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Permacomputing (noun)

Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture.

There are huge environmental and societal issues in today's computing, and permacomputing specifically wants to challenge them in the same way as permaculture has challenged industrial agriculture. With that said, permacomputing is an anti-capitalist political project. It is driven by several strands of anarchism, decoloniality, intersectional feminism, post-marxism, degrowth, ecologism.

Permacomputing is also a utopian ideal that needs a lot of rethinking, rebuilding and technical design work to put in practice. This is why a lot of material on this wiki is highly technical.

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princessofgeeks

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ysabetwordsmith

I've signed up for Community Thursdays at

goals_on_dw.

This will be my Thursday recurring post this year. Last year's Hobbies theme was fun but a lot of work.

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princessofgeeks

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hafital

This year, I completely spaced on signing up for Yuletide. The month of October is a blur. Call it premenopausal brain or hiker brain or work-being-a-pain brain! Perhaps I left my brain in the Grand Canyon (and I've forgotten to write up about my GC trip! Guys, it was so hard hiking and amazing!) All those things. I want to say it's been hectic and busy, and it has! Anyway, I was hyper aware of HLH Shortcuts and my assignment and when December rolled around and I'd started writing my HL story and was like waaiiiiiit a second what about yule.... oh whoops. 🫠 :D Hey, at least I remembered to sign up for HLH Shortcuts!

BUT, I did manage to squeeze out a very quick Yuletide Treat in the literal last 4 hours before the Yuletide archive went live. Started it at like 8am and had it in the archive at 12:40pm before it went live at 1pm my time. \o/ Went with Spy Game because a) I know it well, and b) I could tell there were no other stories in the archive for it this year.

And so here it is, now with fixed typos:

Four Things (1646 words) by hafital
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Spy Game (2001)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tom Bishop & Nathan Muir
Characters: Tom Bishop, Nathan Muir
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
Summary:

“Four things,” said Tom, raising his hand, showing four fingers, folding one finger for each thing. “Fifteen minutes, a secret, something stolen, and something of value willingly given, starting…” he looked at the clock over the bar. “Now.”

ellen_fremedon

Happy New Year! This year I wrote one story for Yuletide:

Hit the Bricks! Four Things Not to Miss in Lego City Old Town (2897 words) by ellen_fremedon
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: LEGO Botanical Garden, LEGO Natural History Museum
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Easter Eggs, lego ruritania, diagetic documentation, Illustrations
Summary:

Four moments in Lego-Duplo relations.

I also designed four custom Lego builds to accompany the story; they are linked from the fic.

It's been a hell of a year; my job has gone from a place I would have been content spending the rest of my career to... not that, but the job market for editors being what it is I'm probably stuck there for a while.

But I visited Paris with my spouse in the spring, and had an absolutely perfect trip--we toured the Gobelins tapestry workshops! And attended an organ concert at Nôtre-Dame and an opera at the Palais Garnier and toured the catacombs and the sewers and ate many spectacular things and got to watch them cleaning the organ pipes at Sacre-Cœur.

And yesterday, after my year-long chapter-a-day readalong, I finished reading Les Misérables in French for the first time. Which, in a year where it feels like I didn't accomplish much of anything, is actually an accomplishment, and I am really proud of how much progress I've made with the language.

(My listening is at that inconvenient stage where I can pull up a news video and understand the journalist just fine, and then they will stop a random French person on the street and I will maybe get a couple of words if I'm lucky.)

So. That's me. Still alive, somehow fifty years old, and debating which French novel to tackle next. (It will probably be Quatre-Vignt-Treize, with some Gautier stories as a palate-cleanser first, but I am taking recommendations.)

kass

I had the pleasure of rereading Naomi Kritzer's Catnet books and delving into them this Yuletide! I wrote:

Calm on Catnet (1548 words) by Kass
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: CatNet Series - Naomi Kritzer
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rachel Adams/Steph (CatNet)
Characters: Rachel Adams (CatNet), Steph - Character, AI | CheshireCat (CatNet)
Summary:

Glimpses of what came next. (Set between Catfishing and Chaos.)

ysabetwordsmith

NASA’s Webb telescope just discovered one of the weirdest planets ever

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this Jupiter-mass world has a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere filled with soot clouds and possibly diamonds at its core. Its extreme gravity stretches it into a lemon shape, and it completes a full orbit in under eight hours. Scientists are stunned — no known theory explains how such a planet could exist.

Sounds fun. Anybody want to set a story there? I miss when new scientific discoveries spawned a flood of stories.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is partly sunny and cool.

I fed the birds. I've seen a large flock of sparrows. A squirrel was running around in the trees.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 1/1/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 1/1/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 1/1/26 -- I did more work around the patio.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

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marinarusalka

Hello?... Anyone here?

Happy new year to all.

The UC campuses close between Christmas and New Year, so I spent the entire past week being a potato. A knitting potato. I think I only left the house twice the whole time, and my only socializing consisted of a board game night with the ladies from my knitting circle on Tuesday. It was very relaxing.k

Back to work tomorrow, which is just silly if you ask me. Like, would it really have killed them to add one more day and give us the whole week off?

Mom visited over the weekend before Christmas, and we went up to Costa Mesa to see the American Ballet Theater do The Nutcracker. We had originally tried to do it last year, but that fell through due to airline shenanigans. This year, Mom drove in, which went much more smoothly. It was a lovely performance and more than worth the trip.

I feel like I should post about some fannish stuff, like Pluribus or The Mighty Nein, but I'm not done being a potato yet.

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ysabetwordsmith

The 2026 Rose and Bay Awards are now open for nominations! Please make your nominations and pass the word to all the crowdfunders you know and encourage them to participate. It would be especially helpful for folks you know via places like Kickstarter or Patreon, as I'm not on those sites.

The award period for eligible activities spans January 1-December 31, 2025.
The nomination period spans January 1-January 31, 2026.
The voting period spans February 1-February 28, 2026.

I am eligible in the Poetry and Patron categories this year, if anyone wants to nominate me.

These are the handlers for the 2026 award season:

Art: gs_silva Nominate art! Vote for art!
Fiction: fuzzyred Nominate fiction! Vote for fiction!
Poetry: gs_silva Nominate poetry! Vote for poetry!
Webcomic: curiosity Nominate webcomics! Vote for webcomics!
Other Project: curiosity Nominate other projects! Vote for other projects!
Patron: fuzzyred Nominate patrons! Vote for patrons!

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ysabetwordsmith

A set of funny science memes. Do not read with mouth full.

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ysabetwordsmith

Snowflake Challenge 1: The Icebreaker Challenge

Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

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princessofgeeks

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lexin

HNY to all who read here.

Geraint is collecting names; so far he’s Fudge Stealer, Ratbag, Gremlin Stinky Poo Nobbs. He’s a sweetheart when quiet and a nightmare when awake and playing.

Current Location: Bangor, Gwynedd
Crossposts: https://lexin.insanejournal.com/332909.html

synecdochic

I just posted a thread to my Bluesky account about why I think it's extremely urgent for people to back up anything they still have on LiveJournal, however they do it. Thread starts here:

https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mbebi2xfxc25

ru-news LJ post I was relying on:

https://ru-news.livejournal.com/80899.html

Please spread this far and wide so as many people see it as possible, because I really don't see English-language LJ continuing in its present form for much longer, and I know some people may still have things they care about there. It doesn't matter how you get it backed up, but it's absolutely crunch time for getting it backed up.

ysabetwordsmith

I love this quote. It's actually good advice.

Don't chase your dreams.

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ysabetwordsmith

This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It was inspired by a remark from

fuzzyred. It also fills the "Deep Blue Sea" square in my 5-1-25 card for the Colors Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred. It belongs to the Kraken thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

"Ruling from Beneath"

Kraken had always contained
enough scientists to understand
observation changing experiments.

They realized that ruling from beneath
would cause less ripples, less risk of
rocking the boat, than trying to be
the shadow behind the throne.

Nobody would ever look for
world leaders underneath
the deep blue sea.

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ysabetwordsmith

Here is my card for the Public Domain Day Bingo over in

allbingo. The fest runs from January 1-31. (See all my 2026 bingo cards.)

If you'd like to sponsor a particular square, especially if you have an idea for what character, series, or situation it would fit -- talk to me and we'll work something out. I've had a few requests for this and the results have been awesome so far. This is a good opportunity for those of you with favorites that don't always mesh well with the themes of my monthly projects. I may still post some of the fills for free, because I'm using this to attract new readers; but if it brings in money, that means I can do more of it. That's part of why I'm crossing some of the bingo prompts with other projects, such as the Poetry Fishbowl.

Underlined prompts have been filled.

PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY CARD

Seas Beneath	Private	You're Driving Me Crazy	Body and Soul	The Secret of the Old Clock
Cakes and Ale	Chasing Rainbows	The Castle	Soup to Nuts	Born Reckless
The Hidden Staircase	Just Imagine	WILD CARD	Up the River	But Not for Me
The Mysterious Universe	The Door	The Green Pastures	A Cup of Coffee	Beyond the Blue Horizon
The End of the World	Grumpy	City Girl	Something to Remember You By	Fascinating Rhythm

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ysabetwordsmith

For those who may have overindulged (or know someone else who has) recently:

Hangover Severity and Symptom Tracker

24 of the Best Hangover Foods to Ease Your Pain

Additional resources appear in the content notes for poems dealing with overconsumption of alcohol.

"Monkey Chew Pepper" and Monkey content notes

"The Hog Knows the Tree" and Hog content notes

"The Fourth for My Enemies" and Fourth content notes

"When in a Dark Place" and Dark content notes

"Our Power to Change" and Power content notes

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"I'll show you my favorite obsession"

New Story: Four Things (Spy Game, Nathan Muir & Tom Bishop)

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Exoplanets

Birdfeeding

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Rose and Bay Awards

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Snowflake Challenge 1: Icebreaker

Heated Rivalry rec

Happy New Year

Get anything you have left on LJ backed up ASAP

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Poem: "Ruling from Beneath"

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Hangover Severity and Symptom Tracker

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