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 The Week 3 Vote / Poll is now open, for LJ Idol / Wheel of Chaos.

I am not currently in the vote, since I lost the Week 1 Vote, but one of the random Twists that Gary has this season, is to bring everyone back who has been eliminated / lost the votes...

I am playing the home game (i.e. linking my entries in the WheelHouse (greenroom) posts, rather than the actual Prompt post, where Gary pulls the entries for the Polls from...

This vote is not open to just people participating in LJ Idol. You do not need a Dreamwidth account, as you can use an OpenID to log in and vote and comment.

I am going to be posting a link to this post around.



Also, Defy the MAGAt / Fakes 'news' blabberers, who are Russian mouthpieces.


Go see the Superman (2025) movie.
The #rethuglican blabbers want it to bomb (I don't think it will)
I am going to try to see it tomorrow or sometime next week...

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Jul. 7th, 2025 02:32 pm
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Note to self, going for a bike ride to test the new turn signals doesn't work if the turn signals are still off the bike and charging.

HomeGame Week 3 entry

Jul. 6th, 2025 06:46 pm
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 Here is the link to the WheelHouse post of LJ Idol where I post my homegame entry for Wk3.

I am only homegaming currently, since I lost the vote 1st week, currently we are WK3...

Those who are actually competing currently are linking their posts in the PROPMPT post, 

I will try to link the Poll and Results posts, either here, or in separate entries, so I can find them easily in the future...

I tried to figure out how long I lasted in previous seasons when starting this one, and really couldn't any more... Since I no longer go to the Original Livejournal.com website, since it is now RUSSIAN!!!

being knocked out in the FIRST vote was new to me, but I am sticking around a lot longer than I have in previous years, doing home gaming, commenting, voting, etc.
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I don't remember exactly where I came across this article by Guardians of Democracy,
https://guardiansofdemocracynet.blogspot.com/2025/06/crockett-exposes-hypocrisy-behind.html
both should lead to the same place
I read it, and what really struck me was the quote below: 
Conservatives wasted no time lashing out. The New York Post accused Crockett of regularly using “incendiary rhetoric,” while random X users called her “jealous” of Melania. Fox News aired a breathless segment with a MAGA congressman who proclaimed he would never dare question Melania and urged Americans to ignore Crockett’s comments.   
 
And yet MAGAts / Rethuglicans dare question every single thing, about every one who doesn't agree with them. 
I urge everyone (worldwide, not just USA) to ignore whichever Rethuglican said this. (unfortunatley the BlogSpot post I link to didn't mention his name. I will probably try to find out who, from somewhere other than FakesNews.) I do have a GroundNews subscription I don't use enough...
https://ground.news/article/crockett-is-jealous-maga-followers-slam-jasmine-crockett-as-evil-after-texas-rep-mocks-melania-trumps-modeling-credentials?utm_source=headline-link&utm_medium=share https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/27/jasmine-crockett-questions-melania-trumps-prestigious-einstein-visa/
 
I would like to say to ignore all MAGAts / Rethuglicans,  but unfortunately, that is what got us into this situation. They started out as the RayGun / Reagan era Trickle-Down economics CULT. 

Like a small mole that appears on the side of your neck one day... It's grown over the years. It's been checked out a few times: 
1) Faith Healers pray over you, and say your CURED!!! Now GIVE THEM ALL your money for the privilege of them deigning to look at you. (Prosperity type ministries)
2) some gentleman puts a bit of concealer on it, says it is nothing, and mentions to you in offhand fashion: Never trust any women. I can get you some specially made concealer that contains the Blood of JESUS CHRIST! It will cure ANYTHING!
3) You finally get to see a real Medical Doctor, who asks what in the world you have been putting on it? The Mole now covers about half the back of your neck, the texture of it is a bit different from the rest of your skin, but you don't shave in that area, so no real issues. The doctor takes a small biopsy of it, and tells you to come back in the morning for results.
4) The next morning when you arrive, the reception desk is empty, with an arrow pointing to your doctor's office. You hear your doctor talking to someone (whose voice sounds odd) you tap on the doorway, your doctor sees you, smiles, and says, Mr RoFKenJr. barged in this morning. I'm sorry, he seems to have scared away everyone else in the office. I've given him a referral, and he was just leaving. Your Dr. glares at the other person in the room, (presumably this RoFKenJr.) who snatches a piece of paper from the Dr, and barges past you, rudely bumping into your shoulder, and slamming the door on his way out.
5) Doctor: Sorry about him, he is a bit delusional. Your case is much more serious. The skin on your neck is cancerous, but does not seem to have actually metastasized through your body yet. (Surprisingly for how large it is...)He directs you to the examination table, asking you to lay down on your front so that he can see the portion of your neck affected, and you can face away from the wall, towards the room door, while he dons some magnifying goggles. We may have to do some surgery within the next few days, It is large enough, that we may have to do skin grafts, but the tech has improved, and I think we will be able to leave minimal scarring on both your neck, and the donation site (probably outer part of your upper legs.)
6) The doctor shows you some items. 
The first is what looks like a small wood dowel, with a small needle at the end. he opened an alcohol towelette, and pinched the needle through. I'm going to gently poke your neck in a few places, let me know what you feel. You felt several pressure areas, but no painful pricks, and said so. you had seen him wiping the needle through the alcohol after each pressure poke. OK. I'm going to poke some of your normal skin, let me know if you feel any difference there.
7) you: Ow. not painful there actually but could definitely feel it more than the previous.
Dr.: OK. Let me try a couple more just to verify you have feeling all the way around.
You: OK. Ow, same. Ow same.

Dr.:OK, I'm going to have to think about this a bit. You can go ahead and sit up.
8) As you are sitting up, Mr. RoFKenJr. bursts in the door, yelling: Cancer isn't REAL! Doctors are FAKE!!! I will save everyone with our BLOOD!!!
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 The last 3 years, I have been going out behind our house, to some school property, and watch the Fireworks at the Bridgeton Municipal Athletic Center, which is a little over 1 mile, walking distance from us. Since we are on a 'bluff' of sorts, above the Missouri River (above the flood plain), We can also see the St Charles fireworks display, 
I don't know for sure where all the other official ones we can see are, but since most of St. Charles County to our northwest (north of the MO 370) is floodplain between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, and the far side of the Mississippi river is Calhoun County, Illinois, between the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, and I can usually see several waaay out on the horizon...

Not to mention all the illegal personal ones...
(one on the Mall Access road / parking lot and one on the parking lot of the school, just to the west... and I think this year, we had some on MoBottom road by the cell tower...)

22:30 CDT, and all the official ones are done... still hearing tons of fireworks...
And I wonder how many people are going to be injured this year by bleeeping stupid men shooting guns up into the air...

Anyway, I did not go out back this year for the 4th. my knees and hips have been very achey the past few days.
My feet had been a bit swollen, so I made an appt with doctor last TH, and he took me off one of my BP medicines. I had bloodwork done yesterday, (Need to make sure my cardiologist gets access to them.)
Need to double check when my next appt with Cardiologist is...
I have had a few very dizzy / lightheaded episodes... (Current BP 118 / 80)

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Jul. 2nd, 2025 04:55 pm
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There's briefing from "Supporters of Reeves" that the "personal issue" she suffered from today was being berated by the Speaker of the House. Reeves has had to be reminded at times that ministerial questions are not times to make speeches, and the Speaker has repeatedly had to cut her off in mid-ramble in order to move things on. This isn't like PMQs where the questions can be a surprise, Ministerial Questions are known three days in advance, and Reeve is expected to have a briefing paper in front of her to answer from, and anything that isn't on that paper that comes up in a follow up question should be referred to "The department will give a response in writing".

On one hand I feel for her, since she's obviously under a lot of stress and not in a popular position right now. No one likes getting a talking to from their supervisor when you're already worried about getting fired. But it's also a position of her own making.

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Jul. 1st, 2025 09:48 pm
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My read on today in Parliament.

Not as bad as the Truss lobby revolt, but pretty damn bad.
Last minute promises to amend the bill in committee to the satisfaction of the middle of the party, with dire consequences to be expected if they bring it back to the house without them.
Kendall got to save face by having some kind of reform agreed to.
Reeves is now left holding the bag of her fiscal rules being shattered unless she raises taxes.
McFadden's, and by extension the Cabinet Office's authority in tatters.
Starmer limps away having made firm enemies of enough MPs to start a leadership contest.

Battle of the Space Submarines

Jul. 1st, 2025 10:28 am
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It's been a busy spring, with all the work on the next two Dream books. (Volume five is out now!) Now that we're done with that, I was finally able to work more on my concept art series. This time with a piece that sends back to the tense encounter early on in [personal profile] kantuck's novel Shadowing the Dream:

3D render of two spaceships that resemble dieselpunk submarines. One is chasing the other, firing torpedoes. In the background, planets hang in a dark sky.

There's a new model and a refurbished model. You'll see the former again on the cover of upcoming volumes, too. But first to rest a bit and make another poster like these, because it's so satisfying.

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Jun. 29th, 2025 09:53 pm
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I did not order these warms, please take them back.


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