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На Туапсинском НПЗ взорвались новые резервуары, масштаб пожара увеличился. ВИДЕО
https://censor.net/ru/n4000371

Горящая нефть растекается по улицам Туапсе после атаки дронов на НПЗ. ВИДЕО
https://censor.net/ru/v4000438


Латвия передает дополнительные боевые бронемашины CVR(T) Украине
https://censor.net/ru/n4000418


База хранения "Искандеров" поражена в оккупированном Крыму
https://censor.net/ru/n4000404

Пилоты бригады "Скиф" уничтожили склад артиллерийских боеприпасов и поразили оккупантов в дренажной трубе. ВИДЕО
https://censor.net/ru/v4000468
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28 апреля Европейский парламент проголосовал за снятие иммунитета с румынского депутата Дианы Шошоаке.
Решение было принято на пленарном заседании большинством голосов после рекомендации профильного комитета. Это открывает возможность для румынских правоохранительных органов проводить процессуальные действия в рамках уголовных производств в отношении депутата

https://censor.net/ru/n4000454

Daily Happiness

Apr. 28th, 2026 07:26 pm
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1. Last night when I took a shower the water never got that hot, and I thought it odd because while Carla had taken a shower, it was hours before and should have warmed back up within 15-20 minutes. Then this morning I did dishes and the water never got above warm-ish, and that was even having it fully on hot and not using the cold tap at all.

I went out to check the water heater only to find that sometime between when it was installed (eight years ago, according to my journal) and now, the sort of shed/add-on thing that it's inside had shifted slightly so that the door was now sitting below the adjoining back steps and couldn't open at all. Thankfully the door is wood, and we have a small saw, so I sawed off the bottom bit of the door so it could open (it is old and crappy anyway, so this is not damaging it or anything).

The water heater has a thing on the front that helpfully tells you what the issue is if the light is red and blinks X number of times. It was blinking 7 times, which is gas or valve failure, so we called a plumber and they said that replacing the broken part would cost like $400 plus over a thousand in labor, which seemed ridiculous. A new one is about $800, and they said we could go get one and they could install it, but they were quoting like $1800 for the replacement and removal, which again seems ridiculous. In my journal entry eight years ago, we were charged for one hour labor and free removal, which was a different plumber. I know prices have gone up a lot in the intervening years but that seems excessive.

So since I didn't think we'd be able to get a water heater in our car to bring it home anyway, I told them we'd just pay for their diagnostics today and get back to them. I ordered a new water heater from Home Depot and they delivered it today and we called the plumber from last time to have them come out tomorrow. They couldn't give us an estimate over the phone, but I feel it can't help but be cheaper than today's guys.

Anyway, we still have some warm-ish water we can at least use for washing dishes, and maybe just save the showers for tomorrow after they install the new one.

2. I was already planning on working from home today, which worked out well for all the plumbing stuff.

3. First puzzle finished since getting back from vacation:



This one was a lot of fun. I think when I bought it I saw some other similar ones, so I might have to check those out.

4. I've been sleeping better and waking up at my usual time again for several days in a row now, so I'm feeling a lot better about that. Now that I have this morning walk routine, it was really throwing me off to be waking up so much later.

5. Cutie Molly.

Write Every Day: Day 28

Apr. 28th, 2026 05:14 pm
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Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15


We're looking for a second volunteer to share May! Is anyone up to host half the month?



My check-in: Some sentences over lunch.

Day 28: [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] sanguinity

Day 27: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] dswdiane, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 26: [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] dswdiane, [personal profile] sanguinity, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] the_siobhan, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] ysilme

More days )

When you check in, please use the most recent post and say what day(s) you’re checking in for. Remember you can drop in or out at any time, and let me know if I missed anyone!

Eldergoth Nostalgia

Apr. 28th, 2026 05:01 pm
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Or to quote Rasputina, "The scene is never what it used to be".

I had a lovely, wistful sort of dream the other night in which [personal profile] solstice_lilac gave me an old compilation tape she had made long ago. (In the dream) I had a full stereo system with a tape deck that magically produced fantastic-quality audio, and I immediately played the tape. It was 120 minutes of gorgeous ethereal swirly goth music. I woke up with the melancholy realization that 1) I couldn't remember any of the bands on the dream tape, and 2) they probably didn't exist in the real world. 

But oh! It was lovely while the dream lasted. 
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Posted by David Gerard

Let’s just marvel at the AI jargon word “toxenmaxxing” — when you’re AI coding at work, run up as absolutely high an AI token bill as you possibly can. Why? Because it’s the future! And not just stupid.

The idea’s been hot with the AI bros for a while now. But tokenmaxxing really joined the chat when Jensen Huang of Nvidia went on the All-In Podcast on 19 March: [YouTube]

Let me give you a thought experiment. Let’s say you have a software engineer or AI researcher and you pay them $500,000 a year. We do that all the time, okay, this is happening all of the time. That $500,000 engineer, at the end of the year I’m going to ask him how much did you spend in tokens, and that person says $5,000, I will go ape-something-else. If that $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed, okay, and this is no different than one of our chip designers who says, guess what, I’m just going to use paper and pencil, I don’t think I’m going to need any CAD tools.

Jensen sells the cards the tokens run on. Anthropic lose several dollars on every dollar they make, but Jensen makes money when you burn out a few more Nvidia cards. This is the CEO of tokens telling you to spend more on tokens.

On April 6th, The Information discussed Meta’s “Claudeonomics” leader board: [Information, archive]

Employees at Meta Platforms who want to show off their AI superuser chops are competing on an internal leaderboard for status as a “Session Immortal”—or, even better, “Token Legend.

… The practice is emblematic of Silicon Valley’s newest form of conspicuous consumption, known as “tokenmaxxing,” which has turned token usage into a benchmark for productivity and a competitive measure of who is most AI native.

CEOs and CTOs knew that AI shook off expensive whiners who pushed back on AI. Tokenmaxxing would shake loose these AI blockers, these saboteurs! The way out is the way through!

Here’s Sonya Huang, a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital: [WSJ, archive]

Critics of tokenmaxxing are missing the point, she said. Yes, it’s an imperfect metric, she admitted, but “the thing that matters for your company is: is my employee becoming insanely AI-pilled? And that requires getting them on this tokenmaxxing mindset.”

She literally doesn’t know if it’s even working. So do it harder!

Anthropic’s turning the screws on customers about pricing. But the power of making you spend all your money on tokens is to make token spending capability the new moat around using AI coding at all. You can only compete if you’re huge — or if you’re blowing venture capital cash as fast as possible.

That works fine — except the bit where AI code is sort of terrible. Every time prominent AI code leaks, we see it’s rambling, ill-constructed, and full of bugs and security holes.

The main product of AI coding is code churn: [TechCrunch]

The data from across the industry tells a consistent story: More code is being written, but a disproportionate amount of it isn’t sticking.

Multiple surveys show code churn rates are eight to nine times or more what they were before AI everywhere. Slop coders keep having to do stuff over. Because the code is rubbish. [GitClear, PDF; Faros]

At some point, Anthropic puts up its prices so much the companies try to go back to brain coders. They hand these actual human coders a toxic waste dump of AI slop code that is literally incomprehensible to humans and can’t be fixed in less time than it would take to start over. This does not end well.

But that sounds like a next year problem. It’s still this year! Use more tokens! Business doesn’t exist to do things. Use more tokens.


It’s pledge week at Pivot to AI! If Pivot brightens your day, please do put $5 into the Patreon. Tell your friends!

Wildlife

Apr. 28th, 2026 04:47 pm
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I saw a turtle at the edge of the bike path on my ride today. I'm not sure what it was doing there, though turtles have been spotted in that area before. But it's a crawl of maybe half a block to the river, where the water supply is. This was a decent-sized specimen, about 7" in diameter, though they can get bigger.

I dodged a fair number of fuzzy black caterpillars out there, but it was nothing like 20-30 years ago, when they were everywhere! We also don't get clouds of orange ladybugs anymore. I spotted one in flight last week, and I've picked up hitchhikers before, but there are so few of them now. The enormous increase in turkeys, egrets, and Canadian geese in the intervening years seems a likely cause.

I occasionally get actual red ladybugs at the house, probably because we have so many roses (50-60 plants). People buy them for aphid control and release them in their yards, and they migrate to our house. ;) The ones that occur naturally in our yard are more of a yellow-brown color, and sometimes they pinch. Rude. :D

Speaking of plants, I got ZERO daffodils this year. The shoots came up, the same as always, but no flowers. I have a clump near the front door (where we can see them from inside), and another across the walkway. That second group has never flowered. I planted them maybe 8-10 years ago, and I even dug them up once and replanted them at a more shallow depth, but Nada. I'd like more daffodils, not less. Maybe it's too shady where I have them? Or maybe it was that endless fog earlier this winter?

I hope to get out this coming weekend and do something about the weeds and all the roses that need dead-heading. I would have liked to do that last weekend, but it rained again. I didn't get much of anything done, TBH. A lot of my TODOs involve dealing with the extra framed family pictures that we don't have places for now. It's as much an emotional task as a physical one, which is why I can't seem to do it. Give me strength!

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Apr. 28th, 2026 04:28 pm
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The demand for PWHL teams right now is nuts. It's possible cities that were considered shoe-ins due to strong bids wont be approved. 11-12 cities are in the mix and 2-4 will get it. The PWHL has said they expect to only approve 2-4 bids this summer, but there is a rumor they are considering a summer 2027 expansion as well.

After this summer's expansion they need to freeze hard. They can't be putting teams in a blender every season via expansion drafts. Also, the talent pool needs to refresh. (In expansion drafts, new teams get to yoink players from existing teams. Established teams can only protect a few players from getting sniped.)

Ramble about the PWHL and why they are going to need to break hearts by rejecting most of the strong bids for new teams and freeze... which I do expect them to do. The demand is more than the league can handle, and the problems with the current expansion teams show that. )

Love is coming. It's on its way.

Apr. 28th, 2026 07:27 pm
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Today's poem:

For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella

after Anis Mojgani and Audre Lorde

For those making tea in the soft light of Saturday morning
in the peaceful kitchen
in the cool house
For those with shrunken hearts still trying to love
For those with large hearts trying to forget
For those with terrors they cannot name
upset stomachs and too tight pants
For those who get cut off in traffic
For those who spend all day making an elaborate meal
that turns out mediocre
For those who could not leave
even when they knew they had to
For those who never win the lottery
or become famous
For those getting groceries on Friday nights

There is something you know
about living
that you guard with your life
your one fragile, wonderful life
wonder, as in, awe,
as in, I had no idea I would be here now.

For those who make plans and those who don’t
For those driving across the country to a highway that knows them
For the routes we take in the dark, trusting
For the roads for the woods for the dead humming in prayer
For an old record and a strong sun
For teeth bared to the wind
a pulse in the chest
a body making love to itself

There is every reason to hate it here
There is a list of things making it bearable:
your friend’s shoulder Texas barbecue a new book
a loud song a strong song a highway that knows you
sweet tea an orange cat a helping hand
an unforgettable dinner

a laugh that escapes you and deflates you
like a pink balloon left soft with room
for goodness to take hold

For those who have looked in the mirror and begged
For those with weak knees and an attitude
For those called "sensitive" or "too much"
For those not called enough
For the times you needed and went without
For the photo of you as a child
quietly icing cupcakes your hair a crackling thunderstorm

Love is coming.
It's on its way.
Look—

--Ariana Brown

*

VID: So What (Heated Rivalry)

Apr. 28th, 2026 06:12 pm
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So What
fandom: Heated Rivalry
vidder: here’s luck
music: MUNA
summary: I won’t even notice.
Also on: AO3 | Tumblr



As I said over at the AO3, the club scene in 1x04 is brilliant, and also, with all love and respect to Jacob Tierney and Scotty Taylor (the show's music supervisor), I wanted to see Ilya Really Going Through It set to a song by actual lesbians. (Tegan & Sara, being Canadian, were the obvious choice, but, uh, I have some prior associations there.)

So when I got stuck on a different vid, I pulled one of the new MUNA sad bangers into Premiere and started throwing club scene clips over the chorus to entertain myself. And then I wanted the rest of the vid. So I made it.

Big thanks to [personal profile] sisabet for beta, [personal profile] kouredios and [personal profile] kass for cheerleading, and [personal profile] sdwolfpup for providing encouragement even though she seriously could not care less about Heated Rivalry. ♥

[ SECRET POST #7053 ]

Apr. 28th, 2026 06:01 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #7053 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.


More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 19 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1007.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

第五年第一百零八天

Apr. 29th, 2026 07:46 am
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部首
犬 part 4
狭, narrow; 狼, wolf; 猎, hunting pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=94

词汇
表, watch/form/to express; 表格, form/table; 表示, to express; 表现, to perform; 表扬, to praise; 时间表, timetable pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/

Guardian:
通道狭窄, the passage is narrow
我代表所有的受害者向你表示感谢, I express thanks to you on behalf of all the victims

Me:
你知道小红帽和狼的故事吗?
你的表现真的很好。

coined

Apr. 28th, 2026 03:35 pm
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My late grandfather was a coin collector in a small way. His usual technique for collecting was to sort through the coins in his pocket, looking for issues that he didn't already have. The oldest coin in his collection was an 1878 silver dollar, which I doubt he found in his pocket, but I don't know how much business with coin dealers he may have done. Probably not a lot. He kept his main US collection in Whitman coin folders, and none of them were complete.

He also had a miscellaneous box of foreign coins, which he'd picked up on world travels in his later years, and some varied currency notes of both US and foreign issue, as well as a number of US proof sets, mostly encased in plastic shells.

I showed some interest in this coin collection, and so when he was downsizing his possessions in the 1980s, he gave it to me. What I liked about collecting coins was the serried arrays they came in: otherwise identical coins with heads of presidents on them, marching down, distinguished only by year of issue and mint mark - mustn't forget the mint marks, of such vital interest to collectors. This is why I never got interested in collecting stamps. Though much prettier than coins, they didn't come in serried arrays.

For some time after receiving the collection, I kept it up by sorting through my own pocket change, but gradually I gave that up, mostly because the new clad coinage was less interesting than the old silver issues. My last spurt of interest came with the state quarter series of 1999-2008. I had great fun looking for those in my change - to my mind, buying one from a dealer would have been cheating - and eventually I got them all, and bought a folder to keep them in. But I discovered that collecting them had been more fun than having them. I rarely looked at the complete set, and if I was interested in the designs I can see them more clearly displayed on websites.

So now that I in turn am downsizing my possessions, I decided that selling the coins would be a good plan, a decision facilitated by my recent discovery that my once-keen eyesight had deteriorated in detail to the point where I couldn't read the mint marks and sometimes even the dates on the smaller coins. I once had a device that would magnify a coin but it never worked very well. If I were still interested in keeping up coin collecting I could look for a better one, but I'm not.

Just last week, then, an ad turned up in my mail that one of those antiques roadshow outfits would be setting up shop in a nearby hotel conference room for a few days to buy coins and jewelry. Perfect. I went down on the first morning to find it nearly empty: three buyers and no more than two other customers at a time (one of whom looked disconcertingly like the late Dave Rike). They carried the heavy box - which I'd put in the car in installments - in from the car and sorted through the contents. The buyer was especially pleased to find a couple of late 19C silver dollars with Carson City mint marks, plus an item my grandfather had been particularly proud of: an uncut sheet of six $5 bills of National Currency bank notes, series 1929. The buyer said this form of uncut sheets was rare. He paid a pretty penny for that and the lot of miscellaneous stuff, even taking my collection of aluminum tokens from the Shell gasoline presidents and states coin games from the 1970s. And so all that has found a home.

vital functions (ish)

Apr. 28th, 2026 10:29 pm
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Last week I:

  • finished weaving in the ends on A's gloves (before we hit site for the first event of the year)
  • read more She's A Beast
  • ate a bunch of food I didn't have to cook (current experiment: do Lichfield brownie bars only taste That Good in a field?)
  • explored Steeplechase LRP Centre when it had PEOPLE on it (and also when it didn't)
  • including seeing a green woodpecker!
  • and SO many birds of prey
  • made a bunch of unilateral decisions about where tents would go directly affecting two other departments in response to external constraints, and redesigned internal tent layout on the fly in response to different external constraints, and... it all worked???
  • rethought several steps in the lost property process and goodness that works way better and is much less stressful

and then today has been about half and half "sleep" and "endless lost property paperwork". And Now: To Bed.

Nature

Apr. 28th, 2026 04:17 pm
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Positive tipping points could help nature recover faster than expected

The research shows how ecosystems can cross thresholds that trigger rapid recovery, not just collapse.

These shifts, known as positive tipping points, could unlock large-scale ecological restoration.



Environments have a lot of tipping points between stable variations. One I've seen before is a pond cycle. It can be clear with lots of bass and fewer minnows, or murky with lots of minnows and fewer bass. If you're looking for tipping points that aid recovery, consider...

Read more... )
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C is for Cyanide



C is also for card readings. If you are interested in tarot readings (receiving or offering) check out this post https://tarot.dreamwidth.org/16287.html

I got a lovely one from [personal profile] goodbyebird.

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