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ComradeNerdy
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Three of these are mine with setup and other stuff
Was supposed to be catching up, but ended up missing a couple of days instead, downside of being back home compared to travels – too much stuff that affects my plans out of my control. Even though most of my travels I’m not solo (sadly, mostly financial reasons), but it’s still just one person usually and it’s easier to discuss plans, besides I’m the one planning stuff mostly since travels are also my stream content.
That was one of the reasons…
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Aneesh Sathe
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Excerpt from Aristotle by Billy Collins # “This is the middle. Things have had time to get complicated, messy, really. Nothing is simple anymore.”
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Inventory Full
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We have a lot of stuff. And I mean a lot. We live in a rather large house with a lot of storage space and over the years, particularly since the children all moved out, we've filled most of it up.
So, now we're vaguely thinking about moving to somewhere smaller and more manageable for our twilight years, we're going to have to do something about that. And since it's going to be a long job, even though it's very unlikely we'll be going anywhere for a couple of years, I've already started on my ha…
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Lost Letters
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Since 2024, I’ve rarely left the house without my Hobonichi Weeks planner in my bag, and I’ve never missed an entry, achieving the rare and elusive “planner peace” with this journaling form factor. There are more than enough notes pages for me to record TTRPG sessions and process my thoughts through journaling on the go when needed. Though I’ve debating getting a five-year journal in the past, I love the thrill of a new Weeks cover too much to give that up. As we make our way through August, the…
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MMO Casual
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Mists of Pandaria got laughed at before anyone had played a minute of it. Kung fu pandas. A whole expansion about kung fu pandas, plus a pet-battle system a lot of people immediately wrote off as WoW doing Pokémon. I remember the reaction to the announcement, and it was not kind. It also turned out to be one of my favorite expansions in the whole run, and I've never really backed off that.
The joke fell apart the second you actually got to Pandaria. The place was gorgeous. The Jade Forest, the V…
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Aneesh Sathe
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Bookmarked: Carl’s Required Reading Good set
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Ippagunta Dheeraj
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In Dickens’s era, being a “gentleman” was a rung on the social ladder, something you performed your way into. The protagonists of their time, Pip, Brownlow, David Copperfield spend a major amount of their lives as gentlemen. Today’s cultural phenomenon looks different. Our most iconic protagonists, Tyler Durden, John Wick, Jordan Belfort, Jack Sparrow, Dr. House, are charismatic, chaotic, and often explicitly anti-social. Restraint isn’t the aspiration; intensity is.
A parallel shift shows up on…
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Cubic Creativity
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You already guessed it, we have another Planeswalker Deck to talk about. As you might have noticed, I am using Blaugust 2026 to publish some deck reviews and the total amount of Planeswalker Decks just so happened to fit nicely … Continue reading →
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Aneesh Sathe
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Bookmarked: I’m in the park reading Claire L. Evans’ book Broad Band.. - Sven Dahlstrand Code and poetry ❤️
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Notes by JCProbably
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I haven't been inspired to post on august morning for quite some time now, even though I have a bit of a backlog of photos I would like to share one day1. Recently, I came across Inventory Full's Blaugust Class of 2025 post again, where my photo blog was mentioned. It reminded me that I do, in fact, miss sharing some of my just day to day photos. Maybe until I'm ready to commit to posting on august morning again, I can share a few photos here occasionally instead.
This photo is from a visit to G…
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The Friendly Necromancer
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I don't know if you're familiar with Storyworth, but it's a site dedicated to capturing your loved one's memories and keeping them in a book. A year ago, my wife "gave" me a year subscription to the site (part-time job) for my birthday and said "DO IT!" I'm like, but what about my stack of journals and blogs?
Some of those journal entries are adorably written in crayon
Her response was, "There's no way I'm reading your stack of journals! That is crazy, and I can barely read your handwriting!" Ok…
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Bongo Twisty
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I read today a piece about digital cameras and wired headphones making a bit of a comeback. It’s not news. I’ve read about this a few times over the past few years. What comes around and all that. However, it struck a chord with me since some of this stuff I have never fully moved away from or have still got tucked away in a draw somewhere until I am minded to have a play or finally get rid of it in one way or another. I was thinking about taking a few pics and writing a post about some of this…
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Off the Top
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Going back to just after I graduated grad school, when I started writing poetry (as I had time to think a little more freely), I started keeping phases and snippets. Some were in notebooks and some in text notes on my computer. Often these were things that would pop to mind and wouldn’t clear my head until I captured them. Some turned into poems (a sliver of what I wrote is on my Poetry :: vanderwal.net page). Some turned into short stories that picked up a few of the phrases and snippets, some…
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Joelchrono's Blog
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I realize I have spent a lot of my time writing about videogames here, and not focusing much on most of my other hobbies. I guess I just want to ramble about something different today, so why not?
The other day I saw a post on a reading group I found in some mainstream social media platform that shall remain unnamed, and it was all about how great The Night Land and The House on The Borderland by William Hope Hodgson were, but what I found most intriguing was how many people were fans of these w…
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PaseoBaggage - Blaugust 2026
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Here's another song the radio introduced me to:
The Whitby Maid by The Outside Track
Pretty simple story behind this one. I used to work the night shift and I would try to tune into the local college radio on my way home. They played many songs I had not heard of. They didn't have anyone introducing the song choices so if you liked the song you had to try and look it up later by recalling the lyrics. This song eluded me for awhile until I could remember enough of the lyrics to find it. Here's so…
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An Archaeopteryx
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A week of Blaugust, a honkaku mystery, some music for Bandcamp Friday, Traitors NZ, and more Zelda.
We are a week into Blaugust and I have managed a post a day so far. However next Monday I'm back to work for a full seven days so will probably not continue that pace. Probably another link post on Monday or Tuesday and a digest on Friday at least. I also need to spend some more time job hunting. I am only really employed at my current job until the end of September. Which isn't that far away. Try…
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Quail Creations
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This painting is the result of a YouTube tutorial that I found, and I think it turned out pretty cute. I’m still trying to learn how to use my watercolours properly, and sometimes I don’t really have any creative ideas but I do still want to be creative. Following along with tutorials can scratch that itch, and teach me some neat techniques.
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Troy Press
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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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Academic Aesthetic
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(This is my seventh post in a series of entries I’m using to participate in Blaugust for 2026.)
You may have noticed that each of my Blaugust posts is hung on a hook that is another article (sometimes several), sometimes only loosely related to my topic.
I’m liking the idea of using these as jumping off points, and the whole thing feels far less derivative than the “articles” I’ve frequently found in the past that were “Here’s a video with a paragraph about it that hits word count but really jus…
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Kedara.eu by Ruben Verweij
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Owning media again
This year, one of my aspirations is to rely less on the big streaming services for my entertainment. Why? Well, for one thing, if we give too much power to large corporations by getting overly attached to their services, that leads to monopolies, inequality and ultimately, democratic decline. How’s that for a positive opening?
Finding alternatives is easier said than done, because Tech Morality is Hard, and I would generalise that to “Corporate Morality is Hard”. Namely, keepi…
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tabitha.computer
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Movie on Faust
IndieWeb Movie Club
August 2026
Man is good: His spirit strives for truth!
Erzengel
Let’s strive this August by watching Faust (1926), directed by F.W. Murnau. It is a silent black-and-white supernatural horror. If you’ve never seen a silent film before or don’t care much for them, this is a memorable movie that will spark interest.
I saw it three years ago after a friend highly recommended it. It quickly landed on my Letterboxd top 4.
The runtime is 1 hour 46 minutes and is avail…
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brennan.day
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I discovered today that my blog post from yesterday didn't post automatically to my Mastodon account—which I assumed was due to an error made. But instead, I found out that Robb Knight's EchoFeed is shutting down.
The reasons he lists for discontinuing the service make a lot of sense, but it still makes me sad. Not because of the service I'm losing, but because EchoFeed was one of the first IndieWeb projects I came across after joining omg.lol, and it has always worked effortlessly for me. There…
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Bongo Twisty
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Bandcamp Friday - 7th August 2026. I only just remembered to to get this one in the nick of time with a little over a hour to go on.
This is Violinbwoy’s take on a Belarusian traditional song. A beautiful interpretation by Laboratorium Pieśni remixed for sound system play by Violinbwoy in his laboratory. A tune gathering the ancient spirits - from that time to this time… play it loud and feel the vibrations!
I’m a big fan of dub steppas and modern takes on traditional cultural sounds. The Rootsm…
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Axxuy's Internet Notebook
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The main tool I use for to write this blog is vim (specifically Neovim. “Vim” at this point is not really a particular program, but a clade of software.) I have been using it for many years now, so this is not surprising.
What is surprising (to me) is that I do not write (or at least draft) more posts by hand. I like writing by hand. I have quite a collection of analog writing instruments and I certainly am looking for ways to justify that. I have fountain pens, I have typewriters, I have far to…
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Musings Over Pints and Coffee
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People describe the empty nest like a threshold you cross once. The last kid loads the last box, the taillights disappear down the street, and you walk back into a house that has gone suddenly, permanently quiet. Then, the story goes, you stand in the doorway of a room that isn’t a bedroom anymore and you feel the whole thing land at once. Grief on one side, freedom on the other, a clean line between the before and the after.
That’s the version everybody hands you. It rests on two quiet assumpti…