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Our longest-running shelf: first-person essays that follow one small experience out into the bigger questions it drags along behind it.

Seasonal letters from Odin: life updates, project news, and what's holding our attention.

Tools, machines, and the systems behind them — reviewed, repaired, and judged by what they do to the people who use them.

Craft talk and writer's-block first aid: editors, drafts, poetic kennings, and the ongoing fight to keep your voice your own.

How we live together and who benefits: community, liberty, education, and the myths we're sold about merit.

Elections, labor, and power from a ground-level, egalitarian perspective — the stories behind the headlines.

Applied philosophy: Stoics, anarchists, physicists, and mythologists, pressed into service on the question of how to live.

Very short stories from the strange corners of everyday life — doorsteps, diners, and doors that should've been locked.

Reviews and criticism from superhero blockbusters to slow-burn indies, always asking what a film is really saying.

The shows, studios, and franchises everyone's talking about — examined with more seriousness than they expected.

Following the money: labor, tech monopolies, debt, and the toll of growth-at-all-costs thinking.

Practical guidance for being a person: habits, repairing after conflict, and finding rhythm without the productivity-bro framing.

Lists with a spine: tools worth switching to, films worth finding, and facts too odd to leave in the archive.

Honest reviews of films, games, gadgets, and gear — what works, what doesn't, and who it's for.

Dispatches on the stories breaking around us — suppression bills, AI in the newsroom, libraries under fire — with the context added back.

AI without the hype or the panic: what these tools are doing to writing, work, and thinking — and who profits.

Public health without the wishful thinking: covid still matters, vaccines work, and factory farms are somebody's problem.

Step-by-step fixes for real problems — Obsidian on a Supernote, Docker on Windows, QR codes behaving badly.

Note-taking that grows with you — friction, folders, metadata, and why the 'second brain' needs a soul.

Reclaiming your data from the platforms: browser switches, private ecosystems, and the wearables to skip.

Mutual aid, anti-hierarchy, and the long tradition of refusing to be ruled — from Herbert Read to the Fediverse.

From Fallout to Murderbot: television reviewed for what it says about the world it airs into.

The apps and open-source tools we actually use — search engines, calendars, PKM systems — and the ones to avoid.

Growth at a human pace: Campbell's two steps, self-care as a discipline, and anger before it curdles.

Building things together: intentional holidays, local institutions, and the everyday work of showing up.

SF on screen and page: the futures we're sold, the ones we should want, and the fandoms in between.

Reading as resistance: banned books, adaptation lists, and reviews from the ever-growing shelf.

Myth, the Tao, and the numinous in ordinary life — spiritual questions taken seriously but never solemnly.

The past as evidence: Dickinson's copyright saga, military oddities, and the 19th-century roots of today's problems.

Tabletop and digital: dungeon-mastering advice, 4X deep dives, and games as millennial reality checks.

Security for regular humans — QR scams, smart homes, and staying skeptical in the AI era.

Life on (and off) the platforms: kindness guides, Mastodon migrations, and reclaiming your online self.

Everything else that's part of a life: notebooks, laptops, big decisions, small revelations.

The craft of talking to each other — Bohmian dialogue, apologies that heal, and the sins of speech.

Guides to the open social web: Mastodon apps, threads, safety, and why the move is worth it.

The editor's side of writing: six kinds of edit, publishing rights, and maps that lie.

Wonder with receipts: Sagan's starlight, COVID antibody studies, and biology myths in need of debunking.

Research-heavy buying advice — laptops, projectors, audiobooks — that favors ethics and longevity over hype.

Ongoing covid reality: vaccines, clean air, and refusing to pretend it's 2019.

Debt, growth, and universal income — economic arguments for a fairer baseline.

Librarianship from the inside — funding fights, AI reference work, and libraries as civic infrastructure.

Making celebrations mean something again, from May Day to Sagan Day.

Minds and bodies: grief, Jung, and the physics of human connection.

The Anycubic Kobra saga — assembly, auto-leveling, and honest reviews for beginners.

Teaching and learning: Carnegie's long shadow, active classrooms, and making college worth it.

Compassion as practice: grief, anger, and meeting an unkind world with an open heart.

Ecology with feeling: climate grief, deep time, and the solarpunk conviction that the future is still ours to shape.

Roll up your sleeves: home theaters, kitchen lighting, and the Anycubic Kobra saga, documented step by step.

Calendars, note apps, and the quiet craft of putting things in order — because a little organization makes a lot of life better.

Everything Obsidian: vault workflows, Supernote integration, the folders-vs-metadata debate, and making the 'second brain' actually yours.