Raithe

Universal-Sci : Massive solar and wind farms could bring vegetation back to the Sahara

Been a mix of lazy morning start reading and sprawling, before pushing to achieve a few things. Formalising a set of notes in advance of job interview tomorrow, trying to have a few more things settle in my head over it all. Keep meaning to spend some time gaming, but getting distracted chasing things down to add to my notes.

Something that slipped by last month... BBC - Hong Kong University orders Tiananmen statues removal

Games Workshop actually had to put out an official statement explaining that you're not supposed to root for the fascists. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/11/19/the-imperium-is-driven-by-hate-warhammer-is-not/

Just for the quirky interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_upon_a_time A list of the ritualised versions of "Once upon a time" depending on language and culture.. That reminder of the sheer universal nature of storytelling...

I've been keeping an eye on some of the bigger WoT websites and youtube streamers, and overall, it seems the majority of the fans are fairly happy with what's been adapted. Of course, most of those people have been engaging through the streamers with Rafe (the showrunner) and most of the cast and screenwriters. Who have been slowly filtering out potential changes and how and why things are being adapted in specific ways. A great way of managing expectations. It's interesting, they flew a bunch of them out to London for the premiere event, and some of the actors were engaging with the streamers in that whole "I've been doing interviews and q&a with you for the past 2 years, great to finally meet you, how are the kids? did you enjoy the flight? hows the hotel?"

And WoT drops the first three episodes on Amazon at the turn of midnight. Hm, late night binge three episodes to be considered....