Oct 27, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Albrecht Dürer’s Monument to the Vanquished Peasants (1525) The design for a difficult-to-interpret monument that was never intended to be built.
Oct 27, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Judge and Defender I don't suppose you get jealous of the water as you watch it flow down that stream, do you? Seeing the world go by day after day is a strange thing. Many times I don't feel like a participant, yet ...
Oct 26, 2026 from The Autodidacts A Local AI Stack for Language Learning Immersive, pretty fun, and you learn $OTHER_SUBJECT at the same time
Oct 26, 2026 from Case Vault — EN The Entebbe Hijacking Uganda · 1976 · Hijacking — Hijackers seized Air France Flight 139 and held hostages at Entebbe Airport under Ugandan protection before Israeli commandos launched a daring rescue raid.
Oct 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social On Instagram Food Trends I read a report (such as this is) in the New York Post titled NYC coffee shop serves up pumpkin spice lattes — inside real pumpkins. Some coffee shop in Astoria is dumping lattes into live pumpkins...
Oct 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-25-26 It has been two weeks since Pook-Emu Bee Links. To be fair, I have had a good amount of work and have been fairly productive in New Leaf Journal publishing. But neither offers a perfect excuse for ...
Oct 25, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Oniguisama – Short Visual Novel Review A full review of Oniguisama, a short freeware Japanese horror visual novel written in Ren'Py and published to Itch.io.
Oct 25, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al Does LLM coding ability make open source more or less appealing? Open source in its current form doesn’t make sense anymore. “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow” is still true but now we have artificial eyeballs. - What I Believe About the Future of Sof...
Oct 25, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🗨️ former gatekeepers are increasingly reacting to public taste rather than shaping it Because another fact many wish to ignore is that gatekeepers’ influence is at an all-time low. Book reviews and awards have shrinking influence on sales every year. Self-publishing, in various form...
Oct 24, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCCIII 〜 Positively Ocular Virid intro Welcome to the 303rd 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...
Oct 24, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Power Meditation 2 This morning, I've been meditating on power again, though hopefully I can expand a bit from when I did that last time. Societies in antiquity and beyond had a greater respect for things that carry ...
Oct 23, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal The Eyes of October in Brooklyn The eyes of Cobble Hill pumpkins and Brooklyn Heights balloons are upon you this October 2026.
Oct 23, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Carroll Gardens Halloween Window Ghost and GIF Revisiting a Carroll Gardens brownstone Halloween window ghost that I photographed back in 2024. Difference: This time we see it as it was meant to be seen in the dark.
Oct 23, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Day One Every day is Day One. The mysteries of life continue to confound me, and while I still deal with immense fatigue, listlessness, and a general cavity in the recesses of my heart—I still find myself ...
Oct 22, 2026 from The Public Domain Review “Earth Not a Globe”: Parallax’s Zetetic Astronomy (1865) A book more or less responsible for the revival of Flat Earth theories in the modern period.
Oct 22, 2026 from Case Vault — EN The Maze Prison Escape United Kingdom · 1983 · Escape — In September 1983, 38 Provisional IRA prisoners armed with smuggled handguns took over H-Block 7 of the Maze prison and escaped in a hijacked food truck, sparking t...
Oct 22, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Random Funber Generator My vibe coding experiment, debloatmail, has been going just as one would expect it to. Dunning my Kruger, let me tell ya. It's crazy how people think LLMs are this profoundly world-changing thing; ...
Oct 22, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🗨️ being popular is what causes you to become unpopular It is impossible to simply enjoy something on its own. Anything relevant will be made viral, then made unpopular again in its suffocating ubiquity—such is the law of late-stage capitalism.
Oct 20, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900) Indian images that grapple with the unbearable fact that lover and beloved are not one.
Oct 20, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Inflatable Jack-‘o-lanterns (Deflated and Inflated) Seen in Cobble Hill I found a deflated Jack-'o-lantern Halloween decoration in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Before publishing my expose, I decided to check back a few days later...
