A truly excellent rabbit hole. Click to draw a year (I got 27BCE, when there were only 288 million people on the whole planet), click again to draw a place (or you can pick one; I picked Egypt because, hey, three years after Cleopatra died), click again to draw his life (my boy died at…
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Love Bertha’s videos. Wanna be her mija. Headline: People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All.Remember that scene where Rocky shows Grace how he eats? “Is beautiful!” Not. (h/t Next Draft) But what the heck, continuing to promote journalism that encourages nausea, click…
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Fun! (h/t Kottke) “The Mystery of Medbeds” by Molly Olmstead. Quote: “One woman, whom we’ll call Anna, told me of an aunt who, like many medbed believers, carries on all the old QAnon ideas: a still-living John F. Kennedy, secret reptilians in the British royal family, Democrats who eat babies.” Dana sez, I read this,…
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Walking Men Worldwide. Fun! (h/t Kottke, and he’s right about Warsaw.) Who do you love? I’ll tell you who I love: an sf geek who uses Dune to explain economics. Quote: “But the premise of the novel is that there’s this planet, Arrakis, which is the sole source of something called spice, which is essential…
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I’ve just discovered The Thing About Austen podcast and am busily bingeing it as I winter-proof (heh) the yard. I began at the beginning, way back in 2022, and so far I can tell you that Ep.2 (The Thing about Wentworth’s Umbrella) and Ep.6 (The Thing About Darcy’s Pen) are insightful, hilarious and not to…
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[Featured image: Termessos, Turkey–Dana Stabenow, 2011] Looking forward to seeing this one. (h/t SueB) I don’t know how often I’ve recommended something to someone and when they reported back got some version of what he writes about here. Read all you want to about where you’re going but know yourself well enough to follow your…
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