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New Crowdfunding Project: "Take Us North"

Take Us North is down to the last day or so of its campaign. If you want to participate, now is the time.

$50,976 pledged of $30,000 goal
509 backers
26 hours to go

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Art

This art workshop made a "landscape" out of loose parts for the artists to use as inspiration. Every art room should have a generous collection of objects to mix and match like this.

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Today is sunny and sweltering.

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches plus a house wren.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 7/11/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I've seen a fox squirrel.

EDIT 7/11/25 -- Yesterday I collected 5 little pink crabapples while out and about. These are almost marble size, much more useful than the pea-sized ones. So I potted up those today to see if they'll sprout.

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!challenge week

Friday, July 11 - Challenge Week 4, Last Day

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Bonus Fishbowl

There will be a bonus fishbowl on Tuesday, July 15. The theme will be "anything goes." If you want a continuation of an earlier piece, or something totally new, that doesn't fit the usual themes, then now's your chance. Brainstorm in advance and jot down ideas for later. You can also request any favorite series, character, setting, etc.

Note that our internet connection has been bad for well over a month. Sometimes it's down completely, other times things like Dreamwidth and searches won't run. So I'm losing a lot of work time and may only have access for half a day or less. Given this limitation, there's a higher chance of actually getting things written for prompts that use characters, settings, etc. that are already established.

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Follow Friday 7-11-25: History

Today's theme is History.

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Incredible Hulk #162

Writer: Steve Englehart

Pencils: Herb Trimpe

Inks: Sal Trapani

The Hulk joins the hunt for the Wendigo.

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Archie Meets Jay & Silent Bob #1 : Archie, Now With Cussing And Swearing

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Current Music: David Bowie ~ ‘Starman’

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NS: It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…

Superman is out today! Have you seen the film? Do you want to? Or are you ambivalent? Feel free to discuss below, and as always remember to please be mindful of spoilers.

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Alias #7

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NS: Lolicon and shotacon - the most controversial and to a degree misunderstood manga genres

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Hawk and Dove #4

Writers: Barbara and Karl Kesel

Pencils: Rob Liefeld

Inks: Karl Kesel

Kestrel empowers a street punk to kill Hawk and Dove.

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Guy Gardner: Warrior #0

Writer: Beau Smith

Pencils: Mitch Byrd

Inks: Dan Davis

Zero Hour tie-in.

Getting super powers from drinking magic water isn’t enough, so now it is revealed Guy is actually half-alien.

Warning for blood.

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Green Lantern #188

Writer: Steve Englehart

Pencils: Joe Staton

Inks: Bruce Patterson

John Stewart's secret identity is revealed on live television.

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Communities

Here's a cool Dreamwidth tool: take the URL of any community and add /read to the end. It will show you posts by all the members. So for instance:

https://birdfeeding.dreamwidth.org/read

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Hazbin Hotel: VOXTEK Gift Baskets 2025

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Focus

This is why some people hate interruptions and find it hard to switch from one activity to another. It includes people with ADHD, autism, executive function disorder, post-concussion-syndrome, other cognitive issues; many introverts; and most people who spend a lot of time doing things they are bad at (e.g. a linguistically inclined person doing math, or an athletic person forced to write text). Discuss with the people in your life what kinds of interruptions are okay or not, when, and how.

Focus is broken by interruption.

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Climate Change

Bigger crops, fewer nutrients: The hidden cost of climate change

Climate change is silently sapping the nutrients from our food. A pioneering study finds that rising CO2 and higher temperatures are not only reshaping how crops grow but are also degrading their nutritional value especially in vital leafy greens like kale and spinach. This shift could spell trouble for global health, particularly in communities already facing nutritional stress. Researchers warn that while crops may grow faster, they may also become less nourishing, with fewer minerals, proteins, and antioxidants raising concerns about obesity, weakened immunity, and chronic diseases.

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Sandwich Alignment Chart

An amusing look at what is or is not a sandwich.

Current Music: Maggots In Her Smile - Opal Vessel

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Batman: Dark Patterns #6 concluded The Voice Of The Tower.

The Voice is the Ventriloquist's Scarface - the Tower is Bledin Towers, a Gotham City apartment building.

Scarface's voice is guidance - he's a symbol under which some of " Bleedin' " Towers' residents've rallied, against the City's demolition plans. They've killed one Gotham cop and taken another hostage - Jim Gordon and others're outside while Batman's made his way in.

Issue #5 had Batman finding that the Ventriloquist wasn't from where Scarface was emanating - he was in the Tower, but his tongue was cut.

Someone else was speaking the gangster's words - not the Towers resident who was apparently his second, but that man's abused wife. She'd ended #5 killing her husband because Scarface told her to - and then turning to the hostage cop, who'd been restrained witness to the act.

#6 opened on Scarface's others rushing in: " What the hell happened here?! "

( She told them. )