You'll be saying next that every person should be treated equally under the law.

Yeah, but it's like that thing with Thatcher and the IRA. You need to not buy the horse every day. The horse merchant just needs to get lucky once.

Don't buy the horse!

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Nice cover.

Whiskey Pete wanted to restore lethality to the US military.

I do live close enough to cycle to Haworth, but the lakes has actual mountains.

There was one book on that list (which is now giving me a 403 Fobidden error) that I think I probably should read. The oldest has been out five months. How fast do you think I read kirkus?

God's Blood, have they still not got the cancellation to work?

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Audiobook rather than print or kindle.

Audible reading of Guards Guards by @terryandrob.bsky.social, the new reading by @jonculshaw.bsky.social.

It's a great book and a great reading. £3.99. Assume one day only.

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And he got the length of WW2 right. Didn't think it started with Pearl Harbour.

Obvious answer, but the Lake District.

I'd watch that.

Excellent book.

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I read it recently (library copy, not through you) and enjoyed it, but it's fairly slight compared to some of his other work. Bouncy and fun enough, but not full of deep thoughts about the nature of intelligence.

And there was me complaining about how long Babel was. A mere 34 hours.

That's one of the spins.

Finished Children of Strife, which is excellent as pretty much everything Tchaikovsky has written is (library audio) and Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles, which is trying a bit too hard to be clever. Thinking about what next.
Bed time story is Matilda by Ronald Dahl.

And Balance of Terror is itself a remake of The Enemy Below.

See also the Red Harvest becomes Yojimbo which becomes A Fist Full of Dollars.

a) Doesn't it defeat the point of building a secret base if you have to explain that the reason you're building a pointless ballroom is so that you can have a secret base?
b) isn't one of the recurrent proofs that Hamas are villains that they build secret bases under civilian infrastructure?

Sorry. Are you trying to tell me that Tuvok is played in blackface? I don't believe it.

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@dreadships.bsky.social possible silly question. If a Dreadnaught is converted to a private ship, what does it mean? I've seen it said on a couple of Wikipedia pages, and I don't believe any big gun battleships were ever owned by anyone other than the admiralty.

Thinks: can Trump order the IRS to audit the Holy Father?

A name I only know from the Impact Comics version, which as far as I know has nothing to do with the original.
Who I find predates the Simon-Kirby Sandman.

That's a very Kirby Sandmanesque costume from that guy in the middle.

Dude, any talk fan can instantly see that's from The Daemons.

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