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Even as a person that regularly does lettering for comics, this seems like witchcraft

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The “barred” list at the Union Club in Soho provides a great ideas brainstorm for any craft ale microbrewery looking for new beer names.

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Bruce Schneier, on the demand by the UK that Apple build a back door into their end to end encryption: www.schneier.com/blog/archive... The key takeaway here is that if you use an Apple device you should immediately enable Advanced Data Protection: support.apple.com/en-us/108756

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Is the average type size in books getting smaller, or is my eyesight just getting worse? (Or both?)

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A farmer has some chickens who don't lay any eggs. The farmer calls a physicist to help. The physicist does some calculation and says "I have a solution but it only works for spherical chickens in a vacuum!”

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Israel’s current regime will be remembered in history alongside the likes of Hitler’s, Stalin’s and the Khmer Rouge. These are acts of pure evil. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

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THE WASHINGTON STATE BILL TO DENY GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE IS DEAD. Great job everyone! washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/02/22/r...

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www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Believing humans can be reduced to one "smart" score that translates across disciplines--so someone who is "smart" at, say, running a tech start-up or being a reality TV star must inherently be "smart" at international diplomacy--is one of the most childish worldviews you can have. Truly juvenile.

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It’s a shame we have to do this but pleased at the reception we got when we took the fight for our #LGBTQ children’s rights and dignity to the UK Parliament www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/13/p...

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I read an early draft of The Library of Ancient Wisdom a few years ago and can therefore attest it is a fascinating and absorbing book! There’s so much more detail about divination, exorcism and (anti) witchcraft here than in any other pop history of Mesopotamia. www.penguin.co.uk/books/443027...

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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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🚨TV News!🚨 My new show, Yr Academi Gomedi ("The Comedy Academy") is on S4C at 5pm TONIGHT, continuing every Wednesday for 6 weeks. After that, you can find it on iPlayer with English subtitles available! I'm so proud of this show, and I promise you'll love it.

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Books are great, since previously, if you wanted a story, you had to track down the person who knew it.

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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I am hugely grateful to these well-informed fantasy fans for taking the time to write these letters rebuking The Guardian for that asinine 'romantasy' opinion piece. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Why are all British films from the 1950s called things like 'Watch yourself on the stairs' and 'A brompton bike for billy'

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I enjoy the chaos of people recommending you mute ‘Tr*mp’ while simultaneously spelling it funky so those who have already muted it will see their post anyway

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People out here like “Kanye’s music always sucked.” I am begging you to deeply internalize that terrible people are capable of making profound and incredible things. If we cannot hold these conflicting truths, monsters will always be able to hide behind their talent

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- Is anyone here? - T H I S O U I J A B O A R D U S E S C O O K I E S T O E N S U R E Y O U G E T T H E B E S T E X P E R I E N C E

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i will never argue with someone who doesn't follow me you've already displayed a stunning lack of taste your opinion is dismissed

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

It took someone twelve attempts to correctly guess my star sign today. Very proud of my ability to avoid typecasting.

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A friend linked me to this vid earlier this week, and I've watched it 2.5 times since then. Cannot stop thinking about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHTT... I definitely have my criticisms of Patreon—who doesn't, at this point—but Jack Conte, its CEO/co-founder is incredibly insightful, here.

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The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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The French doing it right again. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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This is the Nebra Sky Disc, dating from 1600-1800 BC, the oldest known visual representation of the universe from anywhere in the world. Found by illegal treasure hunters in East Germany in 1999, sold by them as soon as they dug it up, recovered by Swiss police in a raid in Basel in 2002…

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Has anyone who makes the arguments that literary writers "must embrace AI because new tech always wins" ever addressed the long failed history of tech that was supposed to change literature? Hypercard novels. Enhanced ebooks. NFTs. etc. I'd be interested in reading that.

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For the record, the correct response to this in the UK at least is always: "I believe that doing this would potentially represent a significant data breach and break the law. I'll need a letter from the legal department confirming it isn't, first."

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“One of the most dangerous [fallacies] is the implication that civilisation, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness… [In fact they] are degrees of the same thing. If civilisation has an opposite, it is war.” - The Left Hand of Darkness, Le Guin

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A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

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Mum Chums, my slice of life #ttRPG about the people who care for kids, is now live on Kickstarter. If you like your gaming with a strong emotional core, back it today!

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“Because growth, when concentrated in the hands of the few, does not translate into security or prosperity for the many.”

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A few topics under consideration by The Old Fools: - the telemetry of stupidity - sexual hermetics - the optics of antics - manifesting coin memes - chatbot banter - the misogyny of trees - breakfast idealism - the nausea of existence - Jim, a dog - faux-mo design bros - football Marxism - 'Wales'

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At the point when you’re getting the YA tag on a book where the protagonist is specifically noted to be thirty-eight years old, perhaps it’s just time to give up. Sure, I’m a YA author. All my books are suitable for teenagers. This is because teenagers should read whatever they want forever.

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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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