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https://www.npr.org/2026/04/25/nx-s1-5789056/the-midnight-rebellion-is-a-choose-your-own-adventure-podcast

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https://medium.com/the-writers-reach/micro-mysteries-turn-pages-without-plot-twists-a1c0246490a9

A writer’s guide to subtle suspense.

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10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet 179

Let me carry your voice: famous actors read testimonies of Palestinians enduring Israeli torture

The “Let Me Carry Your Voice” is a series of testimonies of the torture endured by Palestinians across the occupied Palestinian territory as a result of Israel’s genocide, decades-long occupation, and apartheid. In this edition, Annie Lennox, Javier Bardem, Guy Pearce and Laura Morante read the real stories of Palestinians.

Injustice is not abstract. It is engraved in people’s skin, bones, minds. It tears through everyday life, exposing the depths of human cruelty.

Justice is not abstract either. It begins with each of us. It demands courage, sacrifice, discomfort, change. It requires us to speak up, to demand accountability. To ensure that no story is pushed into the darkness. They want to silence Palestine. We will not let them.

https://youtu.be/XuDA-l2cQ6k?si=UG9lb6lMdo98PvKC

Green Summer Ride in Nagano, Japan

https://youtu.be/vFH2lGROUI8?si=S2kuHWABOqmIh3QO

Thaithong’s fairy lantern, a type of plant native to southeast Asia. Photo Chatree Lertsintanakorn

Jim Carey’s speech to university graduates about choosing a great path through life

https://youtu.be/RrOGQD4Z9A4?si=O2k0qrMd0n1OgBtp

Crispy Chinese Eggplant by Nagi

This is the end-game for sticky hot fried finger food people…the END GAME!

https://youtu.be/Hq3fRxXi8JY?si=UlG_CDMzF-PUmFk6

Jamie MacDougall Art and Music

This drawing really captures a beautiful and joyful moment between two species!

20 Japanese Words for Rain by Miya Ando

Turning picture and prose into a poignant meditation on nature’s impermanence.

Via MIT Press Reader

In Western culture, there has always been a tendency to seek stability and permanence. Plato envisioned eternal truths in his theory of forms; Newton described a physical world governed by immutable laws; America’s Founding Fathers drafted a Constitution designed to endure the ages. Beneath all of this lies a discomfort with the notion that nothing lasts forever.

Miya 美夜 Ando has spent the past two decades confronting that impermanence in her artistic practice. Guided by the Japanese aphorism mono no aware — a recognition of reality’s fundamental transience — the Japanese and American visual artist often focuses on fleeting natural phenomena, such as clouds, lunar phases, and shooting stars.

This focus animates her latest work, “Water of the Sky.” The book is a stunning bilingual compendium of 2,000 Japanese words for rain along with their English interpretations, all of which capture “the breadth and diversity of rain’s many expressions,” Ando writes: “When it falls, how it falls, and how its observer might be transformed physically or emotionally by its presence.” Accompanying the text are 100 of her indigo drawings — rendered in pencil and micronized pure silver — each offering a visual display of rain’s varied forms.

Below, you’ll find five drawings and 20 words from Ando’s visual dictionary. The text ranges from “prosaic to esoteric, extending from the meteorological to the mystical and from the minute to the vast,” she writes. “My visual interpretations of these terms are not so much illustrations as evocations, attempts to embody or imagine that particular rain’s precise and essential quality.”

— The Editors

Taikan Jiu: Mercy-from-drought rain

Kabashira Tateba, Ame: See a swarm of mosquitoes, signal of rain

Uki: Praying for rain

Onibi: Will-o’-the-wisp seen on rainy nights

Tokidoki Niwaka Ame: Sometimes light snow and rain showers

Tokidoki Niwaka Yuki: Sometimes snow or sometimes light snow or rain

Giu: False rain

Ama ga Nukeru: The skies open up, it rains like cats and dogs

Shinotsukuame: Intense rain that falls heavily, is very fine and strong like the Bamboo Grove at Shinotake

Uryū Ensa: Describes the appearance of a fisherman working in the rain

Hitome: One rain

Sau: Rain that falls on the river shoal

Amadoi: Sliding red beans to resemble the sound of rain

Nakidashisōna Soramoyō: The sky appears as though it is about to start crying

Kōu: Rain that comes exactly when you were waiting for it

Amagaeru Fukō: A boy who was punished and turned into a frog that cries before it rains for his misdeeds against his father

Sanbaine: A sudden evening storm that occurs so quickly, one has no time to make even three bundles of rice

Zubunure: Soaked by rain all the way through one’s clothing

Amaguri Higaki: In years of rain, chestnuts produce well; in years of sunshine, persimmons produce well

Kitsune no Yomeiri: The day that foxes have their wedding ceremony

Autistic communication bingo

I can relate to a fair few of these and a lot of the people who I associate with have these traits also. Found via BlueSky

Seagrass comes alive in the ebb and flow of the ocean

A mystical dance of amazement

https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/1offrgj/the_seagrass_comes_alive_with_the_ebb_and_flow_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

My perfect dream home

This gilded Middle Eastern salon adorned with intricate frescoes to romantic floral patterns and warm colours is my perfect dream home.

Djuma Soundsystem – Les Djinns (Trentemøller Remix)

I don’t know Djuma Soundsystem I am so glad that now I do. The combination of dark electro and middle eastern influence is a match made in heaven. Trentemøller has an amazing and extensive back catalogue of dark electro and techno to explore and enjoy as well.

https://youtu.be/SHfqI7PntCc?si=m3KUg0uKmOD0VZQR

The enchanting Ottoman maps of ancient cities by Matrakçı Nasuh

The Bosnian-born polymath Matrakçı Nasuh earned his nickname from an unlikely source, inventing a military lawn game involving cudgels called “matrak”. But this 16th-century scholar’s legacy lays mainly in his exquisite miniature paintings documenting the Ottoman Empire’s landscapes and cities.

His most significant work, Fetihname-i Karabuğdan, chronicles Suleiman the Magnificent’s 1532–1555 Safavid campaign. The manuscript traces the Ottoman army’s route from Istanbul through Baghdad and Tabriz, then back through Halab and Eskisehir. Each city appears rendered with meticulous and charming detail.

Matrakçı’s precision and artful execution became so influential that it spawned a new genre of art! the “Matrakçı style.” via Public Domain Review

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