tomblack.uk
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are screaming directly into the gutter
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they’re not as good as human leaders so at higher difficulty levels they get +25% combat strength and free gold
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WELL MET
by KATE HERRON
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full circle on “tv and film can’t use GBN as a fake news channel anymore”
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they were really counting on the glasses just being a campaign thing huh
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“we are above all else realist” I continue to insist as I pivot my party into something that has been searching for people to vote for it since 2011
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to be fair he spent his youth earning both the croix de guerre *and* the iron cross first class
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we can keep the wilsonposting going now there’s a very good chance that we cancel a large order of American weapons at some point soon
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excited to start my first day planning Jack and Elizabeth’s wedding. now to take a big sip of coffee from my “Cones 2nd Nuzlocke When” mug and check Jack’s bank balance
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I think there’s a lot in the fact that our generation (you’re a bit older than me) is unusual in having been kids during an unusually confident “and having solved all problems, the future will be fine“ decade. The Fukuyama Generation
Sure, all kids are told to be optimistic. But the news told us too
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(and particular thanks to @milkyteastudios.bsky.social for fulfilling my lifelong dream of 'being hired to write the lines of V/O dialogue that units say when you click on them')
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when the factionalism starts, STOP.
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I think “1979” with no month or day is the best bit. or maybe the “last known image before his plane exploded over Baku” pic
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Hezzaaaaaaaaa
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a) Denis Healey
b) Denis Healey
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photoshopped fwiw
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Extremely funny to see White House staffers sending texts that reveal they’re manually hitting shift on their phones to make some words at the start of sentences lower case
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cones
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yes, there’s no denying that one of the Nazis’ big successes in the 30s was the projection of an image of strength. it paid dividends at Munich. but yes, there’s a credible view that it’s the extra year of buildup, and Czech plunder/industries, that turned them into the threat they were by 1939/40
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it’s difficult because while that argument had its moment, it’s lately fallen out of favour because it turns out Germany *also* wasn’t ready to fight and we should’ve called the bluff
it becomes a question of how much we judge chamberlain for being wrong when he maybe couldn’t have known otherwise
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BAH GOD THAT’S JOHN C STENNIS’ MUSIC
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“the 2012 online right are going to get what they want, past-dweller”
oh wow, so like, Romney runs again and win?
“no”
Santorum?!
“…no”
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“…”
oh FU-
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I think that’s fair. I don’t think he nailed the examples but the phenomenon is credible to me (particularly financial services)
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but I think crucially he doesn’t say that. he also near-explicitly excludes them with “if society would noticeably change within weeks if we didn’t have them anymore” - ending unions would immediately see unrest, and as for diversity officers, well, erm, the US is doing that and it is being noticed
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as a forum admin, this is a thing we do and it does work. or we just kick them for a week saying “you haven’t been as clever as you think here, we all know who you mean and you’re not allowed to personally attack people like this”
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moreover, “man wins popular vote and then maintains popularity when he signs pieces of paper saying he will do the things that he said he’d do when running campaign that won the popular vote” is not really an earth-shattering headline
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it gained a meme-like status for a bit because of the credulous way the Laura Ks of the world reported that “Labour are finished if she delivers on this, hard to see why we need a left wing party if this is the Tory platform”. you’ll never guess how much of it she delivered on (or was ever going to)