#night-shift — Public Fediverse posts
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oh no! that means I'll have to archive my issues as relics of a bygone era!
#Oxford’s beloved indie music bible, #Nightshift, is closing. June’s issue will be the last one. Under editor Ronan Munro, Nightshift has interviewed Oxford bands, reviewed new releases, listed gigs and excoriated demos for 35 years.
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Leeeeeets geeeet reeeady to ruuuumbleeeeeeeEEEEE! #nightshift
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Tales from Jackson, IL: Witchy (Wednesday) Woman, Sylvia Velasco
No game for me this past weekend. So I put together a "new" witch NPC to torment the characters. Sylvia Velasco, owner of "El Espejo Oscuro." Though you all know her by a different name.
#nightshift #character #witch
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Monstrous Mondays: Old Annie, the Mauvaisterre Hag
Everyone in Jackson, IL, knows about "Old Annie," though not everyone agrees on what or who she is. Is she a ghost, a hag, a hoax? The truth is much older and much darker than anyone knows.
#NIGHTSHIFT #ttrpg #osr
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"That's What Friends Are For" is a song written by #BurtBacharach and #CaroleBayerSager. It was first recorded by #RodStewart in 1982 for the soundtrack of the film #NightShift, but it is best known for the 1985 version by #DionneWarwick, #EltonJohn, #GladysKnight, and #StevieWonder. This recording, billed as being by Dionne Warwick & Friends, was released as a #charitySingle for #AIDS research and prevention. It was a massive hit.
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Getting Acquainted with the Horror Genre
Disclaimer: BEWARE OF SPOILERS.
So I read Stephen King’s Night Shift in March and was left with questions.
Stephen King is the horror author I was hearing about most growing up and walking past in the library because horror was a no-no back then, said to be demonic. So I never thought to read it until I was an adult and gave myself permission to read whatever I want. (There were no African authors I knew of who wrote horror and Black-American authors were not on my radar yet. Libraries, bookstores and street corners where some vendors sell used books were still full of white Western writers even in my African city -this is still the case. And I wasn’t on the Internet.) Even then, only this year did I read a Stephen King.
Night Shift seemed like a good idea because it’s a collection of short stories. It would provide me with a range of angles and styles with which he writes his stories, I reasoned. In terms of his style of writing short stories, I wasn’t disappointed at all. Sometimes people write short story collections like they’re an afterthought. However, I found each story in Night Shift felt full, well thought-out and… complete? Like a whole entire project. Whereas people reserve that energy for novels and novellas, usually.
My questions began as I read on and realised ground zero for the violence in almost every story was the woman. One cannot help but notice these things if you belong to that group of people. There was even a story where a man made a deal with somebody but he was told if he reneged, his wife (and child, if I remember correctly) would be harmed to varying degrees depending on how many times he reneged. And another where a man lost his wife and daughter to vampires but was saved from his own demise by other men. A woman in a factory whose machinery had gone rogue died a gory, brutal death. Etcetera. It was an exhibit of mostly female deaths.
Even when the guy also died at the end, her death was graphic and detailed. It was like the men were making all the decisions and the women -mostly- were facing the consequences. Except in stories where there weren’t really any women in that particular story. I ended up almost preferring those. (The deaths were generally gentler, weren’t they.)
The women were stereotypical, mostly. But so were the men. Everyone was fitting neatly somewhat into how 1950s white American roles and domestic life have been popularised on screen. And I was not used to reading that kind of fiction or those kinds of characters.
As much as I enjoyed his skill in the construction of the stories, I began to struggle as the book went on. Sometimes I’d put it down and ended up taking longer than I thought to finish it. Until… the one story I thoroughly enjoyed: I Know What You Need. That one… The construction of course, the characters, the underlying meanings, the pacing, the suspense even… I was thinking about it long after I finished the book. So good.
This story was simply a breath of fresh air. The female characters were finally well fleshed out, in my opinion, and they were critical thinkers. One helped the other out. And the leading lady did not die in the end. She was human enough yet she figured stuff out and walked away victorious. I was so happy to read that story because, not only did I get to experience a writing style I was enjoying, I also got to root for the story.
The questions flooded in at that point. Why had he chosen to write the female characters in all the other stories the way he did, then? Because of this, the stories ended up sounding somewhat similar. Is that how horror was traditionally written? One distinct, active group of people. Another distinct, especially tortured, passive group of people.
And then I realised maybe there were machinations of the horror genre that I just wasn’t privy to. So I went on YouTube to find an explanation because it really felt like there was inside information I was missing. I was genuinely puzzled. That one story totally transformed how I experienced that book. And I am aware there are cultural norms and conditioning that allows men to think of women a certain way and this shows up in art. But I don’t know. I think I wanted an explanation for the flatness/similarity that occurred before and after that one story. An analysis for how people enjoy this.
I found a gem of a video by Sinead Hanna. And immediately, the horror genre was brought to life for me. I also began to identify some more differences between the stories; the point of each story. I think I understand the tropes now and what they’re doing with the women. Which I don’t necessarily agree with but I suppose each genre expresses or worked through discriminatory programming in its own way. From Sinead Hanna’s video, I even found out what on earth ‘the final girl’ is -a term I first met in a title by Grady Hendrix (still to be read) The Final Girl Support Group. It makes sense now who they are and why they’d need a support group! I had no idea that was a whole thing.
Definitely, I’m starting to understand why horror fascinates some people. They’re not just titillated by fear for unknown reasons (my somewhat judgmental take before I started really thinking about the genre)… It’s not even always about fear.
I’ve since made (another) list of horror authors to explore -including authors from all kinds of cultures around the world. Usually, I do this to see how different people interpret different ideas and it’s also a good way to continue to shift my own perspective slowly towards decolonisation. I start with whoever introduced the genre or idea to me and then I go to all kinds of roots of storytelling. It’s working well so far.
It would be good to decide this year horror is the previously unfamiliar genre I’m exploring. Fantasy, next year. Sci-fi, 2028. It turns out it’s not enough to read the books. A bit more research makes things doubly fun. Sometimes a well done video from a member of the fandom is a fantastic way to sink teeth into what makes readers love what they love. It feels like going crazy over a book with a friend. Or slowly coming to a realisation or understanding via someone else’s palpable excitement.
Recommendation:
Horror Short Stories by African Writers (PS: This is also a good link to use to find African literary magazines.)
#BookReview #bookReview #books #Decolonisation #Decolonization #fiction #Horror #NightShift #Reading #SineadHanna #StephenKing #Writing #WritingStyles -
The 1st #nightshift #weekend has officially begun. Let our brains be cooked to a golden crisp.
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CW: Huawei / EMUI / Night Shift interaction vexation
A vexing thing with my phone. It suddenly stopped respecting the Night Shift settings properly! (that being an app to make the phone screen more dim and more orangey in the evenings or overnight)
If I look at my notifications pull-down, suddenly it's glaring in my eyes. So is the initial view when I switch it on but before I log in. And the little icons at the bottom of the screen have gone bright as well, even when the rest of the screen is dim.
All of this was dimmed consistently together until a couple of days ago: it used to only get unchosenly bright if I rebooted the whole phone.
Is it not obvious that if I've set my phone to be dim, I want it dim? as opposed to alternately dim and dazzling?
At about the same time as that change, it's also started repeatedly reminding me that if I didn't want Night Shift to draw over other apps, I can switch that off. Well okay, but what if I _did_ want Night Shift to draw over everything else? What if I paid actual money precisely because I did want Night Shift to draw over everything else?!
Can't find any setting to re-authorise how I actually want it to be. I'm guessing it's Android or EMUI rather than Night Shift itself that's changed, though I could be wrong. Either way, seems like a classic example of updates which automatically do themselves without asking. Bah.
Tips? Anyone else got the same?
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🌃 “#Sleep is often overlooked in discussions of work and health, yet it is one of the most fundamental mechanisms through which #stress translates into #disease. Our study shows that #nightwork does not affect everyone equally; it interacts with #gender roles, #education, #family responsibilities, and even #geography," says CG Co-Director Professor Melinda Mills.
Read the full story in section 9 of the latest Changing Populations:
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RE: https://mastodon.ie/@thebeeguy/116128660241234475
I was going to apologise for being so late with this fact…but then realised it’s 1.26am at night here and I’m still working…so…you’re welcome!😂🥱🐝
#bees
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Interesting (but controversial in the HN comments 😬):
“Blue Light Filters Don’t Work”, Patrick Mineault, NeuroAI (https://www.neuroai.science/p/blue-light-filters-dont-work).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091606
#Sleep #Health #Brain #CircadianRhythm #BlueLight #NightShift #DarkMode #Light #Eyes
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The Saturday nighty night jam is a favorite Foghat tune (gotta love that riff and Rod Price’s lead guitar) and off of another album release that turns 50 this year.
#MusicOfMastodon
#70sAlbumRock
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Mirrored
Tilden, Nebraska, USA
Just me being weird at my workplace again. Dont worry, I was clocked out. 😂
#photography #mirror #reflection #store #nightshift #liminal #photooftheday -
Squeezing the #FontForge program, #nightshift #roguelikedev #ZMAngband #traditionalroguelike the results are GORGEOUS. Ascii looks stupendous on the Variant. Did some more replacement for the characters that I like from other fonts, upgraded the rendering to give the final smooth looking and boy, does it look stunning or what!? I will upload screenshots later on. This is awesome. Along with the 256 ascii Technicolor upgrade!! heck yeah!!
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#nightshift #roguelikedev #ZMAngband #traditionalroguelike first pic, encountered ToadKiller Dog (any #BlackCompany fan around?) displayed old normal ascii. Second pic encountered Mughash hidind in a small vault. New characters displayed. Notice the @ and the ! come from different fonts.
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I finished reading Night Shift by Stephen King. I have mixed opinions on this one. Some of the stories were soo bad that they were actually good. I had to ask myself 'wtf did I just read' after I read 'The Lawnmower Man' and it's not because it was scary. But others like Gray Matter, Quitters inc were pretty good.
I have two more books to finish before the end of this year.
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Midnight.
The sensible world is snoring.
This is when the keepers walk the stairs, check the logs, listen for odd noises in the dark.
No applause. No metrics. Just systems that either hold… or don’t.
We don’t chase the tide at this hour — we wait, watch, and keep the light burning.
If you’re still awake, you already know why you’re here.#LighthouseLore #MidnightKeepers #Fediverse #SelfHosting #NightShift
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#nightshift plus #caturday #poladroid featuring Simbini, Lemmi and Albertito. They look cute but these 3 oranges are a tad bit psycho.
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Commodores - Nightshift (1985)
#45vinyl #commodores #nightshift #1985 #1980s #80smusic #randb #soul #7inch #gxml
Blogspot - https://genxmusiclover.blogspot.com/2025/12/commodores-nightshift.html
Wordpress - https://genxmusiclover.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/commodores-nightshift/ -
Sleep is delicious
https://aeon.co/essays/sleep-is-not-just-a-physical-need-but-a-delicious-pleasure(I love this story... I've been a bit sleep-deprived for 11 years now) #caregiver and #NightShift
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