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Because Bobby Brainworm is out to get us:

RFK Jr blocked CDC approval of the updated covid vaccine. There are three states where pharmacists can't legally give a vaccine without CDC approval: Massachusetts (where I live), Nevada, and New Mexico. In another 13 states, pharmacists can give the vaccine but only with a prescription, and CVS isn't shipping the vaccine to pharmacies in any of these 16 states.

Note: the vaccine is legally available in every state, because the relevant FDA committee did approve it, but some of us will have to get it from a doctor's office, which will be more of a hassle even when it’s possible.

P.S. Walgreen’s too, per a comment at Universal Hub.

Those are state laws, so call your state representatives and governor and tell them to change it.

( “Massachusetts )

Current Mood: worried and angry

james_davis_nicoll

Poll #33552 I knew I forgot something

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 18

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Cats?

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Cats!
10 (55.6%)

Cats!
11 (61.1%)

Cats!
13 (72.2%)

Cats!
11 (61.1%)

james_davis_nicoll

Six works new to me. Three fantasy, three SF, four are series (at least in a sense) and the other two appear to be stand-alone. Lots of TTRPG material.

Books Received, August 23 — August 30

Poll #33551 Books Received, August 23 — August 30

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Which of these look interesting?

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Victoriana by Alex Cahill et al (Q1 2026)
0 (0.0%)

Victoriana Menagerie by Alex Cahill et al (Q1 2026)
0 (0.0%)

The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu (April 2026)
6 (85.7%)

Ship of Spells by H. Leighton Dickson (November 2025)
3 (42.9%)

Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Imperium Maledictum, Voll Adventures by Lisa Farrell et al (Q1, 2026)
1 (14.3%)

Coriolis: The Great Dark by Kosta Kostulas et al (August 2025)
3 (42.9%)

oursin

Happy birthday,

antisoppist,

castiron and

mirlacca!

conuly

for

chopwood_carrywater_feed. I thought that getting it in my email and on my reading page would help prompt me to call (or email, listen, I have limits) my congresscritters.

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siderea

Current rumors engulfing Bluesky have me recalling an old Communist-era Russian joke:

Every day, a man walks to a news stand and pays for a copy of Pravda, unfolds it, looks at the front page, and throws it in the trash. Every day he does this, for months, until finally the news seller asks the man, "So what is it you are looking for on the front page every day?"

"I'm checking for an obituary."

"Comrade, the obituaries aren't on the front page."

"Oh, this one will be."

minoanmiss

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jesse_the_k

@etymologynerd on TikTok • etymology_nerd on YouTube (note underscore)

My first fandom is language. Let me enthuse about the Etymology Nerd Adam Aleksic. He's a short-form video presenter, essayist, and recently-published author. He started on Reddit, but attained fame on TikTok, and his YouTube is 90% shorts (but not every TikTok has made it to YouTube). It's important that his videos are accurately captioned, cause he speaks faster than an auctioneer on meth. No video description and his hand-held camera means flashing and shaking images. The videos reward multiple views.

( six links to short videos, accurately captioned without video description )

Three Essays to Read

If you prefer prose, his Substack newsletter offers RSS at https://etymology.substack.com/feed or luck into one of his maybe-monthly essays here via etymologynerd_feed (DW feeds only go back two weeks).

Want more? My first internet #lingcomm crush interviewed Aleksic on Lingthusiasm podcast 105—both audio and transcript there, with insights into best practices in vertical video and why it feels different than old-style horizontals.

Any linguistic communicators making you happy?

philomytha

So today I invented a new recipe which made Cub, who normally considers fish an ordeal he unjustly has to suffer at mealtimes, actively enjoy fish and request more of it, and so I am posting it here for posterity.

( salmon burgers recipe )

oursin

Had the news today that I have been awarded a Non-Stipendiary Fellowship at [Esteemed Research Institution in My Discipline]! For next academic year at least. Yay me!!!

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Dept of, gosh, some people have a very weird notion of Effix, wot: I can't link to this because it was all in screenshots on FB, but anyway -

Person posts in a romantasy forum that they reviewed book by A Well-Known Author asserting that it had been written by AI, on the grounds that it used a number of bog-standard cliche phrases that (we suspect) hurried and harried writers in a popular field in which you are expected to keep on churning out the product are wont to resort. (In fact I suspect that they crop up to a significant extent in your average romance novel and that many authors' fingers type them quite automatically.)

Well-Known Author intends to sue for libel.

Person who posted review, and claims to be an impoverished grad student (we ask ourselves in what possible field, seriously hoping not law, philosophy, or literature), is all wo wo wringing hands about this, and wonders if it is a plea in mitigation that they did not actually purchase work in question but obtained it 'by other means'.

I depose that if you are going to pirate a work and not pay the author, you are in no position to whinge that They Did Not Write It or indeed, complain at all. If you take a free book from a box that somebody has left on the wall outside their house for passersby to help themselves, you do not then go and knock on the door because somebody has scribbled on the pages and it is by no means a pristine copy.

james_davis_nicoll

Plant accordingly, especially in regions slated to become lifeless deserts.

kareina

Today was a good work day as I started the day reading in the Obsidian discord channel and learned of a few things that will be useful later, and others that are already useful. This inspired me to start working on my proof of concept SEAD database structure Obsidian vault.

In the long run I want to be able to export the entire database structure and import it into Obsidian, with links between everything that is connected and properties for all of the import information attached to each type of data.

But that is going to take time and lots of learning and experiments. So for today I have started a database structure vault that has a few folders for thing like Location, Sample, Analysis, etc, and put at least a couple notes under each, and created properties for links between them (as daughter or parent, so that the graph view connection lines show the arrows going in the same direction as in the pdf we have that shows the database structure). Then I applied colour coding to the folders so that each will have the same colour as in that pdf, and applied groups in the graph view based on the folders, with colour coding to match.

So far it is a tiny hint of the full database structure, but it is working exactly how I want it to.

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So I sent a message to my colleague, Roger, who also uses Obsidian and showed him the photo, and he pointed out that to get the full structure I can use

Visio, and provided a link. He also commented that he has been looking for a good way to graphically present the database structure, and agrees that Obsidian may be the tool to accomplish this.

But by then it was pretty much 13:00, and I needed to quit work for the day to åack for the event (a little early, but I have put in a few nine hour days to make this possible).

I also needed to eat lunch, so by the time I finished packing bedding, projects, banners and food (clothes and archery stuff and the mattress were already in the can last night), had cleaned the kitchen and emptied the cat sand and trash, and fed the cats, it was already 16:00, and Keldor was already off work for the day and taking a nap at his dad's house.

So I picked up his package that arrived today (new arrow points, we'd packed the arrows waiting for points), and drove up to Skelleftehamn to pick him up.

Now we are heading to a store to get him a few last minute things, then we are on our way to Skördefest, a local SCA event at the larp village about half an hour north of Skellefteå.

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james_davis_nicoll

Two sisters quest up a climate-change-and-blight ravaged coast and across the seas to find their missing sister.

Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei

minoanmiss

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Current Mood: tired

andrewducker

1. My Top Five Favorite Techno Songs and Why They're All the Mortal Kombat Theme Song: (tags:music satire )
2. A historian reviews King & Conqueror (neither good nor accurate): (tags:history UK TV review )
3. Spineless fence-sitter thinks killing children is bad no matter who does it: (tags:israel palestine satire politics murder children gaza )

oursin

Happy birthday,

lilysea!

andrewducker

Little smiley chap wanted to take a photo with me this morning.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

the_comfortable_courtesan

The publickation in elecktronickal form and as a pretty bound volume, Clorinda Cathcart's Circle #24, Connexions: Widening Circles:

Several problems persist in troubling the circle around Clorinda, Dowager Marchioness of Bexbury. It is feared that there may be further adverse repercussions from the Hackwold Incident, while Baron Fendersham continues to linger in Town although Lady Wauderkell has taken retreat in a convent. New acquaintances are drawn into the circle, and new contacts flourish. Certain difficulties are unexpectedly resolved, while unanticipated trials arise.

As usual, there is also what is hop'd is a usefull guide to references and allusions in the text.

Pray enjoy, and do you so, go recommend about your acquaintance.

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redbird - Covid vaccine heads-up
james_davis_nicoll - Cats
james_davis_nicoll - Books Received, August 23 — August 30
oursin - (no subject)
conuly - So, I've now created a DW feed
siderea - This one will be [curr ev]
minoanmiss - Massachusetts finalists
jesse_the_k - boost: Etymology Nerd is a glorious linguistic communicator
philomytha - recipe invention success
oursin - Wheeeee!!!
james_davis_nicoll - Updated plant hardiness zones for Canada
kareina - Structure diagram
minoanmiss in agonyaunt - Bright Side: I Refuse To Let My Stepson Bring His Mom's Cooking To My Home
minoanmiss - Fictional Kitties!
james_davis_nicoll - Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei
minoanmiss - Live Frog Breakfast
andrewducker - Interesting Links for 29-08-2025
oursin - (no subject)
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