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It’s been hectic here.

I’ve been sick as heck with cedar fever. Just miserable enough to want to take off work but not enough to actually do it.

Bad Bunny - what an amazing show!

Ella - she ate a toadstool today and had to go to the emergency vet. She’s ok (she threw it up almost immediately) but she’s very unhappy about having to fast.

Folks who use Discord, are y’all leaving it and if so where are you going? Even if I was cool with providing my ID to use it, I have zero confidence that they would keep my info secure. No other organization seems to be able to.

I guess I will just gradually disappear from the internet as age verification kicks in everywhere. I miss the early, wild days.

flemmings

I wanted a Vietnamese coffee and I didn't want to go out to get it so I ordered in through Skip the Dishes, my old standby from lockdown. Skip has a peculiar web interface that lags when you try to login and then suddenly decides yeah ok we do know you after all. I think they want you to use their even buggier app which no I won't. But this time they were giving my address as 518 for some reason, so I corrected that to 543 and ordered my chicken and vermicelli and coffee. Of course I really wanted a banh mi after reading all those Dr. Siri books where he sits eating his banh mi by the side of the Mekong looking over at Thailand. But you know, bread, so no. And I watched on the map as the little car icon come up Christie and turned and I went to the door to wait for the guy, and the guy didn't come and my phone said Your order has been delivered! with a photo of an unfamiliar porch. So I text the guy, I'm here at 543 waiting, and he texts back that of course he left it at 518. Thus I had to go out anyway and yes, wrestle the walker through the snow berms again, because 518 is south of me and on the other side. This isn't the first time Skip has altered my address off its own bat-- they had me at 552 for the longest time-- so I think that's it for me and Skip. I like that they give you tracking on your order, which Uber doesn't-- Uber comes when it comes and doesn'teven knock-- but I can't be having with their webpage's dementia.

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Project Manager: "I brought cake!"
Me: "No, thank you, I can't have that much sugar."
Project Manager: "Oh, but surely you can have one slice..."
Me: "No, I am a diabetic, and I don't want to have blurry vision and be sleepy the rest of the day."
Project Manager: "Oh, but your doctor won't know..."

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marcicat

Be a Goldfish WEEK 6: Girls, Girls, Girls

Decided to try art this week! Here's my take on what a PanSystem University of Mihira & New Tideland Student ID card might look like.

mockup of a student ID from PSUMNT for Amena Mensah

mockup of a student ID from PSUMNT for Amena Mensah

Credits:

*Background: started as a NASA image: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, T. Pyle (IPAC)
Modified version of a previous, popular artist illustration of the TRAPPIST-1 star system.

*Preservation logo: Credit: logo made for cosplay by avatarroko, based on images from the Murderbot tv show, shared on reddit

*QR Code: Credit: Adobe Express online free QR code generator

*Murderbot Alphabet: Credit: Gamebird's spreadsheet
I used the 'Cheat Sheet' tab on the spreadsheet, shared on the New Tideland discord

Headcanons I decided while I was working on this:

*The default option is a student photo. MB and Amena absolutely fought about it. The Preservation logo was the one option they were equally unhappy with, so that's what ended up on the ID.

*Every couple years, PSUMNT students circulate a petition to update the student ID art so that the line above 'Student ID' goes BEHIND the planet. Everyone agrees that would look better. The art is never changed.

*There's no academic reason for students to need a physical ID card. There are, however, a variety of card-centric traditions, including multiple drinking games which Amena hopes none of her parents ever find out about.

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https://phys.org/news/2026-02-sea-baltic-reshape-physical-conditions.html

Since the beginning of January, an unusually long period of easterly winds has caused the average water level in the Baltic Sea to fall to a historic low. Measurements at the Swedish Landsort-Norra gauge show values that are the lowest since records began in 1886. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) are currently monitoring this development very closely, as it represents a rare oceanographic situation that could lead to a large inflow of saltwater from the North Sea into the Baltic Sea. An inflow of this kind could significantly affect the physical and chemical conditions in the deep basins of the central Baltic Sea.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-sea-baltic-reshape-physical-conditions.html

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Monday, February 9, to midnight on Tuesday, February 10. (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34204 Daily Check-in

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 7

How are you doing?

I am OK.
4 (57.1%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
3 (42.9%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single.
2 (28.6%)

One other person.
2 (28.6%)

More than one other person.
3 (42.9%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

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alasse_irena

This did in fact already happen to me in Aus, but now it's happening to everyone in the server I run as well.

So I'm crawling back here to vent I guess.

And solicit suggestions for alternative chat options with similar functionality who won't do this to us.

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owyearofremixex

The Google Form for submitting your assignments and for signing up for the next round is finally here!

Some stuff happened & I was not able to send out the pinch hit assignments yet. I hope to do that soon.

March Form

jazzfish

Spoke with Rhonda the realtor and she's cautiously optimistic about the condo market. Plan is to put this place up for sale sometime in March. Which is closer than I think.

Started putting books in boxes. Need to get a decent amount of stuff out of the condo and into storage as I can before opening it up to potential buyers. Packing books is physically easy, I've done this enough times that I have it down to a science. The hard part is having them Not Around for awhile. Boardgames, too, and DVDs and who knows what else, I'll sort that out as I go. Gonna be an empty-feeling apartment for a couple of months.

There's also the obligatory `Cull. E.g. I've been carrying around Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang for, oh, since before I moved to Canada. At this point I am probably not ever going to actually read it. That sort of thing. I can leave culled books out and see if I end up reading any of them just because they're there, and if so whether they're worth keeping. Small favours.

As for actually moving... as Lou Reed sang ("sang"), I don't know where I'm going. Staying in the lower mainland is safe and fiscally responsible, and it's killing me by inches. Minneapolis is expensive and dangerous (health-care-wise) and far away. Elsewhere in BC is a complete unknown. No good options.

I -have- been keeping up on viola practice, at least. Turns out to be a good thing. Last week I went out with Kevin to a fiddle session at an Irish pub out in Kitsilano. It was pretty great. It's nice to be musicking with people, to get that enjoyable camaraderie and sense of all doing something together.

Viola means that I can't really play most fiddle tunes (viola's a fifth down from violin, so any high notes are unplayable at speed, at least for me), so I end up doing drones or simple harmonies. I'm always a bit nervous about that kind of thing. I've basically no formal training; I'm just doing things that seem like they'll fit in. People did seem to like it, and said nice things about it afterwards, so that was nice as well.

thistleingrey

( cracked my medical mystery, positive outcome )

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See a Rare, Bus-Sized Giant Phantom Jelly Wade Through Ocean Waters Off the Coast of Argentina (from smithsonianmag.com)

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https://phys.org/news/2026-02-seabirds-ingest-large-quantities-pollutants.html

In her 1962 book, "Silent Spring," American biologist Rachel Carson revealed that DDT, a widely used pesticide at the time, was responsible for the mass death of birds, including the iconic bald eagle. One reason was that the pesticide made eggshells thinner, causing mothers to break them when sitting on them to incubate. Silent Spring is considered the founding work of the modern environmental movement.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-seabirds-ingest-large-quantities-pollutants.html

squidgestatus

In the last couple of weeks our image hosting seems to be being taken over by porn hosting and such. Everyone should know that we are here for fandom - whether that is NSFW or not. So yes, we allow nude images and such. But we seem to have been taken over by a few users who only post "porn for porn's sake". What does this mean? They're screenshotting porn movies, etc., to use it for their personal or shared "spank bank." NSFW image hosting is allowed - as long as it's fandom related.

Because we've had so many problems lately, signups for image hosting are currently disabled. If you want an image hosting account, you're going to need to fill out a request. Simply click on the link for support and let us know you want an Image Hosting account. You need to submit the following in order for it to be approved:

Your desired username

Your desired email address (if it's not the one attached to your request)

Your role in fandom and/or just a statement saying you will use your Image Hosting account for fandom reasons.

Next, FenRecs.com is still down. We believe we have a hosting company, and they answered all our questions. Now it comes down to timing. I hope to have FenRecs.com back up and running by the end of the month.

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Today is partly cloudy and cold. Patches of snow remain, separated by stretches of bare muddy ground.

I fed the birds. I've seen a large flock of sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 2/9/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 2/9/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

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I work for a department in a large office with a name like: Transactions, Audit & Reconciliation Desk. We didn’t think much of the name until our manager walked up to us all (in the middle of a large, shared office containing multiple departments) and shouted:

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