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YouTube video by Musora Norwegian Prog/Metal Band LEPROUS Covers "Take On Me" On The Spot

An actually pretty good cover of "Take On Me" by a Norwegian prog/metal band (the video is a "making of" sort of thing, with the actual song coming in at about 11:05):

youtu.be/Te2MR6j5Qhg

No shame! It's an amazing fic. I always get excited when I see a new chapter drop. And now they're all in the same room! 😃

It happened again yesterday: I informed someone they were Canadian who didn’t know they were Canadian. This has now happened about 10 times for me. Americans, take note: if your parent was a Canadian citizen born in Canada, you are a Canadian citizen. And there’s a law working its way through…

ABSOLUTELY true. this is a great post and an issue i have talked on time and again. these tests, especially for adults who have learned to mask, is usually very poorly worded

Magpies are full of sass.

If you have room in your freezer, cupcakes freeze and thaw wonderfully. 🧁

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Here you go:
Gentian Seeds by yuyu_finale
archiveofourown.org/works/29847723

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How Two of the Rarest Horses on Earth Got Lost The entire world’s population of Przewalski’s horses once dwindled to a mere dozen. So how did a pair named Fiona and Shrek end up in livestock auctions in the West?

This is absolutely wild

www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/n...

Feed recommendation: Quiet Posters

Shows posts by ppl you follow who don't post a lot

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Hi new Bluesky users. Semi-annual reminder to follow my favorite part of this website: the Gift Links feed.

It shows any free link to an otherwise paywalled article that’s shared by anyone on Bluesky. It has legit changed how I read the news.

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A crowd of new followers has just entered your house, saying "Hi, we're here". They're enthusiastic. They've found you in a starter pack and they wanna see what you've got, what have you got to share, please show them your work

I'm a deer in the headlights, just sitting there eating a sandwich and watching a movie I've seen 45 times already

When there's a sudden influx of new followers and you haven't got any new art ready

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The thing that Trump understands intuitively that a lot of people don't is that favors are relational, not transactional. If you do favors for someone, no matter how much you might think in terms of "now you owe me", you've established a dynamic where you do favors for them.

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To reiterate a post from the Other Site, for most of the last four thousand+ years, the vast majority of people living in cities got takeout. Many apartments lacked kitchens due to space and fire risk. Cooking yourself 7 fresh, varied meals a week is a VERY recent expectation.

Oh my GOD. Went for coffee with an old publishing mate and he told me the tale of his latest mugging. Brace for this.

(To note, my mate is a 75yo man, short, obviously quite posh, and deaf in one ear. He gets mugged a lot. It rarely works out for the muggers, for reasons that will become obvious.)

More Gang-gang Cockatoos.

I have to comment on those feet again. Just a perfect hybridization of talons with shoes and socks.

Very nice. I love the mood you've captured.

I recently went through an extended bout of that. Not fun. I hope it's just a passing phase for you.

An oil painting on dry wall of 2 portraits superimposed on one another, in false colours behind vertical stripes.

"Matthew/Paul (stripes)" oil on drywall & wood, 14x27", 2005/6 #art I was thinking about Pompeii, infrastructure and leaving your mark.

Lovely results!

A drawing of a brown, black & white moth atop a rosy/purple turnip.

For the "small world" series: "Turnip Moth", pencil crayon on paper, 10x14", 2023 #art #SciArt #invertebrates

A pencil drawing of a human heart. On either side are an ornate fork & knife,

"Serving the taxpayer", pencil on paper, 12x14", 2021 (private collection) #art #SciArt

Next week in Oregon: How to toast your own toast.

On a pale natural linen, there is a bone white diagram of a vocal apparatus, trachea, and bronchi/lungs. In between the branches of the bronchioles are small words embroidered in cursive in thin burgundy thread. They read: she breathed. Inhaled. exhaled. she knew. that breathing. was beauty. was the way. inside. to outside. when her breath. tightened. she found. ways. to soften. be still. to allow that. in. of the out. breath. to be. the. way through. she found the throughline. somehow. it. also found her. still. and breathing. deeply. each day was. new. each breath. a. different. path. always. through her. and. throughout her. such a. simple. thing, breath. such a journey. through. trees. and. branches. how the body knows. to still. itself. if we learn how. to. listen deeply.

I also do #SciArt #anatomy #embroidery. I usually work from antique anatomical engravings, often adding poetic text or other aspects. This piece, she breathed (2018) is from an engraving in Vesalius’ Fabrica and has a poem stitched between the bronchi. #SciArtPortfolioWeek

Painting of a small group of derelict buildings on the seaside front and two deckchairs on the beach.

The Promenade (oil/acrylic on canvas) 2019