Wednesday What I'm...

Sep. 10th, 2025 08:45 pm
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Reading
  • I finished River Monsters by Jeremy Wade. Very enjoyable book! Would love to read more from him.
  • I started reading A Death in Door County by Annelise Ryan (Monster Hunter #1), which is a mystery series about a cryptozoologist. Pretty fun and it was fun to see the author obviously did a lot of research about Lake Michigan and such.
  • I started reading My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter by Aja Monet, a poetry book that's the current pick for the DEI book club I'm in at work. Don't love the poetry style, but it's ok.
  • Ficwise, I'm still primarily reading VegasPete, but I did read several Sterek fics this week too. Currently reading part 8 of the Love & Blood series by [archiveofourown.org profile] raelle , which I was on the first fic of last week.
Watching
  • The roommate and I finished The Eclipse. I can't say I really enjoyed it? Like it wasn't a bad show! But the angst and homophobia was not what I was looking for tbh.
  • The roommate and I started Perfect 10 Liners and we are loving it! I really dig the big big cast college dramas and there are just so many good actors and pairs :)
  • We watched the latest episode of Revamp the Undead Story with the best friend. Stuff's starting to get really good!
  • Saturday, our internet was out, so the roommate and I picked back up on Teen Wolf since she has the DVDs. I think we made it about halfway through.
  • AEW not quite as usual bc our internet was out. Still gotta catch up on Collision, but idk when that's gonna happen.
Listening
  • Still on t-pop. I've started making my own playlist of faves, particularly with songs from the dramas we've seen.
Writing
  • I wrote some poetry.
  • Also wrote a fill for [community profile] comment_fic .
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Life in the boonies

Sep. 6th, 2025 04:38 pm
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 So our old rooster went to the great barnyard in the sky few weeks ago. While the hens do not seem to miss him, roosters are useful for keeping unwanted critters out of the chicken run. The problem is, everybody has extra roosters.  Most of our neighbors have chickens and treat them more like pets. Extra roosters are only good for using up feed, but nobody wants to kill them. If we let it be known that we are in search of a rooster, there could be any number of roosters dumped in our driveway in the middle of the night. 

One neighbor around the bend has a much more visible chicken operation.  They have a farm stand and a big covered run with 30 plus birds you can see from the road. The couple were out manning the farm stand today so we stopped by on the way home from the market.

"Do you have any extra roosters?"

"Sure! Somebody dumped a couple roosters just this morning. Take your pick."

We dropped off a cage, and will be picking up the new rooster later when they can catch him.

Wednesday What I'm...

Sep. 3rd, 2025 09:33 pm
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Reading
  • Still reading River Monsters by Jeremy Wade. Some very interesting stories in there! Also a lot of fishing jargon I don't understand, but that's to be expected lol
  • Ficwise, a lot of PondPhuwin and JoongDunk, but now I'm back on VegasPete. Currently reading Sharing Different Heartbeats by [archiveofourown.org profile] raelle , which is fun so far.
Watching
  • Finished KinnPorsche for the second time :D Still very excellent!
  • We needed a new show to watch with the best friend, so we started Revamp the Undead Story. Which is currently airing, so we've watched all two episodes that are out now. Interesting so far, best part is definitely Barcode.
  • The roommate and I started watching The Eclipse. It's way darker than I was expecting?? Like holy shit?? Also another First character that I kind of hate, which is sad lol
  • AEW as usual. Hook storyline is looking interesting and I'm very much enjoying Kris Stat and Harley teaming up.
Listening
  • Still on t-pop. I'm having a good time!
Writing
  • I wrote fics for The Dog of War, Clown in a Cornfield 2, and Newt's Emerald for my "write a fic for every book I read" goal.

Code deploy happening shortly

Aug. 31st, 2025 07:37 pm
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Per the [site community profile] dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.

There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.

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A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.

The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.

In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.

The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.

Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.

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