A cold and a broken cowabunga

People will tell you that Cleopatra was born closer to the moon landings than the building of the Great pyramid, but that's wrong, by hundreds of thousands of miles.

It's well past time for an Uplift series adaptation

An unfurled medieval birth girdle, showing illustrations of the three nails of the Crucifixion, talismans and Christ's side wound.

A medieval English birth girdle, an amulet offering protection for women during childbirth. It's inscribed with protective prayers, charms and other talismans.

You can consult the entire MS online now! (Harley Roll T 11)

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Cart-pulling miniature donkeys named Statler and Waldorf

Stephen Maturin would be an amazing poster with an amazing flameout

About time to put the kale in

Those are great examples, but "surely this asshole can't be that stupid" is not selling at an all-time high, as it were

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Reminder that northern canada is extremely desolate but also filled with genuinely absurd fantasy terrain

Portland’s light rail system hasn’t expanded in ten years, has no plans to do so in the future btw

But don’t worry we’ve got billions lined up to spend on continued freeway expansions!

Like that big mission chair, lol. The whole thing reads as extremely early 20th century American to me, in a good way. NB these were egalitarian movements

I could swear I saw some Shaker and Mission/American Arts and Crafts nods in there, both of which were influenced by Japanese design

robert duncan mcniell is clearly stealing that printer

i did not think i had anger to spare this week, but the thought of raiding Portland's democratically created climate fund to give a cut to a sports team owning billionaire is making me realize otherwise.

Which is not to suggest a rosy default for elites, ofc

Seems like there's a theme across trumpist personalization, half-ass opposition and the broad elite failure of stewardship over the last 30 years

I find this slapdash reporting implausible. It's hard to believe the president would knowingly target young girls.

Luda had ideas about this

I can't stress that enough YouTube video by Andy Latino

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Legal experts say it's a bad sign when a shirtless, hooded man sharpens an axe in the background

Scutum Fidei, the classic diagram describing the orthodox nature of the Christian trinity, altered to describe an admiralty Boiler, with two water drums and a steam drum standing in for various god bits

I am now seeking investors for Tugbinia.

Yakovlev M-501 and Zvezda M503 and M504 Diesel Engines One of the largest aircraft engines ever built, the 42-cylinder Yakovlev M-501 was modified into the Zvezda M503 marine engine. A further redesign created the 56-cylinder Zvezda M504.

We do have en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvezda_..., so you do have radial engines in a handful of weird corvettes and missile boats. So there's a niche before gas turbines took over the world.

I'm no expert but have coincidentally been reading a bunch about 20th c. boilers and suspect steam turbine's early maturation ate radial's lunch for high p/w use cases, the only place they're better than diesels. The way they scaled with more cylinders suggest cost/complexity problems >10MW too.

Meteorological (mists, clouds, wind, rain, storm, tempest, smoke, darkness, shadows, gloom). Topographical (impenetrable forests, inaccessible mountains, chasms, gorges, deserts, blasted heaths, icefields, the boundless ocean). Architectural (towers, prisons, castles covered in gargoyles and crenellations, abbeys and priories, tombs, crypts, dungeons, ruins, graveyards, mazes, secret passages, locked doors). Material (masks, veils, disguises, billowing curtains, suits of armour, tapestries). Textual (riddles, rumours, folklore, unreadable manuscripts and inscriptions, ellipses, broken texts, fragments, clotted language, polysyllabism, obscure dialect, inserted narratives, stories-within-stories). Spiritual (religious mystery, allegory and symbolism, Roman Catholic ritual, mysticism, freemasonry, magic and the occult, Satanism, witchcraft, summonings, damnation). Psychological (dreams, visions, hallucinations, drugs, sleep-walking, madness, split personalities, mistaken identities, doubles, derangement, ghostly presences, forgetfulness, death, hauntings).

thinking about Nick Groom's suggested "seven types of obscurity" in Gothic novels, forming a handy "is it goth" checklist lmao

Millions for light rail, not a penny in tribute

Holy shit, the average horse trainer. Yeah, we gotta get them on board while The Corsican rampages over Iberia

Collections: Against the State – A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest This week, continuing in the vein of some of our previous strategy and military theory primers, I wanted to off a basic 101-level survey of the strategic theory behind efforts, in a sense, directed…

This week on the blog: Against the State! Another military theory primer, this time focused on groups that take on the state itself, both with violent and non-violent means.

Given the enormous disparity in force, how can they win? How have they won?

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