Modest Mouse - One Chance
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jsiirnDtio8
WordAll #718 completed in 1m 33s (one of those mistakes is a word. The other was a mistake.)
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wordall.xyz
Wordle 989 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #773 4/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #788 5/6 (butt-erfly)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #785 5/6 (bum-blebee)
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Framed #724 (nah. A pleasant family visit. I watched Lizard on Netflix at night. I guessed roughly what was going to happen in the film by half way then got more specific when they made a point of taping a package of drugs in frame. There were a few good red herrings and misdirections in the first half an hour. The actors, direction, and general film itself weren't rubbish. Just, and it maybe borne or a familiarity with the genre, very predictable with characters embodying tropes.)
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Chemical Brothers - Salmon Dance
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=T7cuw9WVrGI
WordAll #717 completed in 40s
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Wordle 988 5/6* (1/3 chance on 3. While this is butt it's an honourable butt)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #772 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #787 6/6 (rumplebumkin)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #784 3/6
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Framed #723 (nah. I watched Dark Encounter, a 2019, alien encounters film which I can't really entirely make my mind up about without a spoiler. It wasn't an awful film but it wasn't a great film. Like Horns it shows the extent to which medieval Christian theology and guns have entered part of the American psyche. Usual Saturday uncle-ing duty but I also spent some time building Lego with the 5 year old. In the evening I babysat for a couple of hours with his grandmother. There are wonderful flip books for kids by Axel Sheffler. It's printed on thicker card and spiral bound. Each card is divided in half horizontally and the book is in a landscape format. The halves of the page can be turned individually. On the Butterfly page in the minibeasts book if a person turns the bottom half of the page it says butt. Which prompted very heartfelt five year old laughter and a degree of overexcitement not especially helpful at bedtime. The next page was bumblebee. Their reading is coming on in leaps and bounds. While a five year old laughing a great deal at the bum in bumblebee (the page wasn't split at bum unlike butt with butterfly) was greatly endearing it took nearly two hours longer for him to sleep.)
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Beißpony - Masochistic Time Machine
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wceUC8hcvXQ
WordAll #716 completed in 46s
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Wordle 987 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #771 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #786 5/6 (coca-culo)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #783 5/6 (cul ça co la)
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Framed #722 (nah. I didn't watch much. I couldn't really get into watching much because of distractions. I watched about 10 minutes of Prevenge, on Amazon Prime Video, which is a good but somewhat unsettling horror/comedy film, written by, directed and starring Alice Lowe. I am a fan. I won't give away much but it revolves around a psychotic lady thinking her unborn baby is talking to her. Alice Lowe was pregnant at the time. I've seen it before. I've mostly been reading. I also tried to get into The Wrong Side of The Tracks, on Netflix, Spanish title Entrevías, and I'm sure it's good but I have seen too many gritty crime dramas with idiosyncratic leads, for now. The old guy, the lead, reminded me somewhat of one of my granddads in the 1980s. That left reading. I think discussing a book while reading it is tricky for the same reasons it's a bit unfair to dismiss Entrevías; essentially the unread, or unseen, bits could change everything. I like to give a book at least 100 pages assuming it's not awful. Sometimes a person is not in the mood. Usual Saturday ahead.)
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WordAll #715 completed in 39s
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Regina Spektor - All The Rowboats
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=TTYBKu-Dzcc
Wordle 986 2/6* (1 or 2 is luck)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #770 3/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #785 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #782 3/6
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Framed #721 (nope. I watched The Great British Menu and read Dead Lies Dreaming by Charlie Stross. It had a ramp. I had been meaning to read it since around when the paperback had been published and I kept getting distracted/disinterested around the chapter two mark so read other books. I've read most, or all, of The Laundry Series, the lead up to this book, also written by Stross and Dead Lies Dreaming, part of The New Management Series, is probably better for most people. The earlier Laundry books were very geeky in places, which was great for me, but not necessarily for people who aren't all that geeky. Dead Lies Dreaming isn't as geeky. I'm glad, between the quite a few books I read between chapter 2 and the rest of the book, I perservered. It was in part meanness too - I'd paid for it so I'll read it. Dead Lies Dreaming is a good introduction to Charlie Stross and would make a good screenplay. I'll do wordall later because I'm running a little late.)
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Sunscreen - Broken English
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=EKSIkFTV_j8
WordAll #714 completed in 2m 35s (first 3 <30s)
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Wordle 985 5/6* (should have been 4. Postérieur.)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #769 3/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #784 5/6 (chiva culo)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #781 6/6 (pain in the)
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Framed #720 (I haven't seen it. I watched American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders. It's a study in incompetence and avoidable violence enabled by a shroud of secrecy. I suppose, at the time, it wasn't unreasonable, or uncommon, to view the Cold War as an existential battle between the USSR and America/western Europe. Against a backdrop of nuclear weapons. The downside to that, in the case in the documentary, was it appeared the end justified the means and some of the people operating under that veil of secrecy were incompetent, mad and evil to varying degrees. I say evil, and maybe it's too strong a word, but I think a lot of evil can originate from people doing what, to them, is the right thing because the ends justify the means. It's a good documentary about an unfortunately obsessed journalist lifting rocks where there were venomous snakes and standing by swamps where there were alligators. The last decades of the Cold War were technology. Then I watched The Great British Menu which didn't involve making things secret because someone burnt a cake or wanted to use a chef's recipe for strategic reasons of national importance, while employing dangerous nutters make sure The Daily Mail and Guardian's TV reviewers didn't look into it too much.)
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The Dresden Dolls - Mrs O
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=K-tuGkzu9do
WordAll #713 completed in 49s
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Wordle 984 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #768 4/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La Palabra del Día operates at sensible hours.
Le Mot (@WordleFR) #780 4/6
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Framed #719 (nope. I've been awake since 3am. What I should have done is taken a couple of paracetamol half an hour ago rather than shifting around like a sausage in a frying pan trying to get comfortable. The morning word puzzles were a distraction though. I watched the last bit of the recent Channel 4 documentary about the miners strikes of 1984 and The Great British menu. I am now given up getting comfortable and I'm going to stretch then take paracetamol and read a chapter or two of a book. Then try for at least one hour more sleep before breakfast. An inconvenience and occasionally par for the course.)
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I found the regular Octodordle the most difficult of the three today.
Daily Octordle #764
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily/764
Daily Sequence Octordle #764
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily-sequence/764
Daily Rescue Octordle #764
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Future of The Left - Manchasm
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=awihBrmANW8
WordAll #712 completed in 3m 17s (this was difficult)
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Wordle 983 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #767 3/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #782 5/6 (error on 4. Fesse biscuits)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #779 4/6
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Framed #718 (nope. I watched the first two parts of a Channel 4 documentary about the miners strikes of 1984 and in the first episode felt the miners had the look of zealots and thugs, undemocratic zealots, and felt sympathy with those who broke the picket lines, then in episode two felt a great deal of sympathy for the striking miners led into a greatly obvious trap by their pied piper like leader, Scargill, and obvious deliberate state violence (although the psychopath in me says mopping up the continuing strikers, tricking them into one, unimportant, place, then smashing them up/bogging them down with legal action was also kind of genius - the police also corralled the protesters into a village so the charges could be increased). I felt like a shower afterwards because of the murkiness. Truly sad and awful. The unions were screwed from the start by idiot, or maybe compromised, leadership and unrealistic expectations. The people cheering the strikers on maybe felt good about themselves and the state behaved appallingly. The miners, wives, kids, and communities were in the middle of all that. They did proper culture wars in the 1980s with tangible collateral damage. I hope things have moved on significantly. Culture wars are dangerous. I can't say I feel that great about the people cheering the miners on either. I'm going to watch episode 3 later tonight.)
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NewDad - Let Go
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tYSDMqEvRTs
WordAll #711 completed in 39s
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Wordle 982 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #766 2/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #781 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #778 6/6 (Dans la vallée des fesses)
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Framed #717 (nope. I saw the TV show, for maybe the first series, and it was excellent. Yesterday was the most Sunday of Sunday's I've had since the 1990s. Boring. I suppose boring is a kind of luxury in as much as there are plenty of ways not to be bored that are also quite unpleasant.)
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WordAll #710 completed in 2m 08s
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Wordle 981 4/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #765 1/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #780 5/6 (cloaca)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #777 5/6 (Eeyoreation)
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Framed #716 (nope. Yesterday was a long day. I didn't watch anything, other than Balamory, Thomas and Friends, and a Cbeebies DVD. Principly on fast forward and repeatedly. My Thomas and Balamory banter is up there with the best of them. It wasn't Thomas and the TV show Friends the TV show it was the TV show Thomas and Friends. Friends and Thomas and Friends would prompt Thomas and Friends and Seinfeld. I did a lot of printing pictures, collages made on the computer, of closed CeX stores, Thomas and Friends, Balamory and DVD menus at very specific points. That was with an adult very autistic nephew. There were hours of this and I enjoy it but it is mentally a slog. In the early evening I read some books to a, soon to be five year old, four year old and talked about space with him, which I think he enjoyed. They were those Marvel board books for kids. I subverted Vought International by making a game of how many letters were in various words. Although he was insistent poo has two letters because oo is a digraph, which is a side effect of the, I think probably better for languages, methods they use at school currently - it's trivial to go from a digraph, an digraph is the word he used, to two letters but cognitively not necessarily the other way around and it's thinking of language as phonemes which is better for non-tonal languages. I wonder if they'll do tonemes, which would probably be a good idea if they ever study Chinese and others. We also looked up words in a children's dictionary. Infrequently and voluntarily. I make it sound far more focussed than it was. It wasn't focused, it was dealing with a young child, so I tolerated the floor being lava, mucking about, and an attention span that varied from 30 seconds to tens of minutes, often at random, and tried to keep it as fun as possible to make sure none of it seemed like school. He was interested in the size of planets and their order. It'd be a miracle if he remembers much of it, not I think because of lack of ability, just we were mentally hopping around like grasshoppers. I watched a SpaceX launch with him on YouTube, which was a 40 minute video I persuaded him to watch the last ten minutes of it, and then it was his bedtime. The current favourite show is Peppa Pig. Balls to Wordall my brain isn't working properly yet.)
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WordAll #709 completed in 37s
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Tanya Tagaq - Do Not Fear Love
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=AfmzFHdJXQA
Wordle 980 X/6* (fair enough. I can't access my stats without an account so let's just assume this breaks a streak of at least twelfty. Two eggs in a handkerchief, not balls, four letters.)
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #764 2/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #779 5/6 (omnirump)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #776 5/6 (velocirumptor)
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Framed #715 (no. Earlier in the week I watched the sixth and final episode of the current series of True Detective. It was good with a few caveats. I'm not dismissive of 'weird stuff' although I don't believe in the supernatural, and it leant more towards supernatural explanations than 'weird stuff'. Coincidences, deliberate and random, are normal, and I don't really have a problem with those things, and I don't especially have a problem with religion or faith, but, like my ambivalence towards folk horror, which I enjoy, the idea of native equalling supernatural is silly. Culture is a thing but it's almost a foreign, educated, interpretation of a culture. Which is good, and interesting, but unlikely to focus on the fact that people mostly get on with their days. Take Christianity or Islam or Judaism you'd have to really focus on a minority of people where faith and folklore permeates everything, but with depictions of indigenous people not only does faith and folklore permeate everything it even permeates the life of an indigenous person born and raised outside of their culture. The problem with that, I think, is that it implies something 'in their blood' or that somehow they don't fit into to the dominant culture or can't be accepted without presumptions. Identity is an important thing and I've not being in the position where the dominant, often invading, culture has attempted to erase the identity of my immediate ancestors, and I get why people would want to explore or reclaim their culture. I just think that often well meaning media depictions of indigenous folk overlook the commonality between all people that most stuff is normal and most people aren't that bothered about it all. Indigenous folk included. The British equivalent would be a murder mystery at a British Tesla laboratory interpreted through the Church of England because the murdered lady was christened. It's absurd. I'll do wordall later.)
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Marnie Stern - Believing Is Seeing
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=1moHzwiite4
WordAll #708 completed in 36s
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Wordle 979 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
#Worldle #763 3/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #778 X/6 (bogbiscuits)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #775 4/6
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Framed #714 (nah. I'm in a bit of a hurry; a 9am, on the dot, Facetime and I'm running late.)
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Cake - The Distance
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=JH6il8U3EU0
WordAll #707 completed in 1m 14s
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Wordle 978 2/6* (doesn't count)
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#Worldle #762 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #777 6/6 (bicycle holder)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #774 5/6 (Heinie Mudkipz the best supply teacher in all of Luxembourg)
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Framed #713 (nope. I watched The Great British Menu which is a cookery competition without most of the nonsense and artificial drama introduced by reality television. There are no reaction shots, obviously lots of insight shots, but nobody is talking about things as if they're happening now but recorded later. I think the lack of 'reality tv-ness' is aided by their been fixed locations with, in the broadest terms, fixed roles. There are three hour long episodes a week. Essentially they start with four, often extremely talented, chefs whom cook two courses per episode, for a four course banquet, they are individually scored by a renowned expert chef for each course and the person with the lowest score is eliminated. During episode three the two remaining chefs cook for a table of judges whom decide which chefs get through to the finals. It's a great show and I think the current judges (Tom Kerridge, Ed Gamble and Nisha Patel) are discerning without being dicks about it. We often want critics to be dicks about it because mostly, I think, when we eat something mediocre or not good we avoid it but are too polite to make too much of a fuss. We don't come back. So food critics fill the gap of what we'd say if we weren't bound by being polite or in a hurry. However with a show like this, even in the case of a food disaster, a person can see the effort that went into something therefore the norms we expect from critics are somehow subverted, and the criticism is mostly constructive but accurate.)
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WordAll #706 completed in 38s
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31Knots - Compass Commands
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0x1_a4QLZQA
Wordle 977 3/6*
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#Worldle #761 2/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #776 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #773 3/6
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Framed #712 (nope. I watched "Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror", on Prime, - a 3 hour long documentary, and it was good. It could be broken into 3 or four pieces for convenience. Discussions of media and its nuances are dominated by the educated. I'm torn between a prejudice that some of it is talking in well referenced and elaborate terms about about clouds but also seeing the utility, and possibly fact, of genre based categories. With a cumulo nimbus clouds a person could discuss the potential dangers, the way they look, what people call them where they happen, the history of their observation, all without the underlying reasons how and why they occur. It's infrequent that the people depicted in folk contexts create the media in which they're represented, I won't list those I think of as notable exceptions to that but includes Thomas Hardy*, Dickens*, John Bunyan*, and others, in the context of British observations of folk. A lot of folk horror is a result of confounding some very patronising, bucolic, idealised, perceptions of folk by the educated, at least one step removed from the folk they're depicting. I disagree with the idea 'people should stay in their lane', which is often a theme within folk horror: this is a local shop, for local people, there's nothing for you here. What matters is that it's good. A lot of it strikes me as clever people talking clouds and the psychological amelioration that there must be something more to poverty and the status quo - to the 'folk'. I'd like to reiterate I think it is a fascinating documentary and a must for those interested in the genre. Especially alongside A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss. I'll do WordAll later, I've got to check someone is OK, and I fancy some toast. If there are typos, and there will be, keep in mind I'm quickly typing this on a phone screen and, while I care, I don't care that much.)
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* All of whom have fascinating contexts and analysis would require exactly the kinds of discussions within the documentary and the kinds of people having those discussions. I'm deliberately validating and invalidating my argument to depict being torn about it.
Phace & Misanthrop - From Deep Space
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWdlOIh5Qg
WordAll #705 completed in 56s
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Wordle 976 4/6* (1/3 chance on 3)
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#Worldle #760 3/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #775 6/6 (bottomations)
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #772 6/6 (tire mon le mot doigt)
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Framed #711 (nope. Looks interesting. I watched an episode of Star Trek Deep Space 9, every episode is on Netflix, called The Magnificent Ferenghi. Episode 10 series 6. Out of all of the Star Treks I watched as they were broadcast, pretty much all of them bar the Shatner originals, the theme tune for for Deep Space 9 brings on a wave of nostalgia akin to mourning. I think it's because it was a show I unequivocally liked watched in the context of scenes and places, good and bad, that have gone forever. In retrospect the episode itself was the kind of thing that would be written for fun rather than anything serious. Iggy Pop played a serious part in an otherwise not especially serious episode. Deep Space 9 is a reappraisal of the utopian themes of Star Trek The Next Generation, and the 1990s, attempting to mentally rectify itself before the millennium. I think one of many things having younger relatives teaches you, and it's kind of beautiful and kind of sad, is that those memories of places and things long since gone, apply to everything now in the future but we're not especially good at noticing it at the time. The consequence of that observation is that regardless of problems and flaws that exist right now at some point, before we snuff it, we'll mourn the good bits of right now and the memories of the mediocre and bad bits will reduce. As many have pointed out that is a double edged sword - one minute you're having fun, and a decade or two later you're voting for dickheads promising the same feelings that don't exist because they never existed they way we remember them. I try to hang on to the crap bits because it puts today in context and, blessedly, today is often not that bad.)
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