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It’s 20 years since we started blogging on climate here on RealClimate (December 10, 2004). We wanted to counter disinformation about climate change that was spreading through various campaigns. In those days it was an unusual move that prompted a welcome from Nature. One thing that I didn’t anticipate then was the vast global scale that fake news and conspiracy theories later would attain. Neither did I foresee how they …

I created Soul Sides 20 years ago because I wanted an outlet to write about my favorite records. The blog era feels bygone — and I clearly stopped regularly updating the site years ago — but the impulse to talk about records has never faded. It’s why I’ve created podcasts and newsletters but to mark the...

Self-hosted setup using docker-compose and importing of articles from OmnivoreThe read-it-later app which I had been using, Omnivore, recently announced that it was being acquired by EvenLabs and would shut down on 30 November 2024.1 Although Omnivore is technically open source (which was one of the reasons I selected it), the project is not mature. It does not actually support self-hosted installations at the moment and the mobile apps will …

Tl;dr: The first progress conference was a huge success. Progress Conference 2025 will happen in October 2025, in Berkeley. More info early next year! We’re hiring an Event Manager to help us make this an annual event and to convene other in-person events for the progress community. It’s been a month since the first annual Progress Conference brought together well over 200 thinkers, builders, policy makers, storytellers, and students of …

The Victoria County History is a distinguished series of chronicles for the old shires of England, weighty volumes in venerable bindings. Professor Catherine Clark, the Director of the series, recently posted on their website a 'VCH Ghost Story', which begins: 'This curious and disconcerting letter was found recently in the archive of the Victoria County History of England (addressed to

Five hundred breathtaking images of human expression at Unpen-ji watch over all visitors! T emple 66, Unpen-ji, has many identities on Shikoku pilgrimage. Although it is counted as being in Kagawa Prefecture, it is actually just across the prefectural … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞

Look deep into the knowing eye of this magnificent one. He is a Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, a species of baleen whale for whom I hold a special place in my heart. Baleens are toothless whales who feed on plankton and other wee oceanic tasties that they consume through their baleens, a specialised filter of flexible keratin plates that frame their mouth and fit within their

Super delicious post movie dinner Supra restaurant.

For those who came of age after the 1980s, it might be hard to fully grasp the bold spirit of weddings during that decade. Everything about the celebration was larger than life—wedding dresses, cakes, and even guest lists reflected the era’s signature love of extravagance. Dresses were designed to make an unforgettable statement, brides walked […]

This was the final official 32X release, and coming out in 1996, I think there are two assumptions that can be safely made about it. The first is that it coming out was something of an adherence to the lost cause fallacy: possibly the publisher specifically had a license to make Marvel games only for the 32X, and they were going to do it whether it made sense or not. …

The world feels pretty uncertain right now. Conflicts are constant, the threat of nuclear war looms far too close for comfort, and the cost of living is climbing faster than most people can keep up with. Understandably, many are cutting back on luxury spending, focusing instead on essentials. It begs the question: what does all this mean for woodworking as a hobby? Will it remain an accessible and fulfilling pastime, …

The UncoolTwo50 is over – well, the voting phase is – but the posting continues. These are the final 10 near-misses. 60. PUBLIC ENEMY – “By The Time I Get To Arizona” (1991) I learned too late that this record is NOT in fact a single, despite having an (incendiary) video made for it, it was a B-Side. But that’s OK! Because apparently an album tracks challenge is planned and …

For VGBees, Sean Aitchison opined that Sonic should really pick a direction and stick to it: Sonic games of the last two decades have all had some “bold and new” element shoehorned into 3D Sonic gameplay — which has itself never fully been polished enough to form a solid base to support these new ideas. Sonic is amorphous, no longer bold for experimenting, now just a nebulous concept that is …

An end of week recap “Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” – Eugène Ionesco For my elevenses today, I shall help myself to a stout slice of chocolate cake in recognition of my 400th wind up for Book Jotter. WUTW #1 appeared on 14th January 2018 and in it I shared a handful of recent reads, gleefully announced my upcoming visit to the Hay Festival and… well, …

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