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agonyauntI’m a 21-year-old college student living in a house with five other students. There are three women and three men. We’re having an issue keeping our kitchen clean, and I am the only one who consistently cleans. I keep the floors and counters clean, wash the piles of dishes in the sink, wash dish towels, etc. Anytime I’ve asked people to chip in, they never follow through. I’ve tried not doing the cleaning, but then the kitchen gets disgusting and I end up caving.
I’m not completely innocent when it comes to not always washing my dishes immediately and being messy, but I feel like I clean more often than anyone else. A general chore chart doesn’t work, and I am tired of feeling like my roommate’s mother. How can I get them to take some initiative and do more of the heavy lifting that always falls on me?
—Not a Mother to Five at 21
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Lamlash Stone Circle in Scotland
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The monument comprises the remains of a prehistoric stone circle. The monument was originally scheduled in 1957 and was rescheduled in 1963, but the area covered by the designation did not relate accurately to the remains on the ground: the present rescheduling rectifies this.
The monument comprises four massive round-topped granite boulders, enclosing an area some 5m in diameter. They are set on the NW, W, SW and SE, and stand 0.86m, 0.50m, 1.16m and 0.83m in height respectively. The SW stone is marked on its top by two shallow cup-shaped depressions, joined by a groove 3mm deep and 30mm wide. An outlying stone, situated some 24m to the SSE, which is probably associated with the circle, stands up to 1.2m in height. There are five small portable stones placed within the setting to form an approximate circle, but these are undoubtedly later additions and not part of the original structure.
In 1861, a stone cist in the centre of the main stone circle was opened and found to contain black earth and fragments of burnt bone. Flint flakes and a flint implement were also recovered. There is now no sign of the cist.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them in which related material may be expected to survive. It is irregular in plan, with maximum dimensions of 40m from NW to SE by 25m transversely.
plimsoll
Mar. 18th, 2026 06:55 amprettygoodword
Thanks, WikiMedia!
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Michael Savage / The Guardian:
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy vows to grant the BBC's demand for a permanent charter, replacing the 10-year cycle, to protect it from “culture war” attacks — Minister says the change is needed to protect the corporation from repeated ‘culture war’ attacks
Wednesday Reading Meme
Mar. 18th, 2026 09:18 amsinealaNothing. Still have not attempted books. Currently getting over a migraine. I have to say, if I am now down to one migraine a week (which would be great, actually) I don't see why it has to be on Comics Wednesday two weeks in a row so that all my comics reviews are ass because I am clearly having difficulty comprehending comics.
Perhaps I could wait until Thursday to read them? No. It must be Wednesday. Otherwise the internet will spoil me.
What I'm Reading Now
Comics Wednesday!
( Captain America #8, Sorcerer Supreme #4, Ultimate Wolverine #15, Ultimates #22 )
What I'm Reading Next
Look, I'd be happy if I just got to read a book ever again.
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The UK government withdraws a proposal to let AI companies train on copyrighted works unless creators opt out, after backlash from artists like Dua Lipa — The UK Government has withdrawn its support for plans to make it easier for AI companies to steal copyright content.
Interesting Links for 18-03-2026
Mar. 18th, 2026 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Coming soon to Netflix... a movie that requires none of your attention!
- (tags:movies netflix attention video satire funny )
- 2. Everyone but Trump Understands What He's Done
- (tags:politics UK USA middle_east Ukraine Russia NATO )
- 3. Scotland's assisted dying bill rejected after emotional debate
- (tags:Scotland euthanasia )
- 4. More reports show that forcing people back to the office hurts productivity
- (tags:productivity office )
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan community
Mar. 18th, 2026 11:32 amoceangrey posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_community_promowarrington_runcorn_ntdp is a new fan-run community focused on the music of electronic project Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan.Anyone is free to join, even those who have never listened before! Although if that is you, I'd recommend checking out the project's Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and Youtube to get acquainted :D
Discussion on the community will include, but is not limited to, avourite songs/albums/album artwork, physical media, how you discovered the music, recommendations for similar music, etc.
The current rules are pretty standard: no harassment/discrimination against any other Dreamwidth users; no NSFW/explicit content unless it's directly connected to the community's theme; and please keep any posts/comments on topic as much as possible. Anything else can be decided on in the future.
I (
oceangrey) am the current only moderator/admin, but if anyone else wants a similar role just message me or comment on the community's pinned post!media_gazer_feed
Erik Pedersen / Deadline:
FilmLA: in H1 2025, Los Angeles soundstage occupancy averaged 62%, down from 63% in 2024 and a 35.4% drop from the 96% peak in 2016; shoot days fell 8% to 7,940 — Los Angeles is the worldwide leader in available soundstage space, but plenty of it is going unused.
Today's the day! Surviving Peace is live!
Mar. 18th, 2026 07:13 amtassosss
Ebook is available on all retailers.
Paperback is available on Amazon.
If you'd like a signed paperback, let me know in comments. I don't have my author copies yet, so it will be a little bit of a delay.
Wordcount: ~114,000
Rated: Teen for swearing and violence
No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:
They saved the ship. Now everyone wants them dead.
Jacks Harrison and chief engineer Antony Watts avoided a catastrophic collision between their generation ship Peace and their three sister ships that would have killed every human in the fleet. But saving their people came with a cost, and now Jacks and Antony are wanted by the rebellious factions that overthrew Peace’s corrupt governor.
With Peace’s two cities in shambles and neighbor turning against neighbor, Jacks and Antony must fight their way to safety only to find that the people on Peace are still in terrible danger: the ship’s water system is bleeding out, and it’s up to them to figure out how stop it.
Along the way, Jacks must reckon with the violence she finds herself too comfortable with and Antony must confront his past complicity in the corrupt regime. Because Peace doesn’t hand out easy answers, and they both have to decide how far they’re willing to go to ensure they survive.
Meta’s AI Glasses and Privacy
Mar. 18th, 2026 11:07 ambruce_schneier_feedSurprising no one, Meta’s new AI glasses are a privacy disaster.
I’m not sure what can be done here. This is a technology that will exist, whether we like it or not.
Meanwhile, there is a new Android app that detects when there are smart glasses nearby.
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Amazon MGM's Project Hail Mary, a $200M space movie fronted by Ryan Gosling, is primed to be its first original blockbuster, targeting a $63M to $65M opening — In “Project Hail Mary,” Ryan Gosling plays a scientist tasked with saving the planet from extinction.
Withnail & I communities
Mar. 18th, 2026 09:35 amoceangrey posting in dw_community_promowithnailandi is a community for everything related to Withnail & I (1987). Fanworks/recommendations, meta/discussions, whatever, all are welcome here! Another related community is withnailandinsfw, for any more explicit fanworks/discussions.Although not entirely new (made in October 2025) both communities are unused as of yet, due to most of the fandom being on other platforms. Feel free to join whether you're a casual fan, or if it's your favourite film of all time, or if you're somewhere in between!
withnailandi is open for anyone to join, and withnailandinsfw is set to administrator-approved due to the community's content.I finished writing Dollshops & Deathmages!
Mar. 18th, 2026 01:28 pmadoreIt made me feel better, knowing that I'm not alone in having to plan my writing work around moontime, but I really wish my symptoms would be limited to the week of moontime because two weeks is a lot of time lost.
Now to wait for the other authors participating in the cozy fantasy anthology to finish their stories. I've also talked to my cover designer about a cover for Dollshops & Deathmages, because after the anthology has run its course the participating authors will release their stories individually as they see fit. I'm hoping to make Dollshops & Deathmages an evergreen prequel novella and occasional reader magnet for the subsequent cozy books I have planned, so it needs its own cover.
Back when I was employed, I saved up and got myself covers for a couple of the cozy books I'm writing (Dragons & Debutantes and Pumpkin Jack Proposes) since covers are the biggest authorial expense. Dollshops & Deathmages wasn't planned for because I didn't know I was going to participate in a cozy anthology until the opportunity came up, and I crafted this story specifically for this anthology. So I have had to commission the cover for this now, not in advance like the others.
My parents are decently supportive about this indie author project and funded the cover for Dollshops & Deathmages, but I'm not decently grateful because I wanted their support long before this and didn't get it. If I'd gotten their support before this I would've had a job and would've been able to pay for my own covers. Their opposition to me taking that job was very gendered, so I don't feel privileged at all. Even though I am.
I'm bitter and prideful whenever I have to ask them for money, and when they sweetly tell me I have only to ask them, I'm overwhelmed by anger because they could have been supportive all along but only chose to be after I was driven into a corner and had no options left.
I think the contrast between them happily giving me handouts vs. their crashout when I wanted to work at the bookstore is probably because they like me being at home and dependent. I mean it makes no sense that they're supportive about this, but weren't supportive about the stable salaried thing.
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Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at Norway's growing film industry, after it earned its first-ever Oscar, the Academy Award for best international feature, for the film Sentimental Value — How Scandinavia's “cinema underdogs” used innovation — and a lot of oil money — to build a film industry from scratch.
four rides make a post
Mar. 17th, 2026 11:29 pmursamajor( recent bike rides: coffee ride, bike party, Kidical Mass, and biking to the library to get a Star Trek-themed library card )
Still, I did take this most recent Sunday off from running because of the higher-than-normal activity, and squeezed a quick jog in this morning before the heatwave really set in. It should not be this close to 90F in the Bay Area in March, but at least I still have otter pops in the freezer. Worth noting: I'm finally at a point in my fitness where I can consistently jog 20 minutes in a row. I'm still slow af, but one of my fitness goals this year is to be able to jog a 5k without a significant walk break. I've done races in the past with run-walk intervals, I just want to broaden my toolset. And the cardio is good for breath control, key to singing, so I'm trying to encourage this virtuous feedback loop :)
Despite the heat, I had already defrosted the corned beef for boiled dinner for St. Patrick's Day dinner tonight, and it's one of
hyounpark's faves from our Boston era, so tradition upheld. I also baked soda bread, or at least a slightly nontrad version that called for yogurt instead of the buttermilk we never have on hand. And of course I modded that; we do raisins or currants in ours, not nuts, and for once, I even had caraway seeds on hand thanks to a recent Buy Nothing spice exchange), and that came out so well we've already finished half the loaf. So I got that all on the stove as early as possible to not overheat the house.In between all the biking and baking, we managed to sneak in brunch on the patio at Oceanview Diner with CJ and Chung and their kids. I ordered the souffle pancake, knowing it was going to show up as dessert, and it was worth the wait (and the looks on everyone's faces 😁 ). Their souffle pancake is really more of a Dutch baby, which their predecessor called a Dutch bunny when I would order it as a kid decades ago, fluffy and just a bit eggy and perfect.
It's too hot to sleep; I think I'll have another otter pop.
Pride and Prejudice: The Rich Are Always Respectable by Elizabeth (anghraine)
Mar. 17th, 2026 09:38 pmbeatrice_otter posting in fancakePairings/Characters: Darcy/Elizabeth, Georgiana, Jane/Bingley
Rating: Teen
Length: 75k
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Theme: siblings, old fandoms, book fandoms, novel length, AU, family,
Summary: Without Lady Catherine's interference, a family catastrophe throws Darcy and Elizabeth down wildly different paths.
Reccer's Notes: This series is very much Darcy/Elizabeth, but they spend a lot of it going down separate paths. And on those separate paths, their closest relationships are with their siblings--Darcy and Georgiana, Jane and Elizabeth. I love the care that is taken with all of the different relationships in this story.
Fanwork Links: The Rich Are Always Respectable