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July 25, 2025
Currently on my 2nd summer blogging sabbatical - please enjoy today's album and image. May or may hand out a micro-post, depending on how...

Alex Bemish
2 hours ago1 min read
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Micro-post #87: A whole saga about delinquent wizards (Unscary Ghosts)
These four videos from YouTuber Unscary Ghosts actually make up a larger story - the less said, the sillier they are: Reminder: I'm...

Alex Bemish
4 hours ago1 min read
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Micro-post #86: An article about ditching the self-help industry
"Against Self-Optimization" by David Zahl (Plough) Photo by Shiromani Kant ( Unsplash ) "There’s nothing wrong with conserving our time...

Alex Bemish
21 hours ago1 min read
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Micro-post #85: Quote from W. E. B. Du Bois about complaining
"We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unflailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient,...

Alex Bemish
23 hours ago1 min read
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Micro-post #84: Good advice on drawing fundamentals [Basic Knowledge Stuff #9]
I have a touch-and-go relationship with drawing, in that I can draw simple cartoony figures but not much else. I've always like drawing...

Alex Bemish
1 day ago1 min read
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July 24, 2025
Currently on my 2nd summer blogging sabbatical - please enjoy today's album and image. May or may hand out a micro-post, depending on how...

Alex Bemish
1 day ago1 min read
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Micro-post #83: Favorite Instagram posts (#5 of Who Knows)
Continuing from similar posts showing some of my favorite Likes on Instagram and Tumblr, as a way of sharing cool things I find there....

Alex Bemish
1 day ago1 min read
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July 23, 2025
Currently on my 2nd summer blogging sabbatical - please enjoy today's album and image. May or may hand out a micro-post, depending on how...

Alex Bemish
2 days ago1 min read
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Micro-post #82: Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025)
I don't have a lot to add for Ozzy's passing since I wasn't the biggest fan, even though I had a fondness for his time with Black Sabbath...

Alex Bemish
3 days ago1 min read
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July 22, 2025
Seeing as I have nothing of real note to add lately, I'm going on my next blogging sabbatical starting tomorrow. If anything changes,...

Alex Bemish
3 days ago1 min read
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Micro-post #81: A zine about making easy bread recipes (along with some bonus bread resources) [Basic Knowledge Stuff #8]
A fun thing about being on Reddit and other social media is that despite all of the garbage you have to ingest, you often also find...

Alex Bemish
4 days ago1 min read
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Micro-post #80: Quote from Isabel Wilkerson about the old house called America
This is one of the best analogies I can think of regarding the U.S.A. as an American. Started reading Caste the other day and this...

Alex Bemish
4 days ago2 min read
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July 21, 2025
Nothing notable this weekend or even today - mostly spent it reorganizing, chilling, and being with some friends yesterday. Also debating...

Alex Bemish
4 days ago1 min read
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Micro-post #79: A Bluesky post for National Moon Day
July 20th seems to be a big day for observation days, with chess and ice cream and all - apparently it's also National Moon Day too...

Alex Bemish
5 days ago1 min read
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Micro-post #78: Modern Marvels on how ice cream is made
Along with chess , today was also National Ice Cream Day . Here's a clip from Modern Marvels about how it gets made:

Alex Bemish
5 days ago1 min read
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Micro-post #77: International Chess Day
A little late to the party (writing this at 9pm) but still wanted to make a quick post to mark today as International Chess Day . Here...

Alex Bemish
5 days ago1 min read
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Micro-post #76: Finding out about the Bone Museum in Bushwick
After finding out there is, indeed, a Bone Museum in Brooklyn, I was asked by my spouse to share what I found. It's certainly a thing....

Alex Bemish
6 days ago2 min read
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July 19-20, 2025
This weekend's albums are both volumes of Mutant Disco: A Subtle Dislocation of the Norm (2003) [which should be shown as a double album...

Alex Bemish
6 days ago1 min read
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Micro-post #75: Video about Ibn Battuta (Extra History) with extra resources
Ibn Battuta was quite a character - his travels hilariously wild. The video from Extra History is a good start but I've also added some...

Alex Bemish
7 days ago1 min read
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July 18, 2025
I don't have anything interesting or important to add for today - please enjoy today's album and image. - A.B. 7/18/25 Today's album is...

Alex Bemish
Jul 181 min read
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