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For the seventy-first yahrzeit of Alan Turing, I have been listening to selections from the galaxy-brained fusion of Michael Vegas Mussmann and Payton Millet's Alan Turing and the Queen of the Night (2025) as well as the glitterqueer mad science of Kele Fleming's "Turing Test" (2024). Every year I discover new art in his memory, like Frank Duffy's A lion for Alan Turing (2023). Lately I treasure it like spite. Countries doing better by their queer and trans living than by their honored and unnecessary dead would be the best.

Current Music: Kele Fleming, "Turing Test"

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Posted by Lana DeGaetano

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We're back cat-it again with a fancy feast of feline feel-goods that are guaranteed to crack a smile on all of you lovely pawrents' faces! What a sad, sad world it would be if we didn't have this feast every so often with all of you. Right? Maybe I'm speaking for myself; After all, I get to compile the cutest cat memes for a job. From my paws to your phone, here are my favorites.

My cat has been a bit antsy since the weather has gotten warmer. He's a big fan of watching things fly around outside our window, so he basically fights with the glass all day long until his favorite sun-soaked spot on the floor becomes available at golden hour. I don't blame him. When he graces me with his presence, he is my own living heating pad. There's something so great about being warm—our cats know this feeling well.

Enough about me—how is your purrfect Caturday meowrning going? Well, hopefully we can make it even better with the most hissterical catto memes on the meowrket right meow. Scroll below!

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Writer: Dennis O’Neil

Pencils: Denys Cowan

Inks: Rick Magyar

The Question wakes up in a strange man’s bed.

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rmc28

I'm playing an ice hockey game tonight in Cambridge, a charity fundraiser between Warbirds and Tri-Base Lightning. But until then I have a strangely unscheduled day. I might sleep or read or something.

I could post about what I've been up to lately!

Work:

spoke on a panel about effective 1:1s, it seemed to go well
played my usual Senior Tech Woman role for a colleague's recruitment panel, and am happy that our preferred candidate has apparently just accepted. (a frustrating number of timewasting applicants more or less obviously using LLMs to write their applications and generate their free-text statements on suitability for the role; I really resent having to wade through paragraphs of verbose buzzword bilge to ... fail to find any evidence they actually know how to do the job)

Hockey:

KODIAKS WON PLAYOFFS on the bank holiday weekend oh yes they did. So proud of the players, and definitely earned my share of reflected glory managing the team this season and running around half the weekend. League winners, Cup winners, Playoff winners, promotion to Division 1 next season, utter delight.
Very much an Insufficient Sleep weekend, we topped off the playoff win with a night out in Sheffield, I got back to my hotel as the sky was getting light, good times.
Kodiaks awards evening last night: lots of celebration of the hard work and lovely camaraderie of this group of players, A and B teams both. I got to announce and hand out the B team awards, and I received a really nice pair of gifts for me as manager: a canvas print of a post-final winners photo, and a personalised insulated travel mug (club logo and MANAGER on it). I love this team.
I'm still enjoying also playing with Warbirds, and have now been to a few summer Friday scrimmages run by Tri-Base. I went to a couple of Friday scrims at the end of last summer and felt everyone was very kind but I was pretty outclassed. I'm pleased to feel like I'm keeping up a bit better now after training a lot harder this last season.
I trained three days in a row this week (Warbirds Monday, Haringey Greyhounds tryouts in Alexandra Palace on Tuesday, Kodiaks Wednesday) and that was Too Much and I was pretty sore Wednesday evening and Thursday. Rest days are important even if I am much improved in fitness compared to this time last year.

Other:

I did a formal hall at my old College! Using my alumna rights and having a nice evening hanging out with old friends (who were the ones to suggest the plan). Good times, will do again but probably not this term.
I had an excessive number of books out from Suffolk libraries that needed returning, so I did a flying visit to Newmarket by bus last Saturday, this turned out to be the cheapest/quickest way across the county border. I managed to stick to my resolution not to borrow any more physical books but slipped and fell on the "withdrawn books for sale" stand. Managed to only come home with four.
I did a little indoor cricket the Friday before playoffs (it's now finished due to exam period), and some nets practice last Sunday, but I keep being too busy to actually play any of my team's games. I'd like to do more nets practice though, that was intense but also felt like I was beginning to improve.
I did a little table tennis with Active Staff but that's also now suspended for exams. I'm considering getting a cheap set of bats and balls for me and the family to go use at the local rec ground, or in the free indoor tables at the Grafton Centre.

Coming up: my summer is full of ice hockey camps and tournaments (Prague, Hull, Sheffield, Biarritz) and my old club Streatham have just announced all their summer training sessions will be "Summer Skills Camps" open to all interested WNIHL players, so I'm looking at going to London regularly again in July and August.

fred_mouse

I really haven't been putting much effort into tracking things here; my last post about it was 10th of May. At that point I had finished 2 projects of the 10 I'm hoping for, and made good progress on three. I've not finished anything else since, but I have made good progress on some

Previous good progress

towel rail - has not been progressed. I need a day a) without rain and b) that I have multiple hours available and c) (most importantly) that I remember this needs doing
door mat(s) - I've used up all the existing 'yarn' and I have half a rag rug. Every time I am surprised by how much 'yarn' it takes. I need to work out where I stashed the rest of the strips while we had a houseguest, and assemble more.
Teach myself to draw - this has stalled. I keep misplacing my drawing book or the sketch book I'm using, or the pencil. I need to get a better process.

Progressed since

pink / white / brown crochet blanket -- crochet finished, sewing in the ends. I think I'm half done on the ends?
brown / green knit -- this gets 4-6 rows roughly every second Thursday (when we game online) plus I've sat and worked on it while listening to podcasts.
T's jumper - a handful of rows. I need to make sure to do this every second day at least
blue / white virus blanket - I've finished the first of the two balls I had left, now on to the last one. It is just shy of 70cm square, and I'm on the 13th repeat of the pattern. I suspect this is the last repeat, based on available yarn. Hopefully I have enough to finish.
Eldest's quilt - I have laid it out, I have worked out what is needed to finish it. I have made and joined four blocks and worked out that I was doing something different from the book, and now those are going to be the front of a cushion, just as soon as they aren't attached to the quilt any more (basically, I'm adding 1/2" to each so the finished size is 9.5" rather than 9", but hadn't noted that down anywhere).
Knitting for Kitties - using up a couple of balls of yarn; the green one is done, and we have handed three squares over to purrdence

I'm reasonably happy with this progress. It is possible that either the knitting for kitties or the virus blanket will be finished next, because those are relatively portable. The former lives in my handbag; the latter is going to go in my uni bag (it is possible I will mostly stop carrying the handbag, because it doesn't fit a lunch or a laptop)

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sovay

As it turns out, what goes on with my hand is that it's going to have arthritis, but with any luck on the same glacial timeline as the kind that runs in my family, and in the meantime I have been referred back to OT. Maybe there will be more paraffin.

My parents as an unnecessary gift for taking care of the plants while they were out of town—mostly watering a lot of things in pots and digging the black swallow-wort out of the irises—gave me Eddie Muller's Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined Film Noir (2001/2025), which not only fits the theme of this year's Noir City: Boston, but contains such useful gems as:

One of the most common, if wrong-headed, criticisms of film noir is that it relegates women to simplistic archetypes, making them Pollyannas or femmes fatales, drippy good girls or sinister sexpots. People who believe this nonsense have never seen a noir starring Ella Raines.

Ella Raines is indeed all that and a drum solo on top, but she is not a unique occurrence and I can only hope that people who have not been paying attention to Karen Burroughs Hannsberry or Imogen Sara Smith will listen to the Czar of Noir when he writes about its complicated women, because I am never going to have the platform to get this fact through people's heads and I am never going to let up on it, either.

Anyway, I learned a new vocabulary word.

Current Music: Lucy Dacus, "Most Wanted Man"

silver_chipmunk

Today I got up and had breakfast and coffee. Then I showered and dressed, and

mashfanficchick and I and Winnie and Theo went to COSI, the children's science museum.

We had a really fun time. I took Winnie and

mashfanficchick took Theo and we mostly went our separate ways. First Winnie and I did the Star Wars exhibit, then Life and the Progress. We ended up in Gadgets, where we stayed for the remainder of our time there. It was a lot of hands on doing things.

Anyway, then Dani picked us up. Theo wanted to go home, and sp we dropped him off, and the rest of us went to a really nice park. It's designed to be inclusive, accessible for the handicapped. It is really nice.

After that, Dani and

mashfanficchick went to Trader Joes and I took Winnie to Barnes and Noble. I bought a book, because you can't go to Barnes and Noble without buying a book and I got one for Winnie because it would be cruel not to get her one when I got myself one.

Then we went to Skyline Chili and I had Cincinnati chili for the first time, a five-way. It was delicious. I loved it.

Then we came back. Been trying to get Theo to bed ever since. I hope to Team with the FWiB for a few minutes now.

And I just did.

Oh, RK texted, he took care of my pets today and all is well.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The science museum.

3. Barnes and Nob;e.

4. Got the third in the Godkiller series.

5. Friends.

6. Cincinnati chili.

Current Mood: tired

dialecticdreamer

Wishful Thinking
By Sarah Williams
Part 15 of 15, complete
Word count (story only): 1103
[Landing #7, day 3, a bit before six a.m. local time]

:: After a long day, the Ashton family, and Backstep, are sitting down to dinner. Conversation turns to longer term plans. Part of the Sidestep Travelers universe. ::

Rubin eased onto the floor, putting a milkshake into Zipper’s hand with a warning, expectant look. The younger man rolled his eyes, grumbling through a grin. “I’m eating,” Zipper declared. He made a point of slurping through the straw noisily.

Sitting on a footstool, his legs crossed at the ankles and guitar balanced on his leg, Smashup didn’t bother to hide his smirk. “Come on, Backstep, you’re going to miss Rubin hauling out the ‘Dad voice’ on Zipper!” the teen crowed. Worry knotted in the creases of his foreheads.

Across the living room, Anita held up a strangely subdued paperback book with a dull, olive green cover printed with glossy black ink and a simple line design. “I could read for a while, Zipper, and give your voice a rest.”
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Current Mood: amused

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https://xkcd.com/3099/

The installation of the pipes on the inside of the insulation can be challenging, especially when the neighbor could come home at any minute.

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conuly

has got to be shrinkflation of dumb phone games.

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Current Music: Oilers vs Panthers, 2025 Stanley Cup Final Game 2

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kaberett

A significant part of the problem is that we only start saying "all pain is in the brain" (or "the tissue isn't the issue" or whatever) to people with complex or chronic pain.

And there's a good reason for that! It's the same reason that I need to have a much more detailed idea of the fine detail of what an atom is and how it behaves than the vast majority of the population, for whom the Bohr model is perfectly adequate!

... and we need to explain that, we need to explain why we don't tell people with simple acute pain that All Pain Is In The Brain -- it's not because it's any less true for them, it's just that for most people most of the time they don't need to worry about that level of detail. But if you don't explain that, it sure do sound a lot like "your pain isn't real (unlike those people over there)".

Lies-to-children. That. That thing. That's a thing I need to explain.

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99pi.org/adapt

Kurt Kohlstedt has spent ten years creating audio and print stories for the design podcast, 99% Invisible. He also co-authored the 99% Invisible City book.

Last year, 99pi’s Kurt Kohlstedt suffered a severe injury that incapacitated his right arm and dominant hand. In the aftermath, new everyday challenges led him to research, test, and evolve accessible design solutions. These experiences set the stage for Adapt or Design, a twelve-part project of 99% Invisible in three acts, available at the short link 99pi.org/adapt

The Adapt or Design series includes many groan-worthy puns related to hands; six essays exploring assistive designs for people with one functional hand; three design hacks and mods that helped Kurt manage long-term rehabilitation; and three final essays diving deep into adaptive writing technologies including a free one-handed "mirror keyboard" for Windows PowerToys.

While the first article posted in April, I just heard about it via the 99% Invisible podcast 630, where Kurt and Roman talk about all these things.

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Posted by Sarah Brown

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With the NBA Finals heating up, it's not just the pros bringing the intensity. Cats everywhere are suiting up and showing out. These four-pawed phenoms have been practicing their jump shots, perfecting their defense (read: swatting everything), and sharpening their claws for maximum court dominance.

Whether they're dunking into laundry baskets or dribbling hair ties across the floor, these feline ballers are channeling Finals energy with every pounce. The living room is their arena, the scratching post is their hoop, and they will chase down that rebound, even if it's just a rogue ping-pong ball.

Training is serious. High-protein kibble. Midday naps for recovery. Stair sprints. Laser-pointer agility drills. They watch the real Finals from the couch, tails twitching with anticipation, clearly analyzing plays and plotting their next meowve.

While the NBA's top athletes battle it out for the trophy, the cats are quietly preparing their own paw-some takeover. The playoffs have gone pro, but the fluffiest underdogs are still in it for the love of the game. One thing's for sure: in this house, every game is game 7.

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