Two minutes ago:

"Huh, wonder where my shoes are? Oh, they're in the living room."
::grabs shoes::
::drops shoes in front of me and sits down::
"Huh, wonder where my shoes are? Oh, they're in the living room."
::gets up and sees shoes in front of me::

This is life at 51.

yostrov

Только что в раздевалке спортивного клуба меня обозвали фриком за то, что я закрывал дверцы всех открытых шкафчиков, мимо которых проходил.

Как называется эта болезнь? Control Freak?

sovay

After a full week without water in the kitchen, the plumber cameth on half an hour's notice from the property manager and was horrified to hear about it, but he was swift and competent and we have a new and working faucet, which was all the problem turned out to be. Hestia made herself invisible in the bedroom throughout the proceedings. I washed a fork without first boiling water and it felt like a big deal.

I just finished reading David Hare's A Map of the World (1983), whose device of examining an interpersonal-political knot through the successive filters of the roman à clef, the screen version, and the memories of the participants reminded me obviously of similar exercises in metafiction and retrospect by Tom Stoppard and Michael Frayn, double-cast for an effect at the end approaching timeslip such as works almost strictly on stage. I did not expect to find some fragments preserved in an episode of The South Bank Show, but there were some of the scenes with Roshan Seth, John Matshikiza, Bill Nighy, Diana Quick. I wish I thought it meant there were a complete broadcast I could watch, but I'm not even finding it got the BBC Radio 3 treatment. More immediately, it reminded me of how many of the stories I read early were about stories, their propagation and mutation, their conventions, their shifting distances from the facts. "And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it."

The problem with the denaturing of language is that when I say to

spatch that the political situation is insane, I don't mean it's a little far-fetched, I mean it is driven by wants and processes that are not rational and it is exhausting to be trapped inside someone else's illness.

Current Music: Fast Blood, "Rut"

theradicalchild

I struggled again with sleep last night, and I had to get up and pee in the middle of the night and again a few hours later, even when avoiding fluids before bedtime. I slept with my Blåhaj as I've been doing and tried sleeping without my mouth guard and didn't have trouble grinding my teeth, but I still get really impatient and want to get up and be productive during the day, though productivity still eludes me.

I got a message from my clinic saying that my current primary care doctor was no longer there, so I'll have to eventually change, and the chick that contacted me worried that I might be upset, but I can live. One autistic stereotype I've had to endure was things like this causing me to panic, but it doesn't. For me, it really depends upon the circumstance.

I walked to Fairview for the soup kitchen, and they were serving quesadillas that were okay and some rice that was meh and some inflated corn that was gross.

I've been getting mail for my apartment neighbor since he's been in California visiting relatives, and he said he was expecting a package that I got for him. About five minutes or so before he came home a policeman came by my place asking about him, given that another neighbor expressed concern, and I had to call him. I did give all his stuff to him.

I defrosted some pork I had gotten from one of the food pantries and used barbecue sauce, Tony Chachere seasoning, salt, and pepper on them, and air fried them, and they were actually pretty good.

I decided I'll try to post some of my past AI art comics and memes to my Substack.

Here's my first post along with my commentary on recent events in Venezuela and elsewhere.

This is the comic I headline it with, and the celebrations against Maduro's removal actually seem to be among the Venezuelan Diaspora (the Venezuelans who fled due to the past regimes) rather than within Venezuela given their now-uncertain situation. But it seems to have been mostly a regime decapitation--and Maduro's vice president is now in charge--rather than installing a puppet government like America did in Afghanistan in Iraq.

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1) "Bloomberg found that in areas near significant data center activity, wholesale electricity prices rose as much as 267% in a single month. After analyzing 25,000 “grid nodes” they found that more than 70% of those showing price increases were located within 50 miles of data center activity. With data centers forecast to account for 9% of all US power demand by 2035, the reporters said the “unprecedented granularity” of their data showed what is at stake for those living nearby this AI infrastructure."

Another data research story looked into climate change conspiracies, revealing "that hashtags were predominantly pushed by accounts with ties to oil interests in Gulf states and uncovered a coordinated effort to amplify climate conspiracy narratives through networks of automated and semi-automated accounts."

2) Been watching Celebrity Name That Tune and recently Christian Siriano was on it. In some ways this was the funniest one because neither he nor the other person were any good at identifying songs. By the second round they were tied and they ended up going through 4 tie breakers before he finally got one so that he could go on to the third round. Jane Krakowski ended up sitting down on stage while they went through song after song.

3) It's always great to celebrate new content in the public domain. It's still too little but major characters and works are now there, including Poirot and Miss Marple, Nancy Drew, Lord Peter Wimsey, various cartoons, art and music.

4) Cementing its reputation as worst company ever, Meta created ‘playbook’ to fend off government pressure to crack down on scammers. This includes making "scam ads “not findable” when authorities search for them."

5) Amid so many retail closures and the growth of audiobook sales, bookstores were growing in 2025. "This year, 422 newly opened stores joined the American Booksellers Association — nearly a hundred more than joined last year. Barnes & Noble added 55 stores around the country and Books-A-Million added 18. By comparison, Books-A-Million opened seven new stores in 2024.Genre-specific bookshops are also thriving." This even though 40% of Americans read no books at all. However "Only 14% of Americans say they prefer to read digital books, but these are some of the country’s heaviest readers. 13% of them say they read 50 or more books in 2025, compared to 4% of those who prefer physical books and 5% of those who prefer audiobooks."

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В 1966 году австрийско-канадский математик Лео Мозер озаботился вопросом. Какой максимальной величины диван можно протащить через прямой угол в коридоре ширины 1 метр?

И вот наконец мы знаем решение. "Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician".

В 1992 году профессор Ратгерского университета Джозеф Гервер предложил решение площадью примерно 2.2195 квадратных метров. Но только сейчас корейский математик Пэк Джин-эон доказал, что диван Гервера представляет собой верхний предел.

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Most societies have certain mores that are unspoken rules; humanity itself even has such conventions, grilled subconsciously into our minds for our own safety. Don't go out alone at night. Avoid getting wet when it's cold. Don't pick fights with those stronger than you...okay, some of us missed the boat on the last one, but the point still stands. Society's rules tend to be more variable, though they apply to most aspects of life - including sex. In fact, bending the rules on what's considered acceptable in romance and sexual encounters can lead to anything from ostracization to death, depending on the time and culture.

So, play it close to the chest if you're going to do a big, big, big t a b o o. Is it worth the risk?

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Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.

Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.

Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Once upon a time, one of the friends who was teaching me How To Person told me that my problem wasn't so much that people didn't like me, it was more that I didn't like people. I was constantly on the defensive and went into social situations expecting to get so little value out of the exchange that I was unconsciously treating people like their existence was a chore. He kinda had a point. It was not a great way to make friends when everyone around me felt judged.

I was still getting over that but starting to get used to trying to like people when I found fandom back in 2003-2004, and found my way over to

copperbadge's comment section. It was the sudden manic insistence of my nervous system that I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR - just an overwhelming tide of positive feelings that I couldn't even process them all. I was still hella awkward as a human, but managed to make some neurodivergent friends anyway, some of whom I still talk to more than two decades later. And that insistence by my nervous system that These Are My People the feelings of I Belong Here and These People Are Like Me was so antithetical to every way that I had ever felt about groups of people that it wound up changing core parts of my personality, my identity.

I am me, because of y'all. You did this to me and I honestly couldn't be fucking happier about it.

dyingfire and

maeritrae and

elucreh - thank you so much for welcoming me aboard.

And all of fandom: thank you for existing.

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muccamukk

I was just thinking, "IDK who would even buy the English language side of LJ at this point!" (Especially with sanctions on Russia. Who could buy it?) Then I remembered hungry hungry data miners looking for things to feed into LLMs/Gen AI, and sighed. I guess they've probably scraped all the public posts anyway, but might be interested in paying for the locked content?

I'm vicariously delighted by everyone being so bouncy and excited about the hockey blorbos. I aggressively don't like men's ice hockey (except for that one fic), so will pass, but it's fun to see the enthusiasm all over my reading list. I wish you all a very merry time of it. ❤️

I seem to have found the other half of that one ship in D.K. Broster's "Mr. Rowl". He shows up 48% mark. (Though I can see the point about Mr. ~~Howard~~ Hunter, especially given that farewell). I find the comment, a girl to whom his attention had subsequently been drawn—indifferent though he was to the sex to be VERY INTERESTING for at least two reasons.

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Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan, 2025 novel. Near-future science fiction about life in the skyscrapers of a drowned San Francisco, an artist who has lost touch with art, and a supercentenarian in need of an aide and caregiver. This is quiet, small, slow, literary SF - the setting is reminiscent of KSR's New York 2140 but the actual story and feel are much more like Rebecca Campbell's Arboreality. I liked it a lot; I thought the interweaving of real history (especially re the Chinese-American experience, which both main characters are) and possible future history was done well, and while "art about art" can be hit or miss for me, I thought Kwan did a good job of making the art in the book engaging, and I liked seeing a "retreat to the North" scenario only from the distant edges, thinking about who might stay behind or be left behind and why.

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rebeccmeister

I went over to Powells today to look at some books, as one does when in Portland.

I had thought maybe The Perfect 100 Day Project book would be interesting, but it intends to refer to a different sort of 100 Day Project than what I had envisioned, more like a daily streak of doing a thing rather than a process whereby a person has an idea for a more ambitious project that will require the sustained focus of 100 days of effort. So I'm glad I had a chance to thumb through the book and then leave it on the shelf, whew!

I also went in search of a copy of The Nordic Cook Book. There was a used copy of The Nordic Baking Book, by the same author, but not the cookbook. TNBB looked really good and interesting, but it is large enough and cost enough that I didn't exactly feel like lugging it around and then home with me. So, once again, I was glad to have a chance to look at it but leave it on the shelf. The same section also contained a cookbook specifically about aebleskiver, which I was also able to leave there, because I don't own an aebleskiver pan and am not devoted to aebleskiver to the point where I'm interested in an entire cookbook about variations on the theme. When it gets down to it, I'm picky about cookbook acquisition.

I *did*, however, appreciate the section in that book that noted that the original instrument used to turn aebleskiver as they cook was a metal knitting needle, ha. The cookbook author noted that one could easily substitute a bamboo skewer instead. There were also instructions on how to produce properly spherical aebleskiver, which was useful to learn about. But that's about all I would ever want out of such a cookbook, so back on the shelf it went!

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Name: Regis

Age: 46

I mostly post about: My life as a bipolar gay man, fandoms and things that pique my interest.

My hobbies are: I mainly just surf the net and collect physical media. I prefer it over streaming.

My fandoms are: Twin Peaks, Friday the 13th, SAW Monk, Sherlock, Murder She Wrote, Perry Mason... Let's just say I like a lot of mystery programs.

I'm looking to meet people who: I wouldn't mind finding other gays with my interests. I am not picky though. I will take anyone. I am trying to make new friends in 2026. Take the edge off of today's misery.

My posting schedule tends to be: daily/weekly/monthly/sporadic/etc I tend to write when the spirit in me is strong. I try to post everyday but lately I've been too weak in the mind to get any words on the screen.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Homophobic people that are MAGA like Trump. DIsgusting pictures are sometimes banned but I like horror movies. So, they tend to be few and far between.

Before adding me, you should know: I am gay and do talk about the and my depression at some length. Also, I am known to post hunky guys on holidays and special occasions/

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* didn't do much for Solstice
* amusingly, both Aunt Tish and V got me the same slipper-socks for Christmas
* pear + green tea perfume was extremely relevant to Thorn's interests, even straight out of the bottle
* got my pill boxes filled for the coming quarter
- started the desk top cleanup for that a little before Just In Time
- did the morning pills first, which always gives me a little grace period to get the evening pills done the subsequent day
- ran out of my joint supplement after the first five weeks were done, but that did allow me to put the first five weeks away and start using them
- Belovedest picked up the missing pills in a very short turn-around, yay
* NYE cat pilling results: Yellface deigned to swallow, finally, after several very polite arguments in favor of spitting the pill out; Mila was too sharp to be pilled
* watched the festivities up at the Space Needle from the comfort of bed, with Belovedest and Thorn and sparkling cider (Belovedest dipped into the Faygo stash also)
* legs still awful
* did not lose the second set of black teardrop beads for the crochet projects
* made an OTC meds order from the usual supplier (Wellspring Meds) despite the sale having expired
- if your household needs industrial quantities of Imodium and you hate blister packs with a passion, consider this vendor: 200 pills in a nice little safety cap bottle, no peeling or shoving required

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Free sewing pattern for a chest binder, for those of y'all who may need such.

The Barometric Pressure Effects on Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) and Dysautonomia

Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs

Autistic joy? Is a thing. But also autistic joylessness through constant overwhelm is ALSO a thing. Apparently lots of autists don't experience joy in the same ways or to the same extents as others? I gets moments of joy, but they last maybe 15 seconds worth of slightly more intense happiness? Which according to some folks I know is not what joy is for them, or at least not ALL of what it is.

Sick Woman Theory - PDF of a short philosophical and political treatise about who gets seen enough to count as "political".

Washingtonians during a flood emergency Sound ON.

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ccpro

очень часто на горке можно увидеть досочника, который в начале вставил ноги в крепления, а потом подумал. или не подумал и начинает прыгать на небольшом подъёмчике
таких приходятся "усыновлять" - брать на прицеп. как-то раз, на централе одну и ту же девочку подтягивал 3 раза. вот вроде не ребёнок, а учиться не хочет. или радость от катания мозговую деятельность подавляет?
так что помимо 3х крёстных детей, у меня, как у скриминг хаукинса, полно "крёстников" на горке

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