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Five Very Different Science Fictional Takes on Space Habitats

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A pair of time-travelling researchers investigating Jane Austen explore the consequences of two cardinal sins: getting personally involved with their research subject and getting personally involved with each other.

The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn

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An 8 panel comic. The first three panels are labeled "Where you think you'll see a rare bird." Panel 1 is labeled "Lush forest" and shows a beautiful rich forest with tall conifers, a waterfall, and mountains. Panel 2 is labeled "Perfect sunlit branch" and shows a branch rising above the trees, shaped like a great bird perch. Panel 3 is labeled "Area near an informational plaque about a rare bird" and shows a forest with a sign in front displaying an image of a Spruce Grouse and informational text. The next set of images are labeled "Where you'll actually see a rare bird". They include "Tree behind a Walmart", with Cabanis's ground-sparrow singing in a tree, "Skating rink parking lot" with a Lewis's woodpecker climbing a palm, "Spooky cemetery" with a Vermillion Flycatcher standing on a gravestone in a foggy spooky cemetery, "Sewage treatment plant" with a tufted duck gliding through the water, "Flying over your car" with a golden eagle sailing above a red car that's driving down the highway, and "Text from Uncle Ron" with a text exchange in which Ron says "Weird bird landed in my yard" and sends a picture of a whooping crane, to which you reply "Wow! Is it still there???" and he says "no".

Where you’ll see a rare bird.

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Name: I go by a lot of names depending on the platform, but my most frequent ones are Avery and Kai

Age: Early 20s

I mostly post about: Daily life and whatever musings come to me. Sometimes I'll post my thoughts on certain media, like books I read or games I played, and sometimes I'll write about how my writing process is going. I'm not sure exactly what I'll be sharing for the most part though. I put off making an introduction here until I got a few posts up, and this is what it's been like so far. Who knows what I'll be sharing later though!

My hobbies are:Creative writing, reading, doodling, exploring new music, video games

My fandoms are:N/A; I wouldn't consider myself active in any fandoms per se. I appreciate Percy Jackson art, and that is as close to fandom as it gets.

I'm looking to meet people who: Enjoy chatting about whatever's on their mind (I don't mind if it's mundane or deep) and preferably, though it's not a must, also enjoy creative writing.

My posting schedule tends to be: Sporadic, I think. I'm not sure. I might be active daily at some point, and I might get busy and not have the energy to write more than my daily creative writing word count.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: First and foremost bigotry of any kind (homophobia, racism and most far-right winger things, just to name a few). I am staunchly against the use of genAI especially in creative works, and I tend to keep politics to a minimum (it's already depressing enough as it is).

Before adding me, you should know: I'm a neurodivergent, queer individual with leftist-ish views. I'm posting mainly to keep my IRL (off-site) friends updated, but I'm up for chatting in the comments and/or private messages! (I'm not sure what this site's etiquette is on that yet)

Current Music: 'Toddler With A Slingshot' by Bug Hunter

oursin

Off today to talk about CONDOMS in Warwick.

This involves a rather tiresome journey -

Any journey which starts from Marylebone Station, which is not well-connected to the London transport network, is tiresome from the outset.

And am not madly prepossessed with the prospect of Chiltern Railways' stopping trains but at least there is no change.

I am a bit taken aback to discover, rather late in the day, that the venue in which I am speaking also holds Haunted House Tours.

Am now envisaging the story that MR James, Montague Summers, AC Benson, Algernon Blackwood, etc could not bring themselves to record: 'The Case of the Possessed Baudruche'.

oursin

Happy birthday,

quoththeravyn and

rahael!

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Name: Valerie

Age: 40s

I mostly post about: daily life, eating disorder recovery, complicated life, some fandom posts, movie posts, ADIML, AMAs, my health, my family, friends, ect.

My hobbies are: tv, movies, art, bullet journaling, writing, Pilates, nature walks, outdoorsy stuff, animals, gratitude journaling, gemstones re: properties and benefits, reading, listening to music, looking for music and movie recs, my pets, hanging out with friends, crafting, horror, skincare, makeup, photography, etc.

My fandoms are: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Shadow & Bone (Grishaverse), The Hunger Games franchise, MARVEL studios, Studio Ghibli, Sailor Moon, Jurassic Park, Divergent, Scream franchise, Taylor Swift, Special Ops: Lioness, Fringe, Stranger Things, Anne Boleyn, It: Welcome to Derry, Untamed, Card Captor Sakura, Battlestar Galactica, Ready or Not (1 & 2), Disney OG, Katherine Pierce (TVD), Nina Dobrev, Elle Fanning, Ben Barnes, etc.

I'm looking to meet people who:have things in common or don't. I like lasting friendships. We don't have to talk everyday/post but I do like comments just like I'll comment on your posts

My posting schedule tends to be: very sporadic. But I'm working on this and would like to post once a week.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: 2slgbtqia+ phobia, racism, antisemitism, fatphobia, close-mindedness, jerks, rudeness, making everything a competition, propaganda, politics all the time, anti-feminism, extreme zionists and anti-semites, red flags. If you're expecting happy-go-lucky posts all the time, I'm not for you.

Before adding me, you should know: I may be or seem really unapproachable but I'm a kind person looking for new friends that'll be active for me and I them. Also, I'm open to 16 + just know that I post a lot of adult only things so if you are a minor acknowledge that and let me know so I can decide from there.

Current Mood: excited
Current Location: My home
Current Music: Freya Ridings - Wicker Woman

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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260615.html

What's happening to this Sun-crossing rocket?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260615.html

ysabetwordsmith

Fansites and encouraging interaction

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makeashrine

I'd like to hear some opinions, experiences, and ideas on the topic of encouraging interaction with our fansites and collectives.

This seems like an interesting discussion.

Current Mood: busy

starandrea

♥ Rain barrel works!

♥ Duolingo keeps promoting the webtoon app, which is free, and after a few false starts (to read webtoons in Chinese you have to set the whole app to Chinese, which makes it slightly harder to figure out) the app recommended "the dog diaries" to me, so I was like, "I'm in, show me ur webtoonz or w/e." ("How do you do, fellow kids!")

♥ Daphne says it's time for bed.

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Posted by Sumana Harihareswara

http://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/2026-nyc-democratic-primary-election-endorsements-all-in-one/

Hi, neighbors! For your convenience, I've made this table of contents of all the Democratic primary elections I'm covering, and made an image and a PDF you can use to share this summary with others.

http://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/2026-nyc-democratic-primary-election-endorsements-all-in-one/

austin_dern

And now, with the last of my days being too full of doing stuff to write about doing stuff, here's the last of our Halloweekends pictures. We're not out of October yet in my photo roll but we are closer than we've been before ...

Now this is something you never see at Cedar Point: The Derby Dogs stand was open! But since they don't have veggie dogs we couldn't take advantage of that fact.

Are we getting on evening already? There's Siren's Curse in the distance, with Corkscrew in the upper right corner.

Siren's Curse tilting over while the sun sets behind it.

And the vertical position for Siren's Curse. This may look scary but let me reassure you: it is.

Some lovely color on the trees near Cedar Downs.

bunnyhugger takes me for a drive on the Cadillac Cars, lone survivor of the antique-autos rides.

Spot of late-afternoon sunlight from the Cadillac Cars ride, as ValRavn sends a train up the lift hill.

Raptor washed in some golden light.

Tall performer near the Boardwalk area. They would pose for pictures with anyone and I just wanted to admire the tallness.

The Ska-letons performing at the Boardwalk area.

And now, coming to the end of the night finally, a streak of light as Siren's Curse drops down its lift hill.

The Siren's Curse train whips around; the lights change over the course of the ride. Hope that lasts.

Trivia: In 1979 customer-research corporation ViewPoint asked a focus group of Black persons what celebrities they saw aligned with the Filet-O-Fish (a poor seller in Black communities). Respondents offered that the sandwich was like Paul Lynde, Mary Tyler Moore, and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Source: Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, Marcia Chatelain. The heck is with that question even? (If you can't place Paul Lynde, try and remember the voice of The Hooded Claw on Penelope Pitstop. That guy.)

Currently Reading: Natural History Magazine, May 2026, Editor Erin Espelie.

ysabetwordsmith

Glowworms turn cave ceilings into underground starscapes

In places sunlight never reaches, life still finds ways to produce light. Inside caves, beneath forests and across humid, hidden landscapes, tiny organisms emit an otherworldly glow that seems almost impossible. These creatures are known as glowworms. But this simple name hides a surprising level of biological diversity.

The term “glowworm” does not refer to a single species. It is a common name applied to several unrelated organisms that independently evolved bioluminescence. What connects them is not their ancestry, but the visual effect they create. These scattered points of living light make dark spaces appear stunningly celestial.

Current Mood: busy

dialecticdreamer

Entry Levels
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 2
Word count (story only): 1018
[Friday morning, 17 November of 2017]

:: At work, Jules finds himself in charge of an unexpected new arrival, largely because he’s one of the few legal adults on site at the time. Part of the Lodestar story arc in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::

In the yard, the four landscapers argued with the casual interest of poker players with weak hands but more interest in bluffing the others at the table. “I’m saying that we could weave bamboo, literally like the chain link fence itself is woven, and then the combination would hold back a semi with a cut brake line,” Rutherford insisted, scooping aside another handful of dirt before testing the position of the next bare-root bush. He sighed an dug down another couple of handfuls.

Across from him, Mystic used a measuring wheel to mark off spaces every five feet from the
‘X’ marked in the corner of the fence. Jules kept filling five gallon buckets from the fifty-pound bag of red volcanic mulch.
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conuly

Would you like to throw a stone at me?
Here, take all that’s left of my peach.

Blood-red, deep:
Heaven knows how it came to pass.
Somebody’s pound of flesh rendered up.

Wrinkled with secrets
And hard with the intention to keep them.

Why, from silvery peach-bloom,
From that shallow-silvery wine-glass on a short stem
This rolling, dropping, heavy globule?

I am thinking, of course, of the peach before I ate it.

Why so velvety, why so voluptuous heavy?
Why hanging with such inordinate weight?
Why so indented?

Why the groove?
Why the lovely, bivalve roundnesses?
Why the ripple down the sphere?
Why the suggestion of incision?

Why was not my peach round and finished like a billiard ball?
It would have been if man had made it.
Though I’ve eaten it now.

But it wasn’t round and finished like a billiard ball;
And because I say so, you would like to throw something at me.

Here, you can have my peach stone.

- San Gervasio

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French Polynesia Protects Biodiverse Ocean Area Twice the Size of Arizona Teeming with Life

The French Polynesian government recently announced it will fully protect 200,000 square miles of ocean, an area about twice as large as Arizona that’s teeming with ocean life.

Located near the Austral, Marquesas, and Western Society islands, this new marine preserve, called the Te Tai Nui a Hau Marine Protected Area, will take the total of the nation’s conserved ocean territory to around 540,500 square miles—twice the size of Texas.

Last year, French Polynesia fully protected a total of approximately 350,000 square miles around the Gambier and Society islands, while also designating several thousand miles of artisanal fishing zones.

Yay, progress! :D

Current Mood: busy

senmut

In honor of Boots' 2nd gotcha day, what are the names of some cats you have had?

Thom(as), (Missy) Uno, Simon, Snowball who became Sammy, Pooh Bear, Pollux, I-Chaya who became Gizmo, (Chester) Bu(bastis), (Alexandria) Chi(cago), Memphis (Jones), (Thumbsy) Thebes, (Cairo-)Glyph, Turtle, Mischa, Denali, Evie, Boots.

I think that is all the named cats I have had the pleasure of sharing part of my life with. Renames were rehomes.

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Posted by John Scalzi

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/15/hey-i-wrote-an-actual-song-really-great/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=61130

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Apparently the 31st wedding anniversary is the “Write Your Spouse a Song” anniversary, because that’s what I did this year. As many of you know, Krissy and I actually have a three-day anniversary, since June 15 is the anniversary of me proposing (that happened in 1994), June 16 is the anniversary of our first date (1993), and June 17 is the anniversary of our actually getting hitched. Last year to celebrate we went to Venice. We weren’t going to top that this year, but I still wanted to do something fun and maybe memorable.

Also, and independently, I wanted to start writing actual songs this year, and not just cover songs and noodly electronic compositions. So, while Krissy was away yesterday hanging out with friends, I camped out in my music studio and wrote up this song, about how Krissy is, you know, really great. Literally, that’s the song! My wife! She’s great! I dig her the most! It’s not complicated! And also, if you listen to the lyrics, not in the least bit subtle. It’s clear I’m a big fan of my wife.

I’m pretty happy with the song but I do have some compositional caveats. One, this is the first song I’ve written in literal years, and I’ve only written, like, four in forty years, and one of them was a co-write with a far more accomplished musician. I decided to make it easy on myself by not trying to write The Greatest Love Song Ever Written, just the greatest love song I’ve written about my spouse to this point, which I think we can all agree is a much more achievable goal for a novice. Two, this is me in the home studio, so consider this song to be demo-quality. Three, I don’t know why for this song it turned out I need to be singing in a fake, quasi-British-esque accent in order to stay anywhere on key, but apparently I do, and now we will all just have to live with this piece of information.

Nevertheless! I really like this openly sweet, kinda silly love song, and Krissy, as it happens, loves it, so if any of the rest of you like it, too, that’s a bonus. It’s already a hit with its intended audience of one. Which, I’m not going to lie, is a relief. It would have been awkward if I wrote a song for my life and as was, like, all, “you call that a decent middle eight?” or something like that. I actually had to leave the room while she listened to it for the first time. I don’t get that nervous about anything. But, you know. You write a love song for your spouse, you want them to love it. I’m glad mine did. Maybe you’ll like it too.

— JS

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