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2026-02-13 15:10

Today is partly sunny and chilly.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 2/13/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I refilled the hopper feeder.

EDIT 2/13/26 -- I spread a bucket of mulch where the contorta willow tree used to grow.

EDIT 2/13/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I've seen a flock of sparrows, a mourning dove, and a male cardinal.

I am done for the night.

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2026-02-13 11:52

twistedchick

Sweetie is home from the vet, with medicine to rub on her ear (for absorption) and pills (good luck to us on that) and a shot from the vet to help things move through her better. They took blood tests also but we'll find out about them Monday.

She is sniffing at food, and walking around outside of her hiding place, so I think she's feeling a little better. Steve said she purred for them, which is very good.

2026-02-13 01:45

ysabetwordsmith

Today's theme is Lord of the Rings.

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2026-02-12 23:28

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2026-02-13 00:38

twistedchick

I have been on Discord for years. However, if I am asked to submit to facial recognition in order to use it, I am bailing. I wish to retain what shreds of privacy I am still allowed in this society, and I don't want to be stuck into yet another database that will (of course) be made available to whoever wants in.

2026-02-12 19:56

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2026-02-12 19:53

theradicalchild

From

thefridayfive:

1. Who was your first kiss?
I guess one of my family's old cats?

2. Who is the last person you kissed?
One of said cats.

3. What is the story of your most romantic kiss?
There is none.

4. What is the story of your worst kiss?
Probably kissing one of our cats that ended up biting me.

5. Who do you want to kiss right now?
Ringo, one of my mom's current cats since he's very affectionate.

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2026-02-12 18:21

ysabetwordsmith

Thanks to the website work of

nsfwords, you can now read "Forelsket."

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2026-02-12 18:13

ysabetwordsmith

This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It is posted here in thanks for

nsfwords helping with website updates. It belongs to the series Hart's Farm.

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2026-02-12 15:21

ysabetwordsmith

Plant extinction risk rises as garden databases remain divided

Botanic gardens have amassed one of the world’s largest living reserves of plant diversity.

A new study demonstrates that fragmented data systems have kept that global collection from functioning as a single, coordinated safeguard against extinction.

At a moment when plant loss is accelerating, the information needed to act often remains locked inside incompatible databases, limiting the very safety net designed to prevent disappearance.

I have mixed feelings about this. A unified body of knowledge is certainly easier to use -- but it's also easier to damage or destroy. Right now, the government is a major threat to information that it dislikes. So having that information scattered around in places that aren't easy to reach all at once can offer a kind of protection.

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2026-02-12 14:34

twistedchick

Sweetie has a vet appointment tomorrow. I think she's constipated; she is peeing (including on the back room rug, which I sprayed peroxide on after mopping it up), but not passing anything. She is not eating, though I think from the pee volume she is drinking water. And she is still mainly hiding behind stuff under the ancient (possibly post-colonial era fourth-hand) desk with the enormous 92-year-old sort-of-easy-chair that is hard to move). Since she is able to get up and walk well enough, I will slide down the front of the chair under the desk tomorrow and try to move her, which will make her get up and walk out, where Steve can grab her.

My throat is okay now. Maybe something is going around? A one-day sore throat that vanishes?

2026-02-12 13:18

ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy and chilly. Most of the snow has melted away, leaving only a few small patches.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 1/12/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I refilled the hopper feeder. I've seen a large flock of sparrows.

EDIT 1/12/26 -- I put out a fresh peanut suet cake and more birdseed.

EDIT 1/12/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I saw a male cardinal at the fly-through feeder.

I am done for the night.

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2026-02-12 08:48

neonvincent

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◾ Current Location: House in the woods at the edge of town
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2026-02-11 23:04

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2026-02-12 00:36

ysabetwordsmith

This year I'm doing Community Thursdays. Some of my activity will involve maintaining communities I run, and my favorites. Some will involve checking my list of subscriptions and posting in lower-traffic ones. Today I have interacted with the following communities...

* Commented in

common_nature.

* Posted "National Craft Month Bingo Fest" in

crafty.

* Posted "Homes for Birds Week" on

datahoarders.

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2026-02-11 20:47

ysabetwordsmith

Thanks to

nsfwords, the series Daughters of the Apocalypse is now up to date. \o/ You can browse that page to see if you missed anything.

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2026-02-11 19:53

theradicalchild

My sleep score last night was 84/100, with interruptions being the worst part due to allergies and one time where I had to pee.

I took a walk after breakfast as I've been doing daily.

I had my Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities services appointment in Belton this morning and they had tons of questions for me and I signed some shit. They scheduled a psychological telehealth appointment for an evaluation to see if I would be eligible for services on the 23rd, and put me on a 20-year waitlist (yikes) for a Medicaid waiver for services. Yeah, Texas needs DOGE badly. It would be a fuck of a lot easier and less expensive to give everyone with legitimate, verifiable claim partial or full disability benefits without making them go through tons of legal and bureaucratic bullshit to prove they aren't disabled.

They also asked for my primary care provider, which I don't have now since the one at my clinic in town left at the start of the year, so I asked for a new one, and had at first wanted to go to another clinic in town and even scheduled an appointment but it turned out it was only for acute care and none of their doctors were seeing new patients, so I got another one at my current clinic, which is still having issues with the copay I had gotten from my orthopedist appointment last month.

Since it was getting near noon when my appointment ended I looked at Upside to see restaurants I could get credit at and saw Five Guys in Harker Heights, a burger place where I had a bacon cheeseburger, cajun friends, and a shake.

The MAHA Zoom this afternoon had no audio at first--we always like to joke about the meetings being hacked and spied on--but they did get going and Mike Tyson appeared talking about his experience with processed food and his superbowl ad, and talked about the usual shit about how questioning science is science and how healthcare should treat the root causes of medical conditions rather than drugging people with endless medications, which I agree with.

get-to-the-roots-of-bad-health-by-llamascout-djprdsv-350t-2x

On that note I'm still reading Anatomy of an Epidemic and it pretty much confirms that psych meds do way more harm than good and actually cause and unmask mental disorders.

Tonight was Grace UMC's monthly dinner and they had spaghetti with meat sauce and garlic bread, which was good. I said hi to Mrs. Murphy, an old friend of my parents we've known since we first moved into town.

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2026-02-11 16:40

ysabetwordsmith

These are the notes for "The Tranquility and Beauty of the Winter Landscape."

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2026-02-11 16:12

ysabetwordsmith

This poem came out of the March 4, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

zesty_pinto. It also fills the "Mountains" square in my 3-1-25 card for the Tolkien Bingo Fest. This poem has been sponsored by Anthony Barrette. It belongs to the Rutledge thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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2026-02-11 15:31

ysabetwordsmith

Today is partly sunny and chilly.

I fed the birds. I've seen a flock of sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 2/11/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I refilled the hopper feeder.

EDIT 2/11/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I saw several starlings foraging in the grass.

I am done for the night.

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