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John Owen, one of the last veterans of the French and Indian War, lived to be 107 and posed for this photograph shortly before his death in 1843.

That makes him one of the earliest-born humans ever to be photographed. He was born in 1735.

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pattrose

Is there a book you’ve seen made into a film and been disappointed with the result?

I think books are always better than a movie but I can’t think of one that disappointed me. I’ll think of a bunch later. 😁

recognito

Friends, countrymen, listen to my tale of woe… I've written ten thousand words for an audience of five.

Most authors would've chosen to end Even Though We're Adults with Ayano's "Goodbye, Okubo-sensei." Instead, Shimura writes another ten chapters of manga about overpowering guilt, lingering resentment, and the fear of the future. A recurring motif of the final two volumes is people wondering when their punishment will be carried out. What will happen to those they love after their deaths? References to feeling so miserable that death would be preferable suddenly start cropping up. And I'm sitting there holding the pages like, "What??? I thought this was a romance? Happily ever after…?"
( it is pretty happy! )

viridian5

Via the local Ridgewood Times:

Welcome to Queens. And I have so many unanswered questions.

(The GPOA are the Glendale Property Owners Association.)

Current Mood: cold
Current Music: "Jane Doe" by Kenshi Yonezu and Hikaru Utada

mific posting in

fanart_recs

Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: rombutan on Instagram
Why this piece is awesome: A lovely double portrait of Shane and Ilya hugging. The artist has several more artworks in the fandom on their Instagram.
Link: his dose of sunshine on Instagram, and reposted on tumblr here

pattrose

Yesterday and today's links to my prompts being filled.

proshipfest

1. https://archiveofourown.org/works/78744006 Prompt: Favorite Dinner Fic
2. https://archiveofourown.org/works/78824806 Prompt: Exclusive or no Moodboard

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Title: Business Before Pleasure
Fandom: Transformers (Sunbow G1)
Character(s): Chromia, Firestar, Elita One
Rating: PG
Summary: Not long after losing the Ark crew, Firestar is keen to steal a few moments of fun. Chromia isn't so sure, especially when they find themselves suddenly under Elita One's scrutiny.
Notes: Also for "Chromia, Firestar and Elita One; business before pleasure" at fembot_prompts on Tumblr.

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ysabetwordsmith

Hundreds of new species found in a hidden world beneath the Pacific

As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining may soon begin. Over five years and 160 days at sea, researchers documented nearly 800 species, many previously unknown. Test mining reduced animal abundance and diversity significantly, though the overall impact was smaller than expected. The study offers vital clues for how future mining could reshape one of the planet’s most fragile ecosystems.

Bluntly put, mining would destroy that very delicate ecosystem, and it would not recover. Also the ocean as a whole is struggling to cope with the damage humanity has already caused, and hasn't got the fault tolerance left to cover more.

Current Mood: busy

ranalore

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Current Mood: nerdy
Current Location: gettin' ready to call it a night

kiya

Not my best way to start a year, honestly, this state of mind.

ETA ... okay random shuffle is being perfect in a lolsob way.

Time is like a bullet from behind
I run for cover just like you
Time is like a liquid in my hands
I swim for dry land just like you

Time is like a blanket on my face
I try to be here just like you
Time is just a fiction of our minds
I will survive and so will you

We are the only ones right now that are celebrating
And we are joining hands right now
We are the only ones right now that are suffocating
We are the dying ones right now

As the water grinds the stone
We rise and fall
As our ashes turn to dust
We shine like stars

Here's the whole thing, and welp.

Official video.

Current Mood: exanimate
Current Music: "Bullet", Covenant

phys_breaking_feed

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-cats-vegan-meat-eaters-isotopic.html

Cats—unlike humans—are true carnivores: they must eat meat to survive because their bodies can't draw some essential nutrients from plants. By looking at tissues, researchers can get a good understanding of what foods animals ate.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-cats-vegan-meat-eaters-isotopic.html

sholio

There's a Biggles February prompt fest, Biggletines, going on over at

bigglesevents:

https://bigglesevents.dreamwidth.org/18654.html

Feel free to leave prompts, answer prompts, or both!

ysabetwordsmith

With today's posts, all sponsored poems from the 2025 Holiday Poetry Sale have been posted. You can now check the sale page for title links to see if you missed any earlier.

Current Mood: accomplished

ysabetwordsmith

This poem came out of the January 7, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

helgatwb. It also fills the "Plunging Hoofs" square in my 1-1-25 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with

fuzzyred.

"To the Beat of Plunging Hooves"
-- an indriso

History is often late
To record what's done or said
By the needful, not the great.

Soleated, harnessed, led
Horses drive the wheels of fate
From behind or by the head.

History, like mountains, moves

To the beat of plunging hooves.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

These are the content notes for "Each Diverse Human Gift."

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olivermoss

* A former Leafs forward who is now playing for a team in Scotland was injured after not doing warm ups to avoid wearing a pride jersey.

The team was originally going to wear the jerseys during the game but dropped that last minute due to 'player beliefs'.

The club is facing massive backlash over caving to homophobe. And now that homophobe's hockey career might be over due to injury over refusing to do warm ups.

cornerofmadness

Now I haven't lost my mind... maybe. I'm looking at the weather for tomorrow and it says rain and then snow. Excuse me? It's been under 30 for nearly 2 weeks. Let's leave it there. I DO NOT WANT RAIN and then snow. holy shit the ice is thick enough. (the poor grounds keepers were watching me trying to get across the ice floe apologizing. We can't get it off!) Snow, go for it. Rain first, go fuck yourself Mother Nature. No one wants that.

Speaking of DNW, my students some day. So I've been preparing to flip my lab to mondays. We talked about it in Dec. We talked about it the first two weeks. Today is the first day we did it (snowed out last monday) and one of the students goes 'i have class in that time period. OMFG. WHY did you wait until now to tell me? I'm speaking with the chair/dean because in the original position upwards of half the class will miss every lab. If I move it only 1 misses, the one who didn't tell me about this class. I'm gonna go out and sleep on the ice.

I'm at the point in my reading journey where I'm not liking a book but all my friends love it and now I feel pressured.

I made a real milk hot chocolate. At least this didn't have the same weird taste to me BUT my lactose pills did nothing. Someone is playing cat's cradle with my stomach. Way to fail me

it's music monday 30 weeks of music. This week's prompt is 12 A song from the 90s. Share your faves too.

( I'm breaking this into two under here, the rock-pop ones and the country )

here's the whole prompt list

( it's under here )

And I have decided to do a new declutter project but rather than talk about what I'm tossing, my plan is to pick ONE thing a day to red up. Some things will get tossed. Others will be put away correctly. Etc.

today - cleared up the top of the dresser. Found many earrings that had been missing. My mother mentioned a friend of hers in NC has an abused women's shelter that takes jewelry and clothing to get these women back on their feet, give them something to wear to job interviews etc. I wonder if I have something like that hear because I need to dump half of these earrings and I don't want to toss them in the trash

Current Mood: nauseated
Current Music: Murder She Wrote

rhi

I came down with whatever that not-flu, not-Covid, not-strep shit is the morning of Christmas. Three weeks later, I stopped running a fever and started recovering. All of which is to say, this is not late so much as delayed.

To my pleased shock, I posted a *lot* last year: 13 individual pieces, plus three chapters of Deadfall. Total words: 45K, pretty much. I have at least that much again in progress, and I'm delighted to be able to say this!

YAY!!

Also, let me mention that there is a lovely community,

communal_creators , in which people work over a week or month together. (March, so coming up soon for the week; September/October and we vote on the dates for that one, too.). This has been a huge help to my creative output coming back up again and it's a blast to see/hear what people are doing, cheer each other on, and man, the gif game in that Discord server is amazing.

Anyway. All of this to say, I'm very happy with how much I posted this last year and hope this year will also be productive!

Current Mood: happy

ermingarden

"Si sol splendescat Maria purificante / maior erit glacies post festum quam fuit ante."
Or, "If Candlemas is fair and clear / there'll be two winters in the year."
Or, if the groundhog sees his shadow...six more weeks of winter!

I am dismayed that not only Punxsutawney Phil (overall accuracy: a dismal 35%) but also our local groundhog, Staten Island Chuck (overall accuracy: an impressive 85%), is reported to have seen his shadow this morning. Furthermore, the weather today was the nicest it's been in weeks. More winter it is, apparently!

My choir sang Arvo Pärt's setting of the Beatitudes this past Sunday, and I may be a little bit obsessed with this piece now - it's haunting! Here's my favorite version I've seen on YouTube:

We also sang at a special service for Candlemas this evening - all in Latin, with the church lit only by candlelight. (We sang, among other things, William Byrd's "Senex puerum portabat"; I love Byrd, so that was a favorite for me!) It was lovely, and was one of those moments in which one feels strongly a degree of continuity with the past - for how many centuries have people been celebrating this day in more or less exactly the same way? Though, of course, it's only to the modern eye that the candlelit church is an unusual sight! (Perhaps we should add in a blessing of the lightbulbs as well as the candles?)

Current Mood: chilly

torachan

1. I stopped at the car wash on the way to work this morning and it looks much better now. Thankfully the trees on our street have stopped shedding berries the way they were a couple weeks ago, but there's still a ton of dust from the construction site at the end of the street, so it was very dusty even though I have been getting it washed like every week. D:

2. Looking at my work tasks and meetings and I think I will be able to work from home most or all of the rest of the week.

3. Look at those toes!

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proshipfest

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and now, for something completely threesentenceficathon

Welp.

Are cats 'vegan' meat eaters? Why isotopic signatures of feline fur could trick us into thinking tha

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Holiday Poetry Sale

Poem: "To the Beat of Plunging Hooves"

Content notes for "Each Diverse Human Gift"

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I want Phil to be right. Let's keep it cold

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