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Purely hypothetically, there's no way for them to work out that you don't have a license if you're watching iPlayer, without getting a court order for your ISP that they can't get without evidence that you don't have a license...

god I'm gonna have to actually watch doctor who aren't i

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[post with a dreadful puppet] I know who this goes to

[post with solid shapes] I know who this goes to [post with silly cat] I know who this goes to [post with gas mask wearer] I know who this goes to [post with large dragon] I know who this goes to [post with silly chihuahua] I know who this goes to [post of wholly dark red single block of color of great size imposing] This is for me as punishment

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What's the pronoun that generally gets translated as "this one" in light novels and such? As in, "this unworthy one is your humble servant" and the like

link: https://bsky.app/profile/brainvsbook.bsky.social/post/3llc72lyhu22j

google translate defaulting to chinese at first

okay but for those of us with interests in both the murderbot and the daomu biji fandoms this is kinda hilarious

(english-side-only really, i get that the kanji and hanzi are completely different)

our good (air)ship murderbot! thanks google

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These photos were tak-

-en a few seconds apart

ahhh how majestic

These photos were taken a few seconds apart.

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Unfortunately, April only has 30 days, so it's not possible in the rest of the world regardless

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really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this

when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor

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Oh no. Liz, how many times is this going to cross my dash in the next week?

the thing about time loop jokes is, sure, they may be repetitive, but they never get old

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I had a dream last night where the new thing on tumblr was to post "dreaming so dweetly" along with a pic of someone in an old-timey nightcap when you were getting ready to go to bed, so every night my entire dash was full of stuff like this:

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The Exemplary Death of Marcus Licinius Crassus:

- Punishes greed

- Serves as a warning to others

- Burns from within

- Exposes that which should be concealed

- Immortalises in gold

Mon éducation (The Exemplary Death of Marcus Licinius Crassus), Aurélien Gamboni. "The installation stages the "exemplary" death of Roman general Crassus during his military campaign in Mesopotamia. According to the myth, the Parthians poured molten gold down his throat to punish him for his greed, a legend which is translated here as a peculiar sculpture: a golden digestive system, operating both as an improbable historical artefact and as a sarcastic commentary about art fetishism. In the background of this vanity stands a series of grotesque chewing-gum drawings on wood, giving threats, insults, warnings and bad omens, in the style of a Roman theater chorus.

Marcus Licinius Crassus stands in history as one of the most despised public figures of his time. Owner of a considerable wealth amassed in dubious conditions, and victor of the slave revolt led by Spartacus in 71 B.C., he later took part – with Caesar and Pompey – in the first triumvirat which precipitated the end of the Roman Republic."

http://ag-archives.net/en/projets_ab_crassus

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I think Minit works as an example of a time loop where you're trying to get past the beginning?

Hello! You once talked about a timeloop game with extremely short timeframe (20-ish minutes?) and branching saves, and i cannot for the life of me figure out a narrow enough tag — any pointers, please?

I've discussed a lot of time loop games, but the twenty minute real-time limit suggests you're probably thinking of Vision Soft Reset.

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I'm gonna guess it's Sarah's perspective on the Rashomon Job

(rather enjoying having buried the lede in the tags on that Leverage post by referring to having rewritten a scene from a POV I thought would be interesting without quite coming out and specifying whose POV that was.)

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Can I suggest watching Man of La Mancha instead, for an excellent musical of the story with some lines that I think will really resonate with you, and not having to slog through a translation of several hundred year old literature?

I really gotta read Don Quixote.

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LIZ NO

it’s been long enough i’m making an executive decision that we all need to go reread the tgi fridays infinite mozzarella sticks article

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When governments ignore the people, you get petitions.

When governments ignore the petitions, you get protests.

When governments ignore the protests, you get riots.

When governments ignore the riots, you get insurrection.

ive been to a lot of protests in my life and a thing that a lot of people dont understand is that a protest is a threat. its a large group of people saying “we are being nice now, but you must understand that if we stop being nice we have the power to cause you Problems”.

so everyone saying that protests have to be more polite or follow accepted rules is missing the entire point. the point of a protest is not to say “we disagree with you”, they already know that. the point of a protest is to make it clear that if they continue to do things you disagree with, you will burn down their house.

now this wont stop them because theyre stupid and arrogant and believe themselves to be beyond consequence. so here’s the really important thing and that’s that after they do it anyway, you have to burn down their house

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The cat that stands on Heliomance's keyboard:

- Does not aid in the task at hand

- Renders only gibberish

- Cannot be dissuaded for long

- Bears no consideration for the needs, desires, or conveniences of others

- Is very soft

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Just woke up one day with crippling dysphoria, phoned a friend and asked her to come help me buy some women's clothes

can u guys rb this n add how you crack your eggs in the tags? i thought cracking them in the sinks’s edge is universal until i saw my friend cracking an egg on the counter instead and it was so pervese and diabolical