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I just had the very strange experience of reading Beartown by Fredrik Backman thinking it was based on a real case. I'd seen it referred to in multiple places as based on a real case. I didn't look up info about the book, because I figured if I did then info on the real case would pop up and be spoilers.

Beartown is not based on a true story. As soon as I finished it I went to check. Why is there some idea out there that it's based on a real case?

I don't typically read novels based on actual events / true crime cases. I don't mind shows or movies, but the degree to which novels show people's motivations and thoughts, the few times I've read novels based on actual crime I was creeped out by that. I made an exception because a lot of people seem to be reading it right now and I was curious. The story focused on a series of violent events around a youth hockey league in a small, dying town in Sweden.

The start of the book was compelling, even though the ways in which the author describes things is odd. A lot of the time, when he was going for a really dramatic description of something I was just like 'that doesn't make sense'. Towards the end of the book someone can't light a cigarette because their tears keep extinguishing the lighter. What? I... no...

It still started with really compelling pacing, writing, etc, but towards the end there are more and more fake outs about what happened, how people feel, who said what. Like he's set up a scene implying something horrible about someone, cut to another scene, then another, then come back and reveal additional context about the first scene making it read totally different! There is a Checkov's Gun hanging over the whole story from the opening, and by the end of the book I predicted both what would happen and how the author would try to fake out the reader first.

It's the start of a trilogy and I'll likely give the rest a miss.

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I spent a lot of the first half of the month travelling, and the second half of the month recovering from the travelling while also working. I feel this video reflects those two halves pretty accurately.

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am asking you to read this and please send in a comment to the FCC so the proposal is not approved. I wouldn't ask if it weren't that important. The proposal is for a project that could easily destroy the world we know.

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U and I went to look for the Long-tailed Duck reported in Alameda, stopping first at the end of the USS Hornet pier and scoping Seaplane Lagoon from that vantage. Mostly grebes and loons but there were two Osprey on a nest. ( The first list: )

No Long-tailed Duck from that angle so we went to the end of Monarch Street and bingo! Not only did U find it but it was a walk-up, almost as quick and close as the Yellow-billed Loon. photo U attached to the ebird list Such a tiny and interesting-looking bird! She was swimming with a flock of scaup and Surf Scoters practically in the path of the Alameda - SF ferry, and we both expected them to scatter when the ferry came by, but no. Apparently they're accustomed to this; after all, ferries pass every twenty to sixty minutes. ( The second list: )

Mission accomplished, we parked at Crab Cove and went to the duck pond, something we had never done, checking the shoreline along the way. Canada Geese, Mallards, and American Coots, of course, but also a pair of Hooded Mergansers. ( The third list: )

So a satisfying morning, especially given all the rare birds we've dipped on lately.

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"No this is my shirt. We cannot share the shirt. Stop hitting my face with your tail." <- conversation I am currently having with Radar (who does not know what she wants in this moment)

I fell over for a while recovering from Mardi Gras. Mostly physically, but also emotionally. It's also the season to swap from heat to AC every other day and then back again so my head has been hurting. Screen time has been limited. Klinger is happy about all the couch cuddles.

Three things make a post!

1. The BAFTAs racism thing. Jordan and Lindo shouldn't have had to hear it. I can't imagine how awful it was to hear that on a night that should have been about celebrating the cultural juggernaut Sinners is and the work that went into it.

Davidson had taken steps to limit his impact on the show. (Sat 41 rows back. Asked that his tics be edited out of the broadcast.) The BBC purposefully putting a mic on Davidson to make sure the presenters heard the slurs he couldn't help saying was shitty. (He left when he realized there was a microphone near him.) The show was recorded two hours in advance and several other slurs Davidson said were cut, leaving that one in was hurtful and harmful to many people.

This was handled in such a disrespectful way towards everyone involved. I think the theory that it was done on purpose to drum up views is right. The BBC knew Davidson was going to say horrible things (he can't help it) and chose the worst one to leave in.

2. Mom is sick and has "a cold" that has laid her out for a week. No she hasn't tested for anything. It's just "a cold". She hasn't sought medical help even though it's lasting longer than normal. She's arguing about taking OTC medication to help. This is some "offer it up" bullshit that's worse than usual because it's Lent. (Suffering will not make you holy. Take the fucking meds.)

3. I got some of the water activated eyeliners from HoloGrave. They all passed the allergy test (put on arm and wait for a few hours). I guess I'll paint on my face for enrichment some in the near future.

3b. My comfy pants from Lady Epi came in hours ago and are currently in the wash. Yay for comfy pants.

Radar has settled down for lap!cat! time and I'm out of words.

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Here are a couple of my favorite winter soup recipes. They're from cookbooks, so no handy online version to link to. So this is for you and also for me, so I can access these away from my cookbooks.

( Pork and hominy soup )

( Sausage, White Bean, and Kale Soup With Besar )

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Relationships: Kacey & Michael Sleep
Characters: Kacey (Small Prophets), Michael Sleep
Summary: Michael and Kacey have nothing to do but wait.

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The BLM has announced a plan to log to the "maximum" in some of the last old-growth forests on the West Coast. A period of public comment is open.

Here is a long explainer on why these lands are important, and why the proposal is ineffective in its stated aim of fire-prevention and destructive to human communities and the whole surrounding ecosystem.

This is the project number: DOI-BLM-ORWA-0000-2026-0001-RMP-EIS

Here is the notice of intent.

Public comment is open for 26 more days.

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The Mac Mini has a new TimeMachine Disk, backups are working, and I've even done a bunch of rearrangement and cleanup of the files on both it and the Kubuntu system. I have an identical disk for the Kubuntu system, and am researching linux backup systems. Things should have calmed down.

Yesterday I loaded a Civ V save file on the Mac, and found it unplayable because it was spewing notifications-for-new-players. I started a new game and discovered that my game settings had been changed, to new player who needs all that help. (It really is quite useful when learning the game.) And here I hadn't even known it had such a setting.

Presumably this was the result of installing both steam and civ on the kubuntu system, and playing part of a game there. That installation had defaulted to easiest possible settings, as new installations of that game series always do, and I hadn't changed anything. It had also defaulted to save-games-in-cloud, which I had changed. Apparently it also defaulted to "save settings in cloud, associating them with the account", but since the older installation hadn't been set this way, it had taken the best part of 2 weeks before it picked up "my" cloud settings and applied them.

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So it’s already the last day of February what the fuck? Where has the time gone?

I’ve still neither done, nor read the stuff I love posts (oops) I had thought to yesterday but time kinda got away for me. However I bring it up cause the one I did do (about standalone films) made me wanna watch some of them.

The first, which I disc switch to a few days back (I can’t recall when exactly) was Dungeons And Dragons Honour Among Thieves, which I watched not long after the last post.

And yes, I can confirm it’s still a top tier movie. It’s just so fun and funny and it looks incredible (so much of the effects are practical) and Xenk is so handsome. Again it has made me sad there’s not a follow up or anything, but then again it works so well on its own (though I would love to see Xenk some more,

i also found out that the music is done by the same guy that did the music for The War Between The Land And The Sea (and Wallace And Gromit Vengeance Most Fowl!)

(Other films I wanna rewatch soon are Event Horizon, Clown In The Cornfield, Wildhood and Spree)

I woke early Friday which was annoying (especially as the loud noises started soon after) but I was glad to hear the news that the Greens won the by election! Labour had acted like it was a two horse race between them and reform and yet both were beaten (and sizeably too!) of course it looks like labour leadership aren’t going to learn anything from this defeat (they’re already sending out more smears and comminting to continuing being awful) but I do feel hope again anyway.

Friday was also Pokémon day which is the 30th anniversary of Pokémon (which makes me feel ancient). I did fish out a Pokémon tee to wear (with ghost Pokémon) and I finally watched an episode of Pokémon concierge which is really cute so far! I love the art style to it and I hope to watch more soon.

There was a new Poke on Presents, which if anyone hasn’t seen it tends to be a mix of stuff we know, coming events, stuff for the mobile games and then the genuinely good stuff at the end. One cute thing was a Pokémon music player which is shaped like a lil game boy! The downside? The music is on cartridges (like game boy games) and there’s… 47 of them. What??

Of the new announcements Gale Of Darkness is being added to the GameCube player, which is great cause I never played it and always wanted to (it was rare and so prices went insane). There was also more info on Pokopia, with a dj rotom that plays music, a reveal of electricity to power things and a few more Pokémon shown. The fact that it has electricity makes me really curious what sort of contraptions could be made. So much of what was shown was early game I’d not even considered ti a possibility.

Lastly! The new Pokémon games are called Winds And Waves and it looks gorgeous! It’s so beautiful and really shows off the power of the switch 2. It did show off the new starters which look cute! I’m torn between the Fire and Water ones. It’s not coming out till next year which is a long way off but I’m sure it’ll be worth it.

In the night Resident Evil Requiem came, though I didn’t go on it until after The Last Leg (so 11). I only did the first section with Grace but damn. It really looks so incredible on the switch 2. I played for about an hour, doing her opening section and the first cut scene of Leon’s (ahhh he looks so hot!) I do have minor thoughts (under the cut just in case but it super spoilery?)

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Ihave decided I’m gonna try and go tomorrow to Birmingham. I’m thinking of just wandering around (including checking TK for more Agatha books though I doubt it), look at the Lego Pokémon in the Lego store and pop in a few other places.i have considered doing a Birmingham trip before, stopping off at the cinema on the way back, so this might be it.

Alas there’s not much showing at the cinema. Most of the screenings are for Wuthering Heights (I’m not fussed about but I’ve heard bad things), Scream (I wasn’t going to see but I’ve heard equally bad things), an Elvis concert thing (eh)and Hoppers (for a preview weekend. Hoppers is the one I’ll probably see but it depends how I feel and if things line up. (goat is an alternate possibility but there’s fewer showings). Part of me does wanna go for a rewatch of Cold Storage but I doubt I will, at least this time.

If I don’t see hoppers, well it’ll be on for weeks anyway (I might see it with The Bride in a few weeks.

Now I’m gonna have noms, try and do fall guys event thing and then… maybe fic, maybe watch Heated Rivalry. (I’m not sure I’ll go on Requiem but we’ll see)

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Dancing to Tubbo stream

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Characters/Pairings: Sigma/Widowmaker
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Basically just not having the best time being alive. I had 2 days in a row of not feeling well, and today I am finally feeling better and it still isn't going well. I am excited to go for a long walk today while tryyyyying to convince myself that my mom is on my side, and finding it impossible. I keep saying to myself: "she is my mom, she has to be on my side!" And I cannot make it stick. I am struggling with my standard blood pressure issues even though I had a very nice morning making a few efforts to enjoy Saturday. I am tired of my bad health.

Funny note of the day: there is an arcade that I enjoy sometimes, but today, going for a walk absolutely sounds more fun than the arcade. Somehow, I actually became an outdoorsy kind of person: I DEFINITELY did not expect that when I was little lol.

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St. Paul church protest over ICE draws charges against 30 more
Attorney General Pam Bondi accused the group of civil rights violations in the January church protest during Operation Metro Surge.
By Sarah Raza, AP
https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/02/st-paul-church-protest-over-ice-draws-charges-against-30-more/

‘Liberty Vans’ appear across US to help immigrants – and document ICE raids
Volunteers offer moral and legal support, and document ICE actions with the aim of holding people accountable
Victoria Namkung in Los Angeles
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