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Heads up! If you are planning to attend the 2025 Eastercon in Belfast and haven't yet bought a membership, now is a good time as they plan to cut off their online registration at midnight on 4th April (so as to be able to pre-print badges). Register here registration.easterconbelfast.org

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TIL that most modern heavy metal logos are designed by a guy who works at the Co-Op in Exeter www.devonlive.com/whats-on/wha...

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but when the Nazis first started sending Jews and other victims to camps, they called it deportation, and the camps were technically in other countries.

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

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AOC: We need to be taxing the rich on the floor of the Congress We need to be establishing guaranteed healthcare on the floor of the Congress We need to be passing a living wage on the floor of the Congress

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this is literally copypasta of the anti-millennial rant from back in the mid 2000s

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[🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️] The Origins of Dwarf Fortress WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxV2... In the first episode of our four-part series we explore the pre-history of Dwarf Fortress and how two brothers embarked on the game design journey of a lifetime.

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Survation poll: Half of Labour members say party going in wrong direction labourlist.org/2025/03/labo...

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Welp, there goes the US defense industry.

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The FURRIES Act is a new moral panic bill currently working its way through the Texas legislature could be used to shut down D&D clubs, ban cat-ear headbands, and slap abuse claims on educators who integrate roleplaying into their curriculum. What is "non-human behavior" anyway?

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Ffs...

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Any pub or show not running or reporting on this comment right here is absolutely caping for this administration. Everyone knows education is the most kitchen table ass talking point ever and specifically saying disabled kids shouldn't have access to it affects so many families

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Get in the trousers, Wallace! W&G Evangelion

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This model also describes what's currently happening with the United States of America on the world stage

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I'm working through this with a beloved vendor that was purchased by a large company. The product is still fine, but it has been arbitrarily bundled with a suite of stuff I will never use. Worse yet, a demand to pay an invoice that never appeared came out of nowhere. Then a contract. They're cooked

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Update from Llangedney International airport, they have sent some of their experts to Heathrow. Great to see cooperation like that.

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WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism. Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.

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Seems like a good day for a repost.

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I wrote this bloody article and I still can't believe it. To get a rare RTX 5080, you need to buy several rare RTX 50 cards with dragons in them. Pass the rum. www.pcguide.com/news/msi-wil...

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You want to see an octopus riding a shark. 🎥: University of Auckland www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

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Hey, if you, like me, are a US citizen who's had your books/stories/articles stolen by Meta to train AI, you can submit your name to the class action suit using this easy contact form for one of the law firms involved: www.saverilawfirm.com/meta-languag...

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@teamlabouruk.bsky.social a reminder. Because apparently you need it.

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“Meta went to great lengths to cover up its use of pirated works. The company methodically removed all traces of copyright information, from the notices in LibGen's dataset to copyright paragraphs in scientific papers and source metadata.” the-decoder.com/metas-libgen...

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It's unfortunate that the current US government is such that the head of @seattlein2025.org needs to post this statement, and also, given that the current US government is such, it is good that she has. seattlein2025.org/2025/03/20/s...

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Please read this statement from the chair of Seattle Worldcon 2025 regarding the convention's response to the current political situation in the U.S. seattlein2025.org?p=3420

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The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.

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Hey so not only did they pirate ALL of my books, they even used a bunch of my short stories and novellas from before I was professionally published. Most of these are not online, and even I don't have copies of a couple of them. What the actual....??

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Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

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Don't stop banging the drum: Anyone who considers it good policy to look at children's genitals before they can play sports is someone who just likes to look at children's genitals, and cannot be trusted in any position of power.

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Yup. Just gonna leave this here.

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Note for Americans: Magna Carta was the rich ruling elite getting pissy at the king for ignoring them. The king agreed to it, then went back to ignoring them. So, weirdly, Chuck Schumer referring to it is correct. Just probably not in the way he thinks.

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Ok I have done the consultation. Here is something I've put where it's asked about structure or delivery. "Start hiring people with disabilities. Just think how many people with disabilities could be helped into work if you hired them into Access to Work roles to provide peer support."

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OMG. Writers who visit the US for book shop/ conventions/ publicity tours please read this.

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PIP has fucking nothing to do with people's employment. It is issued out of recognition of the fact that it costs money to be disabled (transport costs, medication, dietary needs, housekeeping, cost of keeping a service animal, earnings lost through sickness, any number of potential things).

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Non-US journalists, and indeed aviation execs, should be aware of this for #presstrip, famil and business travel to the US, if you must go — do not rely on the "temporary business" exemption of the Visa Waiver Program and associated ESTA being applied in the same way as the past.

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“Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business…Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive govt funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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if you use ebay, you've been opted in to their AI training model, you can opt out here if you're in the EEA, UK or Switzerland accountsettings.ebay.co.uk/ai-preferences

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Hey, uh if you feel so inclined, I have a shop. I’m broke as shit rn.

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I like to say this periodically so: "Man of Iron" is one of the best Transformers comics ever made and you absolutely need to read it if you never have before. Totally unlike anything that's ever been created for the brand since, and all the better for it.

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Poster seen in Sussex Psychology this week.

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So I got home okay, but had kind of a weird experience down in Baggage Claim. I get off the plane, use the restroom, and scurry down to claim my bag at the carousel the flight attendants said it would be at.

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One last status report in the "Adventures in Staying Housed" dep't: Pointing at this post just one more time to see if we can finish clearing old rental arrears so we can sign our new lease. If you've already assisted, maybe you'd reskeet this regardless? Thanks! 💖 www.tumblr.com/dduane/77828...

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I mean, what does the UK population have to be depressed and anxious about? Not like there's shit in the rivers, the world is burning and a tyrant is in charge of the US nuclear arsenal. Oh wait.

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