Just one thing: 01 July 2025
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awesomeersIt's challenge time!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!
Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!
Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
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Jun. 30th, 2025 06:32 pmcase posting in fandomsecrets⌈ Secret Post #6751 ⌋
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Hottest day of the year
Jun. 30th, 2025 11:31 pmloganberrybunnyPublic
150/365: Hop Pole Inn, Bewdley
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It reached 31 °C today, and I wasn't too pleased about that as it was far too hot to do anything. Sadly there were things I had to do. At least it wasn't the 34 °C one forecast had suggested a few days ago. The sunshine was hot, but I still preferred it to the overcast humidity of yesterday. I had an ice cream cone (toffee and vanilla) in town, but walking back home was still a pretty unpleasant experience. Today's photo is of the Hop Pole Inn, a popular and mildly gastro pub on the western side of Bewdley. I've been there, but only rarely. It's not that big inside but has a fairly large beer garden. Note weather!
150/365: Hop Pole Inn, Bewdley
Click for a larger, sharper image
It reached 31 °C today, and I wasn't too pleased about that as it was far too hot to do anything. Sadly there were things I had to do. At least it wasn't the 34 °C one forecast had suggested a few days ago. The sunshine was hot, but I still preferred it to the overcast humidity of yesterday. I had an ice cream cone (toffee and vanilla) in town, but walking back home was still a pretty unpleasant experience. Today's photo is of the Hop Pole Inn, a popular and mildly gastro pub on the western side of Bewdley. I've been there, but only rarely. It's not that big inside but has a fairly large beer garden. Note weather!
Chromed out
Jun. 30th, 2025 05:24 pmbill_schubertI received my $300 from SoFi today and immediately applied it to my Google store so now I've only got a couple of months to pay off the interest free loan. I could have easily put that money into an interest bearing account and paid off Google slowly but I do so love not having any debt at all and will be back there shortly.
My PC will be insecure in a couple of months so I finally did what I've been thinking about for years and moved to a Chromebook. Actually a Chrome ASUS mini computer. It came today and in typical Google fashion I was fully up, updated and signed in as I am now in about 20 minutes. Longest thing was the initial download and getting my Jelly KB and mouse to connect. I did get that to work but may end up moving back to the logitec. The Jelly is OK but once I went ergonomic all the other keyboards seem so tiny and cramped. The Jelly is a backup and will still work and be here for me but I think I'll go back to Logitec.
Rather than ask for a password and user my new computer said, 'hey, I see you've got a pixel, you can just scan this code and we'll set everything up based on that authentication. DONE!! The coolest ever set up.
I've got a friend in the computer biz still who is going to give me a nice used monitor to replace my secondary VGA monitor (not compatible with the mini computer). He's got a monitor and HDMI cable he's giving me for free. So I'll be fully operational and shutting down Microsoft forever by Wednesday. It frees up a bunch of room and wires once I pull the PC so I'll be rearranging things and will have more room in my office now. Actually will now have room for a couch. Thinking about it.
Meanwhile, I found out today about a new pickleball facility with four indoor courts being built near us. I signed up as a founding member. Air conditioned indoor courts close by. I am ready.
Off to cook supper.
My PC will be insecure in a couple of months so I finally did what I've been thinking about for years and moved to a Chromebook. Actually a Chrome ASUS mini computer. It came today and in typical Google fashion I was fully up, updated and signed in as I am now in about 20 minutes. Longest thing was the initial download and getting my Jelly KB and mouse to connect. I did get that to work but may end up moving back to the logitec. The Jelly is OK but once I went ergonomic all the other keyboards seem so tiny and cramped. The Jelly is a backup and will still work and be here for me but I think I'll go back to Logitec.
Rather than ask for a password and user my new computer said, 'hey, I see you've got a pixel, you can just scan this code and we'll set everything up based on that authentication. DONE!! The coolest ever set up.
I've got a friend in the computer biz still who is going to give me a nice used monitor to replace my secondary VGA monitor (not compatible with the mini computer). He's got a monitor and HDMI cable he's giving me for free. So I'll be fully operational and shutting down Microsoft forever by Wednesday. It frees up a bunch of room and wires once I pull the PC so I'll be rearranging things and will have more room in my office now. Actually will now have room for a couch. Thinking about it.
Meanwhile, I found out today about a new pickleball facility with four indoor courts being built near us. I signed up as a founding member. Air conditioned indoor courts close by. I am ready.
Off to cook supper.
Middle-Aged Dad Jam Band Performs a Raucous Cover of the B-52’s Song ‘Love Shack’
Jun. 30th, 2025 07:54 pm![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
laughing_squid_feedThe Middle-Aged Dad Jam Band performed an appropriately raucous cover of the classic B-52’s song “Love Shack” inside David Wain‘s garage.
Wain sang lead and played drums. Longtime Laughing Squid friend Kestrin Pantera and comedian Jessica McKenna sang fantastic backup while dressed in glittery vintage cocktail dresses. And a whole bunch of people in crazy costumes danced wildly around them.
Here’s the newest cover from David Wain and Ken Marino’s Middle Aged Dad Jam Band, LOVE SHACK, featuring Kestrin Pantera, Jessica McKenna and David Wain on vocals and a whole pile of weirdos on “partying.”
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Extremely short movie reviews
Jun. 30th, 2025 05:31 pmink_13Equilibrium edition.
Whoever came up with their "gun kata" has no idea how guns (or, indeed, fighting) actually works. The plot is largely pastiche of dystopias that came before (1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, The Giver), from the brutalism to the "underground resistance that has colours" to the "bad guys have British accents" trope.
I will complement the tailoring, however, because it's not easy to get jackets with mandarin collars to fit like that, plus they actually had an excellent execution of frogmouth lapels (on the miniboss), which is pretty rare.
2/4. The whole aesthetic is still very heavily 90s, which I guess makes sense because principal photography was done in late 2000 (despite the film coming out in late 2002).
про языки
Jun. 30th, 2025 05:16 pmjuan_gandhiВчера на телефоне в гугл-ньюзах был кликбейт - "какой язык на земле самый сложный?!"
какой-какой, думаю, навахо, конечно, по-ихнему diné. Там месяц уйдёт чтобы освоить произношение нескольких согласных, для начала. tl с глоттал стопом. Ну как в слове Seattle, которое американцы произносят как "сядл".
Пошёл по линку. Да, он. Diné.
1SE for June 2025
Jun. 30th, 2025 10:04 pmnanilaI can't quite believe how much has happened this month. At least 60 days of stuff were packed into June's 30. And now we're halfway through the year. Dear Time, Please slow down, Love, Me.
Is it 1860 all over again?
Jun. 30th, 2025 08:37 pmmetafilter_feedIrreconcilable differences? Ryan D. Griffiths, Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University, has a new book coming out this September: "The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work."
"We need a national divorce...We need to separate by red states and blue states." - Marjorie Taylor Greene, Feb. 2023 In the upcoming book, Professor Griffiths, does what it says on the tin: puts the kibosh on the dreams of would-be Jefferson Davises to secede from the US and create their own Red or Blue utopia. "Secession is the wrong solution to the problem of polarization. Red and Blue America are not neatly sorted and geographically concentrated. Splitting the two parts would require a dangerous unmixing of the population, one that could spiral into violence and state collapse." Other current looks at secession: Secession Won't Happen. How About Creating States Within States? Will Trump Force America to Break Up? Breaking Up is Hard to Do 'A low-wage state': How Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker responded to Indiana's secession bill
"We need a national divorce...We need to separate by red states and blue states." - Marjorie Taylor Greene, Feb. 2023 In the upcoming book, Professor Griffiths, does what it says on the tin: puts the kibosh on the dreams of would-be Jefferson Davises to secede from the US and create their own Red or Blue utopia. "Secession is the wrong solution to the problem of polarization. Red and Blue America are not neatly sorted and geographically concentrated. Splitting the two parts would require a dangerous unmixing of the population, one that could spiral into violence and state collapse." Other current looks at secession: Secession Won't Happen. How About Creating States Within States? Will Trump Force America to Break Up? Breaking Up is Hard to Do 'A low-wage state': How Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker responded to Indiana's secession bill
Has Crisis Passed Away for Failure to be de Riguer
Jun. 30th, 2025 08:14 pmmetafilter_feedJack Rakove has piece in piece on the Washington Monthly dissecting the failures of Congress and the Supreme Court to meet their obligations as set forth by the United States Constitution. It is a strong argument for journalists to stop talking about constitutional crisises and be more direct about how the system has failed not in parts but in whole. One of the important things he tries to do is provide a useful definition of what a constitutional failure is compared to a crisis.
It may be preaching to the converted hereabouts, but it does give a useful structure to point other to as to why so many of us are freaking out.
It may be preaching to the converted hereabouts, but it does give a useful structure to point other to as to why so many of us are freaking out.
pictures for June
Jun. 30th, 2025 04:07 pmpauraque
Ox-eye Daisy.
( more flowers [7 photos] )
( birds [3 photos] )
( bugs [4 photos] )
( miscellaneous [4 photos] )
Code Green: Louie Duck and the Fifth Feather
Jun. 30th, 2025 06:19 pmao3_ducktales2017_feedby PalomaPowers
As the duck family grows bigger and bigger, Louie Duck, one of the youngest members of the family, begins to wonder who the real father of him and his siblings is and what it feels like to have a father. Thanks to his extensive research and some old diaries that he secretly reads, Louie Duck finally finds five potential father candidates. While he finds out which of these is the real father of the Duck triplets, he also has to keep this secret research a secret from the whole family.
Words: 1559, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
- Fandoms: DuckTales (Cartoon 2017)
- Rating: General Audiences
- Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
- Categories: Other
- Characters: Louie Duck (Disney), Dewey Duck (Disney), Huey Duck (Disney), Donald Duck (Disney), Webby Vanderquack, May Duck (Disney), June Duck (Disney), Lena (Disney: DuckTales), Violet Sabrewing (Disney), Della Duck (Disney)
- Relationships: Donald Duck & Louie Duck (Disney), June Duck & Louie Duck (Disney), Dewey Duck & Donald Duck & Huey Duck & Louie Duck (Disney), Dewey Duck & Huey Duck & Louie Duck (Disney)
- Additional Tags: Louie Duck-centric (Disney), Donald Duck is the Parent of Duck Triplets | Donald Duck's Nephews (Disney), Protective Donald Duck (Disney), Della Duck Tries (Disney), Louie Duck Needs a Hug (Disney)
I put the "not" in astronaut
Jun. 30th, 2025 07:48 pmmetafilter_feedThe first trailer for the screen adaptation of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary has dropped.
Do not watch if you've not read the book. The trailer is fairly spoiler-heavy. I honestly had no idea this was in the making.
Do not watch if you've not read the book. The trailer is fairly spoiler-heavy. I honestly had no idea this was in the making.
Readercon 2025 Schedule
Jun. 30th, 2025 03:50 pmoracneMy schedule is finalized! I didn't list participants in case there were changes.
Who will I see at Readercon next month?
The Works of P. Djèlí Clark
Salon I/J Friday, July 18, 2025, 1:00 PM EDT
Our Guest of Honor P. Djèlí Clark rounded out his first decade as a published author with a Nebula and a Locus for his fantasy police procedural novel, The Master of Djinn, and both those awards plus a British Fantasy Award for his monster-hunting novella Ring Shout. His short story "How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub" is short-listed for the Hugo this year. As a History professor at University of Connecticut, he investigates the pathways leading from West African storyteller/poets (griots, a.k.a. djèlí) to the American abolitionist movement. Help us celebrate the works of our honored guest!
The Purposes of Memorable Insults in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Salon I/J Friday, July 18, 2025, 5:00 PM EDT
Some of the most quotable lines in science fiction and fantasy are zingers. Wit can do a lot to build a character, a world, and a universe, and has the ability to either support or undermine reader expectations. This panel aims to explore and elaborate on the use of wit—and especially takedowns—in literature, exposing how a verbal jab can serve as more than just a punchline.
Moving from Traditional Publishing to Self-Publishing
Salon G/H Friday, July 18, 2025, 7:00 PM EDT
It's becoming increasingly common to hear of authors whose self-published work was so successful that they were picked up by a traditional publisher. But what of the authors who have gone the other way, by turning their backs on traditional publishing and going into self-publishing? Panelists will survey the varying reasons for making this transition, how authors have navigated it, and what this might say about the state of publishing overall.
Kaffeeklatsch: Victoria Janssen
Suite 830 Friday, July 18, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT
Meet the Pros(e) party
Salon F Friday, July 18, 2025, 10:15 PM EDT
Program participants are assigned to tables with a roughly equal number of conferencegoers and other participants, and then table placements are scrambled at regular intervals so that everyone gets to meet a new set of people in a small-group setting. Think of it as a low-key sort of speed dating where you need never be the sole focus of anyone's attention, and the goal is just to get to know some cool Readerconnish people. Please note that this event will include a bar and is mask-optional, unlike most other programming.
The Works of Cecilia Tan [I'm moderating this one]
Salon I/J Saturday, July 19, 2025, 12:00 PM EDT
Our Guest of Honor, Cecilia Tan, has a publication history that spans Asimov's, Absolute Magnitude, Ms. Magazine, Penthouse, and Best American Erotica, among others. Writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy, especially as they intersect with erotica and romance, she is also the founder of Circlet Press, an independent publisher that specializes in speculative erotica. Her own writing earned a Lifetime Achievement for Erotica in 2014 from Romantic Times magazine. She also contributes to America's other pastime, baseball, in her role as Publications Director for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Come hear our panel discuss Cecilia's many talents and accomplishments.
Un-Kafkaesque Bureaucracies
Salon I/J Saturday, July 19, 2025, 7:00 PM EDT
In fiction, bureaucracies are generally depicted as evil in its most banal form, yet many of the actual bureaucracies that shape our lives exist to protect us from corporate greed. How can—and should—we tell other stories about bureaucrats and bureaucracies, particularly as the U.S. stands on the precipice of disastrous deregulation? And might fantasies of bureaucracy (such Addison's The Goblin Emperor and Goddard's The Hands of the Emperor) be the next cozy subgenre?
The Endless Appetite for Fanfiction
Create / Collaborate Saturday, July 19, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT
In an article of the same name (https://www.fansplaining.com/articles/endless-appetite-fanfiction), Elizabeth Minkel discussed how "2024 was the year [fanfic] truly broke containment—everyone seemed to want a piece of the fanfiction pie, leaving fic authors themselves besieged on all sides." Attempts to steal and monetize fanfic proliferated, as did reviews treating living authors as distant and unreachable. What do these trends say about larger changes in attitudes toward stories and creators? How can fans of all kinds nurture supportive connections to authors?
Crafts
Jun. 30th, 2025 03:29 pmunicorndukeHey all, if you'd like to join the crafting hangout, it is tonight from 6-8pm ET!
Video encouraged but not required!
Topic: Crafting Hangout
Time: Mondays 6:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 973 2674 2763
Everything is going in the wrong direction
Jun. 30th, 2025 06:30 pmmetafilter_feedConnections is a puzzle built around the novel 'misleads'. A "mislead" in the game refers to the specific way words are presented or combined within a particular puzzle that might tempt a player to form an incorrect group. An example is the word "ARCHER", which might mislead you to group it with "BOW", "ARROW", and "TARGET" (for "archery terms"), when its intended category is actually "TV SHOWS" with words like "LOST" and "FRASIER." While words and categories can be repeated over time, the misleads ideally should not. from Developing an Internal Tool for Our Puzzle Editor [New York Times Open]
Quiet on set
Jun. 30th, 2025 06:26 pmmetafilter_feedSound designer and podcaster Dallas Taylor has started a YouTube channel that promises to explore "how iconic audio is made and the people behind it". First up, Inside the Sound of Jeopardy! and Behind the Boom Mic at SNL.
Taylor also hosts the podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz, a podcast about sound design. Similar to its spiritual "design podcast" cousin 99% Invisible, the show has broadened its reach from sound design to sonic culture discussing topics from the history of the Lofi Girl and Windows startup sounds, to a discussion of "numbers stations" and espionage.
Taylor also hosts the podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz, a podcast about sound design. Similar to its spiritual "design podcast" cousin 99% Invisible, the show has broadened its reach from sound design to sonic culture discussing topics from the history of the Lofi Girl and Windows startup sounds, to a discussion of "numbers stations" and espionage.