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Super excited that the international edition of Dancing Queen from Matagot has been announced. It will be available in English and French, 21 June 2025.

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Herring Gull next to the Thames by HMS Belfast this week

Occasionally, I try a perfume for the first time and feel an immediate rush of excitement. It smells so wonderful, so perfect, that I think I’ve discovered a new favorite. But then, on subsequent tries, I can never recreate that initial feeling. The magic seems to vanish, leaving me wondering if I imagined it all. […]

Mesmerizing, delicate and seemingly impossible — this lovely luminescent denizen of the sea has been living in our oceans for more than half a billion years. Jellyfish are found all over the world, from surface waters to our deepest seas — and they are old. They are some of the oldest animals in the fossil record.Jellyfish are not fish at all. These gossamer wonders evolved millions of years

In the land of my father, as I recall, there was a pink Ganesha Scotch-taped to the back of the door. I pushed the door open, one hand parallel to the face of the idol, into the twisted light of a blue winter morning and saw him waiting for me there, on the stone steps. He did not have the comic humility of a playful divinity; he did not doff …

Now that we're past the holidays, here's your reminder that NarraScope is accepting talk proposals. (It's been open for a few weeks, but you know, holidays.) The deadline is February 7th. This year we also have a track for academic papers. We're trying to do more with Drexel, our host university this year, so this is a bit of crossover. The paper submission form isn't open yet, so keep an …

I’m not sure that I like this cold weather. My modified shoulder seems to ache when it gets cold – I guess I shall have to live with it. At least the lounge is warm for a quiet read, and the loft workshop warms up quickly with a fan heater. I should have been making trains, but got distracted from my ‘Walrus’ by a ‘Myrt’. I have a soft spot …

Resources used in the creation of this article include RareAfx’ Sample sources page. user18081971 SoundCloud page. user1808191 google spreadsheet. WATMM SoundCloud dump thread. Text files I compiled of Richard’s quotes during the SoundCloud Dump. Discogs page for user18081971. Version 0.6 of my Lanner Database/my gigantic mess of Aphex Twin related files that sorely needs backing up. Aphextwin.net webstore comment section. Thanks to everyone who created and maintained these sources of …

Ryan Broderick at Garbage Day says content moderation died on January 6, 2021: [T]he Insurrection was the first time Americans could truly see the radicalizing effects of algorithmic platforms like Facebook and YouTube that other parts of the world, particularly the Global South, had dealt with for years. A moment of political violence Silicon Valley could no longer ignore or obfuscate the way it had with similar incidents in countries …

I decided to start posting on Dreamwidth for awhile at the beginning of 2024. I thought I needed something to shake up my blog and help motivate me to write more. One of the most prolific periods of writing in my life was approximately 2002-2008 on livejournal. That site's been co-opted and barely exists anymore, but dreamwidth is a long-running community alternative based on the livejournal source code from around …

Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated them. One person commented: There are so many pieces to having a modern terminal experience. I wish it all came out of the box. My immediate reaction was “oh, getting a modern terminal experience isn’t that hard, you just need to….”, but the more I thought about it, the longer the “you just need to…” list got, …

Back from calling my second Saturday night dance, this one for Circle n Squares in Santa Rosa. 4 hours (ish, double rounds and a snack break), but dang I put it all out there and will sleep well. A lotta compliments, it feels good.

About a year or so ago, Manuel Moreale wrote a post called I’ll read it. In it, he made a simple offer to anybody who was on the fence about starting their own blog because they either didn’t know what to write about, or because they were afraid nobody would read what they had written. I was one of the people who took him up on his offer. I believe …

All the Way for the Win was just published by Penteract Press — today! It’s available for sale from their online store. This book of poetry begins by narrating the birth of the universe and concludes after describing the eradication of the last human-authored poetic text. While it doesn’t deal with everything in between, it’s mean to touch on many aspects of human history and experience. The poems in the …