You will never find a more wretched hive of ponies and buttercups.

The Best of The Week

A plea to keep this place going.


"This place needs more content. Let's begin."
18thCandidate


From the E2 Editor Doc: We have a standing policy that all CEs continue to contribute content regularly. Your writing was a big part of what got you noticed here. Ideally, you should try to add at least one writeup to the database each month. It's easy to get caught up in the admin work and forget to write. Please continue to share your writing with us.

Yes, that is aimed at content editors specifically; the staff are obligated to take the lead with quality writing. But it applies to every user, in principle.

This has been coming for some time. Each month i would wonder if this is going to be the month in which I write this post, and today is the day. I recently scanned Everything's New Nodes, got the latest 100 and counted mine. 22 out of the last 100 were authored by me, and

The chaos variation
And a feeling like you've been here before

I am capable of everyone that has ever been

Life is multiplicative
It is presence as much as it is not presence
I am still in my crib
I am still in my tomb
I am still learning how to breathe
in and out of water

My skull is mixed up with fiberglass,
Dangling out the frame of a window
At an old familiar crossroads
A radial point, from which a circle was designed
From the

English tradition of ringing church bells to announce someone is about to die.


"In Renaissance England the hoot of an owl flying over one's house was an evil omen, and meant impending death for someone inside. Shakespeare refers to the owl as the "fatal bellman" because it was the bellman's job to ring the parish bell when a person in the town was near death. "This was called the passing bell, and was a signal for all hearers to pray for the dying

News for Noders


August 4: Happy birthday avalyn!

August 6: 広島

August 9: 長崎

August 27: Happy birthday Bitriot!

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July 1: Canada Day.

July 4: America Day.

July 25: Happy birthday TanisNikana!

July 26: Happy birthday teleny!


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June 3: Saint kevin's Day.

June 4: Aesop's Birthday.

June 11: TerribleAspect's birthday!

June 13: Serjeant's Muse's birthday!

June 16: Bloomsday.

June 19: Juneteenth.

June 20: Summer solstice (northern hemisphere) and winter solstice (southern hemisphere).

June 21: nicolasstag's birthday!

June 23: AdamTheDewott's birthday!

June 23: weroland's birthday!

June 28: Tau Day.


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April 1: By popular demand, March has been redacted.

April 10: Happy birthday, nuggets!

April 12: Yuri's Night

April 22: Happy Earth Day, fellow earthlings!

April 23: Saint George's Day.

April 24: Happy birthday, Rancid_Pickle!

April 30: Walpurgis Night.

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February 1: Brevity Quest 2025 begins!

February 2: Happy birthday Auspice!

February 2: Happy birthday npecom!

February 5: Happy birthday wertperch!

February 8: Happy birthday to panamaus

February 15: Happy birthday Admin to the goo!

February 23: Happy birthday Samuel Pepys!

February 29: Happy birthday Browncoat!


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