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Bluesky has been around since 2019. Hawkworld received an invitation for it back in 2021. It was a bit slow at first, but it has really taken off during the last month. Hawkworld is there and trying to post daily. Also, there is a TON of comic book creators jumping on to Bluesky as well! So if you are interested in a rapidly growing social media site and want some …

I don't know for how long these have been unavailable, but at some point one of our older file transfer accounts... died. And these two 2016-mixtapes (DWp's 14th & 32rd) only had that one download-option. Let me know if you stumbled over any other of our mixes that needs a reupload (I've already fixed new links for Xmas Delights I, II, IV and V). Just click on the image to …

A quick flashback. See my maps (really diagrams) published on Jarrett Walker's Human Transit back in 2010. This has since morphed into my current Melbourne Public Transport Frequent Network map with lots of features like selectable modes, frequency thresholds and different maps for different time bands. Or for a vision of a future network, see my Future Frequent Network maps. This item was written by Peter Parker www.melbourneontransit.blogspot.com

One of the most agonizing things happened last week. I ended up going home from work early last Wednesday with a sinus headache. I thought I was starting to get sick, but it turned out a nap was enough for it to take to get rid of it. That’s not the agonizing part. This is: Yes, I broke my 210-day streak for the NY Times Crossword. I had completed most …

My 2025 calendars are now available! I have put together some of my favourite recent photographs into a 11″x17″ (28cm x 43cm) calendar. Included are 12 photographs of landscape, wildlife, and nature scenes from British Columbia, Canada. Take a look at the index below for a small preview of the images contained in the calendar. ... Read more The post 2025 Nature Calendar Now Available! appeared first on Michael Russell …

FROM (2022) s03e06 “Scar Tissue” [2024] D: Alexandra La Roche. S: Harold Perrineau, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Eion Bailey, David Alpay, Scott McCord, Ricky He, Corteon Moore. It’s one of the better (if not best) FROM bridging episodes. Considering it’s an extension of last episode’s bridging episode… though this episode does have a couple solid reveals. It also has Moreno and Bailey arguing too much, Perrineau almost entirely in support of …

We chanced this week on a timetable for European night trains in 1999. So it’s interesting to look back and see which trains were running 25 years ago. By 1999, many European high-speed lines were already up and running, so the overnight network had already been trimmed back from its peak in the 1970s and 1980s.

Regular readers will know that I’ve become interested in the history of publishing, both as an exercise in the history of technology and as a way of seeing how communities of thought and discourse organise themselves. In 2020 I published… Continue reading →

Image source: MUBI In anecdotes repeated by Jack Nicholson and Katharina Kubrick, director Stanley Kubrick believed ghost stories were fundamentally optimistic since they suggested continued existence after death. This is an interesting sentiment, though one I don’t agree with. True, some ghost stories allow for closure and redemption. However, in a great many ghost stories, the dead are unable to rest, tormented by the sins committed or wrongs done to …

I’m in the midst of a media cleanse. This started before the election when I canceled my Washington Post subscription. Jeff Bezos can do whatever he wants with the Washington Post, and he’s 100% correct that I don’t trust large media organizations. After the election, I removed all news sources from Feedly except the Atlantic because I find their writing informative and compelling. A friend calls this turtling. Pulling your …

So a large change for today, instead of Outer Space books we are going to Inner Space with Undersea Base. I have blogged about Mae Freeman's book Space Base (1974) several times. In it she showed children visiting a space station in the future. I recently found she had also written a children's book about futurist undersea exploration and children visiting an undersea base in the future. The late 60s …

Credit: Emma Humphries A Repair Mindset for the Current Trouble 2024-11-15T21:00:52+00:00, by Emma Humphries, from Infinite Wishes 🏳️‍⚧️🚀 I’d like you all to think about learning more about machining and maintenance. If you’re sick of tech, and like making physical things1, I recommend it. If the incoming administration goes through with their plan to wreck the economy with grievous tariffs, so that the oligarchs can buy it for pennies on …

The Wellcome Collection has a heavily annotated copy of this (in)famous photograph of Major General Horatio Gordon Robley seated before his collection of 33 mokomokai, Māori preserved heads. Its provenance is Stevens Auction Rooms formerly of 38 King Street, Covent Garden. One note says that this is a “1895 photograph”; this copy was presumably given by Robley to Henry Stevens the auctioneer when he attempted to sell Robley’s mokomokai collection …

Week4に行く / に来る / に帰るTo add a bit more of nuance when indicating action, use the に particle.[Location]に[purpose]に[motion verb]Instead of writing this:公園に行きます。本を読みます。You can combine everything on a single quote:公園に本を読みに行きます。Offering Assistance~ましょうか (with rising intonation).英語を教えましょうか。Week 5Te-formru-verbDrop the verb ending る and add て食べる = 食べてu verbThe conjugation rule depends on what sound the verb ends with.買う = 買って乗る = 乗ってirregular verbsくる = きてする = してexceptions行く ends with く but it's an exception. …

London North Eastern Railway 1950 Brake Corridor Third E1866 (GOLD)Following completion of the ceiling, it has been decided to build out the bulkhead wall at the Holt end of the coach by around an inch. Some packing pieces, which will be hidden, have been fixed to the old wall and will be suitably clad in due course. A start has been made on the upper panels, which are white to …