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Changeling poet, musician and writer, born on the 13th floor. Left of counter-clockwise and right of the white rabbit, all twilight and sunrises, forever the inside outsider.
Seeks out and follows creative and brilliant minds. And crows. Occasional shadow librarian.
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Urusai.social - All the otaku content. None of the toxicity. (urusai.social)
We created https://urusai.social as a safe, cozy, English-first home for happy weebs and all of our varied interests - URUSAI! Social: All the otaku content. None of the toxicity. Come join us in our mission to be wholesome!...
Hound Dog and Down Home Shakedown - Big Mama Thornton - 1965 (www.youtube.com)
White or black. rich or poor. If you ever had your heart broken you have right to sing the blues....
A Tolkien Bestiary - David Day - 1949 (pdfhost.io)
David Day's A TOLKIEN BESTIARY is a scholarly, definitive and enchantingly beautiful explanation of all the imaginary beasts, monsters, races, nations,deities, fauna and flora of J.R.R- Tolkien's fantasy worlds of Middle-earth and the Undying Lands....
The 13th Warrior - 1999 - Antonio Banderas (movie-web.app)
I am Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan, Ib Al Abbas, Ibn Rasid, Ibn Hammad. And things were not always thus. At one time, I was a poet in the greatest city in the world. Life was easy and I lived without care. Until one fateful day, I met a beautiful woman who belonged to another man....
Rebel Yell - Bill Idol - 1983 - MTV LIVE in '84 (www.youtube.com)
Last night a little dancer, she came dancing to my door...
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - Philip K. Dick, the inspiration for Total Recall (philosophy.as.uky.edu)
HE AWOKE--and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could almost feel the enveloping presence of the other world, which only Government agents and high officials had seen. A clerk like...
Druid Egg - Exploring Traditional Druid Tools - JD Stanley (jdstanley.com)
The Druid egg is a mysterious little-known tool only described by historical outsiders. This installment of the Druid Tool series explores the Druid egg....
[Analysis]The End of Roe Is Having a Chilling Effect on Pregnancy - Lauren Leader, Politico (www.politico.com)
The end of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 has had a profound effect on maternal healthcare and abortion access across the country. Fourteen states have now completely banned abortion and two dozen more have bans at 22 weeks or less. As a result, an already grim maternal health care landscape has worsened....
La Planète Sauvage - Fantastic Planet - 1973 - directed by René Laloux and written by Laloux and Roland Topor, based on the 1957 novel by Stephan Wul (movie-web.app)
Fantastic Planet (French: La Planète sauvage; Czech: Divoká planeta, lit. 'The Wild Planet') is a 1973 French-language experimental independent adult animated science fiction art film, directed by René Laloux and written by Laloux and Roland Topor, the latter of whom also completed the film's production design. The film was...
Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands (www.theguardian.com)
The French supermarket chain Carrefour has put labels on its shelves this week warning shoppers of “shrinkflation”, the phenomenon where manufacturers reduce pack sizes rather than increase prices....
Ukraine says it wrecked Russian submarine with British cruise missiles (www.politico.eu)
KYIV — Ukraine on Thursday confirmed it wrecked a Russian submarine with British weapons, during a missile attack on the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea....
The Once and Future King - T.H. White - 1958 (pdfhost.io)
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays it was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition and Astrology. The governess was always getting muddled with her astrolabe, and when she got specially muddled she would take it out of the Wart by rapping his knuckles. She did not rap Kay’s...
[Opinion] ‘You’re screwed’: Romney’s exit threatens a collapse of Senate’s middle - Burgess Everett (www.politico.com)
Mitt Romney’s retirement shines a glaring spotlight on the potentially bleak future of the Senate’s ideological center in both parties. If Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema follow him out the door, it will get worse....
[News] US Senate subpoenas Saudi’s $700bn sovereign wealth fund over US dealings (www.theguardian.com)
Saudi Arabia’s $700bn sovereign wealth fund – which has been used as a lever of global influence by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – has been subpoenaed by a powerful Senate committee after it refused to voluntarily comply with information requests about its US dealings....
[News] Trump Has Been Privately Encouraging G.O.P. Lawmakers to Impeach Biden (www.nytimes.com)
The former president has talked regularly with members of the House Freedom Caucus and other congressional Republicans who pushed for impeachment....
The Waste Land - TS Eliot - 1922 (www.gutenberg.org)
I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD...
Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests - by Adam Bumas (www.garbageday.email)
Last month marked the official end of the Reddit protests. Any subreddit that had changed its rules or gone dark — or forced its users to post exclusively about John Oliver — has now gone back to normal. On the surface, it seems like a complete victory for Reddit, but things aren’t so simple when a major element of that...
Donnie Darko - 2001 - Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Drew Barrymore. Written and directed by Richard Kelly. (movie-web.app)
"I just hope, that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief…because there will be so much to look forward to."...
Frank's Wild Years - Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits - 1983 (www.youtube.com)
Well, Frank settled down in the Valley, and he hung his wild years on a nail that he drove through his wife's forehead. He sold used office furniture out there on San Fernando Road and assumed a $30, 000 loan on a little two bedroom place....
Basement Apartment - You Were Here - Sarah Harmer - 2000 (youtu.be)
Well, you live out where the street ends...
[News] Child poverty in the US jumped and income declined in 2022 as coronavirus pandemic benefits ended (apnews.com)
Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising, according to figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau....