I’ve been a Karine Polwart fan for decades, which led me to her recent collaboration with Julie Fowlis and Mary Chapin Carpenter. "Looking for the Thread" mixes Scots Gaelic and US country and a little bit of rock’n’roll.
I was moved by this farewell from the POV of a dying satellite—can you tell me if this matches an actual satellite that circled our planet?
Or on SoundCloud or on Spotify.
Someday I may again add to the cornucopia of excellent reading reports available here on Dreamwidth. In a previous life, enjoying these posts would also add to my teetering TBR pile. Now I get vicarious thrills from how folks’ reading made them feel. In particular:
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chestnut_pod
https://chestnut-pod.dreamwidth.org/?tag=books+are+the+meaning+of+life&skip=30
dhampyresa
https://dhampyresa.dreamwidth.org/tag/reading+wednesday
rivkat doesn’t tag and does post many, many great reviews
https://rivkat.dreamwidth.org
runpunkrun
https://runpunkrun.dreamwidth.org/tag/book+report
Any recent DW entry with the tag "books" https://www.dreamwidth.org/latest?tag=books
Self-rec: mostly reviews, but also about the mechanics of reading https://jesse-the-k.dreamwidth.org/tag/reading
Reading-focused communities
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readingtogether
booknook
Let me know whose reading reviews you enjoy....
My mental health therapist is retiring. In the next few weeks I'm scheduled for "brief consults" with possible successors.
I've got a couple questions prepared, and I'd love to know what I don't know to ask.
Have you interviewed therapists? Was there a question/comment which proved useful (or harmful)?
Help Me Host a Watch Part for Your Fat Friend
I loved this excellent documentary about Aubrey Gordon, fatness, family, the complexities of change, and the messy feelings we hold about our bodies. Over six years, director Jeanie Finlay follows Gordon from anonymous blogger yrfatfriend in 2016 to bestselling 2020 writer of What We Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Fat and beloved Maintenance Phase podcaster with an audience of millions.
Aubrey Gordon urges a paradigm shift in how we view fat people and the fat on our own bodies. I cheered and cried while watching the movie, as it shows Gordon’s strength (and love of her body in water) while also demonstrating her family’s ambiguous support and documenting the abuse she experiences daily, both online and off. It’s got pro captions and audio description (but no AD in the trailer).
Trailer on YouTube https://youtu.be/lodyin_6x3c
( stream it here )
I want to host a free online watch party, but I’ve never done this. I’m willing to subsidize the license fee. Are you the tech whiz who can help make this happen?
The tasks I imagine:
If you have experience organizing asynchronous, time-limited, online movie showings, and are willing to help spread Aubrey Gordon’s message, please let me know — here or via DW’s direct messaging.
A friend who is not on DW enjoyed the Amazon Prime series Night Sky, an SF show featuring Sissy Spacek and JK Simmons. It ended without resolution, since Amazon canceled it after 8 eps. My pal would love to read the fixit fic.
I tried my fandom due diligence with no joy:
dwfanficDo you know of Night Sky fan works?
Or more/better places to search?
I want to help sasha_feather enjoy podfics on her newish Samsung phone.
Barriers:
- I know macOS and iOS but nothing about Android.
- Since sasha_feather is still recovering from her concussion and my cognition is fuzzy thanks to life-saving psych meds, we need a foolproof workflow. I'm sure there are better, more open-source, less-privacy-depriving paths, but right now we're looking for something that works.
No need to reinvent the wheel -- if you can point me to a site that explains how to do this, SUPER!
Right now I have two questions -- feel free to tell me about others I should be considering.
We don't need a music player -- no equalizers, no cross fades, no podcasts. It's just for voice. Automatically saving a bookmark when you pause and a sleep timer are the crucial features. No flashy graphics. Happy to pay once.
Right now, the podfics are stored all over: various clouds (DropBox, Google Drive), on clouds linked at AO3, on her MacBook.
Does Android offer a file system?
Could I connect an Android phone via Bluetooth or WiFi and use that system to copy files from the MacBook on the network?
Could we just plug the Samsung phone into the macbook's USB port and read/write its data like an external drive? Do I need a particular cable for that?
My circles has so many technical whizzes -- I'm looking forward to your answers!
I’ve got around 400 books I no longer want to dust. (I'm saving my vision for new graphic novels.)
I’m not interested in making money, and shipping them out would cost a lot as well. Almost all these titles are already available in my municipal and UW-Madison libraries, so donation seems unlikely.
MyGuy has volunteered to scan the titles into a database. That gives me a list, but what do I do next?
ETA: Huge thanks to my knowledgable circle! luzula suggest "orthoceratite" and that's close enough for me.
I'd love to know what to call this slightly chatoyant 10-element spear-shaped fossil. It's 35mm long, 10mm at widest point narrowing down to 1mm. Embedded in black rock, shaped and polished and deployed as a pendant.
( it's in here )
One of my self-soothing activities was browsing for purses on ebags.com. I’ve been doing it for more than a decade!
Then Samsonite bought the brand and now they just sell boring luggage.
ebags offered tight filters (materials; zipper vs snaps; small, medium, large to a site-wide size constant). Unlike Amazon spits it didn’t show me items outside the filter set.
Please tell me about sites I can browse for purses?
I got confused by the ending. ( entirely spoilers — comments too )
Thirty days ago, I asked how I might improve my visibility as a wheeling pedestrian. Did you ever have excellent ideas!
MyGuy and I have enjoyed this project: We prototyped, we scrounged, we pinned and unpinned. Today I wore the final version and it works great.
Increased peace of mind as a rolling pedestrian: priceless. Total cost US$75 plus five hours of design, sewing and experimentation. Total tabard weight with chain and flashers is 570g (20 ounces). It’s a snap to put on: I fold the back wrong side to the front, place the front over my cape, then flip the back in place over my head. The generous neck hole provides room for my cape collar to be spread down.
High-Visibility 2-Tone Reflective Safety Vest
Internet #308848281 / Model # HDX46600-O / Store SKU #1004213989
$23.00 at Home Depot
Nathan StrobeLight Bundle of 2 Lights
Item #159064
$36.00 at REI
random chain from hardware store
$15 at Quality Hardware on Park St
sasha_feather and me over lunch. Feel free to add yours in comments!Life is better thanks to
parchment paper
10 (29.4%)
carabiners
12 (35.3%)
rubber bands
8 (23.5%)
backpacks
22 (64.7%)
rubber husbands
9 (26.5%)
hairbrushes
8 (23.5%)
castering wheels
9 (26.5%)
checkboxes ☐ ☑ ☒
21 (61.8%)
see my comment
4 (11.8%)
I want to toggle Firefox Quantum’s permission for "Allow pages to choose their own fonts"
I can do this in about:config when I set
browser.display.use_document_fonts;0
Is there a one-click way to do this with Javascript or Tampermonkey or AppleScript?
I'm using Mac Mojave.
I have bike lights on my wheelchair, and they improve night visibility in fair weather. Unfortunately, from October through April, my outerwear covers up the lights. My cape* is wonderfully functional as wind protection and top layer in cold weather. BUT it’s black leather, and I want to be more visible, night and day.
ETA: Thanks to the extensive suggestions below, this problem was solved. Details at https://jesse-the-k.dreamwidth.org/319362.html
branchandroot