Ah, beat me to it.

Thank you!

I noticed that when the crows are on narrow branches like this they aren’t actually holding on tight. They are constantly fidgetting with their claws. It looks like they are trying to work on their balance which could be an act of mindfulness.

To err is to be human

Of course, now I see it.

Or… his partner is on her way to figuring out she is Ace, complicated by some vestigial traces of her libido.

The wiki article states that the two IDF terrorists had fake Pakistani passports on them. It may be not enough to infer that they wanted Pakistan blamed. Though I imagine the plan was to flee the country after the bombing leaving only the record of their travel documents. So the title isn’t too far fetched.

The news article suggests that they were trying to frame Muslims in general not Pakistan specifically. The idea being to draw them into the US’s war on terror. That the two were allowed go by a number of compromised officials is unsurprising.

Is the left foot there to show that the right foot hasn’t been put forward.

Whose foot is it? Is it Superman’s. Or maybe Lex Luther’s. Why does it play on Lois’ mind?

Well maybe this problem wouldn’t arise if the UK government stopped supporting the US and Israel’s grossly immoral acts in the middle east.

Right wing as in the appointment process specifically excludes candidates that hold progressive views.

I read a great blogpost from a barrister about it earlier this year but I didn’t bookmark it. If I can find it later today I’ll post it. Basically it collated a number of worrying instances in which the chair of the Judiciary Appointment Committee, clearly states that he blocks appointments for ‘activist judges’ or non establishment orthodoxies.

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You should. Very well written comedy. Hasn’t really aged that much.

I was there today supporting those that were escalating the protest. There were some silly arrests amongst all the ‘legitimate’ arrests. One guy got arrested for singing a song ridiculing the proscription and a young girl got detained for an hour who was there in a supporting role like myself but a cop hallucinated that she had made the statement.

These things are always pretty chaotic. There was a guy shouting obscenities sitting outside the courthouse today. I don’t know if he had tourettes or was a belligerent drunk, he wasn’t part of the protest. Anyways, I’m certain some of the cop’s recordings will have him chuntering on in the background which will be amusing if they have to be played in court.

It was inspirational seeing so many people making heartfelt speech’s about this slide into tyranny, putting their own liberty on the line.

We don’t actually have a lot of confidence that the Supreme Court will deliver a better decision. But we have to get turned back there before we can take this to the European Court of Human Rights where we will have a much better chance of not having an institutionally ring wing judge.

Would it have been over the line to chant death to the Nazis while they were industrially murdering people?

None of that is as near a worrying issue as the environmental destruction from their resource hungry data centers; the surveillance systems they enhance; or the wars they help prosecute.

My point in the first post is that your idea of what constitutes a rare book will be fairly different to how an actual archivist sees it. It is very very unlikely that the tech bros can get their hands on books that are not held in multiple museums/libraries/archives. That has been the collection policy since a couple of very important archives got flooded in the mid C20th.

Even the breaking up of books isn’t unusual. All the archives taking part in digitising projects will have a program where old books with overly tight text blocks are broken up for the scanning process then rebound (just as the majority of very old books have had done multiple times over their lifetime) afterwards. Most modern books with adhesive bindings, and sufficient extant copies, will just get thrown in the recycling after scanning as they are not as archively important enough to warrant the outlay of resources to rebind.

In an ideal world we wouldn’t be destroying any books but preserving books has an embodied cost, financially and environmently, so archivists have to deside how much is ring fenced. They have been doing this for decades now so the tech bros won’t be able to get their hands on anything the archivists haven’t already assessed as surplus to requirements.

From an archival point of view, nothing that they’re destroying doesn’t exist in numerous libraries. Yes, destroying rare books isn’t good but archives the world over will hold copies of these tomes.

If this was an actual concern archivists the world over would be shouting about it. In my experience they are rabid protectors of our material heritage. In reality they see digitisation as a significant part of the preservation of that heritage.

As an example: paper production went through a crisis 1800 - 1850; it used to be made from discarded cotton cloth (and was of high quality); but by 1800 not enough old cloth could be sourced to satisfy demand; so they started to make paper from pulped wood; which was very bad as it contained lignin which is acidic; but it took years to figure this out; in western archives are lots of books and newspapers turning into confetti from that period; we can save some material from that period by washing out the acidity and lining the pages with very thin, very strong Japanese tissue; it just isn’t economically viable to save all extant copies of some mass produced book/newspaper; better to preserve some select holdings in special repository libraries and digitise it for posterity.

There are way more important issues to get riled around the arseholes developing AI and the data centres they demand. This is just rage baiting.

Who’s Gilgamesh bro💔?

The spelling difference was subtle.

Lot of this going around.