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It's the last week of June, so our last week of working on those forgotten spaces in our homes, whether we're cleaning or decluttering. Over the last few weeks, we've spent time in the bedroom, main living space and kitchen, so what do you have left to do? Is there a cupboard in a hallway or a garden shed or garage/attic space that would benefit from your efforts? Or is there a bit more needed in one of the spaces that you worked on earlier in the month?

How has the month gone so far, are you feeling like progress was made and was it useful?

We look forward to hearing how things have gone.

kaberett

... is a placeholder because I am doing so badly at routines in general and bedtime routines in particular, still, augh.

Reading. Adventures in Stationery, James Ward. Not entirely sold on the way anecdotes were strung together, and definitely dubious about the broader social history, but a pleasantly undemanding diversion in a week where I really needed that and for bonus points it finally explained The Thing About Blackwing Pencils to me.

( Stationery nerding. )

Watching. One more episode of Farscape (S02E02 Vitas Mortis), while bleaching A.

Cooking. Mostly Pasta With Things. (Things have included "kohlrabi and misc other greens from the allotment" and "psuedo puttanesca".)

Eating. STRAWBERRIES. Have also nibbled, from the allotment: peas! broad beans! aforementioned kohlrabi! cherries! the first raspberries! redcurrants! jostaberries!

Exploring. ... bits of a field? OH and I bimbled down to the post office and, en route, checked how the local quince tree is doing. (FRUITING.)

Creating. Painted A colours!

Growing. Iiii just about made it to the allotment to water things on, like, Tuesday, but I have otherwise been... struggling.

... the ginger at home continues to go zoom, though! And I really really need to pot it on, eesh.

Observing. BAT.

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PLANET EARTH III
2023, Episode 02: Ocean - featuring the Pearl Octopus

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kaberett

I went "HOLD ON I HAVEN'T POSTED--" at 00:01 last night, when I had already been in bed but failing to sleep for about twenty minutes, and so I will tell you that part of the reason that I did not manage to actually post, actually yesterday, is that my reward for having finally e-mailed the headache clinic and said "so yeah I took my loading doses in mid-April, sorry I didn't manage to e-mail at the time, executive dysfunction has been eating my entire brain"...

... was of course a response like "well ideally your follow-up appointment would have been last week but, okay, fine, how about Monday? :|"

"... oh and by the way you know those questionnaires we want you to submit a minimum of a week in advance? yeah if you could get those done too--"

-- which: ENTIRE brain.

(I managed to confirm the Monday appointment. I did not manage to get the headache diary and questionnaires done.)

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wisteria-lodge:
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sunnibits:
guys you can see the cute little lower back dimples… oh my fucking god……
#also kind of a bizarre pants design. why do u need two different lace up sections I don’t understand
I saw your tags and I think I can help answer that question. The ties at the back are for adjusting how the pants fit. You know how corsets have laces at the back and also fasten in the front? It’s like that.
@wisteria-lodge knows more about the specifics of historical fashion than me, and one thing I learned from her is that Stede’s pants have little ties in the back so they can be adjusted too.
You saw back-ties on basically all 1700s breeches. Clothing was a lot more expensive before the Industrial Revolution, a single garment was supposed to stay with you though various changes to the size of your body, and so a lot of stealth re-sizing laces were included.
It’s actually really nice to see those back-laces in OFMD. It’s just a nice little detail you often don’t see them in historical tv and film, because back-lacing can look a little goofy by modern standards, and there’s no real reason to build an actor’s costume to be resizable. But here’s another glimpse of them on Ed’s Privateer uniform:
Izzy’s pants ARE weird though, because unlike Ed and Stede who have your expected 1700s fall-front breeches (albeit in leather)
(notice how there’s no fly or center seam, instead they’ve got two buttons holding up a flap) (and also notice Stede’s cute little non-functional, non-period side lacing)
Izzy is wearing these very unusual lace-front trousers.
My personal theory is that Izzy’s costume is supposed to be subtly evoking *1600s* men’s fashion (instead of 1700s) as a way to make him feel old-fashioned, unchanging, and kind of a stick-in-the mud. Front lacing (or buttoning) like that is something you DID see on 1600s breeches.
That kind of sleeve shape he’s created for himself with his sleeve-garters (where it’s tight to the elbow and then puffs) is EXTREMELY 1600s.
and so is that specific kind of tied + folded over collar with nothing underneath.
So yeah. The back lacing is one of the few details of his outfit that’s 1700s. Also Izzy would look really good with a single teardrop pearl earring ^^^ It would fit his style profile perfectly.
AY YOOOO I just learned some things thank you!! And I LOVE the costume analysis of him being meant to look older fashioned, that’s so cool! :O

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We're getting a lot of complaints from commuters who were routed onto a coaster, but the theme park patrons who spent hours stuck on an intercity line are also not happy.

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kaberett

I have managed all of my physio once and only once this week. I have not yet got on the mat at all. I have been spending a lot of time asleep, which probably shouldn't surprise me, and a fair amount migrainey, which does (unpleasantly). Have this evening at least managed to send the email to the headache clinic that's been due since April, and consequently may or may not actually get an appointment in time to get a prescription in time to not need to reload the f2f galcanezumab again.

(Have also been really struggling with actually opening notebook since the last trip up north, which is helping precisely nothing. Maybe acknowledging that here will make it a little less scary to go back to, at least.)

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16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now

Might be wise to change your passwords.

ETA: Yeah, the article is a bit vague on some of the details. I note that, and will look into this further.

But frankly, some of my more crucial passwords are overdue for change,… so I’m changing them anyway.

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Thank you for letting me know. :)

...I would catch him in the middle of doing things like this sometimes, when I'd wander into his office to bring him something or ask him something. He was always deeply interested in the people who followed him, and always equally interested in the ones he followed back. He would routinely wander a good ways down in any given person's posting history before choosing to follow.

"It's always great to see what normal people are up to," he said to me one time. And I understood him completely. Because from where we'd routinely be sitting—in the middle of a most weird, stressy and abnormal-seeming lifestyle—other Tumblr folks would often seem like sweet paragons of ease, peace and normalcy. :)

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jeffreycombs:
1 second of every star trek tos episode enjoy

out of context is best content

i didn’t realize st tos could make even less sense ;)

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Watch on YouTube

BOOM. (No audio on this, though. Feel free to provide your own.)

…Your periodic reminder (or Musk’s, as the latest one blows up on the pad) that rocket science… is actually rocket science.

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embroidery from peacockandpinecones my friends and I have been losing our minds over all morning.

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azurelunatic

* Shelves are fairly well stuffed. The other brackets have arrived, so we can go get more boards and tiny hardware at our convenience.
* There is now Shelf in the living room. Things are going in it.
* Household tidying progresses.
* Today I filled boxes for 13 weeks of my morning and evening pills. It feels like it took less time than usual, but I think that's a trick of the light. I think I usually start later in the day, and keep going until it's dark. It took about four and a half hours; I try to allocate at least 5.
* This means that I've got pills packed until sometime in September. Go, me?
* Juneteenth is tomorrow!
* Turns out that being a director at a certain kind of non-technical organization means that you spend evenings face-down in the user interface level of a misbehaving database. I am chockablock with sympathy.
* Yellface is adorable, and likes to spend the part of the day when I'm awake but still in bed sitting on my legs.
* Had games and pizza with friends last week; they've got a young-ish teeneager placed with them right now. She wasn't up for games but she did appear to fill her water bottle. Luna-cat is very curious about new people and apparently charged her, which was off-putting. I faded early.
* I got some new bras; I'll have to add pockets but the test wear was promising!
* Nobody told me about the dragons in The Priory of the Orange Tree, everyone just mentioned the lesbians.
* There's a new serial at

the_comfortable_courtesan!!!

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June Theme - Nooks & Crannies

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PLANET EARTH III 2023, Episode 02: Ocean - featuring the Pearl Octopus

and so the year turns: solstice

egregious backdating for completionism's sake

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guys you can see the cute little lower back dimples… oh my fucking god……

Interoperability

oof but I am having difficulty getting back into routines post-event

Oh shit.

I grew up reading Young Wizards, but never really did much reading as an adult (life, family, job, o

Adding a otf font to a pre-existing theme.

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Stained glass ao3 logo :P

embroidery from peacocksandpinecones my friends and I have been losing our minds over all morning.

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