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@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-02 01:09:13

Emari Demercado among group of Cardinals RBs needed to fill void created by injuries espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/464549

Cardinals need to fill void in injury-depleted running back room - ESPN
After Trey Benson (knee) went on short-term IR, it will be up to Emari Demercado, Michael Carter and Bam Knight to step up.

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-11-01 05:50:30

New short SF story, "Terminal Pacifism". I think it'll be a hit with the fedi crowd, let me know what you think :)
serd.es/2025/10/31/Terminal-Pa

@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-11-02 18:11:52

"Did Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (1915-1990) read “An Experiment in Time”? Could it be that he had a series of dreams between 1960 and 1968, and that he quickly wrote them down in his diary before breakfast? We can only speculate. But we do know for a fact that those dreams begat a nothing short of extraordinary sequence of writings."

J. C. R. Licklider & M. Mitchell Waldrop
The writings of Jorge Luis Borges twist our perception of time and space. In between articles about Shaw, Chesterton, Wilde, and Coleridge, his 1952 book "Otras Inquisiciones" included an unexpected gem: a short story called "El Tiempo y J. W. Dunne". The question is, who was this John William Dunne and what does he have to do with time? Well, his name might be forgotten by contemporary audiences, but Dunne was the author of one of the biggest bestsellers of the first half of the twentieth cent…

@threeofus@mstdn.social
2025-11-02 18:30:28

Really loved this short story about love, betrayal and healing.
#samhain

Drama on 4 - Samhain - BBC Sounds
By Ben Lewis. Soulful drama infused with storytelling and song.

@salrandolph@zirk.us
2025-10-30 14:21:13

A tale for these days when we enjoy being spooked by what haunts us.
#fiction #flashfiction
salrandolph.substack.com/p/gho…

Ghost Story
Spooky fiction - a short short or flash fiction tale for the days when we enjoy being spooked by what haunts us.

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-10-29 02:00:18
Content warning: Muddled maunderings of a doddering fool.

#muddledMaunderings caveat emptor.
Details within.

A book is a set of possibilities. I read this in a short story in the November/December 2023 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction. The story was titled, The Four Last Things, by Cristopher Rowe. I don’t know why, but the phrase has attached itself in my mind. In the story, the phrase is almost a throwaway line, spoken by a character to an AI in answer to the question, what is a book? It’s like watching a meme invading my mind in real time. I can almost feel tendrils of connection spreading into, …
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-09-29 02:54:32

Raiders' Smith says he's falling short after 3 INTs espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/464169

Geno Smith says he's falling short of expectations after 3 INTs - ESPN
Gen Smith took ownership of his three interceptions in Sunday's loss, saying the guy he was brought to the Raiders to be "hasn't [shown] up yet."

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-10-29 15:46:02

Bangladesh to reintroduce captive elephants to the wild news.mongabay.com/short-articl

Bangladesh to reintroduce captive elephants to the wild
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Bangladesh has embarked on an ambitious plan to end the centuries-old practice of keeping elephants in captivity. The government has begun retrieving privately owned elephants and aims to rehabilitate them in the wild. The initiative follows a 2024 […]

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-08-30 11:49:14

How can Cowboys replace Micah Parsons after trade? Looking at options for 2025 and beyond usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/

How can Cowboys replace Micah Parsons after trade? Looking at options for 2025 and beyond
The Micah Parsons trade changed the whole complexion of the Cowboys' defense. How will Dallas replace its star pass rusher in the short and long term?

@compfu@mograph.social
2025-09-30 18:42:05

This awesome t-shirt caused me to rewatch the #DaftPunk anime saga. I thought there were only 4 music videos but there are in fact many more (not for any hit singles though). Another tiny easter egg is the short drummer's back story: He's supposed to be from my home town Munich! So of course he likes beer :)

Still frame from Daft Punk's music video for Crescendolls. It shows the face of a man in the style of Japanese anime. He has rather long brown hair and purple round glasses. Information about him is shown: his name is Baryl (drums), age 20, born in Munich. Loves: boxing, beer and horror movies. Hates: ice skating.
@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-09-30 07:45:16

One aspect of the "Bitcoin Queen" story is what happens to the seized crypto assets. Attempting to convert coins valued at £5 billion in a short amount of time might depress the market.
It's why there was so much lobbying of Trump by the crypto industry. The "U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" is essentially a promise not to sell seized bitcoin.
(I can't see the UK government making the same call.)

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-10-20 11:16:23

Day 26: Emily Short
If you know who Short is, you know exactly why she's on this list. If you don't, you're probably in the majority. She's an absolutely legendary author within the interactive fiction (IF) community, which gets somewhat pigeonholed by stuff like Zork when there's actually a huge range of stuff in the medium some of which isn't even puzzle-focused, and Short has been writing & coding on the bleeding edge of things for decades.
I was lucky enough to be introduced to Short's work in graduate school, where we played "Galatea" as part of an interactive fiction class. Short uses a lot of clever parser tricks to make your conversation with a statue feel very fluid and conversational, giving to contemporary audiences a great example of how vibrant interaction with a well-designed agent can be in contrast to an LLM, if you're willing to put in some work on bespoke parsing & responses (although the user does need to know basic IF conventions). While I didn't explore the full range of Galatea's many possible outcomes, it left a strong impression on me as a vision for what IF could be besides dorky puzzles, and I think that "visionary" is a great term to describe Short.
If you'd like you get a feel for her (very early) work, you can play Galatea here: #30AuthorsNoMen

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-22 22:20:45

Tech leaders embracing Trump for short-term gain may ultimately imperil their companies and is counter to Silicon Valley's idealistic roots (Steven Levy/Wired)
wired.com/story/silicon-valley

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-08-29 05:33:25

#FantasticPromptsEnglish 27.08.2025
Choose a scene that has stuck in your mind & rewrite it from memory.
I did once steal a scene outline from someone else's short story which I thought was really badly written, and built a whole novel around it which I'm on the whole pretty pleased with; but it's a novel I'll never share with anyone and definite…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-08-27 18:00:56

"Can we undo extinction? A growing effort to restore lost sharks"
#Sharks #Animals #Conservation

Can we undo extinction? A growing effort to restore lost sharks
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the turquoise shallows of Raja Ampat, Indonesia, a conservation experiment is attempting the rewilding of an endangered shark. The initiative, known as ReShark, seeks to restore populations of the Indo-Pacific leopard shark (Stegostoma tigrinum), also called the […]

@arXiv_csCV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-24 11:09:54

Long Story Short: Disentangling Compositionality and Long-Caption Understanding in VLMs
Israfel Salazar, Desmond Elliott, Yova Kementchedjhieva
arxiv.org/abs/2509.19207

Long Story Short: Disentangling Compositionality and Long-Caption Understanding in VLMs
Contrastive vision-language models (VLMs) have made significant progress in binding visual and textual information, but understanding long, dense captions remains an open challenge. We hypothesize that compositionality, the capacity to reason about object-attribute bindings and inter-object relationships, is key to understanding longer captions. In this paper, we investigate the interaction between compositionality and long-caption understanding, asking whether training for one property enhance…

@volephd@fediscience.org
2025-08-30 18:19:40

Hey @… I was just listening to the great literary olfactoloy episode with @allylouks.bsky.social€, but I feel that the existence/role of human pheromones has been a bit misrepresented.
I have worked on mammalian pheromones for my PhD, and I have encountered (at least) two major definitions of the term "pheromone", one based on the function of a substance, and the other, which I personally prefer, on the information flow involved in it (doi.org/10.1159/000096511).
Based on the Sbarbati & Osculati definition, a pheromone would be a component that conveys information between individuals of the same species.
There is also quite a bit of research that argues for the existence of human pheromones (e.g. doi.org/10.1002/ar.a.20125, doi.org/10.1002/ar.a.20125, doi.org/10.1126/science.119833)
However, the discussion on the existence of human pheromones is difficult, as it touches on the topic of free will as many reactions to odor are involuntary. During the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste held in Iceland in 2024, there have been several session on human olfaction touching on sensitive aspects such as olfaction-mediated effects on mate choice and pregnancy, but none of the researchers dared utter the word pheromone, while colleagues working on other mammals where happily talking about pheromonal effects for very similar topics.
Long story short, I feel that saying there is no hard evidence for human pheromones is misrepresenting the current research.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-09-28 05:14:24

Oklahoma State football falls short vs Baylor to open post-Mike Gundy era oklahoman.com/story/sports/col

Oklahoma State football falls short vs Baylor to open post-Mike Gundy era | 5 takeaways
Doug Meacham injected fun into Oklahoma State football, adding a slew of trick plays that energized the offense, but the Cowboy defense couldn’t answer the call often enough in a 45-27 loss to Baylor.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-27 06:44:47

Rodgers, Steelers fall short in QB's Packers reunion espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/467419

Aaron Rodgers, Steelers fall short in QB's reunion with Packers - ESPN
Amid chants of "Go Pack Go" at Pittsburgh's Acrisure Stadium, Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers were overwhelmed on the field en route to a 35-25 loss to the QB's former Green Bay team.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-09-26 20:15:31

'Could've been an email': Hegseth mocked as details emerge on 'short speech' to top brass - Raw Story
rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2674

@dwf@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-30 16:50:50

Looked up a truly dreadful piece of CanLit I was made to read in high school (because the author is now subject to book bans in Alberta), it seems whoever was writing the Wikipedia article fell asleep mid sentence, which is quite relatable given the subject material

Screenshot of Wikipedia: the paragraph is unfinished and trails off mid-sentence. The text reads: A Bird in the House, first published in 1970, is a short story sequence written by Margaret Laurence.[*2] Noted by Laurence to be "semi- autobiographical”, 3! the series chronicles the growing up of a young agnostic writer, Vanessa MacLeod, in the fictional town of Manawaka, Manitoba.l%! A Bird in the House was written from the perspective of Vanessa at age forty, while she recalls her childhood (…
@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-08-30 19:52:56

In the finale of Long Story Short you see a 2022 funeral. One family is masked and no-one else is.

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-08-25 22:53:31

The clothes that never die: How fast fashion is burying Africa in plastic news.mongabay.com/short-articl

The clothes that never die: How fast fashion is burying Africa in plastic
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Mountains of smoking waste sprawl across the Dandora dump in Nairobi, Kenya. The acrid stench clings to the air; marabou storks pick over scraps alongside people searching for plastic bottles or bones. Interspersed among the refuse are scraps […]

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-09-13 14:36:09

Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable "graphic content" and "glorified violence" (Lauren Goode/Wired)
wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-s

Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content Moderation World
Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-26 11:21:12

3 keys to victory in Week 8: Cowboys’ balance, defending short game and more cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story

3 keys to victory in Week 8: Cowboys’ balance, defending short game and more
If the Dallas Cowboys want to upset the Denver Broncos in Week 8, they need to make sure they address these three keys to victory

@scottmiller42@mstdn.social
2025-09-22 15:19:14

For most of my 30 year career in Information Technology in the USA, I've been concerned about H1B visa workers replacing me, or at least pushing wages down. So, you might think I'd be in favor of POTUS47's H1B visa changes.
Too few characters here to get into the full story, but the short answer is, no. Making it harder to hire H1B visas will long-term push more jobs overseas where they will be completely unattainable by myself.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-13 06:35:54

Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable "graphic content" and "glorified violence" (Lauren Goode/Wired)
wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-s

Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content Moderation World
Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules.

@arXiv_mathCO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-19 09:34:01

The Story of Sunflowers
Anup Rao
arxiv.org/abs/2509.14790 arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14790

The Story of Sunflowers
Sunflowers, or $Δ$-systems, are a fundamental concept in combinatorics introduced by Erdős and Rado in their paper: {\em Intersection theorems for systems of sets}, J. Lond. Math. Soc. (1) {\bf 35} (1960), 85--90. A sunflower is a collection of sets where all pairs have the same intersection. This paper explores the wide-ranging applications of sunflowers in computer science and combinatorics. We discuss recent progress towards the sunflower conjecture and present a short elementary proof of …

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-13 01:54:17

Barton Hall like you've never seen it -- since they haven't finished the new field hockey field they rolled out turf inside Barton! They had a game today but I missed it, not least because i didn't pack the right lens, but given that the bus broke down on the way home I should have been there!
en.wikiped…

A wide-angle shot of the inside of a large clear span structure with an indoor running track that is interrupted by a short plywood barrier and past that a field of green artificial turf with a yellow goal structure with a black net, and to the left a building inside the building with a blue first story and white second story.
@mlawton@mstdn.social
2025-08-17 18:33:00

Finished “Abscond”, a short story by Abraham Verghese.
Rami, a teenage boy in 1967 knows what his mother intends for his life, slightly undermined by the tacit support he has from his father to pursue his passion.
While he dreams and makes secret plans for his future, a sudden event upends his family’s lives. Now he must play a new role and understand a new truth of the world. Bittersweet and very palpably present.
4/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Abscond
Fate challenges a boy to find his place in the world in…

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-09-25 09:51:34

In any case, day 2: Ursula K Le Guin.
As I've said elsewhere, part of her science fiction thesis is that "human" can encompass much more than what we mere Terrans think of it as, and that moral standing extends broadly throughout the universe. This is the antithesis of Tokens fantasy, wherein "race" is real and determines moral standing. For Le Guin, it's barely okay to intervene in complex alien politics unless you carefully ensure you're not causing systemic harms; for Tolkien, it's okay to ambush and murder orc children, because they are by nature evil.
Add to her excellent politics Le Guin's masterful worldbuilding and unparalleled range of plots, and you have the one author I loved as a decidedly liberal and naïve teen and love even more now that I'm an adult. She's an absolute legend and deserves a very high place on any list of women authors (or list of authors, period.).
For a short story, try "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" which you can read here: utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.p
For fantasy "A Wizard of Earthsea" (also has a nice graphic novel adaptation), or for science fiction, "The Left Hand of Darkness" or if you want a more anarchist flavor, "The Dispossessed."
I'll close this with an amazing quote from her:
"""
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
"""

@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-05 16:25:52

The Animator's Tale
A short story about the effect of the news from Gaza on a British animator.
#story

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-09-10 18:05:47

Watch: Devin White's resurgent Raiders debut is not being talked about nearly enough raiderswire.usatoday.com/story

Watch: Devin White's resurgent Raiders debut is not being talked about nearly enough
Devin White's performance in his Raiders debut was nothing short of spectacular and needs more recognition. So, we look at a few of his best plays.

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-09-11 05:37:33

All the talk today about the morality of killing a monstrous person (C. Kirk) reminded me of the Arthur Clarke short story "Exile of the Eons".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_of

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-08-08 17:12:19

It's been ages since I posted any donkey content. So here's a still from a short film from the early 60s about Philippe, a 5 year-old boy imagining what it would be like to live the story his mother reads to him. The film is held by the Archives de Montréal.
"Philippe au Jardin des merveilles" (1963?)
youtu.be/8GNhvU…

A young boy in a red coat and a girl in a plaid skirt and pink top feed a donkey over a wooden and wire fence. Other children look on.
@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-08 14:38:44

going through my months-old screenshots and this motherfucker is a recurring pattern

@earnestbet Apr 23: in 2021 i lost $12k and was homeless for three years after producing an adaptation of this short story. i thought he (the director) would see my sacrifice as a grand romantic gesture and fall in love with me. it never happened and we also never got the rights to distribute @holy_thefirm: Everything is green
she brought her minibong. smoked me out. now we're in my van in this stand-your-ground ass suburb watching a film i made six years ago about getting strapped
very very cute american expat from mexico city was over last night. i was drinking wine straight from the bottle as he lay there naked while i showed him pictures of all the pretty girls i follow on twitter. he yawned, told me i talk like a straight guy, got dressed, and left
@earnestbet Jul 24: drove 2 hours to the next town for a 27-year-old trump-coded biden voter. she snuck me into her house past her sleeping mom and DL dad lifting in the garage. fed me cherries on the floor. she asked me if i was gayer than i let on. i said maybe. i think she likes that about me @realjtleroy: u have a beautiful lifestyle
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-30 17:00:15

"California learns from its beaver reintroductions"
#US #USA #America #California

California learns from its beaver reintroductions
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Tásmam Koyóm, a high Sierra meadow in California, U.S. returned to the Mountain Maidu people in 2019, is once again wet where once it had been dry. Rivulets now snake through hip-high grasses and willow thickets, feeding a […]

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-08-15 02:38:32

Brazil’s shark meat problem #AnimalRights

Brazil’s shark meat problem
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The country best known for samba and soybeans has quietly become the world’s largest importer of shark meat. A recent investigation by Mongabay’s Philip Jacobson, Karla Mendes and Kuang Keng Kuek Ser reveals the extent to which this […]

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-09-12 21:54:19

Seahawks to be thin in secondary vs. Steelers espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/462370

Injuries leave Seahawks short-handed in secondary vs. Steelers - ESPN
The Seahawks will be without rookie safety Nick Emmanwori while Pro Bowl cornerback Devon Witherspoon is listed as doubtful due to a knee injury against the Steelers on Sunday.

@pre@boing.world
2025-10-07 11:07:31

This month's digest/newsletter is being sent from my server to all the respectful one-time protestors who asked for it.
The rest of you disrespectful unbritish repeat protestors ought to be arrested but you can read it here:
dalliance.net/blog/sep25/
Featuring descriptions of the start of the building of a bedroom, a fediverse rant or two, and Greens Vs Gary plus a Greg Egan's latest short story in the links section.

@cjhearn@mastodonapp.uk
2025-10-10 15:21:16

I'm getting myself so annoyed by something that really shouldn't get to me. Lost story short: a neighbour passed away a few months ago - a really lovely guy.
Whenever we spoke, he didn't really talk about his family, although we knew he was divorced and had children, one of which very occasionally visited. He talked about his hobbies, his previous work, and his dog, who had also passed a few months before him.
So, what's grating me? His children are now sorting out his house and possessions and they've parked their massive 4x4s on the front lawn he took so much pride in. Like, not just clipping it at the edge with their wheels, but properly parked over the grass. He didn't have much of a garden, but it was always taken care of. I've also noticed how his Mercedes was the first thing that got the most attention. It just feels so disrespectful it's kinda upsetting.

@salrandolph@zirk.us
2025-09-04 13:50:08

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the mother, but she is always with us.
#fiction #story #flashfiction

Mother of Wheels
A (very) short story about the mother and chance. Part of an ongoing series.

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-11 17:33:47

From a 1903 book republished in 1910

When traveling in Ireland I heard a capital story," said a clubman, recently returned from Europe. "It may be as old as the hills, but I had never heard it before and it struck me as a good sample of an Irish bull. We were driving around the lakes on one of the jaunting cars and got to talking with the driver. You can't help it in Ireland for they will talk to you if you don't to them, you know. And among the varied information he gave us was the fact that
the clergy exacted a tenth of every person's property for the use of the church. ""That's a big slice out of your income, Pat, said I. "Arrah!' he exclaimed, 'that's nothing. Bless your soul they'd be after takin' a twentieth if they could.'"
Atter-Dinner Stories A collection of, the latest, best, and most catchy stories, all so short and pithy as to be easily remembered By JOHN HARRISON Philadelphia
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-09-14 21:16:39

Cowboys escape sloppy back-and-forth thriller, beat Giants 40-37 in OT cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story

Cowboys escape sloppy back-and-forth thriller, beat Giants 40-37 in OT
It started off sloppy but turned into a thriller that needed all of overtime to decide. Here's how the Cowboys pulled off an improbable 40-37 win.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-19 21:34:26

Commanders DE Armstrong suffers knee injury espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/466515

Commanders DE Dorance Armstrong suffers knee injury vs. Cowboys - ESPN
The Commanders, already short-handed at defensive end, lost another starter at the position Sunday when Dorance Armstrong was ruled out in the game against the Cowboys because of a knee injury.

@salrandolph@zirk.us
2025-10-09 13:17:43

A new (very) short story.
salrandolph.substack.com/p/can

Canaries
Short fiction inspired by reading Yasunari Kawabata's Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.

@stargazer@woof.tech
2025-09-15 14:22:42

#WritersCoffeeClub
13. Talk about the joy writing has brought you.
14. Why do you write in the form you do? Why not in another format? (poem, short story, novel, etc)
15. How do your immediate surroundings influence your work?
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13. A usual mix on neuromediators, I believe. Not sure if there's anything special about it. Hard to describe.
14. Trivial: that&…

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-08-15 18:07:04

Can Cowboys buck short, strange, painful history vs their most uncommon opponent? cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story

Can Cowboys buck short, strange, painful history vs their most uncommon opponent?
The Ravens are the Cowboys' most uncommon opponent, and the one they have the worst record against. Those few games have provided some drama, though.

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-10-15 12:08:42

Day 22: Yuki Urushibara
I've got a few more mangaka left on my short list, and might very well get to at least one more, but Urushibara is the author of Mushishi and anyone who knows either the manga or anime understands immediately why she appears here.
Mushishi is a "seinen" anime, which means it's written for adults, not children or teenagers (although it's very accessible for all ages). It deals with a vast array of life's circumstances through the lens of a traveling mushi expert and the various whimsical supernatural creatures he is called on to deal with. He's not an exorcist though, instead understanding that humans must live in harmony with the mushi, and working like an ecologist to sort things out. As is probably obvious, Urushibara is an incredible world-builder; she's also a top-notch artist and above all, her stories are overflowing with kindness, humanity, and respect for the natural world.
Besides Mushishi, I've read "Suiiki", and it's one of the few manga I stumbled through in the original Japanese, which says a lot given my limited reading vocabulary (and the fact that it doesn't include rubi). It weaves the supernatural into a story of childhood innocence and curiosity in a lovely way.
Much like Shirahama who I mentioned earlier, Urushibara's stories are full of gentle wisdom for all ages, but Urushibara's work is quieter and less dramatic, with an adult main character confident in his expertise instead of a young-and-learning protagonist.
#30AuthorsNoMen

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-08-18 13:26:23

Overreaction, underreaction, proper reaction: Cowboys preseason analysis cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story

Overreaction, underreaction, proper reaction: Cowboys preseason analysis
The Cowboys have looked nothing short of terrible this preseason, and while some reactions are warranted some are not.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-08 12:29:21

He could go all the ... what?!? 7 times an NFL player dropped the ball short of the end zone espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/465234

7 times an NFL player dropped the ball short of the goal line - ESPN
Emari Demercado, Adonai Mitchell and Jonathan Taylor will share the field Sunday and a bond they'd rather forget.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-10 22:14:40

Seahawks likely down 3 DBs on Sunday vs. Jags espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/465551

Short-handed Seahawks likely to be down 3 starting DBs vs. Jags - ESPN
The Seattle Seahawks' secondary hasn't been whole since the first drive of the season opener, and it will once again be undermanned when they play the Jaguars in Jacksonville Sunday.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-08-26 12:00:42

"The clothes that never die: How fast fashion is burying Africa in plastict"
#Africa #Fashion #FastFashion #Textiles

The clothes that never die: How fast fashion is burying Africa in plastic
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Mountains of smoking waste sprawl across the Dandora dump in Nairobi, Kenya. The acrid stench clings to the air; marabou storks pick over scraps alongside people searching for plastic bottles or bones. Interspersed among the refuse are scraps […]

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-09-08 12:09:11

'No moral victories' for Cowboys in Brian Schottenheimer's head coaching debut espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/461851

'No moral victories' for Cowboys in Schottenheimer's debut - ESPN
Dallas came up short against Philadelphia, but there were signs of promise that left Jerry Jones "encouraged."

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2025-09-05 05:09:34

Dak Prescott has up-and-down performance in Cowboys' 2025 season-opening loss usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/

Dak Prescott has up-and-down performance in Cowboys' 2025 season-opening loss
Dak Prescott returned after missing the final nine games of the 2024 season, but his comeback attempt fell short as the Eagles prevailed.

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2025-09-03 11:46:48

The top candidates to fill void of elite Cowboys defenders after Parsons trade cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story

The top candidates to fill void of elite Cowboys defenders after Parsons trade
When the Dallas Cowboys traded star pass rusher Micah Parsons, it left them short on elite level talent on defense.