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muccamukkDoes anyone know what this character is?
It's not a full stop! It breaks html that needs a full stop.
Also, how did I end up using it? I must have accidentally copied it? From somewhere?
It's not a full stop! It breaks html that needs a full stop.
Also, how did I end up using it? I must have accidentally copied it? From somewhere?
Links: US Politics, Fun Stuff, Lively v. Baldoni, Misc
Apr. 13th, 2025 11:05 ammuccamukkHaven't done one of these in a while and ended up having to trim out stuff that happened a month ago.
( U.S. Politics )
There is not a Canadian Politics section because I find our election too depressing. Here's a good interview on The Breach. Which came out before the NDP started to properly implode. Fuck.
Cool/Fun Stuff:
JSTOR Companion to the Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List.
CBC: 46 Canadian nonfiction books to read in spring 2025.
I don't remember why I bookmarked this, because I'm not going to look at it again, lol.
Oglaf: Historical Adventure.
One NSFW panel, best summary of The Three Musketeers I've ever seen.
The Wiggles and Orville Peck: Friends of Dorothy 🦖💕.
No notes.
National Theatre's The Importance of Being Earnest: 'I'm particularly fond of muffins' & 'Mr. Ernest Worthing is engaged to me!'
CBC: These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males.
Blake Lively v. Justin Baldoni:
I'd be depressed about Depp v. Heard repeating itself, except Lively isn't stuck with bargain basement lawyers, so it's going rather better for her. (Okay, so, "whoever has the most expensive lawyers wins" is a terrible system, but it's at least mildly satisfying when the person you want to win has the most expensive lawyers and the better case.) I've been spending probably too much time following this because I want the win. Not that invested in the actors, but am invested in harassment-free workplaces. ( Read more... )
Various YouTube Videos:
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CaelanConrad: J. K. Rowling: The Real Story.
Mostly about how the Rags to Riches mythology got overblown, with various other digs along the way.
OlurinattiBITES: The Problem with Jonathan Majors’ Redemption Tour.
This is like one of those encores where the performers don't even bother to leave the stage.
JoshJohnsonComedy: Adolescence Is #1 on Netflix—and It’s Got the Manosphere Shook.
Title's a bit clickbaity, this summary is better:
( U.S. Politics )
There is not a Canadian Politics section because I find our election too depressing. Here's a good interview on The Breach. Which came out before the NDP started to properly implode. Fuck.
Cool/Fun Stuff:
JSTOR Companion to the Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List.
JSTOR has created an open library to support readers seeking to engage with BIPOC+Q-authored reading lists like the one developed by the New York Public Library.
CBC: 46 Canadian nonfiction books to read in spring 2025.
I don't remember why I bookmarked this, because I'm not going to look at it again, lol.
Oglaf: Historical Adventure.
One NSFW panel, best summary of The Three Musketeers I've ever seen.
The Wiggles and Orville Peck: Friends of Dorothy 🦖💕.
No notes.
National Theatre's The Importance of Being Earnest: 'I'm particularly fond of muffins' & 'Mr. Ernest Worthing is engaged to me!'
CBC: These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males.
Blake Lively v. Justin Baldoni:
I'd be depressed about Depp v. Heard repeating itself, except Lively isn't stuck with bargain basement lawyers, so it's going rather better for her. (Okay, so, "whoever has the most expensive lawyers wins" is a terrible system, but it's at least mildly satisfying when the person you want to win has the most expensive lawyers and the better case.) I've been spending probably too much time following this because I want the win. Not that invested in the actors, but am invested in harassment-free workplaces. ( Read more... )
Various YouTube Videos:
From 'homeless single mother with unheated shoebox apartment' to 'self-made billionaire feminist', PR spin and reality diverge.
Mostly about how the Rags to Riches mythology got overblown, with various other digs along the way.
This is like one of those encores where the performers don't even bother to leave the stage.
Title's a bit clickbaity, this summary is better:
The show deals with topics like the manosphere, red pill, incels, and the coded language teenagers use to communicate ideas around the topics. This set reminded me of my own struggles as a young man and how things could have gone very differently for me.It's very funny, and very warm-hearted and sweet, given the topic.
somewhat scattered this morning...
Apr. 11th, 2025 11:36 ammuccamukkbut trying to at least read Stephanie Jones' lawyers' Plaintiffs’ Memorandum of Law in Support of Their Motion to Dismiss Jennifer Abel’s Counterclaims and Certain Affirmative Defenses because of the whole Lively v. Baldoni saga, the PR firm fighting itself is by far the best part.
I cannot believe that Jennifer Abel, a genuine adult in her 30s (I think?), making low six figures in a cut-throat industry:
The subsidiary of "Don't take notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy" should 100% be "ESPECIALLY ON A DEVICE YOU DON'T OWN!!!" holy shit.
I cannot believe that Jennifer Abel, a genuine adult in her 30s (I think?), making low six figures in a cut-throat industry:
- When hired by Jones transferred her personal number, that she'd had since high school, to her new work phone.
- Had no other phone besides her work phone, and thus used her work phone for two-factor authentication for all her personal shit.
- Decided to steal her company's clients and sensitive documents (I actually can believe this part, see above about cut-throat industry).
- Used her work phone and work laptop to plot and carry out said theft.
- Used her work phone to text her buddies about how well said theft was going.
- Was a surprised Pikachu when her boss found out about all this and fired her.
- Was a surprised Pikachu when her boss took her work phone and work laptop.
- THEN SUED HER FORMER BOSS FOR UNFAIR TREATMENT.
The subsidiary of "Don't take notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy" should 100% be "ESPECIALLY ON A DEVICE YOU DON'T OWN!!!" holy shit.
Hugo Shortlist
Apr. 11th, 2025 09:15 ammuccamukk2025 Hugo Award Finalist list is out.
Meh? None of the novels I nominated made it through. I've added three on Libby, but am deeply welmed by the choices. I'll track the rest down after I move.
Several of my novellas did, which is nice, but I was kinda "I guess?" about the whole list. It's (almost) all Tor again (cue someone angrily telling me that Tor and TorDotCom are not the same publisher! OMG! How dare people say they are!?)
I'll get the novelettes and short stories in the package.
I'm genuinely stoked that Rebecca Roanhorse's excellent trilogy is on the series list.
Some of the graphic novels look cool!
Uh... don't care about a lot of the other categories? I guess I'll see what's in the package (my vibe for a lot of this, as I was saying elsewhere).
Haven't seen any of the movies. The wrong Doctor Who episodes made it through! INJUSTICE! lol
Oh! Semiprozine is stacked (as it usually is).
I love that there's a poetry category this year.
Is Iron Widow YA? I keep getting told it's not. But a lot of the Lodestar books look cool, so I'm checking them out.
Meh? None of the novels I nominated made it through. I've added three on Libby, but am deeply welmed by the choices. I'll track the rest down after I move.
Several of my novellas did, which is nice, but I was kinda "I guess?" about the whole list. It's (almost) all Tor again (cue someone angrily telling me that Tor and TorDotCom are not the same publisher! OMG! How dare people say they are!?)
I'll get the novelettes and short stories in the package.
I'm genuinely stoked that Rebecca Roanhorse's excellent trilogy is on the series list.
Some of the graphic novels look cool!
Uh... don't care about a lot of the other categories? I guess I'll see what's in the package (my vibe for a lot of this, as I was saying elsewhere).
Haven't seen any of the movies. The wrong Doctor Who episodes made it through! INJUSTICE! lol
Oh! Semiprozine is stacked (as it usually is).
I love that there's a poetry category this year.
Is Iron Widow YA? I keep getting told it's not. But a lot of the Lodestar books look cool, so I'm checking them out.
Music, updates on the state of fannishness.
Apr. 10th, 2025 11:03 pmmuccamukkThis came out a while ago, and I was like, "Do I really need to post every single thing Raye does?" before watching it ten million times and deciding, "Yes, yes I do."
It's Raye's song, and she and Lisa and Doja Cat just kill it, and I would read the fic. I don't want to break my youtube algorithm by searching for this, but does anyone know videos or essays that take apart songs (specifically this one) and explain why they work?
I'm not really posting here much beyond music lately, I guess. I have a handful of book reviews I should get to eventually. Probably. I read seven in March, and am currently reading a deeply mid cosy fantasy out of pure inertia, but the Network Effect audiobook just came in from the library!
Relatedly, I've really been enjoying being excited about the Murderbot show, and am trying to avoid anyone being negative about it. I'd appreciate cut tags? I'm staying out of comment sections other than my own (where everyone's been lovely). I don't mean to be a princess, but I'd just really like to hang onto this as my happy place. RL things have Not Been Great.
New Doctor Who in a couple days, which I'm looking forward to! (Speaking of Ncuti, no sign of him on the NT steaming site yet.)
I watch and enjoyed the first episode of season three of SurrealEstate (I'm not clear who the main cast is this season? Is it just Luke, Susan and Lomax? Are the others coming back full time? Phil seems to be gone gone). I feel like Luke's family drama being the arc plot every season might get old?
Otherwise, I've kinda been drifting.
A couple times I downloaded merge three games onto my phone, and hyper focused on them for hours until I had to delete them because I couldn't just play them a little bit. I'm sure there's science about how they're engineered to be addictive, but I was impressed either way.
Bird watching has kind of been my main thing lately. I try to go for a one or two kilometre walk every day to count all the birds I see. It's been really nice to get outside and reset my brain, and the migrations are happening so there are many birds. It'll probably stop once I move after Easter, but maybe I can get back into being churchy at that point.
Someday I might write again. I used to be good at that.
It's Raye's song, and she and Lisa and Doja Cat just kill it, and I would read the fic. I don't want to break my youtube algorithm by searching for this, but does anyone know videos or essays that take apart songs (specifically this one) and explain why they work?
I'm not really posting here much beyond music lately, I guess. I have a handful of book reviews I should get to eventually. Probably. I read seven in March, and am currently reading a deeply mid cosy fantasy out of pure inertia, but the Network Effect audiobook just came in from the library!
Relatedly, I've really been enjoying being excited about the Murderbot show, and am trying to avoid anyone being negative about it. I'd appreciate cut tags? I'm staying out of comment sections other than my own (where everyone's been lovely). I don't mean to be a princess, but I'd just really like to hang onto this as my happy place. RL things have Not Been Great.
New Doctor Who in a couple days, which I'm looking forward to! (Speaking of Ncuti, no sign of him on the NT steaming site yet.)
I watch and enjoyed the first episode of season three of SurrealEstate (I'm not clear who the main cast is this season? Is it just Luke, Susan and Lomax? Are the others coming back full time? Phil seems to be gone gone). I feel like Luke's family drama being the arc plot every season might get old?
Otherwise, I've kinda been drifting.
A couple times I downloaded merge three games onto my phone, and hyper focused on them for hours until I had to delete them because I couldn't just play them a little bit. I'm sure there's science about how they're engineered to be addictive, but I was impressed either way.
Bird watching has kind of been my main thing lately. I try to go for a one or two kilometre walk every day to count all the birds I see. It's been really nice to get outside and reset my brain, and the migrations are happening so there are many birds. It'll probably stop once I move after Easter, but maybe I can get back into being churchy at that point.
Someday I might write again. I used to be good at that.