Dept. of Memes

Oct. 27th, 2025 01:41 pm
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Music Meme FTW

I have an unfinished meme exercise sometime in the past, possibly about four years ago. But I'm not going to go back to that one, why do that when I can try another one and only get halfway through it? This one's about music, and that feels like one I actually might get through. It's worth a try at least. Many thanks to 
[personal profile] shipperslist  for the list of music-related questions. Let's see how this turns out. 

1. A song that you discovered this month: Since I already talked about RM's "Tokyo" a few days ago, I'm going give you a solo piece by Yeosang, a member of the eight-man KPop group Ateez. He's one of the members who I've discovered well after becoming fond of some of his group mates. He's a lead dancer, what's known as a sub-vocalist - he has a nice deep voice - and a "visual," which is a thing I understand, but which isn't one of my favorite bits of KPop culture. (Yes I enjoy them being pretty, but I don't like the idea of "pretty face" being an official position especially since the members of any idol group have to be good at everything. Everything.) 

This song is full of near-operatic symphonic swagger. I'd like it even if it was all in Korean because of how it's put together, and how well Yeosang and his dance crew use it in this music video. The English subtitles give me a little more of a hint about what the song means to him, and that's another reason I like it. 











Dept. of The Darkest Timeline

Oct. 25th, 2025 04:19 pm
kaffy_r: Fan art of Bleach characters (Bleach Set the World on Fire)
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This is Chicago. This is America

I'll be back with other things to say, happy things, or at least I hope so.

But right now, I give you this, taken as a screen shot from video a neighbor took as the ICE thugs ambushed him, and who shared it on some local news sites. 

It's my city.

It's my adopted country.

He's my neighbor. 

He's my brother.

They don't care. 

The cruelty, the racism and xenophobia, is the point.
 


Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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[personal profile] alierak posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance
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.

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