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People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

Is poverty in society inevitable?

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common_nature

( A walk in the July woods... )

freyjaw

Dad was transferred today. He's now at Temecula Healthcare Center. Yes, the first one I was in for six weeks after my heart attack. Dad's going to get PT and OT six days a week. I hope he gets Christian, since he's the one who got me walking to 100 ft (30.48 m). It is very nice.

It has a hidden danger: it is easy to get used to being there to the point that permanent residency doesn't seem bad. They don't allow cats there. So, not the place for me long-term.

Bear has started her phenobarbital for her seizures. Pilling her is so easy due to the paste (chicken flavored) the vet gave us. She eats the paste with the pill in it eagerly.

Chris' cousin Bruce came over with burgers they made on the grill. Yum! Chris installed the bidet attachment in their master bath, and they love it. I figured they would. I love ours.

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Current Location: In the recliner
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ysabetwordsmith

'The Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson is on a mission to revive the world’s tallest bird, 600 years after it went extinct

Inspired by their debut project, Jackson is now working with Colossal to bring the ancient moa back to life through subfossil sourcing and genetic engineering.

On July 8, Jackson and his partner donated $15 million to the project.

The moa is an excellent choice for de-extinction, as it died out relatively recently and due to human misbehavior.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today we went to the Marshall Farmer's Market. It's an evening market from 6-8 PM, followed by a band concert, which is way better than a morning one.

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ysabetwordsmith

Take Us North is down to the last day or so of its campaign. If you want to participate, now is the time.

$50,976 pledged of $30,000 goal
509 backers
26 hours to go

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konsectatrix

Mr. Mouse's birthday week is always chaotic. His actual birthday involved racing violent thunderstorms up the Garden State Pkwy to get home ahead of the possible tornado.

I may have enjoyed that adventure a *bit* more than he did.

His friends demanded that he go out to dinner with them the next day. Mr. Mouse asked them to reconsider, it had already been a strange enough day at work that his coworkers told him to Go Away and take his chaos with him. He was very irritated that he couldn't say it wasn't his chaos, it was his mother's.

His friends insisted, though, and eventually came over to kidnap him. I heard their car on the gravel drive as it came and went.

( this was not the best idea ever )

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Current Music: fit for an autopsy: far from heaven

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summersgate

Jan and I went to Chloe's Paint and Sip today. This is the picture that we painted. "Quiet".

Pictures from last evening:

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I like how Virginia Creeper is coming up everywhere on the lawn by the creek now. This lawn used to be all brush and weeds before we worked on it this spring.

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The two chairs we sit in when we throw ball for Andy.

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This isn't a picture of the sky, but a picture of the reflection of the sky in the lake.

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So, I am looking for a fanvid made for festivids for “Snow White: a Tale of Terror” called “Bare your Teeth” using Lady Gaga’s teeth by vidder e- transitions back in 2010.

I seem to remember having accessed it either through YouTube or Vimeo at some point but all of the old links I have found link to a download on the vidder’s personal website, which no longer exists.

I’m hoping for a link or if someone had downloaded it at some point and still has it, I would be forever grateful.

lannamichaels

Fun with idolatry and "I'm doing Avoda Zara" jokes! The perek ended yesterday but RL is being busy.

The absolute requisite note on Avoda Zara is one that gets stressed constantly, which is that this is referring specifically to the religious groups amongst whom the tanaim and amoraim were living, and only them. Among the reasons the commentators have said this for a long time is 1) actual real differences between the avoda zarah described in the mishna/gemara and the goysche practices they lived amongst, combined with 2) because if they kept to all of this, there would be many practical problems, because they were a lot more interconnected by that time and working in specific professions, and 3) the outside world thinks it gets a say in Jewish religious texts and would be violently offended if this refers to them.

But definitely there were times when dealing with Artscroll commentary when I had to snap and actually look up when the Meiri lived, and it's like, ah, 13th century France, I understand completely.

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oriolegirl

No webinar today. Late last night, I was thinking about getting up in the morning and sitting on chat for three hours and couldn't stand the thought. So I decided to take a mental health day. I almost always set an alarm, even on days I plan to sleep in, but although I thought about it last night, I apparently didn't actually do it. I woke up about 10 minutes before the webinar. Ahahaha.

Of course, now my entire day is fucked up. I live with a carefully balanced schedule of vitamins and supplements, meds, and meals. Super duper multivitamins and iron have to be taken at least 2 hours apart from the (3x/day) calcium chews, and need to be taken with food. I woke up so late that there was no breakfast which meant having to rearrange things so I could still take my vitamins and iron with lunch and get the breakfast calcium chew in with a snack, which I had after coming back from a haircut and long walk.

The temperature is rather nice and there's a lovely cool breeze. Alas, it's so effing humid that my clothes were sticking to me and I had to take a quick cold shower when I got home. *sigh*

There's a new edited volume just out about women in quantum physics. One of the essays is about someone I came across in Seaborg's journals. My copy arrived today, so I'm hoping to read that this evening.

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After returning to the 84/30 we ended up at the Bonneville Dam in search of a bathroom! It was a good stop though as the view (and sound) of the dam was impressive. ( Read more... )

loganberrybunny

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Hottest day of the year, Bewdley, 11th July 2025

161/365: Hottest day of the year, outskirts of Bewdley
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As the subject line says, it was indeed 34 °C here today, and Astwood Bank elsewhere in Worcestershire seems to have taken the daily record at 34.7 °C. Looking quickly back, I think the temperature I recorded makes it the third hottest day where I am since I started keeping notice over 20 years ago. Only 18th and 19th July 2022 beat it, and then only by one degree. Certainly it felt unpleasantly hot when I briefly ventured outdoors. Tomorrow looks like being very similar, perhaps only a degree or two cooler at best. That said, it's probably the lack of rain that's bothering people more, especially farmers. You can see pretty well why that is in the photo. That grass is not often this yellow even at the height of summer. It certainly wasn't with all the rain last year!

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ysabetwordsmith

This art workshop made a "landscape" out of loose parts for the artists to use as inspiration. Every art room should have a generous collection of objects to mix and match like this.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is sunny and sweltering.

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a house wren.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 7/11/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I've seen a fox squirrel.

EDIT 7/11/25 -- Yesterday I collected 5 little pink crabapples while out and about. These are almost marble size, much more useful than the pea-sized ones. So I potted up those today to see if they'll sprout.

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celli

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musesfool

Two guys came and measured the space for my new dishwasher and it will apparently fit, but there are as always several - okay, 2 - unexpected wrinkles: 1. the current machine is hardwired into the electric, but the new dishwasher needs a plug, so the installers are going to have to build an outlet? These 2 guys didn't seem to think it was a big deal but it is another $75, which at this point is whatever, fine. Secondly, they were concerned that the installation might damage the drain pipe under my sink, and I was like, can we wrap it in something to protect it from being dinged? and they were like, "Eh, maybe, but if it breaks you're responsible for fixing it." Which, thanks. I suppose I can get under there and wrap a towel around it if necessary.

So we'll see how this goes on Tuesday. Keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't completely wreck my kitchen!

Speaking of wrecking my kitchen, my current HGTV viewing is "Help! I wrecked my house!" which I'm enjoying, but oh my god, the sheer hubris of some of these mediocre white men, who think they can demo a kitchen or a bathroom down to the studs and then figure out how to put in a new one, and then have to call Jasmine because of course they can't. I don't understand these people, tbh. There is nothing wrong with asking a trained professional to come in and do that kind of work, especially if you're not particularly handy. (And even you are handy in the "can change a washer in the faucet" variety, what makes you think you can install a shower from the ground up??? WTF?) On the other hand, I am really sympathetic to the folks who did hire a contractor who turned out to be shady and didn't do the work properly and stiffed them of their money to boot!

In other news, I am now on vacation and very excited about it! Except shit, I forgot to set up my out of office message. I will have to log back in and do that.

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Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: Find the River - REM

troyswann

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lannamichaels

So I hated the first part of episode 10, and liked the last ~8 minutes, those were great, truly great. But I really didn't need what came before that; I liked how Murderbot slipped away at the end of the first novella. Oh well.

In general, overall, I really enjoyed Murderbot The Television Show, although there were parts of it I had to skip or not watch. They did a really good job at translating a novella into a tv show; the changes were understandable and made sense for the medium, even when they were ones I disliked. The show fleshed out the characters very well, and they had just so so so so much fun with the in-universe tv shows.

If this show has one thesis, it is Murderbot = Gurathin, and with my complaints about the first part of episode 10, I did like how it went so, are you not convinced that Murderbot = Gurathin yet? Here, let me show it to you again.

Anyway, I assume five seconds after the end of ep10, ART says hello. (okay that's probably not ART. But it would make sense to begin s2 immediately after s1 ends)

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