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Your definition of prescriptivism packs a lot into a small bag. Accents? Spelling errors? Puh-leeze…

Five pounds? Maybe that's why it’s (checks calendar) two days since publication day and my pre-ordered copy STILL hasn't shown up at my local indie bookseller.

… millions of miles away and bringing it back to earth with samples of the material – is epic.

Excuse me while I go cue up the first episode of “From the Earth to the Moon”...

Inspiration from a visit to my elementary school by a NASA presentation group is at least partially responsible for my 43-year career as a mechanical engineer. The sheer “we can do this” ‘sciencing’ that is involved in things like this, and oh, I don’t know, landing a probe on an asteroid… 🧵

“all the typos are 100% handcrafted by moi” 😂😂

They must have quite a UXB problem there.

Slow, and useless in bad weather, airships are an evolutionary dead end – they can't do anything that heavier-than-air aircraft can't do better.

I read, and you have my vote, Duchess.

Ruin the White House...

I have been given to understand, from someone who is much more involved with Democratic Party politics than I am, that Schumer and the Hateful 8 were part of a cunning plan to end the shutdown and – well, fuck, I don’t know.

Ordered it back in September from my local indie bookseller, @hicklebees.bsky.social and am anxiously awaiting delivery.

(BTW – it’s “lying” on your Eames table, not “laying” – unless it is part chicken and can provide me with eggs, in which case, yay!)