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Today is Rock's birthday! He is 6!

Here is Rock looking betrayed in a party hat.

@buttercup I have loved Electric Dreams so far. It reminds me a lot of The Outer Limits, but with better acting. I think a lot of people are comparing it to Black Mirror, but I don't think that's quite fair, Black Mirror has a specific emphasis on how technology breaks us down, whereas Electric Dreams has a much broader range.

Have you ever wondered how fast a greyhound could run?

Apparently fast enough so that they can catch up to a car already on the opposite end of the street.

See Rock Run.

@hedgehog Unfortunately I don't qualify for the Birthright older person trips - I'm over the age for the adult trips and too young for the senior trips. I've stayed in a kibbutz before, so that is definitely going to be amonst my list of options. I think there are even a few folks in mu*dom who reside in Israel that I might ask to look into accomodations for me at the houseguest slash kibbutz slash hostel level.

I think I've mentioned this project before, but I thought this may be a smart place to get feedback.

My mother made aliyah in 1996; which is to say she emigrated and became an Israeli citizen via the Law of Return, which entitles anyone who can prove their Jewish heritage the right to become a citizen there. She passed away in 2007, and while I had been to Israel while she was alive, I haven't been since, and I've never been to her burial place.

It is of course, an insanely expensive trip, even if I was living in better means than I am now, which is basically paycheck-to-paycheck But having never said the Mourner's Prayer at her graveside or seen her headstone has weighed heavily on me, regardless of how complicated my relationship with her had been.

So I have come up with the idea over the years to crowdsource a trip to Israel, for the primary purpose of visiting my mom's grave, but also to try and discover, or rediscover, some semblance of the more spiritual aspects of myself. I'm not looking to become Orthodox, or even more religious than I am now, but I think it would be good for me.

However, the notion of simply crowdsourcing this seems kind of - I don't know. Like I'm expecting something for nothing, even though there isn't exactly a lot I can give. So I've wondered if maybe if I do engage this, I do a blog/vlog, not just of the trip itself, but of the experience of trying to fund the trip and engage with my heritage a bit more. Part of that process would be reaching out to various Jewish organizations and seeing if they're willing to offer donations as well. Would documentation of such an experience be worth people putting money into it?

Logistically, it wouldn't even go live until I have some concrete numbers. There's a lot to consider, even beyond the plane tickets, which would be insane to begin with. Hotel/Air BnB, food, travel money, passport renewal, transportation costs, etc. So before any sort of donation option was made available, those projections would go up for review.

I don't know. Would this be the sort of thing to attract people's attention, enough to make them willing to help? Is it innovative, or would it come off as just another person trying to con themselves a trip?

Feedback welcome.

@surreality It was genuinely not my intention to make you feel like you were being attacked. I apologize for that.

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@tinuviel And the subsequent comment, which I quoted and asked about, sounded like the violation of a body may occurred for the purpose of harassing someone.

Which is ten miles more extreme than 'a shitty person found pre-existing disgusting things on the internet to post to someone's page'.

It's still shitty, and speaks to the standards of what going to far on WORA being shitty.

@surreality Someone from WORA decided to go to Seiche's livejournal and posted photos on it of a female corpse and a guy doing things to it that I'd rather not recount. I don't know if the guy in the photos was the guy on WORA, or if he just found the photos from some gross website.

There was a whole kerfluffle about whether or not he would actually do something, he went and did it, and WORA admins banned him.

Wasn't that back when someone got all "hold my beer" about posting that shit on Seiche's livejournal?

It took a girl's dead body being violated for someone to say "oh hey, maybe we're taking this too far."

Dear PoS Barely Looks Like You Started Shaving Co-Worker,

I walked up to you and asked politely for your attention. Twice.

The third time, I gave you a nudge with my elbow (because I am sick, and touching you with my hands might pass more germs than you deserve) and said, "Oi, could you please move?" Yes, you were wearing headphones, but that does not mean you have an excuse for not being aware of the environment around you, or knowingly taking up more space than you had to.

For you to then turn around and tell me that not to talk to you that way (after I tried the polite route TWICE) is quite the irritant, and no "there are other seats to sit in" is not an acceptable argument. Oh, and re-shifting your seat so I'm stuck half between tables while I go to get my meal out of the microwave? Fucking petty.

I may be extra cranky because I'm sick, but you're an entitled little prick with far too much sense of his own privilege.

(Oooh, that was nice and purging.)

If new people are allowed, I am there with bells on.

@aria said in Good TV:

A few days late to the conversation here, but am I the only person who watches "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" that just does not like Josh at all? The dude's pretty damned dumb, makes horrible life choices, and is motivated primarily by his dick. Bring back Greg. At least Greg was smart and funny.

No, no you are not. I'm impressed with his pipes and his dance moves, but that's about it. And I like Rebecca with his family (and Valencia)...so basically I like all of the people around because Josh is there, but Josh himself makes my brain hurt. Nathaniel, on the other hand, fills me with delight, however I also think that Rebecca needs to focus on herself before Nathaniel is a thing.

I love this show down to my cockles because of all the moments in which I see myself (yes, even when Rebecca does something obsessively scary and shitty) and can 100% completely relate, and especially when Rebecca expresses something about mental illness for good or bad that makes me realize I'm not alone in the sensation being experienced.

Basically, if I wanted to pick a piece of media to help someone understand what I go through, Crazy Ex GF is what I'd show them.

@auspice said in The trappings of posing:

People who obsessively use %t/[space(5)] are a large part of why I refuse to log.

I won't name names, but y'all know who you are. And you need to stop.

I agree, though for somewhat different reasons. I do log a lot of the time, and that indent in people's poses means I have to go through the log myself and fix all the indents before I add the log to any wiki. Which in turn, makes me less inclined to log.

@cobaltasaurus said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:

@cupcake Yes, but I have everything open. Everything. Marches down to Baronies.

I'm pretty sure it's not a contest?

I've got open features available in my domain too, not just myself, but in the Counties and baronies below.

I've decided it's my mission to try and find someone who knows how to work with wikidot code, to make ours nice and shiny.

@surreality I don't know if you're aware, there has been a resurgence of Jem product, and I don't mean that shitty movie that never actually happened because like Highlander 2, we do not discuss it.

IDW Publishing has a pretty sweet Jem comic book, and in 2015 there was a limited edition 20th anniversary line that came out.

I, uhh...might be a fan.

(She said while wearing her Jem tee shirt.)

If you have a chance to see The Shape of Water, it is well worth your hard-earned money. It's an absolutely beautiful film.

@mietze, bless her soul, gave me a large Kong for my dog and he has taken to it spectacularly.

For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a hand-sized rubber gourd with a hole at each end, one small, one a little larger. You stuff it full of treats, and then give it to your dog to entertain them as they try to figure out how to get the treats out. It also gives them something to chew on which helps the state of their teeth.

I start with breaking off pieces of his large dog treat biscuits, then mix kibble with some kind of soft food item that he likes. So far I've had success with cream cheese and canned pumpkin, which can be used to sort of cap off the top hole.

Watching him try to gnaw his way toward the larger treats and manipulate the kong so that the pieces fall out has been delightful!

There seemed to be at least one character who seemed capable of doing everything on BitN. Had crazy amounts of all kinds of psychic abilities, enough to make me feel redundant, seemed to get up in every scene and make it focus on her, and seemed incapable of sharing the spotlight or letting other people's more reasonable expertise show.

It's a real shame because I liked the idea of the game a lot, the wiki was beautiful, and I really regretted it when things went sour for me there...which was not a fault of the staff or the way in which the game was executed.

I'd be happy to play my PC from there again if a similar version of the game returns.