A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
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”I like to say that I was a garlic smuggler for the mafia, which I was, but there’s more to the story than that.”
@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social reflects on his time in a federal penitentiary, where the kinds of cooking Italian maximum security inmates get up to would have been completely unthinkable.
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* On foot
* 41.8867, 12.4664
* 9 February 2026
* 428.77 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap
How very pleasant. Today’s quest was just to the side of what some people cite as the jewel of the Renaissance architecture, Bramante’s Tempietto. I couldn’t get any closer today, though I have been inside on other occasions.
This IndieWeb-first WordPress theme is an interesting development from Khürt Williams. Might have to give it a spin to see how well it does with ClassicPress. I don't actually need to convert another site, but I also could, I think, without losing much. Depends on how it does images.