I’m Ned Ludd and so’s my wife
@heptaglemious.bsky.social
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Engineer. Recovering Xitter user. Old enough to remember elections where there was hope for change. Posts may contain traces of withering scorn. Slava Ukraini!
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heptaglemious.bsky.social
And there are a *lot* of "Marmite" authors, who you either love or hate. But there are so *many* authors that there's something there for everyone!
heptaglemious.bsky.social
Smith only needs to point out that he was in 's-Gravenhage, Netherlands at the time of the search.
heptaglemious.bsky.social
Getting hostages released qualifies you for a peace prize? Great! Step forward Nobel Laurate Joseph R. Biden, who secured the release of most of the hostages.
heptaglemious.bsky.social
This is not normal. Neither is the legacy media's refusal to acknowledge it.
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Trump to Milei: "Do you need any Tomahawks in Argentina? You need them for your opposition, I guess, because in this country they use Tomahawks on the opposition. I don't do that. I'm much nicer. The Democrats would use them if they had the chance. They're sick people."
heptaglemious.bsky.social
Wow.
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The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield.
‘Cake’
(Yes, it is a painting - from Third Picture Book, 1971)
Photo realistic close-up in watercolour of a large slice of cream filled Victoria sponge
heptaglemious.bsky.social
If there's one message I got loud and clear from the Bible, it was that solidarity with victims of prejudice is a personal affront to God.
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Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
heptaglemious.bsky.social
We have a term for Germans who weren't actually Nazis but were cool with what the Nazis did. The term is: Nazis.

Fascism. You're either in or out, there is no room for ambivalence.
heptaglemious.bsky.social
That literally never happens every fucking time.
heptaglemious.bsky.social
This should run in the press as "hero veteran thwarts attempted abduction".
heptaglemious.bsky.social
Not sure, maybe this will dot he gene pool a favour.
heptaglemious.bsky.social
Silly thing is, I have studied that period quite a bit, but only tangentially touched on Chas II. My interest is Robert Hooke.
Books on Robert Hooke by various authors including Lisa Jardine, Margaret 'Espinasse, and 'Espinasse's own copy of Robert T. Gunther.
heptaglemious.bsky.social
Every single cop who stops one of those SovCit nutbags, gives their name and badge number. But ICE goons abducting people off the streets for the crime of Breathing While Brown don't even show their faces.
heptaglemious.bsky.social
D'oh, of course! Took refuge in 's-Gravenhage.
heptaglemious.bsky.social
A very weird test.
ottoenglish.bsky.social
This is the cloze test - part of the C2 Proficiency exam required of some foreign language learners who want to work/study here.

It's TOUGH. You have to put one word in the gaps.

Link to test itself
www.flo-joe.co.uk/cpe/students...
heptaglemious.bsky.social
Full disclosure: I went to a thousand-year-old school, was crap at annual memory tests, and did poorly (not helped by undiagnosed coeliac and ADHD). I got vastly better at maths when I stopped trying to learn trigonometric identities and instead derived answers from first principles every time.
heptaglemious.bsky.social
Yes. The issue is that they mark a contextually reasonable answer as "wrong".

"but rather because it has often found (7) ... in the right place, at the right time"

OK, "itself" is most obvious but there are several possible alternatives I can think of.
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1679. But an absolutely ridiculous piece of trivia to expect anybody to learn. As you'd expect, I guess, since the entire thing was designed by people who excelled at annual memory tests.