#ATO

[ershebet]

original pic

«Yep, lack of money and hugs»

«Take the money for lunch»

«Chariton, how many times did you eat today?»

#ato #atomic heart #dmitry sechenov #chariton zakharov #char les

[ato-f]

#kiss #kisses #ato #sther #art #arte #mi arte #digital art

[ask-the-originals-ato]

Part 1

#void post #ato #elm #mono #rylah #bean #noodle #ax #??? #originals

[dokidobe]

Lee! Ato

Here him :3

#art #ask #tickling #tickle art #Ato #I don't know this character

[the-wanted-man]

XXVIII. The Mare-in-the-Tree Describe them at their most dangerous.

"Me? Dangerous. Pfff, nawww. I ain't nothin' but a pushover on th'best've days."

Roman is dangerous the same way a cornered animal is dangerous. For the most part, he'd rather be an easy-going breeze rather than a windstorm. He doesn't like being perceived as a threat and generally isn't to most. He likes keeping things friendly and will pursue the peaceful route about 97% of the time.

That said, he most certainly can be a dangerous man to be in contact with. When his back is against the wall and he feels trapped or crowded, that's where his trigger finger starts to get a little twitchy. His hands at that point have a natural tendency to drift towards his guns or knives. Whatever happens to be present at the time.

Now, he doesn't like killing and does what he can to avoid it, shying away from people who tend towards violence as a first resort or situations that might call for it directly. The exception to the rule is in defense of his own life, however or others. Something about being threatened just makes him a little mean. The more serious the situation, the more significant the aggression when it comes to the desperado.

#About the Outlaw #ATO #Asks and Answers #Bounty Board #thanks for the ask <3

[casposters]

(via Last one home | Gareth Hector Milita)

#RN FAA #Fairey Swordfish #Stringbag #WW2 #ATO #Aviation #Naval #No 825 Sqd #HMS Vindex #Aircraft Carrier

[nando161mando]

😔

#😔 #taxpayers #tax payment #ato #australiantaxationoffice #irs audit #fuck the irs #fuck the ato #irsforms #irs #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #taxes #tax #eat the rich #eat the fucking rich #government #federal government #fuck the government #anti government #class war #fuck the police

[peachteagaming]

I am about to have an aneurysm. The tax office thinks I’m on government support so I need to pay $1700. HELLO? CAN YOU NOT CHECK THAT I’M NOT? YOU ARE LITERALLY THE GOVERNMENT

#ato #Australia #imma flip my shit #this is more unesseceary shit for me to do

[lady-redhaired]

Since it’s been so long and it’s still my favorite fic I’ve ever read, I’m wondering how A Thief’s Overture would have ended had it been continued? If you don’t mind answering of course

I've always known the ending, but I've also always wanted to finish the fic. It has been years now, I know that. Though funnily enough I'm playing through Uncharted again right now, so a continuation might very well happen in the near future. It's still my favorite fic I've ever written and I think about it a surprising amount considering that it's been almost a decade since I left it hahaha.

I'll keep the ending a secret for now, but promise to finish it or reveal it if I don't. How's that? UvU

#uncharted #ATO #a thief's overture #lady red #my fics #my writing

[sabrinarismos]

“Tem dias que a vida é um ato de coragem.”

— Vanguart 

#frases #autorias #Vanguart #vida #ato #coragem

[almostlookedhuman]

#mtg #cavernous maw #ixalan #ato

[ato-f]

OCs

#sther #ato #erika #art #arte #mi arte #wea de discord #digital art

[ask-the-originals-ato]

Part 2

#void post #ato #mono #??? #poly #elm #rylah

[dustedmagazine]

CIVIC — New Vietnam & Singles (ATO)

Where to start with CIVIC? The Melbourne fivesome made its inroads outside Australia early in 2023 with a second album, Taken by Force. Produced by Rob Younger of Radio Birdman and, not coincidentally, brought out the band’s hard proto-punk surf sound in a clean, clear way. Yet if you want to really understand the primitive force of this hard-knocking, straight-up rock ‘n roll band, maybe you go back to the beginning, round about 2018, when, fresh out of the woodshed, they produced New Vietnam, their earliest EP, and a string of singles.

This reissue from ATO is the first look for most of us at CIVIC’s undiluted Aussie punk fury. Rough throated Jim McCullough is a dead ringer for the Saints’ Chris Bailey in battering proto-punk assaults like “New Vietnam” and doomed romantic epics like “Street Machine Dream.” That original line-up had only one guitarist, but Lewis Hodgson takes up space for two or three, ratcheting up tension with tight, fast, disciplined strumming, then blowing it up with unhinged solos. Gutty bass cadences anchor the chaos—that’s Roland Hvlaka holding down the maelstrom in “Call the Doctor” and the drums bang hard, without frills, brutal but never boring.

This reissue splits right down the middle, the first seven tracks from the debut EP, the backside an assortment of roughly contemporary material, including four from the later-in-2018 EP Those Who Know, two from the Selling, Sucking, Blackmail, Bribes single and one live version of “New Vietnam” recorded for PBS in 2018. Thirteen of the tracks are originals; the lone cover is a faithful but wall-shaking take of Brian Eno’s “Needle in the Camel’s Eye.”

This earlier material is both heavy and fast. You don’t think of sludge going this hard, but here on cuts like “Nuclear Son” and, especially, “New Vietnam,” the band pursues punk speed through a hard rock murk, held together by relentless drumming and sheer force of will. These couple of tracks are, perhaps, the most Stooge-like of the bunch, but a Motor City diesel haze hangs over the whole endeavor.

Birdman is another clear influence, especially on “Satellites,” with its clear, flaring guitars and arena-sized, not-quite-sung rhythmic chants. “What a time to be alive,” indeed. And the palm-muted, wrecked lyricism of “Street Machine Dream” taps directly into the Saints at their most epic, “This Perfect Day,” for one.  

You can hear this band taking shape even within the limited time frame that this disc covers. “Flick the Station,” recorded about six months after “New Vietnam” operates on a larger scale than the debut EP, with gigantic power chords and serrated anthemic hooks. “Heat” wallops just as hard but with more melody than the earlier material. Signs of softness? Hardly. “Selling, Sucking, Blackmail, Bribes” howls and crashes and makes no compromises. And the live version of “New Vietnam,” again six months out from the debut, goes right up to off-the-rails but pulls it off, blur speed and unhinged.

No question that CIVIC’s latest album Taken by Force is cleaner and clearer, with a stronger dose of surf rock thrown into a volatile punk-and-hard-rock mix. But these early songs are rough-crusted gems, the fire glinting out of corrosive settings.

Jennifer Kelly

#CIVIC #new vietnam and singles #ATO #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #rock #punk #garage #surf #stooges #radio birdman #the saints #australia

[casposters]

Fish in a barrel: An RAF Liberator sinks a surfaced U-boat

Although March 1943 marked the month with the highest Allied loss of shipping to U-boats in World War II, unknown to both sides, the course of the Battle of the Atlantic was about to change, and change dramatically, in favour of the Allies.

By the end of March the Allies had enough long-range and very-long-range patrol aircraft to cover the northern transatlantic convoy routes. The Allies installed a new ASV Mark III centimetre-wave radar on their aircraft. ASV Mark III could not be picked up by German Metox radar detectors, which detected the metre-wave transmissions of ASV Mark II radar. Less susceptible to ground clutter than the old Mark II ASV radar, it was less likely to lose a U-boat’s echo as it closed. 

Combining ASV III with the Leigh light (a steerable aircraft-mounted spotlight) proved deadly to U-boats. An aircraft carrying the new radar could swoop down on a surfaced U-boat at night (especially a moonless night) and snap its Leigh light on to illuminate the U-boat just before the attack. This blinded the deck watch as well as illuminating the target.

These new tools were used by Coastal Command when they opened Operation Derange on 20 March 1943. Derange targeted U-boats crossing the Bay of Biscay at night, unaware their Metox detectors no longer warned of impending attacks. Over the spring and summer of 1943, Derange and subsequent operations soon made the Bay impossible to cross surfaced at night and dangerous even while submerged.

These tools were used to great effect throughout the North Atlantic starting in early 1943, including in the infamous air gap between Newfoundland and Iceland south of Greenland. March saw VLR Liberator squadrons moved to Iceland and Northern Ireland to cover the gap, including RAF No. 86 Squadron, which began operating out of RAF Ballykelly in Northern Ireland at the end of March.

One victim was U-632, a new boat on its second patrol. In the early morning hours of 6 April 1943, the U-boat had just sunk its second victim, the steamship Blitar, its first – and last – kill of its second patrol. Before dawn, nemesis appeared in the form of R-for-Roger, a Liberator Mark V of No. 86 Squadron. A VLR Liberator capable of flying 2,700nm, and carrying both ASV Mark III and a Leigh light, it was patrolling an area the Germans believed beyond the range of Allied aircraft. U-632 was not expecting company.

R-for-Roger picked up a contact on its Mark III radar. Homing in on the contact it spotted a Type VIIC boat heading west – U-632 – and dived to attack.

As it approached, it switched on its Leigh light, bathing the conning tower in light and firing with the two guns in its nose turret. Before U-632’s crew could react, the Liberator dropped depth charges on its target, bracketing the U-boat and creating fatal damage. The Liberator observed the U-boat sinking as it pulled away. There were no survivors. It was like shooting fish in a barrel.

Title: Battle of the Atlantic 1942–45 Authors: Mark Lardas & Edouard A. Groult

#WW2 #ATO #RAF #B-24 Liberator #Aviation #U-Boat #Naval

[annalegend]

"Pensar é um ato. Sentir é um fato."

Clarice Lispector

#pensar #sentir #ato #fato