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 ...
Apr 05, 2026 from Toni Notes Research should be allowed to kill the post Research is not there to justify a topic that once sounded promising. It is there to clarify whether there is a real post here at all, and sometimes the honest result is to split, demote, or kill t...
Apr 04, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria April 5, 2026: Rot, longing to disappear April 5, 2026, Around 2 or 3AM.The need to be someone else, somewhere else, at some other time period sits like a stone in my throat and permeates my sentience. After a seepy Saturday, I offered my...
Apr 04, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal March 2026 at The New Leaf Journal We are now starting April (and approaching this humble perennially virid online writing magazine’s sixth birthday). When a new month comes, […]
Apr 04, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Inflatable Easter Bunny in Columbia Street Waterfront District (2026) An inflatable Easter Bunny seen in Columbia Street Waterfront District (Brooklyn, NYC).
Apr 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social The Former Bronx Zoo Platypuses I am a fan of the platypus. But I have never seen a platypus in person, for I live in New York City and not Australia. But thanks to a 2023 article in Mental Floss, I now know that New York City’s ...
Apr 04, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Unexpired :o 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXIV Leafy intro Welcome to the 273rd 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 04, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NaPoWriMo 2026 [4th April] - What the Wind Keeps NaPoWriMo 2026 [4th April]Day Four Hello, all, and welcome back for Day Four of Na/GloPoWriMo. Our featured participant for today is W.B.J. Williams, whose response to Day Three’s prompt is a good ...