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Her Doing

Hello Lovely Peeps!

I thought this was interesting* & will be a springboard down a rabbit trail, I can already tell! 😄

What if all the states in America (or anywhere, really) were configured around principal watersheds?

How would this increase efficient use of water? Of land spaces? Developing urban & agricultural areas? Determining what food can be grown?

I love how this map put things so immediately in context for me & how I 'get' the concept so much more.

This will definitely be a springboard of research for me.

Relatedly, I am currently @r_emrys 's 'A Half-Built Garden' (which seems structured around watersheds) & I am seeing things in a whole new light.

(It is a story of first contact with an alien species, & while I am only a few chapters in, I am *loving* it so far! 🤩)

nextcity.org/urbanist-news/wha

(* Written by @sgoodyear who is no longer here, but am tagging in case she comes back.)

nextcity.orgWhat If States Had Developed Around Watersheds?Land use planner John Lavey takes an unrealized 19th-century idea about planning the West around watersheds and applies it to the entire continental U.S.
#Watershed#Water#Agriculture
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Hedgewizard 🐈

@Lana

You know, as I watched the footage of Al Green remaining on his feet and that shit-eating grin slowly crawling across Trump's smug face, it occurred to me:

In a parallel universe, another Democrat is standing up right now. And then another, and another after that. Within a minute half the Democrats and a couple of Republicans are on their feet, and Trump's grin freezes as he realizes they can't eject them all.

In that Universe they paper over the dissent, but it's too late: his bubble of invulnerability has been pierced.

#AlternativeHistory#algreen#trump
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Licho

300k years of #HomoSapiens and not a single civilization?

How about this piece of #alternativeHistory #microfiction

The phenomenon of #UncannyValley is our ancestor's defense against #AI, that destroyed our first, long forgotten civilization, back during the #Toba catastrophe populational bottleneck, when humanity got reduced down to 1000 ppl. We had a great digital civilization based on plant-derived conductive polymers instead of silicon. The Thousand who survived the Raise of the Machines have won only because they all shared an instinct to recognize the #AISlop at first glance just like we can easily recognize a snake on the ground. The reaction of disgust is why they won after a long and bloody war. Their heritage is in our veins now. It's our turn.

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Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse räumt in ihrem unterhaltsamen und gut recherchierten Buch mit zahlreichen Mythen und Missverständnissen der Geschichtsschreibung auf. Eine Rezension

Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse entlarvt in ihrem unterhaltsamen und gut recherchierten Buch 101 vermeintlich historische Fakten als Mythen. Eine Rezension (Rezension zu Fake History – hartnäckige Mythen aus der Geschichte von Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse)#Geschichte #Geschichtsschreibung #Mythos #Mythen #Legende #Alternativehistory #Mittelalter #Historie #Napoleon #Sphinx #QueenElizabeth #Rom #Kultur #PsychologieHirnforschung
»Fake History – hartnäckige Mythen aus der Geschichte«: Von wegen Napoleon war klein

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