alchemicink

* What did the buffalo say when his kid went to college? Bison.
* What's the stinkiest planet? Poopiter.
* What did the pirate say when he turned 80? Aye matey.
* Did you hear the one about the roof? Never mind, it's over your head.
* What's a ninja's favorite type of shoes? Sneakers.
* What's the best smelling insect? A deodor-ant.
* Why was the coach yelling at the vending machine? He wanted his quarter back.
* I had a joke about paper today, but it was tearable.
* I made song about tortilla once, now it's more like a wrap.

pattrose

9. It’s World Misophonia Day. A person with this disorder has decreased tolerance for certain sounds as well as the stimuli that accompany those sounds (for example, loud chewing). Someone with the condition will experience feelings of distress, which may overwhelm them. Are there any sounds that you find irritating, even if you don’t suffer from this condition?

I think I have this condition. If hubby slurps his soup, I have a nervous breakdown about hearing this. It's real.

10. When you eat thick-cut chips/French fries, do you add a sauce such as ketchup or mayonnaise, or do you prefer a condiment like vinegar or lemon with them?

I likes a my fries all by themselves. I love good fries.

pattrose

I haven't posted in a while, but want to let you know I had two radiation treatments this week. Next week I will have 3 more. They told me I would probably have some side effects, but so far, so good. July 17th is my last treatment and three months later I have a CT Scan to see if it worked. Fingers crossed. I have to have Scan every three months for 5 years. Just being careful, I guess.

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Friday to midnight on Saturday (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34816 Daily poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 4

How are you doing?

I am okay
3 (75.0%)

I am not okay, but don't need help right now
1 (25.0%)

I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans are you living with?

I am living single
2 (50.0%)

One other person
0 (0.0%)

More than one other person
2 (50.0%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

ysabetwordsmith

Ugandan Coffee Growers Shrug Off Drought Thanks to Regenerative Agriculture

Among the rolling hills of Uganda’s Masaka region, robusta coffee plants are producing larger, tastier yields thanks to a pilot program utilizing regenerative agriculture to battle droughts or erratic rainfall.

A catch-all term for a variety of growing techniques as simple as mulching to as complex as cover cropping, regenerative agriculture is especially useful in the coffee belts where nutrient-poor tropical soils and heavy rainfall make erosion a real threat to productive crops.

Of course regenerative farming works. Nature knows how to compensate for common problems. Humans just need to quick fucking up those processes.

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but_can_i_be_trusted posting in

vocab_drabbles

Title: 'Don't Knock It'
Fandom: The Monkees
Author:

but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Word Count: 102
Characters/Pairings: Peter Tork, Henry Babbitt
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to

anythingdrabble
Summary: “I’ve been considering raising the rent on this place.”

( Don't Knock It )

but_can_i_be_trusted posting in

vocab_drabbles

Title: 'Magical Abuses'
Fandom: Friends
Author:

but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 946
Characters/Pairings: Phoebe Buffay, Gunther, original characters
Warnings: Some bigoted dialogue and imagery.
Notes: Using Challenge #198: Debase, Challenge #199: Reticent, and Challenge #202: Abate. Crossposted to

whatif_au.
Summary: “Who’s responsible,” the man shouted, as both of them rose from their seats.

( Magical Abuses )

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glitteringstars

This video by 8BITJOYSTICK recently crossed my Youtube recommendations, and BOY do I feel targeted.

If you're looking for recommendations on what to do, I would suggest expanding from this. The general idea of physical reminders and limited choice is such a boon, and I kinda hate how it took this long for me to remember that that's an option.

I spent a bit of time this evening cleaning out an old bin full of Pokemon cards (didn't toss them, just transfered them) and collecting some stuff to throw in the the bin. So far, I have some books/comics, video games, physical games, and movies/TV series. The idea will hopefully be that I'll at least work through some of these pieces of media bit by bit and stop falling into wholes on Youtube.

My current list includes:

Dragon AGE TTRPG (solo play)
Hunter/Hunted (duo/solo journalling game)
20 Strong (solo card game)
Crown of Vengence (physical book)
Prince Freya Vol 1 (graphic novel)
Stone & Steel (novella)
Dororo (TV series)
Weathering With You (Movie)
Natsume's Book of Friends, Season 1 (TV series, borrowed from a friend)
Fire Emblem: Shadows of Valentia (game)
Myth VI: Revelations (game -- already started)
Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory (game -- borrowed from a friend)

Is this an excuse for me to finally play/watch the stuff I've borrowed for the last few months so I can get them back to my friends? Yes, yes, of course.

I'll probably do progress reports as I work through/on them.

pauraque

This puzzle game by Scottish studio DMA Design takes as its inspiration the myth that lemmings (arctic rodents) mindlessly fling themselves off cliffs. In the game, lemmings (pixelly humanoids with green hair and blue leotards) fall from a trap door and begin marching mindlessly to the right, oblivious to cliffs, fire, lakes of acid, and other deadly hazards. When they hit a wall, they turn 180 and march the other way. It's your job to guide as many of them as possible safely to the exit.

lemmings fall from above and walk to the right, away from the exit that is immediately to the left. one has just exploded in a shower of pixels

lemmings fall from above and walk to the right, away from the exit that is immediately to the left. one has just exploded in a shower of pixels

To accomplish this, you can assign individual lemmings one of eight skills: Climber (climbs vertical walls), Floater (uses an umbrella to survive falls), Bomber (explodes after 5 seconds, leaving a crater), Blocker (stands in place and won't let other lemmings past), Builder (builds a staircase), Basher (digs a horizontal tunnel), Miner (digs a diagonal tunnel), and Digger (digs a vertical tunnel). Each level offers a limited number of skill assignments, so you have to use them strategically to create a path for the others.

Lemmings was wildly popular in the '90s, spawning multiple expansion packs, sequels, and spinoffs. As a child I don't know if I was really aware of what a global phenomenon it was, but it was certainly a phenomenon in my house, considering the countless hours my brother and I spent trying (and usually failing) to stop the cute little dummies from marching to their doom.

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The original Lemmings is unfortunately not commercially available. If you've misplaced your floppies/cartridge, various releases are available as abandonware. I was playing the DOS release on DOSBox, which runs fine but you may need to edit some files to defeat the copy protection. If that doesn't sit well or sounds like too much trouble, there are also several fan-made freeware clones that are supposed to run on modern systems, though I have not personally vetted any of them.

cosmolinguist

I miss D. But he's camping at Goths on a Field this weekend and I am sitting next to a fan and I have a cold beer next to me.

I went along last year and we were camping on the hottest three days of the summer. I really missed fans and ice cubes.

tozka

At a time when scientific data on rising sea levels, melting ice, and ocean acidification are widely known, my role is not to repeat these figures, but to embody them, to bring them to life, to make them heard. Because understanding is no longer enough — one must feel in order to act.

This piece is an invitation to listen to a world in change. An active, committed listening that may, I hope, open the way to other narratives, to other possibilities.

siliconshaman

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Hi! Signups are open now and I have adjusted the schedule to allow for more time, since an emergency medical treatment meant I could not open them on intended schedule. The new schedule is as follows:

Sign-up Closes:
Sat 18 Jul 2026 08:00PM EDT (12:00AM UTC)
Assignments Due:
Sun 16 Aug 2026 11:59PM EDT (03:59AM UTC)
Works Revealed:
Tue 18 Aug 2026 03:00PM EDT (07:00PM UTC)
Creators Revealed:
Thu 20 Aug 2026 03:00PM EDT (07:00PM UTC)

firecat

But people always say he’s such a good writer, so lately I’ve been thinking maybe I should…

…but I don’t feel like it any more.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stephen-king-defends-graham-platner/

After Politico reported an allegation in July 2026 that Maine's former Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner had raped a woman, author Stephen King said, "Tell you what — if you knew the whole truth about everyone in the Senate and House of Reps, those chambers would be dead empty. Jesus said, 'Let him without sin cast the first stone.'"

The fact that there are already sexual abusers in Congress doesn’t mean it’s good to elect another one.

Calling for someone to drop out of a political race isn’t the same as participating in executing them.

There are translations of John 8:7 that don’t use a gendered pronoun.

I don’t judge people who still support Platner, but if they defend their support publicly, I hope they explain it better than this.

greetingsfrommaars

3 nice things

choir concert went well. we even successfully prepared all of the planned songs in time for the concert, which did not happen last year

saw my friend for the first time in a few years! had an arepa and apple soda for the first time :)

made ice cream! mango and passionfruit (cue "passionfruit" by the boyz)

fandom stuff

DC: this will be apparent when i get to this month's fic roundup, but my spiral into dc fandom continues. i'm beginning to resign myself to the possibility of becoming a dc fic writer... the ideas are surfacing in my head, and i can't find existing fic that executes them the way i want. i've mostly decided that i'm willing to read fandom-blind but not write fandom-blind, so you may start hearing from me about dc comics along with everything else! i've read the original run of the sandman before, but that's it. was sort of relieved to see someone in a discord server recommend tim drake's run as robin as a starting point, because that guy is my blorbo, my poor little meow meow (at least in fanon lol).

NCT: completely unsurprised to learn that winwin has left nct. it does kinda have me looking at my last surviving nct fic wips with resignation... i think there's only one left where all the main characters are still members of nct. i know i could still write them, but i also feel like maybe it's time to move on...

Drawfee: another year, another successful trans rigs fundraiser stream :') more than $100k raised!! i think the bit of having their friends call in as fellow truckers is a fun way to involve guests while keeping the simulated road trip format. also, i don't have context for this because i'm not caught up on episodes, but for weeks the drawfee sippers community on tumblr has been gradually all drawing themselves into a liminal basement party together! party in the backrooms!! (i think this is the originating post.) it's so cute.

complaining about work

work is pretty miserable right now. another team has been gradually dragging the entire department into its ongoing project management disaster (i keep joking that they're consuming everyone like no-face from spirited away). everything needs to be done yesterday, half of it is not fully designed or well understood, the requirements change from week to week after you've already finished building your part of it. our product manager is out for a couple weeks, and she's going to come back to everything on fire and everyone running around screaming (even more than before, that is).

i'm kind of hoping i outlast the peak of gen ai enthusiasm at work rather than it outlasting me. some of my coworkers use ai in ways that make me lose professional respect for them even as i'm still personally fond of them, and it makes me grit my teeth a little.

Current Music: florence + the machine - no choir

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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's on your crafting wish list?

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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ysabetwordsmith

Today is partly cloudy and warm.

I fed the birds. I haven't seen much activity yet.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 7/10/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I've seen a few sparrows and house finches plus a male cardinal.

EDIT 7/10/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 7/10/26 -- I watered the new picnic table garden. I picked two more yellow pear tomatoes. The first sunflower in the septic garden is blooming -- medium height, medium-small single flower, yellow petals.

EDIT 7/10/26 -- I watered seedlings in the savanna.

EDIT 7/10/26 -- I watered plants in the house yard.

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[Challenge #201: Avidulous] The Monkees: 'Don't Knock It'

[Multiple Challenges] Friends: 'Magical Abuses'

Fic: Stray Kids - Show Your Hand, Felix/Hyunjin

Fic: The Hobbit - Under the Mountain's Shadow, Bilbo/Thorin

Fic: Primeval - The Underground Remembered Us, Nick Cutter/Stephen Hart

Looking at my backlog and finally blinking

Lemmings (1991)

The solace of infrastructure

🎶 Iceberg: a soundtrip from Arctic to Mediterranean

British politics...you gotta laugh.

Signups open & Schedule adjustment

I’ve never read any Stephen King

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3 nice things

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