Random PSA: if you know anyone who has a traumatic brain injury (TBI) or spinal cord injury (SCI), there's an online forum called CareCure full of people who either have the same condition or are caring for folks who do. It's been around a long time (since 2001) and is old school: just people talking to people. No ads. No AI. Over 1M posts and about 20K unique users.

By best friend was injured in a motorcycle accident 20 years ago and the site basically saved his life. Suddenly in a wheelchair with no idea how to do all this new self-care or do his life chores differently, he met a bunch of great people who helped him with emotions, practical stuff, and friendship. I recommend it to anyone with SCI or TBI in their lives.

It was originally founded by the Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University, so it was created by people who really know this topic. Today is independent of them, and it's just people helping people.

It’s really cool that Europe is hosting the next Solar Eclipse but I really don’t understand ESA’s choice of Iceland and Spain for the location. Those aren’t really central for most people. Bit of a shame. I hope they plan better next time.

After crossing Utah today, I'll be seeing a lot of views like this tomorrow on my 1500km (900mi) journey back to Reno for a final time. It's basin & range, basin & range, basin & range crossing Nevada east to west or vice versa. Each range is an island in a sea of sagebrush. Each has it's own character. Wonderful geology, geography, & ecology. And most people think it's an empty no person's land--& that's a good thing! 😂

#BlackAndWhite #MonoChrome #Travel #RoadTrip #Photography #Darktable

Aaaanyway, enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tfH1nty62U

Any drama / props / marching band folks able to give me ideas? I'm helping build props for my son's marching band. The prop is meant to look like a bow and launch something that gives the dramatic visual effect of an arrow. It's not a bow. It's not an arrow. We're not taking real bows and arrows onto school fields. This is a visual prop.

The goal is to launch something that arcs about halfway across the field with a brightly visible coloured streamer (2-4m long) behind it.

See following messages for constraints and info. Any folks familiar with this kind of prop-making, I'm all ears.

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Ack! #wipwednesday just in time. I started the Virus Shawl.

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@cainmark A favourite story from @steggy ‘s time at the Virginia geologic survey is the origin of the “Big A Mountain Quadrangle.”

Map sections like that tend to be named for a prominent feature (a lake, ridge, stream, etc). When geologists were mapping that part of Virginia, they asked the locals what they called this one big mountain in the area that was an obvious prominent feature. Apparently it was universally called the “big ass mountain.”

Thus the origin of the Big A Mountain Quadrangle.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/mf1439

@Alice

Leaf chain #2 complete after one month. Finished it just in time for the next time I’ll be seeing my partner’s grandma, whom it’s for. 43 grams/1.5 oz of yarn ~= 203 cm/80 inches.

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You will be visited by 3 ghosts. The ghost of plots past, the ghost of plots present, and the ghost of plots future.

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@steggy OMG, you're right.
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"Talkin' 'bout FAT BARONS!"

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[sensual pipe]

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Is it me or did the Elf have green blood?

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Everyone was Disco Fighting....

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Cool it with the firecrackers, lady. Warn a person next time!!!!

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This is WAAY more emotion than he showed when his father or his wife died. Maybe there was more going on with him and the dwarf than we know...

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Jack Palance is having an absolute blast in this movie. I feel like he's just cutting loose here, acting like an absolute maniac and throwing accents around right, left and centre.

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Hawk suddenly emotes, the 'ludes have worn off

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So this is somehow this is all a woman's fault in the eyes of the bad guy.

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Nun slipped him a Mickey Finn.

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