Feb 18, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Reading My Mind Today I resumed something I’ve done before: leaving my phone at home when I go out into the neighborhood to read a book over coffee, which I do daily, or breakfast, which I do weekly. These are my ...
Feb 18, 2026 from Improve Something Today Podcast episode No. 0038: 5 ways to approach goal-setting 0038: 5 ways to approach goal-setting0:00/632.0641×Episode details: A reading and discussion of this, from 2022 ↓5 ways to approach goal-setting. Only one is worth a damnBetter to have an impossibl...
Feb 18, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG It’s Like The Burnout Said: Phenomenon Yesterday I got to thinking about how all the various kinds of burnout really are just separate tentacles of the burnout hydra that is living in a system that prioritizes the needs of capital above...
Feb 18, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Pentiment: Layers of Meaning, Labyrinths of Motive Somewhere in the Bavarian Alps is the little town of Tassing, steeped in ancient traditions and legend and overlooked by the Abbey of Kiersau, one of the few remaining monastic houses in Christendo...
Feb 17, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300) Unruly steeds from King Mu’s mythology, cavorting across a silk scroll.
Feb 17, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition) A bestselling 18th-century cookbook, containing the first recipe for curry in English.
Feb 17, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG The ‘Serialized’ Series I’ve realized that as of the first batch of my blogging on furiousnads.com to have been restored here from that site’s mid-2010s edition, all four of my posts on a longstanding pet peeve of mine ar...
Feb 17, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: Speak Up, Chesterfield! – The First Doctor Audios, Part 1 After the brief first and second seasons of The Companion Chronicles tested the waters for their particular audiobook/audio drama hybrid format, Big Finish felt emboldened to turn them into a month...
Feb 16, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Writing Is Not Optional For Journalism Chris Quinn, editor of the The Plain Dealer, published a “letter from the editor” over the weekend about “a college student [who] withdrew from consideration for a reporting role in our newsroom th...
Feb 16, 2026 from riz#000000me better browsing for non-technical people you can pick up your mom's phone and do this stuff and it won't change how she interacts with the internet
Feb 16, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Blog Questions Challenge Answers NLJ editor N.A. Ferrell answers eight questions presented in a Ava's Space's Bear Blog blog questions challenge (with one question modified for broader applicability).
Feb 16, 2026 from Ploum.net Préface à « La déception informatique » Préface à « La déception informatique » Ce texte est la préface que j’ai écrite pour le livre « La déception informatique » d’Alain Lefebvre ». Le livre n’est malheureusement disponible en version ...
Feb 15, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Of Autistic Service The guy who owns my regular coffeeshop today told me that he looks forward to making my drink because it means his working day is almost over. “My autistic routines doing good in the world,” I said...
Feb 15, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Sunday Stroll Two Last weekend, I took you on a brief tour of the last fifteen blog posts by other people that I’d read, inspired as I always am by Kevin Lawver’s idea, that I repeat endlessly, of blogs as the web’s...
Feb 15, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Will This Mixtape Save The World Last month, when discussing some of my go-to comfort movies that might strike other people as peculiar, counter-intuitive picks, I said a couple of things about the 2019 sci-fi film, Starfish. I ca...
Feb 15, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Christmas Tina – Visual Novel Review Reviewing Christmas Tina, an interesting visual novel set in Tokyo in the late 1980s with Chinese and Japanese voice acting written by Tomo Kataoka and produced by a Chinese studio.
Feb 14, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Inbox Valentine 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXVII Welcome to the 267th 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 writing sister...
Feb 14, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG The Wet-Sounding Sigh In My Apartment So, I did my part. When the every-several-weeks problem with the red rubber ring on the drain from the toilet tank to the bowl became instead an every-other-day problem, and then the housing for th...
