Indigenous Type

Aug. 29th, 2025 06:56 pm
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I got wind of this via the League of Movable Type newsletter this morning, so it seems a good idea to share this with all of you reading this account. Because Indigenous type resources are part of the Comeback process as outlined by - among others - John Ralston Saul...

https://www.typotheque.com/blog/cherokee-osage-and-the-indigenous-north-american-type-collection

more good things

Aug. 29th, 2025 10:39 pm
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  1. BREAD. I have coaxed myself back into giving it vaguely sensible timings, and shockingly it works better when I don't leave it to get sad and lonely.
  2. I slightly tripped and bought myself a writing slope last week? ... I am somehow surprised that it's being useful, specifically for when I'm being a horrible laptop + paperwork goblin on the sofa.
  3. SPEAKING OF WHICH, I am going through a bunch of tragically overdue paperwork for Admin: the LRP purposes (the person it is overdue to is... me) and found the answer to a mystery. (I am somewhat baffled that I apparently got the answer to this mystery at the second event this year and yet had completely forgotten that I'd managed anything of the kind until Just Now, two weeks before E4; I think I'm probably just going to chalk this up as another piece of evidence that my brain just... wasn't... working very well at all in June.)
  4. TOMATOES. Actually this is related to the Good Bread -- I had an excellent bread-and-butter-and-tomatoes-and-parsley lunch, which was delightful. The Purple Ukraine are so good and I like them so much.
  5. Today I have managed non-zero tidying, and the flat is marginally better and more usable for it. Mostly sorting out some of my gardening horrors on the patio; partly Wrangling The Dishwasher and some of the washing up; partly the aforementioned overdue paperwork, a consequence of which is putting a bunch of paper IN THE RECYCLING. Is good.

Random Roman Remains

Aug. 29th, 2025 06:30 pm
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The foundations of a long oblong stone brick roman building showing the pillars that once supported the hypocaust.
Housteads Roman Fort

Photo cross-post

Aug. 29th, 2025 01:19 am
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Little smiley chap wanted to take a photo with me this morning.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

YMI -- ODB: 29 August 2025

Aug. 29th, 2025 03:40 am
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ODB: The Lost Ark

August 29, 2025

READ: 2 Samuel 6:1-26-15 

 

David went to bring up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing. 2 Samuel 6:12

During his church’s fall retreat at a nearby camp, Pastor Jeff took a walk with my son, who led him through a wooded trail to the outdoor chapel. Suddenly they came upon the ark of the covenant! Of course, it wasn’t the real ark but a life-sized, gold-colored replica begun by my husband years ago, with Jeff’s encouragement, and recently completed by my son as a surprise.

Jeff was so thrilled he hurried to enlist others to help him bring the ark to the camp dining hall. What a sight to see the men carrying the ark down the road as two of the pastor’s little grandsons trailed behind hand in hand!

Scripture tells of the joyous occasion when the real ark of the covenant, which symbolized God’s presence with His people, was brought from the house where it had been kept into its proper place in Jerusalem, “the City of David” (2 Samuel 6:12). King David was so overjoyed he danced “before the Lord with all his might” as the people shouted and trumpets sounded (vv. 14-15).

Years later, the Israelites were taken captive to Babylon, and Jerusalem was destroyed (2 Kings 25). We don’t know what happened to the ark. Legends abound, but we no longer need it to enjoy God’s presence (John 14:16-17). Through Jesus’ death, resurrection, and sending of the Spirit, God is with all who believe in Christ. That’s an excellent reason to rejoice!

— Alyson Kieda

How does it impact you to know God is with you? When have you felt His presence?

Dear God, thank You for sending Your Holy Spirit. For further study, read A Story of a Life Led by the Spirit.

Source: Our Daily Bread

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Today I am thankful for...

  • My convoluted method of syncing passwords using GPG and git. Also that it actually worked the first time I tried it. (If it hadn't worked I would NOT be thankful.)
  • Catching our trains.
  • The new Framework 12 laptop, Lilac, working well enough to get stuff done.
  • The bright orange Eagle Creek backpack/briefcase/shoulder-bag, which is turning out to be unexpectedly usable. Would be nice if it had bottle pockets, but since it can be used in several different orientations it's probably for the best that it doesn't.
  • Being able to do a lot of work without an internet connection.
  • Having a debit card that Bunq would accept for a top-up. It varies. Also, having had the sense to save CCVs in the info file.
  • Many good practice sessions with my bandmates and travel companions N and m.

some non-fiction books

Aug. 28th, 2025 11:52 pm
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Mostly these days I'm reading fun romances because, you know, everything. But here's two exceptions:

I am not a good reader for non-fiction American history doorstoppers, but I picked up from the library Charles Sumner : conscience of a nation by Zaakir Tameez entirely on the strength of Jamelle Bouie's interview with the author, which intrigued me. And the book was really great, hard recommend. Also very apropos for the moment, in both inspiring and disturbing ways.

About 10 pages in I was thinking, was Sumner autistic? and then shortly afterward Tameez mentions the same speculation. And it's very much written as Sumner's neuroatypicality basically being one of the reasons we had Reconstruction at all -- while all the other Republicans (laudatory) in Washington were thinking about what was achievable, about the next election, not being rude to their more conservative friends, doing whatever centrist compromise David Shor and James Carville told them to do, Sumner was just blowing it all up to do what was right. The man was nearly beaten to death, and he knew the beatdown was coming. He just kept yelling about human rights and civil rights on the senate floor (using those very words), alienating all his closest friends, pissing off President Lincoln, and giving no quarter. And sometimes he was an asshole, clearly; and sometimes he was very much in the wrong. But still. We could use a morally uncompromising neuroatypical asshole senator right now.

Anyway, great book.

I also ILL'd The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould, which I never read in high school. And wow, so glad I read it. I picked it up because it was referenced in an article about GenAI, but what I kept thinking as I read is how much all this oldey-timey historical eugenics has come roaring back. The confluence shouldn't have surprised me, because the GenAI weirdos and the eugenicists all travel in the same circles at the very least, and are often the exact same people.

Anyway, very well written, except it took me a while because so much racism. Also the fun thing about living near Harvard is that in any book about American historical upper-crust shittiness, you're going to keep reading about utterly loathsome people while thinking "and that one's a street! and that one's an elementary school!" (Also, "Carl Sagan named a book after this asshole? Really?")

To be fair the elementary school got renamed 20 years ago. I'm apparently now my dad. You know, "turn off where route 99 used to be" and "I'll meet you at Scollay Under".

(CW: Gould is both writing in 1981, and his method of argument is to say, basically, okay even if I take these racist assholes at face value, let me show that their science is shit and their data are nonsense. Which means he restates a lot of the racist and eugenicist arguments—and prints a few of their illustrations—so their racism is present in the book. It's not a style of presenting racism that a history of science book would use today, I believe. Gould is clearly repeating the racist arguments in order to refute them, it's just that he's slow and methodical in the refutations.)

Zzzz

Aug. 28th, 2025 09:48 pm
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I had something I wanted to write here earlier today but I foolishly didn't make a note of it and now I can't remember. It was along the lines of "is that worth it?" but I can't remember what.


I might take Tuesday off of work. That's the speed I'm at. I don't know what I'd do with it though.

Comics: Jack Kirby Day

Aug. 28th, 2025 06:00 pm
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I understand that this is the anniversary of comics creator Jack Kirby's birth...?

some good things

Aug. 28th, 2025 10:38 pm
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  1. A coaxed me out of the house for lunch; they'd been intending to spend the day in the office, but Shenanigans ensued such that they needed to pick something up from home and also the office canteen had run out of the veggie option, and by this time the triptan was more-or-less working. So we had zapiekanka at the market in the sunshine, and lo, it was good.
  2. I apparently somehow managed to duck into the BHF charity shop right before it started raining heavily, and upon reemerging from poking at homeware and books at the back was startled to find that it was no longer raining heavily, but that everything was suddenly and inexplicably (at least briefly at least to me, in my migraine-addled state) damp.
  3. I have finally picked up Lake of Souls (Ann Leckie), which I absolutely pre-ordered and absolutely was very excited about but am only now getting to, and I am having A LOT OF FEELINGS. SO many feelings.
  4. A brought me ice cream from the freezer. Raspberry ripple, which I was inexplicably in the mood for, and the hazelnut + hazelnut brittle.
  5. ... and in fact I am going to go and be in a sleepy pile. Yes. That can be thing number five.
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The award winning paper I mentioned next week, actually had a sequel. In The human factor: Addressing computing risks for critical national infrastructure towards 2040 we performed a similar exercise of asking a number of experts about risks to Critical National Infrastructure arising from computing developments and synthesising the results.

I am honestly, happier with this paper, I thought we had a better range of genuine expertise in the people we talked to, and a more focused area of consideration. We had a little trouble with the third referee, who thought our experts were wrong about Quantum Computing and that we should rewrite the paper so they gave the answer the referee thought was correct. Our experts did not think Quantum Computing was among the biggest risks to be considered in the next 15 years - but instead thought there were a number of issues relating to human factors (sophisticated phishing, difficulty tracing the cause of problems and poor incident response in complex situations).

The Incandescent, by Emily Tesh

Aug. 28th, 2025 05:48 pm
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It wasn't until I finished this book that I realised that it's the same author as Some Desperate Glory. It's very different, but knowing that it was written by the same person I can start to see similarities.

It's a magical school. We've had lots of them already. It's an ancient(ish) magical school in England, in what appears to be a parallel world where magic is normal and acknoweldged and something that you can do a GCSE in. It's yet another magical school, but this time it is written from the perspective of the deputy head. The author is a teacher, writing what she knows, and this shows. She gets it. The best way I can think to describe the tone of the narrative is, paraphrasing slightly,

"No, your squad of demon hunters can't take these children to a place of safety. You don't have DBS checks! In fact you haven't even shown me ID".

There's a good plot, and it was a quick and intense read for me. Beyond that it's about identity. Specifically, identity for a middle-aged woman who has given her life to her job, has excelled, and isn't sure what else is left. It's about trauma, self-awareness, responsiblity, and hubris.

Highly recommended, and special thanks to [personal profile] sfred who recommended it to me.

Tesh has now done great MilSF (or possibly anti-MilSF?), and excellent fantasy. I'm excited to see what she'll turn her hand to next.

home from the sea

Aug. 28th, 2025 09:24 am
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Got in last night around quarter of ten, to a very affectionate cat. He's currently curled up on the heating-pad mat next to the laptop, where he's been for most of the last couple of hours. I think he may have missed me.

This is admittedly the most jetlag I've ever tried to recover from, but I am just not getting it. Been crashing out early and waking up after five or sometimes six hours' sleep. I made it home last night due to copious applications of caffeine and sugar, and still woke up at four AM. Hopefully being Actually Home will suffice to reset my system.

In Pattern Recognition, William Gibson talks about jetlag as a result of traveling faster than humans were meant to travel, so your soul needs time to catch back up to your body. As a description of the sensation it's about right.

Today: shower, unpack, get groceries (ordered, just need to pick up once ready), therapy, farmers market. Probably watch the last two episodes of season 3 of Slow Horses, since I watched S1 on the plane to Paris, S2 on the plane from Paris, and the first four of S3 on the plane from Mpls. Possibly rave about how great that show is. Ideally write up the next stage of the travelogue, but I'm not pushing it.

Meant to link these yesterday but forgot, so, have some Wendy Cope:
Onward.
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If you are a fountain pen person, what stupidly expensive pen (let's say, for the sake of this argument, one that costs more than about £250) would you want to buy?
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Quebec's newspapers are not perfect. But one thing I do like is that a lot of their opinion pieces are genuinely that. For example, a month or so ago, they had a back-and-forth between two columnists about whether hope was a blessing or an evil.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14


Hope is:

View Answers

a gift to humanity to compensate for the world's evils
10 (71.4%)

the last of the evils, creeping tardily out of the box
5 (35.7%)

YMI -- ODB: 28 August 2025

Aug. 28th, 2025 09:25 am
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ODB: God’s Superior Strength

August 28, 2025

READ: Jeremiah 31:10-14 

 

The Lord will deliver Jacob . . . from the hand of those stronger than they. Jeremiah 31:11

In his book From the Pit to the Pulpit, John Stroup shares about powerful, unfriendly forces of life that battered and bruised him physically, sexually, and emotionally. He notes, “I started using drugs before I could drive a car. . . . I quit school and began to get farther and farther into the criminal lifestyle.” Eventually John’s crimes landed him behind bars. While serving a five-year sentence, the Bible became real to him, and he was humbled before God. By God’s grace, he was liberated from habits that were previously stronger than he was.

Ancient Israel’s experience often included oppression and sometimes captivity “from the hand of those stronger than they” (Jeremiah 31:11). Even when their predicaments were because of their own folly, God Himself exercised His mercy and might on behalf of His wayward people. Renewal—including joyful singing, abundant harvests, and celebration (vv. 12-14)—was to be expected when God exercised His superior strength for their good.

John Stroup’s life is a testimony to God’s might on behalf of those who place their faith in God’s Son, Jesus. The Gospels witness to Christ’s power to counter the ugly forces of evil in human life. And the strength and power of Jesus can be accessed today through sincere, faith-filled prayer, and heartfelt surrender for “everyone who calls” on Him (Acts 2:21).

— Arthur Jackson

What life forces are you facing that are too strong for you? What’s keeping you from calling on Jesus for help?

Heavenly Father, please exercise Your superior strength in my life today.

Source: Our Daily Bread

okara vegan cheese update #2

Aug. 28th, 2025 12:06 am
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Remember my last update, where the okara culture burst out of its container? It turns out that happened because the okara had been contaminated with other bacteria. So I'm on attempt #2 right now, made with fresh okara straight from getting boiled/pasteurized in the soymilk maker, and it's time it's not gassing out like crazy. We'll see in a couple days what it tastes/looks like...
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Owing to necessary building infra work, there was no power at home from 9 to about 4:30. The only prep work I did was to wake up early enough to be leaving for the office when the cut happened; I just left the fridge closed, and a qualitative examination of things suggests that kept everything in both the fridge and freezer cold enough.

My ice cream, for example, has not refrozen into solid blocks.

One thing that I meant to do but didn't was to dump out the ice maker bin into a bowl or bag that I could have shoved into the top of the freezer to increase the thermal mass. I don't use a lot of ice normally so it's good hygienic practice to dump the whole thing a couple of times a year anyway so the bin can be wiped down. Instead, I dumped it after, to confirm that it hadn't melted and refrozen into a single block.

Of course, now the ice maker will be going "clunk" all night as it slowly labours to regenerate what must be a full cubic foot of lunate "cubes" loosely piled.

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