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  Is there a Labour party under the New Management? How about the Greens and Sinn Fein?...
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  The Mandate, at least Delirium Brief on, appears to be post-singularity smart but that doesn't necessarily mean all the Elder Gods are. Dread Cthulhu could just be a dumbass....
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  Oh, it's worth noting that Persephone Hazard is very concerned about either K-syndrome or some other side effect of ritual magic in The Apocalypse Codex; at one point she casts a spell and is like "this will take a year...
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  In I think The Apocalypse Codex Bob looks up from the Pyramid and sees structures in space. Is this because of a similar plan as the OPA's in The Labyrinth Index or have multiversal humans achieved advanced spaceflight before getting...
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  Has Bob ever actually taken a wrong turn in hotelspace and ended up in Abu Dhabi or something?...
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  https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/private-equity-simon-and-schuster/675261/ BOOK PUBLISHING HAS A TOYS ‘R’ US PROBLEM A private-equity acquisition will saddle Simon & Schuster with $1 billion in debt. What could go wrong?...
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  Obligatory "low average human lifespan was due to high child mortality not comically short adult lifetimes"...
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  Re: the last thread. Haven't done a magical girl/mahou shoujo story yet, I don't think...
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  Crossover where every lesbian cop from a Stross novel team up...
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  From the same conversation, a little more about the events? of Shoggoth Gap and the necromantic cold war? Presumably a reference to the Fulda Gap, where fortunately nothing actually happened?...
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  Oh no I was wrong, the character that says 'Blue Hades and Deep Six' is the Senior Auditor, page 227 of the Labyrinth Index of my big river ebook in a conversation with Mhari. Not a low information character at...
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  In no particular order, Some character in either Labyrinth Index or NM mentions DEEP SIX, they are a low information enough character to have made the mistake. How did Persephone get so goddamn cozy with PM? What exactly is their...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  I heard recently on a podcast that in the period immediately before the one you're talking about: French fur traders in the Ohio Valley were far less survivalists than slumming on their girlfriend's couch: they were practically required to marry...
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  Large milSF sections in Glasshouse too...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  https://popehat.substack.com/p/thats-not-how-recusal-works-thats Popehat is also very skeptical of the chances of obtaining a recusal from Cannon, forced or otherwise....
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  A friend of mine (Wales) was afraid to even speculate on the fishwife's guilt, saying another friend (in Scotland) would be in even greater danger of being held in contempt. This was in a discord server of roughly 35 people....
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  Oh hell. It's Aileen Cannon? She's not just a trump judge, she's the one that was bending over backwards to delay this very investigation, allowing a completely bogus out of jurisdiction lawsuit and practically writing the defense's briefs for them....
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Is there going to be a spoiler thread for Season of Skulls?...
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  Welcome to the sunlit uplands of the twenty-first century! One Britain, One Nation! Juche Britannia! Long live Prime Minister Fabian Everyman! Long live the Black Pharaoh! Iä! Iä! Charlie your blog is leaking!...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Via Cory Doctorow: More reasons to hate house flippers https://www.propublica.org/article/ugly-truth-behind-we-buy-ugly-houses And they're spinning up the spam machine to bury the article: https://www.propublica.org/article/homevestors-aims-to-bury-propublica-reporting...
• Commented on Signed copies of "Season of Skulls" available for pre-order!
  https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2011/04/bunting.html Found a great blog on this subject while trying to figure out what the "bunting" all my Welsh friends were complaining about was. It goes deep....
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  https://unseenjapan.com/tokyo-ginza-robbery-dark-gig-economy/ Halting state moment...
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  Umair Haque would be fine if he was only allowed to publish once a week instead of writing some clickbait every friggen day, please subscribe to his substack for $5 a month. Extremely redundant, just trying to rile up the...
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  Aside: How is it that all of Charlies USian fans are from or have been through North Carolina? Is it something in the water?...
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  Re: supermarkets Having worked in the back of a Harris Teeter in the last 20 years: That's what you think lol. One kind of refrigerated packaged cheese and meat goes to the dairy and cold cuts aisle, the packaged refrigerated...
• Commented on Minor updates
  Looks like the Starship launch yesterday failed to fire a few engines, went up some then blew up. Better luck next time...
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  What's a blue-suiter in the UK? I haven't really been able to narrow down from context whether it means military, or police, or a particular military branch....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  Just read it, good fun. Not sure why presumable expert Dr. Suzuki decided to carry the idiot ball and get herself possessed (or more possessed, whatever) when the whole story is building up to how eldritch The Kitty is. Anyway,...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Calm my heart down within medical regulatons and do IV's as approprate....