Feb 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 02-26-26 Posting links for the third edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. Links from around the web Maduro’s Ouster Creates Existential Crisis for Lukashenka (Dmitry Bolkunets for Jamestown Foundation. February 25,...
Feb 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Early Flaw With Tuta Calendar-Thunderbird Integration Tuta Calendar’s Thunderbird plugin opens Tuta in a webapp in Thunderbird. With my set-up at least, I cannot stay signed in. That is a bit of an annoyance when I have 2FA set up. Early Flaw With Tut...
Feb 26, 2026 from BEEW If You Can Keep It (One Citizen's Response to the State of the Union) Let me start with the thing nobody on the left wants to admit, because admitting it means owning part of the catastrophe we're currently living through. The Democrats did this. Not entirely, not ex...
Feb 26, 2026 from BEEW If You Can Keep It Let me start with the thing nobody on the left wants to admit, because admitting it means owning part of the catastrophe we're currently living through. The Democrats did this. Not entirely, not ex...
Feb 26, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Changes To My ‘One a Month Club’ Tip Jar If you’ve been tipping me as part of One a Month Club (thank you, if so), you should have seen your recurring payment canceled by me at some point over the last several weeks. It had been operating...
Feb 26, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Freeing The Portland Locality Zone Earlier this month, I exhaustively detailed my efforts to understand why usTLD Locality Support at GoDaddy has insisted for three years that the City of Portland needs to approve any domain registr...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social What is the YandoriRSSBot? I just happened to have my NLJ logs open (I had opened them when the site was slow for a moment). I saw something called the YandoriRSSBot requesting the NLJ ATOM feed. While not unprecedented, alm...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 02-25-26 It is time for more daily links in the second edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. Links from around the web Shiroi Printer – Visual Novel Review (Nicholas A. Ferrell at The New Leaf Journal. February 25, ...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Tuta Calendar Thunderbird Integration AlternativeTo reported that email provider Tuta has released mail and calendar add-ons for Thunderbird. I have a cheap Tuta account (so cheap it is no longer available, thank you grandfathering) t...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Public Domain Review The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin Does the flâneur, that curiously modern figure who wanders metropolitan streets, have a political consciousness? For Franz Hessel — author of Spazieren in Berlin, “a memorization while strolling” t...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Autodidacts It’s surprisingly hard to reliably paste the current date at the cursor on Linux Long, long ago, in a dotfiles directory far away, I had this snippet: bindsym control+semicolon exec date '+%Y-%m-%d' | tr -d "\n" | xsel -i -b && xdotool sleep 0.5 key "ctrl+v" Isn’t it a beauty? ...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Autodidacts Paste clipboard contents in places where you can’t paste Use AutoKey send_keys() to put clipboard content places where it can't normally be put
Feb 25, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Hype Mode Speaking, as I was, of hype: SmugMug and Flickr are launching something called Mode, or perhaps MODE. It claims to be “the next big thing in photography”. Their welcome email says it’s “the biggest...
Feb 25, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Shiroi Printer – Visual Novel Review My review of a very short 2018 Japanese horror visual novel called Shiroi Printer. It was released with an English-language version ("White Printer") that can be selected on the title screen.
Feb 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 02-24-26 Welcome to the first edition of the Pook-Emu Bee, where I will publish interesting links (maybe daily!) collected from my feed collection (or unused newsletter link backlog). I usually include 21 l...
Feb 25, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG On Contradictions And Confidence In an insightful post about being a contradiction because in actuality “everyone holds contradictions”, there’s one contradiction in particular that Greg seems to reveal along the way that I’m havi...
Feb 24, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: Oh, My Giddy Audio! – The Second Doctor At Big Finish, Part 1 After the first and second seasons of The Companion Chronicles test-drove the concept, Big Finish would regularly return to the Second Doctor era in the context of that series – a special format de...
Feb 24, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Dave Cowens’ 1995 NBA Comeback That Wasn’t After learning that 1972-73 NBA MVP and Hall of Famer Dave Cowens apparently considered making a comeback with the San Antonio Spurs in 1995, 12 years after his last game, I had to conduct an inves...
Feb 24, 2026 from The Autodidacts The Fewer Ingredients The Better Good quality ingredients hardly need seasoning. I only need to add spices if I’ve burnt the soup.
Feb 24, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG The Theft Of An Ideal Five days is a bit too far down the road for me just to add an addenda onto my most recent post about burnout, but I do need briefly to circle back because had I been thinking clearly, I’d have rem...
