In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's war, through a host of individual women's experiences. She tells how they loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared; how they re-made their world in peacetime. And how they would never be the same again ...
Millions Like Us
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We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of "Total War" millions of women -- in the Services and on the Home Front - demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed.
Central Asia
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: A New History From the Imperial Conquests to the Present
A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events
Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of China, it in fact stands at the crossroads of world events.
"Spark: How Fanfiction and Fandom Can Set Your Creativity On Fire" is up for pre-order.
It's edited by Improbable Press's Atlin Merrick and contains essays by me, academics like Henry Jenkins, professional writers like KJ Charles, Diane Duane, Claire O’Dell & George Ivanoff and fan writers/artists like Anarion and Hubblegleeflower!
I’m starting this off by saying that I’m looking for any type of reasonably advanced photo manipulation tool, that runs natively under Linux. It doesn’t have to be FOSS....
Since no one else seems to actually be answering you, I’ll give you one. Smart Objects AKA linked layers. I use these in just about every single PSD and it has saved me rediculous amounts of time and effort undoing or redoing edits and avoiding destruction of a raster image by rotating or scaling it multiple times.
There has been a feature request open for this for 10 years and it is still not implemented. I first found out about the intention to add linked layers several years ago but I quickly gave up when I realised how much time it was taking.
I couldn’t tell you other features as I have not used Gimp much beyond trying it out for some light projects and to make use of some of it’s better-than-Photoshop color to alpha tools. But this one feature combined with all the UI, behaviour, and shortcut decisions is enough to keep me stuck on Photoshop for Windows for a long while yet.
I am aspiring to one day host a chat server of some kind to eventually replace my Discord server. Matrix has caught my eye and I’m looking to try using it a bit to get a feel for it, but I can’t seem to find any communities that i really like. There’s a lot of niche stuff out there and it’s hard for me to find servers...
I maintain #science-space:matrix.org as sort of an entry point to explore scientific communities. Then there is #non-technology:matrix.org which is even more general.
Is there really no viable alternative for Photoshop on Linux?
I’m starting this off by saying that I’m looking for any type of reasonably advanced photo manipulation tool, that runs natively under Linux. It doesn’t have to be FOSS....
What are the best Matrix servers for chatting?
I am aspiring to one day host a chat server of some kind to eventually replace my Discord server. Matrix has caught my eye and I’m looking to try using it a bit to get a feel for it, but I can’t seem to find any communities that i really like. There’s a lot of niche stuff out there and it’s hard for me to find servers...