Just One Thing (12 June 2025)

Jun. 12th, 2025 08:06 am[personal profile] nanila posting in [community profile] awesomeers
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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!
teres: A picture of a male blackbird (CSAR)
Given that I've made some observations and tips on my own journals over time, I thought it was time to share them a bit wider, so here goes:
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grayestofghosts: an enamel pin that reads "yikes" (yikes)
So, it looks like Google is lobotomizing itself -- it's replaced all of its internal development classes with AI-related courses. Which, on the surface may not seem like that huge of a deal if AI is the new hotness, except for it previously had over 500,000 listings that are now replaced with AI courses, and the previous courses that people had already been signed up for were cancelled in favor of pushing AI instead of even maintaining the stuff they have. So, if you think search is bad now, it's gonna get worse.

I'm going to use this news as an opportunity to push @Lori@hackers.town's essay The New Yahoo about how creating lists of links is more urgent than ever and only getting moreso. My personal site is mainly linklists and I've been thinking of trying to put together a dirt-easy HTML/CSS template to make your own linklist for people with basically zero web-building knowledge. I've also started experimenting with Linkslist.app which might be a more accessible alternative to gather and display links, at least until one would be able to put them on a real website. And, if all else fails, there's still even Pinterest and the like -- but not Pocket, because it's going down in July. Augh!!

[ SECRET POST #6732 ]

Jun. 11th, 2025 08:09 pm[personal profile] case posting in [community profile] fandomsecrets
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⌈ Secret Post #6732 βŒ‹

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 17 secrets from Secret Submission Post #963..
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

Jun. 11th, 2025 10:04 pm[personal profile] spiralsheep posting in [community profile] booknook
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What are you reading?

Birdfeeding

Jun. 11th, 2025 03:16 pm[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith posting in [community profile] birdfeeding
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Today is sunny and warm.

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches. They've been draining the hopper feeder daily and putting a dent in the thistle feeder.

I put out water for the birds.

My partner Doug is out mowing the house yard.

EDIT 6/11/25 -- I refilled the thistle feeder.

I started trimming grass around the edge of the strip garden, now that I have the big weeds pulled out.

EDIT 6/11/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 6/11/25 -- I took some pictures around the yard.

EDIT 6/11/25 -- I picked half a bag of mulberries in the south lot.

I've seen a skunk on the patio. I've seen a catbird and a phoebe. I heard a red-bellied woodpecker but didn't see it.

EDIT 6/11/25 -- I set up firestarters for the firepit.

I picked half a bag of mulberries along the west fence.

EDIT 6/11/25 -- We lit the bonfire for the esbat tonight. It took a little while to get going but then it burned pretty well. I'll try to check on it later.

Fireflies are out and I've seen a bat.

EDIT 6/11/25 -- I checked the bonfire. It's mostly burned down. I threw most of the stray ends into the middle, but it was still too warm for me to get all the way around. I'll need to go back out later.








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lewis pullman in riff raff

Jun. 11th, 2025 02:18 pm[personal profile] splatstick posting in [community profile] icons
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105 icons HERE @ [community profile] sousaphone

Prompt 2511: Smile

Jun. 11th, 2025 09:01 pm[personal profile] immortalje posting in [community profile] dailyicons
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Today's prompt is: smile



• You have 2 days time to submit an icon for this prompt (in other words, until prompt 2513 gets posted)!
• Prompt 2509 have been closed.
• If you have any questions regarding the prompt, feel free to ask in a comment.
• To submit an icon you simply reply to this post with the following information:
Icon:
Claim: (only necessary if it's a specific claim)
Status: (e.g. #1/10 - number of icon completed/table size)

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Check-In Post - June 11th 2025

Jun. 11th, 2025 07:29 pm[personal profile] badly_knitted posting in [community profile] get_knitted
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Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: We all probably have multiple WiPs, but which of yours has been hanging around longest, waiting to be finished?


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



Round 169: Summer Lounge

Jun. 11th, 2025 05:59 pm[personal profile] tinny posting in [community profile] iconcolors
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For some reason, both Morganes look unhappy... *sniff* - at least Murderbot looks happy? ;)



HPI x2 | Murderbot


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TWST - Pocky Time

Jun. 11th, 2025 08:41 am[personal profile] haunted_cherries posting in [community profile] 100words
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Fandom: Twisted Wonderland
Characters/Pairing: Rem Van der Zee (OC), Theo Valentine (OC)
Rating: Gen
Prompt: #446 - Dessert for [community profile] 100words and Contact for [community profile] fandomocweekly
Summary: Despite his aloof, sometimes grumpy demeanor, Rem manages to surprise Theo every time.

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Spooks (MI5): Shopping

Jun. 11th, 2025 04:13 pm[personal profile] smallhobbit posting in [community profile] 100words
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Title: Shopping
Fandom: Spooks (MI5)
Rating: G

What-ho all

Jun. 11th, 2025 11:56 am[personal profile] zan77 posting in [community profile] addme_fandom
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Name: Zan
Age group: 40s but rapidly heading towards 50s
Country: UK
Subscription/Access Policy: Public, at time of writing

Fannish Interests: Right now I'm mainly into Djo, Stranger Things (as my icon suggests, I'm having somewhat of a Joe Keery year), The Terror, Severance, and my attention to the MCU has been revived somewhat by Agatha All Along, Thunderbolts and (hopefully!) Fantastic Four.

I enjoy reading golden age detective fiction, fantasy, romance and historical non-fiction. I've written a small number of fics but am trying to get out of a block and write some more.

I've been a long time but mostly lurky presence in fannish spaces since the early 2000s, and can also be found as zan77 on tumblr


I like to post about: Not many posts on my dreamwidth yet but I'm hoping to use it to get back into the habit of longer posting.


About Me/Other Info: Outside of fandom I'm also an amateaur bellydancer and enjoy crochet. As I officially enter Fandom Old territory I've started to yearn for the old Livejournal style interactions of my youth! Hoping to find some like-minded souls to talk to.

Bacon Potato Salad

Jun. 11th, 2025 05:08 am[personal profile] nverland posting in [community profile] creative_cooks
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Bacon Potato Salad
Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 30 minutes Servings: 8

Ingredients

2Β½ lbs Yukon Gold potatoes cut into Β½-ΒΎ inch pieces
β…” cup mayonnaise
ΒΌ cup dill pickle relish
ΒΌ tsp dried dill
Β½ tsp kosher salt adjust to taste
Β½ tsp freshly ground black pepper adjust to taste
Β½ cup real bacon crumbles or 6 strips bacon, cooked and crumbled
6 hard-boiled eggs roughly chopped
Β½ small red onion chopped very small
2 tablespoons chopped fresh Italian parsley

Instructions

Place the potatoes in a large pot and cover with water. Boil over high heat until fork tender, about 10 minutes. Drain and let cool.
Combine the mayonnaise, dill relish, dill, salt, and pepper in a large mixing bowl. Stir to combine. Add the potatoes, eggs, and bacon to the bowl. Stir to mix well.
Sprinkle with red onions and parsley and stir to combine. Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready to serve.

Notes
You can use any potato you like to make this potato salad.

Bacon Potato Salad

Jun. 11th, 2025 05:07 am[personal profile] nverland posting in [community profile] recipecommunity
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Bacon Potato Salad
Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 30 minutes Servings: 8

Ingredients

2Β½ lbs Yukon Gold potatoes cut into Β½-ΒΎ inch pieces
β…” cup mayonnaise
ΒΌ cup dill pickle relish
ΒΌ tsp dried dill
Β½ tsp kosher salt adjust to taste
Β½ tsp freshly ground black pepper adjust to taste
Β½ cup real bacon crumbles or 6 strips bacon, cooked and crumbled
6 hard-boiled eggs roughly chopped
Β½ small red onion chopped very small
2 tablespoons chopped fresh Italian parsley

Instructions

Place the potatoes in a large pot and cover with water. Boil over high heat until fork tender, about 10 minutes. Drain and let cool.
Combine the mayonnaise, dill relish, dill, salt, and pepper in a large mixing bowl. Stir to combine. Add the potatoes, eggs, and bacon to the bowl. Stir to mix well.
Sprinkle with red onions and parsley and stir to combine. Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready to serve.

Notes
You can use any potato you like to make this potato salad.

Just One Thing (11 June 2025)

Jun. 11th, 2025 10:02 am[personal profile] nanila posting in [community profile] awesomeers
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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Oc stuff - reupload

Jun. 11th, 2025 04:43 am[personal profile] meningioma
meningioma: (CUTE - guineakiss)
originally posted on october 9th, 2023 on my sus journal because I was being "considerate for my main journal subscribers" and didnt want to bore you guys. current nilla is having an oc renaissance right now and to be honest current nilla no care. unedited text below
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so...i have been drawing ocs. in fact, thats the bulk of what ive been inspired to do lately. HUZZAH
OC stuff + lore )

Square Peg in a Round Hole

Jun. 11th, 2025 09:53 am[personal profile] sweetsorcery posting in [community profile] addme
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Posting here because I haven't in years, and I struggle to find people who share even one or two interests with me, so the suggested template doesn't fit me any better than most things. I'll use what I can of it, and I apologise for being very rambly. :)

Name: [personal profile] sweetsorcery

Age: well over 18

I mostly post about: Writing, Fandom Events (Exchanges, Challenges, etc.), Life and Health Challenges. After that, it gets murky, because I often want to post about the many, many things that interest me and then just talk to myself about them instead, because my tastes couldn't be less mainstream.

What are these interests: Writing M/M (see fandoms), Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories/Horror/Weird Fiction, Golden Age Adventure Stories, Audiobooks and Vintage Radioplays, WWI and WWII (specifically British Military History, Aviation, and Naval warfare), British Social History from the Victorians through to the middle of the 20th Century, Ancient History, Art (esp. Romanticism, Neoclassicism and Surrealism) and Architecture (esp. Art Deco, Tudor, Jacobean), Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, Paganism, Spirituality, Reincarnation, Mythology, Folklore, Parapsychology, Taoism, British Dance Bands from the 1920s - 1940s, Baroque Music (incl. Opera very selectively), Romantic Era Music, Pop from the 1950s - 1980s, Dancing (sadly mostly passive these days), Romantic Poetry, Old Movies (I say 'old' instead of 'classic' to avoid confusion, because again, my favourites are pretty obscure to most people and include a lot of War Movies), Silent Movies, Age of Sail, etc.

My fandoms have been many over time, but these are the ones I'm most likely to read/write now and in future: Biggles - W E Johns, Famous Five - Enid Blyton, Vienna Blood (still on my first run-through of the TV series, but loving it), Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson, Vintage Ghost Stories (I keep adding to the list of inspiring ones to write about), Vintage War Movies (ditto), 18th and 19th Century RPF, Ancient Egypt RPF

I'm looking to meet people who: share one or more of my eclectic interests

My posting schedule tends to be: What is a schedule?

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: You might assume from my old-fashioned interests that I'm rather conservative. Nope, not unless it comes to wishing people were still polite and well-spoken. Think of me as a kind of Ariadne Oliver type... and if that means anything to you, we might get along well. ;)
While I don't post or read about Politics if I can possibly help it, please keep on your side of the enclosure if you're homophobic, transphobic, racist, ableist, anti-science, anti-personal freedom, supportive of fascist regimes, or prone to diving down conspiracy theory rabbit holes. If you don't believe in the motto "Live and Let Live", we won't get along; that extends to writing too, because while I don't write anything needing AO3 archive warnings, you'll regularly find themes and pairings in my writing that offend conservatives and antis. Also, you must be over 18 too - I don't censor my writing or my posts.

Before adding me, you should know: I'm a Pisces with a Scorpio ascendant, and an INFP, so I'm consistently spinning day dreams and easily distracted. I avoid conflict, but I have claws/pincers for emergencies. I'm agoraphobic and aegosexual.
I have CPTSD and Fibromyalgia, and I do talk about that. I mention this because it's cost me "friends" before, so if you easily get sick and tired of people whose daily life mostly consists of being sick and tired, and who sometimes need to vent their grief about that in their own journal, you might like to avoid me. It's unfortunately part of who I am, but I promise, I don't post detailed medical horrors. If I do post about it, it's usually as an apology for disappearing for a while and under a cut.
I sparingly use generative AI art to help me visualise literary characters of whom no proper visuals exist, but I don't use AI in writing. I don't claim AI art as my own, and fandom icons are about the most public use I make of it; if you're going to lecture me on that, please just move on.
I get hyper-fixated and will post about my fixations at length with the least amount of encouragement.
senmut: Optimus's face in back of He-Man, Lion-O, and Snake Eyes (Fandom: Cartoons)
Title: The Right Way
Fandom: The Peanuts
Rating: General Audiences
Notes: inspired by a gif of Snoopy making an ice cream sundae.




The round-headed kid never did this quite right. You had to drizzle a little of the chocolate syrup into the dish, then scoop the ice cream into perfect spheres, and drop the first one in, press it a little, put the second on, and push it just a little to stay put.

It was best to make a little divot for the cherry to rest in, before drizzling the syrup over the ice cream. The cherry went in the divot then, before putting a spiral of whip cream all around.

Seriously, why did Snoopy have to do it for them?!
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