Autumn
Summer is becoming autumn: as days pass, the green leaves slowly turn yellow. The sun is so bright right now that the distinction between the green and the yellows on nearby trees is hard to see, but in my memory of walks I see paths lined with mostly green trees; some trees...
Second year
I woke up in excitement this morning. Today is the day I can start to access my course materials for next year. My second year of university doesn’t officially start for another few weeks, but from today I can start reading through the introductory material. I spent the morn...
Crocheted ‘Fungi Hunts’ is absolutely bonkers, and I love it.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/08/lydia-hansen-fungi-hunts-crocheted-mushrooms-minnesota/
h/t @melanie
The Mr T I Never Knew
I was thrilled (and somewhat mystified) when Hyde asked me to participate in his excellent Over/Under series. My effort — Over/Under #82 — went up yesterday, and I’m excited to add something I discovered the day after sending in my feeble response to Harry’s question about A-Team vs Knight Rider.
Mr T is alive and well and is apparently the subject of a new documentary. There’s loads more information in that Guardian interview, and it is a great read full of stuff about which I had no idea. That’s hardly surprising. I didn’t even know Mr T was Mr T’s name, rather than the name of his character in A-Team. I now also know why he chose it.
Go, read.
Highly unscientific survey, but while sitting at the bus stop today I counted 20 cars and 25% had a single occupant.
Musical dreams
We’ve gotta keep going. The words flowed back to me with unexpected fluency; the sound of the song was all it took. I sang word after word, words deep within that I forgot were there, a reminder of how much I loved the song, of how much I listened, and, in this case, of how ...
Making memories with music
You get that darkness out your head, yeah
You had it with you from the start
The lightning in your heart
~ Kid, The Revivalists
Last evening – and for the last few days – I have been feeling a little bit down. But music was with me, and helped me see through the grey clouds...
Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 18
The eighteenth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:
In Episode 18, I chat with Ava, the author of blog.avas.space about, among other things, data protection and privacy, consent in the context of privacy, the armchair of great blogging, 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.
Today’s #WASSUP tip: a search shortcut for looking up pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.Ever click on a link for an article or photo and it’s not found (404), or redirects to a home page, or otherwise is not what you expect?The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine...
Timing events in code
Earlier this year I noticed my Artemis reader page (the page that lists posts published by sites to which I am subscribed) was loading slowly. The logic to generate the page encompasses several hundred lines of code, which do everything from retrieving posts from the databas...
Complements: Art history, writing
Earlier this week I was chatting with a friend about the skills I am learning from art history. One of the most influential concepts I have learned is to “look closely”. The idea is to spend time with a single thing – to study it closely – and think about what you see in mor...
🎬 The Northman
That’s not a movie for me. I really did not care about anything or anyone in this. The story is boring and it’s all pretty pointless. While some images are great, the dream-like sequences border on ugly. Then it has some short funny scenes weirdly inserted. The end At the Gates of Hel is just disappointing. I’m sorry.
📖 Es war nicht anders möglich – Svenja Liesau
Absolut wahnsinniges Buch über das und aus dem Bewusstsein einer Irren. Aber einer intelligenten Irren.
Ewige Gedankenabschweifungen und Erzählungen u.A. über die Leute, die sie kennt oder glaubt zu kennen.
Sehr lustig, aber auch etwas tragisch. Super unterhaltsam geschrieben. Nicht lang. Empfehlung! Man sollte allerdings vielleicht nicht zu zart besaitet sein.
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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@fractalkitty/117222305898020763
Great selection.
A Creative’s Guide to Personal Websites (Zine)
You can use the web to share your poetry, or photography, or essays, or drawings, or sketches, or music, and everything in between. On a website, you have control over design, layout, and distribution 1. You own your domain, so you own your links.
It feels like so many more...
morning
rabbits leaping, birds tweeting,
the sun rising, hills welcoming,
breeze blowing, paths winding,
potential painting, colours calming:
skies awakening, day breaking.
The #Blaugust 2026 blogging challenge had a nice set of awards this year based on reaching a certain number of posts published:* 1* — Newbie Blogger. *if it was your first time doing Blaugust * 5+ — Bronze* 15+ — Silver* 25+ — Gold* 31+ — Rainbow DiamondFrom https://nerdgirlt...