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Alastair Millar

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Archaeologist by training, translator by trade, micro/flash fiction writer by choice; traveller (36 countries); likes good coffee and bad puns; 🇨🇿/🇬🇧; he/him; happily married.
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Someone who thinks Nigel makes a good party leader, apparently. Unbelievable.

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One of the oldest known musical instruments: a Palaeolithic flute made from a vulture bone some 38,000 years ago! This is one of 8 known flutes found on the Swabian Jura. The finds suggest that music played an important role in this region. Found in the Hohle Fels cave. On display at urmu. 📷 me

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Matutolypea [muh-TYOO-toh-LAHY-pee-uh] (n.) - The state of being in a bad mood or annoyed when first waking in the morning. - Waking up on the wrong side of the bed. “I apologize for my display of matutolypea, but that hotel mattress is so lumpy that I ended up sleeping in the bathtub.”

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Good morning! It's July 4th, which means it's UK General Election day - oh and the Americans have something on, too, apparently.

Whatever you're doing today, make it count. 😉

#elections2024 #vote

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Thanks for making me feel young again (will be 53 later this month).

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She ended up married to what's-his-face.

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Rád bych věděl, co je vedlo k tomu, že udělali tuto značku...

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You wouldn't. I wouldn't. But his rabid fanbois will absolutely turn up and vote for it, along with all the Christian Nationalists and baby fascists.

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Shocked and disappointed to learn that if I want to send more stories to more places I actually need to write more stories. Thoughts and prayers appreciated at this difficult time.

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Kaleidotrope is now open again to fiction and poetry submissions.

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The hobbit lived in a hole. It was a nice hole.

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This means romance authors. This means poets. This means screenwriters and playwrights and actors of anything remotely risqué. And eventually, anything secular. They have no point of satisfaction until they’ve erased all of non-Christian expression.

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H P Lovecraft has you covered: "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming"

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Writing on the tablets is much smaller than I'd anticipated. "Dead god" is a phrase begging for use.

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Well this is wild! Was looking up the Reform candidate for my constituency and found a website run by another Reform candidate where he’s listed. There’s also a helpful constituency map. Look at the place names towards the bottom. What do you see?

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Indonesia’s hijab-wearing metalheads play Glastonbury

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I'm so old I remember when RAM was measured in kilobytes.

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And this is why I love the challenge of writing flash fiction.

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Classic. Apparently Yaxley-Lennon neglected to mention his numerous convictions on his paperwork for entry.

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