therocon.bsky.social
Professional in Local Government (UK), Governance, and elections. Coach, mentor, and school governor
Interests range across all forms of geekery - politics to tech to gaming, Warhammer & D&D
Creativity is to be embraced, and truth to be treasured
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'At least one person'
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Ouch.
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A real 'WTF, holy shit, oh my god, am sad now' moment.
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I have, more than once, looked for my glasses whilst wearing them.
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Once argued with Adam Woodyatt over whether he could return a Gameboy cartridge when I worked at Electronics Boutique.
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It's almost like funding public services properly improves them. Weird.
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Huh, I genuinely don't think I have ever bought a single (and have only just realised).
I used to buy loads of albums (tapes, but mostly CDs).
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I know who Alex Warren is.
I know the song, and it is played regularly in my house.
I had no idea he was number one.
I barely new there was still a 'singles' chart tbh.
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Kitbashed Technomancer, transcendent c'tan, ork painboy, and Lord Solar proxy.
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Damn you beat me to it, and I didn't scroll far enough before posting.
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I agree, and overall think this is increasingly true where state leaders aren't involved in the conflict.
However, had Alexander died at Granicus (rather than Cleitus the Black saving his life) would the Persian empire have been conquered? Or would the subsequent events unfolded in the same way?
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Finished my Votann army, built a load of Imperial Guard models and painted a model for my son before I start them.
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Further to this, and as a sidenote, there is often an interpretation applied to headline outcomes from electoral events that does not adjust for the electoral event itself, nor the relevant electors.
The majority of electors only vote in UKPE and many don't know what their local council does.
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My own dispute with this post is the use of 'now'.
My friend gaming group have joked about 'pro-painted' eBay listings for over a decade.
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A.
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'She left my office and my head was in a spin. She was that kinda dame. The kind that likes their sauce sweet, and their dough sour.'
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Somebody woke up and chose violence.
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I started listening to the News Agents hoping for a different angle on the news.
This is not that.
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The films make the effort to demonstrate Ironman being under the direct control of Ross (who he ultimately disobeys).
If we were forming a superhero group from the ground up in the real world I understand the safeguards needed/wanted.
In the context of the MCU we'd already be wiped out.
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'Sir! Tony called, he says his satellites have picked up a new alien threat in country A, Thor can fly there now'
'How big a threat? We can't go into country A there's a dispute with country B who'd see it as a threat. I need intel and to speak to president B'
1 hour later everyone in A is dead
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I know!
But when Thanos arrives suddenly through a time portal or something a hero literally immediately flies to stop him.
No chain of command.
Imagine Ross considering, for even 5 minutes, whether to deploy Thor (who is not from earth) as Thanos' lackey is grabbing another stone.
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Objectively they have.
They've been worse than them, but achieved more.
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You see, if we place heroes in our real world that might be true. But when they are responding to super threats that require immediate split second deployment and reaction - how would the UN do that quickly enough?
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Imperial Guard reinforcements as I expand my forces to make a recon detachment list.
Need to buy more primer...
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Thank god I wasn't the only one.
'Is loop a well known cut of meat I've not heard of?' was running through my head.
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Spilling Tesseract Glow is particularly special 👌🏻
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Think it's a fair statement if there is an assumed sub-group of 'domestic cups'.
Obviously there are several other greater international cups - world cup, euros, champions league, etc.
But domestic cups is fair as most other countries don't hold theirs in as high esteem as the FA Cup is.
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Is there a 'This poll is meaningless this far out from any realistic date for a general election.' option?
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Not painted much red recently, but did finish my Votann army at the weekend with this High Kahl/Uthar (herewith bodyguard).
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The obvious joke response to this is so obvious that even I cannot bring myself to do it.
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Dependents?
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Nicely done. I painted my whole 2k Tyranid army with dry brushing (for all but the tiny details) last year, it's a great technique I want to experiment with further.
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Monitoring officers will be keeping an eye on the '6 month rule' (as they would for all councillors).
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Also of relevance - there is currently a sizeable problem with getting statutory audits done in time.
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Different sets of seats.
The comparison should be across similar council types (for example county councils), not all councils.
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My son collects Orks and a few years ago was nervous about his 11+, so I painted this guy for him to take with him.
(Its my son I'm proud of really)
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Big is relative right?
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I suspect there is a small amount of ground (though not insignificant) that both parties could reach agreement on relatively quickly, whilst ignoring some of the bigger questions.
The rest of it will be difficult and require significant political momentum to be built up from both sides.
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Goblin green bases. Definitely, and beautifully, 90s.
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A kids movie based on the best selling videogame ever, released during the Easter Holidays.
It's a mystery!
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Ah! So the Times are fine because no-one takes responsibility.
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The memories/emotions that elicits.