A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

black and white drawing of an underwater scene. a large bird sticking it's head into the water, surrounded by shocked fish

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We've just about reached the half-way point in the third beta test of Veiled City. With each passing day, the world's doom grows closer.

Yes! Bring back blogs! (I never abandoned mine, though it did go fallow for longer stretches and has never been the same.)

This was literally my play log for a long-running Blades in the Dark game I played in! Weekly newspapers filled with criticism and sometimes badly-distorted accounts of the PCs' activities.

Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 18 Here’s the play report for our eighteenth session of Mythic Bastionland, which we played last night. If you’re just joining us, I’d recommend starting at the first session and rea…

Another session of Mythic Bastionland posted, for those following along:

www.gordsellar.com/2026/04/16/o...

They claim “everyone’s autistic now” and yet Pachycephalosaurus is lumped in with “other”

i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics

Which is of course a break from some translation work I spent the afternoon on. Busy busy...

We did go out to a kaiten sushi place for dinner, though, which was pretty good as *real* breaks go.

Here I am, building a dark electronic music track designed to not-so-subtly imply witches and psychics and vampires are messing with the stock market for @veiledcity.bsky.social... still murky and the structure could use with some tinkering, but it's coming along.

I have cancer. mRNA technology is already being used to develop some of the next cancer cures. He’s condemning some current and many, many, many future cancer patients to early, preventable deaths.

This thread is worth a read. The author translates the original Korean into English further down the thread.

The President of South Korea, which sells arms to Israel, is coming out strongly - but thousands of lives too late - to condemn Israel's slaughter and treatment of civilians.

Significant.

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

These people look fun and smart and I want to be their friend

If you're using GenAI to set a timer, I will assume your brain is so smooth Saruman could ponder it.

Happy book birthday!

Queer/sapphic pirates, a Southeast Asia of my envisioning!

This is Cathy Rutherford, Glasgow born trade unionist. I love this clip, but even more for knowing that it stems from a core of lifelong political activism

The fact that someone with the power to do so threatened to bring down the Vatican and i am unhappy about this is just, one of the crazier things in recent history

Beautiful!

Margerye Kempe, wrytere of the firste autobiographye yn Englisshe and also the inventor of weepmaxxing.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

"What if we broke our core product in multiple ways, one of which caused spiraling damage throughout society?"

Kim Cho-yeop's best-selling sci-fi novel to be adapted for TV - The Korea Times Author Kim Cho-yeop / Courtesy of HubbleBy Park Han-solKim Cho-yeop's first full-length novel “Greenhouse at the End of the Earth” / Co...

I want this in English!

Greenhouse at the End of the Earth

www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/bo...

Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost “The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

Aaron Swartz was hounded and persecuted by overzealous prosecutors for a mass JSTOR download until he committed suicide.

Sam Altman says that he deserves to violate copyright law in perpetuity because otherwise he can't make a fortune from a large language model.

We are in the wrong timeline.

Our Mythic Bastionland, Session 17 Here’s the play report for our seventeenth session of Mythic Bastionland, which we played last night. If you’re just joining us, I’d recommend starting at the first session and re…

The latest session! Undead tomb guardians, a timely magical rescue, another mysterious poem, and a happy conclusion to the myth of Hegravayne, ancient King Aeldrin's cursed sword.

www.gordsellar.com/2026/04/07/o...

Artemis II crew now halfway to Moon as they take 'spectacular' image of Earth The snap was taken aboard the Orion capsule by its commander, Reid Wiseman, as the crew head towards the Moon.

I wish we weren't plagued by all the wars and despicable politics so we could focus more on things like this.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

In 1939, when she was fourteen and living in a suburb of Atlanta, Victor Fleming's film version of Gone with the Wind received its world première at Loew's Grand Theatre - an occasion that was by some distance the most glamorous in the city's history. The cinema was whites-only, meaning that Hattie McDaniel, whose performance would make her the first African American to win an Oscar, wasn't invited, but Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh were, and around 300,000 people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of them. The crowd was entertained by a choir of Black children dressed as slaves, among them the ten-year-old Martin Luther King.

That’s quite the aside in this LRB piece about Flannery O’Connor.