Notices by Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com)

Have decided to throw up my hands and watch Golden Girls clips (or episodes) for the remainder of the evening.

Therapy.

"Folded together, the two-part outer hoop and three interior hoops give the illusion of a simple gold band. Slipped off the wearer’s finger, they can fan out into a physical model of celestial longitude and latitude."
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/a-400-year-old-ring-that-unfolds-to-track-movements-of-the-heavens.html

New month, a new batch of sales and price drops! (Don't forget to check the dates!)
https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/monthly-sales/

"The abandonment of whole books—what students read—is half of it. The other half is how they read..."
https://slate.com/life/2025/10/school-books-reading-literacy-crisis-common-core.html

Absolutely perfect weather for running--grey and chill enough enough to keep the sidewalk deserted, bit of a breeze, trees shedding leaves as if Tolkien elves are loitering about. Just wonderful.

Just made a nice fresh cuppa and if the planes would stop rumbling overhead I'd be able to listen to the rain on the roof instead, for a nice peaceful late-morning break.

"If anything, I think what we’re seeing in these numbers is a company bleeding out from costs that escalate the more that its user base grows."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

The No Kings protest in east Vancouver WA today was easily *at least* a third bigger than the first one in June by the time I had to leave (early). Would be surprised if it doesn’t end up at least twice as big, when all’s said and done.

Plus the inflatable costumes were great.

Lots of honking. A significant amount of cowbell. Great signs. Local food bank donation table.

It was exhausting to be in such a crowd, but satisfying to see my neighbours aren’t having any of that orange tyrant’s nonsense.

"And there’s an exactness to the metaphor of leaving the ground. It encourages us to think about the moment at which, or the movement by means of which, an understanding of the world starts to take shape."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n19/david-trotter/unconditional-looking

"This trend, already seeded within contemporary systems of education—geared, as they often are, toward job training, wealth creation, and social capital as much as intellectual endeavor—now needs little encouragement to flourish, with the zeal of an all-too-comfortable invasive species."
https://www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-higher-and-secondary-ed-alliance/

"Thanks to those conversations, the investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that because of it, his grim prediction may not have been cynical enough."
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-centers-finances

"If Amazon is taxing merchants 45-51 cents on every dollar they make, and if merchants are hiking their prices everywhere their goods are sold, then it follows you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop – even the corner mom-and-pop hardware store."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish

Is Portland burning?

Nope. See for yourselves, my friends.
https://isportlandburning.com

I do not want that stupid app.
It’s spyware-bloated, full of crap.

I want appliances that work,
without tattling to some techbro jerk.

I’m sick of “AI” garbage-spew,
Sick of silo’d platforms too.

To analog I shall return,
and wait for all this mess to burn.

"There are as many ideas about what they mean, and why they’re often on churches, incidentally, as there are ways of spelling their name."
https://mulberryhall.medium.com/odd-this-day-57036102e467

Well, *that* pair of running pants will never be the same.

LEASH. YOUR. DOGS. For their safety, and everyone else’s.

Nota bene: Due to good luck, quick reflexes, and my own comfort around/experience with large canines, I’m fine, and so is the stranger’s overexcited pooch.

But it could very easily have gone another way, and I may have to buy new running togs.

LEASH, YOUR DAMN. DOGS.

"The larger point is that the government is already shut down, and has been for several months, as the Trump administration initiated an assault on this system of government."
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-30-government-has-been-shut-down-for-months/

Last call for the very first Tale of the Underdark! MOON'S KNIGHT is on sale for $1.99USD (and CAD) in ebook, until 9/29. https://books2read.com/moonsknight