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Current Mood: cheerful

Got up at 10 with Theo knocking on my door. Came downstairs and had breakfast and coffee.

Eventually everyone was upstairs except me so I took the opportunity to shower and dress.

Hung out in the living room after that. Dani sent Theo over to the library, and eventually he came back with his friend Uriah, who stayed the rest of the day.

After awhile Dani, Winnie, and Uriah went out and walked to a small store and got ice cream. Came back, and continued just hanging out.

Around 6:30 Dani and I went to Walmart and got some stuff, mainly a dog house for Moose. We also got some food, including a pizza for Dani and I for dinner.

Came back and Dani and John put the dog house together while I Teamed the FWiB. Then Dani put the pizza on and when it was done I got off, and ate.

Tomorrow Dani is going to take me to see the FWiB!!!

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Ice cream.

3. Quiet day.

4. Seeing the FWiB.

5. Got my prescription refill approved and

mashfanficchick is going to pick it up for me.

6. Friends.

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Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/friday-squid-blogging-stubby-squid.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70318

Video of the stubby squid (Rossia pacifica) from offshore Vancouver Island.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/friday-squid-blogging-stubby-squid.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70318

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Announcement and reminder! BistoCon is virtual for 2025! It’s time to do some more handbrake turns with the Professionals! Virtual BistoCon is happening again, August 8 & 9, 2025. We’ll be having games, discussion and panels, Pros fan videos and episode watching, and more fun than a shootout alongside Shotgun Tommy. Registration is now open and will remain open until August 3, but Cowley will frown if you try to register late. No matter where in the world you live, if you love Bodie and Doyle, Virtual BistoCon welcomes you! And if you have ideas for panels, we’ll be accepting those on the registration form.

Please visit our website at https://bistocon.org/wp/ to register and keep updated with announcements. Thank you!

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get_knitted

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.

This Week's Question: We all probably have multiple WiPs, but which of yours has been hanging around longest, waiting to be finished?

If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

badly_knitted

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Title: Love Is Everything
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG-15
Word Count: 618
Setting: After Vol. 7.
Summary: Ryo is feeling bad about stringing Dee along the way he did, but Dee sets him straight.
Written For:

sarajayechan’s prompt ‘any, any pairing, "because I love you, you idiot!”’ at

threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.

( Love Is Everything... )

badly_knitted

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Title: Love And Trust
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 692
Spoilers: Set in my Through Time and Space ‘Verse.
Summary: Even after so long, Jack has nightmares about the past.
Written For: The prompt ‘Any, Any, I love you now like I loved you then’, at

threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( Love And Trust... )

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Posted by Dan Savage

https://savage.love/uncategorized/2025/06/13/struggle-session-draft-next-week/

https://savage.love/?p=10682

Venn: Grab quote. I’ve talked about this on the show… more than once, too much according to some commenters. I do not believe (and have not “insisted”) that sexual orientation is exclusively about attraction to gender. What I’ve said… to thread this needled… and in recognition the validity of the gay identities of the gay … Read More »

The post STRUGGLE SESSION: Draft Next Week appeared first on Dan Savage.

https://savage.love/uncategorized/2025/06/13/struggle-session-draft-next-week/

https://savage.love/?p=10682

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https://xkcd.com/3102/

[desperately] Maybe this is from some country where they use commas as decimal points, and also as digit separators after the decimal, and also use random other characters for decoration???

https://xkcd.com/3102/

jennlk

Current Music: birdies and a chipmunk

at the twp board meeting on Tuesday, the board decided that I needed to start the ball rolling (again) on the basement re-org. (note that I wasn't even at the meeting, because I'm only a twp employee, and I had somewhere else to be.) To be fair, the reason the ball had stopped is because TE had emergency abdominal surgery and was understandably out of action for six weeks. But he's back on his feet now, and can at least manage things. So I amended the write-up I did last time, and sent it out. Hopefully something will happen now.

FCB rehearsal was on stage this week (a last minute change because the bandroom was full of sorting music/instruments/uniforms, and their band director didn't want it rearranged). I put a big sign in red and black marker on a music stand in front of the door, and yet.... Every time I (or somebody else on set up) went back into the bandroom for percussion, there was a band member looking around, perplexed. One person had even taken it upon themselves to set up a chair and stand in the area where they usually sit.

The birds are getting to the strawberries before I do. There's only a dozen bearing plants this year, and this historical variety (my grandfather bought the first plants in 1933) is not one that has lots of fruit. We had lots of berries when I was a kid, but that's because we had 200 sq feet of strawberry patch, not 10. Well, and the soil at King Rd was better than the soil here, and I just don't have the spoons to do the required amendment here.

The pale pink peonies bloomed yesterday, and the dark pink ones have that lovely sun-faded look to them. And there is a carpet of white peony petals, and a thicket of lupine seed heads. I guess I know what I'll be doing this afternoon. :)

ETA: It's Friday the 13th. A black cat has already crossed my path. (OK, so he does that every day. I don't think it'll change anything.)

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Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/paragon-spyware-used-to-spy-on-european-journalists.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70346

Paragon is an Israeli spyware company, increasingly in the news (now that NSO Group seems to be waning). “Graphite” is the name of its product. Citizen Lab caught it spying on multiple European journalists with a zero-click iOS exploit:

On April 29, 2025, a select group of iOS users were notified by Apple that they were targeted with advanced spyware. Among the group were two journalists that consented for the technical analysis of their cases. The key findings from our forensic analysis of their devices are summarized below:

Our analysis finds forensic evidence confirming with high confidence that both a prominent European journalist (who requests anonymity), and Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino, were targeted with Paragon’s Graphite mercenary spyware.
We identify an indicator linking both cases to the same Paragon operator.
Apple confirms to us that the zero-click attack deployed in these cases was mitigated as of iOS 18.3.1 and has assigned the vulnerability CVE-2025-43200.

Our analysis is ongoing.

The list of confirmed Italian cases is in the report’s appendix. Italy has recently admitted to using the spyware.

TechCrunch article. Slashdot thread.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/paragon-spyware-used-to-spy-on-european-journalists.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70346

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Gen. Teyla Emmagan & Sam Carter, Evan Lorne
Rating: Teen
Length: 8824
Content Notes: canon-typical violence, minor character death
Creator Links: Rachel500 on AO3, ArwenLune on AO3, ArwenLune on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Female relationships, Action/adventure, Friendship, Women being awesome

Summary: When a diplomatic mission is interrupted by the Wraith, Sam and Teyla wrestle their personal demons to work together and find a way back to Atlantis.

Reccer's Notes:
This is set soon after Sam Carter comes to Atlantis to replace Elizabeth, and both she and Teyla initially grapple with her new role. Teyla, unlike John and Rodney, had no prior knowledge of Sam Carter and can't help missing Elizabeth and not fully trusting Carter. Then a mission goes badly wrong and they're thrown together, and have to find a way through their feelings as they deal with the dangerous situation. It's a gripping read with interesting character explorations and a satisfying ending. There's also a podfic version, excellently read by ArwenLune.

Fanwork Links: Walk Beside Me on AO3
And the Podfic, read by ArwenLune

silver_chipmunk

Current Mood: good

Got up and had breakfast and coffee, then hung out for awhile until Dani suggested going to the Japanese market for awhile with Winnie.

So I got dressed and that's what we did. The ramen place was closed until 4:00, but the sushi place was open, so we had sushi for lunch. We went to the Japanese grocery first to get drinks. It was very tasty.

After that we went to the gift type shop. I looked around for something I could get as a souvenir for the Kid, but didn't see anything.

Then we went to the Japanese bakery and I got a mocha mousse. Delicious.

Then we came back to the house and more or less just hung out for the rest of the day. Dani did a craft with the kids while I Teamed the FWiB. Then at 8:30 I called Middle Brother. He's fine, had a music thing yesterday, and looking forward to McDonald's tomorrow.

Dani was supposed to take me to see the FWiB tomorrow but he had to cancel, and hopefully reschedule for Saturday (the day after tomorrow).

The Kid texted me about the NYC Mayoral debate which was tonight. My union is backing Mamdami.

I sat for an hour with Theo, watching him use the computer.

RK facebook messaged Dani with pictures of Oreo cause he fed him tonight.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. My friends here.

3. Sushi.

4. The Kid.

5. Lovely summer weather.

6. Middle Brother is well.

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Current Mood: busy

Use a hair clip. It holds securely, doesn't damage yarn, molds to the shape of the ball, and tells you exactly where the end is.

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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badly_knitted

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Title: Out Of The Shadows
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Angel, Buffy.
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Up to and including I Will Remember You.
Summary: The shadows have always meant safety for Angel.
Word Count: 1005
Written For:

cornerofmadness’s prompt ‘Buffyverse, Angel + any, he's lived so long in the shadows,’ at

comment_fic.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BTVS, or the characters.

( Out Of The Shadows... )

badly_knitted

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Title: Bad Judgement
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Owen, OCs, Jack.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 595
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Not only does he have a terrible bedside manner, but Owen Harper really is his own worst enemy at times.
Written For:

sarajayechan’s prompt ‘any, any, a “quit your whining and get a hold of yourself” slap makes things worse’, at

threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( Bad Judgement... )

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Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/airlines-secretly-selling-passenger-data-to-the-government.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70337

This is news:

A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to internal CBP documents obtained by 404 Media. The data includes passenger names, their full flight itineraries, and financial details.

Another article.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/airlines-secretly-selling-passenger-data-to-the-government.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70337

silver_chipmunk

Current Mood: content

Today I got up and brought my clothes downstairs so John could have a meeting. Then I had breakfast and coffee

Theo's iPad wasn't working so Dani,

mashfanficchick, Theo and Winnie took off for the Easton Mall and the Apple store. We got the iPad working, thanks to their genius squad, and then went to the LEGO store.

I bought a Christmas present for the Kid's boyfriend, and then we went next door to an ice cream shop and had ice cream.

Then it was time for us to take

mashfanficchick to the airport for zer flight.

We dropped zer off, and then came back here. I read my Guy Gavriel Kay book and finished it. It's very satisfying.

Dani went off to a doctor's appointment, and at a bit before 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB.

We talked til 8:00 when I went to my Pathfinder game. Only two other players and the DM were there, but we played anyway, though rather shortened.

Game over, we fought weird fish mutant things. After finishing, John showed me how toput a load of my laundry on in the washer/dryer, and it is going now.

Now Dani is home after spending time with her grandmother.

I discovered, to my annoyance, that the book I bought at Barnes and Noble the other day was not the third book in the Godkiller trilogy, but the second, which I have already read. Grr.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Ice cream.

3. Theo's iPad got fixed.

4. Guy Gavriel Kay.

5. Clean laundry.

6. My D&D group.

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Fandom: Hilda the Plus-size Pinup; Fixing a Flat (Norman Rockwell illustration)
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Hilda; three Norman Rockwell characters, two female and one male.
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 2,356
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, women solving their own problems
Creator Tags: magazine illustrations, Norman Rockwell - Freeform, Fluff, Plot
Creator Links: (AO3)

moon_custafer; (DeviantArt)

mooncustafer; (Dreamwidth)

moon_custafer; (Instagram)

mooncustafer; (LiveJournal)

moon_custafer; (Tumblr)

mooncustafer
Theme: Female Relationships, Crossovers/Fusions, Female Friendship, Gen, Heists & Capers, Old Fandoms, Small Fandoms, Stranded

Summary: Hilda’s fishing trip is struck by rain and then by two new acquaintances in need of assistance.

Author’s Notes: For moonlight69.

I needed to introduce a few additional characters to Hilda’s mainly single-panel world, so I did a mash-up with Norman Rockwell’s “Fixing a Flat.” Think of it as the Illustrationverse.

Reccer's Notes: A rec posted in honor of the U.S. Full Strawberry Moon, for reasons that will be apparent in the fic.

Moon Custafer constructs a story from several Hilda panels (plus a special guest Norman Rockwell work), in which Duane Bryers’ zaftig hillbilly wood nymph comes to the aid of two travelers stranded in the boondocks—a predicament complicated by a less friendly local. (A temporary problem-solving alliance (particularly against a common enemy) can count as a relationship, right?)

Hilda as portrayed in Bryers’ artworks seems to embrace solitude, and the scant fanfic I’ve seen doesn’t tend to show her interacting face-to-face with much of anyone but her animal friends and the odd Authorial Proxy; it’s fun to watch her socializing, and to see her given family, friends, enemies, and a history. (As well as actual clothing that she presumably wears now and then to pick up her crackers, trashy novels, and repurposable-as-clothing floursacks.)

Fanwork Links: Fixing a Flat by

moon_custafer for

moonlight69, for Yuletide 2018.

xkcd_feed

https://xkcd.com/3101/

If you think curiosity without rigor is bad, you should see rigor without curiosity.

https://xkcd.com/3101/

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Title: Not Over You
Fandom: BtVS
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Oz, Willow.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 453: Over You at

drabble_zone.
Spoilers/Setting: Years into the future.
Summary: Oz still thinks about Willow, the love of his life.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Not Over You... )

badly_knitted

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Title: A Question Of Pets
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo, Dick the dog.
Rating: G
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: Even after being together for so long, there are still things Dee doesn’t know about his lover.
Written For: Challenge 474: Animal at

fan_flashworks.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Quadruple drabble and a half, 450 words.

( A Question Of Pets... )

badly_knitted

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Title: Torchwood Normal
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 869: Left at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto is beginning to wish he hadn’t let Jack go on the latest Rift retrieval alone.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Torchwood Normal... )

mrs_sweetpeach

Current Mood: nervous
Current Location: Home and on my corner of the couch
Crossposts: https://mrs-sweetpeach.insanejournal.com/789727.html

( Click here for Week #23 )

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Posted by callmeri

https://www.transformativeworks.org/absolution-the-inugrrrl-memorial-is-moving-to-the-ao3/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=265486

Absolution – The Inugrrrl Memorial, an InuYasha fanfiction memorial archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).

Inugrrrl was a longtime fan and fanfiction writer of InuYasha and the InuYasha/Kagome pairing. In her own words, she was known for “writing characterization-breaking, smut-filled, angst-riddled, alternate universe pulp fiction without a hint of shame, regret, or apology.” She was active in the fanbase from 2005-2024. Inugrrrl tragically passed away in June of 2024 and her daughter wished for her mother’s fanworks to remain online for the fanbase to enjoy.

Open Doors will be working with Rinikioi, Inugrrrl’s best friend, to import her personal archive, Absolution, into a separate memorial account on the Archive of Our Own.

We will begin importing works by Inugrrrl to the AO3 after May. You will find them on the inugrrrl_memorial account.

Inugrrrl also had a collection of fanfiction gifted to her by friends and fellow fans. Open Doors will be importing these works into a separate collection.

What does this mean for creators who wrote fic for Inugrrrl?

Please contact Open Doors with your fannish pseud(s), if:

You’d like us to import your works and need a claim request sent to your email address.
You already have an AO3 account and have imported your works already yourself.
You’d like to import your works yourself (including if you don’t have an AO3 account yet).
You would NOT like your works moved to the AO3, or would NOT like your works added to the archive collection.
You are happy for us to preserve your works on the AO3, but would like us to remove your name.
You have any other questions we can help you with.

We will begin importing works gifted to Inugrrrl to the AO3 after June.

We’d love it if readers who were familiar with her fannish activities could help us document Inugrrrl’s fannish involvement on Fanlore. If you’re new to wiki editing, no worries! Check out the new visitor portal, or ask the Fanlore Gardeners for tips.

We’re honored to be able to help preserve the works of Inugrrrl, and while we mourn her loss, we also realize that we are fortunate that she had a friend who was given permission to collect and preserve her works on the AO3 so that they will not be lost. Thinking about the death of a fandom friend may be difficult, but it can also be an opportunity to consider what will happen to your fanworks and accounts and those of your friends after your deaths. The Archive of Our Own has an option to name a Fannish Next of Kin, someone who would be able to gain access to your accounts in the case of your death or incapacitation. By naming someone who can act on your behalf, you can decide ahead of time how you want your AO3 accounts handled going into the future.

– The Open Doors team and Rinikioi

https://www.transformativeworks.org/absolution-the-inugrrrl-memorial-is-moving-to-the-ao3/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=265486

silver_chipmunk

Current Mood: cheerful

I got up at 9:00 today because John needed the office (where I'm sleeping) for an online meeting at 9:30. I took my meds, picked out my clothing, and came downstairs for breakfast and coffee.

I showered, and washed my hair which needed it, and dressed. Hung out for awhile, doing not much.

mashfanficchick's plane flight was delayed, and delayed, and delayed.

Ze and I took Winnie to the local library. After awhile, Theo joined us and Winnie,

mashfanficchick, and I went to get lunch. We got chicken teriyaki from a Teriyaki Express down the street. Winnie and I sat outside and ate, and

mashfanficchick went back to the house with Theo and his friend Uriah, because ze had cancelled zer flight and resceduled for tomorrow because it was so delayed.

I stayed with Winnie. She played and I read Hercule Poirot stories. Eventually Dani and

mashfanficchick picked us up, and we went into the main part of Columbus to the main branch of the library. It's pretty impressive.

We hung around there looking it over for several hours, then left and went to eat at Dirty Frank's Hot Dog Palace. I had two corn dogs with cheese sauce.

Then we went to a fountain that children can play in, and let Winnie do that for about an hour and a half. By then I had already canceled my meeting for tonight, so I wasn't worried about the time.

After the fountain, we came back to the house, and sat on the porch for a short time, then we all came in and I Teamed the FWiB.

It was latish by then so only for about an hour, and then I started here. And here I am.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The libraries.

3. My friends.

4. Fountains were running.

5. Beautiful weather.

6. Hot dogs.

Edited to add: I got confused. It was Theo who came to the library with us first and Winnie who joined us later.

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Title: Zooming Along
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: It’s a beautiful day, so Dee and Ryo hit the open road.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Zoom’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble and a half, 350 words.

( Zooming Along... )

badly_knitted

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Title: Pest Control
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 930: ‘Infest’ at

dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: There’s an unwanted intruder in the TARDIS.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.

( Pest Control... )

badly_knitted

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Title: Nothing Left
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 869: Left at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto is feeling hard done by.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Nothing Left... )

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Posted by Tracey Cataldo

https://savage.love/savagelove/2025/06/10/the-boyfriend-experience-3/

https://savage.love/?p=10675

My boyfriend went on a trip abroad with his friend (also a guy). After he came back, he showed me that he made a Bumble profile while he was there. I didn’t feel like anything was off or ask him to show me; he volunteered. He said that he was just curious to see how … Read More »

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https://savage.love/savagelove/2025/06/10/the-boyfriend-experience-3/

https://savage.love/?p=10675

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Posted by Nancy Hartunian

https://savage.love/lovecast/2025/06/10/with-trans-comedian-nico-carney/

https://savage.love/?p=10673

When she was in high school, she surprised herself and delighted her boyfriend by squirting all over his face. But the incident alarmed her enough to set off a neurotic need to pee before every sexual encounter. How can she get out of her head about it, and allow for spontaneity in her current, awesome … Read More »

The post With Trans Comedian Nico Carney appeared first on Dan Savage.

https://savage.love/lovecast/2025/06/10/with-trans-comedian-nico-carney/

https://savage.love/?p=10673

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silver_chipmunk

Current Mood: chipper

I slept late this morning, coming downstairs abou 11:15. Then I had breakfast and coffee, and didn't do very much for a long time.

I played a game called Cat Tails: Wildwood with Winnie, and I sat with

mashfanficchick with Theo, and I read in my book.

Eventually around 6:30 we decided to bathe Moose, which requires going to a pet store with dog washing stations.

So Dani,

mashfanficchick, and I packed Moose and Theo inthe car and took off. Dani and

mashfanficchick bathed Moose while I followed Theo around. We went into the room with the adoptable cats, and played with them for awhile.

Finally they were done giving Moose his bath, and and we got him a treat and we left. Theo got a little cranky.

Got back and had dinner with

mashfanficchick, then Teamed the FWiB.

And now I'm doing this.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Cute kitties.

3. Good books.

4. Sitting on the porch with Dani.

5. Clean doggy.

6. Good dinner.

sylvanwitch

How has the week been for you, friends? Did you meet your goals, fall short, make new ones, take a break from goal-getting? Whatever the answer, please know that this is a judgement-free zone. We're here to support your fitness journey no matter what zigs and zags it takes!

As always, please do share what you're willing to share here. And, as always, please know that you can change and/or update your fitness goals at any point in the year.

( My Week in Review )

I'm sending you good summertime vibes from my neck of the woods, where the temperatures have been moderate and the rains welcome.

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https://xkcd.com/3100/

With a good battery, the device can easily last for 5 or 10 years, although the walls probably won't.

https://xkcd.com/3100/

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So. I’ve been busy with PET scans and CAT scans and tests and moving houses and stressing out about cancer and this all culminated into one of those panic attacks where my chest hurt so much I thought I was literally having a heart attack and it was a very hard week. BUT… I heardContinue reading

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Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Title: Dependable
Fandom: Quantum Leap
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Sam Beckett, Al Calavicci.
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Without his best friend giving him information and keeping him on track, Sam would be lost.
Word Count: 1000
Written For: Prompt 124 – Best Friends Forever at

fandomweekly.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Quantum Leap, or the characters. They belong to their creators.

( Dependable... )

badly_knitted

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

Title: Temporary Host
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack, OC.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 705
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Ianto is a little upset that Jack has been keeping something major from him.
Written For:

astrogirl’s prompt ‘Any, any, You got the monster pregnant?!’, at

threesentenceficathon.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

( Temporary Host... )

jennlk

Current Music: rill, birdies, somebody mowing their lawn

sigh. I just spent half a dozen emails explaining to someone exactly which music he should pull for Tuesday's concert. Condensed version follows:

"list from DM says Stars & Stripes 1843. Wha??"
a: It's the first piece in the performance list and we've *never* opened a concert with S+S, nor have we ever played it twice in a concert and it's also at the end of the list. My assumption is that he meant the non-Moffitt Star Spangled Banner that's in the folders. (and let's not even mention that Stars + Stripes hadn't even been written in 1843.)

"But I don't have SSB 1843!"
a: You have SSB 1853, yes?

Assume an autocorrupt issue and a typo and move on, especially when there is a plausible alternative present.

"I don't have Victory for MSU"
a; yes, you do. you have Fight Song MSU, and it's been mentioned at every summer rehearsal for the last two years that Fight Song MSU is now called Victory for MSU. You could open the file called Victory for MSU and look at the pdfs to be sure.

And then there was the other individual who texted me four times last Tuesday, the last two times while I was driving home from work:
"I can't find the music link"
"do you have the set list?"
"when do we start?"
"do I need a chair?"
(the last two questions were answered in the email with the set list which I had forwarded just before I left for work.)

Note that neither one of these people is new to the band or to the summer sessions -- while newer than me, this is at least their 3d full season with the band -- and summer concerts have always started at the same time and we are to provide our own chairs and music stands.

This is, I think, one of the reasons I'm not thrilled with the summer band. This is, theoretically, the band I play in for fun....

mrs_sweetpeach

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Location: Home and on my corner of the couch
Crossposts: https://mrs-sweetpeach.insanejournal.com/789375.html

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Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/new-way-to-track-covertly-android-users.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70329

Researchers have discovered a new way to covertly track Android users. Both Meta and Yandex were using it, but have suddenly stopped now that they have been caught.

The details are interesting, and worth reading in detail:

Tracking code that Meta and Russia-based Yandex embed into millions of websites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate Internet protocols, causing Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device, researchers have discovered. Google says it’s investigating the abuse, which allows Meta and Yandex to convert ephemeral web identifiers into persistent mobile app user identities.

The covert tracking—implemented in the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica trackers—allows Meta and Yandex to bypass core security and privacy protections provided by both the Android operating system and browsers that run on it. Android sandboxing, for instance, isolates processes to prevent them from interacting with the OS and any other app installed on the device, cutting off access to sensitive data or privileged system resources. Defenses such as state partitioning and storage partitioning, which are built into all major browsers, store site cookies and other data associated with a website in containers that are unique to every top-level website domain to ensure they’re off-limits for every other site.

Washington Post article.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/new-way-to-track-covertly-android-users.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=70329

silver_chipmunk

Current Mood: okay

Got up and had breakfast and coffee, then dressed and went to Target with

mashfanficchick, Dani, and Winnie. We were there to buy Winnie some bras, her first. So that was fun.

Then we came back and cleaned out

mashfanficchick's mother's car, which has been stored here since August.

That took several hours, then we all came in and napped or dozed.

Eventually I Teamed the FWiB. We talked for an hour, and that was fun.44

At 8:30 I called Middle Brother. He is fine and looking forward to his Spring Fling on Wednesday.

Then we made dinner, individual nacho bites. Yummy.

And now I'm doing this.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Middle Brother having fun.

3. The car is cleaned out.

4. Good dinner.

5. Lovely weather for it.

6. Fun in the kitchen together.

johnridley

Wow it's been a while since I posted an update.
The motorcycle that I had just acquired in the last post is running, but not well. It needs some work. Either a valve or a ring job. I'll be getting to that in a few weeks probably. I did a TON of stuff to it; there are photos and writeups on dragonflydiy.com though I doubt anyone cares.
This is concert week for Out Loud Chorus which I sing in. Monday is band rehearsal, plus load out of the risers from our rehearsal space and a bass sectional, so quite busy (and a late night) for me.
Those risers need to get out of my trailer sometime that week because I need the trailer for something else Saturday/Sunday (the church's rummage sale will finish Saturday and the leftovers need to be dispersed to Goodwill or whatever). That's not scheduled but will probably have to happen during the day at some point. Saturday morning may very well be the only chance since most people will be unable to do it during the day and evenings are full.
Tuesday evening is a going-away party for a former coworker-then-boss who is taking a new job.
Wednesday is tech rehearsal with the choir, which is usually a long slog.
Thursday is dress rehearsal, then Friday and Saturday are concert evenings.
Sunday is a lawn mowing day (I HOPE it doesn't rain) because on Monday I drive, picking up some friends, to Albany where we will overnight then start the 380 miles of the Erie Canal bike path. We're expecting to spend 8 days on that.
I have been doing SOME training on the bike, though probably not enough. I'm not concerned though, we're only shooting for 50 mile days and I'm confident I can hammer those out for 8 days. If not, this time we will have my truck tagging along in case someone has a bad day or an injury.
Things around the house are ticking along. Of course there's always a bunch of stuff to do, a bunch that doesn't get done, etc. I have some deck projects that I need to get to. We have been doing some plant moving, since the removal of the giant cottonwood trees a couple of years ago really rearranged what parts of the yard get sun, so some plants do worse, but also some plants that had not been doing all that well can now be moved to sunnier areas.

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