CatCamp is halfway between regular everyday life and suspended animation, and I will be happy to sleep in my own bed tonight.

Last week, [Jamelle] Bouie published a 14 minute video on YouTube called Everything is Gender which is “a look at the gender politics of, and gender anxieties behind, MAGA foreign policy in the second ...

Another book I read this month, found, in this case, not by Parnassus, by by Lisa, who noticed it’s been filmed for release later this year, is The Salt Path by Raynor Winn.

But Zoom changed the world. As a low-barrier-to-entry, cross-platform, free (for 40 minutes) videoconferencing app that, ...

You can subscribe to an RSS feed of posts, an RSS feed of comments, or a podcast RSS feed that just contains audio posts. You can also receive a daily digests of posts by email. I also publish an OPML ...

Here’s the result, people-and-blogs.opml, an OPML file that you can import into your feedreader to automagically subscribe to all of the blogs. 1. For the record, here was the prompt to Google Gemini ...

A year ago, Ton launched a project to stop buying ebooks from Amazon; a few weeks ago he provided an update . I thought of Ton’s efforts when, in How to fix a Kit Kat clock from Mike Monteiro, I read ...

WES: Yes! The pilot light is always on. SUSAN: In a foreign country, even just going into a hardware store can be like going to a museum. WES: Buying a light bulb.

More generally, Kelly is right that we are not practiced nor particulary good, as a rule, at being kindees. “Not being a burden” is held as a high virtue. “I don’t want to put you out,” is a frequent ...

if one of us is in darkness less bright our light shall be — if one of us is suffering then none of us are free… The music is interesting in a whole new way, but it also includes longtime ...

There has been an outcropping of the Shetland Islands in my life of late: Lisa’s midway through reading Storm Pegs, and I fell down a NorthLink Ferries rabbit hole, including learning about the ...