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This past weekend was my birthday. My partner and I celebrated by camping at Cape Lookout on the Oregon coast. We had dinner at Willy’s in Oceanside. Run by a husband and wife team they serve Japanese comfort food in a beach town nestled on a cliffside.
The Oregon coast is an unbelievably special place to me. It feels otherworldly. It is one of my most expected pleasures since moving to the state. Wide, often empty beaches, shrouds of mists crawling over groves of pine. The chance at glimpses of…
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( blaugust #2, 8. August, 2026 )
Not too long ago, few months perhaps, I was wondering about an event that happened almost 25 years ago - my first public performance of computer music so to say. It is significant only to me, but also because at the time i was... people would say "out of my comfort zone", but in reality I was a student, surviving one of the biggest cities of the world, soaking in a lot of new influences and hard realities, learning digital artist's tools, and…
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Bookmarked: Farewell to a famous parrot : Nature News Unexpected feels 🦜 “You be good,” said Alex last Thursday night. “I love you. See you tomorrow.” via Sven Dahlstrand
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Geographies of Time # Geology :: Climate :: Weather :: Seasons Iceland :: Singapore :: San Diego :: Japan Transformation :: Structure :: Contingency :: Rhythm Industrial Revolution :: Cold War :: 1848 :: Indian Independence Places do not experience time in quite the same way. In Singapore, climate dominates. There is weather, certainly, but it happens inside a remarkably persistent envelope. In San Diego, by contrast, the climate recedes into the background and one notices variations: marine lay…
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I’ve never done an “introduction”-style post on here. The closest is perhaps the possessions post from two Blaugusts ago. Well, it’s introductions week for this year’s Blaugust, and one of the prompts is “Ten facts”, so here are some facts about me.
I’ve slept with the same yellow-orange blanket for over 20 years. This sounds weirder than it is, I think? It’s not a “blankey” or anything, I don’t obsessively sleep with with it every single night without fail — it’s just a blanket that has served…
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August 7, 2026
Group Project Announcement - Blind Choice:
Do you have a big encyclopedia or guidebook or textbook or manual next to your desk? Flip to a random page, find a topic you didn't know much about before, research it, and do a quick write-up on whatever you found. Share what you learned with the blaugust community - let's both learn something new.
It can be any kind of manual or text - video game guides, Python manuals, a dictionary, an old textbook. Whatever you want to do!
If you wann…
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Indiecator
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French solo developer Oneiric Worlds just announced their new upcoming cozy desert road trip, Yashi - Sand Driver!
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Richard Adams’ Watership Down (New York: Macmillan, 1972) is one of the classic works of xenofiction (the fiction set in strange cultures, real or imagined), placed as it is among and between the warrens of rabbits in the English countryside. Lapine, the language he sketches for his rabbits, is arguably the best naming language ever created, and is a minimalist virtuoso performance, a haiku of a language compared to the sonnet of Sindarin.
The following documentation of the language is derived f…
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Crescent Lake reflects wildfire smoke, highlighting loss and gratitude for firefighters as the Kaiser Canyon fire nears containment.
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The group takes a breather after felling the mechanical constructs. Jim, a disfigured scout from the local village, hides by the treeline.
Jeremiah is a bullfrog. He is a good character of mine. I never understand the magic words he says, but his slings that slime a-mighty fine (And he always has some might fine slime). Ribbit.
The longest gaming group that I’ve been with now since April of last year has been led by John Fredericks of Sharp Mountain Games and has mostly consisted of running game…
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I’ve been monitoring the fires in Spokane, Washington the past few days. There is a very good chance my childhood home there, were I lived for about 18 months or so, is gone. But my grandparents former home is fine.
When I was a kid I’d go to my grandparent’s house for a week or two over summer. One summer there was a large fire on Old Trail and up on the southern hill from the Spokane River. We could see the fire from the porch across the river, but could also see the Old Trail fire ignite tree…
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The Ancient Gaming Noob
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I guess you do not technically die in Stardew Valley… but the fact that combat and loss are part of the game remains an aspect I did not expect. But more on that in a bit.
Stardew Valley Splash Screen
Having passed through spring of year two we were on to summer and a new set of crops. That was an opportunity for my daughter to expand our growing area, adding in a couple more quality sprinklers and then once again walling it off to keep the farm animals out.
The new summer crop layout
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August 6, 2026
Threadsnakes are (get this) snakes, in the family Leptotyphlopidae, and are also called blind snakes. They are very tiny, usually not exceeding 12 inches, and look like small earthworms. Upon closer inspection, they are not worms because they have tiny dot eyes (as if drawn on by pencil) and a mouth with a jaw!
They barely have much of a mouth, with the upper jaws being immobile and without any teeth. They're found pretty on pretty much every continent except for Australia but are…
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Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is to write a blog post every day of the month.
The code that a program runs is provided by the developer of the program. The inputs and interactions are initiated by the user of the program. The environment variables are data provided by the system that runs it. T…
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I talked yesterday briefly about how I love clouds, adore them really. There’s something dreamlike and peaceful, well, at the best of times.
There’s also another element I was born to: water. I’m a Pisces and natural born water baby. Sometimes I think I’m part mermaid I love the water that much. But, just like changeable clouds, I have a healthy respect for water, especially the sea.
Like cloud and water in general, the sea is a living entity. Alive in a way all elemental forces are. Not sentien…
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It’s smoky in Portland right now. For the moment, we’ve got the worst AQI of any “major” city in the world.
Here’s what it looks like outside (image from Oregonlive.com):
It’s a drag. My kids both have camps this week that have either been canceled or compromised. Exercising outside is a bad idea. I’m monitoring our indoor AQI with a couple sensors and redistributing air filters around the house.
... Read the full post on Sal's
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August 5, 2026
don't cry. 20,000+ species of bees, ok? source.
I love bees, they are one of my favorite groups of animals, and they appear to be becoming increasingly popular in the cultural zeitgeist - lots of stickers, dishtowels, etc stating 'save the bees', and so on. Despite this, lots of laypeople seem to misunderstand bees fundamentally, which I guess is ok, they are an incredibly diverse group of insects. Any public positive interest in an insect is a win. But I think it would be great i…
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The next expansion for the MMORG, The Lord of the Rings Online, was announced on the 1st August, via the gaming website MMORPG.The Wolves of Mordor, which will launch later in the year, appears ambitious in scope as it will include two new game systems as well as the obligatory story update. This expansion takes place in Draugardh located in the North East of Mordor, beyond the Plateau of Gorgoroth. It includes the new zones of Heledhris, Parth Rhavas and Nan Ogol. These vary environmentally ran…
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One of the things I love most in life, strangely enough, is fleeting and ephemeral: clouds.
I love them, am fascinated by them, and can stare at them for hours on end. They’re ever changing and remind me of how life is ever changing. Nothing ever stays the same, people come and go, we move through time slowly, as if a cloud, always forming and reforming. Sometime benign, sometimes volatile, sometimes thunderous.
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August 4, 2026
Welcome to 'random bee', a short writing series where I choose a random page in the book "Bees of the World: A Guide to Every Family" by Laurence Packer, then research it and do a short write up.
Today's random bee:
Genus: Caupolicana
Family: Colletidae
subfamily: Diphaglossinae
Caupolicana bee. Photo by Luis Flores Prado, laderasur.com
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Weekly Whaaa…?
I use the ISO weeks from Monday to Monday, so ISO Week 2026-W31 is the week of 2026-07-27/2026-08-02.
Backyard Bounty of the Week
Over the Fourth of July weekend we picked up a few herbs and other plants for our backyard container garden.
It’s now a (notably smoky) month later and the pepper plant (named Pablo, naturally as it’s a poblano) has already doubled in size. It’s now at least a foot above the tomato cage it’s been climbing like a ladder. We’re letting the two delicious-l…
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Today, I appreciated the small things by taking a walk in nature during the work day, but I actually stopped to touch grass this time. Well, moss. I touched moss.
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My Third Blaugust entry, In Which my Gardening Adventures Lead me to find a very pleasant suprise.
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Culture is a container word. It describes something without actually describing anything in particular. We use it to gesture at something vast and real, but the word itself gives us no purchase on what's actually going on. It names the surface without capturing what's underneath.
The metaphor I find most useful is a pond. When you sit beside one, you just see the surface – it reflects the sky, changes colour with the light, looks calm or choppy depending on the weather. But the pond isn't the su…
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At the end of July I went on holiday to Portmadog, Wales, staying at a caravan park with some family and my son. It had been a long day of travel full of concern about my son who was uncharacteristically deciding not to eat anything and who was later travel sick, causing us to pull over on a mountain pass road in Snowdonia.
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In the southwestern USA, with its cacti, mountains, and deserts, there are certain stereotypical animals that everyone knows: the coyote howling at the moon, the scorpion scuttling on the sand, the roadrunner crossing the highway, the rattlesnake coiling up into a strike pose.
But what many people don't know is that this region is a biodiversity hotspot, meaning it has more plant and animal species than surrounding regions. The southwestern deserts have some of the most bee specie…
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This past week, LC and I have made a conscious effort to spend even more time outside. To keep our vibrations up. To get some sunshine on our faces, breathe fresh air, and be near some sort of body of water whenever we were able to. Not speaking for LC, but I'm basically a plant (sun + water are essentials to my happiness). I've learned that nature has a way of grounding me when everything else feels heavy. I'm letting it do its part in helping me heal this time around, albeit very slowly.
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Memories Taken by the Heat
I've just come back from my morning dog walk. On the streets here, you can smell the nearby forests. The sea is only a couple of kilometers away. Clouds towered over our heads.
The cool breeze and the scent of water vapor in the air brought back memories from years ago.
After my divorce, I moved to a small flat in the downtown of Budapest. It was 2020, and I managed to buy a neat apartment that had previously been used for Airbnb. It became unprofitable for the owner a…
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Somehow I’ve never written “Man vs. Nature” in the margins. B. Collins urges me to do so now, but I don’t see it. Man is also nature, and hmm… that’s the right way to bookend that vs.
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my neighbor is a spider-hunting wasp:
insects of the US southwest
August 2, 2026
I am an entomologist and love insects. I live in the desert southwest of the US, which is surprising to many a biological hotspot for insect diversity (especially bee diversity!). Many people think of deserts as barren landscape, but they are full of diverse life.
Here I will be introducing you to some unique insects local to my area, and that I'm familiar with.
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On blogging, writing about abuse, and growing up as an artist. Also for AugusStory.
I’ve been blogging since I was….
I don’t actually know. It feels like I’ve been blogging since the big bang, and it feels like I’ve never blogged before. Baby’s first blog! Except I’ve been blogging since I don’t remember, except I remember it perfectly and I’ve been blogging since the first breath I took in 2001, except it’s really more like I’ve been blogging since I died on the operating table for a minute and…
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I’ve been muddling through ways to stay interesting – to myself and friends – in the age of AI. Part of the answer, I have come to understand, is the construction of Thickets. Dreaming up such a thing without a way to traverse it kept the idea incomplete. One nagging thought was that it was important to get properly lost – as opposed to trivially lost. That feeling where you had a good sense of where you were, but a question you asked or a connection you made has left you in unfamiliar territory…