Notices by BeeCycling (beecycling@romancelandia.club)

Just booked to go see Adrian Tchaikovsky do an author event in Waterstones in Newcastle in March, for his new book, Shroud, that comes out later this month. Excited!!

@kaia Her face definitely says "get a job, hippies."

@cstross Definitely. Just wanted to mention the printer dots too, because most people don't know about them, and think that something printed out and distributed on paper can't be traced back to or linked to them. It absolutely can.

@cstross It's also important that people know that most printers print a code on their output that traces the printout back to that specific printer. It's usually in pale, unobtrusive yellow dots. (This is why your printer wants you to replace the colour cartridge even if you're just trying to print in black.) Created ostensibly to trace printers being used to counterfeit currency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

@stevetex I just watched the awkward moment when Trump moves in to kiss her on the cheek, but only managed to get air, even though she bent her head towards him. She chose such a broad brim for a reason. 😏

@taatm @mekkaokereke That's what I was thinking. They kind of get more of a chance to grow out of the ideas they form as teens, when they eventually form long term relationships with women. Which nerds can do too of course and which some jocks fail to do. It's that growing out of it thing that's key I think. So many misogynistic attitudes of adult men sound so juvenile. Sound like the ideas of boys who haven't learned better by experience of the real world.

I see the fire in LA is potentially threatening the Hollywood sign. Well, whatever, who cares about a stupid sign when people are losing their homes? But it would certainly make a compelling image if it burns, and we need images that make people wake up and demand something, anything, be done about climate change.

@sentient_water @ahimsa_pdx
"Hah hah, what's he gonna do about it?"
"Surprise, motherf*cker."

@RickiTarr Their relationship is such a great part of the show. Ben doesn't always get things right first time - because no parent ever does. But he's always trying his very best.

Merry Christmas. Nugget here prefers Boxing Day.

Has the goat burned?

No! With Christmas Day in the rear view mirror, the Gävle goat only has to stay safe for a few more days until New Year. :julbock:

#GävleGoat #GävleBocken #Goatwatch2024

Live stream
https://www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat

de Hevesy, who had Jewish grandparents, later had to flee Copenhagen, but after the war, he returned to his lab, to find the solution undisturbed on the shelf. He precipitated the gold out of the acid and sent the gold to Stockholm, where the Nobel Society then recast the medals using the recovered gold and returned them to the two laureates.

de Hevesy also won his own Nobel prize in 1943.

Resistance through chemistry.

2/2

There are lots of ways to resist evil, including being intellectually kickass, like George de Hevesy, a Hungarian radiochemist, working in Denmark prior to WW2. German scientists and opponents of the Nazis, Max von Laue and James Franck sent their Nobel Prize medals to Denmark to keep them from being taken by the Nazis. When Denmark fell, de Hevesy dissolved the medals in acid and left the resulting solution on a shelf in his lab at the Nihls Bohr Institute. 1/2

Has the goat burned?

No! The Gävle goat is having a happy Christmas, unburned, uneaten and fabulous in the sunshine. Happy Christmas, GävleBocken! :julbock:

#GävleGoat #GävleBocken #Goatwatch2024

Live stream
https://www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat

I've said for years many people have this idea that absolutely anyone can open a bar, a restaurant or a coffee shop, despite zero experience or knowledge, and that they will make money hand over fist with barely any effort. Guess they've never wondered about the high turnover of those kinds of businesses.

Man with no experience running pubs shocked to learn that running a pub is actually really hard.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/jeremy-clarkson-pub-disaster-thefts/

It's the 1st day of Advent and Day 1 of #GoatWatch2024! The Gävle goat will be officially inaugurated later today with a concert and various other events in the day and evening.

Then GoatWatch is ON! Will he remain unburned? Will the local birds eat him to bits again? :julbock:

#GävleGoat #GävleBocken #Goatwatch2024

Live stream -official
https://www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat

YouTube live stream - with music
https://www.youtube.com/live/0oX1NhBl4ps

If you don't know what this is about, check out this blog post for info.

https://beecyclingblog.blogspot.com/2024/12/guess-whos-bock-bock-again.html

My own Julbock, Lumpy, who I crocheted last year, is out for #GoatWatch2024 .
Free pattern here if you want to make one! Which will almost certainly look neater than mine.
https://www.jarbo.se/gavlebocken-92269

@corbden @jrefior @mekkaokereke Oh I do love to do the last part. When someone makes a bigoted joke, just keep saying you don't get it and can they explain it please?