Fascinating. I never heard of this before. https://youtu.be/QXFzGkeATC4?si=8HOrJ1dM0SGIOF7f

See-Through Wood Is Stronger Than Plastic and Tougher Than Glass https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-through-wood-is-stronger-than-plastic-and-tougher-than-glass/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow

A Response From One Of The Pagans https://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2024/01/a-response-from-one-of-the-pagans.html

$1.5 billion in estimated revenue: A look at the Mass. 'millionaire's tax' first year https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/12/28/mass-fair-share-millionaires-tax-anniversary-revenue

Siriusly?? https://www.comicsands.com/gary-oldman-mediocre-harry-potter-2666851212.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

“Literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.”

Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin, who would have been 94 today, with some of her finest writing about creativity https://t.co/1iJIZgkGLa

#today was special. About 45mins drive from home we visited one of the oldest living things on the planet. I fear for its future, but it’s survived Bronze & Iron Age settlers, Roman legionaries, Christian iconoclasts & modern developers. Cymru-Wales has the largest no. of ancient yews in the world & this yew in Llangernyw is the oldest in Wales, prob. all Europe & thought to be over 4000 yrs old. Will the human induced new climate era be the end of it I wonder?
#yew #wales #cymru #ClimateChange

"Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster... Since finitude defines our lives… living a truly authentic life… means facing up to that fact." https://t.co/9ud2RVt60s

@jkirkendall @knitting He's great, I watch his YouTube channel a lot.

California couples loses home insurance after draining pool to save water https://youtu.be/d9n-n3JdIsE

“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”

On Hemingway's birthday, his short, spectacular Nobel Prize acceptance speech https://t.co/IbWbIUfeEa

“The less promise and potency in the self, the more imperative is the need for pride. The core of pride is self-rejection.”

Bruce Lee, who died 50 years ago today, on the crucial difference between pride and self-esteem https://t.co/nlc6AEvuri

Great read.
https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

@AlexKourvo Oh ok, thanks. I haven't read that.

I went to the website of 303 Creative, the Colorado web designer that made up an imaginary gay couple who could conceivably ask them to design a wedding website so 303 could sue and legalize discrimination.

I thought this was interesting. They are asking for tolerance.

Irony is dead.

@chris_mahan I would guess not, but I don't know.

@AlexKourvo I'm not familiar with it. I'll have to look for the book.

My friend the brilliant author Rachel Pollack is coming to the end of her life. She won the Nebula, World Fantasy and Arthur C Clarke awards. She is a world renowned expert on Tarot, and her books on Tarot are still regarded as the good standard. She created the first trans superhero, in Doom Patrol in '93. I will miss her very much when she goes. I am writing this at the request of her wife Zoe, to let her friends know that the end is soon, and to let the obituarists know too.

Literary Witches – an illustrated celebration of trailblazing women writers who have enchanted and transformed the world https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/02/07/literary-witches/ #InternationalWomensDay