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Jasper has crossed the rainbow bridge.

He had started eating. It was looking up. Dental procedure was scheduled I had hope.

Then he lost interest entirely. In food, in drink.

So we said our goodbyes and drove to Blue Pearl.

Like Miso. He will be part of the coral reef helping coral grow in the Atlantic Ocean. My beloved oceans that surround me.

He just stood in his water dish. Not drinking. Just all paws in the dish.

Heart murmur, kidney disease, arthritis in his spine, possible tumor/nodule between heart and lung, hyperthyroidism.

So much was against him.

And yet my child is dead and I can't see the words on the screen.

Current Mood: sad
Crossposts: https://dani-meows.insanejournal.com/391626.html

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A conversation on witchcraft: history, religion, and persecution - including Ronald Hutton (fangirling).

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And on subversive women: Archiving Bengal’s Revolutionary Women:

[M]any women participated in the revolutionary movement, taking on roles that challenged colonial authority and social norms. The militants who joined underground networks, manufactured explosives, and participated in acts of political violence, however, remain largely absent from both public memory and archival records. When they do appear in colonial documents, they are often framed through their relationships to men: as daughters, wives, or associates, rather than as political actors in their own right.

Surprised? not really.

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More on grassroots activism: Travelling activists, Radical Hospitality, and the Intimate History of Socialist Organising in Britain, c. 1880-1914.

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Women in perhaps unexpected occupations (though I knew a little a bit about this since an old mate of mine did some research on the topic back in the 80s): Women in the Private Asylum Business in Nineteenth-Century England.

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This association is already fairly well-known but a nuanced set of arguments about the complexity of how it plays out: Inequality and health: Lost in the mists of time?:

Rather than behaving like a toxin that produces a sudden spike in mortality after a fixed incubation period, inequality is more like a fog that gradually seeps into bodies, relationships, and institutions over time.

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What the information in one scroll recording an C18th Chancery suit opened up concerning George Orwell's ancestors (Jamaica connection).

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The better part of my afternoon was spent sitting on a park bench with

rushthatspeaks in the classically balmy sunshine, watching a classful of kindergarteners shriek and clamber all over the climbing structures, the fountain, and the swings. One edged his way over to us with his school tablet on which he showed us the groups of things he was learning. I saw another with a pinwheel, another with a fanny pack, another with a baseball cap made of duct tape, crouching with a friend to pry open a maintenance hatch in the fountain with a stick. We agreed that we miss tire swings and feel nostalgically toward metal slides which had to be insulated from thigh-scalding summer with pieces of cardboard or brown paper bags. FiDO Pizza turns out to deliver all the way from Allston and while I recognize the garlic honey and chili zing of the richly soppressata-studded Doc, the anchovy-forward collards and kale of the Braised Greens over Parmesan cream tasted like an entire kelp forest and I ate it like one. We had cookies left over from Pesach for dessert. Especially at the end of a scrambled week, it was a low-key, springlike, lovely time. We have made plans in the newly discovered directions of All She Wrote Books and Dani's Queer Bar. In the evening we saw that Artemis II had safely splashed down.

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Title: 'Accursed'
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda (Spoilers for 'Tears of the Kingdom')
Rating: G
Notes: Crossposted to

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( Accursed )

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Our new challenge is:

OBSTACLE

As always, you can interpret the prompt literally or figuratively, in whatever way works for you.

Each work created for this challenge should be posted as a new entry to the comm. Posting starts now and continues up until the challenge ends at 4pm Pacific Time on Monday, 20th April. No sign-up required.

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The Beam challenge is now closed. Here are the entries:

The Fantastic Journey: Fanfic: Nightmares And Illusions by

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The Professionals: Fanfiction: Hazard of the Job by

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GOTH: Fanfic: beams of silence which is (the skin) by

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Beam: Miss Marple: Fanfic: From Dust to Thimbles by

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Criminal Minds: Fanfiction: Moving On by

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Heated Rivalry: Fan Fiction: Feeling Wanted by

darkjediqueen
Culture Club: Fanfic: Power Cut by

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no fandom: icons: balance by

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Viola come il mare: Fanfic: Love Becomes You by

veronyxk84
Ariadne - Jennifer Saint: fanfic: undutiful by

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Torchwood: Fanfic: Not for general use by

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Friday to midnight on Saturday (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34463 Daily poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 24

How are you doing?

I am okay
14 (58.3%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
10 (41.7%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
10 (41.7%)

One other person
9 (37.5%)

More than one other person
5 (20.8%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

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I've been meaning to write a rec list inspired by all the graphic novels and comics I've been reading recently for a while, but I kept getting sick or distracted. But I've finally finished it so you can go check it out here!

I think I've talked about most of these in my Media Roundup posts but you can think of this as the highlights version.

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Posted by Matthew Guariglia

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/we-need-you-our-privacy-cannot-afford-clean-extension-section-702

We go through this every couple of years: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which of Americans’ communications with foreign persons overseas is up for renewal. As always, Congress can reauthorize it with or without changes, or just let it expire. We know, we know, it’s a pain to have to do this every few years–but it gives us a chance to lift the hood of this behemoth tool of government surveillance and tinker with how it works. That’s why it’s so important right now to urge your Member of Congress not to pass any bill that reauthorizes Section 702 without substantial reforms. 

Take action

TELL congress: 702 Needs Reform

Section 702 is rife with problems, loopholes, and compliance issues that need fixing. The National Security Agency (NSA) collects full conversations being conducted by surveillance targets overseas and stores them, allowing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to operate in a “finders keepers” mode of surveillance—they reason that it's already collected, so why can’t they look at those conversations? There, the FBI can query and even read the U.S. side of that communication without a warrant. The problem is, people who have been spied on by this program won’t even know and have very few ways of finding out. EFF and other civil liberties advocates have been trying for years to know when data collected through Section 702 is used as evidence against them. 

There’s simply no excuse for any Member of Congress to support a "clean" reauthorization of Section 702. Anyone who votes to do so does not take your privacy seriously. Full stop. 

The intelligence community and its defenders in Congress, as always, seem more interested in defending their rights to read your private communications than in protecting your right to privacy. It’s not really a compromise between safety and privacy if it's always your privacy that gets sacrificed. Now, we’re drawing a line in the sand: Congress cannot pass a clean extension. 

Use this EFF tool to write to your Member of Congress and tell them not to pass a clean reauthorization of Section 702. 

Take action

TELL congress: 702 Needs Reform

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/we-need-you-our-privacy-cannot-afford-clean-extension-section-702

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anthimeria or antimeria - (rhetoric) n., the use of a word from one part of speech as if it were another.

In English, most commonly using a noun as a verb, as in "Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle" -- Shakespeare, Richard II, act II, sc.iii, l.95. Indeed, many of the 1500+ word coinages that Shakespeare is credited for were anthimeria. In linguistics, the more common term is zero derivation, deriving a word from one of another part of speech without modification. Like most terms from rhetoric, this is from Ancient Greek, from antí, opposite + méros, part.

---L.

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Title: Into the Void
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Ellipsus)
Setting/Spoilers: Set post-S7.
Summary: After the collapse of Sunnydale, Buffy is dead-set on finding Spike.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Prompt: #489 - Curse

Crossposted:

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Because when I read this, I had Further Questions.

London pub thief sold £2.2m Fabergé egg and watch set to buy drugs

I am going, hello?

Enzo Conticello, 29, took the Givenchy bag belonging to Rosie Dawson as she stood in the smoking area of the Dog and Duck pub in Soho, London, on 7 November 2024.
Inside the £1,600 bag was an emerald-encrusted Fabergé egg and watch set belonging to Dawson’s employers, the Craft Irish Whiskey Company.

So, she had these items in her HANDBAG (going full Flora Robson as Lady Bracknell) and

went to the Dog and Duck pub in Soho. She was outside the premises in the designated smoking area, she put her handbag on the ground in between her legs, and a few minutes later she noticed her handbag was no longer there.

We observe that this was a £1,600 Givenchy bag, and while I do not think London is quite the crime-ridden hellhole some social media depicts, I might hang on to this a bit more carefully in Soho even did it not contain my employer's Fabergé.

Dawson had the Fabergé items because she had taken them for display at a work event earlier that evening.

Surely there ought to have been some kind of security procedure involved, like, 'take a taxi and put them back in the safe'?

(Am trying to think of any circumstances in which, in former days, would have been taking precious unique archival and manuscript items out of the building in the first place. When we had them out on display for visiting groups, they got put away pronto.)

I probably read too much crime fiction, but this reads like 'set-up for heist/insurance scam that went pearshaped'.

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April 10th, 2026: MURDOCH UPDATE: she is not afraid of the water and enjoys fetching sticks in it. She doesn't seem to mind the cold, but I bet when it's warm enough for we humans and I can go in too, she will be very excited to Splash Around.

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Title: Not for general use
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 1,319 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 511 - Beam
Summary: Jack has revised plans for their weapons training date night.

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