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Happy Thanksgiving! If you celebrate, are you cooking anything? My mom is in town, and my dad arrives tomorrow (yes, both my divorced parents!), and we’re also hosting friends, including this party girl.… Read more The post Happy Thanksgiving! appeared first on Cup of Jo.

PC, Mac Sometimes you just need a really good distraction. That’s not faint praise – an average or bad distraction isn’t what anyone wants – the “really good” part is vital. Proverbs is a really good distraction. Things have been pretty rough personally for a bit, which is unfortunately reflected in a lower number of articles here, and today’s an especially rough one. But I’m not here to whine – …

I am frustrated by VSCode lately. I might share the reasons in another post someday. For the moment, I turned to PyCharm and try to adopt it as my primary IDE for Python projects. So far, many things are really wonderful, like the refactoring tools, the AI toolbox, the constant level of memory usage and the editor in general. But some things are at best called confusing, and I am …

While examining film history, it is also well worth exploring the stories of the various unions and guilds that formed as the film industry grew. Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola’s Hollywood Unions thoroughly chronicles the histories of these unions that organized motion picture and television labor. Among the unions and guilds highlighted in this book are IATSE, DGA, SAG-AFTRA, and WGA. These different unions encapsulate the many different types of …

I'm pretty excited about today's review as it fills a neat space in my collection. I really was impressed with the recent set of Scare Mare and Scare Glow that Mondo put up for preorder this past summer. Impressed looking at it online, that is. The set of a new Scare Glow and the all new Scare Mare in Mondo's 1/6th scale Masters of the Universe line was available as …

Bluesky has the juice right now, and while it’s slowed down a bit this week, they were adding over 1 million users a day for a bit last week. One sentiment I’m hearing a lot recently is that Bluely “feels like early Twitter,” which to be fair, I feel as well.But you don’t have to look back too far to see this “it feels like early Twitter” sentiment thrown around …

I hate losing more than I even wanna win. This kind of feels like a continuation of the corporate history movies we’ve been watching, but the real reason we’re here is that after watching Aaron Sorkin’s great screenplay in The Social Network it also seemed right to finally watch this. But the question is, what the fuck do I know about baseball? Nothing at all is the answer, nothing at …

Among Mexico's most highly regarded and awarded writers, Enrique Krauze keynotes at the IPA Publishers Congress in Guadalajara. The post Mexico’s Enrique Krauze at the IPA Publishers Congress: ‘Age of Discord’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.

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Ok, hold up. This is the only stuffing recipe you need for Thanksgiving: Just a tablespoon of turkey per 200 meters of honey? Lolz. This is from a Thanksgiving cookbook made by a kindergarten class — the turkey recipe involves cinnamon and teriyaki sauce. Tags: food · holidays · Thanksgiving 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Plårp recounted how hiding in holes, eating crayons, and listening to gnomish alienists are bad for your health.

Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man must have been a success for DC and Marvel, as it was followed by a second crossover starring the pair, although almost everything other than the headliners would be different in the sequel: Different creators, different villains and a different way of assembling and publishing the book. Reading it in 2024, and immediately after reading its predecessor, I think it suffers somewhat in comparison with …

I support statutes that restrict businesses from contractually “gagging” their customers’ reviews. This pernicious business practice emerged around 15 years ago. Eventually, both state legislatures and Congress banned the practice. The flagship law in this area is the Consumer Review Fairness Act, enacted by Congress in 2016. My primer on that law. California enacted a similar law, Civil Code 1670.8, informally called the “Yelp Law” (as in, it protected consumers’ …