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He's just this guy, you know? Former roller derby ref, perpetual nerd, occasional adult.

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This story is tailored to Bluesky's interests:

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Or that the dataset alternated positive and negative, so it just followed that pattern and infinitum.

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"Fruity" is at least a little more decorous than "raunchy", which is in the running for my least favourite word ever.

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Derren Brown spotted with a French phrasebook sauntering around the Ile-de-France

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Just found out about a massive data leak at Twitter/X. I don't use it anymore but I keep my account alive so no one else can claim my username. I just changed my password and suggest others do too. Also use 2FA whenever you can.

More:

cyberpress.org/9-4gb-twitte...

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But Jamie, how can we say the Titanic is a well-run ship if the deckchairs aren't just so?

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The opportunity to gently taper off carbon emissions and reduce fossil fuel usage has been and gone. That said, I'd ban crypto and AI in a heartbeat which would drastically reduce global energy usage at a stroke.

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And the longer we fail to fully commit, the more severe and less feasible the action required to even attempt a fix becomes.

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But regardless of that, it's a bit "guy who has only seen Boss Baby"

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I don't think that I read it as a compliment, though? Like, there's surely a square peg/round hole implication there...

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being raised by online means that occasionally you fail to code switch successfully and say something like, "actually heads of governance only do this when they're extremely distressed" in a meeting.

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The eyeroll I did when Labour had been back in power for literally 5 minutes and Blair had already popped up to resurrect his ID cards idea

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As a Swindon Town fan, this is aggravating my deep PTSD something fierce

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Ayn Rand: oh my god... I see now how wrong I was.. Me with a time traveling xbox: they also made a second one where you can duel wield plasmids and guns but I gotta switch discs

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This photo is pure 2024.

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So to confirm, now we have near-final numbers: Every time 19 Tory MPs get a bit grumpy this parliament and stick their letters into the 1922 Committee... ...it'll automatically trigger a leadership contest.

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HAHAHA GLORIOUS 🤣 COULDN'T EVEN MAKE 200 YOU FASCIST PIECE OF SHIT

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I remember it well (appropriately). An early high point for Who for me too.

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The sport of roller derby also comes from the Great Depression. Rollerskating endurance races, competing for money over hours or even days, were a relatively cheap way to entertain people, and gradually it became spiced up with unisex team races, sprints, and then full contact blocking and tackling.

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Dracula is also about the degeneration resulting from inbreeding and inherited old money and titles among central European aristocracy; Dracula is just as monstrous because he's a Count as he is a vampire, and his real estate purchases are seen as much of a blight on London as he is on its populace.

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Reminds me of how a 1966 V&A exhibition of the works of Aubrey Beardsley - himself inspired by ukiyo-e prints - was a seminal influence on the visual style of the late '60s counterculture design and fashion, and prompted an Art Nouveau revival, and arguably brought 'obscenity' into the mainstream.

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Teddy boys's outfits were an explicit rebellion against the rationing of clothing in '50s London, borrowing from US zoot suit styles.

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And of course both their schools of fantasy were based on their particular areas of Middle- and Old-English scholarly expertise, Lewis with allegory and Tolkien with translation of texts such as Beowulf and Sir Gawain.

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Jeremy Brett suffered from rhotacism as a child, and his extremely precise diction as an adult was the result of corrective surgery and years of therapy

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Mervyn Peake, the author of the Gormenghast trilogy, was a war artist in WW2, and as part of his work, he was one of the first British civilians to witness the horrors of the camp at Belsen.

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The Sunday morning post-Pride with Glastonbury festival also going on is likely to be even quieter than usual.

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Ah, the rosy-tinted view of someone who's never done a day of agricultural labour in their life. A touch of golden-age-ism as well.

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That has pretty much been their stance on immigration in particular for a few years now - a promise that they'll follow the same philosophy as the Tories, but this time successfully.

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Oooh, great question. Completely off the cuff, I might say Ice Cold in Alex, but this is one I shall have to ponder more deeply.

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Is that a syrup? Looks extremely suspicious.

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Dang, what a finish to the first stage of the TdF. Shaping up to be a cracker this year!

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The Montague Place entrance is a lot less grand than the main one on Great Russell St, but is usually quieter and quicker to get into the museum through the bag check at the doors. Be advised that things like pocket knives and such will be confiscated.

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I think they've recently been restricting access through the main entrance to exhibition ticket holders and possibly school trips, coach parties and the like, and general public access has been through the rear entrance in Montague Place. Unsure if that also applies to weekends.

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I like the imagery of teamwork behind the scenes.

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Cosmic horror as loss of unearned, unfair privilege.

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The twin poles of HPL's cosmic horror - fear of what you are and fear of insignificance in a implacably hostile universe - are the fear of not being white enough, either through one's own ancestry, or that just being white no longer makes you important in the world.

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Acolyte Legends? A battle royale with a bunch of Jedi? You know someone must have pitched it already.

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Is that quote from Gibson or does it just feel like it?

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Right wing papers going in to bat for transphobes is nothing new, I'll just be glad when the transphobes aren't literally in charge of setting equality and human rights policy. (Now watch as Starmer gives that brief to Duffield)

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