The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, June 2

Jun. 2nd, 2026 05:35 pm
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ANGEL: I guess Lorne makes some judgments after all. Eve. So I guess we should, I don't know, talk?
EVE: About what?
ANGEL: About what happened back there with us.
EVE: Angel, it's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence. I went to U.C. Santa Cruz.

~~Angel Season V Episode #93: "Life Of The Party"~~


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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday, June 1st

Jun. 2nd, 2026 05:15 am
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Angel and Xander drag Evil Willow by the arms into the book cage as Buffy and Willow watch.
GILES: (dumbfounded) It's extraordinary.
WILLOW: (appalled) It's horrible! That's me as a vampire? (Angel closes the door) I'm so evil and... skanky. (aside to Buffy, worried) And I think I'm kinda gay.
BUFFY: (reassuringly) Willow, just remember, a vampire's personality has nothing to do with the person it was.

~~Dopplegangland~~


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Jun. 1st, 2026 10:56 pm
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Quick note that post-by-email and comment-by-email is (sometimes?) failing silently without actually posting right now! I'm pretty sure this is related to last night's shenanigans and will be fixed once Mark can finish the full fix for it, which he's working on, but if you've posted or replied by email in the last 24 hours, fish it out of your sent folder to check if it posted!

EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.
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Goodbye but Hooray

Jun. 1st, 2026 01:24 pm
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1) I finished the series Hacks. I was very ambivalent about the show's first season, and was not enthusiastic about the second either. But I definitely get that in order to end where we did in the last season the two characters had to start poles apart. So I felt like the final season was a huge payoff to viewers who had stuck through the show all the way through. Would definitely recommend.

I was reading a good article (about TV shows on the tech industry) that included this: "the show is uniquely skilled at depicting the complicated mix of emotions that animate creative partnerships, and makes a strong argument for the idea that your true soulmate is the person that you most love making stuff with." It was talking about a show I loved, Halt and Catch Fire, but it applies equally well to Hacks. The fact that both shows featured female partnerships is a real bonus.

2) I had wondered a while back why Disney was partnering with Max to do a bundle (whereas Hulu + Disney + ESPN was all in-house, so an obvious option). Apparently, it's because bundling is very successful in keeping people subscribed. "Two years ago, only 10 percent of every new subscription for a major streaming service was for a bundled offering…Now, bundles account for a third of all new subscriptions, and 28 percent of all subscriptions, double the share in 2024." ( Read more... )

3) I was commenting over on Pillowfort about Tumblr's latest move to make commenting more prominent on the site. As I said there "As a totally anecdotal point, I rarely follow Tumblr links anymore because so often I'm blocked from seeing the linked content. But when I do get through I'm often surprised how little response I see the posts getting." So I'm wondering if this move is because, between the repeated exodus of people and the blocking of content to visitors, that the site traffic is actually in sharp decline. One way to make it more obvious people are active and to encourage them to speak up, is to surface comments more prominently.

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, May 31

May. 31st, 2026 09:39 pm
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BUFFY: Oh, that's sweet, but I think I can name myself. (thinks) I'll name me ... Joan.

DAWN: (makes a face) Ugh!

BUFFY: What? Did you just 'ugh' my name?

DAWN: No! I just ... I mean, it's so blah. Joan?

BUFFY: I like it. I feel like a Joan.

~~S6E8: Tabula Rasa~~


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    May. 31st, 2026 10:00 pm
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    Robby has managed to put in a temporary fix for the site errors and things failing to refresh or not showing up where they should! The permanent fix is going to need Mark's experience, and unfortunately -- seriously, this literally never fails -- Mark has been on an international flight all day, because of course he has. (Never. Fails. He and I are not allowed to both take vacation at once.)

    The site will work just fine with the temporary fix in place, things just might be a little slow here and there. We'll keep you updated.

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    May. 31st, 2026 08:59 pm
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    We're aware of site traffic issues and are working to fix them for the people who are having problems! (The tactics the damn bot traffic uses are endlessly shifting, and they're really good at looking like real traffic, sigh.)
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    The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, May 30

    May. 30th, 2026 11:00 pm
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    DAWN: They're all slayers?
    GILES: Potential slayers. Waiting for one to be called. There were many more like them all over the world, but, um, now there's just a handful, and they're all on their way to Sunnydale.

    ~~BtVS 7x15 “Get It Done”~~


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    The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Friday, May 29th

    May. 30th, 2026 11:47 am
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    Behind Angel Acathla lets out a low rumble. Buffy opens her eyes and stares in shock as Acathla's face contorts. His eyes glow red and the swirling vortex to Hell opens, growing steadily in size. Buffy lets go of Angel and looks up into his face.
    ANGEL: (confused) What's happening?
    BUFFY: (whispers reassuringly) Shh. Don't worry about it.

    ~~Becoming Part 2~~


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    [Amnesty #030] Let It All Out (Sense8)

    May. 30th, 2026 09:52 am
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    Theme Prompt: #178 – Anger Management
    Title: Let It All Out
    Fandom: Sense8
    Rating/Warnings: T
    Bonus: No
    Word Count: 1000

     

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    The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, May 28

    May. 28th, 2026 11:58 am
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    Giles: You have a sacred birthright, Buffy. You were chosen to destroy vampires, not to... wave pompoms at people. And as the Watcher I forbid it. (goes back to the table)
    Buffy: And you'll be stopping me how?
    Giles: Well, I... (sits on the edge of the table and crosses his arms, continues) by appealing to your common sense, if such a creature exists.

    ~~BtVS, S1E3 - "Witch" ~~


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    Not So Different After All

    May. 28th, 2026 03:40 pm
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    1) Stand with Wikipedia workers: Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia."In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream."

    "This is the standard tech playbook. Fire the engineers who know how the system works, fire the ones organizing labor, hope nothing catastrophic breaks before you can ship something splashy. Twitter did it. Meta did it. Salesforce did it. Google did it. We have all seen this movie."

    2) The American Prospect decided to do away with programmatic ads. A month later, people are spending twice as much time on the site. "“The reader’s attention, behavior, and personal data become a commodity, packaged and resold through a supply chain riddled with fraud, opaque middlemen, and unscrupulous actors…We’re reporting on court cases where it shows that Google is found guilty of being a monopoly, or Facebook is engaging in certain practices with its advertising,” he said. “And yet we were sitting there, in some way facilitating the continuation of this business model. And the contradictions, I think, became too great.”

    3) Having posted about the dog at the Farmer's Market last time, thought I'd share the flowers we got there:





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    Testing needed in advance of code push!

    May. 28th, 2026 04:10 pm
    denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (Default)
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    It's been a while since we've done a full code push rather than just hotfixes for bugs, so we are well overdue! Depending on availability, we're aiming to do one sometime soon; we'll let you know specifics once we've worked out good timing for everyone who needs to be available.

    However! The reason it's been so long is we kept trying to get some of the stuff that's pending to "really finished" instead of just "mostly finished", and then we once again looked around and went "oh no, this is a really big code push with a lot of changes". Those make us nervous, because while we do a lot of testing ourselves, y'all are really creative in how you use the site and we inevitably find a bunch of edge cases when we let you loose on new code with your real-world data!

    So, if folks have some spare time in the next few days, it would be a huge help if you could spend half an hour or so using the site the same way you normally do but with the "Site-Wide Canary" beta features flag turned on. Canary mode is a sort of "live testing" mode: it's your real data, but running the most up-to-date code.

    Canary mode always does have a few glitches -- there may be missing text strings or errors about missing database properties, which is a limitation of how we run it. We don't need to know about those, but anything else weird that you run into, leave a comment with what you were trying to do and the error message you got.

    I'll repeat that the "here be dragons" caution that's on the beta features page: some things may be broken, so don't use it for when you're doing something important. But a few more eyeballs on it before the push will help the push go more smoothly for everyone.

    For folks who want to concentrate on what's changing, we haven't finished the second code tour of what's going to be in this push, but the ffirst one has a good chunk of what's going to be going live. (We'll get the second half done ASAP!)
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