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Interesting Links for 04-11-2025

1. Dungeons & Dragons is great for brain health (particularly the elderly and people with disabilities): (tags:dungeonsanddragons mentalhealth entertainment )
2. NHS threatens GP practice over trans care: (tags:transgender UK bigotry healthcare OhForFucksSake )
3. Cambridge University's oldest women-only college, Newnham, stands firm for trans inclusion: (tags:transgender Cambridge university GoodNews )
4. Novel peanut allergy vaccine shows promise to transform allergy care: (tags:allergies vaccine )
5. Petition to make schools in Scotland safe for pupils with allergies: (tags:allergies scotland school petition )
6. 20% of US UTIs are caused by contimated meat: (tags:usa meat food infection )
7. When Stick Figures Fought (A history of the stick figure combat flash animations of the early 200s): (tags:history fighting animation web Flash )
8. The password for the Louvre's Video Surveillance System was "Louvre": (tags:art museums security epicfail france )

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Flourless Chocolate Cake

Flourless Chocolate Cake
Prep Time 20 min Cook Time 30 min Yield 16 servings

Ingredients

4 large eggs, separated
10 tablespoons butter, cubed
1/2 cup sugar, divided
6 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
3 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Chocolate Ganache, optional

Directions

Let egg whites stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 350°. In a heavy saucepan, melt butter, 1/4 cup sugar and chocolates over low heat, stirring constantly. Cool until mixture is lukewarm.
In a large bowl, beat egg yolks until thick and lemon-colored, about 3 minutes. Beat in vanilla. Gradually beat in chocolate mixture.
In a small bowl and with clean beaters, beat egg whites on medium speed until soft peaks form. Gradually add remaining sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating on high speed until stiff peaks form. Stir a small amount of whites into chocolate mixture. Fold in remaining whites.
Pour into a greased 9-in. springform pan. Place on a baking sheet. Bake until cake is just set and jiggles slightly when tapped, or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out with a few moist crumbs, 28-30 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes.
Carefully run a knife around edge of pan to loosen; remove side of pan. Drizzle with chocolate ganache if desired.

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"you're always gorgeous, it's not up for debate"

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Is Erika Kirk pregnant with her 3rd child? Unfounded claim continues to spread online

Posted by Megan Loe

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/11/04/erika-kirk-pregnant-third-child/

Despite online rumors, Erika Kirk had not confirmed a pregnancy on social media or in public remarks following her husband's killing.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/11/04/erika-kirk-pregnant-third-child/

Current Mood: geeky
Current Music: James Marriott - Calling

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So this is gonna be one of those rambly posts about watching stuff. First, Wednesday which I watched Sunday (specifically the ep Woe Thyself).

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Second is Frankenstein which I finally saw yesterday, yipee!

Before getting into that the trailers:
The Bride! - This felt appropriate since the titular bride is a bride for Frankenstein’s creature. It looks like one of those films that could either be fun or terrible and I’m not sure which it’ll be.
Silent Night Deadly Night - I saw this before for Black Phone 2 and my thoughts of it are mostly eh. It’s something I might see if it’s on tv or streaming but I don’t feel I’ll see it
The Housemaid - gotta admit I’m kinda curious about this one, even though I can’t tell the tone exactly from they trailer, but it has Amanda Seyfried from Mamma Mia in (and apparently it’s based on a book)
Wake Up Dead Man - The next follow up to Knives Out and it looks pretty good, I love a murder mystery. I really need to watch Glass Onion before it’s out though. (I do feel bad that it’s called ‘a knives out mystery’ instead of a Benoit Blanc one though)

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Lastly, and even more finally, is the last ep of Stranger Things.

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Happy Birthday, kazzy_cee

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Good morning

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Happy birthday,

erika!

Episode 2696: It’s All in the Execution

https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/2696.html

Episode 2696: It’s All in the Execution

The bamboozle. If you're up against it, with no chance of escape, but you have time to talk to your enemy, go for the bamboozle. Change the subject. Appear not to care about your imminent doom. Talk about something irrelevant and somewhat annoying.

With any luck you'll distract and confuse your captor enough to come up with something.

Or if not, at least it'll be amusing.

aurilee writes:

Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

General Pryde seems to be on the ball. Intruders somehow managed to sneak in and free a prisoner? And they only got caught on the way out? Unless there's reason to suspect the intruders aren't the masterminds for that operation, getting rid of them as soon as possible is the smartest move. The First Order's probably still got a lot of troops and materiel in spite of all the set-backs; who cares how this one mistake happened exactly!

Obviously, the main characters don't die here. But this also looks like the sort of situation where they're not getting out on their own, like Finn and Rose last episode. So what sort of unforeseen thing is going to happen to help them escape? Another spaceship collision feels very unlikely. Perhaps a Force Explosion of some kind? Rey pulled Force Lightning out of who knows where just a little bit ago, and Sally just asked what happens if Kylo or Rey gets hit. That seems like the sort of thing that would be hard to explain in the movie, so it'd be great to have the comic touch on that. Or it could even be as simple as Rey swinging the lightsaber around into the walls of whatever room this actually happens to be and that causes all sorts of equipment failures.

Transcript

https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/2696.html

Dry dry dry

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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out

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Admin Post: Art Rec Challenge - Rec a Fanartist

Something different for November, as we figured people might be a bit worn out after Drawtober, and starting to get busy with seasonal projects and challenges.

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Art Rec Challenge: Rec a Fanartist

This is an art recommendations month. Pick a fanartist you like and tell us why you enjoy their works - and link us to a few examples, and to their main site or sites.

Any fandom, but only fanartists please, not professional artists (it's okay if they're fanartists who do commissions or have a buy-me-a-coffee, though, as that's fairly common these days.) They can be from any era - from early Star Trek vintage to artists posting currently.

Tell us about just one artist per post, please - you can make more than one post if you want to rec two or three artists!

A round-up post for this recs challenge will be done at the end of November. Happy reccing!

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movie: hunger games (series)

Finnick Odair Fan Video - The Poet and the Pendulum

Title: The Poet and the Pendulum
Character: Finnick Odair
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Music: The Poet and the Pendulum by Nightwish
Length: 3:24
Notes: Edited original song length of 13:55 to fit narrative.
Streaming/download at: DW | Tumblr

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sexting tuesday

the phone sex +
sexting meme

what it says on the tin. leave a blank comment, include your preferences or a starter, it's all good. reply to others with a text, a dirty picture (please link all nsfw things!), misfires, misdials, drunk filthy voicemails, sexy skype sessions, whatever your heart desires.

The stranger signs of late spring

Goddammit but the birds are pooping all over the place. My car, my windows, my car windows. Good grief!

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Presentation and Choir Day

It looks like I'll be singing "Carol of the Bells" solo in choir. I need to scramble to practice it.

I did wake up at 4 AM. Ate breakfast, but I want to go back to bed. Got up at 7:45. I decided not to take a shower because I need to stay awake at lunchtime because we have a presentation in the afternoon.

Work is kind of a zoo with people changing last-minute stuff on the presentation. My boss said that it's "a miracle" that everything comes together.

I'm feeling arthritis-y.

I haven't heard from my pet sitter, so I think that I'm going to ask if the boarding place can take Zara and Lily too. Then I also won't have to finish cleaning, although I'd like to have the place neat before I go so that I don't come back to a mess. This actually sounds like a better plan (though Zara and Lily won't be happy).

The presentation went well. I contributed a picture of Gracie for our question slide, and people said that she was cute. Speaking of which, I was able to successfully shut all the critters out of my home office during the presentation!

Choir rehearsal went well and was kind of fun. Fed us all when I got home. I'm freaking tired.

Current Mood: satisfied

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Thoughts on vacation

Today was my first official day back after my vacation (I did work Saturday, but I had none of the weekly duties since I wasn't there all week, and didn't have much to do). And my brain did not return to work with me! LOL. Took about 7 hours to kick into gear.

I enjoyed my week off more than usual, even though I never did do any of the vague plans like take a drive somewhere or do some deep cleaning/organizing. That's because I spent the whole time immersed in my current fandom; binging episodes, writing, reading. It was exactly the way I most wanted to spend the time and I regret nothing. Unlike other days off where I wasn't productive in RL, I do not consider it time wasted.

It still went too fast.

Argh!

I took over Jenn's game of Cult of the Lamb - which may have been a mistake, because her angry followers whom she starved now pop out of chests and try to kill me - and I defeated the big boss and converted him into a follower. And then I resurrected somebody, and literally the second I stepped outside my temple to go to the healing hut to heal the resurrected follower, the resurrectee ate him. So now I have to do a new resurrection!

Current Mood: chipper

Post office

I got up at 10:00, and had breakfast and coffee. I must have slept wrong, I have a bad pain in my right hip when I walk. I was hoping it would go away during the day bus it hasn't so far.

But anyway, I filled out all the paperwork I had for Middle Brother's vaccinations (flu and covid) and got them ready to mail. Then I showered and dressed and went to the post office.

I took the 20 bus, it was super crowded but it's only two stops so no big deal. It was a little over $2 to mail the stuff. The postal worker was very nice and pointed up I had the wrong zip code and looked up the right one.

Then I took the 44 bus back. That's only one stop.

When I got here the mail had been delivered, and among it was the invitation to Middle Brother's holiday party, which Oldest Brother had gone to every year, but I never did. It's way out on Long Island, so while I was working it wasn't really an option. But now I'm retired I seriously thought about going, for Oldest Brother's memory, and to see Middle Brother.

I looked up the directions on Google maps, and discovered it wouldn't be to bad to get to, just take time. And I decided to ask

mashfanficchick if ze wanted to come too.

So I set that aside and decided to watch mor of The Diplomat on Netflix. I think I watched three episodes, so if I've kept track well enough there should be one more episode this season.

I really like it. And the latest plot twist is very good.

Then at 5:30 I went and lay down in bed and played solitaire on my phone. Finally at 6:30 I came out and got on the computer, and at 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB.

Right after we got on the Kid texted, wanting to make sure I had or was going to vote (which I'm going to do tomorrow) and that I was voting for Mamdami, which of course I am.

The FWiB and I talked til 8:40, and then we got off and I had dinner.

Then I went and lay down again, and called

mashfanficchick. I invited zer to the party, and ze agreed, and we discussed getting there. Then we discussed plans for tomorrow, we're going to watch the election returns, Fingers crossed.

Then I called the Kid and she didn't answer. Oh well.

Then it was pet feeding time so I fed the pets and here I am.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Got the forms posted.

3. Good programs.

4. The Kid.

5. Party plans.

6. Election plans for tomorrow.