The J incunabulum.
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Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
2026-Jan-13, Tuesday 11:47publicdomainreview_feed
The memoirs of an aristocratic man revolutionised into an anarchist communist.
Interesting Links for 13-01-2026
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andrewducker- 1. The 8 ways that all the elements in the Universe are made
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- 5. Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds dangerous flaws
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Quick Welsh election thoughts
2026-Jan-13, Tuesday 11:54loganberrybunny
This spring's Senedd election looks like being an interesting one. Right now if I had to put money on any particular outcome, I'd go for a minority Plaid administration. I don't think they'll get anywhere near the number of seats they'd need to get a majority in the Senedd, which will now have 96 members. Probably a final seat count somewhere in the low-mid 30s. Reform are on their heels but seem to be slipping back a little very recently, so I'd suggest mid-high 20s for them. Quite possibly every other party, including incumbents Labour, in single figures.
Stoat: an open-source, user-first chat platform.
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Snowflake Challenge: day 6
2026-Jan-13, Tuesday 07:43shewhostaples
Top 10 challenge
I'm onna train, so here are 10 railway stations I like. In no particular order, and for various different reasons.
1. Frankfurt Hbf. This was where my international rail travels began. Standing on the concourse, looking at the departure boards (getting slightly earwormed by Stuttgart and Fulda), realising that I could get pretty much anywhere from here...
2. London St Pancras. It's beautiful. It's not actually a terribly pleasant experience getting a train from here (maybe the East Midlands and South Eastern platforms are better) but from the outside it's a fairy tale castle.
3. Stockholm. Rolling in, bleary eyed, off the sleeper from Malta, through dingy orange lights, and then suddenly you're in this marble palace. (I got chugged in Stockholm station. I don't know what I was doing to look like a Swede with disposable income rather than a discombobulated tourist, but there we go.)
4. London King's Cross. Never mind all that wizard nonsense, it has a fully functional platform zero. Also the toilets are free these days.
5. Liège Guillemins. Just glorious.
6. Ryde Pier Head. When it's operational and when you don't just miss the train because the catamaran was thirty seconds late. But there's still something fun about a station in the sea.
7. Dawlish. Train to beach in under a minute (your mileage may vary, as may mine considering I haven't been there in about a decade).
8. York. Never mind a pub in the station, it has one on the platform. Lovely stained glass, too.
9. Norwich. Light, gracious, makes you glad you've arrived.
10. Luxembourg. Stained glass again - and just time for an ice cream before the train.
Writing status, sorta, a plan update at least
2026-Jan-13, Tuesday 07:52vriddyWhere am I at with all the projects? Definitely nowhere I thought I'd be in early December. Let's have a look at the "vague current plan" back then:
- Let [the Cursed Witch] Rest - I've sure been doing that! Though not the "not too long" bit.
...Actually that's it I did nothing else on that list, and half the rest will have to change. In fairness, I knew all the sequel-related stuff would have to be temporarily shelved about a week later: I was deep in the kn8 edits, and could tell it would take longer than anticipated. I wanted the time away from the witch so my subconscious could ✨ work its magic ✨ about the remaining problems, but once most of the story left my "active" memory, outlining or planning a sequel felt nearly impossible.
Then K-9 happened. Lol. I mean, this was and continues to be fun, and I'm surfing that delightful fandom wave for as long as I can. 🏄 Did I mention our fandom tag was canonised? Teeheehee.
I'm writing a lot of short fics in too many fandoms and I think that's doing me good for now. Mostly because I want to keep myself distracted away from *waves wildly*. It means I'm rereading manga chapters here and there, rewatching episodes bits. I'm still reading a lot of new manga at the moment, and unfortunately feeling fannish about more and more of the tiniest, non-existent fandoms. It's just!! There's so much awesome polyship potential everywhere!!!! They just huh write themselves, or should!!!!! Or I wish someone else did so I could just read it... XD At least, a few of them have English translations out there so maybe some readers will have the same vision and eventually find the fic, but there's also a BL horror manga (the true monster isn't really the creature...) that doesn't, despite calling my name and whispering OT3 into my head louder and louder....... Ah well. Fan does as fan must.
But anyway! Writing short is doing me good, I think, and writing varied too. But I still have plans for the big original projects:
- I want/must do the pacing check for the cursed witch in January. At the very, very least, do the full re-read and take notes on where to break down the new chapters. But ideally I'd like to do that work itself, too, because...
- ...I signed up for an editing course/workshop/cheeralong in February and I plan to begin
againthe structural edits for the soul thief then. I'm hoping the peer support/challenge will help me get past the "blergh I already did 2/3 of this before but stopped at an awkward point." It's been a year now, so hopefully the reset will work out ok...
But I'd really like to have this round of Cursed Witch edits feel like they're a better shape, with chapters properly broken down and cliffhangerised. Also I hope to keep writing ficlets as a pressure valve for launching myself into yet another MASSIVE EDITING/BIG LENGTH round.
That's the current plan! Let's see in a month how it totally didn't work out that way!! XD
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A Plume of Bright Blue in Melissa’s Wake
2026-Jan-13, Tuesday 05:01earthobservatory_iod_feed
Before and After
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on October 28, 2025, as a category 5 storm, bringing sustained winds of 295 kilometers (185 miles) per hour and leaving a broad path of destruction on the island. The storm displaced tens of thousands of people, damaged or destroyed more than 100,000 structures, inflicted costly damage on farmland, and left the nation’s forests brown and battered.
Prior to landfall, in the waters south of the island, the hurricane created a large-scale natural oceanography experiment. Before encountering land and proceeding north, the monster storm crawled over the Caribbean Sea, churning up the water below. A couple of days later, a break in the clouds revealed what researchers believe could be a once-in-a-century event.
On October 30, 2025, the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this image (right) of the waters south of Jamaica. Vast areas are colored bright blue by sediment stirred up from a carbonate platform called Pedro Bank. This plateau, submerged under about 25 meters (80 feet) of water, is slightly larger in area than the state of Delaware. For comparison, the left image was acquired by the same sensor on September 20, before the storm.
Pedro Bank is deep enough that it is only faintly visible in natural color satellite images most of the time. However, with enough disruption from hurricanes or strong cold fronts, its existence becomes more evident to satellites. Suspended calcium carbonate (CaCO3) mud, consisting primarily of remnants of marine organisms that live on the plateau, turns the water a Maya blue color. The appearance of this type of material contrasts with the greenish-brown color of sediment carried out to sea by swollen rivers on Jamaica’s southern coast.
As an intense storm that lingered in the vicinity of the bank, Hurricane Melissa generated “tremendous stirring power” in the water column, said James Acker, a data support scientist at the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center with a particular interest in these events. Hurricane Beryl caused some brightening around Pedro Bank in July 2024, “but nothing like this,” he said. “While we always have to acknowledge the human cost of a disaster, this is an extraordinary geophysical image.”
Sediment suspension was visible on Pedro and other nearby shallow banks, indicating that Melissa affected a total area of about 37,500 square kilometers—more than three times the area of Jamaica—on October 30, said sedimentologist Jude Wilber, who tracked the plume’s progression using multiple satellite sensors. Having studied carbonate sediment transport for decades, he believes the Pedro Bank event was the largest observed in the satellite era. “It was extraordinary to see the sediment dispersed over such a large area,” he said.
The sediment acted as a tracer, illuminating currents and eddies near the surface. Some extended into the flow field of the Caribbean Current heading west and north, while other patterns suggested the influence of Ekman transport, Wilber said. The scientists also noted complexities in the south-flowing plume, which divided into three parts after encountering several small reefs. Sinking sediment in the easternmost arm exhibited a cascading stair-step pattern.
Like in other resuspension events, the temporary coloration of the water faded after about seven days as sediment settled. But changes to Pedro Bank itself may be more long-lasting. “I suspect this hurricane was so strong that it produced what I would call a ‘wipe’ of the benthic ecosystem,” Wilber said. Seagrasses, algae, and other organisms living on and around the bank were likely decimated, and it is unknown how repopulation of the area will unfold.
Perhaps most consequentially for Earth’s oceans, however, is the effect of the sediment suspension event on the planet’s carbon cycle. Tropical cyclones are an important way for carbon in shallow-water marine sediments to reach deeper waters, where it can remain sequestered for the long term. At depth, carbonate sediments will also dissolve, another important process in the oceanic carbon system.
Near-continuous ocean observations by satellites have enabled greater understanding of these events and their carbon cycling. Acker and Wilber have worked on remote-sensing methods to quantify how much sediment reaches the deep ocean following the turbulence of tropical cyclones, including recently with Hurricane Ian over the West Florida Shelf. Now, hyperspectral observations from NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission, launched in February 2024, are poised to build on that progress, Acker said.
The phenomenon at Pedro Bank following Hurricane Melissa provided a singular opportunity to study this and other complex ocean processes—a large natural experiment that could not be accomplished any other way. Researchers will be further investigating a range of physical, geochemical, and biological aspects illuminated by this occurrence. As Wilber put it: “This event is a whole course in oceanography.”
NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, and ocean bathymetry data from the British Oceanographic Data Center’s General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). Photo by Jude Wilber. Story by Lindsey Doermann.
References & Resources
- Acker, J.G. and Wilber, R.J. (2025) The first 25 years of satellite carbonate sedimentology: What have we learned? The Depositional Record, 11(3), 975-997. In: Kump, L.R., Ingalls, M., and Hine, A.C. (eds) Carbonate depositional environments: Past and future questions—A Tribute to the career of E.A. Shinn.
- Acker, J.G. and Wilber, R.J. (2024) Satellite-Derived Estimates of Suspended CaCO3 Mud Concentrations from the West Florida Shelf Induced by Hurricane Ian. Environmental Sciences Proceedings, 29(1):69.
- EBSCO Research Starters (2024) Carbonate Compensation Depths. Accessed January 9, 2026.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2025, November 25) A Direct Hit on Jamaican Forests. Accessed January 9, 2026.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2023, April 6) Stirring Up Carbonate in the Coral Sea. Accessed January 9, 2026.
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W.T.F. News.....
2026-Jan-12, Monday 23:53disneydream06The Dog Murderer apparently stood in front of a podium with a Nazi slogan on the front of it...
Wait so Kristi Noem’s podium at DHS is just a straight up Nazi slogan now?
"One of ours, all of yours" was a Nazi policy made when an SS officer was killed in a Czech Village and then the Nazis killed every single resident of that village in response…..but don’t you dare call them Nazis!
Humble Bundle: "Fierce Women of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror"
2026-Jan-12, Monday 21:47mistressofmuses
silversea who shared this over at booknook!Against my better judgement, I bought ANOTHER humble bundle...
This one is "Fierce Women of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror," which offers 65 works by female authors writing in genre spaces. It's a pretty widespread timeframe, too: the oldest stuff is I think from the early 60s, spanning up through I think 2020 for the most recent?
(It's also *more* than 65; it's 65 files, but a few of those are sets of 2-5 books.)
I already had the Mira Grant works that were included (a fave author!), though the included titles seem a little weird... Book two of the Parasitology trilogy, the sequel-ish novel to the Newsflesh trilogy, and the novellas set in the Newsflesh world... but including the novellas both individually AND including the book that collected them? I want everyone to read more Mira Grant, but I'm not sure this is a great intro to her work. Though the novella collection, Rise, is worth the price of admission on its own, imo, I don't know if they have the same impact if you haven't read the trilogy already.
But there was something off my wishlist (Wylding Hall, which came up on a couple rec lists that I saw recently), plus a few other books that fall into the "hey, I recognize that! Never got around to reading it!" category, plus a few sci-fi and fantasy classics from the 60s-90s that I might not be likely to pick up at random, but might be good to read! (Especially as I continue trying to read some "classics" of these genres, rather than just recent releases.)
Since I was likely to spend at least $10 or so for the wishlisted book alone, it felt like too good a deal to pass up to get 60-some works for around $20, ha.
But my poor TBR. It's up to 580 books total now, and I KNOW I'm never going to get around to reading the whole thing. :(
Fandom Snowflake Challenge #6
2026-Jan-12, Monday 20:23tjs_whatnotChallenge #6
Cheating big time! But finding the Top 10 books I read this year was too daunting (even when I cheated and counted a whole series as one 😍). So here, have a few Top 10s. These are all books I've read this year (mostly). I didn't count re-reads (of which there were many and would have skewed the results drastically).
( Queer Male Romances )
( Sapphic Stories )
*and yes, I loved that their were two re-tellings of Pride and Prejudice in there. ❤️❤️
( Mixed Bag )
Oh, the Place We've Been. We Bought a New Map!
2026-Jan-12, Monday 20:37canyonwalkerOkay, no problem, I figured. I can jump on Amazon.com and find probably a bazillion different kinds of map pins. But then a funny thing happened.
When I searched for map pins my results also included matches for pin maps. It's kind of an anagram, right? Mathematical property of commutation? 🤣
Some of the pin maps were really nice. Some of them were basically like the DIY project I put together on my kitchen table over 25 years ago except... nicer than DIY. As much as my AAA-map-stapled-to-a-cork-bulletin-board still has sentimental value to me I decided I was ready for an upgrade. I checked with Hawk— because while I started the project we have updated it for 25+ years— and $250 we had a new, custom map in a hardwood frame on the way.
The new map arrived in December, before the holidays. It was like a birthday present for me. A present for the birthday which I otherwise didn't celebrate and received no gifts for. But there was a problem. The custom legend, which you can see toward the lower right of the map in the pic above, was wrong. It was only a slight mistake, but it was still there. I considered whether to keep the map as-is because the error was so small. But at the same time I knew that every time I looked at it— every time, daily, for the next 25+ years— I'd see that error. My spirit sank.
Fortunately the maker was really cool about fixing the problem. I sent a brief note explaining the error and asking what we could do. She immediately accepted responsibility for the mistake (her team had botched the custom message in the legend) and said she'd print and send a new one after Christmas.
Indeed, the new map arrived around New Year. And it was perfect. My spirit once again soared.
Now all we'd need to do was move pins from the old map to the new one. Hundreds of pins, all marking places we've been (in the USA) over the past 25+ years. It'd be another project, a labor of love.
First Day back
2026-Jan-12, Monday 22:54cornerofmadness
Monday is an easy day. I have 1 new student in my upper level A&P and one didn't show but otherwise, it went well. Tomorrow is much more likely to be issuey.
Here's a funny thing from yesterday. Even though I had the thing on timer I was making a pastina soup and...it boiled out of the pot and burnt the pasta to the bottom. I told this to my parents and they started laughing. Mom did exactly the same thing with her soup too.
And it's music monday 30 weeks of music. This week's prompt is #9 a song you could exercise to. Believe it or not I HAVE an exercise playlist for when I'm at my brother's and doing aerobics in the pool. Since that contains slow warm up/cool downs I'll share some of the more driving ones.
( right under here )
Daily Happiness
2026-Jan-12, Monday 20:06torachan2. Although the rain is gone, it's so windy that we're still getting a ton of berries coming down from the tree out front, so I took the car in for a wash again and once again there was no line, so when the guy offered to let me go through twice, I took him up on it. The car looks much better!
3. We had a meeting at work today to get approval for some expenses on the project we're working on and I was expecting it to be difficult but it was super easy!
4. Ollie has also been enjoying Carla's new suitcase.
