Christopher Rowe
@christopherrowe.bsky.social
Writer, reader, cyclist, cook, traveller. THE NAVIGATING FOX, starred review in Publishers Weekly, out now from Tordotcom Publishing.
Or, if you're really ambitious, read this 125 page report, which the article is based on. It's written for a generalist reader, it seems to me, and has even more extraordinary material throughout. Worth spending some time with.
www.un.org/.../undesa_p....
www.un.org/.../undesa_p....
www.un.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Or, if you're really ambitious, read this 125 page report, which the article is based on. It's written for a generalist reader, it seems to me, and has even more extraordinary material throughout. Worth spending some time with.
www.un.org/.../undesa_p....
www.un.org/.../undesa_p....
One of the best lessons my mother taught me in the kitchen is to always finish the mashed potatoes just minutes before service. I've been to so many home-cooked dinners where the mashed potatoes just sat there in their serving dish, hardening into inedibility.
November 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
One of the best lessons my mother taught me in the kitchen is to always finish the mashed potatoes just minutes before service. I've been to so many home-cooked dinners where the mashed potatoes just sat there in their serving dish, hardening into inedibility.
It’s not perfect, but I pay eleven bucks a month for the Kagi browser because it’s pretty easy to get it to return no AI results. I think it’s just an option you click in the settings. (The other reason I use it is that it seamlessly searches inside the contents of PDFs that are online.)
November 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It’s not perfect, but I pay eleven bucks a month for the Kagi browser because it’s pretty easy to get it to return no AI results. I think it’s just an option you click in the settings. (The other reason I use it is that it seamlessly searches inside the contents of PDFs that are online.)
If you don’t know why this is such a perfect thing to do (and I suspect many of you do know exactly why) look up “Gondal” and/or “the Glasstown Confederacy” and associate your search with the Brontës.
October 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
If you don’t know why this is such a perfect thing to do (and I suspect many of you do know exactly why) look up “Gondal” and/or “the Glasstown Confederacy” and associate your search with the Brontës.
I’m picking points along the millennia-long timeline of that world for, and also signature “‘mechs” (big stompy robots that shoot missiles and lasers, which are piloted by humans) for, each of the four Brontë siblings.
October 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I’m picking points along the millennia-long timeline of that world for, and also signature “‘mechs” (big stompy robots that shoot missiles and lasers, which are piloted by humans) for, each of the four Brontë siblings.
Wow, thanks! "Minotaur the Robot" is a killer title and that is a killer cover.
October 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Wow, thanks! "Minotaur the Robot" is a killer title and that is a killer cover.