@nickwedig I'd add sensory details: what it looks, smells, sounds, feels like. This opens the door, for me, to a lot of "who notices when you use it", too.
@rthorm @anmwinter @paulczege I love this idea (I always love sailing vessels) and would be happy to bounce ideas!
@mhoye that's the thesis behind OPCA litigation, for sure.
@lumpley Not what you were looking for, but I think you'll appreciate Little Yellow Roses anyway: https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/littleyellowroses.html
@lumpley @Sandra @JoshuaACNewman
I only recently learned that the use of "stan" as a verb comes from a murder ballad that Eminem wrote. It's a delightful and living tradition.
(YES YES i am behind on modern anything.)
@lumpley @paulczege Oh, I think I saw that around somewhere, yeah, I think Meg put it down somewhere in the kitchen (no, it doesn't help)
@platypus We put an old couch that may have had ringworm spores in it by the dumpster and in the time it took for us to go back inside and write a note that said "may have ringworm" it was already gone. Good luck to whoever took it.
@lumpley @paulczege This is tall-order territory!
@lumpley (Also, thank you for asking me this, it has me listening to a lot of GREAT music.)
@lumpley As far as song-type goes, is this in the right direction: https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/theboldgrenadier.html
(Obviously, none of the versions here have the line you mention, but.)
@lumpley I'm neck-deep in Mainly Norfolk looking for connections now.
@lumpley @JoshuaACNewman that right there is where ghosts come from. We haunt ourselves. Just sayin'.
@lumpley if I can, it won't be immediate. This'll be in my head for days.
@mhoye "frypothesis".
@platypus half-librarian librarian hunter trope
coronavirus/covid, epidemiology
Have you ever played the board game Pandemic? Hard to play nowadays, but it has at least one important lesson in it:
You can develop a cure for each of the 4 diseases, and you can, once you have a cure, eradicate a disease.
However, you win by cures, not eradications. And pursuing eradication will, in almost all cases, lose you the game.
Covid ain't gonna be eradicated. But we can reach a world where we can manage it.
@mastohost I love this, I think it's important, and I think it's a perspective on project goals and governance more projects could use.
@Sandra just so!
sea fever af
be the eldritch horror you want to see in the woods.
I belong to the Delaware River and Lenapehoking, but now I live in Coast Salish land.