My Favourite Breakfast

Aug. 12th, 2025 06:55 pm
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I drew this in Procreate for the current [community profile] drawesome challenge. The prompt was What makes you happy.

Breakfast is my favourite meal (the promise of a new day), and this has become my favourite breakfast over the past while - it definitely makes me happy.

A toasted bagel drizzled with garlic olive oil, smeared with Promite (a gentler variant of Vegemite made in Aussie), then generously covered with smoked garlic hummus (Turkish Kitchen brand, for any Kiwis here). I've only drawn half of the bagel, so assume I've eaten the other half and am humming happily. Dilmah's English Breakfast tea with milk in my favourite yellow Chinese mug (see icon), and Greek yoghurt flavoured with Barker's Apricot (like apricot jam but with no added sugar or sweetener) plus a little maple syrup. Yum.

Black and white drawing of a bagel with topping, a black lacquer bowl of yoghurt, and a Chinese mug of tea.


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Nothing Else Matters (13551 words) by alma_gloriosa
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock
Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock, Leonard McCoy, Nyota Uhura, Kodos
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Tarsus IV, Hurt!Jim, Vain Jim
Summary:

Nyota thinks Kirk is just vain. Spock isn't as sure. When a new mission leads to strange behavior from the captain, Spock wants to know what's going on, and how he can help - if Jim will let him.

Social Media Hiatus Day Eleven

Aug. 11th, 2025 08:54 pm
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Day Eleven started out okay and ended okay. My arm is bothering me, getting little tingles like there's a nerve pinched. Just goes hand in hand with my freaking carpal tunnel I've been trying to get a handle on. It's slow going though. So I have to force myself to sit straight as opposed to hunched over, which is vastly more comfortable. I mean, sitting upright isn't uncomfortable, it's just. . . my modus operandi is slouching lol. I need to get in to see a massage therapist and maybe a chiropractor if needed. I really wish Dr. Mondragon of YT fame lived closer, aka not in Florida. Regardless, when I next see my nurse practitioner, I'll have to have her make some recommendations.

I know I need to get moving more but it's just. . . hot and I have so little time anyways that it annoys me that I have to make any commitment to spending an hour or two doing exercise once or twice or three times a week. I wanted to do swimming but I can't freaking find the goggles or the nose plug I bought and I know I didn't throw them away or give them away. I wouldn't! But I stashed them someplace "safe" and now I can't, for the life of me, find them. Knowing me, they are in some place under something else and I just haven't gotten it yet.

Apparently it's part ranting post tonight lol )
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CSI: Beacon Hills (8243 words) by Jerakeen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Characters: Derek Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Sheriff Stilinski, Isaac Lahey, Bobby Finstock, Greenberg, Laura Hale
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Canon-Typical Violence, Community: cottoncandy_bingo, Forensics, Mates, Protective Derek, Oblivious Stiles, Alternate Universe - Law Enforcement, Podfic Available, Deputy Derek Hale, CSI Stiles, Translation Available
Series: Part 7 of Author's Favorites, Part 7 of Jerakeen's Bondfic (a list)
Summary: Back when Stiles was in high school Beacon Hills didn't have a crime lab, because they simply didn't need one. Those were the days.


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Basic Income

Aug. 11th, 2025 04:47 pm
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In a new pilot program, this city will give homeless young adults $1,200 in cash every month for two years

According to the Stanford Basic Income Lab, universal basic income is a periodic cash payment that is given to individuals unconditionally, requiring no work requirement or sanctions to access.

And as various nonprofits and cities across the country experiment with basic income programs, most have found that the money received is largely used to pay for the basic essentials many Americans struggle to afford.

A new pilot program in Boston, Massachusetts wants to find out if the same trend applies for a specific demographic: young adults facing homelessness
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Read more... )

Monday Update 8-11-25

Aug. 11th, 2025 03:03 pm
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These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Spider Apocalypse
Activism
Fossils
Birdfeeding
Safety
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Thinking
Safety
Moment of Silence: Jim Lovell
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 8-8-25: Icons
Today's Adventures
Inventions
Fossils
Birdfeeding
Bigotry
Birdfeeding
Good News

Food has 34 comments. "Philosophical Questions: Looks" has 48 comments. "Incompetence, Sloppy Thinking, and Laziness" has 75 comments. "Not a Destination, But a Process" has 148 comments.


[community profile] summerofthe69 is open! You can see the calendar here and the current themes are Alternate Sexy Parts 69 and Kinky 69.


There are no open epics at present.


The weather has been sweltering agan. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a mourning dove, a house wren, a male cardinal, and a fox squirrel. Currently blooming: dandelions, pansies, violas, marigolds, petunias, red salvia, wild strawberries, verbena, lantana, sweet alyssum, zinnias, snapdragons, blue lobelia, perennial pinks, oxalis, moss rose, yarrow, anise hyssop, firecracker plant, tomatoes, tomatillos, Asiatic lilies, cucumber, yellow squash, zucchini, morning glory, purple echinacea, black-eyed Susan, yellow coneflower, chicory, Queen Anne's lace, sunflowers, cup plant, gladioli, firewheel, orange butterfly weed. Tomatillo and pepper have green fruit. Wild strawberries, mulberries, tomatoes, and cucumbers are ripe. The second crop of blackberries and the ball carrots are ripe.

Magpie Monday

Aug. 11th, 2025 02:49 pm
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[personal profile] dialecticdreamer is hosting Magpie Monday with a theme of "Change." Leave prompts, get ficlets!

Change is an immutable element of the universe.

Today, let’s make change our goal. Call it the theme. Big or small, quiet and subtle or dramatic and incontrovertible, what change do you want to see? In the world? In a story with an unsatisfying moment (or worse, ending)?



Birdfeeding

Aug. 11th, 2025 02:10 pm
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Today is mostly sunny, humid, and hot. The sky is blue with fluffy white clouds.

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

EDIT 8/11/25 -- I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 8/11/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 8/11/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 8/11/25 -- We reeled up the garden hose. Yay. Yay.

I am done for the night.
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This is Ridiculous (35818 words) by zosofi
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Vernon Boyd/Erica Reyes, Allison Argent/Scott McCall, Lydia Martin/Jackson Whittemore
Characters: Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale, Scott McCall, Allison Argent, Jackson Whittemore, Lydia Martin, Danny Māhealani, Vernon Boyd, Isaac Lahey, Erica Reyes, Sheriff Stilinski, Alan Deaton
Additional Tags: Humor, Romance, Future Fic, Unicorns, Mythical Beings & Creatures, Violence, BAMF!Stiles
Summary:

There's a unicorn in Beacon Hills. A fricken' unicorn. In fricken' Beacon Hills, California. And it turns out that unicorns aren't drawn towards virgins in a happy-go-lucky let-me-lay-my-not-at-all-metaphorical-horn-in-your-lap way. No. They kill them. And guess who's the only virgin idiotic enough to get sucked into the Beacon Hills supernatural scene? Stiles, that's who.

Humor

Aug. 10th, 2025 11:38 pm
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This made me laugh.

The True Self

Spider Apocalypse

Aug. 10th, 2025 10:45 pm
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This article mentions seeing no grass spiders in a place that typically has them. 

Then I realized that I haven't seen any this year either.  Usually we have one every couple of feet here, so many it's hard not to step on the webs.  They're barely visible most of the time, unless covered in dust or rain or dew.  I may simply not have noticed them.  But with the ongoing insect apocalypse, it is concerning.  I have have seen other spiders spinning webs, though.

What are your spider populations like?

Activism

Aug. 10th, 2025 09:10 pm
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How To Make Your City Stronger With 4 Hours and a Shovel

Last month, members of Livable Lynchburg, a Strong Towns Local Conversation group, joined a walk audit alongside city staff, regional planners, and transit officials. At the corner of 12th and Polk, they noticed two stretches of sidewalk that were so overgrown they were nearly impassable.

Read more... )

Fossils

Aug. 10th, 2025 04:40 pm
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Stunning “wonder reptile” discovery rewrites the origins of feathers

An international team of researchers has published a breakthrough study in the journal Nature showing that early reptiles from the Triassic period had unique structures growing from its skin that formed an alternative to feathers.

The newly described Mirasaura grauvogeli from the Middle Triassic had a striking feather-like crest, hinting that complex skin appendages arose far earlier than previously believed. Its bird-like skull, tree-climbing adaptations, and pigment structures linked to feathers deepen the mystery of reptile evolution.

Birdfeeding

Aug. 10th, 2025 03:16 pm
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Today is partly sunny, humid, and hot.

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

EDIT 8/10/25 -- I put out water for the birds.  They had drained the small metal birdbath.

EDIT 8/10/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 8/10/25 -- I watered the old picnic table, house yard, and patio plants.

EDIT 8/10/25 -- I watered the new picnic table and septic gardens.  I didn't have energy or daylight to pick up the hose, though; I had to turn it off and just leave it out.  :/  I'll try to reel it up tomorrow.  It's exhausting to maneuver.

I am done for the night.

Social Media Hiatus Day Ten

Aug. 10th, 2025 10:09 am
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I have been working on removing those duplicated (triplicated lol) posts still and decided that I would make a playlist on YT of all the songs I referenced in the music section at the bottom of the journal entries and now I'm revisiting some of my favorites from twenty years ago lol. Well, nineteen. It's been a treat to listen to it between fixing sessions and remember why I liked them, or was listening to them. Some are from an internet radio site called Live365 (I have not yet looked to see if it still exists and I'm kind of afraid to) and some are from suggestions from friends on LJ and some those I stumbled upon in my own search for music. And from the various music blogs that would share Japanese pop and rock releases.

My phone said I used my phone 5 hours more than last week and I'm like yeah, I've been reading on it LOL. All fanfiction. It's a lot nicer to read on my phone without all the socmed app notifs and I have been READING and READING and I cannot complain because it's been the best. All that socmed time now on what I really wanted to do, which is read. The downside is I've been reading at work, so instead of wasting time on socmeds, I'm reading fanfic lol. I still get my work done, but yeah. It's just hilarious to me that I would be using my phone MORE and using LESS energy to do it. My phone battery is AMAZING. I'm at 56% and the last time my phone was charged at 100% was at 3pm YESTERDAY.

***CAT BREAK: Pele felt the need to sit upon me, which makes it hard to type lol.***

I checked my phone and yesterday I was on ReadEra Premium (my ebook/fanfic epub reading app) 6 hours and 40 minutes. Haha.

I know when my hiatus is done that I'll be re-adding Twitter because two of my closest friends are on that app and that's how I interact with them the most. I'll probably re-add IG and FB because of Sleep Token archiving and we'll go from there. I'm not sure what I'll do moving forward but I would like to continue to use DW because, as I've written before, it's so nice just to write. Just to feel through things and write.

I'm also considering finding my old journals and adding them, post-dated so they don't show up on reading pages, but an electronic record of some of my earlier, more cringey journal writings LOL. We'll see. I still have to finish fixing the triplication issue, add the fanfic posts, add my poetry, maybe add some tumblr stuff (more than the fanfic stuff) but maybe I might do that at some point. We shall see.

KAARMAA

Aug. 10th, 2025 08:16 am
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I have Randy Feltface in my brain. He did this 3 and a half minute monologue in his "Randy Writes a Novel" special about Ernest Hemingway and he says "Karma" in such a way that has stuck in my head. Below is the full special but I've linked it to start at the Hemingway bit.



I have watched most of the videos available on his YT channel and still need to see "Randy is Sober" and one other one that I think is out there. Anyway, I'm obsessed lol.

Safety

Aug. 10th, 2025 03:18 am
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I stumbled across this today, while researching hormone use on livestock:

Causing trauma to the reproductive tract can induce bleeding, and since blood is toxic to sperm, this may result in reduced conception rates, permanently infertile animals, or animal death.

It makes me wonder if that's a cause undermining conception from rape, which often features internal injuries from microabrasions up to serious tears. If so, an interesting example of self-sabotage.

And then, what about the handful of species where rough sex is normal or even required? A tomcat's barbed penis, for example. Is their sperm different somehow? Or is there some other protective mechanism in play?

Food

Aug. 10th, 2025 02:56 am
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How much damage are ultraprocessed foods really doing to your health?

New American Heart Association Science Advisory reviews current evidence about UPFs and their impact on adverse health outcomes and outlines opportunities for research, policy and regulatory reform to improve dietary intake and overall health.
Many foods we consume today are ultraprocessed, packed with unhealthy ingredients, and linked to major health risks. As consumption of these foods rises, so do chronic health issues, especially among lower-income groups. Experts are calling for clearer guidelines, better research, and systemic changes to reduce the impact of ultraprocessed foods on public health
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Read more... )
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The Hollow Moon (180079 words) by thepsychicclam
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Characters: Cora Hale, Sheriff Stilinski, Lydia Martin, Scott McCall, Jackson Whittemore, Danny Māhealani, Liam Dunbar, Mason Hewitt, Hayden Romero, Kira Yukimura, Jordan Parrish
Additional Tags: Memory Alteration, Memory Loss, Depression, Anxiety, Future Fic, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon through end of season 4, Fix-It, Lydia Martin & Stiles Stilinski Friendship, Cora Hale & Stiles Stilinski Friendship, Nightmares, Post-Nogitsune Stiles Stilinski, Slow Burn, Slow Build, Wolf Derek, Cooking, Canon-Typical Violence
Summary:

It's the summer after Stiles' first year of college, and he's working a crappy job and dealing with nightmares and anxiety - but he's okay, he swears. He makes it through most days without too much trouble. Then, a certain werewolf comes back into town. Which Stiles doesn't care about, nope, not at all.

After two and a half years, Derek returns to Beacon Hills with his small Pack. Though he tried to move on, something just kept drawing him back to Beacon Hills, he's just not sure what. Now, he figures he can start building something like a life - but he keeps getting distracted by Stiles Stilinski of all people.

Birdfeeding

Aug. 9th, 2025 02:07 pm
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Today is mostly sunny and hot.

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

EDIT 8/9/25 -- I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 8/9/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

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