@drspacejunk
Space archaeologist | Vice-chair, Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Asteroid 551014 Gorman | Author, Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-junk-vs-the-universe/
Wed plan, a podcast day: Pre-production; 1100 AEDT recording with Johanna Weaver and Zoe Jay Hawkins; post-production and/or nap because The Dreams; 1900 recording with @drspacejunk.bsky.social and @rami.spaceaustralia.com; data wrangling.
There’s more alleged plans in the Weekly Wrap as amended.
They leave when they think the woman won't be able to provide sexual services
Yes please
Why do we even have a Labor government
I lived in Oxford too - really an eye-opener about privilege in the UK.
I can't even imagine. I think many English people have no idea how deep their prejudice runs. But it was on the surface for you.
Oh dear, it should have arrived long ago. I'd better check the address I gave you. Thank you anyway!
I don't know your friend of course, but there are still a bunch of women who think that it diminishes them to have their femaleness highlighted in any way. It's a 'footsoldier of the patriarchy' attitude IMHO but it is not uncommon.
Truly shameful.
the @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on iran is really good - comprehensive (Episodes 96 to 122) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/9...
'COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.'
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Oh dear. That sounds horrendous.
In 1992, Francis Fukuyama ended the world by inventing the self-warming leg.
I lived in the UK in the mid 1990s. I was really surprised by the anti-Irish sentiment, especially the callousness about the Famine.
Thank you!
Long-lost page of #Archimedes’ writings rediscovered in #France
#Science #History
I was on a panel for a course a friend is teaching from 10.30 pm to nearly midnight. And now of course I can't sleep.
Has her commentary ever been translated to English?
I need to do it. Thanks for the reminder.
OK, got it.
Still mystified, I will do a search!
Fucking hell. Even more deplorable.
Absolutely!
An Uber driver offered me his hand to help me out of the car. I took it and said 'How charming!' to him. He blushed and giggled and grinned from ear to ear. That was even more charming!
"Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality," Milo remarked.
"That will happen only when you bring back Rhyme and Reason," said Alec, smiling, for he had seen right through Milo's plans.
She sounds very cool.
I thought we'd got beyond the 'But I'VE never experienced sexism' phase in the 1990s!
It’s an ‘open secret’ that the CIA and MI6 helped topple the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh.
Why can’t the British government come clean about its interference in #Iran?
⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
And this was an academic, who should have known better. Is this a historian not understanding what archaeology or heritage is? Who am I kidding, of course he knew.
