Conversion therapy mandated for trans inmates in federal prisons
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thisfinecrewA friend let me know about a new Bureau of Prisons guideline for treatment of inmates with gender dysphoria, which you can read in its entirety here. The short form is that they're denying trans inmates gender-affirming care despite medical consensus, and substituting conversion therapy, which has been proven to be harmful and does not in any way "cure" gender dysphoria.
( My friend's letter, posted with permission )
( My friend's letter, posted with permission )
Lake Lewisia #1367
Mar. 9th, 2026 05:08 pmscrubjayspeaksIt seems that some people were inadvertent overachievers on Sunday, and they did not so much "Spring forward" as "launch wildly into the future." Temporal anomalies have been detected at houses that also experienced sudden and mysterious disappearances, so investigators believe the missing people have catapulted into some as of yet undetermined date. While further study will continue, we may have no choice but to wait until we get to the future as well to reunite with our lost neighbors, hoping all the while that they are making it nice for us.
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Daily Check-In
Mar. 9th, 2026 06:05 pmstarwatcher posting in fandom_checkinThis is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Monday, March 09, to midnight on Tuesday, March 10. (8pm Eastern Time).
Poll #34346 Daily Check-in
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 14
How are you doing?
I am OK.
8 (61.5%)
I am not OK, but don't need help right now.
5 (38.5%)
I could use some help.
0 (0.0%)
How many other humans live with you?
I am living single.
6 (42.9%)
One other person.
6 (42.9%)
More than one other person.
2 (14.3%)
Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.
Sit and watch my TV set
Mar. 9th, 2026 08:00 pmsovayI have been made the unexpected recipient of an unbirthday scarf. It is patterned as if with fossil leaves and irresistibly striped.
Monday Media Musings: February 2026 highlights
Mar. 9th, 2026 03:55 pmowlmooseClair Obscur: Expedition 33: I wanted to love this game, but the most I could muster up was an appreciation for its artistry, world-building, and ambition. Too much of the story was left clouded, hidden behind impossible bosses, and character motivations kept opaque to preserve surprises for the audience. ( Massive spoilers behind the cut. )
On top of that, T and I both found the combat difficult in an unsatisfying way, and having to learn not just entirely different skill trees but power-up mechanisms for every character felt unnecessary. Eventually we turned the difficulty level down, which helped, but in the end it felt like we were just slogging through the final battles to get to the ending and be done with it. Disappointing.Plur1bus: Like many folks, I was eagerly anticipating this one, based on my love for Rhea Seehorn in Better Call Saul, and it lived up to that expectation -- although in other ways I wasn't sure what to expect, and it certainly kept me guessing throughout. It's hard to say much without spoilers, so I'll limit my thoughts here to being just generally impressed by it, and blown away by Seehorn's performance, and also by Karolina Wydra, who played Zosia, a tough role on several levels. Excited to see where it goes!
The 2026 Winter Olympics: Despite all the problems, I do still love the Olympics -- getting to watch and learn about different sports, witness joy and heartbreak and feats of incredible athleticism, following developing storylines and experience the unexpected. I dipped in and out of a lot of events, but I ended up spending the most time on curling. T is a fan -- it's perhaps the only Olympic sport that he'll actively sit down and watch with me -- and because the athletes are all miked, you can hear them discussing strategy with each other, which is really interesting. I also caught some figure skating; in particular, the men's and women's free programs were fascinating case studies in the folly of expectations, and I genuinely loved watching the two gold medal winners put in the performances of their lives.
Birdfeeding
Mar. 9th, 2026 01:48 pmysabetwordsmithToday is cloudy and chilly with gusts of wind.
I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
In the water jug greenhouses, a few shady wildflowers are sprouting. :D
EDIT 3/9/26 -- My gold curly willow cuttings have arrived! \o/ I have put two in water and one in a pot.
EDIT 3/9/26 -- I took cuttings from the older serviceberry tree and a shellbark hickory sapling to put in the willow cups.
EDIT 3/9/26 -- I cracked open some peach pits. It was a lot easier than I expected. I found a natural hollow in the concrete step, where I balanced a peach pit on its edge. A seam goes along the sides. I put a flathead screwdriver point into the seam and tapped the handle with a hammer. Most of the peach pits popped apart neatly, releasing the seed. A couple chipped in fragments. I think I got several viable seeds, which I put in a baggie of damp sand. I also bagged up some leftover persimmon seeds. Then I put the baggies in the refrigerator for cold stratification to see if they'll sprout.
EDIT 3/9/26 -- I tried using an ax to hack away at one of the saplings in the driveway. I certainly made more progress than I did with the saw. It's slow going, but I might be able to beaver it down eventually. The question is whether I'll have the time and energy for that, with all the other spring yardening to do.
EDIT 3/9/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 3/9/26 -- I did more work around the patio.
EDIT 3/9/26 -- I transplanted a few more snowdrops from the parking lot to the apricot tree.
I am done for the night.
I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.
I put out water for the birds.
In the water jug greenhouses, a few shady wildflowers are sprouting. :D
EDIT 3/9/26 -- My gold curly willow cuttings have arrived! \o/ I have put two in water and one in a pot.
EDIT 3/9/26 -- I took cuttings from the older serviceberry tree and a shellbark hickory sapling to put in the willow cups.
EDIT 3/9/26 -- I cracked open some peach pits. It was a lot easier than I expected. I found a natural hollow in the concrete step, where I balanced a peach pit on its edge. A seam goes along the sides. I put a flathead screwdriver point into the seam and tapped the handle with a hammer. Most of the peach pits popped apart neatly, releasing the seed. A couple chipped in fragments. I think I got several viable seeds, which I put in a baggie of damp sand. I also bagged up some leftover persimmon seeds. Then I put the baggies in the refrigerator for cold stratification to see if they'll sprout.
EDIT 3/9/26 -- I tried using an ax to hack away at one of the saplings in the driveway. I certainly made more progress than I did with the saw. It's slow going, but I might be able to beaver it down eventually. The question is whether I'll have the time and energy for that, with all the other spring yardening to do.
EDIT 3/9/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
EDIT 3/9/26 -- I did more work around the patio.
EDIT 3/9/26 -- I transplanted a few more snowdrops from the parking lot to the apricot tree.
I am done for the night.
Magpie Monday
Mar. 9th, 2026 12:49 pmysabetwordsmithdialecticdreamer is hosting Magpie Monday with a theme of "Apologies." Leave prompts, get ficlets! March 2026 Magpie Monday
Mar. 9th, 2026 11:15 amdialecticdreamerToday’s a day for mea culpa and apologies, so that’ll be the theme for this month’s Magpie Monday, too. It seems only fitting.
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Monday Update 3-9-26
Mar. 9th, 2026 02:01 amysabetwordsmithThese are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Space Exploration
Moment of Silence: Country Joe McDonald
Poem: "Confident Guesswork and Improvisation"
Poem: "Nuff Respect"
Esbat
Science
Safety
Humor
Birdfeeding
Today's Adventures
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Civilization
Photos: Savanna
Photos: House Yard
Wildlife
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 3-6-36: Meta
Wildlife
Poem: "The Express Bus to Crazy-ass Death Land"
Read "ICE Out" by Charles de Lint
Nature
Birdfeeding
Community Thursdays
Read "Find a Way Forward"
Safety
Birdfeeding
Good News
Linguistics has 32 comments. Philosophical Questions: Pregnancy has 40 comments. Safety has 53 comments. Wildlife has 40 comments. Food has 67 comments.
Last week's Poetry Fishbowl went well. I still have at least one more poem to write.
marchmetamatterschallenge is running this month. See my tracking post and the first check-in post.
"The Struggle Against Overwhelming Odds" is now complete. Gideon and Raymond get some unexpected help in the fight.
The weather has been warmish here, though it rained much of the week. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a female cardinal, and a fox squirrel. A skein of geese flew overhead, honking quite loudly. Red-winged blackbirds have been singing overhead. I've heard a killdeer and a mourning dove calling, but didn't see them. Honeybees are out and swarming the flowers. Currently blooming: crocuses, snowdrops, winter aconite, miniature irises.
Space Exploration
Moment of Silence: Country Joe McDonald
Poem: "Confident Guesswork and Improvisation"
Poem: "Nuff Respect"
Esbat
Science
Safety
Humor
Birdfeeding
Today's Adventures
Birdfeeding
Philosophical Questions: Civilization
Photos: Savanna
Photos: House Yard
Wildlife
Birdfeeding
Follow Friday 3-6-36: Meta
Wildlife
Poem: "The Express Bus to Crazy-ass Death Land"
Read "ICE Out" by Charles de Lint
Nature
Birdfeeding
Community Thursdays
Read "Find a Way Forward"
Safety
Birdfeeding
Good News
Linguistics has 32 comments. Philosophical Questions: Pregnancy has 40 comments. Safety has 53 comments. Wildlife has 40 comments. Food has 67 comments.
Last week's Poetry Fishbowl went well. I still have at least one more poem to write.
marchmetamatterschallenge is running this month. See my tracking post and the first check-in post."The Struggle Against Overwhelming Odds" is now complete. Gideon and Raymond get some unexpected help in the fight.
The weather has been warmish here, though it rained much of the week. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, a female cardinal, and a fox squirrel. A skein of geese flew overhead, honking quite loudly. Red-winged blackbirds have been singing overhead. I've heard a killdeer and a mourning dove calling, but didn't see them. Honeybees are out and swarming the flowers. Currently blooming: crocuses, snowdrops, winter aconite, miniature irises.
Space Exploration
Mar. 9th, 2026 01:11 amysabetwordsmithNASA shares photos of an extraordinary event witnessed by astronauts on the space station
While most people witness only the familiar crack of thunder and flash of lightning from storms on Earth, brilliantly-colorful electric fireworks detonate much higher, in the thin air up to 55 miles overhead, easily seen from the ISS.
These brief spectacles – blue jets, red sprites, violet halos, ultraviolet rings – are collectively known as transient luminous events, or TLEs.
For decades, they eluded systematic study, appearing only in pilots’ anecdotes and the occasional lucky photograph.
The International Space Station (ISS) has changed that by offering an unobstructed seat above the storms, where specialized cameras and sensors capture every fleeting spark.
While most people witness only the familiar crack of thunder and flash of lightning from storms on Earth, brilliantly-colorful electric fireworks detonate much higher, in the thin air up to 55 miles overhead, easily seen from the ISS.
These brief spectacles – blue jets, red sprites, violet halos, ultraviolet rings – are collectively known as transient luminous events, or TLEs.
For decades, they eluded systematic study, appearing only in pilots’ anecdotes and the occasional lucky photograph.
The International Space Station (ISS) has changed that by offering an unobstructed seat above the storms, where specialized cameras and sensors capture every fleeting spark.
Moment of Silence: Country Joe McDonald
Mar. 8th, 2026 11:13 pmysabetwordsmithSinger and songwriter Country Joe McDonald has passed away. Among other accomplishments, he is famous for the "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die-Rag" at Woodstock, on record, and elsewhere.
Carry on the Work:
Guitar -- how to articles from wikiHow
Hippie Culture
How to Be a Singer Songwriter: 15 Steps (with Pictures)
Music Occupations -- how to articles from wikiHow
Musical Instruments -- how to articles from wikiHow
Singing -- how to articles from wikiHow
Social Activism -- how to articles from wikiHow
Songwriting -- how to articles from wikiHow
Carry on the Work:
Guitar -- how to articles from wikiHow
Hippie Culture
How to Be a Singer Songwriter: 15 Steps (with Pictures)
Music Occupations -- how to articles from wikiHow
Musical Instruments -- how to articles from wikiHow
Singing -- how to articles from wikiHow
Social Activism -- how to articles from wikiHow
Songwriting -- how to articles from wikiHow
Poem: "Confident Guesswork and Improvisation"
Mar. 8th, 2026 10:50 pmysabetwordsmithThis poem is spillover from the March 3, 2026 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from siliconshaman and janetmiles. It also fills the "Smudges" square in my 3-1-26 card for the National Crafting Month Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by janetmiles. It belongs to the series Frankenstein's Family.
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siliconshaman and janetmiles. It also fills the "Smudges" square in my 3-1-26 card for the National Crafting Month Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by janetmiles. It belongs to the series Frankenstein's Family.( Read more... )
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Notes for "Nuff Respect"
Mar. 8th, 2026 09:59 pmysabetwordsmithThese are the notes for "Nuff Respect." Enjoy some recipes for Jamaican and Minoan foods in memory of minoanmiss.
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Poem: "Nuff Respect"
Mar. 8th, 2026 09:32 pmysabetwordsmithThis poem came out of the March 3, 2026 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from librarygeek, alatefeline, and mama_kestrel. It also fills the "Artisan" square in my 3-1-26 card for the National Crafting Month Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by librarygeek in memory of minoanmiss, who passed away recently and loved both Jamaican and Minoan cultures. It belongs to the Trichromatic Attachments thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.
Warning: This poem contains graphic descriptions of delicious food that you may not be able to find or afford.
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librarygeek, alatefeline, and mama_kestrel. It also fills the "Artisan" square in my 3-1-26 card for the National Crafting Month Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by librarygeek in memory of minoanmiss, who passed away recently and loved both Jamaican and Minoan cultures. It belongs to the Trichromatic Attachments thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.Warning: This poem contains graphic descriptions of delicious food that you may not be able to find or afford.
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Took a left, hit a nerve, took a right, hit the curb
Mar. 8th, 2026 09:23 pmsovayFor various reasons not limited to the overhead activity of children in the mornings, last night was the first real time all week that I slept and have thus spent most of the day in a vague state of hibernation despite the warmth of the air. There was a mauve overcast around sunset that turned out to belong to a volcanic wall of gold and bougainvillea over an agate-blue cloud-band. Have some mostly musical links.
For the more than twenty years sincelesser_celery made me a CD of Peter Gabriel's Melt (1980), I have assumed that the eerily voiced French refrain of "Games Without Frontiers" was either the singer's own falsetto or pitch-shifted vocals. It turns out to be Kate Bush. I would never have identified her on my own, but then I thought about "Army Dreamers" (1980).
I grew up on Arlo Guthrie, but my favorite version of "City of New Orleans" (1971) is almost certainly Steve Goodman himself in 1970, where he reminded me unexpectedly of a Chicago-accented Stan Rogers. It's driving me nuts that I would swear the first person I heard lead "The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over" (1977) was Pete Seeger and I can't figure out where.
WERS has been playing nothing but female artists for International Women's Day, which means everything from Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman" (1978), Katrina and the Waves' "Walking on Sunshine" (1983), and Bikini Kill's "Rebel Girl" (1993) to Tegan and Sara's "I'll Be Back Someday" (2019), Orla Gartland's "Little Chaos" (2024), and Arlo Parks' "2SIDED" (2026). I had a moral obligation to let my father know when Rickie Lee Jones came around.
Video quality regardless,sholio's "Waking Up in Vegas" (The Greatest American Hero) remains one of my all-time favorites of their vids.
For the more than twenty years since
lesser_celery made me a CD of Peter Gabriel's Melt (1980), I have assumed that the eerily voiced French refrain of "Games Without Frontiers" was either the singer's own falsetto or pitch-shifted vocals. It turns out to be Kate Bush. I would never have identified her on my own, but then I thought about "Army Dreamers" (1980).I grew up on Arlo Guthrie, but my favorite version of "City of New Orleans" (1971) is almost certainly Steve Goodman himself in 1970, where he reminded me unexpectedly of a Chicago-accented Stan Rogers. It's driving me nuts that I would swear the first person I heard lead "The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over" (1977) was Pete Seeger and I can't figure out where.
WERS has been playing nothing but female artists for International Women's Day, which means everything from Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman" (1978), Katrina and the Waves' "Walking on Sunshine" (1983), and Bikini Kill's "Rebel Girl" (1993) to Tegan and Sara's "I'll Be Back Someday" (2019), Orla Gartland's "Little Chaos" (2024), and Arlo Parks' "2SIDED" (2026). I had a moral obligation to let my father know when Rickie Lee Jones came around.
Video quality regardless,
sholio's "Waking Up in Vegas" (The Greatest American Hero) remains one of my all-time favorites of their vids.#98 Unified Effort (part 1 of 1, complete)
Mar. 8th, 2026 10:43 pmdialecticdreamerUnified Effort
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1134
[Monday, May 18, 2020, 9 am]
:: Because Aidan is at his new job, the four younger Teagues go to the library on their own for the first time. Part of the Edison’s Mirror (Teague Family) story arc. ::
Back to A New Thought
To the Edison's Mirror Landing Page
On to
“We whisper in the library,” Vic murmured to Mac, “because when someone is reading, a loud voice is very, very distracting.”
Mac nodded with the solemnity of a judge pronouncing sentence. “Is Rory outside so she can be loud for now?”
Vic rubbed away the smile that kept trying to form. “Rory is outside saying words that most people think are rude, because Aidan figured out how to enroll her in school,” he confided. The smile escaped, darting across his dark face before disappearing again.
“I wanna go to school, too,” the child declared seriously.
“Well,” Vic hedged, “How about we test that? There’s lots of extra rules that seem pretty silly, but it also means following someone else’s plans for long bits fo time. So, I’ll be the teacher and you see how a school day feels, okay? If you do well, and don’t want to jump in mud puddles all the way home just because you've been following rules all day, then we’ll talk to Aidan, okay?”
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By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1134
[Monday, May 18, 2020, 9 am]
:: Because Aidan is at his new job, the four younger Teagues go to the library on their own for the first time. Part of the Edison’s Mirror (Teague Family) story arc. ::
Back to A New Thought
To the Edison's Mirror Landing Page
On to
“We whisper in the library,” Vic murmured to Mac, “because when someone is reading, a loud voice is very, very distracting.”
Mac nodded with the solemnity of a judge pronouncing sentence. “Is Rory outside so she can be loud for now?”
Vic rubbed away the smile that kept trying to form. “Rory is outside saying words that most people think are rude, because Aidan figured out how to enroll her in school,” he confided. The smile escaped, darting across his dark face before disappearing again.
“I wanna go to school, too,” the child declared seriously.
“Well,” Vic hedged, “How about we test that? There’s lots of extra rules that seem pretty silly, but it also means following someone else’s plans for long bits fo time. So, I’ll be the teacher and you see how a school day feels, okay? If you do well, and don’t want to jump in mud puddles all the way home just because you've been following rules all day, then we’ll talk to Aidan, okay?”
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