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.
May 16, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Virid Burnout 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXX Leafy intro Welcome to the 280th 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...
May 16, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Piss On Concrete I've been thrown the fuck off. I am feeling formulaic, creatively destitute. No matter; these things are part of it all, and in my mind's eye—a small glimmer of light will shine and show me the way...
May 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-15-26 After two missed days due to having many work assignments, I return with a new edition of my Pook-Emu Bee links. Of course, there are no Pook-Emu Bee links tomorrow because of the newsletter and Su...
May 15, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Art Therapy A simple realization I somehow didn't arrive at until just now: this project is self-imposed art therapy. I remember my time in therapeutic spaces—hospitalization programs, treatment centers—and ho...
May 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Weighing Large Owls I have never had to weigh an owl before, much less a large owl. But in the event I were ever called upon to weigh a large owl, I learned from MARS Wildlife Rescue, via Owls in Towels (see Owls in T...
May 14, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Boats This one's gonna be a bit dark, so don't read further if that's not what you can handle right now. My uncle shot himself in the head a few nights ago. He took his .22 and put it just underneath his...
May 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them *fast*. Alex Wright rediscovers the thrilling world of typesetting races, which drew crowd...
May 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683) A Dutch physician’s encounter with acupuncture.
May 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition) A treatise on a powder that can cure wounds at a distance.
May 13, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Blogging Promises, Schedules, and Burnout On how to establish a sort of blogging/online writing rhythm or routine while avoiding what the kids call "burnout" or ruining one's enjoyment of his or her online writing endeavor.
May 13, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Seeking Man, novelty sucks. I think I feel this way because whenever something new gets introduced in my life, I get so into it for a little while, and then once the dust settles, it just gets tossed into ...
May 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-12-26 I have another busy day ahead of me, but we cannot forsake our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Syncthing 2.1 adds group organization and proxy support options (Fla for AlternativeTo. May 12, 2026.) I ...
May 11, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Sliwa for NYC Mayor Lawn Signs Seen in May 2026 On seeing the first Curtis Sliwa 2025 mayoral campaign signs in Brooklyn Heights on Mother's Day 2026, more than six months after election day.
May 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-11-26 I took an off-day from Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday. I am busy today, but let us not let that stop us from our daily selection of links from around the web. 1, Putting the phone down: an Osmo Nano ...
May 11, 2026 from The Autodidacts The bid-ask spread on used physical goods For most of my life I fundamentally misunderstood buy & sell prices
May 11, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌱 an LLM models our worst behavior “Focus on the work, not your attachment to it.”
May 11, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Tired Man, I really hate it when I keep making assumptions. That old saying really does end up coming true. I find that I get in my own head about every little thing most times, and the result ends up no...
May 10, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Cerritos Spinoffs and Lower Decks Delights Lower Decks has gone the way of all Alex Kurtzman Star Trek shows – getting cancelled before it can undertake the sort of epic hundreds-of-episodes run that Star Trek shows enjoyed back in the 1990...
