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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 54m

You can't just have your position visibly be "the electorate was wrong, actually" on everything, even if you think they were

(Altbough on specific things you can stick to your guns)

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 2h

Many such cases, unfortunately

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 3h

Judges who hold their positions for life, too, and have no apparent method for removal.

At least with the House of Lords it's uncontroversial for an elected government to pack it how they like

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 14d

Please don't call it that

What You Will Need
• Experience: 5+ years as a video editor or producer-editor ("preditor").

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 4h

Bottom of the wardrobe is DERANGED

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 4h

Rare win for the man in the straight couple genre of these pieces

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h

You be the judge: should my boyfriend get rid of his laundry basket?

Anita thinks dirty clothes can go straight in the machine. Jayden believes the laundry hamper serves a purpose. Who’s the basket case? You decide

www.theguardian.com

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 4h

That's that Narnia show, isn't it? Can't think of any other upcoming child-actor-centric projects.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 5h

Please join my campaign for the British government to set up a department that would deal with issues around culture, media (and sport - why not?). And also to set up a specific regulator for broadcast media.

Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 5h

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 5h

Penne's dropped.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h

‘A fatal blow’: Italian producers fear effects of Trump’s ‘war against pasta’

US president’s threat to impose 92% tariffs targeting major manufacturers put family-run firms in the firing line as well

www.theguardian.com

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 16h

Launceston

(okay, a lot of people pronounce it the obvious way even round here)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 18h

And theres leftovers for tomorrow

A half-eaten dish of cauliflower cheese with a golden-brown breadcrumb crust on top

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 18h

Just made a really fuckin good cauliflower cheese, lxds

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 18h

I was a Tahiri fan 🙃

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 18h

Yasuke as the equivalent of the Aya missions in Origins would've worked great

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 18h

Also I quite liked Vestara Khai, she was fun. Too obviously a Mara analogue but fun nonetheless and her ultimately choosing evil was a good choice, narratively

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 18h

I'm not envious, honest, stop looking at me like that...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard

Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy

www.theguardian.com

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 18h

He could've been interesting had they not had to hit that endpoint!

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 18h

Also by any standard Tahiri's trial in Fate of the Jedi was nonsense; since we've established that being a Sith in and of itself was not a crime, her only offence is killing Pellaeon. But she was a member of the GA military (as far as we know) and he'd just made a declaration of war

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 18h

Legacy locked Jaina Solo into ending up with Jagged Fel, which ruined their relationship arc

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

I only do artisanal handcrafted discourse bait (intentionally inflammatory Star Wars takes)

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 18h

See: Ann Widdecombe on trans women in prisons

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 18h

Someone who has reached the same conclusion as me on an issue is not necessarily my ally on any other because the way they got there may lead them to other unacceptable conclusions

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 19h

YOURE FUCKING KIDDING ME

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 19h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 23h

But after Augustus the core Roman army appears to almost always be professional, although conscription appears to remain "on the books" for a few centuries.

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 23h

(And THAT army lasts until it's smashed by Turks and Normand at Manzikert and Dyrrachion respectively)

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 23h

This army persists, broadly (in the East) until, we presume, at least the Justinianic conquests and possibly until Heraclius' War with Persia. After the Arab conquests, the Romans remake the army again, although the Thematic/Tagmatic divide isn't a million miles from the Limitanei/Comitatenses one.

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