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you’re probably ready to hate this company that designs irish pubs abroad, but reconsider

https://maya.land/responses/2025/10/27/exported-irish-pubs-good-actually.html

Published: October 27, 2025 07:00

The Dublin-based Irish Pub Company has designed upwards of 2,000 pubs in more than 100 countries around the globe

fairytale Czech hotel in the mountains

https://maya.land/responses/2025/10/19/czech-hotel.html

Published: October 19, 2025 07:00

Built in 1899 by the Czech architect Dušan Jurkovič, known as “the poet of timber” for his woodwork, the cottage and hotel are a lively combination of Czech-Slavic heritage and the Art Nouveau style of the time. The fairy tale-esque dining room, in…

talmudology: yes, there are stupid questions

https://maya.land/responses/2025/10/11/pigeon-talmud.html

Published: October 11, 2025 07:00

If a baby pigeon is found within 50 cubits of a coop, it is presumed to belong to the owner of that coop. If it is found further away than 50 cubits, it belongs to the finder. Ever keen to push the limits of rabbinic law, Rabbi Yirmiyah asked “if one foot…

robert hand, thoughtful about astrology

https://maya.land/responses/2025/10/09/robert-hand-astrology.html

Published: October 9, 2025 07:00

I’d provide readings in various aspects of medieval astrology. And I’d probably wind up with readings in various modern systems as well. For instance, although I’m not specifically a Jungian astrologer, I think that reading Jung is a very valuable thing to…

read charles mills on tolkien and race

https://maya.land/responses/2025/10/06/charles-mills-wretched-middle-earth-tolkien-race.html

Published: October 6, 2025 07:00

(the proper DOI link)

scientifica: mono bitmap font tiny-style

https://maya.land/responses/2025/10/03/bitmap-mono-font-scientifica.html

Published: October 3, 2025 07:00

I have been pondering what use I could make of a typeface designed to emulate the little pixel text used on tiny, tiny displays or icons. This one kind of looks good enough to use as a code daily driver?? (Don’t quote me, haven’t tested that out yet.)

an internet of dogs (geocities)

https://maya.land/responses/2025/09/30/internet-of-dogs-geocities.html

Published: September 30, 2025 07:00

On the memorial page to my dog Heloïse that it’s intentional you can’t find from the top level of my website, the MIDI the gramophone plays – rollicking! piano! badly charted if we’re being honest at least as far as the rhythm goes! – is the song I sang to…

it was annoying to refind the text of jenny holzer’s truisms

https://maya.land/responses/2025/09/28/jenny-holzer-truisms.html

Published: September 28, 2025 07:00

I walk by a Holzer installation as part of my commute, sometimes stop, pick a maxim for the day. It’s not so different from pulling a Tarot card or finding a line in a reading – except I’m lying, it is, sometimes I find myself irritated by the ideologies I…

nihilism re: attention difficulties

https://maya.land/responses/2025/09/25/attention-nihilism.html

Published: September 25, 2025 07:00

The suspicion that all this is élite anxiety in the face of a democratizing mediascape deepens when you consider what the attentionistas want people to focus on. Generally, it’s fine art, old books, or untrammelled nature—as if they were running a…

annie mueller on rituals

https://maya.land/responses/2025/09/23/annie-mueller-rituals.html

Published: September 23, 2025 07:00

Rituals? I can’t stop myself. They’re so good. Absolutely breathtaking. Humanity’s finest work, perhaps. They make no sense. It’s all about beauty, about made-up meaning, about art. Rituals add unnecessary, arbitrary extra requirements to a simple action.…