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Jun. 22nd, 2025 09:30 am
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The weather continues to be irritating. It’s so hard to focus or do much of, well, anything. Between lack of focus and being drained the last few days have been a bit eh. And it’s been really annoying cause, as mentioned before I can’t even do much at night cause my eyes or head aches which ugh.

And I can’t even listen to audio stuff half the time without losing my focus and having to pause and rewind.

Bleh it’s so annoying.

It feels it could be shifting cause there’s been rain but at the same time it doesn’t feel enough.

But anyway onto things the last few days.

Tuesday was the library stint where I started Cards On The Table (which seems pretty good so far) and I also read one of my comics, Exquisite Corpses. The premise is pretty intriguing, every four years an American town is cut off from the world and the 13 richest families send killers in there and the family withkiller that survives gets to rule for the next four years. Being a first ep it’s mostly introducing the concept, the killers and some people of the town (who are no doubt gonna have a terrible not good time caught in the crossfire). I am tempted to get the other issues, but I’ve got conflicting info about how long it’s gonna be so I need to find that out.

That night we watched Hell Motel on shudder which was pretty great so far. I dunno if anyone else is thinking of watching but you should! The first two eps were really good and I have no idea of where it’s gonna go. (Well other than more people are going die, but that’s a given)

Unfortunately that night was probably the night I did the most cause every other night was draining or achy cause of this damn heat. Bleh I did do Dredge some more in bits and pieces. I finished the third area, the one in the swamp, so I’ve got one area left of the main game (though I have the dlc stuff and started fixing the rig). I do wanna get the ship’s hull expanded before going and see if there’s side quest stuff to do first but we’ll see.

I got a mail saying there was £10 off a £40 shop at the co-op so after debating (cause of the heat and cause it’s at the co-op by the station) we decided to go Friday which probably was the best day to do it. Of course doing that was pretty tiring too but, well £10 off is £10 off.

After debating I did end up getting Civilization vii from cdkeys so I played two games and damn I forgot how long they could be. First game was as Hatshepsut and ended in a lose but I blame having two ai people near me who constantly picked fights with me at the same time. Second game was Harriet Tubman and that was more peaceful (two ai’s picked fights with each other and tried to get me involved but I was like nah) but it still ended up in a loss, though I was close to a scientific victory. I dunno when I’ll do another game cause it is a massive timesink.

Today we might watch Better Man (I picked it up for mum) and finish an ESO event thing (though ugh it seems the new season isn’t included in the eso+ for some irritating reason) and then maybe Saltburn tonight cause it’s on tv. Though I sense I’ll mostly flop and have no focus again.

But speaking of films I did use the Amazon credit I got on I Know What You Did Last Summer (cause most of the things I thought of weren’t there and the trailer for the new one made me wanna watch) so I’ll watch before the new one, whenever that is.

And also yay! James Marriott’s album is number 1!
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I hit the Bakery while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park. (I got in two additional walks later for a total of 1 mile!) I did two loads of laundry, the usual amount of hand-washing dishes, and scooped kitty litter. I finished the book I started yesterday and spent most of the day with mom.

Temps started out at 61.3(F) and reached 87 (according to Pip, since I didn’t get home until after the temps hit the high). It was hot, but I luckily spent most of the day inside an air conditioned house.


Mom Update:

She is doing well. more back here )

Discussion : Michael Moorcock

Jun. 22nd, 2025 10:08 am
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I've discovered this author through my parents, who'd read several of his books while they were in their 20s in university - specifically the Elric and the Hawkmoon series. Of course I got curious, because my parents enjoyed those books, and despite their warning that it "probably does not hold up in 2025", I've read all of Hawkmoon (or at least, all the french translations my mom had).

It wasn't... great. Sometimes it was really really bad (the orientalism at times is... something.). But it was also really entertaining and funny. There seems to be between 2 and 50 plot points per book, which are all 200 pages or less, and Hawkmoon's chief motivation is "I want to go home to kiss my wife" which is a mood, honestly. The whole "Eternal Champion" thing in the last 3 books was a bit... not to my tastes, although there were some very fun passages of it. Overall you can tell it's old and that you could just say words back then. I wouldn't recommend this series exactly, but it's pretty fascinating. I'm considering getting my hands on Elric at some point just to see if it's the same kind of batshit.

Have you ever read a book from Michael Moorcock ? If so, what did you think ? Would you have anything to recommend ?

I'll say my favorite part of the Hawkmoon books are the giant pink flamingos from Kamarg, that are used as mounts, including during war. It is really cool to picture guys flying to combat on flamingos of all things.

Book Bans

Jun. 22nd, 2025 12:03 am
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Oregon has passed a bill to protect school libraries from book bans.

Another win for freedom to read legislation on the West Coast this week, as Oregon’s state House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 1098 on Monday, a bill that will protect access to books in school libraries. It’s great news: books can no longer be banned solely because they discuss sexuality, religion, or other topics, nor can books be removed because they are written by someone from a protected class. SB 1098 now goes to the governor, who is expected to sign it into law.


I'm delighted to see laws against book bans spreading. To promote this, point out that it will save lots of time and therefore money that is currently wasted dealing with attempt after attempt to tell other people what books they can't read. Most people love saving time and money, and will thus support the effort even if they don't care about books or freedom.

Philosophical Questions: Harm

Jun. 21st, 2025 11:56 pm
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People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

How far should governments go to prevent its citizens from causing harm to themselves?

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If only the US gave more of a shit about separation of powers, which gives Congress the power to declare war. Congress.

Seems pretty straightforward to me as a thing the Constitution says POTUS can't fucking do.

I hope you didn't find out about the unprovoked attack on Iran by the US from a Destiel news meme.
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I devoured [Bad username or site: shamoosh @ archiveofourownorg]'s sandbox environment series, which is grade-A Murderbot/ART set post-System Collapse. I love the way they both need and achieve intimacy. The SecUnit voice is perfection; the ART is scheming and satisfactorily aware of so many things. The technology usage is excellent.

And SecUnit bluescreens over being asked to choose its own clothing.

Come for the great characterizations! Stay for the hysterically funny plot beats!

Today's Adventures

Jun. 21st, 2025 06:02 pm
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Today we went up to Amish territory.

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Books

Jun. 21st, 2025 04:03 pm
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A Rainbow of Queer Books for Pride 2025: Turquoise

HAPPY PRIDE 2025! For Pride this year, we’re changing up our usual rec lists. Instead of doing books with specific identities or themes, we’re focused this time on cover color! Throughout the month of June, we’ll be doing 8 rec lists, each with covers inspired by one of the colors of the original Gilbert Baker Pride Flag. We drew a little additional inspiration from the meaning behind the color and why it was included in the original LGBTQIA+ flag (in this case, turquoise = magic), but we prioritized color over meaning. The contributors to this list are: May Barros, Rhosyn Goodfellow, Linnea Peterson, Tris Lawrence, Sebastian Marie, Shannon, Rascal Hartley, and Nina Waters.

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over 25yo. mostly into fandom in a meta way, nowadays, but i also like SFFH books & tv. sometimes (very rarely) I write fic. currently into digital minimalism and looking to be less on social media and more on here or on the indie web.

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