The devil exists amongst those who deliberately starve children to death because they rationalise that those children will only grow up to be terrorists. It exists among those who bomb tent encampments and literally burn children and their parents alive. It exists amongst those who call Palestinians “human animals” the same phrase used by Himmler, the head of the SS about Jewish children in a speech on October 4, 1943 to senior SS Generals.

https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492

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#GoodNews #Politics

BTW, if you are the person who recommended Professor Mmaa's Lecture to me, please speak up; it was such a long time ago that I forgot!

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@shivers/117154982621618849

“‘The second I ignored everyone’s advice, I felt great,’ she said.”

Attachment: a lorry driving past the with the GNU logo on its side, somehow]]> https://mastodon.social/@shiz/117128240963966498 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:19:09 UTC https://mastodon.social/@shiz/117128240963966498 I don't understand why fiction authors think it's OK to plagiarize games. Like, everyone knows about Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow plagiarizing Brenda Romero's Train. But I just read (DO NOT READ - IT SUCKS UNRELATEDLY TO THIS) Marisha Pessl's "Darkly", and one of the games described in it is, almost precisely, The Return Of The Obra Dinn. Why is this considered acceptable? Like, imagine you're reading a novel about a novelist, and to show how original she is, they describe her novel, but when you read the description, it's just The Lovely Bones. Yeah, it's a very original idea -- but it's not your original idea. Nobody would put up with that. Or maybe this happens all the time in literary fiction and nobody cares and I don't read enough literary fiction to notice?

To some extent, I blame the popularity of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (which borrows, of course, from comics rather than games).

Still, it's weird

so what came out of my mouth was "She's like a weeb but for France.... a oui-ouiaboo"

And for my own safety I won’t be going near the Chandrasekhar blend again either. Made my whole face pucker.

Half the town too.

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