Juhan Raud 🇺🇦

Disgusting

B142.2
Prophetic jackal.

I hope you mean that in Fahrenheit!

This puts the whole Viking cosmogony in a different context!

I get it now.
AI means “artificial information.”

Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians SFF authors are the front-line practitioners who put the fruits of history’s craft into daily practice, sharing it in doses the public can consume, combining, treating, administering, customizing, …

Ooh! My new essay is up on Strange Horizons!
Deliberately provocative title 😈
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Timothy Snyder:By resisting,Ukrainians held back a wider war in Europe

Maybe most importantly,they've given us an example of courage

A better question to ask on the 4yr anniversary of this terrible war is,what more could we be doing to help the Ukrainians win this war?- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Everything dreams. The play of form, of being, is the dreaming of substance.

No, if anything it could be considered a nod to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. But the story came from Harlan bugging me for four years, "How come you always focus on just the officers? What about the people working down below, just doing their jobs, what do they think? C'mon, man!"

@straczynski.bsky.social Was S05E04 of B5 "A View from the Gallery" influenced by "Pulp Fiction" in any way? Mack and Bo kind of reminded me of Jules and Vincent a little bit. Two guys discussing ordinary stuff while larger than life things keep happening around them.

Can we ever know the shape of the universe? The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark energy. Columnist Leah Crane explores what observations tell us about how much universe is out there and whether it’s shaped like a sheet, a saddle or something else entirely

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark energy. Columnist Leah Crane explores what observations tell us about how much universe is out there and whether it’s shaped like a sheet, a saddle or something else entirely

'ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.'

- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

I thought of this a few days ago and forgot to post: the Hebrew word for trans woman (טרנסית) sounds roughly like “transit,” which feels like it opens up a whole new bilingual field of “trans people love trains” jokes

Oh wow! I love the previous two interviews, can't wait to dive into this.

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Flying fox.

Image of wahs

#hourly #wah https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/wahs/photo_208@07-08-2017_03-37-23.jpg

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

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Intricacies of the Helix Nebula revealed by Webb First spotted in the early 1800s, the Helix Nebula has become one of the most iconic planetary nebulas in the sky as it’s recognised for its striking, ring-like shape. One of the closest planetary…

The James Webb Space Telescope sent back pictures of the Helix Nebula in phenomenal clarity. The space telescope’s website has the photographs in all their glory, along with comparisons to photographs of Helix taken by older space telescopes like VISTA and Hubble buff.ly/IZ8gDdC
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Are there such games today?

two men, one clowning the other not.

Groucho Marx and George Carlin

I just finished "Inventing the Renaissance" by @adapalmer.bsky.social and I really love this book. It's erudite and wise, but also geeky, welcoming, funny & sooo playful. I love how it's packed with the coolest memorable details ever, but also conveys something vital & optimistic on the large scale.

Russia continues to answer diplomacy with missiles.
We are determined to make that choice painfully expensive.

Today, we present our 20th sanctions package.

Sanctions severely hurt Russia’s economy.
And every sanction chips away at its capacity for war. (1/9)

What we do is assert the wholeness of time.

Cover reveal for the paperback (and hopefully more affordable) edition of ‘Paganism Persisting’ (co-authored with @robincdouglas.bsky.social) which releases on 21 April with @uexeterpress.bsky.social. I'm especially pleased with the Lithuanian cover image 😉 www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/pag... 📚

In 1886, Van Gogh painted Skull with a Burning Cigarette while studying in Antwerp. A student prank turned memento mori—mortality lit with a flicker of dark humor.

New Ex Urbe Essay reflecting on "Inventing the Renaissance" being on the #BSFS long list for best nonfiction longform
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Mussels sprout

A passage from Ada Palmer's fantastic history book "Inventing the Renaissance" with the phrase "How, in Galen's name" underlined.

Haa! Now this one I caught immediately. It made me cackle with laughter. 😹 Love puns in general too, they're so underrated as an artform.