Jun 20, 2026 from riz#000000me Simple Adblocking to Improve the Internet It really is so simple and has such a big impact!
Jun 20, 2026 from riz#000000me Simple Adblocking to Improve the Internet It really is so simple and has such a big impact!
Jun 20, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Pretend-Silence Out and about with my folks this weekend, but I'm still making time to do, well, you know. Anyway, I don't really have a whole lot on my mind, except for the sounds of nature. I think a lot of peop...
Jun 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Ambient Irony on Amodei vs Altman I look forward to reading Pixy Misa’s Daily News Stuff posts (seven days a week), which feature links to tech and political news with irreverent commentary. Pixy Misa is a pseudonymous Australian s...
Jun 19, 2026 from Noahie's Blog The Only Thing I Can Do I was at a baseball game with my folks yesterday, and it was a good time. I didn't really spend much time watching the game, but it was cool to see those guys playing; it was a visceral experience ...
Jun 18, 2026 from The Emu Café Social The Case Against Share Buttons Back in The New Leaf Journal’s early days, I had share buttons on my articles. I eventually removed them in part because I did not think they added anything useful to my site and in part because of...
Jun 18, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Palladian Rhapsody: The Return of Léo Taxil As an onboard medic with a major French merchant shipping company, Doctor Bataille had the opportunity to see the world and meet a range of fascinating people. One regular passenger of his was an I...
Jun 18, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-18-26 I missed Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday and am late today, but we can hardly let a backlog grow… so let us link today. 1. Peeved NYC students, teachers, parents beg mayor to cancel school for Knicks ...
Jun 18, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal On Complaining About AI in Pinterest on Reddit Wherein I caution against using Reddit to complain about AI on Pinterest from the perspective of someone who does not use Reddit and nominally has a site account for Pinterest.
Jun 18, 2026 from Noahie's Blog The War We Can't See Today's post is part of the IndieWeb Carnival, with this month's theme being "No Way!?" and hosted by Alex Hsu. I really like the theme for the carnival this month. Most of my life has been a serie...
Jun 17, 2026 from BEEW Father's Day Is Cringe (A Father's Rant) Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. He was a two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A two-time NBA champion. A Basketball Hall of Famer. An inveterate winner whose high...
Jun 17, 2026 from BEEW The Curious Case Against Father’s Day Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. A two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A two-time NBA champion. A Basketball Hall of Famer. An inveterate winner whose high school...
Jun 17, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worlds Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a *Tyrannosaurus rex*, Louis Pope Gratacap’s *The New Northland* (1915) is at once kaleidoscopic, mischievous, fascinating — and exhausting. Richard Fa...
Jun 17, 2026 from The Public Domain Review The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929) 69 images of kite flying from across 5 centuries and some 10 countries.
Jun 17, 2026 from Matt Rasmussen True Horror Subgenres In the last entry in this series, we defined True Horror genetically. Here we look at its children. Basic genre hybrids like Scifi Horror are out of scope. Something needs to be set down in writing...
Jun 17, 2026 from Matt Rasmussen Have You Read “The Dream Detective?” Hard to believe it’s been almost 10 years since I put Sax Rohmer’s Moris Klaw stories online. The Occult Detective subgenre was already getting crowded when Rohmer put his spin on it 100 years ago ...
Jun 17, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Padromal Storms Can you believe we made it to another day? Can you? I took a late afternoon nap yesterday, and yet again I had a series of strangely vivid and metaphysically discombobulating dreams. The highlight ...
