We had a good bit of rain here in #Gladstone #QLD
Labor’s Gladstone Inland Rail Promise Off Rails http://dlvr.it/TQsz9B #ARTC #InlandRail #RailNews #Gladstone
Labor’s Gladstone Inland Rail Promise Off Rails http://dlvr.it/TQsxky #ARTC #InlandRail #RailNews #Gladstone
Labor’s Gladstone Inland Rail Promise Off Rails http://dlvr.it/TQsxTD #ARTC #InlandRail #RailNews #Gladstone

Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone

This post originally appeared on the previous incarnation of this blog on April 23, 2024. This was not my first time reading Three Parts Dead. In fact, I pre-ordered it when it first came out and read it then. Max Gladstone just released the second book of a sequel series to the original Craft Sequence books and in getting ready to read the Craft Wars books, I decided to go back and read the original Craft Sequence. Let me begin by saying that my original pre-order was based on the fact that […]

https://alexanderkeane.com/2025/12/18/three-parts-dead-by-max-gladstone/

In the politics of #Ireland & the #UK, the political term #KiteFlying goes back at least to 1885, when #Gladstone's son Herbert flew the "#HawardenKite", i.e. the possibility of Liberal Party support for #IrishHomeRule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawarden_Kite https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kite_flying

Now we have a new, crude term for those who disown their kite: #SchrodingersAsshole, the person who angrily denounces their own idea when it generates hostility. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Schrodingers+asshole

h/t @passenger

#iepol #ukpol