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This shortest day,

As promise wakens in the sleeping land:

They carol, feast, give thanks,

And dearly love their friends,

And hope for peace.

And so do we, here, now,

This year and every year.

Welcome Yule!

WE would by the '69 ones. that's the real generation gap.

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If I ever actually get an ugly sweater, this will be it.

Agreed. For actual Seattle residents, Starbucks is the most mainstream, but not the best brand of coffee shop available.

He was from Denia, on the East coast.

Grandfather. Unfortunately he passed before I was born.

What is Hanlon's Razor? Hanlon's Razor is a mental shortcut which teaches us, in the words of Robert J. Hanlon to “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” In other words, rather than questioning people's intentions, question their competence.

I'm from California, USA. But the family name comes from Spain.

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A witch hunt is underway by the Trump administration. They’re “sick of our sh**.” Please review and follow the released guidance immediately. We know many in our coalition are out in the field today—do your best to reach them.

The AIs are just helping the earth and surviving the best they know how. This is a brilliant story about the power of story, strong (female, African) individuals, and has a twist that at the end of the book you don't know which timeline contains the author and which is the story.
Recommend! 👍👍👍

"Death of the Author" by Nnedi Okorafor-
This book. Wow.
This story was a vaccine to the existential dread I've been feeling about the ChatGPT/AI apocalypse.
The story is post-human, and it is about AI's running the world, but the robots/Ais did not cause the apocalypse. (continued)

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"Nettle and Bone" by T Kingfisher.
A great modern fairy tail. I will definitely be exploring their other books. "A Sorceress Comes to Call" is on the TBR list.

"The Consuming Fire" was great. I've got #3 on hold.

Yeah, I thought it was something I must have missed among the many things, and then saw a promo for it the week after I binged it, lol.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. -Ansel Adams, photographer (20 Feb 1902-1984)
(quoted from Wordsmith.org)

A copper-colored metal roof with a very complicated system of flashing installed.

I finished the super difficult vent trim! I'm fairly confident it will be safe and leak-free.
I just have to finish the trim around the ridge cap and gables, and a little of the transition (as you can see). A little time and some parts and it's done...

On a side note, it's slightly freaky that I grew up around the same place as the author. When a character named Marce showed up (I grew up as Marc), who is the son of the duke of Claremont, alarms went off in my head.

"The Collapsing Empire" by John Scalzi was great. I'm looking forward to the other books in the series. I'll be reading #2 next.
I really enjoy the potty mouthed sarcastic characters in these books. Also the idea that the binary has been completely removed from marriage and sexual relationships.

FOTUS and JD aren't used to their lies being directly contradicted by the facts - usually to preface questions from journalists speaking truths to them - like President Zelenskyy did today.

Finished the valley (YAY!), and now working on the vent trim.
This part is the hardest so far, since it's in the middle of a transition. I think many roofers would run away screaming, and I'm here trying to figure it out for the first time...

I know it's old now, but I just found a short series called "Agatha All Along" from the Marvel cinematic universe. A lot of fun.

I’m IMMEDIATELY sat

I promised myself I wasn't going to doompost on BlueSky, and try to keep it positive, humorous, creative. But it's so very, very hard...
The positive posting does help deal with the deep dark depression for a while.

I guess I'll go visit FB and doompost there if it gets to be too much...