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Last Friday, January 3, 2025, I got married to my fiancé. You may all applaud. We’ve been engaged since 2019, but neither of us were in much of a rush to plan an actual ceremony, not least because it’d be a lot of work to plan something appropriate that’d satisfy all the friends and family we have scattered around the country. That changed with the 2024 election. California voters did …

Here at MPorcius Fiction Log we are reading the 1978 DAW edition of the 1958 Theodore Sturgeon collection A Touch of Strange. Today we tackle the middle three stories of this printing, "A Crime for Llewellyn," "It Opens the Sky," and the title track. Hold on to your seats as the boys down in marketing are promising us three unforgettable masterpieces and, in a blurb on an abridged 1965 edition …

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Since Meta (the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) launched Threads as a rival to X/Twitter, there has been a healthy dose of scepticism from the fediverse community about Meta’s intentions, the company’s values and whether Threads joining the fediverse is a good thing or bad thing. oslo.town is based on Mastodon, so it’s part of the fediverse and our position on Threads thus far was to remain open. …

Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’m currently working on a post “On the Gracchi” taking a somewhat darker look at everyone’s favorite Roman reformers (though hardly the same black takedowns Alexander and Cleopatra got) , which will hopefully be ready for next week. Trustworthy Librarian Ollie helping me work on my book sorting solution, also known as “vaguely sorted piles on the floor.” I am not a well organized person, …

Once again, Creamsicle Caligula has made headlines with his wacky claims about taking over Greenland and making it a U.S. territory. And again, the mainstream media has taken the bait and focused on his cockamamie pronouncements while ignoring his outrageous plans and political appointments. However, it’s a good opportunity to talk about some of the peculiar aspects of Greenland’s place on the globe. Greenland is farther east, west, north, and …

Our ferry, Queen of Capilano, sailing in Snug Cove back in 2009 before she had her capacity increased. Got word today that BC Ferries is embarking on an initiative to renew their community engagement practices. This is important to me because I rely on BC Ferries to get to and from my home on Bowen Island to te mainland. They are a critical player in coastal life in British Columbia. …

The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love — is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointment and heartbreak and loss inseparable from being a creature with hopes and longings constantly colliding with reality, with the indifference of time and chance, with the opposing hopes and longings of others. We have, of course, always invented institutions …

Nealsgadgets C02 Camping Light Specifications Introduction Torch in use Build quality LED, bezel, lens, reflector and beam Size and comparison User interface Batteries and charging Powerbank Performance Beamshots Conclusion Price Product page Specifications Brand/model Nealsgadgets C02 Camping Light LED Cool White (6000K), Warm White (2700K), Multi-colour RGB Maximum lumens 300 lm Battery Built-in 3.7V 5200mAh 18650 Onboard charging Yes (USB-C) Material Plastic Modes 5 Blinkies SOS Waterproof IPX5 Review date …

The Kharn "In the year 2050, a large asteroid collided with our moon. Among the debris, we discovered a hibernating alien mothership. Now, the Kharn are awake and they want to plunder our precious natural resources. So, we recruited teams of special operatives to defend Earth from their alien threat." This page features specifications on the Kharn and Alpha Team 1 action figures. Be sure to visit the 1:18 Action …

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It's a tremendous advantage to be a CCS student (or local alum) and have access to their print lab. That allows one the chance to do, for example, an anthology with multiple cut-outs. That's the case with Hole, a ridiculously elaborate anthology that reminds me of the early days of CCS. It's a bit like the old Four Square anthology that would have four artists and a theme or something …

Fuck Twitter. I noticed that Micro.blog allows you to cross post to Twitter, so I wanted to try it and see the flow. Somehow, in the brief seconds I was on there I found myself watching some Joe Rogan garbage with Mel Gibson talking about blue dyes curing cancer and just rattling off pharmaceutical names like they were characters in a show. What the fuck is happening on that piece …

From: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/2024/pl.u-WMPzASRbk5vIf you checked my Apple Music Replay it would tell you that for the 3rd year in a row Taylor Swift was my post listened to artist, and who am I to argue with a data story like that? That stat was bolstered by her latest album — The Tortured Poets Department — which I thought was one of her best, especially the second disc (i.e. the one with …

I’m mid-career and I’ve just realised I have never received any mentoring on how to manage my workload, on how to explicitly recognise when I’ve taken on too much and how to proactively regulate the things I’m committed to. I have had conversations which touch on this, but the focus has tended to be productivity – how to manage your tasks. What about a system for working out when you …