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“Long Train Journeys” by Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is out now! Order it here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

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Delving a wee bit into video - so pardon the abysmal sound quality. This gentleman showed me the best bug spot in town.

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Dayton Daily News, Ohio, April 5, 1950

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SHAPE HELL

Yup.

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life tip: sometimes there's a bird outside & you can look at it

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it's not just "this one particular religion" though there's a direct lineage and interconnected causal system? Like the Christian Bible includes the whole thing where god had a genuine special relationship with the jews for a large part of history so it makes sense to relate to Jewish religion and culture in a different way.

The modern right leaning cultural critics who say you ought to give Christianity a second look tend to have this weird tick where every time they praise Christianity they also have gotta to include Judaism.

I think I understand the cultural context of the 20th century about why they wouldn't want their advocacy to be perceived in a certain way.

But like at a certain point, do you think the resurrection is real? Do you think other people ought to think the resurrection is real? Why do you think certain aspects of background ought to influence acceptance of the factualness or non-factualness of it? Is your religion universal or not?

On some level I think my religion is righter than all other religions except this one particular religion seems to pack less conviction than a wishy-washy all religions are equal take. It kind of seems like it endorses that other region more.

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a while ago I read this sci-fi short story from the 50s where a guy is kidnapped and interrogated by aliens using a very sophisticated lie detector, but he realizes that the lie detector works off technical truth, and with some careful phrasing and misdirection, he manages to make them believe that humans are a race of immortal, overpowered, omniscient telepathic beings. and it works.

my favorite part is when he tells them that humans are "capable of transportation without the aid of spaceships or any vehicles, just by using mental power to control physical matter". it's true, we can. it's called walking.

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the thing about going to bed early is that it doesn't stop you from being awake at one am anyway. doctors dont tell you this

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worm sphinx

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crying bc Shadowheart died and we have no scrolls to revive her so I decided to just drop her body off at camp while we go get one so I don’t have to find her in the wilderness later, but she was too heavy to lift in her armor so I had to loot her first and then Wode picked her up and dumped her at her tent like this and I’m losing it bc I really do think that’s what Wode would do.

“is here good?”

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Fishy things

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a young wild boar in the Wisentgehege Springe game park near Springe, Hanover, Germany

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#MonkeyDay:

Portrait of Cardinal Antonio Ciocchi del Monte (1461-1533) by Sebastiano del Piombo (1485/86-1547), c. 1512-5, in the National Gallery of Ireland collection (NGI.783).

His pet monkey is identifiable as a Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus), native to northeastern Brazil. Neotropical primates were unknown to Europeans before 1492; this may be the earliest example of one in a European painting.

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The King of Thailand is suing Facebook to keep photos like this of him in a crop top offline.

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me as a director only allowing sexualised shots at the same time as the nastiest goriest horror imagery so people will argue over which was more unnecessarily gratuitous and fail to realise that i'm getting off to both of them

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‘A spotted flycatcher pair nesting in the palm of a statue’ (by Zsolt Semperger, original post here)