"i can't make you / see what i've become / when you're nice / you're not as much fun"

[larryhammer]

For those of you who read this profile of Emma Edmonds, who fought, nursed, and spied for the Union in the American Civil War, and were caught up by the passing mention of her favorite book growing up, Fanny Campbell, the Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of the Revolution, this potboiler of 1844 is available through Archive.org (but not Project Gutenberg nor even Google -- I am of the disappoint).

Adding nuance to the 10,000 hour rule. (via)

I should put together a post of single-topic tumblrs along the lines of last week's communists with cats -- today's amusement is animals sitting on capybaras. Who knew it was A Thing?

---L.

Subject quote from "Faults," acid android.