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Micro-post #33: National Geographic video about D-Day
While I've been more focused on other things, I also want to take a moment to acknowledge that today is the 81st anniversary of D-Day (...

Alex Bemish
7 hours ago1 min read
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June 6, 2025
This is going to be a busy weekend for me for reasons I'll explain on Sunday/Monday but mostly gearing up to be out and about with...

Alex Bemish
9 hours ago1 min read
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![Micro-post #32: Julie d' Aubigny, queer icon [Pride Month #3]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r0XFug0yc2A/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Micro-post #32: Julie d' Aubigny, queer icon [Pride Month #3]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r0XFug0yc2A/maxresdefault.jpg)
Micro-post #32: Julie d' Aubigny, queer icon [Pride Month #3]
For some good ol' queer swashbuckling fun, here's a few videos about one of the coolest women in history, the French opera singer Julie...

Alex Bemish
11 hours ago1 min read
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![Proto-Stonewall: The Compton's Cafeteria Riot [Something Interesting #59] [Pride Month 2025 #2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G-WASW9dRBU/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Proto-Stonewall: The Compton's Cafeteria Riot [Something Interesting #59] [Pride Month 2025 #2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G-WASW9dRBU/maxresdefault.jpg)
Proto-Stonewall: The Compton's Cafeteria Riot [Something Interesting #59] [Pride Month 2025 #2]
Stonewall is often the key event when talking about LGBTQ+ rights here in the United States but there was an equally important event...

Alex Bemish
11 hours ago2 min read
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Micro-post #31: The Mysteries of Chess Boxing
Chess boxing is one of those weird things I've come across here and there throughout the years, so I finally looked into some videos and...

Alex Bemish
1 day ago1 min read
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June 5, 2025
Same story as before: sunny, hot, nothing of real note. Been listening to this week's Behind the Bastards about the scientist behind the...

Alex Bemish
1 day ago1 min read
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Micro-post #30: National Cheese Day!
Today was apparently National Cheese Day but also only one of many cheese days . Regardless of whether this was the superior Cheese Day,...

Alex Bemish
2 days ago1 min read
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![Micro-post #29: Videos about Nathan Lane's Broadway career [Pride Month 2025 #1]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IfiqWKM2npU/hqdefault.jpg)
![Micro-post #29: Videos about Nathan Lane's Broadway career [Pride Month 2025 #1]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IfiqWKM2npU/hqdefault.jpg)
Micro-post #29: Videos about Nathan Lane's Broadway career [Pride Month 2025 #1]
I asked my spouse - a Queer both personally and professionally - what some good post topics for Pride Month could include. They...

Alex Bemish
2 days ago1 min read
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Micro-post #28: The original tale of Stede Bonnett, the Gentleman Pirate
One of the best aspects about public domain is that people find ways to gather cool things and spruce them up to showcase them in...

Alex Bemish
2 days ago24 min read
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Micro-post #27: "Martian Successor Nadesico," a charming 90s mecha anime
Found out recently that Nozomi Entertainment (the successor to the anime retailer known to 1990s anime fans as Right Stuf ) has been...

Alex Bemish
2 days ago1 min read
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June 4, 2025
Nothing major today, just working and holding down the fort. Sunny outside so might take advantage of that later on but also thinking it...

Alex Bemish
2 days ago1 min read
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Micro-post #26: A video about making your own beef chili crisp
Lao Gan Ma ( 老干妈) ("Old Grandmother") is a Chinese condiment brand that apparently makes an amazing meat-infused black bean chili crisp...

Alex Bemish
3 days ago1 min read
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June 3, 2025
Today's pretty light - spouse is busy with work stuff and I'm focused on the house and my own work. Did see a video this morning that was...

Alex Bemish
3 days ago1 min read
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Micro-post #25: Two podcast episodes about the rise & fall of Kelly, demander of SHOES!!
Don’t know if this would fall under Pride Month stuff but the episodes about Liam Kyle Sullivan on Jamie Loftus's podcast Sixteenth...

Alex Bemish
4 days ago1 min read
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![Concertos of Various Kinds [Something Interesting #58]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WoPuvIXxswo/maxresdefault.jpg)
![Concertos of Various Kinds [Something Interesting #58]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WoPuvIXxswo/maxresdefault.jpg)
Concertos of Various Kinds [Something Interesting #58]
While I've built up a large set of knowledge regarding popular music, I'm still a relative neophyte when it comes to understanding...

Alex Bemish
4 days ago2 min read
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June 2, 2025
One of the frustrating parts of writing these journal posts is that there's actually some interesting things I can talk about but I feel...

Alex Bemish
4 days ago3 min read
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May 31 & June 1, 2025
This weekend was dedicated to kicking off Pride Month with a two-day cornhole tournament, which we somehow (miraculously) won! Weather...

Alex Bemish
5 days ago1 min read
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Micro-post #24: A Hoog video about the most exclusive nightclub on Earth
The Dutch YouTube channel Hoog does a lot of cool videos, especially about places that are hard to access for outsiders. One such place...

Alex Bemish
6 days ago1 min read
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Micro-post #23: A conversation about literary critics being tetchy (and the articles referenced by them)
"I’d Like to Report a Murder" by Hannah Baer, Lauren Oyler, and Brandon Taylor (Pioneer Works) A lively conversation between literary...

Alex Bemish
6 days ago1 min read
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![Micro-post #22: The Bradford Hill Criteria (and a couple Intro to Epidemiology videos) [Basic Knowledge Stuff #]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_luU3I03JwE/maxresdefault.jpg)
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Micro-post #22: The Bradford Hill Criteria (and a couple Intro to Epidemiology videos) [Basic Knowledge Stuff #]
Sometimes, these micro-posts are also going to just be lists or short definitions of cultural literacy-kind of things. Here's one of...

Alex Bemish
6 days ago1 min read
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