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A Suffolk County grand jury last week indicted a licensing attorney for forging Boston liquor licenses in April, 2024 for a Brighton food hall, a Seaport restaurant and a Park Square hotel.

Lesley Delaney Hawkins, 41, of Weymouth, faces arraignment on Nov. 21 in Suffolk Superior Court on 12 felony counts of forgery, common-law forgery, uttering and common-law uttering - the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Forgery relates to the creation of a fake document, in this case, liquor licenses, while uttering is the act of distributing the forged documents with the intent to harm or defraud somebody. Each of the forgery counts alone carry maximum possible penalties of ten years in prison.

Hawkins was a partner at downtown law firm Prince Lobel, which fired her last June after news broke that she had allegedly forged a license for Craft Food Halls on Soldiers Field Road in Allston. The place had won a liquor license from the Boston Licensing Board, but was being held up at the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission when Hawkins gave them a license - which investigators quickly determined was forged.

According to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, around the same time, Hawkins also forged liquor licenses for ZaZiBar, a cocktail lounge on Seaport Boulevard that recently closed, and the Hilton Boston Park Plaza.

Delaney had been the attorney for the Boston Licensing and Cannabis boards before leaving to become a partner at Prince Lobel in 2021, where she quickly built up the firm's presence in liquor licensing - in a city where liquor licenses can go for $600,000 apiece and just a few law firms specialize in the opaque laws that govern liquor licensing and sales. She also worked on zoning cases for Prince Lobel, as did former City Councilor and firm partner Mike Ross - who took over some of her cases after she was terminated.

Hawkins represented ZaZiBar when it went before the licensing board in June, 2023 to buy the beer, wine and liqueurs license from the creperie that had occupied the space it was moving into, Craft Food Halls in January, 2024, when it sought to buy the all-alcohol license from another restaurant in the space it planned to occupy, and BPP Investment Property, also in January, 2024, after it acquired the Park Plaza hotel.

Following her departure from Prince Lobel, Hawkins created a group called Sober & Curious Boston, which organizes hikes and other events for people "who want to connect, have fun, and stay active without the pressure of alcohol." She writes on what inspired her:

I had just returned from a three-day backpacking trip in the Pisgah National Forest, and whether it was sleeping on the ground or attempting the Appalachian bear hang, something shifted. Six months sober and deep in the woods with ten strangers, I doubled down on the fact that I hadn’t gotten sober to live a mediocre life.

Innocent, etc.

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A quiet mystery with an emphasis on character, plus a little carpentry and a lot of Irish countryside. A perfect read for late fall as it turns into winter.

Though when I say it's perfect for fall, I mean that the season in the book closely matched what was going on outside my own window. The story, on the other hand, is an discomforting mix of cozy and violent, and I found the resolution to the mystery something of a letdown, so I mostly enjoyed this for the scenery, the small town atmosphere, and the relationships between the characters. Cal wasn't my favorite, a Chicago cop who retired because he couldn't tell if he was doing the right thing anymore, has the flavor of someone who might use "woke" as an insult (let him tell you his stance on pronouns), and still has the voice of his ex-wife in his head critiquing his every thought (which, let's be honest, he needs), but he's well drawn and his contradictions reflect his circumstances and the era, and when I say era, I mean 2020, that decade of a year.

Contains: graphic violence; child harm; graphic descriptions of mutilated livestock and hunting rabbits for food; published in 2020, but pre-covid.

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Posted by adamg

https://www.universalhub.com/2025/best-not-bring-your-granny-down-esplanade-right-now

WBZ reports a couple spotted an alligator at the Esplanade lagoon over the weekend - with video to prove it. And the station has the evidence to prove it's not just some AI-induced hallucination:

In the video, he is seen poking the alligator with a stick to see if it's alive. After, it retreats back into the water. People on social media began questioning if the video was actually AI, but the stick that is in the video was still there when we met Rochelle for an interview.

The gators got your granny, chomp, chomp, chomp; Everybody says it was a shame; 'Cause her momma was a workin' on a chain gang

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callow (KAL-oh) - adj., (obs.) bald, hairless; (rare/arch.) (of a bird) featherless, unfledged; (rare) (of any animal) immature, juvenile; (of a person) (by extension) lacking maturity or experience.

Bald is the original sense of Old English calu, which as Middle English calwe became applied to downy birds in the 15th century. The people sense, which is the only sense most people know today, arrived soon after.

---L.

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/on-hacking-back.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71128

Former DoJ attorney John Carlin writes about hackback, which he defines thus: “A hack back is a type of cyber response that incorporates a counterattack designed to proactively engage with, disable, or collect evidence about an attacker. Although hack backs can take on various forms, they are—by definition—not passive defensive measures.”

His conclusion:

As the law currently stands, specific forms of purely defense measures are authorized so long as they affect only the victim’s system or data.

At the other end of the spectrum, offensive measures that involve accessing or otherwise causing damage or loss to the hacker’s systems are likely prohibited, absent government oversight or authorization. And even then parties should proceed with caution in light of the heightened risks of misattribution, collateral damage, and retaliation.

As for the broad range of other hack back tactics that fall in the middle of active defense and offensive measures, private parties should continue to engage in these tactics only with government oversight or authorization. These measures exist within a legal gray area and would likely benefit from amendments to the CFAA and CISA that clarify and carve out the parameters of authorization for specific self-defense measures. But in the absence of amendments or clarification on the scope of those laws, private actors can seek governmental authorization through an array of channels, whether they be partnering with law enforcement or seeking authorization to engage in more offensive tactics from the courts in connection with private litigation.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/on-hacking-back.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71128

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We live in the north of the county of Shropshire, while Ludlow is in the south about forty miles from home.

One of the river's several weirs:

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Current Mood: photographical
Current Location: 'ereabouts

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Another view of Dinham bridge from the river bank:

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stonepicnicking_okapi

Wednesday's word is...

...tovarisch.

noun

1. comrade: a term of address

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I found it in The Railroad Conspiracy by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan which I just finished: No, really not so good. Just came so you tell me where to find your tovarisch Dee."

elisi

I booked the tickets back in March and it's been this future event for so long that it seems impossible that it's actually today.

Dimash arrived in London two days ago and immediately went to CNN to do an interview:

Watch on YouTube

See you on the other side... 🎶🎤🎵

Current Mood: excited

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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

sovay

Tragedy: I saw this afternoon a late eighteenth-century frock coat in olive-green broadcloth that I could not heist because it had been tailored for a smaller man than myself. It was in the Concord Museum, where

fleurdelis41 and I had gone specifically for Transformed by Revolution but the TARDIS-like galleries winding inside the externally compact brick and slate-roofed buildings were too compelling to breeze through, especially when filled with items like the Musketaquid-turtle formed of ten thousand stone years or the small brass-foxed mirror that belonged to a man who died free or a collection of objects once in the possession of Thoreau that I had no idea anyone had preserved, like a wooden box for geological specimens or a DIY Aeolian harp. A copper kettle that belonged to Louisa May Alcott. Flints dug up from the lines of battle at the not yet Old North Bridge. Embroidered scenes of the Book of Esther. A musket that was high-tech enough for the militia but not for the Continental Army. A lace-trimmed gown of India cotton in the Empire style. The gallery devoted to the Battles of Lexington and Concord was audiovisual without eliding the tactile artifacts of powder horns and flintlocks and a lantern of the Old North Church. The modern quilt was as resonant as the stone tool island. I liked the display inviting the visitor to guess from their textures the difference between imported and homemade textiles, of which the silk and the superfine were not the latter. I liked, too, Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts' Unloading Boats (1912). By our own estimate, it was our first time hanging out in person in four years. I left the gift shop with Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa (1851/2003) and a guide to trees by their leaves.

Current Music: The Last Dinner Party, "Woman Is a Tree"

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Posted by adamg

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Patty photographed the northern lights over West Roxbury tonight, thanks to a severe geomagnetic storm caused by billions of tons of solar plasma ejected from the sun's surface that hit the earth's magnetic field - peaking around 8:20 p.m.

Another storm - and aurora displays - could hit tomorrow as well.

Amy Isikoff Newell watched the lights over Coolidge Corner - and reports spotting what appeared to be "a large meteor flashing green in the west around 10 or so:"

Barbara Parmenter looked north in Brighton:

James Noonan watched the display in Roxbury:

Ari Ofsevit captured the lights from "a not at all dark street" in Somerville:

Colin McMillen also looked north in Somerville:

Neighborhoods:

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Fandom: LOST
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Individual portraits of Sayid, Desmond, Sun, Kate, Juliet, Eko, and Ana-Lucia
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital painting
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: maddiesium on Reddit

Why this piece is awesome: These are great likenesses and wonderfully expressive of the characters. Sun's is the real standout for me, with its dramatic use of color and light and that classic Sun expression.

Link: Lost portrait paintings

ursamajor

And then suddenly, it became tech week for Verdi.

We borrowed Valerie Sainte-Agathe from SF Girls' Choir in preparation for this performance. Valerie breaks things down differently from Ash, but I like how she pushes us in certain ways that make us realize we know things better than we think we do; it's a confidence builder. Of course, that's a double-edged sword when it's the case where you actually don't know things as well as you know you need to, but I think overall most of us are benefiting from that presumption of a musical capability baseline, that we can read notes and lyrics at the same time and don't always have to start with one or the other. The occasional singing in mixed formation; the times when she tells us to just put the sheet music down and trust our memory.

We did a "retreat" a couple of weekends ago to basically cram in the equivalent of two additional rehearsals, and I think it helped to just run almost everything in order, to realize that yes, we actually have touched on all of the sections where we sing, and now it's just a matter of linking them together into one performance. (And, um, warming up sufficiently; some of my sopranos have definitely not been feeling warmed up enough for some of the high notes we've got in the Verdi; apparently the tenors have a similar plaint.)

Rehearsals Wednesday and Thursday; performance Friday night, along with a world premiere from Cava Menzies to open the show. I believe there are still tickets available for anyone local and interested. Guess I'd better dig out the concert blacks soon and make sure they're clean :) And figure out a lighter-weight folder for the Verdi, lord is the new edition heavy, but it still needs to be in a black music folder to blend in!

(Note to self: obviously it won't arrive in time for Verdi, but if you're thinking about trying to find a lighter-weight concert top before Break Bread, look at Blackstrad? Occasionally, the algorithm deposits actually relevant things in my feed. I'm currently intrigued by their Vesper top and their Elektra top, though I suspect given dress code the Vesper's a better option. There's even a petite section!)

And Break Bread will be upon us faster than a blink: rehearsal next week, break for Thanksgiving, two more regular rehearsals, and then dress rehearsal and performance all on Sunday, December 15. I'd better hurry up and order my music for our February concert, haven't done that yet, naughty section leader!

Current Mood: busy

stonepicnicking_okapi

This series of entries is commentary on my lifelong quest to read all of Agatha Christie's works in UK publication order. It was begun in January 2021.

I thoroughly enjoyed my re-read of Hallowe'en Party [1969]. The plot is solid and all the pieces fit. Here's a synopsis:

While visiting her friend Judith Butler in Woodleigh Common, Ariadne Oliver assists the neighbours in planning a children's Hallowe'en Party at wealthy Rowena Drake's house. Upon meeting Mrs Oliver, 13-year-old Joyce Reynolds claims she once witnessed a murder, though at the time she was too young to recognize it as such. Though no one appears to believe her, Joyce is found drowned in an apple-bobbing bucket after the party; distraught, Mrs Oliver summons Hercule Poirot to solve the case.

I know this book very well because I wrote a version with Bertie and Jeeves called Boo, Jeeves! And it still stands up a re-reading. There is a mention of Poirot wearing uncomfortable shoes and so I wrote a ficlet for Kinktober about him getting a foot massage: A Patent Remedy Next up: Passenger to Frankfurt which I have completely forgotten. I shall finish the last few in 2026.

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Boo, Jeeves! (13392 words) by okapi
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
Characters: Reginald Jeeves, Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Dahlia Travers, Original Characters, Joyce Reynolds, Miranda Butler, Rowena Drake, Michael Garfield, Diana Weston
Additional Tags: Halloween, Community: spook_me, Spook Me Multi-Fandom Halloween Ficathon, Alternate Universe - Ghosts, Alternate Universe - Supernatural Elements, Child Murder, Epistolary, Supernatural Elements, Ghosts, Murder Mystery, Case Fic, Soul Selling, Agatha Christie Crossover
Summary:

Bertie sees a ghost.

In the epistolary style of Stoker's Dracula (diary entries, letter, newspaper headlines, etc.)

For the 2018 Spook Me Ficathon. Crossover with Agatha Christie's Hallowe'en Party. Warning for child murder.

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Posted by Athena Scalzi

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It’s that time of year again where I always manage to get COVID. I have gotten COVID literally every single year since 2020, and pretty much exclusively around the holidays. I also happen to be flying to San Francisco this week and hanging out with a bunch of people while there, so I figured today was a good day to walk into my local Kroger and get a COVID shot.

Well, I ended up leaving without one, as I was told that unless I had a medical diagnosis or condition that required I get one per a doctor’s order, I couldn’t get one. I was baffled, since I could’ve sworn that for the past five years Kroger has been nonstop advertising walk-in vaccines, so I inquired further. I was told that it’s because of the new administration. Because why wouldn’t that be the reason?

Basically, she said that unless I had a “reason” to get the shot, my insurance wasn’t going to cover it. So I asked what if I just paid out of pocket, and she said it would be over two hundred dollars, and that I should try CVS or Walgreens to see if it was cheaper there.

I’m literally just, like, dumbfounded right now. I know that (thankfully) I can just pay out of pocket, or try a different place, or see if they’ll accept insurance or whatever, but what the fuck? Needing insurance to get a vaccine is bullshit. Needing a reason to get a vaccine is bullshit. I walked in to a clinic that advertised walk-in COVID shots, and left without one. That’s bullshit!

Anyway, I just wanted to come on here and vent, and see if anyone else has had a similar experience in the past few months? I want to get a flu shot, as well, and I’m hoping I don’t run into the same fucking issue.

Let me know in the comments.

-AMS

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Posted by Rusty Foster

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/five-funerals

I finished hiking the Appalachian Trail btw. If you even care. So who died while I was gone?

1. Richard Bruce “Dick” Cheney

War profiteer and mass murderer Dick Cheney died on November 3rd, far too late to make any difference. His passing was roasted by, among many others, Defector’s Albert Burneko:

Cheney was predeceased by half a million Iraqis who are lined up to waterboard him for eternity in hell, if any justice inheres in this universe, and Henry Kissinger. He was not known to have been related to any members of the seminal early-oughts emo band Fall Out Boy.

2. PornosexualGooner101

Here’s a list of words: Daniel Kolitz wrote a long feature about gooning for Harper’s Magazine. Regrettably I know many of you don’t know what “gooning” is. Even more regrettably I know several of that number are members of my own extended family, so I will just very quickly tell you that gooning is the name for a kind of marathon porn-assisted masturbation currently (arguably) in vogue online, and we will never speak of this again. Like most times a talented writer tackles a lowbrow topic for “the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States,” the story is an entertaining read that nevertheless left many of us feeling like there was something wrong with it that we couldn’t quite put our fingers on, or, given the subject, didn’t quite want to put our fingers anywhere near. Fortunately Danny Lavery convened a panel of sickos to get deep into this “very silly and entirely too credulous” story and really tease out the nut of what’s wrong with it:

Aidan Walker, an internet culture theorist and the author of the Know Your Meme gooning explainer (there’s another list of words for you), also had some thoughts about it:

Without disagreeing with Walker’s assertion that the “economic, cultural, and political foundations for a normal life have eroded,” which is plainly true, or valorizing bourgeois respectability over any of the numerous other lifestyles one could pursue, I would still like to answer: …yes? Yes, a non-gooning life is still very much real, even nowadays. I haven’t personally run the numbers but I’d be willing to bet “bourgeois respectability” is still absolutely crushing “24/7 gooncave dweller” in the rankings. But R.I.P. PornosexualGooner101.

Amy Brown on bluesky posted: “Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas” with a screenshot of children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel’s Instagram, which reads: “Real Question from The NY Times: As you know, a group has suggested, albeit without evidence, that you are accepting money in order to further Hamas's agenda. Is that true? This accusation is not only absurd, it's patently false.”

Good to see that the New York Times is still having an extremely normal one every day.

3. James Watson

James Watson became one of the most famous biologists in history in 1953, when he discovered Rosalind Franklin’s notes. In the 72 years that followed, Watson also discovered “The Bell Curve,” and left biology to build an enduring legacy for himself in the adjacent field of racism. He died on November 6th. Watson was predeceased in 2021 by legendary science journalist Sharon Begley who nevertheless arranged to roast him from beyond the grave in an inspired act of haterism that will live on long past Begley or Watson or Watson’s footnote in the annals of Rosalind Franklin’s too-brief but remarkable scientific career. Begley wrote:

This is a good reminder that if there’s anyone you really despise, you should take a moment right now to write down exactly how much and why, because

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<p class="syndicationauthor">Posted by Rusty Foster</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://www.todayintabs.com/p/five-funerals">https://www.todayintabs.com/p/five-funerals</a></p><div class="beehiiv"><style> .bh__table, .bh__table_header, .bh__table_cell { border: 1px solid #C0C0C0; } .bh__table_cell { padding: 5px; background-color: #FFFFFFFF; } .bh__table_cell p { color: #2D2D2DFF; font-family: 'Helvetica',Arial,sans-serif !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; } .bh__table_header { padding: 5px; background-color:#FFFFFFFF; } .bh__table_header p { color: #2D2D2DFF; font-family:'Trebuchet MS','Lucida Grande',Tahoma,sans-serif !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; } </style><div class="beehiiv__body"><p class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><a class="link" href="https://www.todayontrail.com/p/sometimes-the-better-part-of-valor-is-running-away" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">I finished hiking the Appalachian Trail</a> btw. <a class="link" href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/x-btw-if-you-even-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">If you even care</a>. So who died while I was gone?</p><h3 class="heading" style="text-align:left;" id="1-richard-bruce-dick-cheney">1. Richard Bruce “Dick” Cheney </h3><p class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">War profiteer and mass murderer Dick Cheney died on November 3rd, far too late to make any difference. His passing was roasted by, among many others, <a class="link" href="https://defector.com/dick-cheney-departs-the-world-he-made?giftLink=ef2dd292e1db36faddfee1864d78ef2d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><i>Defector</i></a><a class="link" href="https://defector.com/dick-cheney-departs-the-world-he-made?giftLink=ef2dd292e1db36faddfee1864d78ef2d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">’s </a><b><a class="link" href="https://defector.com/dick-cheney-departs-the-world-he-made?giftLink=ef2dd292e1db36faddfee1864d78ef2d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Albert Burneko</a></b>: </p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote__quote"></blockquote></div><p class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">Cheney was predeceased by half a million Iraqis who are lined up to waterboard him for eternity in hell, if any justice inheres in this universe, and <a class="link" href="https://www.todayintabs.com/p/the-new-england-review-of-henry-kissinger" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><b>Henry Kissinger</b></a>. He was not known to have been related to any members of the <a class="link" href="https://www.todayintabs.com/p/kissinger-when" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">seminal early-oughts emo band Fall Out Boy</a>.</p><h3 class="heading" style="text-align:left;" id="2-pornosexual-gooner-101">2. <b>PornosexualGooner101</b></h3><p class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">Here’s a list of words: <a class="link" href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><b>Daniel Kolitz</b></a><a class="link" href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> wrote a long feature about gooning for </a><i><a class="link" href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Harper’s Magazine</a></i>. Regrettably I know many of you don’t know what “gooning” is. Even more regrettably I know several of that number are members of my own extended family, so I will just very quickly tell you that gooning is the name for a kind of marathon porn-assisted masturbation currently (arguably) in vogue online, and we will never speak of this again. Like most times <a class="link" href="https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">a talented writer tackles a lowbrow topic</a> for “<a class="link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper%27s_Magazine" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States</a>,” the story is an entertaining read that nevertheless left many of us feeling like there was something wrong with it that we couldn’t quite put our fingers on, or, given the subject, didn’t quite want to put our fingers anywhere near. Fortunately <a class="link" href="https://www.thechatner.com/p/but-pornosexualgooner101-died-35" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><b>Danny Lavery</b></a><a class="link" href="https://www.thechatner.com/p/but-pornosexualgooner101-died-35" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> convened a panel of sickos</a> to get deep into this “very silly and entirely too credulous” story and really tease out the nut of what’s wrong with it:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote__quote"></blockquote></div><p class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><b>Aidan Walker</b>, an internet culture theorist and the author of <a class="link" href="https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-gooning-the-meaning-of-goon-cave-and-other-related-slang-explained" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">the Know Your Meme gooning explainer</a> (there’s another list of words for you), <a class="link" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@aidanetcetera/video/7565269642910977302?t=ZP-90szrpYGNRu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">also had some thoughts about it</a>: </p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote__quote"></blockquote></div><p class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">Without disagreeing with Walker’s assertion that the “economic, cultural, and political foundations for a normal life have eroded,” which is plainly true, or valorizing bourgeois respectability over any of the numerous other lifestyles one could pursue, I would still like to answer: …yes? Yes, a non-gooning life is still very much real, even nowadays. I haven’t personally run the numbers but I’d be willing to bet “bourgeois respectability” is still absolutely crushing “24/7 gooncave dweller” in the rankings. But R.I.P. PornosexualGooner101.</p><div class="image"><a class="image__link" href="https://bsky.app/profile/amybrown.xyz/post/3m5bsxgmxrs2j" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img alt="Amy Brown on bluesky posted: “Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas” with a screenshot of children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel’s Instagram, which reads: “Real Question from The NY Times: As you know, a group has suggested, albeit without evidence, that you are accepting money in order to further Hamas's agenda. Is that true? This accusation is not only absurd, it's patently false.”" class="image__image" style="" src="https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/a37284f4-15d0-4b4a-b443-830bc0d02889/image.png?t=1762896923" /></a><div class="image__source"><span class="image__source_text"><p>Good to see that the New York Times is still having an extremely normal one every day. </p></span></div></div><h3 class="heading" style="text-align:left;" id="3-james-watson">3. James Watson</h3><p class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">James Watson became one of the most famous biologists in history in 1953, when he <a class="link" href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/the-story-behind-photograph-51" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">discovered </a><b><a class="link" href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/the-story-behind-photograph-51" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Rosalind Franklin</a></b><a class="link" href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/the-story-behind-photograph-51" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">’s notes</a>. In the 72 years that followed, Watson also discovered “The Bell Curve,” and left biology to build an enduring legacy for himself in the adjacent field of racism. He died on November 6th. Watson was predeceased in 2021 by legendary science journalist <b>Sharon Begley</b> who nevertheless <a class="link" href="https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/james-watson-remembrance-from-dna-pioneer-to-pariah/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">arranged to roast him from beyond the grave</a> in an inspired act of haterism that will live on long past Begley or Watson or Watson’s footnote in the annals of Rosalind Franklin’s too-brief but <a class="link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin#Career_and_research" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">remarkable scientific career</a>. Begley wrote:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote__quote"></blockquote></div><p class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">This is a good reminder that if there’s anyone you really despise, you should take a moment right now to write down exactly how much and why, because <span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, " segoe="Segoe" ui",="UI"," roboto,="Roboto," ubuntu,="Ubuntu," cantarell,="Cantarell," "noto=""Noto" sans",="Sans"," sans-serif,="sans-serif," arial;font-size:16px;"="Arial;font-size:16px;"">you might not get a chance to later.</span></p><h3 class="heading" style="text-align:left;" id="4-the-line">4. The Line</h3><p class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><i>Financial Times’</i>s <b>Alison Killing</b> <a class="link" href="https://ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-line/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">wrote the obituary for Saudi Arabian dictator </a><b><a class="link" href="https://ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-line/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Mohammed Bin Salman</a></b><a class="link" href="https://ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-line/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">’s idiotic boondoggle The Line</a>, an imaginary and impossible to build linear city in the desert that kept a legion of wire-rimmed architectural grifters busy generating science fiction novel cover illustrations for five extremely profitable years. <b>Kate Wagner</b> described it as a “<a class="link" href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/line-in-the-sand-wagner" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">stupid, brutal, and improbable vanity project</a>” in <i>The Baffler</i> back in 2023. The only question about The Line from the start was how many vast and trunkless legs of stone it would leave in the Arabian desert, and the answer now appears to be about 6,000. But alas, after spending a mere $50 billion the dream of piling millions of dead migratory birds at the foot of a 170 kilometer long mirrored wall is over… for now. </p><div class="image"><img alt="" class="image__image" style="" src="https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/115de967-af74-40af-87d1-bde616f7102c/image.png?t=1762895481" /></div><h3 class="heading" style="text-align:left;" id="5-the-farmers-almanac">5. The Farmer’s Almanac</h3><p class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">Not <a class="link" href="https://www.almanac.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><i>The Old Farmer’s Almanac</i></a>, with its yellow filigreed cover familiar from childhood bathroom magazine racks far and wide. This is other <i>Farmer’s Almanac</i>, the one you didn’t know about until a few days ago when <a class="link" href="https://www.farmersalmanac.com/fond-farewell-from-farmers-almanac" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">they announced they were shutting down</a>. And that is probably why they’re shutting down. <i><a class="link" href="https://www.almanac.com/old-farmers-almanac-234-years-and-still-going-strong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">The Old Farmer’s Almanac</a></i><a class="link" href="https://www.almanac.com/old-farmers-almanac-234-years-and-still-going-strong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> would like you to know that it’s doing fine</a>, and that <a class="link" href="https://www.almanac.com/november-weather-forecast" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">there might be some snow on Thanksgiving this year</a>. </p><div class="image"><a class="image__link" href="https://x.com/JoyceCarolOates/status/1987269465013428557" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img alt="Joyce Carol Oates posted: “So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated , uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the “most wealthy person in the world.””" class="image__image" style="" src="https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/b4929d9e-4035-4dfe-bebc-cb4f32884579/image.png?t=1762897585" /></a><div class="image__source"><span class="image__source_text"><p>Though not named in it, Elon Musk is now <a class="link" href="https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-joyce-carol-oates-fight-x-jokes-memes?test_uuid=04wb5avZVbBe1OWK6996faM&test_variant=b" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">on his third day of crashing out about this tweet</a>.</p></span></div></div><p class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><b>Today’s Song: </b>“People Who Died,” <b>The Jim Carroll Band</b></p><site-embed id="163"/><p class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;"><i>~And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others, this tab is for you my brother~</i></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">If you’re surprised the song today isn’t <a class="link" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJy6wnmfxLE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bomb the Music Industry’s “5 Funerals”</a> I want you to know first of all that you’re cool, and secondly that I just don’t like that song very much. Big BTMI fan though. </p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">And hey welcome back to <i>Tabs</i>! For those of you who have been funding <a class="link" href="https://www.todayontrail.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">my hiking habit</a> despite that not being what you’re paying me to do here at all, I am truly grateful for both your subscription support and your patience. 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I move a lot. I was an Army brat, that's expected. But I've moved more since becoming an adult. As an Army brat I moved about once every two and a half years; as an adult, it's one move every twenty months.

I feel like I am in a good position to declare that moving sucks.

However. I've been remarkably stable lately. The three and a half years I've been at Corvaric are now the longest I've lived in a single place as an adult, and the third-longest in my life. (Four years in a townhouse outside of DC for high school, preceded by the five worst years of my life in Fayetteville NC in late elementary and junior high.) I was in the same apartment complex for the almost-five years I lived in northern Virginia right after college, but I changed apartments to move in with Emily halfway through that.

This also pushes my total time in the lower mainland (the Vancouver area) above the eleven years I spent in Blacksburg VA. (The longest I've spent in any one locale is still northern Virginia, at not quite twelve years, spread across three separate occasions.)

Sure, I'd rather stay in the same place, put down roots, all that. Just never seems to quite come together for me. There's always a good reason to move: money, or job, or relationship, or just "this place is terrible." This time I'm betting it'll be money, though it might be any of the above.

No real point to this. I'm not moving imminently. It's just interesting to look back at where I've been, and for how short a time.

Although moving DOES suck.

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