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Easing that Friday feeling into a planned fairly quiet weekend with no rushing around if it can be helped. Finding myself semi-distracted with creative urges for a second Mando kit. I still haven't finished my first completely, but the explorations I've been doing on the leatherworking side of crafting has gotten me pondering on doing some Early Crusader style Mandalorians (aka, all that leather, bone, carapace styling from The Great Sith Wars). Hm, also my graphics card looks like it's starting to randomly glitch. Then again, it is a 2060 that's about 4 years old now. Playing some games and suddenly my monitors go blank and stop receiving any signal, while the pc in general is happy. Since it's not the monitors or the cables, it's looking like the card. Now I'm pondering on picking up a 4070 as a replacement.

https://blog.bioware.com/2023/06/27/bright-future-for-swtor/

As we're all sliding to that point...

Have The Black Hole on in the background as part of my lazy Sunday. Has some amazing visuals for it's time, and surprisingly dark for a 79' Disney film.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/florida-anti-drag-law-desantis-judge-blocks-1234777377/ Florida Judge Uses DeSantis’ Own Law Against Him, Blocks Anti-Drag Bill

Guardian - Human Rights Campaign ; LGBTQ+ Americans living in state of emergency, human rights group warns

Independent - Chinese human rights lawyer chased out of 13 homes in two months

Got a work outing to TankFest 2023 at the Tank Museum. Established in 1947, with nearly 300 vehicles from across 26 odd countries. A chunk of which are in working condition, including such as the German Tiger 1, and the British WWI Mark I. Technically it was started in 1923, so it's been around for a century, but the 1947 date is when it was opened to the public.

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-the-old-republic-dev-reassures-fans-mmo-not-going-into-maintenance-mode

https://www.indiewire.com/features/commentary/tcm-layoffs-warner-bros-spielberg-scorsese-paul-thomas-anderson-protest-1234877220/

Not a direct obituary as such, but the unfortunate odds now... Sky - Julian Sands, search fails to find missing actor after five months

On another case of minimal actual news: 'Star Wars Eclipse' Development is Advancing - Star Wars News Net