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VPNs are having a moment. On January 1st, Florida joined 18 other states in implementing an age verification law that burdens Floridians' access to sites that host adult content, including pornography websites like Pornhub. In protest to these laws, PornHub blocked access to users in Florida. Residents in the “Free State of Florida” have now lost access to the world's most popular adult entertainment website and 16th-most-visited site of any …

(SOUND FIXED): Oasis (Karl Jenkins) https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/nucleus_oasis_well-talk-about-it-later_vertigo-1971_6360027_ljc.mp3 . . . Apologies, first post had a missing sound link, now fixed, also, Harry M photos of Nucleus added, at Collector’s Corner – LJC Track List A1 Song For The Bearded Lady (Jenkins) 7:22A2 Sun Child (Clyne, Marshall) 5:16A3 Lullaby For A Lonely Child (Jenkins) 4:21A4 We’ll Talk About It Later (Jenkins) 6:13B1 Oasis (Jenkins) 9:44B2 Ballad Of Joe Pimp (Carr, Clyne) 3:45B3 …

The term “cold email” refers to emailing someone who you’ve never spoken to before. There are lots of guides on writing cold emails. This one is a bit niche, as it’s about cold emailing a particular person: me. But I guarantee you that it’s the best guide you can find on this hyperspecific topic. I’m publishing my guidelines under the Creative Commons BY-4.0 license, so you’re welcome to reuse or …

News Silo Silo Season 3 Sees Ashley Zuckerman and Jessica Henwick Join Cast The new additions might be from a time before the silo was put in place… By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on January 17, 2025 Photo by Gage Skidmore licensed uder CC BY-SA 2.0 Comment 0 Share New Share Silo Season 3 Sees Ashley Zuckerman and Jessica Henwick Join Cast&url=https://reactormag.com/silo-season-3-sees-ashley-zuckerman-and-jessica-henwick-join-cast/” target=”_blank” title=”Twitter”> Silo Season 3 Sees Ashley Zuckerman …

Who did I listen to most this week? #lastfm says: Peter Gabriel (64), Kate Bush (45), Glaring (35), Phase Fatale (29) & The Soft Moon (19) [via lastweekly]

During that same fateful spring of 1521 which brought triumph followed by death to Ferdinand Magellan in the Philippines, his adopted liege Charles was grappling with problems of his own half a world away. For Charles’s new kingdom of Spain was then in the closing stages of a brief but terrifying civil war. A year earlier, the city of Toledo, in the heart of old Castille, had instigated a rebellion …

Hello, and welcome to 2025. Is it that time already? The possessive apostrophe (or rather, the abuse of the possessive apostrophe) is a recurrent guest star here at Shady Characters, but usually in the English language. Recently, though, the Guardian reported that unneeded apostrophes are infecting German, too. The so-called Deppenapostroph, or “idiot’s apostrophe”, appears when a German-language expression uses it to indicate a possessive — despite the fact that …

Here's another Stargrave scenario, completely untested, as per usual. THE HERMIT Pagurus Titanicus is known for grabbing bits of debris to build itself a tough outer shell, and there's plenty of debris among the dead stars. There's loot too, and rumour has it this monster is carrying treasure on its back. SET-UP Place terrain as normal. Multi-level terrain is handy for jumping down on the

January still proves a great setting for reconciling with the the previous year. 2024 was packed, and there were still plenty of great releases that slipped between the cracks. In the spirit of re-examination I’ve been listening to this excellent release from Scott Hedrick, a surprising left turn from the guitarist most known for working with thrash band Skeletonwitch. With that in mind, the opening acoustic flourishes from Devotional Drift, …

I was walking from Russell Square to Kings Cross today and, as I passed by these houses that end at Heathcote Street, I thought it was high time that I shared my idea that surely they face the wrong way. I mean to say, the front doors face Mecklenburgh Street, yet the walled back gardens abut Grays Inn Road here. I've only seen the like in two other London locations: …

WowHaus 1930s art deco house in Taunton, Somerset 1930s art deco house in Taunton, Somerset (image credit: Robert Cooney) This 1930s art deco house in Taunton, Somerset, is the best renovation project I have seen for quite some time. (image credit: Robert Cooney) Because 1930s houses in largely original condition just don’t come up very often these days. And especially 1930s houses with architectural merit, which is what we are …

This January, we’ve commissioned a series of short essays considering film restorations from the past year. This is the first.Nightshift (Robina Rose, 1981).’Tis the season: that year-end rush to evaluate, organize, rank films seen in the arbitrary unit of time one calls a year. This process always privileges newness, but I have come to treasure the novelties that unpredictably emerge from historical archives. Some films arrive as though you had …

I come up with them all the time and this one should knock your socks off . . . Or at least take incredible shavings for you. New to woodworking or a seasoned machinist, I often get woodworkers lamenting that they sometimes get a good edge to Card Scrapers, but mostly not. I put this... Source

Hove is a very acceptable place to spend a day. I was last in the area when visiting the Urchin, a seafood-specialist gastropub and microbrewery (I bet there aren't too many of them around) which made the (pretty easy actually) journey down from Battersea more than worth my while. Since then, I've discovered that we paid way too much for our train tickets (apparently we should have gone Thameslink, not …