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Conservation

New directory of 125+ tree-planting nonprofits makes it easier to contribute to reforestation around the world

The Global Reforestation Organization Directory provides standardized information about the public commitments and transparency of more than 125 major tree-planting organizations, making it easier for donors to compare groups and find the ones that match their priorities.

Save the world, plant some trees! :D Coming into the holiday season, watch for organizations that offer gift options where you can plant trees in someone's name.

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Birdfeeding

Today is cloudy and cool. It rained most of last night and into this morning. :D

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

It's been raining on and off.

EDIT -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT -- I did more work around the patio.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

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Books

rebeccmeister has a good discussion about books and reading.

Bestätigte Künstler 18.11.2025

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KOMPROMAT (F) , AUGER (UK) , A BLACK RAINBOW (D) , ALTAR DE FEY (US) , DEMENTED ARE GO (UK) , PANKOW (I) , SPIT MASK (US/D) , ASH CODE (I)

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Pale grey calcareous silty clay and some buff manly limestone of the Cotham Beds were also encountered at places

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Interesting Links for 18-11-2025

1. There has to be a better way to make titanium: (tags:materials )
2. Reselling tickets above face value set to be banned by UK government: (tags:concerts tickets regulation UK )
3. Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died: (tags:history obituary games lgbt )

Philippi

The Quaker drama continues- and at two o'clock this morning I was turning over in my head all the histrionic things I could do to contribute to the mayhem. Lord, but I was going to cut a figure! But two o'clock is the wolf hour- when one is at one's lowest and stupidest- and one shouldn't take anything one thinks too seriously. So I told myself "Silence, silence silence, void, void, void"- and went back to sleep.

There's a Meeting scheduled for Saturday which is open to all those who were upset by the drama. I'm thinking of it as "Philippi" because that's what comes after the death of Caesar.

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Pool Open!

fuzzyred is hosting a pool for the half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics. Targets include the whole Finn Family thread and whatever else will fit in the budget from the Big One thread. The latter includes a triptych about Josué and Aidan, as well as two poems about Frank the Crank, for those of you following either of those characters.

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Half-Price Sale in Polychrome Heroics

The half-price sale in Polychrome Heroics is now open. Donors, start your engines!

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Climate Change

Satellite images reveal the fastest Antarctic glacier retreat ever

Hektoria Glacier’s sudden eight-kilometer collapse stunned scientists, marking the fastest modern ice retreat ever recorded in Antarctica. Its flat, below-sea-level ice plain allowed huge slabs of ice to detach rapidly once retreat began. Seismic activity confirmed this wasn’t just floating ice but grounded mass contributing to sea level rise. The event raises alarms that other fragile glaciers may be poised for similar, faster-than-expected collapses.

Just because something is big, doesn't necessarily mean it's always slow. Climate change can move blindingly fast.

If I were there, I'd be crawling over that exposed plain searching for signs of life. Antarctica is waking up.

I.M.H.O......

I really hate to be a pessimist, but...

Tomorrow the house is voting to release the Epstein Files...
The got the signatures needed after they PedoProtector finally swore in the new Democrat Rep from Arizona.
They had the numbers needed thanks to a handful of Republicans also signing.

Here comes my pessimism...
Does anybody really think those Republicans are going to stand by their initial call for the release of the files?

I just have this sinking feeling that somebody will chicken out and the files are going to remain hidden.

The vote is tomorrow.....

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Monday Word: Vorticist

vorticist [ˈvɔːtɪsɪst]

noun

a member of a British artistic movement of 1914–15 influenced by cubism and futurism and favouring harsh, angular, machine-like forms

examples
1. The Kansas cyclone that whisks Dorothy into a dreamworld is evoked through vorticist projections the work of Jon Driscoll that betoken chaos in the cosmos. The Wizard of Oz - review 2011
2. The winter sales posters brilliantly harness the dynamic movement of vorticist and futurist art - one image is a blizzard of angled and curved raincoats, sheets of rain and upturned umbrellas. Evening Standard - Home Ben Luke 2011

origin
Latin vortic-, vortex; first known use in 1914

Wyndam Lewis, The Dancers, 1912

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Birdfeeding

Today is partly sunny and cool.

I fed the birds. I've seen a large flock of sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 11/17/25 -- I trimmed brush along the south edge of the house.

EDIT 11/17/25 -- We cleared the rest of the brush from in front of the garage.

EDIT 11/17/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I've seen a goldfinch on the thistle feeder.

EDIT 11/17/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 11/17/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.

A Little Good News.....

Dog being rescued from house fire insists police officer put him on a leash first

Maybe there's such a thing as being too good of a boy.

Annie Reneau

https://www.upworthy.com/dog-rescued-from-house-fire-insisted-officer-leash-him-first

Political Rant.....

Picture Diary 108

Picture Diary 108

1. A new kind of apple tree

2. The first snow

3. Homunculus

4. Incarnation

5 The golden birds

6. Robin

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Area Meeting

Our weather has been coming up from Spain but there's been a switcheroo and now it's coming down from the arctic- or so I'm told. Yesterday was warm (for the time of year) and damp and misty, today we have clear skies and there's a nip in the air.

There was ugliness at the Quaker Area Meeting yesterday. I won't go into details but the Area Clerk was pushed into resigning and those who had brought about their fall were inclined to crow about it. I was reminded of that scene in Julius Caesar where Brutus stands up at Caesar's funeral and lectures a shocked populace on how justified and virtuous it was of him to murder his friend. The chief crower was told (but in slightly more Quakerly terms) to shut the fuck up- and consequently left the meeting in a snit.

Friends are not supposed to carry on like this but (who knew?) they are actually just people....

The Meeting was held in the Lewes Meeting House- which is one of the old ones- with 1784 written over the door. The Meeting room is classic Quaker- a shoe box with big windows set high in the wall so Friends wouldn't be distracted by the passing scene- and a balcony at one end. There is new development round the back of the building, recently completed- which is modern, chaste and in keeping. There is also a sweet little front garden with gravestones. Wish I'd taken my camera.....

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Conservation

marstra1337 - Putekļi

Birdfeeding

Books

Bestätigte Künstler 18.11.2025

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Philippi

Pool Open!

Half-Price Sale in Polychrome Heroics

Climate Change

I.M.H.O......

Monday Word: Vorticist

Birdfeeding

A Little Good News.....

Political Rant.....

Picture Diary 108

Interesting Links for 17-11-2025

Area Meeting