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Girl Genius for Monday, March 16, 2026
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Performing some traffic maintenance today
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dw_maintenanceHappy Saturday!
I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!
If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.
Girl Genius for Friday, March 13, 2026
Mar. 13th, 2026 04:00 amgirlgenius_main_feed03/13/2026
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Parenthood is NOT pushing your own feelings onto your kids.
03/12/2026
Mar. 12th, 2026 04:00 amthe_devils_panties_feed
it’s better than transcribing bank statements into google docs.
Girl Genius for Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Mar. 11th, 2026 04:00 amgirlgenius_main_feedanother scam warning
Mar. 10th, 2026 01:42 pmlois_mcmaster_bujold_feed"This is just to let you know that a Facebook "fan page" for me has been hacked; we're working on getting it fixed, but it is going to take time because I didn't set the thing up myself. In the meantime, I'm told that scammers do this to try to get followers' emails and use them to request money. I get money from fans buying my books, not from asking for handouts. Please pass the word around.
I am not sure whether they can only get at people who "Follow" the Facebook page, or whether they can follow links to other writers, but I figured I should warn people."
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That goes for me as well; the only thing I'd ever want from my fans is to buy my books. Or at least read my books. I don't want your passwords, either...
As far as I know, the scammer/s who has/have been impersonating me on X is/are still around. I am not on X, never will be, don't vet manuscripts, etc. etc. My internet interfaces are this Goodreads blog, and its mirror site on Facebook run by a volunteer fan (bless her) where I can't answer anything (or, given FB's blockage screens, read much) though it does serve me as a signal boost.
Ta, L.
posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on March, 10
in which i take a deliberate moment to appreciate art
Mar. 10th, 2026 09:25 pmwwdn_feedI am making a deliberate effort to leave my phone as far away from my attention as I can, whenever I am able. I’m not looking at the news, I’m not scrolling the feeds, I’m not posting. I’m leaving it in my pocket, my car, in the kitchen, just … not in my face.
This fits into my efforts to slow down and be more present. It’s creating space I desperately need to decompress, get bored, let my mind wander and come back with a fun and creative idea.
Today, I was out for a minute and saw this little art installation on a telephone pole. It was weathered quite a bit; it’s been here for awhile. And it was beautiful to me. It was a few moments better spent than they would have been looking at anything on my phone, or anything I could have been listening to. It wasn’t dysregulating, it didn’t increase my internal DEFCON level.
I chose to experience and appreciate this thing that someone made when they were very much not thinking about me, because it was exactly where I needed it to be, exactly when I needed it.
I took some pictures (using only the camera and nothing else on the phone) so I could remember the moment, and share the art. They’re pretty big, so I’m gonna put them behind a jump.
Art is so important, y’all. Make time to experience it. Allow it to inspire, comfort, and challenge you.
I love public art, and I love the artists who create and install it. Please support your local arts community.
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