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Full-time Grandpa, part-time writer, interested in classic movies, television, books, and comic books, especially science fiction and fantasy. I'm just an old-fashioned guy
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Angus McKie’s first three covers for Brian Stableford’s Hooded Swan series, 1976-‘78.

Polity Agent www.nealasher.co.uk/book/polity-...

#education

People are so worried about #billionaires. Don't worry about yours or the other side's #wealthy folks. They who die with the most #money won't win the race.

#GoodMorning. Going over to my son's place to get one granddaughter ready for school and the other to come over to my place.

#GoodNight

This is dicey because the 1st amendment guarantees the right to peacefully assemble. If the students break either university rules for students or the law, that's something else but be careful about inhibiting #freespeech newsbreak.com/miami-herald... #protests #israel

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I think this will become a common trend in countries in #Europe going forward and for apparent reasons. #Germany #CDU #CDUCSU economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

www.space.com/the-universe... #astronomy #quipu #universe #science #realscience #actualscience

www.sciencealert.com/rock-fragmen... #moon #lunar #history #solarsystem #KREEP #science #realscience #actualscience

Yesterday at the #gym I did back squats and overhead presses along with an assistance lift and core work. Today, to avoid the rain, my wife & I used the track at the Y for some cardio.

What could go wrong?

Regardless of how you feel about #Christians, the wanton murder by beheading of seventy people by the #Terrorist group #ISIS must be seen as criminal. Anyone celebrating these deaths is not a good person. www.yahoo.com/news/70-chri...

Let #children be children.

Happy Control Panel Saturday from "Walter and Jacques," the credited artists for this 1983 cover to the Portuguese microcomputer hobbiest magazine Micro Mundo. It appears to be a trace of a flipped version of this 1977 Ralph McQuarrie Star Wars concept!

The people living around Tai-no-ura, a bay in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, have a long-held tradition of not eating the sea bream found in their local waters. This is because the sea bream of Tai-no-ura are considered sacred. #Japan #nature #travel #explore #visitjapan #japantravel #naturephotography

Brass Man www.nealasher.co.uk/book/brass-m...

I watched this 1954 #classic last night for the first time. #films #movies #cinema #skyfilms

This happened within my lifetime. I was a year old. #BlackHistoryMonth

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#GoodNight

This is what we know about how #Hollywood used to treat #children / #child #actors. Imagine what they don't tell us about how they're treated today. allchronology.com/2024/10/24/i...

#BlueSkyArtShow #Abandoned

I know a lot of people who have always been critical of the Federal Government and a lot of them are on what you might call the conservative side of the dividing line. I think there's a big difference between the political parties we have available & the actual people living in our country.

22 February 1938 | An Austrian Jewish boy, Max Leopold Hahn, was born in Vienna. On 4 October 1944 he was deported from the Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz. He was murdered in the gas chamber after the selection.

OP turned off replies for some reason. All I was going to say was that I haven't written #haiku since high school (which was a very long time ago).

The irony is whatever group happens to be in charge becomes the "evil empire" in the eyes of their opponents. I can certainly see how Trump (bet you think I didn't see the connection, did you?) is being inserted here, but any group can be totalitarian, even if they have a great marketing department.

Detail: Landscape with a Sunlit Stream (1877) #Art #painting #landscape

22 February 1924 | Polish Jewish woman, Felicja Wolf, was born in Lwów. She lived in Metz in France. In December 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

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Yesterday, I announced my first published #book for 2025: "Our Legacy, The Stars: A Tom Corbett Adventure." Give it a #read www.amazon.com/dp/B0DY1LQQ9R/ #SciFi #SciFiSat #SciFibooks #spaceopera #television #TV #nostalgia #oldschool

#GoodMorning. Having work done on my car interrupted my #gym schedule. I'm going back this morning.

This was my introduction to Elric and I went on to read all of Moorcock's novels.

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Google takes up less space.

21 February 1934 | Dutch Jewish girl, Elisabeth Rimini, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported from Amsterdam to #Theresienstadt ghetto in April 1943 and on 23 October 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz with her younger sister Sophia. They were both murdered in a gas chamber.