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There's social etiquette and then there's Southern etiquette. Here are the unspoken social etiquette rules that hopefully you're following.

06-Feb-2022 Your Excellency Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal and Chairperson of the African Union Your Excellency...

FOR THE WINNERS. Joy Alyssa Day posted a photo of this year’s Chesley Award. Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13. On April 13, 1970, the Apollo 13’s lunar landing was aborted in what would become a historic mission. The crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down on April 17, 1970. It’s a beautiful piece, 4″ wide, 12″ deep and about 4″ tall. Water is sculpted fused glass with a blown glass Apollo Capsule attached. Capsule is engraved and painted for the doors and windows...

(1) EVADING DUTIES. Richard Garriott’s announcement that he secretly hid some of James Doohan’s ashes on the ISS inspired Steven H Silver’s post “A Brief History of Space Smuggling” for Amazing Stories. …The first mission to orbit the moon was the Apollo 8 mission on December 24 and 25, 1968. Knowing that the crew would be in orbit around the Moon on Christmas, NASA wanted to make sure that they had an appropriate Christmas dinner and provided dehydrated versions of the appropriat...

Posted on (1) EVADING DUTIES. Richard Garriott’s announcement that he secretly hid some of James Doohan’s ashes on the ISS inspired Steven H Silver’s post “A Brief History of Space Smuggling” for Amazing Stories. …The first mission to orbit the moon was the Apollo 8 mission on December 24 and 25, 1968. Knowing that the crew would be in orbit around the Moon on Christmas, NASA wanted to make sure that they had an appropriate Christmas dinner and provided dehydrated versions of ...

(1) DIGITAL DIAGNOSIS. N. K. Jemisin tries to work out what the symptoms of social media indicate. Thread starts here. Like, one person got hella mad at me a few days ago because Im not into sports. A while back someone ranted at me for like 5 tweets because I said something good about an anime they disliked. Somehow "This was great!" turned into "Why do you, N. K. Jemisin, hate women?!"— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) December 17, 2020 In counseling we recognize lots of developmental stages. At...

(1) DIGITAL DIAGNOSIS. N. K. Jemisin tries to work out what the symptoms of social media indicate. Thread starts here. Like, one person got hella mad at me a few days ago because Im not into sports. A while back someone ranted at me for like 5 tweets because I said something good about an anime they disliked. Somehow "This was great!" turned into "Why do you, N. K. Jemisin, hate women?!"— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) December 17, 2020 In counseling we recognize lots of developmental stages. At...