"You use "long eighteenth century" a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another. I do see in your bibliography that there is a book that uses this. If you want to keep "long" here, please provide a brief explanation of what you mean. After that, I see no need to keep reminding your readers of it..

Happy anniversary to my favorite copy editor comment of all time.

"You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."

(Finally) escaping twitter reminds me of this mystic I once read who said that the gates of hell are always open for those who are ready to leave.

Non-profit creates opt out forms against State Superintendent Ryan Walters A non-profit called Defense of Democracy has created opt-out forms for parents who want their child to have no interaction with Ryan Walters in any capacity, which includes the recent prayer video.

If you are in Oklahoma or know others that are with school age children, please pass this along to them. Defense of Democracy created opt-out forms for Ryan Walter’s forced bible instruction. Let’s keep getting in good trouble!
#EduSky #Resist
kfor.com/news/oklahom...

I’m convinced the “do audiobooks count as reading?” argument all derives from those mid-90s summer reading pizza challenges.

Folks - we’re all in our 30s and 40s now. It’s no longer a competition.

Go buy your favorite pie with your adult money and let people enjoy books however they want.

Yeah but they might take him back to avoid a smart, experienced, black woman. You know how scary that would be. 😡

I’m pretty sure that if some CEO got fired from his job & on his way out he told a mob of crazies to show up with zip ties, flag poles and tasers and to bash in the windows & smear poop on the walls, that he wouldn’t get hired back a few years later, but what the hell do I know.

Canada's top military commander Jennie Carignan calls out the GOP for questioning women in combat: After 39 years as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify women's contribution to defense and service in their country...

Wouldn't it be funny if aliens got here in UFOs the size of an unladen African swallow?

A fast wiggly pencil drawing of George Martin leaning on a desk looking at liquid Lennon

George Martin/ Lennon

My drawing has felt bleh today but this fast nonsense was good

John looking at Paul, John face big with red lines, quite loose sketchy, swoosh lines, he looks like he loves Paul, I’ve drawn Paul a bit small and childish but you can see it’s him. He’s in profile

Old Beatles drawings cont

the court martial news makes me unbelievably anxious

i feel like smartphones came on the scene and all of a sudden no one, young and old, needed to learn anything ever again. bring back mr. wizard, how its made, and school house rock for everyone. maybe even drunk history just as a starting point.

Disney, Warner Bros, and Lionsgate have all returned to advertising on Twitter (X)

(via Adweek)

The right-wing weirdos all coming over to this platform are so fuckin' funny. What was wrong with Twitter? I thought it was everything you wanted. Now you can all be mad and hate everybody together, right? What do you wanna be over here for, huh? You need attention from us that bad?

Remember the day the Brexit vote came in and the most googled thing was “what’s the EU?”

Media does not exist to inform us, certainly less so in the US it seems. It’s just a circus.
But one of those ones that abuses the animals, not a fun one.

A picture of an old Twitter follower notification. A little smudge of an avatar picture of a young brunette, and the text: "wardweilson followed you wardweilson @wardweilson Professional beer fanatic. Lifelong tvaholic. Avid problem solver. Gamer. Organizer. Typical explorer. Travel expert."

catherineswaa followed you catherineswaa @catherineswaa Alcohol fan. Organizer. Wannabe web fanatic. Total introvert. Avid tv ninja. Incurable twitteraholic. Certified writer. Analyst.

joyetcriter followed you joyetcriter @joyetcriter Social media advocate. Wannabe tv guru. Total web fanatic. Extreme analyst. Infuriatingly humble twitter ninja. Reader.

roberticks followed you robherticks @robherticks General food scholar. Passionate zombie practitioner. Avid coffee junkie. Hipster-friendly beer trailblazer. Writer.

noticing a new wave of new followers every few hours and feeling a twinge of nostalgic hope that i see a bunch of bios like

People will be like "Oh! These trans people want outrageous things!" and the "outrageous things" are literally just

• legal protections against discrimination in employment, housing, healthcare, public accommodations, etc

• the ability to update identity documents to accurately reflect name/gender

A cyanotype print of two jackdaws (adult & youngster) on a hawthorn tree that is in blossom. The jackdaws are in the centre of the image on a branch. The middle of the image is pale blue which vignettes out into a gradual darker blue.

From my Jackdaw series- cyanotype print.
#photography #cyanotype #birds #jackdaw #corvids

what if i told you i don’t listen to podcasts. any of them, ever. the whole medium is a no for me

Witness the beginning of a #DarkUniverse.

It’s a commonplace to say that the English don’t learn enough about European history at school. And it’s probably true. But the other day I spoke to a Scottish colleague who told me that he learned literally zero English history at his school in Glasgow("except a few battles we won against them”).
🤔

Flowing pastel drawing of 1969 Get Back Paul and George

I’ll try again… Beatles for a thing

jonathan apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1912

jonathan apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1912

An official color photograph of the front two-thirds of a Spartan antiballistic missile missile being lowered by a large crane nose first into the large test shaft drilled into Amchitka Island. A few dozen male worker swearing hardhats and warm coats observe and/or help.

A detailed color graphic published in Alaska Dispatch News showing a schematic of the test shaft and the aboveground drilling rig, as well as maps showing the location of this and two previous large underground nuclear tests in Amchitka (in 1965 and 1969), and the location of Amchitka relative to the Alaska mainland. Explanatory text discusses the purpose of this and the two previous tests and ranks the size of the explosion relative to volcanic eruptions in 1815 and 1883 and previous nuclear explosions, including the October 1961 “Tsar Bomba” Soviet thermonuclear test and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Today in 1971, the United States conducted its largest-ever underground nuclear test. A LIM-49A Spartan antiballistic missile carrying a W71 thermonuclear warhead was lowered into a 7.5-foot-wide, 5,873-foot-deep shaft beneath Amchitka Island, Alaska, and detonated. The yield was about 5 Megatons.

Thank you for the kind & motivating words. I knew it was true but felt disheartened.

I'd previously been working on this under the mentality of "it's done when it's done". Now it feels like it definitely needs to happen before inauguration day, forcing an absolute deadline of 2 1/2 months from now.

Responding to climate change requires that people engage in different forms of climate citizenship. These span from individual consumption choices, to taking part in forms of collective action to steer the behaviour of governments and in the private sector. Here we analyse data from the Net Zero Diaries project to explore how attitudes to different forms of climate citizenship develop as people become more aware about the scale of societal change required to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The Net Zero Diaries project was a deliberative mini-public, composed of 41 citizens broadly representative of the UK adult population, which convened over five months between 2021 and 2022 to debate the UK policies for reaching net zero emissions by 2050. We show that people identify government as the prime actor needed to drive the transition, but doubt that they will act due to a range of constraints vis-à-vis the public and private sector. This tension provides a novel explanation for why some people prioritise forms of individual and consumption focused climate citizenship, whilst also doubting the efficacy of such actions. We conclude by suggesting that efforts to drive more engaged forms of climate citizenship need to attend to underlying feelings about state efficacy, rather than focus on just how the issue of climate change is framed.

Interesting new research from Climate Citizens:

“Future efforts to motivate more active forms of climate citizenship must therefore consider how people’s current and prior experiences of engaging with the state shapes their feelings of political efficacy”

Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Post-Brexit border checks putting food security at risk, produce sellers warn Importers also facing rising costs, delays and damage to orders, letter from representatives tells government

It's not the checks that are causing the issue

1 The checks are designed to protect the UK market
2 They are needed cause we left the EU
3 We are doing them based on our own systems and resources now, not EU's
4 We have redesigned the process

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www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Oreilly designing data intensive applications book with a picture of a boar on it, and a bottle of wine with exactly the same illustration

Wine pairings up in here