Liz Bourke

Also must get foam roller with lumps for calves.

Omg what???

Must learn more skills to not get lost on hills.

Okay, after going walking on the hill on Monday, I am now distracted from all my work by the desire to walk on more hills.

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

Which is one of the more Khmer Rouge-like things about them, out of an unsettling quantity - thank God they're somehow even less competent than the notably incompetent Khmer Rouge were.

‘Arctic Metagaz’ LNG Tanker Still Afloat, Malta Warns Ships to Keep Clear Malta's transport authority confirmed on Tuesday that the LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz is drifting in the Mediterranean, contradicting earlier reports from Libya that the vessel had sunk following the Ma...

Eyyyy, finally an update on the Arctic Metagaz. Appears to not be actively burning anymore, which is always nice, but it hasn't sunk and is still a drifting, uncontrolled bomb in the middle of the Med. More than a run of the mill Hazard To Navigation.

Malta continues to have feelings about this.

When all the other time travelers are busy killing Hitler, I’m gonna take out Laura Ingalls Wilder.

It was mostly sticks on the way up, then we had to speak strongly on the topic of not throwing pebbles on rocky scree-scattered steep hillsides. :P

(After we got down from the summit he was in the backpack sling and asleep, so...)

The Queersar Not An Award 2020 For excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers released in 2020

borrowed-and-blue.beehiiv.com/p/the-queers... An excellent project by @dreddieclark.bsky.social

Getting my weight training in!

(He's a good 20kg so it was a well-weighted walk.)

More to the point, six months ago I would not have been capable of it. (Seven hours of walking, or thereabouts: everything takes a bit longer with shorter legs in tow.)

Me - a short haired breasted person - on the summit of the Great Sugar Loaf, clad all in blue and holding hiking poles. The summit is a small outcrop of grey rock. In the background green fields rise to blue-brown hills across the valley, under a sky full of clouds.

#tinyjoys Walked up the Great Sugarloaf today (elevation about 500m) on a walk that amounted to about 11km, carrying my four year old in a backpack sling for at least half of it. Gorgeous albeit damp when the cloud came down.

Sorry!

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ireland will remember what International Law is on or after 18th March.

Bumping this for the daytime crowd, as I'd like to get a heating-oil order in tomorrow if I can. 🙂

141. Hedenstierna-Jonson and García-Losquiño, Viking Camps: Case Studies and Comparisons

Vikings on the move... or in one place? The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a paying subscriber through…

141. Hedenstierna-Jonson and García-Losquiño, Viking Camps: Case Studies and Comparisons

Vikings on the move... or in one place? The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a paying subscriber through…

there's an old adage: "when a product appears to be free, you're the product" (usually, this means the product makes its money through advertising)

in light of the last few years, we can add an addendum: "if a business is run at a loss, it's another business's operating expense"

British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own £185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally. Because curbing trans people's rights to participate in anything subjects everyone to intrusive scrutiny and here, hefty expense. This is not a 'them' issue.

Piracy at sea.

Also worth noting for the ‘everything is online’ crowd that the numbers of archives being destroyed means that an increasing proportion cannot ever be online.

Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline.

I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate.

Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.

Returning the bee bombs I ordered as they are just balls of wildflower seeds and not, misleadingly, missiles made of several thousand angry bees to hurl at your enemies

I once told my line producer “I became a writer to tell stories and now I argue about how it costs $50,000 to move some
trucks.”

Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs.

Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.

A German court has ruled that it is legal to state that the man who runs the Müller (Rice) empire is a supporter of the far-right AfD. Müller repeatedly denied it, which says everything about how bad he knew that association could be for his business. I hope the boycotts intensify.

Todd @ Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like I'm 5. Canal RIOS 508 MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.