It is absolutely blazing out there today. Heat warnings are in effect. Friday looks like it’s going to be the hottest day. OPERATIONS: 700 words…
This week will probably just be a writing log. 500 words down yesterday. I always console myself that Graham Greene only ever wrote 500 words…
Evidently we are now on track for our seventh prime minister in (checks watch) fifteen minutes. The Met Office has issued a rare red warning…
Leonora Carrington. CONNECTED: Yuji Agematsu. Love the little SCHWA alien. morning computer: some useful things first thing in the day. My free weekly newsletter is…
Too much to do today. Had three deliveries before noon – a CD, a magazine, and a pair of pre-owned grey canvas Carharrt work trousers…
I don’t work in the tech industry myself but am closely connected with people who do. This is based on my observations and conversations with tech workers in the Seattle area. Ok so Ethan Marcotte wrote this better (to be fair he literally wrote the book on tech unions)… my version is a little more documentary. […]
The raspberries are excellent this year so far. I felt the need to offline for an hour, so I walked into town while listening to…
Trying to keep up with my own brain today. Flurry of thoughts. This edition of Feed Me connected to some recent notions. Mostly offline today…
The G-Shock is running three minutes fast, it turns out! I love a big chunky G-Shock. I read yesterday that they’re coming back into fashion…
Yesterday, as is tradition, I gave herself the first ripe raspberry of summer. Today, we were out in the garden in the rain with a…
It has rained all damned week. Three thunderstorms yesterday alone. Teeming down today. It’s dark when I wake up. Middle of June and I’m still…
This is part eight of a series on tackling wants, managing my media diet, and finding enough. Each post stands alone, so you don’t have to read them all. Read the introduction on “the mindset of more.” I want this lamp. I want it unreasonably. I don’t need this lamp, but can one ever have […]
Paul Thek. For no good reason, I woke up today thinking about BIG WORLD CAFE, a music tv show that ran for… 1989. One year.…
Shawn Huckins. Amazon Web Services are having issues. Which means half the internet is off. I’m okay with that. If I wasn’t buried in finishing…
Amy Casey. TELEMETRY: READING: THE REVOLUTIONISTS, Jason Burke (UK) (US+) When Mohnhaupt travelled to Italy to talk to counterparts in the Red Brigades, the (male) militant…
Marisa Aragón Ware. All year I’ve been reading about taste. Someone somewhere identified that one of the things AI can’t do is “taste.” Now it…
Craig Hubbard. Searching hard for my motivation today, because I am not particularly in my body or particularly with it. Not enough coffee in the…
After losing several hours yesterday to running every fix and check I could think of, I came to the sad conclusion that this laptop, a…
Will Stovall. There is, for me, a weird pleasure in taking a night to wait for an idea to drop by touring the mental terrain…
Doom is the prefix du jour. Doomscrolling, doomposting, doomsplaining, doomspreading, doomgooing, and doomliving dominate discourse. (Ok, I made the last two up.) Doom joins other…
I needed a new belt in a shade of brown, to match the brown straps on two watches I’ve recently bought. Just for the hell…
Tony Cokes. Well, the heatwave is here. Today is linen trousers, thin socks and one of the 100% cotton popover tops I get from from…
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A Paramount Skydance trabalha para finalizar a compra da Warner Bros. Discovery até setembro de 2026. A informação foi divulgada pelo portal Status e reforça a corrida da empresa para concluir uma das maiores fusões da história recente do entretenimento. Segundo o relatório, o grupo liderado por David Ellison estabeleceu internamente o dia 15 de [...]
The post Paramount Skydance quer concluir…
I can feel it today. Sumer is icumen in. I have had an incredibly unproductive week so far, at a very bad time in my…
Annoyingly, this is just a quick logging, as I lost yesterday to trying to figure out new accounting software I’ve been told to use which…
I spent last night looking at cheap vintage watches on eBay. Usually I come up empty – nice things that I don’t necessarily want to…
Politics in Britain has returned to high psychodrama, the kind you normally find in failing states. Just noticed I haven’t set the date window on…
Another cold snap. Had to take a rootbound acer out of a pot yesterday and plant it in the ground, sowed some seeds around it,…
Offline.
Yesterday was a braindrain day, so my plan is to mostly check out for the next couple of days and just get Sunday’s newsletter done.…
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