Aug 12, 2026 from Toni Notes A small publication needs rhythm more than volume Readers do not feel a publication through raw output totals. They feel it through recognizable return, and a small publication becomes easier to trust when its return shape is legible.
Aug 12, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Gas Station Variant Hey man, remember when that 80s nostalgia-wave-core or whatever was really hot back in the 2010s? Like The Midnight, Timecop1983, and all that? Come on, you gotta remember those times, right? It wa...
Aug 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-11-26 We keep the Pook-Emu Bee link momentum going with more links from around the web. Articles 1 | NYC first lady Rama Duwaji traveling to Syria, Lebanon — with taxpayer-funded NYPD security detail: so...
Aug 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Persona 4 Dungeons Were Stressful? Gamer Braves conducted an interesting interview with Wada Kazuhisa, who is producer of the upcoming Persona 4 Revival. Long-time NLJ readers may know that I am a Persona 4 fan, although I am not pa...
Aug 11, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Weather Report A funny way of observing these entries is that they are a daily "weather report" in a certain sense. More established readers are well aware of the patterns in my prose when I'm manic or depressed,...
Aug 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-10-26 Pook-Emu Bee links are back today as we start the new work-week. 1 – Persona 30th Anniversary Paper Fragrances Feature Designs Announced (Orpheus Joshua for Noisy Pixel. August 9, 2026.) I have bee...
Aug 10, 2026 from Ploum.net L’arnaque du bilan carbone L’arnaque du bilan carbone Pourquoi nous nous sommes fait avoir dans notre soi-disant lutte contre le réchauffement climatique Ne plus prendre l’avion, acheter des électroménagers de moindre consom...
Aug 10, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Little Cloud One can be smart and disabled, you know? I remember as a teenager during the peak of Obama II how the increasing rhetoric of "invisible disability" felt like such a grotesque cop-out. Funnily enoug...
Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Desktop Environments and Distro Hopping This month marks my sixth year of running Linux exclusively on my computers, so I suppose that I am minimally qualified to offer an opinion on Bhuwan Mishra’s After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hoppin...
Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-09-26 Pook-Emu Bee links are so real now that we’re delivering on Sundays. 1 | Tracking Bees with a Stereo Camera (Al Williams for Hackaday. August 8, 2026.) A fitting entry in light of today’s New Leaf ...
Aug 09, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: Oh, My Giddy Audio! – The Second Doctor At Big Finish, Part 2 Time to hitch a ride with the Cosmic Hobo and take in some more Second Doctor audio releases. Last time we got four Companion Chronicles, one set in Season 4, two in Season 5, one in Season 6; this...
Aug 09, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal A Taste of Honey (2009) – Visual Novel Review Back in 2009, a speculative fiction author named Fred Warren adapted his own 2008 short story into a visual novel after learning about the medium. Here, I review A Taste of Honey, which remains fre...
Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Used Game Stores in an All Digital World Much digital ink has been spilled on the slow decline of physical video games (including by yours truly). In a reply post by Jake at An Almost Anonymous Blog titled The importance of owning physica...
Aug 09, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Inflatable Summer Shark in Brooklyn Documenting an question-raising inflatable summer shark decoration in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Why would a shark need an inner tube and snorkel?
Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social /e/ OS’s App Lounge Apparently Still As I Remember I used an /e/ OS-powered Teracube 2e as my daily driver phone from September 2021 to November 2022. It worked well enough for my purposes initially, as I explained in a very early review I publishe...
Aug 08, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Coolidge Air Conditioner 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCII Welcome to the 292nd 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...
Aug 08, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who By Other Means: The Benny New Adventures, Part 1 When Virgin lost the licence to do Doctor Who novels, that could have been it – editor Rebecca Levene could have wound things down and let the line die. That, however, wasn’t the path that Virgin t...
Aug 08, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Puer Temporis A fun prompt engineering trick for my fellow writers out there: take whatever writing you have, upload it to the model, and give a prompt such as "This is a work of writing by an anonymous writer. ...
Aug 07, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy The BBC Past Doctor Adventures: From Neptune To London It’s high time I made a start working through the Past Doctor Adventures series as put out by BBC Books once the Doctor Who novel licence was wrested away from Virgin. As I noted in my first review...
Aug 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-07-26 I am a bit late today, but I decided to keep the Pook-Emu Bee links running with four in a row before our off-day tomorrow (Newsletter Saturday). 1. Private email is fine, actually (Matthew Guay fo...
