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@nonregemesse The Riftwar saga.

I have only ever read Tolkien and George R. R. Martin but enjoyed both. What other fantasy is worth reading?

@nonregemesse David Gemmell - Legend

This site in Peru is so ancient that the architecture is literally just melting back into the landscape... All filmed, edited & narrated by me. If this kind of work matters to you please support it with a like/comment/repost.

Vancouver island 💥 Single shot Nature's top-tier talent on full display. A must-share. 🦅✨ #Naturephotography #baldeagle

@kristophershinn You take great photos, well deserved

This post has officially been viewed 1,000,000 times now 🥳 Absolutely incredible

@borisyeltzin @KatKanada_TM Bless

@MisterMashingto @KatKanada_TM i understand him clearly, and i know how he manipulates the conversations he has. the crying man is a manipulator, and as a result an arse.

This GQ Jordan Peterson interview lives rent free in my head. The woman who interviewed him — Helen Lewis — had no idea who she was up against.

@borisyeltzin @KatKanada_TM I'm sorry you aren't able to understand him. His advice to Helen in this interview was to read more. Perhaps start there?

@KatKanada_TM Jordan is an arsehole. he always talks in abstracts just slightly above the actual conversational level. it gives him the upper hand, and its deliberate. an arsehole.

Great to see this on X. This is something I created during my PhD time 20 years ago.

A British company called Skycutter, based in the East Midlands, just finished first out of the entire field in the Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program. Score of 99.3 out of 100. The largest order goes to them: two and a half thousand units, an initial Pentagon contract of twenty million dollars, with an option to scale up to two hundred million. Read that and really soak it in. It's something that rarely happens anymore. A small British startup beat the entire American defence-tech industrial complex on its own home turf, in a competition the Pentagon designed itself, against companies that get whatever they ask for from Washington on a Tuesday morning. It looks likely to be followed by something that always happens - Skycutter are, by the looks of things, going to pack up their talent and their operations and move all of it to America. Why? The MoD, they say, is too slow. The procurement cycle is too long. There is no clear pathway from "British company that builds something the world wants" to "British company that the British state buys from in serious quantity at serious speed." No byway through which you move from "A potentially world-toppling IP advantage" to "Complete and deserved domination of the global market." So we are about to lose them. Not because they want to leave, but because the country that produced them cannot organise itself fast enough to keep them. The MoD's response, by the way, was to issue a statement saying it wants the UK to be "the best place in the world to start and grow a defence business." It does not want to do this. Indeed it is difficult to convey, in polite English, how galling that sentence is when read alongside the news it is responding to. You're a serious country? You'd fight for a company like Skycutter. You'd fight to take them if they weren't yours, and you'd fight like mad to keep them if they were. A serious country has someone in Whitehall whose entire fucking job is making sure the next Skycutter doesn't end up in Virginia. We have, instead, a Defence Office for Small Business Growth. Which is the kind of name you give a thing that you created for no purpose other than taking the piss out of it.

George Lucas: *hits blunt* “What if the Viet Cong were fucking adorable?”

Just a reminder 🇬🇧🇬🇧

@matthewdmarsden The only reason you get flak is because you are over the target

My measure of success is being married for 21 years and having 9 kids after coming from a broken home. You guys are the ones who berate my career.

@Cantona_Collars I remember Schmeichel's face putting his head in his hands watching the game

30 Years Ago Today: Buckets of water were needed to wash the blood from the pitch after Coventry's David Busst's horrific leg break at Old Trafford in 1996. Busst needed 22 separate operations and never played football again.

White-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus)

I’ll host dinners all the time just to show this off.

@MTVilla1983 I have to keep checking if I follow the account, it's just wall to wall cobblers

Still the worst Villa account on here. Just bad take after bad take. Just trolling for interactions. Tragic.

Once your culture is gone, it isn't coming back. To preserve a culture, you must continually read the books and ideas that created it. That's why we started an online book club to study the greatest texts of Western Civilization. Every month, we study a new great work — so far we've covered Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Inferno, The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote, etc. Currently, we're reading Virgil's Aeneid. Western Civilization has given us the greatest books ever written, but it takes effort to read them, and even more to read them well. That’s what we’re doing here, slowly, together. If you want to support our efforts, please consider a paid subscription. It makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this project. Paid members get: - Live community book discussions (biweekly) - Deep-dive essays to guide you through the books we’re reading - The full archive of book reviews, essays, and our 100 Great Texts reading list - Access to all community discussion threads (via the subscriber chat) - Ability to vote on what we read next This is not school. There are no grades, no credentials, and no status games. Just a community of readers serious about recovering what’s been lost, and using it to build something better. Welcome!

“What’s causing climate change, is it carbon dioxide?” Plibersek: “yes” Jones “what percentage of the air is made up of carbon dioxide?” Plibersek “I don’t know” x.com/Ryandally08/st…

I like how he handled that