Not my normal kind of post, but I was on a walk today and while commenting on how clear the view was we noticed an interesting-looking splotch in the distance. Turns out it was the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank, 60km away to the South.
September 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Not my normal kind of post, but I was on a walk today and while commenting on how clear the view was we noticed an interesting-looking splotch in the distance. Turns out it was the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank, 60km away to the South.
September 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I don't know for sure that these special Unicode character sets were designed specifically for the purpose of imitating old-timey playbills but they certainly channel that certain utter clusterfuck rich-kid-in-a-sweetshop method of typeface selection that seemed to prevail at the time.
March 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I don't know for sure that these special Unicode character sets were designed specifically for the purpose of imitating old-timey playbills but they certainly channel that certain utter clusterfuck rich-kid-in-a-sweetshop method of typeface selection that seemed to prevail at the time.
I'm at the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam. Chilling, but it's wonderful to think that such an atrocious thing could never happen again. Yes siree, no possibility of the worst of humanity being repeated in the 2020s, just as the 1940s fades from living memory. Just not possible. At all. Nope. Never.
February 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I'm at the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam. Chilling, but it's wonderful to think that such an atrocious thing could never happen again. Yes siree, no possibility of the worst of humanity being repeated in the 2020s, just as the 1940s fades from living memory. Just not possible. At all. Nope. Never.
Same. I spent some time in Vienna last year and was also impressed by how livable the place is. I spent a lot of time chatting to locals in a coffee shop on Helmut-Zill-Park in Favoriten and they were aware - and very proud - of the quality of public infrastructure.
January 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Same. I spent some time in Vienna last year and was also impressed by how livable the place is. I spent a lot of time chatting to locals in a coffee shop on Helmut-Zill-Park in Favoriten and they were aware - and very proud - of the quality of public infrastructure.
The battle to keep Christmas alive for the youngest member of my family has taken an extreme twist, thanks to yours truly. "How did Santa know to deliver my gifts to your house, Uncle RMUK?" "Dunno, kid, but it looks like the fat bastard dropped some paperwork that might explain a few things..."
December 23, 2024 at 2:42 PM
The battle to keep Christmas alive for the youngest member of my family has taken an extreme twist, thanks to yours truly. "How did Santa know to deliver my gifts to your house, Uncle RMUK?" "Dunno, kid, but it looks like the fat bastard dropped some paperwork that might explain a few things..."
![[Two people hang out with some beverages. Cueball here has a bright green crazy straw.]
Cueball: The thing to understand about the plastic crazy straw design world is that there are two main camps: The professionals - designing for established brands - and the hobbyists. The hobbyist mailing lists are full of drama, with friction between the regulars and a splinter group focused on loops...
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Human subcultures are nested fractally. There's no bottom.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kk43hbdxx6ou4nqjztgaq2jp/bafkreibryh6bfa7qnn7cpofkn7y7htsstxern4txtbpxyl6q2unvinuu34@jpeg)