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The New Leaf Journal
Apr 13, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

2000-01 Bucks vs Second Three-Peat Bulls

A quote from former NBA player Jason Caffey inspires me to compare the offenses of the 2000-01 Milwaukee Bucks and those of the 95-96 through 97-98 champion Chicago Bulls.

Noahie's Blog
Apr 13, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Ascetic Containment

Today is day four of my fast. I'm officially under 300 pounds. This is basically a water fast. I'm allowing myself to drink water, coffee, and diet soda; I'm also letting myself chew gum and eat a ...

Toni Notes
Apr 13, 2026 from Toni Notes

What should be documented in a publishing system, and what should stay habitual?

Document what future-you cannot safely reconstruct. A publishing system needs visible state, a real next action, and a few earned safeguards, not a bureaucracy that competes with the work.

Let’s get Person-al
Apr 13, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al

🗨️ getting attention is the only job

As The New York Times’ Jon Caramanica said recently (on a livestream, it should be noted), “The gap between ‘I’m a comedian,’ ‘I’m a content creator,’ ‘I’m a musician’ — we used to think of those a...

Chronicles of Miss Miseria
Apr 12, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 12] - the oldest woman i remember

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 12]Day Twelve Welcome back, everyone, for Day Twelve of National/Global Poetry Writing Month! Today, our featured participant is Kavya Janani U, who brings us a forbiddingly c...

Chronicles of Miss Miseria
Apr 11, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 11] - weekend erasure

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 11]Day Eleven We made it to the weekend, everyone, and to the eleventh day of Na/GloPoWriMo! Today’s featured participant is A.J.S., who brings us a mysterious and surreal res...

The Newsletter Leaf Journal
Apr 11, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Bunny March 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXV

Leafy intro Welcome to the 275th 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...

Noahie's Blog
Apr 11, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Tough Guy

Never underestimate time alone. It's a weird thing when I'm alone. Sometimes I think I might actually have autism because when I am actually alone, I can really let the wiggles out and all other ki...

The Emu Café Social
Apr 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-10-26

My Pook-Emu Bee links are a bit late today. I had to deal with an issue related to my wireless access point this morning and then some work assignments. Unfortunately, I did not have time to engage...

Chronicles of Miss Miseria
Apr 10, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 10] - What the emptied cup says

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 10]Day Ten One-third of the way through Na/GloPoWriMo already?! I guess the days go by fast when you spend them writing poems. Our featured participant for the day is Poems by...

The New Leaf Journal
Apr 10, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Uganda, Israel, and Iran in 2026 vs 1976

Relations between Uganda and Israel were very "strained" in 1976. 2026 X posts from Ugandan Defense Minister Muhoozi Kainerugaba would have been hard to explain 50 years ago...

Toni Notes
Apr 10, 2026 from Toni Notes

A small publication needs an operating model, not just good posts

A small publication becomes real work before it looks large. Once the archive has real weight, somebody has to keep it legible, connected, and cheap enough to maintain.

Ploum.net
Apr 10, 2026 from Ploum.net

Ne rien avoir à penser

Ne rien avoir à penser Se faire prendre pour des crétins parce que ça fonctionne Google l’annonce : il y a plus de personnes dans le monde avec un smartphone Android que de personnes qui ont accès ...

Noahie's Blog
Apr 10, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Bread Alone

It's Holy Friday, and I intend on going to my parish's service tonight. One of the subdeacons was saying that it's supposed to have some of the most beautiful music the church sings all year, so I'...

The Emu Café Social
Apr 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Non-Meta Smartglasses and my Pet Issues

Some time ago, I saved a link to a November 12, 2025 report in Wired titled Hate Meta? Even Realities Is Making the Smart Glasses You Want. This is a flawed headline. It presupposes that the main r...

Improve Something Today
Apr 09, 2026 from Improve Something Today

Questions along the way

The Periodic Table of Questions, ICA’s ORID, Liberating Structures’ W3, and more. How might we organize questions, and to what end?

Chronicles of Miss Miseria
Apr 09, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 9] - what the windowsill plant knows

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 9]Day Nine Happy ninth day of National/Global Poetry Writing Month, all. We hope that you’re really getting into the groove of this whole poem-a-day thing! Our featured partic...

The Emu Café Social
Apr 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-09-26

I am a bit late today because I just spent about an hour troubleshooting why I was not receiving calls on my Ubuntu Touch-powered Google Pixel 3a XL. I think I fixed the issue. With that aside, on ...

The Public Domain Review
Apr 09, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

A modernist adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. One of the first avant-garde films from America.

The Emu Café Social
Apr 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

The “Build A Boy” Project

I recall having read about a project which lets people turn Lego Game Boys into working Game Boys. I was reminded of it when I saw a link to the official Crowd Supply project, authored by Natalie C...

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