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Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 1d

Best walk of shame!

Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 1d

The events between Asha’s proposal and Jon being stabbed and plunged into ice cold are still to be fully disclosed. But I do believe we will witness Stannis becoming steel, just not Lightbringer. /fin

Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 1d

The fake lightbringer show at the Wall at the start of aDwD includes the burning of current trees (coal). but at the ice lakes we have Asha proposing to sacrifice Theon to the Old Gods, to the ancient weirwood tree, an ancient magic: solid symbolic coal. /5

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Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 1d

Donal’s view on Stannis holds up until Stannis gets to the wall, and he’s using Mel’s fire magic and the burnings like a smith uses fire to mold and restructure himself as a sword. What he lacks is the carbonisation, which requires coal - burned wood, or ancient remnants of what once were trees. /4

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Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 1d

What’s the point of the quote? Alchemy and smithing symbolism related to characters vying for the allegorical role of becoming the “sword Lightbringer”. Dany has her alchemical metal symbolism: copper, bronze, gold, … Jon has his forging symbolism sleeping and holding office in Donal’s forge. /3

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Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 1d

But Donal is an armorer and knows what makes proper steel! Steel doesn’t exist naturally: it’s developed when iron is carbonated! And without iron there won’t be steel. So, maybe Donal underestimates Stannis. And he did not live long enough to witness Stannis coming to their aid. /2

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Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 1d

#asoiaf thought about Stannis and the quote about him being like iron - brittle. This is Donal Noye’s opinion as former armorer of Storm’s End. Donal’s opinions have weight and merit and wisdom, but it’s often used in an absolute sense - that Stannis cannot bend and adapt. /1

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Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 1d

Is dat zoals schorpioenen, vogelspinnen en doortrekkend mierenleger in eender welk 5* hotel ergens tussen beide keerkringen?

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 2d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 3d

Mine too. As a kid I loved this

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Roelant Siekman🌱⚡️ @roelant.bsky.social · Jul 21

“Ik snap wel dat de fascisten geen ‘fascisten’ genoemd willen worden.”

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Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 4d

They consider this project the most difficult, but also always the most rewarding. They had a peek into the actual wide window to critical thinking and how to apply statistical calculations and graphs.

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Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 4d

Some is blank: all the data that can be derived from the measurements. These they have to calculate themselves, compare and conclude how or why my findings were inaccurate or accurate. One of the reports includes a failed lab because the lab assistant kept walking in and bringing light into it.

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Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 4d

My students: adults belated trying to get a HS degree in STEM. They have “research competency” on math, 4 hours a week. They have 3 projects (5-6 weeks each) and class assignments. The last is them peer reviewing my theoretical physics lab reports of my 2nd bachelor. I teach them how to read those

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Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 4d

I smiled and asked “you found your answer on this specific situation, which I consider the greatest lesson”.

Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 4d

Last week this man (+ 50) I met on a terrace made the same assumption mistake. He’s studying photography and scorned his teacher for not knowing the physical explanation why light intensity diminishes exponentially over distance, except when you use a mirror. He had discovered the answer himself.

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Sweetsunray @sweetsunray.bsky.social · 11d

More and more this “daddy” references to oneself sounds like a 🚨 put out by pedos.