This is not concerning at all
Dec. 24th, 2025 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollSFWA is running a LLM poll for which there seems to little point if they were not planning on legitimizing the use of LLMs.
Who on the board is responsible, I wonder?
Who on the board is responsible, I wonder?
Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon (Lost Souls, volume 1) by Mizuki Tsujimura
Dec. 24th, 2025 08:58 amjames_davis_nicoll
What would you do if you could meet a dead loved one one last time? Ayumi Shibuya can make that happen.
Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon (Lost Souls, volume 1) by Mizuki Tsujimura
Distant as a dream of the cradle on this lonesome beach
Dec. 23rd, 2025 11:25 pmsovayIt is still sleeting more than snowing here, but it sticks in the occasional patch of shadow. Farther from the water, it's frosting up like winter. The Ursids were washed out by this year's weather, but somewhere beyond the clouds they are still streaking light.
I spent a remarkable portion of this day having conversations related to employment, but one of them was a thorough delight. I hadn't known about the practical, ritual links of the Jewish Association for Death Education.
We lit the candle for my grandfather's yahrzeit, our ghost story for Christmas Eve.
I spent a remarkable portion of this day having conversations related to employment, but one of them was a thorough delight. I hadn't known about the practical, ritual links of the Jewish Association for Death Education.
We lit the candle for my grandfather's yahrzeit, our ghost story for Christmas Eve.
questions here are useless, nothing answers back
Dec. 23rd, 2025 08:09 pmjazzfishYesterday I flew home from Minneapolis. My bag got lost, for the first time in ages, so I slept CPAP-less (poorly) last night. When the bag deigned to arrive this morning, it was missing one of the zipper sliders. Same thing happened to an identical bag last year. Time to stop buying and recommending Travelpro suitcases, no matter how nice the wheels are.
I also had a crown break and pop off on Saturday. And my dentist is on holiday until the fifth of January. Argh. At least it's not hurting. I did speak with him briefly and got "yeah, just keep it clean and be gentle with it, and DON'T PUT THE BROKEN CROWN BACK ON."
Minneapolis had snow and sun, which were both a nice change from the overly typical wintergrey here. Contrariwise, it remains nice to be back at home with my kitten.
Small changes, small improvements, day by day. Sunreturn.
I also had a crown break and pop off on Saturday. And my dentist is on holiday until the fifth of January. Argh. At least it's not hurting. I did speak with him briefly and got "yeah, just keep it clean and be gentle with it, and DON'T PUT THE BROKEN CROWN BACK ON."
We lose our use of colour
Just water on the brush
Minneapolis had snow and sun, which were both a nice change from the overly typical wintergrey here. Contrariwise, it remains nice to be back at home with my kitten.
Small changes, small improvements, day by day. Sunreturn.
Kaiju Girl Caramelise trailer!
Dec. 23rd, 2025 09:12 pmstepnix posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
anime_manga(don't forget to kill the auto-dub)
I enjoyed what I read of the manga! Very excited to see this get an adaptation.
Update on my medical woes
Dec. 23rd, 2025 07:35 pmandrewduckerI called them back at 7:00. Got through to someone helpful who has given me the location of a pharmacy that we're going to visit first thing tomorrow morning, who have been instructed to help us.
No idea why that didn't happen the first time!
No idea why that didn't happen the first time!
Bundle of Holding: Old Gods of Appalachia
Dec. 23rd, 2025 02:19 pmjames_davis_nicoll
An all-new Bundle featuring the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game, the tabletop game of eldritch horror from Monte Cook Games based on Steve Shell and Cam Collins' Old Gods of Appalachia anthology podcast.
Bundle of Holding: Old Gods of Appalachia
A Torrent of Faces by James Blish & Norman L. Knight
Dec. 23rd, 2025 09:02 amjames_davis_nicoll
In honour of Blish's Prometheus nomination, Blish and Knight's classic fascist utopia!
A Torrent of Faces by James Blish & Norman L. Knight
A sudden withdrawal
Dec. 23rd, 2025 12:34 pmandrewduckerI am an idiot who forgot my blood pressure medicine when I came down to Devon to see my parents.
So this morning I went in to the local pharmacy. Who can't help me because NHS England and NHS Scotland are two different organisations. But they told me to call NHS 111 and ask them for help.
NHS 111 said "We don't have anyone available who can prescribe, call us back after 6:30PM, or talk to a local GP as "Unregistered or Temporary Residents". So we went in to my dad's GP and they said "We don't help in that situation, go talk to NHS 111, they'll help you." - which would seem to leave me in an endless loop.
Just in case, I called my GP surgery in Scotland, who said that they can't prescribe in England.
At which point, as nobody is considering this very important, I think about the only options are to either call back after 6:30 tonight or to just do without for a week. Which, having checked online, doesn't look like a great idea.
Edit: I called them back at 7:00. Got through to someone helpful who has given me the location of a pharmacy that we're going to visit first thing tomorrow morning, who have been instructed to help us.
No idea why that didn't happen the first time!
So this morning I went in to the local pharmacy. Who can't help me because NHS England and NHS Scotland are two different organisations. But they told me to call NHS 111 and ask them for help.
NHS 111 said "We don't have anyone available who can prescribe, call us back after 6:30PM, or talk to a local GP as "Unregistered or Temporary Residents". So we went in to my dad's GP and they said "We don't help in that situation, go talk to NHS 111, they'll help you." - which would seem to leave me in an endless loop.
Just in case, I called my GP surgery in Scotland, who said that they can't prescribe in England.
At which point, as nobody is considering this very important, I think about the only options are to either call back after 6:30 tonight or to just do without for a week. Which, having checked online, doesn't look like a great idea.
Edit: I called them back at 7:00. Got through to someone helpful who has given me the location of a pharmacy that we're going to visit first thing tomorrow morning, who have been instructed to help us.
No idea why that didn't happen the first time!
Interesting Links for 23-12-2025
Dec. 23rd, 2025 12:00 pmTags:
- ai,
- buses,
- disinformation,
- doom,
- edinburgh,
- fraud,
- links,
- scotland,
- socialmedia,
- transport
Bundle of Holding: DIE the RPG
Dec. 22nd, 2025 02:45 pmjames_davis_nicoll
The DIE roleplaying game designed by the Image comic's creators, Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, plus three volumes of adventures for an unbeatable bargain price!
Bundle of Holding: DIE the RPG
Probably not going to leave the slightest trace in the wake when it's my turn
Dec. 22nd, 2025 11:52 amsovaySince the light is officially supposed to have returned in my hemisphere, it is pleasing that my morning has been filled with the quartz-flood of winter sun. I could not get any kind of identifying look at the weird ducks clustered on their mirror-blue thread of the Mystic as I drove past, but I saw black, blue, buff, white, russet, green, and one upturned tail with traffic-cone feet.
On the front of ghost stories for winter, Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Fiction 2024, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, is now digitally available from Psychopomp. Nephthys of the kite-winged darkness presides over its contents, which include my queer maritime ice-dream "Twice Every Day Returning." It's free to subscribers of The Deadlands and worth a coin or two on the eyes of the rest.
For the solstice itself, I finally managed to write about a short and even seasonal film-object and made latkes with my parents.spatch and I lit the last night's candle for the future. All these last months have been a very rough turn toward winter. I have to believe that I will be able to believe in one.
On the front of ghost stories for winter, Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Fiction 2024, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, is now digitally available from Psychopomp. Nephthys of the kite-winged darkness presides over its contents, which include my queer maritime ice-dream "Twice Every Day Returning." It's free to subscribers of The Deadlands and worth a coin or two on the eyes of the rest.
For the solstice itself, I finally managed to write about a short and even seasonal film-object and made latkes with my parents.
spatch and I lit the last night's candle for the future. All these last months have been a very rough turn toward winter. I have to believe that I will be able to believe in one.orchestral mockup WIP: "Alto Clef Escapement"
Dec. 22nd, 2025 07:22 amyhleeOrchestral mockup WIP featuring a "drunken" viola (Amati Viola). Because sometimes violas want to /burn longer/ have fun too. [1]
Trailure = "failure trailer." This is, fortunately, personal work at this point :) but my last composition summative assignment involved converging incrementally toward trailer format by getting all the errors out of the way one by one. I think the only thing I DIDN'T do was a cappella kazoo ensemble. :p
Meanwhile, back to Candle Arc 2D animation shenanigans: I have vocals recorded for one character, which means I can start nailing down timing on the animatic for lip sync. Still (joyfully) buried under composition/orchestration schoolwork! :3
[1] I was a student violist many a moon ago. :)
https://deuceofgears.bandcamp.com/
for the morbidly curious. :3
Interesting Links for 22-12-2025
Dec. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Trail hunting to be banned under new animal welfare push
- (tags:foxes uk law )
- 2. Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere
- (tags:batteries electricty co2 )
- 3. Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most
- (tags:relationships friends parents psychology )
- 4. Why British Jews are experiencing their biggest change in 60 years
- (tags:Jews UK Israel bigotry demographics )
- 5. Exceptional adults reach peak performance gradually with broader, multidisciplinary practice.
- (tags:learning development education )
Tags:
- batteries,
- bigotry,
- co2,
- demographics,
- development,
- education,
- electricty,
- foxes,
- friends,
- israel,
- jews,
- law,
- learning,
- links,
- parents,
- psychology,
- relationships,
- uk
Do images also get redirected when using a rename token?
Dec. 22nd, 2025 10:10 amvriddy posting in getting_startedThe FAQ entry about renaming a journal is very helpful to understand what happens and the options when renaming, but I'm not sure what happens to the image links?
Do image links also get redirected automatically ? Or do you need to update your old posts referencing those images, since the username is in the URL too??
Do image links also get redirected automatically ? Or do you need to update your old posts referencing those images, since the username is in the URL too??