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The 3 Design Strategies Keeping This Building Cool In Scorching Heat

Writers, if you want to create a desert kingdom, these three things are passive house design, also known as low tech, so they could have been implemented in just about any era.

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It's worth the effort to learn to do these things.

Those compliments are like a dryer-preheated quilt wrapped around you by a friend you're visiting on a very chilly winter day.

hearing that your characterizations are good is like. the best thing to hear as a fic writer.

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Introducing: Jacob & Kaylee

These are the images that kicked off all this nonsense. Text in the second set of images was provided by CocoaNoir1.

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That watermelon punch was intimidating. But the thigh smash, while also impressive, was...silly. And the banana presentation really...topped...the salad.

Let’s make some fruit salad!

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Okay, THIS is gonna be useful....

A way to make AI crawlers crash when they arrive to scrape (and re-scrape, and re-re-scrape...) your website.

Scroll down to find out about The HTML Bomb.

(With a tip of the virtual hat to Clive Thompson, who featured the link on Bluesky)

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One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

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Can confirm, it was a real thing in the 1980s.

This is both objectively hilarious, and a reminder of how easily stupid people are fooled.

The Satanic Panic was fucking INSANE, y'all. This shit was everywhere, and ya boy was in parochial school at the time, so they REALLY went hard into how serious and deadly this whole thing was.

Meanwhile, little kid Wil was listening to Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, WASP, Maiden, and playing the hell out of D&D and other fantasy tabletop games.

It was my first, and most profound, experience with a large group of people -- my teachers and other authority figures -- being completely consumed by bullshit that I knew was fake. I would watch these breathless news stories and listen to my teachers repeating whatever nonsense they'd been fed at church or on talk radio, and know in my heart and soul that none of it was true, because I listened to the music and played the games and watched the movies, as did all of my friends, and none of us were conjuring black masses (though if we'd had the candles and robes, I'm sure we would have cosplayed it).

The Satanic Panic shaped a lot of my values and convictions. I was in 5th grade when I began to wonder if these teachers and other adults who came to school to lecture us about the dangers of the music and games I already (secretly) loved knew they were lying, or if they were just stupid and easily misled. (I suspect it was a little from column a and a little from column b, as it frequently was with those right wing christian nationalist nutjobs who ran my school).

I remember so clearly when I saw through them all, and realized that all of it was bullshit.

So I guess I have the Satanic Panic to thank for giving me the push I needed to completely reject religion as a fear-based cult built on lies.

I was in 5th grade when I figured that out. It's wild to me that there are full-on adults today who haven't caught up.

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CORDELIA AND GILES IN GINGERBREAD

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Fragment of false-door lintel of Tomb of Nefermaat and Itet, part of a fowling-scene showing Nefermaat pulling on a rope which springs a fowling-net, the scene has been chiselled out, and filled with coloured plasters, restored.

Old Kingdom, reign of Sneferu, 4th Dynasty, c. 2600 B.C. Mastaba 16 of Nefermaat and Itet, Meidum. Now in the Ashmolean Museum. AN. 1910.665

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Ear-stud decorated with a rosette surrounded by concentric bands. Gold with vitreous glass paste insets, Etruscan artwork, 530–480 BC.

Courtesy & currently located at the British Museum, London. Photo taken by Jastrow 

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“Kathy Hochul is … well, as a New York state resident I’ve found her to be an accidental governor (she inherited the job when Andrew Cuomo resigned) and generally ineffectual and embarrassing. But when asked at a press conference whether New York Democrats would gerrymander in kind, Hochul said, “This is a war. We are at war. And that’s why the gloves are off and I say, bring it on.” In another comment she even claimed she wanted to get rid of New York’s independent redistricting commission, saying, “I’m tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied behind my back” and insisted on “fighting fire with fire.” She expanded on the point, “We’re sick and tired of being pushed around when other states don’t have the same aspirations that we always have,” Hochul said. “And I hold those dear. But I cannot ignore that the playing field has changed dramatically, and shame on us if we ignore that fact and cling tight to the vestiges of the past. That era is over — Donald Trump eliminated it forever.” This is, to put it mildly, not the Kathy Hochul we’re used to at all.”

— There’s a Big Sea Change Underway Among Even the Most Conventional Dems 

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My LEGO build has been submitted for IDEAS.

10,000 supports are needed to be a real LEGO set.

Please support it, if you want to make it real.

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See, this is why nudist camps & nudist beaches aren't always a walk in the park.

Sometimes it's a running through the park screaming at the wild boar that just stole your freakin' pants!!

when a hog steals your pants and you have to hunt it down with an ax

book of hours, use of st. omer, c. 1318-25

the british library, ms 36684, f. 31r