magpie's nest

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Day 19.

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Day 18.

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Day 17.

[nosimpincurly]

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

[catherinebunnington]

Reblog to materialize $250,000 in prev's bank account

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Day 15, part 2.

I found the reference here on Tumblr, labeled as the closest flyby of Juno from NASA. When I searched this image on Google lens, I got a years-long string of social media posts saying the same thing, but none from any official NASA source that I could find. At best, I judge this to be a recreated image of a citizen scientist for Junocam, but couldn't confirm even that. Anyway, the exercise reminded me that provenance is important and I felt a little less bad for deviating from the representation in places.

[yesornopolls]

do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 14 hours 48 minutes

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From A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold:

[Miles said:] "I somehow missed [the Adventures of Captain Vortalon]. Must have been off-world. You let him watch all that violence, at his tender age?...Well, it could have been worse. I'm glad you didn't let him watch Hamlet." "What's Hamlet?" asked Nikki instantly. [...] "Another great revenge drama on the same theme, except this one is an ancient stage play from Old Earth. Prince Hamlet comes home from college -- by the way, how old was your Captain Vortalon?" "Old," said Nikki. "Twenty."

[paper--machete]

it bothers me that you often don't really hear about people having a "favorite album" the way they might have a favorite movie or favorite video game

[paper--machete]

fuck it. reblog this and tell me in the tags what your favorite album is

[solarifle]

"we have to accept the fact that the r word is coming back" NO WE DONTTTT NO WE DONT

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"we have to face the reality that too many people are consuming manchild streamer channels" FTFY

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Day 14, part one. Decided a close flyby of Jupiter counts as sky.

[takofukkatsumi]

Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.

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Day 13.

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Day 12. (Skipped Saturday.)

[creekfiend]

you're not supposed to wander around appalachia at night bc you'll fall off a sheer drop that you couldn't see coming. this is also a major risk during the day. you really have to watch out for the sheer drops that you don't see coming due to the undergrowth. I suspect 100% of spooky missing persons cases in appalachia have the spooky explanation of "sheer drop disguised by undergrowth"

really cannot overstate how many utterly invisible ravines we got here and also how big the woods are. they can't find people because the woods? are big

[creekfiend]

in seriousness you can learn about the isolated Appalachian communities that were up here until quite recently by checking out the foxfire books. it is true that there were many isolated communities that remained pretty separate from mainstream American life for a longish time but most of the last ones were my grandpa's generation. and they were regular? can't overstate how regular they were. just rural and isolated with their own culture. do check out the foxfire museum if you want to learn more about them and their lives! those books are based on real interviews conducted by local high schoolers and college students of the old folks in their communities and they are very interesting windows into day to day rural life up in the mountains in the early to mid 20th century.

[creekfiend]

I absolutely 100% do not mean this in a like derogatory city slickers way; I myself grew up mostly in a city and I think that it is morally neutral to not have experience with The Outdoors. having said that, I have noticed that a lot of people who do not have regular interactions with "landscape that can kill you" do seem to have an internalized idea that "landscape that can kill you" is something that only happens to other people, or not very often, or only under extreme circumstances. which I think often leads them to assume that there must be something else out here that can kill you. but I fear I must inform the people who wanna believe scary Appalachian woods monsters are real that it's Landscape. inclusive of the beasts that dwell there such as the cougars and bears. its Landscape! (GRASPING EVERYONE ON THE SPOOKY APPALACHIAN TRAIL SUBREDDITS) IT'S LANDSCAPE THAT KILLS YOU! ITS ALWAYS LANDSCAPE! Old Man Hidden Ravine and his best friend Exposure!

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I love this because landscape started out as an artistic term for using scenery as a subject in your painting. Then it became a word for the thing you're painting. Now it is alive and awake and has elbowed aside all other superstitious personifications and it will oh yes it will kill you and your little paintbrush too

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but seriously if Lindsey Graham got his ass novichok'd I am going to be pissed. mostly at the fsb for ruining the schadenfreude I was entitled to when the real chickens start coming home to roost but also at Lindsey's stupid ass. you've fainted on your last fainting couch my guy.

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Day 10.

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Day 9.

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way