THINKING OF ANCESTRAL LANDS

Jan. 16th, 2026 10:33 pm
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I’ve been thinking about retracing steps I’ve never taken. Places I’ve never been, but are imprinted on my being. I’m going to visit my Great Great Grandfathers grave in Linden Washington, the places in Donegal County in Ireland where my mother’s people came from, Dumbarten Scotland, where my mother was born. I may try and get Irish citizenship, and an Irish passport to go live in Victoria. I don’t know at this point. I’ll probably do none of these things, and ride out the end of the US AMERICAN empire here in the mountain states.
We have 5 years before my wife retires to figure things out. I have a feeling it’s going sideways before then, but I am not as doomer mindsetted as I once was.
Got to get rid of stuff. Stuff is the mind delayer. Decayer. Destroyer.

Got some cracked corn for the birds.
Had Salmon for dinner, pasta and kale. Kale is the cleaner and restorer. 🥬

It’s cold here. Time to hibernate.

Meaningless weekend to sort through.
Boom.
RIP YVETTE PERRY. GONE TOO SOON.

Arisia day 1

Jan. 17th, 2026 12:26 am
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Getting up this morning got confusing. But I got breakfast from the buffet, ran into Larry there.

Then went back to bed for awhile but didn't sleep so I got up and showered and dressed, and was one of the first to get my badge printed up and everything. [personal profile] mashfanficchick wasn't feeling well and was still in bed after having gotten up even earlier than me to have breakfast. So I set about to kill time til the convention really started.

I ended up spending an hour or so with Larry in the lobby. Then I went back to the room, and was starting to use the computer when the Kid texted that she and her boyfriend were having drinks in the restaurant and I should come and say hello. So I did that, and we had a nice time. I had the first panel I wanted to go to at 3:00 so I only stayed about a half hour or 45 minutes.

Then I went to that panel, and that went until 4:00. I went back to the restaurant but they had left so I went up to the room again. [personal profile] mashfanficchick was getting up. so I waited for zer, and then we went down and ze got zer badge and went to the dealers room and I went to another panel.

I made an appointment for the blood drive tomorrow, at 11:15.

We met up for Songs of the Supernatural, which was fun, and then went to the Dealers Room together.

Then we had dinner, called in Indian food, and ate down in the lobby.

Then when we were done we went to a book release party, and I bought a book. Larry was there, he also has an 11:15 appointment for the blood drive.

We stayed at the party tl 12:00 then came back to the room where I started here.

Sadly no talking to the FWiB today but we enailed.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The kid.

3. [personal profile] mashfanficchick feels better.

4. Donating blood.

5. Arisia!

6. Bed soon!

2025 Photos

Jan. 16th, 2026 10:04 pm
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These are the photos that I uploaded in 2025, mostly pictures from my yard or local nature sites.

• 1401 photos
• Created 03.01.2025
• Updated 26.12.2025

Wow, that's a lot. :D It's nowhere near all of them, even all of the ones good enough to share.

These are the ones I selected to share in Three for the Memories as my most memorable (not most aesthetic or most technically ept) from 2025.
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These are the three pictures I selected as most memorable (not the most aesthetically beautiful or technically ept) from 2025 for [community profile] threeforthememories.

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Giffen plot and breakdowns, Bill Loebs script, Bart Sears pencils.

The JLE, at this point, was 50% isolated dads. Captain Atom was reconnecting with his kids after missing two decades of their lives in his own title; Animal Man (Buddy) had just seen his wife and children killed in his; Rocket Red (Dmitri) was in Paris missing his kids in the USSR; and Metamorpho (Rex) had just learned about his child’s existence in JLE #5. This issue focuses on those four, mostly on the last three, MOSTLY mostly on the last ONE, as Rex decides to start asserting his visitation rights.

And maybe committing some visitation WRONGS. )

New Year's Resolutions Check In

Jan. 16th, 2026 07:46 pm
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We made it through the second week of January. This is enough to get a better grasp of progress with New Year's resolutions. It's also into the period of rapid die-off. We have reached the second Friday in January, also known as Quitter's Day because so many people give up their New Year's resolutions then. See also the parallel check in post over on [community profile] goals_on_dw.

Feel free to copy the idea of a New Year's resolution check-in to your blog or other venue, to encourage yourself and your friends. Many people find that social support helps maintain resolutions. This is one area where online activity works as well as or better than facetime activity. Apps work too, with trackers for most popular goal categories. Consider the pros and cons of getting your friends to help. Here on Dreamwidth we have [community profile] awesomeers and [community profile] do_it that may prove helpful for social support of goals. Some craft communities like [community profile] get_knitted and [community profile] justcreate also have check-in posts.

According to an email from Facebook, the survey found that those who shared their New Year's resolution on Facebook were 36 percent more likely to stick to it. Additionally, 52 percent of those surveyed agreed that sharing their resolutions with others is helpful when it comes to accomplishing them. In my experience, saying (or posting) things out loud definitely makes them feel more real. Plus, if other people know about a goal you're trying to achieve, it may motivate you to keep working at it so you can provide future updates on your progress.

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Posted by Mike Glyer

(1) CHILLING EFFECT. Don Blyly of Uncle Hugo’s in Minneapolis is one of the bookstore owners quoted in Publishers Weekly’s report “Twin Cities Bookstores Contend With ICE”. …Sales are also down at Uncle Hugo’s and Uncle Edgar’s, known as the Uncles, … Continue reading

Ye olde title ramble

Jan. 16th, 2026 04:51 pm
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I had some thoughts, and typed them into my tv, then emailed them out.
You can see them if you want.

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnpauloneil/p/untitled


You Won’t Win

[ SECRET POST #6951 ]

Jan. 16th, 2026 06:05 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #6951 ⌋

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


01.


More! )


Notes:

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Jan. 16th, 2026 01:38 pm
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Age: 45

 
I mostly post about: Everyday life, thoughts, feelings. My version of a walk-a-bout in this season of life. I have made a lot of changes in the last few months, and I have a re-new excitement for...things, everything. I do have my moments of gloom and doom because human, but I don't get stuck there.
 
 
My hobbies are: Reading, running, exercising, gaming, movies, music/concerts, anything that induces frisson. Who doesn't like free dopamine?
 
 
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Oh, Look, Another Drabble

Jan. 16th, 2026 01:33 pm
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Yeah, OK, here's another bingo card drabble. Only one more square before I finish this card and can move on to the new(er) one! Pity I have absolutely no idea what to to with it yet.

Title: All Part of Mabel's Multi-Media Memory Extravaganza!
Fandom: Gravity Falls
Characters/Relationships: Mabel Pines
Rating/Warnings: G, none
Tags: Baking, Cookies, Post-Canon, Mabel is adorable but also a little intense and I love that about her, Fluff, Drabble
Length: 100 words
Summary: Sometimes you just have to express yourself with cookies.
Author's Notes: A lil' 100-word drabble written for Gen Prompt Bingo. The prompt was "baking," and I just could not make myself write anything but Mabel for it.

All Part of Mabel's Multi-Media Memory Extravaganza!

Finding An Audience

Jan. 16th, 2026 09:42 am
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A few years ago I began the process of writing a book proposal. When I got to the part about marketing and developing an audience I found myself stymied and I abandoned the project. Recently I have been re-visiting the project and re-evaluating it's potential.

This is what I wrote about it 3 years ago:


If you’ve every wondered if humans are a hopelessly destructive force that the planet would be better off without this book is a resounding ‘NO’. 

This book looks at our unique human traits and abilities, reexamines our place in the world, and turns everything we "know" about how to save the world on it’s head. It's about using our strengths as a species to create lives for ourselves that contribute to healing our ecosystems. It’s about meeting our needs in ways that support biodiversity, reduce toxic waste, sequester carbon, and create stable economic systems. It's about learning to thrive in a world of change and confusion.

 

The project has come up in my meditation once again. It seems like The Powers think I have something to say that might be worthwhile to those that are more likely to inhabit this changing world than oldies like me. The challenge is 1) I have no externally recognized expertise. 2) I have deliberately withdrawn from most social media and avoided adding my voice to the cacophony of competing noise that is the blogosphere. 3) It seems like listening to anything anyone from the older generation has to say is just not a thing anymore. I maybe judging too harshly but it seems like it is rare for anyone from the millennials on down to think that oldies have anything relevant to contribute. 

Since I'm still reluctant to join the battle for time and attention and equally reluctant to just send it all off into the void with my fingers crossed I have a dilemma. Is there a third option I can't see? Any suggestions are gratefully appreciated.


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Jan. 16th, 2026 02:42 pm
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Posted by Pinku-Sensei

I promised a more involved post yesterday and Weathered on PBS Terra helped deliver it by explaining This Is How the World Ends According to Science.

There’s an 18% chance that global warming exceeds four degrees by 2100 and that’s not a small risk when the stakes are civilization-ending.

In this episode of Weathered, host Maiya May talks with civilization collapse researcher Luke Kemp and strategic climate risk expert Laurie Laybourn about why high-end warming scenarios are often dismissed as “doomerism,” even though worst-case planning is standard in most fields. We break down how uncertainty in climate sensitivity and political derailment could push warming higher than expected and how climate shocks can trigger cascading failures across food systems, financial markets, and geopolitics. Understanding the climate endgame isn’t pessimism. It’s risk management.
Before I address the science, I'm making a meta comment about what I've seen on PBS YouTube channels and PBS and NPR websites since the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was defunded; public media has become more opposed, even antagnostic, to Donald "Hoover Harding Cleveland" Trump's policies since. If the authors of Project 2025 thought public media was biting the hand that fed them, they might be surprised at how much their hands are being bitten now that they're not feeding public media!

As for the science, I've mentioned multiple times that current temperatures are the same as 125,000 years ago and CO2 levels are the same as 3.6 million years ago. That was just before the Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period or Pliocene Thermal Maximum. The worst case scenario by 2100 has temperatures reaching those of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum or Middle Miocene Thermal Maximum, about 15 million years ago. Here are two highlights from Wikipedia.
The Arctic was ice free and warm enough to host permanent forest cover across much of its extent. Iceland had a humid and subtropical climate...Dense, humid rainforests covered much of France, Switzerland, and northern Germany, while southern and central Spain were arid and contained open environments.
That's a very different world from today.

Speaking of today's world, the L.A. fires serve as an example where climate change is already causing disasters, which the current administration denies. Looking forward to the future, a possible collapse of the AMOC would be catastrophic and magnified by our economic system. Yikes!

All this ties into last year's most read post, 'Weathered' explains 'This Is EXACTLY How Much Poorer Climate Change Will Make Every Person on Earth'. Maiya May didn't directly address this, but maybe she'll revisit climate change's effects on individual pocketbooks in the promised part two. Stay tuned.

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Jan. 16th, 2026 07:15 pm
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stuff

Just a heads up.  

I don't have a clue one whether or not what is going on is a good idea or not.  I am working it out.  For those of you out there who feel that you have a handle on what is happening, good on you.  But I have a sneaking hunch that you are going to be as surprised and confused as I will be when things start to play out.

I do strongly recommend you take the time to read this.  He isn't a prophet or clairvoyant, but he has thought things out and presents a mental model that needs to be integrated into the overall picture in your brain.

Birdfeeding

Jan. 16th, 2026 01:04 pm
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Today is cloudy and chilly.  It snowed last night, just enough to leave a blanket of white over everything.  Most of it has already melted away.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 1/16/26 -- I saw a mourning dove.

EDIT 1/16/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

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

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