My brothers walk on crushed glass
For the first time in months, I had a dream that was not a nightmare. Awake, it looks rather like the serial numbers filed off a contemporary Turn AU, but it contained railway lines and did not leave me unhappy. Have some links.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
muccamukk: "The Philosopher and the Detectives: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Enduring Passion for Hardboiled Fiction." I had read some of the earlier articles cited in this one, but not the article itself before Mucca sent it to me. I like its stylistic conclusions and continue to feel validated that if I can read and watch noir for its ethical questions, so can actual philosophers.
2. Courtesy ofthisbluespirit: wholesome eldritch monstrosities. The creeping horror got into the recycling again.
3. Charles Payseur says resonant and appreciative things about "Tea with the Earl of Twilight" at Quick Sip Reviews: "I just love the feel of this story (plus everyone is queer and that’s a big plus)."
4. Courtesy ofmoon_custafer: I know Michael Sheen isn't Jewish, but his birth story sure looks like proof that changing names to confuse the malekh-hamoves really works.
5. Having been reminded to catch up on Existential Comics, I must say that Schopenhauer vs. blood sugar is relatable.
Becauseselkie exercised the double-edged magic of the gig economy to send us groceries, we cooked salmon for dinner last night. It was the first time since June I'd had fish that didn't come out of a tin. Little cats were permitted to share in the bounty. Autolycus is irresistibly patient.
1. Courtesy of
muccamukk: "The Philosopher and the Detectives: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Enduring Passion for Hardboiled Fiction." I had read some of the earlier articles cited in this one, but not the article itself before Mucca sent it to me. I like its stylistic conclusions and continue to feel validated that if I can read and watch noir for its ethical questions, so can actual philosophers.2. Courtesy of
thisbluespirit: wholesome eldritch monstrosities. The creeping horror got into the recycling again.3. Charles Payseur says resonant and appreciative things about "Tea with the Earl of Twilight" at Quick Sip Reviews: "I just love the feel of this story (plus everyone is queer and that’s a big plus)."
4. Courtesy of
moon_custafer: I know Michael Sheen isn't Jewish, but his birth story sure looks like proof that changing names to confuse the malekh-hamoves really works.5. Having been reminded to catch up on Existential Comics, I must say that Schopenhauer vs. blood sugar is relatable.
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selkie exercised the double-edged magic of the gig economy to send us groceries, we cooked salmon for dinner last night. It was the first time since June I'd had fish that didn't come out of a tin. Little cats were permitted to share in the bounty. Autolycus is irresistibly patient.
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I don't think it's foolish to consider potential consequences beforehand: human history is littered with the unintended destructions of seemed like a good idea at the time, especially where the complexities of ecosystems are concerned. I like that the inventor is testing them on the small scale of tidepools and that she has already considered a biodegradable version, which would save them from silting up uselessly around the world. I agree it's a time-buyer, not a solution. But I would also rather buy time than do nothing at all.
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I say, let's stop pussyfooting around. Boom boom whoopee boom! Megaton-yield ground-pounders detonated in shallow seas can blast enough steam and rock vapor into the stratosphere to plunge the entire Northern Hemisphere into a volcanic winter that will make “Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death” look like a rehearsal! Hoo-ahh!
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It worked for Snowpiercer!
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Back in my high school days I didn't <font color="envy green">build any radio telescopes</font> - but I had learned about the concept of “Snowball Earth” and how, if the equatorial oceans get clear, the albedo-darkening cycle that article mentions will eventually tip over and start rolling downhill, and in a mere thousand years (!) the planet will have lost that ice cover.
So I created a role-playing game setting where Mark Twain’s famous line, “Buy land, they aren't making it anymore” was wrong: New land was emerging daily, yearly, advancing north and inland… and uncovering ruins. 99% of original life was dead - no photosynthesis, save algae - and Imperial / Federation scientists soon quite literally discovered the truth: This had been an act of war, millennia ago. Gosh, wouldn’t it be swell to find that planet-killer or how to do it yourself? Gosh…
“There isn’t a government on this planet that wouldn’t kill every one of us to get hold of that thing.” - Sneakers
In a better life, all that work would have been published. O well.