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Good things like this song are hard to find.

https://prometheus-music.bandcamp.com/album/my-favorite-sings-kathy-mar Track 15, the Word of God: song lyrics )

links!

Feb. 9th, 2023 06:56 pm
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[profile] fiercynonym put together an excellent Twitter thread of questions for OTW regarding its anti-racist work (still largely theoretical), and [personal profile] runpunkrun got permission to compile it over here and share it with us. It's her hope that if we ask these questions and keep asking until we get answers, the OTW might finally make an effort to keep us informed about the work they're doing to fight racist harassment on its platforms without us having to ask first. She asks us to pick a question we feel strongly about and ask the OTW Board for the answer.

Momentary and Pluto - Jake Wesley Rogers, prominent gay man, tells his relatable story in song. Excellent vocal drama.

Night In Tunisia covered by Grace Kelly, hot saxophonist. Also recommended.

For those not on the BaceFook, a PTSD study that I know some folks who might be eligible for

The Eggshell Plaintiff is a common legal argument in the US. It basically means that we are responsible for the real damages we do to others, not the damage that is expected or "reasonable".

The so-called "Tragedy of the Commons" is possibly not a thing. All it takes is community involvement and accountability and suddenly you have a whole stable resource management unit.
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https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/ GDI, lots of chocolates are testing high in heavy metals. Be aware, and buy the better stuff if you can.

https://tomlehrersongs.com/ Tom Lehrer released all his songs to the public! If you are An Old, or like comedic music, give some of his mp3s a listen.

https://apnews.com/article/dallas-cowboys-sports-india-texas-c66b2f9869917585b5e47e404ac312c1 I had to find out some local news on the AP wire, because I don't watch TV but, apparently we now have cricket games in Dallas-Fort Worth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqeJ38DThVc Shchedryk / Щедрик. Carol of the Bells. Original Ukrainian Version with English and Ukrainian Lyrics

https://www.covid.gov/tests USians: get 4 more COVID at-home tests free from the US government.
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YANSS 248 – Temple Grandin’s vision for a world better suited to different styles of thinking podcast with the matriarch and forebear of the autistic neurodiversity movement. Nothing about us without us!

Augmented reality contact lenses are about to become a thing, y'all!

Fall Out Boy vid for Star Wars? YESPLZ! (One maniac at a time, we will take it back.)

WaPo article on the ways that we can avoid the catastrophic 1.5 degree celsius warming of the planet.

Ancient Egypt's treasures are almost all housed overseas. Why? Colonialism.

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s rules for critical thinking offer cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

In other news, most of the house is clean, but now I have to cook stuff. Don't wanna.
flamingsword: “My joints go out more than I do.” (Joints go out)
*sighs forever like the wind over the shore*

But anyway:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/autism-treatment-shifts-away-from-fixing-the-condition/ science and medicine are finally starting to work on autism-as-neurodiversity models insead of the disability model? Most excellent.

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/slicing-space-time-into-objects chilly and weird and cool ambient

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/adhd-drugs-alzheimers-disease/ For those of us with Alzheimers in our families, more forms of hope are on the horizon.

https://bigthink.com/thinking/psychological-vaccine-prebunking-misinformation/ Thing I need to read still about fighting misinformation.

https://bigthink.com/health/new-class-antidepressant-works-in-2-hours/ A new antidepressant has gone through animal trials, and this one has A WHOLE NEW MECHANISM OF ACTION!!! If standard antidepressants don't work for you, this one might.

https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/a-little-lunacy-limited-edition/menage-a-trois-a-little-lunacy-limited-edition/dragons-blood-honey-and-copal-perfume-oil/ I can smell this just from reading the description, omg.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-feynman-technique-the-best-way-to-learn-anything?




And a poem I found on [personal profile] dira's profile that has me thinky today:

What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from. And every phrase
And sentence that is right (where every word is at home,
Taking its place to support the others,
The word neither diffident nor ostentatious,
An easy commerce of the old and the new,
The common word exact without vulgarity,
The formal word precise but not pedantic,
The complete consort dancing together)
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,
Every poem an epitaph. And any action
Is a step to the block, to the fire, down the sea's throat
Or to an illegible stone: and that is where we start.

--"Little Gidding," T.S. Eliot
flamingsword: “star stuff” in front of an image of a nebula (Star Stuff)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9xpv25ZCvvA harpist cover of Enya’s Only Time by Tracie Lin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gupUrQT_q-8 Blues played on the bagpipe! And it’s AWESOME!

https://youtu.be/YnM4yw7vwK0 Rick James vs Falco - Der Superfreak Kommisar

https://www.aclu.org/vote-your-values

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride

https://lifecoachestoolbox.com/FreeCoachingHealingTools/marelyejcmhmdlcbddahsac/Infographics/FightFlightFreeze-TraumaResponse-LifeCoachesToolbox.jpg Only legible on desktop. Alternatives to your triggered behaviors that are not Fight Flight Freeze or Fawn. It takes a long time getting to be able to choose a different response, but if you do, here are some things to aim for.

https://therapyforblackgirls.com/2022/10/12/session-279-the-power-of-shadow-work/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148570/on-pleasure Poem about pleasure

https://dresdencodak.com/2010/06/03/dark-science-01/

https://www.perfumersworld.com/specialty-bases-blends.php I need to decide what I am doing for myself for Yule, and buy/make some people some gifts. I don’t know what I’m doing this year. Augh.
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My bones feel the approach of cool weather, even though the high today is 88 degrees? Must be time for out-of-season atheist Christmas music!
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What are y’all listening to that’s good this week?

I have been listening to music with deep lyrics and lo-fi this week. Lo-fi is so calming, y’all, I want to make a hygge playlist out of warm cozy music, I think.




Trans people got jokes, y'all. Don't believe the haters.

This month’s theme on [community profile] fancake is Team As Family, and I feel like I need to get off my butt and drop a million recs. I should do that tomorrow or possibly tonight when I'm done knitting.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/publicserviceloanforgiveness/
https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement/ Student loan forgiveness stuff I'm researching for a friend.

Skirt I really want to buy because it has The Seine At Lavacour by Monet, one of my favorite paintings on it. I need a million moneys. :/

I have been told that if I want books in the style of Terry Pratchett, that I should try Tanya Huff. Anybody else got suggestions for PTerry-esque books? I am intensely interested in having more politically-aware satire.

Links!

Sep. 2nd, 2022 07:26 pm
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/family-queer-kinship/ The conservative legislative push to go after Obergefell and all forms of queer family has started. If you want me to print you off power of attorney forms and wills and the like, my DMs are open. Most banks have a notary public for you to get to witness things, and lots of states only require two witnesses for legal documents. Plus, postage is cheaper than having all of your marriage rights revoked. Let me know, I’m freaking serious about this.

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/slumberland/pl.u-38oWZ65FY6ze0KR Slumberland playlist of music I listen to when I can’t sleep to trick my brain into falling back to sleep.

https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-twitter-blasts-greene-gaetz-kelly-forgiven-ppp-loans-1737144 LOL! The White House’s official Twitter account tweeted out the PPP loan amounts forgiven to Republicans who were whining about student loan forgiveness.

Content warning: this is a creepifying read about people who probably want you to not exist. https://xtramagazine.com/power/far-right-feminist-fascist-220810 TERFs and their links to fascists.

https://s4tj.com/category/resources/ Sociologists for Trans Justice

https://www.donefirst.com/ Less expensive and less executive function intensive therapy and prescriptions for ADHD. $60-$90 a month is not cheap, even for telemedicine, but it’s cheaper than the going rate here in Dallas.

In other news, I may be officiating at another wedding soon! Wish me (and them) luck.

EDIT: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/02/trump-fbi-raid-documents-about-mar-a-lago-search-unsealed.html HOLY SHIT Y’ALL, Trump is in such deep shit!
flamingsword: “in my defense, I was left unsupervised” (Aziraphale)
A Capella Fun on YouTube. This is not strictly without instrumentals but if it has any then it is always lightly instrumental to show off vocal performances.

In other news, I really need to figure out what I’m doing wrong on the jogless join to get this sweater to come out pretty, since the row changes show up a lot more in the chunky yarn. If you have a favorite jogless join tutorial, link me? And the friend I was going to teach about essential oils yesterday got T-boned by a hit and run driver. She is not fine, exactly, but it could definitely be worse.

Other than those, project stuff is going well. I have a lot of non-knitting stuff to do this week, car stuff, doctor stuff, vet stuff, being social this weekend maybe. I just realized that it has been a month since the last time I did my leg exercises, so I need to re-start that and see if I can form a habit. Brains. Why.
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Feel free to use this version, especially if you have blind friends or friends of friends. Apparently the formatting on the original messes with screen readers.

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I'm getting people checking out my journal again, and I'm not entirely sure why, but hello!

This week I finished off the Mixed Methods socks, and they are soft and reasonably comfy if a bit loose. The cotton at the the toes and heels did not shrink at all somehow? Which is strange. I am now transitioning to sewing projects for this summer - I want to make a couple pairs of sleep pants and at least one set of ruffly bloomers to go with the lagenlook wardrobe I am eventually hoping to build.

Tomorrow I am going to a gardening party in Arlington, where it will be warm, and I will be outdoors, so I need to go pick up sunblock in a bit. And possibly some pruning shears, just in case. We'll see.

I'm not having much luck with focusing on things for very long this week, so therapy stuff has not really gotten much done. But I'm setting a reminder to meditate on Sunday, so hopefully that will knock down that particular pin.

This post looks rather plain. Let's stick a link to some Okinawan-inspired lo-fi music down here.

Okay, better.

links

Jan. 3rd, 2022 09:03 pm
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https://www.askamanager.org/2021/03/interview-with-an-employee-at-a-majority-autistic-company.html Largely autistic company? Say more!

https://mylordshesacactus.tumblr.com/post/619140778278748160/a-writers-guide-to-hurricanes-i-guess People who don't experience hurricanes tend not to talk about them in terms that make sense, so if you need to do a fanfic with a major weather disaster, here are some pointers.

https://youtu.be/D_EFEhjOrQE Secrets by Mary Lambert

https://delysia.com/ The chocolate place that did the red wine chocolate truffles that I have been looking for for four years. Next time I'm in Austin, we're doing this.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/longevity-linked-to-proteins-that-calm-overexcited-neurons?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Because of La Niña , it is going to be 84 degrees in a couple days here, at the END OF DECEMBER. I'm trying not to freak out, as that will do nothing productive.

Who wants a really good protest song? If you love it like I do, go thank [personal profile] sabotabby for her excellent musical taste.

Or maybe some gentle cottagecore vibes in classical music?

The book that I asked Mom for, for Yule is Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD. We'll see if I get anything like it, not that I'm fussed either way. I can afford my own stuff now that I have omfg $200 of yarn heading my way. I love my people, even the ones who don't give me money and gift certificates for yarn. Have I mentioned that knitting/crochet projects are how I'm not losing my shit right now? Yeah. Sanity: the gift that keeps on giving. I wish I could start a library of things for y'all so that we could just send each other helpful stuff that we aren't using, like bedside caddies and extra computer cord wrangling equipment. And yarn.

But I need to stop collecting more and more projects to do, as I am starting to get the too-many-tabs-open feeling continuously this week. Brains are weird.

Does anyone play Death Stranding? Is there any good fanart of it for sale? I want to get Ghost something nice for his birthday that he won't get for himself.

Also: a friend had a question - if you don't identify as neurodiverse, did you used to stand on chairs/sit upside down in chairs/sit on tables and counters/generally use furniture outside their standard uses when you were a kid? I don't honestly know whether that was a normal kid thing, but she implied that we just don't know any "normal" people. But is that statistically likely? I just don't know.
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You get no formatting today, because tired. But have some links!

https://robbreport.com/style/menswear/dandy-wellington-on-vintage-menswear-1234589932/ - Meet the Vintage Menswear Aficionado Who Can Teach You How to Nail Your Personal Style
(of particular interest to [personal profile] leopard_princess )

https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1 - Survival of The Richest

https://www.littlegainpodcast.com/blog/hqzffy9pfsxj4owc8q0wlxqsi4mqdk? - Artemus on the Little Gain podcast

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EspionageTropes - The TVTropes hole I jumped into

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDb22nlVXGgcljcdyDk80bBDXGyeZjZ5e - Trope Talks by Overly Sarcastic Productions - because I am learning how to write better stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDSwtBJT6og - Drifty Japanese Lo-Fi for your afternoon
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I have been sorting music and making playlists, like this one:
Unconditional Love. May we all find those who can love us like that.

I am trying to finish up the tone-on-tone slip stitch embroidery on [profile] rubyredro5e 's cropped cardigan. It is being ... recalcitrant. Or possibly I planned this badly, but we're not entertaining that possibility. Nope! Mom's sweater is about 1/4 done, and is gonna be fairly soft after a couple washings. Ruby's cardigan is already hella soft and feels like wearing a hug. I like this hobby.

Ghost is having some higher anxiety again, which is boo. We cancelled plans to go to the drive in and watch Bill and Ted Face The Music. Maybe he will do some journaling with me this time? I will bring it up tomorrow.

Links!

Aug. 9th, 2020 11:53 am
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I can't decide whether I am knitting and listening to indigenous youtubers today, or typing up some therapy posts and listening to the BLM playlists. Both groups could use some ad revenue right now. Until I decide: links.

https://youtu.be/01bMVXBadYA I woke up today with Tracy Grammer's Mother I Climbed stuck in my head. Have a bittersweet folk song about losing your religion with faint lesbian subtext.

https://tagpacker.com/network Now that Del.icio.us is dead, there is a similar searchable-tags web link archive starting up. I propose that fandom descends on this and makes it successful, and occasionally write the webmasters to remind them that fandom folks are creatives and early adopters. Web trends follow us, so they need to defend us even if we are unpopular.

https://www.psypost.org/2020/08/supporters-of-religious-violence-are-more-likely-to-claim-theyre-familiar-with-religious-concepts-that-dont-exist-57580 If you have observed that bible thumpers are some fake-ass Christians, science now backs you up.

https://announcement.thesatanictemple.com/rrr-campaign41280784 The Satanic Temple has been and continues to be a staunch defender of abortion rights. Hail Satan!

https://www.insider.com/photos-wine-windows-florence-italy-covid-friendly-gelato-coffee-2020-8 Have you ever seen tiny, bricked-up windows in the walls on pictures of Italian streets? I had always wondered about those. The more you know!
flamingsword: “in my defense, I was left unsupervised” (Thora)
Dear Old Dad by June Birnie on Soundcloud is a breadtube featured chillout song of great beauty. Recommend!

Space Magic on Spotify is the only song on this list that isn't a chillout track, so if you are looking for something upbeat, here you go. Many thanks to [personal profile] bestmiaou for finding this one.

Summer Festival by Biosphere

Morning Lo-Fi to wake up gently to

Seaside by Gabriel Le Mar

3 hours of relaxing instrumental guitar music.

It has been a good month for finding things to listen to. I hope you enjoy at least one.
flamingsword: “in my defense, I was left unsupervised” (geek pride)
Books 3, 4, and 5 in the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger

Blood Stained Tea by Amy Tasukada

David And Goliath and What The Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

The Watsons And Emma Watson: Jane Austen's Unfinished Novel Completed by Austen, Jane/ Aiken, Joan (2008)

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble To Get Inside Our Heads by Wu, Tim (2017)

Wishful Drinking by Fisher, Carrie (2009)

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Boo, Katherine

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

A Truly Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

Bonus music for those of you who read this far.

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