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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-07-03 04:43 pm

Blazing the Trail: Celebrating Indigenous Fire Stewardship

FireSmart Canada is pleased to release Blazing the Trail: Celebrating Indigenous Fire
Stewardship
, a beautiful, bound publication that recognizes the contributions to wildfire
prevention of Indigenous communities in Canada
.

Read more... )
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-07-03 02:49 pm

Birdfeeding

Today is partly sunny and hot.

I fed the birds. I refilled the thistle feeder. I've seen a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a male cardinal.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 7/3/25 -- I took a few more pictures around the yard, mostly flowers at the end of the driveway.

EDIT 7/3/25 -- I dug up three pots of wild senna and one of purple echinacea that had seeded themselves in the savanna, hopefully to transplant them elsewhere if they survive.

I've seen a pair of mourning doves and a gray catbird. I also saw a very large bird, possibly a vulture or eagle, flying over the field to the west.

EDIT 7/3/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 7/3/25 -- We hooked up the new, flat water hose. The "non-kinking" label is a complete lie; it is the most prone to kinking of any hose I've ever used. Straightening it out enough to work is a bitch. However, it is extremely lightweight and completely flexible, so those are pluses. Also the multifunction water wand is by far the best nozzles I've ever used. I favor with "shower" and "flat" functions the most. The new picnic table garden and septic garden have been thoroughly watered.

EDIT 7/3/25 -- I watered the old picnic table garden and the plants in the house yard.

The corn is tasseling. The pollen hangs heavy on the wind with a sweet, dusty, buttery, golden smell.

Fireflies are coming out.

I saw a skunk in the house yard. I've seen a squirrel at the hopper feeder.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-07-03 02:45 pm

Climate Change

When rainforests died, the planet caught fire: New clues from Earth’s greatest extinction

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: once they collapsed, Earth’s biggest carbon sponge vanished, CO₂ rocketed, and a five-million-year heatwave followed. Fossils from China and clever climate models now link that botanical wipe-out to runaway warming, hinting that losing today’s tropical forests could lock us in a furnace we can’t easily cool.


I pointed this out decades ago and nobody listened. Now here we are. But hey, someone could roll up this newspaper and beat Brazil with it.
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forestofglory ([personal profile] forestofglory) wrote2025-07-03 11:21 am
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Meida Round Up: Girls and Demons

It's that time again! More thoughts on media:

The Truth Season 3 case 8 (I think, the numbering is confusing now)— this case featured Chinese style horror, and it was very creepy but in a fun way. I also enjoyed the earthly 20th inspired costumes

I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming— I’m writing about this even though I didn’t finish it because I think some of you might enjoy this. The first bit was really fun! The main character is a wildlife biology PhD student, who when she finds herself on an alien planet is upset that it's full of dinosaurs all from different time periods from each other! (Very relatable really) The book has a very fun voice. Unfortunately it ends up becoming too much sex for me.

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh— A Korean inspired fantasy YA novel about a girl who chooses to sacrifice herself in place of the designated Sea God’s Bride and enters a spirit world full of mythical beings and complex politics. (I read this even though the mom is dead, and really there’s no narrative reason for it) This was lovely and very atmospheric, though the ending left me a little dissatisfied. (Content Note: Infant death)

Painted Devils by Margaret Owen— Second book in the Little Thieves trilogy. Very fun and twisty in a similar way to the 1st book.

Kpop Demon Hunters — It's an animated movie about a kpop girl band that are magical girl-sque demon hunters, there's lot of musical numbers.A Koren friend of mine described it as “an American movie set in Korea” and I think that’s spot on. She specifically complained about how the worldbuiling/theology feels too christian. It doesn't fully work through the consequences of all the violence but the flight scenes are very swooshy and fun, and I liked the themes a lot. I also really liked the female friendship aspect.
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Socchan ([personal profile] soc_puppet) wrote2025-07-03 11:40 am
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Speech: Humanitarian Rats

I may as well share this here.

Humanitarian Rats )

Works Cited )
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RandomArceus ([personal profile] randomarceus) wrote2025-07-03 06:10 pm

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Man. I whine about how long post takes to come, and next thing I know, I check the tracking again and it's out for delivery today. I'm so used to packages coming at around midday that whenever they come closer to 5/6PM (now) it's always a little weird.
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RandomArceus ([personal profile] randomarceus) wrote2025-07-03 05:23 pm

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This just in: refreshing the tracking page for a package over and over will not, in fact, make it come any faster. Even if you really really want it to.
It was estimated between today and tomorrow at first, then it went up to tomorrow-Monday, then it was back down to today-tomorrow and I got hopeful, but... nope. Not coming today. Just decided to toy with me a little.
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Vridelian ([personal profile] vriddy) wrote2025-07-03 07:20 am

Community Thursday

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.


Over the last week...

Final (;v;) vigilantes chit-chat on [community profile] bnha_fans, for this season at least!

Commented on [community profile] common_nature.

Book chit-chat on [community profile] booknook.

Commented on [community profile] littleblackdressex about a duplicate nom..... My first exchange sign-up this year! Excited :D :D

Signal boost:

  • [community profile] sunshine_revival started! Each (chill) challenge will have journalling prompts, and so on. A good way to be active and meet other active people around Dreamwidth! There's a friending meme, too! As happens way too often (and I'm going to need to address that at some point...), I'm too overwhelmed with other things to take part in social challenges at the moment, but wishing everyone a super fun time with it! And who knows, maybe I will manage to squeeze in one or two challenges, too... It could happen!!
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-07-02 10:48 pm

Thanks to a donation from [personal profile] fuzzyred, you can now read the rest of "In the Heart of the Hidden Garden."  Lawrence gives Stan a tour of two more buildings and two more gardens -- and then explains why.
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Kraka The Witch ([personal profile] krakathewitch) wrote2025-07-02 10:57 pm

Lightshow!

We had quite the lightshow earlier. We fell under Severe Thunderstorm Watch at 7:18pm, quickly followed by a Severe Thunderstorm Warning at 7:19, and the thunder started thundering at about 7:30pm.

The thunder sounded like someone was waving a giant sheet of metal outside, at first. Not at all like it usually does. It was super strange and, well, metallic. The worst of the supercell went over the town in a matter of 20 minutes or so, with a bit more lightning and thunder again at the 1-hour mark, but nowhere near as loud or dramatic.

Lightning struck something relatively close to the house. I had our bird on me during the worst of the storm because the poor thing is terrified of thunder, and she went all skinny and long-necked from fear. I just gave snuggles and kisses until it was over. It's funny how this conure is so stressed about thunderstorms and my two cockatiels I had before her did not give a hoot, unless there was a particularly loud clap of thunder, at which they would both hiss loudly and briefly, like they were annoyed at it. Normally, conures are the braver birds, while cockatiels are timid and skittish. Why are birds?

It's now 11:05pm or so, and the warning and watch have both been lifted. I'm still up, there is nearly an hour left to my shift. At least I'm not on-call for the overnights, this week. That's next week. Thankfully, I do all this from home. It's all evening shifts, essentially, until vacation at the end of July.
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malymin ([personal profile] malymin) wrote2025-07-02 08:43 pm

Sims 4 Tips and Tricks: Grafting Optimization

So, when you do a search for walkthroughs or information about... anything in the Sims 4, the results are often useless. They simply restate obvious information that the game already tells you itself, without providing any deeper insight or knowledge. Even many sims fansites are little better than clickbait farms in 2023. Carl, the most trustworthy source of in-depth sims resources, hasn't updated his website since Cottage Living came out. Having grown up in the era of ridiculously precise GameFAQ guides, I'm frustrated.

So, here's information laid out for the grafting "recipes" in the sims 4's base game.

Keep in mind the following information for all "recipes":

Grafted plants produce harvestables at the rate of the base plant, not the plant that came from a cutting. They will also start at the quality of the base plant and grow in the season of the base plant.

It is important to note that rares and uncommons now have a small chance of spawning when you've done the correct grafting combo. This is currently an intended design and not a bug. For any given harvestable you have a 500 weight for common, 100 for uncommon, and 1 for rare. This means 1 out of every 600 harvestables will be a rare.

  • Generally, you want to prioritize a fast (lower # of hours) growth rate, to get harvestables more frequently.
  • If you're doing outdoor gardening, you want to maximize the number of seasons the plant grows in.
  • If you're working with limited space, compatibility with Eco Lifestyle's "Vertical Garden" planters will be advantageous.
  • If the "parent" plants are Common or Uncommon, and the "offspring" plant is a Rare, you may want to plant the first harvestable the spliced plant produces in order to get a more consistent supply of the Rare plant in the future.

Standalone Recipes

Two of these involve all-season plants! )

 

Part 2: The Bonsai Bud Recipes

 

Part 2: Bonsai Bud Recipes )

 

Part 3: The Path To Cow Berries

Dragonfruit Recipe: Snapdragon + Strawberry

SpeciesRarityGrowth RateSeasonalityVertical Garden Compatibility
SnapdragonCommon36hSpring, FallNo
StrawberryUncommon24hSpringYes
DragonfruitRare96hFallNo

Cow Berry Recipe: Snapdragon + Dragonfruit

SpeciesRarityGrowth RateSeasonalityVertical Garden Compatibility
SnapdragonCommon36hSpring, FallNo
DragonfruitRare96hFallNo
Cow BerryRareN/AN/AN/A

Part 4: The Path To Death Flowers

Orchid Recipe: Snapdragon + Lily

SpeciesRarityGrowth RateSeasonalityVertical Garden Compatibility
SnapdragonCommon36hSpring, FallNo
LilyUncommon36hSummerNo
OrchidRare36hWinter, SpringNo

Tip: Plant the first orchid produced by your spliced flowers, as you need an Orchid plant for a subsequent splice.

Pomegranate Recipe: Apple + Cherry

SpeciesRarityGrowth RateSeasonalityVertical Garden Compatibility
AppleCommon36hFallNo
CherryUncommon60hSummerNo
PomegranateRare72hWinterNo

Tip: Plant the first pomegranate produced by your spliced tree, as you need a Pomegranate tree for a subsequent splice.

Death Flower Recipe: Orchid + Pomegranate

SpeciesRarityGrowth RateSeasonalityVertical Garden Compatibility
OrchidRare36hWinter, SpringNo
PomegranateRare72hWinterNo
Death FlowerRare48hWinterNo

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key / okowwy ([personal profile] euhgh) wrote2025-07-02 11:37 pm
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Shipping Meme

I saw this shipping meme floating around and wanted to fill it out too!!
Read more... )
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-07-02 04:20 pm

Birdfeeding

Today is mostly sunny and warm.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches.  Robins are foraging in the short grass that my partner Doug mowed yesterday in the house yard.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 7/2/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 7/2/25 -- I took some pictures around the yard.

EDIT 7/2/25 -- I watered the old picnic table, new picnic table, and telephone pole gardens.

Fireflies are out.  Cicadas are singing.

EDIT 7/2/25 -- I watered the septic garden.

I've seen a bat over the south lot, which also got mowed today.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night. 

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Sanya ([personal profile] lieutenantsanya) wrote2025-07-02 03:13 pm

Update on Project Scanning Evo

I've gotten around to finally scanning all the pages of The Evo Tournament. At one point, my HP printer-scanner randomly decided to declare that its WiFi functionalist is busted, so I let it sleep unplugged for a while before getting right back into business.

Next step is to clean all the pages. Perfectionism keeps getting the best of me, ugh, but I'm reminding myself that I'm a one man team doing this for fun. Once I export a page as a .PNG, I forbid myself from going back to it. It's not like I'm being paid by Spinmaster to clean this to pixel perfection.

I never knew how dusty my monitor screen was until I started cleaning the scans lol I'm squinting and wondering why my brush isn't working before realizing that it's just a speck on my screen, urgh.

Roadmap/Steps:
[x] Scan all pages
[ ] Crop all pages
[ ] Clean all pages
[ ] Upload to GDrive, subdivided into folders (raw and cleaned)
[ ] Share on...
-> [ ] Reddit
-> [ ] The Reddit Discord?
-> [ ] Mangadex?
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yourlibrarian ([personal profile] yourlibrarian) wrote2025-07-02 01:23 pm
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Sunshine Revival Post

1) As part of [community profile] sunshine_revival's first challenge: "Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community."

I just shared some necklaces I made a few months back over at [community profile] everykindofcraft. I did a lot of beading in the first 13 years after I took it up, but things have been rather start and stop in the last 10. A craft store closeout + a challenge from a relative got me making some new things in the last few months. That probably also contributed to my starting [community profile] everykindofcraft here, because I saw various people posting wonderful stuff that not many people were seeing, whereas on Pillowfort some general craft communities there are always getting posts.

Hopefully we can get more crafters sharing here!

2) Have been watching a slew of Apple+ shows as our subscription cutoff nears. The miniseries Disclaimer was framed in an interesting way, one which I suspect had a lot more clarity in multimedia than in the book, but perhaps not. It uses multiple narrative voices and POV for the narration, including second person, first person, and some omniscient narrative. This was pretty relevant because of who was being framed (literally) and who actually got to have their voice(s) heard. Read more... )

3) Surface is a story told in a much more straightforward manner even though it also involves an unreliable narrator of sorts in that our central character had memory loss and is trying to piece together her past which also involves a parental mystery. Read more... )

4) Also saw the movie Wolfs, which is fine but largely a vehicle for us to watch Pitt and Clooney do fun stuff. Read more... )

5) Finished The Big Conn and Cowboy Cartel, two documentaries about big crime. I found the former much more interesting, even though I'd heard about the case before. What was probably the most striking about both was the role of the media in precipitating change. Read more... )

6) Careme was marketed as the story of the first celebrity chef, who served Napoleon, Tallyrand and others. It was certainly about far more than cooking. Read more... )

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selenicseas ([personal profile] selenicseas) wrote2025-07-02 05:44 am
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Finally getting around to cleaning up an old conlang

Remember how I said at the beginning of June that I'd like to revise at least one of my old conlangs per month? I didn't get around to that in June, mostly because I was working on fleshing out A̋llunóñe. But in the past few days, I've actually taken the time to look at some of those old conlangs, and I've picked the one that I'll be working on this month – and, most likely, the next few months. I don't know why I thought I could get one of them cleaned up per month, especially since most of them aren't even "complete".

The conlang that I've decided to focus on cleaning up for the time being is one I created in 2015. After all this time, it doesn't even have a real name – I've been calling it either Tonal Celtic or Dauvonic. It was originally envisioned as a Celtic language with tones like Mandarin Chinese, but I'm not quite sure I want to do that anymore.

I remember not wanting the language to have initial consonant mutations, but I don't remember why – possibly because Dauvonic is supposed to be a continental Celtic language similar to Gaulish, and

Gaulish never had any evidence of initial consonant mutations. I'm thinking now that I do want Dauvonic to have them, mostly because I'm not sure what to do with this conlang's case system.

I have a lot of decisions to make on a conlang that was only ever one-third finished nine or so years ago. I'll probably make updates as I get through things, just like I've been doing with A̋llunóñe.

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RandomArceus ([personal profile] randomarceus) wrote2025-07-02 07:05 pm
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Turns out I fucking love Death Stranding.
Part of the reason I've gone back-and-forth on buying it for a while was simply not knowing if I'd like it, since it's a lot of walking. I thought I'd get bored. But I guess I enjoy that sort of gameplay loop, walk from point A to point B to point C to point B again to point C to point B to point...
I think it appeals to me in the same way some other open-world games do. Games like RDR2, BOTW, Infinity Nikki, are all pretty different games in every way, but one thing I like about them all is that they scratch that 'long journeying' itch. It's something I really enjoy, being given vague directions in an open world and shoved out to journey and find them.
Though, if there's one complaint I do hold about Death Stranding, it's that the music player only works in the private rooms. I think it'd be nice to be able to play it while travelling too.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-07-02 02:19 am
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Problem-Solving

New study backs up 'sleeping on it,' suggesting naps promote creative problem-solving

All groups improved in the dot-sorting test after their nap, but 85.7% of those who achieved the first deeper sleep phase — called N2 sleep — had the breakthrough.