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This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It fills the "lavender" square in my 2-1-24 card for the Valentines Bingo fest. It is posted as a gift to Anthony Barrette for Father's Day.

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This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It fills the Earth Day square in my 3-1-23 card for the March Is... fest. It is posted as a gift to Anthony Barrette for Father's Day.

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Proper Trailer for the third season of Foundation on Apple:

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So looking forward to this! (Not least because of all the other depressing cancellation news.)

Teaser traiiler of season 3 of The Diplomat, featuring the next West Wing alumnus:

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The Diplomat: more cynical than The West Wing, but still believing in the basic drive of people to actually work for what they see as their couintry's benefit in addition to themselves. Neither universe would allow for the poisonous cesspit currently governing not just the US.

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Current Location: Bamberg

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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250614.html

What are all those streaks in the sky?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250614.html

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Surprisingly sapphic for Raye (who usually sings about relationships with men, but maybe she's bi?). I guess she was at World Pride? Hmm...

ysabetwordsmith

Yesterday we found patty pan squash, which I've been wanting to try. So today we made this. :D It turned out delicious.

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20 Doctor Who icons from 12x07 Can You Hear Me?

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Hope. Blood. No Kings.

Our day started far too early, at least as far our aging bodies were concerned, but we had a mission. We headed from our home, our sign in the trunk, picked up our friend Rose, and headed to Evanston's downtown Fountain Square for that No Kings rally. It was lively, peaceful, filled with chants and a happy amount of music. It felt good to be there, and I held our sign up as high as I could (and hoped that I didn't block the view of too many people behind me.) I felt so energized by everyone around me, and by everyone across the country who turned out like we did.

Estimates of attendance at Evanston's rally was around 1,000 and Chicago's was estimated at about 75,000. Add the various other suburbs' rallies to Chicago, and that number jumps to close to 100,000. At the end of the day, it appears that the vast majority of national rallies were peaceful; LA's various police organizations appear to have become violent, as did police in Seattle and Portland, although protestors in the latter appear to have been more violent than they should have been.

And then we got home, and the first thing I saw when I turned on my laptop was the news out of Minnesota. Two Democratic state legislators shot; one killed along with her husband, the other injured along with his wife. And the apparent murderer is, based on what news reports have compiled, a Trump supporter - with a list of other potential targets, including pro-reproductive healthcare activists and Democrats - and probably a Christofascist because of course he would be.

As of 7:36 p.m. Chicago time, the POS hasn't been captured. I hope he chooses neither self-inflicted suicide, nor suicide by cop. I hope he's caught, given the full benefit of American law, and, if a jury of his peers finds him guilty of two murders and two attempted murders, that he spends the rest of his miserable life forgotten behind bars.

But let's not speak of him; let's remember those he killed and injured. And let's look at the number of people across the country who attended "No Kings" rallies - my rough and very incomplete estimates stand at well over half a million; others are estimating several million. The Washington "I Wish I was Kim Jong Un" parade? According to the AP, it appeared to fall very short of the 200,000 predicted earlier. Good.

Now I'm going to finish eating a piece of chocolate, and go hang with the Couch Crew over on Discord.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Location: the living room
Current Music: Glenn Kirschner "Justice Matters"

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Empanadas (masaco and nutellla), rosemary plant, yellow sweet cherries, tart cherries, red raspberries, black raspberries, almond croissant, bacon-and-gruyere wheel, sugar peas in pods, carrot-walnut mini-cake, chocolate raspberry mini-cake, walnut-chocolate cookies, and locally grown brown rice.

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Today we went down to Toledo for the Thrift'n'Sip Indoor Rummage Sale. We were keenly interested in the indoor rummage sale but not the alcohol consumption. So we got up early in hopes of beating the crowd, which worked out well.

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At the end of last month I visited Indiana for a week, and in that time went on FOUR hikes. There are too many pictures to put here so I'm posting a link to my ~150 picture album: My sister and I are both very into taking pictures so the hikes were very slow :D but I think it really helps in remembering that there's something interesting to see in pretty much every square inch of the outdoors. There is always a bug, or a fungal disease on a leaf, or a shiny drop of water.

The Album

We visited, in order:

Ritchie Woods Nature Preserve
Summit Lake State Park
Shades State Park/Pine Hills Nature Preserve
Southwestway Park

The pictures feature:

many, many insects
a stately gentleman frog, who very kindly let me get within an inch of him
snails
two snakes
cool looking plants/fungi
general landscapes

For the most part the locations are broken up by a couple non-nature photos, except for Southwestway Park (which begins at the photo of the yellow spider in the web). Once you get to the art museum pictures there's no more nature, unless you count the clouds outside the plane window.

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What 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

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Saturday to midnight on Sunday (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33254 Daily poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 17

How are you doing?

I am okay
10 (58.8%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
7 (41.2%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
6 (35.3%)

One other person
8 (47.1%)

More than one other person
3 (17.6%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

lb_lee

I finished textually transcribing and posted Ro and Joanna Piekarski's zine, Trail Cooking: Clean and Green, published in 1995 and seemingly impossible to find. I found it in a free box, and while the Piekarskis are apparently the kind of people who categorize raisins and unsweetened carob chips as "dessert," their thing about light, cheap, vegetarian backpacker food seemed like it shouldn't be totally lost to the void.

Check it out if that interests you!

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The Wes Anderson movie was great, I am now at the North beach street Fair and am having a great time.

Current Music: The kinks

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Title: 'The Klutziest Waiter'
Fandom: Friends
Rating: PG (Warnings for a hint of innuendo)
Notes: Crossposted to

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( The Klutziest Waiter )

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M18 Hellcat, Kidderminster station, 14th June 2025

134/365: Tank destroyer, Kidderminster station
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On my way to Worcester today I noticed this outside Kidderminster station. It's not actually called Thomas, sadly. In spite of my (usually humorous) references to Kidderminster being a place only one step short of being a post-apocalyptic wasteland, this tank¹ had not been placed here to keep the peace. It was actually there as part of the Severn Valley Railway's annual "Back to the 1940s" weekend. Well, the first of two. This has been running for a long time now and is always one of the SVR's busiest events of the year. I'm rather ambivalent about it as I tend to think we go on and on and on about WW2 rather too much in the UK, but I have attended a couple of times and I won't deny that it made for an entertaining few hours.
¹ Technically an M18 Hellcat tank destroyer, but close enough!

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Today's prompt is: dress down

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French Polynesia created the world’s largest marine protected area

At the U.N. Ocean Conference this week, French Polynesia announced the creation of the world’s largest marine protected area, covering nearly 5 million square kilometers, or over 1.9 million square miles. It also plans to add another 500,000 square kilometers by next World Ocean Day.

Of that area, 1.1 million square kilometers (424,712 square miles) will be designated as highly or fully protected, meaning only traditional coastal fishing, ecotourism, and scientific research are allowed.

It's a step forward, but my standard of FULLY protected means "humans don't go there." That's what is required for many edge-sensitive and disturbance-sensitive species. On land, if there is so much as a road through it, those species will avoid the area even if there are no vehicles using the road most of the time.

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