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Mar. 17th, 2026 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I finished this little set of toys that I want to give to Kathy's great-grandson Zaden when I get to Florida next month. Zaden will be around 15 months old then and I'm imagining that he'll like throwing a ball. They are lightweight so they can't hurt anything. Yesterday I got a book of patterns for making finger puppets. That's the next thing I want to tackle. I'm thinking that doing crochet patterns are good for my brain. Not exactly easy for me. So many abbreviations in this new book. And they aren't in american crochet terms so there is a lot of transposing needed to be done in my brain. Maybe it'll help hold off the senility.
It's in the low 20s this morning and we have about 2 inches of snow on the ground. My plan for the day: write in my paper journal, art-a-day and then crochet. I've been watching Monk. I watched the whole series a couple years ago but I'm watching it again. Laughter is good.
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A woman shops at a Prairie View, Texas, HomeGoods and Marshalls and overhears a man admit to two-timing his fiancée. She makes a viral PSA and viewers scour the internet for the right Keia to warn her about her cheating fiancé.
In a video with over 2.4 million views, TikToker Shae (@10kwithshae) shares the description of the man, whose name “starts with a D.” She overheard other details about his relationship with his fiancée, “Keia,” including that the couple got engaged on Valentine’s Day.
Happy Irish-American Heritage Month!
Mar. 17th, 2026 08:50 amneonvincentI didn't see this in time to include it in Storied tells 'The Unbelievably Tragic Story of Cú Chulainn' for St. Patrick's Day.
Interesting Links for 17-03-2026
Mar. 17th, 2026 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. "Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story"
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- 2. Subnautica 2 Publisher Followed ChatGPT's Advice On How To Break The Law
- (tags:law ai games OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Nvidia's Next-Gen Photo-Realistic Lighting looks, frankly, amazing
- (tags:games lighting nvidia video )
- 4. Regression, Not Progress: A Response to World Athletics' Return to Sex Testing
- (tags:gender testing OhForFucksSake women LGBT transgender biology )
- 5. Have some simple but inspiring images about growth through making mistakes
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- 6. Almost 25 years ago, a war game exercise had an Iran-stand in use asymmetric warfare to obliterate a US military force. So they re-ran it to force a US victory.
- (tags:usa military ohforfuckssake iran games )
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Trump has lost working-class whites
Mar. 17th, 2026 11:03 amstrength_in_numbers_feedSince the U.S. launched a war against Iran on Feb. 28, 2026, the national average price of a gallon of gasoline has climbed from $2.93 to $3.72, according to AAA. That is the highest price in over a year, and a 27% increase compared to the same time last year. Americans are witnessing the largest month-to-month spike in gas prices we’ve seen in 30 years.
Meanwhile, new data from the University of Michigan’s monthly Survey of Consumers shows consumer sentiment cratering to an index value of to 55.5 in March, with survey director Joanne Hsu correlating the decline with higher inflation expectations in interviews conducted after the strikes. This chart shows people are getting really worried about gas prices in particular, but also inflation in general:
And gas is just the latest blow. The February jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed payrolls declined by 92,000 — the third time in five months that the economy has shed jobs. This month, unemployment ticked up to 4.44% (dangerously close to rounding to 5%). Year-over-year CPI is running hotter, and that’s before you account for (a) the fact that the BLS changed data sources for legal services last month, leading to an artificially lower inflation reading or (b) the full impacts the war with Iran will have on everything from food to building materials.
“On day one, we’re bringing prices down,” Donald Trump promised crowds throughout 2024. But every major piece of data we have on prices is going in the opposite direction.
New national data from the Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds that as Trump’s policies are making voters’ lives more expensive — not less — they’re turning on him fast. As I wrote on March 10, the voters Trump gained in 2024 are now his worst defectors.
In this week’s Deep Dive, I explore additional race-by-income data on Trump’s approval, showing you how the president has lost ground — particularly with the white and Hispanic working-class voters he promised his presidency would rescue.
Trump is shedding support among working-class whites and Latinos
To measure how Trump’s working-class coalition is holding up, I pooled Strength In Numbers/Verasight national poll data from May 2025 through February 2026 and generated race-by-income crosstabs comparing each group’s 2024 vote margin to their current net approval of Trump. The results are shown in the plot below.
Just one thing: 17 March 2026
Mar. 17th, 2026 06:45 amjazzyjj posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
awesomeersIt's challenge time!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!
Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!
Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Men behaving badly (03.17.26)
Mar. 17th, 2026 11:00 amslacktivist_feedMen, men, men, men, manly men, men, men ...
Grumpy about overly-simplistic polling
Mar. 17th, 2026 11:27 amandrewduckerI do wish that polls wouldn't ask if people thought that the PM was handling something "Well" or "Badly". Because two people answering "Badly" might mean completely different things by it.
Also, me saying "Immigration is important to me" means the opposite of what a Reform voter would mean by it.
This because of reporting of how many people think that Starmer is handling the Iran situation well or badly. When I can guarantee that some of the "badly" think we should be bombing Iran right now, and some think that we shouldn't be involved even slightly.
Tuesday 17/03/2026
Mar. 17th, 2026 12:16 pmdark_kana posting in 3_good_things_a_day1) a day at my and my daughter 's favorite theme park.
2) sunshine
3) delicious cookies
::adds extra layer::
Mar. 17th, 2026 06:29 ammarcicatI thought it was supposed to be 60F degrees today!
Me: 60F degrees! T-shirt weather, whoop whoop!
Me: Wait, the weather app says it's going to be in the 30Fs pretty much the whole time I'm at work.
Me: But the high still says 60F!
::actual consideration of weather graph, rather than just glancing at it::
Me: Okay, so it was 60F degrees at some point overnight, and now it's cold again??? I guess???!?
(I mean, that's fine, it just changes my plan on what to wear for 'wear green' day at the office, lol)
Me: 60F degrees! T-shirt weather, whoop whoop!
Me: Wait, the weather app says it's going to be in the 30Fs pretty much the whole time I'm at work.
Me: But the high still says 60F!
::actual consideration of weather graph, rather than just glancing at it::
Me: Okay, so it was 60F degrees at some point overnight, and now it's cold again??? I guess???!?
(I mean, that's fine, it just changes my plan on what to wear for 'wear green' day at the office, lol)
Diana Longinova and Noize MC protest song
Mar. 17th, 2026 05:56 amionelvToday I found out that Diana Longinova was arrested late last year and again this year for singing in public near a subway station in St Petersburg a protest song by Noize MC (and she eventually had to leave the country due to her impending persecution). Here is a live 2023 recording of the original protest song and here are the song’s lyrics:
| Я бы хотел поговорить с тобой, Но телевизор слишком громко орёт — Он притворяется твоей головой, Его динамик так похож на твой рот. Моя страна поднялась с колен Во весь свой отрицательный рост. Я отрицательно согласен со всем — Вот мой ответ на твой невопрос: Где вы были восемь лет, Ёбаные нелюди?! Я хочу смотреть балет — Пусть танцуют лебеди! Пусть за «Озеро» своё Дед трясётся в трепете. Нах с экрана соловьёв — Пусть танцуют лебеди! Когда всё кончится, ты будешь молчать И делать вид, будто был ни при чём. Лицо — кислей, чем крымская алыча: Ты явно чем-то слегонца удручён. Я бы хотел поговорить с тобой, Но телевизор слишком громко орёт — Он притворяется твоей головой, Его динамик так похож на твой рот. Где вы были восемь лет, Ёбаные нелюди?! Я хочу смотреть балет — Пусть танцуют лебеди! Пусть за «Озеро» своё Дед трясётся в трепете. Нах с экрана, Соловьёв — Пусть танцуют лебеди! | I'd like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It's pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so similar to your mouth. My country has risen from its knees In all its negative growth. I disagree with everything— Here's my answer to your non-question: Where have you been for eight years, Fucking monsters?! I want to watch the ballet— Let the swans dance! Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his "Lake." Get the Solyovov off the screen— Let the swans dance! When it's all over, you'll be silent And pretend you had nothing to do with it. Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry: You're clearly slightly depressed about something. I'd like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It's pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so similar to your mouth. Where have you been for eight years, Fucking monsters?! I want to watch the ballet— Let the swans dance! Let Grandpa tremble for his "Lake." Get off the screen, Solovyov— Let the swans dance! |
2026/038: Broken April — Ismail Kadare (translator: John Hodgson)
Mar. 17th, 2026 09:30 amtamaranth2026/038: Broken April — Ismail Kadare (translator: John Hodgson)
The guest, the bessa, and vengeance are like the machinery of classical tragedy, and once you are caught up in the mechanism, you must face the possibility of tragedy. [Chapter 3]
A tragedy set in Albania. Gjorg Berisha is compelled by the Kanun, the ancient laws of the mountain country, to kill the man who killed his brother. The murder cements his own fate: he'll be killed in turn by one of the men of the Kryeqyqe family, in thirty days' time. ( Read more... )
Charcoal records reveal 'unprecedented' wildfires in tropical peatlands during 20th century
Mar. 17th, 2026 05:00 amphys_environment_feedA new study reveals an unprecedented increase in wildfires in tropical peatlands during the 20th century. "Unprecedented burning in tropical peatlands during the 20th century compared to the previous two millennia" is published in Global Change Biology.
Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
Mar. 17th, 2026 08:46 amicon_uk posting in scans_dailyIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
LEGO have announced the release of their first ever Tintin set, the iconic rocket from Destination Moon/Explorers on the Moon, which will come with minifigures of Tintin, Captain Haddock, Snowy and Thomson and Thompson.
Maul: Shadow Lord got a trailer in advance of it's April release, showing nice graphics but a lot of very very dark scenes in terms of lighting. We get it; "Dark Side", "Shadow Lord"... at least turn on a damn light every now and again.
The Buffy Reboot has been cancelled before making it to screen, and Sarah Michelle Gellar" has spoken about why.
Space Sheriff Gavan Infinity won points for unespectedness when they introduced their latest Gavan but I won't spoil it for anyone in advance of clicking on the link.
Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men had an interesting discussion about genetics in the X-verse, with an actual qualified geneticist.
The Oscars happened, but I wasn't paying attention, so have no idea if anything unexpected happened.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
LEGO have announced the release of their first ever Tintin set, the iconic rocket from Destination Moon/Explorers on the Moon, which will come with minifigures of Tintin, Captain Haddock, Snowy and Thomson and Thompson.
Maul: Shadow Lord got a trailer in advance of it's April release, showing nice graphics but a lot of very very dark scenes in terms of lighting. We get it; "Dark Side", "Shadow Lord"... at least turn on a damn light every now and again.
The Buffy Reboot has been cancelled before making it to screen, and Sarah Michelle Gellar" has spoken about why.
Space Sheriff Gavan Infinity won points for unespectedness when they introduced their latest Gavan but I won't spoil it for anyone in advance of clicking on the link.
Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men had an interesting discussion about genetics in the X-verse, with an actual qualified geneticist.
The Oscars happened, but I wasn't paying attention, so have no idea if anything unexpected happened.
the_mary_sue_feed
It is difficult to expect empathy from Donald Trump, and he is proving it yet again. A very disturbing video of Trump is circulating on social media platforms such as X (formerly Twitter), where he is revealing the medical diagnosis of a person within his administration who had not publicly disclosed his condition. Under different circumstances, Trump’s behaviour could be considered a violation of the law, but in this case, it is a breach of trust.
Trump, in this specific instance, is speaking about Representative Neal Dunn, who, according to him, would have been “dead by June” if he had not intervened and provided assistance through his own medical team, who then operated on him. Trump also revealed that Dunn had a heart condition that made him terminally ill, but since he needed his vote and liked him as a person and friend, he decided to help him. Gross!
Азимов, Цыпкин, Кузнецов
Mar. 17th, 2026 08:54 amgreen_fr
После того, как мне подсказали, в какой книге я в детстве вычитал историю с объявлениями в газете, прочитал «La fin de l’éternité» Азимова. Кроме этого эпизода я не вспомнил ровным счётом ничего. Но эпизод точно оттуда, никаких сомнений. Читать Азимова сейчас, конечно, достаточно сложно: нудно, скучно, длинно. В какой-то момент перешёл на чтение «по диагонали», когда ты читаешь начало и конец каждого абзаца, легко восстанавливая его содержимое — если что-то кажется неочевидным, можно просмотреть и серединку. Ну и общее устаревание книги. От технических деталей (у героя есть практически фантастическая штука: портативная читалка перфокарт!) до цивилизационных (место женщины — за кадром). По поводу женщин, впрочем, Азимов порадовал. В какой-то момент герой замечает, что вечностью рулят одни мужики. Как же так получилось, спрашивает он? И вместо нормального для 1955 года ответа «потому что они тупые» (а ещё лучше — вообще не задавать в книге этот вопрос) герою объясняют, что в вечность попадают «изъятые» из реальности люди. И что кандидатов выбирают не только по способностям, но и по влиянию их изъятия на мир — оно должно быть минимальным. Поэтому изымают молодых и неженатых, чтобы их исчезновение повлияло на меньшее количество людей. И мужчин, потому что изъятие каждой женщины сильнее меняет реальность. Впрочем, издатели не оценили этого робкого феминизма, и на обложке всё равно голые сиськи. На уровне фантастики тоже видно, как устарела книга: тема путешествий во времени с тех пор была существенно проработана (который раз себе говорю, что надо перечитать Ффорде! никак с языком вот не решусь), а здесь оба мира живут в совершенно линейном времени, разве только вот время от времени можно «прыгать» в другой век, но когда ты возвращаешься, ты возвращаешься строго «на своё место», как будто летал не по времени, а по пространству.( Read more... )
Еще один показательный опрос о том, как американцы преувеличивают проценты меньшинств
Mar. 17th, 2026 07:54 amkireev Я уже не раз касался темы того, как люди преувеличивают проценты меньшинств и наоборот преуменьшают проценты большинства. Как я пропустил этот шикарный опрос 2022 г. Тут, конечно, можно много шутить, но ниже 20% американцы не оценивают никого. Видимо, если спросить какой процент людей побывали на Луне, то значительно ниже 20% тоже оценка вряд ли опустится.
Но самые большие расхождения с реальностью это процент афро-американцев: 41% вместо 12%. Служившие в армии - 40% вместо 6%. Я бы сам переоценил процент членов профсоюзов, но, конечно, не 36% вместо 4%. А вот на счет книг, думаю, американцы ошибаются не так сильно, как показан график: это люди преувеличивают свою начитанность.
Я бы хотел написать: представляете, какой интересной страной была бы Америка, где эти синие проценты были бы верные? Но это математически невозможно, потому что сумма рас была бы значительно больше 100%.
Еще эти данные стоит помнить, когда американкские женщины выставляют список требований к мужчинам для начала отношений и там совершенно нелепые требования о доходах: сотни тысяч или даже миллион долларов в год. Но не будем забывать, что в сознанении немалого процента людей в Америке обитают целые толпы таких состоятельных и свободных мужчин.
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Но самые большие расхождения с реальностью это процент афро-американцев: 41% вместо 12%. Служившие в армии - 40% вместо 6%. Я бы сам переоценил процент членов профсоюзов, но, конечно, не 36% вместо 4%. А вот на счет книг, думаю, американцы ошибаются не так сильно, как показан график: это люди преувеличивают свою начитанность.
Я бы хотел написать: представляете, какой интересной страной была бы Америка, где эти синие проценты были бы верные? Но это математически невозможно, потому что сумма рас была бы значительно больше 100%.
Еще эти данные стоит помнить, когда американкские женщины выставляют список требований к мужчинам для начала отношений и там совершенно нелепые требования о доходах: сотни тысяч или даже миллион долларов в год. Но не будем забывать, что в сознанении немалого процента людей в Америке обитают целые толпы таких состоятельных и свободных мужчин.
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