Here's mine, then: 24 hour time is much less confusing than 12 hour time. (The very best may be 24+ hour time like in Japan. Open 8-25! Night bus leaves at 26h on the same day you pack and go to the station! Not as logical as 24h time, but my brain really likes it.)

I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

Taking a sick day. Meenie's biscuit-making purrs are very healing.

Swede checking in: I've walked outside in just a robe at that temperature.

I was trying to give them a chance to respond, but it's been 15 hrs and nothing so: LA WorldCon is using genAI "art" on their website and promo materials. Given everything that went down last year (and with SWFA recently), it's pretty disheartening to see this.

Isn't there a government organization that deals with space and has several space telescopes that look at nebula and take pictures of them? 🙄

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Vidding flow. 🥰

Heated Rivalry will be officially available here in Sweden on Friday! Link to a little article that includes the editor in chief of gay magazine QX raving about it. www.dn.se/kultur/alla-...

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

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SUCH a fun show! I get so much energy from the atmosphere, and so many laughs. An absolute 2026 highlight. (If you're a fan of any of the celebrity guests, like members of BTS, may have seen the show around under the direct translation of its original title, "Please Take Care of My Refrigerator".)

I've seen the northern lights a few times before, but never like this. Never this saturated, and it wasn't a billowing curtain - it was half the sky aflame with green and red, softening to turquoise and pink, and then fading to the ghostly glow I am more used to seeing. Just phenomenal! #NayePhotos

We report on the train: it is a little too early for the sunset, so the overhead lights are still off, but this surely is sunset light already. The specks of dust and old rain stains on the windows are glitter. Across the aisle, our expert’s face is outlined in gold.

Still elated that we had actual clear skies the night of the most intense solar flares in 20 years. I'll never forget looking out of the bedroom window to see green not just to the north, but ABOVE us. And then an arc of actual RED with the green, visible with the naked eye! Utterly beautiful. 🌌

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

A very happy snowy Milo Monday to all who observe! @bideroo.bsky.social

Oh, a witch hare! I'd forgotten we had those. (Link to a great explanation in the comment!)

We've not yet received a lot of programming submissions! If you've ever wanted to run a programming item at VUK, maybe this year is the right time?

My third and final piece for the dmbj calendar project! The idea of Wang Meng selling bottled water out of wushanju is both so funny and so tragic to me 😭 archiveofourown.org/works/75298961 #WangMeng #DMBJ #盗墓笔记 #MyArt 🎨✨

We report: we chance a last look at the sky before going to sleep, out of habit. We think we know it will be too cloudy to see anything, but we can never go to bed without a last look. We remember why that it is upon seeing the stars. A bit of fog moves between constellations.

A minute of treat timeline...?! ✨

There's a certain wistfulness watching swathes of people finding their fandom when you keep trying for blorbos and getting "what a nice show". The last time I had the "this is for ME" experience was 2018, and by now I'm naturally wondering if that was also the last time... Probably not! But what if.

UGH TYPOS

I am HOWLING

With my essay out of the way and my husband happily solving puzzles all weekend I FINALLY opened my vidding project again! (Apparently I hadn't touched it for ten days?!) And maybe there will be a treat? Meanwhile I'm downloading more sources to check out because Festividders have fantastic taste. 🥰

No but what's this Le Creuset packing job even?! 😭 Like - I'd blame UPS but honestly I'm surprised three out of these four survived intact?? And yes apparently we're ramekin people now? Such is the lure of the viral "lasagna xiaolongbao" - and also Le Creuset and their pretty, pretty colors.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

"The species is named after Inazuma, a character from the Japanese manga ‘One Piece,’ known for the ability to change sex between male and female"

Was INCREDIBLY invested in Culinary Class Wars (my original hospital comfort watch show!), watched the season 2 finale tonight and had an abnormal amount of feelings about cooking. Bummed my absolutel favorites didn't make it all the way but it was SUCH a great season & well deserved win!

Lunarstorm. Yes go ahead and put me in the Internet Museum dot SE. (Source link actually in English!)

OK totally random question - does anyone else get nauseous from music sometimes? Like - for me it's a very mild kind of "gonna get car sick if I don't stop reading" feeling. I only get it for music that really doesn't suit my mood, or of a genre that I do not at all jive with. But is it a thing, or?

Blue buttons jellies float at the oceans surface, like little animal flowers, living between sea and sky. There are millions of them out there right now, and most will live their whole lives without even being seen by a human. Despite the hard things, the world is still wondrous.

So @krfabian.bsky.social and I have a chapter 2 for our socmed HR fic. Come for the dank memes and formatting and stay for the sapphic fandom falling in love 😌 archiveofourown.org/works/76350076

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A creacher

Important Meenie news: she meowed at me until I opened the closet for her. Then she went in, tore some scrap fabric off a shelf, and curled up on top of the rest of the scrap fabric. And then she sneezed.

Note to self: do not argue with people at work (where we must know and do AI things) about AI. Just seethe and quietly curse the names of all LMM grifting CEOs you know.

We report: there is enough fog that we keep wondering whether there is something wrong with our eyes. We could easily get lost in there. The landmarks we take note of disappear in short distance, and we do not see them whenever we retrace our steps. Luckily, we are not lost.

May I offer you cats on the stairs?

“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

reposting, among other things, for the alt text

My least favorite weather (category: harmless) is sleet on what used to be a nice layer of snow.

Currently having an existential crisis like - am I allowed to put a personal reflection in this part? Do I (the author) even exist or is The Paper just happening on it's own in formal academic language outside of introduction/discussion?? (Skuld will know, but he's in the car right now so.)