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Would love to see Palisades and Altadena rebuilt using this tech (among other fire hardened methods/materials): emergent-3d.com

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Nasty consumer-side monkey wrench Amazon's thrown at us—effective 2/26/2025—only 8 days to decide & act. Since this is a book by book process, my library being in the tens of thousands, I need to decide if this is my entire work week's worth of time. youtu.be/KMoCzeGnIss?...

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Sounds like a fine Work in the To-Read list. Maybe even in print edition (don't tell my Mate—I'm in enough trouble as it is).

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Art and culture jammery converge... Original "Tank Man" (AP/Jeff Wisener, June 1989) has always been an iconic image and one of my favorites in terms of sobering and emotionally packed images—good humans doing what good humans must when the world's gone insane

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Backlist feature: Tales From Tharassas: "Well-told, thoughtful, beautiful stories, with strong world-building. Highly recommended - 5 stars." --Wallace, Amazon reviewer www.otherworldsink.com/book/tales-f... These three tales tell the story of Tharassas before the Tharassas Cycle, including ...

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As others have said, the greatest transfer of wealth in US history will not be from the Boomers to their children but from them to the US healthcare system. The US is designed to make people insolvent and to keep them poor once they're there.

submitted 12 days ago • 253 comments

Hell yeah lawyers

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A: First ya gotta tractor

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How to you marry a farmgirl?

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We're everywhere. ;-)

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🧪🛰️🌊 #highlatitudedust activity 2 days ago in #Patagonia as seen by NASA's PACE satellite

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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photo of Mount Damavand in the Alborz Mountains of northern Iran. Damavand is a dormant volcano with a cone much larger than the white snow-clad summit pictured here in early autumn 2024 Damavand last erupted about 7,300 years ago 🧪

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I still run into people and RedMedia whose beliefs that solar power is a fool's errand persist. Meanwhile, reality runs contrary in a valuable way.

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(Checks to see if my publisher is part of this suit) FUCK YEAH MACMILLAN GET THESE MOFOS www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Not sure I wanna push a big beastie in this manner, but... yeah. They're giant-ass lethal versions of the lil house panthers.

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AlphaMove xkcd.com/3045

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We ought to embrace our entangled state, work with it and each other, exploring "the limits and possibilities of our shared environment rather than hoping for walls, moats, ethnostates, apocalypse retreats, treasure troves, or spacecrafts to sever us from it." - Maggie Nelson in Riding the Blinds

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Gonna be an Expanse panel, a city I STILL want to hang in, might have some new books out by then… seattlein2025.org

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A PRAYER FOR ALL GOOD THINGS On this dark day, when all seems lost, say a prayer for all good things. A mother’s love, a father’s pride, family and the love they bring. The treasured ones, your dearest friends, feel their arms around your heart. ... www.jscottcoatsworth.com/point-of-vie...

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Deep Adaptation Forum connects people, in all spheres of life, to foster mutual support and collaboration as we anticipate, observe, and experience societal disruption and collapse.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

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Chemical Formulas xkcd.com/3040

submitted 33 days ago • 362 comments

Nice overview! youtu.be/C41gKfiihiM?...

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Great stuff on Limfic! You can even find some of my work there. 😉

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One of the reasons sleeping out on the field, staring at the night sky for entire summer nights with the telescope lens near my face was the best sort of night when I was a kid.

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

To write crime dramas like the Brits #authorgoals

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Too enmeshed with religionist-centric notions; I admire the front loading physical anthro, the 2d half with stuff I mull all the time: we, as one species among many, hyper social—what does our "humanity" mean/look-and-feel like against our ecological base-layer? bigthink.com/the-past/hum...

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One of the coolest things I've ever seen. Back in the middling-late '70s I remember a friend's dad had a home/biz solar company; they had a "bead wall" that filled a double glazed window with tiny foam beads using a noisy vacuum motor. www.gauzy.com/smart-glass-...

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If you're a visual person, do you reach for a piece of paper and writing instrument to sketch out an idea, layout, or work out a complex problem? Or do you grab a digital tool instead to do the same? (If digital tool, what do you use?)

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