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 Chronicles of Miss Miseria The stuck-but-not-dead phase is suffocating as hell. The phone cover remains ugly because honesty is expensive. 19th May 2026. 00:35 AM.today, as i made a sandwich which i was supposed to make on sunday night, but monday night it is, i thought again about the strange violence of delay. not the cinematic kind...
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.
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 Chronicles of Miss Miseria the salary arrived. so did the sinkhole. It is Friday, May 15th, 2026.Five days since I wrote that all roads lead to rot, and unfortunately, the road has not developed better civic planning since then. It is still the same road. Same poth...
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 Chronicles of Miss Miseria [dVerse] May 15th - Inventory for Staying Alive in Public One safety pin fastened to the inside of a wobbly long top.One phone charged to 63%, which is not enough, but is treated like faith.One friend who knows the cab number, the driver’s name, the route...
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.
