Lugging three bags of garbage down the stairs

The very dark stairs. Got three steps down before it occurred to me that maaaaaybe it'd be a good idea to turn on the light.

Adventures in Executive Dysfunction!

But! I did remember to make sure we had a (clean, dry, conveniently located) towel before hopping into the shower! (Forgot to grab the pumice stone. Why don't we store that closer to the bathtub?)

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Spain cracks King Ferdinand's 500-year-old secret code

The Astronaut Who Might Actually Get Us to Mars

Predictive Text Gives Us the Episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation We Didn’t Know We Needed (I needed that.)

Earth's Poles Will Eventually Flip, So What Then?

Football helmets don’t prevent concussions. What can? (If helmets make players more likely to use their heads as a weapon, like billy goats, has anybody considered benching any player who does that?)

Why warning signs can't last forever

Sci-Fi Film Presents Vision Of Future In Which Women Never Speak To Each Other

The Board Game 'Life' Used To Kill Its Players

How conservatives learned to hate the FBI

It's when, not if: Singapore worries, and prepares, for militant attack

A Kingdom from Dust

China's Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone

Meet the Blogger Priest Firing Red Pills At the Vatican (This one, I skimmed.)

The Race Gap in US Prisons Is Glaring, and Poverty Is Making it Worse

Afghanistan by the numbers: inside the fight over facts

Outside Yemen's rebel-held capital, stalemated war rages on

Kurds in Syria have reacted furiously to a video showing the body of a female Kurdish fighter killed in battle during a Turkish-led offensive.

Turkey warns Kurdish YPG forces will pay for soldiers' deaths (Then again, Turkey always seems to say that.)

Egypt's ex-army officers pose growing security threat

siderea has posted a fascinating excerpt

Fascinating and horrifying.

"It is a medical mystery – a psychiatric medical mystery – that goes in a very unexpected and illuminating direction."

Okay, so I bumped into dailyprompt a while ago

And I noticed they weren't really updating daily. They were updating occasionally, which seemed to me to be worse than being utterly defunct.

So I volunteered to fill in the gaps! I have no idea what I am doing.

Anyway, that's only half the problem. The other half is the subscribers either aren't using the prompts or anyway aren't posting them, and it's like shouting into the void. I'm a big believer in priming the pump. It may not work, but I like the feeling of having tried, however futilely. So if you are the sort of person who occasionally does creative type things, well, you could do worse than to join and participate and signal boost.