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matthew_feed- Fri, 20:26 Birth Week 1976 Local Landmark # 1: 1600 Seventh Avenue, Seattle, WA
Opened (as 1600 Bell Plaza): November 22, 1976
32 floors, 498 ft.
Nov 1976 dedication ceremony featured then-Governer Dan Evans, and Don Ameche, the actor who portrayed Alexander Graham Bell in the 1939 biographical film about him. Was previously named Pacific Northwest Bell Building (during construction), US West Communications, and Qwest Plaza before shedding any corporate name in favor of 1600 Seventh Avenue after being sold in 2012. Most floors of the building now house Nordstrom offices. https://t.co/TyBfb14JhO - Fri, 20:37: Birth Week 1976 Local Landmark #2: Third Place Books, originally PCC Ravenna store, Seattle WA
Opened (as PCC Ravenna): 1976. Actually the second location of the Ravenna store, which originally opened in 1969, but Third Place Books is in the building that was PCC Ravenna between 1976 and 2001.
It was basically put out of business by the opening of Whole Foods half a mile to the west, which opened in late 1999 and is still there now. It's been Third Place Books since 2002. It has a cafe in the back of the bookstore upstairs and a pub in the lower level, which used to be PCC storage space. https://t.co/5iEbqfDgAq
‘Bat feast’ animal videos at African cave offer clues to how deadly viruses spread
Apr. 25th, 2026 12:00 pmsciam_feedResearchers filmed 10 species eating or scavenging bats at known Marburg-virus hotspot—and caught hundreds of humans visiting
polyamships at 3 Weeks 4 Dreamwidth
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3weeks4dreamwidthFor the next three weeks, at polyamships we will make a post every other day discussing, reccing, and commenting polyam ships. These posts will go up exclusively on DW and, hopefully, they will encourage more community amongst like-minded people on this platform.
Come chat with us! Our first post is up!
polyamships we will make a post every other day discussing, reccing, and commenting polyam ships. These posts will go up exclusively on DW and, hopefully, they will encourage more community amongst like-minded people on this platform.Come chat with us! Our first post is up!
Books Received, April 18 — April 24
Apr. 25th, 2026 09:19 amjames_davis_nicoll
Four books new to me. Three fantasy, one horror (maybe?) and at least one is part of a series.
Books Received, April 18 — April 24
Poll #34517 Books Received, April 18 — April 24
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6
Which of these look interesting?
View Answers
The Drakon King by Terry J. Benton-Walker (November 2026)
0 (0.0%)
They Cry by Glen Cook (November 2026)
1 (16.7%)
The Raven at the Ash Door by K. A. Linde (June 2026)
0 (0.0%)
Monsters of Ohio by John Scalzi (November 2026)
3 (50.0%)
Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)
Cats!
5 (83.3%)
Reading
Apr. 25th, 2026 09:29 ammoon_custaferH. R. Wakefield is mainly remembered for his ghost stories, and for frustrating scholars of the genre by saying he’d had “over a hundred” published, of which only sixty or so are known, and nobody’s sure if he was exaggerating or if there are still a bunch out there.
Meanwhile, a lot of the stories in the anthologies I’ve downloaded aren’t stories, or even weird fiction or sff, at all. ‘Swim-Ease’ is a lightly comic novella about a woman attempting the first-ever cross-Atlantic swim, on behalf of a bathing-suit manufacturer. It’s a delight, and I wish some studio had turned it into a quota-quickie.
Meanwhile, a lot of the stories in the anthologies I’ve downloaded aren’t stories, or even weird fiction or sff, at all. ‘Swim-Ease’ is a lightly comic novella about a woman attempting the first-ever cross-Atlantic swim, on behalf of a bathing-suit manufacturer. It’s a delight, and I wish some studio had turned it into a quota-quickie.
Tokusatsu 3Weeks4DW Events!
Apr. 25th, 2026 09:15 amlinky posting in 3weeks4dreamwidthFor Three Weeks For Dreamwidth I'm hosting a couple Tokusatsu events in two of the comms I run!
Firsttoku100challenge has a drabblethon! What makes this special is you won't need to follow a prompt table as you would normally do for standard posting.
tokurecs is hosting its usual monthly Self Rec post but the time has been extended to the entire event period instead of the usual week or so. :D
First
toku100challenge has a drabblethon! What makes this special is you won't need to follow a prompt table as you would normally do for standard posting.tokurecs is hosting its usual monthly Self Rec post but the time has been extended to the entire event period instead of the usual week or so. :DPrompt fests!
Apr. 25th, 2026 09:06 amtoothpastepancake posting in 3weeks4dreamwidthHello!
In my events journal, I am running a multifandom ultra-rarepair promptfest for this event; Rarest of Rarepairs: Micro Edition. This is for romantic/sexual ships with 35 works or under on AO3 (not counting any other archives), using otp:true.
In my comm,ficto , I am running a three week ficto fest for fictosexuals/romantics/fictospectrum folks, self-shippers, yumeshippers, and anyone aligned to that.
Cannot wait and loving seeing what others are up to!
In my events journal, I am running a multifandom ultra-rarepair promptfest for this event; Rarest of Rarepairs: Micro Edition. This is for romantic/sexual ships with 35 works or under on AO3 (not counting any other archives), using otp:true.
In my comm,
ficto , I am running a three week ficto fest for fictosexuals/romantics/fictospectrum folks, self-shippers, yumeshippers, and anyone aligned to that. Cannot wait and loving seeing what others are up to!
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth
Apr. 25th, 2026 09:08 amfrith
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth starts now, whoop whoop! I don't guarantee nuthin' but I'll give posting everyday for three weeks a shot. ^_^ It'll be a little easier to find fresh pictures to post now that the plants are waking up and waving their sex organs at the bees, butterflies and anything else that can be bribed to bump and grind past their pistils and stamens. Mother Nature will try anything.
georgia and florida are burning
Apr. 25th, 2026 12:18 pmmetafilter_feedA period of severe drought has led to massive wildfires in Georgia and Florida. Georgia's governor has declared a state of emergency. One of the wildfires "is now the most destructive wildfire in Georgia history in terms of buildings lost." In Florida, a volunteer firefighter was killed battling the blaze.
Durlston Meadows
Apr. 25th, 2026 01:40 pmpuddleshark
A walk up through the nature reserve at Durlston to see the cowslips in flower, listen to the skylarks singing above the meadows by the sea.
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it's April 25th!
Apr. 25th, 2026 08:19 ammarcicat"Describe your perfect date."
"That's a tough one. I'd have to say April 25th. Because it's not too hot and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket."
-Miss Congeniality, circa 2000*
(*lol this led me down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out if I was using the word 'circa' correctly, which is to say, if it worked as a funny joke about my recent realization of how long ago the year 2000 was. research was inconclusive, but it made me laugh, so I'll take that as a win)
"That's a tough one. I'd have to say April 25th. Because it's not too hot and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket."
-Miss Congeniality, circa 2000*
(*lol this led me down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out if I was using the word 'circa' correctly, which is to say, if it worked as a funny joke about my recent realization of how long ago the year 2000 was. research was inconclusive, but it made me laugh, so I'll take that as a win)
dailyprompts_feedDescribe a pivotal memory your character rarely revisits. Show how it shaped a belief they still carry.
saturday
Apr. 25th, 2026 08:21 amsummersgate
Momma Alligator launches her babies. Chloe and I were talking yesterday about how alligators and crocodiles are good mothers who protect their babies before and after they hatch. They are more like birds than reptiles. A good picture to celebrate Mother's Day.
I hear from Dave that Rainy has taken to peeing on the kitchen rug while I've been gone. Her communications to tell me she wants to go out are very slight - sometimes she stands on her hind legs and scratches my knee if I'm sitting down (that's good) but sometimes it can just be her staring at me with soulful eyes till I ask her, outside? I think Dave must be missing the signs. I'm already planning how I'm going to wash the rug to get the smell out when I get home. Thank goodness there are enzyme detergents now a days.
I love summer mornings up north when I walk out in light clothes and can sit outside first thing in the morning and do my writing and drawings. I love that I've got a month or so head start on that here.
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Chloe just came out and asked me if I wanted to do yoga with her, so I did. Some of it felt pretty difficult but some felt good. I might get back into the chair yoga videos that I used to do a couple years ago.
Beware Software Brain!
Apr. 25th, 2026 12:07 pmmetafilter_feed"Software brain is powerful stuff. It's a way of thinking that basically created our modern world. Marc Andreessen, the literal embodiment of software brain, called it in 2011 when he wrote the piece "Why software is eating the world" as an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. But software thinking has been turbocharged by AI in a way that I think helps explain the enormous gap between how excited the tech industry is about the technology and how regular people are growing to dislike it more and more over time." from Nilay Patel in Decoder at The Verge.
It doesn't say about the generational changes that come about as each group has a new baseline of technology; while Gen Z are credited as highest rate of adopters for GenAI tools, they're the least satisfied and hate them. It does say something like Engineer Mindset where everything is amenable to rules, structure and sequencing, and also crosses over to Law for the same reasons. There's that lens for new technology: you were excited by changes in the world in you twenties, tolerated the delta in your thirties and everything new after forty is an abhorrent escapee from hell. I'm an artisanal driver, it'll be another generational change for me to learn how to share spaces and anticipate the behaviour of robo-driven vehicles or to trust traffic flow to a networked optimiser. I wonder if many people don't care for new tools because our lives are full with the tools at hand.
It doesn't say about the generational changes that come about as each group has a new baseline of technology; while Gen Z are credited as highest rate of adopters for GenAI tools, they're the least satisfied and hate them. It does say something like Engineer Mindset where everything is amenable to rules, structure and sequencing, and also crosses over to Law for the same reasons. There's that lens for new technology: you were excited by changes in the world in you twenties, tolerated the delta in your thirties and everything new after forty is an abhorrent escapee from hell. I'm an artisanal driver, it'll be another generational change for me to learn how to share spaces and anticipate the behaviour of robo-driven vehicles or to trust traffic flow to a networked optimiser. I wonder if many people don't care for new tools because our lives are full with the tools at hand.
