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Jun. 9th, 2025 01:35 am
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I'm finally caught up on comments!

Let's see:

Jasper has surgery on Thursday to hopefully remove the rest of the melanoma which hopefully isn't spreading elsewhere. The lab gave it a 20 percent chance of moving elsewhere. But then again the biopsy was an abundance of caution from the optometrist vet and only had a 15 percent or so chance of being cancerous.

Poor Jasper and I.

He's been in good spirits. His weight is back up but we'd like it if he'd gain a pound. He's a thin mint. He's been curling up and cuddling more since we had to evacuate in October because of hurricane Milton and that trend has continued. No hard feelings from the first surgery and that will hopefully continue with this second one.

I'm preparing for his surgery by trying to change my sleeping schedule so someone is with Jasper at all times. Ian doesn't have off work this time so it'll be a little trickier but thankfully he works from home.

Thinking about making a play pen type thing for him because he's unsteady and frail without meds but becomes extra unsteady on meds.

I got my birthday presents in the mail, and have happily enjoyed the manga for nichijou,
and looking forward to reading the two history books.

Spent some time playing dreamlight valley. Love the Cheshire cat!

I really need some new media my muse is pretty much dead.

Saw the gif of Billie Piper becoming the Doctor it's shame Doctor Who sucks and makes no sense otherwise I would be incoherent with delight. Love me some Billie Piper and in the hands of someone wanting to tell a good story you could do interesting things with that.

I think I'd pick a point and have the Timeless Child be a trap by the Master because that whole thing started the convoluted nonsense that is currently canon. Plus the Master being endlessly tortured as a child in order to have regenerations stolen from him would have made more sense. Given some depth to his crazy. A reason for him to destroy everything.

But supposedly it's cancelled.

Afraid to look at my friends page. Tumblr has been full of people lately that are cool with parroting terrorists phrases being cool with people being killed for being Jewish. I have blocked so soooo many people.

which crystal?

Jun. 9th, 2025 01:50 am
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What it says on the tin -- how should I focus my Final Fantasy attention, assuming I should focus at all?

(not listed here is Blank Project, which I really should just fire up in earnest; Mobius FF my beloved)

Poll #33232 many Finalities
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 0


what am I playing?

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Final Fantasy C2
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Final Fantasy Tactics A2
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Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy
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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
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a Free Enterprise seed
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Final Fantasy IV Ultima+
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Final Fantasy Restored (or similar debugged patch)
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Final Fantasy V (it's 4JF season)
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[I have a suggestion to make in the comments]
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Continuing with the trip through the Denver Botanic Gardens from last week!


A very nice clematis, hiding away a bit.


A Persian jewel, extra bejeweled by the rain.


Another really nice columbine. This color makes me think of strawberry lemonade.


Fourteen more pictures:
We headed up the paths behind the Ellipse, toward the "romance gardens" and the "fragrance gardens."


A more classic, blue and white Colorado columbine.


I believe this is elderflower.


Spiderwort.


Looking back towards the Ellipse and the house, with the irises, roses, pines...


The picture does not quite do justice to just how big this iris was. It was huge, and smelled wonderful.


These poppies were really neat, with the sort of ruffled edges.


Itty bitty tadpoles! I think these are toad tadpoles.


Happy Pride from these larkspurs!


More irises with water droplets!


A ladybug larva! They look like little gila monsters.

Over in the "woodland mosaic":


Young squirrel.


Extra spotty ladybug!

And then in "June's PlantAsia":


I love this art piece.


A very pretty fern. :)
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Masterlist

I feel kinda bad about how badly I'm butchering LeGuin's flowing prose for these posts. But I learn by summarising and sometimes even a clunky summary is easier on the brain. And maybe I'll inspire some of youse to go read the original!
Read more... )

ICE raid protest in Los Angeles USA

Jun. 8th, 2025 09:54 pm
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For what it's worth, I've been watching this NBC live news feed for the last 2 hours or so.



I had other things to discuss for the upcoming Moody Monday post. I wanted to talk about the Border Patrol helicopter that circled over my house for 2 hours, then the next day was the ICE raid and community response here in Minneapolis. Something else always takes precedence, though. The absurdities arrive fast and furious, don't they?

And, yes, of course they're shooting reporters again, just like they did in 2020 in Minneapolis.

Pride Month

Jun. 8th, 2025 07:39 pm
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31 Ideas To Take Action & Celebrate Pride Month In 2025

June is Pride Month! This month-long celebration is an opportunity to celebrate the very human and very beautiful spectrum of gender and sexuality, all while coming together to fight for widespread equality and justice in the LGBTQ+ community.


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Reading. FINISHED:

  • Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson. I can see why people like her! I have also remembered why I wound up unsubscribing from her blog. Very interesting proof of concept in re audiobooks, though.
  • Prophet, Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché. Very enjoyable reread in which many things landed differently, in service of...
  • a word you've never understood, [personal profile] rydra_wong. EXACTLY the post-canon follow-up I wanted but would have absolutely failed to articulate. Have already tried to lure one more person into reading the book so I can then make them go read the fic. Now I just selfishly want Even More Of It.
  • Pain is really strange, Steve Haines. Reread for the purpose of making notes, this time. Sparked at least one useful thought. Following up references is a work in progress.
  • How to cook... Desserts, Leiths Cookery School. Read all the way through for the purposes of EYB indexing first pass! Go me.

STARTED:

  • Adventures in Stationery, James Ward. Borrowed from library on a whim for low-brain non-fiction.

Writing. First pass through indexing a cookbook on EYB!

Some Actual Notes re pain for The Book, including (and I am very proud of myself for this) actually writing down my questions alongside the bare "here's what it contained".

Watching. Murderbot S01E01. I am dubious but expecting to keep watching. If you encourage me I might say more when it is not past curfew.

Cooking. ... apparently I have not managed Much Of Note this week.

Eating. POTATOES at the ALLOTMENT courtesy of ALLOTMENT FRIENDS. Also finished my choi sum and had my first AMAZING broad beans and nibbled kohlrabi speculatively, all on Tuesday.

Today I have nibbled: a cherry; the first few redcurrants; a pod's worth of Kelvedon Wonder peas; half a tiny tomato.

Making & mending. Made some progress on A's left glove. Realised, belatedly, that I'd done the same thing with picking up stitches unevenly along the two sides of the palm. Ripped back most of the way to where I started from and Sulked. BUT HEY I've remembered the pattern and where I'd stowed all the bits for it!

Growing. See Eating for my biggest excitements. Sugar Magnolia (purple sugar-snap pea) now setting pods; my main intention with it this year (given that I planted a whole packet of seeds and have wound up with ...fewer plants than that) is just to get myself sorted with a significantly larger number of seeds for next year, but hey, maybe they'll all be super productive and I'll actually get to eat some too.

Stockings now at the plot to go onto the cherry tomorrow, hopefully.

Tomatoes planted out when tiny not doing so great (i.e. have mostly disappeared). Tomatoes planted out when larger Actually Flowering. Desperately need to stake the lot of them.

Tiny single solitary surviving oca has started to Go.

V grumpy about how poorly the squash I got started A While Ago have coped with getting put outside given that they are in biodegradable fibre pots so I'm not even disturbing their roots. Getting the rest of them in the ground AND THEN SOWING MORE very much also high on tomorrow's priority list. (And the beans, augh.)

Observing. Met a neighbour!

Birdfeeding

Jun. 8th, 2025 02:48 pm
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Today is mostly sunny, humid, and warm. It rained yesterday and last night.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I dropped the Java moss into the trough pond. It floated. If it doesn't sink after absorbing water, I may need to find a rock to put on it.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 6/8/25 -- I did a bit of weeding in the septic garden and new picnic table.

EDIT 6/8/25 -- I did some work around the patio.

EDIT 6/8/25 -- I sowed cypress vine seeds around the support wire and in the septic garden.  Some of the earlier ones have sprouted, but I plant extra because they often get eaten.

I gathered a few poppy seeds.

The first Asiatic lilies are blooming, white with pink tips, around the telephone pole.  :D  Daylilies have buds.

I've seen a male cardinal at the hopper feeder.

Lots of things are sprouting in the septic garden.  \o/

EDIT 6/8/25 -- I picked half a bag of mulberries in the south lot and along the front fence.

I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a mourning dove.

EDIT 6/8/25 -- I picked half a bag of mulberries along the front fence and in the savanna.

EDIT 6/8/25 -- I pulled weeds from the tulip bed.

EDIT 6/8/25 -- I pulled weeds along the strip garden.

The sky clouded over in the afternoon and feels like it might rain again.

EDIT 6/8/25 -- I pulled weeds around the edge of the house yard.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

"We don't trade lives" sure, man

Jun. 8th, 2025 09:24 pm
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I was rewatching Avengers: Infinity War and it, again, struck me how bloody hypocritical Steve's "we don't trade lives" line(s) is. Friend. Pal. Bro. My man. Do you really think no Wakandan is gonna die fighting Thanos' armies. Like. Get a fucking grip, omg.

Apartment update: furniture

Jun. 8th, 2025 06:39 pm
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My friend Ricki and I assembled all the cabinets. The planner lady didn't trust me when I told her the kitchen in the model felt wrong; there was, as I suspected, another 40 cm for a cabinet. But because of the radiator, doors or drawers wouldn't open there, so I bought a 4th upper cabinet and am committing Frankenkitchen with an open cabinet from the Enhet line. (Also to leave the outlet in that wall accessible. I think it's intended to be for a dishwasher, but I have no idea how you'd fit one there. See: radiator, door. Unless they want you to put a minifridge in? fuck that, I need a real fridge.) They also sent one extra of the 20 cm drawer fronts, instead of 2x10cm, so I had to exchange that.

(I went to IKEA 6 times in the last week, I think. I am SO done.)

My cute, retro-look fridge was delivered, and I got it plugged in and running. It's 144 cm tall (shorter than me, slightly) and has a top freezer with a door rather than the more typical bottom drawer freezer. I don't like them! It's hard to put cookie sheets or any sort of baking thing I need to freeze first in them.

I also installed clip-on blinds in the large, south-facing windows. We're not allowed to drill in the window frames, but they sell blinds that attach with clips that go over the top and bottom of the frame, so I got a few of those.

Saturday, Ricki and 2 derby friends came over and built my bed and desk, and after they had to leave, Ricki and I built the last 2 pieces of furniture. So I'll be able to occupy the place once the kitchen is installed (after I get back from the US).

Today I went over to the new apartment to break down the assload of boxes into smaller pieces that will fit in the mailbox-sized paper bin (they open to a vault below the street; I have no idea how that works). A lot of the previous boxes only got sort-of broken down, and I own a box cutter (more like a craft knife, really, and I didn't think about it until this morning, of course; having it over there for the last week would have made my life easier). So they're currently stacked up in my new apartment waiting to be taken down at some point when the vault has been emptied. (I think I filled it a lot.)

The main reason I went over was to meet with a guy from TaskRabbit to get an estimate on the kitchen install. He thinks it'll be a full day's work :| but I have no confidence in my ability to do it correctly myself, so I'll happily pay someone to do it for me. (I'm not even thinking about moving again for at least 5 years, if not 10. Moving is a huge pain in the ass.) And since I was paying him for an hour's work for just the consultation, he connected the one lamp I have installed.

The movers are coming July 11; I will probably spend the entire previous week (except when I'm at the new place waiting on the kitchen) putting everything into boxes. I've already started the task, but it's hard when you're still using a lot of the things.

I have an electricity contract and an internet contract. I'll get more lights and figure out a washer and vacuum when I get back. I have a few washers, vacuums, and toasters faved on Saturn that I can decide on later. Or go look at in person and then decide.

And in 2 days, I go to the US for 3 weeks. This timing is not great!

Steering the Craft Masterlist

Jun. 8th, 2025 09:57 pm
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Steering the craft by Ursula K LeGuin is "A revised and updated guide to the essentials of a writer’s craft", and includes writing exercises in each chapter.
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2025.06.08

Jun. 8th, 2025 07:24 am
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Kristi Noem: the made-for-TV official executing Trump’s mass deportations
Noem has played a starring role in the second Trump administration with her goal to ‘Make America Safe Again’ – derided by critics as ‘cosplay’ with cruel consequences
Lauren Gambino
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/07/kristi-noem-trump-secretary-homeland-security

Stop bending the knee to Trump: it’s time for anticipatory noncompliance
David Kirp
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/08/trump-anticipatory-noncompliance

52 tiny annoying problems, solved! (Because when you can’t control the big stuff, start small)
Experts, Guardian readers and writers share ingenious solutions to life’s everyday irritations, from wobbly tables to persistent hiccups
Compiled by Sarah Phillips
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/08/tiny-annoying-problems-solved

Doctors trialling 'poo pills' to flush out dangerous superbugs
James Gallagher
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyge290l4xo

An ancient writing system confounding myths about Africa
Penny Dale
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ye50xgw8vo

Local officials defend role following chaotic federal sting in Minneapolis
Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt said the enforcement action was one of eight search warrants carried out against a “transnational criminal organization.”
by Alfonzo Galvan, Katelyn Vue and Andrew Hazzard
https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/minneapolis-lake-street-federal-sting-protest-response/

Dragonfly review – haunting, genre-defying drama of lonely city living
Tribeca film festival, New York
Brenda Blethyn and Andrea Riseborough, along with a very alarming dog, are superb as two neighbours thrown together by their neglected circumstances
Peter Bradshaw
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/07/dragonfly-review-andrea-riseborough-brenda-blethyn-tribeca-festival

Fancy some iconic celeriac? New Nordic cuisine, now a blockbuster exhibition
Twenty years ago, a group of Scandinavian chefs announced a culinary revolution. But as Norway’s National museum celebrates the New Nordic manifesto’s impact on dining and the arts, has the movement betrayed its own ambitious ideals?
Dan Hancox
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/08/fancy-some-iconic-celeriac-new-nordic-cuisine-now-a-blockbuster-exhibition

The week around the world in 20 pictures
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, wildfires in Canada, the first day of Eid al-Adha, and the Champions League final in Munich: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing
Jim Powell
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/jun/06/the-week-around-the-world-in-20-pictures

i win. i always win.

Jun. 8th, 2025 04:06 am
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LINUX KUN ART DRAWN BY SOMEONE THAT ISNT ME IVE WON!
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Drawn by the lovely spillingdown, go give them money

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Jun. 8th, 2025 04:09 pm
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I'm been reading a few pages of my DW network link lately and discovered I'm not following people I thought I was following. I suspect I have accidentally unfollowed because on my current layout reply is close to the drop down list that has unsubscribe and ban user. I need an icons to the left layout.

Anyway, happy long weekend, Australians. At least those Australians who get the king's birthday holiday this week. I'm listening to the Classic 100 countdown to not-celebrate. Can we have a republic now, please?

Early Humans

Jun. 7th, 2025 11:57 pm
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3,500-year-old graves reveal secrets that rewrite bronze age history

Around 1500 BC, radical changes occurred in people's lives: they ate and lived differently, and the social system was also reorganized.
Bronze Age life changed radically around 1500 BC in Central Europe. New research reveals diets narrowed, millet was introduced, migration slowed, and social systems became looser challenging old ideas about nomadic Tumulus culture herders
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