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These are active communities in Dreamwidth from Summer 2025 . They include things I've posted, but only the active ones; the thematic posts also list dormant communities of interest. This list includes some communities that I've found and saved but haven't made it into thematic posts yet. This post covers J-Z.

See my Follow Friday Master Post for more topics.

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This session's theme was "anything goes." I wrote from 1 PM to 4 AM, so about 11 hours, allowing for lunch and supper breaks. I wrote 3 poems on Tuesday and another 7 later in the week.

Participation was lower, with 7 comments on LiveJournal and another 23 on Dreamwidth. A total of 10 people sent prompts.

Read Some Poetry!
The following poems from the July 15, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl have been posted:
"Beautiful, Damn Hard, Increasingly Useful"
"Fed from So Many Sources"
"The Future by Consequence, the Past by Redemption"
"In Effigy"
"Strong, Competent, Capable"


Buy some poetry!
If you plan to sponsor some poetry but haven't made up your mind yet, see the unsold poetry list from July 15. That includes the title, length, price, and the original thumbnail description for the poems still available.


This session's donors include: [personal profile] janetmiles, [personal profile] siliconshaman, and [personal profile] bairnsidhe. All sponsored poems from this fishbowl have been posted. There are 0 tallies toward a bonus fishbowl.


The Poetry Fishbowl has a landing page.
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The following poems from the July 15, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl are currently available. Poems may be sponsored via PayPal -- there's a permanent donation button on my Dreamwidth profile page -- or you can write to me and discuss other methods. There are still verses left in the linkback poems "Delight in Another," "A Sense of Weather Changes," "Ouroboros Insects," "The Loving Embrace of Night," "Generations of Cooks Past," "Homefree and Clear, " "One Bite at a Time," "Stars and Diamonds," "Mishpocha," "Changing Your Nature," and "Besa."


"Finding the Gold of the Spirit"
Summary: Shiv grudgingly attends a group therapy session to talk about the chayne incident.
410 lines, Buy It Now = $205

Shiv was so not looking forward to this.

Dr. G had talked him into it, though, and
was paying handsomely for the favor,
so Shiv would give it a fair try
.


"The Four Marks of True Repentance"
Story Date: Monday, August 13, 2013
Summary: Three former child soldiers move to America.
953 lines, Buy It Now = $477

It had taken just over a month
for them to reach America
.


"Indicative of the Extent"
Story Date: Morning of Monday, May 30, 2016 in Taiji, Japan
Summary: Aquariana helps clean up after the tsunami in Taiji, Japan.
259 lines, Buy It Now = $130

Aquariana woke feeling tired,
but not as exhausted as she
had felt when she went to bed
.


"The Well-being of All Our People"
Summary: When bandits attack a caravan, Menachem and Yossele defend their fellow travelers.
69 lines, Buy It Now = $35

Menachem and Yossele
had joined a small caravan of
tradesmen and other travelers
.

Water

Aug. 28th, 2025 07:46 pm
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Living near the ocean might actually help you live longer, new study finds

The researchers analyzed population data, including life expectancy, of more than 66,000 census tracts throughout the United States, comparing numbers baked on proximity to waterways.

They found that living within miles of the ocean breeze may be linked to a longer life, but that the same benefits don’t apply for living in a riverside city (Sorry, Chicago).



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Aug. 28th, 2025 04:15 pm
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Pumpkin muffins didn't turn out great. They're okay, but they needed more fat (I had fat free yogurt) and probably more sweetener. I was trying to make them less sugary so they would be Fox-friendly. They're sort of bland, but probably fine if I whip up some cinnamon cream cheese to spread on them. Going to try a more traditional recipe next time.

Birdfeeding

Aug. 28th, 2025 01:18 pm
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Today is partly sunny and mild.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 8/28/25 -- I planted 2 yellow Harvest of Memories and 2 red War Chief irises under the maple tree at the edge of the house yard.

EDIT 8/28/25 -- I watered the irises.

EDIT 8/28/25 -- I did some work around the patio.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

A Minor Abundance

Aug. 28th, 2025 07:10 am
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...and I alone am left to tell the tale

I saved some Seminole pumpkins from last season because I'd read that they "store well," and wanted to see how true that was. After about ten months in a cool, dark part of the pantry, only one looks dubious - the whole one you see here. The rest were fine and got roasted up. Today I'm hoping to make some pumpkin muffins. I also have a recipe for a decadent pumpkin bread that has a layer of cream cheese in the center.

Right now I have about ten pumpkins growing on my vines, but none have been harvested yet. They're all still green, but so far none have been nibbled by critters or rotted by excess water. And there may be more, as the vines are still flowering and the bees are still happily visiting every morning.

My roselle is budding. I'm afraid I confused Fox by referring to it as hibiscus, which it is - but it's not the kind that produces huge, showy flowers. The flowers are pretty, but this hibiscus is the kind from which we get hibiscus tea. So your drinks like Lemon Zinger come from this plant. You can also make a syrup or jam from the calyxes, and the extension service's web site assures me I can expect ten to twelve pounds of these ... per plant.

Now that it's not Death Hot, things look much better in the garden. The last tomato plant still alive is doing pretty good and putting out more tomatoes. All the basil has died off but I've sprouted another round of them. When we get back from vacation it will be time to start peppers, maybe more tomatoes, garlic, some herbs, and probably dedicate one bed to beans. I can put some trellises up and have all the black beans I can manage.

Artificial Intelligence

Aug. 28th, 2025 01:32 am
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Here is a hilarious example of ChatGPT failing at physics

Hobbies: Photography

Aug. 28th, 2025 12:16 am
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Folks have mentioned an interest in questions and conversations that make them think. So I've decided to offer more of those. This batch features hobbies.

Photography is a hobby of taking pictures, and sometimes editing or printing them. Nowadays it can be film or digital.

On Dreamwidth, consider communities like [community profile] justcreate, [community profile] adventuringaperture, [community profile] knittingpix, [community profile] crafty, [community profile] photocons, or [community profile] threeforthememories.

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Today's Smoothie

Aug. 27th, 2025 10:40 pm
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Today we made a version of our green smoothie, which is based on Alan's Going Green Smoothie (previous version here). We always omit the jalapeño. Today we used a 1-ounce package of pea shoots instead of the spinach. We used a whole frozen banana to make up some of the shortage.

The result is a bright pea green, smells very strongly of peas, and tastes mostly of fruit with a pea undertone. It's pretty good. If you wish to vary the base greens of your smoothies, or you find other greens disagreeable, this is a reasonable option. If you like the taste of fresh peas and/or pea shoots, you'll probably love it. If you don't like peas, though, avoid this. I also recommend using the lime. We often substitute a green kiwi, but in this case the stronger lime flavor goes better with the pea flavor.

And us?  Both of us have eaten raw fresh peas while shelling them. :D  The smell and flavor bring back those memories.

Read "An Inkling of Things to Come"

Aug. 27th, 2025 10:25 pm
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Thanks to a donation from [personal profile] fuzzyred, you can now read the beginning of "An Inkling of Things to Come." Shiv attends his first Worldbuilding class.  This poem is now open for microfunding if anyone else wants to chip in.

Pen Person Questions

Aug. 27th, 2025 03:39 pm
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From [community profile] journalsandplanners comes a list of 12 questions about pens and related materials...

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Birdfeeding

Aug. 27th, 2025 02:12 pm
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Today is partly cloudy and mild.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

EDIT 8/27/25 -- I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 8/27/25 -- I sowed a pot with yellow raspberry seeds.

EDIT 8/27/25 -- I did some work around the patio.

EDIT 8/27/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 8/27/25 -- I watered the house yard plants and the old picnic table.

EDIT 8/27/25 -- I watered the new picnic table and septic garden.

I've picked 1 red cherry tomato and quite a handful of groundcherries today.  :D

EDIT 8/27/25 -- I watered the telephone pole garden and a few of the savanna plants.

Cicadas and crickets are singing.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

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Aug. 27th, 2025 07:57 am
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It's probably time to honestly ask myself if I like crab legs, or if I just like consuming massive amounts of garlic butter.

Today's Adventures

Aug. 26th, 2025 10:44 pm
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Today we went up to Champaign-Urbana.

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Early Humans

Aug. 26th, 2025 08:17 pm
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140,000-year-old skeleton shows earliest interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals

Scientists have uncovered the world s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old child from Israel s Skhul Cave dating back 140,000 years. This discovery pushes back the timeline of human interbreeding, proving that Neanderthals and modern humans were already mixing long before Europe s later encounters.

8/26/2025 Lower Packrat Trail

Aug. 26th, 2025 12:24 pm
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I was in the Inspiration Point parking lot about dawn with the intention of hanging out in the dip for an hour or two, but I'd wildly misinterpreted my weather app and found, surprise! blowing fog. I considered suiting up and going on down, but when I opened the car door the wind was so loud! So I drove down to the Nature Area with the intention of walking up to the Lake but somehow started up Lower Packrat instead. Good thing, because this was about 7 am and about 7:30 the chainsaws and heavy equipment started up. By then I was sitting on the bench at the top of the trail, and while they were annoying they weren't as immediate as yesterday at the Lake. My list was the same length as yesterday but different, and I heard some very interesting vocalizations. The Swainson's Thrushes were making lots of "whit" calls and some of their weirder calls, and they also sang occasionally. I could hear a White-breasted Nuthatch somewhere, and a Western Flycatcher's little chip note, which I hadn't heard in a while. Best of all was the "wheeuw" call of a juvenile Black-headed Grosbeak mixed in with adult pik calls. The call was moving about, so presumably it was a fledgling; August 26th seems a bit late for this. Most amusing was a California Quail somewhere to the east whose call made me think not of "Chicago" or Vallejo" but "what the hell? what the hell?" The list: )

I went back the way I'd come and walked around the perimeter of the picnic area for a ways. When I pulled out my phone, merlin suggested Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and I said, oh, sure. I mean, it had suggested Western Barn Owl earlier, and I'd never found a BGGN right in Wildcat Gorge. But then I heard it! So I apologized to merlin.

Birdfeeding

Aug. 26th, 2025 01:06 pm
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Today is mostly sunny and mild.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 8/26/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

Let's Boycott Mississippi

Aug. 26th, 2025 12:17 pm
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So Mississippi wants to violate the privacy and safety of all its internet users, and in the process of pursuing that destructive goal, is wreaking havoc on people elsewhere. Currently that means nobody from Mississippi will be allowed to access Dreamwidth starting September 1, which means checking where every user is accessing from. I encourage everyone to refrain from visiting or buying things from Mississippi to punish the state for this massive violation of boundaries.

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