Modern House) It is remarkable both in terms of design and untouched condition. Designed around half a century ago by Cambridge University academic …

world-building diaries the mermaid castle is the name of a website-world I’m creating for my inner child. it’ll serve as a digital memory palace to hold the blurry fragments of my childhood — and to evoke the spirit of my inner child, in real time. (actually, since time works differently on the internet, the mermaid castle will be a collision of past, present, and future). it’s an artistic web project, …

In the 1800s, before serfdom was abolished in the Russian empire, landowners paid taxes based on how many serfs they had. A census was conducted every few years by government employees traveling across the empire and doing counts; a manual map-reduce of epic proportions. If a person was dead, it would often be years before the government cleared the cache, so to speak, and landowners continued to pay taxes on …

Dear Darling Ones, This is a letter to tell you I’m a mermaid now. It’s not the best timing. Last week, a young woman who loved Stevie Nicks and boygenius lopped off six inches of my hair. I meant to write about taking my walker and stroke-addled body out into a public space that wasn’t a medical facility for the first time in 563 days, but I was very busy …

New article from Special Needs Jungle: with additional input from Tania Tirraoro In the recent parliamentary SEND debate, a number of MPs spoke passionately on behalf of vulnerable children and their families being failed by their … The post Children with SEND deserve better than being made pawns in the VAT wars appeared first on Special Needs Jungle. Rachel Filmer ⓒ Special Needs Jungle 2008-2023 All Rights reserved