It starts out with 'military assistance' to a combat zone and then before you know it, it's boots on the ground and then conscription and then you're bogged down in a war with no end in sight per se. That was Vietnam, now we're repeating the mistake with the Middle East #auspol
Hailey is at 10 percent of her goal.
Can we get her to 15 percent? If a bunch of folks kicked in $5 to $10, we'd be there.
Pratchett fans will understand!
Noice
#authorgoals #writers #writerslife #amwriting #writersky
A true legend.
A highly detailed, digitally colorized close-up portrait of the pioneering physicist and chemist Marie Curie. She is looking directly into the camera lens with an incredibly intense, intelligent, and focused expression. The fingers of her left hand are gently resting against her cheek and neck. She has curly, textured brown hair pulled back loosely. She is wearing a dark blue, utilitarian dress with fine vertical pleats on the shoulder. The warm, realistic skin tones and soft lighting of the colorization process give this historic archival photo a highly modern, lifelike feel. Original archival photograph by Henri Manuel. Digital colorization by Seriously Scientific.
Remembering Marie Curie on International Women's Day!
Marie spent years working in a dank, leaky shed boiling down tons of toxic pitchblende to extract a 0.1 grams of pure radium.
She physically proved that atoms break apart, laying the exact foundation for cancer treatments! ☢️🔬
#WomenInScience
You are very pretty but can you talk about your cool TTRPG things? Love your stockings BTW
Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says “Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?” The male scientist replies “That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!” They step out onto a balcony. She says: “Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds “It's got a fax machine!”
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
"Everyone does this!" - and it's a thing nobody does.
dino costume
I met Albo many years ago & the man I met then was a different person from the joker who's PM now. Politics obviously changes people, or rather people let politics change themself and their values & it's always the people who suffer as a result. Still its sad to say the alternative is far worse
I must remember this the next time I get a rejection letter/email
A four-panel Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz shows Snoopy at his typewriter, expressing his dismay about a rejection slip. **Comic Text:** PEANUTS By Charles Schulz Panel 1: Gentlemen, Regarding the recent rejection slip you sent me. Panel 2: I think there might have been a misunderstanding. Panel 3: What I really wanted was for you to publish my story, and send me fifty thousand dollars. Panel 4: Didn't you realize that? © 1981 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
@charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social I have THE BEST advice for you.
(apologies if this is the gazillionth time you've been tagged for this.)
#Writing #WritingAdvice
If the Iranian Navy was destroyed then how could there be an Iranian Navy vessel in the Indian Ocean, in international waters, for the US to sink?
I think that might be what he meant when he said the big one was going to come soon. We can but hope the generals have more balls and deny this.
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I have completely forgotten how to play Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR). I know how the controls work, its just navigating to the bits that help me progress through the story that I've completely forgotten #KotOR
I've been subscribed to Jane's Patreon for years and it is amazing. She posts so many amazing recipes and artworks and it's pure inspiration.
Rent is due and she's running short. She only needs a small number of people to sign up as annual supporters of her Patreon — can you be one of them? <3
I hate how accurate this tweet is.
Return to Titan
In 2189, the first mission to Titan was aborted after two crew members vanished. Now, a fledgling corp wants answers and you’re the crew they’ve hired to find them. Return to the surface and uncover the horror that was hushed up!
Return to Titan is available!
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#ttrpg #dnd #rpg
Do not say "we support the people of Iran" when you back the pedophile & genocider who is bombing them. It isn't going to win you fucking brownie points. If anything it shows you cannot read the room. #auspol
US bombing Iran is Mossadegh all over again. It didn't work then & it will not work now. Strangely though the Obama strategy did produce results...Israel didn't like it & nor did the Pedophile of the US. That is why people have died. To protect a pedophile & a genocider
I think you also need to consider the fact that the people who were bombed are more likely to ally with the regime now than with the people bombing them. If Iran is smart it will make what concessions to achieve that very fact. Regardless the US will not be liked or loved.
Still true
Translation:
If Russia really was a superpower, it wouldn't need China and North Korea in order to survive.
Russia is no longer a superpower, but a nation with a large military and questionable competence in using them.
Tinkering around on Vulgarlang like you do on an early Sunday arvo in the Down Under #worldbuilding #conlangs #WIP #WriteSky
Picked up a thesaurus, my favourite dinosaur, and also a handy tool for this writing gig. Yep the bad joke was deliberate. #writing #WriteSky
My friend @transqueerfem.bsky.social is a brilliant writer, translator, organizer and founder of Brazil's first transfeminism community. Her mom has cancer and she's having a tough time.
Want to know more? She just made an amazing video to help you get to know her better:
ko-fi.com/post/Hi-my-n...
Finished reading Gardens of the Moon, took me a while, first time I finished it in about two or three days. This time I think it's been about a month. Anyway back to Von Clausewitz's "On War" and Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo". #reading #books #BookSky
