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Stephen J. Anderson
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Occasional writer. Frequent computer geek. Permanent ginger. [bridged from mastodon.me.uk/@utterfiction on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Iā€™d just like to say, fuck these Tories in particular. The Chagossians were forcibly booted off the island just because the USA told us to do it. They still want to come back. This isnā€™t ancient history. This was an act of colonialism performed in living memory. You have no moral standing to [ā€¦]

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Ah, maybe Silicon Valley will start to give a damnā€¦ ā€¦ of course, I kid. Silicon Valley thinks the solution to #climate#globalwarming#climatechange [ā€¦]

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@mrundkvist I donā€™t know that Nobilis was ever *popular* as such, but everyone agreed it was a very fine game. They just didnā€™t play it much šŸ˜ (I own a copy of Nobilis)

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I believe the term is ā€œshot, chaserā€

An excerpt from Wikipedia: 

In April 2022, Carrey announced that he was considering retirement from the film industry, explaining, "I have enough. I've done enough. I am enough." When asked if he would ever come back, his response was, "It depends. If the angels bring some sort of script that's written in gold ink that says to me that it's going to be really important for people to see, I might continue down the road, but I'm taking a break."[115] In February 2024, it was announced that Carrey would reprise his role as Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
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I know that some people found it preachy or over-earnest, but the older I get, the harder George Michaelā€™s ā€œPraying for Timeā€ hits me. Itā€™s depressingly still relevant. (Not feeling like a bundle of laughs today)

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"visitors at the Shanwei Zoo realized they were being bamboozled when the so-called pandas began panting and barking" https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/panda-dogs-china-zoo-chow-chow-shanwei-b2616011.html

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My cartoon for this weekā€™s Guardian Books.

Panel one:

Two small figures stand before a huge machine.

One says ā€œOur startup has innovated the human writer out of the publishing process. This machine can write sixty-five books an hour.ā€

A conveyor belt at the front of the machine dispatches a continuous stream of books.

Panel two:

They walk across the workshop.
The second figure, who is reading one of the books, says ā€œbut will people actually want to read this stuff?ā€

Panel three:

They have reached a second huge machine. 

ā€œThe real beauty of our integrated systemā€ says the first figure ā€œis that it also frees companies from the tyranny of human readersā€. 

A conveyor belt at the front of the machine dispatches a continuous stream of robot readers, happily consuming the content from the other machine.
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ā€œ2. It is prohibited to use booby-traps or other devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects which are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material.ā€ You know who signed this? #Israel, alongside . So Iā€™d be very surprised if they ever admitted to doing [ā€¦]

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Stephen J. Anderson
@utterfiction.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy
Occasional writer. Frequent computer geek. Permanent ginger. [bridged from mastodon.me.uk/@utterfiction on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy/ ]
1 followers1 following16 posts