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brithistorian ([personal profile] brithistorian) wrote2025-06-02 09:12 pm
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People download things...

Today I got latest readership summary on my first master's thesis, on British educational policy, 1901-03. Apparently during the month of May, my thesis was download 10 times: Six times in Brazil and once each in Ecuador, Germany, the US, and Uzbekistan(?!). I wonder how many of those are going into training AI? (But like A. said "At least if they're using it for that, you know they're training the AI on something well-researched." Which is true — I spent hours sitting in the library reading Hansard's Parliamentary Debates on microform.)

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Katie ([personal profile] drabblewriter) wrote in [community profile] allbingo2025-06-02 07:21 pm

🌈Pride Fest - June 1st to 30th🌈

Happy Pride Month! Pride Bingo Fest will run from June 1st to 30th. This is my first time hosting, so please forgive any goofs. 😅

For the sake of max inclusion (and honestly, because I'm kind of a pride flag/identity nerd) I've made three seperate lists - one each for a broad mix of identities, one for aspec (asexual spectrum, aromantic spectrum, etc) terms, and one for general pride experiences and themes. There's a community card for each list and one mixed. Since ace and aro term defintiions tend to be the same save being applied to different types of attraction, I've paired them together. Feel free to use either or both.

If you need more info on anything, LGBTQIA+ Wiki is a great source. I'm no graphic artist, but I'll do my best to make some little banners for people who finish.

As a reminder, here's the bingo card generator, and here's the allbingo AO3 collection.

Have fun! 🏳️‍🌈
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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-06-02 02:37 pm

You may have noticed that it's Pride Month

And I may have noticed that I need something new to listen to.

Now, I've said this before and I'll definitely say it again, but audiodramas are, hands-down, the gayest media I have ever consumed. So, in honor of the occasion, three lists:

The End's collection of LGBTQ+ audiodrama with at least one completed season

A search of Audiofiction.co.uk's entire catalogue for audiodrama with LGBTQ+ creators

A search of Audiofiction.co.uk's entire catalogue for audiodrama with LGBTQ+ characters
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brithistorian ([personal profile] brithistorian) wrote2025-06-02 11:09 am

One thing leads to another

I'm currently reading the May 2025 issue of Artforum and wanted to share with you some of the things I learned and, in the process, demonstrate how my mind connects things. One of the current exhibitions reviewed in this issue is of paintings by Alex Israel at Gagosian Beverly Hills, which was accompanied by a reproduction of Israel's 2024 painting "Gas Station."

Alex Israel, "Gas Station" (2024)

Upon learning that this gas station actually exists, my thoughts immediately went to William Gibson's short story "The Gernsback Continuum" (published in Burning Chrome).

I then returned to the review, where the final paragraph begins with this sentence: "The works' very status as paintings—as art in a gallery—aligns them, moreover, with the long tradition of veduta painting, that of architectural scenes that don't necessarily demand forensic accuracy, edging sometimes into outright fantasy." Having never heard of veduta painting, I immediately looked it up (link here), and discovered I was familiar with this style of painting (the name comes from the Italian for "view"), just not with the word. From that page, I followed the link to capriccio, which is a form of architectural fantasy art and, again, something I was familiar with but hadn't known the name of. As it happened, one of the images illustrating the Wikipedia entry for "capriccio" was a piece by Giovanni Battista Piranesi called "Le Carceri d'Invenzione (The Prisons of Invention)."

Le Carceri d'Invenzione

This picture immediately caught my eye, because it reminded me of M.C. Escher's works, particularly "Relativity" and "House of Stairs".

This sort of connection-making, going from Alex Israel to William Gibson to Giovanni Battista Piranesi to M.C. Escher, bouncing back and forth over several centuries, is very much how my mind works. I'm constantly feeding in new bits of knowledge, which then bounce off of each other, make connections, and enable me to produce new things.

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restoration journey ([personal profile] sarajayechan) wrote in [community profile] allbingo2025-06-02 10:58 am
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Self-imposed challenge: Pride Month Bingo

3x3 card is here. I made my own card using Magibrain's generator, choosing my own prompts. My goal is to at least get a line for the month of June, but I'm hoping my productivity will be enough for a blackout!
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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-06-04 07:29 pm

Well, I just got jumped by a squirrel in my own bathroom

This is the same little squirrel that's been trying to break into my bedroom for the better part of the past ten days. Once it actually got into the house it was immediately chased by a cat and had cause to regret all its life choices.

We removed the cat and opened the front door very wide and absented ourselves from the area, so we think it's gone now.

Image of the squirrel at my window )

I think it's a baby. Not just because it's so small, but because the other window squirrels will shamelessly stand up or bang on the glass if they think they can catch my eye, but when this one realized I was there it hunkered down very small and actually turned its face away a little.

I hope it's all right now that it's outside where it belongs.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] allbingo2025-06-01 11:02 pm

May Monthly Post

This is the May community post for [community profile] allbingo. What were your bingo activities during May? What are your plans for June?

For May we had:
[new] Colors Bingo Fest hosted by [personal profile] silvercat17
Inspired by the kind of prompts in [community profile] rainbowlists, this is a bingo format challenge based on creative color names and related concepts.
Posting will be from May 1-31.

For June we will have:
[new]
Pride Fest hosted by [personal profile] drabblewriter
Celebrate ALL the orientations!
Posting will be June 1-30.


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brithistorian ([personal profile] brithistorian) wrote2025-06-01 08:31 pm

Summer Reading Program!

When I was a kid, the library summer reading program was one of my favorite events of the year. First of all, there were the events at the library, which were not only a lot of fun but also ensured that I got taken to the library at least once a week. Secondly, being encouraged to read lots of books and keep a list of the books that I read was a great thing for a hyperlexic kid. I'm like "Yes! Please reward me for something I want to do anyway!"

I've seen a number of people on social media talking about they wished there were things like the library summer reading program and the Scholastic book fair for grown-ups, and now there is! The American Historical Association is holding a Summer Reading Challenge!

The challenge is to complete at least three tasks from this list between June 1 and Labor Day:

  1. Read a history of an event with a major anniversary in 2025.
  2. Read a history of a resistance movement.
  3. Read a history that uses material culture.
  4. Read an edited collection, journal forum, or other multi-author work.
  5. Read a history that's been sitting on your shelf too long.
  6. Read a piece of historical fiction (novel, story, poem, play)

Right now I'm mentally taking task 5 off the table, because unless I go out and buy a new book for the challenge (which I don't anticipate doing), all of the books I read will be histories that have been sitting on my shelf too long.

I got started today, starting to read Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, with a goal to finish it by the end of June.

You can read more about the AHA's 2025 Summer Reading Challenge here, and if you see the hashtag "#AHAReads" around your social media, now you know what it is.

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hannah ([personal profile] hannah) wrote2025-06-01 08:56 pm

June the First.

I spent several hours today not knowing where my towel was. I knew I'd taken it down to the laundry room and brought it out from the washer, and somewhere between the dryer and my apartment, it disappeared. Couldn't be found. I went back and checked, and didn't find it. I figured it wasn't a huge loss, all things considered, and tried to move on.

I just went back to check to be sure, and somewhere between the washer and the dryer, it got misplaced without leaving the laundry room, because that's where I found it. Someone had tossed it into the garbage bin - not even hanging it over the sink, but tossing it out entirely, which has me irritated on the general principle of throwing out a good hand towel being a bad idea because hey, free towel.

It's also got me relieved because I again know where my towel is. I couldn't well go hitchhiking otherwise.
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tjs_whatnot ([personal profile] tjs_whatnot) wrote2025-06-01 05:18 pm

May 2025 Reads!

HAPPY PRIDE!

I hope to come back some time in the near future and talk about things and stuff. But until then, here, have some book recs.



May 2025 )

So, what is everyone reading for Pride? So far, I'm just set to finish:
*When The Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley
*Even Though I Knew the End by C.I. Polk
*Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
*Missing Page by Cat Sebastian
*A Destiny of Dragons by TJ Klune

And then we'll see where the muse takes me. Recs, of course, always welcome. ❤️❤️
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jjhunter ([personal profile] jjhunter) wrote2025-06-01 06:22 pm

Linkspam Is Working On Expanding Capacity

Marianne Kuzujanakis: Book Review: “Take Joy” by Jane Yolen
it is so important to understand that writing is a way of thinking and existing, and not just an act of doing

Kelly Hayes: From Aspiration to Action: Organizing Through Exhaustion, Grief, and Uncertainty
It’s easy to pass judgment on ourselves and each other for what we’re “already doing” or failing to do. But as an organizer, I’m concerned with what might motivate or allow people to act differently.

Sasha Chapin @ Sasha's Newsletter: How to like everything more: on the skill of enjoyment
In my experience, high-level enjoyment, like a sport, is composed of many interlocking micro-skills that must be trained individually, but which reinforce each other. This is not how enjoyment is taught—the only tip people typically receive re enjoyment is to “be mindful.” I think this is a suggestion to adopt what meditators call “one-pointed focus,” a form of concentrated, narrowed attention on a small portion of conscious experience. It’s a mediocre suggestion for a couple of reasons. First, this is hard to do well, even for seasoned meditators. Second, it is far from the only enjoyment-producing mental motion.

Liz Neeley @ Liminal: Week 19: What now & what’s next in science and higher ed
Everything is terrible, but I brought you some plums.
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silvercat17 ([personal profile] silvercat17) wrote in [community profile] allbingo2025-06-01 02:38 pm

Color Fest Banners

You can still ask for personalized banners! (I'll add them on to this post) I made two designs, although so far everybody has wanted the cats.


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brithistorian ([personal profile] brithistorian) wrote2025-06-01 11:55 am
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Apparently the real deal

When I designed Rumkick's "Drinking Every Day" as a song of the day, [personal profile] silveradept asked if they were actually punk or if they were a manufactured group made to appear punk. I happened upon a couple of Rumkicks interviews yesterday, (here and here), and it appears that they are indeed actual punks!

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Kalira ([personal profile] kalira) wrote in [community profile] smallfandomfest2025-06-01 06:04 am

Fanfic, Sky High, Warren/Layla, Layla is Warren's sidekick

Title: Respect
Author: [personal profile] kalira
Fandom: Sky High
Ship/Characters: Warren/Layla, (Layla & Will)
Rating/Category: T/Het
Prompt: Sky High, Warren/Layla, Layla is Warren's sidekick
(from [livejournal.com profile] havemy_heart)
Spoilers: the movie generally
Summary: Layla despises it, but she is already far too used to gentle concerns like this about her life and her choices . . . her oldest friend (and his honest care) can get a little bit of leeway, but she's still doubly happy to return to her partner, who has always accepted - and respected - her, no matter what.
Notes/Warnings: N/A
Wordcount: 1,775

Read on AO3
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il_mio_capitano ([personal profile] il_mio_capitano) wrote in [community profile] summer_of_giles2025-06-01 07:42 am
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Summer of Giles 2025 is happening!

Hullo!

Summer of Giles is definitely happening again this year. I've decided to go with a free-for-all format rather than booked days. The doors will be opened on 1 July until 31st 2025.

Usual rules apply about not completely spamming the community. I'm also adding a ban on the use of AI generated content.  If I see it, or am alerted to it, I will delete it immediately. 

Thank you to everyone who has already expressed an interest for this year. I'm looking forward to reading and seeing everything. And, fingers crossed, I might even be able to write something myself. Who knows?

Let's make this summer the best Giles summer ever!

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