I was on one of their megathreads, and it had 900 comments to a 100 up voted post. 95 percent was text. They comment always. The pig stuff are probably a fraction of what they post.
They are being genocided despite his reference to you. The goal of the occupier is the destruction of a group of people, either by having them interned indefinitely, by forcing them to leave (again) or simply butchering them.
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1713900853818523840
Genocide historian Segal says the intent is there.
Canada had paedophile and state-run genocide camps masquerading as schools for Indiginous children well into the 70s!!! This is clearly an extension of that mindset. The Canadian government is sick.
This looks good, I just found an old (3 year old post - I didn't even know Lemmy was around back then!) and commented on it. There were also funnily two other recent comments (one from 2 months ago and another 3 months old).
Also a great hack to lower your personal rate of inflation.
That's most of the establishment. Even new money people are mostly crooks. And then you get people like Rowling who make money honestly and join the far right cult of the wealthy.
That's cool. My peice had to said, because the rightwing types were benefitting from the silence or disagreement of people like myself who want no more intervention.
Wall Street funded them bro.
They are liberals with paper thin corporate-friendly politics.
That user who suggested we 'help' is either malicious or ignorant. Because help doesn't mean we release the reserves of money we've stolen from the Afghans. It means invade them again, whether she means it or not.
The best thing we can do now is let the Afghans be sovereign and no longer interfere (which won't happen). You can expect nothing good socially from there, as the Americans helped the Taliban defeat local progressive and secular forces in the 70s. All we can hope for is for them to eventually stand up on their own two feet.
Anyone who whines about the plight of Afghan women is either doing propaganda or is misled. Afghan women have children too btw - children that are starving - have Biden release the reserves.
Feels like a geopolitical issue more than a religious issue.
The downvotes are probably because you seem to 'ignore' the US role in arming the Taliban.
Rebuilding translates to funding the lavish lifestyles of our puppets. Very colonial.
Those needless military casualties are equally on the hands of our elite and their shares in arms companies.
And think of the Afghan people themselves. They don't know peace because of us.
Fight your own fights.
Agree with all but this. We did start it. And we'll learn no lessons.
Sadly Bill Clinton and Tony Blair backed Putin initially. It's not totally the people's fault.
Socialis
The lemmydotworld admins are preemptively defederating from far left hexbear. Defederation is supposed to be the last resort. The ironic thing is, only a few weeks ago we had redditors calling Lemmy devs tankies and telling people not to come here lol. And now we're losing potential users because of paranoia from lemmydotworld admins.
Clowns everywhere.
Yes, I did. Wow, I'm happy to know that it works. The double notifications are wierd and a touch annoying, (something for devs to fix).
I'm happy it's worked. But so long as I'm replying to you I suppose I don't need to tag you.
> A formidable cast journey through folk via Bollywood to pop – not to mention mountain treks and orc attacks – in a compressed revival of the 2007 musical
> First seen in the UK in 2007 at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane – a 1996-seat theatre – the show is revived at the 220-capacity Watermill. This means that Simon Kenny’s design and Anjali Mehra’s choreography are a theatrical equivalent of stunts designed to find how many people can fit in a Mini.
> ...During the long sections inside the tiny theatre, they cram in battles, orc attacks, treks across land, over mountains or through caves and lavish production numbers involving 20 actors or musicians (several performers also play instruments).
> ...speech and score sometimes feel more competitive than complementary.
> The songs, though, move with enjoyable eclecticism through folk via Bollywood to pop, echoing the musical backgrounds of the Indian/Finnish/Anglo-American compositional team of AR Rahman, Värttinä, and Christopher Nightingale.
> But the cast is a blast.
> The original London run is more known for losing money than winning friends. On a stage about 30 times smaller – with budget presumably reduced proportionately – this spectacle of compression, by aiming small, brings big rewards.
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> “The Battle of Maldon, together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth,” edited by Peter Grybauskas. “The Battle” is a fragment of poetry from the end of the first millennium that Tolkien translated from Old English. > > ...the history of Middle-Earth that Tolkien was working on at the same time, “The History of the Hobbit” includes five different “phases” of the book’s creation, many, many plot notes, and a scheme that shows original word choices along with Tolkien’s final text—which was sometimes penned in on top of rubbed-out pencil. > > “Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today” by Nick Groom. This fascinating book explores “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” from their genesis through all the different major adaptations of the Tolkien “legendarium.” > > The reader will learn a great deal about the licensing of Middle-Earth, a realm I thought I already knew fairly well. There were plans for a “Lord of the Rings” film starring the Beatles, for instance, directed by Stanley Kubrick. Another fever dream of a movie would have had Galadriel seduce Frodo, and a 12-minute animated monstrosity released in 1966 has a princess named Mika and a dragon named Slag. > > Each of these very different books offers a brilliant peek or deep dive into very different aspects of the man who changed speculative fiction forever. Choose your own adventure into the world of J.R.R. Tolkien.
The remastered 'Lego Harry Potter Collection' came to last-gen consoles in 2018
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> Reportedly, there is a new Lego Harry Potter game in the works as an image promoting it was spotted on the Warner Bros. South Africa Instagram account.
> Per Video Games Chronicle, this now-deleted post showed a Lego Minifigure of Harry Potter with the logo for TT Games and a date of August 25. TT Games is the British developer and publisher behind the Lego games and this date overlaps with Gamescom, one of the industry’s largest trade fairs, which will be hosted over August 23 to August 27 in Cologne, Germany.
> Rumours that there is a Lego Harry Potter game that would mimic the structure of 2022’s Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga popped up in March of this year. Nintendo Life‘s source said that the game was “sucking up the studio’s resources” and that a Lego Guardians of the Galaxy game was cancelled at the same time.
Alternatively titled: McGonagall Cat Loaf in box.
Just wanted to post a beautiful peice of art that I saw some time ago that needed sharing. I love the style, textures and emotion too.
There are about seven more images that you can go and see at the link above.
So, what happens if you're modding a few communities and you want to change instances?
Do you add mod roles to the new account on that instance? Would people keep the old account, and would they keep the mod status on the old account too?
Just wondering, since I'm considering moving to keep Lemmy sustainable as well as because of preemptive concerns at my own instance's implementation of implicit, untransparent policies.
> Title text: No, we actually do have a woman who's basically part of our fellowship. She lives in Rivendell, you wouldn't know her.
Daniel Radcliffe also recently gave his thoughts on the forthcoming TV series
The actor – now 35-years-old – said via LadBible: “I was told in no uncertain terms by Alan Rickman, ‘don’t step on my fucking cloak’. I sort of giggled, the Death Eaters and I looked at each other [like] ‘is he joking?’ It quickly became apparent that he was definitely not joking.
> “The next take, the director was very keen for me to walk as close as I can to Alan, and we got about half way down the Great Hall before [mimes getting choked around the neck]. You have to bear in mind that his cloak was attached around his neck. [I] nearly killed the poor man. Then he turned around again and gave me a look that you never ever want to see.”
> “Very luckily, the next take someone else stepped on his cloak, so that kind of took the heat away from me. ***
The upcoming television reboot of the fantasy franchise was confirmed by HBO earlier this year, and will be the first-ever series based on the iconic books.
Superfans are spending the day watching their favourite movies and dressing up.
Link: archive.org/...
Are you guys doing the same?
I tend to rewatch the movies around Christmas personally tbh.
:)
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1462625
> Very curious to know about it 😎 > Do not be shy, just share it (no judgement).
(reposted because I got brigaded earlier by new athiest neckbeards.)
Ambient World does more of those atmospheric music and ambience videos if you like these.
I saw this other guy asking how you'd download protected drive only view documents. So that reminded me of that other annoying characteristic of PDFs. They're 'protected'.
How do you deal with PDFs that are inherently uncustomisable and have fixed formatting? I appreciate the KO Reader and other readers can do reflowable text, but I'd prefer not to and epubs/txt/any customisable format would be better.
Any good methods of PDF to text/epub out there?
The Potter family is a very old one, but it was never (until the birth of Harry James Potter) at the very forefront of wizarding history, contenting itself with a solid and comfortable existence in the backwaters.
> The wizarding family of Potters descends from the twelfth-century wizard Linfred of Stinchcombe, ...whose nickname, ‘the Potterer’, became corrupted in time to ‘Potter’... His reputation as a well-meaning eccentric served Linfred well, for behind closed doors he was able to continue the series of experiments that laid the foundation of the Potter family’s fortune ...as the originator of a number of remedies ...including Skele-gro and Pepperup Potion. His sales of such cures to fellow witches and wizards enabled him to leave a significant pile of gold to each of his seven children upon his death.
So that's how the Potter family initially get their wealth. Fanfiction writers often attribute it to 'Sleekeazy’s Hair Potion' which is also fact but more recent.
> Linfred’s eldest son, Hardwin, married a beautiful young witch by the name of Iolanthe Peverell, who came from the village of Godric’s Hollow. She was the granddaughter of Ignotus Peverell.
Incidentally or otherwise knowing Rowling, Stinchcombe happens to lie 'west of Dursley'.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1924090
I want to report a bot/troll here for you to purge him. He’s messaged a gif of a woman shitting to me. No doubt he’s done this to others too.
His handle is kungfu @sh.itjust.works
I hope you purge the troll, and ideally block his ip if that's possible.
Is there any way to contact admins here?
I want to report a bot/troll here for you to purge him. He's messaged a gif of a woman shitting to me. No doubt he's done this to others too.
Jim Kay's illustration is a cornucopia of Diagon Alley places in a row. The details are abundant and it now features as our community's banner.
The site I extracted it from allows you to look at the details closely - and has a related challenge:
> Unlock activities by finding these items. When you have found them all, you will receive a magical certificate.
A red dragon with a book and quill
A sea-faring unicorn
A witch and a Golden Snitch
A potted sunflower
An elephant and castle
A white cat on a roof
Ignoring the legacy of William Shakespeare is difficult for any English writer, let alone "Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Tolkien.
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>Tolkien disliked Shakespeare so much that he once expressed regret at referring to one of Middle-earth’s races as Elves. While elves “is a word in ancestry and original meaning suitable enough,” he wrote to a friend in 1954, “the disastrous debasement of this word, in which Shakespeare played an unforgivable part, has really overloaded it with regrettable tones, which are too much to overcome.” Although he does not specify any plays, Tolkien must have had A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merry Wives of Windsor in mind. Both present elves as whimsical, lighthearted creatures who live in enchanted woods — a far cry from noble beings inhabiting the dark and dangerous forests of Middle-earth. > >Ironically, the greatest influence Shakespeare had on The Lord of the Rings resulted from Tolkien wanting to rewrite a plot line he felt Shakespeare mishandled. In addition to the poorly worded prophecy concerning Macduff, Macbeth is also promised that he “shall never vanquished be until the Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come.” Later in the play, Macbeth watches his life flash before his eyes as an army of trees marches on Dunsinane. Except they aren’t trees; they are soldiers hiding underneath branches and foliage. > >Tolkien was deeply disappointed at this revelation, which installed in him the desire to “devise a setting in which the trees might really march to war.” He did just that in The Two Towers when Middle-earth’s Ents — walking, talking tree-like creatures — besiege Saruman’s stronghold of Isengard to take revenge for the deforestation that fueled the wizard’s war machine. > >...he may have had more in common with the Bard than he cared to admit. In addition to their mutual interest in the fantastical, both men were deeply connected to the English countryside — a country that gave them a deep appreciation for the simple things in life. For Shakespeare, this manifested in the bawdy humor and the unorthodox wisdom of characters such as Falstaff. For Tolkien, it found expression primarily through the Hobbits, whose humble existence rendered them immune to the corrupting power of the One Ring.