shadowsong

Do you guys have a Discord?

I didn't really get what the Batman vs Bateman ads were about, because I only heard the tagine but didn't really look at what was on screen. I assumed it was a Christian Bale thing and was thinking "Patrick Bateman would probably still get the job done, if distastefully."

There's a rabbit hopping around in the backyard and agitating the cats. I didn't put out any food on purpose, so I'll have to check later to see which of my new plants it decided was food.

Can anyone else feel the breeze on your eyeballs immediately after taking out your contacts, or is it just me?

I feel sick to my shoulders, somehow? Not really sure how that works.

Into The Trees, by Zoe Keating 15 track album

Her Bandcamp has a song streaming off my favorite album: zoekeating.bandcamp.com/album/into-t...

Have I recommended Zoe Keating to you yet? She plays cello and MacBook, lots of loops and layers.

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Some of Celia Lake's Albion books might scratch this itch. The protagonists vary in class and occupation but they are usually solving puzzles and working together in magical England between the wars and in the surrounding decades.

the biggest problem with the two party system is that one of them is nazi germany and the other is vichy france

I am always happy when I see IguanaMouth's gryphons or Pocketss's weird little guys come around again.

I'm a perfectionist about the things that I don't do. The things I actually accomplish are things I have convinced myself it's okay to do imperfectly. "Half assed is better than no ass" is something I tell myself but don't always believe.

I figured out I was dreaming around the time when @tkingfisher.com organized a Chanticleer concert in my house. But it was a good concert, so I decided to stay asleep.

I wonder if a labeler would work. You can set them to hide the text of a labeled post until you click through.

Keeping Track of Power and Politics A subreddit dedicated to Keeping Track by organizing and summarizing the different notable developments involving, but not limited to, Congress, the White House, investigations, abuse of power, and el...

@keeptrack.bsky.social posts an update digest every week or so on Reddit. www.reddit.com/r/Keep_Track/

Dwarf Fortress bugs are the best.

I'm trying to stick to labelers for mass tagging and then individual blocks for people showing up in my feed.

Because Joanns has been bought and gutted and will likely die soon.

Goulet's owners are founding members of a new location for a particularly virulent Christian sect, and it is suspected that they fired a beloved employee because he was gay.

Meal kits are an invaluable boon to my ability to feed myself on a regular basis, but I would never pretend they are a cost savings or a carbon footprint reduction. They are an assistive device and that's it.

Good to know! It is my default alcoholic deglazing liquid, since I don't actually drink much any more.

So, uh, how long does Becherovka stay good after it's been opened? Asking for myself and this bottle I've had in my fridge for at least five years.

YouTube video by Geoff Castellucci CAROL OF THE BELLS | Bass Singer Version | Geoff Castellucci

My current favorite dramatic carol is by Geoff Castellucci: youtu.be/0bqiBpRvEwc

Rhodia dotpad with calligraphy practice. At the top is the word "Solstice", written in Batarde script with a 6mm Pilot Parallel nib in an Opus 88 Demo body and teal FWP Edwards Gardens ink. Below is a quote from Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day", as follows: "And so the shortest day came and the year died, and everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing, to drive the dark away." It is written in Insular mishmash script using a 2.4mm Pilot Parallel pen with teal Octopus Fluids Dragon ink.

Calligraphy practice for today.

Rhodia dotpad with calligraphy. At the top, the word "Procrastination" is written in Batarde script using a 4.5mm Pilot Parallel pen with gold Pelikan Edelstein Golden Beryl ink. Below is a quote by Robert Breault. It reads, "Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon." The quote is written in Insular mishmash script using a 3mm Pilot Parallel pen with purple Wearingeul Persephone ink.

Calligraphy practice. Apparently two cartridge fills of Golden Beryl without rinsing the feed involves enough dried shimmer to clog a Pilot Parallel. I wasn't sure it was possible to clog one of those but now I know.

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Which spa? Did they have pools with different temperatures?

Rhodia dotpad with calligraphy writing. The top line has a nib ladder followed by the word "Existentialism" written in Batarde script, using a 4.5mm Pilot Parallel pen and gold Pelikan Edelstein Golden Beryl ink. Below is a quote from Jean Paul Sartre reading, "Life has no meaning a priori. It is up to you to give it meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose." it is written in Insular mishmash script using a 3mm Pilot Parallel pen and teal Wearingeul Persephone ink.

Calligraphy practice. "Existentialism" was too long a word to fit on one line with the 6mm nib, so I had to size down to a 4.5mm pen with the sadly discontinued Pelikan Edelstein Golden Beryl ink.