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#Booksky LAST call for book sales! Get great deals on all our great queer books just in time for #Fridayreads at our Smashwords store! www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

IIRC he uses language like 'culvert' so I just thought Oh, get those Romans being all modern with their aqueducts and stuff. Fascinating to learn of the much wider, long-established history.

Why do they do these things?

Especially if you have to take the handbook out of the locker and search through it to find out what the angry red light means. Fortunately we were at our destination by then.

Bizarre! Although we currently have an old Astra that doesn't have a _temperature gauge_ so there's no hint of overheating until a little red warning light tells you to stop immediately...

Can't be the first to say this, but (and yay UEFA - brilliant) this works equally well if you swap out "football" for maybe "water" or "a stable climate". Look at me being the revolutionary socialist. "No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation."

Write it on a bit of masking tape by the tyre pressure plate inside the driver's side door?

So I keep the old not-Cosmic file manager alongside the new one... (It also lets you fold/unfold directory trees and add visible columns with stuff like file type and date created.)

This may be utterly trivial on a geological scale, but after what seemed like mahoosive updates the Cosmic desktop still doesn't offer a right-click menu option to create a new folder when you've selected multiple files and want to keep them together.

It is. Had never heard of this before, although Robert Harris maybe references it (or something similar) in 'Pompeii'? Might prove serendipitous for a new project, too...

Waning Gibbous Moon. 2325UT 30 July 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour #Moon

“Obviously not blowing up is sort of like task number one and two, or whatever” There must be a way to power the grid with Schadenfreude, the force is so strong with this one www.ft.com/content/620b...

How Leopold Aschenbrenner, the ‘golden child’ of the AI trade, was laid lowThe $20bn hedge fund manager’s wild ride ended with a call to Ken Griffinwww.ft.com

"We accidentally on purpose set poor safety parameters for our test, allowing our powerful AI (that you should totally fund) to 'escape' and create marketing opportunities via publicity"

Worldcon programme just dropped. It's in LA this year but they're offering an awesome virtual programme that members can enjoy from any timezone. And I'm part of it! Looking forwarded to talk Justice and Murder and to be hosting my Urban Folk Horror workshop. Sign up if you fancy it. guide.lacon.org

Conclusions and recommendations about public libraries:

Rooves vs Roofs sounds like the legal precedent we didn’t even realise we needed in these fraught times…

When it turns out there’s a battering ram at your seminar! #learnswordfighting #londonlongswordacademy #hema #davidrawlings #vikingkittens

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Behind clouds, which are interestingly backlit...

Cooool.

I'd still be attending the village school and helping around the home, including looking after my younger sister. In another couple of years I'd be leaving home at age 14 to go into service as a housemaid, scrubbing floors etc.