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The Friday Five for 24 April 2026

anais_pf

thefridayfive

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 01:23 pm

These questions were written by

nondenomifan.

1. What decade did you attend/are you attending high school or college?

2. What clothing fashion from that time are you glad/do you wish went out of style?

3. Do you still listen to the music from your high school/college years on a regular basis?

4. What hairstyle/hair color did/do you wear during high school/college?

5. What was/is "the cool thing to do" while in high school/college?

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A lovely sunny outing with tulips!

kazzy_cee

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 03:11 pm

It has been a gloriously sunny day today with clear skies and a temperature of 20ºC/68ºF, which was perfect for an outing to a tulip festival about an hour's drive away.

Tulley's Tulip Fest runs for about three weeks each year and is a celebration of beautiful tulips. This week is the peak time to see them, and they have 1.5 million tulips with over 120 different varieties on show. It was lovely to enjoy them in the sunshine today.

This is one of two fields covered in rows and rows of gorgeous colour. Under the cut for giant tulips, floating tulips, windmills, butterflies and unicorns...

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There were lots of opportunities to buy from vendors selling food, including Dutch specialities such as bitterballen, pancakes and stroopwaffles, but also lots of street food. We ended up having a delicious, freshly cooked wood-fired pizza for lunch before heading home.

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mark

dw_maintenance

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026 09:19 am

Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

Protagonist has just met up with his estranged mother, who left him as a baby

conuly

Friday, April 24th, 2026 12:13 am

and her excuse is "Your father and I both agreed that it was best to raise you away from my wealthy-but-toxic family, whom I was returning to". And having met the protagonist's half-siblings, I can't say that this was wrong - but what, she just loved him so much more than her younger two that she had with her new, richer, more socially acceptable husband? No matter how you look at it, she's not exactly winning the mother of the year award.

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angrboda

Tuesday, April 21st, 2026 03:54 pm

For my birthday, Husband bought me a furniture cleaner. And before you all go, "oh gosh, what a clueless man!" let me just assure you all, he is far from clueless and I wanted one. I have in fact been casting long glances and coveting for at least the last six months. So I am HAPPY!

It's one of those things where I want it and I can easily afford it, but it is also expensive enough and specialised enough that I have a great deal of trouble convincing myself that yes, I am in fact allowed to buy one. So I don't. Husband to the rescue.

I have tried it out on a chair. The used water was... opaque. It was WILD! I want to wash the sofa, but I will control myself and wait until tomorrow morning, because it does require a bit of drying time afterwards and we want to be able to sit in it tonight. I'm worried about what the water is going to look like after that.

This is going to be so useful! I can wash our mattress!

The ACLU sent me a text

conuly

Monday, April 20th, 2026 08:30 pm

About their fight against the racist War on Drugs.

It includes what looks like a tea leaf emoji? Whatever sort of leaf this is, it’s not marijuana, even I know that. Maybe no emoji at all would’ve been the better call….

So I saw this nifty video on harp music notation

conuly

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026 03:51 pm

OMG, but ignore the dipshit in the comments.

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I saw a red-winged blackbird!

conuly

Tuesday, April 21st, 2026 09:29 pm

I didn't get a good look, seeing it as I did out a bus window, but did I have to? They're not that hard to identify.

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This person is looking for English-language poems and poetry collection recs

conuly

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 08:44 am

The important thing is they have to be accessible, beginner-level poems for people who don't "get" poetry in English (or, perhaps, in any language).

Though I will say now what I only sort of suggested then, which is that I've never thought the point of reading anything is to understand it all. Sometimes it's enough to enjoy it, even if you miss a thing or ten. (This may be why I know so many Shakespeare quotes - from the age of six onwards I made repeated dives into our big copy of his collected works, and you know for sure I did not understand Elizabethan English at that age!)

A Fairly Sad Tale by Dorothy Parker

conuly

Sunday, April 19th, 2026 09:19 pm

I think that I shall never know
Why I am thus, and I am so.
Around me, other girls inspire
In men the rush and roar of fire.
The sweet transparency of glass,
The tenderness of April grass,
The durability of granite;
But me—I don't know how to plan it.
The lads I've met in Cupid's deadlock
Were—shall we say?—born out of wedlock.
They broke my heart, they stilled my song,
And said they had to run along,
Explaining, so to sop my tears,
First came their parents or careers.
But ever does experience
Deny me wisdom, calm, and sense!
Though she's a fool who seeks to capture
The twenty-first fine, careless rapture,
I must go on, till ends my rope,
Who from my birth was cursed with hope.
A heart in half is chaste, archaic;
But mine resembles a mosaic—
The thing's become ridiculous!
Why am I so? Why am I thus?

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conuly

Saturday, April 18th, 2026 07:56 pm

Poll #34495 Ideal calendar behavior

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 48

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When should one cross dates off the calendar?

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You cross off the current date at the start of the day
2 (4.2%)

You cross off the current date at the end of the day
30 (62.5%)

You cross off tomorrow's date at the end of the day
1 (2.1%)

You never cross anything off, ever
15 (31.2%)

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What's really dismaying

conuly

Friday, April 17th, 2026 07:21 pm

is that none of this was made up. Truly, I hate this timeline.

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conuly

Thursday, April 16th, 2026 05:13 pm

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The Friday Five for 17 April 2026

anais_pf

thefridayfive

Thursday, April 16th, 2026 05:46 pm

These questions were written by

ideealisme.

1. What did you do on Monday?

2. What did you do on Tuesday?

3. What did you do on Wednesday?

4. What did you do on Thursday?

5. What are you going to do today?

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Jesus

conuly

Wednesday, April 15th, 2026 12:00 pm

Just went to the store, spent over $90 for half a week's groceries just for me.

This is not sustainable, but it's not going to get better any time soon.

I could eat at work, but let's be clear, I don't much like the housekeeper's cooking, they rarely have in stock what I'd need to make my own food the way I like it (other than eggs), and also I have some weird food issues around... I don't really know. Eating other people's food? But not at a restaurant where it's okay? Maybe it's smelling the food? I honestly do not know, that's what makes these issues weird. (But even if I didn't, she boils the poor vegetables to death.)

At a different residence tonight

conuly

Tuesday, April 14th, 2026 09:51 pm

One of the staff has the same name as one of the residents, and it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that out.

Late Bird by Angela Narciso Torres

conuly

Tuesday, April 14th, 2026 12:42 am

Count me among the noon risers who stumble,
dazed and bad-haired, from the nest midday,
pecking the crazed dirt for half-torn moth,
pear’s white core, severed worm. I’ve never
been one to trill at chink of dawn, to hop,
skip, chirrup before full sun. I’m better
at picking over crumbs, stitching a quilt
from what’s left, remaindered, given up
for gone. Better at betting the careless
will miss the best. Count me among
the nightbirds who sip starlight, a guitar’s
fading strains. Find me where moondust
swirls in streetlamp glow and stray dogs sleep.
What clings to the bone is most sweet.

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Welp, it's allergy season

conuly

Sunday, April 12th, 2026 01:46 pm

Yay.

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The case of the missing notifications

denise

dw_maintenance

Saturday, April 11th, 2026 11:58 pm

I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

Given E's predeliction for 1990s - 2000s tv, what is she going to watch next?

conuly

Saturday, April 11th, 2026 07:45 pm

Edit: fuck, I forgot to include Smallville! Uh, vote for that as the last option I guess.

1. Results will be non-binding

2. I will not watch anything starring anybody who then went on to perform in the God's Not Dead franchise. This isn't even about their abhorrent beliefs, it's about their apparently low artistic standards. I only am barely including Xena on this list because we can just skip crossover episodes. Please do let me know if I accidentally listed a Big Mistake in that regard

Poll #34464 Old TV

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

View Respondents

What are we gonna watch together?

View Answers

Teen Wolf
4 (8.7%)

Stargate (any)
20 (43.5%)

Xena
15 (32.6%)

X-Files
12 (26.1%)

Scrubs
7 (15.2%)

Something else that you'll put in the comments
4 (8.7%)

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The Friday Five for 24 April 2026

A lovely sunny outing with tulips!

Search maintenance

Protagonist has just met up with his estranged mother, who left him as a baby

(no subject)

The ACLU sent me a text

So I saw this nifty video on harp music notation

I saw a red-winged blackbird!

This person is looking for English-language poems and poetry collection recs

A Fairly Sad Tale by Dorothy Parker

(no subject)

What's really dismaying

(no subject)

The Friday Five for 17 April 2026

Jesus

At a different residence tonight

Late Bird by Angela Narciso Torres

Welp, it's allergy season

The case of the missing notifications

Given E's predeliction for 1990s - 2000s tv, what is she going to watch next?