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Internet Shutdown – Day 2

29 Jan 2026 3 minute read 20 comments Melina Mehr

  Today marks the second day of the total nationwide internet blackout in Iran, and everything has basically come to a standstill—life itself feels frozen.   Shops are shuttered, the city has sunk into an eerie silence, and here I am, deciding to wri...

Internet Shutdown – Day 1

27 Jan 2026 2 minute read 8 comments Melina Mehr

  Right now, as I type these lines, we have no internet. Not even SMS reaches each other. Our only bridge to the outside world — and to one another — is landline calls between people still inside the country, checking who is still breathing.   Let th...

Why the Holocaust still Remains Relevant

27 Jan 2026 2 minute read 2 comments rah

If recent years have shown us anything it is that underneath the veneer of becoming more civilised much of humanity is still barbarian at heart. Man's inhumanity to man is a continuous blot on our species and the Holocaust more than anything is a tes...

August 2021: Emma's sophomore year begins

26 Jan 2026 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

    Considering that we have lived apart for most of her existence, and much of it in completely different states, even, there’s an awful lot I feel like I’ve missed out on over the years with Emma. Visitation time is awesome, but it only c...

Today's Daily Song of the Day: Ice-T - "Colors"

21 Jan 2026 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

In this era of supreme silliness, as the mid 80s eventually bleed into the 90s, it’s fascinating how someone like Ice-T can come across as dangerous merely because he’s serious as hell. A person didn’t necessarily need to lace his rhymes with endles...

The history of the North American Air Defense Command, or NORAD.

20 Jan 2026 2 minute read 2 comments YoussoufDelve

On December 24, 2025, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, had celebrated seventy years of tracking Santa’s sleigh. According to legend, the tradition of tracking Santa’s sleigh began in November 1955, when a child trying to reach...

Greenland – When Trump Became More Dangerous than Putin.

18 Jan 2026 4 minute read 9 comments rah

This is a heartfelt post and especially to my American friends. A little while back Kyle Gass – the little fat bald guy from Tenacious D – effectively got the band banned for an inappropriate one-liner about the “assassination” attempt on Donald Trum...

Candid Confrontation Couched in Couture

18 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred

In "From Songs to Silence to Words: On Building a Body of Work and What Comes After" I like this candid statement by Smoljanović: "These spaces are treated not as stages, but as archives. There is no algorithm to please here, no trend to chase." This...

What The Tech?! Injection Moulding

15 Jan 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Injection moulding would provide a technological revolution. When you think of injection moulding, you often think of modern designs that allow for the construction of plastic components that have intricate designs. This isn’t always the case, and th...

Today's Daily Song of the Day: Jane's Addiction - "I Would For You"

12 Jan 2026 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

  Those of us who became teenagers during some of the worst years in music history, we maybe had a tendency to over-gush about the great big alternative uprising of the early 1990s. But who could blame us? Well before 1990 hit, even the best veteran...