Yvonne gods below is everyone this tired?
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🐦 She/They 🐝🐝 Halsinner, but Abdirak is king. Lost Kiwi. Poet. Gàidhlig learner. Tolkien nerd. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🇵🇸 Children are not terrorists.
Adar's Song, a🧵 Adar waking, hearing the high pure voices of the stars over Cuiviénen. Wandering in the dark, finding solitude to discover the wild clear song of his heart (his voice must have been so beautiful). Marvelling at the sheer joy of life's newness.
Sometimes it’s the commonplace that’s most in danger of disappearing. The Marsh tit, the starlit sky, a clean river. If you can , get out in nature. Maybe see if she needs a helping hand? Maybe pick up some plastic from a beach. Practice leaving only 👣& tell her you love her
'The Mighty Nein' has arrived. See an exclusive first look at 'The Legend of Vox Machina' animated spinoff and its new gang of misfits. ew.com/the-mighty-nei…
Next week’s poetry theme, set by our next host is… ‘betrayal’ Imagistic, metaphorical, fresh, inventive poems only, maximum 60 words, excluding title. Title in bold please!
“For like all great artists [J.R.R. Tolkien] escapes ideology by being too quick for its nets, too complex for its grand simplicities, too fantastic for its rationality, too real for its generalizations.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
Infants use every tool in their toolbox to mimic their most trusted caregivers. This little one, shared to FB by Kristen Humphrey, is an amazing example. Listen to how close he comes to saying “I love you” back to his dad. How does he do it? The answer is using both sight…
Sunday has arrived again. The day of rest. I hope wherever you are, you can stretch yourself out like a hare on a sunny day and take time leisurely to contemplate the world and your place in it. Just to sit and do nothing is a luxury. So if you get the chance, take it.
Oh, and one more thing, The Legend of Vox Machina has been renewed for a fifth and final season!
Norway just launched a damless river turbine that generates power without blocking water Norwegian engineers have created a breakthrough in hydroelectric design — a river turbine system that generates power without any dams, barriers, or concrete channels. Installed in the…
Remember that tense moment in April 1970 when the commander of Apollo 13 said, "Houston, we've had a problem”? An exploding oxygen tank 210,000 miles from Earth placed the Apollo crew in peril. Woman of the Day electrical and aerospace engineer Judith Love Cohen of New York who…
"You're late." "You're dead." And so it begins... Come and meet the ghostly residents of some of Britain's most famous (and infamous) historical places: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D7MX75J6 #HistoricalFiction #ghoststory #paranormal #kindlebooks
as always concurring with le guin here: i’m mind-boggled when someone says the prose of a book was bad but the book was good, or vice versa. they’re inextricable
“Why are people so mean these days??” So there’s this virus that damages the parts of the brain responsible for empathy and self-control,
Here is your mind-blowingly fascinating retweet of the day (you're welcome). How amazing the universe is. Today, I'm glad to still be here to be surprised 🪐🪐