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1. I finally gave in and registered for BarricadesCon. I had been dithering because the last few online con I registered I ended up only attending a few things, I'm not sure I have the brain for even a semi-academic con (or the general smarts level of current Les Mis fandom for that matter) and I haven't been super deep in Les Mis for... awhile.
But on the other hand: snéance. Snail séance. Even if I only make it to the snéance it will be worth £10 admission.
2. While I had my credit card out I bought the Ukraine charity itch.io bundle. Did I need 900 more indie games? Have I played even a single one of the games from the 2020 bundle? No, and no. Have I in fact played any games since 2020 except Minecraft and silly phone games?no, because MinerVGA totally counts as Minecraft v.-0.1 But look if I ever want to play games, now I will have even more! Maybe I will become a Twitch streamer and play a different indie game from the bundles every day, weirder things have happened.
3. I put in an application for a cat at the animal shelter! It was for "some hypothetical cat" because the lady at the desk last fall recommended I apply for "kitten waitlist" if I thought I might want a cat in the next month or two, even if I didn't want a kitten, because the applications get backlogged. So ball's in their court now I guess. None of the cats currently on their website told me they were my perfect cat yet, although poor Stella Sweet Pea is the only one who's been at the shelter since I started looking a year ago, so I will have to at least ask about her.
4. Well, my post about archiving and linking ethics became suddenly very relevant didn't it!
Have a minor update to that post with my opinions on the things people have been doing to back up LJ content in the last couple of days:
---importing a public LJ account you control to DW is always okay, I put it in the same category as Open Doors imports since it's still basically the same sort of site, and people can fairly easily claim their content and remove it if they want.
---importing a mostly-locked LJ account to DW is a little iffier, even if you keep it locked, since the people in the lock on DW won't be the same ones as on LJ? But in an LJ comm you always had the risk that the lock rules would change on you, so it's probably fine.
---importing a comm you control to a public non-dw website is also a little iffier, since people won't necessarily be able to claim/control their content
---posting a public copy of an lj comm or account you don't own is, as usual, bad, don't do it
---saving a private copy for yourself is also fine, as always
---passing private copies around privately is fine
---(if it's an LJ community or project that's fandom-related, had a reasonably large readership, and predates c. 2012, somebody probably already has a private copy somewhere from one of the previous panics over Russia owning LJ, so don't worry too much.)
---saving a private bookmark is always fine
---saving a public bookmark/link list of public content on lj is fine
---deliberately saving a copy to wayback or equivalent is tougher, but if a website is actively endangered, that's a little bit different than just doing it to everything automatically, so I would at least consider it.
---saving bookmarks or link lists where you link to wayback copies instead of the original even though the original is still up: why?? Why do people do this?? Don't do this, this is a bad idea for so many reasons.
5. Being on a grand jury is exhausting even though it doesn't feel like it at the time, and there are not enough hours in the day for sleeping. (on the plus side I just found out I get to have my full day's normal pay in jury leave *and* keep my jury pay, so getting paid twice wooooo?)
But on the other hand: snéance. Snail séance. Even if I only make it to the snéance it will be worth £10 admission.
2. While I had my credit card out I bought the Ukraine charity itch.io bundle. Did I need 900 more indie games? Have I played even a single one of the games from the 2020 bundle? No, and no. Have I in fact played any games since 2020 except Minecraft and silly phone games?
3. I put in an application for a cat at the animal shelter! It was for "some hypothetical cat" because the lady at the desk last fall recommended I apply for "kitten waitlist" if I thought I might want a cat in the next month or two, even if I didn't want a kitten, because the applications get backlogged. So ball's in their court now I guess. None of the cats currently on their website told me they were my perfect cat yet, although poor Stella Sweet Pea is the only one who's been at the shelter since I started looking a year ago, so I will have to at least ask about her.
4. Well, my post about archiving and linking ethics became suddenly very relevant didn't it!
Have a minor update to that post with my opinions on the things people have been doing to back up LJ content in the last couple of days:
---importing a public LJ account you control to DW is always okay, I put it in the same category as Open Doors imports since it's still basically the same sort of site, and people can fairly easily claim their content and remove it if they want.
---importing a mostly-locked LJ account to DW is a little iffier, even if you keep it locked, since the people in the lock on DW won't be the same ones as on LJ? But in an LJ comm you always had the risk that the lock rules would change on you, so it's probably fine.
---importing a comm you control to a public non-dw website is also a little iffier, since people won't necessarily be able to claim/control their content
---posting a public copy of an lj comm or account you don't own is, as usual, bad, don't do it
---saving a private copy for yourself is also fine, as always
---passing private copies around privately is fine
---(if it's an LJ community or project that's fandom-related, had a reasonably large readership, and predates c. 2012, somebody probably already has a private copy somewhere from one of the previous panics over Russia owning LJ, so don't worry too much.)
---saving a private bookmark is always fine
---saving a public bookmark/link list of public content on lj is fine
---deliberately saving a copy to wayback or equivalent is tougher, but if a website is actively endangered, that's a little bit different than just doing it to everything automatically, so I would at least consider it.
---saving bookmarks or link lists where you link to wayback copies instead of the original even though the original is still up: why?? Why do people do this?? Don't do this, this is a bad idea for so many reasons.
5. Being on a grand jury is exhausting even though it doesn't feel like it at the time, and there are not enough hours in the day for sleeping. (on the plus side I just found out I get to have my full day's normal pay in jury leave *and* keep my jury pay, so getting paid twice wooooo?)
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eg embezzlement, murder?
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In a way, I'm baffled by the fuss with suddenly "saving"/importing LJ comms as if there hasn't been more than a decade in which to do it. But my experience with LJ comms was that they were ultimately ephemeral. A mod would flounce and delete everything, there'd be epic mod battles and I'd fuck off into the sunset when suddenly the rules had entirely changes, sometimes I'd wander in, post a bit, wander off... Even the few comms I modded were just sort of there, which is why I never dragged them over back when it was easier to do so. I'm guessing this really varied by fandom and participants? Mailing lists were basically the same feeling, which is why I kinda shrugged at Y!Groups demise. The fic got archived, nobody needs to save forty-seven "this was nice" comments.
(I also truly hope anyone doing massive community importing staggers their imports to let the people with decades of personal journal entries get their stuff taken care of.)
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I'm going to be a bit firmer here: it's a war situation. It's ethical to do whatever you can to save knowledge and history from the depredations of war or dictatorships. Ownership and legality didn't matter when the Nazis were coming to loot the treasures of the Louvre; stealing artwork away and hiding it from them was more important. If you can snatch a book from a bonfire, you've done the right thing, even if it wasn't your book.
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Belated comment is belated: Nemo!
https://barricadescon.com/nemo-martin/
They're writing an upcoming fiction podcast series for Rusty Quill and have made some appearances on Enthusigasm, RQ's series where various RQ associates and friends and other interesting people ramble about a thing they enjoy; they seem very smart and have good and correct thoughts about Black Sails.
Thus the Extended Rusty Quill Universe continues to Kevin-Bacon its tentacles across the world.
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