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Sep. 5th, 2025 04:21 amconuly(And who knew there was a whole event for skating in inflatables!?)
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Sep. 5th, 2025 04:21 amconulyPSA text from celli
Sep. 4th, 2025 03:55 amconulyThe IRS invites the public to participate in an anonymous feedback survey on tax preparation and filing options, which will run through Sept. 5, 2025.
The survey is being conducted as part of the Department of Treasury and the IRS’s efforts to fulfill a reporting requirement to Congress under the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act. The law directs Treasury to deliver a report to Congress by Oct. 2, 2025, on several key issues related to free tax filing options for the public.
Treasury and the IRS encourage taxpayers to share their perspectives and help inform this important congressional report.
Translation: We have to report to Congress about the public's interest in Free File (filing directly on the IRS website) because they want to quash it, so here's a survey!
survey here
There are a couple of leading questions that I personally found HIGHLY entertaining. But I do recommend that if you are an American taxpayer you take a look at it/take it.
There was one question that asked what's important in filing taxes, and it had an "other" option that opened a handy text window, so I used that text window to tell them all about how filing taxes is a waste of time and money when the IRS already has all that information. There is absolutely no reason they can't just send you a bill or a refund every year, with a receipt, and you'd only have to file if you had to correct errors or had income or deductions that had been unreported for whatever reason.
The survey is being conducted as part of the Department of Treasury and the IRS’s efforts to fulfill a reporting requirement to Congress under the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act. The law directs Treasury to deliver a report to Congress by Oct. 2, 2025, on several key issues related to free tax filing options for the public.
Treasury and the IRS encourage taxpayers to share their perspectives and help inform this important congressional report.
Translation: We have to report to Congress about the public's interest in Free File (filing directly on the IRS website) because they want to quash it, so here's a survey!
survey here
There are a couple of leading questions that I personally found HIGHLY entertaining. But I do recommend that if you are an American taxpayer you take a look at it/take it.
There was one question that asked what's important in filing taxes, and it had an "other" option that opened a handy text window, so I used that text window to tell them all about how filing taxes is a waste of time and money when the IRS already has all that information. There is absolutely no reason they can't just send you a bill or a refund every year, with a receipt, and you'd only have to file if you had to correct errors or had income or deductions that had been unreported for whatever reason.
Does anybody have an explanatory link?
Sep. 2nd, 2025 09:16 pmconulySo, responses here are not terribly helpful.
The OP is specifically confused about the use of the prhase "such as" in the highlighted sentence. I said that this is not wrong, it's just formal and old-fashioned, but like most Americans I've had very little formal education in English grammar and with google I still can't find either the words to define it or a few well-placed citations by prestigious authors.
The OP is specifically confused about the use of the prhase "such as" in the highlighted sentence. I said that this is not wrong, it's just formal and old-fashioned, but like most Americans I've had very little formal education in English grammar and with google I still can't find either the words to define it or a few well-placed citations by prestigious authors.
September Stampede - Day One - Flat Surface (and Master List for the month)
Sep. 2nd, 2025 12:14 ampeaceful_sands posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
bitesizedcleaningWelcome to the September Stampede - the 10 minutes a day bite-size cleaning challenge that lasts from 1st to 30th September.
This is supposed to be a low-stress challenge - if you miss a day, it doesn't matter, if the day's challenge doesn't suit, repeat the day before or start on the next day's. With the exception of two days, the challenges should take about 10 minutes, if you want to spend longer that's great, judge by your personal available time and energy.
To make it easier to take part and not be held up by time differences and days when I'm not able to post, all challenges will be posted in the table below the cut to aid both those taking part and the daily poster.
The majority of the challenges should be adaptable e.g. clean a flat surface - desks, kitchen worktops, bathroom cabinets, floors, tables would all work. Similarly for clean a vertical surface, any of the following (and no doubt others) would count - windows, wall tiles, mirrors, doors. Cleaning a drawer can just as easily be a box of things or any other kind of container or a cupboard. You pick whether you work in one area of your home for the month/until it's finished or work in a different area each day. If you want to repeat a task e.g. cleaning a drawer until the full set of drawers is sorted and cleaned, go for it.
My biggest request for the month is that, whenever you can, you join in the chat - even if you haven't done the day's challenge come and cheer for others. We're here for the ups and downs this month so you can tell us when you're struggling as well as celebrate your successes. (If anyone thinks all this looks familiar, may I commend you on your memory and confess that yes, it is cribbed from last year's post :) )
( Daily Challenge Table shown below the cut )
And so today's challenge is to spend 10 minutes cleaning a flat surface.
Just to give you all the heads up - I'm not sure how often I'm going to be able to make a post so each time I will post the whole chart so that you can keep track of the challenges - feel free to comment on the most recent post at any stage with as many days progress as you can.
Good luck and have a great September.
This is supposed to be a low-stress challenge - if you miss a day, it doesn't matter, if the day's challenge doesn't suit, repeat the day before or start on the next day's. With the exception of two days, the challenges should take about 10 minutes, if you want to spend longer that's great, judge by your personal available time and energy.
To make it easier to take part and not be held up by time differences and days when I'm not able to post, all challenges will be posted in the table below the cut to aid both those taking part and the daily poster.
The majority of the challenges should be adaptable e.g. clean a flat surface - desks, kitchen worktops, bathroom cabinets, floors, tables would all work. Similarly for clean a vertical surface, any of the following (and no doubt others) would count - windows, wall tiles, mirrors, doors. Cleaning a drawer can just as easily be a box of things or any other kind of container or a cupboard. You pick whether you work in one area of your home for the month/until it's finished or work in a different area each day. If you want to repeat a task e.g. cleaning a drawer until the full set of drawers is sorted and cleaned, go for it.
My biggest request for the month is that, whenever you can, you join in the chat - even if you haven't done the day's challenge come and cheer for others. We're here for the ups and downs this month so you can tell us when you're struggling as well as celebrate your successes. (If anyone thinks all this looks familiar, may I commend you on your memory and confess that yes, it is cribbed from last year's post :) )
( Daily Challenge Table shown below the cut )
And so today's challenge is to spend 10 minutes cleaning a flat surface.
Just to give you all the heads up - I'm not sure how often I'm going to be able to make a post so each time I will post the whole chart so that you can keep track of the challenges - feel free to comment on the most recent post at any stage with as many days progress as you can.
Good luck and have a great September.
So, the title said something about the Argonaughts or maybe the Hugonuts?
Sep. 1st, 2025 06:04 pmconulyMe, using correct spelling: Those are two entirely different groups of people. Is there any way you can narrow this down even a little?
Them, repeating the wrong spelling: Nope, absolutely not!
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Them, repeating the wrong spelling: Nope, absolutely not!
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So, I've now created a DW feed
Aug. 31st, 2025 10:29 pmconulyfor ![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png)
chopwood_carrywater_feed. I thought that getting it in my email and on my reading page would help prompt me to call (or email, listen, I have limits) my congresscritters.
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Standards for signing up with ICE are so low
Aug. 30th, 2025 06:54 amconulymaybe it makes sense to undermine them from within? Oh, where's the sabotage manual when I want it?
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Let's just pretend I posted this on International Left-hander's Day
Aug. 29th, 2025 07:41 pmconulyPoll #33546 Left handers unite!
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41
Which are you?
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DW and Bluesky (and probably others)
Aug. 28th, 2025 07:32 pmconulyare now going to block Mississippi IP addresses.
Link to DW explanation
Link to Tedium post on Bluesky
So, yay, piracy and VPNs all the way?
(I fucking hate this timeline, have I said that lately?)
Link to DW explanation
Link to Tedium post on Bluesky
So, yay, piracy and VPNs all the way?
(I fucking hate this timeline, have I said that lately?)
Wanton and dissipation
Aug. 27th, 2025 02:51 pmconulyThem: If you’re familiar with the meanings of wanton and dissipation, could you please describe them in a way that will help me never confuse them with other words or forget their meaning?
Me: Oh, there is no way the comments to this post are going to be helpful.
And I was half right! I was just about the only person to give the asked-for definition of "dissipation". As predicted, everybody else used the science sense rather than the moral decay sense. What surprised me is that they also all defined the word "wanton" in terms of violence rather than sexual promiscuity.
Anyway, I said myself that dissipation (meaning debauchery) is an old-fashioned term and that I'm not quite sure how I even know that one off the top of my head, but then the next day I was re-reading Ancillary Justice and there it is, right in the first few chapters. Seivarden is in a bad state due to her dissipated lifestyle, and that's the word used to describe it. Huh. (But I think I already knew that word before I read the book for the first time.)
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Me: Oh, there is no way the comments to this post are going to be helpful.
And I was half right! I was just about the only person to give the asked-for definition of "dissipation". As predicted, everybody else used the science sense rather than the moral decay sense. What surprised me is that they also all defined the word "wanton" in terms of violence rather than sexual promiscuity.
Anyway, I said myself that dissipation (meaning debauchery) is an old-fashioned term and that I'm not quite sure how I even know that one off the top of my head, but then the next day I was re-reading Ancillary Justice and there it is, right in the first few chapters. Seivarden is in a bad state due to her dissipated lifestyle, and that's the word used to describe it. Huh. (But I think I already knew that word before I read the book for the first time.)
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August by Dorothy Parker
Aug. 24th, 2025 11:57 pmconulyWhen my eyes are weeds,
And my lips are petals, spinning
Down the wind that has beginning
Where the crumpled beeches start
In a fringe of salty reeds;
When my arms are elder-bushes,
And the rangy lilac pushes
Upward, upward through my heart;
Summer, do your worst!
Light your tinsel moon, and call on
Your performing stars to fall on
Headlong through your paper sky;
Nevermore shall I be cursed
By a flushed and amorous slattern,
With her dusty laces’ pattern
Trailing, as she straggles by.
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And my lips are petals, spinning
Down the wind that has beginning
Where the crumpled beeches start
In a fringe of salty reeds;
When my arms are elder-bushes,
And the rangy lilac pushes
Upward, upward through my heart;
Summer, do your worst!
Light your tinsel moon, and call on
Your performing stars to fall on
Headlong through your paper sky;
Nevermore shall I be cursed
By a flushed and amorous slattern,
With her dusty laces’ pattern
Trailing, as she straggles by.
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