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The blinds are done!!!! :D :D :D

I finally have window coverings again yaaaaay~! Extremely helpful in this fucking weather, and hopefully ifwhen I make more it'll go much more quickly. Yes. >:

We also went to a bunch of bathroom shops again, looking for stuff. We maybe decided on a few things? But ugh, so much of what you can get right now is Extremely Trendoid, and Less Functional. :/ :/ :/

( Grumbling about showers, as an example of such. )

Tonight I'm up later than I meant to be because I'm on a tab-closing quest! So I can hopefully have firefox eat less goddamn ram! I've actually closed a couple of windows, so I think it's going pretty well so far...

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Birthplace

ysabetwordsmith

These are today's questions from

thefridayfive.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today's theme is My Chemical Romance.

addme_fandom -- Addme Fandom
Find friends who share your fannish obsessions.
[Active with one post in June.]

allbingo -- All Bingo
Share your creative bingo activities and discussions here.
Some fests have prompts based on song titles. Some players make their fills with fanmixes or vids.
[Active with multiple posts in June.]

beautifulmechanical -- Beautiful Mechanical
Do you love music? We do, too.
[Active with multiple posts in May.]

strikethechoir -- Strike the Choir
A journal centered on My Chemical Romance.
[Somewhat active with last post in December 2025.]

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ysabetwordsmith

Science Newsfrom research organizations

Scientists discover vast hidden structure beneath Antarctica’s ice.

A giant fan-shaped network of hidden basins has been discovered beneath East Antarctica, revealing that several well-known subglacial features are actually part of one massive geological structure. The finding sheds new light on Antarctica’s ancient tectonic history and could help scientists better understand how the ice sheet behaves today.

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Confusion and ‘More Chaos’ as States Implement SNAP Food Restrictions

Five states have already implemented bans on soda and candy through federal food assistance programs, with over a dozen more set to take effect this year.

Abusing poor people is popular.

The real aim is not to make people eat healthier foods, but rather to discourage people from using assistance programs. The benefits are not free, but cost a significant amount of time and energy to obtain. If they are stingy and/or restrictive, then it quickly becomes a waste of resources to chase after that pittance. Nobody wants to have to make a separate trip just for the food stamp shopping, let alone struggle to figure out what is "allowed" only to get stopped at the register because items are rejected. People will buy worse food with cash which can purchase anything, or go to a food pantry.

If the government really wanted people to eat healthier foods, then it would subsidize things like spinach instead of sugarcane. Another good approach would be buying healthy foods in bulk to distribute through programs or food pantries. It's not that difficult; people just don't choose to do it.

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ysabetwordsmith

A New York Cemetery Was Hiding Over 5 Million Burrowing Bees, One of the World’s Largest Concentrations

At roughly 5.5 million, a colony of ground-nesting bees that scientists discovered under a New York cemetery may be one of the largest bee aggregations ever documented.

Subsequent research showed that the bees have likely lived there for more than 100 years, thriving in the cemetery’s undisturbed sandy soil—an incredible discovery.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is mostly sunny and warm.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 6/4/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 6/4/26 -- I sprayed weeds in the prairie garden.

Black raspberries are ripening. Blackberries have green fruit.

EDIT 6/4/26 -- I potted up the giant African marigolds.

EDIT 6/4/26 -- I watered the patio plants and barrel garden.

EDIT 6/4/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I've seen a fox squirrel.

EDIT 6/4/26 -- I picked a handful of black raspberries along the edge of the prairie garden.

EDIT 6/4/26 -- I watered the new picnic table garden.

EDIT 6/4/26 -- After sunset, we went out skywatching. We saw Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury in a line. \o/

At least 2 bats were out tonight, skimming along the edges of the yard and up the driveway. There were more fireflies, surprising given how dry it's been recently, but I am happy to see them.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

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tyger

Sooo I slept in pretty late (protip: if someone is going to probably-accidentally lovingly harass you into getting up via slightly-too-loud music, Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a pretty damn good choice. Even if it is now stuck in my head), and played Stardew with Azaria for uh. Several hours!

By the time we were done it was a liiiittle late to go cut the two bottom bars I still need to cut, so the blinds aren't done yet. >>;; I DID sew the guide-cats onto the biggest blind, though, which took WAY more time than I expected. It's not like they're hard to attach? Or that much work?? But it still took at least an hour, probably more like an hour and a half. What even.

I probably would have pushed it a bit more and tried to at least sew the bottom hem-pockets as well, I can use the one from the completed blind for that, but we're planning on going out to another bathroom supply shop tomorrow morning, so I am attempting to get to bed uh. Earlier. And hey, it's almost three hours earlier than yesterday, that's something... :D???

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Birthplace

ysabetwordsmith

This year I'm doing Community Thursdays. Some of my activity will involve maintaining communities I run, and my favorites. Some will involve checking my list of subscriptions and posting in lower-traffic ones. Today I have interacted with the following communities...

* Commented on Just One Thing (03 June 2026) in

awesomeers.

* Commented on TV TUESDAY: TV PLUS in

tv_talk.

* Commented on Bees and Silver Slides in

everykindofcraft.

* Commented on just create - vote edition in

justcreate.

* Posted Birdfeeding on

birdfeeding.

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ysabetwordsmith

The following poems from the May 5, 2026 Poetry Fishbowl are currently available. Poems may be sponsored via PayPal -- there's a permanent donation button on my Dreamwidth profile page -- or you can write to me and discuss other methods. There are still verses left in the linkback poems "A Sense of Weather Changes," "The Loving Embrace of Night," "Generations of Cooks Past," "Homefree and Clear, " "One Bite at a Time," "Mishpocha," "Changing Your Nature," and "Besa."

"The Art of Morphological Derivation"
Summary: Words are humanity's most versatile tools.
25 lines, Buy It Now = $10

"Ĉiu Kreas Sian Forton"
Story Date: Evening of Monday, June 6, 2016
Summary: Shiv explores Esperanto words.
64 lines, Buy It Now = $32

The day had gone well, and
Shiv was pleasantly tired.

After supper, people were
gathering in clusters to share
stories or work on things that
didn't involve bending metal.

"Lichengloss"
Summary: It's about the slow struggle of learning a new language.
29 lines, Buy It Now = $15

"Shoutengai"
Summary: Tokyo is famous for its shopping streets.
54 lines, Buy It Now = $20

"Tumbled Voices"
Story Date: Friday, August 29, 2014
Summary: Kenzie talks with Many Tongues about what makes a dialect or a language.
102 lines, Buy It Now = $51

Kenzie enjoyed listening
to the flow of language
around him, even though
he didn't know much yet.

"Zakkyo"
Summary: These mixed-use buildings have commercial businesses on every floor.
40 lines, Buy It Now = $15

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cupcake_goth

Day TWO of missing work because of a migraine. Which, of course, in addition to being a horrible experience now comes with a side of anxiety and paranoia about job security. Sure, Brain Raccoons, let’s do that.

—-

Last night was the “The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only” concert in NYC, and every image or video snippet from it is amazing. Sam Reid truly has been possessed by the spirit of Lestat. Not being at the concert is going to be a regret for the rest of my life, which I KNOW is a small, inconsequential thing to regret when balanced against everything else going on, but … I’ve been waiting for something like this since I was a teen, so of course it stings.

However, I’m very lucky in that a friend with media news connections went and picked up some swag for me!

ysabetwordsmith

The internet peaked in 2008

The year is 2008. You don't know it yet, but the internet will never again be as accessible, searchable, interoperable, or durable as it is right now. Profit motive, the tragedy of the commons, and malicious self interest are beginning to conspire to erode all of the best parts of the online world, and it will only get worse from here. Here are some of the highlights of your regular online experience that the people being born today won't even realize were taken from them:

Aaaaand now I'm homesick again.

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ysabetwordsmith

WHAT I MISS ABOUT THE EARLY (1996-2000) WORLD WIDE WEB

The Internet was dominated by kind of counter-cultural people

Then the mundanes showed up, and it began to suck -- much like what happened to fandom.

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tyger

Today I went to Bunnings (Mama drove, which was nice, she wanted to see if she was able to do it yet. Thankfully yes!), and eventually settled on a type of bracket. Unfortunately there weren't any that came in single versions, so I also had to learn how to use the angle grinder so I could split it up - but hey, now I know how to use the angle grinder! :D And after that my father and I figured out how to bend it so it's the right shape, and then I put them up! And now all my blinds are hanging up!!!! :D :D :D

Still have to do the bottom weight and string up two of them but!!! Now I CAN do that! Figuring out where exactly the bottom weight needs to be placed is very much recommended to be done once it's hanging, so! Job for tomorrow, though, yes.

Anyway other than that uhhhh. Not much. Something something brains something something - seriously, they're just being a butt with the zoning out, likely because I've been working them hard figuring out How To Do The Thing. Anyway that's how accidentally five-fucking-thirty-am, whoops. =_=

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Birthplace

ysabetwordsmith

AI search tools may be stripping the internet of its humanity

There’s something that happens when you ask a question on the internet and get a clean, confident answer back in seconds.

It feels like progress. You got what you needed without wading through a dozen blog posts, forum threads, and personal testimonials of varying quality.

A new study from University of California, Riverside (UCR) suggests that what gets filtered out in that exchange is more significant than it might seem.

Moreover, as AI systems take over more of how we find information online, the web may be quietly losing something it took 25 years to accumulate.

Using AI to find a list of links to human-made resources is fine. Using AI to generate "answers" is no better than using a Ouija board to ask random spirits for advice. AI answers can't cite their sources so they are useless.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is mostly sunny and warm.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches. Red-winged blackbirds are singing overhead.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 6/3/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I've seen a male cardinal at the hopper feeder.

EDIT 6/3/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 6/3/26 -- I watered plants in the house yard.

EDIT 6/3/26 -- I watered plants in the new picnic table garden.

EDIT 6/3/26 -- I watered more plants in the house yard.

EDIT 6/3/26 -- We went out skywatching shortly after sunset and spotted 3 bats flying around the yard. :D Yay bats!

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Everglades Restoration Project Ongoing for 20-Plus Years Sees Huge Rewilding Success

A huge area of the Everglades that was drained in an attempt to convert it to suburbia has been restored to a somewhat native ecosystem after 2 decades of reverse-landscape engineering.

Picayune Strand is a big, almost perfect rectangle of south Florida wetland located northwest of Everglades National Park, northeast of Thousand Islands Nat. Wildlife Refuge, and west of Florida Panther Nat. Wildlife Refuge.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is mostly sunny and warm.

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 6/2/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 6/2/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I've seen a grackle at the hopper feeder.

EDIT 6/2/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 6/2/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I watered plants in the house yard.

EDIT 6/2/26 -- I watered the new picnic table garden.

I walked around the yard a bit. The purple penstemon from last year is blooming in the wildflower garden with clusters of little white trumpets. :D

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

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