Oct 23, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Carroll Gardens Halloween Window Ghost and GIF Revisiting a Carroll Gardens brownstone Halloween window ghost that I photographed back in 2024. Difference: This time we see it as it was meant to be seen in the dark.
Oct 22, 2026 from The Public Domain Review “Earth Not a Globe”: Parallax’s Zetetic Astronomy (1865) A book more or less responsible for the revival of Flat Earth theories in the modern period.
Oct 22, 2026 from Case Vault — EN The Maze Prison Escape United Kingdom · 1983 · Escape — In September 1983, 38 Provisional IRA prisoners armed with smuggled handguns took over H-Block 7 of the Maze prison and escaped in a hijacked food truck, sparking t...
Oct 22, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Random Funber Generator My vibe coding experiment, debloatmail, has been going just as one would expect it to. Dunning my Kruger, let me tell ya. It's crazy how people think LLMs are this profoundly world-changing thing; ...
Oct 22, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🗨️ being popular is what causes you to become unpopular It is impossible to simply enjoy something on its own. Anything relevant will be made viral, then made unpopular again in its suffocating ubiquity—such is the law of late-stage capitalism.
Oct 20, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900) Indian images that grapple with the unbearable fact that lover and beloved are not one.
Oct 20, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Inflatable Jack-‘o-lanterns (Deflated and Inflated) Seen in Cobble Hill I found a deflated Jack-'o-lantern Halloween decoration in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Before publishing my expose, I decided to check back a few days later...
Oct 20, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCCII 〜 Delayed Opening Virid Intro Welcome to the 302nd 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...
Oct 20, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: The Sonic Salvaging of the Sixth, Part 12 Time to don our coats of many colours once more for another round of Sixth Doctor audio stories. Last time, we bade a fond farewell to Evelyn, as we took in the last audio dramas that Maggie Stable...
Oct 19, 2026 from Case Vault — EN The Securitas Depot Robbery United Kingdom · 2006 · Heist — An armed gang kidnapped a depot manager and his family to breach a Kent cash vault, stealing £53.1 million in Britain's largest cash robbery.
Oct 17, 2026 from Matt Rasmussen Notes on “Eight for a Wish, Nine for a Kiss” I think I saw it today. “My farmhouse.” The inspiration for the ghost story, “Eight for a Wish, Nine for a Kiss.” Recently my wife, son and I took a short bike ride to see a house for sale in the v...
Oct 17, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Carroll Gardens Library Set to Reopen 12-01-2026 Days after publishing a local Halloween joke about the Carroll Gardens Library not reopening in 2026, I read news that it will (apparently) reopen in December 2026.
Oct 16, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 focus in an agentic age As a software engineer, LLM-use is non-negotiable at work. When I wrote 🌰 loot boxes, casinos, and work chat, Slack was the “Instagram for work”: the loot box of notifications winning against the T...
Oct 16, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Debloat My Mail I finally started that email client/RSS reader project here. As you can probably infer from the docs folder, this is so ever-lovingly-vibe-coded-to-shit because I am a writer and not a programmer. ...
Oct 15, 2026 from Case Vault — EN The McDonald’s Monopoly Scam United States · 1989–2001 · Scam — For twelve years, security director Jerome Jacobson embezzled winning McDonald's Monopoly game pieces using duplicate seals, distributing over $20 million in stol...
Oct 14, 2026 from Improve Something Today I got laid off, my kitchen flooded & I’m a cool cucumber with a fire inside. Notes on a decade of meditation Ripping the band-aid off a topic I’ve avoided writing about directly. But I want to share my experience. Three jewels, three marks, six nails & so forth: how I keep it together when things are slid...
Oct 14, 2026 from The Public Domain Review “Men with Queer Nerves”: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine In the late nineteenth century, visitors to Maine observed something strange: French-Canadian lumberjacks who, at the slightest stimulus, seemed to jump, strike out with their limbs, or mimic langu...
Oct 14, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Inflatable Spooky Halloween Tree in Cobble Hill Day and night reports on an inflatable spooky Halloween tree ensemble seen in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
Oct 13, 2026 from The Autodidacts Curiosity Traps On reverse honeypots, rewarding close attention, and finding your people
Oct 13, 2026 from Improve Something Today Registration now open for next Group Facilitation Method Swap: November 21, 2026 in Olympia, Washington Learn the secrets of running great meetings, classes, and groups in this free, collaborative series.
