https://phys.org/news/2025-12-robotic-hundreds-metal-complexes-potential.html

Researchers have used a cutting-edge robotic system capable of synthesizing hundreds of metal complexes to develop a possible antibiotic candidate—offering fresh hope in the global fight against drug-resistant infections.

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-robotic-hundreds-metal-complexes-potential.html

oursin

Happy birthday,

cassandre!

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azdak

Last night I watched the latest Knives Out installment, Wake Up, Dead Man, and it clearly wanted to be about Christian faith and MAGAdom, and I guess that is was what it was indeed about, but it makes the extremely weird decision to examine American fundamentalist evangelical Christianity by pretending that it is part of Roman Catholicism. It pretends to be Catholic by using the language and visual trappings of Catholicism, and some of the structures like confession, but you can tell it is really about a wannabe megachurch because:

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Posted by Amazingcoco300

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76250376

by Amazingcoco300

Snippets from the family’s Thanksgiving.

Fluffcember 2025 winter- day 19 eggnog.

Words: 1881, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 17 of Fluffcember Winter

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76250376

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Posted by Amazingcoco300

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76248681

by Amazingcoco300

What was her life?

Fluffcember 2025 summer- day 28 Thunder

Words: 631, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 15 of Fluffcember Summer

Fandoms: Les Schtroumpfs | The Smurfs, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012), DuckTales (Cartoon 2017)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/F, F/M
Characters: Saule | Smurfwillow, La Schtroumpfette | Smurfette, Grand Schtroumpf | Papa Smurf, Splinter (TMNT), "Glittering" Goldie O'Gilt, Scrooge McDuck, Original Smurf Character(s), Original Female Character(s)
Relationships: Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s), "Glittering" Goldie O'Gilt & Saule | Smurfwillow, Scrooge McDuck/"Glittering" Goldie O'Gilt, Grand Schtroumpf | Papa Smurf/Saule | Smurfwillow
Additional Tags: Found Family, Adopted Sibling Relationship, Goddesses, Gods, Fluff and Crack, Fluffcember 2025

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76248681

$radiantfracture: Beadwork bunny head (Default)$

radiantfracture

Thank you,

james for the excellent dinosaur card!

I've been too exhausted to do any of the semi-bespoke painting I half-promised over the summer, but I had a last-minute compulsion to make hand-printed cards because anything that looks like work went into it makes me appear marginally better.

You see? the cards say. An Effort.

I don't mind how they turned out. Sort of "the Dove of Peace is pissed and wants you to get your shit together."

§rf§

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Posted by RHP

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/night-witches-pilots-photos/

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/?p=44300

Emerging from the shadows of World War II, an astonishing chapter of aviation history comes into focus through newly colorized photographs that capture the determination and courage of the Soviet Union’s first all-female combat aviation unit. The photographs, originally taken in black and white, have been carefully brought to life by Moscow-based colorist Olga Shirnina. […]

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/night-witches-pilots-photos/

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/?p=44300

hamsterwoman

I was watching/reading a bunch of CoC IV-related content in the lead-up, and I’m going to post about it before posting about the episode itself, though I’ve obviously watched it as soon as that was an option. ( Askmaster and interviews )

Which reminded me that I should revisit my quantitative ranking of the series, because I’d fallen a couple behind, and some of the more recent ones were worth re-scoring.

original post

( Revisiting s15-17, scoring s18-20 )

OK, and the main event:

Tasmkaster CoC 4 – So, I did end up going and spoiling myself for the winner and the scores before sitting down to watch, which was the correct decision. ( SPOILERS )

I’m just really sad we don’t get more than one episode with this group. This was a really good line-up (even if one of them is someone whose comedy I don’t enjoy that much).

*

There’s some kind of weird thing with me and the Penric books, where I’ll read a bunch in a row, then not read any of the new ones coming out for a couple of years, until I have a bunch in a row to read again, repeat. So, like, the last time I read Penric, it was to read 6 in quick succession in late 2022, and meanwhile she’s released 4 more, that I’m finally getting around to reading. (I think it’s that the novella length is not quite long enough to be worth re-immersing myself in the world and the growing cast for just one of them.)

7. Lois McMaster Bujold, Demon Daughter (Pen & Des #12) – I was intrigued by the premise of this one, and enjoyed it, even though it was very, very domestic – much more so than I expected from the dramatic cover. ( More, with spoilers )

8. Lois McMaster Bujold, The Adventure of the Demonic Ox (Pen & Des #14) – I skipped Penric and the Bandit semi-accidentally – by which I mean that I finished Demon Daughter on the plane to Oregon, went to see what else was openable on my Kindle, and it was the ox one, so I figured it had to be the next one. Then when I realized it was not, because there was a significant time-skip and it referenced an incident with bandits, I figured I’d just keep reading. (And later it turned out I did have ‘Bandit’ on my Kindle, I just couldn’t call it up for some reason, in offline mode.)

This was a weird one… I found the first half of it slow and fairly boring, and found myself skimming, which I pretty much never do with LMB’s books. ( But then it picked up some (spoilers) )

I’m presently catching up on reading Penric and the Bandit, so we’ll see if I make it through all of the currently-out Penrics (that one + one more) before I run out of reading steam…

kaffy_r

Return of the Cute but Awful Little Mammals

You know, the Rexulti I'm on is really doing its job; when I went into our south larder yesterday (we have two sets of shelving units in the closets of our office, two in the north closet and two in the south, which has absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand) to get some things, I discovered mouse droppings and their attendant dried leavings. We had blocked off their access after their last incursion a fair while ago but, as is all too often the case, hunger and cold weather made them desperate enough to gnaw through the very fine steel wool and the anti-mouse block that is sprayed like spray-on insulation and dries to a pretty hard substance that we'd laid down.

Did I swear up a storm? Yes, yes I did. But I did not descend into the kind of simmering rage that previous mouse incursions caused me. Instead, after about ten minutes of being pissed off at the world, I calmed down. We pulled everything off the bottom two shelves nearest where we figured the mice had come through, and Bob spotted the two decided how we'd handle this - coarser steel wool, to be laid over the previous anti-mouse block, taped into place, and then a further layer of the mouse block. The coarser grade of steel wool should be tougher for them to get through.

And all this is happening three days before Christmas, which I agreed to hold dinner for just a few days ago. Six of us - our best friends in Chicago and one of Andys best friends, who's in a tough emotional space right now, and who needs some support.

But I don't feel too stressed about all of this. Is it because of the new pill? Is it just delayed maturity showing up at the last minute? I don't know, and I don't think I need to know. We're going to defeat mus musculus; I'm going to cook a fine Christmas dinner with Bob's help. It's all going to be good.

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: Ateez "Aurora"

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3184/

In 1899, people were walking around shouting '23' at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.

https://xkcd.com/3184/

owlectomy

Hildy the Cat is currently Extremely Upset about my new CPAP mask. She sat on my bed for a good fifteen minutes sniffing it, with her eyes as wide as dinner plates, and then she ran away.

These are the facial expressions of somebody whose dead best friend came back from the underworld, but Came Back Wrong. These are the facial expressions of somebody who is exploring the spaceship looking for their partner only to find their partner half transmogrified into a cyborg creature. These are the facial expressions of someone who has just come face to face with some really gnarly body horror and can't quite deal with it yet.

Poor kitty!

silver_chipmunk

I got up and had breakfast and coffee, then called

mashfanficchick. Ze texted RK, and he texted back that he was maybe going shopping tomorrow. So all plans are on hold until tomorrow morning.

So instead of going to the store for the rest of the day I did very little. The main thing was wrap the last three presents, the e-spinner for the Kid, the beer brewing thing for her boyfriend, and the ingrediants pack for the beer, which is coming from

mashfanficchick. That was two rather big boxes and one slightly heavy one.

So I put Pandora on Christmas music, and set to it. Then I poured myself eggnog, and that's about it for any actual useful thing I did during the day.

I took a nap, and I played solitaire.

And of course I Teamed the FWiB. Our emailing was disturbed by my email to him from Earthlink bounces as undeliverable. I switched to my gmail account and that worked but it's annoying.

So anyway we'll see what happens tomorrow, either I go shopping with RK and

mashfanficchick or I go to Shop Rite by myself. Or they go shopping without me and get the appetizers for Christmas. We shall see.

Sadly, no new Christmas cards today.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Gmail.

3. Final presents wrapped.

4. Eggnog

5. Naps.

6. Restful day.

Current Mood: relaxed

musesfool

I managed to get into bed by 11 last night, and my alarm went off at 7:20 and I hit snooze a couple of extra times, but I was up and ready to go by 8, which was the goal. It turned out that they only turned the water off in one set of apartments, so at least I didn't have to deal with that! (After the Big Leak of January 2023, I believe one of the "upgrades" was the ability to do this so they don't have to turn the water off for everyone every time, though I could have that wrong.)

Chocolate, mocha, and red velvet (mini) cupcakes are done! I got 80 of the chocolate and the red velvet using the smaller scoop, which is typical of my experience (though one of the chocolate ones got messed up when I put the pan in the oven, so I technically only have 79 cupcakes), and I got 92 of the mocha (usually also 80, though I guess I used the bigger scoop before?), but 2 exploded - a phenomenon I had not seen except on vanilla cupcakes before - so I have 90 usable ones of those. Then I stopped to have dinner and run the dishwasher and take the garbage out, and it was hard to get back in the kitchen then, but I did it. I made mocha Swiss meringue buttercream, and as frequently happens, it curdled when i added the flavoring, so I had to melt it, wait for it to cool down (about 12 minutes) and start whipping it again, which worked, thankfully. Then I made an outlandish amount of vanilla American buttercream for the funfetti cupcakes I will bake tomorrow, since that is what the boys prefer, but I find it grossly sweet.

I used up enough butter and eggs today that I had space for the containers of frosting, which is good. I still need to empty and reload the dishwasher, take a shower, and then run the dishwasher again so it's done for the next round. I mean, I have 4 bowls for my KitchenAid, and multiples of each type of attachment (e.g., beater, whisk, dough hook, etc.) but it's best to start the day with everything clean, just for my own peace of mind, though of course on Wednesday, the sink will be full of dirty things since I generally don't have time to empty and reload the dishwasher on Christmas Eve morning, what with all the piping and frosting and packing to go. We'll see what happens this year, since I don't have to leave as early as in past years, since we don't have an early reservation, but I still don't want to push it too late so I can avoid the worst of the traffic. We'll see how it goes.

***

( 6-day plan, day 4 )

***

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Niners vs Colts on tv

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Posted by SearsHouseSeeker

https://www.searshouseseeker.com/2025/12/snowy-wintry-christmasy-sears-houses.html

Sears Avalon model, Winamac, Indiana

Welcome to my annual December blog post, where I like to show Sears houses with Christmas lights, or snow, at least... but, if you've been a regular reader, you know that I usually don't have enough Sears houses to include, so I get to highlight some other historic houses with decorations. This year, I'm fortunate to have a number of Sears houses to show, but I will also show a couple of very worthy non-Sears houses.

The house shown above, is an Avalon model, by Sears, graciously shared with us by Laurie, its owner. She believes the house to have been built in 1928, which was the last year that the Avalon was in the Sears Modern Homes catalogs. Laurie shared a few more photos with us of her festively decorated home, so let's take a look:

exterior side chimney with wreath color photo Sears Avalon model, Winamac, Indiana

color photo looking out a window with two wreaths, Sears Avalon model, Winamac, Indiana

vintage black and white photo of Sears Avalon model, Winamac, Indiana

Sears Avalon in the 1926 Sears Modern Homes catalog

Nora shared with us her Sears Hamilton bungalow, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania:

color front photo of pale yellow Sears Hamilton bungalow, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania

color photo of fireplace with Christmas decorations, Sears Hamilton bungalow, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania

color photo of dining and living areas of Sears Hamilton bungalow, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, with Christmas decorations

color photo of living room with Christmas tree, Sears Hamilton bungalow, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania

color photo, left and front elevations, Sears Hamilton bungalow, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Sears Hamilton bungalow, in the 1926 Sears Modern Homes catalog

Researcher Karen DeJeet has a Sears Hamilton bungalow, as well. It recently snowed in Pittsburgh, and she took this pretty photo for us. Her Hamilton had its dormer removed, and she has an addition on the house:

color photo front view 1926 Sears Hamilton bungalow in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Beautiful, snowy setting for Karen's 1926 Sears Hamilton bungalow in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Karen's fireplace is all decorated for Christmas, too! The mantel is original, from the original kit from Sears, though the brickwork is new:

color photo of decorated fireplace in 1926 Sears Hamilton bungalow in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Karen's beautifully decorated fireplace.

Kit shared her beautiful Sears Jeanette, in Long Island, New York:

color front photo with Christmas lights of Sears Jeanette, in Long Island, New York

Kit, hoping you're okay with my showing your house!

Jeanette in the 1932 Sears Modern Homes catalog

This beautiful Sears Kilbourne, in Milford, Ohio, was graciously shared by Carl and his wife:

Sears Kilbourne, in Milford, Ohio

In January of 2021, I did an extensive blog post about an authenticated Sears No. 163, in Newton, New Jersey. The original owner was Reuben Talmage, who ordered a slightly customized version of the house, in 1911. This was before Sears houses were sold with pre-measured, pre-cut framing lumber. The current owners were kind enough to share a few views of the house, with Christmas decorations:

Authenticated Sears No. 163 in Newton, New Jersey

Rick has an authenticated Sears Lewiston in Waterford, Connecticut (with blueprints!) and was happy to have his lovely, snowy, Christmasy home included in this years's December blog post:

color front photo with snow, lights, and Christmas decorations, Sears Lewiston in Waterford, Connecticut

You can learn more about this model, in my 2017 blog post about this model, which also shows the numerous "lookalikes" that other companies (kit and non-kit) offered.

Thank goodness for this year's snow in Matawan, New Jersey. This authenticated Sears Maplewood model was graciously shared by its owner, Joe:

color photo of front of authenticated Sears Maplewood model with snow and Christmas lights

Charlotte and Allen H. Fancher, bought this Maplewood from Sears in 1934, already constructed, as it had been a foreclosure. We don't know the names of the original owners, who had a mortgage through Sears, and lost it back to Sears, during the depression.

balck and white image of Sears Maplewood 1932 Sears Modern Homes catalog

Sears Maplewood in the 1932 Sears Modern Homes catalog
This model was later re-named the Ridgeland, and remained in the catalogs through 1940, with only one small design change to the back dormer area, in that year. You can learn more about this model, in this 2015 blog post by researcher (and Sears house owner) Andrew Mutch.

Amber has a 1918-1926-era Sears Winona model, in West Virginia. The Winona was offered for many years (1913-1940), with several design changes throughout the years, and sometimes two different floor plans available for each of those designs. It's a complicated model to pin down, so I did a blog post about the Winona, in 2020 to help all of us researchers keep track of what window layouts, footprint sizes, and bracket styles to look for each year.

black and white drawing of Sears Winona as shown in 1918 Sears Modern Homes catalog

This is the look of the Sears Winona from 1918-1926. In 1923, an additional floor plan option was offered, which was a bit larger, and had a side bump out for the dining room.

color photo of rear view of Sears Winona circa 1918-1926 getting new vinyl siding added, covering up original Sears siding

Here is a rear view of Amber's Winona, as the new siding was being added.
Note those Sears five-piece angle brackets.

color photo in the snow of 1918-1926-era Sears Winona model, in West Virginia

As often happens during renovation and re-siding, windows for the bathroom are removed and that space covered over. That explains the lack of a small window between these two pairs of windows.

color photo in the snow of the rear of 1918-1926-era Sears Winona model, in West Virginia

Snowy setting in West Virginia, for this 100-year old Sears Winona model

We believe this to be a Sears Castleton model, in Lancaster, New York:

color photo in snowstorm, Sears Castleton model, in Lancaster, New York

Here is the Castleton in the 1918 Sears Modern Homes catalog. I don't believe that the Castleton (or No. 227) was ever offered as a pre-cut model. It would have shipped with standard-length framing lumber, still needing to be measured and cut on site.

In Hagerstown, Maryland, Helen has a beautifully original Sears Elmwood model, though it has the porch soffit of the Sunbeam version of this model. Helen has noted several design elements that were usually found in the Elmwood years of this model (as I outlined in this blog post about an Elmwood in Normal, Illinois). This particular house was found for us by young researcher and avid historian, Henry R., who also informed us that it is built on the original site of the Civila War Battle of Funkstown.

Sears Elmwood, circa 1918, with Sunbeam porch soffit, Hagerstown, Maryland

color photo of living room and staircase, and fireplace with Christmas decorations, Sears Elmwood, circa 1918, with Sunbeam porch soffit, Hagerstown, Maryland

Sears Elmwood, circa 1918, with Sunbeam porch soffit, Hagerstown, Maryland

color photo of dining room with Christmas decorations, and Sears built-in dining hutch, Sears Elmwood, circa 1918, with Sunbeam porch soffit, Hagerstown, Maryland

Sears Elmwood, circa 1918, with Sunbeam porch soffit, Hagerstown, Maryland

color photo in the snow of Sears Vallonia in Wheeler, Michigan, with Christmas lights and decorations

Sears Vallonia in Wheeler, Michigan. This Vallonia has a different kind of porch columns than we usually see on the Vallonia, but we are confident, because of other aspects of the house, that it is a Sears Vallonia. Researcher Cindy Catanzaro explains what to look for in the two different versions of the Vallonia, only slightly different from each other, in this 2015 blog post.

I also recently ran across this snowy setting Vallonia, shared by Donna S., who grew up in the house. Yes, Donna, it is a Vallonia!

color photo of left side and front of snowy setting Sears Vallonia with bump out

snowy setting Vallonia

These two lovely houses in the snow, in New Jersey, deserve a look, too... not Sears houses, not kit houses:

color photo in the snow of Ayers-Allen house, and it dates from the 1700s

This house realllllly pre-dates the Sears Modern Homes era... it's a historic house in Metuchen, New Jersey, known as the Ayers-Allen house, and it dates from circa 1740.

Not too terribly far from Metuchen, is this lovely, bright yellow house in Watchung, New Jersey, which belongs to one of my sisters!:

This house is from a couple of decades after the Sears Modern Homes program, and is not a kit house, just a lovely, well-made house in a beautiful snowy setting... built circa 1965, I believe.

And, to finish off, a house with a special message in lights... a message we all are clinging to... hoping for peace in our hearts, in our families, for our loved ones, in our country, and in the world:

color photo of house on a snowy hill, with a huge, lighted PEACE sign, Sears Lorne in Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, built by the DeHaven family

You can read about this house, a Sears Lorne in Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, and its family history, in this 2018 blog post of mine. This was the first Sears Lorne found by our team, and was originally built, in 1922, by a member of the DeHaven family, farming land owners of the area.

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For more information on who we are, and what we do, visit our website: SearsHouses.com

(NOTE: This blog is best seen in WEB view, to access the many informational links in the side bar.)

https://www.searshouseseeker.com/2025/12/snowy-wintry-christmasy-sears-houses.html

nameandnature

I’ve been writing ring buffers wrong all these years: You can save one whole slot (and some code) if you just let the indices increment until they wrap (assuming unsigned ints).
(tags: programming buffer)

Originally posted at Name and Nature. You can comment there (where there are currently comments) or here.

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Posted by John Kristoff

https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/23/the-ipv4-address-swamp-the-new-normal/

https://blog.apnic.net/?p=96385

Guest Post: Has IPv4 allocation improved in the 21st century, or are prefixes becoming smaller and more fragmented? What are the potential impacts on Internet security?

https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/23/the-ipv4-address-swamp-the-new-normal/

https://blog.apnic.net/?p=96385

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https://phys.org/news/2025-12-vast-freshwater-reserves-beneath-salinity.html

Despite its tropical climate and floodplain location, Bangladesh—one of the world's most densely populated nations—seasonally does not have enough freshwater, especially in coastal areas. Shallow groundwater is often saline, a problem that may be exacerbated by rising sea levels.

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-vast-freshwater-reserves-beneath-salinity.html

settiai

Now that we're getting closer and closer to golive, I've been narrowing down my bookmarks on the app for potential treats to try to get written. I'd originally included some fandoms that I could write for if I found the time to re-read/re-watch/etc. the fandom in question, but the odds of me finding the time to fit any more canon reviews in is slim to none at this point.

So I've taken out those fandoms and left the ones that I know that I'd be able to write without having to do a proper review beforehand. Because, you know, that would get it down to a reasonable number of options to choose from, right? Right?

... yeah, it's still at 161. I'm way too multifannish even with rare fandoms. 🙃

Current Mood: amused

loganberrybunny

Public

325/365: Yarnbombed pillar box, Stourbridge
Click for a larger, sharper image
This is a "yarnbombed" pillar box on the platform at Stourbridge Junction station. The actual box isn't visible here, but the knitted topper is the important bit in any case. It's a very festive example and it certainly gave me a smile today. :)

Current Mood: calm

jack

Network

Robotic system synthesizes hundreds of metal complexes to find potential new antibiotic

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36 Hours to Reveals

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Treats!!

Knives Out III

Merry Christmas from the Family!

You did what?!

Cards! (Emergency printmaking)

The Night Witches: Photos of the Fearless Soviet Women Pilots of World War II

Taskmaster CoC 4 and reading roundup (Penrics)

Dept. of Mouse Patrol

Funny Numbers

(no subject)

Pretty quiet day

you gotta be real smart then if you're gonna try to bring pressure

Snowy, Wintry, Christmasy Sears Houses & Friends

Link blog: buffer, programming

The IPv4 address swamp: The new normal

Vast freshwater reserves found beneath salinity-stressed coastal Bangladesh

Yuletide

Yarnbomb!