#anniversary — Public Fediverse posts

1996-2026, 30th #anniversary of #amusementlogic: #TerraMitica
"Highlighting the quality of the work carried out by this company, in keeping with the emblematic nature of the project." (Historical).

👉 Discover MUCH MORE and SUBSCRIBE: https://amusementlogic.com/company-news/1996-2026-30th-anniversary-of-amusement-logic-terra-mitica-theme-park/

Images: @terramiticabenidorm, @blaucomunicacion, Canal 9.
Music: Lish Grooves - www.youtube.com/@LishGrooves

#terramitica #themepark #anniversary #tourism #leisure #amusementlogic #parcthematique #anniversaire #parquetematico #aniversario

1996-2026, 30th #anniversary of #amusementlogic: #TerraMitica
"Highlighting the quality of the work carried out by this company, in keeping with the emblematic nature of the project." (Historical).

👉 Discover MUCH MORE and SUBSCRIBE: https://amusementlogic.com/company-news/1996-2026-30th-anniversary-of-amusement-logic-terra-mitica-theme-park/

Images: @terramiticabenidorm, @blaucomunicacion, Canal 9.
Music: Lish Grooves - www.youtube.com/@LishGrooves

#terramitica #themepark #anniversary #tourism #leisure #amusementlogic #parcthematique #anniversaire #parquetematico #aniversario

https://www.europesays.com/africa/228423/ Algeria commemorates 81st anniversary of May 8 massacres, envoy highlights strong Kuwait relations #Algeria #anniversary #commemorates #EnvoyHighlights #KuwaitNews #KuwaitRelations #KuwaitTimes #massacres #strong

LIVE: Pope Leo marks first anniversary with Pompeii visit

Pope Leo marks the first anniversary of his election with visits to Pompeii and Naples, beginning his Italy tour at the Marian pilgrimage shrine in Pompeii. He will celebrate Mass and recite the Supplication to the Virgin of the Rosary. #PopeLeo #Pope #anniversary #ShrineoftheVirginoftheRosary #mass #Pompeii #Naples #Italy #live #Reuters #news Keep up with the latest news from around the world:

https://fllics.com/en/video/live-pope-leo-marks-first-anniversary-with-pompeii-visit/

LIVE: Pope Leo marks first anniversary with Pompeii visit

Pope Leo marks the first anniversary of his election with visits to Pompeii and Naples, beginning his Italy tour at the Marian pilgrimage shrine in Pompeii. He will celebrate Mass and recite the Supplication to the Virgin of the Rosary. #PopeLeo #Pope #anniversary #ShrineoftheVirginoftheRosary #mass #Pompeii #Naples #Italy #live #Reuters #news Keep up with the latest news from around the world:

https://fllics.com/en/video/live-pope-leo-marks-first-anniversary-with-pompeii-visit/

LIVE: Pope Leo marks first anniversary with Pompeii visit

Pope Leo marks the first anniversary of his election with visits to Pompeii and Naples, beginning his Italy tour at the Marian pilgrimage shrine in Pompeii. He will celebrate Mass and recite the Supplication to the Virgin of the Rosary. #PopeLeo #Pope #anniversary #ShrineoftheVirginoftheRosary #mass #Pompeii #Naples #Italy #live #Reuters #news Keep up with the latest news from around the world:

https://fllics.com/en/video/live-pope-leo-marks-first-anniversary-with-pompeii-visit/

LIVE: Pope Leo marks first anniversary with Pompeii visit

Pope Leo marks the first anniversary of his election with visits to Pompeii and Naples, beginning his Italy tour at the Marian pilgrimage shrine in Pompeii. He will celebrate Mass and recite the Supplication to the Virgin of the Rosary. #PopeLeo #Pope #anniversary #ShrineoftheVirginoftheRosary #mass #Pompeii #Naples #Italy #live #Reuters #news Keep up with the latest news from around the world:

https://fllics.com/en/video/live-pope-leo-marks-first-anniversary-with-pompeii-visit/

LIVE: Pope Leo marks first anniversary with Pompeii visit

Pope Leo marks the first anniversary of his election with visits to Pompeii and Naples, beginning his Italy tour at the Marian pilgrimage shrine in Pompeii. He will celebrate Mass and recite the Supplication to the Virgin of the Rosary. #PopeLeo #Pope #anniversary #ShrineoftheVirginoftheRosary #mass #Pompeii #Naples #Italy #live #Reuters #news Keep up with the latest news from around the world:

https://fllics.com/en/video/live-pope-leo-marks-first-anniversary-with-pompeii-visit/

Eighteen Years Under One Banner: The BolesBlogs Constellation at Thirty

Today marks the eighteenth anniversary of the Boles Blogs Network gathering under a single domain. That formation date is 2008. Writing under one of the network’s earlier names, however, began much earlier, in 1996, when Go Inside Magazine opened a small storefront on a web that still ran on dial tone and patience. The full arc now covers thirty years, fourteen blogs gathered under the BolesBlogs banner, a sister site on SquareSpace launched during the pandemic, and a stubborn argument about what publishing ought to feel like when the writer answers to nobody but the reader.

Go Inside Magazine arrived in a year when the web was still a frontier rumor. There was no Facebook, no Twitter, no Substack, no Medium, no YouTube, no LinkedIn newsletter, no TikTok essay format. There was almost nothing except homemade pages and the hum of a 28.8 modem. We were all volunteers from day one. Nobody was paid then, and nobody has been paid since. No banner ad has ever loaded on the page. We wrote because the act of publishing without a printer felt new, and because the conversation that came back from readers, sentences typed into a comment field by a stranger in another country, made the whole enterprise feel like a workshop the size of the planet. That ethos has not moved an inch in three decades.

The reason for starting Go Inside in 1996 had two halves, and the second half mattered more than the first. The first half was the obvious one. I wanted to publish my own work without asking permission. In 1996 the traditional path for a young writer ran through agents who said no, magazine editors who said no, publishing house slush piles where manuscripts went to die unread, and gatekeepers at every threshold whose job was to keep most writers out. The web removed every one of those doors at once. The other half was less obvious and turned out to be the harder commitment. I wanted to find new writers looking for their first break and put their work in front of readers who would never have encountered them through the traditional channels. Over thirty years that ambition has produced over one hundred writers whose first published byline ran on a Boles property. Some kept writing for years afterward. Others wrote one piece, took the credit they needed, and moved on to the next thing in their lives. Both outcomes count. The honor of being the place where a writer’s first word reached a stranger is the kind of honor that does not require the writer to remember you afterward.

There is an irony hiding inside the second half. Discovering writers and publishing them means deciding which work goes up and which work does not, and that is the textbook definition of a gatekeeper. I have made my peace with the irony by preferring a different word. A gatekeeper says no by default and yes by exception. A publisher says yes by default to writers worth backing and treats the no as the rare and reasoned outcome. The job I have done for thirty years is the second one. The clearest evidence is the rejection record. I have never refused an earnest writer who came to the door looking for publication. Earnest is the operative word, and it carries weight. An earnest writer is one who has actually written something, who wants the work read, and who is willing to do the work of getting it ready. When the draft was rough, we revised together. When English was the writer’s second language, we edited line by line until the sentences carried the meaning the writer had intended in the first place. When a piece needed structural help, we rebuilt the structure together rather than handing back a rejection slip dressed up as feedback. The point of the open door was that the door actually opened. A publisher who keeps that promise has chosen a harder job than a gatekeeper, because the gatekeeper’s no closes the file and the publisher’s yes opens an editing relationship that can run for weeks. Thirty years of weeks adds up. That accumulated labor is the part of the operation that nobody sees from the outside, and it is the part that earns the word publisher honestly.

There is one more piece of the arrangement that deserves to be on the record. Every writer who came through the door knew the financial shape of the operation. No money was being made. New contributors were not paid. The regulars who stayed for years were not paid. I was not paid either, which was the part that mattered to most of them. Symmetry of zero is a different kind of contract from one-sided exploitation. A publisher pocketing revenue while telling writers their work is its own reward is running a scam. A publisher absorbing the costs out of pocket while putting other writers’ words in front of readers is running a magazine. Everyone who ever submitted to a Boles property knew which one this was, because the financial reality was never hidden. Writers chose to work to know rather than to be paid to write. That choice was theirs, made with full information about a venture that was never going to pay anyone, and three decades of contributors making the same choice is its own form of evidence about what the operation was.

In 2004, Go Inside became Urban Semiotic. The change marked a turn in voice and discipline. Urban Semiotic took the magazine impulse and pressed it through a tighter analytic lens, looking at the city as a sign system, the body as a text, the daily news as a rolling argument about who counts as visible and who gets erased. Writing sharpened. Readership shifted from curious browsers to people who came back twice a day to see what the next post said about the system they were already living inside.

Four years later, in 2008, the constellation gathered itself under BolesBlogs.com. By then the side projects had multiplied. Some had been running on TypePad since 2003. Others had been built on Movable Type going back to 2001. The federation had become difficult to maintain across three platforms with three login systems and three export routines. WordPress had matured enough by 2008 to absorb everything. The migration took months. The fourteen blogs that emerged on the BolesBlogs banner included sites that have since become standalone books on the Boles Books imprint: Scientific Aesthetic, RelationShaping, Carceral Nation, Panopticonic, and even Urban Semiotic with more in the production queue and more still in the drafting stage.

That movement from blog to book is worth pausing on. A blog post is a draft for a draft. The writer publishes a thought, lets the comment field test it, watches which sentences get quoted back, and revises in public over years. By the time a blog has run its useful course on a single subject, the manuscript is already written across hundreds of posts and thousands of reader responses. The book is the act of pulling the argument out of the archive and letting it stand on its own paper. Scientific Aesthetic ran for years as a working theory before becoming a manuscript. Carceral Nation accumulated case after case before the institutional autopsy could be written down in one sustained binding. Panopticonic watched the surveillance state thicken in slow motion across hundreds of posts before the book made the case in a single arc. The blogs were the laboratory. The books are the published findings.

In 2021, with most of the world locked indoors and gyms closed by public health order, BolesBells.com opened on SquareSpace. The pandemic had broken every publishing routine in ways nobody had time to think through clearly while it was happening. Sites went quiet. Some doubled their output. Readers were home, scrolling, reading more than they had in years, and looking for any voice that sounded like an actual human thinking through an actual situation. Kettlebell training had migrated from gym corners to living room floors during that period, and adult readers who wanted history, argument, and serious prose about the practice had almost nowhere to find such writing on a web filled with rep-count videos and supplement marketing. BolesBells.com opened to fill that quiet space. The site stayed on SquareSpace rather than WordPress, both because launching a clean new identity was easier outside the heavier BolesBlogs platform and because the visual register of the new venture wanted distance from the analytic prose of the older constellation. The series running there has expanded across The Get-Up, The Swing, and The Press, with The Bell Itself in development. Covid produced few good things. A small lineage of careful writing about the kettlebell tradition, hosted on its own page, written for adult readers, is one of them.

There is a sharper observation to make about thirty years of free writing on the open web, and it deserves its own paragraph. Every word on Go Inside, every word on Urban Semiotic, every word across the fourteen blogs of the BolesBlogs constellation, every word on BolesBells.com since 2021, has been published without a paywall, without a login wall, without a subscription tier, without a captcha barrier between the reader and the page.

That openness was a gift to readers. It was also, without our knowledge or consent, a feedstock. The expectation through 1996, 2004, 2008, all the way to 2018, was that the open web meant human readers reading at human pace. Industrial scraping for commercial training corpora was not a use case any writer on the open web of 1996 could have anticipated, opted into, or priced into the decision to publish for free. The robots.txt convention assumed good faith. The terms of service on personal blogs assumed good faith. Good faith turned out to be a one-way door. The large machine systems that now sit on top of the publishing economy were trained on text scraped from sites exactly like ours. Three decades of unpaid labor by volunteer writers, written for human readers in good faith, was harvested into training corpora and used to build commercial systems that now compete for the same attention the writing was meant to earn. Ethical accounting on that has not been settled. Lawsuits are working their way through the courts. Some writers will be paid. Many others will not.

The scraping itself was not the new problem. Other sites had been mirroring our work since the late 1990s. Pirate operators would copy articles, strip the byline, drop them onto a domain in some friendly jurisdiction, and assume distance and speed would protect them. The DMCA takedown system handled it. We filed. Hosts complied. Pirate sites either removed the stolen posts or had their service yanked at the upstream provider. Every notice we ever sent worked. The fight was visible, adversarial, sometimes slow, and on our side. Three decades of practice had built a reflex for spotting unauthorized republication and shutting it down. That reflex was useless against the new pattern. Machine-scale scraping arrived without notification, without preview, without an upstream provider to pressure, and without any removal mechanism after the fact.

By the time any of us on the open web understood what had happened, the words were already out of the barn and repopulating the new web inside machine outputs that nobody could trace back to a single original sentence. There is no DMCA for a training corpus. Text that landed inside one stayed there.

A note on platforms. WordPress has carried the bulk of the constellation since 2008 and carries it still. Two exceptions stand outside the WordPress install. PrairieVoice.com lives on its own stack to keep the documentary work clean of any infrastructure dependence on the larger network. BolesBells.com lives on SquareSpace, where it has run since 2021, kept separate to give the kettlebell writing a distinct visual identity and to spread platform risk across more than one vendor. WordPress itself, in 2026, sits in a strange and uncertain place. A civil war inside the WordPress ecosystem over the past two years has rattled long-time publishers.

The company that gave independent writers a printing press has spent recent quarters defending itself in public against its own commercial neighbors. Future direction of the underlying software is harder to predict now than at any point in the last fifteen years. We will keep watching. If we have to move, we will. Writing is the asset, the platform is the truck, and trucks can be replaced.

A note on blogging itself. The form is older now than most of its critics. Eulogies for blogging have been written and rewritten since 2010, when Twitter was supposed to kill it, and again in 2014, when Facebook was, and again in 2018, when Medium was, and again last year, when machine summarizers were. Every supposed assassin has been outlived by the form itself. The reason is unsentimental. A blog post is a piece of writing under the writer’s full control, on a domain the writer owns, in an archive the writer can take with them. Every other publishing format on the open web puts the writer inside someone else’s container. Container companies rise and fall. The writer’s own domain stays. As long as that asymmetry holds, the blog will hold. That hold is narrower than thriving, of course. Independent blog traffic has collapsed across the industry as search engines reward branded content and machine-generated summaries replace the click. The argument here is structural rather than commercial. The form has advantages no replacement format has matched. Survival is the claim being made. Growth is a separate question with separate answers.

The reader has been the silent partner in all of this. Eighteen years of comments, thirty years of email replies, a long conversation that has changed the writing more than the writing has changed the conversation. The best part of running a public archive is the reader who reads a sentence, thinks about it for a day, and writes back with the same sentence pointed in a direction the writer had not considered. That kind of reading is rare anywhere on the modern web.

It has not become rare here. Comment fields still work. Emails still arrive. Thinking still comes back. Thank you, in the most literal sense the words can carry, for being the reason the work is worth continuing.

What about the next eighteen years? Honest prediction is harder now than at any point in the last three decades. Machine summarizers are eating the publishing surface, stripping writing out of its source pages and feeding it back to readers without attribution or compensation. Platform consolidation and platform fracturing are happening simultaneously, sometimes inside the same company in the same week. Reader attention is being trained by recommendation systems to expect shorter forms, faster gratification, less argument. None of these forces are friendly to the long-form blog. None has killed it yet.

Will the BolesBlogs constellation be celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 2048? The writer who opened Go Inside Magazine in 1996 will be eighty-three years old by then. By 2048 the web will be unrecognizable from the web of 2026, just as the web of 2026 is unrecognizable from the web of 1996. Writing of some kind might still be here. This domain might still be here. Some version of the reader will still be here too. The bet is the same bet it was in 1996, which is that the act of publishing a true sentence on an open page, free of charge, with the comment field still open at the bottom, is worth doing for its own sake. That bet has paid off for thirty years. No reason exists to think it cannot pay off for thirty more.

A word about the accusation that surfaces every few years from readers who cannot believe what they are looking at. The charge is some version of “you must be working the backend,” meaning that a hidden revenue stream has to exist somewhere, a sponsorship deal off-page, a kickback, a quiet check from someone with an interest in keeping the writing online. People who make that charge cannot imagine anyone publishing at a deficit. Server costs, domain renewals, hosting fees, SSL certificates, backup storage, plugin licenses, all of it has been paid out of pocket for thirty years. No advertiser has ever cut a check, no sponsor has ever underwritten a post, no affiliate code has ever been embedded in a sentence. The answer to the accusation is the dullest answer available. We wrote because we loved writing. We published because we wanted to share thoughts and experiences with the wider mind we respected and sought out. Some readers found us. Some left us. Many stayed for thirty years. The math on the blogs themselves has always been negative on the spreadsheet and positive everywhere else.

To the readers who have been here from Go Inside, from Urban Semiotic, from the fourteen blogs that became BolesBlogs, from BolesBells across the Covid years, from the books that grew out of the posts: the work has always been for you. Without the reader, none of this writing would have purpose, and none of these archives would have weight. Eighteen years of the banner. Thirty years of writing. Whatever comes next is already underway.

“Never put yourself in a position in which you regret what you didn’t do. - Futurist Jim Carroll

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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
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Forty-one years ago today, I stepped onto a plane in Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading toward a national office in Toronto, Ontario, and a future that didn't yet have a name.

I was a Chartered Accountant by trade, but my heart was already in the "pipes"—the emerging, messy world of computer connectivity. For three years, I had already immersed myself deep into the opportunities that came from the online world, understanding the power of global collaboration, online research, knowledge acceleration, and disruptive ideas. In my heart and in my mind, I just knew that something big was on the way, and I wanted to be a part of it.

41 years on, I know I did the right thing.

Many times in your life, you will need to confront similar big decisions. Should you make the big, bold leap? Should you take the daring jump into the unknown? Can you really hold your breath, close your eyes, take the plunge into tomorrow, and hope for the best?

If you don't, you might end up regretting not doing the most important thing you should have done.

Never put yourself in that situation.

The greatest risk you will ever take is the risk of staying where you are when you know you were meant for what’s next.

Don't ask what happens if you fail.

Ask what happens if you never try at all.

---

Futurist Jim Carroll has been in the online world since 1982. He's seen it go from its nascent beginnings to the massive global machine that it is today.

**#Regret** **#Leap** **#Decision** **#Courage** **#Risk** **#Future** **#Anniversary** **#Journey** **#Pivot** **#Bold** **#Unknown** **#Voice** **#Trust** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Toronto** **#Halifax** **#Accounting** **#Internet** **#Plunge** **#Try** **#Failure** **#Choice** **#Destiny** **#Onwards**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-26-never-put-yourself-in-a-position-in-which-you-regret-what-you-didnt-do/

“Never put yourself in a position in which you regret what you didn’t do. - Futurist Jim Carroll

--
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
--

Forty-one years ago today, I stepped onto a plane in Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading toward a national office in Toronto, Ontario, and a future that didn't yet have a name.

I was a Chartered Accountant by trade, but my heart was already in the "pipes"—the emerging, messy world of computer connectivity. For three years, I had already immersed myself deep into the opportunities that came from the online world, understanding the power of global collaboration, online research, knowledge acceleration, and disruptive ideas. In my heart and in my mind, I just knew that something big was on the way, and I wanted to be a part of it.

41 years on, I know I did the right thing.

Many times in your life, you will need to confront similar big decisions. Should you make the big, bold leap? Should you take the daring jump into the unknown? Can you really hold your breath, close your eyes, take the plunge into tomorrow, and hope for the best?

If you don't, you might end up regretting not doing the most important thing you should have done.

Never put yourself in that situation.

The greatest risk you will ever take is the risk of staying where you are when you know you were meant for what’s next.

Don't ask what happens if you fail.

Ask what happens if you never try at all.

---

Futurist Jim Carroll has been in the online world since 1982. He's seen it go from its nascent beginnings to the massive global machine that it is today.

**#Regret** **#Leap** **#Decision** **#Courage** **#Risk** **#Future** **#Anniversary** **#Journey** **#Pivot** **#Bold** **#Unknown** **#Voice** **#Trust** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Toronto** **#Halifax** **#Accounting** **#Internet** **#Plunge** **#Try** **#Failure** **#Choice** **#Destiny** **#Onwards**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-26-never-put-yourself-in-a-position-in-which-you-regret-what-you-didnt-do/

“Never put yourself in a position in which you regret what you didn’t do. - Futurist Jim Carroll

--
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
--

Forty-one years ago today, I stepped onto a plane in Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading toward a national office in Toronto, Ontario, and a future that didn't yet have a name.

I was a Chartered Accountant by trade, but my heart was already in the "pipes"—the emerging, messy world of computer connectivity. For three years, I had already immersed myself deep into the opportunities that came from the online world, understanding the power of global collaboration, online research, knowledge acceleration, and disruptive ideas. In my heart and in my mind, I just knew that something big was on the way, and I wanted to be a part of it.

41 years on, I know I did the right thing.

Many times in your life, you will need to confront similar big decisions. Should you make the big, bold leap? Should you take the daring jump into the unknown? Can you really hold your breath, close your eyes, take the plunge into tomorrow, and hope for the best?

If you don't, you might end up regretting not doing the most important thing you should have done.

Never put yourself in that situation.

The greatest risk you will ever take is the risk of staying where you are when you know you were meant for what’s next.

Don't ask what happens if you fail.

Ask what happens if you never try at all.

---

Futurist Jim Carroll has been in the online world since 1982. He's seen it go from its nascent beginnings to the massive global machine that it is today.

**#Regret** **#Leap** **#Decision** **#Courage** **#Risk** **#Future** **#Anniversary** **#Journey** **#Pivot** **#Bold** **#Unknown** **#Voice** **#Trust** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Toronto** **#Halifax** **#Accounting** **#Internet** **#Plunge** **#Try** **#Failure** **#Choice** **#Destiny** **#Onwards**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-26-never-put-yourself-in-a-position-in-which-you-regret-what-you-didnt-do/

“Never put yourself in a position in which you regret what you didn’t do. - Futurist Jim Carroll

--
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
--

Forty-one years ago today, I stepped onto a plane in Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading toward a national office in Toronto, Ontario, and a future that didn't yet have a name.

I was a Chartered Accountant by trade, but my heart was already in the "pipes"—the emerging, messy world of computer connectivity. For three years, I had already immersed myself deep into the opportunities that came from the online world, understanding the power of global collaboration, online research, knowledge acceleration, and disruptive ideas. In my heart and in my mind, I just knew that something big was on the way, and I wanted to be a part of it.

41 years on, I know I did the right thing.

Many times in your life, you will need to confront similar big decisions. Should you make the big, bold leap? Should you take the daring jump into the unknown? Can you really hold your breath, close your eyes, take the plunge into tomorrow, and hope for the best?

If you don't, you might end up regretting not doing the most important thing you should have done.

Never put yourself in that situation.

The greatest risk you will ever take is the risk of staying where you are when you know you were meant for what’s next.

Don't ask what happens if you fail.

Ask what happens if you never try at all.

---

Futurist Jim Carroll has been in the online world since 1982. He's seen it go from its nascent beginnings to the massive global machine that it is today.

**#Regret** **#Leap** **#Decision** **#Courage** **#Risk** **#Future** **#Anniversary** **#Journey** **#Pivot** **#Bold** **#Unknown** **#Voice** **#Trust** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Toronto** **#Halifax** **#Accounting** **#Internet** **#Plunge** **#Try** **#Failure** **#Choice** **#Destiny** **#Onwards**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-26-never-put-yourself-in-a-position-in-which-you-regret-what-you-didnt-do/

“Never put yourself in a position in which you regret what you didn’t do. - Futurist Jim Carroll

--
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
--

Forty-one years ago today, I stepped onto a plane in Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading toward a national office in Toronto, Ontario, and a future that didn't yet have a name.

I was a Chartered Accountant by trade, but my heart was already in the "pipes"—the emerging, messy world of computer connectivity. For three years, I had already immersed myself deep into the opportunities that came from the online world, understanding the power of global collaboration, online research, knowledge acceleration, and disruptive ideas. In my heart and in my mind, I just knew that something big was on the way, and I wanted to be a part of it.

41 years on, I know I did the right thing.

Many times in your life, you will need to confront similar big decisions. Should you make the big, bold leap? Should you take the daring jump into the unknown? Can you really hold your breath, close your eyes, take the plunge into tomorrow, and hope for the best?

If you don't, you might end up regretting not doing the most important thing you should have done.

Never put yourself in that situation.

The greatest risk you will ever take is the risk of staying where you are when you know you were meant for what’s next.

Don't ask what happens if you fail.

Ask what happens if you never try at all.

---

Futurist Jim Carroll has been in the online world since 1982. He's seen it go from its nascent beginnings to the massive global machine that it is today.

**#Regret** **#Leap** **#Decision** **#Courage** **#Risk** **#Future** **#Anniversary** **#Journey** **#Pivot** **#Bold** **#Unknown** **#Voice** **#Trust** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Toronto** **#Halifax** **#Accounting** **#Internet** **#Plunge** **#Try** **#Failure** **#Choice** **#Destiny** **#Onwards**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-26-never-put-yourself-in-a-position-in-which-you-regret-what-you-didnt-do/

The Galaxy, the Girl, and the 50-Year Echo from the 70s

https://phicklephilly.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/the-galaxy-the-girl-and-the-50-year-echo/

🎉 Congratulations to host Lori Rosales on her 10th anniversary with “Sidewalks Entertainment!”

📺 10 years with this entertainment TV series.
🎤 10 years of celebrity interviews.
⭐ 10 years of hosting.
😮 10 years of surprises.
😄 10 years of fun.

We love you 💕 and thank you for your tireless contributions. Let’s go for another 10 years and more!

#host #10years #anniversary

Controls [from the archives, 9 May 2021]. Originally performed and recorded for the Modular World 1st anniversary show (8-9 May 2021) which was a massive livestream event of 33+ hrs during the pandemic lockdowns.

During the lockdown years, Modular World became one example of a fairly niche thing gathering people together worldwide to make experimental art online - when it was not possible to organize the usual small local performances - to create something positive and reach more people than they ever could individually. As the pandemic finally, thankfully, subsided, however, it seems that people went back to the enclosed local communities, and these types of global online communities lost their drive. 

Also the rapidly accelerating #enshittification cycle of the past few years has buried the visibility of these kinds of communities from all major social media platforms. Of course, as Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) has been pointing out for years, the enshittification of these platforms started much earlier. But somehow amid the pandemic, this niche scene still seemed to flourish, and it was only after Silicon Valley lined up to kiss the ring that the aggressive changes to the algorithms really seemed to change things. 

Maybe this is correlation more than causation, but as activity at such niche scenes is often also created by fairly principled DIY-oriented people, it seems that many (myself included) have struggled with justifying why we keep feeding these platforms. This disillusionment is further exacerbated by the rise of the AI-slopmachine that will rip off all the non-commercial work from these platforms just like everything else. Online activity that gathers enough momentum to actually keep things active has in these types of niche scenes been very much dependent on instagram and youtube. Over the past few years, the visibility of this type on stuff that doesn’t try to optimise for the alorithm has plummeted. 

Perhaps all of this has resulted in events such as the Modular World shows reaching fewer and fewer people. As wonderful as the promise of #Fediverse is, so far it seems that we’re very far from reaching the critical mass where it would actually start reaching new people. If the utopian enclave remains enclosed, it eventually dwindles away.

But we can try! I’m posting these weird little Johannes Karkia mini music videos and performances here bit by bit. It’s a transfer of archive, posted on insta & youtube over th years, and also new work now & then. 

But also Modular World does still exist! Go check out their channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/07ErB3AjlAo?is=qr9q2pXlhWm7Hie2 (Full performance of this piece, and interview with MW’s Johno Wells there on the Modular World youtube channel and on the Johannes Karkia youtube channel [link in the bio above], audio track also on Bandcamp).

#enshittification #fediverse #modularsynth #modularworld #anniversary #liveshow #electronicmusic #modulartechno #covid19 #pandemic #darkwave #eurorackmodular #community #surveillancecapitalism #platformcapitalism #algorithm #bigtech #siliconvalley #kissthering #socialmedia #utopianenclave #utopianism

“Never put yourself in a position in which you regret what you didn’t do. - Futurist Jim Carroll

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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
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Forty-one years ago today, I stepped onto a plane in Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading toward a national office in Toronto, Ontario, and a future that didn't yet have a name.

I was a Chartered Accountant by trade, but my heart was already in the "pipes"—the emerging, messy world of computer connectivity. For three years, I had already immersed myself deep into the opportunities that came from the online world, understanding the power of global collaboration, online research, knowledge acceleration, and disruptive ideas. In my heart and in my mind, I just knew that something big was on the way, and I wanted to be a part of it.

The move came about because I had been identified by the national office as someone who could implement the opportunities of that 'something big on a nationwide basis. They offered me a position to chase my ideas, albeit in a bigger, well-funded way - and I accepted.

That moment in time was the final, terrifying step in my ultimate pivot. I wasn't just changing roles; I was abandoning "certainty" for a wild risk on what would eventually become the Internet. And yet, I've never looked back with regret at the decision I made to move forward. I often wonder what my world would be like today if I had let that regret define my future.

41 years on, I know I did the right thing.

Many times in your life, you will need to confront similar big decisions. Should you make the big, bold leap? Should you take the daring jump into the unknown? Can you really hold your breath, close your eyes, take the plunge into tomorrow, and hope for the best?

If you don't, you might end up regretting not doing the most important thing you should have done.

Never put yourself in that situation.

The greatest risk you will ever take is the risk of staying where you are when you know you were meant for what’s next.

Forty-one years later, my accounting title is an artifact, but the decision to chase a future without a name remains the smartest move I ever made.

Don't ask what happens if you fail.

Ask what happens if you never try at all.

---

Futurist Jim Carroll has been in the online world since 1982. He's seen it go from its nascent beginnings to the massive global machine that it is today.

**#Regret** **#Leap** **#Decision** **#Courage** **#Risk** **#Future** **#Anniversary** **#Journey** **#Pivot** **#Bold** **#Unknown** **#Voice** **#Trust** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Toronto** **#Halifax** **#Accounting** **#Internet** **#Plunge** **#Try** **#Failure** **#Choice** **#Destiny** **#Onwards**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-26-never-put-yourself-in-a-position-in-which-you-regret-what-you-didnt-do/

“Never put yourself in a position in which you regret what you didn’t do. - Futurist Jim Carroll

--
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
--

Forty-one years ago today, I stepped onto a plane in Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading toward a national office in Toronto, Ontario, and a future that didn't yet have a name.

I was a Chartered Accountant by trade, but my heart was already in the "pipes"—the emerging, messy world of computer connectivity. For three years, I had already immersed myself deep into the opportunities that came from the online world, understanding the power of global collaboration, online research, knowledge acceleration, and disruptive ideas. In my heart and in my mind, I just knew that something big was on the way, and I wanted to be a part of it.

The move came about because I had been identified by the national office as someone who could implement the opportunities of that 'something big on a nationwide basis. They offered me a position to chase my ideas, albeit in a bigger, well-funded way - and I accepted.

That moment in time was the final, terrifying step in my ultimate pivot. I wasn't just changing roles; I was abandoning "certainty" for a wild risk on what would eventually become the Internet. And yet, I've never looked back with regret at the decision I made to move forward. I often wonder what my world would be like today if I had let that regret define my future.

41 years on, I know I did the right thing.

Many times in your life, you will need to confront similar big decisions. Should you make the big, bold leap? Should you take the daring jump into the unknown? Can you really hold your breath, close your eyes, take the plunge into tomorrow, and hope for the best?

If you don't, you might end up regretting not doing the most important thing you should have done.

Never put yourself in that situation.

The greatest risk you will ever take is the risk of staying where you are when you know you were meant for what’s next.

Forty-one years later, my accounting title is an artifact, but the decision to chase a future without a name remains the smartest move I ever made.

Don't ask what happens if you fail.

Ask what happens if you never try at all.

---

Futurist Jim Carroll has been in the online world since 1982. He's seen it go from its nascent beginnings to the massive global machine that it is today.

**#Regret** **#Leap** **#Decision** **#Courage** **#Risk** **#Future** **#Anniversary** **#Journey** **#Pivot** **#Bold** **#Unknown** **#Voice** **#Trust** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Toronto** **#Halifax** **#Accounting** **#Internet** **#Plunge** **#Try** **#Failure** **#Choice** **#Destiny** **#Onwards**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-26-never-put-yourself-in-a-position-in-which-you-regret-what-you-didnt-do/

“Never put yourself in a position in which you regret what you didn’t do. - Futurist Jim Carroll

--
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
--

Forty-one years ago today, I stepped onto a plane in Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading toward a national office in Toronto, Ontario, and a future that didn't yet have a name.

I was a Chartered Accountant by trade, but my heart was already in the "pipes"—the emerging, messy world of computer connectivity. For three years, I had already immersed myself deep into the opportunities that came from the online world, understanding the power of global collaboration, online research, knowledge acceleration, and disruptive ideas. In my heart and in my mind, I just knew that something big was on the way, and I wanted to be a part of it.

The move came about because I had been identified by the national office as someone who could implement the opportunities of that 'something big on a nationwide basis. They offered me a position to chase my ideas, albeit in a bigger, well-funded way - and I accepted.

That moment in time was the final, terrifying step in my ultimate pivot. I wasn't just changing roles; I was abandoning "certainty" for a wild risk on what would eventually become the Internet. And yet, I've never looked back with regret at the decision I made to move forward. I often wonder what my world would be like today if I had let that regret define my future.

41 years on, I know I did the right thing.

Many times in your life, you will need to confront similar big decisions. Should you make the big, bold leap? Should you take the daring jump into the unknown? Can you really hold your breath, close your eyes, take the plunge into tomorrow, and hope for the best?

If you don't, you might end up regretting not doing the most important thing you should have done.

Never put yourself in that situation.

The greatest risk you will ever take is the risk of staying where you are when you know you were meant for what’s next.

Forty-one years later, my accounting title is an artifact, but the decision to chase a future without a name remains the smartest move I ever made.

Don't ask what happens if you fail.

Ask what happens if you never try at all.

---

Futurist Jim Carroll has been in the online world since 1982. He's seen it go from its nascent beginnings to the massive global machine that it is today.

**#Regret** **#Leap** **#Decision** **#Courage** **#Risk** **#Future** **#Anniversary** **#Journey** **#Pivot** **#Bold** **#Unknown** **#Voice** **#Trust** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Toronto** **#Halifax** **#Accounting** **#Internet** **#Plunge** **#Try** **#Failure** **#Choice** **#Destiny** **#Onwards**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-26-never-put-yourself-in-a-position-in-which-you-regret-what-you-didnt-do/

“Never put yourself in a position in which you regret what you didn’t do. - Futurist Jim Carroll

--
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
--

Forty-one years ago today, I stepped onto a plane in Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading toward a national office in Toronto, Ontario, and a future that didn't yet have a name.

I was a Chartered Accountant by trade, but my heart was already in the "pipes"—the emerging, messy world of computer connectivity. For three years, I had already immersed myself deep into the opportunities that came from the online world, understanding the power of global collaboration, online research, knowledge acceleration, and disruptive ideas. In my heart and in my mind, I just knew that something big was on the way, and I wanted to be a part of it.

The move came about because I had been identified by the national office as someone who could implement the opportunities of that 'something big on a nationwide basis. They offered me a position to chase my ideas, albeit in a bigger, well-funded way - and I accepted.

That moment in time was the final, terrifying step in my ultimate pivot. I wasn't just changing roles; I was abandoning "certainty" for a wild risk on what would eventually become the Internet. And yet, I've never looked back with regret at the decision I made to move forward. I often wonder what my world would be like today if I had let that regret define my future.

41 years on, I know I did the right thing.

Many times in your life, you will need to confront similar big decisions. Should you make the big, bold leap? Should you take the daring jump into the unknown? Can you really hold your breath, close your eyes, take the plunge into tomorrow, and hope for the best?

If you don't, you might end up regretting not doing the most important thing you should have done.

Never put yourself in that situation.

The greatest risk you will ever take is the risk of staying where you are when you know you were meant for what’s next.

Forty-one years later, my accounting title is an artifact, but the decision to chase a future without a name remains the smartest move I ever made.

Don't ask what happens if you fail.

Ask what happens if you never try at all.

---

Futurist Jim Carroll has been in the online world since 1982. He's seen it go from its nascent beginnings to the massive global machine that it is today.

**#Regret** **#Leap** **#Decision** **#Courage** **#Risk** **#Future** **#Anniversary** **#Journey** **#Pivot** **#Bold** **#Unknown** **#Voice** **#Trust** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Toronto** **#Halifax** **#Accounting** **#Internet** **#Plunge** **#Try** **#Failure** **#Choice** **#Destiny** **#Onwards**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-26-never-put-yourself-in-a-position-in-which-you-regret-what-you-didnt-do/

“Never put yourself in a position in which you regret what you didn’t do. - Futurist Jim Carroll

--
Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
--

Forty-one years ago today, I stepped onto a plane in Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading toward a national office in Toronto, Ontario, and a future that didn't yet have a name.

I was a Chartered Accountant by trade, but my heart was already in the "pipes"—the emerging, messy world of computer connectivity. For three years, I had already immersed myself deep into the opportunities that came from the online world, understanding the power of global collaboration, online research, knowledge acceleration, and disruptive ideas. In my heart and in my mind, I just knew that something big was on the way, and I wanted to be a part of it.

The move came about because I had been identified by the national office as someone who could implement the opportunities of that 'something big on a nationwide basis. They offered me a position to chase my ideas, albeit in a bigger, well-funded way - and I accepted.

That moment in time was the final, terrifying step in my ultimate pivot. I wasn't just changing roles; I was abandoning "certainty" for a wild risk on what would eventually become the Internet. And yet, I've never looked back with regret at the decision I made to move forward. I often wonder what my world would be like today if I had let that regret define my future.

41 years on, I know I did the right thing.

Many times in your life, you will need to confront similar big decisions. Should you make the big, bold leap? Should you take the daring jump into the unknown? Can you really hold your breath, close your eyes, take the plunge into tomorrow, and hope for the best?

If you don't, you might end up regretting not doing the most important thing you should have done.

Never put yourself in that situation.

The greatest risk you will ever take is the risk of staying where you are when you know you were meant for what’s next.

Forty-one years later, my accounting title is an artifact, but the decision to chase a future without a name remains the smartest move I ever made.

Don't ask what happens if you fail.

Ask what happens if you never try at all.

---

Futurist Jim Carroll has been in the online world since 1982. He's seen it go from its nascent beginnings to the massive global machine that it is today.

**#Regret** **#Leap** **#Decision** **#Courage** **#Risk** **#Future** **#Anniversary** **#Journey** **#Pivot** **#Bold** **#Unknown** **#Voice** **#Trust** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Toronto** **#Halifax** **#Accounting** **#Internet** **#Plunge** **#Try** **#Failure** **#Choice** **#Destiny** **#Onwards**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-26-never-put-yourself-in-a-position-in-which-you-regret-what-you-didnt-do/

https://www.kpopnsfw.com/252986/260430-sana-instagram-update-the-day-i-got-closer-to-crispy-sandwich%f0%9f%8e%80-haagendazs_jp-crispy-sandwich-25th-anniversary%f0%9f%a7%a1/ 260430 Sana Instagram Update – The day I got closer to CRISPY SANDWICH🎀 @haagendazs_jp CRISPY SANDWICH 25th Anniversary🧡 #25th #Anniversary #Closer #Crispy #DAY #haagendazs_jp #instagram #sana #Sandwich #Twice #update

https://www.kpopnsfw.com/252986/260430-sana-instagram-update-the-day-i-got-closer-to-crispy-sandwich%f0%9f%8e%80-haagendazs_jp-crispy-sandwich-25th-anniversary%f0%9f%a7%a1/ 260430 Sana Instagram Update – The day I got closer to CRISPY SANDWICH🎀 @haagendazs_jp CRISPY SANDWICH 25th Anniversary🧡 #25th #Anniversary #Closer #Crispy #DAY #haagendazs_jp #instagram #sana #Sandwich #Twice #update

Merseyside’s rape crisis service marks its 40 year anniversary

Merseyside’s rape crisis service (RASA) was set up 40 years ago in response to the rape and murder…
#Liverpool #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #anniversary #Britain #Charity #charityevent #fundraiser #GreatBritain #Rape
https://www.europesays.com/uk/928669/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/928669/ Merseyside’s rape crisis service marks its 40 year anniversary #anniversary #Britain #Charity #CharityEvent #England #fundraiser #GreatBritain #Liverpool #Rape #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/iran/90324/ Mass Rally Held in Tehran to Mark Birth Anniversary of Imam Reza #a #against #aggression #allegiance #and #anniversary #as #ayatollah #Birth #country #for #Foreign #held #Imam #in #Iran #Islam #Islamic #khamenei #large #leader #mark #Mass #Mojtaba #of #on #participants #public #rally #renewing #Revolution #Reza #Seyed #support #Tehran #the #Times #to #voicing #was #wednesday #with

A Year in Review: 2025 – 2026

It happens every year—both my website and I turn one year older.

I know what you’re thinking… something like, “Aerik, of course that happens. Aging naturally occurs for all things. It’s just how time works.” But you’re missing a key detail: both of these “birthdays” happen in the same month: April! Also, time is a construct.

While I just turn some insignificant number, my blog turns 3! Please join me in a moment of quiet reflection… a time to look back and see what interesting things have happened since a similarly-themed post from the previous year.

But first, what are the hallmark qualities of children at this age?

• Growing Social Interest: They start to play with other children rather than just alongside them, sharing toys (though still learning), and taking turns.
• The “Why” Stage: Intense curiosity drives them to ask “why” and “what” constantly to understand the world.
• Cognitive Skills: They can follow 2- to 3-step instructions, match objects by shape and color, and understand the concept of “two”.
• Gross Motor Skills: They run, jump in place, climb well, and can ride a tricycle.
• Fine Motor Skills: They can build a tower of 6-10 blocks, turn pages one at a time, and draw a circle when shown how.

Well, I certainly understand the concept of “two.” And while I could build an infinite tower of blocks, given enough time, I’m not always the best at sharing my toys.

Still, there has been growth all around. Just look at the below chart, which… for the most part, is continuing to trend upward!

I know my word count and posting frequency here has gone down when compared to previous years. Since the start of 2026, I’ve written a total of 20k words on this site. Most of my extra time was spent publishing a book, however, plus writing a manuscript that will become another book. So I feel like it was a fair trade off. We’ll talk more about that in a moment…

As of today—and not including what you’re reading right now—I’ve put out a total of 373 posts.

The most popular these days?

• Divination: How to Use a Pendulum
• Alchemy: The Three Principals (Tria Prima)
• Alchemy: The Four Stages (Nigredo, Albedo, Citrinitas, and Rubedo)

I’m really glad people are searching for and reading Alchemy-related articles. That makes my heart happy. But are so many people really looking for pendulum information all the time? Hey, I won’t argue… if y’all like to read it, then y’all like to read it.

Despite the fact that my posting output may have declined, I have not missed a single Monday update in years. Even when we were on a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean with zero internet or cell phone reception, I had a post scheduled to go from the previous evening. It’s kind of weird having weekly highlights of my life chronicled ad nauseam, but it certainly makes for a good reference when I forget about things. I didn’t really intend for that when I started, but I find myself looking back at it more and more to confirm “yeah, that’s the week we did _____.”

Okay, okay, let’s get back to the book. Obviously, that was a significant highlight of… well, not just of the past 12 months, but of my entire life. And as I promised in last year’s review, I will now actually tell you how to acquire said book.

You can get it:

• Directly from me on Etsy (the coolest way because it’s signed)
• From my publisher, Crossed Crow
• Through my affiliate link on Amazon
• Also, you know, from your local bookstore if they carry it

And if you’d just like to learn a little bit more about the book, you can check out this video I made that’ll show you most of the highlights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS5elZtURuo

On my YouTube channel, there are a total of 332 videos. If you decide you’d like to watch all of the current 33 episodes of M3, I applaud your effort, but it’ll take you a couple of days straight to do that. I’ve officially started my show’s 4th season, which is pretty crazy to think about.

About a year ago, I got the bright idea to try doing video book reviews. I mean, I like books, so why not talk about the books I like? It’s kind of a trial and error sort of thing, but some come up quite often in searches… like these:

• The Practice of Magical Evocation
• The Chicken Qabalah
• Initiation Into Hermetics
• The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic

So that’s fun!

I will tell you this. In January 2024, my YouTube channel hit 150 subscribers. I was really excited about it. Two years later, I’ve grown past 1500. Guess what? I’m still really excited about it! If you have supported me by subscribing or watching my videos, I really, really, really appreciate that.

Our festival attendance may have been a little light this past year. We’ve got more coming up on the horizon, though. One thing that makes a big difference is that Selene and I have both decided to become full-time students, which obviously takes up a lot of time. When I’m not writing a post here or a chapter for a new book, I’m probably writing a random paper for a class. Plus, we have a great deal of other things going on in our lives right now.

Well, friends, that about wraps up our annual review. For the most part, I’m very pleased by how everything has turned out.

Obligatory reminder of gratitude: I very much appreciate anyone who has taken an interest in what I create — listening to my music, watching my videos, reading my writing, or buying my book… and people who have expressed that interest by subscribing to my mailing list, following on social media, or even supporting me on Patreon. My ongoing goal is to have raised enough support funding to cover the expenses of things like hosting this website (websites are expensive, man) or some of the software I use for interviews. I’m still not quite there yet, but I’m sure I’ll get there soon! And I also very much appreciate my wife, who both puts up with me and supports me doing all of these crazy projects all the time.

End of review.

I know I said “end of review” and everything, but wait… there’s more. I always have to include fine print like this for two reasons. First of all, it’s just fun to write fine print. I mean, have you ever actually tried it? Trust me, it’s satisfying. Especially when there’s no one telling you what to write or how long it needs to be—like, I could just go on for paragraphs and paragraphs if I wanted. Don’t worry, I won’t. The second reason is that there are Amazon affiliate links on this page that will take you to my book. If you use one of those links to make a purchase, Amazon will pay me a tiny commission. That’s all for real now. End of fine print.

APRA music awards 2026 winners announced, with Amyl and the Sniffers taking top gong

It’s tricky to quote from the Amyl and the Sniffers track Jerkin’ because it’s so full of swearing…
#NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #100years #2026 #amylandthesniffers #anniversary #apra #apraawards #AU #Australia #awards #Entertainment #guysebastian #Music #nominations #sarahaarons #Sia #Sydney #winners
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/638656/

APRA music awards 2026 winners announced, with Amyl and the Sniffers taking top gong

It’s tricky to quote from the Amyl and the Sniffers track Jerkin’ because it’s so full of swearing…
#NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #100years #2026 #amylandthesniffers #anniversary #apra #apraawards #AU #Australia #awards #Entertainment #guysebastian #Music #nominations #sarahaarons #Sia #Sydney #winners
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/638656/

Malai Kitchen celebrates 10 years of bringing Vietnamese, Thai dishes to Southlake https://www.diningandcooking.com/2619530/malai-kitchen-celebrates-10-years-of-bringing-vietnamese-thai-dishes-to-southlake/ #anniversary #Asian #diner #dining #eatery #food #MalaiKitchen #restaurant #Southlake #SouthlakeRestaurant #TenYears #Thai #Vietnamese

Malai Kitchen celebrates 10 years of bringing Vietnamese, Thai dishes to Southlake https://www.diningandcooking.com/2619530/malai-kitchen-celebrates-10-years-of-bringing-vietnamese-thai-dishes-to-southlake/ #anniversary #Asian #diner #dining #eatery #food #MalaiKitchen #restaurant #Southlake #SouthlakeRestaurant #TenYears #Thai #Vietnamese

Malai Kitchen celebrates 10 years of bringing Vietnamese, Thai dishes to Southlake https://www.diningandcooking.com/2619530/malai-kitchen-celebrates-10-years-of-bringing-vietnamese-thai-dishes-to-southlake/ #anniversary #Asian #diner #dining #eatery #food #MalaiKitchen #restaurant #Southlake #SouthlakeRestaurant #TenYears #Thai #Vietnamese

Malai Kitchen celebrates 10 years of bringing Vietnamese, Thai dishes to Southlake

Malai Kitchen celebrated 10 years in Southlake, according to a Facebook post from the eatery. The restaurant serves Thai and Vietname…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Dining #anniversary #Asian #diner #eatery #MalaiKitchen #restaurant #Southlake #Southlakerestaurant #tenyears #Thai #Vietnamese
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2619530/malai-kitchen-celebrates-10-years-of-bringing-vietnamese-thai-dishes-to-southlake/

Malai Kitchen celebrates 10 years of bringing Vietnamese, Thai dishes to Southlake

Malai Kitchen celebrated 10 years in Southlake, according to a Facebook post from the eatery. The restaurant serves Thai and Vietname…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Dining #anniversary #Asian #diner #eatery #MalaiKitchen #restaurant #Southlake #Southlakerestaurant #tenyears #Thai #Vietnamese
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2619530/malai-kitchen-celebrates-10-years-of-bringing-vietnamese-thai-dishes-to-southlake/

Malai Kitchen celebrates 10 years of bringing Vietnamese, Thai dishes to Southlake

Malai Kitchen celebrated 10 years in Southlake, according to a Facebook post from the eatery. The restaurant serves Thai and Vietname…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Dining #anniversary #Asian #diner #eatery #MalaiKitchen #restaurant #Southlake #Southlakerestaurant #tenyears #Thai #Vietnamese
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2619530/malai-kitchen-celebrates-10-years-of-bringing-vietnamese-thai-dishes-to-southlake/

Malai Kitchen celebrates 10 years of bringing Vietnamese, Thai dishes to Southlake

Malai Kitchen celebrated 10 years in Southlake, according to a Facebook post from the eatery. The restaurant serves Thai and Vietname…
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2619530/malai-kitchen-celebrates-10-years-of-bringing-vietnamese-thai-dishes-to-southlake/

https://rte.ie/player/series/nationwide/SI0000001172?epguid=IH10016303-26-0047
RTE Nationwide features the Guinness choir rehearsing Seán Doherty's commission "City of Our Dreaming", based on a poem by Paula Meehan.
Archival footage singing with Bing Crosby in the Guinness Brewery; and with RTE Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky.

Tickets for the premiere in St. Patrick's Cathedral on May 7:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-city-of-our-dreaming-concert-tickets-1985316649542

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Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Marks The 50th Anniversary Of The Judgment Of Paris • James Lane Post • Hamptons Culture & Lifestyle Magazine

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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2617678/stags-leap-wine-cellars-marks-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-judgment-of-paris-james-lane-post-hamptons-culture-lifestyle-magazine/

Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Marks The 50th Anniversary Of The Judgment Of Paris • James Lane Post • Hamptons Culture & Lifestyle Magazine https://www.diningandcooking.com/2617678/stags-leap-wine-cellars-marks-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-judgment-of-paris-james-lane-post-hamptons-culture-lifestyle-magazine/ #America #AmericanWine #anniversary #cellars #dining #featured #judgment #marks #paris #stag’s #travel #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesWine #USWine #USAWine #Wine

@LiveMusicArchiveUpdates don’t get too-too excited just yet, it needs to derive the rest of the 44 tracks… also it was recorded from near the back of the room. #OTS #OfficialTapingSection #OfficialTapersSection #OfficialTaperSection #audienceRecording #DAUD #CamperVanBeethoven #sanFrancisco #California 40th #Anniversary of #TelephoneFreeLandslideVictory #Album #OriginalMembers Including #ChrisMolla #AnthonyGuess

On this day (April 25) in 2006, a random conversation between Elianna and Jess on the campus of Case Western Reserve University founded what would become The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company.

Now... 460 performances later of 260 different semi-improvisational scenarios from traditional Italian commedia dell'arte and Japanese kyōgen to parodies of science-fiction, anime, and steampunk, staged in nearly 50 cities across 7 states by 200 Players of the Patchwork... 20 years... and still running!

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This Saturday, April 25 we celebrate our troupe's big 20th birthday so we're doing a retrospective countdown!

Year 16 (2021 - 2022) was when we could stage in-person commedia dell'arte again though we now had two different sets of masks such as the premiere of "The Horrible and Terrifying Deeds and Words of Niphleseth, Queen of the Wild Island of Chitterlingonian Sausages" for Ohio State University Center on Medieval & Renaissance Studies inspired by the 16th Century satirical novels by François Rabelais!

Year 17 (2022 - 2023) saw the world fully reopen and when faced what was expected to be the final Marcon (our premiere science-fiction convention) we decided to go out with a bang and stage our second adaptation of a play briefly scene in the pages of the "Girl Genius" gaslamp fantasy graphic novel series, the infamous and incredibly ribald "Heterodyne Boys & the Socket Wench of Prague"!

Year 18 (2023 - 2024) we staged more innuendo jokes in a 60 minute performance block than possibly the prior 18 years combined with "The Beavers of Venice", a last minute "Plan B" commedia dell'arte play for our biggest show at Pennsic!

Year 19 (2024 - 2025) finally completed plans begun in 2019 for our first D20 Project Play in 2019 when we staged "A Mockery of Mimicry" multiple times as a commedia dell'arte parody celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons where audience rolls of a giant die determined the course of our farce!

Year 20 (2025 - 2026) we continued our look into the more fantasy side of commedia dell'arte with several performances in historical pastorale style on our way to going down, down, down into a goblin town where we'll end on the madness of laughter!

So... where will the next 20 years take us?!

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On Friday, 10th April 2026 was my 2 year HRT anniversary and I wanted to share my progression so far.

If you have any questions feel free to ask them.

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New music release from Miley Cyrus:

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Ricoh GR Celebrates 30 Years: ‘Forever a Snapshooter’ https://petapixel.com/2026/04/16/ricoh-gr-celebrates-30-years-forever-a-snapshooter/ #ricohimaging #anniversary #pentaxricoh #Equipment #ricohgriv #grseries #ricohgr #ricoh #News

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