emotional support spinning

29 Jan 2026 01:15 pm
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handspun silk yarn, fountain pen for scale

Silk handspun destined for [personal profile] ilyena_sylph!

There's a lot of need for emotional support right now. :]

Back to book edits (CODE AND CODEX).
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Kayleigh Donaldson is back! She is the guest on some of the most popular episodes, and I know what that is: she’s brilliant. We recorded this just before the Oscar nominations were announced, so Kayleigh is making (some pretty accurate!) predictions about Oscar nominations, and explaining what makes this year’s group of films so interesting.

Along the way we also talk about vintage Hollywood gossip, character actors who go weird gremlin, and the way actors shape public narrative with their project choices, their fashion, and their cosmetic procedures. And also – Scotland made the World Cup – woohoo!

I love talking to people who think about their favorite aspects of popular culture the way I think about romance fiction, and I already know you love when Kayleigh is a guest. Don’t worry, she will be back.

Technical note: we had some connectivity issues and delay during the recording, so I don’t have a full video episode for this one, though I do have clips, so watch for them on social media. You might hear some muddy audio, and I apologize. Please know I did all the things I could.

CW/TW: At about 2 minutes in, we talk about Elizabeth Taylor’s abusive first husband. We also talk about body and beauty standards in Hollywood.

 

 

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No idea what this is about

29 Jan 2026 10:58 am
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So that story I just posted yesterday. It was okay, right? I mean, nothing amazing, nothing groundbreaking, not even anything moving. Just a couple thousand words connecting the real-life colorful belt from the Byzantine era to the Doctor's scarf.

Well, I got this comment on it:

Read more... )

And I have to ask, to anyone who cares to voice an opinion: Is this sarcasm? Are they saying it really was rubbish without making it look like a bash?

Because it's so excessive -- especially for such an average, vanilla story -- that I can't take it at face value. I mean, really, who gets emotional about a description of a city being loud and colorful? Not to mention, I didn't even describe the city at all. I just had Victoria say it was noisy and the Doctor point at the church.

And they want "the next update immediately"? This is so obviously a one-shot. Sorry about your hands and knees.

I feel like the person fed ChatGPT my story and asked it to write the most over-the-top emotional comment it could come up with.

I'm torn between answering nicely and deleting it entirely, but I'm starting to lean towards the delete.
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During Tesla's earnings call, investors got a guided tour of Elon Musk's robot fantasies, presented as the company's future. This, on the heels of Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles referring to Musk as an "avowed ketamine user." This description is important to remember when a CEO pivots from selling cars to promising humanoid companions and automated destiny. — Read the rest

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Failing at the one job that mattered most, Waymo's self-driving car saw a child, made a decision, and followed through.

Waymo said its robotaxi struck the child at 6 miles per hour, after braking "hard" from around 17 miles per hour.

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The Big Idea: Miles Cameron

29 Jan 2026 05:56 pm
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Author Miles Cameron is here today to introduce you to book number one of his space opera series. Though the first of many to come, there’s plenty of spaceships, drama, and war to go around, so strap in for the Big Idea of Artifact Space.

MILES CAMERON:
In 2018, I was sitting at a small SFF con in London with Alistair Reynolds, one of my favourite all-time Science Fiction authors, and I confess I was being a bit of a fan boy, telling him all about what I loved in his books, and he waited me out and then said something to the effect of ‘I hear you spent time on an aircraft carrier.’ The two of us then chatted away for half an hour about life on a carrier and how much we both thought it might be the closest thing to life on a big spaceship, when my editor (up until then I mostly wrote historical fiction and fantasy) turned around in her seat and said, ‘I’d buy that.’
When you are an author, these are very important words. I marked them down. I began to consider how I’d write a science fiction novel loosely based on ‘life on an aircraft carrier.’ Still, despite my military service, I wasn’t really interested in writing ‘military sci-fi’ per se, and I wrote myself some notes and—did other things.
A year later, I was writing a series of historical novels based in fifteenth century Venice and I became fascinated by the idea that Venice—a maritime state—built enormous (for 1450) galleys that carried on most of the trade with the Islamic world, travelling for months and even years on pre-determined routes that linked far-off lands like England and Egypt. I loved the idea that these Venetian seamen would, in the same trip, see so many disparate societies.
These ships doubled, in time of war, as major fleet elements. The idea of combined trade and military fascinated me, and Venice fascinates me still, and there it was—Great Galleys, like spaceborn aircraft carries, on long trade missions to the stars. I mean, there it was, except that it lacked a story.
I have a belief that art makes art; some of my best ideas have come to me while watching a good live play, an opera, a ballet, or a movie. I’m not sure exactly why; there’s an element fo free-association to watching people perform, I suppose—but it always works for me, and in the case of Artifact Space I was watching Florence Pugh in ‘Little Women,’ the last time I went out before COVID and lockdown here in Toronto. I sat there, watching this wonderful performance of one of my favourite books from childhood, and suddenly it was all there. I knew how I would design the human sphere to reflect Venetian trade routes; I saw how I could have the book start in a futuristic Saint Mark’s Square (the heart of Medieval Venice) and I suddenly saw my protagonist and the arc of her story. I think one of the problems of my first ‘Big Idea’ was that the aircraft carrier wasn’t a story—it was an idea. Venice in space was an idea. Both were backdrops on the way to world building. I have the good fortune to be a second-generation author, and one of my father’s favourite sayings was ‘an idea is not a book.’ True words. The aircraft carrier was not a book. Even the idea of Venice in space was not a book.
But Marca Nbaro is a protagonist with a back story and a future arc, and putting her, via Florence Pugh playing Amy March, aboard a ten-kilometre spaceship trading with aliens—it all came in a second. I knew Marca, I knew where she was going and I knew the set of secrets at the heart of the series that would drive the action. I could see the events–alien contact, Artificial Intelligence and its possible flaws, and the difficulties of a trade empire suddenly forced to act as a polity in the face of threat and change.
Good stuff. Other writers have been there before; I’m a huge fan of C.J. Cherryh and she won a Hugo writing on similar themes in Downbelow Station, one of my favourite books of all time. But I had one more ‘Big Idea’ to toss into the mix, because politics interests me and we live, right now, in ‘Interesting Times.’ I wanted humanity to be trapped in someone else’s war, bit players in a larger play, forced to make society-altering decisions just to survive. I wanted to show change, the sort of change people my age have already seen sweeping over us; technological change, societal change, political change.
Interstellar trade, giant spaceships with thousands of crew, massive political change, Alien contact, and one somewhat battered orphan trying to find her place in the universe. Sitting in the theater as the lights came up, it was, I promise you, all one Big Idea.


Artifact Space: Amazon|Barnes & Noble|Bookshop|Powell’s

Author socials: Website|Bluesky|Instagram

Music Thursday

29 Jan 2026 10:27 am
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Latest entry in the currently flourishing protest song genre:


What? Were you expecting Springsteen?

A spectral surprise

29 Jan 2026 05:58 pm
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Given the short winter days this far north, I commute largely in darkness. The railway carriages are well-lit and variably heated. After I settled into my seat for my journey home this evening, I glanced around to see who else is around me. In the window, I saw the reflection of a lady a couple of seats ahead of me.

Curiously, looking in my actual carriage, I couldn't see her at all, she could be seen only in the reflection.

It turned out that there was a train at the platform alongside, I suppose she was seated on that one instead and I spied her directly. At least, we've now set off and I no longer see her!
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January 1986 brought a wave of iconic cinema to theaters, from teen angst and neurotic family dramas to immortal warriors and crime scene magic. Now, 40 years later, these classics are worth another watch – even if it’s just for the ‘member that feelings. Whether to relive your VHS-era youth or finally understand what all […]

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In the midst of the chilling tensions of the Cold War, a cinematic masterpiece that blended dark humor with nuclear apocalypse fears made its debut. Sixty-two years ago today, on January 29, 1964, Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” premiered in theaters, forever changing the landscape […]

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Torchwood is back on the radio and therefore on Sounds again.
Lost Souls and Asylum now, Golden Age and Dead Line in a bit.
And searching for them I found the scripts page

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lskw2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/writers/scripts/whoniverse/torchwood/radio-plays

The episodes that went out as Drama on 4 are harder to search up and do not appear to be scheduled again yet:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012fbw8
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012fcym
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012fqsz

I always recommend listening to House of the Dead in broadcast date order and without spoilers, but at the moment that do seem to mean buying it. Worth it though.
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Posted by Amanda

How to Tame a Wild Rogue

RECOMMENDED: How to Tame a Wild Rogue by Julie Anne Long is $1.99! This made our Best of Reviews 2023 list at number five. There are also many of Long’s books ons ale, including book one, Perils of Pleasure, in her Pennyroyal Green series. Lara gave this a Squee grade:

This book made me swoon IRL. Reading it was a fever dream and not just because of the sex scenes. I was so immersed in it that the real world and its troubles didn’t even occur to me for the duration of the book. (I am anxious by nature, so this is a feat.)

In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long’s thrilling new romance in the Palace of Rogues series, an infamous privateer’s limits are put to the test when he’s trapped during a raging tempest with a prickly female at the Grand Palace on the Thames.

He clawed his way up from the gutters of St. Giles to the top of a shadowy empire. Feared and fearsome, battered and brilliant, nothing shocks Lorcan St. Leger—not even the discovery of an aristocratic woman escaping out a window near the London docks on the eve of the storm of the decade. They find shelter at a boarding house called the Grand Palace on the Thames—only to find greater dangers await inside.

Desperate, destitute, and jilted, Lady Daphne Worth knows the clock is ticking on her last chance to save herself and her family: an offer of a loveless marriage. But while the storm rages and roads flood, she and the rogue who rescued her must pose as husband and wife in order to share the only available suite.

Crackling enmity gives way to incendiary desire—and certain heartbreak: Lorcan is everything she never dreamed she’d wanted, but he can never be what she needs. But risk is child’s play to St. Leger. And if the stakes are a lifetime of loving and being loved by Daphne, he’ll move any mountain, confront any old nemesis, to turn “never” into forever.

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The Nanny’s Handbook to Magic and Managing Difficult Dukes

The Nanny’s Handbook to Magic and Managing Difficult Dukes by Amy Rose Bennett is $1.99! This is book one in the Parasol Academy series, which is historical fantasy romance.

Mary Poppins meets Bridgerton in a feel-good blend of cozy fantasy magic, historical romance, humor, and Victorian era charm, as a recent graduate of the Parasol Academy for Exceptional Nannies and Governesses finds her supernatural abilities are little help when it comes to falling for the shy, mysterious inventor who happens to be her employer . . .

For readers of Heather Fawcett, Allison Saft, Katherine Arden, Freya Marske, and Olivia Atwater’s Regency Faerie Tales series.

Emmeline Chase, 25-year-old widow and new alumna, may be more high-spirited than the Academy would like. Few graduates, however, could turn a mismanaged teleportation onto a duke’s rooftop into an offer of employment. But Emmeline’s circumstances, along with her desperation to support her bankrupt, incarcerated father, have made her dauntless. Which seems the primary qualification to work for expert horologist Xavier Mason, Duke of St. Lawrence, and manage his three rambunctious wards. Yet Emmeline soon discovers that the nobleman’s heart-melting voice and captivating mind present an entirely different sort of trouble. She cannot risk losing her license by fraternizing with her employer . . .

Xavier’s wards have sent two nannies packing in a month thanks to frogs, firecrackers, and general mayhem. In addition, Xavier’s professional reputation is on the line. He’s already considered odd, with his talking raven companion and his fascination with timekeeping instead of pleasure-chasing with his peers. Charming, vivacious Emmeline seems intrigued with his quirks—but Xavier must have absolute peace to design London’s “King of Clocks” for Westminster Palace before the competition closes. Emmeline can no doubt restore order. As long as he doesn’t fall under her spell . . .

Yet, with a possible saboteur in their midst, and the attraction flaring between them threatening to become a deliciously disastrous distraction, a touch of magic may be required . . .

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Fangirl Down

Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey is $1.99! This is book one in the Big Shots series and features a golfer, which we don’t often see in sports romance. I think I remember Elyse reading and liking this one (Elyse, please correct me if I’m wrong!). Apologies if this is an expiring KDD.

Wells Whitaker was once golf’s hottest rising star, but lately, all he has to show for his “promising” career is a killer hangover, a collection of broken clubs, and one remaining supporter. No matter how bad he plays, the beautiful, sunny redhead is always on the sidelines. He curses, she cheers. He scowls, she smiles. But when Wells quits in a blaze of glory and his fangirl finally goes home, he knows he made the greatest mistake of his life.

Josephine Doyle believed in the gorgeous, grumpy golfer, even when he didn’t believe in himself. Yet after he throws in the towel, she begins to wonder if her faith was misplaced. Then a determined Wells shows up at her door with a wild proposal: be his new caddy, help him turn his game around, and split the prize money. And considering Josephine’s professional and personal life is in shambles, she could really use the cash…

As they travel together, spending days on the green and nights in neighboring hotel rooms, sparks fly. Before long, they’re inseparable, Wells starts winning again, and Josephine is surprised to find a sweet, thoughtful guy underneath his gruff, growly exterior. This hot man wants to brush her hair, feed her snacks, and take bubble baths together? Is this real life? But Wells is technically her boss and an athlete falling for his fangirl would be ridiculous… right?

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The Off-Limits Rule

The Off-Limits Rule by Sarah Adams is $1.99! This is a contemporary romance between a single and her brother’s best friend. There’s also some forced proximity.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect comes an expanded edition of The Off-Limits Rule—a heartwarming romance about new love and fresh beginnings, with a never-before-seen chapter.

Rules are made to be broken—especially for love, right?

Lucy Marshall has hit rock bottom. After failing to succeed as a single mom in Atlanta, she’s back home and moving in with her older brother, Drew. Reconnecting with her support system is the right thing to do, but Lucy can’t help but feel like a failure. Her four-year-old son deserves the world, and all she can give him is a spare bedroom. But Drew is the sweetest uncle, and some quality time might be exactly what they both need to start fresh. That is until she meets Cooper, her brother’s incredibly hot best friend.

When Drew senses something between the two of them, he puts his foot down on any shenanigans. According to him, Cooper is everything Lucy should stay away flirtatious, adventurous, and especially noncommittal. But Lucy has been getting the opposite impression so far; Cooper is a genuinely great guy, and she’s starting to catch real feelings.

Her whole life, Lucy has tried to do everything right, and look where that’s gotten her—so what if she were to try something wrong?

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Crafts - January 2026

29 Jan 2026 04:14 pm
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I've done plenty of cross stitch this month, some started last month for early January birthdays, others only stitched this month.

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But hey, after A WEEK I have a new passport! - their website says may take up to three weeks, so I am very impressed with this. Also have the old one back (sent separately). The photo of course strongly resembles a headshot from a C19th volume of an institution for the criminally insane at which the head doc had taken to photography and theories of physiognomy, but don't they always?

***

In the world of spammyity-spam-spam:

Really, I am quite tempted to 'deliver an oral talk' (? as opposed to doing a presentation in the form of interpretative dance?) at the 13th International Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (ICGO-2026 Asia) as it's in Kyoto: 'adorned with early autumn foliage, offering a serene backdrop for academic exchanges, you’ll have the chance to experience traditional tea ceremonies, stroll through ancient bamboo groves, and engage with a city that values both heritage and scientific progress'.

But am not at all tempted (more DESTROY THIS WITH FIRE & EXTREME PREJUDICE) by this solicitation:

Imagine if, instead of being buried in PDFs, your work could answer questions directly, 24/7. Not just to students, but to anyone curious, anywhere in the world.
When corporate companies, grant providers, grad students, journalists ask AI about your field, they get up to date info and not outdated summaries.
Today, your Google Scholar profile just sits there. No one can ask it questions. No one can discover the depth of your work through AI search.
AI is becoming the new search engine for expertise. And academics are invisible.
We built something to fix this. Your own .cv domain. LLM optimized. SEO optimized. Analytics. Branded URLs. Digital Chat Twin.

AAAAARRRGGH.

Ask ME the questions, please. Because, and I quote, 'No one can discover the depth of your work through AI search'. Many a true word.

***

And, in fact, this week has been quite the flurry of that Dr [personal profile] oursin being relevant - apart from query on scholarly listserv which was well in my wheelhouse but had me going 'would be helpful to indicate what reading - apart from google search - you had done before asking for suggestions' -

Request to referee a paper on topic on which I am somewhat reluctantly considered a Nexpert, for journal in an area in which I am not.

Query from researcher about sources for a possible project of theirs.

Invitation to go and talk about the History of 'Engines of Love' (as the condoms found in William Empson's college rooms were described) in connection with an exhibition in the summer.

Have also had agreeable email exchanges with Elderly Antiquarian Bookseller friend.

***

On the downside, printer is acting up, doing both being fussy about toner cartridge AND thinking there's a paper jam in Tray 1. Sigh.

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Title: Unique Methods
Fandom: Jimmy Neutron
Ship: Judy Neutron x King Goobot x Hugh Neutron
Rating: G for General Audiences
Length: 246 words
Notes: Also written for [community profile] 100ships prompt “green”. Mid-episode “The Egg-Pire Strikes Back Part 1”, canon divergent. A little crack-y. (Second chances as in this being a villain’s second chance at doing their evil plan [though the second attempt has admittedly gone off the rails].)
Summary: Ooblar questions his brother’s methods when it comes to getting the DNA regenerator.

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29 Jan 2026 07:03 am
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Snowflake Challenge: A warmly light quaint street of shops at night with heavy snow falling.



Challenge #9

Talk about your favorite tropes in media or transformative works. (Feel free to substitute in theme/motif/cliche if "trope" doesn't resonate with you.)

What will attract me is a male/female platonic partnership, like Elementary or The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (the original one). No ust for me, thanks.

Also, ghost stories where the ghosts are just hanging around putting in time, not out to murder anybody. Like the UK Ghosts or the Australian show Spirited.
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Nearly half of American consumers went into debt during holiday shopping, and many are now avoiding the bill. Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Judson Brewer calls this "money avoidance" — ignoring our financial situation, often to our detriment. NPR's Life Kit talked to him about how to break the habit. — Read the rest

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Photo: Osceola County Sheriff's Office

Kevin Westerhold, 51, was arrested this week and charged with exposing his sexual organs after what Osceola Count Sheriff's Office described as a "sexual performance with a vacuum cleaner."

The Oviedo, Florida man was identified after reports of a man "exposing his sexual organs in front of a residence" on Grassendale Street in Kissimmee's Windsor Hills Resort; video was provided to officers of the act as described. — Read the rest

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  1. Tiny Musical Intervals
    by John Carlos Baez
    https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/tiny-musical-intervals/
    introducing the Quark of Baez!
    via rss

  2. Magnetically hovering guitar strings (I can't believe this worked)
    by Mattias Krantz
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueCO4spGNPs
    i also can't believe it worked. he gets some nifty effects. and discovers how hard tuning an instrument can be. and it also only mostly works. yikes.
    via youtube recommends

  3. Streets Of Minneapolis
    by Bruce Springsteen
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w
    in case you need some music relevant to the current situation
    via discord

  4. City of Heroes
    by Billy Bragg
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW2ZikGW8
    in case you need some music relevant to the current situation
    via discord

  5. Possibly Humanity's Best Idea
    by Hank Green
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpGU8NARX-s
    in which hank gives a suggestion as to how to distinuish science from pseudoscience. also gets into why there are no Crash Courses on math.
    via rss

  6. Virtual goods for the virtual tabletop
    by ironymade
    https://play.shardtabletop.com/marketplace#?pub=ironymade
    in case you need some nifty virtual dice for your VTT
    via discord

  7. What Animal Should I Avoid Punching?
    by Brennan Lee Mulligan and Hank Green
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lY7Y6iJ1jk
    some excellent questions/answers in here
    via youtube recommends
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Trump and Musk street art spotted in Bisbee, AZ. photo: Jennifer Sandlin Used with permission

Elon Musk got a trillion dollars from Tesla shareholders last year. The implicit deal: focus on the company. He hasn't. Instead, he's been posting about "White people" being a "rapidly dying minority," promoting fraud allegations about Minnesota child care facilities, and signaling he'll stay involved in the 2026 midterms, reports The Washington Post. — Read the rest

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Posted by Rob Beschizza

TikTok

If you're watching TikTok, TikTok is watching you—and that data now goes to a consortium of Trump cronies and billionaires much closer to home than the Chinese parent company that just sold it to them. Censorship is being reported by users, including a Peabody-winning Palestinian journalist, though the company claims its having datacenter problems. — Read the rest

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The Walt Disney Company stands at a critical juncture as Bob Iger prepares to conclude his extended tenure as CEO by the end of 2026. With his contract set to expire on December 31, the board has intensified efforts to select a successor, signaling that an announcement could arrive as early as next month accoridng […]

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