I have some very exciting writing news to share. I have sold a novella.
No Sympathy, my urban fantasy about sympathetic magic and ego, will be published by Android Press. Delighted to be working with such a cool indie publisher, and I know they're a fantastic fit for the work.
I so miss the interactions that I had on Twitter. I've lost count of how many people I met there, especially educators, and yearn for being able to share and discuss things in that community. I'm going to try again to be more active here on Mastodon. If you have advice for how I can find and interact more surreptitiously with people, I'd so appreciate it!
For those in research or innovation spaces, (including open source),
What is your method for assigning tasks, of different priority and involvement levels.
How do you differentiate between presenting volunteer/open that have one set of quality standards, vs other quality standards for different tasks-roles-responsibilities?
The BBC has been using and contributing to open source projects for as long as we've had a website, and you can explore all the projects that we've open sourced down below. Including more than a few from @BBCRD... https://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is fire and there are two major Greek gods associated with fire: #Hestia, goddess of the hearth, and #Hephaistos, god of smiths.
They represent #fire in two different forms: the sacrificial flame of the hearth as the sacred centre of domestic life and the flame of Hephaistos, source of all arts, and fuel of the funeral pyre. But both could be invoked for the cooking of sacrificial meat or a good meal:
If it did go out, only sacred fire produced by friction, or by bronze burning mirrors drawing fire from the sun, might be used to rekindle it.
A ritual from #Lemnos, the cult centre of #Hephaistos, has all fires on Lemnos extinguished for nine days until new fire is brought from the island of #Delos:
"And the island of #Lemnos is purified every year for the deed once done to the men on Lemnos by their wives at #Aphrodite's instigation. The fire on Lemnos is extinguished for nine days. A sacred ship from #Delos, however, carries the fire, and if it arrives before the offerings for the dead, it puts in nowhere on Lemnos, but rides at anchor off the headlands out at sea until sailing into the harbor is permitted by divine law."
Heroikos by Lucius Flavius Philostratus, 213–214 CE
My name is Ahmed, I graduated in Literature, and I'm currently working as a copywriter. Above all, I'll love reading novels.
My recent fav novel is The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano. Currently I'm reading Lucy by Jamica Kincaid. If you're a #literature enthusiast, I'd love to connect with you. Also, I'm always open to get book recommendations from others. So, do drop your favs.
Ik meen me te herinneren dat iemand hier laatst een hashtag opperde voor gelezen boeken.
Nu postenik gisteren zelf een (heel goed) boek en wil daar eigenlijk nog wel die hashtag aan toevoegen.
Ook leuk om zo tips van anderen te bekijken.
Maar welke was dat ook weer?
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I recently found a poster on why you should choose Open Educational Practices. I have made a Canva version of the poster if you'd like to remix a copy for yourself.
The 16th C composer Thomas Whythorne wrote that maids go for looks, but widows have...um...other priorities. To court an experienced woman, he said, you "must not carry quick eels in your codpiece, but show some proof of being stiff." #eels#history#medieval#datingadvice
We are cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funding & performing organisations, aiming to make full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality by implementing #Plan_S