Dog Nappies, now with a pocket for smokes! #art (?)
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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Matt Dinniman
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Art
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Apparently I have done 1000 chess puzzles… you would think I would be better at them by now. www.chess.com/awards/da…
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Just watched “The Gorge”. Really liked it. Best Diablo movie ever. It knew what it was and embraced it. Only have nice things to say.
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Fiction post: The Ghost.
The ghost sat alone in his chair as it slowly spun in the ambient draft of the cold office. He was contemplating the wasted hours spent playing video games, making videos, and trying to build a community. The ghost was alone because the body he had once been attached to was currently out in the world. He didn’t care where—it could have been …
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Art
Even Batman needs lunch
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Chess. I forgot about it.
When I was a kid, chess appeared to be a game of magic. The mere concept of it captivated me. However, I must admit that this fascination was partly because of my limited exposure to the game, as I had primarily learned about chess through cartoon magicians, old fantasy movies, and this one artefact in my home.
The artefact in question was a small …
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Feel like it maybe time to change some things.
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made a video… oddly youtu.be/Vn3KXGy3p…
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The Valsalva manoeuvre is far less exotic than the Picard manoeuvre, but likely more applicable to situations which most people encounter.
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LumaFusion and the Power of the Cross-Platform App
LumaFusion is a video editing application, and in my experience, it’s pretty good. But what really blows me away is that it’s an example of a truly platform-agnostic app—at least within the Apple ecosystem.
I purchased it on my iPad (a 13 inch M2 iPad Air) for around £30. My main use case is editing short animation clips and using a proper video …
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The Creative Gym (Learning art with no natural aptitude)
Humans make things. Whether this creative urge is unique to us or a common trait among all species that reach our level of social and technological development remains a mystery. It is also worth noting that the creative urge does not exist in all members of our species. Many people are perfectly content watching Netflix and eating cereal out of a …
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People need to stop saying ‘game changer’ its got to the point of meaningless
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The rise of ai tools is going to seriously effect profit’s for services like grammar and language tool soon. As of yet though, there is no good language tool alternative for my phone. It’s going to be interesting to see how it unfolds, because, LLMs are far more effective spell checkers than anything else I have used. I just wish we didn’t have …
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Is my future offline?
As I’m sure many of you have noticed, I have recently been on something of a cleanse. Ejecting things from my life which I feel are no longer relevant. Trying my best to live intentionally and considering what adds value to my life, and what are things which I use as crouches for someone I used to be. Towards the end of this year, I am hoping to be …
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NewsExplorer seems pretty good so far. RSS win. I guess.
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Today have learned that my RSS reader (Reeder+) doesn’t have an export. Oddly this made me want to leave, so i installed NewsExplorer. Seems pretty good so far.
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Digital Minimalism?
I have spent some time reading the Cal newport book ‘Digital Minimalism.’ I’m not that far in, but I picked it up because I was feeling a ‘thing,’ the book, so far, has made me double feel that ‘thing.’ I need to write a full post about the ‘thing.’
The ‘thing,’ if anyone is …
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Few days into DAP life now. I love having a music player which doesn’t expect more from me than to hit the play button.
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Do you ever make a purchase and then think “that was dumb, I should not have done that” ?
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My wisdom tooth is uncomfortable this morning.
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Christianity
Christianity: Bible translation comparisons and thoughts, from an interested reader.
Recently I was reading the translation notes in my NLT bible and there were a few lines which made me raise an eyebrow. This led me to go on a bit of a deep dive into all the translations which I read.
I am not an expert and all information provided can be found online with ease. All I did was read and collate it with some thoughts.
To be clear, …
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Imagine a world where Things got worn out when you looked at them. Like erosion of viewing. I think it happens in some ways, on a personal level, the more I look at a thing the less I appreciate it. Maybe it’s me being depleted, not the things I look at.
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Why doesn’t apple mail have a share sheet? It’s infuriating
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It’s foggy today. I assume this is because 2025 has started loading.
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My 2024, in review.
The end of the year is looming, and we approach the dark, melancholic week which sets its home between Christmas and the new year. Like a troll on a bridge, the week of limbo must be defeated to pass into the glorious bastion of twenty twenty-five.
Which, is an overly dramatic way of saying that it’s the time of year when I reflect on where I am …