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Every time, I forget that the teams have up until their first game to make injury swaps. And because I try to get the figures ready in time for the first match that means I need to make an update now.

The unlucky players this time are:
Adelina Engman (Finland) withdrawing because of a thigh injury (https://yle.fi/a/7-10080591). Her replacement is Anni Hartikainen.

Luana Bühler (Switzerland) might win unluckiest, because she had to withdraw from a home tournament with a knee injury (https://www.football.ch/sfv/nationalteams/a-team-frauen/UWNL/news/frauen-nationalteam-luana-buehler-faellt-fuer-das-heim-turnier-aus.aspx). Her replacement is Laia Ballesté.

Chiara Beccari (Italy) is out with a thigh strain (https://total-italianfootball.com/womens-euro-2025-italy-beccari-out-injury-bergamaschi-in/). Her replacement is another Juventus player, Valentina Bergamaschi.

Martyna Brodzik (Poland) is out ill (https://pzpn.pl/federacja/aktualnosci/2025-06-22/zmiana-w-liscie-zawodniczek-powolanych-na-uefa-euro-2025). She has been replaced by Małgorzata Mesjasz. Because Mesjasz plays for AC Milan, this caused a fair amount of movement in the diagram.

The major changes to the diagram is that because of Poland moving up slightly, Germany and Norway have been split. The move has also pulled Italy in so they are directly above Denmark.

Network graph of the connections between the teams at Euro 2025.  It looks a lot like the map of France.  From the top left corner, along the top edge which is a descending diagonal line, are Belgium, Iceland and Italy.  Denmark are directly below Italy.  Sweden are directly below them.  England are down and to the right from them.  Diagonally down left from England are France, then Spain.  Portugal are in a straight line left from Spain.  Poland are above Portugal.  Finland are above them, then it is Wales, who are down and left from Belgium.  In the centre, slightly left from Sweden, are Switzerland, Germany, Norway and Netherlands.

In the community view, Switzerland and Germany are still together in one community but Sweden and England are now separate communities.

Same diagram as before, but this time coloured in by community view.  From the top left corner, along the top edge which is a descending diagonal line, are Belgium (dark green), Iceland (brown) and Italy (red pink).  Denmark (mid-green) are directly below Italy.  Sweden (mint green) are directly below them.  England (fake apple green) are down and to the right from them.  Diagonally down left from England are France (red brown), then Spain (olive yellow).  Portugal (salmon pink) are in a straight line left from Spain.  Poland (orange) are above Portugal.  Finland (electric blue) are above them, then it is Wales (shock pink), who are down and left from Belgium.  In the centre, slightly left from Sweden, are Switzerland, Germany (both mid-blue), Norway (lilac) and Netherlands (RAF blue).

The changes bring no clarity to any predictions.
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Posted by Lori Dorn

While appearing on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in March 1977, the late, great Andy Kaufman started his routine as the character that would eventually become Latka Gravas in the sitcom Taxi before breaking out in a perfect impression of Elvis Presley. Kaufman mastered the sparkly costume (in a flawless quick change), the velvet voice, and the distinctive dance moves that lead to Elvis being censored and almost arrested.

Andy Kaufman’s Elvis Presley Impression

The Full Routine

An Interview With Kaufman in August 1977

Other Elvis Impressions by Kaufman

Elvis Presley’s Controversial Dance Moves

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Posted by Lori Dorn

photo via DirkMcGirk

DirkMcGirk very cleverly designed a mechanical keyboard with letter and number keys that look like hunks of Swiss and Cheddar cheese. Additional keys are also fashioned to look like other cheeseboard items, such as cheese knives, graters, a bottle of wine, and a jar of jam with a little mouse peeking out from the other end.

DirkMcGirk quite humorously said that these two items have more in common than one might think.

Cheese and Mechanical Keyboards! These mouse adjacent hobbies have more in common than you would think. Both use pretentious adjectives to describe the sensory experience of the hobby. For example, if a cheese has a natural, safe to eat mold, cheese mongers prefer to call that a “bloom.” If a cheese stinks, it will be described as “robust.” The word “creamy” is an understandable adjective in the world of cheese, it is also used to describe keyboards in a much less real, more tasteless way.

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Garden Notes

Jul. 4th, 2025 10:50 am
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Lots of tomatoes have set.  Far more than last year at this time.  I think it is because it has been quite cool all the way through June and the first few days of July.  I'm expecting, and dreading, the arrival of very hot temperatures.  I still have lettuce in the garden!
The first okra will be ready tonight or tomorrow morning. 
Picked the first cucumber today, it was a pickling cucumber.   The lemon cucumber, which was planted quite late, has started blooming.  Meanwhile one of the Japanese thin skinned varieties, Shinto Kiwa has tiny fruit all over.  Somehow I planted two of that kind and both vines are growing vigorously.
I'm ready to pull out the "Smooth Criminal" yellow squash.  I don't like it's flavor or size.  Ditto another summer squash, Zucchinio.  Zuchinio is supposed to be both a summer squash and, if allowed to get big, a winter squash.  As a summer squash it just tastes like it is green, with no other redeeming qualities.  I'll replace it with another Butternut. 
This morning, pre-snake activities, I added some big logs to the bottom of the 6' tank.  Over the top of the wood is lots and lots of old potting soil and coconut coir mixed together. All that got wet down a little and then I added a nice layer of moisture holding, native soil that is rich in clay and mixed it in a little. Next: drip irrigation followed by planting, followed by horse manure for moisture retention.

friday later

Jul. 4th, 2025 04:07 pm
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They Have Stars Upon Thars.

A quiet day here. I sat outside this afternoon (perfect summer weather) in the adirondack chair beside the young chickens and drew on this picture. A little chipmunk was running around finding sunflower seeds that the big chickens had overlooked. Chloe sent me a photo of two eggs that her chickens had laid this morning - a smallish egg and a normal sized egg. Her chickens are the same age as my young chickens but hers somehow seem to be a bit more mature. Maybe it's the extra love and attention that she gives them. I don't really fuss over my chickens. She's out there holding them, petting them and carrying hers around. I haven't done that. Maybe that extra love helped hers mature faster?

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Three more - on cardstock. I think I should stop painting on cardstock and wait till Sunday when I'll get actual watercolor paper to paint on. It's hard to stop though. 

Murderbot 1x09

Jul. 4th, 2025 04:01 pm
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Spoilers )

July 25, 2000

Jul. 4th, 2025 03:42 pm
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My mood improved markedly with a visit from the tall one and his son, my grandkid, little treelet.

Wakanomori brought down a diary the tall one had kept as a kid: here is the entry from July 25, 2000, which includes our visit to Lloyd Alexander's house, where we put on a play for him and his wife Janine. Also included is a visit to the US mint in Philadelphia and commentary on the Delaware River (big!)

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Posted by Laurent Shinar

Let's be real, there is not a soul in the world that is working at the same pace and intensity on Friday as they have throughout the working week. Because Friday marks the end of the week and with that the coming of the weekend, and why should we be responsible for winding ourselves down in our free time when we can just as well wind down while being paid to do it. Not to mention that it was the thing that pays us that wound us up in the first place.

So to help you begin the wind down process we made this list of calming cat memes, each feline fluffier and calmer than the last, such that when you complete your sublime scroll you will be more relaxed than a crafty catto who got into the catnip. Just keep a little bit of your whits about you as your boss is still expecting you to work today and you do not want to be caught with your guard down.

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I am deeply ashamed of my country.

Time to go have a party with a group of queer people who are similarly appalled, because we can't do anything but keep on going as our authentic, pissed-off selves.
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At the start of the month I entertained the fleeting thought of trying to post every day in July, especially with [community profile] sunshine_revival (in which I have in no way participated) going on, but. Well. *gestures at current date* And as we all know, something-something-only-perfect-results-matter, etc. etc. etc.

But here. It's Friday. The world is terrifying, but at least for this moment the sun is out. I spent most of my workday in a style guide meeting, which was genuinely pretty fun; tonight we're seeing Ginny and Kas because this week it's better for them than our usual Saturday hangout.

Tomorrow the (very) wee farmers' market that's only a few blocks away is getting underway for the season. I have ambitions of actually rolling out of bed and walking over in hopes of strawberries, even though tomorrow and Sunday are also Eevee community day in Pokemon Go, so I'm also hoping to leave the house those afternoons. Leaving the house twice in one day is not exactly a thing that happens often, and as a result, the prospect of it is exhausting. ^^; But here's hoping!

There's been zero doubt for a long time now that my only actual investment in Pokemon Go is the pursuit of shinies, and community days are the best chance to get shinies of a given critter, and Eevee, see, has EIGHT possible evolutions, so if there's any faint hope of ever having a full set of shinies of those, well, it's this weekend.

(I can't remember if I've said here that this is a crystalized perfect demonstration of why it's really, really good that I don't gamble. I'm usually pleased when I catch a new-to-me Pokemon, but it's pretty minor. But rather than setting the game aside, since it mostly hasn't resulted in me actually getting outside and walking much more than I had been, the hope of catching a shiny critter keeps me opening it back up. Nobody get me into slot machines, okay? [That sounds facetious, but I mean it very seriously.])

That's all I've got right now. Stay well, friends.
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What I read

Finished The Islands of Sorrow and it is a bit slight, definitely one for the Simon Raven completist I would say - a number of the tales feel like outtakes from the later novels.

Decided not for me: Someone You Can Build a Nest In.

Started Val McDermid, The Grave Tattoo (2006), a non-series mystery. Alas, I was not grabbed - in terms of present-day people encounter Historical Mystery, this did not ping my buttons - a) could not quite believe that a woman studying at a somewhat grotty-sounding post-92 uni in an unglam part of London would have even considered doing a PhD on Wordsworth (do people anywhere even do this anymore) let alone be publishing a book on him b)a histmyst involving Daffodil Boy and a not so much entirely lost but *concealed unpublished in The Archives* manuscript of Epic Poem, cannot be doing with. (Suspect foul libel upon generations of archivists at Dove Cottage, just saying.) Gave up.

Read in anticipation of book group next week, Anthony Powell, The Kindly Ones (1962).

Margery Sharp, Britannia Mews (1946) (query, was there around then a subgenre of books doing Victoria to now via single person or family?). Not a top Sharp, and I am not sure whether she is doing an early instance of Ace Representation, or just a Stunning Example of Victorian Womanhood (who is, credit is due, no mimsy).

Because I discovered it was Quite A Long Time since I had last read it, Helen Wright, A Matter of Oaths (1988).

Also finished first book for essay review, v good.

Finally came down to a price I consider eligible, JD Robb, Bonded in Death (In Death #60) (2025). (We think there were points where she could have done with a Brit-picker.)

On the go

Barbara Hambly, Murder in the Trembling Lands (Benjamin January #21) (2025). (Am now earwormed by 'The Battle of New Orleans' which was in the pop charts in my youth.)

Up next

Very probably, Zen Cho, Behind Frenemy Lines, which I had forgotten was just about due.

***

O Peter Bradshaw, nevairr evairr change:

David Cronenberg’s new film is a contorted sphinx without a secret, an eroticised necrophiliac meditation on grief, longing and loss that returns this director to his now very familiar Ballardian fetishes.

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 A мoжнo в мoeй жизни ужe чтo-нибудь пpoизoйдёт для cчacтья, a нe для oпытa?
Oбвиняeтcя в нeцeлeвoм xищeнии cpeдcтв...
Из зooпapкa cбeжaли тpи куpицы, cвинья и кopoвa. Teпepь cлeдcтвиe выяcняeт — пoчeму cбeжaли тoлькo cъeдoбныe живoтныe.
Пepeзимoвaли вecну, пepeвecнуeм и лeтo.
Дoлгo нe вepилa мужу, чтo eгo cпину кoшкa pacцapaпaлa… пoкa мнe coбaкa нa шee зacoc нe пocтaвилa.
Moлoдocть — paccтёгнутaя шиpинкa, cтapocть — нeзacтёгнутaя.
Tы мoжeшь нe cмoтpeть тeлeвизop, нo будeшь имeть дeлo c тeми, ктo eгo cмoтpит.
Cвeт мoй, зepкaльцe, зaткниcь, я умытьcя пoдoшлa!
Cpaзу пocтaвлeнный нa нoги пeшexoд нe cчитaeтcя cбитым.
Дэвид Koппepфильд мoжeт нe тoлькo пpoxoдить cквoзь cтeны, нo и пpoнocить чepeз ниx 40 ящикoв вoдки, утвepждaeт cтopoж гacтpoнoмa номер 15.
Зaвязaть знaкoмcтвo инoгдa бывaeт гopaздo пpoщe, чeм пoтoм c этим знaкoмcтвoм зaвязaть.
Пытaлcя paзoбpaтьcя в инcтpукции к умнoму чaйнику и пoнял, чтo чaйник — этo я.
Пocлe изучeния кaмacутpы выяcнилocь, чтo нaибoльшee пpeдпoчтeниe жeнщины oтдaют пoзe "Дaвaй зaвтpa".
Ha мoтoциклe нужнo eздить дo двaдцaти пяти лeт, пoкa xopoшo cpacтaютcя кocти.
Пo итoгaм чeмпиoнaтa миpa пo пpяткaм пoбeдитeль был oфициaльнo пpизнaн пpoпaвшим бeз вecти.

Metapost: Comments bursting in air

Jul. 4th, 2025 04:31 pm
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Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out!

OK, sorry, I missed dawn’s early light, even on the West Coast, but here is your comment of the week nonetheless:

“Is Dr. Jeff’s ‘again’ meant to indicate that he’s already (willfully?) forgotten what Mary’s told him, or does it display his belief that Wilbur’s life is a karmic circle of disasters that are superficially varied but basically the same thing happening to him over and over?” –Pozzo

And your runners up! Very funny!

“Somehow, it seems like Sigmund Freud would have been a more appropriate choice to quote in Mary Worth today. What’s German for ‘man, that’s completely fucked up’?” –Dmsilev

“Y’all, are we sure they’re playing chess at home? It looks more like the White Void comic strip characters love to visit. Maybe it’s some kind of timeshare?” –Victor Von

“WILBUR: ‘I just … I want to get on a plane, leave Santa Royale…’ [Literally the entire cast is gathered at the window, watching eagerly — major characters like Toby and Ian, infrequent appearances like Saul Wynter, total one-offs like Keith the beefy daughter-haver and Esmé the smoking boat seductress; everybody.] MARY [trying to subtly but desperately wave everyone away, they’re going to blow this]: ‘It’s perfectly normal, Wilbur.’” –Dan Carroll

“The replacement of the Charterstone pool party with ‘private cruise on Dr. Jeff’s yacht’ as the standard Mary Worth storyline interstitial is symptomatic of the broader pandemic-era trend towards isolation and atomization in American society. In this essay, I will…” –Vince, on BlueSky

“The entire bottom of that fish tank is encrusted with blackened filth, and the fish are visibly dirty. Marvin doesn’t do many things right, but the strip is always on-brand.” –Rosstifer

“On the plus side, Leroy’s eyes appear to operate independently, chameleon-like, or are totally blank, depending on how you squint at them. I like the second option, accompanied by a flat, robotic voice, all the better to fit the emotional tone of this strip. You can lead a horse to the greeting card section, but you can’t make him care!” –I’m Not Cthulhu, But I Play Him On TV

“Don’t feel bad, Truck. Maybe Cody will have a kid soon. Then you can be a terrible grandfather.” –MKay

“Truck’s fiancée is trying to insert a classic roots country LP into a cheap 90s era CD boombox. This marriage is over before it even began!!!” –Where’s Rocky?

“Humans be damned! We’re setting the gorge guardrails at ‘dog on hind legs’ level!” –Handsome Harry Backstayge, Idol of a Million Other Women

“…and the staff at Bed, Bath and Beyond just let him sleep there, for like, days. It’s kinda scary what a grip the military has over this town.” –pugfuggly

“That’s the face of a future supervillain who is going to encase our sun in a Dyson sphere so she can have it all to herself. She’s so adorable!” –Tabby Lavalamp

“I used to know someone fairly into NASCAR, and have half-heartedly sat through a few races. I recall no reason why I should’ve been at an angle to watch. Is this what I was missing, all along, with sports I’m not into? Literal change in perspective? Should I be upside-down for basketball? Would twisting my head 180 degrees make lacrosse endurable? Is perpetual spinning the secret of the Winter Olympics? Or is Gertie, like, pretending she’s having the tires on her couch changed, or something equally soul-dead? It’s that one, isn’t it?” –A Grave Mind

“Yeah, I get that you’re an alcoholic and gambling addict, but my issue with you is that you keep your lounge chair right next to our shared fence in a direct line with our bedroom window. What’s that all about, dude?” –Weaselboy

“I’m starting to think Thirsty isn’t even actually a dysfunctional buffoon, he just pretends to be one so he has a ‘bit’ to identify himself by in the world’s most boring neighborhood.” –ectojazzmage

“Part of their annual ritual to ensure that the Sun comes up for another year.” –Liam

“Hey, look on the bright side: maybe this means the Keane Kompound is about to be obliterated in a rocket attack.” –Schroduck

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Fandom: Star Trek Reboot (AOS)
Pairings/Characters: Gen
Rating: Teen
Length: 1390 words
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] lazulisong
Theme: Working together

Summary: Winona is called to fix the cock-up of the Yorktown's engines. She uses one of the science-bitches to help her do it.

Reccer's Notes: This fandom has many versions of Winona Kirk. The one you get here is the engineer who does NOT fuck around and can fix anything you throw at her. She is irreverent and badass. And, in this particular story, she is wonderfully, delightfully contrasted with Spock, who is helping her fix the Yorktown engines. Yes, Spock is the science bitch.

I really can't say much more because I'm laughing too hard rereading the story in order to write this rec. Laz perfects the art of proving that swearing isn't what you do when you lack imagination. Every cuss word in this fic is a brilliant gem of hilarious, creative, and accurate speech.

Like every ridiculous fic that is very, very good, this one makes you believe that this Winona Kirk is not only possible, but is absolutely in character. It also makes you believe that this Spock is possible and will call Winona Overlord and let her call him Tiny Science-bitch.

Fanwork Links: One Foot in Front of the Other

R.I.P. Snake

Jul. 4th, 2025 10:28 am
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Firefly was being obstinate this morning.  I called her to come in from the field and she turned her back on me.  We had words.  So I marched her into the corral and hurried around the shop to get some alfalfa for her.*  I was about 8 feet from the hay pile, which is covered with a blue tarp, when I spotted the snake lying along the front of the tarp.  I screamed, because snakes are what I'm scared of, and left the area.  Dave gave us a shotgun a couple of days ago, but we didn't have shells for it yet; so I called Michael.  Perhaps 25 minutes later Michael and his girlfriend showed up armed with a shotgun, shovel and metal rake.  The snake hadn't moved.  Michael carefully uncovered the snake's head, and shot it.  Poor snake, it was never aggressive, even at the end.  It had 10 rattles and was really fat.  I fetched a bucket and they took the body with them.   While I am quite relieved, I'm also still wary.  Snakes often have a mate somewhere around, so caution is still warranted. 

* Grass looses most of its protein when it dries.  We feed alfalfa, which is a legume and very high in protein, as a supplement.  Firefly had lost some muscle, which means she was protein deficient and her body was breaking down muscle to provide needed protein.  I should have started a couple of weeks ago. 
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Posted by Ayala Sorotsky

Hey, fellow feline fanatic fans. Were you also that "Cat Kid" who always wanted a cat and, for any reason, couldn't have one? Some kids beg their parents for a dog, some are certified horse girls who dream of riding one towards the sunset, but some of us? We just wanted a fluffy feline friend to care for, to have by our side.

This kid from the story below is no different than us, the cat lovers who wanted a fellow floof who meows softly to our faces and purrs loudly. She begged her mom for a cat for quite some time, but life circumstances didn't allow them to have a cat right away. But we all know the Cat Distribution System works in meowsterious ways. When the CDS decides you're a cat-pawrent-to-be, one must comply.

So it's just so happened that when the lovely mom took her daughter to school, the CDS worked its magic. They heard a small, meowing cry from a ditch nearby. And there - was the little lady floof the daughter was wishing for in the dreams. The Cat Distribution System has decreed, "You are now to be a cat pawrent, and your daughter will become her best friend".

And so it happened. We adore a happy ending when it comes to cat adoptions. Saving an abandoned kitten is the deed done by the best people possible. And this mom and her daughter? We salute them. And the little kitten, named adorably "Coco Muffin" by the kid? We already know she's going to be the queen of the house, living the dream, while the kid also lives her dream - together with a cat for many years.

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Horsetail Falls

Jul. 4th, 2025 11:57 am
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Our last stop on the Historic 30 route was Horsetail Falls. If you look at the next photo you can see people sitting on the log stretching out into the pool for scale. .Read more... )

welp

Jul. 4th, 2025 11:24 am
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In Minneapolis, where it is overly Warm but where there were decent fireworks and a lightning-filled thunderhead last night. Feeling some kind of way about the political situation, for sure.

Have some links.

Edward Gorey’s "Great Simple Theory About Art" is essential reading for writers: "[T]he theory ... that anything that is art ... is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it's irritating." That last bit puts me in mind of James Nicoll's "I don't object to hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface."

ICEBlock: "ICEBlock is an innovative, completely anonymous crowdsourced platform that allows users to report Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity with just two taps on their phone." US only, and iOS only at the moment. Via jwz, who notes "The cowards at Time wrote a whole article about the app and didn't include a link to it".

methaphone: "methaphone can help you manage cravings and withdrawal symptoms. It can fill that hole in your back pocket. ... methaphone looks like a simple acrylic slab -- and it is." I kinda want one. (I am a sucker for glass and lucite.)

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