selenicseas

I am still chipping away at my V Rising save btw

mostly a little at a time as I send my minions out for mats and then log off until the next day when they get back, but still!

.... unfortunately tho. I am now at the point where I need to kill Curse-Cloak Guy. I swear this fucker is my nemesis more than Dracula is, I have never previously managed to solo him, and I am making him Tomorrow Me's problem at the very earliest

to explain why I hate him: he lives in the "fuck me in particular" forest (without the cloak he drops, the fog closes in so you can barely see AND it covers your map and mini-map. and I am deeply directionally challenged.) and he does not stand and fight. he runs away, constantly getting out of sight AND dragging me through every single mob in the area possibly including other more powerful bosses :|

I hate him so so so so much

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Location: not in the Cursed Forest (yet)

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colton_hill

Mister Beep is molting. It's not as severe as Bloödcheëp, but he looks very rumpled right now as he sheds feathers for fall plumage, which look identical to his rest-of-year plumage.

(Link goes to a comic about molting cardinals. Northern cardinals have a very extreme molt, among birds.)

His owner is moving the cage closer to the window to take advantage of what sunlight there is at this time of year.

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rebeccmeister

I'm sure there will be things to disagree with in this interview about community efforts to oppose data center construction, but there are also a number of interesting things to consider and think about. Here's a quote that stood out to me:

"[The construction of data centers] feels like an escalating, physical materialization of something that’s been many years in the making.

And I think that becomes especially clear when we understand AI not as some particular technology, because it isn’t any one thing, but as a political project, and one that can only perpetuate itself by devouring the things we make and the things we need."

And how about this question: "What is the counter agenda to the AI political project that is truly human and justice-centered?"

But also, well, huh.

I think I've written about the Warehouse of Doom previously. Demolition has finally started.

But there are some challenges with the demolition, most especially, all the construction waste is heading to a landfill in Rensselaer County that is uncomfortably close to a high school. Not ideal.

Too bad nobody figured out how to turn the Warehouse into a data center!!

And, while New York State has put a moratorium in place, there's still a need to develop regulations around where and how these things get built, because the moratorium is going to end but the pressures from developers are likely to persist.

wolffyluna

A new tool has been created Details are at the link. But the short version is that this is a browser based tool that lets you 1) detect if a video has dangerous flashing and 2) edit it. The video editor is dimmed an in a corner so you can safely look at it. You can pick which frames to keep to remove the flash (which means that if there is information in the flash, you can keep the most informative one.)

It's just so useful. There's whole tv shows i can now watch with this. There's finales of otherwise safe shows i can now watch (unshoutout do the Critical Role animation but SHOUTOUT TO UNFLASH.)

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bookedsolid

What have you recently finished reading?

I picked up a couple of epistolary novellas, both because of the blogging event Novellas in November and because I needed something to review for Postcrossing's blog. I finished Julie Schumacher's Dear Committee Members on Monday, and thought that it was a lot of fun but that I have no urge to read more -- one book of Professor Fitger seems like plenty. Yesterday I read Kim Fay's Love & Saffron, which was sweet though a touch predictable. Both ended sadly, though it was more of a surprise (and better conveyed) in Dear Committee Members.

What are you currently reading?

I'm almost done with Ashley Douglas' With My Own Hand, a biography of Marie Maitland, a Scottish poet who wrote love poetry to another woman and concealed it in an anthology of her father's poetry. There are obviously some limitations on what we can know about her (and a lot of general history to contextualise her and flesh out the book), but I'm enjoying it.

What will you read next?

I'm not sure. I'd like it to be my reread leading into the final volume of Liu Gou Hua's After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine, which should've been out yesterday... but since my copy hasn't shipped and nowhere seems to have copies available, I guess Seven Seas (or their distributor, Penguin) have done goofed again. Maybe it's a good thing I hadn't started my reread yet, or I'd be pretty sad!

Also posted to my blog, which is a place of many book reviews and other reading-related link-ups, reading challenges, etc.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Exit Eden - Femme Fatale

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merrileemakes

These questions are from jasleh.

1. what is your favorite type of fiber to work with?

Alpaca! Definitely alpaca. It comes in a range of beautiful natural colours (rose grey is my favourite), it can be super soft and drapey and alpacas don't have lanolin. Lanolin is a wax that sheep have that protects their fleece and helps it be water resistant. It makes raw sheep fleece feel greasy. You can work with raw fleece and 'spin in the grease' but you will get lanolin all over your hands, your wheel, your tools and after a while it gets sticky and gross. Or you can wash your fleece in hot water and detergents a few times to remove lanolin. Which is a lot of time and effort and you have to be careful not to felt the fleece in the process.

Or you could spin alpaca! Alpaca fleece is lanolin-free but usually very dusty, because they love to dust bathe. You can wash the fleece once in cold water or (my preferred method) put it in a mesh bag and take it outside and hit it with a stick a bunch of times (apparently leaf blowers are great too).

2. how many animals do you have, and can I see pictures? >.>

Yessss, photo time! My household is currently at the smallest its ever been, due to aging animals and ongoing life crises that's made it too overwhelming to add any new family members. ( Cut for length and photos )

3. favorite book you've read recently?

My Storygraph says my latest 5 star book is All Systems Red by Martha Wells. I've read this book twice in the last 2 years when I normally never reread. It's fast, it's fun. Murderbot is a mashup of Marvin the Paranoid Android and the Terminator. I do think the way Murderbot can instantly hack any other bot/ship/device gets a bit deus ex machina. But these are smooth-brain fun time books and I am 100% here for that right now.

Current Location: I need to read more of the Murderbot series
Current Music: I also need to get up and let the chickens out because Kylie is hangry

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bluebell_silverfish

Decided on a bedroom lamp and got the paper basket for my livingroom.

The basket now stands in an easy to reach corner.

I honestly tought I'd go for something more fancy and ornamental.

But I just love the look of this one and its the perfect height for the shelf.

Current Mood: cheerful

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kutsuwamushi posting in

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Hello everyone I'm hoping someone can help me with a coding question!

I'm relearning CSS and also at the same time learning some features I never used before, since the last time I made a personal website was before smartphones (lmao). I'm trying to achieve something specific with my website layout, but I'm not sure if it's possible with just HTML and CSS.

( image and explanation )

I'm also having a hell of a time figuring out how to set the widths but that's a struggle for another day.

lb_lee

So, for those of you who may have wondered how the writer of Malleus Maleficarum knew "those witches who [...] collect male organs in great numbers, as many as twenty or thirty members together, and put them in a bird’s nest, or shut them up in a box, where they move themselves like living members, and eat oats and corn, as has been said by many and is a matter of common report?” There was polite skepticism as to the ability of penises eating corn and oats all by themselves, but I have ARTISTIC EVIDENCE OF THE TRUTH (courteously interpreted by my roommate, who for unknown reasons wishes to remain anonymous)!

( SEEING IS BELIEVING )

Current Mood: silly
Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/57267.html

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florianschild

I'm very behind on my reading page and replying to comments! I apologize if I've been absent; I haven't been intentionally ignoring anyone I just got buried under Halloween/Time Change/US election/suddenly-it's-cold-and-my-seasonal-depression-kicked-in.

Wednesday Reading

Just Finished

The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards
I actually finished this about two weeks ago, but I haven't had a chance to talk about it. I have very mixed feelings. I enjoyed the character work very much, but paranormal/urban fantasy is not a genre I really vibe with and I disliked how much of the book was just elaborate descriptions of fight scenes. I saw a review that described it as someone narrating an RPG video game and that felt super accurate. I liked the story and characters enough that I will probably pick up the second book though.

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
I wouldn't recommend this. I think it might have felt more ground-breaking in the 70s when it was published, but the whole "mixes real historical figures with fictional characters" thing is very tired at this point.

The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
This was a re-read and I think I'm becoming mildly obsessed with it? I listened to it on audiobook at breakneck speed, finishing the entire 15-hour book in 2 days. I then found out that this might have potentially started life as a fanfic of Black Sails? So of course that led me to immediately start watching Black Sails and, long story short, I think I might have two new fandoms?

Currently Reading

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Stiiiill going, but now that I've cleared everything else on my "Currently Reading" list, I'm going to buckle down and focus on this one.

Up Next

I'm not sure, actually. I might pick up the audiobook for The Hanged Man (the next in the Tarot Sequence) or I might just re-listen to The Kingdoms and focus on Count of Monte Cristo.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Hot Goblin by Em Beihold

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jasleh

with every roulette I do, I want Zephyr more

Current Location: yearning for Birb

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elisi

We Shall Keep the Faith
by Moina Michael, November 1918

Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.

We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.

And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.

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reapergia

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Wonderful stonework:

( See more! )

Current Mood: photographical
Current Location: 'ere

degringolade

Sunflowers

John Bratby

I get the feeling that nothing has changed.

We the people have let the politicians know that we don't like the way that things are going, but if past experience has told us anything, the politicians we just threw out will just move onto another lucrative gig and the people we put in will continue the course set by generations long ago.

The folks in the legislature are going to stall, stall, stall for the next two months. They are mean-spirited, self-centered bastards who are holding the bag right now and they will spend the time building personal defenses so that next set of mean-spirited, self-centered bastards that are getting sworn in January can receive the bag with as little consequence to those exiting as possible.

springstarz

There's just a lot of self-reflections going on right now... thinking in terms of my strengths, my flaws, and the faulty defense mechanisms I've developed over the years that I didn't even realize were actually hurting me until now. It hurts in some ways to realize why I've been struggling for so long, but I'm also very grateful because acknowledging my issues is the first step to growing and eventually leaving them behind.

At least one thing I've realized is that accepting something is outside your control is not the same as expressing approval for it or acting as if it doesn't bother you. Accepting something just means being at peace that something happened, or that there are things you simply cannot change, without allowing it to cause you distress and rule your life. And god knows I wish that was something explained to me sooner because I think the way it's been vaguely told to me all these years is exactly why I've unknowingly pushed back against having that vital life skill--or, if it was explained to me, it was explained in the vein of "Don't let things bother you, ever," which is not helpful advice in the slightest.

Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: Lofi

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perpetual_prisma

on the same day i learned that Big Walk had some Gen AI use in its code, i also saw that the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Randomizer discord server finally made an AI policy for the development of the randomizer.

and while for the most part they want things to be human-centered, they are allowing coding to be done with AI.

sigh

i guess it's time to officially break up with the OoT Randomizer.

for many years it was a huge part of my life, i was really into the game, the races, tournaments, the community surrounding all those things. i fell off of it in recent years though, which i guess makes it easier to say Sayonara.

i've left most of the discord servers involved with the randomizer or affiliated with the leadership of it, and now i think i'm going to wait a bit and see if this new AI policy gets any pushback and subsequent updates. if it doesn't, then i'm leaving the main discord too, and unfollowing everyone who mainly streams the randomizer.

i'm so sick of Gen AI infecting everything i love...

Current Mood: depressed
Current Location: in ai-free servers

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birdfeeding

Today is partly cloudy and mild.

I fed the birds. I haven't seen any; they emptied the hopper feeder.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 11/11/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 11/11/26 -- I planted the rest of the '2 Months of Flowering Crocus' that I started yesterday.

The wind is picking up. Leaves are flying off the trees, swimming through the sky like fish, and flowing over the ground. :D

EDIT 11/11/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

EDIT 11/11/26 -- I flipped over the trough garden for winter.

I set up a toad abode using a broken flowerpot beside the log garden in the house yard.

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

Current Mood: busy

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unicornduke

I did end up going to urgent care this morning because things with my potential uti have not improved since Sunday. The doctor said I didn’t have bacteria obvious in my sample but I didn’t have symptoms of a yeast infection so they’ll do a better culture and see what happens. I did get antibiotics, so hopefully that helps. If it is a yeast infection, it’ll probably get worse, not better so I’m mostly just keeping an eye on things.

I did much baking after getting home, so now have many cookies (double batch of hazelnut cookies, one batch oatmeal chocolate chip cookies) and granola.I have supplies ready for more elaborate baking projects, milk and cream and such that will have to wait for next week. Packing for my trip is next on my list, then at some point my dad and I will take down the second canopy. I took the first down by myself yesterday morning first thing but the big one I need a second person.

I’ve been spending time thinking about why I dislike the plot changes to the murderbot tv show as changed from the book and I think I figured out the difference, because the plot beats are the same overall but the framing is completely different. I think the book series, the overall framing is that both groups (MB and the humans) are unsure and afraid and everything is new and scary, but they choose to trust each other anyway and thus save each other. Where in the tv series, the framing is both parties are unsure and afraid and don’t trust each other but save each other anyway. And it’s fine but it’s a pretty fundamental difference in tone and context and I think that’s why I dislike it.

Also in the tv series, I think they externalize MB’s opinion of itself and project others thinking about it (this is the discount model, etc) where the external opinion in the books is that MB is extremely good at its job despite all odds, they rely on it. The tv show in my opinion also woobifies MB more, it doesn’t feel like it actually saves the humans much and some of that is played for laughs. And then needs to be saved by the humans in the last episode to an extent that isn’t in the books. (Also they reinstall the governor module and somehow that just...goes away? And it’s not addressed as to how it gets fixed? Whether MB hacks it again or Gurathin removes it?) Ugh. I do appreciate the series for making me think about why I like the books so much but I don't think I like it much.

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colton_hill

It is clean!

Current Mood: accomplished

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