L. Rhodes @lrhodes@merveilles.town

"I decided that without mythology, spirituality and a real serious examination of what kind of religion had been fed to us, we would never get out of this mire. And that's when I decided we should have a coven." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-18/this-feminist-witch-introduced-california-to-goddess-worship

In case you're wondering: https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/hummingbird_moth.shtml

Shout out to these little bumblebee/butterfly/lobsterbutt dudes.

A new Facebook update blocks watchdog groups from auditing at scale what's happening on the platform by attaching junk code to HTML features meant to improve accessibility for visually impaired users. https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/09/21/facebook-rolls-out-news-feed-change-that-blocks-watchdogs-from-gathering-data

Well, I've named my image layers, so I must be pretty serious about this project I've started.

Had some cherry tomatoes and mushrooms that were in danger of going bad on me, so I dug up this recipe, and now I'm recommending it to you. Delicious (even without the dill, which I didn't have). https://www.mediterraneanliving.com/cherry-tomato-sauce-and-bela-mushrooms-on-pasta/

Here's an effective little fairy tale horror story: https://www.tor.com/2021/09/01/the-wonderful-stag-or-the-courtship-of-red-elsie-kathleen-jennings/

You can add "cooperating with ICE" to your list of reasons for avoiding crypto. https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgmx4/coinbase-got-a-dollar136-million-contract-with-ice

How Disney's intense focus on wringing maximum value out of legacy IP led to the dominance of franchises at the box office and recast studio executives as the auteurs of the current scene. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/805897

New Stansiław Lem story just dropped. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-truth-by-stanislaw-lem/

Rainy Sunday. Ideal for designing games and laying out 'zines.

Move fast so you don't break things.

Technology education should be structured to move students as quickly as possible past "it's cool how this works" to "what are the consequences?"

"Oh, hi! I didn't hear you come in."

I'm going to live with it a little longer first, but if it still feels this comfortable after a week or two, I may go ahead and get a second one. Maybe the red.

Or the green.

Or the black.

I don't know.

FWIW, of all the entry-level fountain pens I've tried so far, this Pilot MP has my favorite weight and balance.

What does everyone use for print layout? (Boosts appreciated.)