“We’ve got a beautiful moonrise and we’re headed right at it.”

<3

The kid who designed the Artemis II zero-gravity indicator and, when asked if he could tell the interviewer more about it, just said “…yeah” is the best and most important support crew of the mission <3 #HaveANiceTrip

The lack of situational awareness Berlin pedestrians display confounds me every time I navigate a sidewalk or shop with any traffic ._. I swear to God, the last time Germans were so effective at blocking the movement of other Germans in this city, Ronald Reagan told Mr. Gorbachev to tear it down.

It’s not what you said, but I can still read between the lines

for now

Oh! I should stop, is what you’re saying?

Being a chaos gremlin, I badly want to fuck with lasers. But also, as someone who distills anhydrous H₂O₂ in her kitchen, I’m like: oh, I want to use my non-contact thermometer? OD7 goggles on first, batteries out afterwards, just in case the laser gains malicious sentience and tries to blind me >.>

That article notes things like depicting movement (I assume via hologram?) in wings, etc., although I guess I also assume fur, feathers, and scales offer lots of ways to create intricate and difficult to replicate detail.

thats how i know ive done my job

Yes :| Citino’s “Death of the Wehrmacht” is also full of these sorts of asides, e.g.

> Manstein’s memoirs blame the Romanian army alone, as German memoirs often do, and singled out the 4th Mountain Brigade in particular, but in fact the assault had shaken the entire 11th Army.

(my own trick btw is the wehraboos will never find you if you say “general” and “Mark V tank” like a normal person instead of “Obersthauptsturmwaffenmann Guderian, as with other Grossfeldmarschaller in the OKW, lacked sufficient SdKfzUwU 319 Ausf. H panzerkampfwagens for his höch Kesselschlacht”)

This trick was famously used by Guderian and every other idiot Nazi general who survived the war, and they got plenty of speaking fees from NATO to yap about the Fulda Gap as if they would’ve had any Cold War Gone Hot strategy past “ooooh get this: we lure 2nd Guards Tank into a decisive battle!”

I feel that strategy curricula neglect the only lesson that really matters, which is: if you win, hey, you won, QED. And if you lose? Well, war offers a usefully large pool of scapegoats who are too dead to argue when you blame them for undermining your strategic genius :P in your book, naturally.

Google Street View screenshot of a long, straight road with a turnoff towards the left. A brown sign marks “Combo Waterhole Conservation Park"

And his ghost may be heard, as you pass by this specific, named, identified billabong—near what was then the Kynuna strikers’ camp; now a conservation park.

In the middle of the shire of Winton, population ~1,100, is something I never guessed to be a true story. I just thought that was neat.

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Either way, Andrew “Banjo” Paterson, Australia’s Other Poet, evidently visited Dagworth Station shortly thereafter, learning of the event. And Banjo—then at least a Georgist if not a socialist—seems to have chosen to view it as:

“You'll never catch me alive,” said he!

In defiance of the squatters.

James Spellsey stated: I am a Iabouring man, at present residing in the Kynuna Union Camp: I have been there since last Monday: I came from a camp three miles down the river; was there Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: I came from Lucknow by Llanrheidol; I camped above the town through the fence; Crimmins went with me to the the three-mile camp; I have a horse; when we went to the camp Highland was there, and five or six or eight others; I know Frenchy by sight; I saw him come from the direction of Kynuna on Saturday evening: he was riding: I comped in a fly with Crimmins; I went to bed not later then nine; when I went to bed there was somebody at the fire; I do not know who nor how many; Crimmins was in the fly when I went to bed; I went to sleep: I woke up during the night: I did not see anyone; it was not raining: my mate was in bed; I went to sleep and woke up at daylight; Crimmins was there and no one else; I got up and went to the fire; a few moments after I saw Frenchy coming towards the fire; it had been raining before and did so afterwards; I had breakfast and remained in the camp till dinner; I left immediately after dinner; I do not know of anyone calling at the camp between sundown on Saturday and sunrise on Sunday; I had no quarrel with Frenchy, nor do I know of anyone else having any: I believe Frenchy committed suicide; I do not know if he was despondent; I have no settled home.

(the testimony, published at the time, is consistent, but it has since been speculated that concluding Frenchy Hoffmeister was “a bit balmy” was a way of allowing the matter to be quickly closed rather than escalating—the strikers were in an untenable position and would end it within a few weeks)

A man was found dead at the union camp, twenty-five miles from Dagworth, yesterday, death having been caused by a bullet wound. The unionists assert that he committed suicide. The Police Magistrate and a doctor have gone to Kynuna to investigate the matter, and Inspector Dillon and the police have also gone out. Mr. R. Macpherson and others are endeavouring to track the men. The shed was only partially burnt. HUGHENDEN, September 3. The police are patrolling the roads towards Winton in search of the Dagworth incendiaries.

One of the union leaders, Samuel “Frenchy” Hoffmeister (not Haffmeister) wound up dead. A hasty inquest concluded that he had committed suicide. If so, possibly he was as troubled as claimed… or possibly he did so to avoid capture, the territorial police having been called out to break the strike.

THE SHEARING DISPUTE ATTEMPTED BURNING OF DAGWORTH SHED Sixteen Armed Men. Forty Shots Exchanged. Affairs in the Weet have taken a serious turn—so serious in fact as to justify the statement recently made in the House by the Calonial Secretary bao the strike had developed into an insurrection. At about 8 o'clock last night Mr. Tozer received a wire from the Police Magistrate at Winton stating that Dagworth sbed bad been burnt down by about sixteen armed men. Forty shots were fired. One constable was present at the time, as well as the three brothers Macpherson (owners) and three station hands. Later information was received by Mr. Tozer at 9.30 last night giving details of the affair. This wire stated that at about 12.30 a.m. on Sunday the constable and a station hand named Tomlin were on duty guarding the shed. The first intimation they had of any attack was about a docen shots fired through the shed. This woke the Macphersons and the others. The firing then continued, both sides engaging in it for about tweaty minutes. While this was going on oue of the unionists sneaked up under cover of the fire of his comrades and set fire to the shed. The constable and the station hands kept firing at the party, and when this ceased it was not known whether any one was wounded.

whether any one was wounded. About forty shots were exchanged Three bullets were fired through the cottage where the Macphersons were sleeping. The unionists had taken up a position in the bed of a creek at the rear of the shed, and were almost wholly protected from the fire of the defending party. Rain fell again shortly after the men left. It was raining, too, from the time the shed was tired until 2 p.m., but it is now fine. There is hardly any doubt that this is the same gang that has been burning all the sheds. Information has been received in Winton that a man named Haffmeister, a prominent unionist, was found dead about two miles from Kynuna. The local impression is that he was one of the attacking mob at Dagworth and was wounded there. There were seven unionists with Haffmeister when he died. These assert that be committed suicide. Dagworth station is about seventy miles north-west from Winton, on the Upper Diamantina, and adjoins Ayreshire Downs, where the woolshed was burnt down some time ago. Dagworth has about 80,00 sheep, and the shed which had been destroyed had stands for forty shearers. Shearing was to have commenced at the station on the 14th August, but was delayed owing to the strike. The statica is owned by the Messrs. Macpherson Bros. Brisbane Observer, Monday last.

In 1894, in response to a new contract from the "squatters" (i.e., shepherds resident on the land if not its owners), sheep shearers in Queensland, Australia, went on strike. And then, they started setting fire to woolsheds before scabs could be brought in to do the season's shearing.

Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' series was the same era; I don't think culture would be worse off if HP series disappeared completely from our consciousness, but stories like The Golden Compass were essential in mine & many of my peers' & their kids' social understanding & development.

…oh no

By very popular demand, coyote day is being extended through the rest of the week

People are claiming yesterday was “Coyote Day” but I did not wake up with a hangover and these can’t both be true, so...

a DLSS 5 OFF / ON meme with two identical sticks of computer ram on each side, one labeled $99 and the other labeled $700

this one hurts the most

…i hope you are proud of yourself :|

Also we showed up early but had we showed up on time we would’ve been there like maybe 5 minutes??

Sign in the stairwell of a German immigration office directing people: Übergang zu M1/A4 Transition to M1/A4 Übergang zu F1/A2 Transition to F1/A2

Wait, there are levels? Nobody told me there were levels :|

I mean I was only here for a residence permit but????

The mirror image of this are the times when I learn something and the person who would have been most interested is beyond my ability to tell them. I mitigate that problem by telling all my friends every dumb thing I turn up, though >.>

As an inquisitive soul who is aging, an underappreciated aspect of loss is when I have a question and can’t ask the person who could answer it. At times—given my esoteric interests—when they might have been the only one who could, and I will be in the dark forever. That always… aches.

I do not advocate for exposing anyone to smut (or even oppose parental controls). But. Reading the academic literature, it is *interesting* how often you see what amounts to “we know adolescent exposure to explicit content must be bad, so here is our explanation of why the study doesn’t show that.”

We should’ve started requiring the hall monitors who report art as “abuse” to adopt and pay monthly support for the animal/troubled teen/Sonic OC they were so Concerned™ about rescuing. Somehow I suspect a lot of people would’ve suddenly decided “…but they’re not real ffs” *does* matter, after all.