pericat @pericat@wandering.shop
I don't have my act together. I don't even have it apart.
story-based gaming, bicycles, scifi & fantasy, tea, baking & cooking, buddhist
- pronouns
- she/her
LB: For non-Canadians who can't hear the snippets the CBC posted, the whole album is on Bandcamp. https://jeremydutcher1.bandcamp.com/releases
Listening to such a visceral connection to history feels really good right now.
"An Indigenous opera singer is bringing back his community's traditions and songs...
The classically-trained tenor used wax cylinder recordings of his ancestors singing in the early 1900s, which had been locked away in the national archive for decades.
Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa — translated as "Songs of the River People" — is sung entirely in Wolastoqey, a language fewer than 100 people speak."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/polaris-prize-indigenous-1.4722297
Mmm. I'd forgotten how much I like honeybush. #tea #warmteaonacoolafternoon
Due to heatwave, my partner is sleeping out on the deck. I was out with her for a bit, and we saw two bats and a nighthawk, and heard another nighthawk calling.
I am melting. Heatwave day 4.
Have just seen off houseguest. Woe. I hate goodbyes.
where we are having lunch.
We have had a friend visiting for the last week. There has been much cooking of noms and excursions to Points of Interest. Also rocks admired, brought home, arranged. I am at my extreme limit for other people, but it's been fun.
I went to a fascinating #friendsagainstscams session today to learn about scam awareness in Lincolnshire. Anyone can be scammed. Criminals are very sly in how they target and groom scam victims. Go to https://www.friendsagainstscams.org.uk/ to learn more.
Hey all, @strangehorizons@twitter.com is doing a special issue focusing on Black, Indigenous & other writers of colour from the southeastern US - deadline is May 31! Details: http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/azimuth/southeastern-usa-special-call-for-submissions/ (via @yao_christine@twitter.com) #sff
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
ME: Yay! It's Saturday!
All the older retired people in my life: Huh? Whazzit... oh, yes. Saturday, quite nice, dear.
A favourite screenshot from DA:Origins. Two rogues hanging out in Vigil's Keep, chatting about books.
Spoke too soon. We are back with the light show.
Two days of migraine lights and weird head things. Think I am better today?
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I deeply resent how my employer's IT regards all internet video as potentially composed of naught but cats or tits or both, and blocks the lot. This instructional video I'm meant to be watching is "Can't reach that site" -ified. Grr.
Hammocks:
+are cheap
+easy to transport &store
+clean easy
+keep your spine in a neutral position when tensioned right
+easy to make warm or cool
+cuddle you
+let you rock yourself to sleep
Someone's cat was shut up in a downstairs room all night.
Someone's cat is under a bed right now, and is mooping, and will moop for hours to come.
It is not my cat.
It is not my downstairs room.
It IS the bed in the room where I work.
