Looking to move to my 3rd instance! This is fun
9.11.2022 23:03Looking to move to my 3rd instance! This is funDespite coming to this part of town nearly daily since the mid-80s, I’ve never before noticed this heavily Deco and rather lovely Myer building (with radio mast!) in Berkeley St, Carlton
9.11.2022 06:25Despite coming to this part of town nearly daily since the mid-80s, I’ve never before noticed this heavily Deco and rather lovely Myer...CW: Elon Musk
Just realised it’s a near certainty that, just like me, Elon Musk grew up reading the Usborne future books and that this would explain a lot about his naive technological utopianism and that now I feel queasy
9.11.2022 04:06CW: Elon MuskJust realised it’s a near certainty that, just like me, Elon Musk grew up reading the Usborne future books and that this...@liamvhogan omg
9.11.2022 03:17@liamvhogan omgJust used emoji in a professional tweet for the first time ever, same energy as a middle-aged lecturer trying to use pop culture references from 25 years ago to engage students (also me)
8.11.2022 23:25Just used emoji in a professional tweet for the first time ever, same energy as a middle-aged lecturer trying to use pop culture references...CW: AI-generated images
Of course I forgot the link! https://mastodon.art/@AirmindedAI/109306001631049972
8.11.2022 10:34CW: AI-generated imagesOf course I forgot the link! https://mastodon.art/@AirmindedAI/109306001631049972CW: AI-generated images
Today in #AlternateHistory - the origins of the Great Mech War of 1940! Follow @AirmindedAI for more #AIArt
8.11.2022 07:55CW: AI-generated imagesToday in #AlternateHistory - the origins of the Great Mech War of 1940! Follow @AirmindedAI for more #AIArtOne day an academic job application isn't going to make me jump through every hoop before even getting shortlisted. That day is not today
8.11.2022 06:04One day an academic job application isn't going to make me jump through every hoop before even getting shortlisted. That day is not...CW: self-promotion
Buy my book The Next War in the Air: Britain's Fear of the Bomber, 1908–1941 (Ashgate, hardback, 2014; Routledge, paperback, 2016): https://airminded.org/publications/the-next-war-in-the-air/
8.11.2022 05:16CW: self-promotionBuy my book The Next War in the Air: Britain's Fear of the Bomber, 1908–1941 (Ashgate, hardback, 2014; Routledge,...New instance, another #introduction time! I'm an #aviation #historian – and now #histodon – in Australia, though I mostly study Britain. I'm less interested in aircraft themselves than in how they've made people think and feel ("airmindedness").
I've written on the knock-out blow from the air, the Hendon air display, the international air police force, etc; I'm currently writing an emotional history of the German air raids on Britain during #WW1.
Ask me about phantom #airships!
8.11.2022 04:54New instance, another #introduction time! I'm an #aviation #historian – and now #histodon – in Australia, though I mostly study...