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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2025-09-23 10:20 pm

bi visibility day

Happy bisexual visibility day, everyone! In case anyone doesn't know, I'm bi, and yes, some of us are greedy and enjoy having partners of more than one gender.
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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2025-09-23 04:49 pm
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lunch with friends of Adrian's

One of [personal profile] adrian_turtle's comrades from the hav invited the three of us to have lunch in their yard today, after Rosh Hashanah services. We all had a good time--I hadn't met either R or their partner Peter before, and I liked them both, as did [personal profile] cattitude (as did Adrian, of course). We sat and talked for a couple of hours: the three of us brought a vegetable frittata and an apple cake, both of which Adrian made yesterday; R. and Peter contributed salad, challah, and of course the location. It was the right amount of food for five people; we took home 1/6 of the frittata, and gave them the last slice of cake, since we have more at home.

R and Peter live in Allston, near the Packard's Corner T stop, so not in walking distance, but easy by transit. The conversation wandered, as good conversations will. We were there for a couple of hours, longer than I'd expected, and I didn't notice the time until we got home and I looked at the clock on our stove.
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vvalkyri ([personal profile] vvalkyri) wrote2025-09-23 09:02 am

Quick happy Rosh Hashanah

I've got to finish getting dressed and run downstairs because Park Street Shul in New York starts at 8:30!

So Torah service is soon.

Of interest to some:
Btw park st shul has conservative book electronically to 'rent' for $3 https://www.rabookstore.org/products/mahzor-lev-shalem-rosh-hashanah-yom-kippur-ebook
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minoanmiss ([personal profile] minoanmiss) wrote2025-09-22 12:34 pm
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kenjari ([personal profile] kenjari) wrote2025-09-19 09:38 am
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Book Review

Fugitive Telemetry
by Martha Wells

This is the 6th Murderbot book and it's the equivalent of what in TV is termed a bottle-episode in that it is self-contained and takes place in a single location. Fugitive Telemetry is a murder mystery that takes place entirely on Preservation Station. When a dead body turns up on the station, the station authorities reluctantly bring Murderbot into the investigation.
I enjoyed this one a lot. The mystery is good - it went in a few unexpected places and involved a very interesting situation which I don't want to spoil. I liked how Murderbot's working relationship with station security developed.
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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2025-09-17 02:42 pm

Massachusetts has updated covid vaccine guidance

I am happy to see that "should receive" the covid vaccine or booster includes infants; children and adolescents who haven't already been vaccinated; anyone with a medical condition that puts them at higher risk of severe covid; and all household contacts of anyone at higher risk.

Everyone aged 65 or older should receive two doses, six months apart.

All healthcare workers "should" receive the vaccine, as should anyone who is pregnant, contemplating pregnancy, or has recently been pregnant, and a few other groups.

Everyone else "may receive" it.

https://www.mass.gov/doc/massachusetts-2025-2026-respiratory-illness-season-covid-19-vaccine-recommendations/download

What I saw is Massachusetts-specific, but it says it is aligned with the recommendations of the new Northeast Public Health Collaborative, which includes New England except for New Hampshire, plus New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
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kenjari ([personal profile] kenjari) wrote2025-09-16 09:24 pm
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Exit Strategy
by Martha Wells

This is the fourth Murderbot book, in which Murderbot helps a former client and perhaps current friend escape from a hostage situation and in the process help expose an unscrupulous corporation. This was a fun one, where we get to see Murderbot being heroic and badass. The action sequences were great, but the best parts were when Murderbot's relationships with humans grew. I love Murderbot - who knew a security android could be so relatable. This is my favorite kind of space opera, where the narrative focuses on relationships and smaller stories within an expansive far future setting.