Peter Mitchell

@piesse21cm_ @nonregemesse

@nonregemesse What is he thinking

The rape of Boudicca’s daughters

@emswifthook Extremely badass.

Upon his surrender Lord Astley famously, and prophetically, said: "You have done your work, boys, and may go play—unless you will fall out among yourselves."

@Dub__A Yeah that's cool, but have you seen Foamhedge in Natural Bridge, VA?

I love dragging my family to see stupid bullshit. Partial replica of Stonehenge in Alabama called Bamahenge.

@thenovelninja "Bro, can you fix the crick in my gf's neck?"

Girls in college would ask me why the boys weren't acting the way they were "supposed" to. I explained this exact thing, twenty years ago. The response, at a college with a very traditionalist culture where feminism was considered a swear word by most of the young women, was an accusation of cowardice. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. The additional result of this was that almost every single girl started thinking they were the only girl on campus not getting admired by the boys. Why? Because the boys had gotten passably good at stealing glances at a female classmate when said classmate wasn't looking . . . but it was a lot harder to time it for when NO ONE was looking. So the girls saw their friends getting (politely) ogled, but almost never themselves. When they did, it was clearly a fluke. He must have been looking at something behind them, or maybe there was something wrong with their hair. Women tend to be very self-critical (except for the self-absorbed of course), so this was a terrible loop to get caught in. To top it off, this very traditionalist, Roman Catholic campus had rules about what men and women could and could not do together; so the more overt methods of flirting were out. (This got enforced by the young women far more than the men. For example, it became known that I was very good at fixing cricks in necks, which of course you get when you're doing a lot of studying. Boyfriends, restricted from sensuous touching, would literally bring their girlfriends to me. This is very masculine behavior: "My woman is in trouble, I must fix. If I cannot fix, I find spear-brother who can." There were other female students who complained that I was therefore "breaking the rules" . . . but the priests and the Dean of Students shut that down.) So the result of all this was that the boys had been trained to believe that their attentions were unwanted unless specifically and overtly authorized; the girls had been trained to believe that if a boy wasn't making the first move, she was uninteresting. Despite that, Christendom College had and still has a reputation for resulting in strong marriages among students. This is clearly proof of miracles. Also, I met Mrs. Ninja there. And, in her words (hearing about some of the examples), "it's a wonder the human species survives to reproduce."

@StuffForSisters Yes, this isn’t coming out of nowhere. There are enough indicators that it’s being treated as real in the circles that track this kind of thing.

Has there been independent verification of the Iranian missile launches at Diego Garcia?

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@FischerKing64 That's all I do. Which is why I get 2 likes (one of them is me).

People who want to keep this platform interesting should post something at least once each day that isn’t overtly political, but reflects some personal interest. This is what RW Twitter was in the era of censorship.

"Ginger it is 10am please get out of bed." "No."

@JulianWaller Preorders are up here: tinyurl.com/CaptHawke but I can also send an ARC if you'd like an early look.

@peternmitchell You will send me the link to purchase when it is out, yes???

This is why I don't go out.

@kolo_revived @Crime_Penguin ROE.

@peternmitchell @Crime_Penguin What are they doing patrolling the street with no magazines?

Godspeed (The 82nd in New Orleans, 2005)

@JulianWaller Congrats on the promotion!

True confession. I was gonna pop by the DC SITUATION MONITORING bar after work because it's close to the circle I was already planning on smoking an end-of-the-week cigar in (after putting together the first draft of a report you'll all want to read in approximately four (4x) months-ish). But I looked online and they weren't opening until 8pm and that was too late, so I pivoted to the local Irish pub. Plus it started raining after I made this plan in my head and so the cigar was now a no-go anyway: way less reason to pop over to the K St area, sadly. And now I get to see twits about how there's no electricity. Which is good, because tbh that's not what 'oh I'll pop by, could be fun' looks like. I'll still check out that silliness tomorrow. Oh also I got promoted, more on that later. FIN. 😌

@kolo_revived @Crime_Penguin Katrina

@Crime_Penguin lol what is this?

@JulianWaller My bad, Captain Hawke's my ECW novel coming out this summer. GIMP is a freeware photoshop program.

@peternmitchell I don't know what either of those proper nouns are! 😶

@JulianWaller Designing the maps for Hawke has made me extremely adept at GIMP (too cheap for photoshop lol)

@peternmitchell Excellent photoshopping!!

@Goudriaan2 Winding up for an atomic good game slap.

Peasants merrymaking in a tavern Adriaen van Ostade, 17th century

@JulianWaller Could one make an argument that the "democratic" people's uprisings in 20th century Cuba, Venezuela and Iran were worse than the authoritarian regimes they've replaced?

This has been US policy forever and is fully supported by the vast majority of politicians, policymakers, and academics, they just disagree which ones should count. 😂

@Empty_America 5'11" hands typed this post.

Until very recently, there was a sort of stigma attached to excessive height. "Tall guys" were often dorky, uncoordinated, bad posture, skinny, etc. Even in the 90s, most guys over 6'1" were not "cool" at all.

Me circa 1998 being "helped" by shipmates at a bar in Souda Bay 30-min before curfew, as shown through interpretive dance.

In Japan, Bush was remembered for this event for several years. According to the Encyclopedia of Political Communication, "The incident caused a wave of late-night television jokes and ridicule in the international community, even coining Bushu-suru (ブッシュする) which means 'to pull a Bush'" (or "Bushing it")

Thank you Japanese X for teaching me about this forgotten episode of 90s lore. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.…