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Ben Wright - Biographer
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Ben Wright - Biographer
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Intelligence historian - Biography of Major Ronald Sinclair (1889-1988) in the works.
Katılım Ağustos 2011
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@intelhistory Try Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell or Kawabata’s Snow Country.
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Anyone wanting to get into Japanese literature needs to read Mishima, Kawabata, Murasaki, Abe, Ōe, Tanizaki and Sōseki, but if you're looking for something more contemporary, I recommend these three brilliant novels without hesitation. They're wonderful, haunting works.
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Kate has written this about being trolled by scum for daring to ask reasonable questions of a tyrannical Iranian regime. The comments beneath it are heartening and true: Kate is a magnificent journalist whom Times Radio is very lucky to have.
thetimes.com/article/baecac…
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@policy_uk Senior officers. A gathering to review modern policing methods. End of the season in Shimla.
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Here’s the sad truth. British food was ranked one of the great world cuisines in the 1800s. Actual snooty French chefs said British food was the best.
It was destroyed by WW1, when it was made patriotic to eat crappy. Between the wars it really didn’t recover much, but then the rationing & privations of WW2 pretty much did it in.
It has slowly improved since the 60s but it still has a long way to go. They went from Beef Wellington to mushy peas.
I’ve spent plenty of time in Britain and yeah you can find some decent food, but it’s no wonder they’re hooked on Indo-Pak cuisine.
🌘𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚊𝚗𝚝⚡@revenant_MMXX
"British food bad" is just the biggest anti-White psyop ever, people have no idea what "British food" even is because its been adopted by so much of the world that people don't even recognize it as British in origin. Americans in particular are especially clueless about this
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@hypolestes @SandyofCthulhu But is it French cuisine?
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@intelhistory @SandyofCthulhu English cuisine? Bro, that's mostly in French... 🤨
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@intelhistory @SandyofCthulhu This menu is entirely in French
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the game works best with a digital piano or midi keyboard plugged into a laptop, but you can also play on microphone mode which detects audio from singing - guitar - violin, etc.
made with vanilla javascript and 2D canvas !
midisurvivor.com
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made a piano game to practice two hand sight-reading and staying on beat
each level has different chord progressions and melody, and the tempo gets faster as you level up
there’s 6 game modes now: notes, scales, chords, perfect pitch, rhythm, and full song battle
midi survivor is here if you’d like to play: midisurvivor.com
AA@measure_plan
i made a game where you play the piano IRL to survive against waves of monsters started as a weekend project and a demo video. people online seemed to want it, so i turned it into a full game it's the first time i publish a paid game, and so far it's sold 240 copies in the first month most players are coming from IG. there's a lot of piano teachers and people learning music who like the concept v1 only had 1 game mode, but now there's 5 ways to play: notes, chords, scales, perfect pitch, full song battle more to come on Midi Survivor. more minigames and maybe a steam release too :]
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@measure_plan That’s really fun, and congrats! Caught my eye: and explains the other subtweet with a piano roll editor.
I’m trying to think how this works now. Intrigued!
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the more i type the strange i(t) sounds
AA@measure_plan
i'm trying to learn this thing called strudel
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@measure_plan Ah, cool. So that’s the design you created?
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@intelhistory it’s a web interface (strudel.cc) where you write code that can produce music and simple animations
very fun stuff
it’s free and open source as well
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@philmcraig @Roger_Moorhouse @Madz_Grant And total failure of everything a state is supposed to be there for.
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@intelhistory @Roger_Moorhouse @Madz_Grant I know what you mean. Just one life, yet it feels like the baleful, hopeless consequence of numerous malignant trends of our age.
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@Roger_Moorhouse @Madz_Grant Overwhelmingly sad and stupid. Had me going all Roger Scruton this morning. Mind you these days lots of things do that...
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And if you’re thinking why Tesla - think Boscovich!
Our geometers seek to rectify the parabola, why not Parabolify the Straight Line!
Why not, indeed…
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Going back into the weekend with my Anglican choral project. Might it be finished in time for Sunday evensong? It might, it might….
It’s big, beautiful, and does things you don’t expect.
It’s Ben’s Benevolent Box of SATB Bonanzas.
Stay tuned, it’ll be worth it…
GIF
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@HelloLauraKelly @RepLuna The Russian delegation is led by Molotov's grandson. The Molotov who agreed with the Nazi Ribbentrop to cleave and devour Europe
cepa.org/article/moscow…
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@BisChalard57545 How lovely. Rather like an early Disney multi-plane camera. I want one!
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Les "livres tunnel" du XIXe siècle sont de véritables prouesses d'ingénierie du papier. Ils utilisent des soufflets latéraux pour étirer des scènes qui se chevauchent et créer une véritable profondeur tridimensionnelle.
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I can defintely see the enjoyment and value of that too. Perhaps what I mean more precisely is that on very rare occasions I have felt as if I've been taken through a life without ever having noticed the intrusion of the biographer, and that as a reader I have been left unmanipulted, which is - of course - an absurd and very artful manipulation in itself!
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@intelhistory That’s very interesting. It’s not quite the same for me. Eg I loved Castor’s Bolingbroke because he was Castor’s. Her version adds itself to mine / my conception of history’s, while, because, being, definitely hers. Rather as the recent Green Knight film for me added to the poem
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It is our national genre. It makes no grand claims and does not awaken our deep suspicion of theory. None of us intend to write it or give ourselves undue airs about so doing
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry@pegobry_en
I second this. The Brits have a natural gift for biography
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