the bloke translating arabic into latin was called herman the german - Hermannus Alemannus

“He’s spent years chasing Reform voters, echoing their rhetoric, even mimicking Enoch Powell. And for what? They still prefer Jeremy Corbyn.”

Hróftr: is one of the oldest and most secretive epithets of Odin, deriving from hrópa which translates to: "invoke, call". In Norse mythology/cosmology, the world started with sound, waves, vibration which is where the name derives from. Stafi: staff but also rune The original:

Cornwall artist Serena again I liked this with the boats and old vans etc. full of character and lots to take in.

One of my favourite pieces of Skaldic poetry. Hávm 139 --- Runes you will find, and interpreted signs, very mighty signs, very strong signs, which the great sage painted, and the mighty powers made, and the god of gods carved. --- The usage of Hróftr and Stafi are remarkable.

no plan survives first contact with the enemy

hypervigilance is a sign of madness

spitting distance of empathy

rare doubt, reflection, pragmatism

I know this is scary but you need to start thinking very deeply about how you will act in the event you are attacked. Because if you have mentally prepared yourself for the possibility you will be infinitely better prepared for if it happens. You also have to imagine committing

One of the largest walkable real-world 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes at eye level. Takes nearly 10 minutes to walk through with an avatar. Created from 86 minutes of 8K 360° video using DJI Osmo 360 (2 cameras, 2 operators).

[Aristotle's Poetics] survival and re-entry into the West is a product of its transmission through the Arab world. It was "restored to the West in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic version written by Averroes" (Ibn Rushd), a

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reason leads to death

please take away my rights, sir keith, because what about my rights

In November 1992, Steven Foster and Fred Barrie developed a search engine called Veronica. The search engine was used to browse and index information in Gopher menu items. The name Veronica is an acronym for “Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computer Archives”.

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"britain is broken"