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Dave T-W

@ryanhoulihan Because they stick to the rivers and the lakes that they're used to.

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Pleased to see that one of my favourite artists, @WinstonRowntree, is on fedi, although seems only to have dipped a toe. Beautifully crafted mini stories of angst, anomie and self-discovery.
Archive at: viruscomix.com/subnormality.ht

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@Daojoan Nice, do you have more cartoons like these?

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Spotted an almost unrecognisable Jarvis Cocker in Wes Anderson's Asteroid City.

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JJ Celery

So you want a quote for a thing, say a storage space, and the website is making you put in a phone number before they tell you how much the thing costs? Is the website validation preventing you from typing in a completely random number?

Worry not. Ireland has valid mobile and landline phone numbers reserved for use in TV and movies and absolutely nobody is validating for that.

Pick one from the range and be uncallable:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictit

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleph

#mastodaoine #LifeHack

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Dave T-W

Hmm, this new sci-fi drama "Ministry of Time" sounds similar to the Spanish series "Ministerio del Tempo". Must be coincidence.

radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/minis

I'm not the first to note this remarkable similarity. (Spanish article) lavanguardia.com/series/202402

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Blimey, we all new Liz Truss was a bit unhinged but I never expected her to go full-on right-wing nutjob.
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f

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@ArenaCops She looked fierce and resolute on that stage, Putin should be scared. They have a well-organised media team, her daughter's also part of that. TBD if there is enough support or momentum to make Putin replaceable.

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Kriszta Satori

"Those who will mourn Navalny have fled abroad. They will sigh sadly from their permanent exile, secretly glad all the same that it was he and not them that paid the price.
Some may think about protesting or holding public vigils in major Russian cities. It is a dangerous idea, and so most mourners will dismiss it out of hand. They will go back to their families, huddle together, grateful that they can at least think freely, even if they no longer can freely say what they think. "

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Kriszta Satori

"But for the vast, tired, apathetic, silent majority, Navalny’s death will barely register. ‘Who? Navalny? He knew what he was getting himself into.’ He knew."

Above quotes from Sergey Radchenko's opinion piece in the Spectator:

spectator.co.uk/category/inter

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Dave T-W

@HannahHowe Heard a great podcast recently about the origins of Ode To Joy and the hope it represented, personally for Beethoven, but also Europe then and now. Rhapsody I'm afraid I associate too much with adverts for chocolate or New York or both.

Faves: Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus, Bach's Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (Organ and Trumpet), Rachmaninoff Prelude in C sharp minor (the really sinister orchestral arrangement: youtu.be/kC3HqZDhq-g)

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@MAKS23 For goodness sake. Navalny even got one of the KGB poisoners to accidentally confess.
theguardian.com/world/2020/dec

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@wellingtonrock I'm guessing they got burned by PFI in the 90's. Which was in theory a good idea because you were investing in the future of schools and hospitals. But they were warned at the time that there were insufficient controls. (Eyes passim
private-eye.co.uk/pictures/spe)

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Denis Buckley

'Judging by Reeves’s recent performance, they seem to care more about the fiscal hawks in their midst and in the Tory press. So much so that, to prove their mettle as bona fide austerians, they adopt the most pernicious allegory to have disgraced economic thinking.'

Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy? | Yanis Varoufakis | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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@hgbruenker Die Idee einer "EUArmy" erschien mir immer logisch. Wie haben mehr als 20 Armeen, Marinen und Luftstreitkräfte, die alle gelangweilt herumsitzen und den Steuerzahler belasten. Behalten Sie ein Minimum an nationaler innerer Ordnung und Grenzkontrolle bei, naturlicht, aber schaffen sie auch eine geschlossene EU-Truppe mit den besten Leuten und der besten Ausrüstung. Führen Sie den Einsatz international oder an Orten wie Osteuropa durch, wo eine Bedrohung besteht.

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@freemo @lowqualityfacts I guess because VT100 didn't support stereo.

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@Benaresh @DrALJONES Aah, I know that term via MalcomX but have never heard of Fanon, will have to read more, he seems to have been hugely influential in such a short space of time.

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@lowqualityfacts Before Netflix and fast broadband, the only way you could watch movies online was via Terminal. Someone has recreated that experience for posterity.
ascii.theater/

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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

> DR. FRANKENSTEIN: I'm just saying, it's a very misleading flyer

> BODY BUILDING COMPETITION JUDGE: again, we can only apologise


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From @openDemocracy, a counter to Khordokovsky's vision, which is only touched on briefly in the above article:
opendemocracy.net/en/odr/khodo

"There is literally nothing in the book about the work of opposition politicians with the apolitical majority of Russian citizens." Which is he key problem regardless of who the opposition figure is, or if they're martyred.

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