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Our theme this month was "Books and Learning." I wrote from 1 PM to 4 AM, so about 13 hours, accounting for breaks. I wrote 2 poems on Tuesday and another 5 later in the week.

Participation was about the same, with 7 comments on LiveJournal and another 23 on Dreamwidth. A total of 9 people sent prompts.

Read Some Poetry!
The following poems from the August 5, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl have been posted:
"He Who Whispers"
"An Inkling of Things to Come"
"To Allow in More Light"

Buy some poetry!
If you plan to sponsor some poetry but haven't made up your mind yet, see the unsold poetry list from August 5. That includes the title, length, price, and the original thumbnail description for the poems still available.

This month's donors include:

janetmiles and

fuzzyred. All sponsored poems from this fishbowl have been posted. There are 0 tallies toward a bonus fishbowl.

The Poetry Fishbowl has a landing page.

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ysabetwordsmith

Tonight I am making Ginger Gold Apple Pie. :D I've added 1/2 teaspoon of tapioca starch in hopes of thickening the filling a bit, but otherwise it's the same as before. If you see any, grab them -- these apples only appear for 2-3 weeks, usually in August.

Current Mood: busy

dustbunny105

Our microwave is, like. Haunted or something?? It's perfectly normal when it's just sitting there and when it's in use. But whenever we've opened it for the last few days, it kinda turns on. With the door open. Like, I'm not sure if it's actually heating since I'm not sticking my hand in there. But it makes the "cooking something" hum and the turntable spins. Spooky!

(The internet tells me this is most likely a case of a damaged motor but it's more fun if it's haunted.)

dewline

Would you believe that there is a star that humans have catalogued as "COCONUTS-3A" (among other catalogue numbers) and that for Star Trek purposes, it is just coreward of places like Morska and Rura Penthe?

You can look it up on SIMBAD.

I wonder what the Klingons' identification of it is.

Current Mood: amused

ysabetwordsmith

The following poems from the August 5, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl are currently available. Poems may be sponsored via PayPal -- there's a permanent donation button on my Dreamwidth profile page -- or you can write to me and discuss other methods. There are still verses left in the linkback poems "Delight in Another," "A Sense of Weather Changes," "Ouroboros Insects," "The Loving Embrace of Night," "Generations of Cooks Past," "Homefree and Clear, " "One Bite at a Time," "Stars and Diamonds," "Mishpocha," "Changing Your Nature," and "Besa."

"The Most Prestigious Heritage"
Story Date: Sunday, July 12, 2015
Summary: Syrian families create a language nest in Rutledge.
447 lines, Buy It Now = $224

Sabra Mamoud loved working
at 'Aswat Saghira, or in English,
the Little Voices Language Nest.

These poems form a triptych, to be posted in order:

"Where You Find Light"
Story Date: Early June, 2016
Summary: Josué and Aidan set up a house for earthquake refugees, complete with books.
422 lines, Buy It Now = $211

As soon as Aidan recovered
from the Big One flattening him
with the weight of so many deaths
and disruptions all at once, he
began looking for ways to help.

"When You Learn to Read"
Story Date: Monday, June 13, 2016
Summary: Josué reads aloud to refugee children.
286 lines, Buy It Now = $143

Josué parked his bike and
then bounded up the steps
of the big, bright pink house,
already looking forward to
the afternoon's activities.

"No Faster or Firmer Friendships"
Story Date: Monday, June 13, 2016
Summary: Josué and Maria-Vera read together.
515 lines, Buy It Now = $258

Once they finished putting away
all the groceries, the children
and a few adults drifted back
into the living room area.

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ysabetwordsmith

Cherokee, Osage, and the Indigenous North American Type Collection

After five years of community-partnered research with First Nations and Inuit communities in Canada and the United States, Typotheque is proud to announce the release of new Cherokee and Osage script fonts. Accompanying these is the Indigenous North American Type Collection, a large set of fonts that support the Indigenous communities in North America and their unique writing systems, in terms of digital access, use, and local typographic needs.

Speak it. Write it. Read it. Live it. Remember it.

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ysabetwordsmith

"Helium Miner's Song" by

catamariner is up for a Pegasus Award.

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dewline

I got wind of this via the League of Movable Type newsletter this morning, so it seems a good idea to share this with all of you reading this account. Because Indigenous type resources are part of the Comeback process as outlined by - among others - John Ralston Saul...

https://www.typotheque.com/blog/cherokee-osage-and-the-indigenous-north-american-type-collection

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ysabetwordsmith

New tech makes it easier to cool communities sweltering in urban heat islands

Take two streets in Boston at 4:30 p.m. on a recent day, as an example. Standing in the sun on Lewis Place, the temperature was 94 degrees Fahrenheit (34.6 degrees Celsius). On Dudley Common, it was 103 F (39.2 C).

Both streets were hot, but the temperature on one was much more dangerous for people’s health and well-being.

The kicker is that those two streets are only a few blocks apart. The difference epitomizes the urban heat island effect, created as pavement and buildings absorb and trap heat, making some parts of the city hotter.

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dhampyresa

1. I feel like if you're chronically ill you should get exempt from being non-chronically ill.

2. I thought I was better, but then I got irrationally grumpy over a book review having the "The Art and Making Of Arcane" in their background. It's no one's fault the French edition is out of print, I just wish I had that book.

ysabetwordsmith

swan_tower has a bit up about worldbuilding on-ramps.

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ysabetwordsmith

You are here.

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is mostly sunny and mild.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

EDIT 8/29/25 -- I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 8/29/25 -- I cut brush under the maple tree.

EDIT 8/29/25 -- I planted 2 Red Masterpiece irises under the maple tree and 2 Twist of Sheree purple-and-white irises in the purple-and-white garden.

EDIT 8/29/25 -- I watered the irises.

EDIT 8/29/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I watered the old picnic table, patio plants, and house yard plants.

I picked 6 groundcherries and 1 yellow pear tomato.

EDIT 8/29/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

I watered the new picnic table, septic garden, telephone pole garden, and a few savanna seedlings.

Cicadas and crickets are singing.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

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jesse_the_k

@etymologynerd on TikTok • etymology_nerd on YouTube (note underscore)

My first fandom is language. Let me enthuse about the Etymology Nerd Adam Aleksic. He's a short-form video presenter, essayist, and recently-published author. He started on Reddit, but attained fame on TikTok, and his YouTube is 90% shorts (but not every TikTok has made it to YouTube). It's important that his videos are accurately captioned, cause he speaks faster than an auctioneer on meth. No video description and his hand-held camera means flashing and shaking images. The videos reward multiple views.

( six links to short videos, accurately captioned without video description )

Three Essays to Read

If you prefer prose, his Substack newsletter offers RSS at https://etymology.substack.com/feed or luck into one of his maybe-monthly essays here via etymologynerd_feed (DW feeds only go back two weeks).

Want more? My first internet #lingcomm crush interviewed Aleksic on Lingthusiasm podcast 105—both audio and transcript there, with insights into best practices in vertical video and why it feels different than old-style horizontals.

Any linguistic communicators making you happy?

ysabetwordsmith

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner

“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with Shoobababoo and occasionally kleptomitrons. I’ve gotten to work for Company1 doing Shoobaboo-ing code things and that’s what led me to the Snarfus. So, let’s dive in!

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devilc

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purplecat

The foundations of a long oblong stone brick roman building showing the pillars that once supported the hypocaust.

Housteads Roman Fort

camwyn

Still here, just haven't checked in on the site in a while. It's been... it's been a day. Over and over and over again, you know?

ysabetwordsmith

These are active communities in Dreamwidth from Summer 2025 . They include things I've posted, but only the active ones; the thematic posts also list dormant communities of interest. This list includes some communities that I've found and saved but haven't made it into thematic posts yet. This post covers J-Z.

See my Follow Friday Master Post for more topics.

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ysabetwordsmith

thefridayfive posted these today:

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Page Summary

ysabetwordsmith - Poetry Fishbowl Report for August 5, 2025
ysabetwordsmith - Today's Cooking
dustbunny105 - (no subject)
dewline - Star Trek Mapping: COCONUTS-3A and the Klingon Empire
ysabetwordsmith - Unsold Poems for the August 5, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl
ysabetwordsmith - Indigenous People
ysabetwordsmith - "Helium Miner's Song" by Catamariner
dewline - Indigenous Type
ysabetwordsmith - Climate Change
dhampyresa - Grump grump
ysabetwordsmith - Worldbuilding
ysabetwordsmith - Venn Diagram
ysabetwordsmith - Birdfeeding
jesse_the_k - boost: Etymology Nerd is a glorious linguistic communicator
ysabetwordsmith - Writing
devilc - Observation about SAS Rogue Heroes
purplecat - Random Roman Remains
camwyn - (no subject)
ysabetwordsmith - Follow Friday 8-29-25: Active Communities on Dreamwidth Summer 2025 J-Z
ysabetwordsmith - Friday Five

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