from my link log —
Ruminating about mutable value semantics.
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/ruminating-about-mutable-value-semantics/
saved 2026-08-12
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Momoko Gill:
🎵 Rewind / Remind
#MomokoGill
https://momokogill.bandcamp.com/track/rewind-remind-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/3eXFH6seJPXTULQTjcqUJM
"The condition has been renamed polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, or P.M.O.S., to better reflect its wide-ranging health effects."
P.C.O.S. Has Been Renamed P.M.O.S. Doctors Hope It Will Improve Care for Millions. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/well/live/pcos-pmos-name-change-treatment-health.html
Dogs are a constant reminder that it's possible for one to be noble without being dignified.
In this era of AI-juiced unilateral decision-making, I'm reminded of the saying, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
I had never tried Cola Champagne before, but after seeing an AOC video trying Irn-Bru and saying it reminded her of CC, I got one today and OMG it really is! I don't know if it's made of girders, but it's pretty much the same damn thing, or at least a close enough substitute.
For you other wizened '80s/'90s indie kids - do you remember this top jangly tune? They remind me of #TheSeaUrchins.
https://youtu.be/um6ZX5rj-ls?si=GrN2V097mijovVC5
This is the weirdest article... it reads like something from the Onion.
"While driving last week I saw a young adult riding a bicycle. He was probably in his late teens or early twenties. I don't know him or his story, but when I saw him, I felt impressed. I think he reminded me a bit of myself when I wasn't old enough to drive."
However, there were exceptions to Catherine of Siena’s food intolerance. She told Raymond of Capua that she had eaten pus oozing from the body of a dying woman she was nursing, declaring that “never in my life have I tasted any food and drink sweeter or more exquisite.”