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For dog lovers this museum in Cape Town is an absolute must. Downstairs features legendary local dogs with pictures, statues and info panels, but the real treat is the upstairs floor.

Dog owners have contributed amusing and sometimes heartbreaking stories about their pets and donated precious objects that remind them of their dogs. In some ways it’s reminiscent of the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb.

Plan to spend about an hour to read every story and visit the small gift shop downstairs.

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Resting place of the Rose

In the valley of the Gauja River in Latvia—then Livonia—near the imposing Turaida Castle, a simple grave beneath a linden tree marks the resting place of a woman known as the Rose of Turaida.

Her name was Maija. According to legend, she was found as an infant after a 17th-century battle during the Polish–Swedish Wars, discovered in her dead mother’s embrace. She was raised by the secretary of the Castle and grew up, as the story goes, known for her beauty and kindness, thus called the Rose of Turaida.

She fell in love with a gardener from the other side of the river, Viktor Heil, who worked as a gardener at Sigulda Castle. In the evenings, the couple would meet halfway at Gutman's Cave.

A deserter became obsessed with her. When she refused his advances, he concocted a plan: he tricked Maija into coming to the cave by sending a false message in her lover’s name. Realising she could not escape, she told him the scarf around her neck was enchanted: it could make its wearer invulnerable to any damage, and that he should test it on her. The man did so, killing her instantly. Her choice was to die rather than betray herself and her love.

She was buried in Turaida’s Church cemetery, where Viktor planted a linden tree and, in later retellings, a white rose that turned red from her blood. A cross on her grave was said to bear the words, “Love is stronger than death.”

The story was long treated as folklore until the 19th century, when court documents discovered in Riga confirmed that the murder had in fact taken place. Among the archives was an official act describing the case, revealing details that deepen the tragedy: that evening Viktor found Maija’s body in the cave, he rushed for help, only to be accused, arrested, and put on trial at Turaida Castle, facing execution. However, the course of events changed when a mercenary confessed he was the one who delivered the forged message. The real killer was caught and hanged, and Viktor was acquitted, but he left the country, never to return.

In the early 20th century, the burial site was marked, and couples in love continue to leave flowers for the Rose there. Newlyweds also visit, hoping to partake in a devotion that has lasted for centuries.

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Finally getting back to my Dragaera reread, which was originally rereading happening in late 2025. My reread is all over the place - I'm not doing every book - but the last one I read was Vallista in December, and now I'm rereading Hawk, and I just got to A Thing.

( Spoilers for Hawk and Tsalmoth )

Edit: originally had noted this as spoilers for Lyorn and changed it to Tsalmoth, as I had apparently forgotten which book that happened in ...

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New mural on street

In a matter of 20 feet (approximately 6 meters), McKinley Street in Bellefontaine, Ohio earns the honor of shortest street in America. This tiny road is located between Garfield Avenue and West Columbus Avenue, and runs parallel to the railroad tracks.

This historic street is named after the Ohio-born U.S. President William McKinley. It was formerly "Shortest Street in the World" for many, many years, until Ebenezer Place in Scotland took the honor with a 6 foot 9 inch long street. McKinley Street still holds its place as America's shortest street. In 2019, the Bellefontaine leadership had replaced its old "World's Shortest Street" sign with one reading, "Shortest Street in America.

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There are over seven million trees in the Big Apple by the USDA’s count, but only around 120 worthy of the NYC Parks Department's official title “Great Tree of New York City.” These are trees of historical, botanical or cultural significance, with five of them located within the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. One of these, located on the west side of the garden, is a Caucasian Wingnut (Pterocarya fraxinifolia) – a giant, gnarled and wizened specimen with a trunk that splits into four parts, one so thick and horizontal that it needs external help in the form of a crutch to stay up.

The tree originally came from Rome in 1922 as a sapling, and in its century of growth has achieved 60 feet in height and nine feet in diameter. The tree was propagated in 1978, with the younger tree planted further down the path near the Herb Garden. The original has seen its share of rough years and bears some scars, but the core of it is still healthy despite the precarious appearance of some of its branches. It’s an impressive sight in all seasons, sporting a healthy canopy of leaves in spring and summer, but its bare branches are still magnificent – and easier to see – in winter.

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The GL Thai drama ClaireBell was excellent. Bell gets wrongly arrested. In prison, she meets Claire, who helps her survive.

If you love shows full of interesting female characters like Orange is the New Black, go for it. There's major f/f.

It's available legally and for free on YouTube.

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A reader writes:

I have recently made it to the second round of interviews for a role I’m very interested in. The conversation is with the person who is leaving the role I’m interviewing for.

I’ve never interviewed with the person who is currently in the job in question, but I take that to mean that she’s leaving the organization on good terms and for her own reasons, and that they trust her to make a recommendation on who will succeed her. Would you agree with that take on the situation, and if so what kinds of questions do you think I should ask or expect? How do I sell myself for the role without coming across as “I’m going to be better at this than you were,” which I’m sure would be a turn-off?

There are two possibilities:

1. The interview is primarily for her to evaluate you as a candidate and, while you’ll still have the opportunity to ask your own questions, it’ll be more or less like any other interview and you should approach it that way.

2.. Or, the main purpose of this meeting is for you to be able to talk to the person who’s currently doing the job and get your own questions about the role answered. In this scenario, she will likely still provide feedback to the hiring manager about you and other candidates, but it’s not the primary purpose of the conversation.

Have they said anything to indicate which it is? Sometimes an employer will say something like, “We’d like to give you some time to talk with the person who’s doing the job now so she can tell you about the work with more nuance” — and that’s a sign that it’s more likely to be #2 (or at least mostly #2). Or they might not say anything like that in advance, but when you sit down with her she’ll make it clear that that’s the bulk of the agenda.

Either way, you should prepare for both scenarios — meaning that you should come into it expecting #1, but be ready with a lot of your own questions if it tuns out to be #2. (You should be ready with a lot of your own questions regardless — because in either scenario it’s an opportunity to hear firsthand from the person who’s doing the job now — but if it turns out to be #2, you don’t want the conversation to stall because you only prepared a couple of questions.)

Questions you can ask the person who’s doing the job you’re interviewing for include things like the best things about the job, the most challenging things about the job, the manager’s management style, secrets to success for doing well in the role, and whether there’s anything she was surprised by or wished she’d known before she started. You should also ask about workload, what the busiest times of the year are, and what those look like, because you might get a more accurate/honest answer than you will from others. And depending on the job, you might ask technical questions too, like what software they’re using for X, or how they’re handling a particular known challenge with that software, etc.

As for selling yourself without coming across like you think you’ll be better at the job than she was … I’d argue you should never really be coming across that way in an interview, even when you’re not talking to the person you’d be replacing, since you can’t possibly know from the outside if it’s true! Good interviews don’t feel like sales pitches; the best ones feel like a conversation between two potential colleagues trying to figure out if a collaboration between them would make sense — and that’s how you should approach this too. Listen to what they’re looking for, talk about how you might be able to help with that, pull out things from your professional history that relate to what they need, and — while they’re assessing you — ask the questions that will help you assess them back.

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Well, it happened. Michael Tilson Thomas died yesterday. He'd been very ill and wound down his conducting career entirely a year ago, so it's not a surprise though it remains a tragedy. The San Francisco Symphony has announced that its performance of Beethoven's Ninth in June - led by the now-unavoidable James Gaffigan - will be dedicated to MTT's memory. That's appropriate, as the last time I heard him conduct was in Beethoven's Ninth in October 2023. He was scheduled to conduct another concert on my series later that season, but had to bow out due to frailty and illness. But his Ninth was well-appreciated. What I wrote at the time was:

Michael Tilson Thomas, music director laureate, returned to lead the SFS in the Big One, Beethoven's Ninth. What he did for SFS while stationed here was incalculable, and the love and affection that poured forth from audience and performers alike on his arrival onstage - and even more when the piece was over - was tremendous. The more so with his increasing health problems since his retirement, including a cancer operation two years ago that had him off work for months. If we never see him again, we want him to know that the last was the best. This was as fine and assured a Ninth as we've heard, particularly cherishable in a smooth and layered slow movement.

MTT served as music director of the SFS for 25 years (1995-2020), the longest service they've ever had, and he was probably the greatest director they've ever had, politely eclipsing Pierre Monteux, his predecessor in both distinctions. His arrival was announced with some hoopla, which turned out to be deserved. Taking up the orchestra rebuilding of his two immediate predecessors, he turned SFS into one of the world's great orchestras, and it's not fallen far since his departure, despite the crises of the last couple years. Beethoven's Ninth, which I think he led here several times, was one of his specialties; so was Stravinsky; so was American music when he could dub it as "maverick" whatever that means; so was Mahler, which I appreciated from him a lot less than from others. So it goes. I did appreciate him in a lot of other music, remembering especially some exquisitely burnished Sibelius, the Third in September 2016 and the Sixth in June 2018.

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Here’s some coverage of Ask a Manager in the media recently:

I talked to Time about communication habits that are annoying your coworkers.

I talked to Bloomberg about how managers should discuss pay with employees.

I helped MarketWatch advise a letter-writer whose employee told her boss the writer was judgmental and belittling for giving feedback.

Huffington Post quoted me about what to say if a coworker is staring at your chest.

Also…

How to report problem ads

We’ve had a rash of ads auto-playing sound recently and are trying to get them all blocked, but if you encounter one (or any kind of problematic ad), the best way to report it is: look for the PubNation logo (“PN”) beneath the ad, click it, and a window will open with a report form to fill out, which will make it much, much easier for us to locate the and block it. Thank you!

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raven

So mostly these days I am obsessed with The Pitt! I love the show so much, for itself, and because it's such a natural successor to MASH and other shows I have loved. I've said on Bluesky that it's the only show I've ever come across that really understands how teaching and growth and mentoring happen in a professional environment - fandom is full of academia stories, and indeed academics, and school and high school stories, but not so much the grown-up, affirming, important work of teaching someone to do your job because you, they and the job all matter. (What do I teach people to do! Not save lives. But it matters. I had a lovely, lovely email from one of my team before she went off on maternity leave that said wonderful things about my teaching, about what she'd learned from me, how her practice had changed as a result of me, at which point I had to go and lie down and cry for a while. When Robby says with emphasis, "This is a teaching hospital", it makes me think of it.

(Brief outline: Robby, otherwise Dr Michael Robinavitch, is a warm, scathing, compassionate soul who runs an emergency department in Pittsburgh, it's an ensemble cast of interns, resident doctors, patients, nurses and others and Robby is the keystone of it all in a tired, mentally ill kind of a way. Each episode of the show covers an hour, so the entire season covers a single shift. It's very good. Also Robby is played by Noah Wyle - and, as the show's executive producers lost a litigation against the IP-holders for ER, he is emphatically not John Carter. I love this. Robby feels, and is, beautifully imagined: a working-class Jewish man, who wears a magen David necklace, all because Carter was a WASP with a trust fund.)

I also love Trinity Santos, a brilliant lovely Filipina asshole of a lesbian, and Jack Abbot, who is Robby's friend and also mirror image - being to the night shift what Robby is the day - and also fascinating for himself. He's a former MASH combat medic which is what decided me for sure that the show deliberately draws on its predecessor. The Pitt isn't a sitcom, but it has the warmth MASH had; and Abbot, who is a lower-leg amputee, embodies some of its ambivalence. (And! In s2 they have someone deliver Henry Blake's "young men die" speech, with the same blocking as the original. I love it.)

Anyway I love this show. It is so rich and funny and so fucking human, all the damn time. Robby's PTSD is from covid, and his nightmares are of full PPE - and I was like, okay, do I want to watch this. Robby has PTSD from treating covid patients but my dad died from treating covid patients. But I did want to watch it, because it takes what it does seriously. I want to write a fic, about Robby and ( s2 spoiler ), and I also want it to be a daemon AU, because I am insane. I haven't written anything good in a year and like I said I am insane. Maybe I should just ask people to give me fic prompts.

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No, not that kind. The hard-to-find kind.

I carry a backpack rather than a shoulderbag, because I like to have my hands free and I don't like the way a shoulderbag can flop down in front of me when I bend forward. Also it's easier to carry a lot in a backpack, which is important for grocery shopping, day hiking, etc. For a decade or more, up until last summer, my everyday carry was a basic Jansport school-type backpack. But while we were in Wales I realized that a) the rain cover I'd put on it was useless (almost lost my passport to water damage, YIKES) and b) it was fraying dangerously thin. Which, after so many years, it was entitled to do! But that has sent me on A Quest.

I'd made do with that basic Jansport for years, but now that I'm exploring options, I have very particular requirements! And I can't find a pack that meets them, argh.

I want a 28- to 32-liter capacity, a proper hip belt, and a flat back so that I can put an iPad or a folder of papers in it, against my own back, without risking them getting bent. (In other words, not a curved-for-ventilation back like this one.) I very much want panel loading rather than top loading, which I find awkward and inconvenient, although I might settle for top loading if everything else were amazingly good. It's hard for me to imagine a really good pack without load lifter straps. And I'd love it to have shoulder straps styled after running vests, with lots of storage, although now we're getting into "I want sparkles on it!" territory.

On the spot in Wales, I bought a pack at a local Trespass store. Its hip belt was reasonably good, but had no storage pockets. It claimed a 30L capacity, but I think it lied; it felt more like 25. And when I bought it I wasn't thinking about the fact that the curved back was going to be a dealbreaker; I didn't have the iPad or a portfolio of papers with me and since it hadn't been an issue with the old Jansport, it didn't occur to me. So when we got home I offloaded it; tried unsuccessfully to sell it and ended up giving it to Geoff, who wants to give it a try.

To replace it, I bought a North Face Surge 2 off Poshmark. It claims a capacity of 32L, but it sure doesn't feel like it; more like 25? And it's relatively heavy, which isn't great for day hiking. It does have a flat back, but its hip belt, although it exists (and can tuck away when I'm just carrying a light load around town), is fairly minimal, doesn't transfer as much weight as a proper one would, and also has no storage pockets.

So I bought an REI Venturi 30 off Goodwill. It has much better capacity while weighing less, and a good hip belt. I think the torso may be a little short for me, but it's okay. However, the photos I scrutinized online before buying it still misled me; its back is curved. I've bought a storage clipboard to put the iPad and papers in, but it's still a bit of a kludge; it's an awkward thing to pack other things around, and it's a bit flimsy.

Meanwhile I've kept on surfing alllllll the dealer and review sites, looking for my perfect pack. For a while I thought I'd found it in the Osprey Tempest Velocity 30; I love Osprey packs in general (that's what I use as luggage), and this one was where I learned that running-vest-style shoulder straps are a thing and fell in love with the idea. I almost bought it -- but the fact that it's not only top loading but has a stupid little flap over the top, rather than a proper lid, killed it for me. (At least at list price; if I can find a used one going cheap, I might give it a try.)

Then I stumbled on what may actually be my unicorn! The Arc’teryx Aerios 30 looks absolutely amazing and I wants it, precious, I wants it nowwwwwwwwww.

It's discontinued, nobody has it in stock, and I can't find anybody selling a used one. Sigh.

ETA: I swear I didn't see any yesterday, but today there are a handful of them showing on eBay! ...but they are CA$400 and up, not counting any import duties or taxes because they're all coming from the US or Asia, and I'm certainly not paying that much for something I can't return, and possibly not for something I could, since I have a hard time imagining that even this pack is that good. I mean, I paid US$33 for the REI Venturi, and it's acceptable.

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Gateway to Hell

Located on the southern flank of Eldon Hill (etymologically "Elves' Hill"), the peaceful landscape has a hidden evil scar of just a hundred feet long and twenty feet wide.

Long before 18th-century geologists dared to measure its depth, Eldon Hole was feared as a "bottomless pit." In 1636, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously wrote of a stone dropped into the abyss: "The lowest deep descending, it broke through Hell and the centre."

The folklore surrounding the hole is as grim as the shadows within:

The Gibbering Victim: During the reign of Elizabeth I, the Earl of Leicester reportedly lowered a man into the depths on a rope. He never reached the bottom. When he was finally hauled back up, he had become a "gibbering idiot," so traumatised by what he saw in the darkness that he died just days later without uttering a coherent word.
The Goose and the Devil’s Arse: A persistent local myth tells of a goose that fell into Eldon Hole, only to emerge miles away in the Peak Cavern (colorfully known as the Devil’s Arse). The bird was alive, but its feathers were allegedly singed black by the fires of Hell.
The Murderer’s Secret: In the 1700s, tourists were regaled with the tale of a traveler murdered by his guide and tossed into the hole, a fate considered particularly horrific because his soul was thought to have been delivered directly to the abyss.

Reality Beneath the Surface

It wasn’t until 1770 that a geologist named Mr. Lloyd officially debunked the "bottomless" theory by reaching the floor. However, the truth he found was nearly as spectacular as the myth.

At the bottom of the 180-foot vertical shaft lies a massive, widely sloped cavern (70 feet high and 100 feet wide) packed with ancient stalagmites and stalactites. Early explorers claimed the space was vast enough to house St. Paul’s Cathedral. Modern cavers still find a "snow plug" at the bottom well into the summer months, where the sun’s rays never reach hell's frost.

Recent archaeological digs have even uncovered human remains and animal bones dating back over 2,000 years, suggesting the site may have been used for Iron Age rituals, sacrifices, or simply swallowed innocent wanderers.

Just a stone’s throw away lies a vanished wonder: the Ebbing and Flowing Well at Barmoor Clough. Once a natural siphon that caused water to pulse in and out of stone troughs at a rate of 1,000 gallons per minute, it was considered a supernatural pulse of the earth. Though the "heartbeat" of the well hasn't been seen for years—likely due to changes in the local water table—the site remains a testament to the Peak District's strange, subterranean plumbing.

At least that's what folklore tells us. No ebbing and flowing has been reported at either well for many years. Also, many years ago it was thought that elves lived on Eldon Hill and local people said that there were ‘elves on t’hill’ hence the name Eldon Hill.

Today, Eldon Hole is a popular spot for experienced cavers, though it remains fenced off for the safety of hikers. Whether it leads to Hell or just a very deep cave, the "Elves' Hill" remains one of England's most atmospheric natural enigmas.

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Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore hugs the south shore of Lake Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It's known for the dramatic multicolored Pictured Rocks cliffs.

Unusual sandstone formations like Miners Castle and Chapel Rock define the park’s headlands. Twelvemile Beach has a trail through a nearby white birch forest. Remnants of shipwrecks dot the shoreline around Au Sable Point’s 19th-century lighthouse.

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Rogan: normally I don’t dream journal here, but recently there have been a couple I want to remember.

This morning, I woke up from a dream that I remember nothing of, only that it had a singularly beautiful (and reproducible) rendition of Amazing Grace, Mac’s favorite hymn. It was instrumental, performed on fiddle and... either another violin or a viola, playing accompaniment. Unlike the classic gospel style I’m familiar with (and which Mac mostly sticks to), this was played with a swing beat, folk or bluegrass style. I’m still humming it, trying to fix it in my head like the other dream songs.

(I swear the first version of Daniel Johnston’s “Devil Town” I ever heard was placed simply on the piano with vocals. I’ve never found it, and it was the best version. Drives me crazy.)

The other dream was a few days ago. It was one of those dreams where the vessel’s lineage alters all share a body like in waking life, but the others have their own corporeal bodies. Us alters were with our dad, Sneak doing gymnastic tricks, while Dad took photos of us. Even though nothing bad was happening, I kept feeling like something was wrong, I’d stopped talking to Dad for some reason, something it was very important to remember...

And then I remembered Mac, and immediately I knew I was supposed to be with him instead. I tore myself from the Dad photography scene and instantly found myself instead in the middle of me and Mac’s wedding. It wasn’t like the real one we’d had in 2009; we wore fancy suits in blue and gray, rather than our black rented tuxes, and we were outdoors, surrounded by ladies in saris doing a riotous, silly dance of joy. But the joy in my heart and Mac’s face (fifteen years ago! His hair was so short and his face was so young!) were the same as they were then, and that was all that mattered.

Current Mood: nostalgic
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Explaining Republicans and DFLers different points of view on fraud
A House debate over a fraud prevention bill this week illustrated a contrast in how each party contemplates fraud.
by Matthew Blake
https://www.minnpost.com/state-government/capitol-conversations/2026/04/minnesota-fraud-prevention-house-republicans-dflers-different-points-of-view/

Minneapolis City Council finds something to agree on: process
In a moment of cohesion, the Council has made clear to the Minneapolis Charter Commission that they’d like to approve the mayor’s appointments, thank you very much.
by Trevor Mitchell
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It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes:

I have a question that might be suitable for “ask the readers.” When has someone reached out to you with a request to network that was compelling and made you actually want to respond?

I’ve seen a lot of stories of bad networking on here — people asking vague questions, not seeming to know what they want, or reaching out with a request to “network” that’s obviously a veiled inquiry about a job. What does genuinely good networking look like?

I’d love to hear from readers about requests they were happy to respond to or people who actually impressed them in a networking conversation. It’s especially helpful to hear examples of good networkers who were entry-level in their fields.

Readers?

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