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just stumbled across this clip & Sam Troth [theroadtohealing.co.nz]. Sam's petition seeks to ban CHARACTER REFERENCES from consideration when sentencing sexual offenders. my god NZ needs this NOW
petitions.parliament.nz/cf986021-083...
Powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes off Japan, tsunami alert issued
not now, powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake
listening to a book in which the author lists several examples of a thing and says “I could go on”, and then says “I’m going to go on”. absolutely incredible, zero notes
Chrises On Infinite Earths
okay but how about you don’t yum my yuck huh, ever think of that
every empire in history was either a persia or a mongolia. rome was a persia, alexander's empire was a mongolia. charlemagne's empire was another mongolia, but the HRE was a persia. despite being conquered by mongols and ruled by the descendants of genghis khan, the great yuan was actually a persia.
Two princes, set apart in dignity Now bend the knee before their would-be bride The one knows something of celebrity; The other surely should be certified. Her father, looking on with eyebrow rais’d, Awaits her choice: a match to be condoned? Or will she choose the destitute, half-crazed Romantic, and so find herself disown’d? Yet—what is this!—it seems to him that maybe The choice was not so clear: for, here are… flowers? And do his ears deceive him, or did “baby” Escape her lips, bewhilst they talked for hours? The king sighs, having thought at least that he Knew what a prince and lover ought to be
here you go
“…and it’s mayflower coming into the final stretch with creep up granny in second place but here comes fuck sake making a late run, fuck sake in second now…”
if it’s bishop vs luxon is that a chrisis of leadership
Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”
I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…
tweets on winston peters nz politician
I remember being genuinely stunned when I figured this out because it just sits so well alongside Aboriginal names
yeah, I just… I’m not convinced etymologically! idk idk
less convinced by “Samsagaz”, which suggests that the “wise” in Samwise refers to literal wisdom and not to the -wise suffix as in “clockwise” or “otherwise”. I’d’ve gone with something like Samanero.
today I learned that in Spanish, Treebeard is called Barból (barba = beard, arból = tree) and I am besotted
ME: so we have to carry these shiny germ bricks with us everywhere in case our brains go ding and there’s stuff to tell the others
ALIEN: why
ME: because the number of hearts from the others under our weird brain dings is a measure of our sexual prowess
ALIEN: oh no
ME: [hangs head] i know
I don’t watch the pitt but she was good in fight club
All very high quality!
on this day in 1970, the band America was founded by 15th century Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci
Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed"
remembered a good tweet
fuck off fireworks
how long before the fucking cops kill someone doing 70km/h down the Kent Tce cycle lane
how long have you been 17
vampire who got turned on a leap day: well depends how you count it
sign reads “JESUS 6:00 PARKING LOT”
about time someone called that motherfucker out
the only question is which of the stations of the cross this should replace
Isn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)”
just watched the scene in LotR where Arwen turns the river into horses and it occurs to me that technically she defeated the Nazgûl with hippopotamuses
