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The lo-fi visual aesthetic — built from cardboard and various handmade cut-out materials — elegantly mirrors the uncertain, winding journey of the video's flawed and troubled characters.

The Moom giveaway has ended, and I have winners to announce! The winners! Congratulations to: Hadi Zainudin Dan McClain Nate Terpstra Tracy Jenkins Gavin Jerman Marco Onderstal John Miller Kris Schofield Cristobal Torres-Velez Michail Litke You should have received an email with details, please let me know if you didn’t hear anything! But I didn’t win! If you didn’t win, sorry, but Moom is still worth checking out. I can’t …

Evening sky on Sunday, October 13 as seen from Adelaide at 20:09 ACDST (45 minutes after sunset), C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS may be visible in the twilight, in the coming days it will rise higher in the twilight should become visible to the unaided eye possibly with a nice little tail. Similar views will be seen from the rest of Australia at roughly the equivalent local time (45 minutes after sunset, …

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Don Stephens founded Mercy Ships in 1978, as a Christian charity headquartered in Texas, with the purchase of the SS Anastasis. During his time as President of Mercy Ships, Don directed and led thousands of volunteers from 60+ nations, plus employees in 16 countries.Don Stephens and wife DeyonGlobal Mercy at dockMercy ShipsDon pioneered The Mercy Minute, a daily radio broadcast on 840+ stations for decades. He handed over the programme …

Previously: Part 2 This week, we finished formulating the axioms of the Elementary Theory of the Category of Sets. This week’s axioms were the last four: 7. For every function f:X→Yf: X \to Y and element y∈Yy \in Y, we can form the fibre f −1(y)f^{-1}(y). Category theorists will recognize this as a special case of the existence of pullbacks. But in the presence of the other axioms, this special …

Accessibility is key in modern web design. A site that doesn’t consider how its user experience may differ for various audiences — especially those with disabilities — will fail to engage and serve everyone equally. One of the best ways to prevent this is to approach your site from a bottom-up perspective. Understanding Bottom-Up Design Conventional, top-down design approaches start with the big picture before breaking these goals and concepts …

Because who hasn’t dreamed of piloting their own AT-AT walker through the side of a neighbor’s house, this is a video of engineer James Bruton constructing his own roughly 7-foot tall rideable AT-AT. It moves at a snail’s pace (even slower than in the movies), but I would still proudly ride it around in circles in my front yard. Of course I also proudly bathe in a kiddy pool in …

Many people in Tasmania have a connection to these buildings - literally. The former Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital complex was purpose built and a rather vast complex of important Modernist era buildings. Pictured here is the Art Deco (1930s) and Modernist (1960s) buildings. The hospital closed down in the late 1990s and was moved to the current Launceston General Hospital in Charles Street. This photograph is available for the first …

BRITISH EDITIONLa Soiree - David OrdiniWhen I was little and used to play pretend soccer in the dining room this was the theme that we would belt out "baba ba baba baba ba baba" while pretending to be either Kenny Dalgliesh or Archibald, the only two British players we knew in 1979 or 80. So i finally figured out it was the theme tune to ITV's The Big Match which …

This is a nice overview in Cell on vaccine history and new areas that are being explored. For sheer public health benefit, once you establish a clean water supply it's very hard to beat effective vaccines. We have wiped out smallpox as a disease, one that had been dreaded all the way back to prehistory. We are tantilizingly close to doing the same with polio. Other diseases that used to …

ICYMI — Laura Marcus from Tidelines Institute stopped by to talk about her education journey and the experiential education work she is leading in Glacier Bay, Alaska. Jed and I discussed several issues on the last WonkyFolk. Here’s a new analysis on AI from Bellwether. And here’s a new analysis of special education finance from Bellwether. It took Harvard 388 years to catch up with Bellwether. One of Bellwether’s most …

Four more shoutout requests from last year, it was really fun to draw Lupin and Jigen in the suits Max and I wore to our wedding! Shoutouts are for my Private Collector gang on Patreon & my VIP Blog! I draw them traditionally in my sketchbook and folks get one every month.

The singles continue to pour out of the upcoming new album from Jim Nothing. Starting late last year, the record became a steady source for indie comforts even before it was announced. Now, as we quickly approach the late October release of the upcoming Grey Eyes, Grey Lynn, the band lets out a softer side of their Kiwipop, the softly strummed “Sundown Clown.” Turning down the hooks in favor of …

A link I posted recently about Roy Liechtenstein’s plagiarism of comics artists turned up at Mefi not long afterwards, and as someone who likes modern art, comics, Lichtenstein’s art, sampling, and respecting artists’ moral rights, who doesn’t much like copyright in its contemporary overreaching form that’s more for the benefit of multinationals than artists, yet who still thinks copyright is pragmatically necessary in a capitalist society given that we don’t …