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“Aesthetic: Warsaw Pact Atompunk”

Images originally from Tekhnika Molodezhi, a Soviet popular science magazine.

The Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant.

In a combination of depressing and uplifting, a week or so back someone had knocked down the wasp nest. It wasn’t the wind; though the wind was pretty harsh for a few days, that particular day was not windy. I found it on the stairwell, and was pretty damn upset. I didn’t really want to give that kind of update here. Here you can see it, filled with bodies of those that didn’t survive the winter.

My neighbor (who was very supportive of having wasps hanging out above our door) and I tried a few times to reattach it. Amusingly, the remaining survivors were still hanging around, and just perched nearby, seeming to watch us as we tried. They didn’t bother us, but continued to mill around inches from where we were working. It ultimately didn’t pan out.

However, those survivors continued to convene in the spot of the old nest, continuing to feed and preen one another.