wrog

A lunchtime lark, but it was rainy and the tide was up.

Finds:

1. Plastic leaves
2. Westerwald stoneware
3. What I thought was an intricate button but when I got it home, found that it was actually a filter, perhaps for treating sewage.
4. I quite like the big blue and white piece and wonder what it was part of.

(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)

yhlee

This one's going to

helen_keeble. :)

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dialecticdreamer

House Call Gone Wrong
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 2 of 3, complete
Word count (story only): 1508
[last days of November/first days of December of 2016]

:: During Elisabeth Finn’s maternity leave, she makes time for a follow-up appointment with her six-week-old patient. When the mother doesn’t show, Doctor Finn sets out to make a house call. The trip is disrupted, but may have VERY positive results for her new acquaintances. Written for the November of 2025 Magpie Monday, from a prompt by

siliconshaman, and posted for everyone to enjoy, with my deepest thanks. ::

Back to part one
On to part three

“He cut through a lot of middle steps. I’m not worried that he’s gossiping.” Elisabeth laughed brightly. “I’ve raised children before. Wren is my youngest.” She unlocked the door and watched the older man step back to allow her plenty of room to avoid the grabby fingers of the evergreen trees that tried to catch her wool coat.

The teen clambered out of the rear door on the passenger side. Skinny and coltish as any early teen, his face was flushed red with forming acne in several places, and the small, round sticky bandages coated in medication to reduce them looked more like a caricature than a medical treatment.
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james_davis_nicoll

A speculative fiction collection from Vanessa Fogg.

The House of Illusionists: and Other Stories by Vanessa Fogg

andrewducker

I just spent an hour playing "Captain Sonar"
Two teams, each of which are moving their submarin around a map, while trying to work out where their opponent is, keep the ship running, and charge their systems so that they can detect the other team and then torpedo them.
Good fun!

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There's no way any of this is in the tag system, so just enjoy a sequence of pretty art and taut suspense from an old-fashioned Western.

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andrewducker

I can't believe I have to put up with another 11 days of the news cycle being about what may or may not possibly maybe be in the budget.

andrewducker

1. 'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts: (tags:usa racism )
2. Lupus may be caused by the common Epstein-Barr virus (as well as MS): (tags:disease virus immune_system )
3. Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix: (tags:automation driving usa )
4. The last-ever US penny was minted today in Philadelphia: (tags:usa money cash )
5. Inside China's Mini PC Production: How Tiny Computers Are Made (a 22 minute factory tour): (tags:computers video manufacturing )
6. Marble: generating 3D scenes from text and imagery prompts: (tags:3d design ai )
7. GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE (apocalyptically strange looking film, I rather fancy it): (tags:movies trailer weird video )
8. 5 key points as legal experts grilled by MSPs on indyref2: (tags:scotland independence law )
9. Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World (down 17% in a decade, to less than half): (tags:religion USA )
10. UK tax calculator showing tax rates and marginal rates under various suggestions by different groups/parties: (tags:tax UK visualisation )

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I wasn’t sure whether to include this one, or quite where to put it. It’s from mid-1988, but it includes a mostly earlier lineup of Justice Leaguers. And it has a droll, JLI-ish sense of humor, but in the end, the JLI and Superman are secondary players. The Weird is the hero of his own life, and that life attains more meaning from its brevity.

( If only we could say the same for his 152-page STORY. This abbreviated form may be a better reading experience. )