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[bucketofcrows]

sometimes i like going on my blog and searching a random word just to see what turns up. like yeah let's see which posts have the word "tuesday" in them

[delta-orionis]

I've been messing around with RegionKit's ability to make custom backgrounds.

[melomania-spam]

it's chewsday, innit?

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

goodbye disappointing lesbian novels!!!

[iantimony]

hoo baby! hello first Tuesday of 2025!

listening: Usseewa (Ado) Aishite Aishite Aishite (Ado) bangers. girl can SING. and of course the anonymity is very sexy.

Middle Eastern Grooves (Selected by DJ Kobayashi): was tempted by the cool cover art, stayed for the funky jams. this led me to:

Kokoro (Sababa 5 & Yurika): vibey. citypop if it was in MENA.

reading: so I am in the middle of a two week visit home in which I am staying in my childhood bedroom. and I went. man. there sure is a lot of stuff in here that I simply have not thought about or missed since moving out. so I reread Marie Kondo's "Tidying Up" book and went to town. it's been really nice to do! found a few things that I forgot I had and actually am excited to keep and use! mostly got rid of things! her goofy little "thank inanimate objects" thing is unfortunately the exact flavor of personification of objects that my sentimental ass needs, so. yippee. her book has some . interesting. comments on people's weight and etc things which is very weird but also probably of its time and her specific cultural background baggage. I did some poking about her and found this article ("Marie Kondo’s life is messier now — and she’s fine with it" by Jura Koncius, web archive version linked to bypass paywall) which definitely tracks. I can't imagine having kids and following her [gestures] Whole Thing to a tee.

I also rented and started reading "The Sentimental Person's Guide to Decluttering", which opens with a bible quote so I am already a little wary. anyways.

I haven't followed the prescribed konmari order exactly - I left books til towards the end because they are already pretty contained, for example - so I have a few loose ends to finish up with that but we're basically there. sorry Stephen King but I really don't care to hang on to your work Just Because, except for maybe "on writing" because I could see myself rereading that. I have a shitload of old scifi paperbacks that likely do Not spark joy necessarily so if anyone wants a random paperback mailed to them just let me know :b

related to that: I'm reading "Earthlight" by Arthur C. Clark. it's good! slim volume so I'm hoping to finish it before next Tuesdaypost/when I leave town. the setup feels very common - Earth people vs federation of solar system settlers politicking - but there's some fun tidbits that have made me go HUH??? like the moon having an atmosphere (technically true, I guess, but definitely not in the way it's described here), for some reason the sun sets in the east on the moon (???), and MOON PLANTS???? cool moon cacti that are specially adapted to absorb as many gas/water molecules as possible? they have a little window in them??? and at first I was like damn is this meant to be an alternate universe? when I realized that this was written in 1955. so. maybe he did sincerely think there could be moon cacti. some really delicious descriptions in here that I'm enjoying:

"They were moving along a ridge that the sun had already left, but the track of the monorail, scarcely a meter above it, still caught the last rays. It seemed as if they were rushing along an unsupported ribbon of light, a filament of flame built by sorcery rather than human engineering."

caught up on Witch Hat Atelier! it's good! I'm very excited for the next volume to come out next week!

watching: a handful of Leah's Fieldnotes videos as background while I did some cleaning, re-stuffing a pillow, etc. we're the same age which is interesting to me. I have thoughts on her style of content and general vibes that are still cooking in my brain so maybe next time I will elaborate. more Caroline Winkler. some Sorry Girls (there is a theme here clearly). some Kurtis Connor/Danny Gonzalez/Drew Gooden-verse. nothing super notable. oh LegalEagle suing honey! that whips ass definitely. I'm going to avoid linking specific videos each week unless I have Something to say about them.

playing: mostly fallow BUT I am leaving this section in this year out of optimism! my boyfriend commented, and I agreed, that I am definitely missing out on some rich Media Experiences by neglecting the Gamez. this year I really want to play Nier: Automata (which he got me as a gift a while ago), Disco Elysium, and Hades 2. I own the first two already so that's def where I'll start. I'd also like to read umineko but that can go 50/50 as to playing or reading lol

however I DID look at Do you PASS MUSTER?, a solo rpg by @spikekat! it's a vibe!

making: finished One of my mom's fingerless gloves! onto the second! I'm trying to decide if I want to block it or not…probably, just because I did the cabling with a needle half a size too small by accident so there are a few gaps, although maybe using a smaller needle minimized gaps? who knows.

eating: some good New York staples while I'm home but I haven't done much cooking.

moving: new section!! it is mostly empty this week beyond walking the dogs with my mom every day. I am hoping to populate this section with general notes on what worked/didn't work for me each week in the gym, outdoors activities, and so on.

misc: decluttering feels good but I also feel the albatross of the Dead Dad Bins in the basement looming over me. I'm thinking that's a summer activity where I can take breaks to be outside, lol. the goal is basically to have everything such that when I move after my PhD to wherever I'm going next, I can take what's left in my childhood room (books, some of the quality furniture that we scavenged from my dad's apartment, etc) without it being a big deal or strain. I'm definitely approaching that point with my own belongings! I have a few things that should be sold rather than donated but overall I've really pared it down pretty well so I'm pretty pleased about that. I'll probably do a pass over my apartment when I get back too - definitely some clothes come to mind that can be let go without any regret, and I definitely want to pare down some of my craft supplies that are getting a little out of hand. yayyy fresh start to a new year :)

[systemdeez]

It's Tuesday already?!

[willhusky]

tuesday posting :)

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

i should make “ah shit the [DAY OF WEEK] post” club member patches

ah shit the friday post

[delta-orionis]

Tuesday Again No Problem 3/18/25

Been doing a lot of lediting... not much else

Listening

I've been listening to the Touhou soundtrack again, mostly Akyu's Untouched Score (the music from the PC-98 games). I'm growing quite fond of the fun sounds the PC-98 is able to make.

Watching

Not much. This week's Garbage Time episode was pretty fun, though.

Playing

Mostly fallow. A little bit of Pokemon TCGP here and there, but I've primarily been doing level editing in my spare time (more on that in the making section).

Making

I am continuing to chip away at my TSAC region project. I started work on TSAC's leg/underhang/wall, though I haven't quite gotten used to The Exterior's style yet. It's a lot of experimentation... some of the tiles are very confusing to use. Though, I did make a functional region gate between the structure interior/exterior, so that's progress! Here's a preview of one room:

I also figured out how to use RegionKit to make custom backgrounds, so I've been playing around with that.

This is still very rough and requires some tweaking, but I like it so far.

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My brain is still in the burnout doldrums... but I am trying to work on things regardless. See you next week, etc etc

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

next tuesdaypost’s gay and/or lesbian romance and/or erotica has hit me with Biz, short for Elizabeth

[melomania-spam]

it's chewsday, innit?

it's chewsday, innit?

[iantimony]

augh!

listening:

boyfriend recommended hop along

listened to some of a Chronicles of Amber summary podcast (see reading) but gave up on it because it was basically just rote summary. little to no discussion. also he didn't know who Ursula le Guin is which is patently insane to me for someone who is ostensibly a sff fan. not just didn't read her work, did not know who she is. ok

probably other stuff but my brain is a sieve

reading:

no analysis here bc i'm tired. take my link slop

Pluralistic: There Were Always Enshittifiers

re-read "Nine Princes in Amber" by Zelazny for nostalgia value

read this goofy lil parody of it

marathon-read Price of a Kingdom by Shadowlurker13 in my agonies. well-written enough, not much happening in terms of like, Themes or whatever, but it was fun enough to fill the time.

finished Haunting of Hill House. really really really good. talk about a piece of fiction with Themes!!!

watching:

Why Minecraft "Horror" Mods Are... Not Great (cupcakesouls)

the original Vita Carnis videos

The Unicorn Discrepancy (Curious Archive)

Bionicle Lore is CRAZY Deep (Max Derrat) (dubious takes for some of it)

a lot of xisumavoid hermitcraft

Abby Cox hatpin video

playing:

a truly alarming amount of minecraft

making:

finished crocheting another market bag but it sux for some reason so I might unravel it, I suffer etc

putting a fossil at the bottom of this bowl by scraping in the design and flooding it with white underglaze

some more bowls. I like the foot I trimmed on this one.

misc:

-1hp -1hp -1hp. i shall not elaborate

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2023-11-27

Snow

Listening: Someone on IRC linked me to 3Blue1Brown's Hallelujah Parody about the vicissitudes of apparent patterns in sequences.

Reading: You Want My Password or a Dead Patient:, a paper about information security and the lack thereof in medical contexts. Paper linked here, but I first heard about it in this Choast.

A very good deep dive into the extremes of classic reasons why information security is bypassed: it's just much more important that you have access to resources Right Now in a hospital context than it is that they are secure against hacker, most of the time.

Hospitals process a lot of private information, so they are often beholden to the security standards imposed by regulations agencies. If you've engaged with mandatory security regulations you'll know a lot of them are, uh, bad?

(Famously if you want to meet US FIPS Government Standards you cannot use the Good Elliptic Curve ed25519 and instead you have to use a different, less well secured curve.)

Anyway what this means is that you have a significant conflict between the very high stakes and fast paced world of hospital medicine, and a system that wants you to log back in every time you step away from the x-ray machine.

Watching: Nothing.

Playing: As you may know if you're following me, I started Dark Souls this week. I am having a great time in Dark Souls! It's a lot of fun. I am still where I was yesterday, having just beaten the Belltower Gargoyles.

There are definitely notes that I have. It is for sure a 12 year old game. Some of the opacity is definitely intentional difficulty, like requiring you to just feel out the parry timing, but I it probably wouldn't make the game any easier if it had reliable indicators of when you're in position to backstab or riposte someone and it would make parrying much more fun. I like parrying but so often you parry someone and then just hit them normally instead of going for the cool finisher riposte.

Making: Like ten minutes ago I reopened Cinnabar and Calcite and did a little hardware swap, moving a new network card into Calcite and Calcite's old network card into Cinnabar. Everyone is settled back in. Wifi card upgrades are not really essential but it is nice to have wifi on a desktop even if you don't use it because a) someday you will and b) it's free bluetooth.

Also: Wrote some very bad bash to use my motherboard RGB as a tally light for recording these Dark Souls clips, since I've lost a few clips to hitting the wrong record button a few times.

Tools and Equipment: Original Tuesdayposter @girlfriendsofthegalaxy had a video on marinara sauce this last Tuesday and I was inspired to try some tomato pasta bakes. I usually make Mornay sauce based pasta bakes because it's what my parents usually made, but you gotta try a really spicy tomato pasta bake.

I got some habaneros and jalapenos from the farmers market and made a big pot of spicy tomato tuna bake and especially with the weather being How It Is that was great, I'm making a mushroom one sometime soon it kicked ass. That recipe was loosely based on this one, although I put in a bunch of extra vegetables.

[monkey-network]