lizvogel

Happy Pride Month to the primary school kid who took the two seconds when we passed each other crossing the street to tell me he thought my outfit was “really fabulous.” May you always have the confidence to be who you are, dude.

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cornerofmadness

They are tearing the main artery out down to bare earth so there is the world's biggest traffic snarl. My car is okay (took it in for oil change) my brakes aren't. BUT shhh I'm going to trade Gojyo in so here's hoping the brakes will last me to Pittsburgh in the next weeek.

I ended up at the Italian restaurant down town. Wasn't planning on it. I checked the hours on the Japanese place in historic downtown. It should have been open. It wasn't. That's okay I wanted to try that Italian anyhow. It was very good.

Somehow this took all day but it was a good one. Right now though, that substernal pressure is back. Can't help but notice more fiberglass has blown up thru my air ducts. I'm beginning to wonder if I have some kind of inflammation going on here as a result (swear to god if this place gives me lung cancer or copd I'm going to become a wrathful spirit)

It's music monday 30 weeks of music. This week's prompt is #29 a song with food or drink in the title

( Notice I know a lot more alcoholic songs than I do food )

here's the whole prompt list

( All under here )

Current Mood: hot
Current Music: Midsomer Murder

conuly

Morning, the glistening
grass draws me into the day,
as if new meant separate
from the day before—

and I, having that human part
that can be transfixed by bauble or blade,
limp out again, a believer,
into memory’s emerald glint.

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conuly

is that it was too big for the planter, and now it's broken the pot and we may not be able to save the plant :(

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grayestofghosts

I'm going to get into my Extreme Old Person tone here:

I keep seeing reddit threads and whatever about people's 'analog kits' or 'analog bags' to get them to stop doomscrolling or off of tiktok or instagram or whatever, and most of them have things like ereaders, vintage mp3 players, digital cameras, etc. And I'm just like, that's not analog! that's not what analog means! words mean things! even CDs are digital!!! You can just say it's offline, or disconnected, or even airgapped or whatever, which is really what they mean. Not analog. Analog computers are very different.

Anyway that's today's pettiness.

Current Music: "Iodine Sky" Black Light Burns

conuly

So excited!

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petra

For the duration of the episode, I was no longer aware that I had stood up for an eleven-hour workday.

The actors had so much fun, especially Reid. But all of them.

The writers had so much fun with Lestat's voice c. 2025. He's perfectly too much.

The set dressers had so much fun. ( Setting spoilers )

I look forward to ( Character appearance spoilers )

Current Mood: whee
Current Music: You're allegro, I'm andante

bluapapilio

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rebeccmeister

Saturday morning: National Learn to Row Day went well! I mostly ran around the boathouse like the Boathouse Gnome I am, poking at all the various projects.

Saturday afternoon: The bike valet at Art on Lark also went pretty well! We were located directly in front of Albany's Only Remaining Active Horse Trough. We did wonder whether humans could also drink the water, but no one actually tried. We did not have a ton of bicycling customers, but that was okay, we did learn a lot about site location for something like this festival, and were able to talk about plans for continuing to grow the valet (e.g. I need to register a domain name and put together an extremely simple website, suggestions on domain registration places welcome; I'll probably host through my existing website).

Sunday: All The Chores: groceries, litterboxes, vacuuming, laundry, and I even (hold onto your hats) mopped the kitchen and bathroom floors. And cleaned off the stovetop. The clean floors feel so amazing underfoot, I need to get onto a more consistent mopping schedule. I also had Princess TinyBike Spa Day; I had to get her a replacement generator hub wheel, then figure out how to wire it up. I also put on fresh rear brake pads and a fresh chain, although I might be too late with the chain, sigh. Oh, and I finally put the teeny-tiny mud flap back onto the rear fender. It's odd, the front fender's mud flap is bolted on, but the rear mud flap was riveted in place and the rivet failed. My repair is bolted, hopefully it works okay.

Monday: Played hooky from work. I first led a safety training during rowing practice, then joined teammates for a lovely, leisurely 2-hour morning coffee break. Then I biked up to the lumber store and bought a bunch of 2x4's and 1x4's. I trucked those back over to the boathouse and then spent the rest of the day sawing and assembling them and some other wood into a monstrously huge sweep oar storage rack/cube.

The oar storage cube isn't completely done yet, my drill ran out of batteries around when my body ran out of batteries, so I need to add a whole bunch of cross braces soon. But the process went well, overall.

Then I hauled the remaining parts of S's former kayak storage rack home.

I think I will sleep well tonight, and I am NOT going to get up and go rowing in the morning. I'm not signed up for the summer season anyway.

I have a major photo backlog. Tomorrow I will go to work and work on work things.

bluapapilio

"Bakeneko Katatte Sourou /
The Cat Proposed"

Hayane Dentou, 2020

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Summary: Matoi Souta is an overworked office worker tired of his life. Then, on his way home from a long day of work one day, he decides to watch a traditional Japanese play. But something strange happens. He could have sworn he saw one of the actors has cat ears.

It turns out that the man is actually a bakeneko — a shapeshifting cat from Japanese folklore. And then, the cat speaks: "From now on, you will be my mate."

My comments: Healing. We have a man who was so overworked he considered suicide to get away from it and a doting bakeneko who saves him right when he needed it. I love how Kihachi calls Souta 'little sparrow'. Souta getting temporarily turned into a bakeneko was so cute and how he took on traits even outside of it, like purring! I loved the bakeneko lore and bits of side-characters. I love stories that go back and show another side to it later, like getting the seme's POV on things. I plan on buying a physical copy of this!

Content warnings: Souta considers suicide and later talks about it to Kihachi

Story: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Characters: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Drama: 🎭🎭🎭 | Fluff: 💗💗💗
Humor: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Spice Level: 🌶🌶
Art: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Rereadable: 🇾

My rating: 9.5/10

Current Mood: tired

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Monday, June 08, to midnight on Tuesday, June 09. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34703 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 16

How are you doing?

I am OK.
11 (68.8%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
5 (31.2%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
5 (31.2%)

One other person.
6 (37.5%)

More than one other person.
5 (31.2%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

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https://xkcd.com/3256/

Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.

https://xkcd.com/3256/

ysabetwordsmith

SpaceX rejected in attempt to get listed in the S&P 500 index! Bodes ill for AI IPOs...

As you may have heard, SpaceX has filed to do an IPO (initial public offering [of stock shares]) and go on the stock market. Lots and lots of people are salivating, perhaps Leon Muskbrat most of all. They also filed with the New York Stock Exchange for a quick listing on the Standard & Poor 500 stock market index.

And they were rejected to get listed on that index.
[---8<---]
The AI company Anthropic has also filed for an IPO. It's sealed, so details are not much available, like what percentage of shares will be let loose. But like all AI companies, it is not profitable.

I'm glad that some people still have standards.

So much of the tech industry and AI is just ... hype. People want it to be valuable and profitable. But that doesn't actually make it so. That's before counting the fact that AI value is stolen from other people's work, not creating new worth.

Current Mood: busy

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Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/06/08/jesus-loves-me-this-i-know-for-pete-hegseth-tells-me-so/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=74564

Establishment is a prison for the established religion just as much as it is for all of the other sects and slight-variations of that religion that establishment would officially forbid or disfavor.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/06/08/jesus-loves-me-this-i-know-for-pete-hegseth-tells-me-so/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=74564

ysabetwordsmith

This poem came out of the June 2, 2026 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

greghousesgf. It also fills the "Clothes" square in my 6-1-26 card for the Pride Fest Bingo. It has been sponsored by

janetmiles.

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Current Mood: busy

bluapapilio

Using my movies boardgame. I watched 4/6 movies from my last challenge.

Avatar:

Animation
Skill: Re-roll dice once

Roll #1

A 5, prompt: came out within the last year - The Whistler.

Roll #2

A 7, prompt: featuring a group of friends - I Know What You Did Last Summer ('25),

Roll #3

An 8, prompt: weapon on the cover - They Will Kill You.

Roll #4

An 8, prompt: sci-fi element - Werewolves.

Roll #5

A 6, prompt: (un)natural disaster element - San Andreas Mega Quake.

Roll #6

A 2, used skill to reroll a...3, wow. PTW tile - #36 is The Fly.

Roll #7

A 6 and the end, reward is The Gorge.

Movie PTW List:

[Thriller/Horror] The Whistler
[Thriller/Horror] I Know What You Did Last Summer '25 ✔️
[Action/Horror] They Will Kill You ✔️
[Thriller/Horror] Werewolves '24 ✔️
[Action/Thriller] San Andreas Mega Quake ✔️
[Sci-Fi/Horror] The Fly
[Sci-Fi/Thriller] The Gorge

Current Mood: busy

purplecat

A glass door looking out onto a garden where scaffolding is visible. Plaster around the door is missing.

This is one of our new windows. Actually, as is probably obvious, this one is a door onto the garden. Plasterer failed to turn up today. Apparently he had had a fight with his missus. I'm not convinced I could get away with that as an excuse for failing to turn up to work.

oursin

The Ph.D. Is Not a Pit Stop for Creative Writers: Don’t do a Ph.D. program because you want to work on your novel. (Well, with the proviso perhaps that you're not using the PhD programme as MATERIAL either for a campus novel or maybe a murder mystery or even a rom-com.)

But, okay, the UK system is different anyway (this looks to be very much about the US setup), and anyway I did my PhD in a history-related discipline Many Years Ago and I was basically Doing It For Fun, although my workplace also considered it a form of professional development and gave me study leave, paid fees, etc.

And at the same time I was writing fiction - sf and fantasy, i.e something pretty much unrelated to my research (though that, as it were, mulched down into the soil that nourished the roots of a much later fictional endeavour!).

So it was a break and something different using different mental muscles.

I am pretty much there with the author of the article that the anticipated synergy is unlikely to be there, and the credo that

I truly believe that one has a better chance of becoming a writer by working at a bakery, a coffee shop, a bookstore, a 9-to-5 corporate job, a blueberry farm, a publishing house, etc.

(I am reminded of a Jules Feiffer cartoon featuring a guy behind a bar who mentions all these guys who used to come into the bar he tended who had sold their novel on their basis of having done these various manly roughneck career things, like working on fishing boats and tending bar, and he pitched a novel on the basis that he has done all those things, taken the advance and set himself up with a bar of his own.) (If anyone can point me at this, please do.)

Also that 'Much of the performance of creative writing happens in moments of quietude and, quite frankly, daydreaming'.

We are given to wonder whether the people who undertake this rather ill-advised course are writing for FUN or is it srs bznz? Perhaps they would do well to consider the case of Carolyn Heilbrun/Amanda Cross and writing a kind of campus fiction that involves pushing pompous professors out of windows and finding out whodunnit.

ysabetwordsmith

This poem came out of the June 2, 2026 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "Growth" square in my 6-1-26 card for the Pride Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by

janetmiles.

"Lichengloss"
noun: the painfully slow struggle to learn a foreign language

For some learners,
a new language comes
as quickly and easily
as water flowing.

For most, it is not
so simple or swift.

It is a labor of
endless hours
and days, grasping
at ideas that slip
through fingers
like so much mist.

The knowledge is
hard-won yet halting.

Every word learned
must be maintained,
practiced, lest it
fade and be lost.

Every new twist of
grammar seeks
to bind them.

Language lies
over the tongue,
wrinkled and strange,
stretching itself.

It grows as
slowly as lichen
covering a stone

but nevertheless it grows.

Current Mood: busy

Tuesday @ 3:33 pm

Chillicothe was a mess

Firmament of Glass by Vievee Francis

Apparently the reason our bathroom bamboo was so sad

"Analog"

Going to the live event season finale of The Harbingers Tuesday

The Vampire Lestat 1x01 / IWTV 3x01

🌈BL Manga Check-in: "Nagahama to Be, or Not to Be" volume 1

Fic: Jock Tax (Shane/Ilya, E)

Status / Hooky [status, rowing, bicycling]

🌈BL Manga Check-in: "Bakeneko Katatte Sourou"

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Jesus loves me, this I know, for Pete Hegseth tells me so

Poem: "Zakkyo"

May Movie PTW

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This is all pretty alien to me for several reasons

Poem: "Lichengloss"

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