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Dmitri Gheorgheni

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Editor of the h2g2 Post at h2g2.com. My fiction has been labeled 'poignant and humorous'. https://www.lulu.com/search?contributor=Dmitri+Gheorgheni&page=1&pageSize=10&adult_audience_rating=

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Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · Oct 17

I am happy about the little pictures in my new book. Which you can buy here. www.lulu.com/shop/dmitri-...

Page 179 of the book, which includes a small picture of TJ the cat looking smug while wearing a little Roman helmet.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 5h

I like the name 'Moloch's Bargain'. Will adopt.

Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 5h

My best live music memory involves an Irish pub in Pittsburgh. It was my birthday. And I heard Sydney Carter's 'Lord of the Dance' for the first time.

Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 5h

Read more about 'I, Libertine' at h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...

Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 5h

#vss365 #libertine Now you've done it...see comments for more info.

I, Libertine the novel that wasn't. Jean Shepherd, the NYC late-night radio guy who broadcast from New Jersey in his underwear, made it all up. He and his callers kept talking about this scandalous book.

How racy it was. How anti-establishment. The Anti-Woke Movement™ threatened book sellers. They demanded this horrible book be banned before children could read it.

Nobody could read it. There was no novel. Shepherd made it up.

I have a Kindle copy, though.

Theodore Sturgeon wrote it. The joke was too good to let die.

From the Antifa Files, 1950s edition.

Image: 18th-century guys arguing at radio station WYNC. DG

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 6h

They're destroying what it took humankind 300 years to build. But they've doomed themselves, too. The thing is, they aren't actually doing it on purpose. Listen to the Editor natter about unintended consequences at h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/bru...

Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon. His horse is wondering what would happen if he just threw the blowhard into the river.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 23h

This has been my feeling exactly! Wikipedia is looking pretty good these days - and, alas, I have to warn people that .gov sites may not even be safe.

Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 1d

#vss365 #ash

'And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods?'

TB Macaulay, political fraud and quondam Secretary @ War, would say something like that. Winston Churchil loved that poem, which is longer than the script of Titanic and not nearly as much fun to sit through.

How, indeed, could a man die better, yadda yadda?

Teaching peace to children
To replace their fathers' hate,
Spreading a loving gospel,
Reversing the planet's fate.
Shame on the citizen of Earth
Who lives by that old creed
When they know a better spirit
Is spreading at light speed.

Image: Horatius at the Bridge, Gutenberg Project

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.

If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.

Read this in @bloomberg.com👇

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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 1d

I've stumbled across an audio version. Maybe you'd be interested in it.

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Red Dragon: Foreword to a Fatal Interview

YouTube video by DPGI Reads

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Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 2d

Thomas Harris, “Foreword to a Fatal Interview,” Red Dragon (2000) is a very intense description of an interesting process. Definitely riveting reading.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 2d

#vss365 #clash

'Clash' is imitative, we are told.
A loud noise.
Things knocking against each other.
To disagree loudly.
To come into collision.
Since 1867, of colours: to go badly together.

I wonder why they first thought of that in 1867?
Oh, yeah.

Image: Fashionable ladies in 1867 wearing bright colours because of the new dyes. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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h2g2postoffice.bsky.social @h2g2postoffice.bsky.social · 2d

We've been places and seen things. Like rushing water and butterflies and pretty flowers. Stop and take a look with us instead of doomscrolling. h2g2.com/entry/thepost

Rushing water and greenery at Mt Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 3d

#vss365 #associate

Back in the 18th century
something happened to
people's brains. They got a
little bit smarter - just for a
minute or two. They wrote down
their ideas: humans are all equal,
humans have natural rights, governments
should protect these rights. They were pleased
with themselves. They were right to be.

Now, some people don't understand
those ideas. They don't
think other people have natural rights -
at least, not if they and their associates can
manage to take them away. They really think
they can make the Enlightenment not have
happened if they yell loud enough.

Who knew the War of the Worlds would
turn out to be about
whether you could grasp
the concept of
natural law?

Image: View from the Riegersburg, by Tavaron da Quirm of h2g2.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry, forgot to say Simon Says, er, #vss365 #advert

Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 4d

Video:

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Prof Jr Goes Iron Man #h2g2

YouTube video by Dmitri Gheorgheni

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Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 4d

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Prof Jr Goes Iron Man #h2g2

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Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 4d

For several years now I've been hosting Youtube videos by h2g2 members on my channel: everything from baby budgies to raging floods. I enjoy sharing views from around the world.

Public interest varies, a lot. A visit to the Philae Temple in Egypt? 179 views. A model of Leonardo's flying helix? 699 views.

Prof Jr's new working Iron Man helmet? 2.4k. Everybody wants one: it's like we ran an advert.

Image: Prof Jr, helmet.

Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 4d

Travel reports, from France, North America, the English coast, and Scotland. Strange creatures and stranger inventions. A dip into history and garden beauty galore. Don't miss this.

Find it all at h2g2.com/entry/A88074...

This week's subject is wizards, sailors, rogues, and kings, and nature, wiser and more beautiful than all. Clockwise from upper left: a tiny crab on a Scottish beach next to a 10p piece it could probably hold in all its arms, a fast-flowing river amid greenery in Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina, a yellow-and-black swallowtail butterfly on echinacea flowers in North Carolina, a pink tigridia in bloom in northern England, a black, white, and orange caterpillar on grass in Austria, a formal garden next to a chateau in France, a sign from an English museum showing in a policeman, a reward poster for Henry Allbones, also from the museum, and an outdoor model of Leonardo da Vinci's Flying Helix that's on a stand and moves but does not fly. The model is in Clos Luce, France.

Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 5d

What does your book smell like?

Flowering vines, Mediterranean spices, and fresh salt air.

Mosaic tile background for The Roman Gheorghenis: Life in Potentia

Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 5d

Wishing all a joyous Saturday, the feast of Francis of Assisi. Very hoopy frood, Francis.

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Donovan - The Lovely Day / Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) OST

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Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 5d

Favourite 90s song: 'One of Us' (Joan Osborne).

Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 5d

#vss365 #elastic

dressed for reenacting
(from the costume shop, cheap)
they jumped into their roadster
and drove off to the fair in style

car stops oh dear what's the matter honey?
fan belt's broke
need something elastic? I know:
(takes off stockings) here dear
I saw it in a movie
got to the garage
got help
on the road again

do you remember Aramanthe the flaky
English poet?
her parents tried that once
only
her mum was wearing nylon socks
which melted
all over the engine
they got stuck for a week in
Kings Shuttlecock or someplace

Image: Antique car, DG

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Simone Brunner @simonebrunner.bsky.social · 6d

Eine ukrainische Bekannte hat vor Kurzem ihren Cousin verloren. Er kämpfte an der Front im Osten.

Weil der Ort, wo er fiel, nun praktisch unter russischer Kontrolle ist, hat ihn ein ferngesteuertes Gerät der ukrainischen Armee eingesammelt.

Europa 2025: Roboter, die Leichen einsammeln.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni @dmitrigheorgheni.bsky.social · 6d

😆That is the funniest origin story I've heard yet.

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Doc Savage @docsavage88.bsky.social · 6d

My online moniker is Doc Savage for the most random reason. I had toyed with the idea of writing a #pulp for fun, and googled the Lester Dent master plot. I'm contractually obligated not to have an online presence, so I randomly hit the letter "D." Autofill offered me Doc Savage and Dr. Seuss.

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