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• 2025

  March

  •  ↪   The Cultural Fade of Rick and Morty
  •  ↪   Weeknotes – 1747 of 4175
  •  ↪   Weeknotes – 1744 of 4175
  •  ↪   Weeknotes – 1743 of 4175

  February

  •  ↪   ★ Heroism in the Age of Dishwashers
  •  ↪   ★ The Wistfulness of Your 30s
  •  ↪   ★ You Don't Need More Content – You Need Better Attention
  •  ↪   ★ Dr Pepper
  •  ↪   Weeknotes (1742/4175)
  •  ↪   'James Bond to be made by Amazon as British creators step back'
  •  ↪   Hunter S. Thompson died 20 years ago today
  •  ↪   Weeknotes – February 10-16, 2025

  January

  •  ↪   '10,046 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse'

• 2024

  October

  •  ↪   How Andrew Roberts writes his diary
  •  ↪   ★ On Writing: Short Enough to Finish, Long Enough to Matter
  •  ↪   ★ ADHD and the Struggle With Internal Expectations

  September

  •  ↪   ★ ADHD and the Burden of Possessions

  July

  •  ↪   ★ The Ron Swanson Approach: Birthdays for Introverts

  June

  •  ↪   Your brain is not a computer
  •  ↪   1920’s depression treatment: lots of milk and lots of nothing
  •  ↪   1930’s Protective Foods
  •  ↪   Millenarianism
  •  ↪   Give me some citations please
  •  ↪   Late bedtimes might harm your mental health, even if you're a nightowl

  May

  •  ↪   Asket and stupid marketing experiments
  •  ↪   ★ Big projects, small favours: Boost your work reputation by nailing the extremes
  •  ↪   Travel? Meh
  •  ↪   Arun.is
  •  ↪   Film Review: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
  •  ↪   ★ The 19th Century's Lottery for Life
  •  ↪   'Stop Acting Like You're Famous'

  April

  •  ↪   ★ 4000 Weeks: Embracing Limits for a Fuller Life
  •  ↪   Little Links & Notes 8: Writing Hacks and the Pain of Existence

• 2023

  December

  •  ↪   Using a Shell Script to Automate the Building and Deploying of My Hugo Blog
  •  ↪   Movie Review: Your Christmas Or Mine? (2022)
  •  ↪   Shane MacGowan Has Died
  •  ↪   Little Links & Notes 7

  April

  •  ↪   Little Links & Notes 6

• 2022

  July

  •  ↪   ★ A Stopped Watch
  •  ↪   ★ Lilacs and War
  •  ↪   Little Links & Notes 5
  •  ↪   Little Links & Notes 4
  •  ↪   Little Links & Notes

  March

  •  ↪   Can’t Afford the Gas to Cook
  •  ↪   Tolkien, Orwell and Simple Living
  •  ↪   Little Links & Notes
  •  ↪   Little Links & Notes
  •  ↪   ★ Legs Look Weird
  •  ↪   ★ Low Birth Rates and High War Deaths
  •  ↪   ★ Economic Sanctions Cause Discomfort in a Very Comfortable Modern World
  •  ↪   Enablers of dirty Russian money in London + What's an 'Unexplained Wealth Order'?
  •  ↪   Just pay Russian soldiers to surrender?
  •  ↪   'Why the Russians Are Struggling'
  •  ↪   Sigmund Freud aged 26 and 36
  •  ↪   ★ “Humanity is just not what I think it is.”

  February

  •  ↪   Highly anticipated experiences are often underwhelming
  •  ↪   'My first web3 webpage'
  •  ↪   February 26th, 2022
  •  ↪   A Trip to Windsor Castle
  •  ↪   Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
  •  ↪   Friday, February 18th, 2022
  •  ↪   'Evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer busts myths about how humans burn calories—and why'
  •  ↪   The Chronicles of the Rings
  •  ↪   Pencil drawing or satellite image?
  •  ↪   One third of all Swiss exports are drugs
  •  ↪   Wealth is money you don't spend
  •  ↪   WordPress -> Hugo part 2
  •  ↪   Stealing the word "Freedom"
  •  ↪   WordPress --> Hugo
  •  ↪   ★ Caffeine, late nights and book introductions
  •  ↪   Feminine exclamation
  •  ↪   Review: The Last Dance
  •  ↪   Review: The Power of the Dog (2021)
  •  ↪   Some links
  •  ↪   ★ Attempting yoga for the first time

  January

  •  ↪   Review: The Alpinist (2021)
  •  ↪   Some links
  •  ↪   CloudFront's first 1TB of bandwidth is free
  •  ↪   Some links
  •  ↪   Today's lunch
  •  ↪   1994 Instagram
  •  ↪   Websites seem to have a different sort of downtime nowadays
  •  ↪   Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
  •  ↪   How To with John Wilson (Season 2)
  •  ↪   I only want TV shows that have ended, and ended well
  •  ↪   The North Water (Season 1)
  •  ↪   Brandon Taylor's Substack
  •  ↪   Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
  •  ↪   The French Dispatch (2021)
  •  ↪   The Watch (2012)
  •  ↪   14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021)
  •  ↪   Black Knight (2001)
  •  ↪   The Economists 'daily briefing'
  •  ↪   Random webpages #1

• 2021

  December

  •  ↪   "And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on evil.
  •  ↪   "Plotting over brandy." Terry Pratchett on evil.
  •  ↪   Confident and proud? Or arrogant?
  •  ↪   The Mandrake Plant

  September

  •  ↪   Friday, September 17th, 2021
  •  ↪   Photos of Americans and their pets from 125 years ago
  •  ↪   Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
  •  ↪   'Going private: Increasing numbers of Britons are abandoning the NHS and paying for medical treatment'
  •  ↪   Franz Liszt by Henri Lehmann
  •  ↪   You can own the 'speakers on wheels' rig from Mad Max: Fury Road!
  •  ↪   Michael Chapman has died
  •  ↪   'Instead'
  •  ↪   Eat, sleep and feel better
  •  ↪   When to quit a bad book
  •  ↪   'Anti-Aging: State of the Art'
  •  ↪   Effeminate looking men banned from Chinese television
  •  ↪   People keep on using 'gaslighting' incorrectly
  •  ↪   Will you get a day off work when the Queen dies? Is it a bank holiday?
  •  ↪   The actor who plays the Know-It-All kid in the Polar Express looks exactly how I'd expect him to look
  •  ↪   Cunningham's Law
  •  ↪   Salman Rushdie's next novel will be serialised on Substack

  August

  •  ↪   'China to Cleanse Online Content That ‘Bad-Mouths’ Its Economy'
  •  ↪   Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV show explained. What can they film?
  •  ↪   'The Mormon Church Amassed $100 Billion. It Was the Best-Kept Secret in the Investment World.’
  •  ↪   'UK truck driver shortage signals a broken labour market'
  •  ↪   Dickens house
  •  ↪   Landlord Lloyds
  •  ↪   'Hospitality crisis deepens chef shortages'
  •  ↪   'Ben Franklin’s bitter regret that he didn’t immunize his 4-year-old son against smallpox'
  •  ↪   Choose an expert
  •  ↪   There's always some dude inexplicably loving it

  July

  •  ↪   Just invest

  February

  •  ↪   Watched – Week 5, 2021
  •  ↪   The Power of Netflix
  •  ↪   ★ The Price of Whisky

  January

  •  ↪   Watched – Week 4, 2021
  •  ↪   'How Many Microcovids Would You Spend on a Burrito?'
  •  ↪   Outlaws
  •  ↪   Pay-as-You-Go Reading
  •  ↪   The Man Who Invited the World Over for Dinner
  •  ↪   January 26th, 2021
  •  ↪   ★ Dressing Gowns Are Stupid
  •  ↪   'Their Noses Paid the Bills. Then COVID Took Their Sense of Smell'
  •  ↪   'Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy'
  •  ↪   ★ Brutalism
  •  ↪   The Parler U.S. Capitol Riot Video Archive
  •  ↪   'Inside Twitter’s Decision to Cut Off Trump'
  •  ↪   Dr Martens To Go Public
  •  ↪   Snow and the iPhone