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The many mirrors of the Beacon House sometimes spent too long reflecting each other, an endless tunnel of silvered glass that slowly lost more and more light as it iterated. So in spring, when the sun was growing stronger, the keepers methodically rearranged them, rotating new ones out to the positions that caught more of the house’s white walls and broad lower windows, breaking up pairs that had gone too far down dark alleys. Up into the high reaches of the tower, new light bounced, refreshed, renewed, rekindled, to illuminate those in need.

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The air quality alert continues but today didn't rain, so I went out to the library for a hold and to Sushi on Bloor for their lunch special. Which may help the current wanhope induced by mug, isolation, and (waves hand) All That.

Returned two of my books, one unread, and debated returning The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door as well. I never read The Secret History-- I think I quit after three pages-- but this is giving me serious Secret History With Magic vibes. I suppose I could look at reviews but if it turns out not to be that, I shall be annoyed at myself. The trouble is that my experience of Parry is that she never surprises: you know where things are going and they go there. But of course she may have changed: as Chakraborty, whose City of Brass was such a downer that I had to abandon it half-way if that, has apparently just come out with a swashbuckling Muslim pirate tale-- which was the hold I picked up today.

Though all I want to (re)read is Murderbot, Brust, and Ancillary Sword.

Meanwhile I need to get to the laundromat some time, and out of the house tomorrow, because it's Open Tuming again, when people who can't sing demonstrate that fact, mic'd and amped to the max.

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Posted by Mark Evanier

https://www.newsfromme.com/2025/06/06/red-scary-story/

https://www.newsfromme.com/?p=78917

Good Night and Good Luck is, among other things, the name of a play currently packin' 'em in Broadway. In it, George Clooney plays veteran CBS newscaster Edward R. Murrow back in the fifties, standing up to those who saw Commies hiding under every bed and in every closet. It's about to include a very successful limited run in New York and this Saturday, CNN (of all channels) will broadcast its next-to-last performance live. It starts at 7 PM Eastern Time. For more details, click here.

https://www.newsfromme.com/2025/06/06/red-scary-story/

https://www.newsfromme.com/?p=78917

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Posted by Mark Evanier

https://www.newsfromme.com/2025/06/06/go-read-it-365/

https://www.newsfromme.com/?p=78916

Ken Jennings, host and one-time champ of Jeopardy! writes about the value of facts in our society and how it's becoming beastly hard to find them at times. When the man's right, he's right.

https://www.newsfromme.com/2025/06/06/go-read-it-365/

https://www.newsfromme.com/?p=78916

settiai

Watch on YouTube

One of my friends helped design this game! Elliot, who I've been playing D&D with since 2017, has been working on a top secret project for several years now, and he finally got to admit that this was it because the trailer dropped this afternoon.

Honestly, it looks like a lot of fun. And unlike Mario Party, it's not system locked so you and anyone you're playing with can be on different devices. Considering the huge number of game assets that he designed? I'm so very proud of him.

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99pi.org/adapt

Kurt Kohlstedt has spent ten years creating audio and print stories for the design podcast, 99% Invisible. He also co-authored the 99% Invisible City book.

Last year, 99pi’s Kurt Kohlstedt suffered a severe injury that incapacitated his right arm and dominant hand. In the aftermath, new everyday challenges led him to research, test, and evolve accessible design solutions. These experiences set the stage for Adapt or Design, a twelve-part project of 99% Invisible in three acts, available at the short link 99pi.org/adapt

The Adapt or Design series includes many groan-worthy puns related to hands; six essays exploring assistive designs for people with one functional hand; three design hacks and mods that helped Kurt manage long-term rehabilitation; and three final essays diving deep into adaptive writing technologies including a free one-handed "mirror keyboard" for Windows PowerToys.

While the first article posted in April, I just heard about it via the 99% Invisible podcast 630, where Kurt and Roman talk about all these things.

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Posted by Fred Clark

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/06/06/lbcf-hospitality-vs-sales/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=70712

"Evangelism" has become a marketing scheme, a sales pitch without an actual product. It's like Amway, but without the soap.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/06/06/lbcf-hospitality-vs-sales/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/?p=70712

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musesfool

The Mets lost a game yesterday they should have won, but I guess it doesn't matter that much because they took the season series from the Dodgers, which means if they are both divisional winners and meet in the NLCS in October, the Mets will have home field advantage. I mean, it would have been nice for them to win on a day when both Atlanta and Philly lost, but I guess you can't have everything.

Anyway, staying up for the previous games in the series (they were out in LA) caught up with me and I couldn't keep my eyes open last night, so I ended up going right to bed at 8:30. It wasn't even fully dark yet! But I slept through till 4:15, got up to use the bathroom, and then slept through again till my alarm went off at 8:15, so I guess I really needed it. I had a lot of dreams, but the one that stuck with me was something where I was already in the hospital visiting someone, and the doctor was like, "we need to talk about your appendix, it needs to come out!" And I was like, "that's news to me since I haven't had an appendix since 1976!" (truth!) And she was like, "what?" and I was like, "what?" and then the dream moved on - I don't remember anything else.

There's really not a whole lot else going on. Work is busy - our CFO keeps trying to steal me away from my boss, but like, there's nothing in Finance for me to do? My main job is board support, and that belongs either in legal or the CEO's office, so...*hands* I guess if something ever happened to my position I might consider trying to transfer, but I just don't see how that would work. No one is indispensable, but no one else in this organization does what I do (and frankly, no one else wants to). If a new CEO comes in and has different ideas, that could be a problem, but I'm trying not to think about that too much. There are closer threats to my job right now. *gestures at everything*

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Current Music: Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

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maju

4. How will today matter in five years from now? It probably won't.

5. How have you helped someone else recently? I spent an afternoon with my friend P on a day when she needed to not be alone.

6. What is your greatest skill? I'm tempted to say procrastination. I wouldn't say I'm greatly skilled at anything in particular, but I'm quite good at knitting and sewing.

maju

It's a dark and gloomy afternoon; we're supposed to be getting more rain and thunderstorms for the next couple of days, just in time for parkrun (yet again), so I don't know whether or not I'll be going tomorrow.

I keep thinking I should go through all the books in the house and decide which I'm going to keep - and what to do with the rest. (Every so often I look at the book shelves and feel too overwhelmed to do anything.) I asked S's son last time he was here whether he wanted any of the old programming books or any of the others on the shelves that date back to before my time, and he said all he wants is his high school yearbooks, so that's easy. However, on another shelf that he didn't look at is a collection of old books which came from S's parents (and some of them might have been handed down from their parents) so I need to find out whether either of S's kids is interested in having those.

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petra

Padmé, much like Dolly Parton, loses an Amidala look-alike contest. How many of the entrants are in drag? I leave that as an exercise for the reader.

There are definitely drag king portrayals of Anakin and Obi-Wan in their heyday, possibly including makeouts with each other and/or drag king clones.

Anyone who has seen The Empire Strips Back knows what drag!Luke Skywalker is wearing, and as for Leia -- well, I could insert any number of pictures of people doing Leia drag, in any number of costumes, and she’s not even royalty in this galaxy. Who even knows how many hotass drag kings lust after Han’s gender, too.

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