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If you’re a Mac gamer and you love free games, you won’t want to miss out on this deal; Borderlands 2, the classic popular first-person action RPG shooter, is free to download this weekend on Steam (until the morning of June 8 at 10am PDT). And because it’s on Steam, you’ll be able to play ... Read More
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[personal profile] petra
I deeply enjoyed reading a Star Trek: The Original Series story in which Hanahaki is nonfatal and limited to Vulcans. I enjoyed it all the more because I didn't read the tags beyond noting that it's General Audiences and No Warnings Apply. Having now read the tags and finished the story, which ends hopefully, I recommend that you give the story a try if the idea of Spock coughing up flowers of unrequited love appeals to you -- but page down and skip the tags, unless there are common pairings in the fandom that you need to avoid.

love is an affliction

Finally, time to write the book on you

Friday, June 6th, 2025 10:37 pm
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[personal profile] sovay
As it turns out, what goes on with my hand is that it's going to have arthritis, but with any luck on the same glacial timeline as the kind that runs in my family, and in the meantime I have been referred back to OT. Maybe there will be more paraffin.

My parents as an unnecessary gift for taking care of the plants while they were out of town—mostly watering a lot of things in pots and digging the black swallow-wort out of the irises—gave me Eddie Muller's Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined Film Noir (2001/2025), which not only fits the theme of this year's Noir City: Boston, but contains such useful gems as:

One of the most common, if wrong-headed, criticisms of film noir is that it relegates women to simplistic archetypes, making them Pollyannas or femmes fatales, drippy good girls or sinister sexpots. People who believe this nonsense have never seen a noir starring Ella Raines.

Ella Raines is indeed all that and a drum solo on top, but she is not a unique occurrence and I can only hope that people who have not been paying attention to Karen Burroughs Hannsberry or Imogen Sara Smith will listen to the Czar of Noir when he writes about its complicated women, because I am never going to have the platform to get this fact through people's heads and I am never going to let up on it, either.

Anyway, I learned a new vocabulary word.

Fic for flowing_river: Reinforcements

Friday, June 6th, 2025 10:46 pm
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[personal profile] holmesticemods posting in [community profile] holmestice
Title: Reinforcements
Recipient: flowing_river
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Granada
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson
Rating: M
Warnings: Blood and injury, graphic depictions of violence
Summary: When Holmes is injured while on a case, he conceals the extent of his wounds from Watson. They still have to ride back to town, and he doesn’t want his friend to worry. Unfortunately, their journey back is perilous, too.

Read on AO3: Reinforcements
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has got to be shrinkflation of dumb phone games.

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Friday, June 6th, 2025 08:18 pm
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[personal profile] skygiants
A while back, [personal profile] lirazel posted about a bad book about an interesting topic -- Conspiracy Theories About Lemuria -- which apparently got most of its information from a scholarly text called The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories by Sumathi Ramaswamy.

Great! I said. I bet the library has that book, I'll read it instead of the bad one! which now I have done.

For those unfamiliar, for a while the idea of sunken land-bridges joining various existing landmasses was very popular in 19th century geology; Lemuria got its name because it was supposed to explain why there are lemurs in Madagascar and India but not anywhere else. Various other land-bridges were also theorized but Lemuria's the only one that got famous thanks to the catchy name getting picked up by various weird occultists (most notably Helena Blavatasky) and incorporated into their variably incomprehensible Theories of Human Origins, Past Paradises, Etc.

As is not unexpected, this book is a much more dense, scholarly, and theory-driven tome than the bad pop history that [personal profile] lirazel read. What was unexpected for me is that the author's scholarly interests focus on a.) cartography and b.) Tamil language and cultural politics, and so what she's most interested in doing is tracing how the concept of a Lemurian continent went from being an outdated geographic supposition to a weird Western occult fringe belief to an extremely mainstream, government-supported historical narrative in Tamil-speaking polities, where Lost Lemuria has become associated with the legendary drowned Tamil homeland of Tamilnāṭu and thus the premise for a claim that not only is the Lemurian continent the source of human origins but that specifically the Tamil language is the source language for humanity.

Not the book I expected to be reading! but I'm not at all mad about how things turned out! the prose is so dry that it was definite work to wade through but the rewards were real; the author has another whole book about Tamil language politics and part of me knows I am not really theory-brained enough for it at this time but the other part is tempted.

Also I did as well come out with a few snippets of the Weird Nonsense that I thought I was going in for! My favorite anecdote involves a woman named Gertrude Norris Meeker who wrote to the U.S. government in the 1950s claiming to be the Governor-General of Atlantis and Lemuria, ascertaining her sovereign right to this nonexistent territory, to which the State Department's Special Advisor on Geography had to write back like "we do not think that is true; this place does not exist." Eventually Gertrude Meeker got a congressman involved who also nobly wrote to the government on behalf of his constituent: "Mrs. Meeker understands that by renouncing her citizenship she could become Queen of these islands, but as a citizen she can rule as governor-general. [...] She states that she is getting ready to do some leasing for development work on some of these islands." And again the State Department was patiently like "we do not think that is true, as this place does not exist." Subsequently they seem to have developed a "Lemuria and Atlantis are not real" form letter which I hope and trust is still being used today.

Daily Check In.

Friday, June 6th, 2025 06:39 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 Friday to midnight on Saturday (8pm Eastern Time).


Poll #33223 Daily poll
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 20

How are you doing?

I am okay
15 (78.9%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
4 (21.1%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
5 (25.0%)

One other person
10 (50.0%)

More than one other person
5 (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.

Random Guardian meme and pic

Saturday, June 7th, 2025 11:17 am
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[personal profile] china_shop
I was just clearing out my screenshot folder and re-found some things I made a couple of years ago during the Guardian rewatch. They amused me, so: repost!



:D

[Tumblr post #1 | Tumblr post #2]

[pain] today's articulation

Friday, June 6th, 2025 11:53 pm
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[personal profile] kaberett

A significant part of the problem is that we only start saying "all pain is in the brain" (or "the tissue isn't the issue" or whatever) to people with complex or chronic pain.

And there's a good reason for that! It's the same reason that I need to have a much more detailed idea of the fine detail of what an atom is and how it behaves than the vast majority of the population, for whom the Bohr model is perfectly adequate!

... and we need to explain that, we need to explain why we don't tell people with simple acute pain that All Pain Is In The Brain -- it's not because it's any less true for them, it's just that for most people most of the time they don't need to worry about that level of detail. But if you don't explain that, it sure do sound a lot like "your pain isn't real (unlike those people over there)".

Lies-to-children. That. That thing. That's a thing I need to explain.

Run Classic MacOS & NeXTSTEP in Your Web Browser

Friday, June 6th, 2025 09:04 pm
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Posted by Paul Horowitz

If you’ve been a reader of OSXDaily for a while you almost certainly have seen us mention some of the fun web apps that allow you to run full fledged versions of operating systems in your web browser, from Mac OS 9, Mac OS 8, or Mac OS 7, to even Windows 1.0. Many of ... Read More
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Father’s Day is coming up, so perhaps you’re shopping for that, or shopping for yourself. In any event, don’t miss these great deals from Amazon, whether you’re getting a gift for yourself or a loved one. With great deals on the latest iPad mini, MacBook Air, AirPods, AirPods Pro with Hearing Aid functionality, Apple Watch, ... Read More

99PI Staffer Goes Deep Into Assistive Tech

Friday, June 6th, 2025 04:08 pm
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[personal profile] jesse_the_k

99pi.org/adapt

Kurt Kohlstedt has spent ten years creating audio and print stories for the design podcast, 99% Invisible. He also co-authored the 99% Invisible City book.

Last year, 99pi’s Kurt Kohlstedt suffered a severe injury that incapacitated his right arm and dominant hand. In the aftermath, new everyday challenges led him to research, test, and evolve accessible design solutions. These experiences set the stage for Adapt or Design, a twelve-part project of 99% Invisible in three acts, available at the short link 99pi.org/adapt

The Adapt or Design series includes many groan-worthy puns related to hands; six essays exploring assistive designs for people with one functional hand; three design hacks and mods that helped Kurt manage long-term rehabilitation; and three final essays diving deep into adaptive writing technologies including a free one-handed "mirror keyboard" for Windows PowerToys.

While the first article posted in April, I just heard about it via the 99% Invisible podcast 630, where Kurt and Roman talk about all these things.

Wonders never cease

Friday, June 6th, 2025 10:47 pm
[personal profile] cosmolinguist

Every afternoon this week, I reach a point in the afternoon where I stumble away from my work computer and end up in the kitchen, and there on the countertop I see a handful (or more!) of strawberries, which V has harvested and washed.

And I try to only eat half (which was easier today because they ended up telling me they'd already eaten half of what they'd picked, and they'd finished off the blueberries in the fridge along with it; basically that was their lunch), and it's just the thing I need to get through the rest of the day.

Strawberry season is the best season. And I'm so grateful that don't even have to pick them myself!

Art for Penaltywaltz: One evening

Friday, June 6th, 2025 05:15 pm
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Title: One evening
Recipient: Penaltywaltz
Artist: REDACTED
Verse: The Great Mouse Detective
Characters/Pairings: Dawson & Basil
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: A peaceful evening accompanied by some music

Read more... )

The three tenors & Hauser

Friday, June 6th, 2025 10:01 pm
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[personal profile] elisi
Here is something for a Friday night:

My Way - Domingo x Carreras x Dimash x HAUSER | Virtuosos 2025

Fic for Snycock: Afterglow

Friday, June 6th, 2025 03:22 pm
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Title: Afterglow
Recipient: Snycock
Author: REDACTED
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: M
Warnings: n/a
Summary:
Afterglow (n). 1: A glow remaining where a light has disappeared. 2: A pleasant effect or feeling that lingers after something is done, experienced, or achieved.

Solstice, sex, and Sherlock and John basking in the afterglow.

Read on AO3: Afterglow
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[personal profile] petra
Padmé, much like Dolly Parton, loses an Amidala look-alike contest. How many of the entrants are in drag? I leave that as an exercise for the reader.

There are definitely drag king portrayals of Anakin and Obi-Wan in their heyday, possibly including makeouts with each other and/or drag king clones.

Anyone who has seen The Empire Strips Back knows what drag!Luke Skywalker is wearing, and as for Leia -- well, I could insert any number of pictures of people doing Leia drag, in any number of costumes, and she’s not even royalty in this galaxy. Who even knows how many hotass drag kings lust after Han’s gender, too.

Nostalgic Music Party!

Friday, June 6th, 2025 07:07 pm
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After a few distinctly less than summery days, today has been quite sunny.

Okay, I think I've had some of these before.... maybe.
Summer Nights


The downside: Summertime Blues:


Not sure if Summer Wine is for drinking then, or made then, with sinister summer herbs:


Obligatory Lovin' Spoonful


Kinks chilling on a Lazy Sunny Afternoon:


Carole King another one wanting it to be over:

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