If You Have A Bee In Your Hand by thedailyenglishshow (cc by)
Mefite colossal tells a touching tale of bees, and a boy, and a bedroom, and a plan gone very, very wrong in Johnny Wallflower's post The charming habits of bees. (Fair warning: Sometimes our Johnny shares such sweet stories of apian inclinations. This is not one of those times.)
Fantastic by Matt From London (cc by)
Recent member comments flagged as fantastic:
flabdablet on the question of whether you really need to properly eject that USB drive
darkstar on glue slime and fiery chemistry demos (you know, for kids)
DoctorFedora on ninja fashion trivia
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MonkeyToes on the transformative experience of a proper bra fitting (and nun management)
brookeduckart_Raccoons-Red-Records by brookeduckart (cc by-nc-nd)
[insert clever name here] tells a great raccoon tail tale.
from Y2K Aesthetic
Y2K Futurism - "An investigation into the futurism/aesthetic of the period 1996-02" on imgur
and from the turn of the previous century, afrofuturism from the past – "The Princess Steel," W. E. B. Du Bois's recently-discovered SF story.
Mr. Grumpy Potato by banger1977 (cc by-sa)
The way it worked was you would get up at 4:30 in the morning in winter to be there at the produce place by 5:30 and once you were there you would find that about a hundred kilos of potatoes had been pre-rumbled – I’ll explain in a moment – and were already sitting in their solution. The solution was some kind of mystery powder – I never asked what it was because I didn’t give a shit because I wanted to kill myself – that you dumped into these big rectangular tubs of water that were arranged in a sort of frame table, I think it was six tubs across, and then you had this sieve shelf that sat across them...
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