I want Emily Wilson to review Gerald Thomas's 1964 historical epic Carry On Cleo.
Brett Holman
@airminded.org
Independent PhD historian (aviation, bombing; #WW1, #WW2; Britain, Australia; emotions, spectacle); books (Home Fires Burning (WW1 air raids on Britain; in progress), The Next War in the Air). Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. He/him. airminded.org
In 2011, the UK government response to antitrans provocations was "Don't be so bloody stupid".
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 6h agoweb.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"
Students, I like semi-colons. I like em-dashes. I like all sorts of punctuation. But if you're going to use 'fancy' punctuation in assignments, learn how to use it properly. Otherwise, just stick to commas* and full-stops. *Make sure you learn a few things about using commas too.
Cool terms and/or writing prompts from the latest issue of Advances in Space Research: - clock offset products - vertical total electron - shocklet formation - unscented transform - intention recognition - missed thrust events - error fusion - gravity offloading 🧪 🔭 @cospar.bsky.social
this is clickbait garbage a) it wasn't ~dronez~ stuff, it was the same vanilla GPS jamming that has occurred at WSMR for decades b) a crew should *absolutely* be capable of conducting a nonprecision approach to an ILS, *ESPECIALLY* if there's a NOTAM out for PNT jamming
Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 6d agoA routine medical flight, on a clear night, ended with a plane crash that killed all four people onboard. Investigators say it's the first known US civilian plane crash tied to electronic warfare. This won't be the last story of its kind. A must-read from @jeffwise.bsky.social for @wired.com
These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
congratulations to the UX designers at the British Newspaper Archive, who have taken a site that basically worked, and done their best to fix that problem. Look at this sidebar: in the old design it would be sorted by frequency and I could tell at a glance what the shape of the hits were. Now, no.
Had some wonderful news yesterday - the WW1 Historical Association awarded Framing the First World War the Norman B. Tomlinson Prize for 2025! Very grateful to our wonderful contributors and their hard work, series editor Bill Allison and the team at @univpressofkansas.bsky.social -
“I wonder what Current Affairs is up to lately…oh, OK, they’re publishing completely insane things about, for some reason, the inherent perfidy of EDM”
Cuddles_the_destroyer@cuddlessmash.bsky.social · 18h agowhat the fuck am I reading lmao
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
"For to those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away" really is the governing principle of Australian politics aapnews.aap.com.au/news/treasur...
Treasurer moves to fix 'widow's tax' after backlash
Australians who inherit an investment property from their partner won't lose their access to negative gearing under proposed amendments by the government.
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Library pro tip: never go in without locking the emergency stop. If the lights are motion activated and you’re alone, they will definitely turn off if you’re in there, someone will come in and assume sensibly that there’s no one there. Ask my busted ribs how we know!
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 18h agoi don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
So it's going to hit -4 Celcius in my city tomorrow, and we've also had multiple tremors across New Zealand. Apparently nature has decided we're a shitty Sci-Fi Channel movie this week.
i cannot even imagine the kind of determination it would take to fight for your younger self against the kind of legal team and scumbag tactics that Alan Jones has at his disposal
The Age (unofficial)@theage.nzcow.com · 18h ago📢 The first witness to give evidence in the veteran broadcaster’s trial said he spoke out against Jones because he wanted justice and to show his child right from wrong.
Jailbird chic: behold the "convict-stripes" podium outfit for the Australian Olympic team at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck – declared the ugliest uniform of the games and *the* hot property souvenir item. (An unmistakable Ronald McDonald flavour here, too.) 🗃️
in re Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" (which, in the original Martian Chronicles, occurs on today's date), I didn't realize the very first published version of the story, in Collier's magazine, was set in April 1985. (the current edition of Martian Chronicles now sets it in 2057).
"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
This stuff is going into overdrive the day after the midterms. He’s going to put his name and face on everything.
Blindingly obvious that this is targeted at “degrees we think women get.”
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Emily Wilson gets one more piece on The Odyssey and then she needs to move on and let us know what she thinks about Mallrats
At the bookstore, I waved over a guy with an astronaut tattoo and a pride necklace. "I'm not your demographic," he said. "My book is about a female biker gang in space rescuing a gay prince," I said. "The sequel is about a sex-positive sexbot." "In space?" "In space." "I AM your demographic!"
Rule 1: Treat every gun like it’s loaded. Rule 2: If you have to draw your firearm, make sure to look as cool as possible by imagining you’re in the 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet.
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 19h agoWhy did they make him look so cool though
Ich war ja auf einem Lilienthal Gymnasium und bei uns in der Aula hing ewigkeiten ein Nachbau dieses Gefährte, aber irgendwann ist das fast abgestürzt und dann musste es entfernt werden #Georglore
Brett Holman@airminded.org · yesterday"Otto Lilienthal flying one of his gliding planes near Berlin, Rhinower Berge, Germany" (1893) www.thedaultoncollection.com/explorationarchive.html
"Otto Lilienthal flying one of his gliding planes near Berlin, Rhinower Berge, Germany" (1893) www.thedaultoncollection.com/explorationarchive.html
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
The submarine aircraft carrier, designed to carry a seaplane, was an actual concept in the 1930s and WW2. The wiki page is not a bad summary. There were Japanese submarines both before and after the I-7 and I-8 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submari...
Submarine aircraft carrier - Wikipedia
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