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Today's Daily Song of the Day: Nine Inch Nails - "Wish"

2 Feb 2026 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Trent in leather coat which is probably quite hot in the Sahara   Like Ice-T, Trent Reznor has always displayed a preternatural gift for networking. Before he’s even formed the eventual band that made him famous, for example, his previous outfit, of...

Internet Shutdown – Day 5

2 Feb 2026 4 minute read 5 comments Melina Mehr

  Day five of the blackout and all I have left is writing. Today marks the second full day that our internet has been completely severed. Yesterday I went to a friend’s house and — according to satellite channels — NetBlocks confirmed that nationwide...

Internet Shutdown – Day 4

1 Feb 2026 2 minute read 3 comments Melina Mehr

  My heart couldn’t bear it. I sent several messages—and then I learned the words that stopped my breath: “My sister had been shot”   That night, when I finally reached home, my calls to my sister met only the same cold, mechanical voice:   “The subs...

Lucy’s Gully - 30/1/26

31 Jan 2026 1 minute read 2 comments lowededwookie

Today was a trip that I’d wanted to make for a long time but I’ve never really had a chance to do so. Now I’ve got my own ride I can explore when and where I like… after work. Today’s trip was Lucy’s Gully. I’ve never been up this road but I’m quite...

Internet Shutdown – Day 3

30 Jan 2026 3 minute read 6 comments Melina Mehr

I can't believe it! We haven't had internet for three long days now! I'm going crazy. We can't even text each other. Phones, laptops, electronic devices seem so useless at this point... Damn it!... Let me at least share the rest of my story here... t...

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...