May 21, 2026 from The Public Domain Review The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877) Historical predictions from the Scottish Nostradamus.
May 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Emu Café Social and ATmosphere I use the ActivityPub for WordPress plugin here on ECS (follow me from Masotdon or similar at @naferrell@social.emucafe.org). Because ActivityPub for WordPress is a key part of this project, I subs...
May 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Italy-Azerbaijan Trade Partnership According to Vasif Huseynov writing for The Jamestown Foundation, “Italy is Azerbaijan’s largest trading partner.” Had you asked, I would have probably guessed Turkey. But I suppose Italy makes sen...
May 20, 2026 from Improve Something Today Two facilitation methods starting with a single line: Actions|Results & +|Δ Two simple facilitation methods you can start anytime by drawing a single line on a sheet of paper. What these are and when to use them.
May 20, 2026 from Improve Something Today Two facilitation methods starting with a single line: Actions|Results & +|Δ Two simple facilitation methods you can start anytime by drawing a single line on a sheet of paper. What these are and when to use them.
May 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-20-26 We are having a second consecutive 90+ degree day here in Brooklyn today’s Pook-Emu Bee links are warmer than the outside temperatures. Links 1. Google Search as you know it is over (Sarah Perez fo...
May 20, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Bad Ideas Your browser does not support the video tag. I'm really good at having bad ideas. Wait, hear me out for a second. I think I am wired to be a fast, almost zany thinker. There's less a problem with l...
May 19, 2026 from Improve Something Today 10 things I’ve learned in 10 years of writing Improve Something Today This site is about learning in public. As it turns a decade old, I scrounge around for 10 things I’ve learned while writing it. Also: my gratitude.
May 19, 2026 from Improve Something Today 10 things I’ve learned in 10 years of writing Improve Something Today This site is about learning in public. As it turns a decade old, I scrounge around for 10 things I’ve learned while writing it. Also: my gratitude.
May 19, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Lexxual Debauchery: Season 4 The crew of the Lexx‘s adventures on the twin worlds of Fire and Water ended with the destruction of both planets. Since those worlds were the afterlife, the souls of the deceased there, good and b...
May 19, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-19-26 I had been sitting down to churn out today’s edition of Pook-Emu Bee links when work fell into my lap. But it is now lunch, and lunch means it is time for links. 1. Humpback Whales Sometimes Hold T...
May 19, 2026 from The Public Domain Review “Plaything of the Gods”: Photographs of Pushball (early 1900s) Photographs and films of a forgotten pastime.
May 19, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Active Surrender Carpe diem, amirite ladies? You know, even when I look at pictures of people who are now dead and wonder if they'd actually be telling me to seize the day—there's this small inclination I have to c...
May 18, 2026 from The Autodidacts All Polymarket temperature markets have disappeared Along with the money bet on them?
May 18, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-18-26 Monday is here. So too after taking the weekend off are my Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Maniac strangles 7-year-old boy in Brooklyn park: cops (Dean Moses for Brooklyn Paper. May 18, 2026.) These sorts o...
May 18, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Wild Road You don't know what you have unless you can give it away. I've felt a wave of inspiration recently, and I'm watching it go away in real time. It's such a sad and beautiful thing, these ephemeral im...
May 18, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 great big beautiful life - a book review Note: this review contains spoilers What Worked the themes the curse of fame, the complicity of the public in that curse generational love and trauma – the ways we try to love our children, the thi...
May 17, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy When Will Frank Herbert Ruin Dune For You? Frank Herbert, eh? Maverick author, apparently a terrible dad, political oddball, and simultaneously the genius creator of the Dune series and the franchise’s own worst enemy. If you want to moved ...
May 17, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal The Emu Café and Blog Hospitality In part four of six of my blogging "wisdom" series, I revisit "Welcome to The Emu Café" six years after its original publication and use it to discuss blog hospitality.
May 17, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal April 2026 at The New Leaf Journal Wherein I review The New Leaf Journal's sixth birthday month with a new and original inflatable spring decoration photograph as a bonus.