The carving was ancient, hidden high up on a sheer rock face. Translated, it said:
"You climb as well as Anghim."
More were found, on other mountains Anghim had climbed, thousands of years ago.
The last we found simply said "Anghim is satisfied".
On Olympus Mons, on Mars.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Ah, I see; from his Medium post or whatever it was 'I just think it’s a really toxic place, and that there’s no way to “win” the fights I keep compulsively getting into there.'
And not at all because of all the private medical information that he helped distribute in blatant violation of the law.
Got it. :)
Guess each pair of similar words, that have different meanings:
1. opaque and chalky color + try-hard social fail
2. mid-century modern laminated marble - Forest girls who live in a pile.
3. taken, what's not yours - lovely for the shoulders
4. bountiful sweets - rainless lands
5. Extra mom - little ones
6. sour grapes sound - sour grapes drink
7. Axe for mooses - Axe for successful companies
8. cats gone wild - pen grip
9. proto-mushroom - pack it in and pop it out #wordgame
.@Axiom_Space revealed a spacesuit prototype that our @NASA_Astronauts plan to wear near the Moon’s South Pole on @nasa’s #Artemis III mission.
The spacesuit will give lunar explorers extra mobility, protection, & the latest technology. Discover more: http://go.nasa.gov/400qG6e
#NASAArtemis #Artemis
On March 15, 1937, Howard Philips Lovecraft – better known as H.P. Lovecraft – author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction, passed away. He is renown as the originator of the Cthulhu Mythos story cycle and the Necronomicon, a fictional magical textbook of rites and forbidden lore.
Image o' the Day! :)
From https://constable-frozen.tumblr.com/ via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvyMurQf33Y (a wonderful STRANGE ÆONS piece on classic #tumblr blogs.
What did the framers want? Let’s give them a little credit.
“With knowledge of a 2023 in which mass shootings occur almost daily … the hypothetical Framer-ancestor might be both baffled and horrified at the prospect of “freedom” in future generations meaning that government could not stop the massacre of small children in schools because it turned out that the Constitution they drafted forbade virtually any regulation of guns.” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/gun-laws-bruen-clarence-thomas-framers-domestic-abuse.html
Dismantling the dogmas of life and death – how a forgotten prodigy presaged the quantum undoing of time and thermodynamics https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/09/the-animate-and-the-inanimate-william-james-sidis/
“What’s the difference between Senator Sinema and me? When bank lobbyists asked me to weaken bank regulations, I said no. When they asked Senator Sinema, she asked how much—and voted yes. Now we are all going to pay for her mistake.” 🔥- Ruben Gallego running to boot Republican lite Sinema out of the US Senate. #uspol
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kyrsten-sinema-wants-accountability-for-silicon-valley-bank-mess-hand-her-a-mirror
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