Tunnel in the Sky is indeed a lot of fun.
Neva@pipandbaby
Oh, he didnโt like the dirty old man weird sex stuff? Then explain Artemis. @bitmaelstrom
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Tim Spalding ๐บ๐ฆ
@librarythingtim
@LibraryThing founder. Lead @TalpaSearch developer. Father, hacker, bibliophile, ex-classicist, Mainer, Catholic.
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Honestly, fine. Invade Greenland. It's a bad thing, but it's the best bad thing. Few or none will die, the next president will give it back, and it will hasten his removal and the political destruction of everyone and everything who sustained this mad child emperor.
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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 โ Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic. 1/
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Tim Spalding ๐บ๐ฆ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
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! โ๏ธ
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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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๐จ 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 diร doc@jaume_diadoc
El grec clร ssic รฉs la llengua mรฉs difรญcil amb quรจ he topat mai (i he estudiat llatรญ, alemany, francรจs i grec modern entre d'altres). Aprendre les seves declinacions irregulars, els seus 12 infinitius i 36 participis per verb (no รฉs broma) รฉs una magistral lliรงรณ de rigor i esforรง.
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Tim Spalding ๐บ๐ฆ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
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: โWe donโt use the Strait. We donโt need itโ
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Catholic Life@prayandfast2
It feels as though America is fast becoming a Catholic country.
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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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Tim Spalding ๐บ๐ฆ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
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 ๐ค
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"One day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear!"
โ 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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This is wild. The @WhiteHouse plagiarized its reason for launching a war on Iran from @FDD, a cutout of Israeli intelligence. Side-by-side screenshots in the ๐งต
Stephen McIntyre@ClimateAudit
The most definitive White House statement purporting to justify the Israel-US war on Iran was its March 2, 2026 statement entitled "The Iranian Regime's Decades of Terrorism against American Citizens". whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/โฆ After a brief editorial opening, the article lists 44 incidents with a total of 992 US deaths. The source of the data wasn't given. Where did it come from? Unlike the Iraq war or the Russia collusion allegation, the reporting didn't come from an intelligence assessment, flawed or otherwise. It turns out that the list was plagiarized by the White House from a June 19, 2025 list (fdd.org/analysis/2025/โฆ) prepared by a former AIPAC employee (Tzvi Kahn) for a think tank (FDD) founded "to provide education to enhance Israel's image in North America". The think tank's original identity was "EMET (Hebrew for 'truth')". The June 19, 2025 publication was literally on the eve of the first US bombing of Iran on June 21, 2025. In this thread, I'll compare each and every item in the White House statement to the corresponding item in the original list by the former AIPAC employee. The list is virtually identical. Any slight changes are always in the change of ratcheting up the underlying allegation.
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This isn't Catholics moving right, it's normal Catholics leaving. Right-wing Catholics are a well-oiled machine for alienating people from the Church and from God. The smaller and "purer" the better for them.
Ryan Burge ๐@ryanburge
In 2008, the Catholic vote was evenly split: 50% for McCain 50% for Obama In 2024, it was solidly red: 56% for Trump 42% for Harris White Catholics are a 2:1 Republican voting bloc now. Non-white Catholics went from 24% for Trump in 2016 to 40% in 2024.
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