Tim Spalding 🇺🇦
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Tim Spalding 🇺🇦
@librarythingtim
@LibraryThing founder. Lead @TalpaSearch developer. Father, hacker, bibliophile, ex-classicist, Mainer, Catholic.
Portland, Maine Beigetreten Mayıs 2007
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@ScottJenningsKY If it was so important, he shouldn’t have fucked it up so catastrophically by refusing to enlist or even talk to allies, by not preparing the American people in any way, and by making strategic blunder after strategic blunder, and generally making it up as he went along.
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So - definitely a threat. Imminent, even. Put a nuke on it and you can see why Trump has been right about this all along.
OSINTdefender@sentdefender
According to the Wall Street Journal, citing multiple U.S. officials, Iran has targeted the joint U.S.-UK base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean with two intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM). According to the report, one missile failed in flight whilst the other was engaged by a U.S. destroyer utilizing an SM-3 interceptor, but a successful interception was not confirmed. None of the missiles hit the base. This is notable as Iranian long-range precision fires have not previously been publicly assessed as having the range to hit such a target as Diego Garcia, as the base is some 4,000 kilometers from Iran proper.
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Dress code aside, “Ruth’s Chris” is the Bradley’s Arnold of steakhouses.
New York Post@nypost
Ruth's Chris Steak House owners crack down on diners' dress code trib.al/xUDck57
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90% of all ancient Greco-Roman literature is forever lost.
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Tunnel in the Sky is indeed a lot of fun.
Neva@pipandbaby
Oh, he didn’t like the dirty old man weird sex stuff? Then explain Artemis. @bitmaelstrom
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Allied leaders stopped trying to find hidden logic behind Trump's actions.
They understand any contribution they make will count for nothing. Few days later, Trump will not even remember it happened — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic. 1/
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Going to war with a country, then immediately floating the idea of lifting sanctions on its oil to prevent your own economic collapse, is the definition of strategic failure
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@Woman4W Yeah, also no liquids. Try it and tell me about the headache you get.
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Fasting dawn to dust is just skipping breakfast and lunch to have a big dinner.
Why are we pretending this is some noble feat?
Sadiq Khan@SadiqKhan
After a month of fasting dawn to dusk - never has a flat white tasted so good. Eid Mubarak! ☕️
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@Breaking911 Now he should sign an executive order to ensure that every hotdog has mustard. He has that power too.
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🚨 BREAKING: President Trump signs an Executive Order preserving the traditional timeslot on the second Saturday of December exclusively for the Army Navy Game.
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Uh huh. The LibraryThing policy is "do as much as possible on the back end."
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Working on a blog post about how adaptations drive library patron interest. Check out these charts of the Hail Mary Project and Bridgerton.
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@Faber_Indeed Greek has a lot of defective verbs, where one verb ended up subbing for another. phero oiso for example. We have to wonder why the Greeks decided to ditch the old forms. I think they were lashing out at the verbs.
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@librarythingtim All the different participles for a given verb, and many/most of them unrecognizable as being related to the citation form. It had me saying "What happened here?" and "I need to speak to a manager"
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The Greek Verb system is so nasty that an Italian published a little cheating book of forms, "Tutti i Verbi Greci," in 1955, and, at least before everything went digital, I'd never met a grad student who didn't have a copy.
Jaume diàdoc@jaume_diadoc
El grec clàssic és la llengua més difícil amb què he topat mai (i he estudiat llatí, alemany, francès i grec modern entre d'altres). Aprendre les seves declinacions irregulars, els seus 12 infinitius i 36 participis per verb (no és broma) és una magistral lliçó de rigor i esforç.
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Home Alone hit France like an atom bomb.
Vintage Maps@vintagemapstore
Evolution of the most popular First Names in France along the years (1946-2011) - boys edition
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@JamesSurowiecki In fairness, a LOT of people don't get this. BBC tonight said that the US didn't need to care about the global price of natural gas since we are a net exporter.
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Trump has no understanding that oil trades in a global market.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: “We don’t use the Strait. We don’t need it”
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FWIW, I'm not really calling it "cheating." I have one!
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Dead soldiers, dead Iranians, economic trouble? He's in front of cameras being loud and himself. That's the main thing for Trump.
Headquarters@HQNewsNow
Trump on Iran: "I may have a plan or I may not"
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Hachette just cancelled the publication of a popular (fiction) book facing credible allegations of AI use
The most fascinating part is watching readers edit their Goodreads ratings in real time
People who loved the book when they read it now hate it if AI was involved 🤔
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"One day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear!"
— Trump several weeks into COVID 19
Headquarters@HQNewsNow
Q: You said opening the Strait of Hormuz was simple, what did you mean by that? Trump: You need ships, you need volume. We don't use it. At a certain point, it'll open itself
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