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Apr 18, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Pokémon hot spring footbath opening in Japan this spring

A relaxing, adorable, and free place to soak your toes with Pikachu, Gyarados, and more. We recently took a look at Japan’s newest Pokéfuta, a collection of six Pokémon-themed manhole covers being ...

Apr 18, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

“Stick Library” in Brooklyn Heights

You may have seen the "Little Free Library" boxes. But have you seen Brooklyn Heights' "Stick Library" for dogs?

Apr 18, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Frühlingsgerüche

Der Geruchssinn ist mein Lieblingssinn. Zum Beispiel liebe ich Frühlingsgerüche.

Apr 18, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 18] - At the Governor’s Ball, the Second Daughter Refuses the Waltz

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 18] Day Eighteen Welcome back, everybody, for Day Eighteen of Na/GloPoWriMo. Our featured participant today is My Fresh Pages, which brings us an Emily Dickinson-inspired resp...

Apr 18, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

83 TI-89 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXVI

Leafy Intro Welcome to the 276th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal ("NLJ") and its short-form wr...

Apr 18, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 18 April 2026

Bloopfish Edition Top Story Intel's new Core Series 3 is its answer to the MacBook Neo. (PC World) The A18 CPU used in the MacBook Neo uses 6W maximum, and typically throttles down to 4W since the ...

Apr 18, 2026 from Peter's Path

Veluwe Wander Trail part 15

Hiked part 15/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 19.9 kilometres from Hoenderloo to Loenen. Woeste Hoeve is renowned for its wildlife overpass above the A50, built to prevent ancient migration routes f...

Apr 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Google adds side-by-side web browsing and new cross-tab search options in Chrome's AI Mode

Google has upgraded AI Mode in Chrome, introducing side-by-side browsing for desktop users. Now, clicking a link while in AI Mode opens the target webpage alongside the AI interface. This approach ...

Apr 18, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

All my GadgeteerZA services statuses are back on Uptime Kuma

I know this looks like ping pong back and forth, but I moved my offsite monitoring back to Uptime Robot because of the cost for just keeping a separate small VPS running to monitor my services from...

Apr 18, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Charles and Sicily, Part 2

Events were in place for Charles of Anjou, Count of Provence, to take over Sicily. His brother, King Louis IX of France, was behind him, as was Pope Urban IV. Charles' promise to Urban was that he ...

Apr 18, 2026 from Toni Notes

When does a system become theater?

A system becomes theater when dashboards, rituals, and workflow layers make the work look handled without making decisions, recovery, or ownership clearer.

Apr 18, 2026 from Nadav Ami

str[0] lies about emoji

Say you built an app and wanted to show a user’s initial in an avatar, to do so you KISS: const avatar = displayName[0] const displayName = "Nadav" lgtm One day, a user decides to make their displa...

Apr 18, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Obedience

I've found that some of my most productive writing is done in heightened emotional states, and that's scary to consider. Today feels calm, and it feels like it's going to be a decent enough day. So...

Apr 17, 2026 from Above the Law

Is This A Legal Argument Or A Sermon? — See Also

Lawyer Tells Attorneys They Will Burn In Hell: Don't remember covering that in law school. A Lesson In Transferable Skills: Former adult movie actress passes the bar. Trump Allegiance And Owing Mon...

Apr 17, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Weekly Notes 16/2026

It feels like a long, tiring week because it’s been a busy one, or most probably because of getting back to regular life after vacation, or because Bengaluru has been hot this week. Anyway, its bee...

Apr 17, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

New Victor V. Gurbo Podcast Interview

My good friend Victor V. Gurbo (who has written some articles for NLJ) was interviewed by Charles Zona for an episode of Seeing Them Live With Charles Zona. I read the interview transcript, but you...

Apr 17, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 17 April 2026

Obscurity By Design Edition Top Story Scheduling service Cal.com has gone closed source in part due to AI security threats. (Cal.com) Cal.diy will remain as an open-source self-hosted solution for ...

Apr 17, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

The 2FAst And The Furious

Read The 2FAst And The Furious So, I watch her. She follows my directions, and I figure out what her issue is. Thirty seconds isn't long enough for her to type in the six-digit code from [2fa App]....

Apr 17, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

(feeling of being watched)

Ich habe mal wieder ein kleines Kunstprojekt gemacht, bei dem der Blick von einem Haufen Augen einem kleinen weißen Fleck folgt.

Apr 17, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, April 17, 2026

Hey folks! Fireside this week; next week we’ll be back to seperating out the components of Carthaginian armies, looking at the real backbone of those armies, which are Carthage’s North African subj...