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marshallprojectemail_feedRelease your lantern
Mar. 3rd, 2026 06:37 pmflowing_data_rss_feed
In celebration of the lunar new year, many people release a lantern into the night sky on the last day of festivities. Taiwan Data Stories made a fun interactive that lets you customize and release your own lantern.
One of the festival’s most iconic traditions is the release of sky lanterns (天燈), especially in Pingxi (平溪) in New Taipei City. As evening falls, thousands of glowing lanterns drift into the night sky, each inscribed with handwritten wishes for the year ahead. In the Year of the Horse, many lanterns feature the character 「馬」, reflecting the horse’s cultural associations with vitality, speed, endurance, and forward momentum.
I hope next year they turn this into a community interactive that shows everyone’s lanterns and hopes floating around.
A decade and a half ago, there used to be a site called 43 Things where people listed their goals in life. I made a now defunct interactive that showed goals floating by as people entered new items. It was calming to watch so much hope move across the screen.
Tags: lantern, Lunar New Year, Taiwan Data Stories
Post your questions for Martin Clunes
Mar. 3rd, 2026 06:12 pmguardianfilm_feedHis credits range from Men Behaving Badly to Wuthering Heights, and now he’s playing Huw Edwards. What would you dearly love to know about the actor and documentary presenter?
It’s delightful that Martin Clunes has won so many plaudits for his performance in this year’s Wuthering Heights, alongside Margot Robbie’s Cathy and Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff. He plays Cathy’s drunk but generous, cruel yet humorous father in a part that could easily have drifted into the background. But he makes such an impression that the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw reckons he “pretty much pinches the whole film”.
It’s not as if Clunes hasn’t brushed shoulders with the Hollywood A-list before. You might remember him as Richard Burbage, opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes and Judi Dench, in 1998’s Shakespeare in Love – a role with added resonance given that his father, Alec Clunes, who died when Clunes was eight, was a distinguished Shakespearean actor. Other roles include 1992’s Carry On Columbus (the last ever Carry On); 1994’s Staggered (which he also directed), in which he wakes up naked on a remote Scottish island after a stag do gone wrong; and 1999’s Hunting Venus, where he reunites with his former on-screen flatmate Neil Morrissey, as a washed-up 80s New Romantic, sporting a flopped quiff that puts even A Flock of Seagulls to shame.
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birdfeedingI fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and a male house finch.
I put out water for the birds.
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Birdfeeding
Mar. 3rd, 2026 12:24 pmysabetwordsmithI fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and a male house finch.
I put out water for the birds.
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Maybe I'm missing something
Mar. 3rd, 2026 05:57 pmoursinHave just been reading a very odd book - sortes ereader, something it appears I bought when you could still convert Kindle books to Kobo epub, cannot recall if it was something someone had recommended or what.
LH Johnson, Tell Me of a Girl (2018) - independently published, a retelling of The Secret Garden.
I am not sure why. Because usually if people are doing a retelling they are remixing or shaking up in some way? Okay, this did do some kind of vaguely different backstory of Mary's relationship with her mother, but otherwise it followed the story pretty exactly though leaving stuff out, and much of what was actually in the original seemed terribly washed out.
Characters who are vivid presences in the original seemed muted (Martha, Ben Weatherstaff, Dickon, the robin) - and devoid of Yorkshire speech to boot.
One might have expected that maybe a retelling might do what that recent reworking of Katy did and be a bit more disability positive, but no.
Mary Lennox is already a stroppy young person who doesn't exactly need to grab more agency, hmmm?
It's also done in a rather annoying typographical style.
At the end the author indicates that it's not only in dialogue with Burnett's original but with a whole swathe of scholarship on Golden Age children's lit. Maybe it came out of the project for a course???
I could see it sort of working as the basis of a rather moody atmospheric movie version?
Has anyone else come across this? I'm really not sure what to make of it.
Fancake Theme for March: Siblings
Mar. 3rd, 2026 10:05 amrunpunkrun posting in fandomcalendar
fancake is a thematic recommendation community where all members are welcome to post recs, and fanworks of all shapes and sizes are accepted. Check out the community guidelines for the full set of rules. This theme runs for the entire month. If you have any questions, just ask!
TV Tuesday: Caption Use
Mar. 3rd, 2026 12:00 pmyourlibrarian posting in tv_talk
Shows can change over time, for better or for worse. Which show with an excellent first season shouldn't have gotten a second/more seasons? Which shows had a great comeback season after a disappointing first season?
my coworker gives me rush projects, then disappears
Mar. 3rd, 2026 05:29 pmaskamanager_feedA reader writes:
My workload is mostly comprised of overflow tasks from other departments. I generally like this because it gives me a variety of things to do. I regularly deal with four managers. Three of them are good to work with. One, Alex, is … not.
While the others always do a capacity check-in with me (asking if I have the bandwidth to take new work on), Alex regularly assigns me things without asking at all. It is not unusual that I will go on lunch and come back to a bunch of new tasks waiting for me with no discussion prior to assignment.
The things Alex assigns me have exceptionally short deadlines, are often missing key pieces of information, and are often assigned to me and then she suddenly becomes unreachable. For example, she assigned a task midday and then didn’t respond to my questions to fill in any of the blanks for hours. It feels like she assigns me things and then runs away from the computer for the rest of the day.
She also will regularly start a task, decide she doesn’t have the bandwidth to complete it, and then toss the half completed task at me with a “complete this for me, will you?” and little else. This means I have to stop everything else I am doing to try and figure out where she left off/how important it is because there is no documentation. Most of the time, I just end up redoing her work because the pieces they “completed” were rushed and done incorrectly.
Then, when I kill myself to meet her incredibly short deadlines, I have to chase her for approval. Recently I was assigned something she wanted in two days, which I did, and when I asked her to approve it, she said she wouldn’t have any time to review it for five days. To me, if the project can just sit there for five days with nobody looking at it, then it wasn’t the rush I was led to believe.
I like Alex as a person and I know she has a busy life outside of work, so I try to give her grace and understanding. When this started happening, I explained politely why these issues make my job harder and we talked about how to keep it from happening in the future. At the time, she seemed understanding and apologetic and I felt good about where we left things. But it feels like the conversation went in one ear and out the other, because again I just got three new things assigned to me without a heads-up, missing information and with incredibly short deadlines.
I understand things happen and sometimes things happen last minute or information gets delayed, but this feels constant and I am trying to manage workflows from four people.
I previously flagged this situation with my direct manager, but at the time said I was just mentioning the issue for transparency and that she didn’t need to take action because I was dealing with it myself. However, since it keeps happening, I am not sure what to do or how to articulate my issues in a productive way.
I don’t want to be a tattletale and rat anybody out and I also don’t want to seem like I am just bitching to my boss about people having a different work ethic than me. I will fully admit, I am pretty type A and super organized, which is part of the reason I have the job I have. But this legitimately sucks and my hair is falling out from stress! What should I do?
You can read my answer to this letter at New York Magazine today. Head over there to read it.
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Poetry Fishbowl Open!
Mar. 3rd, 2026 11:55 amysabetwordsmithI'll be soliciting ideas for cooks, fusion chefs, immigrant cooks, eaters, farmers, foragers, food scientists, inventors, recipe writers, famous figures in food history, cooks of disadvantaged groups who should have become famous, superheroes, supervillains, failure analysts, ethicists, activists, rebels, other people active in the food world, cooking, gardening, harvesting, foraging, preserving, writing recipes, discovering things, decolonizing diets, building or using kitchen equipment, conducting experiments, observation changing experiments, troubleshooting, improvising, adapting, cooperating, bartering, taking over in an emergency, discovering yourself, studying others, testing boundaries, coming of age, learning what you can (and can't) do, sharing, fixing what's broke, upsetting the status quo, changing the world, accomplishing the impossible, recovering from setbacks, kitchens, restaurants, food trucks or carts, campfires, barbecue sites, laboratories, makerspaces, nonhuman accommodations and adaptations, picnics, grocery stores, farmer's markets, roadside fruit stands, U-pick farms, gardens, food forests, other places where people make food, world cuisine, ethnic cuisines, cookbooks, online recipe archives, permaculture, heritage diets, climatarian diet, traditional foodways, culinary archaeology, food sovereignty, drought-resistant crops, trial and error, ethnic spice sets, weird food, fusion food, secret ingredients, supplements that turn out to be metagenic, new ideas in cuisine, alternate agriculture, lab conditions are not field conditions, ethics of food, innovation, problems that can't be solved by hitting, teamwork, found family, complementary strengths and weaknesses, personal growth, and poetic forms in particular.
Currently eligible bingo card(s) for donors wishing to sponsor a square:
National Crafting Month Bingo Card 3-1-26
Among my more relevant series for the main theme:
An Army of One has to figure out how to feed a diverse, far-flung group of people who sometimes have special dietary needs.
The Bear Tunnels introduces modern principles to people in the past, including some aspects of food science.
A Conflagration of Dragons has the Six Races (plus the dragons) who all have different diets. This often poses challenges for the refugees.
Daughters of the Apocalypse has people trying to find and prepare enough food to survive, when city libraries are out of reach.
Fiorenza the Wisewoman uses herbs and healing foods to care for her village.
Frankenstein's Family features two scientists running a valley in historic Romania. Igor enjoys cooking and has gotten at least one of the werewolves curious about cooking the human way.
Hart's Farm is a community with food used as one of the popular bonding methods.
Peculiar Obligations combines Quakers and pirates in the Caribbean, among other groups and places, leading to a wide variety of foods.
Polychrome Heroics has ordinary humans, supernaries, blue-plate specials, superheroes, supervillains, primal and animal soups all of whom need to eat. Primal soups and high-burn soups often have special dietary needs. Comfort food and healing food are also very popular here. The Rutledge thread includes Kardal and his food truck Syrian Foods, along with references to Vermont, French, and hippie cuisines. Pain's Gray, Shiv, and the Finns are all fond of cooking too.
The Wandering features old people who drift back in time, the first of whom lands in Goa, India.
Or you can ask for something new.
Linkbacks reveal a verse of any open linkback poem.
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Belgium detains three suspected Cameroon separatists in war crimes probe
Mar. 3rd, 2026 05:15 pmbbcnewsworld_feedGuilty verdict for US father of teenage school shooter
Mar. 3rd, 2026 05:14 pmbbcnewsworld_feedAndrew gives up lease on Crown Estate property
Mar. 3rd, 2026 04:51 pmbbcnewsworld_feed026/031: Frankenstein in Baghdad — Ahmed Saadawi (translated by Jonathan Wright)
Mar. 3rd, 2026 05:37 pmtamaranth
‘I made it complete so it wouldn’t be treated as rubbish, so it would be respected like other dead people and given a proper burial.’ [p. 27]
Baghdad, 2005: after the American invasion and occupation, just as the sectarian civil war is kicking off. Antique (junk) dealer Hadi, trying to retrieve a friend's remains after a car bomb, finds that body parts at the mortuary are all jumbled together, with little effort to reconstruct each corpse. He begins to assemble a body, picking and choosing from the scraps of anatomy that are in plentiful supply on the streets of Baghdad. ( Read more... )
insta break.
Mar. 3rd, 2026 09:14 amserafaeryWill have to find more books while I'm away from there. Maybe I'll just stick to Avalanche posts and nothing else, from now on, I dunno. I think it's time to go.
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I did get outside at 2:30am and clouds had rolled in, but I waited patiently for a gap and got to see one second of an eerie crescent. I love the black parts of lunar eclipses, the reddish/brown part is not my favorite actually. The different-shaped crescents touch something in my heart.
I still feel terrible. Disrupted sleep isn't helpful. But it's okay. I will be in Vegas tomorrow night, and hopefully in real sunshine all day Thursday, Friday, and much of Saturday.
I will not share photos of red rock canyon to instagram.
