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Not the one who wrote Shakespeare. Writer, editor, explainer, fact-checker for hire: movies, music, technology.
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Flights from UK to USA - teabags. And paracetamol with codeine
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"Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear."
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I want one in my neighborhood!
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"Gold were as good as twenty orators, And will, no doubt, tempt him to anything."
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"Vince Taylor" by Adam Ant m.youtube.com/watch?v=qfke...
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I'm certain getting a covid booster improved my wifi reception
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Dosis venenum facit
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In addition to the injury deaths you noted (guns, cars, etc) this glib "report" doesn't mention alcohol or tobacco use
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Regan again, a few lines down: "To whose hands have you sent the lunatic King? Speak."
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Then you get people "correcting" something you wrote based on what ChatGPT told them
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Using an ellipsis in an informal text
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I spent far too much time researching this, when I could have procrastinated until you spelled it all out for me. Thank you, I can now just share your link with everyone. I thought the rotary phone derivation seemed plausible but you're right, "nix" is more likely.
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Your colleague Weijia Jiang posted you and she are following an incident blocking the new appointees from entering. Please share updates! (Many of us aren't on X) x.com/weijia/statu...
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Thank you! I'll give that a try
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How? Google has removed most Boolean search operators. Even enclosing terms in quote marks no longer works every time
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For those intrigued but not familiar, the George has changed a lot, but it's still there and the gallery remains intact www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london...
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Microsoft price increase + unwanted AI is a good advertisement for Libre Office www.libreoffice.org
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This is an excellent story about two fascinating people, and a tribute to librarians too. Thanks for sharing
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"Give me your hand. Far off methinks I hear the beaten drum. Come, father, I’ll bestow you with a friend."
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Of course there is a relevant xkcd
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We're evoking Hawkwind now
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Paging the Satanic Temple to exercise their rights to their own religious school
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A few stanzas later, Richard II says: "O villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption! Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!"