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Friends of Trees and a whole bunch of volunteers planted Ponderosa pines, oaks, and others behind the library this morning. 🌲 We’re turning this empty field into a climate-tolerant forest for our community to enjoy for generations to come!

In Laravel, you can use the intended method on the redirect response to redirect the user back to the intended URL after they’ve been authenticated. This is usually used when the user is not authenticated and they’re trying to access a protected route. However, sometimes you might want to manually set the intended URL for a route. For instance, the user is on some page and you want your user …

I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not. 1: The web becomes adversarial to AI The history of search engines is sort of an arms race between websites and search engines. Back in the early 2000s, juicing your ranking on search engines was pretty easy - you could put a bunch of junk in your meta description tags or put some text with lots of keywords on …

For anybody interested in the particular subgeekery of language design, I thought of five potential ways to address the Dactal usability issue of .of.of:=where are we?.of being hard to follow. 1. Try to embrace the weirdness. This is always my first discipline. Don't be too quick to treat every weirdness as a problem that has to be solved. Some things are weird compared to outside references, but normal in a …

Several former members of Blue Cheer formed Mint Tatoo in 1968, and produced one album, from which this catchy tune comes: Feel free to post links to other Mink Tatoo or obscure Blue Cheer numbers in the comments.

The peasants in Anton Chekhov’s novella Peasants published in 1897 live unremittingly grim lives. Impoverished, they sleep on the floor in huts and are hungry, cold, and illiterate. The men drink heavily, increasing their poverty, and beat their wives mercilessly. They are dishonest, unbelieving, and conniving. They think that live was better before “freedom,” when they were serfs. Chekhov wrote the novella after five years of living in a village …

Gidget Grows Up has been playing a number of times on the Cinevault channel on Roku over the past few months and I always happened to catch little bits of it but never had time to sit and watch it all the way through... until today, that is. Like many women, I grew up with the Gidget film series and have seen them all many times over. A lot of …

My first trip out of the new year, in which I spent a cold afternoon out and about in Manchester. Not surprisingly a few pubs were involved, including one that has only recently opened....If I have a spare few hours, fancy a trip out, but have nowhere specific to go in mind, I will tend to take myself over to Manchester. It's 40 minutes or so on the train from …

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott” and its resonance with our AI age (The Mirror Cracked: AI, Poetry, and the Illusion of Depth). In that post I explored how our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by technology, AI just being one (and the latest) variation. […]

Basically this is my version of a D&D fantasy setting, generic enough so I can slot in other peoples’ dungeons without much modification but weird enough to be interesting. Big sources of inspiration are the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories (Ziragzar is just Lankhmar), seventeenth-century India and America, and Ghibli fantasy. THE SUNDER is a continent which holds forests as old as the world and magic from the Outer Spheres. …

To no-one’s surprise 2024 was the warmest year on record – and by quite a clear margin. Another year, another data point. Unlike the previous year, 2024 was anticipated to be a record breaker even before it began (I predicted a record – despite the huge anomaly in 2023 – with a 55% probability). It did fall at the higher end of the prediction, so maybe we are seeing the …

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The first moment I was absolutely gleeful in Cornucopia was when I opened a spell-book in the starting area. >OPEN BOOK Opening the spell book reveals :- detect magic spell; dispel magic spell; purify water spell; dispel illusion spell; detect illusion spell; levitate self spell; detect evil spell. This is what you start with! This game is going to take a while. I have the rest of January blocked out. …

Commonly associated with the new year, Daruma dolls are a type of wishing doll considered an ornament but also a symbol of good fortune and the ultimate lucky charm. With its austere, rounded form, intense expression, and distinctive eyebrows, the Daruma doll was originally modeled after the 5th-century founder of Zen Buddhism, Bodhidharma. Japanese leather […] Related posts: Tsuchiya Kaban Creates Leather Randoseru For Dogs Tsuchiya Kaban Creates Leather Bag …

Colonel Jubilation B. Johnston and his Mystic Knights Band and Street Singers Attack The HitsColumbia, 1966"enigmatic" credits from the back coverNashville, 1966. After so many recording sessions for the Bob Dylan’s album "Blonde On Blonde » Bob Johnston, the producer and the musicians led by Charlie McCoy needed some relaxation, and also perhaps some kind of revenge. That’s understantable. That’s why they recorded in the process Moldy Goodies as by …