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spikedluv) wrote2025-06-09 07:09 amMom Update
spikedluv) wrote2025-06-09 07:07 amThe Day in Spikedluv (Sunday, June 8)
For fun stuff I watched the current ep (season finale *sniffle*) of Leverage: Redemption and an HGTV program, read more in Amelia Peabody, and talked with mom on the phone.
The water in the pond has gone down to normal levels, thankfully. Pip used the shop vac in the basement, but stirring up that water made the entire house stink. Not sure what else we’ll need to do.
Temps started out at 55.0(F) and reached 78.4. It was nice and sunny all day, with a slight breeze. Tomorrow: more rain. Ugh!
andrewducker) wrote2025-06-09 12:00 pm- ai,
- children,
- economics,
- edinburgh,
- food,
- funny,
- globalwarming,
- government,
- links,
- maps,
- money,
- music,
- planning,
- programming,
- transport,
- uk,
- video,
- visualisation
Interesting Links for 09-06-2025
- 1. Have you experience the glory that is "It's Raining Tacos"? Because my children have subjected me to it over 5,000 times now...
- (tags:music video children food funny )
- 2. Mapping Edinburgh planning applications
- (tags:Edinburgh planning maps visualisation )
- 3. The UK's North-South divide in transport funding - mapped
- (tags:uk transport government money )
- 4. AI - where are we now?
- (tags:ai programming globalwarming economics )
olivermoss) wrote2025-06-09 01:54 am(no subject)
(I've still never read the books and only watched one of the films very recently. But, it sounded hilarious. They've got a Twilight drag event next. I'm debating going. The organizers and attendees were wonderful, but doing too many of these events as someone who isn't a fan feels odd. I got asked what 'team' I am and was confused for a moment.)
halfshellvenus) wrote2025-06-08 11:56 pmLJ Idol: Wheel of Chaos
Idol is a 'weekly' writing challenge where mad (and maddening) topics get posted, and then you have until the deadline to write your entry and post it. Entries are gathered onto a ballot, and votes determine who is eliminated and who survives to write another week longer.
With this post, I'm officially signing up for this season, and I hope you'll join me!
alias_sqbr) wrote2025-06-09 11:05 amSteering the Craft Chapter 3: sentence length and complex syntax
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... )
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sufficiently_advanced_ex2025-06-08 10:35 pmCreators are revealed!
annavere) wrote2025-06-08 09:37 pmRecent Reading
m_findlow) wrote in fandomweekly2025-06-09 11:07 am[#261] SOMETHING IN THE WATER (TORCHWOOD)
Title: Something in the water
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Jack is having a hard time convincing the team of his plan to keep Cardiff’s alien problems under wraps.
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ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-06-08 07:39 pm
Pride Month
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.
conuly) wrote2025-06-09 08:33 pmWell, I read the news
olivermoss) wrote2025-06-08 05:23 pmGrishaverse - Shadow and Bone through Ruin and Rising
( No plot spoilers, but some plot structure talk )
Ending spoilers under the other type of cut
I had trouble vibing with the way the story resolved because Alina spent way more time homesick for the Little Palace or even the army tents than where they grew up. Them not feeling like they ever had a home was a recurring theme and even a plot point. Them going back and making it a home is a lovely idea, but it's kinda sad to me that they are mostly isolated from the other survivors and just have staff that think they are loony tunes.
Also, happy or tragic I wanted more resolution for poor Nicolai, who could only really be understood by Alina or maybe Mal. Even just as friends, I wish they where still in each other's lives and not just rare visits.
In certain ways the ending was beautiful and bittersweet, but I never got the impression that that's what Alina would want from anything in the previous pages of the series. Protect the kids and get away from positions of power? Sure, but actually run the orphanage herself? Have all the other adults, besides Mal, profoundly mis-understand her? I'm glad they are together and the place is under their control, but...idk maybe I'll feel differently if I read more of the books in the series or re-read them later.
senmut) wrote2025-06-08 06:41 pmNew Comm
communityactionusa is set up now. As you can probably tell by the name, it's intended as a place to help guide action, and the sticky is referencing "Project Mailstorm". Go look, see if it's your cuppa.casemod) wrote in caseficexchange2025-06-09 09:23 amTreats for pinch hitters.
If you're a pinch hitter who isn't signed up as a participant in 2025's round who would like to put yourself forward for a gift, please drop yourself on this post with your request(s)!
We have a couple of guidelines:
- Please use the tagset to select fandoms and pairings ("/", "&", and "Solo") that were accepted for this round.
- Treats for pinch hitters do not need to meet our minimum requirement for a completed gift. That means it can be a scene/snippet from solving a case rather than a case being solved from beginning to end. (One panel for art will be accepted. Podfic that records a drabble will be accepted. Fic that's a total of 500, 1,000, etc. words will be accepted.)
- Prompts or links to letters (past or one specifically for this exchange) are optional and are very welcome.
- Please list any DNWs in your comment.
- Please do not reveal who you are pinch hitting for in your comment.
- You can find our full guidelines in our rules post.
- If you have a question regarding a pinch hitter's request, please email gumshoeagency@gmail.com with your questions.
I've provided a suggested format to post below, although you're welcome to post however you like as long as the information you provide is useful for a potential treater.
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You're welcome to repeat this as many times as you like. Anon comments are allowed on this post.
Please note we do not guarantee gifts for pinch hitters, but please still consider dropping yourself onto this post. If you're interested in pinch hitting, please check out our available pinch hits.
Thank you again for participating, and I hope you have a good time being a part of our first round!
kaberett) wrote2025-06-08 11:57 pmvital functions is struggling with time management and up way past curfew
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, 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!
tassosss) wrote2025-06-08 05:01 pmThat's a wrap
It's a messy draft and I'm not looking forward to editing it.
But it's done and done.
Final wordcount: 107,659
I wrote ~7k in the last two days.
brithistorian) wrote2025-06-08 03:51 pmHuman Words Project
I learned today about Chris Osmond's "Human Words Project," a way for writers to indicate that their work is 100% human words, i.e. not generated by AI. Here's the logo for it, which you can add to your projects, if you want:
ETA: Note that this is not the original logo. The website was moved after the original logo was created. I took the liberty of editing the logo to reflect the current URL, and at the same time changed the size of the logo, deleted a lot of white space around it, and changed the file type to JPG (thus making the file MUCH smaller).