It's a Victorian era baby rocker. But by God it ought to be described as a catapult. I wonder how many baby dolls got yeeted out of that thing.
This was a great show!
This month we read The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, with special guest and delightful person and ambitopia expert, author @redfernjon.bsky.social! Listening link in replies.
When people say the South gets what it deserves for voting Republican, remind them that: 1) 45% of Southerners voted for Biden. Trump only won 53% there 2) Half of America’s Black population lives in the South 3) The region has widespread gerrymandering & restrictive voting laws
I am not necessarily complaining about the grey water disposal itself. Just that it was done in a way that the pipe would freeze and cause a flood in the laundry room. AND that the laundry room had chip board, of all things, as the subfloor.
The first house I bought had the washing machine draining into a pipe that had been laid the entire length of the (1 acre) yard to dump into the woods. To avoid draining into the septic tank, I assume. Then one day it froze outside.... The subfloor in the laundry room was chip board.
I hate to go UHHH THIS IS JUST LIKE [FICTIONAL THING I LIKE] with real world horrors--because it is exhausting and often misses the actual problems at hand--but truly one of the absolute best ways I've ever seen anyone explain the truth of this is in Pratchett's Going Postal.
I am not currently reading them, but for your consideration: The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein. Just amazingly excellent books with one of the best female friendships in fiction.