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"She needs to put in a few solid years at the wrong end of the chess world's unimaginably toxic misogyny, to me Clive, before she's really in a position to compete with the cis-ladies" is a position that would do no one at all any credit, so if you* want me to hold it there'll be a hefty surcharge

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No respectable person could foresee such things, partly because it wasn't (and arguably still isn't) respectable to notice what these people are.

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Will Espain's government leave the ECHR to impose its agenda of Islamo-Bolshevik Transgender Wokeness? A chilling thort! (Me for any right-wing outlet that makes a competitive offer)

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NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk. “When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.” The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children. Don’t ever forget.

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Regicide. (The only video game I play is chess, at which I am reassuringly terrible)

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Today I have been MOSTLY comparison shopping for span

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We used ours for taping stuff off of the telly and occasional rentals; I don't think we actually owned any official releases. But I *did* develop an uncanny talent for leaving the room whenever a sister popped in _Dirty Dancing_, which has served me well in later life

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no. men must never acquire the devastating power of the Novel. in fact we should preemptively invade their country to shut down their efforts to develop fiction

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The Espanish video is interesting technically: it is many many shots with each shot is him saying a very very short thing (sometimes just a subclause) and that is a very good way to shoot if you anticipate needing a lot of takes, because you struggle to learn a script or nail a pronunciation

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I would find it really quite agreeable if I was never invited to find A Cuomo salient again, tbh. I was only even in NYC for a week anyway! We just wanted to see a base-ball game and a Broadway show! (Which, to be scrupulously fair, we did)

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I think AI is going to eventually tank in the longterm, but... the only real way to combat this is single-interest communities. Forums, user comms, etc, with a barrier to entry. They become trustable knowledgebases. It's really the only way forward is to return to what worked best the first time

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On my commute in, I listened to the Mets baseball game; on my commute home I listened to the Enggerlnd(andWales) cricket game, it has been a good day for radios

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Let us eat the Forbidden Bourbon biscuit

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"It is not clear how or why We Believe in Israel was granted access to classified documents". I mean our lawyers would probably tell us to say that too, if we had any.

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Happy Daniel Hannon Day to all who celebrate it. I hope you all enjoy the fireworks as we mark perhaps the worst piece of political forecasting going. www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

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Huh, someone who definitely isn't me* remarks that the BBC's Test Match Special is reassuringly unfussy about VPN access, which is as it should be given that there isn't in fact a home-grown equivalent for the Dutch market for Test cricket coverages

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D66 are a Dutch party that bills itself as "Left liberal". In practice that turns out to mean they are the most fart-hufflingly witless political group in the universe: imagine the worst of the US Democrats if they weren't even taking a cut of the take

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I have a pot of Mark's & Spencer's wagyu beef dripping fat; now I'm apparently going to have to try to deradicalise it?

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