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  "description": "Delayed by work, but not denied, The drags on, Pook-Emu Bee links for April 23, 2026. 1. Hochul's Fast-Track Booze Permit Sets Stage for World Cup Street Parties Across New York (Reid Carlisle for Hoodline. April 22, 2026.) Their desperation to pretend that the World Cup is happening in New York City continues to lead...",
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  "textContent": "Delayed by work, but not denied, The drags on, Pook-Emu Bee links for April 23, 2026. 1. Hochul’s Fast-Track Booze Permit Sets Stage for World Cup Street Parties Across New York (Reid Carlisle for Hoodline. April 22, 2026.) Their desperation to pretend that the World Cup is happening in New York City continues to lead to public nuisance as public policy. 2. Listening to criticism (Andrés at Wawawa Comics. April 22, 2026.) But my art teacher hated my work so much, I could hear his sighs every time I walked into the classroom, haha. One day he told me, “You should quit. You don’t have a future in drawing.” No one needed to tell me that I didn’t have a future in drawing. I knew. But this inspires me. If Andrés could overcome that to make a popular online comic with cute little animal characters, I can do the same (with crooked stick figures). 3. 3. 8.1.0 — By the Numbers (Matthias Pfefferle at ActivityPub for WordPress. April 22, 2026.) I have upgraded and see the new statistics chart. Fancy. 4. Read-Only Address Book (Brian Tremblay at BTrem. April 5, 2026.) We begin with a question… Can Thunderbird’s RSS support be extended to enable address book subscriptions? I am all for creative RSS use-cases (albeit I don’t have a need for a read-only address book). 5. New flat M.2 SSD adapter doesn’t stick out from the motherboard, unlocking PCIe slots hidden under massive GPUs — JEYI’s new ‘ArcherX’ AIC lays completely flush and supports PCIe 4.0 speeds (Hassan Nasir for Tom’s Hardware. April 19, 2026.) I’m not struggling for storage space but this does look like a neat expansion idea. 6. A Defense of the NBA Play-In Tournament (Neil Paine. April 14, 2026.) I wouldn’t go so far to defend it and one could probably make a credible argument that it has made “tanking” worse (teams that want to guarantee a spot in the draft lottery need to finish 11th or worse instead of 9th), but it is not bad as far as NBA gimmicks go. I agree with Mr. Paine in full on one point: My biggest complaint with it might simply be that its stats don’t count anywhere — they neither belong to the regular season nor the playoffs, so player accomplishments this week live in a weird record-keeping no-man’s land. But this would be easily corrected by simply counting them as playoff stats, which I think is plenty defensible. That will soon be a “thing I learned” post. 7. Cherry Blossoms (2026 edition) (David Billa for Liminal Web. April 12, 2026.) Many pretty cherry blossom photos. It is warm in Brooklyn today, so it feels seasonal (some of our cherry blossoms are coming in).",
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