Oct 20, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCCII 〜 Delayed Opening Virid Intro Welcome to the 302nd 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 20, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: The Sonic Salvaging of the Sixth, Part 12 Time to don our coats of many colours once more for another round of Sixth Doctor audio stories. Last time, we bade a fond farewell to Evelyn, as we took in the last audio dramas that Maggie Stable...
Oct 19, 2026 from Case Vault — EN The Securitas Depot Robbery United Kingdom · 2006 · Heist — An armed gang kidnapped a depot manager and his family to breach a Kent cash vault, stealing £53.1 million in Britain's largest cash robbery.
Oct 17, 2026 from Matt Rasmussen Notes on “Eight for a Wish, Nine for a Kiss” I think I saw it today. “My farmhouse.” The inspiration for the ghost story, “Eight for a Wish, Nine for a Kiss.” Recently my wife, son and I took a short bike ride to see a house for sale in the v...
Oct 17, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Carroll Gardens Library Set to Reopen 12-01-2026 Days after publishing a local Halloween joke about the Carroll Gardens Library not reopening in 2026, I read news that it will (apparently) reopen in December 2026.
Oct 16, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 focus in an agentic age As a software engineer, LLM-use is non-negotiable at work. When I wrote 🌰 loot boxes, casinos, and work chat, Slack was the “Instagram for work”: the loot box of notifications winning against the T...
Oct 16, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Debloat My Mail I finally started that email client/RSS reader project here. As you can probably infer from the docs folder, this is so ever-lovingly-vibe-coded-to-shit because I am a writer and not a programmer. ...
Oct 15, 2026 from Case Vault — EN The McDonald’s Monopoly Scam United States · 1989–2001 · Scam — For twelve years, security director Jerome Jacobson embezzled winning McDonald's Monopoly game pieces using duplicate seals, distributing over $20 million in stol...
Oct 14, 2026 from Improve Something Today I got laid off, my kitchen flooded & I’m a cool cucumber with a fire inside. Notes on a decade of meditation Ripping the band-aid off a topic I’ve avoided writing about directly. But I want to share my experience. Three jewels, three marks, six nails & so forth: how I keep it together when things are slid...
Oct 14, 2026 from The Public Domain Review “Men with Queer Nerves”: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine In the late nineteenth century, visitors to Maine observed something strange: French-Canadian lumberjacks who, at the slightest stimulus, seemed to jump, strike out with their limbs, or mimic langu...
Oct 14, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Inflatable Spooky Halloween Tree in Cobble Hill Day and night reports on an inflatable spooky Halloween tree ensemble seen in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
Oct 13, 2026 from The Autodidacts Curiosity Traps On reverse honeypots, rewarding close attention, and finding your people
Oct 13, 2026 from Improve Something Today Registration now open for next Group Facilitation Method Swap: November 21, 2026 in Olympia, Washington Learn the secrets of running great meetings, classes, and groups in this free, collaborative series.
Oct 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Rudolf Kalvach’s Wiener Werkstätte Postcards (1907) Postcards that summon medieval grotesques and brightly coloured folk art, but also feel distinctly modern.
Oct 13, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Sorrel-Marijuana The Zillennials are embracing new sincerity in full swing, thanks to me! It's been such a bitch getting back into my writing groove. This holiday weekend, I was out in Savannah, GA, on a boys' trip...
Oct 12, 2026 from Case Vault — EN The Great Escape — Stalag Luft III Germany · 1944 · Escape — Allied prisoners of war built a 102-meter tunnel under Stalag Luft III, enabling 76 airmen to escape into Germany before a massive manhunt captured almost all of them.
Oct 11, 2026 from The Autodidacts Listening to music as an active process Although I’m a semi-professional musician, most days, I listen to far less music than my friends. I generally work in silence, cook in silence, run in silence. When I do listen to music, usually in...
Oct 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-11-26 After a nine-day work/NLJ/newsletter-induced lull in the Pook-Emu Bee, I return with my sometimes-regularly-scheduled daily links. Speech 1 | Foul Call: New York Times Calls for Canceling Sophie Cu...
Oct 10, 2026 from Matt Rasmussen Are you playing Flask? Flask? It’s only a roguelike deckbuilding autobattler with art by John Kenn Mortensen. Who wants that? Who would even play the demo on Steam? Who’s Ghost Ship, and why is their Deep Rock Galactic? ...
Oct 10, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal My Chickenpox Memories I recall just beating the chickenpox vaccine with a genuine case of chickenpox.
