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I had a great chat with @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social about his long walks through Portland, the stuff he finds along the way, and how he writes on foot.

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At almost 2,000 years old, this wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times! From Vindolanda frontier fort, it gives a rare glimpse into childhood at the edge of an empire. It also shows playing with toy swords has been popular for millennia! 📷 me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

My writeup of The Finger, newly revised with details of local cartoonist Ernie Hager and Oregon Journal reporter Jean Muir, has been moved from Carrd to Netlify. The archive of issues will take longer to move and remains on Carrd.

I wrote about how I discovered that a new site for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig's long-running Tumblr project-turned-book, was a bootleg made by a marketing agency. They published the complete book verbatim, then added AI-generated art and new AI words, entirely without permission.

Dandelion Acryla gouache

I like that “Widow’s Bay” is from a “Parks and Recreation” writer and answers the question, “What if they made a whole show out of the Pawnee City Hall murals?”

Amazing map of fungal networks across the globe a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth/map

"On March 9, 1991, in a Mission District production studio that rented for $10/hour, Mark Kliem looked into the camera and made a proclamation: 'Welcome to ‘Lavender Lounge,’' said the host of the country’s first queer 'American Bandstand'-style dance party TV show. 'We’re making history today.'"