July 31, 2026
When I was chastising myself for getting out of practice with parallel parking, it didn’t occur to me there’d be a Guinness Book of World Records record for parallel parking.
This is cool: Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery
July 24, 2026
Oh this is so cool: Jo Nagai, How a 10-Year-Old Boy’s Butterfly Experiment Silently Rewrote What We Know About Memory
July 17, 2026
This is good, though it’s a shame none of the photos show the scale of hundreds of people:
Photos: Hundreds protest at Open AI, Anthropic offices in San Francisco
Also good: These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
BTW if you’re a fan of amazing awesome librarians you really need to read Kit Rocha’s Mercenary Librarians series. Please read and buy them. I very much need the next books and that can’t happen until their third book earns out. I’m planning to pester Tor about making a worthwhile offer to Kit Rocha so they can write Books four and five, dammit.
July 10, 2026
Ursula Vernon’s grandmother was fascinating.
Oh, have I not told this one here?
Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.
— Kingfisher & Wombat (@tkingfisher.com) July 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
July 3, 2026
Couch Couch Couch Couch!
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May 8, 2026
1. Sorry, I’m hard-pressed to think of anything good this week TBH. I guess it’s a small comfort that the team is sticking together like glue to navigate the bullshit that came down a few weeks ago?
May 1, 2026
1. I have been searching for the AAA poppy in the Westways magazine for years and found it for the first time in the March issue which was a big deal. I think that broke my losing streak because I just found it in the May issue on my first pass.
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