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If I'm typing a URL and I then use the scroll wheel to middle-click it in the address window it will open in a new tab rather than on the same tab I'm on.

Now, when I open a new tab by clicking a link to open a new tab it opens right next to the tab I'm on. If I do it via the address window or the new tab button then it opens all the way at the end of my tabs, which is annoying and disorienting if I'm not already all the way at the end.

Is there a setting, perhaps in about:config, that I can adjust to change this behavior so it always opens new tabs next to the one I'm on?

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Title:Traffic School
Recipient:

tepidspongebath
Author: REDACTED
Verse:BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sally Donovan/Molly Hooper (implied); Mrs. Hudson
Rating:G
Warnings:None.
Summary: The trouble with creating breakthrough technology is that eventually anyone can use it.
Word Count:1996

Read on AO3: Traffic School

sanguinity

Experimenting with a thing

pangolin20 advised over at

gremdark's journal:

This is a "details" tag with no additional styling...

...and here is the additional detail inside the tag.

This is a "details" tag styled with "cursor:pointer"...

...and here is the additional detail inside the tag.

The second one has style="cursor:pointer" placed inside the details tag, and should make the whole thing more obviously interactable-with for mouse-users. (They should both be interactive via keyboard navigation.)

Edit: works as advertised! And with the second one, it is much more obvious that you can click both the arrow and the text and that something will happen if you do.

jadelennox

Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master!

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sophia_sol

I'm aphantasic - I do not and cannot create pictures in my mind's eye. My mind does not have an eye. But there have been just a few times very recently where in the first moments upon waking in the morning, there's an image in my mind and I feel like I can SEE it. Like, see it see it! As if I were looking at it with my eyes! It always vanishes within a few moments, but my god, is that a glimpse into what it's like to NOT be aphantasic??

Now, though, I'm wondering which of several things is true:

1. Am I weirdly suddenly able to access a tiny amount of picturing things, out of nowhere?

Or

2. Is the dreamy confusion of waking up making me *feel* like I'm picturing things but not *actually* picturing things? It lasts so briefly that I actually can't be sure!

Or

3. Have I always genuinely able to picture things in my sleep, but not awake, but because I only conscsiously experience dreams through the medium of remembering them, I've never been able to tell that - and a change in recent sleeping habits means I have been holding on to a snatch of a dream just long enough to get the sense of it with my waking mind?

Or something else????

Anyway these brief snatches of mind-pictures have been a baffling thing to experience, as something I've never previously been able to do in my life ever, and all of a sudden I'm a little more of a true believer that other people DO do this thing all the time!

It always seemed so fake to me before. So made up. How could a person PICTURE things?! That's just a metaphor, surely! We're using words about images to describe the experience of thinking about a thing, because the actual experience of thinking is so unlike anything in the physical world that there are no words to describe it! Right? Right????

I guess for lots of people, they literally are creating pictures in their head with their brains, all the time.

WILD.

Now I really wish I had a better way to explain what my experience of thinking is like, tbh. Because all I have is metaphor, to translate it into words! But those metaphors are apparently concrete factual experiences to other people, so I won't be successfully communicating!

This is similar to my experience with words, btw. I *can* think in words, more than I can with pictures, but that's me deliberately creating the words and sentences. I'm translating my thoughts into words with conscious effort.

My thoughts aren't words. My thoughts aren't pictures. My thoughts are thoughts!

How are so many people's thoughts NOT just thoughts!

conuly

The last season of The Strange Case of the Starship Iris is finally here.

Okay, only the first episode so far (and two pre-season teasers) but... omg.

I've summed this one up for you all before as "Everybody is gay while fighting fascism in space" and "Turns out, fascism is both racist and inefficient", so yes, that does make it the perfect thing to listen to while heading out to protest. (Speaking of....)

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cosmolinguist

Ever since D's girlfriend broke her leg while roller skating last weekend, my ankle has been sore, something it hardly ever does any more and I've done nothing physical (like walk a lot) to cause it.

So I have tried yelling "Shut up, this is clearly psychosomatic! You're fine!" at it. Repeatedly.

Disappointingly, this doesn't seem to be working. (I didn't really expect it to. I'm just saying it woulda been nice if it did, is all!)

oursin

(And didn't we have something similar, like, maybe 20 years ago on LiveJournal?)

Thing going round on bluesky recently-

'Ten authors you've read five books by'.

*Looks around just one room and its bookshelves*

Me: Maybe I could break this down into groups, I dunno, perhaps?

Thrillers? Sff? Litfic? (might break this down further into Obscure Victorian/Edwardian Novelists, Middlebrow Women Writers of the 20s/30s, the 60s Generation???) Bloke writers for whom I have a weakness? Beloved childhood faves?

And then I think, nah, this is too much effort.

I was a bit took aback by suggestions that people might be curating their 10 to look Cool or SRS or at least, not given to ingesting The Wrong Sort of Book, perish the thort.

goss

Title: Jim
Artist:

goss
Fandom: Our Flag Means Death
Character: Jim Jimenez
Rating: G
Content Notes: For

drawesome Challenge #71 - Pride!. Digital drawing of Jim, an awesome non-binary character on Our Flag Means Death, using the non-binary flag colours yellow, white, purple and black. I was also inspired by the ceaseless fluidity and flow of the wide open ocean. :)

Preview:
Jim Jimenez

( Click here for entire artwork )

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Title: Jim
Artist:

goss
Fandom: Our Flag Means Death
Character: Jim Jimenez
Rating: G
Content Notes: For Challenge #71 - Pride! Digital drawing of Jim, an awesome non-binary character on Our Flag Means Death, using the non-binary flag colours yellow, white, purple and black. I was also inspired by the ceaseless fluidity and flow of the wide open ocean. :)

Preview:
Jim Jimenez

( Click here for entire artwork )

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garryowen posting in

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Fandom: Star Trek AOS (Reboot)
Pairings/Characters: Nyota Uhura
Rating: G
Length: 1866 words
Creator Links:

danahid
Theme: Female relationships

Summary:

I took the stars from my eyes and then I made a map.

There are rules of diplomacy that you have been trained to follow. There are realities that you have been educated to expect. You are poised and dedicated and intelligent and professional, and there are horrors in the universe that you don’t want your sisters to know. There are false maps to terrible places that you don’t want your sisters to follow. You know that you can’t protect them from everything, but this you can protect them from for a little while longer.

Reccer's Notes: I am partial to stories that explore why people join Starfleet, and this is an excellent example. While the story talks about Uhura's motivations, it also explores her relationship with her younger sisters. She is both inspiration and protector to them, and she's very aware of her role.

This story takes on both the promise and sacrifice of going beyond traditional roles. Yes, Uhura accomplishes so much, but those accomplishments come at a cost, a cost she doesn't want her sisters to know about because she wants them to find their own way.

Danahid's writing is always exact and meticulous and beautiful, and this story is no exception. There's so much in these 1800 words, including a beautiful ending.

Fanwork Links: How to Write Letters Home to Your Sisters

cmcmck posting in

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We spent a few days in Conwy in north Wales recently and had wonderful weather for it.

A view across Afon Conwy (the River Conwy) with Conwy castle as a bonus.

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Current Mood: photographical
Current Location: ici

firecat

My fave is the semicolon; however, I refuse to cede em-dashes or any other punctuation marks to ChatGPT.

These attacks on the em dash — a ChatGPT hyphen? How very dare you! — have in turn blazed across social media spaces populated by the kind of folks who will tell you, unprompted, that they have a favorite punctuation mark and what it is. (It is very likely the em dash.) — https://www.salon.com/2025/06/11/ai-cant-have-my-em-dash/

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Title: Hole in the Sky
Recipient: EstelRaca
Author: REDACTED
Verse: ACD canon/ Cthulhu Mythos
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, John Watson
Rating: T
Warnings: Horror, (minor?) Character Deaths, Bittersweet Ending
Summary: In the early days of the Great War, battles are fought on many fronts. Some will never make the mundane news. Some weapons are never thought to be such. Many sacrifices are lost to history forever - and without them there might not be a history at all.

Read On AO3: Hole in the Sky

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https://osxdaily.com/2025/06/13/macos-tahoe-26-compatible-mac-list-system-requirements/

https://osxdaily.com/?p=132379

MacOS Tahoe 26 is here, and right from the start you can see the difference with the all new Liquid Glass interface appearance and styling, with it’s heavy use of translucency, shiny icons and buttons, and all around revamped appearance. Of course MacOS Tahoe is much more than skin deep though, and there’s many new ... Read More

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Content advisory: the following images portray animal decomposition and a messy (though not scatological) plumbing mishap, respectively.

This is the very first photo I took in the process of exploring my new surroundings in Florida. I was recovering from a lengthy illness and a lengthy road trip, and coming to terms with a discombobulating succession of life upheavals; accordingly, I began with a local animal in no condition to evade me.

This roughly crow-sized bird (species and cause of death unknown) lay in an oddly heraldic position suggesting a necromancer’s coat of arms, on the disheveled curb strip of a business that was both recovering from Hurricane Ian and changing hands—likewise in a state of transition. The red spot at heart level is a dried wild fruit of some sort.

Taken on 4 June 2023 at 19:48 U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time:

( Fined_be_ye_who_move_my_bones. )

Some while later, I suffered a clog of mysterious blue-gray residue in my bathroom sink (don’t worry; it’s long since been dealt with, although not conclusively explained)—and was fascinated by the delicate poinsettia-like radial pattern created when the water finally receded.

Taken on 20 July 2023 at 14:16 U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time:

( Mystery_plumbing_sludge. )

holmesticemods posting in

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Title: Rumour Has It
Recipient: happyeverafter72
Author: REDACTED
Verse: ACD Holmes (& Terry Pratchett’s Discworld)
Characters/Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: None
Summary: A mysterious illness is spreading throughout Ankh-Morpork and the city’s population is scrambling to find the culprit behind it. The rumour mills are running wild. Unable to get to the bottom of it all, the Ankh-Morpork City Watch seeks the advice of a long-retired detective and his faithful chronicler - How could Sherlock Holmes resist a case as puzzling as this one?

Read on AO3: Rumour Has It

ismo

Yay, the Prussian was allowed to go home today. Tomorrow, Tron and the Lumberjack will arrive at our house, bringing sandwiches from our favorite coffee shop. It's very exciting to think of seeing them, because they haven't been here since Tron started cancer treatment last year. She has been adjuring me not to do a lot of work, but to take it easy so I'm fully recuperated for the trip next week. I'd like to ignore this kind advice, but I don't think I could even if I wanted to. The Sparrowhawk and I seem to run out of gas so easily of late. We have managed to put sheets on the beds. Our biggest accomplishment of the day was to go to the farmers market and finally obtain the first of the long-awaited strawberries to share with the kids. Both of us ordered new shoes, and they came in the mail and seem to be suitable. Mine are another pair of New Balance 990s, my favorite. The Sparrowhawk decided his hands-free Kiziks weren't sturdy enough for cobblestones, and is trying some hands-free Skechers. Otherwise, I'm struggling with the usual packing problem: the balance between wanting plenty of convenient things, and not wanting to carry all those things. It's only a week. I could theoretically take some shirts and underwear in a paper bag. But I don't want my appearance to be any more eccentric than it usually is. I'm trying to make up my mind to NOT take my laptop with me. It could be an intervention. Prove I'm not addicted!

Weather predictions indicate it will be in the 90s all week along the Danube. SIGH. I wish I could go to Europe sometime when they're not having a heat wave. I'm feeling so discouraged because none of the things I hope to get done so everything around my house would seem nice to me and so I could show off to the kids--hey, look how great things are since the last time you came!--are happening. Ever since that ill-fated trip to Pittsburgh, it's just been a whole lot of nope around here. I'm trying to keep my spirits up, but they do droop occasionally. I'm grateful to my peonies and to my white rosebush for blooming anyway. That is some comfort.

We finished off the potato salad from Sunday, along with some tomatoes and some eggs with mushrooms, cheese, and corn for dinner. I cut up a box of strawberries. We've been going to bed early, and perhaps will do so again. It doesn't always work, because sometimes we wake up in the middle of the night, but it seems very luxurious in theory.

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