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Five Vintage SF Works About Travelling to the Moon
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This is how we imagined humanity's first trip to the moon before Apollo 11...
Five Vintage SF Works About Travelling to the Moon
About the Elections in Hungary/Magyarország Today?
Apr. 12th, 2026 03:46 pmdewlineMay Orbán go away quietly and never haunt Hungary/Magyarország in particular or Europe in general ever again and may no one in those places or myself be compelled to regret my saying as much.
vignettes
Apr. 12th, 2026 11:45 ammarycatelliThis week's prompt is:
innate🌱
Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
innate🌱
Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
Done Since 2026-04-05
Apr. 12th, 2026 01:01 pmmdlbearNot a great week -- very down on myself for having sent N off with the wrong charger for (scooter)Gizmo. It was hiding in a box, and I overlooked it several times. G found it immediately, when asked. I need to change some of my habits to keep it from happening again. N finally managed to get one locally on Friday, with help from the seller and the hotel concierge. The seller had express-shipped one, but it somehow got held up in Turkish customs despite their having charged N extra for getting it expedited. She got back yesterday evening, and we now have a spare charger for Gizmo.
Meanwhile our other scooter and scooter-like vehicles are still out of commission: (Folding scooter)Lizzy is still in the shop, (carlet)Scarlett came back from the shop without her charger, and (walker/wheelchair)Roman is still unusable without a software upgrade. Which requires some kind of special interface (being shipped by boat) and Windows. All of this is due to my procrastination and phone phobia.
On the other, um..., foot, I now have two pairs of compression socks. Getting them on is fairly easy, because I can pull. Getting them off is not; I have ordered a foot-extraction tool. And I walked every day, so there's that.
Germany Just Made Open Document Formats Mandatory! This is particularly timely, because WireGuard And VeraCrypt Developers [were] Locked Out Of Microsoft Accounts... It may or may not be fixed by now, but the fact that they did it means that it will almost certainly happen again.
(Filk-adjacent, s4s-adjacent) linkies: (from Monday -- great way to start a week!) (also serious rabbit-hole warning) Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) - YouTube (h/t to siderea) polka-dotted aliens with loopers, polyrythms and a double-neck quartertone guitar/bass. The band name, Angine de Poitrine, translates as "chest pain" More on Monday and Wednesday. Possible s4s post soonish; this will do until then.
And from Friday, Take a mind-bending ride through the cosmos at light speed Deep time and beyond: the great nothingness at the end of the Universe, both from Aeon.co. Take note: eternity is longer still.
The case of the missing notifications
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dw_maintenanceI 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.
$2.60
Apr. 11th, 2026 02:39 pmfayanoraWent on a walk down Springwater Corridor. Went all the way down to Johnson Creek Blvd, got on the line 75, got off at SE Furat Court and walked home from there. I had only two returnables at the point before Furat Court, but as soon as I turned onto Sherrett Street, I spotted three boxes of sparkling water on a recycling bin, which were full of 24 returnable cans. I love it when things like that are nice and wrapped up for my comfort and ease like that.
So, $2.60 altogether. Very convenient.
So, $2.60 altogether. Very convenient.
Books Received April 4 — April 10
Apr. 11th, 2026 09:19 amjames_davis_nicoll
10 works new to me: five fantasy, and five science fiction, of which at least three are series (if magazines count as series). I have not see that high a fraction of SF in quite a while.
Books Received April 4 — April 10
Poll #34466 Books Received April 4 — April 10
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 47
Which of these look interesting?
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Demonology for Overachievers by Lily Anderson (September 2026)
13 (27.7%)
All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan (May 2026)
17 (36.2%)
The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey (April 2026)
7 (14.9%)
FIYAH Literary Magazine Issue 38 published by FIYAH Literary Magazine (April 2026)
15 (31.9%)
House Haunters by KC Jones (October 2026)
7 (14.9%)
The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee (May 2026)
18 (38.3%)
A Wall Is Also a Road by Annalee Newitz (October 2026)
24 (51.1%)
There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs by Jason Pargin (November 2026)
21 (44.7%)
A Kiss of Crimson Ash by Anuja Varghese (May 2026)
8 (17.0%)
Teddy Bears Never Die by Cho Yeeun (May 2026)
7 (14.9%)
Some other option (see comments)
1 (2.1%)
Cats!
34 (72.3%)