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NAR Villain Origin Story: Meet Mr. Fedora Feather

Read NAR Villain Origin Story: Meet Mr. Fedora Feather Loss Prevention Officer: "[Manager], I'm going to show you this footage, and I'm going to narrate what is happening, as it happens, okay?" Man...

How to (properly) apply for an apartment viewing

I am subletting my apartment. These are the mistakes people make when they contact me about my listing. Kleinanzeigen inbox This is in the context of a flat search, but it should also apply to your...

High School's Ordering Parents to Remove Pink "XX" Protest Wristbands at Girls' Soccer Game Likely Violated First Amendment

"The characteristics of the school as a place of learning reinforce that administrators cannot favor one side of a debate involving parental speech on an issue of prominent public concern, and whic...

Recovery eines verlustbehafteten Dwarf Fortress-Screenshots

Wie ich einen verlustbehaftet komprimierten Dwarf Fortress-Screenshot mit ein bisschen Kontextwissen teilweise rekonstruieren konnte.

Open source X viewers Nitter & XCancel are offline following cease-and-desist letters

X, previously known as Twitter, has sent cease-and-desist letters to the maintainers of Nitter, an open-source project that let users view X posts without an account or using the official platform....

Daily News Stuff 26 August 2026

CNO Orrery Edition Top Story Apple has announced new Mac Mini models based on the M5 Pro and M6 CPUs. (MacRumors) The M6 is a marked upgrade over the M4 - the M5 never showed up on the Mac Mini - b...

The Days Of Broadcast Digital TV Could Be Numbered

“When the analogue TV signals were turned off in most places around fifteen years ago, their replacement took the form of a set of digital multiplexes. ATSC for North America, and DVB-T for Europe ...

Domino’s puts a new spin on moon viewing with Tsukimi dango-inspired tarts in Japan

Fusing an old food tradition with a thoroughly modern one.  As we head towards autumn, and Tsukimi, the moon-viewing festival which falls on 25 September this year, Japanese restaurant chains are b...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-26-26

I have a rough three-day work-stretch ahead of me, but the weekday Pook-Emu Bee links streak must continue (I will however compromise on feature images today). 1. Brainless TikTok trend causes $2,0...

Loading from tape

After some time off-line due to a disk failure, the CPCWiki Forum is back online. There is a thread to “show off your Amstrads”, so I used the excuse to do some gaming with the kids and my 464. Als...

Radegund

Radegund (c.520 – 13 August 587) was another wife of Clothar I. She was a princess, daughter of Bertachar, a king of Thuringia who co-ruled with his two brothers, Hermanfrid and Baderic (Baderic wa...

Your guide to fall 2026 vaccines

Respiratory vaccines—for flu, RSV, and Covid-19—will be available at no cost this fall.

17th-Century Woman’s Grave with “Anti-vampire” Practices Never Before Seen Together Discovered in Poland

A multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, geneticists, anthropologists, and geologists has unearthed a 17th-century tomb in the Pień cemetery, in north-central Poland, that defies all funeral nor...

Steam on Android is Workable, Performant, and Brittle.

A few weeks ago I wrote about getting the full ARM64 Steam client running on an unrooted Android tablet. At the time it was a proof of concept. Steam opened, authenticated, downloaded games, and la...

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Wings

No big thesis for today—well, at least not yet. I've been feeling better over this last week or so, but the thing that always worries me about feeling better is getting into trouble—you know, think...

Everybody’s a facilitator, whether you know it or not. 3 ways to learn the most human skill going

Facilitation is always happening. If you put even a little effort into learning facilitation, you’ll get meetings of all sorts to the best possible outcomes & help everyone around you have a better...

Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Had Enough Of The Shadow Docket — See Also

Ketanji Brown Jackson Read The Shadow Docket To Filth: A blistering dissent on the 'Kafkaesque nightmare' the Court keeps building for election challengers. Clarence Thomas And Ted Cruz Spend A Pod...

The Only Thing Drier Is My Sense Of Humor

Read The Only Thing Drier Is My Sense Of Humor Me: "So, this customer wants a crispy chicken burger, no sauce, no salsa, no butter, no guacamole, no cheese, just chicken and bread, and she wants th...

Reject Fluid Simulations, Return To Rheoscopic Fluid

Fluid simulations are one of the “killer apps” of high-performance computing, but if you can’t afford the performance, they can take a depressingly long time to run. Depending on your …read more