woman-shaped person, she/her/hers are fine, terfs/swerfs/exclusionsts will be blocked. i simply do not care about shipping discourse and purity culture wars bc i have other things to worry about and assimilation is not my goal.
a common throughline in shit i like is understanding how and why systems work and fail. i do my best to have unique and blockable tags per fandom. popular tags include:
#tuesday again no problem- a weekly roundup where i talk about what i’ve been reading/watching/playing/making/listening to
#evil lair llc - shit i do to my apartment/various non-textile hacky nonsense
#mackintosh my little black cat. mack for short.
#phil short for philip marlowe, my little tabby cat. not a thought in her beautiful empty head.
#maps charts and graphs/ #and lists and flags - bureaucratic & simplified representations of information
#technology and you - dumb hardware mostly
#better living through the scientific method- science communication (mostly astronomy hoax debunking), shit i think is neat, early- to mid-century physical sciences lab aesthetics
#my one true love is the sky - astronomy shit
#cowboyblogging general western stuff/#ain’t that a kick in the head - stuff tangential to a Fallout: New Vegas/The Good The Bad and the Ugly crossover you can read on ao3 here
#textile crimes - i was a textile lead at a makerspace and i’ve never really grown out of playing with string
#good lines - art i think is neat
#answered - ask memes mostly if u wanna go ahead and block that
#capitalism and you the stupidest tech finance shit imaginable from when i used to do market research for video games
elsewhere:
ao3: sictransitgloriamundi
discord: girlfriendsofthegalaxy#5949 (mutuals only pls)
reading (book): the daevabad trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
watching: fallow
playing: genshin update
making: ironing stuff
listening
i am not loving the youtube mixes as much as spotify. the first five to eight songs are songs i have saved or am vaguely familiar with and then it always devolves wildly into stuff that does not match the stated vibe in the playlist title at ALL but is theoretically something people in the same age range might be listening to? there was a my chemical romance mix that gave me four nirvana songs in a row and then some reel big fish. not even any of the popular nirvana songs. i am not familiar enough with reel big fish to know if that was a popular song. anyway this has been EMBEDDED in my head bc youtube keeps starting the dance mixes with charli
-
reading (article)
The Houston Progressive Caucus has accused the city's Office of the Inspector General of covering for the mayor’s office because it is a div
more clown corruption behavior from my corrupt clown mayor. this man is NOT getting reelected he has lost the mandate of heaven (too openly corrupt)
City Controller Chris Hollins called for Mayor John Whitmire to suspend his senior adviser Chris Brown, but the mayor is defending him. The
my mayor's financial integrity advisor is a personal friend of the mayor, makes $127k a year, and two and a half years into his job has physically come into work thirteen times. this county HATES working from home so this man is for SURE not working from home
-
reading (book)
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for...
this is the front two-thirds of a completed trilogy. i read the first book when it came out in 2017, loved it, and slowly acquired the physical copies before i moved down here. have i picked them up again? no. i did, about a year ago, vaguely rec them to my bestie bc she loves a pair of protagonists that are fucking idiots and boy howdy are these a pair of fucking idiots. nahri does magic page fucking two but has convinced herself it's just bc she's so good at being a con artist. she's really honed her skills, yanno. i also love a woman who takes what she wants with both hands. the guy is fine. i love him bc nahri loves him so much.
anyway. the first book came off my bestie's libby holds as these books came onto kindle unlimited so we have sort of been binging them? very stressful to read. everything happens so much. a lot of modern western romantasy (this trilogy is straight up fantasy with a romantic element) my bestie reads is very... the last twenty or thirty years based? like it's dealing with someone's shitty king dad and the consequences of his actions. this is dealing with hundreds and thousands of years of policy and politics. chakraborty is so good at good intentions that worsen things for literally everyone.
OOOH i love political intrigue and whispers in the halls of the palace!!! this is a straight heterosexual romance happening in the b-plot when an active political crisis is not unfolding but i can't hold that against it. i have some libby holds about to expire i but am both very excited and very nervous to start the third book
-
watching
fallow.
-
playing
and now for a genshin update. hit hard pity on her but did not spend money aside from the $5 battle pass i buy approximately every other month so i am pleased.
one of the beefier updates we've had in a while, bc we went to the moon, the moon in the fucking sky. moon's pretty fun. moon's hiding a lot of lore we had to excavate. on the [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT] at the top of the space elevator, there are what i'm choosing to interpret as glenn fireflies in this game that loves a glowing slightly moving dot. these were probably ice from the flash cooling loops, but some were also cosmic rays and minor debri.
from the friendship 7 mission:
John Glenn: "This is Friendship Seven. I’ll try to describe what I’m in here. I am in a big mass of some very small particles that are brilliantly lit up like they’re luminescent. I never saw anything like it. They round a little; they’re coming by the capsule, and they look like little stars. A whole shower of them coming by.
They swirl around the capsule and go in front of the window and they’re all brilliantly lighted. They probably average maybe 7 or 8 feet apart, but I can see them all down below me, also."
CAPCOM: "Roger, Friendship Seven. Can you hear any impact with the capsule? Over."
John Glenn: "Negative, negative. They’re very slow; they’re not going away from me more than maybe 3 or 4 miles per hour. They’re going at the same speed I am approximately. They’re only very slightly under my speed. Over. They do, they do have a different motion, though, from me because they swirl around the capsule and then depart back the way I am looking."
^space elevator from moon to [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT]. what's the big glowy thing? don't worry about that either
-
making
there's this lady (well, several ladies, it seems to be a popular video topic) doing instagram reels about making her home one percent nicer every day, which seems more sustainable than getting my shit together september, where i get my shit together during the month of september. the following is making my house about a tenth of a percentage point better but i already had the iron out.
this is one of my favorite towels. this is an EXTREMELY good vintage linen teatowel. i didn't even buy it in cranberryland new england i found it down here for 79c. nearly half its usable width has been taken up by various wrinkles, bc it wants to be longitudinally wrinkled So Bad you can see the heavy color change along the edges. so i got it just under dripping wet and then really put my back and elbows into ironing it flat. we shall see if it recrumples next time i wash it.
why i had the iron out in the first place is bc my least favorite part of needlework is framing the damn things. these have been languishing for months and (with the blackwork) years. i need to give them another blast of steam in the hopes they flatten out a bit more.
reading (book): the daevabad trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
watching: fallow
playing: genshin update
making: ironing stuff
listening
i am not loving the youtube mixes as much as spotify. the first five to eight songs are songs i have saved or am vaguely familiar with and then it always devolves wildly into stuff that does not match the stated vibe in the playlist title at ALL but is theoretically something people in the same age range might be listening to? there was a my chemical romance mix that gave me four nirvana songs in a row and then some reel big fish. not even any of the popular nirvana songs. i am not familiar enough with reel big fish to know if that was a popular song. anyway this has been EMBEDDED in my head bc youtube keeps starting the dance mixes with charli
-
reading (article)
The Houston Progressive Caucus has accused the city's Office of the Inspector General of covering for the mayor’s office because it is a div
more clown corruption behavior from my corrupt clown mayor. this man is NOT getting reelected he has lost the mandate of heaven (too openly corrupt)
City Controller Chris Hollins called for Mayor John Whitmire to suspend his senior adviser Chris Brown, but the mayor is defending him. The
my mayor's financial integrity advisor is a personal friend of the mayor, makes $127k a year, and two and a half years into his job has physically come into work thirteen times. this county HATES working from home so this man is for SURE not working from home
-
reading (book)
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for...
this is the front two-thirds of a completed trilogy. i read the first book when it came out in 2017, loved it, and slowly acquired the physical copies before i moved down here. have i picked them up again? no. i did, about a year ago, vaguely rec them to my bestie bc she loves a pair of protagonists that are fucking idiots and boy howdy are these a pair of fucking idiots. nahri does magic page fucking two but has convinced herself it's just bc she's so good at being a con artist. she's really honed her skills, yanno. i also love a woman who takes what she wants with both hands. the guy is fine. i love him bc nahri loves him so much.
anyway. the first book came off my bestie's libby holds as these books came onto kindle unlimited so we have sort of been binging them? very stressful to read. everything happens so much. a lot of modern western romantasy (this trilogy is straight up fantasy with a romantic element) my bestie reads is very... the last twenty or thirty years based? like it's dealing with someone's shitty king dad and the consequences of his actions. this is dealing with hundreds and thousands of years of policy and politics. chakraborty is so good at good intentions that worsen things for literally everyone.
OOOH i love political intrigue and whispers in the halls of the palace!!! this is a straight heterosexual romance happening in the b-plot when an active political crisis is not unfolding but i can't hold that against it. i have some libby holds about to expire i but am both very excited and very nervous to start the third book
-
watching
fallow.
-
playing
and now for a genshin update. hit hard pity on her but did not spend money aside from the $5 battle pass i buy approximately every other month so i am pleased.
one of the beefier updates we've had in a while, bc we went to the moon, the moon in the fucking sky. moon's pretty fun. moon's hiding a lot of lore we had to excavate. on the [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT] at the top of the space elevator, there are what i'm choosing to interpret as glenn fireflies in this game that loves a glowing slightly moving dot. these were probably ice from the flash cooling loops, but some were also cosmic rays and minor debri.
from the friendship 7 mission:
John Glenn: "This is Friendship Seven. I’ll try to describe what I’m in here. I am in a big mass of some very small particles that are brilliantly lit up like they’re luminescent. I never saw anything like it. They round a little; they’re coming by the capsule, and they look like little stars. A whole shower of them coming by.
They swirl around the capsule and go in front of the window and they’re all brilliantly lighted. They probably average maybe 7 or 8 feet apart, but I can see them all down below me, also."
CAPCOM: "Roger, Friendship Seven. Can you hear any impact with the capsule? Over."
John Glenn: "Negative, negative. They’re very slow; they’re not going away from me more than maybe 3 or 4 miles per hour. They’re going at the same speed I am approximately. They’re only very slightly under my speed. Over. They do, they do have a different motion, though, from me because they swirl around the capsule and then depart back the way I am looking."
^space elevator from moon to [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT]. what's the big glowy thing? don't worry about that either
-
making
there's this lady (well, several ladies, it seems to be a popular video topic) doing instagram reels about making her home one percent nicer every day, which seems more sustainable than getting my shit together september, where i get my shit together during the month of september. the following is making my house about a tenth of a percentage point better but i already had the iron out.
this is one of my favorite towels. this is an EXTREMELY good vintage linen teatowel. i didn't even buy it in cranberryland new england i found it down here for 79c. nearly half its usable width has been taken up by various wrinkles, bc it wants to be longitudinally wrinkled So Bad you can see the heavy color change along the edges. so i got it just under dripping wet and then really put my back and elbows into ironing it flat. we shall see if it recrumples next time i wash it.
why i had the iron out in the first place is bc my least favorite part of needlework is framing the damn things. these have been languishing for months and (with the blackwork) years. i need to give them another blast of steam in the hopes they flatten out a bit more.
reading (book): the daevabad trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
watching: fallow
playing: genshin update
making: ironing stuff
listening
i am not loving the youtube mixes as much as spotify. the first five to eight songs are songs i have saved or am vaguely familiar with and then it always devolves wildly into stuff that does not match the stated vibe in the playlist title at ALL but is theoretically something people in the same age range might be listening to? there was a my chemical romance mix that gave me four nirvana songs in a row and then some reel big fish. not even any of the popular nirvana songs. i am not familiar enough with reel big fish to know if that was a popular song. anyway this has been EMBEDDED in my head bc youtube keeps starting the dance mixes with charli
-
reading (article)
The Houston Progressive Caucus has accused the city's Office of the Inspector General of covering for the mayor’s office because it is a div
more clown corruption behavior from my corrupt clown mayor. this man is NOT getting reelected he has lost the mandate of heaven (too openly corrupt)
City Controller Chris Hollins called for Mayor John Whitmire to suspend his senior adviser Chris Brown, but the mayor is defending him. The
my mayor's financial integrity advisor is a personal friend of the mayor, makes $127k a year, and two and a half years into his job has physically come into work thirteen times. this county HATES working from home so this man is for SURE not working from home
-
reading (book)
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for...
this is the front two-thirds of a completed trilogy. i read the first book when it came out in 2017, loved it, and slowly acquired the physical copies before i moved down here. have i picked them up again? no. i did, about a year ago, vaguely rec them to my bestie bc she loves a pair of protagonists that are fucking idiots and boy howdy are these a pair of fucking idiots. nahri does magic page fucking two but has convinced herself it's just bc she's so good at being a con artist. she's really honed her skills, yanno. i also love a woman who takes what she wants with both hands. the guy is fine. i love him bc nahri loves him so much.
anyway. the first book came off my bestie's libby holds as these books came onto kindle unlimited so we have sort of been binging them? very stressful to read. everything happens so much. a lot of modern western romantasy (this trilogy is straight up fantasy with a romantic element) my bestie reads is very... the last twenty or thirty years based? like it's dealing with someone's shitty king dad and the consequences of his actions. this is dealing with hundreds and thousands of years of policy and politics. chakraborty is so good at good intentions that worsen things for literally everyone.
OOOH i love political intrigue and whispers in the halls of the palace!!! this is a straight heterosexual romance happening in the b-plot when an active political crisis is not unfolding but i can't hold that against it. i have some libby holds about to expire i but am both very excited and very nervous to start the third book
-
watching
fallow.
-
playing
and now for a genshin update. hit hard pity on her but did not spend money aside from the $5 battle pass i buy approximately every other month so i am pleased.
one of the beefier updates we've had in a while, bc we went to the moon, the moon in the fucking sky. moon's pretty fun. moon's hiding a lot of lore we had to excavate. on the [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT] at the top of the space elevator, there are what i'm choosing to interpret as glenn fireflies in this game that loves a glowing slightly moving dot. these were probably ice from the flash cooling loops, but some were also cosmic rays and minor debri.
from the friendship 7 mission:
John Glenn: "This is Friendship Seven. I’ll try to describe what I’m in here. I am in a big mass of some very small particles that are brilliantly lit up like they’re luminescent. I never saw anything like it. They round a little; they’re coming by the capsule, and they look like little stars. A whole shower of them coming by.
They swirl around the capsule and go in front of the window and they’re all brilliantly lighted. They probably average maybe 7 or 8 feet apart, but I can see them all down below me, also."
CAPCOM: "Roger, Friendship Seven. Can you hear any impact with the capsule? Over."
John Glenn: "Negative, negative. They’re very slow; they’re not going away from me more than maybe 3 or 4 miles per hour. They’re going at the same speed I am approximately. They’re only very slightly under my speed. Over. They do, they do have a different motion, though, from me because they swirl around the capsule and then depart back the way I am looking."
^space elevator from moon to [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT]. what's the big glowy thing? don't worry about that either
-
making
there's this lady (well, several ladies, it seems to be a popular video topic) doing instagram reels about making her home one percent nicer every day, which seems more sustainable than getting my shit together september, where i get my shit together during the month of september. the following is making my house about a tenth of a percentage point better but i already had the iron out.
this is one of my favorite towels. this is an EXTREMELY good vintage linen teatowel. i didn't even buy it in cranberryland new england i found it down here for 79c. nearly half its usable width has been taken up by various wrinkles, bc it wants to be longitudinally wrinkled So Bad you can see the heavy color change along the edges. so i got it just under dripping wet and then really put my back and elbows into ironing it flat. we shall see if it recrumples next time i wash it.
why i had the iron out in the first place is bc my least favorite part of needlework is framing the damn things. these have been languishing for months and (with the blackwork) years. i need to give them another blast of steam in the hopes they flatten out a bit more.
reading (book): the daevabad trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
watching: fallow
playing: genshin update
making: ironing stuff
listening
i am not loving the youtube mixes as much as spotify. the first five to eight songs are songs i have saved or am vaguely familiar with and then it always devolves wildly into stuff that does not match the stated vibe in the playlist title at ALL but is theoretically something people in the same age range might be listening to? there was a my chemical romance mix that gave me four nirvana songs in a row and then some reel big fish. not even any of the popular nirvana songs. i am not familiar enough with reel big fish to know if that was a popular song. anyway this has been EMBEDDED in my head bc youtube keeps starting the dance mixes with charli
-
reading (article)
The Houston Progressive Caucus has accused the city's Office of the Inspector General of covering for the mayor’s office because it is a div
more clown corruption behavior from my corrupt clown mayor. this man is NOT getting reelected he has lost the mandate of heaven (too openly corrupt)
City Controller Chris Hollins called for Mayor John Whitmire to suspend his senior adviser Chris Brown, but the mayor is defending him. The
my mayor's financial integrity advisor is a personal friend of the mayor, makes $127k a year, and two and a half years into his job has physically come into work thirteen times. this county HATES working from home so this man is for SURE not working from home
-
reading (book)
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for...
this is the front two-thirds of a completed trilogy. i read the first book when it came out in 2017, loved it, and slowly acquired the physical copies before i moved down here. have i picked them up again? no. i did, about a year ago, vaguely rec them to my bestie bc she loves a pair of protagonists that are fucking idiots and boy howdy are these a pair of fucking idiots. nahri does magic page fucking two but has convinced herself it's just bc she's so good at being a con artist. she's really honed her skills, yanno. i also love a woman who takes what she wants with both hands. the guy is fine. i love him bc nahri loves him so much.
anyway. the first book came off my bestie's libby holds as these books came onto kindle unlimited so we have sort of been binging them? very stressful to read. everything happens so much. a lot of modern western romantasy (this trilogy is straight up fantasy with a romantic element) my bestie reads is very... the last twenty or thirty years based? like it's dealing with someone's shitty king dad and the consequences of his actions. this is dealing with hundreds and thousands of years of policy and politics. chakraborty is so good at good intentions that worsen things for literally everyone.
OOOH i love political intrigue and whispers in the halls of the palace!!! this is a straight heterosexual romance happening in the b-plot when an active political crisis is not unfolding but i can't hold that against it. i have some libby holds about to expire i but am both very excited and very nervous to start the third book
-
watching
fallow.
-
playing
and now for a genshin update. hit hard pity on her but did not spend money aside from the $5 battle pass i buy approximately every other month so i am pleased.
one of the beefier updates we've had in a while, bc we went to the moon, the moon in the fucking sky. moon's pretty fun. moon's hiding a lot of lore we had to excavate. on the [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT] at the top of the space elevator, there are what i'm choosing to interpret as glenn fireflies in this game that loves a glowing slightly moving dot. these were probably ice from the flash cooling loops, but some were also cosmic rays and minor debri.
from the friendship 7 mission:
John Glenn: "This is Friendship Seven. I’ll try to describe what I’m in here. I am in a big mass of some very small particles that are brilliantly lit up like they’re luminescent. I never saw anything like it. They round a little; they’re coming by the capsule, and they look like little stars. A whole shower of them coming by.
They swirl around the capsule and go in front of the window and they’re all brilliantly lighted. They probably average maybe 7 or 8 feet apart, but I can see them all down below me, also."
CAPCOM: "Roger, Friendship Seven. Can you hear any impact with the capsule? Over."
John Glenn: "Negative, negative. They’re very slow; they’re not going away from me more than maybe 3 or 4 miles per hour. They’re going at the same speed I am approximately. They’re only very slightly under my speed. Over. They do, they do have a different motion, though, from me because they swirl around the capsule and then depart back the way I am looking."
^space elevator from moon to [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT]. what's the big glowy thing? don't worry about that either
-
making
there's this lady (well, several ladies, it seems to be a popular video topic) doing instagram reels about making her home one percent nicer every day, which seems more sustainable than getting my shit together september, where i get my shit together during the month of september. the following is making my house about a tenth of a percentage point better but i already had the iron out.
this is one of my favorite towels. this is an EXTREMELY good vintage linen teatowel. i didn't even buy it in cranberryland new england i found it down here for 79c. nearly half its usable width has been taken up by various wrinkles, bc it wants to be longitudinally wrinkled So Bad you can see the heavy color change along the edges. so i got it just under dripping wet and then really put my back and elbows into ironing it flat. we shall see if it recrumples next time i wash it.
why i had the iron out in the first place is bc my least favorite part of needlework is framing the damn things. these have been languishing for months and (with the blackwork) years. i need to give them another blast of steam in the hopes they flatten out a bit more.
reading (book): the daevabad trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
watching: fallow
playing: genshin update
making: ironing stuff
listening
i am not loving the youtube mixes as much as spotify. the first five to eight songs are songs i have saved or am vaguely familiar with and then it always devolves wildly into stuff that does not match the stated vibe in the playlist title at ALL but is theoretically something people in the same age range might be listening to? there was a my chemical romance mix that gave me four nirvana songs in a row and then some reel big fish. not even any of the popular nirvana songs. i am not familiar enough with reel big fish to know if that was a popular song. anyway this has been EMBEDDED in my head bc youtube keeps starting the dance mixes with charli
-
reading (article)
The Houston Progressive Caucus has accused the city's Office of the Inspector General of covering for the mayor’s office because it is a div
more clown corruption behavior from my corrupt clown mayor. this man is NOT getting reelected he has lost the mandate of heaven (too openly corrupt)
City Controller Chris Hollins called for Mayor John Whitmire to suspend his senior adviser Chris Brown, but the mayor is defending him. The
my mayor's financial integrity advisor is a personal friend of the mayor, makes $127k a year, and two and a half years into his job has physically come into work thirteen times. this county HATES working from home so this man is for SURE not working from home
-
reading (book)
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for...
this is the front two-thirds of a completed trilogy. i read the first book when it came out in 2017, loved it, and slowly acquired the physical copies before i moved down here. have i picked them up again? no. i did, about a year ago, vaguely rec them to my bestie bc she loves a pair of protagonists that are fucking idiots and boy howdy are these a pair of fucking idiots. nahri does magic page fucking two but has convinced herself it's just bc she's so good at being a con artist. she's really honed her skills, yanno. i also love a woman who takes what she wants with both hands. the guy is fine. i love him bc nahri loves him so much.
anyway. the first book came off my bestie's libby holds as these books came onto kindle unlimited so we have sort of been binging them? very stressful to read. everything happens so much. a lot of modern western romantasy (this trilogy is straight up fantasy with a romantic element) my bestie reads is very... the last twenty or thirty years based? like it's dealing with someone's shitty king dad and the consequences of his actions. this is dealing with hundreds and thousands of years of policy and politics. chakraborty is so good at good intentions that worsen things for literally everyone.
OOOH i love political intrigue and whispers in the halls of the palace!!! this is a straight heterosexual romance happening in the b-plot when an active political crisis is not unfolding but i can't hold that against it. i have some libby holds about to expire i but am both very excited and very nervous to start the third book
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watching
fallow.
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playing
and now for a genshin update. hit hard pity on her but did not spend money aside from the $5 battle pass i buy approximately every other month so i am pleased.
one of the beefier updates we've had in a while, bc we went to the moon, the moon in the fucking sky. moon's pretty fun. moon's hiding a lot of lore we had to excavate. on the [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT] at the top of the space elevator, there are what i'm choosing to interpret as glenn fireflies in this game that loves a glowing slightly moving dot. these were probably ice from the flash cooling loops, but some were also cosmic rays and minor debri.
from the friendship 7 mission:
John Glenn: "This is Friendship Seven. I’ll try to describe what I’m in here. I am in a big mass of some very small particles that are brilliantly lit up like they’re luminescent. I never saw anything like it. They round a little; they’re coming by the capsule, and they look like little stars. A whole shower of them coming by.
They swirl around the capsule and go in front of the window and they’re all brilliantly lighted. They probably average maybe 7 or 8 feet apart, but I can see them all down below me, also."
CAPCOM: "Roger, Friendship Seven. Can you hear any impact with the capsule? Over."
John Glenn: "Negative, negative. They’re very slow; they’re not going away from me more than maybe 3 or 4 miles per hour. They’re going at the same speed I am approximately. They’re only very slightly under my speed. Over. They do, they do have a different motion, though, from me because they swirl around the capsule and then depart back the way I am looking."
^space elevator from moon to [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT]. what's the big glowy thing? don't worry about that either
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making
there's this lady (well, several ladies, it seems to be a popular video topic) doing instagram reels about making her home one percent nicer every day, which seems more sustainable than getting my shit together september, where i get my shit together during the month of september. the following is making my house about a tenth of a percentage point better but i already had the iron out.
this is one of my favorite towels. this is an EXTREMELY good vintage linen teatowel. i didn't even buy it in cranberryland new england i found it down here for 79c. nearly half its usable width has been taken up by various wrinkles, bc it wants to be longitudinally wrinkled So Bad you can see the heavy color change along the edges. so i got it just under dripping wet and then really put my back and elbows into ironing it flat. we shall see if it recrumples next time i wash it.
why i had the iron out in the first place is bc my least favorite part of needlework is framing the damn things. these have been languishing for months and (with the blackwork) years. i need to give them another blast of steam in the hopes they flatten out a bit more.
Goodreads Editor’s Pick * Town & Country Best Book of Fall * Ms. Magazine Best Book * Most Anticipated: Autostraddle & Literary HubA
oooh im so annoyed at myself. this was on hold for nearly four months. i wanted to like this one so so bad but the protagonist is dealing with a cocktail of grief and academia and unreality JUST enough that it would not be good for me to read this now. back on the “someday” libby list with you
reading (book): the daevabad trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
watching: fallow
playing: genshin update
making: ironing stuff
listening
i am not loving the youtube mixes as much as spotify. the first five to eight songs are songs i have saved or am vaguely familiar with and then it always devolves wildly into stuff that does not match the stated vibe in the playlist title at ALL but is theoretically something people in the same age range might be listening to? there was a my chemical romance mix that gave me four nirvana songs in a row and then some reel big fish. not even any of the popular nirvana songs. i am not familiar enough with reel big fish to know if that was a popular song. anyway this has been EMBEDDED in my head bc youtube keeps starting the dance mixes with charli
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reading (article)
The Houston Progressive Caucus has accused the city's Office of the Inspector General of covering for the mayor’s office because it is a div
more clown corruption behavior from my corrupt clown mayor. this man is NOT getting reelected he has lost the mandate of heaven (too openly corrupt)
City Controller Chris Hollins called for Mayor John Whitmire to suspend his senior adviser Chris Brown, but the mayor is defending him. The
my mayor's financial integrity advisor is a personal friend of the mayor, makes $127k a year, and two and a half years into his job has physically come into work thirteen times. this county HATES working from home so this man is for SURE not working from home
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reading (book)
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for...
this is the front two-thirds of a completed trilogy. i read the first book when it came out in 2017, loved it, and slowly acquired the physical copies before i moved down here. have i picked them up again? no. i did, about a year ago, vaguely rec them to my bestie bc she loves a pair of protagonists that are fucking idiots and boy howdy are these a pair of fucking idiots. nahri does magic page fucking two but has convinced herself it's just bc she's so good at being a con artist. she's really honed her skills, yanno. i also love a woman who takes what she wants with both hands. the guy is fine. i love him bc nahri loves him so much.
anyway. the first book came off my bestie's libby holds as these books came onto kindle unlimited so we have sort of been binging them? very stressful to read. everything happens so much. a lot of modern western romantasy (this trilogy is straight up fantasy with a romantic element) my bestie reads is very... the last twenty or thirty years based? like it's dealing with someone's shitty king dad and the consequences of his actions. this is dealing with hundreds and thousands of years of policy and politics. chakraborty is so good at good intentions that worsen things for literally everyone.
OOOH i love political intrigue and whispers in the halls of the palace!!! this is a straight heterosexual romance happening in the b-plot when an active political crisis is not unfolding but i can't hold that against it. i have some libby holds about to expire i but am both very excited and very nervous to start the third book
-
watching
fallow.
-
playing
and now for a genshin update. hit hard pity on her but did not spend money aside from the $5 battle pass i buy approximately every other month so i am pleased.
one of the beefier updates we've had in a while, bc we went to the moon, the moon in the fucking sky. moon's pretty fun. moon's hiding a lot of lore we had to excavate. on the [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT] at the top of the space elevator, there are what i'm choosing to interpret as glenn fireflies in this game that loves a glowing slightly moving dot. these were probably ice from the flash cooling loops, but some were also cosmic rays and minor debri.
from the friendship 7 mission:
John Glenn: "This is Friendship Seven. I’ll try to describe what I’m in here. I am in a big mass of some very small particles that are brilliantly lit up like they’re luminescent. I never saw anything like it. They round a little; they’re coming by the capsule, and they look like little stars. A whole shower of them coming by.
They swirl around the capsule and go in front of the window and they’re all brilliantly lighted. They probably average maybe 7 or 8 feet apart, but I can see them all down below me, also."
CAPCOM: "Roger, Friendship Seven. Can you hear any impact with the capsule? Over."
John Glenn: "Negative, negative. They’re very slow; they’re not going away from me more than maybe 3 or 4 miles per hour. They’re going at the same speed I am approximately. They’re only very slightly under my speed. Over. They do, they do have a different motion, though, from me because they swirl around the capsule and then depart back the way I am looking."
^space elevator from moon to [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT]. what's the big glowy thing? don't worry about that either
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making
there's this lady (well, several ladies, it seems to be a popular video topic) doing instagram reels about making her home one percent nicer every day, which seems more sustainable than getting my shit together september, where i get my shit together during the month of september. the following is making my house about a tenth of a percentage point better but i already had the iron out.
this is one of my favorite towels. this is an EXTREMELY good vintage linen teatowel. i didn't even buy it in cranberryland new england i found it down here for 79c. nearly half its usable width has been taken up by various wrinkles, bc it wants to be longitudinally wrinkled So Bad you can see the heavy color change along the edges. so i got it just under dripping wet and then really put my back and elbows into ironing it flat. we shall see if it recrumples next time i wash it.
why i had the iron out in the first place is bc my least favorite part of needlework is framing the damn things. these have been languishing for months and (with the blackwork) years. i need to give them another blast of steam in the hopes they flatten out a bit more.
reading (book): the daevabad trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
watching: fallow
playing: genshin update
making: ironing stuff
listening
i am not loving the youtube mixes as much as spotify. the first five to eight songs are songs i have saved or am vaguely familiar with and then it always devolves wildly into stuff that does not match the stated vibe in the playlist title at ALL but is theoretically something people in the same age range might be listening to? there was a my chemical romance mix that gave me four nirvana songs in a row and then some reel big fish. not even any of the popular nirvana songs. i am not familiar enough with reel big fish to know if that was a popular song. anyway this has been EMBEDDED in my head bc youtube keeps starting the dance mixes with charli
-
reading (article)
The Houston Progressive Caucus has accused the city's Office of the Inspector General of covering for the mayor’s office because it is a div
more clown corruption behavior from my corrupt clown mayor. this man is NOT getting reelected he has lost the mandate of heaven (too openly corrupt)
City Controller Chris Hollins called for Mayor John Whitmire to suspend his senior adviser Chris Brown, but the mayor is defending him. The
my mayor's financial integrity advisor is a personal friend of the mayor, makes $127k a year, and two and a half years into his job has physically come into work thirteen times. this county HATES working from home so this man is for SURE not working from home
-
reading (book)
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for...
this is the front two-thirds of a completed trilogy. i read the first book when it came out in 2017, loved it, and slowly acquired the physical copies before i moved down here. have i picked them up again? no. i did, about a year ago, vaguely rec them to my bestie bc she loves a pair of protagonists that are fucking idiots and boy howdy are these a pair of fucking idiots. nahri does magic page fucking two but has convinced herself it's just bc she's so good at being a con artist. she's really honed her skills, yanno. i also love a woman who takes what she wants with both hands. the guy is fine. i love him bc nahri loves him so much.
anyway. the first book came off my bestie's libby holds as these books came onto kindle unlimited so we have sort of been binging them? very stressful to read. everything happens so much. a lot of modern western romantasy (this trilogy is straight up fantasy with a romantic element) my bestie reads is very... the last twenty or thirty years based? like it's dealing with someone's shitty king dad and the consequences of his actions. this is dealing with hundreds and thousands of years of policy and politics. chakraborty is so good at good intentions that worsen things for literally everyone.
OOOH i love political intrigue and whispers in the halls of the palace!!! this is a straight heterosexual romance happening in the b-plot when an active political crisis is not unfolding but i can't hold that against it. i have some libby holds about to expire i but am both very excited and very nervous to start the third book
-
watching
fallow.
-
playing
and now for a genshin update. hit hard pity on her but did not spend money aside from the $5 battle pass i buy approximately every other month so i am pleased.
one of the beefier updates we've had in a while, bc we went to the moon, the moon in the fucking sky. moon's pretty fun. moon's hiding a lot of lore we had to excavate. on the [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT] at the top of the space elevator, there are what i'm choosing to interpret as glenn fireflies in this game that loves a glowing slightly moving dot. these were probably ice from the flash cooling loops, but some were also cosmic rays and minor debri.
from the friendship 7 mission:
John Glenn: "This is Friendship Seven. I’ll try to describe what I’m in here. I am in a big mass of some very small particles that are brilliantly lit up like they’re luminescent. I never saw anything like it. They round a little; they’re coming by the capsule, and they look like little stars. A whole shower of them coming by.
They swirl around the capsule and go in front of the window and they’re all brilliantly lighted. They probably average maybe 7 or 8 feet apart, but I can see them all down below me, also."
CAPCOM: "Roger, Friendship Seven. Can you hear any impact with the capsule? Over."
John Glenn: "Negative, negative. They’re very slow; they’re not going away from me more than maybe 3 or 4 miles per hour. They’re going at the same speed I am approximately. They’re only very slightly under my speed. Over. They do, they do have a different motion, though, from me because they swirl around the capsule and then depart back the way I am looking."
^space elevator from moon to [DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT]. what's the big glowy thing? don't worry about that either
-
making
there's this lady (well, several ladies, it seems to be a popular video topic) doing instagram reels about making her home one percent nicer every day, which seems more sustainable than getting my shit together september, where i get my shit together during the month of september. the following is making my house about a tenth of a percentage point better but i already had the iron out.
this is one of my favorite towels. this is an EXTREMELY good vintage linen teatowel. i didn't even buy it in cranberryland new england i found it down here for 79c. nearly half its usable width has been taken up by various wrinkles, bc it wants to be longitudinally wrinkled So Bad you can see the heavy color change along the edges. so i got it just under dripping wet and then really put my back and elbows into ironing it flat. we shall see if it recrumples next time i wash it.
why i had the iron out in the first place is bc my least favorite part of needlework is framing the damn things. these have been languishing for months and (with the blackwork) years. i need to give them another blast of steam in the hopes they flatten out a bit more.
Listening: I have been slowly trying to get my music library into an actual order again so I picked up some of my old metadata databases I was building last time I tried this and managed to put a good chunk of my music through Beets, which means I now have networked access to all my music that was in nice, clean albums. Listening to a lot of Debussy
Reading: Started back in on A Beautifully Foolish Endeavour which is a very different book from An Absolutely Remarkable Thing.
This book is also very dated in a way that is essential to its content. It is I think interesting in giving Petrawicki an objectively cool and interesting technology instead of the easy to dunk on scam it could have used. Like. Reading this explains some of why Green is able to be normal when talking about AI, beyond just generally being the kind of person who seems to think carefully about things. He has already done the thinking about what if a technology is incredibly useful and powerful and also being deployed in dubious or stupid ways!
Watching: Continuing to watch some Severance. Occasionally my partner will ask me "hey what do you think it's doing" and like I have no goddamn clue. I am waiting for the information to be revealed.
Making: Fiddling with some electronics projects with whatever junk I have lying around. Trying to minmax this LED driver.
Built a Lego film camera model that I got as gift from a friend, extremely cute model, very cleverly put together, it's using a lot of tricks to assemble robust vertical panels that seem to be a much more common thing on newer aesthetic-minded models. I never really saw anything like this on Creator kits as a kid.
the knobs and cranks have some very clever tactile movements using technics pieces and there's a particularly tortured construction that wedges one of the rubber 2x1 buffer pieces in the middle of the model so that it moves like a film advance lever.
Playing: Forza Horizon 6 has some kind of horrible bug on my system that causes it to crash constantly so while I have tried to play it it has been incredibly frustrating and has me making extreme threats about Windows programmers. On Linux is runs without crashing but has extremely frustrating hitches and lag spikes so there's not really any good options here. Tempted to install Windows on my handheld again just to see if it has the same issues.
Tools and Equipment: If you are working with CSV's it basically always pays to put them into a Pandas dataframe. I was sorting through some of my old bank transactions for some stuff and it's just much easier when you have all the column information tied in correctly.
trying to get through a real dense but good history of lgbt life in sf pre-1965 and contemplating… like… the ways that gay life is entangled with vice are commonly flattened. like it is easy to think of it in purely liberatory bohemian “hell has all the best parties” terms but if your culture is reliant for its financial existence on a market for Sin, what that means is that organized crime and vices that give onto real evils will have market share in your liberatory space! Like it is both true that there’s no disentangling sex work from lesbianism in this time and place (statement of solidarity) and there’s no disentangling sex work from lesbianism in this time and place (some lesbians worked as pimps for their girlfriends to make the money to open their bars. I do not think this relationship was always awesome for their girlfriends!). It is both true that gay culture flourished during the lawlessness of prohibition (once you break down one arbitrary social boundary others start looking more flexible) and true that gay culture flourished in the lawlessness of prohibition (gay bars were key players in protection rackets and HEAVILY incentivized to fight any anticorruption measures in local politics, which they did). it’s the same as the fantasies about the golden age of piracy, right? on board this ship outside the strangling reach of the colonial powers of europe, egalitarianism prevailed! also total lack of protection against every evil including death, also frequently amoral participation in colonial violence
