Jun 17, 2026 from BEEW The Curious Case Against Father’s Day Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. A two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A two-time NBA champion. A Basketball Hall of Famer. An inveterate winner whose high school...
Jun 17, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worlds Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a *Tyrannosaurus rex*, Louis Pope Gratacap’s *The New Northland* (1915) is at once kaleidoscopic, mischievous, fascinating — and exhausting. Richard Fa...
Jun 17, 2026 from The Public Domain Review The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929) 69 images of kite flying from across 5 centuries and some 10 countries.
Jun 17, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria [dVerse] June 16th - I was given eight crayons and drew a witness statement. The first box had eight colorsand no instructions for grief.Red was for apples, they said,as if blood had not already invented itself?Red is:the notification I still haven't opened,the lipstick I w...
Jun 17, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Padromal Storms Can you believe we made it to another day? Can you? I took a late afternoon nap yesterday, and yet again I had a series of strangely vivid and metaphysically discombobulating dreams. The highlight ...
Jun 16, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-16-26 Time for a new edition of Pook-Emu Bee links on this very pretty (in Brooklyn, at least) June 16. 1. SCOTUS To Newman: Drop Dead (Josh Blackman at The Volokh Conspiracy. June 15, 2026.) Say what on...
Jun 16, 2026 from riz#000000me UC Gundam I've spent a lot of time thinking about the Universal Century and, well, here's the fruit of that labor.
Jun 16, 2026 from riz#000000me Gundam's Universal Century Timeline I've spent a lot of time thinking about the Universal Century and canonicity.
Jun 16, 2026 from The Emu Café Social How I’ll Take My Coffee Simon at Firesphere.dev wrote a short post titled If you want to buy me a coffee in response to a hot take post on the IndieWeb against “Buy Me a Coffee” buttons on blogs or capitalism or something...
Jun 16, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Meandering Inventory Your browser does not support the video tag. I've been struggling with an intense lack of focus lately. This is especially poignant when my mood is a bit heightened. Things have been decent enough ...
Jun 15, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal From Missing the Playoffs to the NBA Finals A comprehensive survey of NBA teams that went from missing the playoffs one year to making the Finals the next, with an additional look at how they performed the year after the turn-around, with an...
Jun 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-15-26 Monday is a fun day. One reason Monday is a fun day is because it marks the return of Pook-Emu Bee links after the weekend. Speaking of the weekend, I published links and commentary to enjoy in Sat...
Jun 15, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Getting to Work Your browser does not support the video tag. You ever just wake up sad and you don't know why? I don't think I'm sad right now, but there might be some post-dream processing going on; even though I...
Jun 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social AI Slop About Medieval London I was linked to a site called Fake History Hunter a few weeks ago. The author, a former historical consultant, uses her site to debunk fake history in media. In AI review: Time Witnessed, she takes...
Jun 13, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Double Arrow NLJs 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXXXIV Leafy Intro Welcome to the 284th 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...
Jun 13, 2026 from The Autodidacts How to fit Qwen 3.6 35B A3B into 16GB of VRAM, & run it with Llama.cpp on an RTX 3080 The belly hangs over the belt, but it fits
Jun 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social New Features in ActivityPub For WordPress 9.0 ActivityPub for WordPress version 9.0 was just released, and a blog post by lead developer Matthias Pfefferle goes over the new features (you can follow me from Mastodon, Pixelfed, or the like at [...
Jun 12, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Finding Backlinks to Your Articles and Blog Posts I share various tools for finding backlinks to one's own articles, blog posts and other online media.
Jun 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-12-26 I have an assignment I need to finish today. But I will not let that stop me from capping off the work-week with one more edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. Pook-Emu Bee will be off tomorrow for Newsle...
