faschadenfreude, noundefinition: joy or pleasure from seeing fascists lose, suffer, and experience other misfortunes, especially as consequences, direct and indirect, for their words and actions. etymology: portmanteau of 'fascists' and 'schadenfreude'.s...
Mapping Made Easier
I’ve been struggling, for years, to share little maps of places I’ve been and trips I’ve taken. The evidence is there, if you care to dive deep for it. A couple of days ago, all that changed. It is now easy-peasy: Overland1 on my phone records the trips and sends the data to...
Otaleg!
#coffeeneuring2026 No. 7; 10.9 km round-trip
A multi-purpose ride. Shake-down cruise for the new, flat pedals and a coffee, but as the coffee is less than 500 metres from home, and that would not tax the pedals, a long way round.
To give the pedals a bit of a work-out I w...
Forest of home
Forest of home
Understanding layers of time
Actively forming.
New episode: Black Pudding in Ireland
No matter what you think of black pudding, surely it is only reasonable to expect that it is made from actual blood. Most of it isn’t, a casualty of the push for big meat-processing plants whose main purpose it to put cheap muscle meat on supermarket shelves.
Kate Ryan, author of Blood, Guts and Black Pudding: Ireland’s Dying Art of Blood as Food, explains.
The aura of zines
While reading some of the zines I purchased at the Edinburgh Zine Fair, and subsequently filing away those I have read 1, I started to reflect more on the “aura” of a zine. The Tate Modern summarises “aura” as:
Aura is a quality integral to an artwork that cannot be communi...
Weeknotes W4
Last weekend was so busy that I was too sleepy to write my weeknotes at my normal time. Thus, herein is an abridged version of my weeknotes.
Editorial note
In Weeknotes W1, I said that weeknotes would be a four-week-long experiment, with my writing one weeknote every week for...
espresso
Cosy glass, white wisps —
Bubbling dual espressos.
Morning steams and flows.
the meadows, edinburgh
Amber triangle —
Stillness in the graceful air.
Foliage falling.
Many thanks to Everest Pipkin for teaching The Browser is Already a Game Engine...
Many thanks to Everest Pipkin for teaching The Browser is Already a Game Engine this past summer.
Even more thanks for putting together this showcase of student projects from the session!
https://projects.sfpc.study/the-browser-speaks/
Click through and may fortune smile upon you!
Intrigued by newsletter subscribers coming from mailwal.com. At first sight, they seem as if they might be AI agents (numerical username) but having looked at the site, maybe they’re not. Maybe the site is ingesting them for AI. No idea.
Anyone know more?
🎬 Exit 8
Although this has quite a few things that are not super well thought through and executed, this was a nice little film. Definitely liked the set and the surrealist quality this had.
listening
Mode of focused mind —
Listening for syllables,
Catching new ideas.
the coffeeshop
Fresh golden pastries —
Early treats of the new day.
Flowing espresso.
frosted ground
Near-frosted ground holds —
The earnestly sleepy sky.
Birdsong awakens.
blooms into time
Before morning glows
Breathing space. Blooms into time —
The burgeoning light.
🎬 The Devils
Jesus Fucking Christ! Fucking Jesus Christ!
A long way round for a very costly coffee. Coffeeneuring ride No. 7
Finding words that can be made up from other words
Saccharide. Aries. From the vineyard. North or south.
For fellow Swifties, these words will hold a special significance. For the purposes of this blog post, this collection of words are why this post exists.
The inspiration
I read on Reddit that the aforementioned words con...
Nature’s layers
Leaves moulting by day
Nature’s layers, all visible —
Silver veins: the heart.