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HTV-X capsule is designed to hang around in space after delivering cargo to ISS

Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is celebrating after its new cargo carrier docked at the International Space Station.…

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davis_square

Nobody's getting food stamps next month, and I'm doing something about it! Maybe I could do something... FOR YOU!

See, I've discovered that I'm a really good courier when it comes to getting stuff into free boxes! I've also discovered that I'm good at helping people clean out their kitchens (and other rooms, but right now, food is the important thing). I've helped people do this and can give references!

So: is your kitchen full of herbs, spices, teas, drinks, or food that you are never going to get to? (Teas and herbs/spices are SO useful to people, and so often forgotten!) Does looking into your cabinets stress you out? I can help with that! I can help clean out your kitchen, disappear the bad stuff into the compost, and transport the good stuff to local free pantries so that hungry people can eat it! You get cupboard space, your neighbors get fed, I get to prove to myself the government can't break my spirit, and everyone wins!

This is an open offer for the general Boston area, but because I am a pedestrian and stuff like canned goods are heavy, I'm most useful in the Arlington, Cambridge, Medford, and Somerville areas. I will be limited in how much I can carry, but I have two VERY sturdy 20 liter backpacks, a tote bag, and a heart filled with determination and spite.

Help us feed our neighbors! Spread the word to anyone around who might find this useful!

(I don't require payment for this. I am MAD.)

redbird

I had to call the management company about the heat again today. I and I think at least one other neighbor called in a problem Monday, and they sent someone who made a fix that he said might be temporary, but also said he had ordered parts for a longer-term solution. Tuesday was OK, but by the time I got up this morning [Thursday] the heat clearly wasn't working again.

The management company sent someone over fairly quickly. He first knocked to let me know they were here and thank me for reporting the problem, then came back to tell me they had to look at a sensor in Adrian’s room. So she hurriedly put on her bathrobe, the three of us masked, and I invited them in, with a warning about not letting the cats in. They looked at it, and came back a while later to replace it—apparently there was something wrong with the thermostat, and they replaced the sensors in each apartment, because they couldn’t be sure of which one was the problem. The heat came back on within the hour, and we’re OK for now.

Adrian and Cattitude both thanked me for being Speaker to Landlord on this one.

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I’ve got this queued up to listen to on the Shinkansen later: Lane 8’s Fall 2025 Mixtape. Available on YouTube, Soundcloud, and Apple Music. I’ve added this to my Underscore collection too.

💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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Current Mood: relaxed
Current Music: unseasonable hava narisha rash rash rash!

shadowkat

1. Now, I've got an X-ray scheduled for next Tuesday along with the doctor's appt. They went ahead and scheduled it for me. Nice of them. Means getting there earlier - but that's okay. Hopefully, it's nothing but a sciatic nerve and arthritis. Friday, Monday, and Tuesday are doctors visits - oh well at least they are all in the same location. I wish it was closer to the subway stations, but it could be worse. Ten blocks isn't that bad. (Ten-Fifteen minute walk, with sciatica and a bad knee - it may actually be a twenty minute walk, I should give myself more time to get there.). I could take a car service - but I've neither the patience or the funds for it. Also they stress me out.

I'm collecting doctors again. Appear to have slight hoarseness tonight - thinking allergies? Also, hoping I've managed to avoid digestive issues by having tuna fish on gluten free sourdough deli toast, with small salad, cucumber, celery and carrot sticks. Did have a greek yogurt bar and chocolate for desert.

2. I really wish the fund-raising charity folks would stop sending me stuff? ( the stuff I've acquired from fund-raising folks ) (I figure if I put this out there into the Universe, they will?)

3. FB neighborhood page shot out a link regarding those pesky proposals on the ballot, which I shared with my brother. [Those ballot proposals took my cubicle mate by surprise, along with a bunch of others.] Now, we know how we're voting on those vague as mud ballot proposals. (Yes, I'm voting - it's a major election for NYC City - because of the mayoral race. The race is between Cuomo, Sliwa, and Zohran Mamadani. After losing the Democratic primary, Cuomo is running as an Independent, and Sliwa is running as a Republican (he was the only candidate running for Republican). The conservative newspapers are trying to get him to pull out - which of course he won't.
Oh, the drama.

4. Lots of torrential rain fall today. (Outside of Super being unable to turn off bedroom radiator today - I wasn't affected.) So, southeastern Brooklyn had flooding in various spots. They posted a ton of photos on FB of the various spots that had been flooded around Ditmas and Flatbush in Brooklyn. Kesington for the most part was fine - when I got home - mainly because they had fixed the gutters.

Flooding in NYC, West Chester, Long Island, and New Jersey

Flooding in BedStuy

Bedstuy Brooklyn Flooding

Post on Ditmas Neighborhood Page: "Cortelyou Road is flooded. If your car is parked near Tribeca Pediatrics you should move your car. The water is rising and is almost to the top a sedan's tires.

Never mind. Someone just cleared the drain. It's all good."

It really is just a gutter problem.

ME: Are we still on for the radiator valve switch off?
Super: We had flooding in 3 building basements.
Me: Okay, not today then. Maybe next week?
Super: Okay, thanks.

I hope the basement apartment is okay. Although, honestly, you'd have to be desperate or nuts to live in a basement apartment in NYC.

***

Eh, I'll catch up on memage tomorrow.

Have a photo instead.

anne_d

I sewed the skirt to the bodice. That took all morning, what with pinning with my very long very sharp Japanese pins, adjusting gathers, wrangling all that fabric around on the sewing machine, ripping out and restitching where the bodice got caught in the seam, and so on and so forth.

But that’s finished. Tomorrow I’ll put it on, see if I need to adjust anywhere, and start hemming. I also want to put two rows of the same ribbon I used on the sleeves around the hem. Maybe I’ll have it finished by, say, Monday next? Onward, Excelsior, All That Jazz.

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The spending will continue until AI revenue improves

Despite a trickle of bad news from Amazon in recent weeks, the company's business is thrumming along, with AWS leading the way.…

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conuly

and omg those cultists are so needy. They can't feed themselves, so you're constantly trying to keep them in berries and fish, and they complain about everything!

"There's no place to poop, build an outhouse!" (You're an animal, poop on the ground!)

"I want to eat a poop sandwich!" (Uh, okay, but why do I have to make it!?)

"Oh, that grass gruel made me sick!" (Get back to work!)

"I'm sick of your lies!" (Welp, time to perform another ~~human~~ sapient sacrifice of a, uh, willing victim!)

Seriously, who's running this cult, you or them?

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nondenomifan

Novel November: The 30-day writing challenge (UK based but global!)

Read all about it here before signing up. It sounds awesome!

I will be posting in my fanfic community

nondenomific

The reason for the closing of NaNoWriMo? A net policing organization reported the site for having inadequate moderation and being an unsafe site for teenage writers. *rolls eyes*

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Jeopardy!

arcanetrivia

(via

delphi, here)

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.
(I assume that the intent was also that "An" should not count, even though it doesn't say so, although that turned out to be irrelevant for me.)

Drabbles are marked with an asterisk. I've only ever written for two fandoms, so there was no question of trying for breadth as

delphi did, but I've tried to tilt this away from Harry Potter (the first fandom, up through 2011) as much as possible, and within that to go for a little variety. (I tend to get fixed on a particular character or ship or two and do little or nothing but that! Although that said, the Monkey Island drabbles that range further afield were done for a Thanksgiving week smut-drabble challenge last year, so I was doing all kinds of random things I usually wouldn't.)

A - all blue and honey gold (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
B - Bottled (Harry Potter, Severus/Harry)
C - Cold Hands, Warm Hearts (Harry Potter, Severus/Aurora Sinistra)
D - Dress-Up (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
E - Electric* (Monkey Island, Guybrush, LeChuck; warning: torture, unwanted sexual response)
F - First Time's the Charm (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
G -
H - Heavy Wizardry (Harry Potter, gen)
I - Inspiration* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
L - Lilies are Red, Roses are Blue (Harry Potter, Severus/Lily)
M - Make Believe (Harry Potter, Severus & Lily friendship)
N - Night Music* (Monkey Island, Iron Rose/Flair Gorey)
O - Oil Slick* (Monkey Island, LeChuck/Largo)
P - Precision (Harry Potter, gen)
Q -
R - Really?* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
S - Starshine* (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine)
T - Thirty-Three and a Third (Monkey Island, Guybrush/Elaine/OMC)
U -
V -
W - We Now Join Monkey Island 2, Already in Progress (Monkey Island, gen)
X -
Y -
Z -

17/26, from a total count of 90 (I think) including three ineligible "untitled"s, one that started with 20 ("20 Random Facts About..."), and 9 that were in a collection of the "Five Things" format, so they also all started with a number. (That makes 77 instead of 90 if you just discounted all those.) I had 5 starting with "A" and 14 starting with "The", so that really took a chunk out of it.

kaberett

I supplied knives and fine motor control; the toddler supplied art direction; the toddler's resident adults supplied outlines for me to cut around (and candles, and matches, and in fact all of the cutting of the tiny pumpkin).

one large and one small pumpkin, carved, with candles, in the dark

musesfool

got some good news at work I can't talk about yet, and then got more good news that we should be able to meet payroll through the end of the year (and hopefully get our SNAP and WIC funding to make us whole when it is finally released), and then got a $200 check from the State of New York for ~reasons~ (inflation refund? idek). all in all, a pretty good day.

I also had a dream last night where maybe I was Tim Drake? And I wanted a Robin-themed birthday party that I never got until I actually became Robin? idk, but it was very sweet.

*

Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: The Ghost in You - Counting Crows

mific

And the final Drawtober prompts for

drawesome - again combining more than one in each artwork. These ones turned out to have cosmological or geographical themes. All were made in Procreate - click on each for the full-sized pic. The individual posts, some with more detailed notes, are here.

Celestial Rhythms - prompts: "rhythm" & "celestial". Based on various animations of the spiralling motion
of our solar system planets as they charge along at over 200 kms per second. I snuck Pluto in there as well.

Forgotten Treasure - prompts: "undersea", "forgotten things", and "map"

The Big Bang - prompts: "noise" & "fire". Made with several different Procreate brushes

Dancing on the Bridge of Stars - prompts: "bridge of stars", "bell", "mask", & "balls".
The planets include Pluto and Ceres, because.

gool_duck

The cats have a cat-litter box, in which they do their business.

Sometimes their staff does not clean it as often as they would prefer, and so they have an escalating system of notifying of their displeasure, thus:

0. The litter box has been cleared recently enough. A cat uses the litter box quietly, with no fuss.

1. The litter box is still useable, but the time to clean is approaching. A cat will use the litter box and scratch at the walls of the litter box, making noise, to notify that the box been has been used, and this requires attention.

2. The litter box has not been cleared in too long, and is only just usable. A cat will do their business in the box, but leave it uncovered, using the smell and visible leavings to indicate that urgent action is required.

3. The litter box has reached an unusable state. (*this is a failure mode: staff have been unwell/ messed up their sleep schedule/ miscommunicated whose turn it was) A cat does his business just outside the box, on the floor (which is a washable surface).

* * *

Yesterday we installed a new, larger cat-litter box, and the cats immediately understood and accepted it.

Today Egory demonstrated his understanding of synegdoche, thus:

He waited by the water-bowl to say he'd like it re-filled. Refilling the water bowl is part of my before bed routine, which includes clearing the cat litter.

He wanted the cat litter cleared, and he used part of the routine to indicate the whole routine.

I know this because usually if he just wants water he immediately comes and drinks from the bowl once it's re-filled, and he did not this time.

Crossposts: https://ruthi.insanejournal.com/214619.html

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All pinch hits are in, and we are on track for our regularly scheduled Halloween reveal! Work reveals will be October 31, 16:59 UTC (12:59 pm EDT).

In the meantime, we've completed the first tier of the community challenge! Here is the Treatless Spreadsheet to find more treatable treats to treat :)

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Title: Mismatched
Original (or) Fandom: Original, Some Sword/Some Play
Rating: R (D/s dynamic, gore)

( Mismatched )

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Hacking makes the holidays so much more enjoyable, and nothing says trick or treat quite like pwning LED Halloween masks belonging to every neighborhood kid during candy-collection hours.…

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It's the friends of the saw of the table!

Japan’s new space truck is also a temporary space lab, just worked first time

HTV-X capsule is designed to hang around in space after delivering cargo to ISS

My Holiday Academia 2025

Boston-area Kitchen Clean-Outs

building heat

I’ve got this queued up to listen to on the Shinkansen later:...

A-Z meme

Thursday is just relieved to have avoided the flooding and downpours...

Afghan Dress Post the Second

Amazon juggernaut continues hauling in more cash despite recent bad news

The spending will continue until AI revenue improves

Jenn's been playing Cult of the Lamb

The New NaNoWriMo! I'm doing it

ABC Fic Title Meme

today my most important job was Pointy Objects

and all the papers lie tonight

Drawtober challenge days 21 - 31

Cats and business correspondence

On track for reveals!

Friday five: politics

[Prompt 466 — Collection] Original, Some Sword/Some Play — "Mismatched"

Hacking LED Halloween masks is frighteningly easy

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