November 2025 Roundup

1. Australia has so much solar that it’s giving everyone 3 hours a day, free. There are solutions all around for those with eyes to see. Nuclear, solar (nuclear but far away). We’ve got options!

2. Nanotyrannus is back!

3. 600 Paramount employees quit when 5-day return to office was implemented. This cost $185 million in severance packages. Woof!

4. 5 years ago, Wired published this incredibly moving (read: devastating) profile of a founder of Cloudfare. Don’t read this if you’re having a bad day!

5. Drama in the knitting community.

6. This extremely charming directory of lighthouses around the world.

7. An Axios article about the relative size of Ford trucks over the years. This image (not from the article) depicts it well. Axios also has this interactive article you can scroll through to see changes ovr the years. It’s not as elegant as the chart, IMO.

8. Related, the limited-time Ford “Truckle”, a belt buckle for your car fob, is very funny to me.

9. Bhopal, India. 2019. Two clay frogs are married to appease the rain gods. The ploy worked too well: two months later, the frogs had to be divorced due to devastating monsoons and flooding.

10. I don’t like to toot the horn of a.i. (indeed I made my opinions on the matter clear last month) , but this write-up from a historian is pretty impressive.

11. I’ve known about West African day names for a while, but just learned about Bali birth order names.

12. Tips on drawing faces.

13. Related, how to develop your own art style

14. Lifted from Experimental History, it’s a T-Rex illusion.

15. Two of the best RPG-related blogs I’ve read recently: Ty Pitre on powder keg adventure design and Clayton Notesine on genre in RPGs.