@raskolnik
In der Steamfantasy-Reihe "Drúdir" von Swantje Niemann, die ich empfehlen kann, gibt es eine Demokratie. Bei den Parteien dort gibt es außerdem mehrere Anspielungen auf reale Parteien in DE.
Ich habe bisher keine anderen Fantasybücher gelesen, bei denen das der Fall ist.
Mehr über die Buchreihe auf der Seite der Autorin: https://www.swantjeniemann.de/buecher
At the bottom in small print, it says "The owner of this form has not provided a privacy statement as to how they will use your response data. Do not provide personal or sensitive information."
I just replied to the same email they sent the survey link to me with. The one thing I wanted to give them as feedback in response to their questions about why I hadn't kept my membership.
"What has kept me from renewing with all plant science professional orgs has been the lack of accessibility & inclusion for disabled people. The ageism towards older students is also not helpful or welcoming."
I still can't find a safe home, my family and friends have turned their backs on me I have nowhere to go I need everyone's help to be safe I am in a lot of danger out here please help💔
Please if you see this do not hesitate to help a transgender girl in danger, I need medicine, food and a safe home🏳️⚧️🤞🏻
There can’t really be only 10 people on Mastodon who toot their way through #TheLastDriveIn. Which means there’s something wrong with how I’ve got this set up, right? Horror.hub alone should have hundreds. Anyone have any ideas/suggestions? #MutantFam
We've been sent a huge questionnaire from our daughter's psychologist about her childhood and we are meeting with them in a few weeks time for an in depth interview.
There's some suggestion that she may be #autistic and this has played a major role in her troubles over recent years.
I'm suspending judgement because I don't know enough about the subject and Internet research on #autism in adult females isn't particularly helpful. I'm leaving this one to the professionals
I read a #scifi#book about an ice hauler that gets suddenly sent out of the solar system at relativistic speeds on the back of something that apparently isn't a comet, it starts as a survival story and then turns really interesting and weird.
@Nornennetz
und zu Unrecht von mir bei der Aufzählung zum Fragefreitag vergessen:
Diandra Linnemann (von der es nur einen Link zum Käfig gibt), deren Bücher man als hard boiled Urban-Fantasy bezeichnen könnte und die immer knapp am Horror vorbeischrammen. Bloß nicht von den Covern täuschen lassen!
@pernia@Owl who asked
i’m pretty 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 ig..
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Had a pretty quiet weekend, as I tried to stay off my wicked sore knees. Saturday was particularly awful, but they do seem to be ever so slowly getting better. I stayed in bed, took ibuprofen, kept them both iced down and played #NoMansSky on my ROG Ally. It plays very well on the little Z1. Amazing how they have kept the game relevant and getting better, after all these years. It is getting a little grindy, but I should probably push off my start planet and get exploring.
#Today has already been very busy and will only get busier. I drove my wife to work and took a foster kitty to the vets. Later, I'll meet some ex-coworkers for lunch about an hour away and hopefully pick up my wife on the way home. And then I will need to rest up for the #NHLBruins playoff game tonight. They looked really good on Saturday night. I really hope Coach Montgomery learned his lesson from last year and just sticks with the goalie rotation.
I finished "Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation" by Andrew Weissmann and found it so frustrating. He details the timidity that Mueller had pushing the investigation into places it should have gone (like a T**mp subpoena) but he gets grating when he writes about how "surprised" they all were at the lengths the Orange Menace would go to cover his own fat ass, from stonewalling to dangling pardons. Why keep getting surprised by it? #books#reading@bookstodon
Heute steht Faschist Höcke vor Gericht, weil er eine verbotene Nazi-Parole benutzt hat. Wir haben 50 Reden analysiert: Höcke wird anscheinend auffällig oft von Reden von Nazis wie Hitler, Goebbels & Co inspiriert. https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/hitler-steckt-in-hoecke/
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If Israel escalates by attacking Iran and striking at the country’s infrastructure, then Iran’s counter will be to take a page out of Russia’s book and commence the one line of attack which Israel, the US and their allies cannot withstand any better than Ukraine – that’s Electric War.
For the seven months which have elapsed since Hamas began its operation against Israel on October 7, and Israel commenced its genocide against the Palestinians, there has been no targeting by Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, or the Syrian and Iraqi groups of Israel’s highly vulnerable maritime gas platforms, gas pipelines, coal and oil-fired electricity generating plants, the coal and oil storages nearby, solar and wind power units, or the electricity grids keeping the country alight.
The Arab inhibitions and calculations are understandable. Iran’s will disappear if Israel triggers a new round of attacks.
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@criitz@worldnews I'm gonna start by debunking the myth that Israel is invulnerable because they have nuclear weapons. Since they have so many conventional precision weapons pointed at Israel, without nuclear weapons Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran are still able to take out strategic targets: missile launchers, AA weapons, radar, runways, facilities in important bases, etc. In addition to this, they can use the strategy even against protected locations like these powerplants striking them with barrages that first use a bunch of cheap projectiles like drones to break the air defense then get a bunch of conventional strikes through depriving Israel of electricity. They can also do this to other facilities like water treatment, forcing military logistics to shift to providing food and water for civilians. note that none of this has the domestic and international consequences of using nuclear weapons. Now something to know about Israel is that they're not able to do without these amenities and they require extremely high morale to be willing to fight since they live in a giant strip mall.
joke explanationit’s a response to colleagues putting skill of nocode / zerocode platforms in their CV and demanding onpar compensation — “subzero” here plays a double duty bc it’s a cool character and also bc code, you wrote but was never used, should be counted as negative work i.e. subzero code
#askmastodon #askfedi #poll
So questions of the day!
I generally like to ask this of older or experienced people in life.
Disclaimer a fun post, so if you troll it at least make it relevant
If today was your last day alive. #spring
In a paragraph or phrase what do you feel is the most important message to pass on to future generations?
I’ve thought about it for awhile. How would you choose, or prioritize a paragraph or so on the most important message for them that you value personally?!!🙏🥰
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Also: All we have to decide is what to do with the time we are given.