LinkedIn Job Scams

Dec. 31st, 2025 12:03
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Posted by Bruce Schneier

Interesting article on the variety of LinkedIn job scams around the world:

In India, tech jobs are used as bait because the industry employs millions of people and offers high-paying roles. In Kenya, the recruitment industry is largely unorganized, so scamsters leverage fake personal referrals. In Mexico, bad actors capitalize on the informal nature of the job economy by advertising fake formal roles that carry a promise of security. In Nigeria, scamsters often manage to get LinkedIn users to share their login credentials with the lure of paid work, preying on their desperation amid an especially acute unemployment crisis.

These are scams involving fraudulent employers convincing prospective employees to send them money for various fees. There is an entirely different set of scams involving fraudulent employees getting hired for remote jobs.

I mean, how do you even do it?

Dec. 31st, 2025 04:08
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On Bluesky a lot of the artists I follow for their personal work have started declaring 2026 will be the year for the OC and I want to join in but even though I watch them constantly post about their own OCs, I feel like I haven't quite... picked up on how to do it myself. Or if I even have one that I can fit into such a small space. The characters I've had with me for over 30 years are too unwieldy to ever be exposed to the outside and I'm not sure how to pick out a newer one.

For 2026 my resolutions are:

Play more games
Be more outwardly self indulgent
Redecorate my living space more often
Finish more books
Get my degree
Double my comic output
Use my all my fun food cooking devices!
Eat more vegetables
Moisturize more


I think that's a good list.

What I Did in 2025

Dec. 31st, 2025 19:58
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Reading
The Spellshop - Sarah Beth Durst
Lady Eve's Last Con - Rebecca Fraimow
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Sword Crossed - Freya Marske
Murder by Memory - Olivia Waite
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea - Rebecca Thorne
A Pirate's Life for Tea - Rebecca Thorne
Tea You at the Altar - Rebecca Thorne
The Kamogawa Food Detectives - Hisashi Kashiwa (translated by Jesse Kirkwood)
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes - Hisashi Kashiwa (translated by Jesse Kirkwood)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers
The Archive Undying - Emma Mieko Candon
Alchemy and a Cup of Tea - Rebecca Thorne
Death in the Cloisters - Valentina Morelli (translated by Edward Maltby)
Skysong - C. A. Wright
Queen Demon - Martha Wells
The Enchanted Greenhouse - Sarah Beth Durst
Menu of Happiness - Hisashi Kashiwa (translated by Jesse Kirkwood)
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Becky Chambers
Death at Noon - Valentina Morelli
The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett
A Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett
Brigands and Breadknives - Travis Baldree

I got all of these from my libraries, so yay! Also I was catching the bus a lot and I turned mobile data off for all social media so I was motivated to read more.

Watching
Murderbot (Apple TV+)
Lots of YouTube

Playing
Farm RPG
Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket
Cats and Soup

Projects
A little more work on my static site generator.

New Year's Resolutions Check In

Dec. 31st, 2025 00:55
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We made it to the end of December! All the way through 2025! \o/ If you made it this far -- even if you haven't finished everything you hoped for -- then pat yourself on the back. You worked hard for that. We have reached the beginning of winter. If you're doing seasonal goals, share what you're working on for this winter.

This year I'm trying something new, continuing to track goals at the end of each month. So far it seems to be helping, so that's encouraging. I'm looking at my goal list more often and trying to keep ticking off more of them. The main drawback is that this update becomes more of a chore each month. I have some new ideas to lighten the load for next year.

These are the previous check in posts:
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 4
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 10
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 17
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 24
New Year's Resolutions Check In January 31
New Year's Resolutions Check In February 28
New Year's Resolutions Check In March 31
New Year's Resolutions Check In April 30
New Year's Resolutions Check In May 31
New Year's Resolutions Check In June 30
New Year's Resolutions Check In July 31
New Year's Resolutions Check In August 31
New Year's Resolutions Check In September 30
New Year's Resolutions Check In October 31
New Year's Resolutions Check In November 30

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Dec. 31st, 2025 09:36

And so it would seem we still...

Dec. 31st, 2025 04:02
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I couldn't do a mirror of my last post or this post on LiveJournal because it's currently not giving me the option to post anything without it being automatically Private only. It's weird and frustrating.

+++

If you're interested, I now have four chapters up of

A Long, Long Way to Go (14196 words) by Viridian5
Chapters: 4/?
Fandom: Encanto (2021)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Mirabel Madrigal, Bruno Madrigal, "Abuela" Alma Madrigal, Pepa Madrigal, Félix Madrigal, Residents of Encanto Village (Disney), Luisa Madrigal, Camilo Madrigal, Isabela Madrigal, Antonio Madrigal, Dolores Madrigal, Julieta Madrigal
Additional Tags: Post-Movie: Encanto (2021), Prophetic Visions, The villagers can't be normal about Bruno, False Accusations, Drama, Family Dynamics, Tío Bruno and child sobrinos' shenanigans, Eavesdropping, Threats, Family Banter
Summary:

This vision ends up revealing more than just the future.

(Or, the Madrigal family's new foundation is built on sand....)

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Previous poll review
In the dance dance revolution poll, 5.8% of respondents had danced with other people that week, 1.9% with a pet or other animal, and 28.8% had danced on their own, while 46.2% said no or not yet. Making the poll prompted me to dance with my sister in the kitchen for half a Spin Doctors song, but I didn't change my vote on that basis.

In ticky-boxes, "enthusiastically and fervently loving what you love" came second to hugs, 63.5% to 76.9%. Thank you for your votes! <3

Reading
Read more... )

Kdramas
Read more... )

Other TV
We finished Pluribus, which was super interesting in terms of a) moral quandaries, and b) difficult personalities crashing into each other. Finished the available episodes of Stranger Things and season 3 of Dark Winds, both of which were a bit dark, hence the doodling.

I've just signed up for Neon (NZ HBO), so this morning I did my stretches while John Oliver slagged off the British monarchy. I'm planning to try the new hockey sensation, but I'm saving it for while Andrew is in hospital, and we don't yet know when that will be. (In the meantime, no spoilers, please!)

Audio entertainment
The usual: Writing Excuses, Cross Party Lines, Letters from an American. Plus the AI episode of Our Opinions Are Correct.

Writing/making things
Read more... )

Goals
* keep on top of my email inbox
* get my arms back on track
* finish a fic WIP (I keep starting new things and foundering -- which is a problem given picking stalled things up again isn't my strong suit)
* make some [community profile] fandomtrees fills
* work through chapters 1 & 2 of the drawing book
* something for the next round of [community profile] fan_flashworks
* restock the well, whatever that looks like (this isn't a specific, measurable, blah blah goal, I know)

Good things
The boy. The cat. Guardian. Jung Eun-Chae. Strawberries. We still have some Christmas mince pies left. TV. Kdramas. Colour pencils. Sleep. Watching things while I'm on my exercise machine. Audiobook re-listens. My garden. All of you. <3

It's New Year's Eve here, so Happy New Year!! <3

Poll #34022 Comfort food
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12


My preferred comfort food is

View Answers

chocolate
6 (50.0%)

other sweets
2 (16.7%)

savoury carbs
6 (50.0%)

other savoury
1 (8.3%)

tea
4 (33.3%)

alcohol
0 (0.0%)

other drinks
0 (0.0%)

other other
0 (0.0%)

ticky-box full of juicy intricate poetry words
5 (41.7%)

ticky-box full of pushing on through
5 (41.7%)

ticky-box of glow worms vs fireflies vs angler fish
1 (8.3%)

ticky-box of ninja gibbons searching for lost things behind the fridge
3 (25.0%)

ticky-box full of hugs and hugs
8 (66.7%)

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I did spend an hour editing the Kaijuu No. 8 fic this morning, so the K-9 fever is truly no longer up to a vibration-inducing 11 XD Just a more manageable 8 or 9 depending on the hour of the day. And I really enjoyed rereading the last couple of chapters of the kn8 fic to remember where I was at. THESE GUYS :D This is for an OT3 that doesn't have any fic for it yet. I hope there'll be a couple of readers out there curious enough to check it out anyway, and see if they too can appreciate and share the vision :D

With the end of the year in sight, I've been thinking about how writing went this year. I am, of course, not meeting my [community profile] getyourwordsout pledge again (150K words), haha. It'll land around 114k. Wordcount-wise, it's been clear for a while that this would be my lowest year EVER since recordings began (aka 2020 ;)). For a couple of months there, it even looked like I might not even reach 100k, just because I was still editing so much and writing so short well into November. Then I picked up the kn8 fic to revise, and had to add and expand on a lot of missing scenes/do more showing (anchoring ;D) which helped a lot with finally reaching that milestone, phew. Little did I know K-9 would happen to me shortly after and make December the month with my second highest word count this year, haha.

Read more... )

Also, something interesting is going to happen in 2026! Adding all my word counts from 2020 until today, the total comes to 975K. Obviously, everything could go spectacularly to shit, but based on the past few years, there's a very good chance I'm going to reach that 1 million words milestone next year. I'm a bit nervous because I started writing again in 2020 firmly with a quote in mind, something I'd heard around the lines of "everybody has 1 million bad words in them before they can get to the good ones; unfortunately the only way to get rid of them is to write them out" and that's been a source of comfort when my writing doesn't always meet the standard I hope for. What will I do if word #1,000,001 is actually pretty crap anyway, though?? Haha. My mind is already preparing "well it wasn't 1M words of novel-sized projects, so you have to keep at it anyway" etc etc, so I will probably be okay either way ;)

But still. Something to look forward to :)

Just One Thing (31 December 2025)

Dec. 31st, 2025 08:01
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It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Storygraph challenges

Dec. 31st, 2025 15:14
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Captured at the beginning of the year:

The current reading challenges are 50 Best horror (5/50), 75 best Sci-Fi (11/75), 50 best SF (6/50), Hugo best novellas (12/58), Aussie SFF (3/10), 50 Best fantasy (4/50), Agatha Christie Complete works (5/89), Hugo best novels (10/73), Canada reads 2023 (1/15), one dozen decades (49/120), plus some itty bitty ones.

In the last week, I've been working through and archived some. Plus, added at least two more - one from [personal profile] pedanther for detective fiction, and one I set up myself on SF novels by women. Where they are now:

  1. The Haycraft List of Detective Story Cornerstones - joined today, 1/75 read. Looking forward to adding some of these to the planned reading list.
  2. 200 Significant Science Fiction Books by Women, 1984–2001, by David G. Hartwell, created by me in the last week, 9/200 read - I own lots I haven't read (at least in the years I've been tracking reading, and many will be good to revisit).
  3. The 50 Best Horror Books of All Time (Esquire, 2022) - NEW VERSION - 5/50 read; no change. Not sure how many of these I can get my hands on, so I might decide to archive it at the end of the year.
  4. The 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time (Esquire, 2024) - 12/75; one more than last year. Quite a few are on my shelves, so should be possible to make progress. I also had the 50 book version, it makes no sense to have both, so archiving the shorter one. I thought about checking whether any fell off, and decided not to.
  5. Esquire's 50 Best Fantasy Books of All Time (2022) - 4/50, no change. As with the horror, if I don't get through any of those this year then I should archive it.
  6. Agatha Christie Complete Works - 5/89, no change. This is a lifetime achievement list (from whenever I started tracking) so even though I'm making no progress I don't intend to abandon it.
  7. Hugo Best Novels - 10/74 - this is negative progress, because there is an additional book! I am, however going to use it as a jumping off point for reading more books I own in 2026.
  8. One Dozen Decades: 120 Years in 120 Books - 61/120 - this is the big win, taking me from 49 prompts complete; not sure how many are short fiction, and choosing not to care. As with the Christie, this is a lifetime achievement goal, so leaving it to tick along slowly (also, some of the missing years are covered by hugo books I own...)
  9. Hugo Award Winners for Best Novella - 13/58, one more.

Plus the ones that I've decided to archive in the time that I've been writing this:

  1. 2025 Hugo Award Finalists - 13/24 read plus one of the bonus. I didn't look to see whether I actually intend to read any of the rest.
  2. Hugo Awards 2024 Shortlist - 4/6 read, and I know I'm never going to read one of them.
  3. CBC Canada Reads 2023 Longlist - 2/15, one more than last year. I haven't made an effort to hunt down any of these, and it will be an effort, because I tried looking in the local library for a couple and had no luck; as the 2026 overarching goal is 'read what I own' this can be abandoned.

2025 in review

Dec. 31st, 2025 14:43
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I'm half-arsing this. I'm finishing the year sore, fatigued, and not nearly as grumpy as I could be (given that this was going to be a study day, and I've declared that nope, it is a annual leave day, and now I'm working through a set of tiny low priority tasks).

At the beginning of the year, I set some goals. With going back to study, I didn't make as many of them as I'd like, and I stopped tracking them mid year.

  • work - I set one goal - find work. I'm calling what I'm doing 'work', success
  • craft - I set seven goals. I completed two of the 'finish this'. I attempted to start Middlest's quilt. There are no incomplete projects on the green couch because we cleared the couch. I am not looking at the red couch. Eldest's quilt is not done. I started a deal with UFOs project, but abandoned. Excellent progress, considering.
  • reading - I set four goals. I bailed on the Hugo reading, and my but that was the right choice. I have met my books but not my pages goals; mostly because I started tracking online short fiction. I wanted to progress the various reading challenges on Storygraph; I'm intending to do a separate post on that. Good progress.
  • house - I set 6 goals. The ramp and pergola required me to contact people; this did not happen. I made progress on the towel rail for the kids bathroom. The library is more useable, as is the craft room. Acceptable progress.
  • music - I set 7 goals. I kept playing with Fledge. The rest fell by the wayside. I've certainly played some of the grade 5 descant pieces, but I've really struggled with the energy to play anything for more than five minutes. Bad match between goals and reality
  • learning - I set three goals; I attempted nothing. Oops.
  • family - I set no goals. Youngest moved home. Middlest moved out. Middlest got married. Middlest's partners bought a house that they will all be moving in with. I made an effort to spend time with all the local family. [personal profile] maharetr and I now have a very low key text based weekly catchup that provides us both with executive function; I have made attempts at having coffee with people Just Because (most recently, [personal profile] ariaflame, [personal profile] chaosmanor, [personal profile] maharetr). Despite no goals, I'm happy with the achievement.
  • social - I set a half arsed goal about catching up with friends. I have been attempting to say yes to social things, although often falling in a heap. I have, however, caught up with a number of people I don't see often enough, not all of that at funerals.
  • physical exercise and health - I set four goals. I achieved none. Park runs were doing fine right up to the point that something went wrong and then I couldn't deal. My sleep worsened, got better, worsened, and now I'm back to trying to pull it back before midnight again. Oh! I kind of did the walks in Perth - I didn't do one of the book, but we did find a wheelchair accessible one to do a couple of months back, which wa [personal profile] chaosmanor, [personal profile] maharetr, [personal profile] artisanat, and I.
  • organisation - I have five goals, but the first one is ???, so I suspect a typo. All four real ones have been progressed but are all a long way from done. This is a disappointment, but I forgot I'd set them.
  • decluttering - I set four goals. I achieved (mostly) one, successfully rehoming a significant portion of the yarn and fabric I wanted to.
  • writing - I set 6 goals. I have mostly kept up the offline journal/morning pages; I wrote fewer blog posts here and none at [personal profile] anna_reads_science and not as many as I wanted at Tumblr. My two coding projects languished. I am disappointed, but unsurprised.
  • garden - I set five goals and one stretch. The bird netting came off the grapes, but I can't claim that one. Some of the extra pot plants found homes. The rest required energy, motivation, and remembering, and these did not happen.

Overall - I achieved some things, and having a list was useful, at least while I remembered it was there. I started writing a new list mid-year, and never quite got off the ground. I struggle to work out how to track these things. I continue to not put energy into skills I value, not least because they take energy and focus, and it has been a difficult year for that.

(I was going to write about what I'm hoping for 2026, but that will be later, as Out Of Oomph)

Poem: "Eyes Wide, Mind Open"

Dec. 31st, 2025 00:49
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This poem came out of the January 7, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "Daughter of Earth" square in my 1-1-25 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred. It belongs to the series Frankenstein's Family.

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Babylon 5 script books

Dec. 30th, 2025 21:27
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I ended up getting a bunch of these for myself as a pre-Christmas gift, which ended up being a post-Christmas gift, but I have been having an amazing time going through them. I'll post more detailed reactions and scans as I go back through the books from the start - right now I'm just skimming - but here are a few interesting little tidbits so far!

Spoilers for the whole B5 series, obvs )

What I've been reading this year

Dec. 30th, 2025 22:03
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Links go to my book blog, Curious, Healing.

Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Somebody I used to Know by Wendy Mitchell
If the Buddha Married by Charlotte Kasl
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed
Weaving Hope by Celia Lake
Alexandra's Riddle by Elisa Keyston
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
Surviving Domestic Violence by Elaine Weiss
Seaward by Susan Cooper
Very Far Away From Anywhere Else by Ursula K. Le Guin
Kitchens of Hope by Linda S. Svitak and Christin Jaye Eaton with Lee Svitak Dean
What It Takes to Heal by Prentis Hemphill
The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst
How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong

Currently reading "Hospicing Modernity" by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti, which is a down-to-earth, practical manual on how to expand past the limitations that modernity puts on our thoughts, imagination, and experiences. The author talks directly about how difficult it is to address people's frozen assumptions without triggering defensiveness, while encouraging the reader to open up, side-step defensiveness, and explore wider possibilities.

I just got past the introductory exercises, which feel similar to the trauma-healing work I've been doing all this time. I always feel like I'm behind, trying to catch up to people who had more ordinary and loving childhoods but maybe those aren't so ordinary, and maybe all that work leaves me in a more flexible place.

Highly recommended! You can read a couple of sample chapters at decolonialfutures.net/hospicingmodernity

Good News

Dec. 31st, 2025 00:01
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Good news includes all the things which make us happy or otherwise feel good. It can be personal or public. We never know when something wonderful will happen, and when it does, most people want to share it with someone. It's disappointing when nobody is there to appreciate it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our joys and pat each other on the back.

What good news have you had recently? Are you anticipating any more? Have you found a cute picture or a video that makes you smile? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your life a little happier?

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