simonwatts17.bsky.social
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Did anyone actually believe he wasn't in the files?
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There may be a difference in sports people do, vs. sports they want to watch.
I keep saying my disinterest in following football is that I don't spectate what I can do. But I can't do it either.
(Also: Rugby League home town)
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This doesn't end well.
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I have an HP printer, which i bought in the UK and brought it with me to the US when my company moved me out here.
Carefully ordered the right HP cartridges for it.
They didn't work because they're also region locked.
For our convenience, apparently.
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4️⃣ This is a rhetorical question, right?
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Did you flush?
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A few years earlier, one constituency tallied twice as many votes as constituents. It was laughed off as a fowl-up. I hindsight, it seems like a practice run.
No one wants to investigate systematic corruption entering western democracies' election systems. Who's left to do that in any case?
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We had similar in the 2019 UK GE.
Marginal seats flipped by unpredicted surge in postal votes.
The company running the PV dissolved itself the day after the election.
The company had been around for about 2 decades and owned by a Tory donor.
(verifiable via Companies House)
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Doesn't look a day over 6000.
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Because ... cat.
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Second season due soon.
And in the first, Jennifer Holland has a scene in black undies which is burnt into my retina like I was still 16.
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Beware of monocultures.
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lol.
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Long ago, our office sent a "get well soon" card to a colleague who had an extreme form of OCD.
Cut a sliver off the bottom of the card so it wouldn't stand straight, almost imperceptibly.
No idea what happened to him after that. He never returned to work.
Not proud.
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Well, at _least_ the UK's King is a Constitutional monarch.
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Hello America, welcome to the Third World.
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There seemed to be a pretty big gulf between the US and UK #ttrpg cultures in the 80s.
TSR Dragon never caught on here vs. White Dwarf and TSR UK's Imagine magazine.
This may be reflected in the UK modules, but I still didn't rate them highly. We'd moved on to other games by this point.
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The name "AI" misleads people into thinking that "intelligence" is involved.
It's just a big search and correlation engine. It doesn't "add" anything and can only produce results slightly worse than what already exists.
It's got its uses, but it's used like lace trimming on the otherwise mundane.
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Donald Trump's mum?
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Try Men Only instead.
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You have a living room?!
Happy Birthday from a manhattan closet apartment.
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Life expectancy dropped out of the top 50 last year.
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Protect your right to gummy bear arms!
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Putin?
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In uniform.
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A "sod" is a small lump of turf.
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They prob *tried* in 2020 but failed, encouraged by postal vote manipulation in the UK 2019 GE.
But the US system seems pretty robust (pre-DOGE).
But I do believe the US has a surplus of idiots voting how the media tell them. That's much easier.
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Credo - now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
I still have a copy I bought in the early 90s.
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Same pattern as is being used today, and has been used many other times in the past.
Blame those who can't fight back. Teach people to kick down, so they don't kick up.
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Once again...
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I only saw coverage on international news channels - @france24.com - until "cannot reach server" stopped that. Same with some other sources.
Nothing suspicious to report.
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C O N F O R M !
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The series was set in a small village, and lasted until she was the only survivor.
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It's the spin-off with her sister in law.
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This is where the party is hired by the local King to protect the noble participants from the rebellious & smell peasants.
Shiny crown and bags of gold, vs. moral stand. It's truly a test of...
Oh, they fireballed the crowd.
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I think I saw that episode of Mrs Marple.
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Some of those pegs had been on your partner's family for three generations!
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Find her name, wait until she misses a week, _then_ send a txt asking how her week was.
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I see the flaw: No oligarch will get any richer from this solution, so it's a non-starter.
However, I'm sure they'll put the sun in private ownership to cut costs or something. Then you'll have to pay to go outside.
Already well on the way with this for breathable air.
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This happened to my War God Cleric (2E).
The party recruited villagers to help hunt the monster. My cleric ensured that none of the peasants suffered the unholy sin of fleeing the battle, saving their souls if not their lives.
Criticaled their champion.
The party was thrilled when he caught up.
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Lots of things become "viable" in a racist state.
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That only works for a free press.
The current media has a price, and was bought out decades ago.
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Well, I've been saying for months that Elon DOGE are the brownshirts in this reenactment.
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Just having characters specialise means that the party has to rely on each others' skill sets.
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That's where the dice end up anyway.