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Jun. 29th, 2025 04:31 pm
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We had a nice day on the beach in North Berwick. A few of Sophia's old nursery friends, getting back together, with a few siblings thrown in. They got on like it wasn't mostly a year since they last saw each other, and they had a ball digging holes, wading through seaweed and climbing on rocks. The weather was just as fabulous as it looks here.
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Culinary

Jun. 29th, 2025 06:58 pm
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Last week's bread held out pretty well.

Friday night supper: ven pongal (South Indian khichchari).

Saturday breakfast rolls: the ones loosely based on James Beard's mother's raisin bread, 50:50% strong white/einkorn flour, perhaps a little lacking in the mace department.

Today's lunch: (this ran into several difficulties including oven problems and a pyrex plate going smash on the floor, but got there in the end) salmon fillets baked in foil with butter, salt, pepper and dill, served with baby Jersey Royal Potatoes boiled and tossed in butter, garlic-roasted tenderstem broccoli, and white-braised green beans with sliced baby red pepper.

Been watching new Matlock with Jenn

Jun. 28th, 2025 07:49 pm
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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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But this is just plain bizarre: reading the AI summaries rather than watching the series or presumably, reading books.

What is even gained thereby?

It's so massively Point Thahr Misst about why one consumes story-telling that I can't even.

Why not just go straight to: this work manifests [whichever of the whatever the allegedly number it is of standard plots it is] tout court?

I guess these are the people that live on Soylent and pride themselves on 'rawdogging' airflights?

Have they completely eliminated enjoyment and fun from their lives, and if so, WHY????

Conversely, and in the interests of pleasure, there has recently opened a bookshop entirely dedicated to romance, in Notting Hill. (I do cringe a bit at calling it 'Saucy Books'.)

Back in the day, in Charing Cross Road, there used to be a dedicated Romance section alongside Murder One and the SFF section in the basement, all in one bookshop, but that has long been one with the dodo.

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Jun. 28th, 2025 12:51 pm
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Happy birthday, [personal profile] halojedha and [personal profile] rmc28!

A complaint about modern life.

Jun. 28th, 2025 10:49 am
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When I am Emperor anyone selling bowls, plates, etc will have to certify whether you can microwave food in them without them getting hotter than the food.

Is microwave transparency really too much to ask?

JFC

Jul. 2nd, 2025 12:14 am
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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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Phoebe

Jun. 27th, 2025 01:06 pm
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I got a call a few days ago that my friend Phoebe needed a hand-truck, did I have one.  I do, or at least M does.   Phoebe and her daughter (Luna) are moving out of a two bedroom apartment.  Luna is moving to Humboldt State University, into a dorm room. Phoebe is moving to Oakland (CA) into a studio apartment, so there is a lot of sorting out of stuff and getting rid of things.  Phoebe is not the kind of person who is comfortable loading a truck so she asked if I could come down today. Donald and I went down this morning.  Luna was good help. We talked about weight distribution and keeping fragile things safe  I packed things very tightly and showed Luna how to attach and work a ratchet strap.  We put two of them on the load.  I don't really think both were absolutely necessary, but they will keep things together a bit better.  The whole thing only took about an hour and a half.  Phoebe was happy and Luna very grateful that she didn't have to do most of it by herself. 

The garden is starting, slowly to produce summer's abundance.  We have had the first two yellow summer squash.  Various cucumbers have set fruit, but nothing is even near harvest size.  That is because I got most things planted so late.  I've picked the first two larger tomatoes, Tim's Black Ruffles {Edit: I'm not at all convinced that this tomato is actual Black Ruffles, looks too smooth.  It was a pack of complimentary seed so who knows}.  The plant is in a 5 gallon bucket.  Cherry tomatoes have started to produce.  The first flowers are visible on Moon & Stars watermelon, though nothing has set yet. 

Did a little cleanup in the shop today.  There is a steady stream of stuff coming from SF to Ukiah that needs to be put away -- somewhere. 

Seaside fun for Goths?

Jun. 27th, 2025 03:42 pm
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I was a little startled to see, quite so high up in the chart of UK's best and worst seaside towns, Dungeness. Which isn't really even a town (Wikipedia describes it as a hamlet), more a sandspit at the end of the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Light Railway, famed for lighthouses, shingle beaches, nature reserves, Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage, and a decommissioned nuclear power station ('Long journey ahead' for nuclear plant clean-up).

[A] barren and bewitching backdrop for a getaway. A vast swathe of this shingle headland is designated a National Nature Reserve, cradling around a third of all British plant species, with some 600 having been recorded, from rugged sea kale to delicate orchids. Exposed to the Channel and loomed over by twin nuclear power stations, Dungeness has, over recent decades, become an unlikely enclave for artists and a popular spot for day-trippers, horticulturalists and birders alike.

Or even
The ghostly allure of Dungeness, Kent. It’s an arid and mysterious place, yet it’s precisely these charms that captivate visitors.

Looking at the criteria scored on, it really is rather weird: completely lacking in the hotels, shopping and seafront/pier categories and not much for tourist attractions but scores high on peace and quiet and scenery.

Perhaps there is a larger number of people looking for this kind of getaway experience, invoking a certain eerie folk-horror vibe, than one would suppose. Not really a Summer Skies and Golden Sands kind of experience, take it away, The Overlanders.

Surprised that somewhere like Margate didn't rate higher.

podcast friday

Jun. 27th, 2025 07:07 am
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 Hmm, let's see. I really liked Conspirituality's "Dems Ask: What Is a Man?" episode. In general they've been doing a lot of coverage of Masculinity Crisis stuff lately and this episode, which focuses on quite pathetic attempts from the less-right wing of the American Party to re-capture the young male vote, via...studies and focus groups.

Well, fuck.

You can look to the wonderful example of New York to see a good counter-example of how to do it right, though this episode dropped before Zohran Mamdani's inspiring victory. If I were a more conspiratorial thinker, I'd say that the less-right wing of the American Party loses on purpose, and you need look no farther than their attempts to sabotage Mamdani's campaign for evidence. At any rate, the analysis in this episode lines up with what actually happened—we don't need a Joe Rogan of the left, we need people who can speak to frustrations and channel popular anger, not just for young men but for all genders.

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