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So Far Right Provocateur Charlie Kirk Has Been Shot

This is so bad. I loathe the man, but I want him disgraced and humiliated, not killed. No one, not even this smug SOB, deserves to be shot. Even though the worst angels of my nature are saying "Let the big-headed sonuvabitch leave us permanently, and take his place in one of the circles of Hell," I'm trying to kick those angels to the curb, so as to invite the better angels in for tea.

No one deserves to be shot.

I hate saying it, but it's true.

Also, you just know what's going to happen now: more fascist messaging and meldtowns on the far right - and more fascist thug clampdowns for the rest of us.

I'm dourly amused at the fact that That Man is offering thoughts and prayers for Charlie.

I'll probably amend this post as we learn Kirk's actual status, but for now, this is all I can say.

Current Mood: worried
Current Location: the home office
Current Music: SKZ "Creed"

sage

books
The Disorderly Knights (The Lymond Chronicles #3) by Dorothy Dunnett. 1966. cw: yet more animal harm and graphic violence, child harm, violence against women, dubcon, mention of sexual assault. Swashbuckling! Explosions! Sieges! Mercenaries! ~~Car chases!~~ Malta, Tripoli, Scotland, etc. Much more accessible than the first one, which was Dunnett's first novel. Weird pacing at the end, though.

currently reading: Pawn in Frankincense (The Lymond Chronicles #4) by Dorothy Dunnett. 1969. Baden, Algiers, so far. Piracy!

( yarning )

gift rec request
Mom's having trouble finding a good birthday gift for Niece. She requested "binoculars or a telescope," which another family member is taking care of. Point being, she's not your average almost 5-year-old. She's on swim team, is in ballet, and missed the cut off for kindergarten, so she's still in preschool. I went looking for gift ideas, but they all have small parts, and her brother is still only two and might get into her toys and try to eat things he shouldn't. So no LiteBrite sets or such yet. Any gift ideas, preferably educational, would be much appreciated!

dirt
another baby monstera delicosa has come up! I am so happily surprised! I managed to water nearly everything yesterday & all the other plants are doing well, minus the few who still have a thrips situation, grrrr! :smites all thrips:

healthcrap
had a difficult day Monday, but managed to go get my monthly allergy shot. It's irritating that socializing for less than 2 hours on Sunday makes Monday obligations so challenging. Then I overdid it yesterday and barely slept last night, so today isn't great either. /disability. ( cut for discussion of intended weight loss )

media
I started watching S5 of Lower Decks, and it's so good! I'd forgotten how much I loved S4.

augh
The trunk release lever of my car stopped working. Pretty sure, based on googling, that the cable broke, though I haven't gone spelunking to check. I can still open the trunk with a key, at least, but it's one more thing I need to take care of...or to ignore indefinitely. :(

yuletide!
noms open in less than a week, on the 15th, yay! And the mods have upped the number of fandoms you can nom (5) and request (8)!

#resist
10/18/25: No Kings Day #2

I hope all of y'all are doing well!

nonelvis posting in

dwfiction

Title: Five Moments in Liz Shaw's Life as an Alien (and One Before She Knew)
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters/Pairing(s): Liz Shaw, Third Doctor, the Brig, Benton
Rating: Teen
Word count: 1,681
Spoilers: None
Summary: Liz Shaw, unexpectedly always an alien.

Author's notes: Written for the Always an Alien square on my Keep Fandom Weird bingo card. Thanks to

platypus for the beta.

follow the fake cut to the fic

oursin

What I read

Finished Love at All Ages - think I said most of what I felt moved to say last week, but there was also a certain amount of Mrs Morland whingeing and bitching about the Burdens of Being a Popular Writer (when she wasn't being Amazingly Dotty), whoa, Ange, biting the hand or what?

Sarah Brooks, The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands (2024), which I picked up some while ago on promotion and then I think I saw someone writing something about it. I liked the idea but somehow wasn't overwhelmingly enthused?

Read the latest Literary Review.

Since there is a forthcoming online discussion, dug out my 1974 mass market paperback edition of Joanna Russ, The Female Man - I think this was even before excursions to Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed, somehow I had learnt of Fantast, a mailorder operation with duplicated catalogues every few months that purveyed an odd selection of US books. It's quite hard to recall the original impact. Possibly I now prefer her essays?

Carol Atherton, Reading Lessons: The Books We Read at School, the Conversations They Spark, and Why They Matter (2024) - EngLit teacher meditates over books that she had taught, her own reading of them, their impact in the classroom, general issues around teaching Lit, etc - this came up in my Recommended for You in Kobo + on promotion. Quite interesting but how the teaching of EngLit has changed since My Day....

Lee Child, The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10) (2006) - every so often I read an interview with or something about Lee Child who sounds very much a Good Guy so I thought I might try one of these and this one was currently on promotion. It's less action and more twisty following intricate plot than I anticipated with lots of sudden reversal, and lots and lots of details. I don't think I'm going to go away and devour all the Reacher books but I can think of circumstances where they might be a preferable option given limited reading materials available.

On the go

I literally just finished that so there is nothing on the go, except one or two things I suppose I am technically still reading.

Up next

Dunno.

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agonyaunt

Dear Eric: My beloved husband of more than 40 years has become something of an embarrassment. He has always been careful with his appearance (almost in the vain category). About six years ago, he had a serious illness with dangerous surgery but made an excellent recovery.

Afterward, his weight loss became a weight gain and now, instead of the athletic physique he has always maintained, he has a large gut. He will wear T-shirts that are too small and when seated, part of his naked middle is exposed for all to see.

I can tolerate this at home, but not when we are around other people. I have tried gentle reminders that these shirts are too small, mentioning how embarrassed I am, but it makes no difference. He also wears ill-fitting pants in his former waist size which exaggerate the problem.

Otherwise, he keeps up his lengthy morning regime of careful grooming as in the past. His doctors have suggested he lose weight, but nothing has changed. Can you offer any advice so we can socialize without me cringing?

– Loving But Mortified

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andrewducker

Behold, Vitruvian Ducker!

(Sophia was delighted to discover that she can give Gideon piggy backs and has now been doing them whenever she can. Which is impressive when they weigh basically the same.)
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

aurumcalendula

Death in Paradise:

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Shetland:

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conuly

And they now expect the part in tomorrow, at which point we should be able to make an appointment to repair.

As I reiterated - but briefly, because the person making the call was not responsible for this situation - a delay in shipping is one thing, but lack of communication is something very different.

scifirenegade

Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the brainrot. The day I decided that maybe I should watch everything one of my favourite actors was in. Or everything of his that was accessible to a mere mortal. Both the best and one of the worst decisions I took.

And to celebrate...

The Last Performance gang as ponies? That can't be right. Never watched My Little Pony (Lissy-Strata's Dr Who ponies do live in my heart).

Slay, not-so-little old man, as the kids say.

Current Mood: dorky

lost_words_exchange posting in

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Current Mood: excited

mekare posting in

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Title: Chicken Soup
Artist:

mekare
Rating: G
Fandom: -
Content Notes: watercolour

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susandennis

It's another cloudy morning but the sun is trying to break through. My plan is finish this entry, make the bed, layout clothes and then go swimming but if it is full on glary sun by then, maybe not. Or maybe I'll try it.

The letter from the IRS was weird. The transcripts on their website show clearly that a refund is due me but the letter, not so much. They both agree on the exact numbers. So I called. Or, rather, tried to call. There were a couple of numbers in the letter to call if I had questions. Then there's the main 1040 line. I tried, in vane, to get to a person to ask. That's 40 minutes I'll never see again. I finally found some tricks on Reddit but by that time, I had lost my will to live. Fuck it. If I get a check, great. If I get a bill, I know where my CPA is.

I'm hoping to hear from Crate and Barrel soon about the new cushion for my couch. They said mid September and we are there. And my couch really needs that cushion. Of course, they will call and then I will bitch about having to go over to Bellevue to pick it up.

On the up side, I did have a very pleasant experience with my new Chase checking account. I got the debit card yesterday and while waiting for my house cleaner to finish, I got on my phone to activate it. easy peasy but then it said, do you want to add this to your digital wallet? Well, sure. It gave me 3 to chose from - Google, Apple and Samsung. And then a couple of questions to answer and bam, it was in and ready to use! Very cool. I've been trying for a while to get my BECU stuff in there - neither debit nor Visa will get past their verification process which sucks. So, fuck 'em. I've got a nice backup now. Thank you.

Nothing special going on today. We have a good puzzle going in the elbow and both my baseball teams play today so that's pretty much the agenda.

Guess I'll go get everything done and then go swim. The sun is still not out so maybe I'll get lucky!

james_davis_nicoll

Some characteristics are disadvantageous in highly specific SFF circumstances...

Five SF Stories Built Around Specific, Context-Dependent Disabilities

minoanmiss

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Current Mood: amused

watersword posting in

thisfinecrew

H.R.5106 - Restore Trust in Congress Act is bipartisan legislation that aims to ban Members of Congress and their families from engaging in insider trading. The supervising ethics office will impose penalties and issue any additional guidance, as well as publicly disclose fines that will be set to 10% of the stock’s asset value, plus disgorged profits.

The STOCK Act of 2012 has helped expose the extent of potential conflicts of interest and provided the public with transparency into lawmakers’ financial activities, but a lack of enforcement has stopped it from achieving the goal of curbing insider trading.

(In related anti-corruption legislation: Close the Revolving Door Act of 2025, legislation that would impose a lifetime ban on former Members of Congress from becoming lobbyists.)

Contact your representative.

james_davis_nicoll

Otaku Hina is delighted that her Japanese neighbour Kyuta looks just like Hina's favourite anime character. Alas, Kyuta dislikes anime almost as much as vampires like Hina.

Otaku Vampire's Love Bite, volume 1 By Julietta Suzuki (Translated by Tomo Kimura)

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Posted by Josh

https://joshreads.com/2025/09/the-fish-skeleton-i-just-accept-theres-always-a-fish-skeleton-in-these/

https://joshreads.com/?p=47405

Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out!

Slylock Fox, 9/10/25

This is one of the most baffling Six Differences cartoons I’ve seen in quite a while. Why does the horse have a butt wound? Why does he look high as a kite? Why does the kid look so smug? Why does the cow look so sad? Where are the birds leading the horse and the kid? Are they leading them to their deaths? None of these questions are meant as criticisms, obviously, they’re a series of delightful unsolvable mysteries that I will enjoy contemplating, unlike the question of whether the clouds in the two panels actually look different from one another.

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 9/10/25

How much of Jughaid’s flesh do you think Sukey would eat before she realized he wasn’t actually a giant carrot? Would it be little enough that the lad would survive the procedure?

Shoe, 9/10/25

“No, he has a gang that sells drugs and stolen property out of ice cream trucks. He killed six people by burning down their house once. It’s really quite grim and I’m not sure why you’re making light of it.”

https://joshreads.com/2025/09/the-fish-skeleton-i-just-accept-theres-always-a-fish-skeleton-in-these/

https://joshreads.com/?p=47405

the_shoshanna

The forecast for our last day of hiking was for thundershowers all day, so we said not today, Satan, and rode along with our luggage to our final stop on this part of our trip: Hay-on-Wye. We arrived a little after 10, walked around a bit (often in light rain), changed some euros we've had kicking around for six years, poked our noses into some of the many bookshops the town is famous for, and have now collapsed in our B&B; Geoff is snoring next to me, and even I, who virtually never nap, can hardly keep my eyes open. Taking the day off was a good call.

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kaffy_r - Dept. of JFC We Don't Need This
sage - What I'm Doing Wednesday
nonelvis in dwfiction - Five Moments in Liz Shaw's Life as an Alien (and One Before She Knew)
oursin - Wednesday went for a walk in the rain
purplecat in fandomcalendar - Ladies' Bingo 2025-2026 (Round 13)
yuletidemods in yuletide_admin - 2025 RPF Coordination Post
conuly in agonyaunt - (no subject)
andrewducker - Photo cross-post
aurumcalendula - (no subject)
conuly - Finally got a call back from the repairfolk
scifirenegade - A Celebration?
lost_words_exchange in fandomcalendar - Lost Words Exchange Returns for 2025
mekare in drawesome - #72: Chicken Soup
susandennis - I may be cutting it close
james_davis_nicoll - Five SF Stories Built Around Specific, Context-Dependent Disabilities
minoanmiss - Today in Kilts
watersword in thisfinecrew - H.R.5106 - Restore Trust in Congress Act
james_davis_nicoll - Otaku Vampire's Love Bite, volume 1 By Julietta Suzuki (Translated by Tomo Kimura)
joshreadscomics_feed - The fish skeleton I just accept. There’s always a fish skeleton in these
the_shoshanna - No hike today

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