May 2026

Fireflite, Jack Dog, Sub-Boreal, THarry, dommage, dougie, elviejiton, fjallstrom, jhall, marym, ocop, skachur…

“Silence is No Longer an Option: Why Coffee Geeks Must Reject Fascism” [Coffee Geek]. The history:

For centuries, the powers that be have understood a simple truth that we often forget: the liquid in your cup is not just a beverage. It is a political accelerant.

I arrived at the White House page for EO 14217 only to find this….

Moar Mimidae

First US train robbery occurs at North Bend, Ohio.

“Biphasic sleep and human health: A theoretical paradigm for personalized sleep” [Sleep Medicine]. Seems a propos. This is a discussion of “The forgotten medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’,” which has the disadvantage of never having been spotted in lab:

Moar mimidae!

Grease fire ignites half ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek.

“When oil ran low, technology developed the pedicab.” —Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants

“Rediscovering the Handcart” [LOW←TECH MAGAZINE]1:

Like the (mythical) thieving magpie, I have a penchant for collecting and displaying small bright shiny objects (BSOs); hence my preference for aggregative genres. But what to call those objects? But it’s been a source of frustation for me that I could not find the right word to name them.

Haydar Khan, Brad, Goingnowhereslowly, Ex-PFC Chuck, unrequited narcissist….

A friend throws the following photo over the transom….

Upper case:

138, BillJ49, Burritonomics, CanCyn, Cassandra, Catless Lady, Dominic, Ed S., ElTioBoricua, EoinMac, FreeMarketApologist, Great Ape, Intro Vert, JanetT-H, Jonathan Holland, JustAnotherVolunteer, KeeniB, LaRuse, Mephisto, Michael King, Old and In the Way, Philip Ebersole, Stanley Dundee, The Beeman, Xihuitl, Zzzz Andrew

Lower case:

ahinsa, ambrit, anEnt, cfraenkel, chuck harris, flora, hemeantwell, jay.weil, jo6pac, jwc3, nippersmom, playon, prairiesky, sand_hill, sdunn35, sporble, wol, zigzagging citizen

UPDATE

That book is older than I am!

Your accounts should work!

Angie Neer, Big Jess, Chet G, Curtis Lang, David Graper, Edit, Ice-nine, InquiringMind, LaughFuzzball, Michael McK, Paul Cardan, Rod, ScottMell, Stephen V, Zephyrum, festoonic, flatStanley, laughingsong, loweighties, marku52, petal, sajurcaju, yahmaybeno

I must step away from the computer now, but even without email confirmation, your accounts are definitely registered.

Lambert here: So many threads to pick up again!

Exorcising badgers in Japan, “Be the change,” food sovereignty in Italy, Silicon Valley quadruple dipper, the work of blogging, ManufacturingTok, Beltane, May Day, et cetera. Also dad jokes.

2024 - 2011 = 14. 2025 - 1848 = 177.

Heinlein v. Gibson

What we talk about when we talk about blogging.