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The Discovery of the Okapi, a complex tale very tightly connected to colonialism and European exploitation of tropical Africa. Here's Part 1 in my 2-part series on this really interesting story... tetzoo.com/blog/2023/4/... #okapi #mammals #zoology

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Dat zoveel mannen voor rechtse partijen stemmen, maakt me nog minder fan van mijn eigen gender dan ik al was … Zijn mannen echt zo fragiel? Hebben mannen zo weinig empathie? Kom op zeg, geniet van het leven, praat met mensen en werk aan iets moois - dan heb je als man geen rechtse ideologie nodig!

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I love this oldschool Dimorphodon illustration from 1901.

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Sorry, I found this one funny. Never take advice on anything from people who don't even know how an umbrella works...

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Reminder: bullying is evil. Anyone who defends bullying defends evil!

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Another song in my head. It starts as a sort of alternative Christian rock song (a sort of blessing even) and then at 3 minutes they play a solo on a delay pedal on the snare drum while the drummer drums on, and that for almost 3 minutes... Have you ever heard a solo played on a delay pedal????

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Calling out the mythology around powerful people is often more dangerous than calling them out directly - because you're attacking the infallible 'new clothes' that they are manipulating people with

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"Those who are easiliy angered are easily manipulated. If you cannot control your emotions, someone else will."

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“Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.” -Terry Pratchett-

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The problem with most conspiracy theories is the weird faith in human organisational power...

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Yuck, the 'empathy is a sin' people are back on the bad website...

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I'm sorry but Paddington Bear is a better role model than Andrew Tate. Paddington is kind and polite. he spends an entire summer working in the hopes of buying a book for his great-aunt. and he has not been credibly accused of sex trafficking.

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Song in my head, so obscure that it isn't even on youtube: the instrumental 'universal two-day city' by soul-junk from the very diverse 1955 album (1998), but this is the most funky sort of noise-rock possible... Quite catchy even! soul-junk.bandcamp.com/track/univer...

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I really hate the ironic use of 'I love when' to say something you hate, sorry

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For the #writingcommunity #snippetshare Eliza isn't really a fan of the Wife School chaperone system... But she can be carried away a bit by her little projects sometimes, like trying some looks from the secret book of courtship sabotage. (which isn't really needed or even effective today)

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The world is mad today. My dystopian fiction seems more cosy than the evening news sometimes...

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For the #WIPsnips, here's a snippet I shared earlier again from early in ANOD. A man can get a Wife in a Wife School because of the glorious ideals of The Nation, or something like that. Michael is rather cynical though, and wouldn't be there if he wasn't forced to...

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For the #WIPsnips, from the dystopian Wife School arc in ANOD. Eliza finds Miss Hunter's classes a waste of time, and Miss Hunter finds her the most unmarriable girl in The Nation. (It's all fiction, no-one ever thinks like this, eh...)

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Diversity is a characteristic of a healthy population!

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Sint-Gummarus van Lier, die de ingang van de stad bewaakt met zijn staf...

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There only is a placard in ANOD for #WIPsnips This is the introduction of Megan, a Wife School student who has other goals in her life than being chosen for marriage... (Note: men have ranks Alpha to Epsilon, women are A-E in The Nation, and most people find that hierarchy very important)

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For #FantasyIndiesFebruary I think all my MCs have a very loud inner moral compass, more than the world around them sometimes. Apart from that Ybart will use more logic, while Zabelle will be more following her chaotic intuition, which isn't the same as just following emotions.

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For #FebruaryWorldbuilders Michael isn't happy with society in The Nation at all. He'll never be a Real Man enough to fit in... Liana doesn't care much about Belgian society and is happy with her little thing. Ybart is confused about his place in Ankan society, and even more so after meeting Zabelle

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People with this sort of cultural illiteracy should stay away from Homeros!

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Apparently A Nation of Distances (even if just a future Earth low scifi dystopia) is a fantasy after all, since some of the characters are at least an attempt at mythical creatures...

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Am just chatting to a friend about a book "meandering" and how that wasn't a negative and it got me thinking (again) about story shapes. There are so many structures, styles, and narrative choices that have come to have a negative connotation to them in general parlance, but really are neutral forms

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For the #WIPsnips, from ANOD book 1: ...I always say that I just want a quiet life, but everything that makes sense to me is revolutionary to The Nation... (Michael) #Writingcommunity

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For #FebruaryWorldbuilders a description of the differences Inaya sees between our (she uses 'hmanil-orr', not the slur gorchbold) society and that of the Nummerfa from the oak wood, from very early in Liana in between Worlds. #WritingCommunity

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'you shall own nothing and be happy', or how technofeudal capitalism is much more dangerous and totalitarian than any form of socialism today.

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Isn't 'rhipsalidopsis' a lovely word?

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(1) People want and need a guide to fossil plants, and they decry the perpetual lack of one. (2) Experts on fossil plants would LOVE to do such a book, put a proposal together, and take it to publishers. This has been done many times.... cont

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🌿🌳 Rethinking Europe’s #Nature🍃🐘 Our new study challenges the closed-forest paradigm—pre-Homo sapiens landscapes were a fine-grained mosaic of open areas, closed #forest & light #woodland, likely linked to the rich #megafauna🐂🏵️https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475925000061

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For the #Writesky #WIPsnips from ANOD book 2 Apparently the female outlaws in The Nation serve pasta in bowls in their bar. (And yes, little Eric is the third 'man' ever to enter the female outlaw colony. And Michael himself never expected to be turned into a 'male affairs adviser'...)

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Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...

The Discovery of the Okapi, a complex tale very tightly connected to colonialism and European exploitation of tropical Africa. Here's Part 1 in my 2-part series on this really interesting story... tetzoo.com/blog/2023/4/... #okapi #mammals #zoology

Dat zoveel mannen voor rechtse partijen stemmen, maakt me nog minder fan van mijn eigen gender dan ik al was … Zijn mannen echt zo fragiel? Hebben mannen zo weinig empathie? Kom op zeg, geniet van het leven, praat met mensen en werk aan iets moois - dan heb je als man geen rechtse ideologie nodig!

I love this oldschool Dimorphodon illustration from 1901.

Sorry, I found this one funny. Never take advice on anything from people who don't even know how an umbrella works...

Reminder: bullying is evil. Anyone who defends bullying defends evil!

Another song in my head. It starts as a sort of alternative Christian rock song (a sort of blessing even) and then at 3 minutes they play a solo on a delay pedal on the snare drum while the drummer drums on, and that for almost 3 minutes... Have you ever heard a solo played on a delay pedal????

Calling out the mythology around powerful people is often more dangerous than calling them out directly - because you're attacking the infallible 'new clothes' that they are manipulating people with

"Those who are easiliy angered are easily manipulated. If you cannot control your emotions, someone else will."

“Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.” -Terry Pratchett-

The problem with most conspiracy theories is the weird faith in human organisational power...

Yuck, the 'empathy is a sin' people are back on the bad website...

I'm sorry but Paddington Bear is a better role model than Andrew Tate. Paddington is kind and polite. he spends an entire summer working in the hopes of buying a book for his great-aunt. and he has not been credibly accused of sex trafficking.

Song in my head, so obscure that it isn't even on youtube: the instrumental 'universal two-day city' by soul-junk from the very diverse 1955 album (1998), but this is the most funky sort of noise-rock possible... Quite catchy even! soul-junk.bandcamp.com/track/univer...

I really hate the ironic use of 'I love when' to say something you hate, sorry

For the #writingcommunity #snippetshare Eliza isn't really a fan of the Wife School chaperone system... But she can be carried away a bit by her little projects sometimes, like trying some looks from the secret book of courtship sabotage. (which isn't really needed or even effective today)

The world is mad today. My dystopian fiction seems more cosy than the evening news sometimes...

For the #WIPsnips, here's a snippet I shared earlier again from early in ANOD. A man can get a Wife in a Wife School because of the glorious ideals of The Nation, or something like that. Michael is rather cynical though, and wouldn't be there if he wasn't forced to...

For the #WIPsnips, from the dystopian Wife School arc in ANOD. Eliza finds Miss Hunter's classes a waste of time, and Miss Hunter finds her the most unmarriable girl in The Nation. (It's all fiction, no-one ever thinks like this, eh...)

Diversity is a characteristic of a healthy population!

Sint-Gummarus van Lier, die de ingang van de stad bewaakt met zijn staf...

There only is a placard in ANOD for #WIPsnips This is the introduction of Megan, a Wife School student who has other goals in her life than being chosen for marriage... (Note: men have ranks Alpha to Epsilon, women are A-E in The Nation, and most people find that hierarchy very important)

For #FantasyIndiesFebruary I think all my MCs have a very loud inner moral compass, more than the world around them sometimes. Apart from that Ybart will use more logic, while Zabelle will be more following her chaotic intuition, which isn't the same as just following emotions.

For #FebruaryWorldbuilders Michael isn't happy with society in The Nation at all. He'll never be a Real Man enough to fit in... Liana doesn't care much about Belgian society and is happy with her little thing. Ybart is confused about his place in Ankan society, and even more so after meeting Zabelle

People with this sort of cultural illiteracy should stay away from Homeros!

Apparently A Nation of Distances (even if just a future Earth low scifi dystopia) is a fantasy after all, since some of the characters are at least an attempt at mythical creatures...

Am just chatting to a friend about a book "meandering" and how that wasn't a negative and it got me thinking (again) about story shapes. There are so many structures, styles, and narrative choices that have come to have a negative connotation to them in general parlance, but really are neutral forms

For the #WIPsnips, from ANOD book 1: ...I always say that I just want a quiet life, but everything that makes sense to me is revolutionary to The Nation... (Michael) #Writingcommunity

For #FebruaryWorldbuilders a description of the differences Inaya sees between our (she uses 'hmanil-orr', not the slur gorchbold) society and that of the Nummerfa from the oak wood, from very early in Liana in between Worlds. #WritingCommunity

'you shall own nothing and be happy', or how technofeudal capitalism is much more dangerous and totalitarian than any form of socialism today.

Isn't 'rhipsalidopsis' a lovely word?

(1) People want and need a guide to fossil plants, and they decry the perpetual lack of one. (2) Experts on fossil plants would LOVE to do such a book, put a proposal together, and take it to publishers. This has been done many times.... cont

For the #Writesky #WIPsnips from ANOD book 2 Apparently the female outlaws in The Nation serve pasta in bowls in their bar. (And yes, little Eric is the third 'man' ever to enter the female outlaw colony. And Michael himself never expected to be turned into a 'male affairs adviser'...)

Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...

Reflectie 18/02/25

Get your palindromes here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIty...