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Send Them South For Winter!

Read Send Them South For Winter! Customer: "Can I keep these indoor plants outside?" Me: "Well, they are tropical plants and we live in Canada, so they would be fine for the summer, but you would n...

OSCE Report Highlights Georgia’s Violence and Political Repression

Beka Chedia

Adding Victor V. Gurbo’s YouTube Channel to NLJ Blogroll

Victor V. Gurbo is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter (see his official website). I have known him for just about 20 years now (we both agree that has been way too long but it is too late now to do...

Daily News Stuff 23 March 2026

Lemon Presbyterian Edition Top Story Elon Musk has announced TeraFab, a Tesla-SpaceX joint venture to bring the various companies' (including xAI and I guess Twitter) chip manufacturing together un...

The Redesign

I talk about rewriting Notex and integrating it more deeply into my website pipeline.

Japan now has a “for foreign tourists only” Mt. Fuji sightseeing train[Video]

Hokusai Special Train made its first run this month. As one of the closest stops to Mt. Fuji, every day trains arrive at Fujinomiya Station in Shizuoka Prefecture carrying not only local residents,...

LibreOffice is Adding a Donation Banner That Might Annoy Some Users

The feature has already been merged into LibreOffice 26.8's development builds.

Crest and sunglasses: this is Mopsus mormon, the spider that doesn’t hunt with webs and practices platonic love

In the tropical rainforests of northern Australia and the islands of New Guinea lives an eight-legged hunter that could pass for a character taken from Greek mythology or, according to some interpr...

Is My App Stuck in Review? - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #128

Last Thursday, a user in my Discord community complained that their app had been submitted to App Store Connect for four or five days but still hadn't entered the review process. While I was enthus...

The Siege of Acre, Part 2

A couple weeks ago I mentioned the events that led to Saladin coming to power in Egypt. From there he had two choices: stay in Egypt and try to bring the entire country under his control, or try to...

Weekly Robotics #353

I'm super overextended the last couple of days, so no proper intro today, let's look into some cool robotics news and projects! This issue is brought to you by our sponsors: Designing the human sid...

Inflation Timeline

# is not always a comment symbol in Bash

`#` starts a comment in Bash, but not always. A small quirk with a clear rule.

The Pursuit

Last night, I was reminded of this clip from Slavoj Žižek where he discusses the futility of happiness. To summarize, he says that happiness is an "unethical category" because people think they wan...

Scène de salle d’attente

Scène de salle d’attente Extrait de mon journal du 6 mars, dans la salle d’attente du docteur X. Le couple entre, asphyxiant l’air de l’étroite salle d’attente avec leurs remugles de fumée de cigar...

What If We’re Just Mad This March? — See Generally

ATL Bracket: Which Of These Ghouls Should Get Disbarred First? There are still a few hours left to vote in our annual March anger bracket. Which Trump lawyer's ethically fraught work most warrants ...

The Bank With Fringe Benefits

Read The Bank With Fringe Benefits Caller: "Yeah, so I got a haircut today, and I don't like it." Me: "I'm sorry, ma'am, but you're calling [Bank]." Caller: "Yeah, I know. I paid for the haircut us...

NAF Blogroll Entry: Joel Chrono

I credited a blog post to the personal blog of the pseudonymous Joel Chrono with giving me a concept for my new New Leaf Journal Blogroll. Because Joel Chrono’s post gave me an idea and I read his ...

Big Win for Open Source as Germany Backs Open Document Format

“Germany has strictly standardised its digital document requirements. The Deutschland-Stack (in Deutsch), the country’s new sovereign digital infrastructure framework, names just two document forma...

Uncle Susan Graffiti in Carroll Gardens

"UNCLE SUSAN" graffiti tag sighting on a sign post on the periperhy of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.