justanotherant.bsky.social
My thumb in many pie.
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www.youtube.com/@bernadetteb...
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I saw her too. She's real!
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Bearbnb isn't really workable in peak season.
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Oh, that reminds me! Unions ARE the compromise! Bosses hated it when workers came around with torches and pitchforks, so we do unions instead!
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i got your warm eye right heah!
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Got a toothless half-feral named Kitty asleep in my lap right now.
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But it really does make your elm slippery.
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Do what the Sumerians did. Write everything on clay tablets. If the whole city burns down, that actually makes them MORE durable.
(I find it amusingly ironic that the first real writing in world history just happened to be on the sturdiest physical format ever used in world history.)
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Haha yep, I just feel like it's such a dude movie.
(But I've read how common it was for these guys to spend years away from home. Wellington was engaged to Kitty Pakenham, went to India in 1797, and on returning to England in 1804 he was shocked at how haggard she looked from worrying about him.)
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Well, have you checked Paul Bettany's pockets? He might have a foot!
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In favor of Master and Commander: It's an extremely realistic movie about life on a warship in the time of Napoleon. Really fantastic all around.
Against: It doesn't just fail the Bechdel test, there isn't a woman in a thousand miles, unless you count the wooden one on the bow of the ship.
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Honestly, they're pretty cute. They're considered a very basic primitive insect, just look like little torpedoes running around.
I think rabbit-sized is a good cutoff.
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When he played Louis in Casablanca, Claude Rains somehow became French. According to IMDB, in later years he gained the ability to lactate Camembert, and was intensively studied by top scientists at La Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs.
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I'm old enough to remember when there was a Hooters airline. They flew out of Scranton.
I wish I was imaginative enough to be making this up.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooters...
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After. The cat does it as a warning to make sure he knows it's her territory. Next time it's the claws. Open that coin purse right up.
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That's a thing that gets sprayed on your couch.
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A fictional yarn based on the idea "What if ALL of these conspiracies were real?"
They then started firing chapters back and forth, trying to top each other with how satirical and far-out they could make the story.
P.S. It was meant as one book, but the publishers insisted on three volumes.
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Much of this job involved researching the topics letter writers wanted to talk or ask about. They got
SOOO
MANY
letters about conspiracies. All sorts of crazy stuff about the Illuminati and the Kennedy assassination and you name it.
So they decided it would be fun to write a book...
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The genesis of the trilogy is pretty amusing. What had happened was...
Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea worked at Playboy Magazine in the 1960's. They had the shared job of answering letters to the editor...
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I keep telling people a government is like computer software. It needs constant updates, or else bad actors will exploit its flaws. Our Constitution in the US is older than most and has features nobody would use now. No newer democracy has an electoral college, for instance. They all know better.
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From November 2024:
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that Ukraine had requested equipment for 10 military brigades to counter Russian aggression, but Western partners had fully equipped only two and a half brigades."
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
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"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that Ukraine had requested equipment for 10 military brigades to counter Russian aggression, but Western partners had fully equipped only two and a half brigades."
This is from November 2024.
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
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Don't be such a Negatronic Nancy!!!
YES, the Meta researchers developed a thought reading device.
YES it is wearable.
YES, it goes on your head.
And YES, it is formed from a thin sheet of aluminum,
but that does NOT make it a tin foil hat!!!
Oh, wait. 😐
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Re: The claim that Ukraine misused or lost half the US aid.
Reality: They NEVER GOT about half of what was promised. They've been vocal about this. I believe they actually have two entire army brigades that were formed to receive equipment that was promised but never delivered.
I don't know why.
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This clam died honorably under the Bivalvido Code.
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That line that says "Ukraine did not misuse or lose half the US aid":
What happened is they NEVER GOT half of what was promised.
I don't know the reason.
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(The operations leader of Wagner, who named it, had Nazi tattoos. He died along with Prigozhin on that Wagner jet which had a bomb planted on it under Putin's orders.)
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Also: Don't listen to anyone who says the Russians invaded to root out Nazis. EVERY country has some Nazis. But it's the Russian regime that is a de facto fascist regime; their Wagner Group mercenaries were literally named for the Nazis' favorite composer.
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ISW are fairly reliable. I've been following the war from the start. On Reddit, /r/ukraine is the place to learn about it from the Ukrainians themselves.
In the early days of the invasion, there were retirees running around with rocket launchers stopping Russian columns in their own neighborhoods.
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The owner of the Washington Post said, after Watergate, that they would never bring down a president again.
And we've had four or five since then who deserved it.
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The mainstream media haven't had the guts to really go at Republican crypto-fascists since 9/11 if not before.
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I can only manage two, thanks!
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I've read that many of the most scurrilous rumors about Crowley were actually spread by Crowley and his friends, because he didn't give a fuck.
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It's ubiquitous! Donkey balls!
(Expanse fans will get that joke).