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Today's Adventures
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ysabetwordsmithToday we went to the Small Business Fest held just outside Booth Library at Eastern Illinois University. It was several times bigger than we expected, which was awesome. It wrapped around the entire square, and one side had booths down both sides of the walkway. This was nearly the size of the old Celebration fest, with very similar offerings. They do this twice a year now, spring and fall.
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How to ruin your day in one simple move
Apr. 11th, 2026 11:44 pmcornerofmadnessIt started out good. I got up early (for me) attended a good free workshop on writing fear and then went to Jackson with the plan to go to the author's book festival at the library, go to the coffee shop and write and maybe go out to Lake Alma to hike around the lake since it was beautiful out.
I had already talked myself out of trying to go to the Sip and Thrift in the opposite direction down in Gallipolis. I get to the book fest and talk to my first author and I like the sound of his mystery. Yes sir, I'll buy one. Just as he gets ready to sign it I realize something horrible.
My wallet is by my desk top computer where I used my credit card to buy those Amazing Digital Circus theater tickets because Paypal kept putting me into a loop that I couldn't get out of.
Yeah, my money and my driver's license are now 15 miles away in my apartment because I didn't put the wallet back after I used it. Son of a bitch. No books. No coffee. No hiking.
Embarrassed I trundle on home but now it's 1:20. I could make the sip and thrift which started at one (but it'll take me 20 minutes to get there) and I don't have time to go back to the book fest. I decide I do not in any way shape or form need more clothing thrifted or not and I definitely don't need upcycled bullcrap in my house (I appreciate and approve of upcycling but I'm trying to down size my crap not get more)
I just stay home and try to clean because I have like 4 festivals in the next 5 weeks. I regret not going now because in spite of FB sending me festivals in a 50 mile radius it didn't tell me one thing about the first annual cherry blossom festival in Point Pleasant. I could have done the sip and thrift and then that. Ah well.
Have some science saturday links
Artemis II: NASA's first crewed mission to the moon since 1972
I wanted to be more excited by this (but it felt like a distraction from everything else this nightmare administration has done)
Fossil site in China reveals bevy of complex creatures lived prior to the Cambrian explosion, including a 'Dune'-like sandworm
We went to Finland to hear about the new 'sand battery' that will turn stored renewable energy back into power for the electrical grid
'No one knows what they are': Researchers discover new type of cell that's seen only during pregnancy
AI 'mirages' mean tools used to analyze medical scans could fabricate their findings How about this? How about we don't fucking USE Ai for this
New Step Towards Male Contraception As Sperm Production Blocked Safely And Reversibly Without Hormones
Trump’s 2027 Budget Proposes Multi-Billion-Dollar Cuts For Climate And Environmental Programs Because he's a fucking nightmare
Can Magic Be Used As A Tool In Science?
I had already talked myself out of trying to go to the Sip and Thrift in the opposite direction down in Gallipolis. I get to the book fest and talk to my first author and I like the sound of his mystery. Yes sir, I'll buy one. Just as he gets ready to sign it I realize something horrible.
My wallet is by my desk top computer where I used my credit card to buy those Amazing Digital Circus theater tickets because Paypal kept putting me into a loop that I couldn't get out of.
Yeah, my money and my driver's license are now 15 miles away in my apartment because I didn't put the wallet back after I used it. Son of a bitch. No books. No coffee. No hiking.
Embarrassed I trundle on home but now it's 1:20. I could make the sip and thrift which started at one (but it'll take me 20 minutes to get there) and I don't have time to go back to the book fest. I decide I do not in any way shape or form need more clothing thrifted or not and I definitely don't need upcycled bullcrap in my house (I appreciate and approve of upcycling but I'm trying to down size my crap not get more)
I just stay home and try to clean because I have like 4 festivals in the next 5 weeks. I regret not going now because in spite of FB sending me festivals in a 50 mile radius it didn't tell me one thing about the first annual cherry blossom festival in Point Pleasant. I could have done the sip and thrift and then that. Ah well.
Have some science saturday links
Artemis II: NASA's first crewed mission to the moon since 1972
I wanted to be more excited by this (but it felt like a distraction from everything else this nightmare administration has done)
Fossil site in China reveals bevy of complex creatures lived prior to the Cambrian explosion, including a 'Dune'-like sandworm
We went to Finland to hear about the new 'sand battery' that will turn stored renewable energy back into power for the electrical grid
'No one knows what they are': Researchers discover new type of cell that's seen only during pregnancy
AI 'mirages' mean tools used to analyze medical scans could fabricate their findings How about this? How about we don't fucking USE Ai for this
New Step Towards Male Contraception As Sperm Production Blocked Safely And Reversibly Without Hormones
Trump’s 2027 Budget Proposes Multi-Billion-Dollar Cuts For Climate And Environmental Programs Because he's a fucking nightmare
Can Magic Be Used As A Tool In Science?
Challenge 32: Copious Colors
Apr. 12th, 2026 08:49 ammagicrubbish posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
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The Witcher , Daredevil born again , Enola Holmes 2, Black Panther 2,
Moana 2 , The Witcher Sirens of the deep, Wednesday , Fallout
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Just one thing: 12 April 2026
Apr. 11th, 2026 09:49 pmjazzyjj posting in 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!
Philosophical Questions: City
Apr. 11th, 2026 08:02 pmysabetwordsmithPeople have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.
What would a perfect city be like?
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What would a perfect city be like?
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AO3
Apr. 11th, 2026 09:24 pmsettiaiNothing makes you feel old like looking at your AO3 profile, glancing at your user ID, and suddenly remembering that it's a really fucking small number because you technically joined before they were even in open beta. By, like, a day. But still. I remember the length of the queues back then.
Seriously, I was still living in Tennessee when I made that account. That's terrifying.
Seriously, I was still living in Tennessee when I made that account. That's terrifying.
Here
Apr. 11th, 2026 06:16 pmsartoriasI just reupped my Dreamwidth blog for another year, though I realize I don't post much. I think of blog topics when away from my computer, then realize I'm reluctant to clog the constant stream Out There with my socially awkward and clueless maunderings.
But briefly: writing a lot, reading some. Of late, Katherine Arden's The Unicorn Hunters, which I really enjoyed a lot. Also going, Emily Tesh's The Incandescende, which is dark academia from the faculty POV, and the worldbuilding actually makes sense. Tesh thought about what magic in the world would be like. This is my walking book (audiobook).
Speaking of: it's dog walking time, which means some more Incandescence!
But briefly: writing a lot, reading some. Of late, Katherine Arden's The Unicorn Hunters, which I really enjoyed a lot. Also going, Emily Tesh's The Incandescende, which is dark academia from the faculty POV, and the worldbuilding actually makes sense. Tesh thought about what magic in the world would be like. This is my walking book (audiobook).
Speaking of: it's dog walking time, which means some more Incandescence!
Sunday Word: Howff
Apr. 12th, 2026 09:17 amsallymn posting in 1word1dayhowff [houf, ouf, hohf, ohf]
noun:
(Scottish, archaic) 1 an abode; a familiar shelter or refuge
2 A place of resort, a favourite haunt, a meeting place;
Examples:
It is a howff abundant in character but without renown and exists as a place for people to gather, wet their whistle, and have a blether. It is the perfect local. (Socialising in pubs 'boosts mens' mental health, The Scotsman, January 2014)
It has a romantic past, having been built in secret in 1952 by four climbers fed up with carrying the heavy tents of the day on the long walk into the Cairngorms. There's is a great tale of the building of this howff. (Who remembers this ? Howffs, Old mans thoughts and tales, July 2020)
Together they sought the shelter of a howff off the High Street. ( Janet Beith, The Corbies)
The brewster-wife at the howff near Loch Lomond mouth keeps a good glass of aqua. (Neil Munro, Doom Castle)
Yonder, overlooking Tibbie Shiel's 'cosy beild' - a howff of the Noctes coterie - stands the solitary white figure of the beloved Shepherd as Christopher North's prophetic soul felt that it must be some day. (W S Crockett, In the Border Country)
The office-bearers and Senatus of the University of Cramond - an educational institution in which I have the honour to be Professor of Nonsense - meet to do honour to our friend Icarus, at the old-established howff, Cramond Bridge. (Robert Louis Stevenson, St Ives)
The Globe Tavern here, which for these many years has been my Howff. (J de L Ferguson (ed), The Letters of Robert Burns)
Origin:
The earliest known use of the noun howff is in the early 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for howff is from 1711, in the writing of Allan Ramsay, poet. (Oxford English Dictionary)
First recorded in 1555–65; origin uncertain (Dictionary.com)
today I have been mostly horizontal
Apr. 11th, 2026 11:35 pmkaberettI think the exhaustion and aches are down to my COVID spring booster yesterday afternoon, but I am definitely planning to not ever Touch A Barbell For The First Time on vaccination day again. (Conveniently, this is an eminently achievable goal.)
SOME GOOD THINGS, though:
- weekend spring date breakfast, which for me included cinnamon roll and hot chocolate, consumed while watching the goslings experiment with going into water. coot nest #1 had at least six Hatched Squeaking Babies in it (some of them adventurously exploring down the sides of the nest); coots #2 were still Enthroned. AND we saw a GOLDFINCH on the way down the hill!!!
- braised chickpeas with courgette & pesto continue very good and fairly easy food. the whole I Am Flat meant we Acquired pre-made pesto, and this was an extremely good move. project Eat The Freezer Stash Of Tortilla continues apace also.
- A has successfully disposed of our old front door, complete with doing all necessary talking to other humans about it. our front hall now contains only one (1) front door and it is in the door frame where it belongs.
- got raspberries from the supermarket yesterday, as a vague approximation of The Custard Fish Of Civic Responsibility (from the one shop in Chinatown, on the way back from the sexual health clinic to the tube). am enjoying raspberries a v great deal.
- all three flowers the big white orchid had produced are now in glorious bloom. (still need to work out how to make the tiny purple orchid happier, but.) flowers!
Food
Apr. 11th, 2026 05:29 pmysabetwordsmithTruckloads of food are being wasted because computers won’t approve them
Modern food systems may look stable on the surface, but they are increasingly dependent on digital systems that can quietly become a major point of failure. Today, food must be “recognized” by databases and automated platforms to be transported, sold, or even released, meaning that if systems go down, food can effectively become unusable—even when it’s physically available.
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Modern food systems may look stable on the surface, but they are increasingly dependent on digital systems that can quietly become a major point of failure. Today, food must be “recognized” by databases and automated platforms to be transported, sold, or even released, meaning that if systems go down, food can effectively become unusable—even when it’s physically available.
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Online gathering for MM tomorrow
Apr. 11th, 2026 05:44 pmgossThe online memorial for minoanmiss (Ny/Rubynye) will take place tomorrow - Sunday, April 12, 1:00PM EDT (GMT -4).
Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83615091699?pwd=Goa5p0EbNbbl2Msd2GAQscu5uyWttd.1
Meeting ID: 836 1509 1699
Passcode: MinoanNy
You can sign up at the link below to indicate if you'll be attending:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0448A8A62BA6FBC34-63233152-nys/195490464#/
minoanmiss (Ny/Rubynye) will take place tomorrow - Sunday, April 12, 1:00PM EDT (GMT -4).Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83615091699?pwd=Goa5p0EbNbbl2Msd2GAQscu5uyWttd.1
Meeting ID: 836 1509 1699
Passcode: MinoanNy
You can sign up at the link below to indicate if you'll be attending:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0448A8A62BA6FBC34-63233152-nys/195490464#/
Just Create - Plumbing Edition
Apr. 11th, 2026 02:18 pmsilvercat17 posting in justcreateWhat are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?
Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?
What do you just want to talk about?
What have you been watching or reading?
Chores and other not-fun things count!
Remember to encourage other commenters and we have a discord where we can do work-alongs and chat, linked in the sticky.
Love you to the moon and back
Apr. 11th, 2026 09:51 pmcosmolinguist"As we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still able to feel your love from Earth," pilot Victor Glover said. "And to all of you down there on Earth, and around Earth, we love you from the Moon."
Artemis is just so wildly different from previous moon missions. I love it.
I got that quote from this lovely piece on why we go to space.
NASA's budget is not the reason gas costs $6 a gallon, or why we don't have universal healthcare or pre-K. We don't have those because those in charge, and the people who voted for them, have chosen for us not to have those. It is a false binary that we even have to choose at all. The U.S. is the richest polity that has ever existed; there is more than enough money to go around to satisfy basic human services while still funding spaceflight. The people denying us those basic services would very much like for you to identify NASA as the culprit for its $24.4 billion budget, which represents 0.35 percent of all government spending, at the same time a pointless and purposeless war costs us a billion dollars a day, and the government seeks a $1.5 trillion defense budget.
I just have ambient sound on right now and it's a good life choice
Apr. 11th, 2026 04:27 pmashelterofpagesHaven't worked on any icons yet, but I'm still intending to. I think the plan for that is going to be to do it when I'm not house-sitting so I have the better screen to do it with. Right now I'm on a 17in screen, which is fine, but it's a portable one that isn't the best for playing with something like graphics.
I will say that since I had that mindset shift about what I want to try to do every day, I'm seeing some interesting results.
1. I get a lot of stuff done on certain days, but then the next day I do less. This doesn't bother me, though, because I'm still getting a lot of life stuff done. I don't feel so guilty and awful on those second days, and that's the kind of thing I was hoping to accomplish.
2. I'm able to catch up on things like beta reading with less difficulty. Reading any fiction has been kind of hard lately, but I'm having an easier time getting to things I need to give feedback of some kind on, so that's nice.
3. My writing is...not really happening right now. Not drafting, and also not editing. I'm not sure what to make of that, but we'll see. This whole thing is still barely started, so maybe I just need to give it more time before I can start integrating words back into my life.
4. However, I did post on Bluesky asking for prompts to write microfiction off. I love doing these things every couple of months, so I'm looking forward to playing with those prompts soon.
So, I've been house-sitting for S again, which I can't recall if I've said or not on here yet, but I'm going back to my house tomorrow, then coming back here again on Monday. This is because I need to pick up some clothes, meds, and maybe a few other things while also swapping some stuff out too. Which is fine. Right now this is my life, switching between the two houses until S finally moves upstate.
I will say that since I had that mindset shift about what I want to try to do every day, I'm seeing some interesting results.
1. I get a lot of stuff done on certain days, but then the next day I do less. This doesn't bother me, though, because I'm still getting a lot of life stuff done. I don't feel so guilty and awful on those second days, and that's the kind of thing I was hoping to accomplish.
2. I'm able to catch up on things like beta reading with less difficulty. Reading any fiction has been kind of hard lately, but I'm having an easier time getting to things I need to give feedback of some kind on, so that's nice.
3. My writing is...not really happening right now. Not drafting, and also not editing. I'm not sure what to make of that, but we'll see. This whole thing is still barely started, so maybe I just need to give it more time before I can start integrating words back into my life.
4. However, I did post on Bluesky asking for prompts to write microfiction off. I love doing these things every couple of months, so I'm looking forward to playing with those prompts soon.
So, I've been house-sitting for S again, which I can't recall if I've said or not on here yet, but I'm going back to my house tomorrow, then coming back here again on Monday. This is because I need to pick up some clothes, meds, and maybe a few other things while also swapping some stuff out too. Which is fine. Right now this is my life, switching between the two houses until S finally moves upstate.