Amongst all this, I missed that a priest got suspended from the Anglican Catholic Church for recreating Musk's Nazi salute.
And if your first thought was "it was Calvin Robinson, wasn't it?" then 1) Yes, of course it was, and 2) I also offer my condolences that you know who he is.
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You know, if you've ever shared that "a fine means it's legal if you're rich", and currently wondering "but that's illegal, how can he do it?" then you're already 90% of the way to the answer, you just need to realise the generalised case.
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We should get a lid on the situation now, declare a No Fly Zone, deploy UN peacekeepers to the troubled region, and start negotiations on a peaceful transition to a workable two-state solution.
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Which is a real contrast to Dune, where Herbert jumps around people at such a chaotic pace that I'm surprised people don't raise it as a problem much more frequently. Though it doesn't come across as a "mistake" as much as an extreme stylised choice to have an omniscient narrator -- which used to be much more fashionable, and we're simply less used to it now.
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It starts with Moist climbing, then switches POV to some coachmen chasing him, then back to him again.
It works because he directs it like a movie, there's an ambiguity in the first part and the middle is a highly limited transition to figuring out you've been watching Moist all along, breaking into his own building for kicks. He's not referred to by name, though it's probably obvious even if you haven't read it before.
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Do you analyze structure and technique in other writerβs work?
I re-started Making Money last night, and did give some serious thought to how Pratchett 'head hops' (a 'rule' says you shouldn't, though it actually says "you should only do it well").
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The simpler way, in keeping with how he acts, is to ignore it and run again anyway. Who stops it?
Which is a very literal question. At what point does state-sanctioned force step in to prevent it? People get away with breaking laws frequently because, simply put, no one steps up to admit that they're just words on paper, only given power because someone might break your fingers over it. Trump has never been at risk of that second part the way, say, a shoplifter might.
https://theconversation.com/how-trump-could-try-to-stay-in-power-after-his-second-term-ends-246722
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A digital equivalent to this sort of thing is that if you accidentally apply formatting to every excel cell, that's every cell up to XFD1048576, you can make them absolutely huge and unusable.
And the old student trick of changing a .mp3 to .pdf, uploading it to an assignment, and claiming the system must have corrupted it so you need an extension.
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Well, that's extremely fun....
"Saturate a sponge with a thick starch or sugar solution. Squeeze it tightly into a ball, wrap it with string, and dry. Remove the string when fully dried. The sponge will be in the form of a tight hard ball. Flush down a W. C. or otherwise introduce into a sewer line. The sponge will gradually expand to its normal size and plug the sewage system."
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The Simple Sabotage Field Manual has had nearly 200,000 downloads from Project Gutenberg in the last 30 days. I have no idea why...
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Always a pleasure to watch some 40K fans -- grown-ass men who admire these 8ft tall engineered supersoldiers who know no fear -- take 2D6 damage from the word "genderqueer". Highly recommended and very entertaining emotional breakdowns to watch. 11 out of 10.
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If nothing else, the sound mixing alone. A TV should not be on volume "4" and rattling the walls because you once heard a sound engineer joke "if in doubt, compress the shit out of it".
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And I hope we're beyond sharing thw advice that white women should dress up, so that they can use their privilege as a shield. Please. Just don't. You're up against people whose top masturbatory fantasy is beating up women dressed as 50s housewives and being allowed to get away with it.
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Look, you don't need to hear it from me of all people, but if there are protests in he best month, at least skim this. Not to actually become a competent medic in mere hours (if anything, the opening chapters should put you off), but to at least understand what you might be up against and what can happen.
https://riotmedicine.net/
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You know you've been to too many kids parties when you're wondering if the Taylor Swift was Elsa last time.
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We could literally medically recondition the entire government to acknowledge that a country outside the M25 exits.
For a billion quid, I'd consider that a bargain.
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I know it's not considered very lefty-liberal to say that the government should spend money on itself, but I think a massive 9-figure renovation of the Houses of Parliament will be a good thing.
Not just because these buildings are becoming literally lethal, but because it would force a parliamentary relocation for several years. One of the top contenders for that would be Manchester -- and getting these people out of London for a while might be very, very good for us long term.
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The single most powerful argument in favour of the BBC Licence Fee has to be comparing Cbeebies to YouTube Kids. Jesus Christ, I've just lost brain cells from 8 minutes.
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If nothing else, stay alive so you can one day read the headline "Donald Trump, Dead at 79, After Shitting Himself To Death Tapping Out Truth Social Post".
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You know those "fan" accounts that post the same cycle of photos of actors and singer, with captions like "They're SOOO beautiful AND. AMAZING they're the GREATEST IN THE WORLD!! πππππβ¨"...?
Are those mostly made by teen girls suffering baby's first parasocial relationship,
fully grown, 40+ adult-ass men with moustaches and boundary issues,
AI bots going for long-tail engagement at all costs,
or secretly ran by publicists to promote their client?
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