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just oine thing

Posted by Daily Otter

https://dailyotter.org/posts/2026/6/15/lounging-sea-otter-receives-a-snack

Via Oregon Coast Aquarium

https://dailyotter.org/posts/2026/6/15/lounging-sea-otter-receives-a-snack

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the weather today is cold
with a hint of the usual ambient drone

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memeage

Happy birthday,

twistedchick!

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260614.html

The DRAINAGE (ie Thursday rain that would have rendered the previous site wretched all weekend was mildly inconvenient on Thursday and then became Fine Actually). The friend we brought along had a really good time with sledgehammers. Social overtures. Once we'd made it through Thursday, things ran... smoothly? Gigglefests with multiple groups of people. Yes Good.

Hugo homework continues. I and my reading buddies are posting about it real time on the sync read post, but also posting here as I finish things I consider stand-alone books (novellas and longer) and complete categories:

11. Emily Tesh, The Incandescent – Hugo homework furnished me with a copy and a deadline, but I’ve been curious to read it for a while, because a number of my flisters had, and I’d even seen some of their Yuletide requests. I was also approaching it with a bit of trepidation, because so far everything I’ve read by Emily Tesh started out being great and then disappointed me in the ending to some degree. I think maybe my expectations are getting calibrated appropriately, because I was less disappointed by this ending than by aspects of Some Desperate Glory, let alone the entire second novella of the Greenhollow duology, but I was also less excited about the beginning. ( More, with spoilers )

I liked the individual components of the book – the magic school from a teacher’s perspective was great! I liked the students, I thought the central character and her arc were interesting even if I didn’t like her much. I do think it’s put together in a very weird way that doesn’t do it any favors as a novel, and Emily Tesh’s inability to write endings that I find satisfying strikes again – so I think I’m left more frustrated than won over by the whole…But I’m glad this book exists, and that I read it, for the teaching-of-magic aspects, and general teaching-as-vocation feels (which were well-timed for the weekend of attending my younger child’s probably-last graduation). I would not be mad if it wins a Hugo.

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I found a chance to catch up on Taskmaster Australia s5e06. I was actually going to wait until I came back from Europe and binge the rest of the season, but a Reddit post hinted at ep 6 having something extraordinary, so I decided to carve out the time. ( Spoilers! )

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Meme stolen from a couple of flisters: ( Some questions about books )

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