Notices by BeeCycling (beecycling@romancelandia.club), page 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?

@persagen Christ on a bike. Imagine you're someone who's served your country for decades, worked your way to the very highest ranks of the military, and now you've got to deal with this absolute clown as Secretary of Defense.

@GottaLaff Pretty soon Trump's gonna be telling Elon "I see so much of myself in you. You're like a better son than my actual sons."

@catsalad The mystery of why the motor burned out on the robot floor polisher is solved at last.

@PabloMartini @ChrisMayLA6 It's so foolish to try to treat railways as a profit centre. It should be treated as a strategic asset for the country, moving people around efficiently for work, leisure, tourism and business. Why would any sensible country want to make it hard and expensive for people to go places where they will spend money and earn money?

You know, the way the motorway network is treated.

The monorail is having trouble getting started this morning.
#RedPanda :redpanda2:

@hl Fun! It's never too early to learn about bureaucracy. 😉

Excellent choice of pen too.

I'm going to have to restrain my constant urge to "well actually" every Kamala Harris-supporting meme featuring Ripley from Alien and Jones the cat and the words 'childless cat ladies.' Must remind myself not everyone has watched the extended edition of Aliens twenty times. 😏

I'll say it here and shut up about it from now on, unless asked. Ripley had a daughter, though you'd have to see the extended edition of Aliens to know that.

Jodi Picolt speaking at the Hay Festival: Having books banned in US schools is "not a badge of honour" and writers “whose livelihood is writing for middle grade and young adult readers. They are suffering greatly”

On one of her banned books:
"She said the reason Nineteen Minutes, which is about a US school shooting, was banned, was not because of the shooting scenes: “They have no problem with that. The problem is that on page 313, I use the term ‘erection’.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0vv17r20lro

@futurebird Whenever people say we can't tackle climate change because it needs to be done by all countries and you can't get everyone to sign up to take actions cooperatively, I wonder if they forgot about that whole ozone hole thing and the Montreal Protocol. I mean, we did that in the 80s! With people like Reagan and Thatcher in charge of countries! Hell, they even pushed for action and following the science.

It can be done - if our politicians weren't so bought off or blinded by ideology.

Oh lawd, I've got to bite the bullet and start rewatching Star Trek Enterprise, now Greatest Generation podcast has finished Voyager and is about to start on Trek's red-headed stepchild. I mean I don't have to watch, but the pod is better if you've seen the episode they're discussing. The things I do for @GreatestTrek

@NickGates It's okay sometimes. But there are long stretches of episodes that were a real slog to get through. More so that in any other series. But Ben and Adam will ease the pain. 😁 @GreatestTrek

Remember that time a fox queued up for the ATM? Britain, where even the wildlife respects a queue.