Yet another birdsite refugee (although I was hardly active on it). Mainly plan to boost, rather than write original content (writing is scary!) but we'll see.
I'm also a #filker (listener, singer, archivist, very occasional writer of #filk), although under a different name.
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If anyone's looking for something to work on for project gutenberg, I prepared all the scans for "The Coasts of Illusion" by Clark B. Firestone and it's in stage one proofreading now! https://www.pgdp.net/c/project.php?id=projectID65c051b0679a9
it's a strange and discursive little collection of premodern "travel tales" and one of the main sources for Avram Davidson's delightful "Adventures in Unhistory". it also has some utterly gorgeous illustrations scattered throughout. anyway have a ball
A menagerie of non-tree garden treasures from early November in SW Washington.
do you like niche community drama?
do you like getting mad over public goods seemingly being ruined by people who won't comment when asked about their actions?
read about the site where @HelenBranswell, the first US journo to write about Covid, found out about Covid:
If you want your local media outlets to open fedi accounts, maybe post links to their stories, so the people monitoring site stats see incoming traffic from here.
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@ifixcoinops I did this early on! Once I got to work for the, I shit you not, Bread Research Institute. I was hired to do some data entry, they saw I knew something about computers so they got me to do some desktop publishing stuff and stick around longer. Bonus money, but that wasn't the best bit.
Staying longer meant I was there on the second Friday. Every second Friday was a Baking Day so I went to my second job (as a waiter) eating a whole loaf of still-warm freshly-baked Research Bread.
historic drystone sheep dyke
Apple Annie 
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Derek Pennycuff
Alex Wild
Damien Hurrell
Mark Reid
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