announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite
yep. It was pure action thriller until then, and suddenly it becomes something else.
@kellyblack.ca is a dogged and scrupulous historian. This is a tidy description of the kind of research that historians juggle among other projects, always with one eye open for that scrap of evidence that settles the question. Short read, enjoy it.
“We’re spontaneous events. We just appear in the middle of families. And we’ll keep on appearing. Even if the plague killed every homosexual on the planet, it wouldn’t be extinction, because there’s queer babies being born every minute. It’s like magic.”
Damn, Clive.
The best possible explanation is that Peter Thiel is a barrow wight
Truth.
Some fun Sunday evening reading.
Yo, fellow brain ferret container
Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+
Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism
This triggered the thought of a man killing his wife then calling himself a widower and that just pissed me alllllll the way off 😡
Meme: Alastair Sim as Scrooge looks out his window and says "You boy! Are the Straits of Hormuz open today?"
“There’s a man going’ round takin’ names and he decides who to free and who to blame…”
Then God said, "Mommy doesn't get drunk. She just has fun. Crackers, where's the crackers? You're coming to bed with me. Come on." And it was so.
odd thing about this new Bergerac show is that there is very very little effort to show off Jersey the way I (vaguely) remember the old show doing.
It's just a generic but familiar branded British mystery show
Could be almost anywhere.
Had a latte earlier somewhere I wouldn't normally have a latte (an Iranian run Turkish tea shop) and...
Whoah.
I'll come down out of orbit eventually.
Innovation!
I uh, appear to be watching Bergerac.
(another one)
localizers are artists. letterers are artists. translators are artists.
the dehumanization of localizers by this industry is shameful.
The realpolitik angle here is impressive. Basically Whitehall deciding that the actual decision making nexus is not the State Department or the White House but a bunch of shady locales where shady billionaires hang out, so they sent someone very familiar with that world to make deals.
Fascinating how adding "claims Trump" to the end of any headline makes the reader question its veracity..
UK COVID vaccine programme likely saved around 475,000 lives, says inquiry report.
Given the awful leadership at the top of the UK government at the time, it's incredible so much worked so well
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Broadcasting union leader gets it right: "At a time of fake news and an industry that is becoming more concentrated in the hands of a few multinational corporations, the UK needs a confident, ambitious and sustainably-funded BBC more than ever"
See, the thing about "trickle down" is that the money's actually "siphoned up" from the people who do the work. Money doesn't trickle down. Blood does, though.
The best time to start taking climate change seriously was years ago. The second best time is now. #auspol
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Fuck Starbucks, Fuck ChatGPT ✊🏽
Support for all the workers fired and stores closed, because they dared to unionize.
So I grew up Christian but I remember doing a big assignment in Grade 6 about Islam. In college, an elective called Religious Studies (comparitive religions). Later lived in Indonesia and learned more. I wonder now how many people get *any* education in religions other than their own..... Did you?
Marvel. Journalism. The video game industry.
It seems like every creative industry is laying off workers.
But you know what's silly about all this?
The people behind the products, the ones actually making things, are the only ones needed to do the work.
They should just re-form new companies.