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DDOwen

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Un sy'n ceisio cerdded i ffwrdd o Omelas. Ffuglen wyddonol ac yn y blaen. "Lies written in ink can never disguise facts written in blood." -Lu Xun

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 43m

Jason Momoa prepared for his role in "Chief of War" with a personal language coach who lived with him for nearly a year.

Jason Momoa worked with a coach to speak Hawaiian authentically in 'Chief of War'

Jason Momoa prepared for his role in “Chief of War” with a personal language coach who lived with him for nearly a year. The Apple TV series premiered in August.

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Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 1h

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1h

Okay, so let’s take it from the top. Lion el Jonson is the guy who firebombed a Walmart and got away with it. Everyone knows it was him but nobody can prove anything and is too scared to investigate further after the first people who asked questions disappeared.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 6h

People will tell you that the left has lost touch with society, but the expected next tory leader is nostalgic for football hooliganism, and the political editor of the Express is calling for MPs to be deported.

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 8h

Gill and co sure do seem to hang out with people on one side of the political spectrum a lot.

Past/present WSI members have appeared at the far right Gen Z networking conference Scyldings, attended Tommy Robinson rallies, had jobs at VoxPopuli Media, and have been positively RT'd by Edward Dutton.

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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 8h

Weird that the WSI seems almost exclusively to be being promoted by Reform in multiple council events now, despite Jess Gill telling me that they work "with politicians across the political spectrum"
goodlawproject.org/dodgy-statis...

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 8h

Marvin stared at the painting of his great grandfather, who had survived two wars, worked three jobs to support his fourteen children, and eventually died saving a box full of kittens from a fire, and thought to himself, "You know, if I knocked that over, I could sleep on it."

A cat stares at a large framed oval painting of a similar-looking cat in military dress.

DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 7h

Women bishops took much longer to happen, though (Wales allowed them first despite lagging over women's ordination).

DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 7h

Environmental historians of China now have to take dragon sightings literally, not just seriously.

(Though it does depend on the kind of magic that exists!)

DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 7h

Ngl, I am very confused about the readings of Jonah that focus on the correctness or otherwise of its depiction of whale biology as the most important thing about it.

DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 8h

Iirc it's the one where the Devil is like "aha, Jesus, you have fallen into my clutches in accordance with my keikaku! Wait, this situation has not developed entirely to my advantage...", but the name escapes me.

(I think it's just an apocryphal gospel; it makes too much sense to be Gnostic one.)

DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 8h

A lot of this is downstream of a deliberate reaction against Biblical studies and criticism during the late 19th and early 20th century which has consequences for how they see things like evolution. It's a comparatively recent thing, and you're probably right about the bad faith it creates.

DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 8h

* Darwinism, bloody hell

DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 8h

(The recieved version of Thomas Huxley's argument with the bishop has more to do with Huxley engaging in a bit of, ah, self-mythologising for polemical and professional reasons than how the discussion actually went down.)

DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 8h

Hell, the lines of discourse in Britain at the time weren't clearly divided along religious lines -- as you'd expect since the evidential question wasn't fully settled until the neo-Darwinian synthesis in the early 20th century.

DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 8h

Going to be weird when they look into the early history of Darwininism in the US (strongest early proponent a devout Christian, strongest early opponent not).

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc

maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 1d

30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 9h

What we are seeing is that uk politics without a viable center right party is a shit show.

only way to save the British right is for 500,000 broadly normal professionals and homeowners to join the Tory party.

Calling on all utilitarians and consequentialists: your duty is clear.

Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 9h

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Graham Smith @cyberleagle.bsky.social · 1d

(Although in this case the crossed wires meant that the IP address data identified the wrong device.)

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Graham Smith @cyberleagle.bsky.social · 1d

And since this case was all about reliance on IP address data, an excuse to re-up an old favourite. www.cyberleagle.com/2013/05/i-am...

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Graham Smith @cyberleagle.bsky.social · 1d

Fortunately, catastrophic communications data errors have been on a downward trend recently. www.cyberleagle.com/2014/07/the-...

The other side of communications data

Preface : This post was first published in July 2014. It has been periodically updated since then with statistics from the Annual Report of...

www.cyberleagle.com

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Graham Smith @cyberleagle.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my gosh. An object lesson in how the rarity of an event doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

The Register @theregister.com · 1d

Literal crossed wires sent cops after innocent neighbors in child abuse case

Literal crossed wires sent cops after innocent neighbors in child abuse case

Eight-year telco blunder had a profound impact on three wrongly accused in Wales Details have emerged of a troubling case in which a basic engineering mistake wrecked a digital evidence investigation and led to wrongful accusations.…

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 9h

Another day, another guest post for the Sanguinary Utnapishtim! This one (sherdenpact.neocities.org/GuestPostRel...) by returning author @williameburns.bsky.social who has really got The Vibe here by thinking through: what would Khornite disaster relief look like? And concluding: absolutely absurd.

Disaster Relief:
a tale of the Sanguinary Utnapishtim.

Header: me sitting in judgement of your story submissions
The Blood God by Neillustrate -- used with artist's permission.
This short story was written by William Burns

Stress was at its maximum in the Office of Ceremonial Calculations. Not only had everyone been working eighteen hour days, but for months Trials of the Mighty or even simple murders had been strictly forbidden—the current crisis demanded everyone’s full efforts. Even the fresh supplies of stress slaves delivered at sunrise and sunset and the steaming vats of recaff were not taking the edge off.

The star Khorne’s Eye was about to go nova, destroying the Sanguinary colony at Rudiea, a recently conquered planet located within a system lying in the path between Geshtu and Enlil. Fortunately, the Sanguinary’s astronomers assured the OCC that there was enough time to plan an evacuation that would maximize bloody conflict over the restricted number of passages available on outward bound vessels. But what would be the ideal number of passages to cause the most killing? This was a true challenge to Sanguinary logisticians, particularly since the exact population of Rudiea was unknown.

And this was only the beginning of the problem. What would be the ideal mix of statuses, ages and genders on the ships themselves to provoke the most violence? What would be the ideal amount of food to supply — surely not enough for everyone to eat well, but too small an amount might lead not to fierce fights over access to food but rather to mass starvation, giving the victory to the second impediment. And what weapons should be supplied? And should calculations allow for cannibalism as a factor?

But the rewards of success would be huge. An entire planet’s population in bloody, life and death struggle—surely the Lord of Skulls would be pleased. Some even envied the still-unknowing people of Rudiea (it was believed that springing the news about the impending destruction of their world as a surprise would be more effective), about to gaze on the river of blood rather than go through reams of tedious and hypothetical calculations. Representatives of the Church of the Burning Massacre were on hand to strictly guard against anyone siphoning off the energy of the kills to ascend to daemonhood - the benefit was to redound to the benefit of the Empire of the Mighty as a whole, not to selfish individuals.

And then it turned out that the Head Astronomer of the Sanguinary Utnapishtim, naturally a Mighty individual, for some reason had beaten to death the wardum who actually understood the stellar life cycle about six months earlier. Khorne’s Eye wasn’t going to blow up after all. Although the Office of Ceremonial Calculations argued vigorously for going ahead with the project anyway, they were overruled by the High Command of the Pact, which believed the planet’s natural resources were too valuable for the war effort to be simply given up.

On the bright side, over the six months following the abandonment of the plan and the loss of months of effort, the murder rate in the Office of Ceremonial Calculations broke all records.

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 12h

Cocoa supplies have been hit by poor harvests caused by climate change.

The slogan “If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club” is a victim of man’s addiction to fossil fuels.

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 12h

This is in fact an effect of climate change

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 14h

Omg

"We made some changes to McVitie's Penguin and Club earlier this year, where we are using a chocolate flavour coating with cocoa mass, rather than a chocolate coating. Sensory testing with consumers shows the new coatings deliver the same great taste as the originals," the McVitie's owner, Pladis, said in a statement.
Club's classic advertising slogan citing its chocolate content is no longer in use, replaced by: "If you like a lot of biscuit in your break, join our Club."