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Eglinton Crosstown LRT may be facing yet another delay
Let me die now
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/eglinton-crosstown-lrt-may-be-facing-yet-another-delay/article_673d564e-8930-44e6-…

Just finished "The Melancholy of Summer" by Louisa Onomé. It's an excellent book about parental abandonment, rejecting and accepting help, and friendship, set in Toronto. There were a few threads that didn't quite get wrapped up by the end, but the ending wasn't dissatisfying, and the writing is excellent, particularly TV gee dialogue and the narration of Summer's thoughts. I felt like the strategic use of stutters both gave the main character extra vulnerability, but also helped subtly clue the reader into moments where Summer's perception of her interlocutors doesn't match their real feelings. Between this and "Like Home", I feel like Onomé's novels are a bit rough around the edges, yet they're still some of the most enjoyable books I've been reading, probably because she's pours so much humanity into her characters and lets their honest desire for something better rub off on the audience.
#AmReading

Maybe China should put some pressure on Russia and Belarus to not be total cunts, everyone wins.
https://agora.echelon.pl/objects/37fcface-10b3-47d3-aa01-19204c5fe457

Researching ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 date parsing and found this excellent resource: https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
Tried a few packages to solve this problem (dayjs, date-fns, luxon, moment). Unfortunately they are either not accurate enough or very large 😭

Richard Murphy provides an excellent characterisation of where western society was at its best (for most people, but not everyoe), and how it fell into the increasingly horrible situation it's in now... and how we could return to a 'better way' - what he refers to as 'mixed markets'. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lrQh0_B…

An excellent read on how Google is killing the Open Web through attacks on XML and other technical standards.
https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/

exoALMA. XVIII. Interpreting large scale kinematic structures as moderate warping
Andrew J. Winter, Myriam Benisty, Andr\'es F. Izquierdo, Giuseppe Lodato, Richard Teague, Carolin N. Kimmig, Sean M. Andrews, Jaehan Bae, Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro, Nicol\'as Cuello, Pietro Curone, Ian Czekala, Stefano Facchini, Daniele Fasano, Cassandra Hall, Caitlyn Hardiman, Thomas Hilder, John D. Ilee, Misato Fukagawa, Cristiano Longarini, Fran\c{c}ois M\'enard, Ryuta Orihara, Christophe Pint…

exoALMA. XVIII. Interpreting large scale kinematic structures as moderate warping
The exoALMA program gave an unprecedented view of the complex kinematics of protoplanetary disks, revealing diverse structures that remain poorly understood. We show that moderate disk warps ($\sim 0.5-2^\circ$) can naturally explain many of the observed large-scale velocity features with azimuthal wavenumber $m = 1$. Using a simple model, we interpret line-of-sight velocity variations as changes in the projected Keplerian rotation caused by warping of the disk. While not a unique explanation, …

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Queen:
🎵 Friends Will Be Friends
#NowPlaying #Queen
https://djrapha.bandcamp.com/track/queen-friends-will-be-friends-intro
https://open.spotify.com/track/3EGlnkJGcwz73rT0oE0X1X

Excelente atención de Leopardina.
Dice la dueña del negocio que Leopardina es muy curiosa, pero se asusta con las motos. Que es cariñosa con los hombres y muerde a las mujeres.
#SanJosé #CostaRica

Just finished Transiruby, along with a 9k-line journal file for it. I almost got 100, but not quite; I don't have time to go back to it before the semester starts though.
If you like exploration games, it's an excellent one, with great level design & tons of secrets. It actually makes you do significant secret-finding and map-reading in order to beat the game, not just for extras or a special ending, which is something that a lot of metroidvania games since Super Metroid don't do. My one complaint is that the map system isn't perfect, and finding obscure secrets to progress is fine when the map hints at them but much less fun when it hints incorrectly (I looked one progress item up in a speedrun video because of this).
Decently cool movement mechanics, although the combat does take a back seat and almost all of the bosses are easy (I beat the final two bosses in the third and second tries respectively). I don't think that's any better or worse than a game like Nine Sols where the final boss took me hundreds of tries though; just a different flavor. The world-building isn't as rich as the more epic metroidvanias like Hollow Knight or Lone Fungus (or again, Nine Sols) but again I'm fine with that. It's just a more casual game that has really excellent level design & exploration poetics.
#AmPlaying