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Both of these things made me laugh aloud at various intervals.

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[Podfic] Whither Kelvin Trillion, Wither the Republic (62 words) by 1lostone, farkenshnoffingottom, InklingDancer
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Bail Organa/Breha Organa, Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Hondo Ohnaka, Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Dexter Jettster/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Guy Fieri/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yan Dooku/Obi-Wan Kenobi, General Grievous/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jar Jar Binks/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Shaak Ti
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Satine Kryze, Bail Organa, Breha Organa, Padmé Amidala, Mace Windu, Anakin Skywalker, Yoda (Star Wars), Hondo Ohnaka, Cody, Dexter Jettster, Guy Fieri, Yan Dooku, General Grievous, Jar Jar Binks, Shaak Ti
Additional Tags: Limericks, Documentation, Buzzfeed, Podfic, Audio Format: Streaming, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Series: Part 4 of Star Wars Podfics
Summary:

Who is the holonet's mystery limerick writer, and does he really get it on as much in real life as he does in his filthy poetry?

A podfic of "Whither Kelvin Trillion, Whither the Republic"

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Written for me for Yuletide New Year's Resolutions: Madalena (Galavant) meets Shawn & Gus (Psych). Set in s2 of Galavant and who-even-knows of Psych.

Faire Play (1997 words) by HematiteBadger
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Galavant (TV), Psych (TV 2006)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Madalena (Galavant), Burton "Gus" Guster, Shawn Spencer
Additional Tags: Crossover, unabashedly silly
Summary:

Madalena has a chance encounter with a pair of very strange folk on her journey to seek the DDEL.

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I have a new Psych/Galavant ship. It is not Lassiter/Richard.

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A tiny wee dinosaur skeleton held in the palms of two hands.

Mussaurus - the above, stolen shamelessly from Darren Naish's The Great Dinosaur Discoveries, is of a hatchling.

pauraque

A distant planet is home to two interdependent human colonies: the hierarchical City, founded by convicts exiled from Earth, and the egalitarian Town, founded by a group of pacifists. They have little in common besides having been removed from Earth because authorities there found them inconvenient, and they have very different visions for their shared planet's future. The City sees itself as the legitimate planetary government (they were there first and they perceive the Town as weak and worthy only of exploitation) while the Town sees itself as the City's equal and expects to resolve issues through nonviolent dialogue. Our protagonist is Luz, the daughter of a powerful City leader. As she learns more about the Town and her father's plans for it, Luz sees a deadly conflict brewing and finds herself caught in the middle.

Le Guin was quoted as saying that this book "might be" part of the Hainish Cycle. I'm not sure the timeline quite fits (not that she ever sweated the timeline) but the themes certainly do. My impression on re-reading is that this one does a lot of things that The Word for World Is Forest tried to do, but better—and it does some of the things that The Dispossessed already did, with less detail but with some insightful additional angles.

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I really like this book, and I definitely got more out of it as an adult, especially in the context of Le Guin's earlier work. I don't hear it mentioned very often when people talk about her, but I think there's more here to chew on than I first realized.

oursin

Steps towards identifying new Black voters in 18th-century Westminster and Hertfordshire, way back in 1700s, when being able to vote meant having certain property qualifications e.g. being a householder.

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What did the Romans ever do for us? Not so much of the benefits we're always told: Urban populations in southern Britain experienced a decline in health that lasted for generations after the Romans arrived.

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The history of mutual aid organisations: Prior to the development of government and employer health insurance and financial services, friendly or ‘benevolent’ societies were an important part of many people’s lives.

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There are no pure cultures: All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history (and I don't seem to have saved the links about the numbers of immigrants in medieval England....)

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This is an older link I don't think I ever posted: Vitriol to Corrosive Fluid: ‘Acid’ Assault in the Twentieth Century:

There seems to have been a spike in cases in the late 1960s, but the pattern established in the nineteenth century was clearly at an end. With fewer cases occurring, and fewer making headline news, the incidence of this unique offence continued to fall until its reappearance in a different guise in the twenty-first century. However, the ongoing digitization of late twentieth-century newspapers may yet reveal further cases.

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Public

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

First things first: this is a review of the film. There's not much about the whole raucous "midnight screening" culture that appeals to me, and I don't think shadow casts and so on are really much of a thing here in Britain in any case. On another note, this first-run UK quad poster was designed by none other than John Pasche, the guy who made the Rolling Stones' tongue and lips logo!

Anyway, with my bisexual hat on,¹ Frank-N-Furter is not my queer icon. I don't see any real need to preserve historical representation in aspic, and plenty of things that were seen as ground-breaking in the 1970s can now be seen for the more uncomfortable ones they are. Frank is a well written character, and certainly charismatic, but a guy to be uncritically celebrated he ain't. We have a more advanced idea of consent than was often the case in the Seventies, for a start. The story is pretty silly, but rock musicals will do that, and several of the songs (not just "Time Warp") are decent or better.
¹ As Fred Astaire didn't quite sing: "I'm puttin' on my bi hat, 'cause I like 'em all, cat: women and the males."

The staging generally works, being an area where the campiness and deliberately cheap look works well, though it can look a bit... stagey, unsurprising given this grew out of a stage show. Tim Curry plays Frank superbly, and Richard O'Brien (who many of us in the UK will remember presenting The Crystal Maze in the early 1990s) is excellent as well. The rest are okay to good, so no real complaints other than the odd song lyric that's hard to hear. Not a film I'm going to rush back to, and as I say not one I'm at all interested in seeing in... that environment, but it's good to have ticked it off the list. ★★★

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- If you use gmail or other google services then I strongly suggest checking your location is set to EU if possible (or other not-US if possible) and that you check to ensure "smart features" are switched OFF and remain OFF as google continues to roll out their AI, or switch to Proton (Switzerland) / Mailbox (Germany) / [your local equivalent] if you can afford them. Also, don't use Chrome as your browser, obv. And, of course, nobody with a choice ever used Microsoft. Switching away from US-based tech services generally, and especially services intentionally infected with AI spying and slop, has always been advisable where possible.

- If you are outside the US please set your default weather app to your local weather service that doesn't use US data, so the Met Office in the UK. One of the easiest ways to use disinformation to control people's actions or inactions in large groups is via weather forecasts. Yes, I'm serious.

- If there is anywhere you might need to go in an emergency situation that isn't on your regular routes then I suggest acquiring a paper map or directions you can read, and putting them in your regular travel bag (or car) etc. I would also suggest knowing alternative routes for your most important journeys. GPS is a service that the US and many local enforcement institutions can turn off at any time.

- I was in South London before the pandemic when, without any prior warning, the police decided to switch off all non-wired phone and digital services covering a busy shopping and high population area during the day when most people would normally be out of their homes. They don't do these tests in posh areas so many people are unaware of these possibilities.

- Sorry but we are where we are.

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“The Joker to me is always the opposite of Batman. So if Absolute Batman is this thing, Joker would become a billionaire with all the resources, who is telling Bruce, ‘Well, you’re not going to become anything,’ and then it becomes, who would he put in Batman’s way? Well, Joker plays both sides, so he creates crime and creates the means to stop crime. He’s always playing us, and the Joker issue explains what a clown is and why the Joker loves them… If Bruce is Joker now, and he is chaos and he is disruption, then Joker is the system and order. That means Joker would have a Batcave, he would have a mansion, he would be handsome, and be a socialite. Maybe he has Robins!” -- Scott Snyder

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I did not go downtown today, so this was really a no-shopping day!

I visited mom, did a load of laundry, hand-washed dishes, ran a load in the dishwasher, went for a couple walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, and scooped kitty litter. I put a roast in the crock pot for supper. (Not my usual chuck roast; I decided to try something different.)

I went with the Ginger Peach tea again this morning. ( for reasons that you might not want to read )

I wrote more! ~1,200 words and I’ve managed to finish the first draft of the fic at ~5,600 words! Now to type it in. o_O I read more in Amelia Peabody and watched the first Jack Reacher movie. (I’ve seen it, or most of it in parts, before, but having read the first three books, I wanted to re-watch it to see what I thought about it in comparison. I can see Tom Cruise as a pilot, I can even see him as a spy, but I cannot see him as Jack Reacher. And not just because of his height. Jack Reacher is hugely muscled. He was shot in the chest and didn’t die because his pectoral muscle was so thick it acted like kevlar. I cannot see Tom Cruise as this character.)

Temps started out at 36.0(F) and reached 43.5. It was not supposed to get this warm, but it has so I won’t complain. We even had some sun!

Mom Update:

Mom was doing okay when I saw her. I was able to help her get last year’s bills out of the filing cabinet so she could start filing this year’s bills and I did up the few dishes in the sink. We talked more about the hospice visit and she told me that hospice would be completely covered and that the rep (I should probably start calling her the nurse?) will start visiting mom once a week just to check-up on her and take vitals, etc.

Mom often talks about a woman she knows who lived 3-years past when her family called hospice, so she’s not giving up. I know she wants to see Ireland graduate, and if she could just hang on that long I think she’d be happy.

rydra_wong

On Monday evening I had the BEST time being repeatedly summoned by someone who (it gradually became clear) was wildly lost in the Duke's Archives.

Context: in Dark Souls, you can put down a summon sign so that other players can* summon you into their game to help them out (at the risk of also opening themselves up to potential hostile invaders).

You can only be summoned by people in the same rough level range as you, so if I don't feel like moving on yet from an area after I’ve completed it, I often put down my summon sign and hang around for a bit before I level up out of the usual range for that area. It’s been a lot of fun.

VERY IMPORTANT CONTEXT: there is no channel for voice or text communication. There's a very limited menu of gestures, and a few signals (e.g. repeatedly tapping the block button to jiggle your shield or weapon, which generally seems to communicate "I'm here, let's go!") which the fandom has evolved by default.

This makes communication challenging. But it also means it makes zero demands on my capacity for verbal conversation or pretending to be a semi-normal human being.

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2026/005: The Debutante — Jon Ronson

This is the story of a Tulsa debutante who, as a result of a series of unlikely and often very bad life choices she made in the ‘90s, found herself in the midst of one of the most terrible crimes ever to take place in America. [opening line]

I don't think this really counts as a book: it's more of a podcast, complete with hooks and a 'special bonus episode'.

Jon Ronson explores the history of Carol Howe, adopted at birth by a wealthy family in Tulsa. She was a debutante, but a rebellious one, and became part of a white supremacist group (plus swastika tattoo, 'Dial-a-Racist' phone line etc). She was involved with a white supremacist Christian cult in Oklahoma with ties to Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma Bomber. Then, apparently, she decided to become an informant for the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) and kept a detailed diary of events. The ATF claim she was 'deactivated' because of mental instability. Howe claimed she warned the ATF about the cult's plans to bomb a major target, but was ignored.

Ronson didn't manage to track down Howe, but he did -- in the 'special bonus episode' -- discover what happened to her: dead in a house fire in January 2025, after years of paranoid behaviour. An interesting investigation, but I would have preferred a straightforward narrative to the 'tune in for our next instalment' ambience of a podcast.

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Podfic: Whither Kelvin Trillion, Wither the Republic (Star Wars: TCW) + Rec: Psych + Galavant

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Future People

Fossil Friday

The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin (1978)

A few things lately noted

Heated Rivalry rec

Visual Kei of the Day

Film post: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

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money, happiness, and puppies - together at least

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2026/005: The Debutante — Jon Ronson