versicolored
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wordsmithdaily_feedadjective: 1. Having many colors; variegated. 2. Having a color that changes in appearance; iridescent.
wordsmithdaily_feedrescind
Jul. 11th, 2025 01:00 ammerriamwebster_feedMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 11, 2025 is:
rescind • \rih-SIND\ • verb
To rescind something, such as a law, contract, agreement, etc., is to end it officially. Rescind can also mean “to take back; to cancel.”
// Given the appeal court’s recent decision, it is likely that the law will be rescinded.
// The company later rescinded its offer.
Examples:
“A state environmental oversight board voted unanimously to rescind a controversial proposal that would have permitted California municipal landfills to accept contaminated soil that is currently required to be dumped at sites specifically designated and approved for hazardous waste.” — Tony Briscoe, The Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
Did you know?
Rescind and the lesser-known words exscind and prescind all come from the Latin verb scindere, which means “to split, cleave, separate.” Rescind was adapted from its Latin predecessor rescindere in the 16th century, and prescind (from praescindere) and exscind (from exscindere) followed in the next century. Exscind means “to cut off” or “to excise,” and prescind means “to withdraw one’s attention,” but of the three borrowings, only rescind established itself as a common English term. Today, rescind is most often heard in contexts having to do with the withdrawal of an offer, award, or privilege, or with invalidation of a law or policy.
Fannish Fifty 2025 #26 Changing Attitudes
Jul. 10th, 2025 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elaynaMine and society's, I guess.
When I was a kid, I watched a lot of movies from the 1940s and 50s. Many of the characters smoked, which looked glamorous to me. I often pretended to smoke with those white candy cigarettes.
Then my parents stopped when I was around 13, and I got to watch first hand the difficulty of breaking an addiction. Also, a health unit at school on smoking showed a picture of a smoker’s lung and ew. Smoking still looked glamorous in movies but the impact in real life very much did not.
I saw The Materialists this week, primarily for my love of Chris Evans. In several early scenes, Dakota Johnson’s character smokes, looking very elegant with how she holds the cigarette. Chris’s character does too, though with less stylistic drama.
And it was so weirdly distracting! I don’t remember the last time I saw a character smoke in a movie set in modern times. All I could think was how nasty those characters must have smelled.
As the movie progresses, both characters stop smoking, like it was just something to give ‘a bit of business’ to their hands until the plot got more intense, but not really supposed to be part of their personality.
I’m very happy attitudes have changed so much toward smoking. I don’t know anyone who smokes. I only smell it when I go to a casino, which always makes me so grateful that California outlaws smoking most places.
I have no clue why the director had those characters smoke, but it seemed like a bad decision to have it and then inconsistent to drop it. I found the movie interesting though a weird mix of jaded cynicism and hopefulness. I don’t know that I’d recommend it, though if you want to watch for Chris, he definitely looked very good. There’s a scene where he has a few lines about love, and the camera stays focused on him the whole time, and I thought: someone must use that in a video. It would be perfect.
Pedro Pascal looks very good too.
So qualified rec. But really, why have main characters smoke? Why? It's a unpleasant habit that kills people.
When I was a kid, I watched a lot of movies from the 1940s and 50s. Many of the characters smoked, which looked glamorous to me. I often pretended to smoke with those white candy cigarettes.
Then my parents stopped when I was around 13, and I got to watch first hand the difficulty of breaking an addiction. Also, a health unit at school on smoking showed a picture of a smoker’s lung and ew. Smoking still looked glamorous in movies but the impact in real life very much did not.
I saw The Materialists this week, primarily for my love of Chris Evans. In several early scenes, Dakota Johnson’s character smokes, looking very elegant with how she holds the cigarette. Chris’s character does too, though with less stylistic drama.
And it was so weirdly distracting! I don’t remember the last time I saw a character smoke in a movie set in modern times. All I could think was how nasty those characters must have smelled.
As the movie progresses, both characters stop smoking, like it was just something to give ‘a bit of business’ to their hands until the plot got more intense, but not really supposed to be part of their personality.
I’m very happy attitudes have changed so much toward smoking. I don’t know anyone who smokes. I only smell it when I go to a casino, which always makes me so grateful that California outlaws smoking most places.
I have no clue why the director had those characters smoke, but it seemed like a bad decision to have it and then inconsistent to drop it. I found the movie interesting though a weird mix of jaded cynicism and hopefulness. I don’t know that I’d recommend it, though if you want to watch for Chris, he definitely looked very good. There’s a scene where he has a few lines about love, and the camera stays focused on him the whole time, and I thought: someone must use that in a video. It would be perfect.
Pedro Pascal looks very good too.
So qualified rec. But really, why have main characters smoke? Why? It's a unpleasant habit that kills people.
Sunshine Revival/Challenge 2025 #3: Food
Jul. 9th, 2025 11:20 amsilveradeptThird ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sunshine_revival prompt has appeared. Let's see what's going on.
( Elephant Ears, Funnel Cakes, and Doctor Pepper )
sunshine_revival prompt has appeared. Let's see what's going on. Yknow? Food was one of the things I associated most with summer fun. From the cotton-candy from the carnival to the carrotcake my mom would make. I'm sure others have their own snacks or drinks they like to relax with, so We're curious about yours!Summer foods for me tend to be associated with either fairs or specific road trips.
Challenge #3:
Journaling prompt: What are your favorite summer-associated foods?
Creative prompt: Draw art of or make graphics of summer foods, or post your favorite summer recipes.
( Elephant Ears, Funnel Cakes, and Doctor Pepper )
Sunshine Revival/Challenge 2025 #2: Love
Jul. 5th, 2025 11:18 amsilveradeptsunshine_revival has posted their second prompt. Let's see what they're up to. The sun is just starting to disappear behind the horizon and crickets can almost be heard over the music and the laughter echoing through the carnival night. You can't see any stars yet, but the twinkling lights of an amusement ride are highlighting the graceful curves of a swan boat and the high arching hearts of the entrance. Grab the hand of a sweetheart or a sweet friend and embark on a journey through the…Sentiment and love are…weird for me. Heart pumping is much easier, but that's usually related to fear and anxiety than happiness.
Challenge #2:
Tunnel of Love
Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.
Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like.
( Happiness and neurodivergence do not always get along with each other. )
Sunshine Revival/Challenge 2025 #1: Goals
Jul. 1st, 2025 11:15 amsilveradeptIt looks like I missed seeing that some people were interested in reviving the (Northern Hemisphere) summer counterpart to the snowflake_challenge at sunshine_revival, and since it was only by happenstance link that I was informed about this, I'm technically behind in my posting, ha. So, let's dive in with the first prompt presented:
( Shall we talk about goals, then? )
snowflake_challenge at sunshine_revival, and since it was only by happenstance link that I was informed about this, I'm technically behind in my posting, ha. So, let's dive in with the first prompt presented: It's time to bring some light to your journal! Now you can do this in two ways, though you can twist the light in whatever way helps you along ^_^ I know to some it can be intimidating to shine a light on yourself. But know somebody will appreciate you for it!I appreciate the two different approaches, as I have in the other versions of the sunshine variety.
Challenge #1:
Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community.
( Shall we talk about goals, then? )
They Fight Crime!
Jul. 10th, 2025 09:17 amelfI'd forgotten how much I love https://theyfightcrime.org.
( something-something fic prompts )
He's a lonely skateboarding shaman with a winning smile and a way with the ladies. She's a bloodthirsty wisecracking wrestler who hides her beauty behind a pair of thick-framed spectacles. They fight crime!
He's an unconventional soccer-playing grifter in a wheelchair. She's an orphaned foul-mouthed socialite from out of town. They fight crime!
He's an oversexed ninja werewolf fleeing from a secret government programme. She's an enchanted snooty advertising executive with a knack for trouble. They fight crime!
( something-something fic prompts )
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
Jul. 10th, 2025 08:53 amjames_davis_nicoll
Desperate to pay her brother Jasper's way out of Muhlenberg County, Opal accepts a job at an infamously cursed mansion.
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
boffo
Jul. 10th, 2025 01:00 ammerriamwebster_feedMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 10, 2025 is:
boffo • \BAH-foh\ • adjective
Boffo is an informal word that describes things that are extremely good or successful.
// The most recent film in the long-running franchise has done boffo business at the box office, a testament to the series’ enduring popularity.
Examples:
“A strong showing at the Senior Bowl was followed by a boffo performance at the NFL combine, where the 6-foot-4, 214-pound [Isaac] TeSlaa zoomed through the 40-yard dash in 4.43 seconds …” — Rainer Sabin, The Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2025
Did you know?
Boffo made its print debut as a noun referring to something great: a solid joke or a good punch line. It did so right around the same time—the 1930s, at the dawn of Hollywood’s golden age—as boff, a noun with an identical meaning thought to perhaps come from “box office.” Within a few years, boffo began to be applied adjectivally to things that, like a good joke, were a big hit: performances, all-star casts, movies. To this day it is used mostly in the context of performing arts, spectator sports, and other entertainments.
Assorted Items of Note - 9 July 2025
Jul. 9th, 2025 05:15 pmdewline1. Meet some more people who believe that, in religion, there must always be compulsion.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-you-should-be-worried-about-a-new-trump-appointed-commission-you-probably-haven-t-heard-of-opinion/ar-AA1IfTTD
2. A science fair about things that won't be learned.
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/science-fair-congress-canceled-grant-funding
3. Not only are we dealing with wildfires up here at home at the insistence of the fossil fuel industry, certain members of the US Congress are bashing us while Trump's making annexationist noises...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-wildfire-smoke-ruining-americans-summer-1.7580738
4. Coal Taurozzi, the last of the Parliament Hill Cats, is no more. :-(
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/last-parliament-hill-cat-dies-1.7580650
5. Our chartered banks can be mean at times. One of the latest cases in point:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rbc-bank-investigator-scam-1.7577770
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-you-should-be-worried-about-a-new-trump-appointed-commission-you-probably-haven-t-heard-of-opinion/ar-AA1IfTTD
2. A science fair about things that won't be learned.
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/science-fair-congress-canceled-grant-funding
3. Not only are we dealing with wildfires up here at home at the insistence of the fossil fuel industry, certain members of the US Congress are bashing us while Trump's making annexationist noises...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-wildfire-smoke-ruining-americans-summer-1.7580738
4. Coal Taurozzi, the last of the Parliament Hill Cats, is no more. :-(
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/last-parliament-hill-cat-dies-1.7580650
5. Our chartered banks can be mean at times. One of the latest cases in point:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rbc-bank-investigator-scam-1.7577770
Points for honesty in this job description....
Jul. 11th, 2025 11:20 amconuly"Why work here?"
"Weekly pay!"
Yup, that's why I would like to apply for any and all jobs!
(On a side note, A has been sending me a lot of job links today. I'm a bit inundated, but I somehow don't think that "Great, please don't send them to me, just fill them out with my resume for me" is going to go over very well.)
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( Read more... )
"Weekly pay!"
Yup, that's why I would like to apply for any and all jobs!
(On a side note, A has been sending me a lot of job links today. I'm a bit inundated, but I somehow don't think that "Great, please don't send them to me, just fill them out with my resume for me" is going to go over very well.)
( Read more... )
Bundle of Holding: Pyramid 2
Jul. 9th, 2025 03:46 pmjames_davis_nicoll
The latter half of Pyramid's ten-year run, the issues published from November 2013 to December 2018, sixty-two issues in all.
Bundle of Holding: Pyramid 2
Got a callback
Jul. 9th, 2025 11:57 amconulyAsked where I lived, was concerned that the answer is "Staten Island". FFS, it's not Siberia!
I need to start telling people I'm moving in with a friend in Tribeca. Just straight up lie.
I need to start telling people I'm moving in with a friend in Tribeca. Just straight up lie.
Five Books About Aliens Who Are Fed Up With Humans
Jul. 9th, 2025 10:01 amjames_davis_nicoll
Yelling "Get off my lawn!" on an interplanetary scale...
Five Books About Aliens Who Are Fed Up With Humans
Kowloon Generic Romance, volume 1 by Jun Mayuzuki (Translated by Amanda Haley)
Jul. 9th, 2025 08:55 amjames_davis_nicoll
In a city with over a million people per square kilometre, real estate firms will never lack for clients. Good news for the employees of the Wong Loi Realty Company!
Kowloon Generic Romance, volume 1 by Jun Mayuzuki (Translated by Amanda Haley)
Garden Photos
Jul. 8th, 2025 10:01 pmranunculusShade cloth project is coming along but is not finished. Here is a little walk through the garden.
The little fig tree is, well, little.
The little fig tree is, well, little.
( Pictures )
spadiceous
Jul. 9th, 2025 05:04 amwordsmithdaily_feedadjective: 1. Of a reddish-brown color. 2. Relating to a spadix, the floral spike usually enclosed in a spathe.
Firefly
Jul. 8th, 2025 10:01 pmranunculusAnother successful ride on Firefly with my friend Kim riding Raja. I was a little worried, the wind was blowing, coastal fog (rare this time of year) had cooled things off, and Firefly was objecting to everything from being groomed (normally she loves this) to having the bridle put on. I walked for the first 1/2 mile of our "ride" because it was all downhill. Downhill invites faster speed and that isn't what I wanted. Uphills usually follow downhills, so I mounted up and we went up for the next most of a mile, which calmed things down a lot. She was never "bad" just a little snorty at first. We worked on confidence, she did great, and only once needed Raja to take the lead and show her that the scary downhill with an eroded trail was perfectly safe. We also worked on refining our cues. The times that I have to use big gestures and insist on where I want to go are getting fewer and the times I can give a tiny squeeze of leg, or tightening of my fingers are getting more frequent. At one point I leaned over a little, grabbed a gate and pushed it open a little further. It took some pressure to push, and I could see Firefly thinking hard about what was going on, but she stood perfectly still. Oh, and we picked up trail ribbons from April's event. Firefly only once looked scared of the ribbon, and that was a big 3 color one with 18" streamers. Like usual she thought about it, sniffed it and relaxed. If I can ride, at least a little, three or four times a week, we will make really fast progress. Sorry, snuck out before M took any pics, but here is one of Firefly today being very, very serious about eating her evening meal.
P.S. Yes, she has changed colors again. In my last post, on June 19th, she was dark grey.
P.S. Yes, she has changed colors again. In my last post, on June 19th, she was dark grey.