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Lawrence van Rijn
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As you question your media
That is what I am left with. You see I have always believed this setting to be truthful. I saw this direction as clear as anything on October 4th 2021 (yes, world animal day, in the story at when I…
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January 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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The rage is real
I saw a message on BBC (at which made me a lot angrier than I am willing to admit to. A mere 8 hours ago we were told ‘’We need Greenland’: Trump repeats threat to annex Danish territor…
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January 5, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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The setting we hope for
That is a given, we all hope that certain settings come to play and I am no different. Part of it is banked on settings that are realistic and then there are those that are not that realistic. Befo…
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January 5, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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Does J stand for Jezebel?
That might be the question that I have, but I reckon it is not likely the question you have. You will think that J stands for John, like the book of John and many other references. But hear me out.…
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January 4, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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The other channel
That was in my mind when I was rewatching Teen Wolf today. What as a funny movie in 1985 became a stellar TV series with its much darker supernatural vibe was an amazing achievement and I was think…
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January 3, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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The wannabe influencer?
That is my question at present. In comes a person with the ludicrous title of “Al & loT Expert”. You see, what makes it hilarious was the post I saw ‘fly’ by. He starts off with “OpenAl’s…
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January 3, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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Cracking on the down
That is at times the setting, but it is not always clear. As I personally see it, it has nearly always been clear as glass, but the ‘powered that could be’ doesn’t want to hand over any of the gree…
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January 2, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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I’m the Taxman
Today I got some news from initially the San Francisco Chronicle but I couldn’t get to that because of a paywall. So I found news (at Where ABC 7 News gives us ‘Tech moguls threaten to leave CA as …
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January 1, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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The games we cherish
We (namely gamers) have a weird knack. When we go ‘gaga’ for a game we cannot help but try to improve upon it in our minds, optionally create new IP based on that game. In 2012 I created Elder Scro…
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December 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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1154 km done now (86%) , only 187 km left. I slacked a bit the last two days, but I reckon I'll make it up over the next week
December 31, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The direction doesn’t matter
That is a weird stage to set things on, but for me in Australia, I am looking ti events in the NW (actually WNW to North), Canada looks at it as events in the East (actually ESE) and Europe sees it…
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December 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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The age of uncertainty
I thought that times were changing, see I invoked some were invoked on me, or something of that nature. Two days ago I started a new script, I call it “Just A Game” which gives me the letters J.A.G…
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December 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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When it goes beyond oil
That is the setting that Australian Mining dot com dot au gives us (at We think that we are given ‘Saudi Arabia’s trillion-dollar push: Future Minerals Forum’, but we are given so much more. You th…
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December 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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The nightmare of some
I have been ‘playing’ the same routine, whenever I got an idea, I put it on my blog and I am fine with that, because I have four scripts and three need completion, but today I had a brainwave that …
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December 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Are doornails really dead?
I got a nice surprise today. I got a story (at the only inaccuracy I think is that the contraption was dead already, for about 2 years. So I got to wonder. What happened to: Mojang studios (Mincecr…
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December 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Welcome back to Canada, President Zelenskyy.

Today in Halifax, we committed critical new support to help Ukraine end Russia’s war of aggression, and to recover and rebuild. When peace comes — and it will come — Canada will be there for the Ukrainian people. Slava Ukraini. 🇨🇦🇺🇦
Prime Minister Carney talks with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
December 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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This message hits hard.
Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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The most dangerous sin
That is a setting that was meant for a new RPG I was designing, perhaps reengineering was the better term, because it was based on something done before, but I use it here and now. Set on a stage t…
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December 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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One turn deserves?
That is the intro to the question, or perhaps the conundrum given. It comes from the Caspian Post  (at one I actually hadn’t heard before. Out is one an opinion piece, but the title reads ‘Sau…
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December 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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The boat has left
That is a weird setting, but that might be the case for a lot of people. It is the Financial Express who gives us (at the headline ‘IBM to skill 5 million Indian youth in AI, cybersecurity and quan…
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December 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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They had twins
Yup, it happens. At times we have kids, progeny so to speak and some get two for a simple roll in the hay. Yet this isn’t about kids. It is about Gemini 3, Googles seemingly finest product. It is s…
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December 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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The Greenland narrative
It has been less than 24 hours, but as I see it, every news agency repeats the same words “We have to have it” and “National Security” whilst there are many sources, I am going with the one where A…
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December 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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How broke am I?
I have wondered about that for a while and asked that very same question of that place. But some economist spoke that a nation cannot be broke (technically correct) and it reminded me of a 30 year …
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December 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Why is a stage a stage?
That is at times a decent question. Even for me, because as I write this, I do so subjectively, nearly every writer does. Writer about his point of view and I am no better (or worse for that matter…
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December 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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The dice fell snake eyes
It is the setting I predict a few weeks ago and more less recent in the story ‘Eric Winter is a god’ (at in July 2023. I saw it coming this early in the race, why? Mainly because AI doesn’t ye…
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December 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM