DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.
Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.
Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
This is a followup guide to this one that I wrote a while back: HOWTO: Set up a radial menu on a Steam Deck game. Tuxborn players expressed some interest in the details of my decisions on how to set my radials, so I’m going to write those out for this post here.
The primary audience for this post is Tuxborn players on Steam Decks. But a lot of this can apply to any Skyrim players on Steam Decks, especially if you’re running a load order similar to Tuxborn’s, and if that load order happens to include the BFCO-related mods we have.
I went to two protests, so I count them both. Ken wondered if I would get counted twice in the "5 million people across the country participated…" Of course there's not actually an accurate census of these things.
The local one was again at the shopping mall, picking up the Saturday morning shoppers starting at 9:30. This was less convenient for me, because it's further from the train station than the center of town, so I had to leave after only 20 minutes to catch the train into Boston. (I suppose if I hadn't bicycled I could have protested there for longer. But I felt like bicycling.) Unfortunately the train was inconveniently timed so I got to the Boston thing fairly early. On the other hand, then I got a good "seat" (standing location).
Lots of other people were on my train with signs, and lots more people were already on the Common when I arrived 40 minutes in advance of the start time, and tons of people were just streaming in from all directions. I will be interested to see a crowd estimate. It was enormous.
The MC had good energy. The music was some good, some mediocre, the speakers were "what you would expect at an event like this". There was a heckler who tried to interrupt Michelle Wu's speech. Michelle was very professional about it and completely ignored the guy, did not get distracted, made sure that she was right in the microphone so that her remarks were louder. She said various dramatic things that we were all supposed cheer after and so she paused at the right time and we cheered appropriately. So the heckler did not achieve his goals. The MC then talked about how "we don't all agree in this movement and that's okay, but we need to all be in the movement. We need to not be divided." Which was good and off-the-cuff and well spoken. A couple of other times he also had impromptu remarks on different topics.
I decided I was tired of standing around after 2 hours (more, including the time I was there early) and bailed to go catch the earlier train home. It's very confusing when you get walking directions and you're in the middle of the park which is full of people you have no idea what direction you're facing. So I walked for a while and saw if I was getting off the path and kind of wandered around until I found the path. Fortunately I allowed an extra 10 minutes for the walk to South Station, and I arrived early enough to be comfortable. Given the number of people on my train home holding signs, I was not the only one who thought that a three-hour rally was too long. On the walk back to South Station I did see some people coming towards the rally holding signs, so I guess we were the changing of the guard.
This release is very small, containing two major upgrades, and some additional notes on the Central Kirkland Connector’s south-end closure.
Here’s the complete changes list:
ADDED: Two-way bike lane opened on E. Marginal Way S on 9 October 2025 from Edgar Martinez/Atlantic down to Horton St., at which point you cross over at a new bike crossing to the existing ped/bike mixed-use trail which connects to Spokane Street Trail. This creates a no-car-interaction connection. These bike lanes will be extended from Horton directly to Spokane Street in early 2026. (MEGAMAP)
ADDED/UPGRADED: Bike lanes on northern 100th Ave NE in Juanita upgraded and extended to cover NE 139th St. through NE 145th St. (Both maps)
UPDATED WARNING: The south leg of the Central Kirkland Connector is BRIEFLY reopening this weekend (October 18 and 19) for a marathon event before CLOSING again until late October for continuing emergency sewer repair work. Once it does re-open, it will be closing again intermittently for additional work. On the maps proper, this is mostly be an alert box change. (MEGAMAP)
All permalinks continue to work.
If you enjoy these maps and feel like throwing some change at the tip jar, here’s my patreon. Patreon supports get things like pre-sliced printables of the Greater Northshore, and also the completely-uncompressed MEGAMAP, not that the .jpg has much compression in it because honestly it doesn’t.
So a week before we move is a *great* time to have the fire alarms go off, credibly. (That is, all of them at once, ours and the upstairs neighbors', going off at once, which is probably required in the fire code by now but isn't how I'm used to them behaving.) I checked in with the upstairs guy, and neither of us saw smoke or anything likely to cause anything dangerous, but Calluna and I nonetheless got the cat into the carrier and go bag and purses outside, Just In Case. And called 911.
The fire guys (who have a fire station about 3 blocks from us so we get a hell of a lot of Fire Truck Noise) arrived just as the upstairs guy was solving the problem by starting to take down the smoke detectors, one by one. First one he tried was the relevant issue, which makes sense given as it was date-stamped 2007. (...yes.)
Lessons taken from this: a) I don't think the upstairs guy had the right approach to the problem -- that is, I think the fire guys should do that kind of conclusion making, and b) I need to do some practicing for an actual fire, clearly, because I dithered too much. Since I want to make sure we have reasonable fire exits in our upcoming basement (that's easy, there's huge windows that open and you can just crawl out) and the upcoming 2nd floor (not sure there), that'll just fold into the consideration.
Anyway, not to bury the lede, but we bought a house in Pepperell (on the border of NH, as opposed to where we are now on the border of RI), it's cool, we're having the movers next Monday, will quite likely have to do a smallish truck (or van) the weekend after for remaining stuff, dislike packing vociferously, but! we can finally get the Stuff From Storage from when we stuck it there like 5 years ago.
More about this soon, or, as is more likely given me, more much later.
Second post in my new playthrough of Enderal, using the Emissaries of Tux modpack. Main action in this post: a side quest in Riverville, in which I venture into Clearwater Cave to hunt for Tarhutie’s lost elixir.
I had six remaining posts pertaining to Elessir in my Drafts folder, and a few more directories’ worth of screenshots for which I never took notes. So I’m going to do an overall survey of them here, so I can knock all of that out of the queue.
This post will contain spoilers for the tail end of follower Lucien’s personal quest, and also some spoilers for Beyond Skyrim: Bruma.
My stepsister managed to prevent me from knowing when the funeral was until it was too late. The obituary on the funeral home site (which I didn't find until too late) does not even list me as a survivor. It does list some people who are, in my opinion, more distantly related than me. Nor does it mention having been predeceased by his loving wife.
Some people are just too petty.
I did learn that he was buried rather than cremated and which cemetery he's in, so perhaps on my next trip to California I will take an extra day and go on a road trip and say goodbye.
Post your reality; use the hashtag to help other people see it, if you’re okay with the one in a million shot that they ask you to let them use it on Kimmel.
In reality, of course, they’ll mostly be checking YouTube and maybe other corporate social media, not cooperative spaces like the Federation. But he’s famous enough that if he calls for a hashtag, a lot of people will use it, and in this case, that’s no bad thing.
So – Portland. Chicago. Los Angeles. Memphis. DC. You in particular, but not just you…
Welcome to my very first post ever for playing Enderal, the total conversion mod for Skyrim that transforms it into an entirely different game!
If you’ve never played Enderal before, suffice to say, this post will be full of spoilers, like any other playthrough post on my site.
And meet my character Siobhan, half-Nehrimese, half-Kiléan, who finds out right quick that maybe sneaking on board a boat to get to Enderal is maybe not the smartest thing she ever did….
Pamela Bondi went before Senate Oversight on Tuesday determined not to testify to Democrats, and to help Republicans deflect and defend the Trump regime’s fascism. That’s obvious; it happens fairly regularly.
But usually, people doing this routine at least pretend to answer the questions. They don’t provide answers, no, of course not. But they pretend and follow forms.
Bondi wasn’t even pretending. Her responses were unrelated, spurious – and as Senator Schiff put it, “pre-canned” – attacks on and insults of Democratic questioners, over and over again. We couldn’t be entirely sure of it at the moment, but Reuters managed to photograph her notes during her “testimony”, and now we absolutely know for sure they were prewritten.
Later, she started launching these prewritten lie clusters during questions, while Democratic senators were speaking. Here’s an example of her interrupting Senator Schiff over and over again with literal unrelated whatabouts and insults.
Eventually, I guess she ran out of pre-installed lie clusters, because she ran out during a response to a question from Senator Whitehouse and froze up. She literally couldn’t seem to talk.
(I swear to you – I swear to you – I did not add that caption over the video. It was a player issue. But I couldn’t not keep it, now could I?)
But I do think there was a point here, and it wasn’t just not answering questions while giving Republican Senators time to lie and deflect on behalf of the regime. That’s all too normal.
No, I think the intent was to show their utter contempt for the legislature. I think this a stupid version of Caligula’s expression of contempt for the Senate, when he said he was going to appoint his favourite horse as a member.
(He didn’t actually do it, legend aside. The record is reasonably clear on that. He just mocked them with the idea.)
At least Caligula’s version was funny. This, by contrast, is just sad. But sad or not, I do think there was a point, and that point was to display contempt for representative government and to metaphorically blow a horse’s fart in the faces of elected representatives.
And I think that’s something people should understand.
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