Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
Pick a few topicsEvery communications pathway I’m likely to use, for whatever purpose, is filled with beggars. My emails are besieged with political and charitable appeals for funds, both with direct appeals, i.e., just give us money; guilt-trips, i.e., if you don’t give us funding the children will die, or the…
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I had seen The Rehearsal season 2 going in, so I was aware of Nathan Fielder’s general shtick, which is why I was not sure I could actually watch this movie: But I had a day off last week and decided I wanted to see it in the theater. And I’m glad I did – … Continue reading "You Can See Everything…
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You know prayer matters, but it's become one more thing you're behind on. Paul says pray on all occasions with all kinds of prayers, so the hallway, the drive home, and the empty conference room all count. Here's how to keep the conversation going all day, for yourself and for your team.
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By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a tough, flexible thread. The post How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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To invade red blood cells, the deadly protist creates a temporary molecular portal that disappears behind it — a door we can now see in fine detail. The post Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Commemorative manuscript featuring illustrations of pageants, costumes, and fireworks, later further illustrated by a separate artist, with floral motifs.
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A trick film in the peepshow vein, involving magnification and mites on a block of cheese.
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Mathenge, who was born in Nairobi, looks to the not-so-distant past in a series of paintings called 'Re-membering.' Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Wangari Mathenge’s…
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The street becomes a stage. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article ‘Street Photography Africa’ is a Colorful and Energetic Survey Across the Continent appeared first on…
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I've just been laid off from Plex, roughly 60 days after starting, having already been made redundant from 3SS earlier this year. Some honest thoughts on AI-driven workflows, hire fast fire fast, and how we're treating the people who build the software.
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facts-i-just-made-up: Manscraped Debuts Chainmail “Dong Armor” Condom As part of the FIJMU ongoing paid promotion with Manscraped and their distasteful and cisnormative advertising campaign you cannot escape, we are proud to announce the Dong-Armor-2000 chainmail condom! Now with 0.003% less…
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Some people on psychedelics say their sense of self vanished completely, but their own words, read closely, could describe several different changes.
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Goodnight Moon, 2026-10-27 Topic(s) GoodnightMoon Lambert Strether Tue, 27 Oct 2026 - 05:18 “Do you have memories of a past life? Scientists uncover a striking pattern in reincarnation reports” [Daily Mail]: Researchers from the University of Virginia examined 1,678 reports from people claiming to…
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I have a bit of a theory about why people talk about first novel, but second album, syndrome. As I’m no longer an academic, I can just have a theory and don’t need to back it up with evidence or citations, so here goes. First novel syndrome is usually characterised by over-writing, too much plot and…
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You can self-host your own repository on the federated code forge Tangled. With first class support for Nix, Tangled pairs well using Clan to handle the deployment.
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On a modern Linux computer, systemd lets you run a program and automatically restart it when the computer reboots and/or the program crashes. (Among many, many other things.) tl;dr Save a file like the following to /etc/systemd/system/myserver.service : [Unit] Description = My Python server…
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# Writing A note on my writing style. I write as I speak. Newest first. 2025-01-26 Efficient API Design: Avoiding Costly External Requests 2024-08-30 Exploring Goja: A Golang JavaScript Runtime 2024-07-02 Optimizing Large-Scale OpenStreetMap Data with SQLite 2023-11-15 Deploying a Rails Application…
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On 1 October 2026, the Financial Times reported that RSM was exploring a possible initial public offering. The firm had been sounding out bankers and upgrading internal systems to preserve the option of a listing as private equity-backed competitors expanded. No decision had been taken. Public…
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A ridge of high pressure has returned to southern Alaska since late last week, echoing the persistent anomaly in August and September . Paired with a strong trough over far eastern Russia and the western Bering Sea, southwesterly flow has brought widespread unusual warmth and moisture to western and…
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Kuratierte Links zu Blasmusik und Apache Maven: Mundstücke, spielbare Nationalhymnen und nützliche Resolver-Konfiguration.
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I’ve been in bed all day, unable to function. I had a really bad migraine. It was so painful. I have been eating painkillers. Thankfully, it is gone now. I slept a lot and had weird dreams. Now I am up at 2 AM. Ready to start my day. I put music on and one […]
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Few of my readers know this, but I have another website not related to radio or off grid power. Twenty First Summer was started in December 2013, predating Off Grid Ham by a year and a half. It is intended to encourage introspection and offer readers thoughtful, positive, and relevant... Read more »…
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A short analysis and summary of my essay. Photo by the author. Source
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James Carville Goes To Gettysburg and Finds Donald Trump It’s a reductionist view of our history that tells us very little about the Lost Cause and MAGA. White supremacy never needed to be resurrected after the Civil War. It had always been present and not just in the South. Collapsing MAGA on to…
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The worst technical debt is, in my opinion, coupling. You can do everything wrong, as long as the software you create has a low coupling. When coupling is low, it's easier to isolate software, test it, modify it, improve it, refactor it… You name it. On the other hand, a high coupling makes anything…
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That's this stretch.
Walk on