Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Japan’s Oil Imports Access to natural resources has long been a challenge for Japan (see e.g., World War II). According to a report by Alex Kimani for OilPrice.com, prior to the commencement of Operation Epic Fury, Ja...
Apr 08, 2026 from Toni Notes When to split one idea into two posts Some drafts do not need harder revision. They are carrying two different jobs, and the honest move is to notice when splitting will restore sequence, pressure, and a real center of gravity.
Apr 08, 2026 from Noahie's Blog No Enemies I, like many Christians, have been having a tough time loving my enemies. I mean this not just in relation to my car crash earlier this week, but in most facets of life. The real essence of the law...
Apr 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social April’s Pink Moon The Moon has been in the news lately thanks to the Artemis II Mission. I shared a Supermoon fact back in December and “blood Moon” news in the March 1, 2026 Pook-Emu Bee. While checking the local w...
Apr 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-07-26 I have a few new work assignments today (Sad!) but more than enough time (or just enough time) for our regularly scheduled edition of daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. OpenAI calls for robot taxes, a pu...
Apr 07, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 7] - Count It Out // Girls on the Pavement NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 7]Day Seven Welcome back, all — we’ve now hit the one-week mark in this year’s National/Global Poetry Writing Month! Also, thanks for your patience as we work through the cont...
Apr 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social March 2026 Review (NLJ Link) Over on The New Leaf Journal, I published my review of the month that was on NLJ, this humble publication, our newsletter, and my Pixelfed account. In the article, I shared our top-24 most-visited ...
Apr 07, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Crashing Light I got in a fucking car crash yesterday. I'm doing okay. I'm not severely injured, but my right toes are a bit messed up and I'm somewhat bruised. Other than that, I'm alright. My car got totaled. I...
Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Grokipedia Thinks I Wrote About Persona Q2 (I Have Never Played Persona Q2) I became aware that Grokipedia, the Grok-powered AI answer to Wikipedia, had cited to my NLJ article Outline Guide to Persona 3 FES The Answer. I previously wrote about Grokipedia making questionab...
Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Touching the Gowanus Canal? I recently came across Clive Thompson’s Linkfest newsletter (hosted on Buttondown just like my own Newsletter Leaf Journal). Each issue consists of links he collected from around the web with comme...
Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-06-26 The Pook-Emu Bee, your favorite (or “favourite” if you prefer British English) daily links collection, returns after taking two days off for Newsletter Leaf Journal Saturday and Easter. 1. E-Bikes ...
Apr 06, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 6] - Monday, with Government Weather NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 6]Day Six Well, if it’s got to be Monday, at least it’s a Monday during Na/GloPoWriMo, so the work-week can start off with a bountiful crop of poems! Our featured participant ...
Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social High Ad Block Usage in Indonesia I came across an article on Backlinko featuring statistics about worldwide ad blocker usage. Different surveys noted in the article have wildly different results. But the first survey discussed, co...
Apr 06, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Nourishment Palm Sunday was good yesterday, thanks for asking. Getting through the Divine Liturgies has been easier. My feet still hurt, but not as much. I'm usually quite drained afterward, and instead of cha...
Apr 06, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌱 shadow of the leviathan - a book review I listened to the audiobooks for the first two books, highly recommend! I enjoyed them both! I tried to write a short story once with an element of “what if instead of mineral-based technology, it ...
Apr 05, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria April 6, 2026: More rot, more longing to disappear. April 6, 2026, Around 2 or 3AM.Sorry. Forgive me but I am not done with my rant of last night, so before the week starts, let me hold onto the leftover Sunday night and finish taking this dump of r...
Apr 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Mailed: Newsletter Leaf Journal 274 I mailed issue 274 of The Newsletter Leaf Journal yesterday. Fun fact: I originally mailed the newsletter on Sundays. One reason I switched to Saturday was to avoid Sunday holidays, notably Easter....
Apr 05, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NaPoWriMo 2026 [5th April] - What I Learned to Hate; What I Learned to Hear NaPoWriMo 2026 [5th April] Day Five Happy first Sunday of Na/GloPoWriMo, all! Our featured participant today is Kim M. Russell, who brings us a stormy response to Day Four’s weather/season prompt. ...
Apr 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social U.S. Special Operations Forces Rescue Air Force Officer We welcome Easter with the remarkable news that U.S. Special Operations forces successfully extracted the second airman (a Colonel, according to President Trump) who had been shot down over Iran on...
Apr 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Inflatable Easter Bunny in Brooklyn (NLJ Link) We are just about one hour away (EST) from Easter Sunday (as I write this). For a pre-Easter article, I shared a photo I took of an inflatable Easter Bunny in Brooklyn’s Columbia Street Waterfront ...
