I did some really basic searching and it looks like something like Yunohost might have some ActivityPub modules, and it does have some blogging modules that might work. I have not used this, so I can’t say how good or bad it is, but it seemed to have potential.

Well I should be finishing The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu but honestly western magical realism just isn’t doing it for me. It’s August’s small book club read so I’ll get back to it.

In the meantime I’ve been re-reading Last Exit by Max Gladstone because Ruthanna Emrys and Anne Pillsworth are starting a re-read discussion and I’m reminded that it was awesome and that I felt like there was a lot I was missing when I read it the first time, so just refreshing my memory to be able to keep up with the discussion.

I wish it were “against all odds” but by my observations, the probabilities are a lot higher than I would like.

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Goddammit. It’s my moronic senator behind that. Figures. I’m not sure he reaches Tuberville or Inhofe levels of stupid, but he is a terrible person.

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion… I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain… Time… to die.

Roy Batty (as played by Rutger Hauer) in Blade Runner (1982)

I don’t think you’re alone on the Southern Reach books by Vandermeer. I did read them, but holy moly it was a slog towards the end. It’s a trippy slow psychological descent. Without any concrete aspects for the reader to hang their hat on, it’s exceedingly difficult (for me at least) to get a picture of what’s going on, what’s really happening. I think they’re well written, but they are not really my thing.

Ms Greene is apparently unaware that human beings have sex, and thus is astonished when she discovered the younger Biden engaging.

“If Russia is listening right now…”

“Stand back, and stand by…”

Yeah, he’s not even subtle about it.

I’ll see what I can do when I get an opportunity. I installed it and tried it, but since I didn’t have time to really dig in, I uninstalled it after the first sanity pass failed. This was Firefox 115.02 (64-bit) Windows 10.

That’s basically why I picked this one up. Her characterizations are great honestly. And the world is unfurling, but the longer certain topics are kept murky (who ARE these antagonists??), the more I think the payoff had better be good.

I hate how the Star Wars fans respond to PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING. I was the biggest Star Wars geek as a kid; it was THE thing I collected and played with extensively. As many characters as I could get, ships. Made my own stuff. Generally freaking appalled at everyone’s behavior since then.

Seems like mainly tree damage in Lenexa (around 95th and Lackman). I personally did not have much, if any, but doing the daily walk with the dog there are a lot of trees in the neighborhood that have major sections having broken down. We did not lose power.

Wish it would work for me. It’s a good idea, but C-n and C-p just bring up a new page and print dialog respectively.

Daytime reading: Witch King by Martha Wells

• Fantasy – My mental jury is still out on this one. Characters are likeable, but the world is still quite murky which makes certain motivations and behaviors hard to parse.

Nighttime reading: The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin

• ??? – Haven’t gotten far enough in it to even know. It’s a period piece in mid 19th century. Maybe magical realism?

Also Gen X (1971) and while I remember it in first grade (so this would have been around 1976-77) I don’t think it continued much past 1st grade. MAYBE 2nd. So I lucked out there I suppose. I cannot imagine getting indoctrinated by JBS though. I’m sure it would have gone down well in a lot of the midwest where I grew up, but I suppose I also lucked out there in that the school board and staff were pretty apolitical when it came to school structure.

Big patch. Pretty disappointed in the Annulet change because I don’t believe their statement that they are correctly compensating for the loss of the damage. As Windwalker I can guarantee it’s way more than a 2% aura is going to produce, so WW is going to trail even further behind after this. I mean I get what they’re trying to do, but it’s going to be painful for a few weeks while we’re further ignored.

Oh well, I’m just going to keep on punching.

I don’t disagree. However I spend most of my time in kbin.social/sub where I’ve already curated most of the groups I care to look at and engage with. I really only venture into /all when I’m kinda bored. Thus, so far, it hasn’t really been too terribly problematic to do that.

It would be nice to declare a language whitelist and have a filter for it, but I suspect kbin has some more important things on the To Do list for the moment, and maybe devs will get around to it when they’ve got a breather. We’re likely going to have another influx on the 1st after the alien site kicks app devs in the nuts.

You can go to that magazine, and over on the right side you can click the block button. It should be right next to Subscribe. I’ve done this for a lot of communities that are in languages I cannot read.

Renown is absolutely a goal you can set for yourself. There’s events that grant a large portion of reputation all the time, and most of the weekly quests center around getting that. There’s a lot of cosmetic rewards and dragonflying tweaks!

Getting Loremaster and finishing all the side quests could also be a worthy goal. There’s a lot of side stories in the Isles that they put a lot of work into for story line that fleshes out the world.

For that matter, going back to the first point, renown also unlocks some of the major follow on story beats. The one that takes you out to the Emerald Dragonshrine was very good.

Professions are kind of a mixed bag. Leveling them up to 50 is easy. Beyond that it is expensive and tedious. There’s a decent chance that someone who has done nothing else but level their profession will be able to craft better than you can for those hard to get points later on, but there’s some fun things in there you can make for yourself if you are an engineer.

You’ve probably already done this, but getting all the dragonflying upgrades is a worthy side task.

You could work on doing all the races forwards and backwards.

Hope that helps!