Esther Schindler

I just changed all my internet passwords to Kenny, so they're Kenny logins. I like to live in the danger zone.

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"You’re alive to me!"
— zombie disowning their child

A map of Earth’s underground fungi network, estimated to be “110 quadrillion kilometers less than 10 centimeters underground.” https://a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth/map#3.48/36.4656/-85.5256@26.1949,-101.6016

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”― Betty Smith, in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

"It’s the experience of being subject to the decisions of a ruling class that responds to every challenge with authoritarianism, greed, and the same levels of poise and wisdom as an inbred Pomeranian." https://dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to-be-able-to-buy-things

Dungeons and Dragons Taught Me How to Write Alt Text

This is a perfect headline. It also has really good advice.
https://ericwbailey.website/published/dungeons-and-dragons-taught-me-how-to-write-alt-text/

Uplifting news: The strip of land that once divided East and West Germany is now one of the country’s richest habitats. https://www.dw.com/en/east-west-border-death-zone-now-germanys-biodiversity-oasis/a-77917041

“Keep typing until it turns into writing.”—David Carr

[photo from the family stash: Mom holding a cat she met on the beach in Bermuda in 1966. Because we all know you'll notice a cat photo more than yet another picture of a keyboard]

"Can you even imagine sitting in a middle seat, on a delayed plane, near someone who wants to be the flight’s Main Character? You thought crying babies on a plane were annoying? They can’t control themselves. This grown-ass woman decided the one thing everyone needed to hear on a plane was her annoying voice preaching a message most people wouldn’t want to hear _off_ the plane." https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-preachers-are-turning-airplanes

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, but very, very few persons will."-- James Thurber

A Close Look at Security Envelope Patterns
https://www.inconspicuous.info/p/a-close-look-at-security-envelopes

Don't end your essay with a section called Conclusion. We can tell it's concluding; we see your prose end two paragraphs later.

Every subheading should contribute to the message. What's the takeaway? Worst case use "Looking forward." #AmEditing

A list of Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail, including an Apple Powerbook 100, a SGI R4000 Indigo, the Motorola Envoy (PDA), and some Thinking Machines CM-5s. “This is a Unix system, I know this!”
https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html

You had me at Ted Lasso https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/rapid-fire-questions-ted-lasso-cast-jason-sudeikis-thought-show-was-done/

'Chicago’s “Scream Club” meets there every week during the city’s warmer months, bringing together a community of up to 300 people who like to scream out over the water' -- yeah, I could get into that. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/27/chicago-scream-club-screaming

In honor of The Odyssey: English words that have origins in Greek. https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words-from-the-odyssey

"A free interactive night map of the world's great castles, fortresses and palaces — 3,693 landmarks across 131 countries, each with its photo, founding century and story. No ads, no accounts." https://thecastlemap.com

Elizabeth Luard's Country Cooking
This regional cookbook won't work well if you aren't in the region.
I wrote in 2014 that I hadn't cooked anything from it in the first month I'd owned the cookbook. It's 2026 now, and I _still_ haven't.
https://amzn.to/3Tm68ad

"Amateur astronomer Joël Lapointe stumbled upon what he thought looked like a suspicious pit in Quebec's Côte-Nord region while he was wandering with his Google Maps cursor in 2024." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/meteor-crater-quebec-discovery-390-million-years-old-9.7268583