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On Sunday I was like "I am dragging myself to aikido out of obligation and habit" and my friend C was like "yeah you look beat". Aikido was good, though, two of K-sensei's students who mostly only show up to her Tues/Thurs morning classes were at weapons class, and showed up early to learn some more basic weapon stuff, which meant that when I showed up my typical ~15min early I got pulled into immediately demonstrating an exercise and then practicing in with the others.

Also went "yeah, the absolute hardest thing to do when practicing ma'ai with weapons is for uke to not flinch" to one of those students, prompting sensei to pause class so that she could more formally talk about how difficult yet important a practice this is. Because, well, the natural instinct when someone is stabbing at you with a weapon is to move out of the way. This is an excellent survival instinct! However! That is not the practice when nage is supposed to be learning how to enter in such that they can properly stab through uke.

On Monday I woke up and was like "I feel like shit!" and have proceeded to spend the entire week thus far dragging myself to work because Capitalism while keeping myself vaguely person-shaped via cold medicine. This has worked out alright mostly because for the majority of this week I haven't had to do anything particularly cognitively difficult at work. (Tasks included: "Put up linears on this floor", which was interrupted by "Be firewatch for the person doing welding", before I was allowed to return to that first task, and then told to do various other things that meant putting up one set of linears that should've taken a few hours took like three days.)

I also went to bed at like 8:30pm last night (due to being at work from 6:30am-2:30pm and class from 5pm-7:45pm... not counting commute time for either, of course...) and woke up this morning like "wow I feel like a person!" until I got up and was like "oh we have CHANGED kinds of feeling ugh, not removed it, rip".

Things I have spent time doing:

- Catching up on the Great Gundam Project (podcast), by which I mean I have now caught up to like last autumn/the end of the Dragonball Z season (which is about the Gundam adaptation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is apparently surprisingly good, but they spent more time talking about DBZ, their backup/non-Gundam show) (considering that this is a podcast I listen to in large part for going "please let me gain knowledge of anime people talk about but which I am only occasionally interested in watching", learning more about DBZ is genuinely a delight.) There is still so much more GGP to catch up on. xD This is a great podcast for listening to during work so long as I'm working alone, because I think it's generally entertaining and also I don't care if I miss a bit due to NOISE or BRIEF CONVERSATION, since I'm not invested in the details of the anime. (I am invested in The Episode Number Pokemon Name Game, though. I do not care about Pokemon. I do not know Pokemon. I think making the host who did not grow up playing Pokemon guess what Pokemon the episode number belongs to is a very funny game because I also do not know Pokemon and so listening to someone go "uh it looks like this, maybe it's called [something related to what it looks like]?" is very fun.)

- Watching FatT's Outward letsplay (which is technically a patreon bonus for their side podcast about videogams xD), by which I mean putting it on as background noise and looking over at the video every time Jack and Austin start going "oh no" or "what's THAT". The idle noise of people playing a videogame I don't have specific investment in but do enjoy seeing progression for is such a particular form of entertainment that usually I only like as background for doing chores, but hey if I'm feeling meh it works well more broadly.

- Thinking about, but not writing, story xD Like. How does one make it impossible to know what happened to someone who got kidnapped when "you can magically communicate short messages to known people over distance and get a response" is a given? The answer is magic warding, which is Deeply Concerning when other states that get No Connection (rather than No Response) would be, like. Unconsciousness/death. (Sleep probably feels different.) (This isn't even going to come up until I get through another few things!)

- I have also been keeping up with FatT: Perpetua, FatT: Realis, and CR: Araman and am enjoying them all. xD No deep thoughts, they're all fun but in very different ways/genres.

marycatelli

There was this story, I had outlined it, and started it, and lost interest. . . .

Out of the blue, it hopped up again and suggested I could work on it and fit it in a collection that is, at the moment, still up in the air.

How silly those plot bunnies get

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This simple diet shift cut 330 calories a day without smaller meals

People who switch to a fully unprocessed diet don’t just eat differently—they eat smarter. Research from the University of Bristol shows that when people avoid ultra-processed foods, they naturally pile their plates with fruits and vegetables, eating over 50% more food by weight while still consuming hundreds fewer calories each day. This happens because whole foods trigger a kind of built-in “nutritional intelligence,” nudging people toward nutrient-rich, lower-calorie options.

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musesfool

I knew Prue Leith left GBBO, but I just learned that Nigella Lawson is replacing her for this year's show! I am intrigued! (Note: I still haven't watched the most recent series - I usually save it for my summer vacation.)

I am also considering if I want to try to bake something new this weekend, or just more orange cranberry scones, so my giant bag of cranberries in the freezer slowly gets smaller. I do have plans to try a new pasta recipe and maybe some panko-crusted pork chops, but I hadn't really thought about a baking project. I will have to think on it now.

In work news, some of the stuff I was concerned about yesterday got done, finally, so I feel so much better. I still have to write my stupid review of Assistant J though. I've been putting it off but I can't put it off any longer. Ugh. Such a stupid process.

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Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: We Belong - Pat Benatar

marycatelli

Bones rules; or, Skeleton of English grammar by John B. Tabb

Turn-of-the-last-century grammar lessons. Basic, sound grammar, with some additional interest in his choices of sentences to analyze. Many from poems, and with some interesting placing of the parts of a sentence.

He does note that any word can be used as a verb, even then.

ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy and cold.

I fed the birds. I've seen a large flock of sparrows, one female and three male cardinals, and a starling. A small flock of other birds high in the trees may have been more starlings or perhaps mourning doves.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 2/5/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 2/5/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

I am done for the night.

Current Mood: busy

writerkit

I am, after today's adventures in inhaler, seriously contemplating how one would go about putting forth a ballot question requiring that health insurance companies cannot deny a drug someone was already on for reasons of a formulary change--ie, if someone is already on a drug, the insurance company must continue to cover it without requiring any extra paperwork whether or not it's still on the formulary. You'd have to word it fairly carefully, because I'd want to cover both the situations of "we don't cover that drug anymore" and the Flovent event where the company stopped making the brand name but there was still a generic that no one covered.

First one needs to write it, and the attorney general's office apparently invites you to submit drafts for them to comment on the wording of, so there's help available with wording it properly.

One needs at least ten registered voters to do the initial thing, who are willing to have their names and addresses published on the thing and also jump through the hoops of getting a certificate of voter registration. You need to file it before the first Wednesday in August of an odd-numbered year. The Attorney General then announces what's been certified on the first Wednesday in September. After which you file for blank petition forms.

And then you get to the part that requires a team effort, which is collecting 3% of the total votes cast for governor in signatures, no more than 25% of which can come from any one county, between getting your petition forms and fourteen days before the first Wednesday in December. At which point if the Legislature doesn't just do the thing you then need to go out and get .5% of the total votes for governor, with the same county percentage rules, to get it on the actual ballot. (It does not specify whether these must be different people.)

I presume if one is taking on healthcare companies one also wants set up a formal political action committee to solicit donations for some sort of advertising budget once you're at the on-the-ballot stage.

But this looks surprisingly doable, assuming one can recruit a sufficient number of people to spend time running around collecting signatures in other parts of the state. I suppose if I am serious about this the first thing to do would be get some draft wording together and then ask around to try to get nine other people.

(If you couldn't tell, I am in the process of my second time having to switch inhalers because of insurance company shenanigans. They will wish they'd just covered my inhaler by the time I'm done with them.)

Current Mood: angry
Current Location: My Room
Current Music: "The Wild Swans on the Lake" by Foy Vance

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tielan

So this is at the edge of an "I am not coping with life right now" kind of week.

Unfortunately, the weekend also looks a bit busy.

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Posted by Athena Scalzi

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/02/05/sake-of-the-week-ozeki-hana-awaka-sparkling-yuzu/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=59348

One of my favorite sakes of all time is Ozeki’s Hana Awaka Sparkling Flower Sake. At a low 7% ABV and a beautifully light slightly sweet bubbly flavor, it is truly a treat to sip on alongside some sushi. Plus, it comes in a super cute 250ml pink labeled bottle. A perfect serving for one person!

A small, pink labeled bottle of sake, with a small shot glass next to it full of the clear, lightly bubbly liquid.

So, this past week, while perusing my local Japanese goods store in the next town over, I looked at their small sake collection and saw Ozeki’s Hana Awaka Sparkling Yuzu sake in the classic 250ml bottle, except this time it was in a yellow label to match the yuzu flavor.

I was honestly really excited to try this flavor since I adore their flower flavor so much, and the yuzu flavor was an even lower alcohol content than the flower so I imagined the flavor being even nicer.

I didn’t really care for this sake! It just tasted too much like lemon Pledge. I was hoping for a light, refreshing, bubbly citrus flavor that wasn’t overwhelming or too artificial, but sadly it was just kind of disappointing and definitely artificial tasting.

It tasted more like a 20% ABV lemon liquor than a 5% sparkling sake. It just was kind of hard to drink, unlike the flower flavor which is very easy, nice sipping. They also have a mixed berry flavor and a peach flavor that I would love to try, but haven’t seen anywhere before. Interestingly enough, the place that I first tried the flower flavor was at Sky Asian at their 9-year anniversary lunch.

Sadly, the yuzu flavor was just not up to par, and I will probably not re-buy it. If I see either of the other two flavors, I will be sure to check them out and let y’all know my thoughts!

Have you tried Ozeki sake before? According to their website, they have plenty of other types of sake besides their sparkling ones. I’d love to try some of their Junmai Daiginjo. How do you feel about sparkling sake? Let me know in the comments, and have a great day!

-AMS

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ravena_kade

The hospital called today.

The neurosurgeon said that Dad's big eye veins were unremarkable and cleared him for Heart Surgery.

The cardiac surgeons office called. I wanted surgery in March. They booked it for February 26th. Not quite, but close enough not to change. They will want him in on the 24th. I've got 2 weeks of his pay to work with for his bills.

So much to do... glad I am clearing the cold.

Trying not to go into panic mode.

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kaberett

some washi tape I wanted has restocked at a UK retailer! Possibly a second one also! So as and when the website works out what's going on with Desired Tape #2, it is time to place a stationery order for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Progress With Preposterous Puzzle! I now have all the edge assembled (I think I wound up with only one piece having been Actually Wrong) and even I have managed to start filling in very slowly (I am up to... about 5 pieces placed so far? which is a further 1% down!)
I got a hug from the Child while saying goodbye this evening!
I have worked out an acceptable Wagamama order from the current menu and am feeling pretty good about my dinner.
Bread for tomorrow (anise, fig, hazelnut, copied from the local fancy bakery) is looking Extremely Promising.

dhampyresa

Has anyone played Slay the Princess? There appear to be two versions on Steam, which one should I get? Do you need any sort of reflexes or coordination at any point?

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cosmolinguist

On such a nothingburger of a day like this, where I feel like I don't have anything to talk about because it was really normal (awake, work, walk Teddy, make dinner, try to stay awake till bedtime), I am challenging myself to think of three good things.

Having taken off my clothes last night and added them to the unacceptably-large pile of liminal clothes I need to decide to wash or put away, I told myself I'd deal with it all this morning. And I did! With about five minutes before a meeting. Feels good; it was starting to weigh on my mental/emotional state having my room be untidy like this.
We saw neighbor G outside on our way to walk Teddy. We don't see as much of the neighbors now we're not standing in the driveway/on our end of the road with Gary any more; it's one of the things I miss. G is cool. He has started working at the bakery at rhe big Tesco! He said he likes it, though he also said it's very unsociable hours of course.
As I was starting to type this up, having gone to bed early for a Doof night because I feel kinda gross (I didn't get to sleep until well after 3am last night, and I think I was just sleep deprived after powering through work), D unexpectedly came upstairs to "make my back go click," as he says. It feels so much better when he's pressed some of the tension out of my muscles and spine, mmm. He's so nice.

jazzy_dave

Kevin Powers "A Shout in the Ruins" (Sceptre)

George Seldom is an old man who decides to take some time to revisit his personal history on a road trip. He travels through the Deep South and as he does so the reader is given some of the events that have led to a country on the brink of race equality. The plantation of Beauvais is owned by a cruel master Levallois who, even before the Civil War, has recognised that industry is the way forward, not agriculture. His neighbour goes to fight in the war and Levallois usurps his land, his daughter and his life. Rawls has been in love with Nurse but both are purchased by Levallois and are subject to his mind games. Reid goes off to war a proud Confederate but returns to find that he has lost everything. Minor characters fight for what they believe is right.

This is a complex and very moving book which looks at aspects of the Civil War and the changes in society from numerous perspectives. The characters are not easy to pin down - Emily seems powerless to stop her fate but does she fight back in the worst way. Even the minor characters, the gang leader, the apprentice and the boatman are given a sympathetic perspective and the descriptions of violence are visceral in the extreme. I hadn't read Powers' first novel but know it was well received, I can see why

jazzy_dave

Gareth Carr "The Boy From The Sea" (Picador)

I loved this haunting story with its beauty and grace, about fracture and repair. In 1973 Donegal, Ireland, a family is split by jealousy while coping with a changing world.

Narrated by a voice representing ‘we,’ the village, gives a timelessness to the tale.

A baby is discovered at the seashore and taken in by a Irish fishing village. The babe is shifted from house to house until Ambrose Bonnard tells his wife Christine and son DeClan they will keep him, naming him Brendan.

It is an act of charity by a family with just enough, with hopes of having money which never comes their way. Christine’s sister Phyllis is especially judgemental. She needs help with their aging father–why take on an outsider?

Declan instantly hates this interloper. He sees his father’s love for the baby that should be his.

Brendan grows into a strange child, never fitting in. He looks up to DeClan who only rejects him. He wanders alone all day, stopping to visit other lonely souls, giving them a blessing. “We were barrels adrift at sea,” the narrator says, “yet we also felt a benevolent force might be at work, a helpful current, and that was a comfort.”

Ambrose is a quiet man who fishes the old way. His friend buys bigger boats and takes in bigger hauls. Bad luck, changing economics, and lack of funds forces Ambrose to take work on the mainland, separating the family. When Christine worries about the boys, he says they will ‘sort it out.’

I loved these characters, so beautifully wrought. A storm at sea and the resulting intimate moments between Ambrose and Christine were especially moving.

The babe found in a floating barrel, the contention between brothers for the father’s love, recall to mind biblical stories. The novel has an element of the fairy tale without ever reading like a fantasy. It has a satisfying ending. Worth reading.

schneefink

I finished books 1-7 of Dungeon Crawler Carl in two weeks, and more importantly I managed to drag both my gf and DD into it too - I think that's one of my strengths :) I had a great time.
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Slight downside, DD and I haven't started our Hades 2 1.0 playthroughs yet, since we planned to start at the same time and she just got to book 6 of DCC ^^ Hopefully soon though.

Instead I played a few runs of Vampire Survivors again. Good for occasional short play sessions that don't require much brainpower (though it is easy to forget to look at the time...) I don't unlock something every run but almost, which feels very cool and like I'm getting somewhere even though I have no idea what to do/where to go for actual game "progression." I might look it up at some point, idk.

(I also considered exploring the new Minecraft updates - I want to find a happy ghast! And ride a nautilus!, among other things - but I lost one set of good armor/tools in the End and another in the Nether a few months ago, and both are very possible to retrieve but I haven't found the motivation yet to either get one of them or make myself new gear. Possibly keepInventory would have been a good idea after all.)

Speaking of games, specifically board games: in early January with L and two of her friends we played Wingspan, which was a lot of fun, and then we tried out Earth, which we also enjoyed a lot. That one we tried first in single player, and then we decided to try the version where you play in teams but quickly switched back because it gets a lot more tactical quickly. The third long game the three of them played was Forest Shuffle - I detect a theme ^^
We also played a quick game of Pandemic. And this reminds me that L and I didn't get a chance to play Hanabi yet, hopefully soon.

It's also been ages since I gave an update on my group's TTRPG games and our current Stars Without Number campaign! We got to level six, which means I can now do "normal" teleports without Committing Effort and it feels fantastic. And I got some other cool abilities too, like imprinting on a party member to teleport back to their side even when they are out of sight.
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jesse_the_k

I love some green veg at lunch. Commercial frozen green veg are hard as rocks and nastily overcooked. Here’s how I bulk prep fresh swiss chard for my lunches

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https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/crystals-where-there-were-none

This is a pretty weird idea, but it seems to work. I’ve written many times about aspect of crystallography, but there’s one great big overarching concern in that field that you have to get past: can you even get crystals of your desired compound at all?

Advances in x-ray crystallography and electron diffraction have helped to push the size and availability of useful crystals further and further, and we can now get experimental structures from samples that once would have been considered not even worth looking at. But even very tiny crystals are still crystals: what if you can’t even get that far? That’s what this new paper is addressing, and it fits into a long tradition in the field.

That is, “if you can’t get a crystal of your desired molecule, make a derivative of it where you can”. All sorts of things have been used for this trick - you might be able to make a crystalline salt of an amine compound, for example, or you might esterify a carboxylic acid with some chunky, likely-to-pack-well side chain. On the other side of that transformation, you could go after hydroxyl groups on your target molecule and esterify them to see if something will start growing. But as you can tell even from that (very incomplete!) list, this is something of an art form. You can never really be sure which of these changes might do the trick, and you should never forget that each of the new compounds you’ve produced can be examined in all sorts of solvents and conditions when it comes time to crystallize them. This sort of thing can go on for weeks, months. Years.

The paper linked above is suggesting what might be a more general method. Over the years, it’s been found that metal complexes consisting of three metal atoms arranged with three substituted pyrazole molecules into a planar triangular ring seem to have a strong affinity for complexation with a variety of organic molecules. Many crystalline species can be produced this way, as you can see here. The species with three silver atoms and three bis(trifluoromethyl)pyrazole molecules seems to be especially useful, as shown here. Even so, there are plenty of species out there that don’t quite come through with this method.

So the authors have found that plain ol’ acetyl groups are very good for attracting the metal complex, and show that acetylating recalcitrant molecules turns them into good partners for forming crystalline species. This is demonstrated with a whole range of alcohols, polyols, phenols and polyphenols, and amine species. Some of these are just flat-out liquids at ambient conditions, while others are gummy, gunky, sorta-solids as they stand. A few are actually too volatile for anyone to have successfully crystallized them as well. But they seem to form quite useful crystal species under these conditions, with the acetylations done in situ without isolation, and I’m sure those heavy silver atoms help out quite a bit with the X-ray data. It is rather weird to see orderly crystal structures for things like cyclopentadecanol!

Looking through the supplementary data, I see that the R factors for most of these are around 0.06, give or take, which is not sparkling clean but not horrible. Some of them are down in the 0.03 range, while others are more up around 0.10, which is rather looser. Those latter structures would qualify as “good enough for synthetic organic chemists” but I very much suspect they would not please the real crystallographers out there. But for Cro-Magnons like me (and my tribe), a fuzzy structure usually beats no structure at all, so we’ll take what we can get!

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/crystals-where-there-were-none

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Posted by Athena Scalzi

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/02/05/the-big-idea-justin-c-key/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=59358

A good beside manner makes all the difference in your medical care. So how polite could a robot doctor or AI nurse be? Justin C. Key makes the argument that human connection in medicine is an absolute requirement, and empathy should be all the rage amongst hospital staff. He took this attitude into the creation of his newest novel, The Hospital at the End of the World. Grab you insurance card and come see how connection and community are some of the best medicines.

JUSTIN C. KEY:

It’s hard to keep your humanity in medical training.

It’s a potent thought considering the AI war brewing. We have a process of training doctors that desensitizes, burns-out, and enforces systemic biases. If we’re training people to be robots, why not let the actual robots do it better?

In crafting this book, I set out to make a case for the opposite.

I’m a science fiction author who happened to go to medical school for the same reason I’m drawn to writing: the belief in the inherent value of human connection. I learned early in my medical journey that our healthcare system makes it very difficult to uphold this value. Physicians are overworked, bogged down in red tape, swimming upstream against a for-profit insurance system, and have too many patients and not enough time.

Then there’s the training itself. I didn’t like medical school. I didn’t like the hierarchy. I didn’t like the glorification of battle scars. I didn’t like the environment that pushed my classmate to suicide just months before graduation. Though my alma mater did great work in teaching the art of medicine and the importance of being with your patient, the core culture remained.

It wasn’t until I’d gotten my degree, had some years of autonomous patient care under my belt, and had the chance to process my experiences through my writing that I realized how magical it is to become a healer. No, not in an elitist or ‘holier than thou’ way. But the privilege to build a partnership meant to enhance a human life and, in a lot of cases, save it.

My first novel follows young medical student Pok Morning. There’s the premise you’ll get on the jacket cover and in the pitches and in the interviews—AI vs medicine, who will prevail?!—but as the larger, existential battle rages on, Pok still has to navigate the brutal process of becoming a doctor. How could I strike the balance between my perceived experience and later reflections? I was also asking a deeper, more introspective question: how did I come out of training valuing human connection so much when the process could have very well stripped me of that?

The importance for humanity in medicine isn’t a given. With delivery and mobile apps, we are more and more disconnected from the people with whom we exchange services. And one can’t deny that there are some tasks a cold, calculated machine might be suited for. Even then, usually the best result comes from a pairing with human intuition. I wouldn’t knowingly get on a plane that didn’t have both an experienced pilot and a functional autopilot computer system. Would you?

And then there’s the risks of having a human in the driver’s seat. Computers can’t drink and drive. They can’t be distracted by texting. They can’t forget to check a burn victim’s throat for soot just because a cooler case rolled by in the ER (yes, I literally just rewatched THAT Grey’s Anatomy episode).

And thus winning the war of AI vs medicine is less about showing the flaws of AI (and trust, there are many and if I were an AI I’d make up a fake statistic to prove that point) but rather in making the case for humanity’s value. The most rewarding part of medicine—certainly for me and I suspect a lot of my colleagues who still hold hope—is helping someone by tapping into our own human parts. Empathy. Perspective. Community. This power is separate from outcomes. The task is easiest (and possibly even in AI’s reach) when the treatment worked and the patient improved. But what about when things go wrong? What about delivering bad news? What about being with someone during the hardest part of their life? There’s value in being seen and heard by another human. if a generated likeness said and did everything right, I’d bet that, for the patient, the experience would be as rewarding as watching a robot win the Olympics (in any category).

And yet . . . our healthcare system leaves little space for quality time between physician and patient. Those seeking help are left feeling unheard, underprioritized, and scrambling for alternative solutions. I fear that AI is going to come in and fill in these gaps (ChatGPT therapist, anyone?). Which is a shame because technology is supposed to relieve a physician’s burden and create more time for deeper connection, not eliminate it altogether. That dichotomy fuels the background of this book. Pok learns the ‘hard way’ of doing medicine while discovering its value.

There’s a moment early on in Pok’s medical school career where he doesn’t do as well as he hoped and feels he’s the only one. That everyone else is doing fine while he struggles. It’s a horrible place to be. I know because I’ve been there. But as the author of Pok’s world, I was able to imagine what it would look like to be lifted up from that, to have such disappointment strengthen community, resolve, and humility. The same way no one gets through illness alone, no one becomes a physician in isolation. The experiences that shape do so through the social lens.

Connection begets connection and that’s why it’s essential that medical education doesn’t exist in a bubble. There’s various levels of socialization, from peer to peer (Pok and his classmates), mentee to mentor (Pok and his professors) and, at some point, mentor to mentee (the student becomes the teacher). Like much of life, these interactions can go well or they can be stressful. They can build up or tear down. The types of community one experiences while becoming a physician can very much inform what they will recreate with their own patients.

The type of medicine I created in The Hospital at the End of the World reflects what I strive to achieve as a physician. How did I put it on the page? By combining the essentials from my own experiences with what I hope will change for future generations of student doctors. Pok, and hopefully my readers, are better for it.

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Posted by xeno

https://www.transformativeworks.org/january-2026-newsletter-volume-207/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=277669

I. AO3 STATISTICS ROUND-UP

2025 was a busy year for AO3! The site continued to see rising traffic, with Communications publishing an update on AO3 statistics from 2020-2025. In December, Support received 3,589 tickets, totaling to over 40,000 tickets received in 2025, an all-time high. Meanwhile, Policy & Abuse (PAC) received 6,357 tickets in December, totaling approximately 47,500 tickets in 2025. Check out PAC’s pie chart for more details.

Pie chart of the approximately 47,500 Policy & Abuse tickets submitted in 2025, divided by type of complaint. Non-fanworks: 36%; Spam comments: 26%; Rejected complaints about offensive content: 13%; Commercial promotion: 7%; Plagiarism and copyright infringement: 6%; Harassment: 5%; Insufficient ratings or warnings: 2%; Incorrect fandom tags: 2%; Policy questions and misc/other: 4%. — Pie chart of the approximately 47,500 Policy & Abuse tickets submitted in 2025, divided by type of complaint. These categories reflect the subject of the complaint, and (with the exception of Offensive Content), do not indicate whether the report was upheld or rejected.

In the first half of January, User Response Translation translated or betaed 32 ticket requests from Support and PAC.

Open Doors finished importing three archives in December: Absolution – The Inugrrrl Memorial Archive about the manga InuYasha, InDeath.net Fan Fiction about the In Death book series by J.D. Robb, and The Pinky and the Brain Page about the cartoon Pinky and the Brain. In total, Open Doors completed the imports of nine archives in 2025! They also announced the import of the Randall Morgan Memorial Archive, a Queer as Folk (US) fanfiction archive by the creator Randall Morgan.

In December, Tag Wrangling wrangled approximately 598,000 tags, or around 1,300 tags per volunteer. In total, they wrangled approximately 4,944,000 tags in 2025. They also continued work on handling “No Fandom” additional tags, publishing December and January news posts detailing recent changes. In total, Tag Wrangling published nine “No Fandom”-related news posts in 2025 covering around 399 new canonical “No Fandom” additional tags.

II. ELSEWHERE AT AO3

Accessibility, Design & Technology coordinated improvements to bookmark searches in the latter half of January, including the ability to filter bookmarks by word count. They also continue their work on performance improvements, bug fixes, and working with PAC and AO3’s spam detection service to address spam comments. In conjunction with Communications, they posted a December 2025 update on how to recognize and report AO3 spambots.

In January, Tag Wrangling updated their Fandom Tag Metatag guidelines, including clarifying when a fandom metatag should be made and when to merge closely related fandoms into one fandom tag. Check out the news post detailing the new policy.

As part of International Volunteers Day (IVD) 2025, Communications collected and batched answers to the IVD Q&A by committee, resulting in five committee-specific news posts highlighting Communications, Support, Tag Wrangling, Translation, and Volunteers & Recruiting. Answers across committees, along with additional responses not featured in the news posts, have been compiled in a separate AO3 work.

III. ELSEWHERE AT THE OTW

Fanlore ran an editing chat to close out 2025, and it was a lot of fun! They also began preparing for their annual IFD Fanlore Challenge and Femslash February event! Keep an eye on their Bluesky, Twitter/X, and Tumblr for announcements.

Legal answered many internal and external questions this month.

TWC is readying the publication of the two 2026 special issues: “Disability and Fandom” and “Gaming Fandom”. They also continue work on the two 2027 special issues: “Music Fandom” and “Latin American Fandoms”, and there continues to be a rolling deadline for submitting to TWC’s next general issue.

In January, Communications’ Fanhackers wrote about the Transformative Approaches to Fan Identity, and they began a multi-post survey of acafannish research and publishing resources.

IV. GOVERNANCE

In December, Board announced the resignations of two directors: Kathryn Solderholm and Erica Frank. We would like to thank Erica and Kathryn for their service as members of the Board, and wish them all the best in their future endeavours with the OTW.

In January, Board finalized and approved the OTW Procurement & Purchasing Policy. They and the Board Assistants Team (BAT) organised the first quarter of 2026 public Board meeting on January 18 which had 54 attendees. Minutes of this meeting will be available soon on the OTW website. Elsewhere, Board and BAT continued work on document review and archiving board statements, Code of Conduct tasks in conjunction with Organizational Culture Roadmap, and ongoing projects for mental health resources for volunteers, scheduling tools, public meeting best practices and volunteer retention in BAT. BAT also updated their OTW website committee page.

Organizational Culture Roadmap finalized a confidentiality policy in preparation for upcoming external recruitment.

V. OUR VOLUNTEERS

In December, Volunteers & Recruiting thanked all OTW volunteers on International Volunteer Day with their organization-wide email and graphics campaign. In January, they ran recruitment for Open Doors.

From November 22 to January 23, Volunteers & Recruiting received 355 new requests, and completed 378, leaving them with 52 open requests (including induction and removal tasks listed below). As of January 23, 2025, the OTW has 1,013 volunteers. \o/ Recent personnel movements are listed below.

New Subcommittee Leads/Workgroup Heads: Eevee (Internal Complaint and Conflict Resolution Lead) and megidola (Organizational Culture Roadmap Workgroup Head)
New AO3 Documentation Volunteers: Lulu S (Chair Trainee)
New Fanlore Volunteers: Elfie, Konsta Morales, Watts, and 1 other Graphic Designer
New Open Doors Volunteers: Addiebees, AviLine, feelyx, LeighR, Marie K, meservey66, MetaKass, miffmiff, Mort, pinkconstellations, SleepyJane, Spit, StormySea, Truendz, Vail, and 11 other Import Assistants
New Policy & Abuse Volunteers: megidola (Supervisor) and 1 Chair Track Volunteer
New Tag Wrangling Volunteers: Chelsea Cheyanne, inspiredstork, Sanity, will, and Yrindor (Supervisors)
New Translation Volunteers: Rhine and 1 other Chair Trainee; Arushi, athursdayschild, Eirinar, Linarii, Mira8, Niki K, Phoebe B, Pi, Rita P, and 12 other Translators
New TWC Volunteers: Fiona M, Yumi, and 3 other Layout Editors; and 2 Outreach and Communications Editors
New User Response Translation Volunteers: Eki, f0f8ff, HARRitte, Jules R, Laus, PanPan, rosings, zoy zauce, and 3 other Translators

Departing Directors: Erica Frank and Kathryn Soderholm
Departing Committee Chairs: 1 Communications Chair and 1 Elections Chair
Departing BAT Volunteers: 1 Volunteer
Departing Communications Volunteers: KW Ukuku (TikTok Moderator), Lori P (Graphics Volunteer), 1 Fanhacker Volunteer, and 1 Social Media Moderator
Departing Communications News Post Moderation Volunteers: 1 News Post Moderator
Departing Development & Membership Volunteers: 1 Graphic Designer, 2 Membership Data Specialists, and 2 Volunteers
Departing Fanlore Volunteers: 1 Discord Moderator, 1 Outreach Analyst, and 1 Policy & Admin
Departing Open Doors Volunteers: Pelagia and 1 other Administrative Volunteer, Wynne (Import Assistant), and 1 FCPP Intern
Departing Policy & Abuse Volunteers: 1 Volunteer
Departing Strategic Planning Volunteers: 1 Volunteer
Departing Support Volunteers: Nary and 22 other Volunteers
Departing Tag Wrangling Volunteers: Nary and 1 other Supervisor; Asas Carmesins, Bruno, Eevee, lianneder, Lily_Haydee_Lohdisse, McBangle, Sayornis, Tea Huimyni, and 10 other Wranglers
Departing Translation Volunteers: Teelee (Task Assistant); Illiterations and 4 Translators
Departing TWC Volunteers: Melanie Kohnen (Review Editor); Courtney Lazore and 1 other Proofreader; and 1 Symposium Editor
Departing User Response Translation Volunteers: 1 Translator
Departing Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteers: 1 Senior Volunteer and 2 Volunteers

For more information about our committees and their regular activities, you can refer to the committee pages on our website.

https://www.transformativeworks.org/january-2026-newsletter-volume-207/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=277669

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Posted by Ask a Manager

https://www.askamanager.org/2026/02/can-i-ask-for-feedback-on-why-i-was-rejected-without-interview.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=35020

A reader writes:

Do you have any guidance on asking for feedback on a job application when you weren’t selected for an interview? I’m aware that I’m unlikely to get a candid answer and perhaps some of my frustration is borne out of feeling like I’m continually applying for jobs where I meet all of the criteria, and can provide examples, but not really getting anywhere.

You can try, but you’re unlikely to get substantive feedback. You’re more likely to get someone willing to give you feedback after an interview because at that point they’ve talked with you one-on-one and there’s more of a connection. Even then, a lot of managers won’t give you any truly meaningful feedback (and sometimes understandably so). Getting it when you haven’t been interviewed is much harder.

Partly that’s because so often the decision came down to “your application was fine but we had a ton of applicants and others were just stronger.” And partly it’s because if the issue was a weakness in your resume or cover letter, most hiring managers won’t want to get into that kind of feedback with someone they don’t even know. You’re most likely to get it if the answer is something very straightforward like “we’re looking for five years of experience with X and you only have one” — but that’s also the kind of thing you don’t generally need them to tell you if their job posting was detailed enough. And even then, they still might not take the time to say it because replying to rejected candidates isn’t usually a high priority relative to other things the hiring manager is juggling.

You’re better off asking for feedback from people in your network who work in your field at a more senior level. Ask if they’d be willing to look over your application materials and see if they spot ways you can strengthen them. Those are people who already have a connection with you, so they’re more likely to offer something helpful.

Also — if this doesn’t apply to you I apologize, but more than 95% of the time when someone tells me they’re having trouble getting interviews and I ask to see their resume and cover letter, they haven’t done the stuff I’ve listed here (even when they tell me they’ve read it). So that’s one place you could start.

The post can I ask for feedback on why I was rejected without an interview? appeared first on Ask a Manager.

https://www.askamanager.org/2026/02/can-i-ask-for-feedback-on-why-i-was-rejected-without-interview.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=35020

ao3_news_feed

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/34226

Banner of a paper airplane emerging from an envelope with the words 'OTW Newsletter: Organization for Transformative Works'

I. AO3 STATISTICS ROUND-UP

In the first half of January, User Response Translation translated or betaed 32 ticket requests from Support and PAC.

Open Doors finished importing three archives in December: Absolution - The Inugrrrl Memorial Archive about the manga InuYasha, InDeath.net Fan Fiction about the In Death book series by J.D. Robb, and The Pinky and the Brain Page about the cartoon Pinky and the Brain. In total, Open Doors completed the imports of nine archives in 2025! They also announced the import of the Randall Morgan Memorial Archive, a Queer as Folk (US) fanfiction archive by the creator Randall Morgan.

In December, Tag Wrangling wrangled approximately 598,000 tags, or around 1,300 tags per volunteer. In total, they wrangled approximately 4,944,000 tags in 2025. They also continued work on handling "No Fandom" additional tags, publishing December and January news posts detailing recent changes. In total, Tag Wrangling published nine "No Fandom"-related news posts in 2025 covering around 399 new canonical "No Fandom" additional tags.

II. ELSEWHERE AT AO3

Accessibility, Design & Technology coordinated improvements to bookmark searches in the latter half of January, including the ability to filter bookmarks by word count. They also continue their work on performance improvements, bug fixes, and working with PAC and AO3's spam detection service to address spam comments. In conjunction with Communications, they posted a December 2025 update on how to recognize and report AO3 spambots.

III. ELSEWHERE AT THE OTW

Legal answered many internal and external questions this month.

TWC is readying the publication of the two 2026 special issues: "Disability and Fandom" and "Gaming Fandom". They also continue work on the two 2027 special issues: "Music Fandom" and "Latin American Fandoms", and there continues to be a rolling deadline for submitting to TWC’s next general issue.

In January, Communications' Fanhackers wrote about the Transformative Approaches to Fan Identity, and they began a multi-post survey of acafannish research and publishing resources.

IV. GOVERNANCE

Organizational Culture Roadmap finalized a confidentiality policy in preparation for upcoming external recruitment.

V. OUR VOLUNTEERS

For more information about our committees and their regular activities, you can refer to the committee pages on our website.

The Organization for Transformative Works is the non-profit parent organization of multiple projects including Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors, OTW Legal Advocacy, and Transformative Works and Cultures. We are a fan-run, donor-supported organization staffed by volunteers. Find out more about us on our website.

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wychwood

I had a birthday! It was low key (Mum is still not up for even small adventures) but involved a lot of eating. I had lunch with Dad, and then dinner with S before choir although I was still so full I managed half a starter and a bit of her dessert. Then choir, and we had some cookies in the break. Tomorrow I have post-swimming coffee and cake before work and then office snacks (three flavours of interesting cheese crackers! I thought that was more fun than cake).

Nearly everyone gave me vouchers as per my request and I have so many Steam vouchers now. That will be fun for when my wishlist items go on good sales! Also my dad gave me a scented candle but that was more of a "please get rid of this thing I don't want" than a present as such :D It appears to be a branded corporate gift from his old work, but it smells OK and my candle order has been "on its way" from the parcel facility less than twenty miles away for ten days now, so I'll take it.

Choir was also interesting because it was the first rehearsal of the second conductor candidate we're auditioning. So far I like him - probably better than the first one, although he was OK - but we'll see how it goes. I had demanded that S make sure I was sung happy birthday (before we realised it was the new guy's first night!) but she managed to make it happen anyway. Deeply mortifying in the moment, but also I really wanted it to happen! It was the 22nd anniversary of S and I joining the chorus (no prizes for guessing why I can remember exactly what date it was...) and we've been friends ever since.

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Posted by Ask a Manager

https://www.askamanager.org/2026/02/3-recent-success-stories-from-readers.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=35931

Here are three recent success stories submitted by readers.

1. A successful raise request

I wanted to share that I used your advice for asking for a raise to successfully increase my salary. I presented salary surveys from nonprofit industry groups and local job postings for similar positions that showed my old salary was low compared to current listings in my metro area. In the end, I received a 9% raise, which I feel pretty good about. It isn’t as much as I hoped, but my supervisor did acknowledge it was the most they could give me at this time and that at first the proposed raise from HR was 6%.

2. A successful salary negotiation

This is not me but my Gen Z daughter. She works in a field that is renown for contract work — and she just recently was able to secure a full-time, benefitted position in a field she loves. They offered her $X, which she was over the moon for, having been considerably underpaid in a prior teaching job. Figuring she might be able to eke out a bit more, she called her cousin (who worked in the field) and a career coach who has been wonderful at providing some pro bono assistance, and then called the hiring manager. She asked if there was any wiggle room in the salary. The hiring manager asked her what she was thinking and so she provided a range. The hiring manager replied with, “How about $Y?” This was higher than the range she had named and 12% higher than what she was initially offered. Now she’s really over the moon. It makes one wonder if there was even more wiggle room in that number, but that’s okay. She is going to be doing something she loves and is also now not afraid of asking for what she wants. It confirms the saying that you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

3. A successful skip-level meeting

I changed roles in my organization in October. In December, the CIO sent a divisional all-hands email inviting all new joiners to a morning tea for welcome and networking.

I wasn’t able to attend due to a preexisting health appointment. I emailed the CIO’s PA to apologize for missing it, and I channelled my inner-AAM hard: “I’d hoped to introduce myself to [CIO] as I know they were tracking a major incident two weeks ago that I was the technical lead for resolving.”

The PA replied that the CIO would like to meet with me and offered a 15-minute slot in January.

Because I’m in a large international organization, the CIO is my skip-level’s skip-level. In preparation, I read everything you’ve ever advised your readers about making the most of a skip-level meeting.

I had a good — and fast! 90 seconds! — answer ready to “Tell me about what you do here and what you did before.”

I asked them if they were curious about a ground-level view of the incident. They said no, in a friendly way, so I instantly pivoted to, “What’s front of mind for you for this quarter and this year?”

They spent 10 minutes on five major initiatives and paused each time to invite comment. I correctly read the room and gave one or at most two sentences for each. I hit the jackpot with one, where the CIO paused and said, “Interesting that you saw that right away. Most of my team didn’t.”

We finished in 13 minutes, and they congratulated me for “knowing how to speak with a CIO”. :) They also gave me two names of people who report to them that they wanted me to meet.

Will anything come of it? Who knows? I don’t even really care — it was great practice, and I couldn’t have done it without your excellent advice. Thank you!

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Poll #34186

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 13

View Respondents

Which books would you like to try next?

View Answers

Mary Stewart - This Rough Magic
11 (84.6%)

Diana Biller - Widow of Rose House
2 (15.4%)

MM Kaye - Death in the Andamans (aka Night on the Island)
6 (46.2%)

Beth Byers - Murder & the Heir
1 (7.7%)

Madeleine Brent - Tregaron's Daughter
4 (30.8%)

Barbara Michaels - Be Buried in the Rain
2 (15.4%)

Charlotte Armstrong - The Chocolate Cobweb
4 (30.8%)

Isabelle Holland - Trelawny
2 (15.4%)

Jane Aiken Hodge - Last Act
1 (7.7%)

Wendy Hudson - Mine to Keep
3 (23.1%)

Would you be willing to host one of these (alone or with someone else)?

View Answers

Yes - I will tell you more in comments
2 (25.0%)

No
4 (50.0%)

Maybe - let me explain in comments
2 (25.0%)

disneydream06

I just read an entry from

i that announced the sad news of the death of

sunshine_two

Although we weren't connected friends here on LJ,

she did comment in my journal occasionally.

My deepest sympathies go out to her family and all here friends.

loganberrybunny

Public

Watch on YouTube

It's been a long time since I made a music post here, so let's change that! Those of you who've known me for a while will know that I adore Judith Durham's voice – she may even be my favourite female singer ever – and so it won't come as a huge surprise that I've chosen a Seekers track. Although the video is in 1960s TV quality, the audio is remastered and is much better. And, crucially given Durham's vocal style, very clear. "A World of Our Own" was released in 1965 and was a major hit in the Seekers' native Australia (no. 2) and in the UK (no. 3) as well as breaking into the US top twenty.

Current Mood: artistic

disneydream06

February 5th...

A Friend Of Mine Was Given

An Acoustic Guitar For Free.

Of Course, Strings Were

Attached.

malurette

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Posted by Ask a Manager

https://www.askamanager.org/2026/02/how-do-people-in-high-conflict-jobs-protect-their-mental-health.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=34596

It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes:

I work in a pretty calm office environment where I rarely deal with confrontation. Lately I’ve been wondering how people in more volatile or high-stress roles take care of themselves (e.g., law enforcement, corrections, emergency response, or even customer service and call centers).

How do people who face frequent conflict or hostility at work manage their stress and protect their mental health over time? I’d love to hear from readers who’ve figured out ways to stay grounded and healthy in those environments, and also what draws them to that kind of work.

Readers in high-conflict roles, please weigh in!

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https://www.askamanager.org/?p=34596

mdlbear

Today I am thankful for...

Finally getting a phone call made, and finding that (as usual) it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. NO thanks to my phone phobia -- should have done it a month ago.
The Harwich - Hoek van Holland ferry. Would be more thankful if the night run afforded more time to actually sleep.
Ordering stuff online.
A nice warm fuzzy blanket to wrap myself in. NO thanks for a body that feels cold in the evening no matter what the air temperature is. ALSO no thanks for deliveries that make me get out of my nice warm fuzzy blanket to answer the door.
Good Drugs.
Filk cons I can get to by public transit.

Current Mood: grateful
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag
Current Music: Contabile, last weekend

disneydream06

ailbhe

I saw this post and really liked it: https://skibbley.dreamwidth.org/683386.html.

choco_frosh

Diese Tabellen zu formulieren, damit sie nicht so aussehen wie etwas das aus einem Hundenarsch gefallen ist, ist selbst ein Hundenarsch.

ETA: Now I get to make sure all the hyperlinks actually work. נָקְטָה נַפְשִׁי, בְּחַיָּי

degringolade

Today's Spirit Animal

People take me to task for not thinking that Trump is either a.)senile, b.)a nazi, c.)corrupt, or d.)stupid. Of course there are a plethora of other conditions/labels where others peel the label and slap the label on the image that lives in their mind, but here in Orygun the above labels are the predominant.

I take a different point of view, simply put, there really aren’t any “good” choices that he can make that will make everything settle down and return to the image of the past that lies in people's brains. My take on this is that such a thing simply isn’t possible. I take a somewhat jaundiced view of the nature of government here in America during my lifetime. For the first half (approximately 36 years from 1953 to 1989) we were in a condition where there was enough money sloshing around that everyone and everything got a payout, it might have been short of the demands, but nearly everyone got enough to make them shut up for a while. That was the nature of politics in America.

Things started to change in the 90’s. The amount of money spent to keep people shut up kept rising, but the money coming into the big wallet in the sky began to dry up. Even worse, the rich folks lawyers started figuring out how the rich folk didn’t have to pay their fair share. Even worse, the rich folks figured out that they could make a profit by loaning money to the government to pay for the programs that the taxes they should have been paying used to fund. So the money is increasingly held by the rich and they “loan” the money to the government to provide beads and trinkets to the natives. They make a healthy profit to add to their already very-healthy pile of loot and just keep adding to their control.

I realize that you probably won’t like the next part, but a lot of what is considered “rights” in today’s America is really just a set of demands that the government borrow more money to pay for shit that is desired so that you will shut up. But everything you receive this way puts you deeper and deeper in the control of the government and their corporate masters. I am thinking that these “mind-forged manacles” will get lighter if you stop asking for more and figure out how to get by with less.

Current Mood: bitchy
Current Location: Still Dark and Looking out the Window
Current Music: Dave Alvin: Stealin' Stealin'

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