Alastair Millar
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Translator & flash sf writer (BSFA); 🇨🇿/🇬🇧
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Posts eclectically (archaeology, travel, current affairs, words)
❤️good coffee & bad puns; 🚫 genAI; unsolicited DM = block
Happily married; he/him; 🏳️🌈/🏳️⚧️ ally; #NAFO fella; 🇺🇦 🇬🇪
Links: https://linktr.ee/alastairmillar
Not sure. It's also possible (although I think unlikely) that a strategic decision has been made that armour just isn't as important as it used to be, given the new style of warfare in Ukraine.
November 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Not sure. It's also possible (although I think unlikely) that a strategic decision has been made that armour just isn't as important as it used to be, given the new style of warfare in Ukraine.
Thank you! Had a rather odd genesis, starting life as a CNF piece, a long time ago...
November 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Thank you! Had a rather odd genesis, starting life as a CNF piece, a long time ago...
Bit surprised to see 'biohacking' there - it's been around as a term for ages. Started taking off about a decade ago, according to google:
Google Books Ngram Viewer
Google Ngrams: biohacking, 1800-2022
books.google.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Bit surprised to see 'biohacking' there - it's been around as a term for ages. Started taking off about a decade ago, according to google:
Oh good grief, someone is trying this "we can automatically translate books" crap AGAIN?
Disaster waiting to happen. And serves them right, too.
Disaster waiting to happen. And serves them right, too.
November 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Oh good grief, someone is trying this "we can automatically translate books" crap AGAIN?
Disaster waiting to happen. And serves them right, too.
Disaster waiting to happen. And serves them right, too.
The quote comes from the book "Überleben in Auschwitz" (“Survival in Auschwitz”), published 2021 by the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism.
November 8, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The quote comes from the book "Überleben in Auschwitz" (“Survival in Auschwitz”), published 2021 by the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism.
Quite right.
Referring to people only by their relationship to others (e.g. "X's wife", "brother of Y") implies that they have no agency or achievements of their own - *extremely* disrespectful.
Referring to people only by their relationship to others (e.g. "X's wife", "brother of Y") implies that they have no agency or achievements of their own - *extremely* disrespectful.
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Quite right.
Referring to people only by their relationship to others (e.g. "X's wife", "brother of Y") implies that they have no agency or achievements of their own - *extremely* disrespectful.
Referring to people only by their relationship to others (e.g. "X's wife", "brother of Y") implies that they have no agency or achievements of their own - *extremely* disrespectful.