This sounds wonderful - except for the tornado warning! And even that sounded like a good time in the 'fun' basement.

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Hey @six18sfoundry.bsky.social this isn't one of yours, is it?

Where is Victoria - is that her, by the wall? How is she not flooded away by the water?

Just looking at this makes me grab the armrests of my chair so I don't fall.

I'm so cold... that's what I get, falling for all that "Yay, it's spring!" stuff when it's still April.

Interesting how many of us old retired brains are plugging away at 'big books' - I wonder if the cameraderie and support of this thread makes us more willing to try.

Ooh, yeah, that sounds really good - on my list!

Oh, yeah, the text-to-voice things can get really funky sometimes. I'm a Librivox girl myself for older stuff, listening while reading (helps me stay focused) but I don't always admit it ;)

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I just started book 6 of Thucydides - progress!
And I also started a new transit book - When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, translated from the original Spanish by Adrian Nathan West. Sort of a fictionalization of the Great Equations book, very interesting!

And for those with more contemporary musical tastes...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS6K...

I usually save this for New Year's Eve, but ok.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j23...

David M. Rubin: Junk Birds and Other Stories (Stackfreed Press, 2024) [IBR2026] I’ve spent most of my life looking for connections, patterns, and meaning in science and business, and this passion extends to art, literature, and philosophy. Our ability to generate meaning from …

“That is amazing. Absolutely nothing has changed, yet everything is different.”
Thoughts on reading David M. Rubin's short story collection, 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. From the everyday to the extraordinary, a fascinating read. @six18sfoundry.bsky.social
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It's like Connections, but with pictures instead of words.

This game is driving me nuts.
(in a good way)

You never tell us the results of your study. So spill it: Who was the best crime fighter, Pete, Linc, or Julie?

The world’s oldest chicken lives in Portland. Her name is Gertie. Guinness World Records has recognized a blind, jazz-loving, 15-year-old hen in Portland as the oldest living chicken on Earth.

The world’s oldest chicken lives in Portland. Her name is Gertie.

Depends on what you mean by 'at a time'

And they just changed up the Webboggle format, my dopamine source, so I'm very upset. Just keeping everyone informed.

Does anyone else wonder what their mail carrier thinks is going on with all the books arriving all the time?

Yeah, it's weird. I just bought that book, do you really think I'm going to buy it again?

You know, Thriftbooks, you really don't have to ad me so hard, considering I buy something from you pretty much every month. Every week sometimes.

Tardigrade Playing Guitar For Microbiologist Throw Pillow Are you looking for a microbiologist design for a guitar player who loves to study micro animals like water bears? Then grab this Tardigrade Playing Guitar design which shows a cute tardigrade cartoon.

Strangely enough...
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awwwwww....

I used to live in Quincy, MA - that's KWINN-zee, not KWIN-see.
Our basketball team was the Keltics, not the Seltics.
Here in Maine, we have BER-lin and CALLous, not Berlin and Calais.

I'm Melian, but my country is Athenian.

It's very strange reading about the Melian Dialogue at this point in time - and realizing I'm part of the wrong side.

Another case in point:

People been stepping up their photo posting game lately. Case in point:

That reminds me - a few years ago Nicole Krauss had a TNY story about A Taste of Cherry - or, more accurately, about Homayoun Ershadi. I knew/know nothing about it so it didn't register, but you might find it interesting.
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