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when your boyfriend, who turned out to be a fabulously wealthy member of the magical nobility, insists on buying you an expensive ring, and not just to get at his awful family who all hate you?

Last time that happened to me, I told him, "The ring is nice, but seriously, get your shit together and stand up to your folks, or the wedding's off." And this is why I'm not married today. Fabulous wealth is all well and good, but there are limits, and realistically speaking, you probably can't murder all your inlaws.

Alas, our protagonist is going to take the next book and a half to put her foot down. I can just tell. Unlike any sensible heroine, she's going to spend all her time trying to placate those assholes instead. Honey, it's a wasted effort! If you insist on standing by your man, stand by him by booking a couples spa date - no parents allowed.

(The ring isn't even magical. It's just expensive. I mean, honestly, I would not put up with those people for a nonmagical ring, and here she is insisting that it's all too much, it's too valuable, is he sure he wants to spend what, to him, amounts to pocket change on little old her? Please.)

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canyonwalker

This past Saturday I went wine-tasting locally with my friend, Anthony. He and I had done a wine-tasting afternoon back in August, when we visited David Bruce Winery and Thomas Fogarty winery. My original plan for that day had been to visit three wineries, but at the first winery it became evident that we wouldn't have time for all three. Trimming it down to 2 worked really well for that day. We had 2 great visits without feel rushed. And it gave us a clear reason to get back together and do it again. We had to hit that third winery!

Byington Winery in Los Gatos - in the mountains above San Jose (Dec 2025)

Byington Winery in Los Gatos - in the mountains above San Jose (Dec 2025)

Winery #3 from August's trip— the one we skipped— was Byington Winery. It's in the mountains of Los Gatos, perched about 2,000' above San Jose and the Silicon Valley.

Saturday turned out to be a great day for a visit, even though it was the middle of December rather than the middle of summer. That's because we had beautiful weather on Saturday. The sky was clear after morning fog burned off. Rain hadn't been seen for days. Down in the valley the daytime high on forecast was an average-for-the-time-of-year 60°F (17°C) or so. I expected it would be cooler 2,000' up in the mountains. But there seemed to be a temperature inversion up in the mountains, as it was shirt sleeves weather (high 60s) when we arrived. We stowed our sweaters in the trunk and headed inside.

We opted to take our tasting standing at the bar inside the hunting-lodge style main hall. A few other guests were at the bar so it was mildly social without feeling crowded. The tasting menu included 4 wines, which immediately turned into 5, then 6, then maybe 7. I lost count. One thing that's true about many wine-tasting venues is that if you're good company and you schmooze with the staff without coming across as a moocher, they'll open up some extra bottles for you. I can schmooze when I need/want to, though I often feel self-conscious about doing it. Anthony's a natural at it. In our conversation he talked about all the bars in town where he "knows" the bartenders and gets free drinks. 🍻

View across the Santa Cruz Mountains from Byington Winery in Los Gatos (Dec 2025)

View across the Santa Cruz Mountains from Byington Winery in Los Gatos (Dec 2025)

After drinking our fill at the bar we headed outside to appreciate the view from the hilltop. I kind of wish we'd done this earlier in the afternoon, as toward the end of our visit the weather had turned cooler.

We didn't leave Byington empty-handed. No, far from it! Both of us generally liked most of the wines they poured for us. Our discuss as we worked through the list wasn't "if" we would buy bottles to take home but which ones. Anthony picked a few bottles of lighter flavors, a sweet chardonnay and a pinot noir, as his wife likes lighter flavors. (He figured bringing home bottles that she'd like would get him a pass to maybe do this again. 😅) I chose two bottles of a surprisingly well balanced chardonnay and a spendier Bordeaux-style blend. The latter was curious because I was all set to buy a bottle of a Barbera that tasted really nice. Then they poured that Bordeaux and it was lights-out for the Barbera. 🤣

Stay tuned.... One more winery to come!

troisoiseaux

Read A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews, a slim, unconventional memoir. Framed as her repeated failure to respond to the prompt why do you write? to the satisfaction of a literary conference in Mexico City (she was eventually uninvited), it reads like a commonplace book: a mix of anecdotes, and copies of letters Toews exchanged with her sister over the years (the answer to why do you write? being, originally, because she asked me to), and musings about to go about creating a "wind museum", and random quotes and poetry and the names/details of historical figures who died by suicide. It helped to know a bit about Toews' background - mostly that she was raised Mennonite and that both her father and sister died by suicide - because eventually both of those things are clearly stated, but I did get a sense that she presumed someone picking up Toews' personal non-fiction on why she writes has already read at least some of her novels, many of which have drawn-from-life elements.

In other writing about writing, I received This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days by John Darnielle as an early birthday/Christmas gift - an illustrated, annotated collection of the Mountain Goats' lyrics - and, of course, immediately just skimmed it for my favorite songs, which quickly turned into reading random chunks because each "annotation" is a short paragraph, max - sometimes about the context for writing the song, or commentary on the characters/story, or what inspired it, or how people respond to it, or some observation/quote/etc. that is not obviously related to the song in any way - so once you've opened it to a specific page it's easy to just keep going for a while, and anyway, now I have to figure out to actually read this book. Just read it cover to cover? Listen to each song in the order they appear, and read the accompanying passage? (Which is a cool idea, but would take forever. Theoretically, I could do one song per day, devotional-style, but I know my attention span well enough to know that's not happening.)

sturgeonslawyer

To be clear: "Amends" is an extrasolar world, and "Making" means colonizing it.

In a middle-near future, the rich (code word for: White) rule the poor (code word for: not-White) largely through corporate power -- or at least in the Western Hemisphere, this is true; we never learn much about the rest of the world.

The first story is set in a prison/school/orbital colony/something -- its exact economic nature is never made exactly clear -- where poor (non-White, and clearly mostly Black) young people live a violent life. A young woman who escaped a while back now returns as an agent to recruit people for a colonial mission to Amends (not named in this story).

The trick, as we eventually learn: the colonists are stripped of their bodies and stored in computer modules for the decades-long journey. When they arrive, new bodies are grown for them -- bodies cloned from (White) "victims" of "crimes." So, as they gradually realize, they are essentially being used as breeding stock for their oppressors.

The stories range from brutal to gently beautiful, sometimes within the same story. I don't want to tell too much about the individual stories, because there's so much juice in them that I don't want to spill.

But (here at least) Nisi Shawl writes like a demon; they are the closest living thing to a kind of cross between Octavia Butler and Harlan Ellison, and I mean that in a good way. I recommend this book highly.

9 out of 10 totally not suspicious surveillance devices

sturgeonslawyer

I have always preferred autobiographies to biographies, because biographies almost always end with the death of the main character.

More seriously: one always has to be a bit careful with an autobiography, because the motives of the author, who is also the subject, must be suspect until proven otherwise.

In the end, I don't know whether Sir Elton is completely honest in his book or not. He certainly seems to be, at least, attempting the feat. He has a no-holds-barred approach to discussion situations where he acted like an asshole, in one particular case over a period of years; he puts all blame for the failure of his marriage to Renate Blauel firmly upon himself; and he is not at all shy about admitting that he has inherited a raging bad temper from both of his parents.

This is not in any way a tell-all sort of book. He describes most of the people he has known (Freddie Mercury, Elizabeth II, Princess Diana...) in very positive terms, and, when he describes someone more negatively (for example, his encounter with Elvis Presley), he talks not only about what that person has become, but why: Elvis had been isolated from reality, and from most of the consequences of his actions for so long, that he was pretty much dissociated by the time Elton met him (not long before he died).

On the other hand, there are people (including his parents) on whom he has no problem ladling massive amounts of blame. If the facts are as he describes them - and in a few cases, such as the manager who ripped him off, they are verifiable (though I have not chosen to do the work) - then these people certainly deserve to have blame poured on their heads.

Perhaps the most moving section of the book is his spiral into alcohol-drugs-bulemia, and his eventual, difficult, decision to enter a recovery center. (It was, incidentally, difficult to find one who could deal with someone with drug, alcohol, and eating disorders.) Coming out the other side, and spending a long time attending AA meetings -- sometimes more than one per day -- created a side of his life that had not previously existed, and that, eventually, made it possible for him to marry David Furnish and for them to have two sons together.

I come away thinking that Me is a genuine warts-and-all autobiography.

But can I ever know?

77 out of 88 piano keys

sturgeonslawyer

The Didache (dee-dah-KAY) is an anonymous handbook for newly-converted Christians, believed to be from the first century AD. In its first chapter it claims to be "The Lord's Teaching to the Heathen by the Twelve Apostles."

Its sixteen short chapters cover several broad topics, beginning with the "Ways" of Life and Death: "The Way of Life is the love of God and of our neighbor." The Golden Rule is given in its negative form ("Do not do to others...").

It moves on from there to some of the Commandments concerning social behavior, forbidding murder, adultry, and so on, and derives additional recommendations based on them, observing further how one vice leads to another.

Chapter 4 gives further precepts, concluding: "This is the Way of Life," then describes the Way of Death simply as a list of no-nos. In chapter 5, we are exhorted to "bear the whole yoke of the Lord" if we can, but if not, to do what we can; only under no circumstances to eat what has been offered to idols - though it seems to include in this a sense that one need not refrain from eating those foods forbidden by Mosaic and Talmudic law.

From there, the Didache moves on to matters of ceremony and church order: instructoins on baptism, fasting, the Eucharist, and general thanksgiving.

Finally, it describes the organization of the Church, including some interesting passages on the treatment of wandering prophets and how to discern whether they are "true" prophets or not.

It's hard to render a judgment on a book like this. I will note two things and be silent.

1) Given its extreme early date and its claim to be the teaching of the Apostles, one has to wonder why the Didache was not included in the Canon of Scripture. My first thought is that it gives a great deal of advice on behavior, but little or nothing in the way of theology, and especially not Christology; but it is hardly for me to guess at what went through the minds of people in a very different culture, in a very different time and place, making such an important decision.

2) It shows in early form a number of things that Protestants point at in Catholicism as not being true to the "Primitive Church." Oops.

sturgeonslawyer

I can remember, not too long ago, a time when this book would have been considered pornographic. In 2025, it won the Man Booker Prize.

It tells the life story, more or less, of István. We meet him as a boy living in a small city in Hungary. In the first chapter, he fails to have sex with a girl his own age, and is then gradually seduced by an older woman who lives across the landing from István and his mother: the relationship ends in the accidental death of the woman's husband and István's spending ten years in jail.

He gets out, spends a short time helping smuggle drugs from Croatia, and eventually ends up in the army in Kuwait, where he accidentally becomes something of a hero. And so on.

It's very incidental, less "cause and effect" driven than "this happened, then this happened," with, at times, very little seeming to connecit one "this" to the next.

Yet somehow it all seems to hold itself together, rather like an early Vonnegut novel, only the humor is much drier and the sex more frequent and explicit.

My book club picked this to read, and I cannot honestly understand why except for that Man Booker prize.

Oh well.

Five out of ten classic watches.

theatlantic_health_feed

Posted by Nicholas Florko

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/12/weed-rules-rescheduling-donald-trump/685329/?utm_source=feed

For more than 50 years, America’s official position on marijuana has been seen as nonsensical. By classifying pot as a Schedule I drug, the federal government has lumped it with heroin and LSD as substances with “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” In 1972, two years after marijuana was relegated to the most restrictive category of drugs in America, a government report found that weed’s “actual impact on society does not justify a social policy designed to seek out and firmly punish those who use it.”

Even with the federal classification, states have been experimenting with marijuana legalization for nearly three decades. These laws have led to fewer marijuana-related arrests without dramatic increases in crime, and they haven’t substantially spiked the rate of illicit adolescent cannabis use. Although fully legalizing recreational marijuana remains controversial, it’s clear that smoking a joint from your local dispensary is not the same as using heroin.

Now America’s marijuana policies are getting a bit more in line with the actual science. Today, Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the government to move the drug to Schedule III, a classification for substances with “moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence.” As the president emphasized in the Oval Office, the action “doesn’t legalize marijuana in any way, shape, or form.” Selling marijuana without a prescription will still be a federal crime, just as trafficking anabolic steroids (also a Schedule III drug) is illegal.

The biggest impact from today’s action will likely be on medical research. Marijuana studies have been stymied because researchers who want to experiment with Schedule I drugs need to be closely vetted by the federal government. During the signing ceremony for the executive order, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argued that the new classification will let scientists better understand the drug. That’s the hope of Ryan Vandrey, a cannabis researcher at Johns Hopkins University. Vandrey’s lab was cleared to do cannabis research while marijuana was still in Schedule I, but he hopes that this loosening of restrictions will open up “a huge number of possibilities for us to get at both the health benefits and health risks of cannabis as a whole,” he told me.

[Read: The new war on weed]

At the same time, by rescheduling the drug, the government runs the risk of signaling that marijuana is no big deal. “We need to be very clear in our messaging—especially to young people—that rescheduling does not mean cannabis is harmless,” Scott Hadland, a professor at Harvard Medical School and a pediatrician who treats adolescent addiction, told me. The government needs to figure out a way to tell Americans that even though marijuana is not as dangerous as heroin, it’s still an addictive drug. That’s not an easy message to communicate. Prior to signing the executive order today, the president touted the purported benefits of marijuana for certain medical conditions, but he also echoed the “Just Say No” drug campaign of decades past. “Unless a drug is recommended by a doctor for medical reasons, just don’t do it,” he said. (The White House did not respond to a request for comment.)

When talking about the risks of marijuana, you can easily to come off as a scold. Roughly 50 percent of Americans have tried the drug, and according to a 2024 study, the number of people using cannabis daily or near daily now eclipses the number who drink alcohol at a similar frequency. (Trump emphasized today that weed rescheduling polls well.) Even so, the risks of marijuana are real. The CDC estimates that three in 10 cannabis users exhibit some signs of dependency.

It doesn’t help that marijuana isn’t the same as when it was first scheduled, back in 1970. The drug has become significantly stronger over the past several decades. The average joint in the ’70s contained about 2 percent THC, the main psychoactive component of marijuana. In 2025, dispensaries regularly stock joints that have more than 35 percent THC. Studies have shown that use of higher-concentration marijuana is associated with serious mental-health outcomes, such as psychosis. In 2017, there were more than 100,000 hospitalizations for pot-linked psychosis, one study found. Vandrey said that he hopes rescheduling will help researchers better interrogate the “very strong correlation” between heavy marijuana use and psychosis.

None of this is to say that marijuana should stay a Schedule I drug, as it has for decades. In spite of this classification, millions of Americans have continued to use it. The government is now finally backing away from a misguided position about the risks of pot. But it still has to contend with the drug’s complications.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/12/weed-rules-rescheduling-donald-trump/685329/?utm_source=feed

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redbird

No, I did not spend all the money in my wallet on chocolate*, but I treated us to a box of chocolates from Serenade, the chocolatier in Brookline with a wide selection of vegan chocolates.

I took the bus to Brookline Village, walked a little extra because I was wrong about which bus stop to use, walked into the shop, and asked for a one-pound box.

I bought two vegan caramels, which Adrian had asked for; I'd have gotten more, but I wasn't sure what she or Cattitude think of sea salt caramel. Just for myself, I got six dairy truffles, three lemon and three lime. The rest was a few (vegan) chocolate creams, and a lot of chocolate-dipped fruit and nuts, including several of their excellent chocolate covered plums, a candy I haven't seen anywhere else.

I came home via Trader Joe's, where I bought fruit, a bell pepper, hummus, pre-cooked chicken sausages, a carton of chocolate ice cream, and a box of frozen vanilla and chocolate macarons.

Even counting the chocolate part of the groceries, I would have had money left from the $79 that happens to be how much cash is in my wallet right now. That's a pretty arbitrary metric, since I don't always have the same amount of cash (I do make a point of having some, because cash still comes in handy sometimes).

*see yesterday's post

dialecticdreamer

Unwrapped Surprise
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1168
[Second week of December 2016]

:: Shiv is wrapping his gift for Luci when… I was ambushed by a plot demon. Written as an extension of an earlier prompt for the December of 2025 month of gifted stories, this was in mind immediately after receiving the prompt. My thanks to the readers and the prompters! ::

Shiv smirked as he used the scrap of metal under his fingernail to cut a strip of aluminum foil from the roll, making the strip as wide as his pinky nail, then repeated the process four more times. He picked up the box that Genna had given him, a fancy one for necklaces, even padded with pristine cotton batting, as if she’d bought it new and then just set it aside for later.
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brithistorian

Last night I discovered that Kiiras had released a Christmas song, called "Kiirasmas." I don't think I'd objectively say it's a good song, but it's still fun to listen to.
Watch on YouTube
A few years ago, I did a K-pop Christmas song Advent calendar. This morning, as I added "Kiirasmas" to my K-pop Christmas playlist, I realized that if I wanted to post the whole playlist one song a day, I'd have had to start back on October 15! ^^
After having to spend 40 minutes listening to the store playing Christmas music while I waited for the pharmacy to fill a prescription. I'd like to say: No matter how Christmas-adjacent some of its lyrics may be, "My Favorite Things" is not a Christmas song. I'm willing to get seriously injured on this hill. However, if it means that I'll hear "The Christmas Song" less often, I'm willing to act like it's a Christmas song.

callibr8

URGENT: IMMEDIATE CALL FOR HELP, 18-December-2025

This is a duplicate of a post on Facebook. I'm trying to cast as wide a net as I can.

My friend Shannon McKinnion is stranded in Ellensburg, WA. She can't leave until the truck she has rented is loaded up with the contents of her student housing. Because of the weather in Washington state, she'll have to drive west using the Columbia Gorge (over 400 miles) to reach home instead of taking the direct route (only 125 miles), due to worsening conditions in the Cascade Mountains.

If you are in or near Ellensburg and can help Shannon and Tabi load their truck, please let me know and I'll put you in touch.

If you are in or near Tri-Cities and could offer two women and their cat an overnight refuge, please let me know and I'll put you in touch.

If you have any funds to spare to help her cover the extra costs that are accruing because of the delays, extra mileage/gas, etc, her GoFundMe is here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-shannon-complete-her-masters

If you'd rather PayPal her directly, use @patgund

Please read, respond, forward... let's help Shannon get home safely!

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Current Location: Castle Greyskull
Current Music: "For Unto Us A Child Is Born" -- Handel

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guardian_learning

部首
弓 part 4
弱, weak; 弹, to pluck/to play/bullet; 强, strong ( pinyin )
https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?cdqrad=57

词汇
兵, soldier/weapon/military; 士兵, soldier ( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-4-word-list/

Guardian:
我个人魅力太强了吧, my personal attractiveness is just too strong
反抗团老大突然派兵向咱们开战, the rebel boss has suddenly sent his soldiers to attack us

Me:
你能边唱歌边弹吉他吗？
不要太靠兵力。

kaberett

No, internet, I guarantee you that 100% of the time that someone searches for explain pain supercharged, results they do not want are anything you think matches the string "explain paint supercharged". Hope that helps! Have A Nice Day!

(Still not anything like as annoying as fuzzy matching on a[b|d]sorb in GOOGLE SCHOLAR, but nonetheless Quite.)

ysabetwordsmith

Italy makes a surprising discovery ahead of the Winter Olympics: dinosaur tracks

On Tuesday, Italian officials announced the discovery of thousands of dinosaur tracks on "nearly vertical dolomite walls" in Stelvio National Park, a protected area in the central Alps of northern Italy.
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"The tracks, preserved in excellent condition despite the altitude, show traces of toes and claws imprinted on the walls when they were tidal flats at the end of the Triassic," the Natural History Museum says. That period spanned 252 to 201 million years ago.

Della Ferrara notified authorities of his findings, setting paleontological research into motion. Preliminary analyses suggest most of the tracks came from "herbivorous prosauropod dinosaurs" — the long-necked creatures that predate enormous sauropods like the ones depicted in the "Jurassic Park" franchise.

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ysabetwordsmith

Actor Gil Gerard has passed away. He was best known for playing Captain William “Buck” Rogers. He will be missed.

Carry on the work:

How to Become an Actor (with Pictures)

How to Start a Career in Acting (with Pictures)

How to Audition for a TV Show: The Ultimate Guide

Acting in Science Fiction

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cosmolinguist

This morning I mused that today is in that liminal space where I cannot yet eat the cheese we bought for Christmas but there are mince pies on the countertop and I could have one for breakfast.

I did have one for breakfast. (With a slice of regular cheese because mince pies are too sweet for me on their own and taste really good with strong cheese.)

D and I are off to family Christmas celebrations tomorrow, so I signed off work this afternoon for the last time until 2026!

In the three previous years I've had a white collar job, I've never taken this long off, I've always worked a little between Christmas and new year. I kinda like it for catching up on stuff when work is quiet and people leave me alone, and long stretches of unstructured time isn't good for my mental health.

But this time, I'm so ready for this. This year has been so long.

(I know myself well enough to expect that I'll be horrified on the 27th of December when I have a whole week ahead of me with nothing to do. But I can worry about that when I get to it.)

I'm a little sad to be missing queer club's Christmas party this evening, but my carefully planned after-work itinerary fell apart almost as soon as I made it, when my friend L texted and asked if I could come over because he and his husband (also my friend) were having a bad mental health time thanks to the DWP (they are both disabled).

I almost literally dropped everything and left the house, because L isn't the kind of person who gets in touch spontaneously, has the energy for social stuff, or can ask for help easily, so for him to do all these things felt like a big deal to me.

It felt kinda weird to leave in what felt like an emergency and arrive only able to offer hugs and silly, distracting conversation. But I'm assured that it did help. And I'm glad I could do it, I like them so much. It was a good use of my social spoons for the evening.

wondermark_feed

Posted by David Malki !

https://wondermark.com/c/tiffeve/

https://wondermark.com/?post_type=webcomic1&p=18528

This comic was created as part of a “Secret Santa” comics exchange on Reddit. These characters are Tiff and Eve, and this strip was written by Fran Sundblad, the author of the comic Tiff & Eve, and rendered in Wondermark style by me.

Here’s the original Reddit post
More Tiff & Eve comics are on Reddit, Bluesky, Instagram, and Patreon
Check out this post for super secret behind the scenes info

https://wondermark.com/c/tiffeve/

https://wondermark.com/?post_type=webcomic1&p=18528

ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy, chilly, windy, and wet. It's drizzling now. At least all the snow and ice melted off though.

I fed the birds. Unsurprisingly I haven't seen any.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 12/18/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 12/18/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

It's been raining off and on all day. It was raining so briskly in the afternoon that not all the outside tasks got done. Fortunately it's just drizzling now so I finished up what I could. I haven't seen any wildlife all day, which is sensible of them.

The sky has been so cloudy all day that it was perennially twilight. At sunset, the sun hit a band of less clouds, so now 3/4 of the sky is bizarre shades of orange-purple. The road is wet and catching the last light of day like a ribbon of gold.

I am done for the night.

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Unwrapped Surprise (part 1 of 1, complete)

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URGENT: IMMEDIATE CALL FOR HELP, 18-December-2025

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