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Games and stories are imitations of life, ways of playing at life, sometimes ways of learning how to live. Some of the rules may appear both cruel and arbitrary. But if you want to play the game, or live the life, you have to follow them.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
“Why are men afraid of women?” “If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,” Ged said. “Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.” “Are they ever taught to trust themselves?” Ged asked “No,” she said.
I hate having to wait a whole year for China Miéville’s new book, but I think it will be worth it. www.thebookseller.com/rights/picad...
Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making
Picador will publish a new novel from award-winning author China Miéville. The Rouse will be Miéville’s first single-authored novel for an adult audience since 2011.
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A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.
@nurl-ttrpg.bsky.social I can’t get past the “I’m human” verification, I tried both ways. Ironically, I wanted to register as a Blade Runner GM…
30 June 1930 | Belgian Jewish girl, Nelly Zylberberg, was born in Brussels. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 15 January 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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Henricus Borgers. Wijer. Handwerker. Gehuwd. Een kind. Verzetsgroep Geheim Leger. Inlichingen. Sabotage. Hulp aan onderduikers. Opsluiting in Hasselt en Fort Breendonk. Deportatie naar het concentratiekamp van Neuengamme. Henricus sterft op 17 januari '45.
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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Roto BOOOOO-tor@rototudor.bsky.social · 2y agoIf you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? 1) I had no idea 2) business admin 3) economics 4) doctor
