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green_knight

The EHRC consultation on their code of practice closes today. I learnt about it yesterday, which is not ideal, and have just spend around 2-3h hours filling it in.

https://transactual.org.uk/equality-act-campaign/responding-to-the-ehrc-consultation/

has guidance and talking points. You don’t need to fill out everything, but every voice helps.

It’s a transphobic mess. Their stance is basically that it’s fine to get trans people coming and going; they believe in the the ‘trans women are better athletes’ myth and don’t believe that trans women should see gynaecologists.

It’s ugly. I have little hope to have made a difference, but I am spitting mad.

( Season finale spoiler )

During the Christmas episode we saw the firm's acapella group, which might have just been an excuse to highlight one character's amazing singing voice. Anyway, they were singing White Winter Hymnal, and I'm going to just post two quick videos, the original version and a different acapella cover:

Watch on YouTube

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(Those lyrics can't be entirely right - surely the pack is swaddled in their coats, not swallowed?)

Anyway, you'll notice that in the first one they weirdly pronounce "the" with a "long e" (the vowel in pee) before the words "white snow". Does that strike anybody else as a weird place to do that?

I was looking up fictional law firm names and you know how Angel has the evil law firm Wolfram and Hart? Apparently NCIS has Wolfram, Hart and Donowitz. No word on if they're evil. Are they evil?

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The always refreshing Fran Lebowitz. She cuts through the 'cloy.'

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rogueslayer452

We have a 10-minute length trailer for Desire, or also known as ABO Desire, which is, yes, a Chinese Omegaverse drama which will be premiering on July 12th.

( 'THE WORLD'S FIRST OMEGAVERSE M-PREG DRAMA SERIES' )

( My thoughts based on the trailer. )

Needless to say, I was already looking forward to seeing this drama and then this trailer just furthered my excitement. I'm absolutely seated for this one.

She is excited
In the background you hear Stray Kids - Chk Chk Boom

The set and costume designers heard about blue-and-orange color schemes and just decided to run with it. I swear, they bought out everything blue in the store. Even the post-its are blue! And what isn't blue or teal is orange, or tan, or gold.

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There don't appear to be details on flowers etc. yet.

chazzbanner

The story of Mikayla's death has appeared nationwide, and probably farther. Unfortunately headlines call her an 'influencer and YouTube star.' Grr! She ran a rescue for foxes that were unreleasable. Almost all of her fund-raising was (and had to be) on social media, and she didn't enjoy the constant need to create new content.

I'm tagging SaveAFox here so you can click to view some of the SAF videos that I've posted over the years. Some are repeated - classics!

On a lighter note (she says), I was struck once again by how casually friendly people are in outstate Minnesota. Just someone on the sidewalk, or in a convenience store, right?

I suppose I didn't appreciate when I grew up there, being shy! What, I need to say hi to some woman in my home town who knew who my dad was (but I didn't know who she was)? Horrors! Heck yeah, some Americans are shy. :-) But there's a kind of social-lubrication chattiness that helps you get along here, especially in rural areas. It doesn't turn to interrogation of religious/political beliefs or asking how much money you make! LOL

(unless...of course there are weirdos all over the world... should I put that on a teeshirt?)

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How is it that we literally are talking on the internet, we have access to all the information, and people are still saying whatever bullshit they made up in their heads instead of taking a minute, a second even, to ask themselves "Wait! Is this even true?"

On a happier note, the newest episode of The Strange Case of the Starship Iris answered a question I thought we'd never get answered, which is "How on earth did Brian get a price on his head from three different mafias?" and - wow, beware the quiet ones, I guess.

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I'm tired. Up to Morris and back: 366 miles/589km, with just a brief stop each way. Rain on the way back. Yeah, I'm tired!

Today I listened to the last two albums from my first project. Here's the full list:

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( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

And don't even ask me about my email!

Also: Comicsrss got a cease and desist from Gocomics, so now all my gocomics feeds are borked. I should see if I can find those comics hosted somewhere else and get their RSS feeds, but ugh.

Also also: What to know about the COVID variant that may cause ‘razor blade’ sore throats

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chazzbanner

The drive home was tricky at times, as it rained most of the way. A downporu at times made for poor visibility.

But we got home safely - and I immediately drove off to pick up meals.

I unfortunately gave myself a bang on the leg when I gor home (don't ask), so it looks like I won't be lying on my right side for some time!

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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

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He's the patron saint of gardeners, and also taxi drivers (unofficially). See, an early and popular cab stand was at Hôtel de Saint Fiacre in Paris, and the carriages themselves began to be called fiacres, and it just spiraled from there.

What makes this even stranger is that he's an Irish saint.

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It rained in the morning, steadily, not a downpour.

Lunch was at Don's Cafe, highly recommended on FB. I had a ham and cheese sandwich, on homemade bread, delicious! No fries - thankfully. (So says my stomach, after last night.)

By 3:00 it had cleared up, though the temp never got over about 63F/17.2C. We drove to campus, found some visitor parking, and stopped at the Welcome Center to get a map and chat with the student at the Welcome desk.

Although much has changed over the years,

ordenchaz recognized buildings around the mall area - and also her dormitory. (It was new, she said. Student: It's not new anymore!)

She also remembered the music building, which is now the Multi-Ethnic Resource Center. This is the oldest building on campus. It was the boy's dormitory when the campus was an Indian boarding school run by an order of nuns.

The history of the campus land once being part of the Indian boarding school system was downplayed if not ignored, but it's acknowledged now. There is a touching statue of Nookomis (Grandmother) and a little boy in boarding school clothes, and a girl clinging to Grandmother, resisting. An explanation is given in the languages of the child 'boarded' here (taken), as well as English. The children were from the Turtle Mountain bamd/rez of Ojibwe in North Dakota, and the Sissteton-Wahpeton Dakota from South Dakota.

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We hadn't been up for a while given two awful summers on the trot

The Wrekin (pronounced ree-kin) is our very own local hill. It actually counts as a mountain as it's over !000' (1335' to be exact).

Our little town is under the shadow of the Wrekin and is fully known as Wellington Under the Wrekin.

Today was forecast to be overcast but was a lot nicer than that so we set out- uphill all the way from our front door. It's about a 2000' climb from home.

The Winter had taken quite a few trees down as it was a wild one and it's been a blowy Summer too.

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She is photographical
Current Location: 'ereabouts

Ooof, I do not know how people do it who do this for early voting as well!

but I still wasn't prepared to pop into a pizza shop on my lunch break only to find that it was cooler in the pizzeria than the outside. If that's not terrifying I don't know what is.

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My earlier mention of something I'd tell you about later? Here it is. I'm in Morris MN with sibs, spending a couple of days in this college town.

ordenchaz is an alum of UMM.

It took the us about three hours to drive here from the Cities (Twin) - a bit longer than that because of an unexpected detour. We met

bluesail_tobyx at our motel (inn), as he came down from Fargo.

So far it hasn't rained! It will, but I hope that we're on the light side of the front (heavy rain in southern Minnesota).

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It's gonna be one long, long, long day. Also hot. Long, hot, hard - and miserable.

Happy Mayoral Primaries, I guess? At least the poll site is airconditioned. (At least... I assume it is? Oh god what if it isn't.)

Oh, and I nearly forgot - the Arab/Israeli dove and rose mural has been painted over. Saw that on my way to CVS today.

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I'm in something of daze after learning about the death of Mikayla Raines, founder of Save A Fox. Heartbreaking.

All I can say is, if you want to, go to YouTube and look up SaveAFox. I'm not going to link the video here.

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archersangel

Above me, the branches toss toward and away from each other
the way privacy does with what ends up
showing, despite ourselves, of
who we are, inside.

Then they’re branches again—hickory, I think.

—It’s not too late, then.

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Can't wait to hear the exaggerated anger at how dare they retaliate....

chazzbanner

I was lethargic yesterday, and went to bed (or, fell asleep) around 9 o'clock. Happily, I feel much better today. It's still hot! 92F at 8 p.m.!, but should be a good 20 degrees cooler tomorrow. Rain in the forecast.

Here's something I ran across in a book about Byron, a painting of Percy Shelley that by an American artist named West. It is based on a sketch made by West only a few days before Shelley's death. I could see Timothée Chalamet playing him in a movie!

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US strikes 3 Iranian sites, joining Israeli air campaign against nuclear program

Can't say I'm too surprised, but I can say I'm disappointed.

We're gonna get in the triple digits by Tuesday. Fun times!

Stay cool, guys.

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chazzbanner

I've had something of a strange day.

This morning I went for breakfast at JCs, for reasons that will come clear in a later entry. I enjoyed a breakfast bagel and coffee and lingered, reading.

At some point, however, I thought of ... something, and had an anxiety attack.

No, I'm not hiding what triggered it. As far as I can tell it was about a prospective phone call (mine).

A sort of rush of blood to the head feeling... not so much lightheadedness as feeling that my head is very heavy. Usually I feel like my heart is racing, though it isn't. Today, not so much.

This hasn't happened in at least three years. I still had some meds, and took two when I got home. (They're 'expired' but that just means their potency has decreased.)

Walking home was a struggle, just like the first time it happened, on-campus, pre-meds. I walked from sign/pole to sign/pole, just touching them as I passed, reassuring myself that I could lean one one if I needed to. Near the end I leaned forward as if walking into a stiff wind, saying to myself over and over that I could make it.

I've looked through here, but found barely a mention of *getting medication. I didn't tag it 'health' for some reason.

*From an email it looks it was spring 2021.

It's 95F/35C today and will be about the same tomorrow. Humid heat. My apartment is cool.

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rogueslayer452

Unfriended is among what is referred to as the "screenlife" found footage genre that has become known in recent years, where most if not the entire film is made up of people talking on webcam from their computers or phones. Horror and thrillers utilize this the best, and the Unfriended franchise is of the former category.

( Unfriended )

( Unfriended: Dark Web )

I don't know if there are plans of continuing with the Unfriended franchise or just remain a duology, but I have to say both movies were quite good for what they were. If it were to continue on, I would prefer it to be anthology-based. It would be on brand, since both these were stand-alone movies anyway, though perhaps it could be an expanded universe similar to that of V/H/S where the movies are in the same world just not connected to one another.

She is accomplished
In the background you hear Au/Ra - Ghost

chazzbanner

Here are some YouTube channels I enjoy when I run across them:

Q's Greenland

The Fluellen Family (shorts)

You think this sons is original? (shorts)

Alastor Moody learning to talk with buttons
(young cat, billi's successor)

NotoriousCree
indigenous dancer (shorts)

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Now, I've already told you about the alleys (no alleys in Manhattan) and right on red (none of that either), and now it's time for - garbage.

Since the 1990s it's been the law that residential garbage in NYC has to have the recyclables sorted out. And since this year we also have to separate out the compost, though weirdly they only pick that up once a week, I've complained about this. It's completely backwards.

Anyway, as I said, it's been the law since the 90s that you can't put your cans and bottles in with your regular trash. Do people always follow that law? Oh, heck no. But if you don't and the city catches you at it they'll give you a $300 ticket, and if you don't pay they put a lien on the house. So even if you don't care, your landlord might, and if they care and perhaps only have one tenant at that location you can bet they won't just eat the cost.

And if your protagonist is even minimally conscientious she'll at least glance around for a recycle bin before tossing her water bottle in with the regular trash.

(As a reference here, our terrible neighbors, who have had sanitation and once the fire department called on them multiple times due to the trash they pile up in their yard, still separate out the bottles and cans from the regular trash. Though in their case they may somewhat optimistically believe they'll get around to redeeming them one of these days, honestly, who knows how they think.)

This rant is courtesy of Elsbeth, which Jenn has been watching. Sure, Elsbeth is a snoop and the best way to dispose of several bushels worth of murderous apple pulp was probably to flush it, but all the same - it's weird that such a generally responsible character goes straightaway to throw out her water bottle in the general trash in somebody's house without at least checking that there's no recycle bin.

"Square children's book with hex code 03fcdf for the covers"

Why. Just. Why...? Seriously, who thinks that a hex code is a better description than the name of the color in English?

(This time, I wasn't paraphrasing. I usually do, but....)

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I wish I could go back to the UP of Michigan. So much. So much.

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glowingfish

I guess I don't have a whole lot to say about it, at least here.

Maybe I should?

I need some chocolate milk and donuts.

We headed up Lime Kiln Lane and over to New Works then into the forest.

Things are now very green indeed although this is always a green landscape:

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She is photographical
Current Location: 'ome from the forest

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After writing in here yesterday I watched some YT shorts. One of the comments had a word I didn't know (medical), so I copied it so I could paste it into a google search box. Or so I thought.

I actually pasted yesterday's entry into the search box, and got an AI response! lol. Here it is:

It sounds like you had a fulfilling Tuesday, filled with insightful conversation and captivating music!

Regarding the discussion about "Me and Bobby McGee":

The taste in music is excellent! Different versions of a song can evoke distinct emotional responses.

- Gordon Lightfoot's version is considered by some to be the best, praised for its melancholic mood and how he captures the feeling of loss and regret in the lyrics.

- Janis Joplin's rendition is powerful, but the energy and passion could be seen as contrasting with the song's underlying themes of regret and longing.

Regarding the violin passage in Scheherazade:

A live performance of the final movement was heard, and the extremely high notes played by the violinist were captivating. The Googling pointed to the note being an A7.

- In music, A7 specifically refers to the pitch A in the seventh octave. On the violin, this is typically the highest note playable, located at the very end of the E string. It is a challenging note to play, requiring skilled bowing and precise fingering.

- The violinist's skill allowed them to maintain those incredibly high notes!

Talk about making me laugh --- :-)

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chazzbanner

I won't claim to be embarrassed this time - the storms passed by south of here.. and north of here.

So today was Tuesday Lunch with catsman. I don't get much else done on Tuesdays. Eh, I do my regular list of things in the morning, but I leave my place at 10:25 to drive to St. Paul (scenic route), and I don't get back to m neighborhood until 2:00-ish. My recent routine is that I have coffee at SJs, and return to my apt at 2:45, or even 3:00.

Often on Tuesdays I'll post a photo or video. LOL no energy!

However, instead:

I reported to catsman that, having listened to it a second time, I agree with him that Gordon Lightfoot's version of Me and Bobby McGee is wonderful, and possibly the best ever recorded. It's clearly much better than Janis Joplin's. (A comment on the YT video said Joplin's version is too full of energy and vitality. Too youthful for the kind of regrets the song portrays.)

On the way home I had my usual difficulty recognizing Scheherazade when I hear it. This was a live performance of the final movement. I was amazed by the highest note the violin played several times near the end. So very high - how in the world could the violinist keep that going? Googling told me that it was an A7. I'm not sure what that means, but catsman will tell me (i.e. correct me if I said the the wrong thing).

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I honestly should stop by the ETG thrift store and see if I can get a different dress, though - my options are long pants and sleeves, or a bright red dress, which seems... well, anyway. It's a great dress in most other contexts, though. (Maybe a skirt? I could find a skirt and a nice short-sleeved top? Then again, if this weather continues the way it has been I might be better off bundled up! It's mid-June and my heater is on.)

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I might be hearing thunder in the distance.

The distant sound of Henry Hudson bowling -- if you catch that reference.

We've managed to dodge severe storms so far today in my part of the Cities, but they could start anytime and continue through much of the night.

At 2:50, right before I usually leave to pick up meals, it started to pour.

Ten minutes later it seemed to be slowing down, so I grabbed my umbrella and (hiking) poncho and headed for the car.

Within minutes it turned (partly) sunny, and hot. I felt silly.

Ah, but we're expecting something anyway, tonight.

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So I guess we can just add this to the Waffle House and Yankee Candle indices.

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green_knight - Civic Duty: Done
conuly - Speaking of fictional lawfirms, we finished new Matlock
conuly - Crossover time!
chazzbanner - random 'liked' video
rogueslayer452 - Alphas, Omegas, Betas, and Enigmas!
conuly - Been watching new Matlock with Jenn
conuly - acelightning has passed away
chazzbanner - tag here / outstate Minnesota
conuly - JFC
chazzbanner - finished this batch
liriaen - What the actual fuck. Bring back the gibbets.
conuly - Welp, I've got way more tabs open than I can handle
chazzbanner - home
conuly - The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
conuly - My mother's favorite saint probably was St. Fiacre
chazzbanner - campus
cmcmck - A walk up the Wrekin
conuly - Came home and passed out
conuly - The air today went from "walking around in soup" to "walking around in an oven"
chazzbanner - here I am
conuly - So not looking forward to tomorrow
chazzbanner - overwhelmed
conuly - Types of medications known to cause heat intolerance
conuly - Of the Shining Underlife by Carl Phillips
conuly - Well, at least Iran is limiting themselves to legitimate military targets
chazzbanner - better / Shelley
conuly - Well, it just keeps on getting better and better, doesn't it
conuly - Welp
chazzbanner - unpleasant reminder
rogueslayer452 - Review: Unfriended franchise
chazzbanner - some links
conuly - It's time for some NYC-picking!
conuly - WTF even is this?
conuly - Rewatching the second season of Prodigy all in a rush with E, trying to finish within a week
chazzbanner - wishes
glowingfish - Life is still going on
cmcmck - A walk into the forest
chazzbanner - lol
chazzbanner - a Tuesday entry
conuly - Guess who's working the election next week!
chazzbanner - the wet weather pattern
conuly - Pizza activity spikes just before reports of Israel attacking Iran

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• Asking for help is not, as it turns out, fatal.
• Laughing is easier than pulling your hair out, and doesn't have the unfortunate side effect of making you look like a plague victim.
• Even the biggest tasks can be defeated if taken a bit at a time.
• I can write a paper the night before it's due, but the results are not all they could be.
• Be thorough, but focused.
• Trust yourself.
• Honesty, always.

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