AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
alierak: (Default)
[personal profile] alierak posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance
DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Went to the No Kings 2 Protest

Oct. 20th, 2025 08:32 am
seawasp: (Default)
[personal profile] seawasp

Specifically to the one here in Troy, NY. 

Troy isn't a large city, so we didn't draw the huge crowds you see in the big metropolises, but there were between 1,000 and 1,500 people crowded into the little Riverfront Park area -- for Troy, that IS huge. 

Attendance was of all ages -- I saw one grandmotherly woman likely ten to twenty years older than me with a sign saying "Why Do I *STILL* Have To Be Marching In Protests?", and there were people the age of my various kids and everything in between. 

There was no violence, no confrontations with ICE or police -- in fact, the police simply watched, kept the roads safe and clear, and made sure everything moved as smoothly as possible, even when the protesters streamed all the way across the Green Island Bridge and back. The organizers took pains to remind the crowd that not only were we nonviolent, our job was de-escalation even if threatened. Fortunately, that caution didn't need to be used. 

The crowd was united in its disapproval of the current regime of lunatics and traitors and showed it in their signs and in their costumes. Scooby-Doo was there, as were the expected T-Rexes, giant frogs, and also a Minion and multiple others. I wore the Straw Hats' Jolly Roger as a cape, plus a straw hat. There were multiple One Piece fans around who commented on it -- one young lady carried a sign that said "The only king I want is LUFFY, The Pirate King!". 

The speakers were for the most part energetic, articulate, and even understandable, which is often a problem for me in public venues. One gentleman dressed in Revolutionary War getup read the various charges against the King, pointing out how Mad King Trump is echoing a lot of Mad King George's offenses. New York Democratic politicians actually showed up, Senator Paul Tonko probably the most notable.

In some ways, it was really like attending a folk festival, including some songs in between speeches. There was anger, but not directed at anyone there, only at the crazy people in Washington who are not only damaging our country, but embarrassing the hell out of all of us. Forget economics, it'll take decades to live down having this bozo in the White House at all. 

Mostly it as filled with positive energy, people here to have their voices heard, and  to be part of a larger movement against our incompetent fascist regime. 

[syndicated profile] grrlpowercomic_feed

Posted by DaveB

Oh, you wanted examples of gravity slasher movies?
Shear, rated Glip-Glorp 5 for overabundant teenage necking, sexual situations and violence.
Crush, rated Glip-Glorp 7 for inveterate exposure of secondary sexual organs, profanity, sexual situations, and violence.
The Spagettifier. The granddaddy of the genre, rated Glip-Glorp 9 for unrelenting nudity, shower scenes, girl aliens of one species making out with girl aliens of another species (and not the species you’d think), sexual situations, profanity, gore, sexual situations involving gore… like, two piles of gore make out, violence, blasphemy, and questionable financial advice. It’s a classic.

Event Horizon is the consummate “Hyperspace is/Wormholes lead to hell,” but of course there’s also Doom, Half-Life… which isn’t hell, but those portals still lead to a dimension full of jerks. Obviously Warhammer 40K. I don’t know how it works in Warhammer Zero K. I’m going to assume that wizards using teleport spells have a 5% chance of bringing demons along with them. I actually don’t know anything about Warhammer Fantasy. I assume they’re connected, like, the dark elves in WhF worship Slaanesh or Tzeentch instead of Lolth. I could google it, but if I don’t then it allows someone break out their esoteric Warhammer knowledge and a soapbox.

Then there’s edge cases like the Natural Selection asymmetrical multiplayer mod for Half-Life. It’s less “warpdrive is the devil” and more “deep space has mysterious fungus.” I think. Or maybe there is some sort of hyperdrive that attracts evil extra dimensional spores like a bug zapper minus the zapper. I’m not sure. I played it 2 or 3 times.

Oh, and I guess The Expanse, where defeating distance attracts evil shadow Pacmen. Spoilers. Look, if you haven’t watched The Expanse, it’s baaaasically the best Sci-Fi thing out there. I think it just edges out Stargate SG-1 and DS9, which are my other tippy-top faves.

Oh, I just thought of another one, From Beyond. One of Jeffery Combs’s earlier movies. Just after Reanimator, I think. Anyway, From Beyond is based on an H.P. Lovecraft book, and on that note, I suppose any movies with summoning circles, whether they’re drawn in lamb’s blood or are created by a bunch of janky electronics are all in the same… over-genre. Of course, the whole point of summoning pentagrams is collect calls to hell, so that doesn’t count in the whole “Who could have foreseen this outcome” category.


Ooh, look! A new vote incentive! And it’s updated with color!

Well, in progress, obviously. I have another one that’s actually a bit further along, but everyone was all, “Sydney Kobold vote incentive!” So I switched to this one. Plus the other one was a multi-character picture so it will actually take me longer to finish. I hope to have an update for this one each week, so stay tuned. There is a slightly higher res version on Patreon.

By the way, this gunmetal blue-ish background and teal pencils are how I draw the comic. I set it up this way so I don’t have to spend all day staring into a bright white blank page.

 


Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.

October 2025 Magpie Monday

Oct. 20th, 2025 07:53 am
dialecticdreamer: My work (Default)
[personal profile] dialecticdreamer
Welcome to the October 2025 Magpie Monday!

Over on [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith’s blog here on Dreamwidth, a comment on her poem “New and Innovative Approaches,” led to the theme for this month’s Magpie Monday.

The theme is: hidden expectations or accidental entanglements.
Read more... )
[syndicated profile] the_daily_wtf_feed

Posted by Remy Porter

Carl was debugging a job management script. The first thing that caught his attention was that the script was called file.bat. They were running on Linux.

The second thing he noticed, was that the script was designed to manage up to 999 jobs, and needed to simply roll job count over once it exceeded 999- that is to say, job 1 comes after job 999.

Despite being called file.bat, it was in fact a Bash script, and thus did have access to the basic mathematical operations bash supports. So while this could have been done via some pretty basic arithmetic in Bash, doing entirely in Bash would have meant not using Awk. And if you know how to use Awk, why would you use anything but Awk?

njobno=`echo $jobno | awk '{if ($0<999) {print $0 + 1} else { print 1 }}'`

As Carl writes: "I don't mind the desire to limit job count by way of mod(1000) but what an implementation!"

[Advertisement] Keep the plebs out of prod. Restrict NuGet feed privileges with ProGet. Learn more.
[syndicated profile] dumbingofage_feed

Posted by David M Willis

Nobody saw this coming!  (nobody saw this cumming?)  It’s JOYCE(?!) and DOROTHY in “FRIEND OF DOROTHY (THE BIGGEST),” the newest Dumbing of Age Pornographique featured over on SLIPSHINE!   It’s 19 all-new, full-page comic pages of definitely Not Safe For Work stuff.  It hankies AND it pankies.  It knows all the sexifying ways without having to Google anything first!

So go grab a subscription and your wife, I mean girlfriend.  I definitely meant to say girlfriend.

[syndicated profile] daily_illuminator_feed
If you're looking for a different near-steampunk aesthetic, consider a computer keyboard that uses rotary-dial telephone technology.

Treading similar ground to The Onion's revelation of the MacBook Wheel 16 years ago, Google Japan has created the Gboard, Dial Version. Anyone born before 1980 or so will recognize the tech (and have a rush of nostalgia or panic), while anyone younger might be mystified.

My Japanese isn't great but – as best I can tell – they've also released the 3D-printable files to make one's own keyboard . . . in case anyone's looking for a holiday present for me this year.

This seems to be a years-long ongoing joke for Japan, as I also found a video for a Möebius-strip double-sided keyboard and others I won't spoil . . .

Steven Marsh

Warehouse 23 News: The City Never Sleeps Because Of All The Action

There are a million stories in the city, and they're all exciting! GURPS Action 9: The City shows how you can add GURPS City Stats to your GURPS Action campaigns. It also features six sample cities to use with your own action-packed adventures. Download it today from Warehouse 23!

Notes

Oct. 20th, 2025 04:01 am
[syndicated profile] dumbingofage_feed

Posted by David M Willis

Nobody saw this coming!  (nobody saw this cumming?)  It’s JOYCE(?!) and DOROTHY in “FRIEND OF DOROTHY (THE BIGGEST),” the newest Dumbing of Age Pornographique featured over on SLIPSHINE!   It’s 19 all-new, full-page comic pages of definitely Not Safe For Work stuff.  It hankies AND it pankies.  It knows all the sexifying ways without having to Google anything first!

So go grab a subscription and your wife, I mean girlfriend.  I definitely meant to say girlfriend.

ysabetwordsmith: Damask smiling over their shoulder (polychrome)
[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It fills the "scythe" square in my 8-1-25 card for the Discworld Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred and [personal profile] mama_kestrel. It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Read more... )

El Goonish Shive - falsekings-062

Oct. 20th, 2025 12:00 am
[syndicated profile] egs_comic_feed

New comic!

Today's News:

- First page of Jay saying these things
- Second page of Jay saying these things
- Third page, which panel three's visual was pillaged from

I think Bishop's friendly smile from earlier made an impression!

The challenge for this page was taking dialogue from three previous pages, scrapping out bits and pieces, and pasting them together to present a relevant backstory for Bishop. This had to act not only as a recap, but as a substitute for Tedd's own thoughts, Jay's dialogue combined with the fantasy visuals meant to imply everything.

AND HEY, maybe I communicated what I wanted! I'll know soon enough!

As for why I didn't want any of Tedd's current thoughts—by which I mean words—it wasn't an idea I set out with. It's just when I tried to add any, it didn't feel like Tedd thinking. It felt like narration. So I used Jay's words as context, and stuck with the most incredibly subtle visuals for Tedd's thoughts.

--

- Saturday EGSNP

End Act 3

Oct. 19th, 2025 10:00 pm
[syndicated profile] agirlandherfed_feed
And that's a wrap for Act 3. Let's do a status report on the state of this project and others, as I'm trying to ignore how I'm a complete wreck.

Will there be an Act 4? Not for at least a year or two. Ale and I are tired. Flat-out bone-weary exhaustion. There's a thrill that comes from working on these projects and that keeps us going, but AGAHF is the dark story where I actually kill off characters and it's...hard, really really hard...to work in dark mode right now. I want to come back to it when I'm in a mind which allows Josh to take full advantage of his new position.

But! Starting on Halloween (31 October 2025) we're starting a Patreon-exclusive comic called FAMILY DEMONS. It's what happens when someone opens a Hellmouth and nine brilliant people immediately set up a grift...and then their kids have to reverse the heist in order to save them. Anyone who backs at the $1.00 (one US dollar) tier and up will have access to it. I'm reworking the higher tiers to figure out what new bonus content I can offer, too.

Ale and I continue to work on SIDEQUESTED, our more lighthearted comic about a young librarian who has accidentally tripped and fallen into multiple plotholes while breaking up a royal engagement. Things are going great.

And if you need more AGAHF, OACET's adventures continue in the Rachel Peng novels! INSIDE THREAT, the sixth book in the series, is now available for preorder.

Thank you so very much for coming along on this ride. May you find joy, and may it find you.

________________________________
If you'd like to be updated regularly on our ongoing projectsyou can find me (and artist Ale Presser!) across multiple social media platforms.
[syndicated profile] gws_feed

New comic!

Today's News:

I was about to look up who Davan was dating back in 2009, but luckily y'all covered it in the comment section, thank you! That's Vanessa.

Wow, a LOT of you came here to GWS for the first time when this strip was first posted, after Randy and I started the crossover for this arc!

Since scheduling this Hair of the Dog post, I started re-reading Something Positive from the very first strip, and now I'm so  very far in I'm behind on my to-do list, because I can't stop reading it. If you too would like to remember (or learn) how much you enjoy reading S*P, you can start right here in December of 2001! (Fair warning, a bunch of years are missing, sadly!)

Here's the old post for this strip, and the chaser post!

Linguistics

Oct. 19th, 2025 09:14 pm
ysabetwordsmith: Cartoon of me in Wordsmith persona (Default)
[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
New in-browser language app, lang.guru

It's in open beta right now and free to join. It has the usual suspects of Spanish, German, French, some Asian languages, Hebrew and Arabic, a bunch of Slavic languages (I know her from Balkan choir), and more.

If you're tired of the gamification of Duolingo, give it a try!
https://lang.guru .
ysabetwordsmith: Damask smiling over their shoulder (polychrome)
[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
This poem is spillover from the July 15, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] fuzzyred. It also fills the "Gambling" square in my 7-1-25 card for the Western Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred and [personal profile] mama_kestrel. It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. This is a sequel to "Renewing a Sense of Community," so read that first or this won't make much sense.

Read more... )

October 2025

S M T W T F S
   1234
567891011
1213 1415161718
19202122232425
262728293031 

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Oct. 20th, 2025 05:19 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios