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mdlbearBad week. I mean, really not a good week. It had its bright points -- most bad weeks do -- a common thread of love, friendship, and care. And grief is lessened by being shared. It was still a bad week.
Thursday our dear old-lady-cat Ticia crossed the Rainbow Bridge. There will be
a full post in a day or three. Meanwhile if you're triggered by such
things you'll want to skip over 0611Th. And maybe Wednesday
and Friday.
Not a totally lost week, though; I got in five walks (missing Wednesday and Thursday -- see above), and wrote a Songs for Saturday post, along with my usual Thankful Thursday.
Linkies: Ukraine and Moldova on course to start formal EU membership talks in JuneSailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum - Standard Ebooks Disordered, Deficient, Dehumanized: How the Language of Aphantasia Research Shapes What We Think About It (more on Friday),
‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia? (More, including the whole report, on Saturday. Up to you to decide how it compares as Utopian fiction to The World As it Ought To Be, by Naomi Rivkis, which is the subject of a Goodreads ebook giveaway, and also on sale for $2.99 until the end of this month.)
Rage-inducing: DOD Officially Drops 180 Faiths From Military's Recognized Religion List
See you later this week.
Notes & links: CW: pet death: Thursday 0531Su * walk: 7:37 Erasmusweg: 1.2km, 2200st, 25min, 28mm, 10hp @ A $4 Billion Empire Broke Open Source. They Threatened One Developer. It Backfired * laundry * to dryer 17:00ish. 3h cycle. Should be done by 20: : trying to spend more time in the bedroom. Bronx chased Ticia off the cat tree; she landed in a bit of a sprawl but didn't seem injured. I yelled at Bronx, not that it's likely to do any good. ! very worried about my little -girl- _old lady_ -> checked on them on the way down from laundry. @ THINK TWICE BEFORE SHARING A PICTURE OF YOUR BOARDING PASS – Travelpro® Europe " Hackers can [...] scan boarding passes and access (and steal) the personal information associated with the pass — data like an email address, home address, phone number, and so on. " = hx work session # put truthout's subscription into tracking -- that's for things like subscriptions that renew automatically. repeating.do is for events and actions that need to be periodically scheduled by copying a line into to.do * Dutch @ Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) Self-assessment grid in various languages: PDFs x guitar = taxes * 22:00 take out cardboard bin 0601Mo Pride Month @ Pride Month - Wikipedia About | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month | Library of Congress % got the doff-n-donner to sort of work. Sort of. @ What Do You Call a Wave Taller Than the Empire State Building That Hit Nobody? *- my answer: a shot across the bow * walk: 11:30 with N; ~.5km 20min, 5hp, 2200st. Stupid phone counted the 45min scooter ride as a bike ride. * after 9am take in cardboard bin * _noonish_ -8:15ish- go get drugs - opens at 8:30 @ Trump Has Officially Lost The War In Iran And The Great Energy Collapse Of 2026 Is Coming. You Better Be Prepared. " America just lost — not a battle, not a campaign, but its position in the world. " @ Civilization. The last page. (238) | by Jan Slort | May, 2026 | Medium " We will remember the Summer of ‘26. " -> How to survive the coming El Niño. = hx work session * Dutch * guitar - QV, Bad Guys * N/HSX: Goodreads Book Giveaway, running from June 1 to June 30, offering 100 copies of the e-book. I've also announced that I'll be discounting the book to $2.99 during June and July. See PSA post = taxes * upload 1040 to bookkeeper (with cover email) 0602Tu International Whores' Day @ International Whores' Day - Wikipedia % reluctantly abandoned the idea of a second coffee when I noticed it was nearly 2pm. @ “A Frog He Would A-wooing Go”, “Georgie Porgie” and the Meaning of Roly-Poly (because the Sigvaris Doff-n-Donner has a component called a "rolly", so of course I've named it Anthony.) The Wiggles - Anthony Rowley lyrics with cute video @ Something’s Different About People. It’s Terrifying | Medium " 2020 accelerated something that was already in motion, but it also broke something more specific. Two years of being told to stay inside, stay away, treat strangers as potential threats, did something to the social wiring that we haven’t fully reckoned with. " * walk: 9:02 Simon Vestdijkstraat 2: .57km, 8hp, 14mm, 20min, 1000st Was just starting to drizzle when I set out; by the time I got back it was more of a light rain. Now, half an hour later, it's just plain raining, and getting harder. @ Ukraine and Moldova on course to start formal EU membership talks in June @ FIFA World Cup brings Seattle to global stage during Pride month | Seattle Times : I'm afraid we're going to lose Ticia soon. She seems to have gotten weaker over the last few days, and I don't think she's been eating. * 19:00 - 20:30 (10am-11:30 PST) Healing Center Passages support grp - 1st, 3rd Tu = hx work session * something from Immigration in the mijnoverheid messagebox -> https://ind.nl/nl/verblijfsvergunningen to put in application *- (have N) ask immigration lawyer what to ask for. Maybe they have or will sent it * Dutch * guitar Eyes Like the Morning * load drugs 0603We : the litter-catching mat in front of the litterbox was _wet_! -> folded it up; probably needs to be either washed or thrown out -> I'll have to wash my socks, too. fortunately I have two pairs. @ Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag: Meaning and History – Pride Belongs History — The Home of the Global Inclusive Pride Flag * 11ish leave with N for 11:30 vet for Ticia - Ipenrodeplantsoen 53, 2548 SJ Den Haag gMap directions unimpressive. She got some subQ fluids and an anti-nausea shot. @ Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum - Standard Ebooks : horrendous trouble logging in to Discord on Raven because I'd changed the password (and it looked similar enough...). Also its copy of Signal is out of date and I'll have to download the apt file again, which is hard when I can't read the screen. % spent all evening after dinner petting Ticia. Help from N part of the time. = hx work session * Dutch * singing: (for Ticia, who loves music) Mary Ellen Carter, I Meant to Do That, Eyes Like the Morning; (spoken)Yeats 0604Th ~ a little more success with the DnD this morning. One sock too far, the other not far enough, but manageabe, @ NASA Finds New Way Earth May Have Received Elements Needed for Life - NASA Sci. @ The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech - The Ringer * 09:00 (here) Vet, for Ticia. Also Solensia for Cricket, but mainly Ticia. % some good cuddles. Compassionate vet; and compassion at * Dierencrematorium Haaglanden % extreely glad we decided to go in person; trying to make all the arrangeents by phone would have been a nightmare and probably taken longer N provided a beautiful leather purse to carry her in. She felt much heavier than just an hour before when she lay dying in my arms. * selected Water "cremation" (alkaline hydrolysis) (takes about 2 wks). -> the urn and pawprint Will be delivered. They'll call first. -> nice little wooden urn with carvings - matches her colors. * Took an Uber there and back; dropped N at Centraal to spend a couple days with j @ Analytic Discrete Self-Similar Solutions of Einstein-Klein-Gordon at Large. Spacetime 'Crystals' Could Collapse Into Tiny Black Holes, Wild Paper Explains Crystals of space and time: A structural phenomenon that may collapse into tiny black holes not clear whether this is related to -------v Space-time crystals from particle-like topological solitons | Nature Materials or Scientists Discovered a Time Crystal That Reveals a New Way to Order Time @ EU moves to curb reliance on US tech companies | CIO Dive @ AWS European Sovereign Cloud goes live amid vendor push for spend | CIO Dive @ Commission proposes tech sovereignty package to strengthen Europe's digital autonomy and resilience @ sparr | The internet peaked in 2008 (ysabetwordsmith = hx work session * Dutch * singing for Ticia. Pulled out Snuggles and sang The Cap and Bells for her while waiting for the vet. Earlier, Eyes Like the Morning a capella * writing: work on Ticia's memorial page and blog post, post ---v @ Thankful Thursday 0605Fr @ DOD Officially Drops 180 Faiths From Military's Recognized Religion List % when I woke up Bronx was curled up in front of my face, the way Ticia used to do. The room feelt very empty. Even when she was hiding, she was there. * walk: DSB804: .64km, 7hp, 18mm, 1550st, % could probably have gone farther, but didn't want to push my luck after having missed two days in a row. % sobbing while reading In Your Arms [on DW: In Your Arms] @ European Parliament ditches Google for French search firm over privacy concerns – POLITICO (via don_marti_feed: Qwant [wiki]) @ DistroWatch is celebrating its 25th anniversary! [LWN] % Black Blood of the Earth works better iced, ~20ml diluted with 150ml of water, so 6:1 or 7:1/. Did not use milk, didn't have any cream, but it was okay as-was. % observation: I don't listen to music much anyore, and _make_ music hardly at all. I suppose something is wrong with me, but I don't know what. @ Best private Discord alternatives in 2026 | Tuta @ Disordered, Deficient, Dehumanized: How the Language of Aphantasia Research Shapes What We Think About It Disordered, deficient, and dehumanised: How biomedical and cognitive approaches are limiting our understandings of aphantasia [PDF] = hx work session * Dutch * blog and web updates: Ticia x guitar 0606Sa : saw Bronx coming out of the cat carrier. That's what we took Ticia to the vet in, and she peed in it on the way from the car to the door. Bronx is probably looking for her. * finally figured out the DnD (clearing up the misinterpretation of the video) You have to roll it until the band around the toe hole is halfway up the outside. -> no written instructions, no words in Sigvaris's video. *AARGH* -> I later found a video with words, but it took some digging. * walk: H. Marsmanplantsoen 1: .70km, 10hp, 23m, 22in, 1300st @ Canada’s U.S. Boycott – Delivering Results | by Ken McMullen BA, MPA | May, 2026 @ Anyway, I Made a Choir-YouTube @ Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe - YouTube @ A Software Engineer Won a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work @ Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting | MedPage Today @ Global Justice Report Global Justice Project " attempts to set out a new vision for global progress in the 21st century " ‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival | Environment | The Guardian A good life for the 99% isn’t a pipe dream: it can be done. Here’s how | Thomas Piketty, Lucas Chancel, Cornelia Mohren, Rowaida Moshrif, Moritz Odersky and Anmol Somanchi | The Guardian ‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia? = hx work session * Dutch * more work on Ticia's page @ posted: mdlbear | Songs for Saturday: You Can Build a Choir From the Things You Find At Home -- the title was irresistible.
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Date: 2026-06-07 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-07 06:53 pm (UTC)Thanks!
Yes ...
Date: 2026-06-07 07:21 pm (UTC)I told people that was going to happen, and nobody believed me. Society isn't something you can turn off and then back on again like that. And the violation of individual rights revealed a little too much about how society works, so some people decided not to go back out into it, or at least to do so less often.
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Date: 2026-06-08 02:35 am (UTC)I am sorry about Ticia. She was a good kitty.
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Date: 2026-06-08 06:49 am (UTC)She was. Thanks!
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Date: 2026-06-08 09:22 am (UTC)no subject
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