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Documents, markup, typesetting, printing • Writer • Grandfather • Cook • Pronoun: he/him/us’n • Bribable with chocolate • Discord: frisket

Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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I lost the button because I clicked on something else and posted it in another thread. But the point is, the rape charges were real; the stuff about whistle-blowing and US national security is bullshit. But guess which one will kill him.

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Timlagor's avatar Timlagor @timlagor.bsky.social
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Both intend to continue NHS privatisation Neither will fix water companies or rail Neither means to stop fossil fuels Neither will fund social services Neither will tax the plutocrats Neither will fix our relations with the EU Neither has decent policies to deal with the pandemic

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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New neighbours have two cats so bye-bye birdies, but at least the avian depredations on the loganberries have been stopped.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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I'm shocked. I would have expected the right's authoritarian, dictatorial, anti-democratic "do what we say or we'll kill you" ethos would have gotten F500 CEOs all fired up and voting for Trump. But maybe money speaks to their inherent greed more directly than via a puppet despot.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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Plus an ambiguity, as in "logic was never his forte" (pronounced "forté"). It's an abstract noun, but pronounced as if it was Italian :-)

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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IMHE American houses are too hot in cold weather and too cold in hot weather. There is a Goldilocks zone.

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Sallymander 🦎's avatar Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social
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Yep. It’s the inequality. The lines going up don’t matter, because people judge their economic situation from within a social context. And that situation is not good for far too many.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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No even that, The guy's a prick, salt or no salt.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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Apparently quite a lot of [Irish-]Americans who watched the 1996 biopic "Michael Collins" were appalled that he got assassinated at the end.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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Oh no I'm not 😨 because away for the weekend means no shopping which means not enough eggs or milk. Plus diet means I wouldn't be able to eat it anyway. Regular wholemeal loaf will be fine. Normal service will be resumed in the autumn.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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If they ask, sure. I thought the article was about people who did not ask, but I may have missed something.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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But if it's your first time there, you do need to know what those rules are. Some of them are culturally known, others may be deduced, but some you might need to ask about.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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I think the answer is "nothing" but I don't think anyone knows for sure...yet. The "infinitely dense something" was all that there was, and still is, just a bit more spread out now.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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Do we need to form a Butlerian Society?

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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Fantastic. Maybe add a tiny surfer?

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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I use a bread machine because I can no longer knead effectively, so I'm using the brioche recipe from their book, but this one looks better so I'll try adapting it.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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Perfectly. Keep it right where it is.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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Wonderfully useful, thanks. I'd love to know how they behave with a brioche loaf, which contains sugar, milk, and egg 🍞

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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Hey, it's already proved that it can make up convincing-sounding but spurious references. Now if it can just stop repeating itself, and come to some hard conclusions, we can use it to teach actual PhD students how *not* to write their theses.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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There is surely a former British aristocratic empire-builder with half a dozen of these to their name.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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But hardly surprising. If you want to eradicate a population from the face if the earth, burning all trace of their culture is an important step, along with moving into their territory, killing as many as you can, and forcing the rest into exile. Lots of cultures have done this and no-one stops them

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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I'm sure thowe ex-arts surplus Floridian taxpayer dollars will rapidly find their way into GOP supporters' purses as usual.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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Have you started dreaming of fountain pens yet?

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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I wasn't able to find out. Denying someone the ability to hide under the label of a religion is apparently something one just doesn't do. I think it's something to do with the American concept of freedom being absolute, regardless of how badly it affects others (or society), but it's not clear.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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Lending them credence, normalising their position.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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I have had interesting differences of opinion with two experts here, both if whom are convinced that you MUST allow people to call themselves Christian, and support them, regardless of their utter disdain for the articles of their claimed faith. This seems to be a particularly American view.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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I don't have wide experience but pretty much all religion seems to be subject to rot in one way or another. Some more than others, and many of the big ones are out of control. Mass extermination doesn't work, nor does mass conversion, so we're left with ridicule as a weapon, or ignore them.

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Elizabeth Spiers 's avatar Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social
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It’s not Christianity in any real theological sense, and the kind of compassionate Christianity Liz talks about has zero appeal for them. It would strip them of their self righteous determination to punish others for perceived sins and would require sacrifices they don’t want to make

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Hillary Monahan's avatar Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social
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The next time someone complains about poor people having computers and phones ask them why they hate poor people so much they don't want them to have the tools to actually get--and keep--the jobs to make the money they purport they want them to have. America hates its poor and it's gross.

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KJ Charles's avatar KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com
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We just had ten of them round last night, five boys plus German exchanges. I said I'd pay for Chinese. They ran up a tab of £135! And the Chinese-origin lad only placed the order in fluent Mandarin and got FIFTY QUID knocked off. Diversity. It's the absolute business.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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Yes, it can be a component of. But not the sole constituent.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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Be very careful. That site says "Ozone (also called smog)" which is absolute bollocks. Ozone is O₃ and smog is a contraction of SMoke and fOG. Fuck knows what other errors are lower down. Was the page AI-generated?

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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Thank you for the encouragement. I've read about it but never tried it.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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Good grief. Even pre-pandemic "a meeting" over 1hr was not allowed in my unit.

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Peter Flynn's avatar Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
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I'm off fats and oils ATM (awaiting surgery), and I'd been planning how to do a green lentil tarka dhal for next week. Indian cookery uses oil and ghee in abundance, so I would imagine that you would normally have oleogustus aplenty, but you would probably not want what I'm about to cook 😃

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If the "Ten Commandments" must be displayed in classrooms, I suggest this typographical treatment.

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Tim Pierce's avatar Tim Pierce @unchi.org
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absolutely cannot believe that Louisiana is preparing to shove this down the throats of an innocent generation

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