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About that US CDC Vaccine Committee Chaos?
Go read this if you want cues on how to respond and you live in the States:
https://flamingsword.dreamwidth.org/496875.html
https://flamingsword.dreamwidth.org/496875.html
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RIP: ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
petermorwood
Just announced by his wife and writing partner, dianeduane:
https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/783067867808776192/peter-morwood
Diane, I am so sorry.
dianeduane:https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/783067867808776192/peter-morwood
Diane, I am so sorry.
Self-Protection Against COVID and Other Airborne Infections
You may have heard in recent months of the Canadian COVID Society. They're looking out for the rights of people living with, or trying to avoid having to live with, COVID infections across Confederation.
They just announced a new resource for such people:
https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhco2wm52w
https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhcowr622t
https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhcpjyfk2t
https://covidsociety.ca/priorities/safer-health-care/accommodation-request/
They just announced a new resource for such people:
https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhco2wm52w
https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhcowr622t
https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhcpjyfk2t
https://covidsociety.ca/priorities/safer-health-care/accommodation-request/
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A Weird Coincidence II
In addition to the federal election in Canada tomorrow, it came to my notice today that Mary Brown's Chicken - a competitor to KFC and Popeyes Louisiana Chicken HQed in Newfoundland and Labrador - is promoting tomorrow as National Superhero Day.
Apparently, there's a promotional arrangement with Marvel regarding the new Daredevil series on Disney+.
You'd think that, for a fast food chain based in Canada, they could work up an Alpha Flight project, right?
Apparently, there's a promotional arrangement with Marvel regarding the new Daredevil series on Disney+.
You'd think that, for a fast food chain based in Canada, they could work up an Alpha Flight project, right?
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Social Media Note: Hey.Cafe
So...I signed up for another service today.
https://hey.cafe/@dewline
Hey.Cafe is Canadian-owned and operated, and if I lose access to US-based services because of national/international security, there'll still be this, right?
https://hey.cafe/@dewline
Hey.Cafe is Canadian-owned and operated, and if I lose access to US-based services because of national/international security, there'll still be this, right?
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A Weird Coincidence
Crayola is pushing today as National Crayon Day.
Today is also the annual Day of Transgender Visibility, and has long been so.
I am thinking that the connection here can be both useful and entertaining.
Today is also the annual Day of Transgender Visibility, and has long been so.
I am thinking that the connection here can be both useful and entertaining.
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URGENT: In case any US HHS people are reading my blog?
Apparently, there's a mass dismissal of workers in the works this weekend.
So you might want to heed Allison Gill's advice in the link below before reading any of your office e-mail.
No joke.
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-employees
So you might want to heed Allison Gill's advice in the link below before reading any of your office e-mail.
No joke.
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-employees
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A Realization About Trumpomuskovia
DOGE = thought police.
That's what we're looking at here, right?
That's what we're looking at here, right?
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Three Things - 16 December 2024
1. I really don't trust François Legault's definition of "secularisme" in Québec.
2. Looks like papermail delivery is restarting in Canada tomorrow (AKA December 17th, 2024). I worry about the possible consequences of how that was arranged.
3. If you've watched a recent Hallmark Christmas-themed movie, you might have seen parts of Ottawa.
2. Looks like papermail delivery is restarting in Canada tomorrow (AKA December 17th, 2024). I worry about the possible consequences of how that was arranged.
3. If you've watched a recent Hallmark Christmas-themed movie, you might have seen parts of Ottawa.
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Dominion War Map Design
A sense of what I'm working on for fun right now.
https://mastodon.social/@DEWLine/113181955177986765
https://mastodon.social/@DEWLine/113181955177986765
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Trek Fan Mapping, Continued: "The Death of Vulcan"?
So this was published in the Astronomical Journal this month:
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad34d5
I found out via TrekBBS. As I noted in one of my replies: we still need to keep in mind that Star Trek is as much alt-history as space adventure. All those extra nebulae, the existence of ETI confirmed, and so on...
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad34d5
I found out via TrekBBS. As I noted in one of my replies: we still need to keep in mind that Star Trek is as much alt-history as space adventure. All those extra nebulae, the existence of ETI confirmed, and so on...
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Edge of Midnight: Base Map Progress XII
My ego got a bit of a boost just now:
https://bsky.app/profile/davidmack.bsky.social/post/3kl3ozbfbzv2z
Strongly recommending you read Star Trek: Picard - Firewall by David Mack as soon as you can.
Some additional reasons for doing so mentioned here:
https://bsky.app/profile/davidmack.bsky.social/post/3kl472iyerk2f
https://bsky.app/profile/davidmack.bsky.social/post/3kl3ozbfbzv2z
Strongly recommending you read Star Trek: Picard - Firewall by David Mack as soon as you can.
Some additional reasons for doing so mentioned here:
https://bsky.app/profile/davidmack.bsky.social/post/3kl472iyerk2f
Comics: Communities II
Following up a bit on local comics creators and suchlike.
One friendly acquaintance of mine from the long-dissolved Orléans Comic Jam sessions, Dominic Bercier, has a Kickstarter fundraiser/project going at the moment. Timing might be tight for you if you're interested, I understand that...
Anyway, here's the link.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/renaissancebp/exclusive-holiday-card-delivered-by-santa
If you're interested in Dominic's published work to date more generally:
https://www.bercier.ca/
The local publisher that Dominic's more recently tying in with:
https://pressesrenaissancepress.ca/
One friendly acquaintance of mine from the long-dissolved Orléans Comic Jam sessions, Dominic Bercier, has a Kickstarter fundraiser/project going at the moment. Timing might be tight for you if you're interested, I understand that...
Anyway, here's the link.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/renaissancebp/exclusive-holiday-card-delivered-by-santa
If you're interested in Dominic's published work to date more generally:
https://www.bercier.ca/
The local publisher that Dominic's more recently tying in with:
https://pressesrenaissancepress.ca/
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Sad Note re: ArtStation
I had to amend my ArtStation profile. I'm getting asks about wedding anniversary illustration gigs, and between my day job, the map project and the caregiving trips, this is going to fall by the wayside.
Again.
Again.
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Edge of Midnight: Base Map Progress VI
May as well show it off here. It's a week old, and still...
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RIP: gridlore
I just saw the notice this morning:
https://gridlore.dreamwidth.org/2075928.html
I don't think we got to know each other very well, and it's still a loss.
https://gridlore.dreamwidth.org/2075928.html
I don't think we got to know each other very well, and it's still a loss.
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COVID-19: Consequences For Pop Culture
I got alerted to this via the Hellbirdsite.
https://medium.com/@cdl.tuebingen/covid-19-is-killing-performers-a81d1cf209a2
From the same author of the above-linked article, "What COVID is doing to performers":
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-PVLP_aQpcp-I2eXvcMOsALLRBD-sFxqdWJOhmnBBPA/edit?pli=1
https://medium.com/@cdl.tuebingen/covid-19-is-killing-performers-a81d1cf209a2
From the same author of the above-linked article, "What COVID is doing to performers":
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-PVLP_aQpcp-I2eXvcMOsALLRBD-sFxqdWJOhmnBBPA/edit?pli=1