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During the past few years, moral panics about therians have been spreading all over the world. We’re seeing urban legends of that kind in the US, last year in former Soviet nations, and this year in Latin America. Especially if you’re fluent in relevant languages, I encourage you to please post to here with your own article, a round-up of news links (cite your sources properly!), or your own clearly-marked opinion piece.

ecosophia

We are now into the fifth year of these open posts. When I first posted a tentative hypothesis on the course of the Covid phenomenon, I had no idea that discussion on the subject would still be necessary all these years later, much less that it would turn into so lively, complex, and troubling a conversation. Still, here we are. Crude death rates and other measures of collapsing public health remain anomalously high in many countries, but nobody in authority wants to talk about the inadequately tested experimental Covid injections that are the most likely cause; ~~public health authorities~~ government shills for the pharmaceutical industry are still trying to push through laws that will allow them to force vaccinations on anyone they want; public trust in science is collapsing; new revelations are leaking out about just how bad the Covid vaccines are for human health; and the story continues to unfold.

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry and its government enablers are causing injury and death on a massive scale. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its wholly owned politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.

3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.

4. If you plan on making off topic comments, please go away. This is an open post for discussion of the Covid epidemic, the vaccines, drugs, policies, and other measures that supposedly treat it, and other topics directly relevant to those things. It is not a place for general discussion of unrelated topics. Nor is it a place to ask for medical advice; giving such advice, unless you're a licensed health care provider, legally counts as practicing medicine without a license and is a crime in the US. Don't even go there.

5. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.

6. Please don't just post bare links without explanation. A sentence or two telling readers what's on the other side of the link is a reasonable courtesy, and if you don't include it, your attempted post will be deleted.

7. Please don't post LLM ("AI") generated text. This is a place for human beings to talk to other human beings, not for the regurgitation of machine-generated text. Also, please don't discuss large language models (the technology popularly and inaccurately called "artificial intelligence" these days) except as they bear directly on the Covid phenomenon. Here again, my finger is hovering over the delete button.

Please also note that nothing posted here should be construed as medical advice, which neither I nor the commentariat (excepting those who are licensed medical providers) are qualified to give. Please take your medical questions to the licensed professional provider of your choice.

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

Current Mood: energetic
Current Music: Al Stewart, "Valentina Way"

conuly

And I'm getting paid for every last one of them, including the 6 hours when the house slept and so did I. Normally, we're not actually supposed to sleep on an overnight shift - but almost everybody really does, so it's more like "don't get caught" - but c'mon.

For everybody at home, leaving without a replacement is not simply a fireable offense but an actual, factual crime. Also, I'm not sure how I would've gotten to the bus. I mean, it's right outside the door, and buses were running all night, but man, it was brutal out there. We needed a little shoveling, and neither I nor manager wanted to shovel, so we had to wait for the neighbors to get their sidewalks and then sorta patch us into theirs. (The transportation issue is also why I'm not blaming any coworkers who didn't come in. It was impossible. I genuinely don't think that this was a fixable issue, Staten Island got a lot of snow.)

In retrospect, what probably ought to have been done would have had to have been done in advance:

1. Manager should've taken as much discretionary money as possible, agreed to let staff order Chinese or whatever for two, three meals - something that reheats nicely - and offered to pay all our carfare home in advance, and then used that to straight up bribe at least one extra staff member to stay over the storm. With three of us, we could've had one on each floor and also could've more easily arranged sleeping shifts so somebody was awake at all times.

2. She also should've called up the families of those residents who frequently go home for an overnight and asked if they'd take their relatives from Sunday afternoon until Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning. That's suboptimal for a lot of reasons - there's a reason they all live in a residence instead of with their families! - but it would've lightened the burden on us significantly if we'd had even just our two or three easiest residents away visiting their sisters and brothers.

But we all survived! My replacement actually showed up at midnight last night! But she declined to wake me on the grounds that I wasn't going home at midnight, and she was quite right. And then another staff member showed up this morning, and 90 or 100 minutes later my bus finally showed up. (And yes, I do insist on getting paid for that last hour and a half as well. I wasn't just sitting around, I was doing laundry, and supervising on the basement so that everybody else could handle the upper floors, and walking the guys out to their van so nobody slipped on ice.)

I'm home now, I showered, and I have the rest of the week off, off, off. Yay me!

If this happens again, I'm bringing a change of clothing.

prettygoodword

viridescent (vir-i-DES-uhnt) - adj., somewhat green; becoming green.

The first growth of spring, and here in the desert some of the riparian trees have that. Dates to the 1840s, from Late Latin viridēscēns, present participle of viridēscere, to become green, from viridis, green.

---L.

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dark_kana posting in

3_good_things_a_day

1) trying to get stuff planned and fixed

2) reading during lunch break

3) lazy evening, probably going to watch a movie on tele with hubby :-)

royalsongbird posting in

little_details

hello! im currently working on a fantasy story where the country it takes place in (or at the very least starts in- im still figuring out plot details) is inspired by indonesia, but im having trouble finding good resources about indonesian architecture in the vague time period im writing in- i dont have a specific idea beyond the vague medieval times setting most fantasy stories use, but im more than willing to try and narrow it down if it helps. if anyone has resources i could look into, that would be very helpful!

cornerofmadness

That storm is a monster. I hope all my friends there are okay.

I could use some help from everyone. I'm working on something new. God know where it is going. I am curious as how it hits as an opener (not really looking for a critique per se but if you see anything stupid, confusing etc let me know. On the other hand if something is really working, I'd love to know that too) Anyhow here it is. I'd love to hear a few opinions thanks.

( content warning, murder mystery, dead bodies, mutilated ones, cults and sex workers )

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: Murder She Wrote

torachan

1. Today was mostly a catching up day at work, since I had not only the weekend but the three business trip days last week where I wasn't really spending that much time on my regular work. I am all caught up now, though!

2. I also got my reimbursements submitted for the trip. The hotel and flight were paid through the travel agent who arranged everything, so I don't need reimbursements for those, but there's uber trips and per diems, so I should get reimbursed for those next week.

3. We have a couple cardboard cat loungers that are in pretty bad shape, and rather than get more cardboard ones, Carla ordered some sissel ones and those arrived today. Spritzed them with catnip spray to get the babies interested and so far they seem to like them.

earthspirits posting in

historium

Fandom: Wuthering Heights (Inspired by Emily Brontë's 1847 Novel + The 1939 and 1992 Films)
Title: The Courage of a Woman
Characters: Isabella Linton, Heathcliff, Joseph, Catherine Earnshaw + Original Character
Relationships: Isabella / Heathcliff - Catherine / Heathcliff
Era: Late 18th Century
Rating: Mature
Trigger Warnings: Abusive situation, unhappy marriage, references to past violence, references to past physical and psychological abuse, brief veiled reference to past animal abuse + threats of violence and some strong language.
Complete: 1/1
Word Count: 1,784
Summary: Isabella Linton has finally had enough.

Notes:

- Some spoilers for the novel and for the 1939 and 1992 films.

- Isabella in my tale is based on Geraldine Fitzgerald, as she appeared in the 1939 film. Heathcliff is based on Ralph Fiennes, as he appeared in the 1992 film.

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/79610331

stonepicnicking_okapi posting in

1word1day

chyron [kahy-ron]

noun

a text-based graphic overlay displayed at the bottom of a television screen or film frame, as closed captioning or the crawl of a newscast.

examples

1. How quickly or sl(owly can the chyrons listing adverse reactions scurry across your screen? "With TV Drug Ads, What You See Is Not Necessarily What You Get" KFFHealthNews. 09 Sept 2024

2. An update on our friend Nazgul: When the official NBC Olympics account shared Nazgul's story on Instagram, they added a chyron that includes his time during the event, his name, the country he represented (https://www.instagram.com/p/DU6TUJ1gZkp/) Italy, naturally), and his official place: a gold medal at the Good Boy Winter Olympics.

origins

First recorded in 1975–80; after Chyron Corporation, the manufacturer of a broadcast graphics generator

but_can_i_be_trusted posting in

vocab_drabbles

Title: 'Somewhat Equivocal'
Fandom: Doctor Who
Author:

but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairings: Eleventh Doctor, River Song
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to

anythingdrabble and

ficlet_zone
Summary: River sighed, disappointed.

( Somewhat Equivocal )

china_shop

Previous poll review
In the Fourth walls poll, 68.2% of respondents said "the one-way glass that stops TPTB seeing fannish activity" is important to them; 65.9% said "the one that shields fandom from public/media attention", and 61.4% said "the wibbly-wobby physics-defying thing that means celebs and fans exist in separate universes that just happen to occupy the same space-time". About one in five respondents love ALL the walls.

In ticky-boxes, ballooooooooons and golden sparkles won 54.5% of the vote, coming second to hugs (77.3%), but the other tickies made pretty good showings too. Thank you for your votes! ♥

Reading
I finished Courtney Milan's The Marquis Who Mustn't and enjoyed it very much. Such a kind, good-hearted series with a lovely sense of community and a spark of mischief. I'm looking forward to the next one.

Then I ploughed through one of my randomly selected library books, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman. I found this a delightful read and very moreish. It's voicey, with a distractable, occasionally omniscient 3rd POV scattered with pop culture references. I appreciated it's acceptance of introversion and valuing of alone time. Also, the main character has anxiety, and it didn't really try to fix her.

Andrew and I are still slowly listening to Barrayar by Bujold, read by Grover Gardner.

Kdramas
Juuust enough has happened in One Spring Night that I'm into it. I mean, it's still going around in circles, but I'm most of the way through episode 14, and I'm definitely going to finish. The story relies heavily on respectability, parental authority, and conservative attitudes for its conflict (the leading man is a single dad, OH NO!!), which took me a while to get my head around.

Other TV
Our journey through Middle Earth continues. We're on the second disc of extras for The Two Towers, and the actors seem a bit punchy in their interviews, lol. Other than that, just The Pitt. ♥ (My brother watched a few episodes of The Pitt and said it doesn't have a plot, and I... don't know how to answer that. There are mini-storylines with the patients. The capital-P plot, maybe? such as it is? has kicked in at episode whatever-we're-up-to. I feel like it totally works without a driving plot arc, because there are character/relationship arcs, and rising tension/pacing, and theme. Maybe that's all you need?)

I'm amused that I have three streaming service subscriptions and we're spending so much time watching DVDs.

Audio entertainment
More Better Offline, Tech Won't Save Us (the one about humanoid robots), Writing Excuses, Letters from an American, Pod Save America, Cross Party Lines, Fansplaining.

Online life
From you I have been absent in ~~the spring~~ February, quite a lot. My reading page seems pretty quiet, and I'm still having trouble keeping up; open tabs proliferate (that's the middle line of a haiku).

Writing/making things
I'm subsisting on alibi sentences. My creativity is sitting on a bench somewhere, staring blankly into the sky.

I keep failing to post the meta about adverbs in speech tags because it's so prescriptive, and who am I to say anything?

Life/health/mental state things
I don't know what I'm doing with my life. The world (mostly as presented by the above podcasts) is freaking me out. Yesterday I made fifty chicken dumplings and talked to my brother in NY.

Good things
Dumplings. Creativity is a tide. Sunshine. Grapes. Library books. Black cat lying on the very edge of a sunbeam. Independent media and reporting.

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other
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ticky-box full of prescriptive writing advice
3 (9.1%)

ticky-box full of blanket cocoons and comfort food
21 (63.6%)

ticky-box full of putting clutter in boxes instead of sorting it
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ticky-box full of hugs
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juushika

Title: Woodworm (Carcoma)
Author: Layla Martinez
Translator: Sophia Hugues, Annie McDermott
Narrator: Raquel Beattie
Published: Tantor Media, 2025 (2021)
Rating: 2.5 of 5
Page Count: 125
Total Page Count: 564,210
Text Number: 2133
Read Because: browsing available-now horror audiobooks for literally anything not YA, audiobook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: In alternating chapters, a granddaughter/grandmother pair reveal what really happened when a local child went missing. The vibes here are fantastic: there's an unconventional haunted house dense with untrustworthy spirits and transporting saints, and the narrators have a bitter, rotting, worthy anger rooted in their experiences of gender and class. But the plot doesn't live up to the strong open. The dual narrative and dangling reveal don't make for much, and this sheds much of its animosity without offering anything substantial in exchange. I'm grateful for more Spanish works in translation, but not all of them are bound to work for me; I wanted to like this more than I did.

Current Music: Sharpshooter - Survival Guide

juushika

Title: Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Author: Sara Wheeler
Published: Random House Publishing Group, 2007 (2001)
Rating: 4.5 of 5
Page Count: 380
Total Page Count: 564,085
Text Number: 2131
Read Because: reasons obvious, the cold boy who opened the door; ebook purchased! with dollars! from Kobo
Review: A biography of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, who was present on Scott's final Antarctic expedition and wrote the, can we safely say? best Arctic memoir; Cherry's the reason I got into this stuff, and I've been saving this memoir for a rainy day knowing I would probably love it too much. Delighted to say that I do. The slow start is not indicative; Cherry's family background is important, but this is really the least engaging way to present it. But things pick up, and remain engaging long after the highlight events in Antarctica or even the writing or publication of the book. Gossipy, but in a way I would call productive, primarily because it's more interested in accuracy than cogent character arcs, allowing a messy nuance in Cherry and his interpersonal relationships. He often comes off poorly, and his privilege is frequently unsympathetic; humbling that what did him in was at much trauma as his privileged ability to withdraw, self-isolate, and obsessively focus on trauma, which eroded his coping mechanisms. So, uh, jot that down. None of this undermines the thoughtful, retrospective efficacy and even the complicated hope of Worst Journey; there's a bitter beauty in that one great work that this larger context complicates but celebrates.

The highlight in my mental catalog of Antarctic exploration facts is Cherry's changing opinion on Scott; there are temptations, again, to build clear arcs re: Scott's public reception over time, but that reception has always been multifaceted, and Cherry had a particularly close and faceted view. There's something tender about grief and blame when allowed this consideration—a statement that can apply equally to Cherry's life and Scott's doomed expedition.

(Also in my mental catalog: Wheeler just comes out and says that the overwinter Crozier journey exhausted Birdie and Wilson (and, hey, Cherry too, who turned out to be one of the better sledgers despite *gestures*) and thus sabotaged the effort at the Pole, which was one of my first thoughts when reading Worst Journey. Actually, it's what tipped me from "this is interesting" to "wait, couldn't getting frostbite make you more susceptible to frostbite?" (answer: yes: frostbite causes vasomotor damage which impairs circulation which makes subsequent frostbite more likely) "and so couldn't Bad Sledging create More Bad Sledging and doesn't this explain some of the failure of the expedition?" This isn't groundbreaking, it's clear that Scott's failure was a combination of a dozen dozen factors and exhaustion &c. was just one facet, but I don't know if I've ever seen (in a fair bit of reading) someone straight up correlate the two journeys; it felt weirdly vindicating.)

Current Music: 23 - Blonde Redhead

full_metal_ox posting in

little_details

squidgiepdx belongs to this comm, but he’s perpetually been some combination of sick and busy, so I’ve taken the liberty of helping him out.

He’s trying to track down a particular BTS shot from Stargate: Atlantis:

And now on to the SGA Picture part of the deal. So I wrote a quickie story for romancingmcshep about John Sheppard's ass (the fest goes until February 28th if you're interested!) and the whole story is based on a picture that NOBODY can find anymore. I KNOW! It's frustrating! Anyway, there's what I think is a "behind the scenes" shot of most likely S01E03 "Hide and Seek" or S01E05 "Suspicion" where it's focused on Joe Flanigan's butt. Like kinda blatantly. He's kneeling on the Gateroom floor over Rodney, I believe and you can see where his t-shirt is pulled up and the waistband of his BDUs are lower - showing some skin and some of his boxers. This is what I think the camera sees in that shot, as Sheppard is kneeling like that but I remember there being a whole lot more skin. Does anyone remember a BTS photo like this? SO FRUSTRATING that I can't find it when I know I've seen it a hundred times.

His post: https://squidgiepdx.dreamwidth.org/341626.html

cosmolinguist

Tonight's knock on the door was a Labour canvasser who asked if I was planning to vote; I said I'd just done my postal vote this afternoon, and "I'm afraid I voted Green," I tried to let him down gently.

He still tried to show me the latest "only Labour can beat Reform" chart which baffled me: from my own time canvassing I can only expect that in such circumstances they have a box to tick for "voted for someone else" and you move on! Arguing with people who've already voted is a waste of time.

I hadn't been going to get in to this but since he wasn't going away I told him that I'm a disabled immigrant and Labour are making life more difficult for all of those so I couldn't vote for them. He said "well Angeliki settled here from Europe..."

It just felt so point-missing. I don't really care about the demographics of a candidate too much. I care how they'll vote, I care about their party's policies and how they'll affect all immigrants! (Or any other group on the wrong side of this power imbalance.)

I appreciate there's a lot of new volunteers on all sides in this by-election. (Seriously dude, I hope they trained you enough that you know there should be a box for you to tick that says I can be done wasting your and all your colleagues' time!) But it's hard not to feel like this is what Labour has been for all twenty of the years I lived here: focus on this exceptional individual, not the boring systemic problems that the party will always shy away from.

The funniest thing was, as I was finally getting this guy to go away, I'd spotted another guy behind him and I'd assumed he was a fellow canvasser with this guy, but as I started to close the door, he caught my attention to say "I'm from the Greens, did you want to put up a sign?" And only then I remembered that D had in fact asked for one the other day, so me and this guy and D eventually ended up out in the rain trying to find something to affix it to before ending up dragging a big tree in a big pot to the edge of the driveway for maximum visibility.

I hope that sends the Labour canvassers a message, for the couple more days until this election finally happens.

ursula

Two of my poems were published today! They're both science-and-technology poems about immigration in the US in the past year. Secondary Filters is up at Strange Horizons, and an audio version of Leaning on the melting point is on the PoetTreeTown Soundcloud.

kay_brooke

First books post of the year! Sorry it's so late. I finished seven books in January, no DNFs. It was a fairly good reading month, with no books that I absolutely hated.

For new people, this is the general format of the books post: each individual book is under a cut, which is for length and not for spoilers. Any spoilers will be warned for outside of the cut. Under the cut I'll have a quick summary of the book's premise followed by a short review. Some of the reviews will be longer, especially if I'm ranting about a book I didn't like.

( 1. Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey - 3 stars - Maybe spoilers, but I prefer to think of them as trigger warnings, because the book certainly doesn't give you any )

( 2. I is for Innocent by Sue Grafton - 4 stars )

( 3. The Carnival of Ash by Tom Beckerlegge - 4 stars )

( 4. Lone Women by Victor LaValle - 3.5 stars )

( 5. A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham - 3.5 stars )

( 6. The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller - 4 stars )

( 7. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King - 4.5 stars )

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rainbowfic

Name: On the Mend
Story: Starfall
Colors: Vert #3 (Security); Azul #13 (Withstand)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 717
Rating: PG
Warnings: Illness.
Notes: 1313, Portcallan; Leion Valerno/Viyony Eseray. (Takes place soon after the Sea Festival).
Summary: Leion and Viyony meet again.

( On the Mend )

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frameacloud in otherkinnews - Reminder that this is a community-run blog
ecosophia - Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 232
conuly - Well, I spent 40 hours at work
prettygoodword - viridescent
shipperslist - Lord Seventh by priest
dark_kana in 3_good_things_a_day - Tuesday 24/02/2026
royalsongbird in little_details - indonesia architecture
cornerofmadness - I do feel sorry for the east coast
torachan - Daily Happiness
earthspirits in historium - The Courage of a Woman - Mature AU Tale Inspired by Wuthering Heights
stonepicnicking_okapi in 1word1day - Monday Word: Chyron
but_can_i_be_trusted in vocab_drabbles - [Challenge #184: Equivocal] Doctor Who: 'Somewhat Equivocal'
china_shop - Me-and-media update
juushika - Book Review: Woodworm, Layla Martinez, trans. Sophia Hugues, Annie McDermott, narr. Raquel Beattie
juushika - Book Review: Cherry by Sara Wheeler
full_metal_ox in little_details - Squidgie calls for aid! Can anyone retrieve a memetic photo of John Sheppard’s butt?
cosmolinguist - Political engagement
ursula - double poem day
kay_brooke - January 2026 Books
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Reminder that this is a community-run blog

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 232

Well, I spent 40 hours at work

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Lord Seventh by priest

Tuesday 24/02/2026

indonesia architecture

I do feel sorry for the east coast

Daily Happiness

The Courage of a Woman - Mature AU Tale Inspired by Wuthering Heights

Monday Word: Chyron

[Challenge #184: Equivocal] Doctor Who: 'Somewhat Equivocal'

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Book Review: Woodworm, Layla Martinez, trans. Sophia Hugues, Annie McDermott, narr. Raquel Beattie

Book Review: Cherry by Sara Wheeler

Squidgie calls for aid! Can anyone retrieve a memetic photo of John Sheppard’s butt?

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