Interesting article looking at the way Good Omens Season 2 reframes Job, and looking at the siege of the bookshop as a more inclusive commentary on the different interpretations of Sodom and Gomorrah
https://www.tor.com/2023/09/12/how-good-omens-queers-the-bible/
Category: Wandering.Shop
Um…what?Stolen Van Gogh piece is returned in a bloody pillowcase inside an Ikea …
Um…what?
Stolen Van Gogh piece is returned in a bloody pillowcase inside an Ikea bag
https://wapo.st/3rcifZQ
And this is why I’m finally replacing Chrome with Vivaldi as my backup mobile …
And this is why I’m finally replacing Chrome with Vivaldi as my backup mobile browser. (Currently using Firefox as primary on both desktop & mobile, already using Vivaldi as secondary on desktop, which is why I started there for the mobile replacement.)
#privacy #google #vivaldi #chrome #GoogleTopics #adware #tracking #SurveillanceCapitalism
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no-google-topics-in-vivaldi/
How do you buy random electronics gadgets these days?
How do you buy random electronics gadgets these days?
There’s got to be something *useful* between “I know the brand I’m looking for and a store I can buy it from” and “Um…there are 523 virtually identical items on Amazon, each with a different randomly-generated 6-letter ‘brand’ name and 50000 reviews that may or may not be from real people or for this actual product.”
Sorta thinking if it’s going to be junk anyway it doesn’t matter which one, but also thinking that’s the whole business model and I’d rather not support it.
“Itchy Feet” comic on the suspicious ease of learning Esperanto. 😄
“Itchy Feet” comic on the suspicious ease of learning Esperanto. 😄
https://social.tinyview.com/FGM75a5wUCb
Just read that Molly Holzschlag has died at 60, after a long series of illnesses.
Just read that Molly Holzschlag has died at 60, after a long series of illnesses.
#rip
To be fair, I hadn't heard of the takahÄ“ until last year when I …
To be fair, I hadn't heard of the takahē until last year when I found out about the Fediverse project that named itself after the bird, which also plugs the Takahē Recovery Programme
https://nznaturefund.org/projects/takahe-recovery-programme/
The best photo of a #takahÄ“ I've ever seen.(The big blue ball. That …
The best photo of a #takahē I've ever seen.
(The big blue ball. That one.)
(seen on Bluesky but I couldn't find the post linking to it when I scrolled back looking for it.)
Interesting article from a local botanical garden where I like to go hiking (and taking …
Interesting article from a local botanical garden where I like to go hiking (and taking photos!) about how they're adapting planting strategies to the changes in climate.
How the Garden Is Adapting to Our Wild Weather Changes – and How You Can Too
#nature #gardening #climatechange #scbg
Please help #comics #writer and #artist William Messner-Loebs and his wife stay in their home. …
Please help #comics #writer and #artist William Messner-Loebs and his wife stay in their home. Illness and injuries have left them in dire financial straits, and they're facing eviction.
His run on #TheFlash is one of my favorites. The character work on #WallyWest from when he started to when he finished was amazing, and he made me think about a lot of social issues as a teenager that I might not have encountered until later.
I’ve been debating whether to keep the Twitter Cards metadata on my site now …
I’ve been debating whether to keep the Twitter Cards metadata on my site now that I’m not using Twitter anymore.
This makes the decision a bit easier: If Twitter isn’t going to use it anyway, why bother worrying about required fields that don’t even apply anymore.
Twitter to hide news headlines as Musk asks journalists to publish directly on the platform
I still want to see if I can get schema.org merged with the OpenGraph, Microformats2 and plain HTML elements instead of having a separate chunk of JSON in the header.
Outer Whats?
Review of The Outer Worlds (so far) ★★★★★
Immersive space RPG that at once satirizes corporate control while asking you to make hard choices within it.
https://hyperborea.org/reviews/games/outer-worlds/
Not to be confused with Outer Wilds (also ★★★★★), which is a fascinating game of discovery in a finely-crafted, tiny solar system trapped in a time loop.
Authorized #GoodOmens graphic novel, adapted by artist Colleen Doran, just went live on Kickstarter today!
Authorized #GoodOmens graphic novel, adapted by artist Colleen Doran, just went live on Kickstarter today!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dunmanifestin/good-omens
uspolPolitically speaking, I don't care about whether Hunter Biden is corrupt or not. I …
uspol
Politically speaking, I don't care about whether Hunter Biden is corrupt or not. I care whether Joe Biden is corrupt or not. Hunter isn't (and wasn't) the one in office. Or even in the administration.
Prosecute Hunter for his own crimes, sure, but you don't need a congressional investigation.
That's just the GOP trying to establish guilt by association because they don't have anything on their actual target, and it's JUST. SO. TEDIOUS.
TIL that the last version of NCSA Mosaic, with juuuust a few modifications, is available …
TIL that the last version of NCSA Mosaic, with juuuust a few modifications, is available as a Flatpak, 1996-era UI widgets and all.
https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.fries1234.ncsa-mosaic
The Github project also has directions on building on Arch and Ubuntu.
Unfortunately, modern TLS and SNI aren't supported, so #Mosaic can't connect to a lot of websites, but it's still a fun look back at a piece of #WebHistory !
Remember when Netflix rebranded as Quikster?* found myself thinking of it for some reason….
Remember when Netflix rebranded as Quikster?*
https://speedforce.org/2011/09/netflix-qwikster/
Just found myself thinking of it for some reason.
*For about two minutes
Happy over here on this social network, no need to reconnect with my X.
Happy over here on this social network, no need to reconnect with my X.
My system's going to be confused about connecting to X servers now
My system's going to be confused about connecting to X servers now
Finally picked up Outer Worlds, and wow, were the designers on this game fans of …
Finally picked up Outer Worlds, and wow, were the designers on this game fans of Firefly or what?
Interesting point: the two biggest markers of the anthropocene era in geology would be radioactive …
Interesting point: the two biggest markers of the anthropocene era in geology would be radioactive isotopes from nuclear weapons and microplastics from mass production and consumerism…both of which are major aspects of the modern world that really got going after World War II…and are handily represented by Barbie and Oppenheimer. https://wapo.st/3OkTKlH