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This year's COP30 comes after the international Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) finally acquired the required number of ratification votes by United Nations member states.

Just one thing: 23 November 2025

Nov. 22nd, 2025 06:38 pm
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It'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!

emotional support spinning

Nov. 22nd, 2025 06:23 pm
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handspun yarn WIP

WIP destined for 2-ply for a woven coverlet for Joe. :3 I'm currently waiting for an interesting 2-ply to dry (Navajo Churro Sheep 70%, Agave Cactus Fibres 20%, Cashmere 5%, Angora Bunny 5%).

Unrelated Qwerkywriter neepery:

keyboard, phone, cat

keyboard and small computer

Just Create - CHUNKY edition

Nov. 22nd, 2025 04:13 pm
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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.

I'm going to promote my blog post on the Ultimate Text Readability Trick because I had a friend need it today. The secret is CHUNKY OUTLINES (Instructions are text and screenshots, with alt text)

Hwaetsapp

Nov. 23rd, 2025 12:12 am
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Tonight, me and [personal profile] cosmolinguist drove over into Wales to visit Park in The Past for a performance of Beowulf. This was in the dirt-floored Earth House, a large building of wood with wool thatch and a fire in the middle. Guests sat at long wooden tables on a mixture of wooden benches and plastic chairs.

"Oswald the Great" told the story in English, from memory, and adapted it a little to the environment, including pointing out how Hrothgar's mead hall in the story didn't have an illuminated fire exit sign. There was a good amount of audience participation, including chanting Beowulf's name when he appears in the story, and some mild heckling, not least from the "high table" of staff reenactor blokes who were cast by the bard as Hrothgar, his wife ("with fulsome beard") and two advisors.

The story highlighted Beowulf getting naked to fight Grendel, and we assumed we were getting the monsterfucking version. Especially when Grendel's mother straddles Beowulf on the ground and starts choking him... but no, it remained mostly PG rated.

There was a bar in the hall, and we had some flavoured mead - elderflower for me, and chestnut for E. The story was told in three acts with breaks between featuring music performances from a talented mother-daughter folk duo. During one of the breaks, I grabbed a very tasty boar burger. It's a shame there wasn't any vegetarian hot food, but E survived with crisps and peanuts.

All in all we had a great time, cuddled up listening to the story, thumping tables and clapping to the music. The drive back through thick mist was fine, fuelled by Radio 1 dance music, and now we are knackered and in bed.

Daily Check In.

Nov. 22nd, 2025 05:40 pm
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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 #33869 Daily poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 4

How are you doing?

I am okay
2 (50.0%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
2 (50.0%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
2 (50.0%)

One other person
1 (25.0%)

More than one other person
1 (25.0%)




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.

Holiday Wishes :)

Nov. 23rd, 2025 12:08 am
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 Hello, and happy holidays :) I'm super excited to take part in this activity! My wishes are mostly personality based, if that makes sense...
  1. if you've ever heard of "matchups" (a personality analysis where you find out which character from a fandom is right for you and would be fit for you). I'd love an "Outer Banks" matchup :) if you're willing to psychoanalyze me/match me with someone (either John B, JJ, Pope, Kiara, Sarah, Cleo, Rafe) let me know and i'll send you my personality and stuff about me :) 
  2. i'd love to know once and for all what my hogwarts house is, lmaooo... i've been going back and forth for years now trying to figure out if i'm a ravenclaw or slytherin and i'd really like to see what an outside perspective thinks... i'll also send you my personality.
Thank you so much, and again, happy holidays! :)


Post August theatre 3

Nov. 22nd, 2025 09:42 pm
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The Kitchen

A good production at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

A day in a very busy London restaurant kitchen. Having two thousand 'covers' to deal with in a day is eek on its own, even with a break between lunch and dinner sittings, before you get the tensions between the different characters. The note on the Central Tickets listing mentioned that this hasn't been seen much since its 1959 premiere. Apart from some of the content - the female parts are all noticeably smaller than almost all of the male ones, for example - one big reason for this is the cast size: twenty eight speaking parts. Only the 18 third year acting students got photos in the A4 programme! As well as that and their name, they just got their Spotlight reference number so you can look them up. The second year ones just got their names.

I could have saved £4 by just saying I'd booked via the site: there were no actual tickets or seat reservations.

Sophie's Surprise Party

Another Central Tickets find - it'd been at the paid Fringe this year and has probably had a few minutes and definitely, on early evening shows, an interval added. Based on the conceit that it's the thing in the title, it's actually a cabaret of uniformly excellent acrobatic / circus skills acts. Someone from the front row gets picked to be 'Sophie', but sadly it wasn't me. Towards the end Sophie gets to pick which of two cast members a third should 'go home' with. Sadly (again) this Sophie didn't say both of them :) and I suspect that if they did, they would be pushed to pick one: the loser then does something.

At the very end, they said something about tagging them in photos and videos: no-one had said you could take them! I would have shot much of it, except that most of the time I was too busy applauding. And wondering who deserves it more: the performer who falls straight down head first about 4m several times or the performer who catches them every time?

Highly recommended, particularly at the £15 I paid.

Gendered word counts again

Nov. 22nd, 2025 08:33 pm
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Posted by Mark Liberman

The "words per day" thing has mostly gone quiet since it erupted in the media nearly 20 years ago — but here's a sensible replay:

For more about the general background than you want to know, see

"Neuroscience in the service of sexual stereotypes" (8/6/2006)
"Sex-linked lexical budgets" (8/6/2006)
"Sex and speaking rate" (8/7/2006)
"Yet another sex-n-wordcount sighting" (8/14/2006)
"The main job of the girl brain" (9/2/2006)
"The superior cunning of women" (9/2/2006)
"The laconic rapist in the womb" (9/4/2006)
"Open-access sex stereotypes" (9/10/2006)
"David Brooks, Neuroendocrinologist" (9/17/2006)
"Gabby guys: the effect size" (9/25/2006)
""Every 52 seconds": wrong by 23,736 percent?" (10/13/2006)
"Guys are a bit gabbier in Dutch, too" (10/16/2006)
"Two new reviews of Brizendine" (10/30/2006)
"Word counts" (11/28/2006)
"Bible Science Stories" (12/2/2006)
"Sex differences in "communication events" per day?" (12/11/2006)
"The first time?" (7/5/2007)
"Female talkativeness: 'Knowledge protected against induction'" (7/6/2007)
"Interview: The new fashion for biological determinism" (8/10/2008)
"The defend-your-turf area?" (3/29/2010)

 

 

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This is a crossover between the Harry Potter books, the Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series, and the film Bedazzled (1967, not the 2000 remake), with some other crossovers and Easter eggs, so far including Dogma (1999) and Time Bandits (1981). All characters belong to their respective creators / owners / megacorporations of doom and not to me, please don't sue...

VI - Summer of '99 )

Comments please before I post to archives. For previous parts see:

On Twisting the Hellmouth - https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-34251/MarcusRowland+Harry+Potter+Undazzled.htm
On Fanfiction.net - https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14336114/1/Harry-Potter-Undazzled
On Archive of Our Own - https://archiveofourown.org/works/54407350
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Nations sealed a modest deal at the UN climate summit in the Amazon Saturday, as Europe and others dropped their demands for a plan to phase out fossil fuels after fraught negotiations with oil-producing countries and emerging economies.

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Nov. 22nd, 2025 09:55 pm
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An exciting update since my last post: I broke my ankle! *facepalm*

anatomy of a work accident )

[ SECRET POST #6896 ]

Nov. 22nd, 2025 02:53 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6896 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 44 secrets from Secret Submission Post #985.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #986 ]

Nov. 22nd, 2025 02:44 pm
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[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #986 ]




The first secret from this batch will be posted on November 27th.



RULES:
1. One secret link per comment.
2. 750x750 px or smaller.
3. Link directly to the image.

More details on how to send a secret in!

Optional: If you would like your secret's fandom to be noted in the main post along with the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret. If your secret makes the fandom obvious, there's no need to do this. If your fandom is obscure, you should probably tell me what it is.

Optional #2: If you would like WARNINGS (such as spoilers or common triggers -- list of some common ones here) to be noted in the main post before the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret.

Optional #3: If you would like a transcript to be posted along with your secret, put it along with the link in the comment!