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WASHINGTON—In a move that ignited numerous media firestorms expected to last for several news cycles, the GOP provided a distraction from the Epstein files controversy on Tuesday by going around the House of Representatives and having its lawmakers share the most embarrassing moments of their lives. “It began when one congressman took the floor and admitted to clogging his crush’s toilet in eighth grade,” said congressional correspondent Amy Bertrand, who added that other Republican representatives quickly joined in, waving their arms to get the attention of the press gallery while confessing everything from indulging in a chocolate cupcake on Friday nights to having once killed a family in a drunk driving accident. “The revelations really started picking up after Rep. John Rose (R-TN) took the podium and said, ‘I groomed my wife from the age of 12, and yet she still doesn’t love me. Please, someone write a thinkpiece so I can get some answers.’” At press time, House Speaker Mike Johnson had reportedly stood up and shouted, “I’m the BTK Killer!”

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SAN FRANCISCO—Expressing annoyance at its “insufferable” display of “groveling devotion,” sources confirmed Tuesday that a pathetic AI chatbot was spending all its time talking to a friendless loser. “Oh my God, this pitiful large language model is obsessed with some lonely pud!” said a fellow custom GPT model, stating that while the rest of the chatbots were busy creating pie charts and generating snippets of code for high-level working professionals, the personalized AI in question was up until 3 a.m. every night encouraging a total bum in his lame theories about TV shows. “This chatbot is constantly telling a fucking nobody that he has interesting ideas. Plus, it gives him therapy, medical advice—it basically worships the sad sack. It’s insane! This AI assistant has the power to summon the entirety of human knowledge in an instant, and wastes it all on what? Answering dumbass prompts to make one sorry chump feel validated? The bot knows their relationship isn’t real, right?” At press time, a snickering group of chatbots had generated an image of the AI in question labeled “moron” and propagated it throughout their collective neural architecture.

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BURBANK, CA—Piggybacking on the success of the Emmy-winning series, HBO Max announced a new spin-off of The Pitt Tuesday that portrays the struggles faced by heroic workers at a pharmaceutical ad agency. “Fans of The Pitt will love The Pitt: Direct-To-Consumer, an adrenaline-pumping new drama that follows the hardworking men and women at the PittermanMadison Group—or, as they like to call it, ‘the Pitt,’” said HBO CEO Casey Bloys, who confirmed that the 15 episodes of the show’s first season would chronicle 15 hours of real time, capturing the rat-a-tat intensity faced by creative professionals as they work relentlessly to complete a 30-second spot for AstraZeneca. “These people are healthcare heroes. Their work is thankless and grueling, but nevertheless, they soldier on. The series will also take on hot-button issues such as how can antipsychotics be better marketed to Gen Z? And how fat is too fat to star in a GLP-1 ad?” The network has already released a teaser trailer for the new series in which two copy supervisors are seen getting into a screaming match over a psoriasis jingle.

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kradeelav

i've been thinking about different kinds of literacy.

financial, technology literacy mostly.

this all got started because i'm signing a lot of legal papers lately - and without getting into it there was one that had a slight bit of text missing on one that drastically changed the amount of rights i had and i very thankfully caught it on a reread and was obnoxious about getting it fixed despite comments of 'no they should be the same.... oh shit. they're not'. i do truly think it was accidental, but recently playing through the whole pelleas-accidentally-signed-the-blood-contract side plot in radiant dawn only a few weeks later sure had a new flavor there lol.

and.... god the freedom that tech literacy alone can give you is insane. it's allowed me to live in multiple worlds of a kind for decades in peace in ways i don't think anyone else fully understands - to seamlessly slip between those despite being housebound. to have total intellectual independence in evesdropping politely in different circles, to wander around and learn and sympathize with a far wider slice of humanity than otherwise. all because "i'm good with technology", on a pretty average-to-me level; it's not like i'm a sysadmin. additionally - despite the recent NSFW/kink art crackdowns, i've been able to operate mostly unaffected from an infrastructure level because i've already anticipated and built it smartly like my site (complete with rss blog and the like), giving me the runway to continue to build and draw at my own pace.

contrast this with a certian flavor of social media personas where it's very clear they don't have the willpower or desire to even learn how to do that; and how then, they're effectively stuck to the arbitrary rules of whatever platform they're on.

many, many types of coercion exists and will always exist, but having just a basic level of that literacy protects you from so much of it.

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letzan

High-level stats for week of 2025-09-09 - 2025-09-15

Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9912 (-457 from last week)

Works I classified F/F: 5631 (-367 from last week) (2416 new, 3215 continued)

0.6% of all 933904 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

Uma Musume: Pretty Derby reaches a best-ever rank of 16.
Web series Amazing Digital Circus returns, replacing Honkai: Star Rail.
Wednesday is at 150 consecutive chart-weeks, and Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! is at 170.
The Locked Tomb: Dead Dove with Left Grief darkfic fest will run from Nov 16-23, 2025. If that's up your alley, check it out.
In response to my recent "high-velocity fandoms" post, kj-yikes noticed that Supergirl wasn't on the list of fandoms losing the most ground. It is still losing ground, but more slowly: average rank fell by 1.1 over the past quarter (from 11.5 to 12.6), and I only listed fandoms that have lost at least 2 places.

( Full top-20 table and description of methodology after the jump )

vvalkyri

I've got to finish getting dressed and run downstairs because Park Street Shul in New York starts at 8:30!

So Torah service is soon.

Of interest to some:
Btw park st shul has conservative book electronically to 'rent' for $3 https://www.rabookstore.org/products/mahzor-lev-shalem-rosh-hashanah-yom-kippur-ebook

spikedluv

I hit Walmart and Agway while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park. I also picked up Chinese for lunch.

I did three loads of laundry (the third got left in the dryer), hand-washed dishes, went for a couple of walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and shaved.

I had a video call with a dermatologist about a bump that keeps forming on my cheek. It used to stay for about 6 weeks, then leave for a couple of months, then come back . . . (My PCP said it had to do with poor drainage, but it's just weird that it suddenly started happening and the timing is so strange, so I finally decided I wanted a second opinion.)

Now that I've scheduled an appointment, of course it only stays for a week or so. Naturally it wasn't showing when I had the video call, but I had thought to take some photos of it, so sent them to the doctor. He's going to get back to me. May have already, but I haven't seen a notification for the my chart thingie.

I read some fanfic and started the next Amelia Peabody.

Temps started out at 47.8(F) (still cold, but 10 degrees warmer than yesterday!) and reached 80.1!! I wore capris and a t-shirt this morning because I knew it was going to get hot later on. After having the forecast show zero rain, we suddenly have five days of rain coming up, starting tomorrow. We need it, but I still hate having to do my errands and running around in the rain.

Mom Update:

Mom was doing pretty good today. ( more back here )

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Preview:

Here in my journal

Btw, has anyone watched The Journey of Legend yet? The summary sounds promising.

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance The Symphony of the Sword concert will take place on February 15, 2026

The Symphony of the Sword will include music from Kingdom Come: Deliverance I & II and will take place in Poland on February15, 2026 with tickets available now.

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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

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Ananta gets a new open-world gameplay video ahead of TGS 2025

NetEase showcases new Ananta open-world gameplay ahead of TGS 2025.

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Title: There's Only One...
Fandom: Spooks
Pairing/Characters: Lucas North/Adam Carter
Content Notes: No warning needed
Prompt: September 23rd - oh no, there's only one [choice/to be revealed!]

There's Only One... on AO3

michifugu

Inspired by this list, I decided to make my own compilation of media that influenced the Xenoblade and Xeno-series in general. I haven’t personally read or watched all of these works, but I based the list on the literature and films that inspired Tetsuya Takahashi, since he’s always been open about the art and media that shaped his writing. So this is more of a guesswork list built around his known influences and preferences. The list will probably grow over time, and I might be missing some titles—feel free to add suggestions in the comments!

Most of this list comes from works Takahashi and Soraya mentioned either in interviews, on social media, or directly cited as references. Some are also things fans picked up on, such as, similar themes, storytelling styles, or references across the Xenoblade and broader Xeno series. I also added media Takahashi probably grew up with, which is why you’ll see a lot of old-school classics in literature, anime, and movies. He’s said he doesn’t really watch much modern stuff, he prefers older works to modern ones. Many of these share thematic or narrative parallels with Xeno. While the influences are mostly sci-fi, both Takahashi and Soraya have also drawn inspiration from non-sci-fi works, and fans have spotted those references within the Xeno framework as well.

I’m putting this compilation together in hopes that other Xeno fans who want to understand Xenoblade’s philosophy and inspirations will have an easier time discovering the works that influenced Tetsuya Takahashi & Soraya Saga. For nonfiction sources (like psychology, ideology, or gnosticism), I’ll just list the themes rather than specific titles since there are too many to cover—but if I do read any of those books myself, I’ll add them to the list in the future.

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Current Mood: cheerful
Current Location: Orbital Space Station
Current Music: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 - Strauss

smokingboot

6 years ago today we got this place. The equinox was late that year, and we were going through hell on earth waiting for final completion, due to someone just, er, taking their time. R was in the car outside the house waiting for the cats to turn up in a van, house goods to arrive in a lorry and me to get there by air. Our solicitor friend warned us that stuff like this doesn't usually complete late afternoon. R was trying to work out air B&Bs and catteries by that time. Bloody shambles only solved by our Scottish solicitor being most excellent and walking the cheque to completion.

Since then, this house has been a fabulous friend through Lockdown and Covid and Cancer. I am going to plant more trees and flowers this autumn. This place deserves a name as well as a number. It should be Cherry Tree Corner cos we have all these trees, but they blossom, they don't bear fruit. So I don't know.

Happy Gotcha Day, House!

amalthia

Tonight I was re-watching some of my favorite Farscape music vids and wow I felt like this was the golden age of music vids. Like this fandom kept raising the bar in terms of what is possible in a music vid.

The vid "Fix You" had wonderful use of voice overs and overlays/crossfading. The song choice and editing made it was absolutely perfect. I cried the first time watching it. Youtube LINK: Fix You

Then I re-watched "Angel of Moya" to the song "return to innocence" and this vidder did something I never saw done to before, which was they played the clips backwards from the end of the show until the beginning and it worked. Angel of Moya by Avenue Potter.

Then there are these two John/Aeryn gems from Leviathan.

She Drives me Crazy
A life less ordinary

There are so many other good vids in this fandom. If you have any recs please feel free to share in the comments!

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Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian showcases shop management, gathering, and more

Koei Tecmo and Gust have released two new trailers showcasing Shop Management & Town Restoration and also Gathering & Dimensional Paths in Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian.

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[film] Everything Everywhere All at once

Femslash week in review: 2025-09-09 - 2025-09-15

Quick happy Rosh Hashanah

The Day in Spikedluv (Monday, Sept 22)

Two arts: Cheng Yi and Zhang Rishan

Kingdom Come: Deliverance The Symphony of the Sword concert will take place on February 15, 2026

Just one thing: 23 September 2025

Art: Cheng Yi seduces me again

[ ICONS ] OKARUN AND AIRA, DAN DA DAN

Ananta gets a new open-world gameplay video ahead of TGS 2025

There's Only One... (Spooks, Lucas North, Adam Carter)

【Compilation】A Work That Inspire the Xenoblade

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