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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-12-22 12:27 am

Poem: "The Unicorn Door"

This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It was inspired by the "Twilight" square in my 11-1-25 card for the Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred. It belongs to the series Coracle Shores and follows "The Coracle in the Forest."

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-12-21 11:24 pm
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-12-21 11:13 pm

Poem: "The Coracle in the Forest"

This poem came out of the November 4, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] helgatwb. It also fills the "Journey" square in my 11-1-25 card for the Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred. It begins the new series Coracle Shores. Its sequel is "The Unicorn Door."

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-12-21 10:23 pm

Happy Yule

We did our Yule ritual tonight. :D


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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-12-21 10:15 pm
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-12-21 08:47 pm
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-12-21 08:39 pm
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-12-21 08:09 pm

Poem: "The Unknown Depths of Our Lives"

This poem came out of the January 7, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] readera. It also fills the "After the Fog" square in my 1-1-25 card for the Public Domain Day Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred. It belongs to the series Arts and Crafts America.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-12-21 12:48 pm

Climate Change

Global warming could trigger the next ice age

Earth’s climate control system may cool so hard after warming that it freezes the planet over.

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that bury huge amounts of carbon in the ocean. In low-oxygen conditions, this process can spiral out of control, cooling Earth far beyond its original state. While this won’t save us from modern climate change, it may explain Earth’s most extreme ancient ice ages
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It's not missing and it's not new.  This aspect of prehistoric climate change has been discussed for decades.  Also several decades ago, as climate change began to attract more attention, there were debates over whether the bounce effect would cause global cooling instead of global warming.  For a while there were disaster novels with an ice theme instead of a fire theme, before the current warming trend became more obvious.

However!  Even global warming will making some areas drastically colder.  Once the oceanic conveyor belt breaks -- which is already wobbling -- places like Britain will lose their warm currents and thus chill.
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-12-21 12:45 pm

Birdfeeding

Today is sunny and cool.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.  Some birds are singing in the south hedge.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 12/21/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 12/21/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 12/21/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

I am done for the night.
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oportet ([personal profile] oportet) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics2025-12-21 08:05 am
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Longshot

Election season has begun, maybe election season never ends.

The Republican primary likely won't be exciting - if Trump backs Vance or Rubio or both, they'll have no serious challenge.

The Democrat field is wide open - Gavin Newsom is the clear frontrunner now, but when has the clear frontrunner this far out held on to it? History says it's best to be off the radar at this point.

What do Democrats want? The list is long but you know the basics - someone pro-choice, anti-gun, environmentally friendly, lgbtq friendly, etc. Most importantly, they want someone who can win it all.

Who can win it all? Maybe it would help to take a look at the last 3 to do it.

Bill Clinton - former governor. 'Southern' guy appeal to traditionally red areas. (Arkansas, 6 EVs).

Barack Obama - African american senator - with a focus on Healthcare. (Illinois, 19 EVs)

Joe Biden - former Senator. Friends with (and owes nomination victory to) James Clyburn. (Pennsylvania, 19 EVs)

Mix all that together and we're looking for a 'Southern' African american senator, with a focus on Healthcare, who is friends with James Clyburn, from a state with around 15 EVs. How about someone without any ties to scandals or ridiculous statements, someone who is interview-friendly, someone who does not like Trump but also has not centered their entire political identity around that? A seemingly true believer of the Democrat partys basic platform who is currently 'off the radar'.

What if this person existed?

What if they were .6 cents to the dollar to win the Democrat party nomination - behind LeBron James, behind Liz Cheney, even with Hunter Biden?

I would personally prefer Democrats nominate(appoint) a terrible candidate again, I would rather that hypothetical 165/1 stay put - but as your financial advisor/life coach I would advise you to put at least a 20 on it.
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jjhunter ([personal profile] jjhunter) wrote2025-12-21 08:28 am

Project 2026

What will happen after the moral equivalent of the battle of Yorktown?

I think we should have another Constitutional Convention.

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What rights and rebalances would you fight for? What values would you wage peace for?
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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-12-21 10:59 am
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Posting from the abyssal depths

7 days ago was our earliest sunset (15:37)
7 days from now is our latest sunrise (08:44)
Today is our shortest day (6:57:37)

I am looking forward to the return of the light.
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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-12-20 11:37 pm

Climate Change

Climate change, resistance, and doing the right thing now

No amount of intellectualising is going to change the fact that our climate is thermodynamically fucked.

That humans are economic toast.



Largely true.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-12-20 09:59 pm

Today's Adventures

Today we went up to Amish territory.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-12-20 08:30 pm

Poem: "Creativity, Ingenuity, Compassion, and Perseverance"

This poem came out of the December 3, 2024 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] mama_kestrel. It also fills the "Window" square in my 11-1-24 card for the Sleepytime Bear fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred. It belongs to the series Arts and Crafts America.

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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote2025-12-20 08:23 pm

Space Exploration

Astronomers Find the First Compelling Evidence of "Monster Stars" in the Early Universe

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers has discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic primordial stars that were among the first to form after the Big Bang.