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Lune Soldier ([personal profile] glitteringstars) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2026-01-21 08:09 pm
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Check In: Day 21

Hello all!

How was writing today?
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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2026-01-21 08:01 pm
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good news: health

There's more evidence that the shingles vaccine reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease: two more natural experiments (in which people were offered the vaccine based on date of birth or where they lived). One of them comparED the older Zostavax vaccine with the newer Shingrix: https://erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-on-the-shingles-vaccineagain

As the blogger, Eric Topol says, "If this vaccine was a drug and reduced Alzheimer’s by 20%, it would be considered a major breakthrough for helping to prevent the disease! But as a vaccine, it hasn't reached any sense of being a blockbuster"
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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2026-01-21 07:46 pm

[ SECRET POST #6956 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6956 ⌋

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


01.
[Zenless Zone Zero / Uma Musume]


More! )


Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 14 secrets from Secret Submission Post #993.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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Elise Matthesen ([personal profile] elisem) wrote2026-01-21 06:41 pm
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Logan Ennion ([personal profile] loganberrybunny) wrote2026-01-21 11:46 pm
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The Hippodrome. No horses in sight, boo

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355/365: Birmingham Hippodrome
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I was in Birmingham today. I didn't have much time to myself, but I was able to have coffee in the Dragon, which was nice as it's the pub a group of us had our post-UK PonyCon meal in last year. A lot quieter at 10:30am today, though! Here's a photo of the Hippodrome, Birmingham's largest theatre (capacity 1,935 seats), taken with a wide-angle setting hence the odd angles. The pavement decoration is because this area is right on the edge of the city's Gay Village. And the theatre district, obviously. And Chinatown (hence the name of the Dragon). And just down from New Street station. And only a few hundred yards from the UK PonyCon 2025 venue. And rather wet this morning!
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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2026-01-25 08:16 pm

Brr! "14F, feels like 7"

That is not a sentence I want to read at any time in the morning.

(In celsius terms, it's -10 and feels like death.)

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fox_in_me ([personal profile] fox_in_me) wrote2026-01-22 12:34 am

Breaking My Silence: Thoughts from the City/Живое ощущение войны



📝 Оригинальный текст записи
Прерывая мое молчание, хочу поделиться несколькими мыслями о последних событиях в моей жизни. Истории будут позже, но сейчас -несколько наблюдений.
Недавно я давал интервью изданию BBC. Это был длинный разговор, связанный с боевыми действиями, и прозвучал прямой вопрос, на который дипломатично сложно ответить: достаточно ли делают «партнеры» для Украины?
Это глобальный и сложный вопрос, на который я хочу ответить своими ощущениями из города, где относительно спокойно, в отличие от прифронтовых территорий. Попробуйте представить мегаполис без электричества: светофоры не работают, в домах и офисах нет тепла и воды, а на улицах -темнота, туман, дым от прорванных теплотруб и пожаров с запахом гари. В этом городе безумный трафик и тревога, и картина становится более ясной.
Не читая новостей, я узнал, что МВФ выделяет Украине деньги, но при этом ставит условия -сокращать субсидии на коммунальные услуги. Это делает жизнь людей еще тяжелее. Никто при этом не предлагает сначала поднять зарплаты, пенсии и соцвыплаты до европейского уровня, как и оплату военных, чтобы не унижать их, я уже не говорю о пенсионерах.
Я не жалуюсь на холод или отсутствие электричества -мне повезло быть там, где есть возможность согреться. На боевых позициях, в замерзших окопах, этого нет.
Но просто собрать мысли и сосредоточиться на внутренних вопросах сложно, когда за окном вспышки взрывов, окна дрожат от ударных волн, и понимаешь, что происходящее от тебя никак не зависит. Я не описываю здесь, как города стирают с лица земли, а лишь делюсь тем, как это ощущается в городе, где проходят воздушные атаки.
Вывод прост: понять и полностью прочувствовать всё это невозможно. А спрашивать о том, достаточно ли помощи -не понимая, что вся эта ситуация продолжается именно с позволения этих «партнеров» -нелепо


Note translated in assistance with AI.

I want to break my silence and share a few thoughts about what’s been happening in my life recently. The longer stories will come later, but for now, this.

Recently, I gave an interview to BBC. It was a long conversation about the war, and at one point they asked a direct question: are the “partners” doing enough for Ukraine? It’s hard to answer that diplomatically — it’s such a vast, complex question. But I want to try to explain it through what I feel here, in a city that is relatively calm, far from the frontlines.

Imagine a metropolis without electricity: traffic lights don’t work, there’s no heat or water in offices or homes, and at night the streets are dark. There’s smoke from broken heating pipes, fires, the smell of burning, fog, chaotic traffic. You start to see things differently.

I recently heard that the IMF has allocated money to Ukraine, but with new conditions — reducing subsidies on utilities. It makes life harder for ordinary people. No one talks about raising salaries, pensions, or social benefits to European levels, or paying the military fairly so they aren’t humiliated. The elderly are not mentioned at all.

I am not complaining about the cold or the lack of electricity — I am lucky to have a place where I can stay warm. On the frontlines, in frozen trenches, there is nothing like that.

Even just gathering your thoughts here is hard. Outside, explosions flash, windows shake from shockwaves, and you realize that none of what’s happening depends on you. I am not trying to describe how cities are destroyed; I am simply sharing what it feels like in a city under active air attacks.

The truth is: you cannot fully understand it, not unless you’ve been there. Asking if the help is enough — without understanding that the situation continues under the very permission of these “partners” — is absurd.

Living here, you feel the contrast every day: the relative calm of the city, the small routines you can manage, and the chaos that touches you even from afar. It makes you realize how fragile everything is, how small your control, and yet how necessary it is to simply observe, survive, and carry on.

the cosmolinguist ([personal profile] cosmolinguist) wrote2026-01-21 10:27 pm
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I'm gonna need a tag for this aren't I, goddammit

A Minnesotan friend read out to me a social media post that went something like "If you know any Minnesotans, you'll know that we take every opportunity to bring up Minnesota and Minnesotan things." The next sentence started something like, "If we manage to expel this ICE invasion..." but I don't remember properly because by the time I heard that much of this sentence I was already sitting up from where I'd been lounging on the couch, so when the sentence ended with "...you'll be hearing about it for the next twenty years."

"Twenty?!" I said. "We're still talking about the Halloween storm of 1991 and that's more than twenty years ago! I think people will be hearing about this for, more like two hundred years."

He scrolled down and chuckled, read out a comment that might not have been understandable because he was still laughing, but I knew what he was saying "This comment says, 'I remember the Halloween blizzard of 1991.' "

Speaking of October 1991, I was just thinking the other day we'll be hearing about the World Series of 1991, and 1987, at the very least every time it's another 5 or 10 years after those dates, for the very least as long as any of those players are still alive.

I said that I remembered hearing about, like, the 5-year-anniversary of that time there was a raccoon on the MPR building.

We are never gonna let you forget, you'll be hearing about this for ever. I guarantee it.

I can't wait (to be talking about this in the past tense).

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Elise Matthesen ([personal profile] elisem) wrote2026-01-21 03:23 pm

in the midst: another passage

 After some trouble getting ahold of me, my sister has let me know that our mother died this morning.

(So maybe don't assume I remember anything I'm supposed to remember this week?)
My sister and her husband continue to be awesome in these matters. As does Juan.

OK. Gonna go have food and meds now.
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Highlander II ([personal profile] highlander_ii) wrote in [community profile] fan_flashworks2026-01-21 03:27 pm

The Sentinel : icons : Renewal

Title: Renewal
Fandom: The Sentinel
Rating: G
Content notes: None apply
Summary: icons of The Sentinel - which is a show that got a second chance thanks to the persistence of fans needing, at the very least, closure for their show

Notes: these were made for [personal profile] pattrose for [community profile] snowflake_challenge, so are only shareable if they agree.


Renewal )
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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [community profile] get_knitted2026-01-21 08:20 pm

Check-In Post - Jan 21st 2026


Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: What are your crafting goals for 2026?


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2026-01-21 03:00 pm
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Bundle of Holding: Dead Air: Seasons



This all-new Dead Air Bundle presents English-language ebooks for Dead Air: Seasons, the post-apocalyptic tabletop roleplaying game from Italian publisher The World Anvil Publishing about a Blighted world forever changed.

Bundle of Holding: Dead Air: Seasons
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Elise Matthesen ([personal profile] elisem) wrote2026-01-21 01:31 pm

National Weather Service sez

 ...EXTREME COLD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THURSDAY TO 11 AM CST
FRIDAY...
...EXTREME COLD WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH
SATURDAY MORNING...

* WHAT...For the Extreme Cold Warning, dangerously cold wind chills
  of 35 to 45 below expected. For the Extreme Cold Watch, dangerously
  cold wind chills as low as 35 below possible.

* WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central,
  southeast, southwest, and west central Minnesota and northwest and
  west central Wisconsin.

* WHEN...For the Extreme Cold Warning, from 9 PM Thursday to 11 AM
  CST Friday. For the Extreme Cold Watch, from Friday morning through
  Saturday morning.

* IMPACTS...The dangerously cold wind chills as low as 45 below zero
  could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes.

And where is this for?

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN
1202 PM CST Wed Jan 21 2026

MNZ051>070-073>078-082>085-091>093-WIZ014>016-023>028-220615-
/O.NEW.KMPX.EC.W.0001.260123T0300Z-260123T1700Z/
/O.EXT.KMPX.EC.A.0001.260123T1700Z-260124T1800Z/
Sherburne-Isanti-Chisago-Lac Qui Parle-Swift-Chippewa-Kandiyohi-
Meeker-Wright-Hennepin-Anoka-Ramsey-Washington-Yellow Medicine-
Renville-McLeod-Sibley-Carver-Scott-Dakota-Redwood-Brown-Nicollet-
Le Sueur-Rice-Goodhue-Watonwan-Blue Earth-Waseca-Steele-Martin-
Faribault-Freeborn-Polk-Barron-Rusk-St. Croix-Pierce-Dunn-Pepin-
Chippewa-Eau Claire-
Including the cities of Chippewa Falls, St Peter, Mankato,
Stillwater, Victoria, Hudson, Fairmont, Blue Earth, Hutchinson,
Olivia, Faribault, Gaylord, Waseca, Owatonna, Benson, Madison, Elk
River, Redwood Falls, New Ulm, Cambridge, River Falls, St Paul,
Minneapolis, Menomonie, Shakopee, Red Wing, Durand, Blaine,
Chanhassen, St James, Center City, Litchfield, Monticello, Osceola,
Montevideo, Granite Falls, Albert Lea, Willmar, Hastings, Rice Lake,
Eau Claire, Ladysmith, Le Sueur, and Chaska

And what do we do?

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Dress in layers including a hat, face mask, and gloves if you must go
outside.

Keep pets indoors as much as possible.

Which mostly means "Keep yer ass indoors! You, and your little dog too!"
And also means "Look after each other. We keep us safe."  OK? OK then.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to finish the bag for the supply depot and start on one for Pow Wow Grounds.

 What's the weather going to be doing where you are? And how are the people in your neighborhood?
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Athana ([personal profile] hyperanthropos) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2026-01-21 07:31 pm
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lauradi7dw ([personal profile] lauradi7dw) wrote2026-01-21 01:38 pm

History humor

Mike Nelson on twitter

>>Erik the Red is smiling down from Heaven as Trump keeps mixing up Greenland and Iceland, happy to see his ruse finally worked<<