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Four hours in an art gallery

I am in Vilnius, Lithuania at the moment.

The Founding General Meeting for the new pan-European bi+ organisation, Bi+ Equal, finished before lunch today, after two and a half days talking about the journey to get here - the Dutch / French organisations that have done most of the work started about 18 months ago - and sorting out the details. There were other things you could do, but this was a much more 'work' conference than any BiCon.

I'll have more to say about it later, but partly so I can tell people who are still here and not going to the ILGA Europe conference that's happening somewhere else in the city, I want to post about what I did this afternoon.

The main modern art gallery's English name is the Contemporary Art Centre. Their current show is called 'Bells and Cannons: Contemporary Art in the Face of Militarisation'. There's an online review complaining that there's not much to see, and that's true: it's not a large gallery compared to say Tate Modern etc.

But it is extremely good. ( Involves talking about violence etc )

AWS outage

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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[Theatre] Mark Steel @ Churchill Theatre, Bromley

Back from an evening watching Mark Steel on his 'Leopard In The House' tour, about his cancer diagnosis and treatment, presented with his usual humour, and also featuring some of his rather impressive piano playing in the interval, along with a bunch of digressions.

First time at the Churchill Theatre, too - a classic 70s theatre, which, thanks to being built on the side of a hill, features the oddness of the circle entrance being on the entry level, which means down several flights of stairs to get to the stalls.

(no subject)

I'm not all that worried about no Kings Day weekend especially here in DC. Mpdc is pretty committed to supporting first amendment activity.

Hopefully I'm not wrong.

Also good God I have agreed to be at 14th and U for 8:30 in the morning on saturday.

Maxine Waters has confirmed for tomorrow, friday, at the Lincoln memorial.

Somewhere in there I think I may be wearing an axolotl onesie.