On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Rachel Maddow argues that the United States is "there" now...



I have figured out some things that I have already been doing, that I will keep doing, in order to keep the Problem from fully installing itself in Canada. Other things, I need to either stop or start doing. There are lists that others have worked up, lists I should be copying from, to that end.

Resistance to the revival of the nightmare continues in the States and in Canada, of course, with or without me.

I'm also still looking for work because until either that job is secured or I'm driven out of the workforce to whatever result, I still have to live within the existing system.

Once I got back to the house from this morning's visitation, the job search resumed. No applications filed today. Not sure what impulse brought me back to Facebook tonight. Maybe it was seeing the news from Elayne Riggs on Blogspot about her employer's office building being the site of the shootings in Midtown Manhattan yesterday. (Glad you're okay, Elayne!)

And now that I'm here, I've learned that Pat Augustine has finally passed away.

We knew each other from Mike Norton's Comic Book Crossroads fanzine as contributors. A few years back, as part of his downsizing efforts in the wake of his cancer diagnosis, he sold me his Wacom Cintiq, which I'm still using as of tonight. It's been incredibly useful in my art hobbies. (We were both annoyed at the import duties I had to cough up in addition to what I paid him as I recall.)

A good guy, and I miss him.

(And I note that his Discord account is still logged in as I type this. Not a complaint.)

Do the Epsilon stations have to be located in actual star systems? Or can they be "freestanding"?
(Also wondering if "Epsilon" stations imply the existence of series of stations designated "Alpha" through "Delta".)

Yeah, this is tied to the Edge of Midnight map projects.

No lottery winnings to speak of.

No Bingo day.

Just a good enough day.

More to talk about tomorrow, maybe?

This system's about 34 light-years away.

This paper argues for five:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09343

This one argues for six:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06413

If I understand what I'm reading correctly.

For Trek purposes? Romulan territory until the supernova that burns Romulus and Remus is my guess.

http://hygmap.space/index.php?select_star=853855&select_center=1&u=ly

For Marvel, DC, Honorverse, Babylon 5, Galaxy Quest, Alien, Traveller, or anything else? I dunno yet. (Well, maybe Solarian League for the Honorverse? Do I want to keep caring about that anymore?)

These stories are about outlier cases, sure. That they happen at all? Still worth knowing about.


https://www.upworthy.com/bereavement-leave-for-new-hire

Working on multiple maps of the same region of #StarTrek 's version of our galaxy is fun. It's also research-intensive and time-consuming, especially where keeping the various maps consistent with each other is concerned.

From last night's progress to such ends in support of several Tranquility Press fanfic projects...

I'm still looking for work. Still working on my Trek fanfic star maps. Still doing visitation with my mother. Still keeping on keeping on.

As ever...

Entertaining accident: Decades ago, when Masao Okazaki was putting his Starfleet Museum site together, he assigned the name "Axolotl" to a planet orbiting Gliese 767A.

In 2019, the IAU and Mexico named the star HD 224693 "Axólotl" as part of that year's Name ExoWorlds event.

We have precedent in Star Trek for this sort of thing, thankfully, so I'm not worrying over it.