6 gennaio 2021, assalto al Congresso: "Trump fautore dell'attacco"

La commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta pubblica il rapporto finale di oltre 800 pagine e punta il dito contro l'ex presidente

Strawberry Salad With Black Pepper-Feta Croutons

Strawberry Salad With Black Pepper-Feta Croutons https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/strawberry-salad-with-black-pepper-feta-croutons-recipe Crispy-creamy feta croutons are the salad topper you didn’t know you were missing. via Recipes RSS Feed Nov 2021 https://www.bonappetit.com/recipes-rss-feed July 13, 2022 at 03:22PM

Chris Damned and Roman Todd in Just Sex (RSS, 2021)

April 1, 2024: vocabulary, Safia Elhillo

vocabulary Safia Elhillo

fact:

the arabic word هواء (hawa) means wind thearabicwordهوى (hawa) means love

  test: (multiple choice)   abdelhalim said you left me holding wind in my hands                           or   abdelhalim said you left me holding love in my hands

           abdelhalim was left                empty                                              or            abdelhalim was left                full

  fairouz said                   o wind, take me to my country                            or   fairouz said                   o love, take me to my country

           fairouz is looking for             vehicle                                              or            fairouz is looking for             fuel

  oum kalthoum said       where the wind stops her ships, we stop ours                            or   oum kalthoum said       where love stops her ships, we stop ours

                oum kalthoum is           stuck                                                    or                 oum kalthoum is           home

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2023: Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse, Nikita Gill 2022: New Year, Kate Baer 2021: Instructions on Not Giving Up, Ada Limón 2020: Motto, Bertolt Brecht 2019: Separation, W.S. Merwin 2018: Good Bones, Maggie Smith 2017: Better Days, A.F. Moritz 2016: Jenny Kiss’d Me, Leigh Hunt 2015: The Night House, Billy Collins 2014: Tim Riggins Speaks of Waterfalls, Nico Alvarado 2013: Nan Hardwicke Turns Into a Hare, Wendy Pratt 2012: A Short History of the Apple, Dorianne Laux 2011: New York Poem, Terrance Hayes 2010: On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes, Mary Szybist 2009: A Little Tooth, Thomas Lux 2008: The Sciences Sing a Lullabye, Albert Goldbarth 2007: Elegy of Fortinbras, Zbigniew Herbert 2006: When Leather is a Whip, by Martin Espada 2005: Parents, William Meredith

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Hi, I'm Manon. And I create Interactive Fiction for fun. Sometimes in French, sometimes in English, and in both when I can. Currently a dozen playable games in various state and free templates and guides.

I post weekly dev logs about my project progress. I also write reviews of IF games (@manonamora-if-reviews).

I also made a whole resource list for Twine (guide, macro, templates).

Ask me stuff about stuff :P

If I'm not there, I'm also in a bunch of other places (cause nothing is forever with social media), where I'll post updates about stuff. I also have a carrd about this. But really, I'm usually most on the IntFiction forum or the @neointeractives Discord.

Website: on neocities (i'm trying to set up a RSS feed)

Blog: manonamora (WordPress)

itch.io: manonamora

Cohost: manonamora

Mastodon: manonamora (on gamedev)

Pillowfort: manonamora (IF group)

Discord: I'm on a bunch of different IF-related servers, if you see a manonamora with this icon, it's probably me. 🤫

Note: not all links above are as active as here currently, but they will start to be more from now on, because I don't want to rely on one place only to share news. This was always going to happen, but now it's concrete.

My IF games are playable on itch.io, listed on the IFDB (for reviews), with some backed up in the IFArchive. I sometimes post code on GitHub.

Other Tumblrs: @crimsonroseandwhitelily (sideblog IF), @neointeractives, @neo-twiny-jam, @seedcomp-if

Since 2021, I've released a dozen of projects or WIPs, most of those being Interactive Fiction pieces. While the majority have been made with Twine (SugarCube), I've been testing other formats and programs.

I've also created templates and coding guides for SugarCube, as well as prompts. Both templates and prompts are free to use under the CC-BY license.

All projects and relevant links are listed under the cut.

In alphabetical order...

-> Crimson Rose & White Lily [In Progress] A multi-chapter interactive court intrigue story, set in a fantasy world inspired by the Victorian era and 18th century French Court, in which you navigate a world you have no recollection of. Tumblr | Game Post | Play CRWL | Rate CRWL | Tag

-> DOL-OS [Remastered] A sci-fi puzzle interactive game, in which you investigate inside an old computer machine. Game Post | Play DOL-OS | Rreview DOL-OS | Tag

-> Exquisite Cadaver [Released/Re-writes] A surrealist interactive word game based on the 'cadavre exquis' game. Game Post | Play EC | Rreview EC | Tag

-> Goncharov Escapes! [Remastered] A short quick-timed-event interactive game based on the Goncharov meme. Game Post | Play GE! | Review GE! | Tag

-> La Petite Mort [Remastered] A short puzzle interactive game, where you help Suzette, a 8-year-old get ready to meet her grandmother Game Post | Play LPM | Review LPM | Tag

-> Meeting the Parents [Remastered] An interactive story about going through the hoops of meeting your partner's parents for the first time. Game Post | Play MtP | Rate MtP | Tag

-> P-Rix - Space Trucker [In Progress] A Sci-Fi slice-of-life interactive game, where you play as P-Rix, a space trucker, delivering a strange parcel to a Mr. E. Game Post | Play P-ST | Review P-ST | Tag

-> SPS Iron Hammer [Released] A short sci-fi/mystery interactive story, set aboard the SPS Iron Hammer, where nothing is as it seems. Will you continue your content life or delve into the conspiracy? Tumblr | Game Post | Play SPS IH | RATE SPS IH | Tag

-> The Rye in the Dark City [In Progress] A noir-detective interactive story with the twist. A strange case lands on Detective Rye's desk. Will you take it and save the dame? Game Post | Play TRDC | Review TRCD | Tag

-> The Roads Not Taken [Released] A short parser-like game about choices. Play a being about to go through The Ritual, where you will have to make a choice, shaping the rest of your life. Will you take the correct one? Game Post | Play TNRT | Review TNRT | Tag

-> The Thick Table Tavern [Released] A chill bartender simulator set in a fantasy setting. Mix drinks, talk to trope-y patrons, get coins and fulfil your dreams! Game Post (temporary) | Play TTTT | RATE TTTT | Tag

-> The Trials and Tribulations of Edward Harcourt [In Progress] It all started with a letter... A Lovecraftian Interactive novel with a strange mystery and a plea for help from a former acquaintance. Game Post | Play TTATEH | RATE TTATEH | Tag

Other Smaller Projects:

À la Campagne [English, Hypertext]

Clarence Street, 14 [English + French, Hypertext]

Collision [English + French, Hypertext]

Entre-d’œufs coquilles [French, temp English, Parser-Choice Hybrid]

In the Blink of an Eye [English + French, Hypertext]

Intersigne [English + French, Hypertext]

Le Diner [English, Hypertext]

Le Jeu de la Dévotion [French, Hypertext]

I also published free assets and guide...

-> 100% Good Twine Sugarcube Templates I design UI for fun and release them as template when I feel like it. Currently Available: Simple Book (Landscape), One Page (Portrait), Space/Tech (Portrait), VN-lite RPG (Portrait) Also available: Ready-to-Use Tweego Folder, Setting Template. GET YOUR TEMPLATE | RATE TEMPLATE | Tag (x)

-> The ChoiceScript to SugarCube Guide Created for ChoiceScript creators wanting to make the transition to SugarCube (Twine), the Guide contains all code equivalence between the documentation, and potential useful add-ons. GET YOUR GUIDE | RATE GUIDE

-> 100% Good Twine SugarCube Guide Created as an alternative to the the SugarCube (Twine) documentation. The guide is organised by code proficiency. GET YOUR GUIDE | RATE GUIDE

-> Promps

Chonky Chicken (French + English)

Mission: Anti-Romance (English)

SeedComp! Meta Prompts (English)

The last book you'll ever write (English)

The last seed at the end of time (English)

The templates are prompts are under the CC-BY license (free use with crediting).

New webzine, a new trans-centric erotica publication, and a bunch of new pieces from me!

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So simplest things first, I set up a TikTok! I'm hoping to keep uploading clips from my comedy gigs to Instagram and TikTok respectively.

I'm on the line-up at a comedy gig tomorrow night in Athlone if you're in the West of Ireland and you'd like to come along! The gig is at The Brazen Monkey, and the show is gonna start at 8:30PM.

You can get tickets online here for €10 plus the booking fee, and tickets will be €15 on the door.

There's also a new comedy night run by Black Crow Comedy here in Galway - it's an open mic intended for women and queer and nonbinary comedians, and it's at 9pm on Wednesday the 5th July in Aras na nGael.

This event is to raise money for Galway Pride, with tickets at €3, and I'm super excited about more marginalised comics having a dedicated space here in the city.

Anyway, out this week was Issue 103 of the Shousetsu Bang*Bang!

The SBB is an online webzine centred around original queer erotic fiction, and it's been running for nearly 18 years - I was so excited to be a part of this issue with my new novella, Fallen Dust, but I absolutely recommend going through the whole of the issue and reading every story. There's over 160,000 words of queer fiction in this issue, and mine is just 14k of that!

I've also set up a new publication called Trans Erotica, which is a Medium publication centred around trans and nonbinary creators.

If you're trans or nonbinary and you write erotica or erotic fiction, absolutely check it out - the characters in the work don't have to be trans or nonbinary themselves, so long as you are!

I've written up Submission Guidelines here, and if you're new to writing on Medium and would like a guide on how to go about setting up, I've written one of those too.

Media Recs

Donut (2023, dir. Rene Gannon-O'Gara) - My friend Rene's hour-long movie, Donut, is out now! It's a great short flick, super naturalistic, meditative, and exploring the weird intimacy/extra distance of customer service late at night when not many people are around. With nonbinary characters, too!

What Really Happens to a Human Body at Titanic Depths by JP Brown - This is fucked up. But interesting.

This TikTok from hahatoys2022 - I've watched this TikTok so many times this week, it destroys me every time.

I also watched the two new Poirot movies this week, the Kenneth Branagh ones - the second one is kinda shitty, but the first one is a fun enough watch, and I'm quite excited to see the new one with Michelle Yeoh.

I rewatched The Incredibles (2004, dir. Brad Bird) for the first time since I was a kid, and its politics are majorly fucked up. Tweeted about it here.

New Works Published

New Podcast: A Stranger's Visit: The Story, Episode 4

Fantasy short. A priest of Freyr receives a strange visitation.

3.6k, rated T. MB. Originally published May 29th, 2021. A little bit of Norse godliness versus Norse priestliness. Featuring Esben. Adapted from a TweetFic. 

It should be anywhere you get your podcasts!

Libsyn / / RSS Feed / / On Spotify / / On Google / / On YouTube

Erotic Novella: Fallen Dust

14k, cis M/trans M. A young trans man fleeing an abusive home finds sanctuary at a strange temple buried in a mysterious valley.

Featuring some Eldritch tentacles and mild horror, oviposition, breeding, some DP, and just the end of the world! CW for some threats of sexual coercion and pregnancy + transphobia and threatened detransitioning.

From the Shousetsu Bang Bang / / On Medium / / On Patreon

Romance Short: Easing Into It

An exhausted psychiatrist is wooed by his new barber.

4k. M/M, rated M. A few mentions of past abuse. Adapted from a TweetFic. There is a cute dog!

On Medium / / On Patreon

Personal Essay: As a Trans Man, Why Do Doctors Always Want to Get Me Pregnant?

I'm so tired of fielding questions about my "lost" fertility

In An Injustice! on Medium / / On Patreon

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tuesday again 6/6/2023

two things to frontload:

if you have good vibes to send off in service of me getting a livable apartment in the greater houston tx area i would be most grateful, bc the hunt ain't fuckin goin too fuckin great

go play ABZÛ

listening

soul bossa nova by quincy jones bc it popped up on my discover weekly. i can only assume spotify recced this to me for bossa nova reasons bc i have been categorically ignoring austin powers my entire life and intend to continue on in this fashion.

it is a bop tho.

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reading

when i wrote the pinned post for this blog i settled on "a common throughline in Shit What I Like is understanding how and why systems work" bc i hadn't yet listened to Well There's Your Problem, a podcast with slides about engineering disasters and systemic failures, and "OSHA aficionado" is shorter but less snappy than "WTYPP fan". anyway when i think "chemical spill" i do not generally think "hand sanitizer spill", and when i think "how do i get rid of all this unsellable poorly made hand sanitizer made in the early days of the pandemic" i do not immediately leap to "well i'll just dump pallets in this parking lot and warehouse and surely it won't spill and/or explode bc hand sanitizer is a product that makes you safer".

ArtNaturals was, at that point, not on the [FDA warning] list. Its sanitizer, labeled with a tasteful, millennial-friendly design that said it was vegan and infused with jojoba oil, was marketed as “safe for kids” and “a great bulk hand sanitizer pack for parents and teachers.” At least two school districts on the West Coast had purchased the sanitizer to distribute to students, in addition to two Ivy League universities. Then, in March 2021, a year into sales, an independent lab in Connecticut called Valisure announced that it had found benzene in the company’s sanitizer. Benzene, a widely used industrial chemical derived from petroleum, can be absorbed through the skin and is known to be a risk factor for leukemia.

came across it bc my rss feed really wanted me to subscribe to longreads (no), but this one did catch my eye as i was checking to make sure the site still wasn't for me

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watching

watching this was a unexpectedly funny experience bc i recognized one of the backing instrumentals as a previous tuesdaypost song, which kind of felt like solving a mystery book on chapter three bc u knew an obscure fact about eels. this documentary came out in nov 22 and the song was one of this past feb's tuesdaysongs so i can only assume the spike in popularity from the documentary propelled it onto my discover weekly playlist??? the internet is a series of algorithmic tubes &tc

this is a tremendous work, as a documentary/history/archival effort/piece of art. it made me tear up. there's a very lovely sequence about memory and legacy that got me thinking a lot again about how i would like to be remembered. ive rewritten this section four times, when usually i don't redraft the tuesdaypost much at all. boils down to: complex and weird topic to talk about as an orphan, i am reluctant to be any more emotionally vulnerable than i absolutely have to during this time of great cross-country change and moving upheaval.

i appreciated how this was not tearjerker webby bait, which would have made it feel very hollow and embittered me even more during a week i am already predisposed to hate humanity. instead, mr perjurer is simply very good at his job (being an ethical documentarian)

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playing

one game i really loved and one game i really hated, so it goes.

despite religiously downloading the epic store free game of the week bc i have a reminder written in my planner, i never fucking remember to actually look at what i have in that library.

ABZÛ genuinely healed my heart during a very unpleasant weekend.

i don't use this as a recs platform except for this one time when i am cashing in all my chips. go play ABZÛ, it takes like an hour and a half.

all you need to know about it you can get from the cover art. it is not a hard game and it is not a horror game. i went in totally blind and the less you know about this game the better. i was delighted nearly every minute. every time i saw an ammonite i felt like i was seeing an old friend. there are SO many clever game design choices i want to talk about. message me after you play this. i said "of COURSE IT WAS AUSTIN FUCKING WINTORY ON THE SCORE" during the credits. what an absolutely goddamn perfect little jewel of a game.

AGAIN: go play ABZÛ.

i also played Call of the Sea, bc it was in my epic library and i wanted something fast and oceanic to continue the high of ABZÛ.

Call of the Sea did not continue the high of ABZÛ. i think this team carefully and thoughtfully sidestepped several of the usual issues is making something Lovecraftian but fell into the rest of the pits. eg i liked that they had Polynesian culture consultants, but from an interview it seemed like it was limited to a one-day crash course? i am deeply grateful this isn't a dead-wife game and the female protagonist has a great deal of agency, but she's still a rich white lady from boston trekking about the Tahitian islands commenting on primitive structures, which made me suck air in through my teeth at many points. there is an "ancient slave culture" thread that never actually resolves. i really wish it resolved. the game overall is in a very weird place, trapped between the norms and mores of the early 40s and the 2020s. you have Got to commit to one or the other.

the overall vibe is very polished for a first game. general vibes are Firewatch but puzzle-adventure. the lighting is a little too dynamic and was very distracting throughout. due to this studio's age (new) and odd location (spain) and how their debut game came out (took a year and a half to make, debuted on gamepass) i understand why this game exists the way it does from a marketing and industry standpoint and why they favored visual polish and art style over everything else. it's still annoying bc it is so close to an interesting game.

the twist particularly infuriated me as a chronically ill person, spoilers for the twist behind rot13

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making

fallow week. if it isn't moving-related it isn't happening, and even then a lot of moving-related things are grinding on painfully slowly

► Dawn/Dextera | she/her + paw/purr + it/its | butch bi vampire ◄

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◆ rss | my dreamwidth. not currently in use, but it's my backup site ◆

if you are below 18 or don't have an age in your bio I will softblock you. no hard feelings

I also have a photos-only sideblog at compositecable and a graphics blog at lastpageofmemebase. if you're over 18, feel free to ask for my nsfw sideblog. ok thanks bye

Frank is my boyfriend btw we took Japanese together in 2021-2022

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Resident Evil is my favorite thing feel free to speak to me about any of the entries. I'm specifically interested in 1-4, CV, the SD Perry novelizations, and various other peripherals. I don't like the remakes of 2 and 4. except for Ada's 4 redesign I think she needs to be treated better by the franchise in general though. CV is terrible but Steve is there. please ask me any questions you may have about Resident Evil or my thoughts on it

link to the pdf of the 3rd S.D. Perry novel, City of the Dead (Re2 novelization)

Who is your birthday oshi? ~Week of June 18~

Full birthdays & anniversaries list under the cut.

Birthdays & Anniversaries ~Week of June 18~

The following members, ex-members, and single releases have birthdays and anniversaries this week.

June 18

Hiromoto Ruli (OCHA NORMA; 20)

Goto Maki - Scramble (2003)

June 19

Nakazawa Yuko (ex-Morning Musume; 50)

Melon Kinenbi - Natsu no Yoru wa Danger! (2002)

Berryz Koubou - Golden Chinatown / Sayonara Usotsuki no Watashi (2013)

June 20

BeriKyuu - Chou HAPPY SONG (2012)

June 21

Okai Chisato (ex-C-ute; 29)

Morning Musume - Ambitious! Yashinteki de Ii jan (2006)

ANGERME - Ai Sae Areba Nanni mo Iranai / Namida Iro no Ketsui / Majokko Megu-chan (2017)

June 22

Sainen Mia (ex-Hello Pro Kenshuusei; 30)

Sexy Otonajan, Elegies, Puripuri Pink - Onna, Kanashii, Otona / Inshouha Renoir no You ni / Hitoshirezu Mune wo Kanaderu Yoru no Aki (2005)

June 23

Maeda Kokoro (BEYOOOOONDS; 21)

Taiyou to Ciscomoon - Gatamekira (1999)

ANGERME - Hakkiri Shiyou ze / Oyogenai Mermaid / Aisare Route A or B? (2021)

June 24

Shimamura Uta (ex-Country Girls; 23)

Melon Kinenbi & Beat Crusaders - DON'T SAY GOOD-BYE (2009)

Kago Ai - no hesitAtIon (2009)

Happy birthday/anniversary week!

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2024

Mein Medien-Menü: Zwölf Jahre später

Im Februar 2012 habe ich für Christoph Kochs Reihe "Mein Medien-Menü" beschrieben, wie meine Mediennutzung damals aussah. Diese Serie ist einer der Gründe, warum es das Techniktagebuch gibt. Bis November 2014 sind insgesamt 89 Folgen im Blog von Christoph Koch erschienen. Danach zog das Medienmenü um zu Krautreporter, wo es so aussieht, als seien bis ungefähr 2017 noch mal ziemlich viele Folgen veröffentlicht worden. Ob man die gesammelt irgendwo lesen kann und ob es nach 2017 noch weiterging, weiß ich nicht, weil ein Krautreporter-Abo nicht zu meiner Mediennutzung gehört. (Ohne besondere Gründe, im ersten Krautreporterjahr war ich Unterstützerin. Ich erinnere mich vage an Unzufriedenheit, weshalb ich es danach nicht mehr war. Aber die Details sind leider undokumentiert geblieben.)

Ich habe lange nicht mehr an diesen Bericht gedacht und sehe heute noch mal nach, wie das eigentlich 2012 war und was sich geändert hat.

"Goodreads ist nicht besonders überzeugend, ich kenne nur wenige Menschen, die es nutzen, und die Buchempfehlungen dort sind nur unwesentlich besser als bei Amazon. Aber ich finde es sehr hilfreich, um eine realistische Vorstellung von meinem Leseverhalten zu bekommen. Bis ich damit anfing, hielt ich mich immer noch für denselben Leser wie 1995."

Ich war damals noch ein Leser und keine Leserin. Mit dem generischen Maskulinum habe ich erst viel später aufgehört. Im Techniktagebuch ist zu sehen, wann das passiert ist, meiner Erinnerung nach vielleicht 2018? Irgendwann sehe ich nach und dann steht es hier genauer. Goodreads fand ich zwischen damals und jetzt sehr überzeugend. Ich kenne zwar immer noch nur wenige Menschen, die es nutzen, und in die automatischen Buchempfehlungen habe ich schon lange nicht mehr reingesehen. Aber ich habe dort in den letzten Jahren sehr viele Rezensionen gelesen und das war der Hauptweg, auf dem ich zu neuen Büchern gefunden habe. Allerdings versuche ich gerade, mich (wegen der Amazon-Zugehörigkeit) von Goodreads zu lösen zugunsten von StoryGraph. Da läuft aber gerade erst der Umzug meiner Daten und ich kann noch nichts dazu sagen.

"Meine Papierbücher habe ich in den letzten paar Jahren mit Hilfe des Berliner Büchertischs stark reduziert, von ungefähr zwölf mehrreihig gefüllten Billyregalen bin ich jetzt runter auf sieben halbvolle."

Im Moment sind es vier ganz volle, davon zwei mehrreihig gefüllt. 2019 waren es auch schon nur vier. Was mit den drei anderen passiert ist, weiß ich nicht mehr. Falls es Zuwachs gegeben hat, ist das unfreiwillig passiert, durch eigene Belegexemplare, ungefragt zugeschickte Bücher und Bücher, die ich auf Papier kaufen musste, weil ich sie für die Arbeit brauchte und nicht auf einem digitalen Weg beschaffen konnte. Ich lese jetzt aber viel mehr Bücher als 2012.

Dann geht es im Text von 2012 einen Absatz lang um RSS-Feedreader. Ich habe damals noch den Google Reader genutzt, den Google anderthalb Jahre später eingestellt hat. Mit Feedly, dem Tool, mit dem ich ihn ab Mitte 2013 zu ersetzen versuchte, bin ich nie so richtig warm geworden, er ist 2016 aus meinem Leben verschwunden. Ich habe ihn nicht ersetzt und lebe seitdem feedreaderlos.

"... das, was ich im Netz lese, speist sich jetzt ungefähr (geraten und nicht gemessen, kann also auch ganz anders sein) zur Hälfte aus dem Feedreader und zur Hälfte aus dem Bekanntenkreis via Google+, Twitter und Facebook. "

"Netz" sage ich nicht mehr, seit ich 2021 erfahren habe, dass es ein altmodisches Wort für Internet ist. Ich dachte bis dahin, es sei umgekehrt.

"Ein oder zwei Jahre lang hatte ich mir für die wichtigsten Feeds eine Weiterleitung nach Twitter gebastelt (via Yahoo Pipes und Twitterfeed), aber seit es Google+ gibt, nutze ich Twitter viel weniger und sehe deshalb auch diese Weiterleitung kaum mehr."

Yahoo Pipes! Das war wirklich schön und ich vermisse es heute noch manchmal. Es wurde 2015 eingestellt. Man konnte damit, so ähnlich wie jetzt mit Zapier, andere Internetdinge zusammenstecken, aber mit einer schönen grafischen Oberfläche. Bei Google+ war ich 2011 und offenbar auch noch Anfang 2012 sehr aktiv, aber irgendwann bald danach war es wieder vorbei. Warum, weiß ich nicht mehr, es ist im Techniktagebuch nicht dokumentiert. In meiner Erinnerung wurde Google+ kurz nach dem Start wieder stillgelegt, aber das scheint nicht zu stimmen, in der Wikipedia steht: Schließung 2019. Ich bin danach zu Twitter zurückgekehrt.

Von den Blogs, die mir damals wichtig waren, gibt es ein paar noch, sie sind mir aber unsympathisch geworden (Marginal Revolution, Less Wrong, Overcoming Bias). Andere gibt es nicht mehr (Stefan Niggemeiers Blog, Penelope Trunk). Ich glaube, dass das nicht weiter besorgniserregend ist, die meisten Blogs haben eine begrenzte Lebenszeit aus inhaltlichen wie aus Verfügbare-Lebenszeit-Gründen und es wachsen ja auch wieder neue nach. Im Überschneidungsbereich von "existiert noch" und "wir haben uns nicht weltanschaulich entfremdet, glaube ich", liegt nur ein einziger der erwähnten Blogs: O'Reilly Radar. Ich lese es trotzdem nie. Das hat auch wieder mit dem Verschwinden des Google Readers zu tun. Ich lese wahrscheinlich immer noch so viel in Blogs wie früher, aber nicht mehr regelmäßig in denselben, sondern eben die Beiträge, die mir bis 2022 Twitter heranspülte und seit meinem Umzug Mastodon. Ich merke mir dann nicht, in welchem Blog die standen, und könnte keine Blognamen nennen. Facebook erwähne ich 2012 noch, 2015 habe ich das Facebook-Browsertab geschlossen und 2017 die App vom Handy gelöscht.

Zeitschriften mit der Post bekam ich 2012 noch mehrere, zum Teil wegen Vereinsmitgliedschaften und zum Teil, weil ich sie abonniert hatte. Eins der Abos habe ich gleich nach der Dokumentation im Medien-Menü-Beitrag gekündigt, ein anderes endete etwas später von allein, und die Mitgliedszeitschriften haben sich in den letzten Jahren entweder selbst auf nur-noch-digital umgestellt oder ich habe darum gebeten, nichts mehr auf Papier zu bekommen. Außerdem wird meine Post seit mehreren Jahren direkt an Nathalie weitergeleitet, die sich um meine Papierverwaltung kümmert.

2024 gehört zur finanziellen Seite meines Medien-Menüs, dass ich einige Leute regelmäßig unterstütze bei Patreon, Steady und ähnlichen Plattformen. Ich müsste das mal in einem gesonderten Beitrag genauer aufschreiben, jedenfalls ist es im Moment der Hauptkanal, auf dem Geld von mir zu Kulturschaffenden fließt. Die Newsletter oder Videos, die zu manchen dieser Abos gehören, schaue ich mir aber eigentlich nie an. Es geht mehr ums Prinzip, ich möchte, dass diese Leute weiter Videos machen, Bücher schreiben oder was sie halt so tun.

"Radio habe ich seit den 80er Jahren nicht mehr gehört (traumatische Schulbus-Erlebnisse mit Bayern 3). Eine Tageszeitung hatte ich zuletzt um 1990 im Abonnement. Ich habe aufgehört, fernzusehen, als im deutschen Kabel das britische MTV Europe durch den deutschen Ableger ersetzt wurde, das muss so um 1995 herum gewesen sein. Über Hörbücher und Podcasts weiß ich nichts, ich schlafe aus technischen Gründen beim Zuhören immer sofort ein."

Daran hat sich seit 2012 wenig geändert. Ich war viel im Haushalt meiner Mutter, und dort wird jeden Tag wenigstens eine Stunde Radio gehört (BR Heimat zwischen 22:00 und 23:00). Außerdem ist es mir gelungen, mittelgroße Teile des "Drinnies"-Podcasts zu hören. Eine Änderung meines Mediennutzungsverhaltens sehe ich darin aber nicht, das eine ist Zufall, das andere eine Ausnahme.

Video kommt im Text von 2012 gar nicht vor. Hier hat sich mehr geändert, 2016 habe ich eingesehen, wozu YouTube gut ist, und inzwischen nutze ich es oft, allerdings vor allem in der kleinen Vorschau-Ansicht auf dem Handy, die ungefähr 6x4 cm groß ist, und ohne Ton. Theoretisch folge ich dort zwar ein paar Leuten aus den Bereichen Handwerk (Schreinerei, Metallbearbeitung, Rohrreinigung) und Schlittenhundehaltung, praktisch mache ich davon aber so gut wie nie Gebrauch, es sind Höflichkeits-Abos zur Erfreuung der Youtuber*innen. Ich bin nur da, wenn ich was Bestimmtes suche und gucke dann vielleicht noch ein paar von den Dingen, die YouTube mir vorschlägt. Dabei bin ich inzwischen besser darin geworden, den Vorschlägen zu widerstehen, weil mir YouTube immer gern Katastrophen und Unglücke zeigen möchte und ich aber wirklich nicht noch mehr über scheußliche Tode beim Höhlentauchen wissen will. Lieber würde ich das vorhandene Wissen darüber wieder aus meinem Kopf löschen lassen. Was mir in meinem Medienmenü 2024 fehlt, ist ein Lösch-YouTube zur Entfernung von Informationen.

(Kathrin Passig)

Giornata dell'aiuto umanitario: nel 2021 461 operatori vittime di attacchi

141 persone sono decedute, 203 sono rimaste ferite e 117 sono state rapite. Quest'anno già 44 persone hanno perso la vita cercando di aiutare gli altri

Paloma

Paloma https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/paloma On a blazing summer day, nothing hits quite like a sweet, sour, and lightly salty paloma cocktail, which comes together in just a moment. via Recipes RSS Feed Nov 2021 https://www.bonappetit.com/recipes-rss-feed July 12, 2022 at 05:52PM

Daniel Ricciardo recalls the time F1 champion Kimi Raikkonen busted him using the ladies toilet

Daniel Ricciardo recalls the hilarious time F1 champion Kimi Raikkonen busted him using the LADIES toilet: 'one day I will show you I am a man' Happened in his early days of Formula 1  Thought he would skip the queue by using the ladies  Was humiliated by Raikkonen when caught By Josh Alston For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:03 EDT, 24 April 2023 | Updated: 00:03 EDT, 24 April 2023 Aussie F1 superstar Daniel Ricciardo has revealed the savage moment he was busted by legend Kimi Raikkonen using the women's toilet before a race early in his career. Speaking on Perth radio station 96FM, Ricciardo said there was usually a mad rush to use the toilets before a race. 'You don't want to wee in a race car,' he said. 'The belts are so tight and they are pushing in on you and it's just not fun. 'I tried recently doing it in a bottle, nup, doesn't work. 'Everyone kind of queues up sometimes and because you don't have much time,.' Ricciardo spoke about the embarrassing incident while back in Perth and said he took the jab from Raikkonen personally However with no female race car drivers in the F1 and a massive queue outside of the men's toilet, Ricciardo spotted an opportunity during his early days.  'There was like a females and a males, and I was like 'look when you've got to go, you just go',' he said. 'So I walked into the females and as I was walking out Raikkonen goes 'all the women are in here' or something like that. 'He was basically having a jab at me that I'm female. 'I was new and the way he kind of said it, he doesn't really talk to anyone, I just took it personally. 'One day I will show you I am a man.' Raikkonen and Ricciardo were all smiles at this press conference in 2018 but the two had several clashes during their F1 careers Ricciardo on the podium of the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix with Raikkonen and former rival Sebastian Vettel  It wouldn't be the last time the two drivers locked horns, with Ricciardo previously revealing that Raikkonen had blanked him on the paddock. 'On the grid, I tend to be quite friendly with people, but if I smile at someone and they blank me — it kind of p***es me off. I take it personally for sure,' he told Esquire in 2020. 'I remember Kimi [Raikkonen] used to give me the cold shoulder and I took that personally. 'I would make a mental note of it, and on-track if I was ever feeling generous it was never going to be towards him.' Throughout his career, Raikkonen was known for his cool demeanor and impressive racecraft, earning the nickname 'The Iceman'.  He has won 21 races, earned 103 podiums, and set 18 fastest laps over the course of his F1 career. He announced his retirement from F1 at the end of the 2021 season.  Share or comment on this article: Daniel Ricciardo recalls the time F1 champion Kimi Raikkonen busted him using the ladies toilet via Formula One | Mail Online https://www.dailymail.co.uk?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

April 1, 2023: Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse, Nikita Gill

Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse Nikita Gill Sunrises. People you have still to meet and laugh with. Songs about love, peace, anger, and revolution. Walks in the woods. The smile you exchange with a stranger when you experience beauty accidentally together. Butterflies. Seeing your grandpar- ents again. the moon in all her forms, whether half or full. Dogs. Birthdays and half-birthdays. That feeling of floating in love. Watching birds eat from bird feeders. The waves of happiness that follow the end of sadness. Brown eyes. Watching a boat cross an empty sea. Sunsets. Dipping your feet in the river. Balconies. Cake. The wind in your face when you roll the car window down an open highway. Falling asleep to the sound of a steady heartbeat. Warm cups of tea on cold days. Hugs. Night skies. Art museums. Books filled with everything you do not yet know. Long conversations. Long-lost friends. Poetry.

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‘bout that time, eh, chaps?! Happy National Poetry Month once again. 

As a reminder, you’ve signed up to receive a poem every day in April. Anyone can do the same right here. Or follow along on Twitter, Tumblr, or RSS. Hooray, poetry.

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Many(!!) years of Aprils predate this one. You can browse the archives by jumping to the poem sent on today’s date in:

2022: New Year, Kate Baer 2021: Instructions on Not Giving Up, Ada Limón 2020: Motto, Bertolt Brecht 2019: Separation, W.S. Merwin 2018: Good Bones, Maggie Smith 2017: Better Days, A.F. Moritz 2016: Jenny Kiss’d Me, Leigh Hunt 2015: The Night House, Billy Collins 2014: Tim Riggins Speaks of Waterfalls, Nico Alvarado 2013: Nan Hardwicke Turns Into a Hare, Wendy Pratt 2012: A Short History of the Apple, Dorianne Laux 2011: New York Poem, Terrance Hayes 2010: On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes, Mary Szybist 2009: A Little Tooth, Thomas Lux 2008: The Sciences Sing a Lullabye, Albert Goldbarth 2007: Elegy of Fortinbras, Zbigniew Herbert 2006: When Leather is a Whip, by Martin Espada 2005: Parents, William Meredith

(Insider secret: you can usually find my top tier favs by looking at what was sent on April 1 and April 30.)

Thanks for being here, friends.

Overdose deaths during pregnancy spiked over the past few years study says

Overdose deaths during pregnancy spiked over the past few years, study says https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/22/opioid-crisis-hits-maternal-health-pregnancy-overdoses-rise/?utm_campaign=rss Overdose deaths among pregnant or postpartum people skyrocketed between 2018 and 2021, according to new research published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry. The study, conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institutes of Health, compared the incidence of maternal deaths for overdose of commonly misused psychotropic drugs (such as heroin and other opioids, including synthetic ones, or cocaine) among girls and women aged 10 to 44. Read the rest… via STAT Health - Science, medicine and healthcare news https://www.statnews.com/category/health/ November 22, 2023 at 01:40PM

I Feel the Earth (Move) Under My Feet

I see Liz Boltz Ranfeld’s new blog post shortly after my mother’s suicide in the fall of 2021. We went to graduate school together, learned to teach English composition to college freshmen the same way.

I do not recall how I come across it. Maybe she posts it to LinkedIn, where I occasionally see her advertising the writing courses she teaches virtually through a teaching and tutoring-gig platform. Or maybe her blog appears one day in the RSS feed I never clear out, so that long-defunct blogs whose authors spontaneously decide to “get back to it” will pop up from time to time, like ghosts of characters who played small parts in my past routines.

She is writing about the idea of liminality—the in between moments, the threshold that separates one space or place from the next. The transition, between when an experience has ended but when we have not yet finished understanding it.

I think of the pretentious friend of a friend who attended the University of Chicago and then the University of California – Berkeley for advanced English literature degrees, who once described Oakland as an “interstitial” space without any irony or awareness of his position as gentrifier, and who insisted that the brick home I’d suggested would be expensive to insure in the earthquake-prone Bay Area must not have had “load-bearing bricks.”

Liz Boltz Ranfeld writes that she thinks the most useful metaphor to convey liminality is a doorway. She writes that a doorway is a place we don’t want to stand in, a place we are just passing through, from one place to another. The threshold between two moments and spaces.

I think of being taught as a small child growing up on the west coast to stand in a doorway in the event of an earthquake. I think of the safety I felt there, and still do, in the knowledge that if the earth starts to shake, I can go stand in the frame. The space in between that will remain standing, even if the rooms on either side fall.

When I read Liz Boltz Ranfeld’s piece about liminality, I think about this space I am in, this time following my mother taking her own life. Is this the doorway? Is this the space of safety or the space in between?

The experience has ended. The suicide is over. But I am not finished understanding.

A year and a half later, and I still can’t figure out if it’s liminality that precludes understanding, or understanding that precludes liminality, but if my hunch is right & I’ll never finish understanding what it means to lose my mother this way, at least I can wait out the earthquakes in this space in between.