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I'm still on twitter because it matches my desires most closely. After a couple of years, Bluesky is still full of people who think that adequate content is to tell twitter users that they are bad people because of all the abuses there, most recently the porn made from people's images fed through Grok.
I replied to one of those people that I can't get the spread of art and music content of bsky that I can on twitter, although I haven't spent the hours it would take to look up every single one to compare. Someone helpfully sent me a list of the artists she follows on bluesky. As far as I can tell, they all are cartoonists/graphic artists. I agree that that is art, but it's not what I meant. Hmm.

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The best thing about a photo I found tonight of John Vickery in 1981 is not that it headcanoned itself instantly as an image of the younger Neroon, it's that I had just been watching him in an American Theatre Wing seminar from that same year and been struck by how little of his older self in or out of character was immediately traceable in his thin collegiate face and especially his light Californian voice and so when looking out of mildly feverish curiosity for his notices that summer as Prince Hal I was really not expecting to find through nothing but chiaroscuro and expression his future Minbari bones.

Offstage, he had reminded me more of Kyle MacLachlan and barely looked old enough to have the bachelor's in mathematics which was part of his origin story. He tells it again in another seminar in 1998 and still has a nervous gesture of touching one of his eyes as if tired or distracted slightly; he's a great fidgeter in front of an off-the-cuff audience. I had gone looking originally for his voice, which turns out not even to be that mid-Atlantic when he's using it for himself. Three decades plus I had to notice this actor with my brain on perpetual standby for B5 and now it has an opinion.

To keep on the theme of theater, I had no idea until her obituary that Tina Packer started her career in the three-quarters burninated 1966 BBC David Copperfield with Ian McKellen and then the much more successfully recovered 1968 Doctor Who: The Web of Fear before she discovered she cared much less for acting than directing or producing, whence Shakespeare & Company. The last time I saw Hugh Whitemore's Breaking the Code was in 2011 at Central Square Theater and they are reviving it this spring with the actor I last saw as Gaveston in the ASP's Edward II in 2017, whom I expect to be a superb Turing and me to leave the theater muttering about Joan Clarke as usual. In lieu of a teleporter, I have to hope for a transfer of this High Noon.

Current Music: Townies, "Elderberry Wine"

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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!

beanside

It's Sunday morning at 7 am, and that means it's time to get my journalling on. /random Bake on reference.

After game on Friday, the cough and more problematic hoarse voice came roaring back. I finally had to cancel both games because I had no voice, and I just felt kind of shitty. I felt horribly bad about it, but I just couldn't. Jess convinced me to take the first blast of a steroid dose pack, so I started on that. I was resisting because it makes me moody and bitchy normally. Though as Jess pointed out, I've not taken them with the Astartys or Vyvanse, so the "you must chill" job that it does might blunt some of the side effects. We shall see. I just took my second dose, and my god those things are vile. They have no coating, so they start melting the moment you put them in your mouth, and they are nasty tasting.

Yesterday, I did put on clothes long enough to take my sister to the garage to have her car done. She'll go today to pick it up. She says she'll have BIL take her, but we'll see. I suspect I'll be taking her after game, but we'll see.

I have a game this morning that I'm not dming for, so hopefully that one won't be a problem. I'll just mute until I have to speak, and that'll be fine. This afternoon, I plan to do nothing, except maybe get our Bake Off on. The season's been done for nearly 4 months, I know who wins, but I still want to watch it.

We have another contender in the dress bonanza. I like this one too, but I'm still deciding. Neither of the top contenders have pockets, which is annoying, but I got a little black cross body bag that'll cover me for the basics.

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Which dress looks better?

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1 (14.3%)

6 (85.7%)

I know it's hard to tell, because literally all I did was throw on a bra and the dress. Just imagine it with my hair looking like it's been brushed and with black flats and a pair of nice tights on. (also, tights, nude or sheer black? I can't decide.)

I would also like to do some work on the cruise, so that I can get everyone checked in. I do need to get travel insurance, just in case we get sick in Vancouver, or on the cruise as well. I'm going to compare some plans, and go from there. We're all basically healthy, so it shouldn't be terrible.

For dinner, I actually need to cook. Pork chops with garlic pirogies and sour cream and sauerkraut (if desired). I think it'll be delicious.

Tomorrow shall be work. I'm sure my counterpart will be back, so I'll be doing a little more phones, little less wheeling and dealing, though we'll see. I know I have a few people to call back about their appts to move them to a different location. Certain insurances don't want to allow patients to schedule at hospital connected radiology centers, because there's a facility fee, and they don't want to pay that. But our system is not sophisticated enough to block it, so people book and then I call them and move them. It's a pain in my ass, and the least favorite part of my job. Fortunately, I can also send them messages through the portal, so sometimes I do that as well.

We've got like five patients this week and I've gotten through to one. Which I 100% understand. I don't answer my phone either. Though on most phones, we come up as Johns Hopkins or at least "Medical." So I'd probably answer.

Time to go forth and prepare for this game. Hopefuly, I can make myself heard with my still-hoarse voice. Everyone have a stupendous Saturday!

mindstalk

Jan 10 -- apart from making off with two baked sweet potatoes, I stayed in and avoided wind.

Today -- Worked in a friend phone call back to the US in my morning, evening for her. Then decided to just ride trains out for a while and see what happened. Well, after a few stops I had to get off at Hiratsuka. But another train went further, toward Atami. I rode and looked out, and probably was looking toward Fuji at times, but there was a huge cloud formation in the way, I like to think somehow caused by Fuji. ( Read more... )

scaramouche

I've watched a lot of media that shamelessly rips off other media, either the basic concepts or the plots wholesale, and a lot of time I roll my eyes or think it's funny, but when I saw that there's an Indonesian tv show that rips off H2O: Just Add Water, I got mad. :/

I think it's because although Just Add Water had its own success and is beloved by a particular generational subset, it's not an international mainstream famous kind of show, and ripping it off feels like they're being sneaky, taking advantage of an indie work that not many people know about. Unlike, say, Magik Rompak which rips off Now You See Me, or the kajilion Hindi films that rip off Hollywood blockbusters and you know exactly what's going on. (The two Top Gun: Maverick rip-offs made me laugh so hard.)

This isn't even the first Just Add Water rip-off I've seen! I watched the Romanian Sirenele recently, which is exactly that, but that one is also a vanity project with less than half the production value of the original show, and in the comments of where the show is uploaded on youtube, plenty of people are calling them out for it. I don't even like Just Add Water all that much, I don't know why I feel particularly offended on its behalf.

I thought I could start watching that Indonesian show alongside Aryana, but now I feel like I have to finish watching Just Add Water first so I know where the shows diverge.

Edited to add: I have started a H2O: Just Add Water rewatch!

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Fifth Harmony - Work From Home

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andrewducker

1. Getting a Job: The Motherhood Penalty: (tags:motherhood bias jobs OhForFucksSake patriarchy )
2. Drones that 'perch' like birds to recharge on power lines.: (tags:drone electricity cables )

tozka

1. All my apps are popping up "consent to let us sell your data for marketing" things, including ones I'm pretty sure never did when I was in the US. It pisses me off that they didn't do that in the US, actually, because I always select "no" and if they're not popping up, does that mean they auto opted me in? UGH.

Related, I'm seeing a few "content not available in your region" things for Imgur-hosted images, which is weird because WHY can't I see a fandom event graphic in the UK??

2. My search results are pushing UK-related sites up higher which is kinda fun. I searched for some historical facts (about canned goods) and had to keep specifying "USA" because it was showing me things from historical UK instead. Kind of brings home how much our experiences online are segmented and directed by invisible algorithms.

3. I've gone up to 3 cups of tea a day (and 1 cup of coffee) and am kind of concerned my teeth are going to be brown by the time I get back to the US in the summer...

4. The local Co-Op had a super special on bananas, one bunch for a mere 35p! I'm going to freeze them and use them for porridge and whatever.

5. Doing quite a lot of TV watching this week (mostly middling documentaries, tbh) and I've added a lot of things to my watchlist, as the owner has BBC and ITV and 5 as well as Netflix. She also lent me a huge stack of books I want to read, and I have some sightseeing things I want to do before I leave. So I'll be very occupied for the next two months!

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A bright cold morning, the fields silvered with frost, and the paths an entertaining mix of ice and mud.

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puddleshark

( Playing with the Photoshop Graphic Pen filter )

lxe

Тезис: "человек не должен судиться по своим групповым признакам, только по индивидуальным".
Ответ: кроме биометрических факторов аутентификации (черт лица, отпечатков пальцев, рисунка радужной оболочки глаза), все признаки человека, доступные наблюдению, групповые. "Родился", "вырос", "имел дело с", "получил образование в", "состоял в" — все это признаки принадлежности к группам, и вынося окончательное суждение о пригодности человека к сотрудничеству, мы учитываем факторы прибыли/риска, связанные с предшествующим опытом, собранным в соответствующей группе. Нет группы => нет опыта.

Тезис: "это все философские отвлеченные суждения, а для реального человека подчиняться им оскорбительно".
Ответ: без обнаружения технически разных, но принципиально сходных случаев у вас не будет ни концепции права, ни концепции справедливости, а аппаратом выявления принципиально сходных случаев является именно философия. Если оскорбительно подчиняться общим суждениям, оскорбительна сама идея права. Это вряд ли то, что вы хотели сказать, но поведение ваших единомышленников хорошо описывается их разногласием с этой гипотезой.

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1) Great coffee to wake up properly

2) Dinner at my parents’s place (I hunker for the heath of their woodburner)

3) Good telly this evening

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poliphilo

I look around at the Friends assembled for the Area Meeting and think, "But we're all so old!" No-one appeared to be under 40- and the bulk of us were in our 70s- and 80s. I know there are young Quakers because I've met them, but none of them were in Eastbourne yesterday.

There were 56 of us. That's the most who have attended such a Meeting in recent years. Our Meeting Room was only just big enough.

Much of what we did was tedious and pointless. We're too small an organisation to conduct ourselves with so much formality. We should be ducking and diving like partisans, not plodding along like an Imperial army.

The value of these get-togethers is mainly in the gaps and not in the programme. I met two new people I was glad to get to know- a chap who has visited Heaven while still in the body and a gentle, spiritual, 70 year old cross-dresser. We're an odd lot. Oddity is our glory. I didn't want to show up yesterday and I hated a lot of the procedure but I came away feeling I'd been among my people.....