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this is not in the proper spirit of rumspringa ([personal profile] siria) wrote2025-12-06 11:39 am

2561 / Fic - The Pitt

Zoology and Other Specialities
The Pitt | Jack/Robby | ~6600 words | Thanks to [personal profile] sheafrotherdon for betaing.

(Also on AO3)

'I can't believe I'm saying this,' Robby said, 'but humans don't turn into dogs.' )
MetaFilter ([syndicated profile] metafilter_feed) wrote2025-12-06 03:44 pm

Who tf is Doug Wilson?

Posted by phunniemee

Back in August a video of church leaders who want the 19th Amendment repealed went viral after being retweeted by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. They were from the Congregation of Reformed Evangelical Churches [what?] led by Doug Wilson [who?]. What is Doug Wilson on about and why should we care? Fundie Fridays will tell you all about him [youtube | 2h27m]
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sad voice freaky clown ([personal profile] feurioo) wrote in [community profile] tv_talk2025-12-06 05:22 pm

Speak Up Saturday

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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?
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the_shoshanna ([personal profile] the_shoshanna) wrote2025-12-06 09:41 am

can't sleep, prestige TV will eat me

I have watched the first two episodes of Heated Rivalry, and omg it is so much fun (and I find it better than the book tbh; the book sometimes felt awkwardly written and the show just smooths out and amplifies so many great moments). I haven't watched the third episode yet and am desperate to, but I also kind of want to reread Game Changer first, just slam through it this morning, so I can better recognize the ways it's been adapted. (And of course I want to reread the book of Heated Rivalry as well, just to see if my memory is betraying me!) And I just learned twenty minutes ago that a sequel series to Spartacus just dropped and I'm dying to check it out. And how did I miss that there was a third series of Leverage: Redemption? (And on top of all those things that are sitting on my hard drive absolutely alluring me, I'm watching The Pitt with a friend -- her first time through it; my second -- and watching the current series of Shetland both with Geoff and with another friend, and already counting the days until the Call the Midwife Christmas special drops -- and omg it's specials, plural, we get one on the 25th and a second one on the 26th and then the new series presumably sometime in the spring.)

I have to prep to help lead service at church tomorrow morning, and all I want to do today is read Rachel Reid and watch TV. Can't I just stay home and worship at the Church of Bubble Butts?
MetaFilter ([syndicated profile] metafilter_feed) wrote2025-12-06 02:41 pm

You just know there's going to be food puns

Posted by Wordshore

[BBC] Four people have been arrested after custard and apple crumble were flung at a display case containing part of the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London ... Take Back Power, which describes itself as a new non-violent civil-resistance group, claimed it was behind the act. [Guardian] The demonstrators then opened their coats to show their T-shirt slogans reading "Take Back Power", before one shouted "democracy has crumbled". [Metro} They have been taken into custody. [Apple crumble recipe]
MetaFilter ([syndicated profile] metafilter_feed) wrote2025-12-06 02:20 pm

A ceasefire in name only

Posted by toastyk

Scotland's The National laid out a timeline of Israel's ceasefire violations on their front page this week. ungated Watched, tracked, and targeted - Life under surveillance in Gaza. ungated CNN investigation points to the Israeli military bulldozing the dead bodies of Palestinians seeking aid. Israeli forces kill two Palestinian men in West Bank after they appear to surrender.

(Previously.) Current state of US legislation: - HR 3565 Block the Bombs Act - 57 cosponsors - HRes.876 - Recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza - 21 cosponsors Commentary: Mondoweiss - Stop calling right-wing criticism of Israel "anti-Zionism" - One danger of this misidentification is that it reproduces, in reverse, the spurious logic that conflates anti-Zionism and antisemitism. The resistance by pundits and politicians like Fuentes, Owens, Marjorie Taylor Green and others to U.S. support for Israel is transparently rooted in antisemitism first and foremost. Foreign Affairs - The End of the Israeli Exception ungated - by Andrew Miller, former Biden staffer. NYT - How the Democrats Blew It On Gaza ungated - by Ben Rhodes, former Obama staffer
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flamebyrd ([personal profile] flamebyrd) wrote2025-12-06 08:00 pm
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Site update! (Sort of.)

I ate'nt dead and all that...

We upgraded Ubuntu on our webserver, which upgraded PHP, which broke the CMS I was using for random.fangirling.net. The CMS (PicoCMS) is no longer supported or under active development, as is the way of such things, and it makes sense to me because the niche it filled - flat file CMSes - was quickly squeezed out by static site generators.

So I figured I should rebuild it using a static site generator (SSG), and spent some time playing around with Astro and Eleventy before I got too frustrated by how hard it was to build a site with the file structure I wanted. And then I thought, why did I spend all that time writing a static site generator if I wasn't going to use it?

And thus, here we are. random.fangirling.net is now mostly functional again. Please let me know if anything seems amiss!

The biggest thing that's missing is the breadcrumb navigation, which was the only kind of navigation I had on the site but which is difficult to generate with my script. So that's on the TODO list.

I thought I might make the code I use to generate the site public too, as a demo for how to use my makesite.py fork. Something to ponder!
MetaFilter ([syndicated profile] metafilter_feed) wrote2025-12-06 10:16 am

A disturbing kind of satisfaction

Posted by chavenet

The crude, even violent collision of forms seemed to capture the political and generational rifts that had been straining American society, and the American family in particular, since the 1960s, and it established Mr. Gehry as a force in architecture. from Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96 [NYT; ungated]

Legendary architect Frank Gehry dies aged 96 [BBC] Frank Gehry, whose designs defied gravity and convention, dies at 96 [NPR] Remembering Frank Gehry: Ten Landmark L.A. Buildings That Defined The Boundary-Shattering Architect's Genius [Secret LA]
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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-12-05 11:37 pm
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Stranger Things 5x01-04

We finally got around to watching the first Stranger Things new episode drop! Somehow I had remained completely and utterly unspoiled for it, to the extent of having even forgotten that there was a new season until suddenly a post with "stranger things spoilers" arrived on my Tumblr dash and I immediately blocked the tag. So I knew literally nothing.

Random spoilers in no particular order )
MetaFilter ([syndicated profile] metafilter_feed) wrote2025-12-06 08:42 am

Dreaming about finishing my To do List

Posted by growabrain

Retirement Plan is a new, animated Irish short about a middle aged man's plans for the rest of his life. It is narrated by Domhnall Gleeson. It's the kind of cute fare that will probably be nominated, and possibly even wins at the Oscars.
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precuretokumod ([personal profile] precuretokumod) wrote in [community profile] fandomcalendar2025-12-06 08:05 am
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broken frame ([personal profile] brokenframe) wrote in [community profile] vidding2025-12-05 11:13 pm

New Vid: Philip Swift/Syrena Fan Video - Sirens

Title: Sirens
Characters/Pairing: Philip Swift/Syrena
Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Music: Sirens by Fleurie
Length: 3:08
Streaming/download at: DW | Tumblr
MetaFilter ([syndicated profile] metafilter_feed) wrote2025-12-06 04:04 am

All Things To Me: Netflix Edition

Posted by drewbage1847

It was announced earlier today that streaming giant, Netflix, has agreed to purchase the film and tv assets of Warner Brothers while Discovery Global (the other half of Warner Discovery) will retain cable channels like CNN, Discovery Channel, TNT, HGTV, Animal Planet, Food Network, Investigation Discovery, TLC, TruTV, and Cartoon Network


Now the next big question (beyond whether the merger will pass federal approval), is Netflix trying to kill Warner's theater releases?

(No word yet on the fate of the multi-branded HBO Max/Go)
MetaFilter ([syndicated profile] metafilter_feed) wrote2025-12-06 03:53 am

It's Such A Mind Game, Isn't It?

Posted by Dawn Trask-Dontell

Ariana Grande & Adam Sandler | Actors on Actors is a 40 minute conversation about acting. Like seriously, this isn't comedian Sandler here. It's deeper than you might expect, and I recommend it by posting it here.
MetaFilter ([syndicated profile] metafilter_feed) wrote2025-12-06 02:51 am

The Mighty Fitz & Me

Posted by Hardcore Poser

For the past week we have been hammered by November storms. Much of this essay was written at anchor off Long Point in Lake Erie, where we sought refuge along with nine other ships. For 48 hours the wind did not drop below 30 knots and regularly gusted to 50. As I sat typing in my cabin I could hear the wind rage, rattling the super structure around me. Sleet and snow frenzied at my cabin window. At times the ship strained against the anchor chain and sent judders through the hull which I could feel 600 feet aft at my desk. Despite being in the lee of Long Point, the waves were tall and relentless. For 24 hours there was not a single ship moving across the entirety of the Great Lakes. Currently we're storm routing up the American side of Lake Huron and we anticipate many more weather related delays before the season is done. Winter has arrived and this year her claws are out.

Nick Tabone is a writer, a sailor, a runner, and a skateboarder. Other essays on life working the Great Lakes are here.