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Assorted Articles II

I've continued to look through the pile of old articles I've had tucked into my politics folder, and I have a few more notable ones

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Party Discipline

Party Discipline is set in the world of Cory Doctorow's Walkaway novel and it shares the same glimmer of hope the novel held but places

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Pixelfed & FrozenTruth.com

I've been enthusiastic about the Fediverse for a while and today I started a Pixelfed instance using one of my old domains, FrozenTruth.com. Pixelfed is

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Run 2019.08.19

I was running with my Xeroshoes Genesis sandals today. It's been more than a month since I ran wearing them, so it took a while

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Assorted Articles

I tend to tuck away articles on politics that interest me with a plan to share them once I have a chance to read again.

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Rolling Dice with Google

There are many ways to roll dice, from the rattling real thing, to ring dice, to phone apps, and to virtual tabletop dice. There are

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Run 2019.08.16

Friday runs will usually have me carrying more weight as I strap my work laptop to my back and take anything else I need for

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Poké & Chill

Mikel's Poké & Chill is a dreamy reimagining of scores for the Pokémon games that is true to the originals but carries a playful energy

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Music 2019.08.09-2019.08.15

I continued looping the new Prometheus Brown EP after its release, but I also dug into some oddities such as the odd Crystal And The

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Sidewalk Cat

It's been a few years since I last lived with a cat, so sometimes I spend some quality time with one while out walking.

Run 2019.08.15

Zombies, Run! missions are named after songs and today's was "Red Right Hand", after the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds classic. It didn't tie

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Run 2019.08.14

The 8th season of Zombies, Run! started up again and it was nice to get back to the ongoing story. This season's smaller scope has

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Run 2019.08.13

Running the tequila mission in Zombies, Run! was a nice pallet cleanser.

Pokémon Orange Islands

For the past few months I've been playing through Pokemon Orange Islands, a ROM hack of Pokémon FireRed that follows the season of the anime

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The Simplest Equation

This week's episode of LeVar Burton Reads features LeVar reading the wonderful "The Simplest Equation" by Nicky Drayden. The story is a sweet love story

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Run 2019.08.12

I started my run intending to head through Fairview Cemetery and past the tourists flocking around the Titanic grave sites, but there was construction and

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Prometheus Brown’s Tag-init

Prometheus Brown just released Tag-init, the second of his three-song EPs that will release each season. Each of the tracks is sticking, but "Old (Heads)"

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Dahlias and Tagalongs

We stopped in at the Halifax Public Gardens today and took in the many things in bloom. Checking out the bananas and pineapple plant on

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The Communist Manifesto @ Standard Ebooks

Standard Ebooks takes public domain works and publishes them as highly polished free ebooks. Their edition of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' The Communist Manifesto

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Blessed of The Traveler

Blessed of The Traveler: Queer Gender Identity in Eberron is a guide for including transgender characters in my favourite Dungeons & Dragons setting, Eberron. Eberron

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Marvel 101: Silk

Silk is one of my favourite Marvel characters introduced over the past decade. This video is a quick introduction to her and the role she

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GRIP6 Belts

Since 2017 I've been wearing GRIP6 belts and since 2018 they're the only belts I own. The comfort of wearing them is better than any

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Music 2019.08.02-2019.08.08

My music listening this week was fairly varied. One highlight was a new album from The Cybertronic Spree, the fantastic Transformers 1986 cover project.

Pokémon Masters

Pokémon Masters was released for early access in Canada earlier this week and I've been playing it since then. It's a different take on the

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Masque of the Red Death

Cory Doctorow's Masque of the Red Death is a bleak mirror of Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same name and takes on the

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Trails to Tsukiji

One of my little obsessions over the past year has been the NHK show Trails to Tsukiji. Each episode focuses on one ingredient that is

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Run 2018.08.06

Today's run was to a Zombies, Run! mission that makes me cringe from how awkwardly it handles mental health. It tries to build a story

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Running Medals

I'd been meaning to make a medal holder for our running medals for a while and finally picked up the pieces this weekend from Dollarama

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Run 2019.08.04

I enjoyed a run out to the grocery store this morning. The mission in Zombies, Run! leads up to one of the missions that leaves

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Taking Celestine to Buskers

This weekend we took Celestine to the Halifax Busker Festival. She seemed to have feelings about it, but there were some fun glimpses of acts

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Run 2019.08.02

Today's run took me down Beaufort Avenue, where an early stretch of the Halifax Urban Greenway runs.

Music 2019.07.26-2019.08.01

This week's Last.fm weekly report wasn't a surprise. I had the new musical obsession of Thylacinus taking over.

Celestine Emerald at 3 Months

Saturday Celestine had her 3 month birthday, but we weren't able to get a set of photos taken until later in the week. Tonet put

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