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@storyseekers event 16: color palette — gideon the ninth

Her adept said: “I’ll keep it off you. Nav, show them what the Ninth House does.” (…) “We do bones, motherfucker,” she said.

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girls only want one thing

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Got an email saying the campsite in Savernake Forest is closing. Guess I'll have to do a sneaky wild camp then because I definitely want to go back and see its ancient trees again.

The King of Limbs (yes as in the Radiohead album), 1000 years old:

Big Belly Oak, 1100 years old:

Cathedral Oak, 1000 years old:

Duke's Vaunt, 1200 years old. Most of it is under the bracken and whatnot but that single upright branch is still alive:

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Panther would be so majestic if he weren't ever-so-slightly cross-eyed.

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"And while we knew about some of the issues before launch, we made the bold decision to launch anyway"

...said the guy who launched the Challenger, probably.

I swear every few years we need to splatter the walls with insides on the outside to remind people that SAFETY REGULATIONS ARE WRITTEN IN BLOOD.

the number of spacecraft failures recently has been absolutely insane and it all comes down to tech bros barging into the industry going "it's not that hard wtf is nasa so bad" and then completely skipping out on any testing

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...what is the "sex is just rock climbing" category

It was kind of a joke between me and a friend ("you wouldn't judge someone for having gone rock climbing with a bunch of different people") but honestly the more I thought about it the more I bought into it unironically because:

It is a physical activity done with one or more partners

You should only go rock climbing with people you trust to not let you fall

You should not go rock climbing with someone who is drunk or currently incapable of rational decision-making

Some people get super super super into rock climbing and do not shut up about all the places they have climbed and how many are left on their bucket list and these people are usually men between the ages of 20 and 35 and like it's fine dude I'm glad you're happy but I don't know what most of those mountains even are

While many consider it a fun activity, pressuring someone into climbing when they don't want to (or ignoring their feelings and just dangling them off a cliff,) could cause both psychological and physical trauma

There is no moral value to it whatsoever. Who you have gone rock climbing with (or whether you have rock climbed at all) has no bearing on who you are as a person. Imagine telling someone "it's not that heights make you nauseous, it's just that you haven't found the right person to belay you!" or "you need to save your first time rock climbing for someone special." That would be absurd.

For some people it is a deep and moving personal experience.

historically I have not asked myself "will this aggravate my hip flexor injury" before participating when perhaps I should have 😔

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The ultimate question of Life, the Universe and Everything is "how old am I today?"

Genuinely considering a "DON'T PANIC" tattoo. If nothing else, I often need reminding.

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watching 20 year old tv shows is all fun and games until you realize how far we’ve backslid on certain social issues

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I can't choose and you can't make me.

AO3 Femslash Top 100: Round 2

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I got 9 rounds into 180 stitches of lace knitting with the splittingest yarn ever and realised I'd joined it twisted at the beginning and had to rip it all back to the start and I DID NOT THROW IT ACROSS THE ROOM WHILE HOWLING LIKE A BANSHEE and I think that kind of composure and self-discipline is very sexy actually.

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Sex is great and all but have you tried

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Murderbot in Network Effect is so funny. It’s like “my friend is dead this is the WORST and LIFE IS PAIN” and then rescues ART and immediately pivots to “I can’t BELIEVE you kidnapped me and dragged me out here just to save your useless fucking life, I hate you.”

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I have some bad news for you: I just got back from Algonquin, and the scheduled event for Thursday night was a presentation on moose. Not a public wolf howl(/presentation on wolves when it turns out that you can't reliably find a pack in August to do the wolf howl with). I asked a naturalist about it later, and they stopped doing them about 5 years ago - the logistics were ridiculous (1300 people requires a lot of shutting down the highway at night) and there's some ethical considerations, since the Eastern wolves are a threatened species. (I believe that back when they started the howls they thought that the local wolves were grey wolves.)

Oh no! I will do you a sad AAAWOOOOOOO.

I guess the reasons are understandable.

But aaawoooooooo.

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Definitely a combo feral pigeon/domestic cat. It eats leftover pizza and kebab out of bins. Its population explodes every time the bin collectors go on strike. (Birmingham, UK)

Hey, random art/doodle challenge: Draw a Regional Gryphon

The bird half is one of the most common birds in your area. Ideally, one that you see irl regularly. The beast half is the most common carnivorous mammal in your immediate area, and/or one that you have seen irl. Here we have the Eurasian Urban Gryphon - Consisting of western jackdaw and red fox. Highly intelligent and adaptible, lives in urban areas, accustomed to human presence, and eats a diet consisting 90% of Wait Hold On Where The Hell Did You Even Get That (here, a green olive).

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Giving oil companies and arms dealers direct access to the inner workings of the Foreign Office? What could possibly go wrong? No conflict of interest there, noooooooo.

I mean, it's not like the *last* Labour government was ultimately taken down by endless poorly-justified and unpopular war in the Middle East, or anything. Increasingly convinced they're speedrunning that "first time as tragedy, second time as farce" thing.

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When you realise your brother is getting a treat and you're not and that's ILLEGAL

And then you're very very brave and take one of these treats from my hand for the first time EVER