Wait, no, I forgot she is also an actress, what a great idea!
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Wait, no, I forgot she is also an actress, what a great idea!
Wait, I am too Argh to watch now but is Madhur Jaffrey his grandmother? She is a goddess she taught me to cook scratch curries.
I would not go to war with a hummingbird. You hang a feeder too close to their nest and the females will kill any bird that comes too close. Their survival rate is 30%, so you can't blame her for being a crazy momma.
Even a warthog. . .like it was nothing. They are terrifyingly efficient hunting, they will. . .maybe we won't go into details, but thank dog nothing is large enough to try for us. Also thank dog hummingbirds aren't three feet long, we'd need armor.
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I got lucky. I'd bought a base metal Keltic design disk to use as a cloak clasp, and had it in my carry-on side pocket. Very low $ so I forgot about it. The bag was grabbed, and fellow pulled it out to show to man on screen duty. It showed solid black. I thought "lead?" Never used it after that.
These look lovely, UK folks!
That is the kind of day I'm having with this treatment. I meant warthog. Sigh. I'd like to either get through this and back to sharp brain, or at least try normal aging. Need more oils & neurotransmitters. 🤨
I bought things that I knew would have to come from China & might suddenly not be there, like children's picture books & projector cams for astronomy. Also small loom things for adults. But I have to wait on parents with lists, & they have three under 6 & busy jobs, so. . .maybe cash? Keeping TP.
Jason makes an excellent point about the (relatively) tiny number of books included in the settlement, compared with the total number Anthropic downloaded
Even if you are not 65 or older, you may be high risk.
We now have a humidifier that would not turn on until I connected to it in the app. The app is aggressively offering to track my "wellness" including my blood glucose. Why does my humidifier want to know my blood glucose level.
Hope you enjoyed it!
Is that a wildebeest? Those talons are VERY SCARY.
I was quite annoyed about not winning the Powerball because the one pie-in-the-sky was going to be seeing if I could help them get that book of stories out. I will push that book to the ends of the earth when it's released. We need more books of the great stories of the Internet Years. 🌸
This is a long post, and I'm guessing no one is going to read it, so the tl;dr: 82% of Twitter users are non-American, and we should be more worried about what soaking in a stew of far-right ideology is doing to them than arguing with Republican influencers. But, it's also too late.
I hope you are wrong. But I fear you aren't. At the very least, your friend sharing that cartoon tells you that a great deal of it is normalized for them. ("Oh, yeah, that comic's good. He's a fascist, but I don't read those posts....") 🥺
For example, I haven't read widely in horror. But I've read a few books that folks might classify as horror, so it's not really true that "I don't read horror." (It is true that I can't personally handle most horror, which is a me thing. I can recognize the merit of things that aren't for me).
My eyes crossed and steam started rising. I contemplated popcorn. . . .
Well, ^%$####$. We need bubbles. I'm under attack from AQ and from the new treatment rooting out old stuff my body didn't have the code to toss. It's tossing with mad abandon. I need a bubble in a better location.
WTAF? People are getting squirrel-ier and I guess we can only be glad they aren't attacking folks. But I'm so sorry he had to go through that. :(
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkq6...
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THIS IS WHY WE SAID JUMP ON IT, PEOPLE WHO WANT A C19 VACCINATION.
I normally like to avoid complaining about events during the event, but this is what I mean. To make it weirder, we are the closest entrance to the parking garage elevator, so folk must be being directed away as a choice.
Wait. . . isn't this in violation of the fire ordinances, to have these doors closed? Who is running the dealers room and why aren't they screaming? I'm so sorry. Sharing your posts!
Played D&D until the wee hours of the morning, then led a church service this morning. Taking Mom to see a movie and then tonight I teach! If you wanted in on that Theme and Motif class, mail me before class starts at 7 PM eastern. #busylife
Heads up for Colorado friends: as of yesterday, there is NO prescription requirement for the covid-19 vaccination. Get it and your flu shot today!
I was accused of being too literary my entire career. And that SFFH literary couldn't become hugely popular. I'm glad several folks in our favorite playpen were able to put that away. Literary may not like it, even SFFH may not, but we have many fine writers in our area of the book clock.
This is the first framing that's really reconciled me to coming home from the summer holidays. ;)
Call them corpse roads, coffin lanes, funeral walks. Call them procession paths, lych lines, wraith ways. Just as long as you remember they are the arterial routes of the dead. The long cicatrix of grief carved into the land. – Dr. Michael Benn, 1981
Have you hydrated today? Checked in with your mental and emotional state? Screamed into the void and heard it scream back at you? Very well then, carry on.
For people in a state that is asking for a prescription, try a CVS MinuteClinic. Some MinuteClinic’s are getting around restrictions by having nurses on site who will give you a prescription during a visit. They ask to confirm if you are high risk but don’t ask for proof.
It's all hidden terror and denial. :(
Yup. I'm not wasting my breath pointing out that you can catch it any time, just your luck, & the more times it happens, the more chance of Long Covid. No one listens to people managing chronic health care while keeping the lights on. Some days I wonder if it's because 50% have hidden bad health.
Did you ever see the episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show where the writers were working late, and one commented that it was like being "the last living cell in a dead body?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkq6...
Wonderful. I hope everything was bliss and calming for you two.
I can recommend giving this a try for electrolytes & trace minerals. Turns out something in trace stuff was so depleted it's taken decades to recognize it/rebuild me. Discount @ their site for folks w/chronic health issues! Zon has--you can experiment with 1 or 3 bottles one time. (I did.) 2/x
I have tried one product from Buoy--the hydration drops. They are delicate, you control dose, & even with my hard water I've seen specific, important benefits like ACTUALLY SLEEPY AT NIGHT, no shakes during high heat/humidity, etc.. I don't need this discount, but if you do 1/ oken.do/bj1ce6dw
Agreed. If you knew those responding you might know if it was sar /sar, but afaik Winter is here. C19 is officially something that has two surges a calendar year. Eventually the world is going to acknowledge it as a disabling event, but too many people are in denial about what *can* happen. :(
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Were they posting that as a literal comment on winter, or was it an allusion to catastrophic change in cultures because of the Long Winter/GoT? I got Pfizer last week and am glad that's off the list. Only Q is, is there a safe way to get a flu shot? (For me--several options for others.)
As usual @hcrichardson.bsky.social's essay is a good compilation of what we should notice and maybe haven't--or the meaning of what performance art just rolled by, both in history and contemporaneously. Here's a link to her site. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
I remember a comment by an Apollo astronaut, being asked how it felt on the launchpad and he said something like "it occurred to me I was sat on a million pounds of explosives built by the lowest bidder"
I refuse to talk of portal tombs 'haunting the landscape'. They are part of the Long Neolithic and the Long Neolithic is still living in the now. These are not dead echoes, but ongoing transmissions we interact with. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday #LongNeolithic
Not a time-travel novel, I take it?
Figured out WHY traffic is so bad. We are by the second set of doors in the back of the room. Rccc has refused to let anyone in through those doors ALL DAY LONG. NOT just the morning. So EVERYONE has to walk to e point farthest from us to enter the vendor room. All day long. Its bullshit.
Friends, if you've been trying your best to ignore the waves of absolute nonsense coming from the US gov't, well... I don't blame you. But for con-goers this weekend or MC Atlanta this month, it is crucial to be aware how prevalent COVID will be due to lowered access to the vaccine. MASK UP.
Not only a great article, but #6 on Jess Steier's essay is the scary part right now. Thanks to crickets from MSMedia, most Americans have no idea that there has been catastrophic change at the CDC.
🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US. Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.
I admit I currently live on pao de queijo for breakfast. . . .
This makes all the sense in the world. The leaders I remember for good reasons were good cheerleaders, gave credit where it was due, and were good listeners. getpocket.com/explore/item...
Queen Demon, the sequel to Witch King, is coming out on October 7 in ebook, hardcover, and audiobook narrated by Eric Mok. Here's a great review from Library Journal: www.libraryjournal.com/review/queen...
I thought I shared this, but just in case-- The best cookbooks are not only a collection of great recipes. They're a history, a memoir, a culture, a family. This was an interesting 12 minutes for multiple reasons, and would love to see the book. www.npr.org/2025/09/06/n...
We are no longer allowed one moment of forgetting about him.
I may have misunderstood you. I think he is what he decided would allow him to rise high in life. And the con has been part of it for a long, long time.
Remember what he said about lying about his own constituents in Ohio--the pets thing--and then basically said "we weren't getting enough air time." He amplified a horrible accusation that threatened peoples' safety because he wanted more free PR. In the end. . .he is not trying to help the world.
A picture of my former hummingbird tree for #NationalHummingbirdDay 🪶
That is both depressing and a very good thing. I figure that any of us who can charge into the future should do so. We have to do what we can to protect people here being damaged by air and water quality.
It may be getting even better in a very different way. . . bsky.app/profile/muel...
I am glad she has others she can use as references. Is she an accounting wiz like you, or in another field?
You were hoping for a good laugh today. I hope this one helped! (I did laugh myself to tears over one of the SATWComic's penis museum cartoons.)
Sigh. Both good and bad, then. Was it possible to file a harassment suit, or are we just going to forget about those nowadays? I hope she can get a rec from someone else at the location. Let us know if she would like her job search amplified.
Oh, you need SO much cheese right now. :( Wishing him a good response to PT and swift healing. Wishing you the right cheese (and perfume) for the occasion.
Can you cheer me up? I decided to play video games that are set in each US state, and I'm interested in the smaller indie games that might not be on the big "Games set in X state" lists. Ideally something with a strong sense of place. Do you have ideas? (Advertise yourself too!)
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Oh, that looks VERY creepy, which means you should have the scary market sewn up!
Texture, I think it is. The fish simply cannot hang onto any decent texture when microwaved. It's like thawing a steak in a microwave. Never do that, you will be horrified at the results, I'm told.
The artist is a genius at expressions for the various other countries. . . . I just lost it. Which was a good way to start the weekend. :) satwcomic.com/brand-new-eq...
It's Friday, isn't it? We made it. I hadn't dropped by SatWcomic for a while, so went over and found out that the obvious use for AI is explained by Sister Sweden & Sister Iceland. (Plus Penis Museum jokes, one of which had me in tears I laughed so hard.) satwcomic.com/real-world-a...
The Week’s Final Science Fiction Puzzle I've posed several question to you all this week, the last one also concerns an ambiguity. In Arthur C. Clarke's famous story The Nine Billion Names of God are there: 1,000,000,000 names of God...or 1,000,000,000,000 names of God The story was written in…
1. Here's the motion for preliminary approval of the settlement in Bartz v Anthropic class action suit. Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion, an "estimated gross recovery of $3,000 per Class Work" & destroy the two datasets of pirated works once litigation ends storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Everyone should have a Prompt Book. It was entirely pedestrian, and the language was so flowery that a climbing trellis rose would shake its limbs and creep off, unable to compete. Someone bought that book. Your book will be much better, so you should write it.
#TimelineCleanse Thank you, everyone, for trying to be cheering & informative when the news sucks. Have a cat bag. You need to make friends with the milkmaid tabby inside the bag before picking it up. (Dark bag on pale tile next to several shipping boxes. Cat is giving you a "Hummm...." look.)
I'm probably abandoning all the furniture because none of it is worth shipping north from Austin. Leave the bookcases with friends, maybe take the 9 bay dresser and get it repainted. Cedar chest trashed by someone who thought it would slide, and pulled the veneer off. 😳 But a friend can use it.
I highly enjoyed it myself. www.nerds-feather.com/2025/08/revi...
Do you think they wince when they hear this on television later?
There you go again, moving! I wish I had that energy, it occurred to me that no one has any energy after Covid and how will I get a cube or truck packed? Hope all is going well!
I'll need to get a lefty nib to use it, but it's one of those ancient turquoise ones, in my boxes. (I live spread over three states. I aspire to get everything together by holidays.)
Oh! (You just saved me going over to look for their lefty nibs!)
I was worried about where to dispose of the noodler's inks--but maybe we should do some Helen Frankenthaler "soak stain" work with them? Hate to waste them if they would work on a canvas of some type, but they are off the buy list.
These're all new brands to me since I left the field, so many thanks! If I wasn't having trouble with the AQ here, I would look for a new pen and lefty nib (I just used straight nibs, mostly.) I have a Safari, a Pilot, a bird splat--basics. My Mom's Sheaffer she used always. 📌 pen recs Kari
Depends on type. I suspect most Americans do not like a crunch/pop in the center of their spaghetti, etc.. Mom's red sauce was a meat sauce w/ chunky tomatoes, so it didn't coat the pasta. I buy Italian whole grain brown rice pasta, so I have different parameters now.
📌 Fountain pen sins & angels.
@karidru.bsky.social might be able to give you specific advice, plus avoiding sellers who have gone down the Dark Side of the world. (I stopped using mine a decade ago--reacting to the ink. But Kari thinks I had crappy ink, so I will get my pens from storage & try again during the holidays.)
A little family scene on my walk home! Cedar waxwing parent feeding its babies, producing berries from its throat like a magician making ping pong balls appear. #birds 🪶
They are so ridiculously cute they don't look like real birds. Like Potoos--they're cartoon birds!
I have a feeling that with better diet, continuing improvement in medical and so forth, there may be people who run at 72 and retire after their second term. In the next couple of decades. But I'm not seeing any advantage right now. We need younger legislators. Several more.
It ❄️ed in the Upper Peninsula this morning. Cooler, yes, but not sure I am ready for snow yet.
But they have trains, right? OTOH A/C is more efficient and I think they're going to have to choose a few brands on that one. Too dangerous in a few years with heat domes and no A/C.
Interested to see that I went toward a low or no flicker screen with my SE2 phone and Mac Air Pro. I bought a different brand of LEDs last time, bright ones, and they are ghastly for me. Bought some warm evening lightbulbs instead. www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-so...
Someone needs to whisper in his ear that turning the DoD into the DoW is not a Nobel-ish action. . . .
I get my masks here. Prompt and reliable.
They have a great mask for folks with long faces, and one covers a neat beard, too. I've given boxes of their masks to friends.
Yay! (At least that is my attitude.) I'm a bit tired, but glad I got it out of the way.
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I'm sorry for your loss, J, but sounds like he had a good long life. Safe journey to him to the next campfire. 🌸
I've concluded that anything connected to Meta, they want to keep us there as long as possible so they can claim we saw XZ ads. The only way I got better layouts at FB was to report it was trash and go to Bsky for weeks. When I went back, it was miraculously better.
You'd think they would appreciate your doing that extra work and not charging more for it. Sigh.