Apparently it’s the week for sharing random YouTube videos, and we’re just leaning into that. (As much as I logically love the idea of a weekly structure around here, a la Made-It Mondays, let’s be honest: the rest of my brain vastly prefers random spontaneity [why did I have to spell that three times] and […]
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Because I’ve been philosophising. Because a friend I know is super into astrology, and it got me thinking. Assume my stomach bacteria are conscious; yes, their lifespan is tiny compared to ours, but ours is tiny on a universal scale here, so bear with me. Assume they are conscious. *I* know that I am conscious,
Okay But WHY Romeo & Juliet AS STOMACH BACTERIA? Read More »
It’s time for the Inklet of the week!! (And don’t forget the Kickstarter for all the Inklets is still running!) Today, however, is official birthday of Caught In The Act, a lil sci fi heist story that I wrote for a course a year or so ago. I thought, when I started writing this, that
This week’s Inklet is one I wrote for a course a couple of years ago, based on an article I read about the decline of the insect population. I’d been expecting to write in response to one of the other articles we’d been given, but as I sat down to write, the insect population one
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It’s Friday! And that means my top pins of the week – or at least, it means a handful of pins I’ve randomly selected out of the probable-hundreds I’ve stress-pinned this week :’D With no further ado, this week’s selection, for your perusing pleasure <3 (Some of them are cut off in the gallery below
‘Flagellated protozoan’Is the best rhyme I can findFor ‘trying to write a poem’How amusing ‘Flagellated protozoan’Seems to mean ‘a little creatureThat is never found in poem’ –How confusing And it isn’t really rhyming And the rhythm is all outA stupendous lack of timingShows throughout it And the harder that I ponderAnd the longer that I tryThe
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Whoa, I’m, like, so shocked: new study ‘reveals’ that growing up with a large* home library results in significantly improved literacy, numeracy, and digital communication skills! 😱😱 No way!! 📚📚📚 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/…/growing-surrounded-books…/… * “Average” = 80 books in the house, large = ‘more than that’, with numbers over 350 not having any further discernible impact. (Curious:
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I thought this video was only 5 mins, and by the time I realised it was 10 I was totally committed. 😀 I dunno. I’m kind of sold on the kraken, something in Loch Ness, and some sort of dragony-something (even if the myth comes from dinosaur bones). Not sold on the chupacabra, and mermaids?
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A random compilation of giant puppydogs for your personal edification, because when do puppies NOT make everything better? 🙂 What have you found this week on the web? Read more:Cuz He's BlackMade-It Monday: Gingerbread House!I'm Only Doing This Because I Promised Myself
