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Scuba diver, SF reader, father, cyclist. Yorkshire immigrant.

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That sucks. He did a great job on Sandman, and I always regretted having missed the boat on Puma Blues.

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It helps that Agile fanboys have a habit of proclaiming any new iOS feature as truly ground breaking, while Android users blink with surprise that they didn't have it five years ago.

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If you told me that Devil's Tower was visible from somewhere in South Dakota I'd be surprised (I imagine other mountains block the view) but not astonished, but it sure as hell isn't from Sisseton.

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That location for North By Northwest?

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The one in Wyoming? (I had to check)

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I mean, "This film exists" would have been the alternative.

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A spectacularly long letter?

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There's a remake no-one asked for

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The problem with that is that it makes it easier for the likes of Farage.

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Have you already covered It Can't Happen Here?

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Oh no, that means I need to read at least one novel every other day...

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This is one hell of a Humble Bundle.

Thanks @chaosium.bsky.social

www.humblebundle.com/books/runequ...

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This looks similar.

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In a good way?

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Reform had one before as well. Lee Anderthal held his seat.

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And my mother, who lives in one of your neighbours. Labour for me.

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And the Lib Dems took South Cotswolds. And four greens!

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Didn't sound much like the Pratchett/Baxter

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Have we worked out clear rules for the drinking game yet? I was thinking that for every minister losing their seat one could take a shot, but then I remembered I have to take my daughter into school the next morning.

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I only read the first. There's a type of novel where a character travels and things happen to them without their ever being in control. Always annoyed the bejeesus out of me.

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And Bill Willingham. Many of the characters who'd appear in The Elementals, his break out comic, first appear in a Villains and Vigilantes module.

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If the founding fathers, blessed be their names, had wanted that, wouldn't they have said so?

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The easiest way to sit a Scalzi in the wild is to watch out for Krissy and see if there's a short guy with her.

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Nah, I'm going to vote the assholes out and I reserve the right to celebrate after.

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Arguably better than Biden awake as well. But definitely better than King Donald, first of his name.

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America: not a democracy, a (banana) republic.

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American democracy, it was nice knowing you

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I also note that it's is possible to sign up for their elibrary services without needing to be present, or even having an address in Scotland, he says as he adds to his Libby collection.

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The main audience has been "just how will Rishi screw up today?" which isn't really what must of the media want to talk about.

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I don't think my sister would have bothered save that our childhood home is unexpectedly a con-LD marginal this year

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They have. You can reregister at a constituency you've previously had an association with. My sister had a choice of central Newcastle (uni) or rural Oxfordshire (grew up) after twenty years in Germany.

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They changed the rules, so that expats can vote no matter how long they've been out of the UK, but it's too late to register.

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Schiphol? A fine airport, one with a library and a very remarkable clock.

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And she killed the Queen. Yeah, it's not perfect. I'm suspecting no perfect system exists.

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Can't speak for Canada, but in the UK I think one of the key differences is that we've much stronger party discipline. Firstly your effectively voting for Prime Minister (via a local candidate) and that leader has a team already about him. Secondly hardly any of them are obstructionists.

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They're both good. If forced I'd go for Ring Shout, but clearly the answer is to buy four, get two free.

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Vaguely strange that it is a single good omen, rather than the many of anglophone editions.

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