Shot day

Mar. 5th, 2026 08:52 am
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On Thursdays, I play volleyball, pick up and deliver the Timber Ridge Times and give myself a shot. All before 9. But today there is no Timber Ridge Times so my schedule is already fubared. But, now I'm caught up.

Yesterday I spent the day inside my apartment seeing no one after we got home from the vet's. Probably today I will do the same. I did get the sleeves on my new jacket shortened and I started a new yarn project which I may or may not continue. And I started a new book by a favorite author which is so far a disappointment.

The cats' water fountain quit fountaining. I'm ready for a new/different one anyway so it works out fine.

I got offered a job. Legit pay job. The company that makes the financial software I use, wants to hire me. Part time for kind of customer service. I appreciate the offer but I just can't squeeze it into my schedule. My finances are now so dirt simple, I really only use their software to collect the data which, honestly, I could do manually nearly as easily.

I just cut off all my fingernails. It always makes me feel like I should donate them to some forensic endeavor. Probably I'm just watching too much crime TV or reading too many crime books.

Somehow my kitchen has gotten itself into a mess. So first I'm going to get dressed and then I'm going to clean it up. And then I'm going to ... ahhhh the joy of retirement.

Fancake's Theme for March: Siblings

Mar. 5th, 2026 09:21 am
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Photograph of two adorable Vietnamese toddlers in identical denim overalls and dinosaur sweaters, text: Siblings, at Fancake.
[community profile] fancake's theme for March is Siblings! Assigned, chosen, other, it doesn't matter what kind of siblings they are as long as they're wearing matching dinosaur sweaters. jk

If you have any questions about this theme, or the comm, come talk to me!
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March’s Discworld reread was Equal Rites, which is both a Discworld book and an entry in one of my most lifelong favorite subgenres of fantasy, Little Girls Rebelling Against Gender Roles. After nearly 40 years of this and seeing how little progress has been made in those 40 years I don’t love this quite as much as I did when I was myself a Little Girl with mixed feelings on how I was supposed to Rebel Against Gender Roles (the good and proper kind of Rebelling Against Gender Roles for girls in the ‘90s was to do sports, which I wasn’t interested in; the incorrect kind was to want to be a Catholic priest, which I was). It’s less complicated when reading pseudo-medieval fantasy novels where the things they are trying to do are not really choices for either gender, like being a knight or, in this case, a wizard.

Overall this is still very much an early Discworld book and it shows–it’s shorter, more episodic, and a little more ‘80s, having been published the same year I was born. But it’s still very funny, full of groanworthy puns and comically unflattering character descriptions. Most importantly, it introduces us to Granny Weatherwax, one of the all-time iconic characters of the Discworld, and her concept of “headology,” which I occasionally forget is not a real word outside of Discworld fans and have been known to use like I think people should know what I’m talking about. Anyway, despite being a little clunky at times, the gender politics of this one are reasonably solid, dunking on both gender essentialism and the devaluation of traditional “women’s work” (it’s amazing how many people manage to fumble one or the other of these). I had fun revisiting it.

2026.03.05

Mar. 5th, 2026 10:29 am
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Trump administration is failing to address spread of measles, experts say
As number of cases climbs past 1,000, experts say CDC is not taking obvious steps amid funding cuts
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/05/trump-administration-measles

US judge orders refunds for more than $130bn in illegal Trump tariffs
Trade court directs customs to repay importers with interest after supreme court ruled tariffs unlawful
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Here:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...

I see its second half, Legacy, which completes the tetralogy's first arc and should be read with it, is only $4.99 at the moment, so, excellent idea to pick them both up together.

A quick check finds it at regular price at other vendors at the moment, so this may just be a Kindle thing.

Ta, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on March, 05
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Posted by Stephen Morris, Financial Times

Elon Musk has acknowledged that the tweet at the center of a multibillion-dollar lawsuit over his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter “may not have been my wisest” as the world’s richest man defends himself from allegations of market manipulation in court.

He told a San Francisco jury on Wednesday that his post was not intended to manipulate Twitter’s stock price in the midst of the takeover battle.

A group of Twitter investors has alleged they lost money after Musk threatened to walk away from the deal to gain leverage during takeover talks, despite being aware he would be legally forced to complete the $44 billion buyout.

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Posted by Andrew Cunningham

As part of Apple's flurry of Mac announcements earlier this week, the company announced the new M5 Pro and M5 Max processors. And those chips are shaking up the way that Apple designs and talks about its processor cores: What would have been called "performance" CPU cores are now "super" cores. "Efficiency" cores are still called efficiency cores. And there's a new, third type of CPU core in between that is labeled a "performance" core.

Apple said earlier this week that the "super" name change would retroactively apply to the regular-old Apple M5's performance cores, too. And the macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 update released yesterday formally made the name change official, changing the labeling in both the System Information app and the Activity Monitor.

The Activity Monitor in macOS 26.3.1 updates your "performance" cores to "super" cores. Credit: Andrew Cunningham
Activity Monitor on the M5 MacBook Pro in macOS 26.3, before the name change was announced. Credit: Andrew Cunningham
The System Information app also now refers to M5's high-performance cores as "super." Credit: Andrew Cunningham
System Information in macOS 26.3, when the big cores were still called "performance" cores. Credit: Andrew Cunningham

This "upgrade" should only apply to the M5 MacBook Pro, the sole M5-family Mac released before the name change was announced. It should go without saying that this is just a name change; you shouldn't actually expect different behavior or performance from your Mac after installing the update. The new MacBook Airs and Pros with M5, M5 Pro, and M5 Max chips will likely already be using the new names out of the box.

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Community Recs Post!

Mar. 5th, 2026 10:17 am
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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fanart/fics/fanvids/fancrafts/other kinds of fanworks/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

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