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I joined Freja with Redox to talk about the state of US politics and white supremacy following Donald Trump’s second election. It’s partly in Danish, but my contributions are in English. Have a listen!

Who? You might be more familiar if I write Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill as Owen Roe O'Neill. But I won't because he was Irish, not English. Although there is some confusion if he was Eoghan Rua or Eoghan Ruadh. I'll stick with Eoghan Ruadh.Now please bear with me, as there's rather a lot of Ó Néills running around Ireland in the 1640s.Eoghan Ruadh had at least eight brothers and four …

I couldn’t sleep this morning, so I got up sometime, ate, exercised, showered and finished my ATProto/Bluesky integration in GoBlog. You can now follow me there too: @jlelse.blog. But I think I will only use it very passively and only post my links there automatically. Interactions & Comments

Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here.

When I was younger, I thought DDR was a game exclusive to arcades but how wrong I was! planet clue examined DDR controllers throughout gaming history, from PS1 to a DVD “game” that doesn’t actual require any of your inputs (planet clue rages about this in the video).

Our Edinburgh bookshops purchases: (yes, I am very behind in databasing new books, but hoping to catch up soon!)Amusingly, on that one morning we bought two different books, in two different bookshops, by two different Daniel Chandlers. Neither appears to have a disambiguating middle name.

The New Moon is Sunday December 1. In the evening Venus leaves Sagittarius behind and is close to the thin crescent moon on December 5. Mercury is lost in the twilight. Saturn is in the north western sky coming closer to Venus. Jupiter is now visible in the evening sky along with Saturn and Venus. In the morning Mars and Jupiter continue to draw apart. Mars is close to the …

Planets Align in ShifnalShifnal has been on my destination list for ages, and today, everything fell into place. My monthly scan of Ramblers Group walks revealed the Shrewsbury Group was heading there—perfect timing. That’s the beauty of the Ramblers: one subscription grants access to countless walks and groups, each filled with fascinating people.In today’s group, I met a man who very nearly ran the best steak pub in the county …

I suggested the idea of a “links initiative” as a way to kick-start the more daunting task of building a front-end resource directory.Basically just blog your favourite dev related links and maybe they can be collated to bootstrap a directory. I started listing and then a client project landed and to my shame I totally forgot about the idea. Until now!So finally, without further ado — BTW I have no …

It was so typical. Just his damned luck. Alan forced himself to unclench his fists, knowing that his anger had no productive outlet, and would only make the situation worse. These things happened; that was life. And it was only a tablet computer. Thousands of miles from home, on the last day of a holiday trip, and he’d dropped the damned thing. It had all his photos, and his work, …

I’ve just returned from a short trip to Australia, having been invited to take part in the annual Melbourne Queer Film Festival, which this year was inspired, in part, by my 2017 book David Bowie Made Me Gay. I had a wonderful time: I met some amazing, creative people and got to visit an incredible city. And, while I was on the other side of the planet, I had some …

Happy Thanksgiving! This is the time when so many of us are remembering, with gratitude, all the people, creatures and things in our lives that make it rich and full. This friend was at our south bird garden hoping to find some lunch. The Hawk is another example of why mine and Chris’ lives are very fortunate. We have wildlife and plants and weather all around us and they affect …

Since opening in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge has been captured in paintings, photographs, and illustrations by scores of artists, each rendering the Bridge’s beauty and power in their own way. But it’s the poetic, enchanting Brooklyn Bridge depicted by Johann Berthelsen, which he titled “New York Skyline From the Brooklyn Navy Yard,” that I find most mesmerizing. Born in Denmark the same year as the Bridge was completed, Berthelsen moved …

Last week two additional tracks were appended to digital editions of Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / In a Room7 F760. The two tracks are the isolated drum track from blackbox life recorder 21f and an ambient mix of the same track titled blackbox life recorder 21 drumreesapella 760_16bit . The ambient mix was previously available as a promotional mp3 download , but is now available in higher quality for all …