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NWS Birmingham (bot)

#ALwx #Birmingham #Alabama There is a level 3 out of 5 risk for severe storms across all of Central Alabama from Saturday afternoon, March 15th to early Sunday morning, March 16th. Threats include tornadoes (some may be strong) damaging straight-line winds, and hail up to tennis ball size. Confidence continues to increase of a significant chance for severe storms. Check back for updates through the week!

There is a level 3 out of 5 risk for severe storms across all of Central Alabama from Saturday afternoon, March 15th to early Sunday morning, March 16th. Threats include tornadoes (some may be strong) damaging straight-line winds, and hail up to tennis ball size. Confidence continues to increase of a significant chance for severe storms. Check back for updates through the week!
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Andrew Kuchling

THE LOST DISTRICT AND OTHER STORIES is a collection of stories from weird-fiction author Joel Lane. All of them are set in England's Midlands, in or around the city of Birmingham. The Birmingham in these stories is a decaying industrial city, full of protagonists who are trapped in unhappy lives and fall into sinister situations that slowly entangle them -- not really any happy endings here.

There are even a few stories set in a version of the city that's post-apocalypse (in "Against My Ruins") or a Clark Ashton-ian magical setting (in "The Night That Wins"). The stories remind me of Ramsey Campbell, except that Lane is grimmer and gayer: the strangeness creeps in gradually, carefully building the atmosphere of dread.

Stories that were highlights for me:

* "The Bootleg Heart" is narrated by a student who hears the couple upstairs having sex from time to time, which he finds exciting. But what's going on up there is not what he thinks.

* The protagonist of "Like Shattered Stone" is an abstract sculptor, who wakes up one morning to discover he has carved a perfect arm in his sleep. And then another night he carves a head. What does it mean?

* In "Exposure", the psychic protagonist is asked by a friend to get in touch with the friend's dead son. It doesn't go well.

* A children's author has her invented world corrupted by corporate greed in "Beyond the River"; again, no happy ending here.

Now this book will move along, because it's well-written but so bleak that I'm unlikely to revisit it.

Cover of the Night Shade Press edition of "The Lost District and Other Stories" by Joel Lane.
#books#bookstodon#WeirdFiction
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NWS Birmingham (bot)

#ALwx #Birmingham #Alabama There is a level 2 to 3 out of 5 risk for severe storms across all of central Alabama from Saturday afternoon, March 15th to early Sunday morning, March 16th. Threats include tornadoes, damaging straight-line winds, and hail up to tennis ball size. Although uncertainties still exist, confidence is increasing of a significant chance for severe storms. Check back for updates through the week!

There is a level 2 to 3 out of 5 risk for severe storms across all of central Alabama from Saturday afternoon, March 15th to early Sunday morning, March 16th. Threats include tornadoes, damaging straight-line winds, and hail up to tennis ball size. Although uncertainties still exist, confidence is increasing of a significant chance for severe storms. Check back for updates through the week!
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Obsidian Urbex Photography

Introducing my smallest #film camera, a 1950s Kunik Petie 📷📏

Weighing in at a diminutive 54g, this petite old girl is capable of capturing 10 (probably soft focussed) images in tiny 14x14mm square format.

It was a bit of a journey to get her loaded up (modelling and 3d printing a spool, cutting a strip of 16mm plus backing paper from some 120).

Test roll shot in #birmingham,, let's hope there are some #photos on this when I develop 😅

text "Kunik Petie (~1956) 16mm paper-backed film 10 images, 14x14mm" photos of a very small camera fitting in the palm of a hand, and, on scales weighing 54g
#FilmPhoto#Photography#Camera
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Carmine

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[Vidéo virale] Lydia, étudiante anglaise de 20 ans originaire de #Birmingham exprime sur TikTok sa joie d'avoir été sélectionnée pour étudier à Grenoble l'année prochaine.
Et les commentaires qui pleuvent sur la réputation de la ville n'ont pas de quoi la décourager : "Le taux de criminalité est plus fort chez moi !.."

WELCOME IN #GRENOBLE LYDIA 👋🏻
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