Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
Strange. You'd think that the British people would be persuaded by such compelling arguments as 'we don't have a plan for regime change but a friend of a friend does' or 'Keir Starmer smells!'
"Don't be so careful in time of death" is the motto I live by right now.
For comparison, the timeline of the Kings Cross fire was about 20 minutes from the match being dropped that started the 'smouldering' to a fireball bursting into the ticket hall. It took another two hours to get it under control – it's incredible how fast old buildings can burn.
If I were pitching a book I wouldn't declare my incredible laziness straight out of the gate
Sun doesn’t rise til 8 in London on the shortest day of the year and sets before 4. That’s not very early and some parts BC will have even shorter days still.
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A young woman with white hair and headphones facing right. Her hair is an older guy’s beard and the pink on top is his face, rather than the head of a penis.
It’s the only thing I could see for about 5 minutes. It took me another 3 to figure out what it *actually* showed.
didn't not do a double take at that illustration, let me tell you
9pm is rather early!
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
Update: now surrounded by frogs. Shit.
Are homosexual ‘friends’ electric?
(We shan't talk about the second frog hiding behind the first)
This feels like a bit of a Chirac moment for Starmer and I very much mean that as a compliment. Doing right by your country (and international law...) is the correct way forward, even if it pisses off the American administration of the time.
I know the advice is to swallow the frog, but what if there are lots of other tasks that mean I can put off swallowing the frog then steal nervous glances at the frog and post on Bluesky instead?
🙋♀️ I listen to them when I’m doing other things. I’d say I listen to at least one episode of something or other every day.
I don’t want to get too excited, but I think it might be spring
Surely readers don't expect to like every book they read either? My friend is a voracious reader who is extremely into crime novels, whereas I'm typically more of a speculative fiction gal. I don't think either of us would enjoy a book supposedly written for both of our tastes.
Happy World Book Day #booksky. What’s everyone reading atm? I am most of the way through The Elsewhere Express and have one or two stories left in the The Machine Stops short story collection.
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
I had the same thought, but the person quoted does work for Associated Press.
Just heard Fight Club described as an “old film” and I have turned to dust.
“…and that’s why we’ve opened the gates of it”
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I’ve always wanted my TV to Tell me game situations in the Sports
I think it fails to understand the coalition of voters that just voted Green, and why. And as usual you won’t get very far by implicitly slagging off the voters. The Green voter coalition was your coalition five minutes ago.
His father committed one of the largest frauds in UK history and his sister is a convicted mass child abuser
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