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I really appreciate when authors of longer fics occasionally put a note in the author's notes at the end of a chapter saying it's a good break point if you're binge-reading. Because yes, sometimes I do find it hard to stop, and it helps to have the author say that the next few chapters are intense and flow closely and you might prefer to pause before them rather than in the middle of them.

ari_linn

С большим опозданием обнаружил, что в России с нынешнего года ввели экзамен по русскому языку для поступающих в школы детей мигрантов — неграждан РФ. Экзамен был введён в апреле, к июню обнаружилось, что из 1762 заявлений было отвергнуто 1427, или 81%: "Основные причины отказов включают: предоставление неполного пакета документов, отсутствие свободных мест в образовательных организациях, а также установление недостоверных сведений в поданных документах". Из одобренных 335 участников до экзамена дошло 44, а сдали его 27. Российские правозащитники экзамен практически единогласно осудили: сегрегация, расизм и почему-то антигосударственная деятельность — это далеко не полный список выражений, в которых они его охарактеризовали.

Я, в общем, вижу, что языковой экзамен для детей без российского гражданства — это такая откровенно почвенническая, националистическая инициатива российских властей. Но не устаю поражаться позиции правозащитников, которые раз за разом ухитряются извратить такую нужную и важную вещь как защиту законных прав человека и заняться вместо неё защитой прав маргиналов и люмпенов, а также водружением этих маргиналов на головы нормальным здоровым людям. Издание "Новая Газета Европа", цитируя некую Ольгу Абрамову, утверждает, что раньше детей мигрантов не брали в школы по причине расизма, что было незаконно, но правозащитники противодействовали этому путём давления на директоров школ. А с введением языкового тестирования они лишились подобной возможности, и вы не поверите, почему! Оказывается, "сейчас заявление для зачисления в школы надо подавать онлайн на порталах Mos.ru или «Госуслуги». При неполном пакете документов заявление просто не проходит, тогда как раньше о ситуации с регистрацией можно было разговаривать на уровне школ. Например, можно было объяснить, что документы находятся в процессе оформления". То есть "расизмом" эти маргиналозащитники именовали необходимость подачи полного пакета документов для приёма в школу. Мда. ( >>> )

Current Mood: мрачно
Current Music: нет

kaberett

Between one thing and another we wound up having a semi-impromptu mini-break in Chester, including a few hours at Chester Zoo.

... where we went into the bats enclosure and were transfixed for about an hour, basically from the moment we walked in until chucking-out time.

It's a big dark room, artificially crepuscular, with lots of trees (dead) for roosts, and somewhere in the vicinity of 350 bats (Seba's short-tailed and Rodrigues fruit bats). THEY WILL COME SO CLOSE TO YOU. THEY WILL COME SO CLOSE TO YOU. They were flying well within a foot of our faces. You could FEEL THE WIND FROM THEIR WINGBEATS.

And A was greatly honoured by one LANDING ON THEIR TROUSERS.

There were many other Excellent Creatures -- the Humboldt penguins in particular were very excited by the rain (so much porpoising), and the giant otters were indeed giant, and there was an enormous dragonfly, and the flamingos went from almost entirely asleep (including one baby that had not yet got the hang of the whole one-leg trick) to YELLING INCESSANTLY after being buzzed by the scarlet ibis.

Extremely good afternoon out, 13/10, would recommend.

purplecat

Two Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.

( Outfits below the Cut )

Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!

Voting will remain open for at least a week, possibly longer!

Costume Bracket Masterlist

Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.

miriad

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Current Mood: sick
Current Location: Home
Current Music: Kendrick Lamar - Money Trees

ysobel

So I got an email tonight-- seen in my last check of the evening-- inviting me to beta the new Procreate. Which probably means it's a fairly broad beta at this point, because I'm nobody, but --

Um. Yes PLEASE.

I've only done a bit of playing with the new brushes but holy crap it's so good. Some of them have dynamic color interactions, behaving more like physical media. Some of them have amazing texture. Some of them would make amazing calligraphy.

I've gotten through 12 of the 18 categories in the comes-with-Procreate default library, and I really ought to go to sleep, but eeee this is so cool!

kaberett

Reading. Lake of Souls, Ann Leckie: finished the Radch stories; on to The World Of The Raven Tower!

The Painful Truth, Monty Lyman: in progress; not yet Cross with it but also not yet Impressed by it.

More Dreamwidth catchup.

Listening. More Hidden Almanac!

Eating. SO many tomatoes.

Exploring. Poked around Preston a very little!

Growing. ... SO many tomatoes. More watering system established at plot (so hopefully all the peppers will still be alive and well upon my return). Sowed some probably-past-it seeds.

Observing. A saw a deer on the drive up to Preston! A proper big one with antlers and all! We were very impressed.

Also the local owl Yell.

wychwood

I have inventoried my to-read pile and am slightly horrified to find that it contains 98 books (39 non-fic and 59 fiction, which is interesting because I thought it was mostly non-fic! But in fact it's just that the average non-fic book is much larger so the fiction takes up less space). The fiction is about half SFF. I'm not going to make a poll of the whole lot, because I'd be here forever, but I have picked some categories:

Poll #33582 what should wychwood read next

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

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Which loan book should I start next?

View Answers

Acts and Omissions - Catherine Fox
1 (8.3%)

Cavedweller - Dorothy Allison
3 (25.0%)

Data Structures and Algorithms - Alfred Aho, John Hopcroft, Jeffrey Ullman
2 (16.7%)

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
6 (50.0%)

Which detective story should I start next?

View Answers

Aunty Lee’s Chilled Revenge - Ovidia Yu
6 (54.5%)

In the Shadow of Agatha Christie - ed Leslie S Klinger
2 (18.2%)

Land of Shadows - Rachel Howzell Hall
0 (0.0%)

Murder in Williamstown - Kerry Greenwood
0 (0.0%)

Night Train to Memphis - Elizabeth Peters
2 (18.2%)

The Chemistry of Death - Simon Beckett
1 (9.1%)

Which non-fic book should I start next?

View Answers

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat - Samin Nosrat
4 (33.3%)

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries - Kate Mosse
3 (25.0%)

Black Tights: Women, Sport and Sexuality - Laura Robinson
0 (0.0%)

The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense - Suzanne Haden Elgin
4 (33.3%)

The Augustinians from the French Revolution to Modern Times - J Gavigan
1 (8.3%)

Carrying the Fire - Michael Collins
0 (0.0%)

The bedside pile is down to four books, including the ongoing Oxford History of England project and the current SFRG book, so it is time to build it up again!

ysobel

Guy came around with "the government wants you to have a free phone because you're on benefits"

and my roommate who is aggressive with solicitors wasn't home

and so I said sure (thinking maybe I could use it to try swapping the sim card from mom's old untextable phone)

even though I know better

so now I have a phone I don't really need, that may or may not be a scam, that I regretted accepting like five minutes later

(they didn't take cc info so maybe the worst they can do is harass me)

...fml

miriad

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Current Mood: satisfied
Current Location: Home
Current Music: random fan video

althea_valara

ladiesbingo, a Bingo challenge that is for fanworks about the relationships between women, is open for round 13! Here are the categories for the prompt list; you can request a card here.

Now, I don't read much fanfic so I don't know how much of this is true, but it does feel like there is a need for more fanworks exploring womens' relationships. I mean, my own fanworks are largely male-centered, with the exception of my Alisaie/Lyse fic, and even THAT fic was primarily from Alisaie's POV with not much Lyse in it. So I figured, let's get a card and be the change I want to see. Maybe? I mean, I still hardly write fanfic, but maybe a card will spur me on?

( my card under cut )

Current Mood: creative

ari_linn

Сетевое издание "Медуза" перепечатало статью из The New York Times под заголовком "Олимпийский комитет США запретил трансгендерным женщинам участвовать в женских соревнованиях". Моё внимание, однако, привлекла не сама статья, а комментарий под её анонсом в Твиттере "Медузы":

SovietJoke5563: А слабо теперь попытаться объяснить почему транс-женщина это женщина и должна быть допущена до соревнований? Доходчиво, тезисно, убедительно. Или Медуза может только набросить, что б в комментах потом фашня рассказывала про "мужчин избивающих женщин на потеху левым марксистам"?

Родное сердце! Да если бы "Медуза" или хоть кто-то в мире мог "доходчиво, тезисно, убедительно" объяснить, почему кастрированный или некастрированный трансвестит — это женщина, у радикальных левых активистов не было бы никаких трудностей с пропихиванием этих трансвеститов в женские спортивные соревнования, туалеты и раздевалки. У левых радикалов на Западе проблема не в том, что они приводят недостаточно аргументов, а в том, что они защищают принципиально незащитимое утверждение "мужчина — это женщина". ( >>> )

Current Mood: как они надоели!
Current Music: нет

purplecat

Cover for the Eighth Doctor Book Endgame by Terrance Dicks. A burning radiation symbol. The Stars and Stripes and Hammer and Sickle are just visible in the read background.

This was one of a sequence of books in a soft reboot of the Eighth Doctor range, in which the Doctor has lost his memory and must live through the 20th century - in this case the Cold War. Terrance Dicks increasingly recycled his old ideas, or perhaps obsessions into his book. This one features a shadowy set of beings called The Players about which I recall little, beyond that they had already been inserted into various books of his. Anyway, at least I remember something about this one.

miriad

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Current Mood: melancholy
Current Location: Home
Current Music: Clipse - Chains and Whips

purplecat

Tree growing close by some Roman footings with large fallen bricks behind.

Chesters Roman Fort

kaberett

Or at least "the other line I meant to highlight from the Wikipedia article":

There is increasing evidence that the smooth muscle that lines the airways becomes progressively more sensitive to changes that occur as a result of injury to the airways from dehydration.

I had only taken 700ml of water with me; I'd blithely assumed I'd be able to top up at the café and then had Too Much Social Anxiety to ask or even check whether they had a jug out, because that's a thing my brain is definitely Doing at the moment. ... and then on the way back I was desperately thirsty and stole most of A's water, and I am just personally finding it Very Interesting that the thing my body wanted me to do most was More Fluids.

tcpip

In the next few weeks, I will be speaking on two very different topics. The first on September 13, hosted by the Melbourne Agnostics Society, will be on "Stoicism, Taoism and Apathy", where I'll be wearing my hat as the University Outreach Officer for the International Society for Philosophers (yes, there is such a thing). I promise that the presentation may be quite different from what one might assume from the title! I am not giving too much away, however, in previewing that there is a great deal of similarity in what could be called the psychological versions of Stoicism and Taoism, although even this touches upon a common physics and even metaphysics that correlates with the two: the Logos and the Dao.

The second presentation is part of the "New Zealand Research Software Engineering Conference" on September 23-24. Despite my deep wish to have another excuse to return to the home country, this conference is being held entirely online. My presentation, with the truly riveting title "Programming Principles in a High Performance Computing Environment", will provide both an overview of the current postgraduate cohort's programming experience, their needs, and the relevant training courses that I conduct at the University of Melbourne, especially in relation to high performance and parallel code. It will dovetail quite well with recent workshops that I conducted last week on "Regular Expressions with Linux" and "GPGPU Programming", along with near-future workshops on "Mathematical Applications and Programming" and the ever-popular "High Performance and Parallel Python".

Finally, on a related note, many would have seen from photos on Facebook that I am giving away a number of academic and general books, spanning my rather diverse interests; about five hundread in total and a shared Google Drive folder has been created for those who wish to peruse, with more (especially from business studies and computer science) forthcoming. I suspect after this, the next giveaway will be from my fiction books and then from my rather vast music collection. All of this is in aid of finding happy homes for various useful things that I don't have a strong emotional attachment to, creating more space within my abode, and, ultimately, thinking of where I will live for the next chapter in my life. But that is in a couple of years at least; nobody has ever accused me of acting with only short-term in mind.

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: The Rookery
Current Music: Sakamoto, Comica

kaberett

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wychwood

I am on a real reading tear at the moment, and my bedside book pile is down to five! Naturally I then celebrated this by buying another six or seven cheap ebooks, because I delight in causing my own suffering. I'm hoping to finish another couple of the bedside books soon and then do a poll so you all can decide which bits of the epic to-read shelf I should use to rebuild it with.

A proper gaming post is in the works, but I have been delighted by the recent changes which mean that all Steam games now work on Linux - I haven't tested it extensively, but I've already played several previously-Windows-only games with no issues at all. Aside from work that was the main thing causing me to spend time in Windows, so suddenly I'm spending a lot more time logged into Linux, which means I'm getting to more of the tasks I do there! Including writing up my booklog, although at the rate I'm reading it's going to be a while before that's ready to post, and I've already finished six books in September...

Miss H and I are going to see Florence + The Machine in February, which was extortionately expensive but I'm still looking forward to it! This is why I don't believe people who say that classical audiences are low because tickets are too expensive, because you can get into most CBSO concerts for under £30 and the cheapest Florence tickets were £45 plus fees for standing room only. Which is not to say that £30 isn't a lot of money, but if pop artists can sell out in ten minutes for an average price over £100 then I just don't believe that price point is the major issue.

It's really funny how the last couple of weeks are suddenly waving AUTUMN IS COMING signs. We've had more rain this week than in about the previous month, and while it's still warm, I'm becoming increasingly aware that the sheet I sleep under is going to need to be switched for the duvet in the near future, and that there is a limited time for shirt-sleeves at home. On the other hand, I'm looking forward to being able to wear my jacket again. I used the hot water bottle on Tuesday night, but it's not back into the regular rotation quite yet...

vass

Books
Finished the Danny Lavery book, except for the missing pages. (I told the librarian, and she ordered a new copy and put a reserve on it for me.)

Started Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy's The Bottoming Book. (I bought The Topping Book too, and decided to, well, start from the bottom.)

Fandom
The Lays server (Nine Worlds fandom) held a bingo-themed prompt fest for the month of August: there was a grid of prompts (anonymously submitted to a google form, then posted on AO3 by the exchange mods), a 500 word minimum, and a collective goal (which we met) of blacking out the whole board. I wrote part 1 of Peer Review, and hope to write and post the concluding part soon. I hope the anonymous person who posted that prompt isn't too upset with me. (~~It was me.~~)

Music
Went through a few days of listening to Vienna Teng's 'We've Got You' a perhaps concerning number of times.

Games
Spire-slaying continues: have now unlocked (but not beaten yet) Ascension level 9 for all four characters.

Crafts
Secret!cross-stitch still in the design phase, but I've made progress.

Did a weekend DIY project of painting my clothesline and restringing it.

Garden
It's September, which means that the grass/weeds have exploded almost overnight, and it's raining often enough that mowing is tricky to manage.

I planted some lavender and rosemary near the clothesline, and they are still alive so far and even (the lavender) flowering.

Hope you're all doing okay.

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cesy - I <3 fandom
ari_linn - О языковом экзамене для детей неграждан
kaberett - BATS
purplecat - Costume Bracket: Quarter Final, Post 3
miriad - Tuesday
ysobel - Ooooh shiny
kaberett - vital functions
wychwood - what should wychwood read next?
ysobel - I feel like an idiot
miriad - Saturday
althea_valara - Signal Boosting: Ladies' Bingo!
ari_linn - О выходе женских пенисов из чата
purplecat - Random Doctor Who Picture
miriad - God, I'm bad at this + Countdown, Supernatural, CreationCon
purplecat - Random Roman Remains
kaberett - [embodiment] that was the other thing I meant to say about EIB
tcpip - Public Presentations and Free Academic Books
kaberett - [embodiment] some notes on exercise-induced bronchospasm
wychwood - i won't feel so happy it about it after the third straight month of not being able to feel my toes
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О языковом экзамене для детей неграждан

BATS

Costume Bracket: Quarter Final, Post 3

Tuesday

Ooooh shiny

vital functions

what should wychwood read next?

I feel like an idiot

Saturday

Signal Boosting: Ladies' Bingo!

О выходе женских пенисов из чата

Random Doctor Who Picture

God, I'm bad at this + Countdown, Supernatural, CreationCon

Random Roman Remains

[embodiment] that was the other thing I meant to say about EIB

Public Presentations and Free Academic Books

[embodiment] some notes on exercise-induced bronchospasm

i won't feel so happy it about it after the third straight month of not being able to feel my toes

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