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Posted by Sumana Harihareswara

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Last-minute recommendations for New York City's Democratic primary election. (Early voting concluded Sunday; tomorrow, Tuesday the 24th, is the final day to vote.)I'm going to start with lesser-publicized races and move up the ballot.Western Queens …

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Posted by Sumana Harihareswara

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Early voting in New York City's 2025 general election started today. Yesterday I posted about the six ballot proposals; today I share some recommendations and links about the seven competitive judicial races (that is, races …

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siria

( Fancy Dance )

( Paternal Leave )

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Early today because I'm going to an organ concert. :D
This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Saturday to midnight on Sunday (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #33764 Daily

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 15

How are you doing?

I am okay
6 (40.0%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
9 (60.0%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
5 (33.3%)

One other person
7 (46.7%)

More than one other person
3 (20.0%)

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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anime_manga

Been catching up on Vampire Princess Miyu as a way to go with the Halloween thing without doing too much about it. Its still haunting, and it has become one of my all-time favorites. I'm hoping to finally finish the series and the OAV which I also watched way back then on VHS.

(In fact, that was the first time I began watching it.)

I'm also watching episodes of Ghost Sweeper Mikami with the same goal of finishing it up as well.

Anyone here also watching Horror/Supernatural themed Anime this month?

Current Music: Culture Club- Karma Chameleon

davidgillon

I've got an Asda order due for delivery later, but a couple of the substitutions in the confirmation email confused me, What the hell are "slice cheoni" or "pizza pepsal"?

Finally worked out it's a cheese and onion slice (euuww, that's going back), and a pepperoni salami pizza. C'mon, Asda, it's not meant to be an intelligence test!

Current Mood: WTAF!

yhlee

(cross-post with more technical details:

prototypediablerie)

Three-ply yarns where each single is a different wool variety since I was going through and spinning up some samples. Next up will be an experiment in dyeing.

Also, the next owner of this spinning wheel is going to have to live with the aftermarket addition of Warhammer 40,000 base magnets to hold the hecking orifice hook because I keep losing them (and having to DIY new ones out of paper clips - this works quite well and is easy but also, I'm running embarrassingly low on paper clips).

rionaleonhart

It is once again time for a dream roundup!

( Dreams from August to October. )

It didn't occur to me until I looked at all of these together that I've had multiple dreams about bears lately. Perplexing! Bears aren't really something I often have on the mind.

conuly

Since I belong to a little bitty credit union, my branch is closed tomorrow and I have to go into the city to get a replacement and, while I'm there, have them fix my name - if they remove my middle initial from my card, my last name will fit properly, easy-peasy. Or I can wait until Monday, since I'm certain I lost it in the house, but it turns out there's another protest tomorrow so I may as well go in.

Anyway, speaking of protests and politics and food banks,

petra is offering up fanworks:

If you donate at least $25 in cash or in-kind to a food bank at any point between now and the end of the Trump Administration, and you either share a fandom of mine and want a drabble or fannish poetry, or you want original poetry, drop me a comment, and I will write for you.

So, there you go, that's a win-win for everybody.

Edit: Well! As you might expect, as soon as I posted I happened to roll my chair over my card! It's fine, chair and card are both fine. I still need to make them fix my name, but it can wait.

conuly

This is the last mending they'll take, and I'm not sure how long it'll hold. I've ordered a new pair, and on the one hand I know $100 is cheap - especially for my prescription! - but on the other hand, I didn't want to spend it. And I didn't exactly love my choice of frames, either, but they were inexpensive and fit my pupil distance, so I'll live with them.

(Though, looking on the website, it seems glow in the dark frames are an option!? I would never, sounds like a real visual annoyance, but man, so much respect for anybody who goes in that direction!)

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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 #33759 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 25

How are you doing?

I am okay
12 (48.0%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
13 (52.0%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
7 (28.0%)

One other person
14 (56.0%)

More than one other person
4 (16.0%)

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.

qian

skygiants did a very kind post about this development, which made me think perhaps I should also do a public post about it on this, the social networking site on which I am probably most active ...

Anyway, my epistolary novella The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo is being republished by indie press Homeward Books and for the first time, it will be available in hard copy form! With a jazzy new cover featuring art by Kim Nguyen, it is SO cute and chic. Homeward Books are fundraising to put out their first two releases (Jade is the second) and you can pre-order both via the Kickstarter here.

bluedreaming

You know the kind of mood where you definitely have things to do (all carefully written on my hand 😂) but you’re getting the itch to create a new account somewhere or make some kind of website thing or something?

Oh well, once I’m home and have gotten a meal together I’ll be too tired to get up to shenanigans…

(Watching the Thai drama The Cursed Love right now and I’ve only watched episode 1 but so far it feels like a cross between Indiana Jones and Percy Jackson plus, according to the comments, Hindu mythology? Anyway, I’m having a good time.)

cosmolinguist

"I saw an ad for the talking dog car movie on the toilet that came up out of the ground!"

That's a real sentence that I heard diffrentcolours say this afternoon.

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Visiting the sunflowers made me see stories in progress.

Trying to sneak into the In Crowd

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Posted by Sumana Harihareswara

http://harihareswara.net/posts/2025/nyc-2025-election-ballot-proposals/

Early voting in New York City's 2025 general election starts this Saturday, Oct. 25th. I'm writing two blog posts sharing my thinking and recommendations, one about the six ballot proposals (this one), one about the …

http://harihareswara.net/posts/2025/nyc-2025-election-ballot-proposals/

watersword

T. Kingfisher's latest Sworn Soldier novella, What Stalks The Deep, is enormously comforting, insofar as everyone, even the monster lurking in the depths, is trying their best under difficult circumstances and wants to do the right thing. I needed that, for so many reasons, oh my gosh.

My plan for fixing my life this weekend is going to demand levels of focus and time management and a willingness to confront gross surfaces that frankly I have never exhibited in my entire life, so obviously that's gonna go great.

I have a month to write either the next fake investigative journalism piece or finish the Roman engineer/selkie story. You'd think that the story where I roughly know what happens (emotionally) and have 1.2K words written would be the easy one, right? You would be wrong. I'll try writing the ending first and maybe that will help.

l33tminion

I wish the US didn't have so many factors of the political system involve the government threatening to blow itself (along with the US and maybe global economy) up every few months: The budget, the debt ceiling, "temporary" measures as key parts of various policy frameworks.

Meanwhile, Trump's demolished an entire wing of the White House to turn it into Mar-a-Lago 2. Apparently there's a really pressing need for event space, so it's a shame that Trump's inevitably going to fill that niche with tacky garbage. And it's insane to unilaterally demolish a WH wing during a government shutdown. Imagine the reaction if Obama did anything even remotely like that.

Current Mood: aggravated

kaberett

Summary: nobody seems to have done the data analysis I actually want, because data collection is hard and then actually making it internationally comparable ditto, but the proportion of chronic pain cases that are primarily attributable to back pain Of Some Kind seems to be very roughly in the region of 20%-50%, depending.

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prettygoodword

boffo (BOF-oh) - (slang, largely US) adj., outstanding, very successful. n., (show business slang) a great success, a hit.

The etymology of slang is often confusing, but this is exceptionally tangled. Complicating things is the existence of boff, which aside from the verb meaning to have sex with also is US show-biz slang, meaning a gag or line that produces a hearty laugh as well as a hit in general. Many authorities think one of these is derived from the other but disagree on which is the source. Other authorities suggest separate sources for the two words, without any clear consensus on what. Proposed sources, btw, include, buffo, a comic opera character (related to buffoon), bouffo, a comic opera genre, and a shortening of bo(x o)ff(ice), as in the total receipts paid for admission. On a personal level, I'm surprised to learn this is specifically US slang -- I had the impression that is was UK slang from, perhaps, 19th century music-hall, rather than 1930s Hollywood.

---L.

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sumana_feed - 2025 NYC Primary Election Recommendations
sumana_feed - NYC 2025 Election: Judges
siria - 2552 / Fancy Dance; Paternal Leave
adafrog in fandom_checkin - Daily Check In.
fennectik in anime_manga - Celebrating Halloween my way
davidgillon - It's not meant to be a cryptic crossword!
yhlee - emotional support spinning
rionaleonhart - With The Possible Exception Of Monokuma.
conuly - And, huh. It looks like I lost my bank card
conuly - Welp, my glasses have reached the point of no return with superglue
adafrog in fandom_checkin - Daily Check In.
qian - The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo, in print!
bluedreaming - 💡
cosmolinguist - Powerwash Simulator 2...spoilers?
yourlibrarian in common_nature - Sunflower Stories
sumana_feed - NYC 2025 Election: Ballot Proposals
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l33tminion - Timebomb-Based Governance
kaberett - [pain] further notes on chronic pain statistics
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