More pool problems

Apr. 25th, 2026 09:00 am
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The pool water was a couple of degrees cooler than normal and the jets were shooting out cold water. This is has happened on the weekend so often, that a month or so ago, I asked the facilities lead what I should do when this happens and she had to contact Security and have them call her. I contacted security. The guy did not seem at all interested. I sent the lead an email. It could just be that the boiler needs to be switched on. If they wait until Monday, it will take several days for the pool to heat back up. It might be ok for swimming tomorrow but by Sunday, it will be too cold to be fun. Oh well. I've done what I could.

At least volleyball was good and not terribly chilly.

Today's Mariner game starts right after Elbow Coffee which starts in 30 minutes so that's my day!

First I need to get dressed.


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Apr. 25th, 2026 05:17 pm
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Three Weeks for Dreamwidth begins today! Over on the community [personal profile] goodbyebird has posted a set of memes to give people some ideas for what to post about. This one is about icons; the ability to collect icons and use different ones for different posts or comments is something I love about Dreamwidth, and I think we should celebrate them :D So let's do this:

Reply to this post saying 'icon', and I will tell you my favourite icon of yours. Then post this to your own journal using your own favourite icon if you're one of those inhuman things that are actually capable of choosing between YOUR PRECIOUS BABIES! userpics.

Working...

Apr. 25th, 2026 11:15 am
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Work on Chaos Agent, the next Jani book, continues at a slow but moderately steady pace.

The usual political and personality clashes abound, but the culture clashes are also mounting. So many opportunities to trip and fall on one's diplomatic face keep presenting themselves, and not all of them will end well.
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Via https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mkboea2zgs2k

Clinician Guide: Constellation of Chronic Medical Conditions Commonly Seen in Autistic & ADHD Adults

https://allbrainsbelong.org/all-the-things/

In May 2022, we formed a Task Force of clinicians, patients, and community members to discuss what works (and does not work) to manage these medical conditions or symptoms. We also gathered information from more than 100 autistic adults. These individuals gave feedback based on their personal experiences. The content we share on this website combines evidence-based medicine, lived experience, and our clinical experiences treating patients with these conditions.

Would this count as meta-scamming?

Apr. 25th, 2026 04:31 pm
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Janet Fordham died in crash after travelling to see man who claimed he would help to recover money from earlier scams.

Woman in question was clearly the despair of her family and the local police who failed to discourage her from sending £££ to a series of romance scammers.

The family even spoke to her doctor, who said she was of sound mind, merely 'brainwashed'.

Eventually she

was contacted by a man in Ghana known as Kofi. He claimed he was a doctor and had found out she was being scammed when he came across her details while working part-time in a phone shop. Kofi told her he would help her get her money back and she flew to Accra in October 2022.... The relationship with the man appeared to develop into a romance and Fordham agreed to marry him, the inquest heard.

I am now wondering if there is a whole further layer of scams which are 'HAVE YOU BEEN SCAMMED? I/WE WILL HELP YOU GET YOUR MONEY BACK'. Meta-scamming?

This also makes me think of a possible historical sort of parallel, whereby in the days of belief in witchcraft if you got cursed, there was also - well, perhaps not quite a profession - a class of individuals whose job it was to lift curses, cunningfolk. (Am not going to rush off and delve into the fairly numerous works on the subject around here.)

And more generally on the topic of spam, that conference in Kyoto is still anxiously asking for my response on whether I will be joining them.

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I should not have to set police and lawyers on someone else in order to get physiotherapy, dammit. No one else in similar straits should, either. They should be able to just take their prescription for such treatment to the appropriate clinic and get going without paying out of pocket.

Yes, I do expect that to come out of my OHIP premiums to Queens Park. (Adapt as needed to your home jurisdiction.)
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Tired: Drag queen story hour.
Wired: Drag queen nature hikes.

Forgot one

Apr. 25th, 2026 07:32 am
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One other show I'm watching this anime season: Nippon Sangoku: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun. It's set in a future Japan which, for various reasons that should not be thought too hard about, has regressed to a feudal-ish society but with early 20th century technology. The first episode leaned hard into feudal-level corruption and cruelty, so despite the excellent production values I did not plan to watch any more of it, but another viewer at my favorite anime Discord server assured me that episode 2 was a lot less like that.

There are probably a lot of references to Japanese history and/or The Romance of the Three Kingdoms that are going over my head, but that's okay for now.

Yay!

Apr. 25th, 2026 11:24 am
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I see [community profile] 3weeks4dreamwidth is off to a great start since my reading page is full of cool things already. I hope everyone has fun!

I had plans to post more regularly during this period BUT you'll recall the writing excitement from last post. I don't want to lose steam now that I'm almost at the point where I'll only have a hundred more pages to reread and rewrite (!!) so I'll just sit this one out, watch from the sidelines and wish everyone a wonderful time on this wonderful site <3

Celebrate Indie Bookstore Day!

Apr. 25th, 2026 10:07 am
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HAPPY INDIE BOOKSTORE DAY!

Have you been eying any of our booklist books and thinking, “I need to get me one of those?” Well, Bookshop.org is offering free shipping all weekend. If you buy through our affiliate, we even get a percentage, but whether you do or don’t, you can support independent bookstores and queer authors and queer stories by shopping Bookshop.org this weekend. You can even get our books (though honestly the best way to get those is always through our webstore).

Check out the Duck Prints Press affiliate shop on Bookshop.org, and get your queer books sans shipping all weekend – April 25th and 26th!

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Speak Up Saturday

Apr. 25th, 2026 03:52 pm
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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

polyamships at 3 Weeks 4 Dreamwidth

Apr. 25th, 2026 09:43 am
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For the next three weeks, at [community profile] polyamships we will make a post every other day discussing, reccing, and commenting polyam ships. These posts will go up exclusively on DW and, hopefully, they will encourage more community amongst like-minded people on this platform.

Come chat with us! Our first post is up!

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Four books new to me. Three fantasy, one horror (maybe?) and at least one is part of a series.

Books Received, April 18 — April 24

Poll #34517 Books Received, April 18 — April 24
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9


Which of these look interesting?

View Answers

The Drakon King by Terry J. Benton-Walker (November 2026)
0 (0.0%)

They Cry by Glen Cook (November 2026)
1 (11.1%)

The Raven at the Ash Door by K. A. Linde (June 2026)
1 (11.1%)

Monsters of Ohio by John Scalzi (November 2026)
6 (66.7%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
8 (88.9%)

Reading

Apr. 25th, 2026 09:29 am
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H. R. Wakefield is mainly remembered for his ghost stories, and for frustrating scholars of the genre by saying he’d had “over a hundred” published, of which only sixty or so are known, and nobody’s sure if he was exaggerating or if there are still a bunch out there.

Meanwhile, a lot of the stories in the anthologies I’ve downloaded aren’t stories, or even weird fiction or sff, at all. ‘Swim-Ease’ is a lightly comic novella about a woman attempting the first-ever cross-Atlantic swim, on behalf of a bathing-suit manufacturer. It’s a delight, and I wish some studio had turned it into a quota-quickie.

last contract, radiant star

Apr. 25th, 2026 09:23 am
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Porting a pair of book reviews over from Bluesky:

Fonda Lee's Last Contract of Isako is terraforming cyberpunk. It's also a samurai movie in book form--directly, rather than in the secondhand way you'd get by riffing on cyberpunk without knowing the sources. Last Contract of Isako is thinking through what it means to have a moral code--an unrelenting and in some ways horrifying code--in service to someone who has no ethics at all. It comes down more or less on the side that some ethics are better than none, which is refreshing when you're used to grimdark, or real-world nihilism. It's also tremendously tightly plotted, in that way where as a reader you know one thing will happen but aren't ready for the sudden unfurling of ramifications!

Last Contract pairs well with Ann Leckie's Radiant Star, in the sense that both are portraits of people who are fucking things up for deeply embedded cultural reasons. Though the book I think you should read Radiant Star against is Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Leckie loves point of view experiments, and Radiant Star is experimenting with an opinionated nineteenth-century style narrator who can dip in and out of other points of view.

Like Jonathan Strange, Radiant Star is particularly interested in the ways that social stratification of various kinds leads people to ignore the knowledge of those they think are inferior, at great peril. When the narrator of Radiant Star comments that a decision is really very understandable, it is about to become a giant clusterfuck, and this becomes funnier and funnier (and scarier and scarier) as the book goes on. You can read most of Radiant Star with general awareness of Ancillary Justice, but the end will be most satisfying if you remember the events of Ancillary Mercy (it's close in time to that book, though places & characters don't repeat).

I requested both of these books from Netgalley, and I'm very glad I did.

Tokusatsu 3Weeks4DW Events!

Apr. 25th, 2026 09:15 am
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For Three Weeks For Dreamwidth I'm hosting a couple Tokusatsu events in two of the comms I run!

First [community profile] toku100challenge has a drabblethon! What makes this special is you won't need to follow a prompt table as you would normally do for standard posting.

[community profile] tokurecs is hosting its usual monthly Self Rec post but the time has been extended to the entire event period instead of the usual week or so. :D

Prompt fests!

Apr. 25th, 2026 09:06 am
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Hello! 

In my events journal, I am running a multifandom ultra-rarepair promptfest for this event; Rarest of Rarepairs: Micro Edition. This is for romantic/sexual ships with 35 works or under on AO3 (not counting any other archives), using otp:true.

In my comm, [community profile] ficto , I am running a three week ficto fest for fictosexuals/romantics/fictospectrum folks, self-shippers, yumeshippers, and anyone aligned to that. 

Cannot wait and loving seeing what others are up to!

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