Richard Pearman

I've just seen a video saying that #MountEtna is falling apart, with likely catastrophic results. I've seen another that the #Anglicanchurch is splitting, with more fundamentalist regions separating from the more liberal ones. Coincidence?

Indigenous nations plan a tariff-free trade corridor across the US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

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APPARENTLY it costs the NHS over £300,000 a year to remove foreign objects from people’s rectums. Why aren’t we removing British objects instead? Was Brexit all for nothing? Gerry Paton, London

What kinks are prevalent in your world?

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Background: a spaceship crashing in a barren, mountainous area. Unfortunately, there was only one of me and I was being circumspect about my true origins and was pretending to suffer from long-term amnesia. Also, remembering Midbar-Malchut always made me sad. I decided to claim that I could remember various sorts of mods and drew pictures of them: Abominables, Acrobats, Angels, Bionics, Bat People, Bird People, Cat People, Cherubs (although I pointed out that this was a very unpopular mod), Cyborgs and so on. Some groups, psychics and Methusalehs for example, didn't inspire very interesting pictures because they looked like unmodded humans. For Lycanthropes, I drew Martha, a bear lycanthrope, in both human and bear forms. I couldn't bring myself to draw Karen, who'd been a cat lycanthrope. Of course, we also prepared food from our various homes and cultures. Those from Midbar-Teradriel prepared some sort of fish dish. I did pizza with various toppings.

#WIPSnips October 17 loaf
The closest I could find was pizza. This is basically a round, flat loaf with stuff on top.
A multi-ethnic group, including off-planeters and interdimensionals, is trying to gain acceptance.
From "Tales of Midbar: Ghost Mage" - www.inkitt.com/stories/632029

A beautiful woman of South Asian appearance is lying on a couch while a similar-looking woman massages her shoulders. Behind them, a window looks out onto sand dunes. AI picture from Ideogram. It's supposed to be a publicity photo for the Sandcastle Hotel Spa.

There's also the matter of forcing my father to do a dangerous job that wasn't consistent with his job description.
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The fact that it was the leathery undulations of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., specifically, that Olivia Nuzzi submitted herself to *is* relevant.

He is straightforwardly a eugenicist! Probably the most powerful eugenicist in American history! Sleeping with a eugenicist makes me question your judgment!

Background: A car by a gate in a stone wall with cacti and succulents. "I believeth we art overlooking something," said Dwendra. "Why didst the Monsters not useth an atom bomb or some other weapon of mass destruction?" "Perhaps they don't have any such weapons," said Breeze, "or they can't transport them very well." "There are other possibilities," said Printorac, "they may have wanted to make sure they got the avatars or they may have wanted to avoid killing or destroying somebody or something in the area." "Maybe they don't want to scare our stupid government so much that they actually consider them to be a real threat," said Clindar, "and take some real action like they don't with the Nuharas." "They didn't nuke the temples either," said Printorac. "If they don't have nukes, that might change. If they want to avoid killing or destroying somebody or something in Minris, maybe we should go back there but that person or thing may no longer be there. This really brings us back to the whole problem of not knowing our enemies."

#WIPSnips October 16 might
The avatars and their friends are deciding how deal with their mysterious enemies.
From "Tales of Midbar: Heretical Gods" - www.inkitt.com/stories/497649

Background, a spooky bird flying. Vred: Do you mind leaving us Holdidia? Holdidia: Everybody's more important than me! Vred: This is clearly urgent. Come back in half an hour! Holdidia: That's mechanics and Gilmashni will be fluttering her eyes at Nold! Vred: Well come back some other time then! Holdidia: Nobody cares about me! Holdidia leaves. Attan: Don't let the bird in! Attan jumps up from the chair and slams the door behind Holdidia and looks around the room anxiously. Vred: Now calm down. Sit back down, there's no bird in here. Attan sits back down. Attan: She can be hard to see. Not sure if she can be completely invisible or if she can go through solid objects.

#WIPSnips October 15 care
High school councilor Vred's session with female student, Holdidia is interrupted by the distraught student, Attan.
From "Tales of Midbar: Ghost Mage" - www.inkitt.com/stories/632029

America Would Be So Much Better
Off Without RepubliKKKans of Any
Age.......

This should be happening and not only in Chicago but LA, Portland, Memphis and anywhere else ICE is deployed against unarmed civilians!

We are living in one of the stupidest times in history.

I've heard that NASA wastes a lot of money by starting projects that get cancelled by the next president. Perhaps they should introduce a law to stop presidents from interfering in this way!

Eric Trump needs to F#ck right off! I will never understand how the POTUS (Pedophile of the United States)'s grifting family including Jared and his dad??? are even given voices and roles in his pathetic administration. This is an absolute reign of terror! Can't wait for this evil circus to end! 😡

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion Sandy Hook judgment The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Alex Jones, who has been ordered to pay $1.4 billion in damages to the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting.

Pardon me if I delay celebrating this vile cretin losing until those poor Sandy Hook families he victimized for cheap publicity see all of the cash. I don't trust him for a second.
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Background: A ruin on the edge of canyon. "Anyway," said Generous, "they've produced a few anavim, most of whom have relocated to other sephirot but Bland, and probably the royal family, thinks they've been disappeared by the XT's. Therefore, he thinks that Beauty has some strange relationship with the XT's because she's the oldest of the anavim they've bred who hasn't disappeared and she's employing drop-offs and has a history of being interested in them. It seems by their reasoning that Freethinking should also have disappeared but for some reason Bland thinks he's different from Beauty." "The fake drop-offs were the only people I got on with!" said Beauty. "Later, I befriended some of the last real drop-offs to help fake drop-offs act realistically. By the way, all the real drop-offs I've met have been naviim and as far as I know, they all married naviim, often other drop-offs and formed a true-breeding navi extended family." "It sounds like they're doing the same thing as us," I said. "Only nibeyim can't teleport." "They can go through wormholes," said Freethinking. "That's very dangerous," said Breeze, "and requires difficult magic." "It's more likely they're just coming from off-world or perhaps the Big Sea," said Fascinating. "But none have come in the last forty years," I said. "And now a bunch have disappeared, including descendants of the ones from forty years ago."

#WIPSnips October 14th ultimate
Tenacious and his friends are getting unwelcome attention from a strange police officer named Bland.
From "Tales of Midbar: Exiled Angel" - www.inkitt.com/stories/624474

A dirty, seedy, dilapidated, futuristic small town in a desert, seen in green light. AI picture is from Bing Image Create using Dall-E 3. It is supposed to be the space port seen with night vision goggles.

Sometimes, I heard voices or even leaves rustling and thought it was people speaking Universal Human.
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Is there a source for this? It's rather damning if true.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just rejected Alex Jones' appeal and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him by the Sandy Hook Elementary School families

"I heard when they gave Trump his scheduled colonoscopy, they found two polyps, some hemorrhoids, and most of the Republican Party.
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