You should listen to the voice that’s telling you not to add more spoons to this already heavily-stirred bowl of shit.

Whatever the tradition choices are (e.g. Birmingham, Hull, etc), I’d happily watch a TV show that was set there. But I had to stop watching a show called ‘Criminal Record’ because of the god-awful accent Cush Jumbo is doing in that. So my vote is for whatever that grating ‘Lahndun’ accent is.

No, it’s not geared up for that. There’s a platform called sublinks where the intention is to be initially compatible enough with Lemmy that it can be a drop-in replacement, but they haven’t released anything yet.

For the one rogue fuck, my Rogue One fuck would be:

They must have been talking about the Lemmy devs (the main PieFed dev is a lefty but no-one has ever accused him of being a tankie). To give you an idea: piefed.social blocks lemmygrad and hexbear, but it also block hilariouschaos (set up by the old exploding-heads guys).

The importance of the local feed shouldn’t be underestimated - it’s one of the reasons that the ‘rglullis’ communities have struggled (as discussed on https://lemmy.world/post/20236330)

I dread to think how many books GRRM’s former assistants have smashed out in the time it’s taken him not to write one.

Anyway:

James S.A. Corey’s hit sci-fi series The Expanse was set in our own solar system, and leaned heavily into the politics of various human factions vying for dominance while an alien threat looms at the edges of awareness. Yes, the protomolecule was dangerous and mysterious and shook up the status quo, but at the end of the day it was always the humans and their decisions which drove the story forward. By contrast, The Captive’s War feels more like Mass Effect, the sort of space opera which features a wide array of aliens where you never know what you’ll see on the next page.

As a big fan of Mass Effect, this book sounds something I’d like to read.

There’s an alternative view, of course: from a distance it looks kinda dopey; a blight on the landscape of stolen land, by a sculptor with questionable links to the KKK.

Mushy peas did at least start out as a vegetable.

I’d say ‘go for it’, if only because ‘as fuck’ smells like a reddit-ism. Depends what the mods of this community feel about, I suppose.

The Jedi, like Blockbusters, thought they were going to be around forever, but now their premises are occupied by people indifferent to whatever it is they actually did.

No. Because he banged his head when he tripped, right? And then didn’t recover for an hour or something, and the car had been pressing against his leg for an hour in such a way that’s difficult for him to get leverage on it. If this guy wasn’t presumably already long-dead from old-age by now, I’d write to him and tell him of my worst fears.

I was thinking he might trip getting in or out, the car would roll a bit, enough to pin him against the house door frame and then he’d end up having to sever some part of himself like in 127 hours. It could happen! (maybe)

“It’s very easy, I open my house door, then my car door, then get out and move the car manually, then close my house door, then move the chairs back, then eat some dinner, then murder the hitchhikers still trapped in my car, then watch some telly.”

Seems like he leaves the car in there in neutral with no handbrake, so that’s an accident waiting to happen.