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Just You Wait – Chris Shiflett

Chris Shiflett turned 50 in May and wrote a piece about it that I keep thinking about and that I kept marked as “unread” in my RSS reader to come back to it later. Now I found the time to reflect on what he has written. It is the story of a life spent with the web: BBSes and...

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Where is my Drive, my Energy?

This post is visible to RSS subscribers only. What? Read more about RSS Club. This morning, I once more had one of the hardest mornings ever. Nothing special actually happened. I got up at 7...

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kinda chic to order books from your local bookstore instead of Amazon who is now destroying books in their #VGT3 division, see the hashtag.also kinda chic to pay cash when buying local, to give local businesses an extra 2-3% instead of credit card companies, at no additional charge to you.#books #orderBooks #bookstore #localBookstore #Amazon #payCash #cash #localBusiness #localBusinesses #kindaChic#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

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📚 picked up the Silo books trilogy @borderlands-books.com earlier today: “Wool”, “Shift”, “Dust”, and a small booklet of “Silo Stories” which came inside the boxset. Looking forward to cracking them open and seeing how far I get while waiting for the last three episodes of season three.Previously: https://tantek.com/229/t1/watched-silo-season-3-episode-7#Silo #books #trilogy #boxset#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

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▶️ watched Silo season 3 episode 7 “Radio” last Friday night. I watched the first six season 3 episodes before that, and was inspired to order the Silo trilogy boxset (of books) @borderlands-books.com last Wednesday.Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/222/t1/watched-silo-season-1-2#Silo #SiloTV #AppleOriginal #AppleTV #2026_226 #2026_08_14#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

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18.08.2026

A yellow digger on a pebble beach.
That’s what I came here for.

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The Hay Wain by John Constable

V.H. and I are doing a painting exchange challenge where we each choose a painting for the other person to write about. We gave each other three options. From the options given to me, I chose The Hay Wain by John Constable. V.H. wrote about Corot’s “Entrance to the Wood”. W...

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The Poet (Le poète) by Picasso

When I was looking for a painting to share with someone to do an art writing exchange – where we each write about a painting we choose for each other – there was one painting that stood out to me that I wanted to analyse: Picasso’s The Poet (Le Poète). The painting, in Cubis...

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In the latest Eat This Newsletter, a couple of dreamy prescriptions for a better food world, as well as a clear-eyed view on what’s up with wheat prices. And if all that is too bitter, how the USA became sweet on yoghurt.

“As late as 1972, a Wall Street Journal article ... claimed that “most people really dislike yogurt—at least at first.” ... “most people” here refers to white, middle-class Americans.

https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-313-next/

#newsletter #food #farming

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Movement

When Joe pointed out the movement in Stanley Cursiter’s “Surf” painting, I made a mental note of the word “movement.” I noted in the aforelinked post that Monet, among other Impressionists, such as Berthe Morisot, depicted movement in their works; Monet painted trees blown b...

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Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 15

The fifteenth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:
In Episode 15, I chat with Zoe, the author of zoeloukia.bearblog.dev about, among other things, writing on personal websites, making art from whatever is around, zines, and more.
I hope you enjoy the episode!

Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

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17.08.2026

View from a tent onto a campground, with a view on a lake.
Lago di Garda

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Plainsong by The Cure

Thamara and I are doing a collaborative writing challenge where we gave each person three songs from which we were to choose one to write about. I chose “Plainsong” by The Cure from Thamara’s list. Thamara chose Gimme Sympathy from my list. You can read Thamara’s post for th...

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Miniatures, reference works, and writing

One of the works at the Stanley Cursiter exhibition I saw at the National Gallery of Scotland this week was a collection of miniatures he had painted. According to the gallery website, Cursiter, who served as keeper, and later director, of the gallery, painted “miniature wat...

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I’ve got two improv shows coming up! Can you believe it? Is it to be believed??

Saturday Aug 22nd @ 9pm at The Magnet Theater: The Level Up

Monday Aug 24th @ 9:30pm at The Rat NYC: Bizzo! & Friends

If you are in NYC or nearby, go ahead and come on out and do an lol or two!

Saturday Aug 22nd @ 9pm at The Magnet Theater: The Level Up Monday Aug 24th @ 9:30pm at The Rat NYC: Bizzo! & Friends

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16.08.2026

A girl trying a handstand in front of a wacky building.
Designerhandstand

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I’m Old Fashioned by Ben Paterson

Ruben and I are doing a writing challenge where we each gave each other three songs and we picked one to write about. From Ruben’s list, I chose “I’m Old Fashioned” by Ben Paterson. You can read about the song that Ruben chose from my list on his website. The cover of the a...

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Exactly What He Says (Quote)

Exactly what VFX Supervisor Marion Spates says here.

[…] I mean I hope everyone is excited as I am about what I do. The one thing I try to encourage every day is for us all to have fun. If people aren’t having fun, you are not going to get best work out of people.

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CSF_03: today’s Cybersecurity Friday post: the effective security of small business websites has likely gotten worse due to LLMs and “AI agents” (with or without safeguards) and what actions you may want to consider.This article documents an instance of this problem:* https:/...

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Inspiration from physical artefacts

This evening I was on a wonderful call about websites where, at two points, I reached for books that were around me as a visual reference. One of the books was “Mini Louvre”, a gift given to me that contains images and information about various artworks in the Louvre. We end...