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[havingapoemwithyou]

Want by Carrie Fountain

[the-supernatural-atheist]

if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills

[the-supernatural-atheist]

where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*

[makaeru]

I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".

[sashayed]

Jimsonweed

Cloudless solitude of the dog days. Sparrows vexing grasshoppers, cicadas droning in the limbs, and ho, a box turtle trundling over pine needles in the shade. The dog knows this thing is alive, poking the shell gently with her nose, but can’t figure out how, or why. Ornery marginalia in the tractor ruts, pokeweed, jimsonweed— who gives them these grit-spangled American names? August 17th: a day you’ve seen before but wouldn’t recognize if it stopped you on the corner to say hello.

Campbell McGrath (b. 1962) in Rattle, Fall 2024

[baltharino]

Star Trek: The Original Series 1x03 - Where No Man Has Gone Before

[insomniac-arrest]

[motionpicturesource]

Marisa Tomei as Faith Corvatch in ONLY YOU (1994)

[decadent-trans-girl]

'why is so much politically-focused genre fiction centred on monarchies' many reasons, but one which I think deserves attention: monarchy is an obvious way of tying together the dysfunctions of the domestic to those of the state

[kyraneko]

monarchy causes problems that are interesting if you experience them as fiction that you can walk away from

[loreofcardigan]

I spent so long trying to remember the name of Telemachus's Detachment that I forgot why I wanted to post it in the end. Anyway, this may or may not be relevant to whatever joke was going around at the time,

[fakecrfan]

There are few delights in the world like having a friend start to read Jane Eyre for the first time and then as they are commenting on it you slowly realize that they don't know. They don't know Rochester's deal.

This is like the literary equivalent of meeting someone who doesn't know Darth Vader is Luke's father.

So they go "I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with this relationship! Yeah he's older and there is a class/power difference but he clearly respects her as a person and it's so refreshing!" and you just cackle, cackle, cackle behind your screen until the inevitable day you get this message.

Everyone congratulate my friend @anonymoustypewriter, they just found out one of literature's biggest 100+ year old shock twists authentically without anyone spoiling it for them.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[allthebooksandcrannies]

My only previous experience with Ben McKenzie before this post was watching him play Jim Gordon in the show Gotham. I had no idea he'd made a documentary or co-wrote an investigative journalism book on the subject of cryptocurrency until I googled him after watching the video. Turns out he's been interested in the subject since his time working on his undergraduate economics degree.

Sharing to hopefully spread this information to anyone else who would be interested but had no idea his book or documentary existed

[some-stars]

more white men need to be pursuing the teen heartthrob to leftist investigative journalist career path

[pansyfemme]

cd has a hole. record has a hole. casette has 2 holes. streaming? zero holes. i think i’ve made my point

[nilim]

Ok, so I was reading this news story:

So far so normal, right? But then:

Like what. And then:

Like, I think Alaska State Trooper Ken Marsh wants to be a romance novelist. 

[panicblanket]

well would you look at that

[autisticexpression]

One of the best posts

[diasporaslippage]

bellawynne.com

[creekfiend]

the only fic i've ever seen that thoughtfully incorporated elements of real life dog sex into omegaverse was hockey rpf but they were breeding hockey players to produce more hockey players and they were the only ones who did this. people who weren't hockey players just had human sex

lots going on here that I really don't feel qualified to comment on but thank you for sharing it with me. enriching to know this is occurring out there somewhere. baruch hashem who makes the creatures different

[jaubaius]

A 4852 year old  located Ancient mountain Aras cypress at Tandooreh National Park, Iran

[digihowl]

more ppl need to get hooked on this drug called album in order. not enough people on album in order these days

[wrenhavenriver]

the cat was sleeping cutely so i took a picture and went to show it to my mom and she burst out laughing and pulled out her phone and showed me a near identical one she'd taken a few minutes before

[wrenhavenriver]

self-proclaimed free thinkers when the cat is doing a snooze:

[antigonickpdf]

our longing for inconvenience by hanif abdurraqib (id in alt)