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a faint trail that leads into the woods in austin, texas. it runs down the middle of a clearing in a residential area. across the bottom of the picture sit a bunch of large rocks creating a border. hey! who put those rocks there? Social service organizations, like nonprofits and foundations, love resiliency! In their world, resiliency means a person’s ability to bounce back after a crisis. A person might …

Janet Johnson (1858 - 1955) pioneer welfare worker.Lived at 39 Redcross Way. She became the first woman Guardian of the Poor in Southwark in1888, devoting her life to the condition of poor workhouse internees, She became manager of the Central London School for Orphans and Destitute Children at Hanwell, initiating humanitarian reforms with new ideas on education, clothing and diet.Historic Southwark

PC After about a year in early access, Ravenswatch (not a game about choosing a new fabric with raven print, I’m sad to say) is properly out, and it’s a tremendous mix of Hades and Torchlight. Yes, we’re once again back in the parallel universe where a game that has everything people want isn’t getting the attention it deserves. Honestly, this feels like it could be a forgotten Supergiant game, …

Introduction # Welcome to the first post of our development diary for the Bonfire native app. In this series, we'll journey together through the entire process of designing and publishing Bonfire on the Apple App Store using LiveView Native (LVN), an experimental framework that enables developers to build native applications using Elixir. We're focusing on iOS first because the current LVN release targets the Apple ecosystem (iOS and macOS, but …

“The duty of every revolutionary is to make the revolution.” For many young radicals in the 1960s, these words from Fidel Castro’s Second Declaration of Havana were instructions to be taken seriously. Richard Gott’s despatch from Bolivia, published in The Guardian on 19 August 1967 and reproduced in full below, exemplifies how this internationalist revolutionary commitment translated into political action that would shape a generation of left-wing thinkers. When Gott …

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All of these stunning elevation maps of the world’s continents (except Australia and Antarctica) are the brain child of cstats1 who you can follow on X/Twitter here and Instagram here. And if you’d like to support them you buy something from their Amazon shop here. The first map above is an elevation map of Europe. Here are the highest and lowest points in Europe: Highest Point In Europe: Mount Elbrus, …

“Do the hard things” – Futurist Jim Carroll How many times do you say to yourself, “I’ll do the easy things first!” And then you just keep doing the easy things over and over again, always avoiding the hard stuff. And you never make any progress – because at some point or other, you have to do the hard things. What if you did the hard things first? What if …

Murder at the Monastery by Richard Coles Canon Daniel Clement, Vicar of Champton, is not having a good time in this fascinating novel. The Reverend Richard Coles continues his series of mysteries set in the English countryside in the late 1980s and early 1990s, where Daniel’s thoughtful approach means that justice can be done. This third novel, however, is set mainly in a monastery, and even with some specialist knowledge …

So thanks for the questions/discussion topics you dropped into the comments for Monday’s entry. That’s a whole lotta comic book talk for me to start makin’ with, so I’ll likely get to it next week. Also, sorry for no post on Wednesday, the mind was willing, the body less so, and thus the surprise day off. But today I have…lazy posting, as I pulled out the Marvel “Sales to Astonish” …

After visiting Little Bighorn Battlefield, we stopped by Custer Battlefield Trading Post & Cafe on the Crow Indian reservation. Swag: Cafe: Menu: We’re big fans of Indian fry bread, so had Indian tacos for dinner:

The last piece (for the minute) for Rhiw is a skip; one of those that sits by the lineside with a mix of gash inside and seemingly has no means of being retrieved.The root is one of a pair from the Peco Modelscene range which is stamped Leafdale Models 1988 underneath. A couple of coats of paint to dull the bright yellow plastic and then the full scrapbox treatment for …

Why romanticising your own life is philosophically dubious, setting up toxic narratives and an inability to truly love - by Anna Gotlib Read at Aeon

This article was originally published, in slightly different form, on Strong Towns member Will Gardner’s Substack, StrongHaven. It is shared here with permission. All in-line images were provided by the author. This raised crosswalk and the separated path on the right are examples of infrastructure that keeps walkers and bikers safe. With the fall routine comes the launch of the bike bus here in my hometown of Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Last …

We still occasionally speak of “Kodak moments,” making conscious or unconscious reference to the slogan of the Eastman Kodak Company in the nineteen-eighties. Even by that time, Kodak had already been a going concern for nearly a century, furnishing photographers around the world with the film they needed to capture images. Its very first slogan, unveiled in 1888, was “You Press the Button, We Do the Rest,” and it heralded …