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Ferrell", "description": "While I am very much in the pro-video game ownership side of things, I had to call foul on a headline taking a seemingly anti-ownership quote by a Ubisoft executive out of its original context.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nHistory of the Mario Party Gloves\nSearching for the \"Libertarian Moment\"\nLeaving the Phrase \"Reach Out\" in the 90s\nRecording a Test New Leaf Journal Pokémon Sword and…\nThe Last Nintendo Wii Games\nThe Aborted Nintendo-Minnesota Lottery Scheme\nAmbiguous Killer Hallucinogenic Weed Headline\nTwo Independence Day-Themed Pokémon Battles: Ferrell…\nOn Nintendo's Pro-User Cartridge-First Strategy", "link": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/provocative-out-of-context-headlines/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-18T21:21:20.000Z", "wordCount": null, "title": "Provocative Out-Of-Context Headlines", "imageUrl": null }, { "id": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/?p=22241", "author": "Nicholas A. 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Ferrell", "description": "Justin and Justina review the 54 most-visited articles at The New Leaf Journal in 2023.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100\nShould the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?\nJustin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020\nThe story of our Bing blacklisting\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nA 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…\nOldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the…", "link": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/new-leaf-journal-year-in-review-2023/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-01T05:54:19.000Z", "wordCount": 8318, "title": "New Leaf Journal Year-In-Review: 2023", "imageUrl": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/new-leaf-journal-site-icon-23-ver.jpg" }, { "id": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/?p=22088", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "What better way to spend New Year's weekend than to catch up on The New Leaf Journal's fresh December 2023 content?\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nio [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review\nJustin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020\nA 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…\nOldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the…\nThe Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nHistory of New York's Evacuation Day", "link": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/december-2023-at-the-new-leaf-journal/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-01T03:20:17.000Z", "wordCount": 3492, "title": "December 2023 at The New Leaf Journal", "imageUrl": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/new-leaf-journal-site-icon-23-ver.jpg" }, { "id": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/?p=22054", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "A full and complete review of the first season of Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki, which aired in 2021.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nAnime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review\nThe Best Anime Series of 2021\nNew Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki Anime\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review\nLeveling up Yamada-kun at Lv999 to Linux\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\nDialogue: Dinosaur fight tier-lists\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations", "link": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/bottom-tier-character-tomozaki-anime-s1-review/", "publishedOn": "2023-12-29T22:02:22.000Z", "wordCount": 7348, "title": "Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki S1 Anime Review", "imageUrl": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/hinami-afternoon-lecture-tomozaki.jpg" }, { "id": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/?p=22031", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "With season 2 of The Dangers in My Heart just around the corner, I review season 1 of the middle school romance with an antisocial boy and a popular model.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nHeights in “The Dangers in My Heart” Anime\nHeight differences in anime romances\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nThe Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review\nOn Review Scoring Systems\nThe Best Anime Series of 2021\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review", "link": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-dangers-in-my-heart-s1-review/", "publishedOn": "2023-12-28T12:37:00.000Z", "wordCount": 5441, "title": "The Dangers in My Heart S1 Anime Review", "imageUrl": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/dangers-in-my-heart-kyotaro-murder-dictionary.jpg" }, { "id": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/?p=22022", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "Inspired by a series of recent blog posts, I offer a proposed set of best practices for media review scoring systems.\nPossibly related posts...\n\nThe Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nNew Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader\nal|together Visual Novel Reviews and Posts\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nACE Academy - Visual Novel Review\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal…\nKaori After Story - Visual Novel Review", "link": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/on-review-scoring-systems/", "publishedOn": "2023-12-27T16:38:18.000Z", "wordCount": 4975, "title": "On Review Scoring Systems", "imageUrl": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/nihon-review-scatterplot-nlj.jpg" } ] }, { "title": "Leaflets | The New Leaf Journal", "feedUrl": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/feed", "siteUrl": "https://thenewleafjournal.com", "articles": [] }, { "title": "Leaf Buds | The New Leaf Journal", "feedUrl": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/leafbud/feed", "siteUrl": "https://thenewleafjournal.com", "articles": [ { "id": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/?post_type=leafbud&p=22239", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg published an interesting “birthday post” asking people to create blogs for his birthday. The idea is that […]\nPossibly related posts...\n\nMatt Damon's Brooklyn Heights Crane Game\nAround the Web 〜 Alternative Software and Services Resources\nThe New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday\nJustin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ\nNew Leaf Journal Year-In-Review: 2023\nThe al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations\nJustin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal…\n100 Articles and Counting at The New Leaf Journal\nSearching for the \"Libertarian Moment\"", "link": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/leafbud/just-blogging/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-14T16:01:51.000Z", "wordCount": null, "title": "Just Blogging", "imageUrl": null } ] }, { "title": "Letters | The New Leaf Journal", "feedUrl": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/letter/feed", "siteUrl": "https://thenewleafjournal.com", "articles": [] }, { "title": "Collections | The New Leaf Journal", "feedUrl": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/collection/feed", "siteUrl": "https://thenewleafjournal.com", "articles": [] }, { "title": "The Emu Café Social", "feedUrl": "https://social.emucafe.org/feed", "siteUrl": "https://social.emucafe.org", "articles": [ { "id": "https://social.emucafe.org/?p=694", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "Over at The New Leaf Journal, my January 5, 2024 article, which was about drug-enhanced professional cycling results, became the sixth New Leaf Journal article (going back to February 2021) to appear on Hacker News page 1 (only after a stop in The Browser newsletter). It reached as high as 11th on HN and was […]", "link": "https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/google-vs-hn-at-the-nlj-1/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-19T02:59:53.000Z", "wordCount": null, "title": "Google vs HN at the NLJ (1)", "imageUrl": null }, { "id": "https://social.emucafe.org/?p=688", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "Pro-Hamas protesters spent January 15, 2024 loudly protesting outside of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, yelling that the cancer hospital is complicit in the so-called “genocide” in Gaza, or even “supporting” it. Far be it from me to offer any sort of advice to supporters of a foreign terrorist organization, but in light […]", "link": "https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/team-hamas-nyc-hospital/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-18T17:59:19.000Z", "wordCount": null, "title": "Team Hamas “Protests” NYC Cancer Hospital", "imageUrl": null }, { "id": "https://social.emucafe.org/?p=684", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "I did not get around to publishing a review of episode 2 of season 2 of Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki-kun after publishing a brief review of the first episode. The second episode had a dramatic tonal shift — segueing from the social game shenanigans that began in the first episode to bullying. I had some issues […]", "link": "https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/tomozaki-s2-ep2-bullying/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-17T22:27:53.000Z", "wordCount": null, "title": "Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki-kun and bullying", "imageUrl": null }, { "id": "https://social.emucafe.org/?p=680", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "I came across a blog post titled Just Blog by Frank Meeuwsen. This post alerted me to an interesting “birthday” project by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. Mr. Mulenwig asked for people to blog for his birthday and link to his post. Ideally, the links should show up as pingbacks on his article. His post said […]", "link": "https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/just-blogging/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-14T15:52:29.000Z", "wordCount": null, "title": "Just Blogging", "imageUrl": null }, { "id": "https://social.emucafe.org/?p=677", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "I published an article on The New Leaf Journal about doping in cycling during (and before) the Armstrong era. I noted in my Saturday newsletter that it unexpectedly blew up (by our standards) within hours of its publication. I was not immediately able to identify the source, but I figured out from our referrals that […]", "link": "https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/nlj-in-thebrowser/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-07T19:30:18.000Z", "wordCount": 734, "title": "Documenting NLJ Appearance in The Browser", "imageUrl": "https://social.emucafe.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/cropped-emucafesocial_icon-1.jpg" }, { "id": "https://social.emucafe.org/?p=671", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "I starred this very insightful comment by Hacker News user marcinzm about search engines. The commenter noted the obvious, that big tech search shows ads because its purpose is to generate revenue through ads. But I appreciated the commenters putting it in terms of means and ends. Ideally, the user wants a search engine to […]", "link": "https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/search-means-and-ends/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-07T17:56:52.000Z", "wordCount": null, "title": "Search, Means, and Ends", "imageUrl": null }, { "id": "https://social.emucafe.org/?p=667", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "This was the first completely new (as in not subsequent season) anime I am trying in the Winter 2024 season. These days, not involving “another world” or “reincarnation” is a good place to start. We have a girl, Himari Momochi, who is an orphan. When she turns 16, she learns her late parents left her […]", "link": "https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/strangers-of-momochi-house-ep-1/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-06T18:54:21.000Z", "wordCount": null, "title": "Strangers of Momochi House (Ep 1)", "imageUrl": null }, { "id": "https://social.emucafe.org/?p=662", "author": "Nicholas A. 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OS: EndeavourOS CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core […]", "link": "https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/naf-steam-hardware-survey/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-04T00:42:54.000Z", "wordCount": 721, "title": "I just participated in the Steam hardware survey", "imageUrl": "https://social.emucafe.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/cropped-emucafesocial_icon-1.jpg" }, { "id": "https://social.emucafe.org/?p=650", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "I checked by 404 logs over at The New Leaf Journal. I found an interesting user agent among the myriad web crawlers: PoorlyConfiguredWebCrawler I appreciate that the crawler advertises that it is not well configured. You get the feeling that whoever released the poor thing on the internet is asking us to not be too […]", "link": "https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/poorlyconfiguredwebcrawler-in-logs/", "publishedOn": "2023-12-27T18:29:59.000Z", "wordCount": null, "title": "PoorlyConfiguredWebCrawler in Logs", "imageUrl": null }, { "id": "https://social.emucafe.org/?p=647", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "My privacy-friendly local page-counting solution for WordPress, Koko Analytics, picked up a referral from snapchat.com over at The New Leaf Journal. Snapchat? Really. I thought this was for sending photos. No no, don’t correct me. I am happy living in ignorance. I will just go on living under my assumption that Snapchat is not the […]", "link": "https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/snapchat-referral-to-nlj/", "publishedOn": "2023-12-26T16:35:05.000Z", "wordCount": null, "title": "Snapchat Referral to NLJ", "imageUrl": null }, { "id": "https://social.emucafe.org/?p=640", "author": "Nicholas A. Ferrell", "description": "I enjoy some of the fun public domain images on Openclipart. For Christmas 2022, I shared a “cat Christmas tree” over at The New Leaf Journal. This year, I will use my new social posting site (it seems more conducive for the purpose) to share a fun Openclipart Christmas owl posted by Openclipart artist Michal […]", "link": "https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/oca-santa-owl/", "publishedOn": "2023-12-25T16:43:03.000Z", "wordCount": null, "title": "Merry Christmas – Openclipart Santa Owl", "imageUrl": null } ] }, { "title": "The Newsletter Leaf Journal", "feedUrl": "https://buttondown.email/newsletterleafjournal/rss", "siteUrl": "https://buttondown.email/newsletterleafjournal", "articles": [ { "id": "https://buttondown.email/newsletterleafjournal/archive/170/", "author": null, "description": "Welcome to the 170th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal,Nicholas A. Ferrell. It is highly likely that there will be a live New Leaf Journal article about said keyboard when you read this newsletter, but that is technically an article for next newsletter week. Below, we cover the events of January 13-19 in our typical Newsletter Leaf Journal manner.\nLeaves from the week that was\nI published three new articles since mailing Newsletter 169. \nShopping on AI (Sp)Amazon\nJustin and Justina discuss some interesting AI-generated product descriptions seen on Amazon (or Spamazon). \nProvocative O…", "link": "https://buttondown.email/newsletterleafjournal/archive/170/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-20T18:26:19.000Z", "wordCount": 2505, "title": "Newsletter Leaf Journal CLXX 〜 Newsletter Optimizer 〜", "imageUrl": "https://buttondown-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/919fb579-e1c4-44f2-a6d6-67b7ab020810.png" }, { "id": "https://buttondown.email/newsletterleafjournal/archive/169/", "author": null, "description": "Welcome to the 169th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. I am running a bit behind schedule today, so let us cut straight to your regularly scheduled newsletter content. \nLeaves from the week that was\nI published three new articles since mailing Newsletter 168. \n2023 Anime Year in Review\nMy third annual New Leaf Journal review of the year that was about anime, and it features my ranking of the top six series of 2024, notes on additional series, and category-specific awards. You can either use my article to find something to watch or as a prompt to become angry bec…", "link": "https://buttondown.email/newsletterleafjournal/archive/169/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-14T00:10:43.000Z", "wordCount": 2243, "title": "Newsletter Leaf Journal CLXIX 〜 Ranking hacking 〜", "imageUrl": "https://buttondown-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/919fb579-e1c4-44f2-a6d6-67b7ab020810.png" }, { "id": "https://buttondown.email/newsletterleafjournal/archive/168/", "author": null, "description": "Welcome to the 168th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you, like the newsletters of 2020-2023, from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. Despite being under the weather for the early days of 2024, we still had an eventful week of the new year at your favorite green online writing magazine. Without further ado, let us begin with the first newsletter of the new year.\nLeaves from the week that was\nI published four new articles since mailing Newsletter 167. \nDecember 2023 at The New Leaf Journal\nJust in case you have to catch up on 2023 before starting on 2024. \nNew Leaf Journal Year-In-Review: 2023\nOur annual year-end r…", "link": "https://buttondown.email/newsletterleafjournal/archive/168/", "publishedOn": "2024-01-06T18:04:56.000Z", "wordCount": 2577, "title": "Newsletter Leaf Journal CLXVIII 〜 Newsletter boosting 〜", "imageUrl": "https://image-generator.buttondown.email/api/emphasize-subject?subject=Newsletter%20Leaf%20Journal%20CLXVIII%20%E3%80%9C%20Clean%20newsletter%20%E3%80%9C&author=The%20Newsletter%20Leaf%20Journal&date=2024-01-06&img=https://buttondown-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/919fb579-e1c4-44f2-a6d6-67b7ab020810.png" }, { "id": "https://buttondown.email/newsletterleafjournal/archive/167/", "author": null, "description": "Welcome to the 167th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. We had New Years Eve for the last newsletter of 2022, but we will have to settle for New Years Eve Eve in 2023. But while we missed the holiday this year, I think we nevertheless have some holiday-tier content to bring 2023 to a close. \nLeaves from the week that was\nWe (actual \"we\" this time) published five new articles since mailing Newsletter 166. \nVictor V. Gurbo's \"Christmas & You\"\nI included links to Victor's two YouTube videos of his recording of his original song, Christmas & You, with last week's new…", "link": "https://buttondown.email/newsletterleafjournal/archive/167/", "publishedOn": "2023-12-30T21:53:03.000Z", "wordCount": 3364, "title": "Newsletter Leaf Journal CLXVII 〜 Top-tier new year 〜", "imageUrl": "https://image-generator.buttondown.email/api/emphasize-subject?subject=Newsletter%20Leaf%20Journal%20CLXVII%20%E3%80%9C%20Top-tier%20new%20year%20%E3%80%9C&author=The%20Newsletter%20Leaf%20Journal&date=2023-12-30&img=https://buttondown-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/919fb579-e1c4-44f2-a6d6-67b7ab020810.png" } ] }, { "title": "Hacker News - Newest: \"thenewleafjournal\"", "feedUrl": "https://hnrss.org/newest?q=thenewleafjournal", "siteUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/newest", "articles": [] }, { "title": "Emu Café Memos", "feedUrl": "https://memos.emucafe.org/u/2/rss.xml", "siteUrl": "https://memos.emucafe.org", "articles": [] }, { "title": "Emu Café Memos", "feedUrl": "https://memos.emucafe.org/u/3/rss.xml", "siteUrl": "https://memos.emucafe.org", "articles": [] }, { "title": "The New Leaf Annex", "feedUrl": "https://newleafannex.emucafe.org/feed", "siteUrl": "https://newleafannex.emucafe.org/", "articles": [] }, { "title": "N.A. Ferrell", "feedUrl": "https://listed.to/@nafnlj/feed.rss", "siteUrl": "https://thenewleafjournal.com/author/naferrell", "articles": [] }, { "title": "nafnlj on Pixelfed", "feedUrl": "https://pixelfed.social/users/nafnlj.atom", "siteUrl": "https://pixelfed.social/nafnlj", "articles": [ { "id": "https://pixelfed.social/p/nafnlj/654432111509536240", "author": null, "description": "My Logitech K310 keyboard after a good washing and scrubbing in my kitchen sink. I have been using this as my main desktop keyboard since April 2013 and it is still going strong after countless keystrokes, many cleanings, and one coffee incident. Sadly, Logitech discontinued it several years ago.
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\nMy review:
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Sadly, Logitech discontinued it several years ago.\n\nMy review:\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/my-logitech-washable-wired-keyboard-k310/\n\n#Logitech #LogitechK310 #Keyboard #PhysicalKeyboards #WashableKeyboard #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal #pixel3axl", "imageUrl": null }, { "id": "https://pixelfed.social/p/nafnlj/652194386019766224", "author": null, "description": "Let's check in on how Amazon and brand FOPEAS are doing...\n\nFictional dialogue inspired by the \"product\": https://thenewleafjournal.com/shopping-on-ai-spamazon/\n\nInternet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240112170316/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Ffulfill-request-respectful-information-users-Brown%2Fdp%2FB0CM82FJL2\n\n#Amazon #AI #Spam #newleafjournal #thenewleafjournal", "link": "https://pixelfed.social/p/nafnlj/652194386019766224", "publishedOn": "2024-01-14T17:07:38.000Z", "wordCount": null, "title": "Let's check in on how Amazon and brand FOPEAS are doing...\n\nFictional dialogue inspired by the \"product\": https://thenewleafjournal.com/shopping-on-ai-spamazon/\n\nInternet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240112170316/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Ffulfill-request-respectful-information-users-Brown%2Fdp%2FB0CM82FJL2\n\n#Amazon #AI #Spam #newleafjournal #thenewleafjournal", "imageUrl": null } ] }, { "title": "N.A. 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For those who do not know much about feeds, I also linked to my introduction and several essays on the benefits of feeds.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/new-leaf-journal-feeds/\n#WordPress #RSS #ATOM #JSONFeed #TWTXT #Feeds", "link": "https://linuxrocks.online/@nafnlj/111783796578516271", "publishedOn": "2024-01-19T17:29:32.000Z", "wordCount": 125, "title": "Untitled", "imageUrl": null }, { "id": "https://linuxrocks.online/@nafnlj/111761800480840539", "author": null, "description": "A 2022 post featuring my photographs of the Freedom Tower, shrouded in fog, from a morning walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/freedom-tower-in-the-fog-from-the-brooklyn-bridge/\n#NYC #Brooklyn #Manhattan #BrooklynBridge #FreedomTower #Fog #Photography", "link": "https://linuxrocks.online/@nafnlj/111761800480840539", "publishedOn": "2024-01-15T20:15:38.000Z", "wordCount": 123, "title": "Untitled", "imageUrl": null }, { "id": "https://linuxrocks.online/@nafnlj/111726978442619446", "author": null, "description": "The story of then-President Abraham Lincoln's decision to pardon Frank Judd, the son of Lincoln's Minister to Prussia, sparing him from what would have been execution for desertion.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/lincoln-spares-frank-r-judd-in-1864-65/\n#AbrahamLincoln #History #USHistory #CivilWar #Desertion", "link": "https://linuxrocks.online/@nafnlj/111726978442619446", "publishedOn": "2024-01-09T16:39:56.000Z", "wordCount": 121, "title": "Untitled", "imageUrl": null }, { "id": "https://linuxrocks.online/@nafnlj/111721138571496169", "author": null, "description": "I published my third annual review that was of the year in anime. 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Nostalgic, and in terms of site performance... definitely turned out to be the correct decision.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/slow-leaf-journal-outgrowing-cheap-hosting/\n#WordPress #WebHosting #VPS #Bluehost #Dialogue", "link": "https://linuxrocks.online/@nafnlj/111653700859975671", "publishedOn": "2023-12-27T18:04:29.000Z", "wordCount": 124, "title": "Untitled", "imageUrl": null }, { "id": "https://linuxrocks.online/@nafnlj/111647541748964834", "author": null, "description": "My short notes on figuring out how to properly enter administrative precedent decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals into Zotero.\nhttps://thenewleafjournal.com/adding-eoir-bia-decisions-to-zotero/\n#Zotero #Law #USImmigrationLaw #BoardOfImmigrationAppeals #USDOJ", "link": "https://linuxrocks.online/@nafnlj/111647541748964834", "publishedOn": "2023-12-26T15:58:08.000Z", "wordCount": 124, "title": "Untitled", "imageUrl": null } ] }, { "title": "Hypothesis Stream", "feedUrl": "https://hypothes.is/stream.atom?user=nafnlj", "siteUrl": "https://hypothes.is/stream", "articles": [] }, { "title": "Victor V. 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