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The Emu Café Social
Apr 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Connecting Self-Hosted WP Site to Tags.pub

Yesterday I shared Discover more of the Fediverse with tags.pub in my Pook-Emu Bee links for the day. The post introduces a new feature for the ActivityPub for WordPress plugin: Subscribing a site ...

The Emu Café Social
Apr 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Takopi’s Original Sin Review Reminds Me of Narcissu

Cabbage reviwed the anime adaptation of Takopi’s Original Sin on her always-fun Cabbage Sorter blog. Takopi was a short six-episode series which aired in summer season 2025. It was one of the last ...

The Emu Café Social
Apr 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-03-26

Another non-Saturday day ending in -day means it is time for a new set of Pook-Emu Bee. However, this will be our last Pook-Emu Bee until fun Monday. Tomorrow, Saturday, is newsletter day (which co...

Chronicles of Miss Miseria
Apr 03, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NaPoWriMo 2026 [3rd April] - The Cartographer Who Leaves Things Out

NaPoWriMo 2026 [3rd April]Day Three Happy Friday, everyone, and happy third day of National/Global Poetry Writing month. Today, our featured participant is Eden Ligon, whose response to Day Two’s p...

The Emu Café Social
Apr 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Toothpaste Expiration Dates (NLJ Link)

This is the 59th entry in Nicholas A. Ferrell’s long-running Justin and Justina dialogue series. Inspired by a true story (N.A. Ferrell, who is me writing in the third person, bought things at Lot ...

Toni Notes
Apr 03, 2026 from Toni Notes

Automation should remove repetition, not hide responsibility

Automation is useful when it removes repetitive work without obscuring who still owns the framing, review, and stop point. Smooth systems fail when they make that ownership hard to find.

Ploum.net
Apr 03, 2026 from Ploum.net

La première Madame Pipi de l’espace profond

La première Madame Pipi de l’espace profond Outre la première victoire au Tour de France d’Eddy Merckx, 1969 fut une année qui marqua trois événements très importants. 1. Le premier homme sur la Lu...

Noahie's Blog
Apr 03, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Revelation

Yesterday was quite tiring. I was asleep for practically the entire day. That kind of thing happens whenever I take my olanzapine, which is what I did the night before yesterday. That night, I had ...

Chronicles of Miss Miseria
Apr 02, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NaPoWriMo 2026 [2nd April] - Left of the Courtyard

NaPoWriMo 2026 [2nd April]Day TwoWelcome back for the second day of Na/GloPoWriMo, everyone. We hope you feel invigorated after the first day of the challenge. And my apologies to those of you who ...

The Emu Café Social
Apr 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-02-26

For once I’m not too busy today. But even if I were busy, I would still publish the newest edition of Pook-Emu Bee. 1. Discover more of the Fediverse with tags.pub (Matthias Pfefferle at ActivityPu...

The Public Domain Review
Apr 02, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain

As populations flocked to city centres in the 19th century, church cemeteries began to overflow with the dead. Roger Luckhurst exhumes the history of this period, when anatomists fuelled a body-sna...

The New Leaf Journal
Apr 01, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Toothpaste Expiration Dates

Our fictional dialogue duo, Justin and Justina, take on discount toothpaste with fast-approaching expiration dates.

The Emu Café Social
Apr 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-01-26

Today is April 1. It is both April Fools and the first day of Passover (happy Passover to any Jewish readers!). I do not have a new April Fools joke prepared, but maybe there will be something Apri...

Chronicles of Miss Miseria
Apr 01, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NaPoWriMo 2026 [1st April] - While Everything Continues

NaPoWriMo 2026 [1st April]Go! Yay! April 1 is here again, and so is our yearly poetry writing adventure. Whether you’re new to Na/GloPoWriMo or an old pro, the basics remain the same. Write a poem ...

The Public Domain Review
Apr 01, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)

Marvels, wonders, and monstrosities: something between a medieval bestiary and a scientific treatise on birth defects.

The Emu Café Social
Apr 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

The Ever-Present Old Internet

Tyler Gaw published a good blog post titled The Old Internet is Still Here, noting that there are many personal websites and blogs worth reading on the web. As he put it, “they just got layered ove...

The New Leaf Journal
Apr 01, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

The Proper Place For Articles and Blog Posts

On publishing articles and blog posts as social media threas vs as articles and blog posts on a site designed for the format.

Toni Notes
Apr 01, 2026 from Toni Notes

Simple systems age better than impressive ones

Publishing systems deserve to be judged by how they behave months later, under maintenance, interruption, and archive weight, not by how elegant they felt during setup week.

Noahie's Blog
Apr 01, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Superpower

I was listening to Ye's newest album Bully earlier this morning, and it was good. The standout track for me was "Mama's Favorite." Ye had a wonderful relationship with his mom, and the part at the ...

The Emu Café Social
Mar 31, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

2026 is the Year of the Windows Desktop(TM)

The phrase “the year of the Linux desktop” has become something of a meme. As a 2025 Hackaday headline went, The Year of the Linux Desktop is Always Next Year. Note that I write this with all due a...

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