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JaymesRS

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Nerd; Board, Card, Pencil & Paper Gamer; Avid Reader; to find me in other places: lnk.bio/JaymesRS

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Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point meme from The Onion

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drawing of a person with the text below in an impact font stating “Dear Lord, Please Grant Me the Ability to Punch People in the Face Over Standard TCP/IP.”

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I fished up Swordheart by T. Kingfisher and really enjoyed it. There are potential sequels out there to be written but the whole collection is fun.

This week my optimistic goal is Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed and if I get that far Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees. It’s a busy week though so we’ll see how far I get. Both are for bingo squares.

Proven Guilty is one of my favorites and sets up a bunch of stuff that is important “later”.

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In case you didn’t know: This is loosely based on a book by Andre Norton of the same name

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Ugh, and during the start of Pride month too…. Why can’t people just leave these women and their sheep alone.

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Don’t just vote, do everything you can to get one additional voter out to vote too whether that’s organized text blasts, letters, phone banking, or just encouraging a friend that usually skips the election. I was a poll worker in 2020 and I texted 2 friends that were registered at that polling place to come vote and visit me and both came who otherwise would have sat out.

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Both are good communities but !books is a bit higher traffic in my experience.

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I have a bookwyrm account, but I just found it too frustrating to use regularly and I need something with very little friction if I’m going to use it at all. My hope is it improves as it ages. I like the interface and general features of The Storygraph, but its private equity backing concerns me, my personal favorite though is Hardcover.app. It’s got a funding structure that is super close to being self sustaining and there are plans to open source as soon as they meet their expectations for the base app features and interface. I’m JaymesRS on all of them.

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This has an interesting potential given that the RNC Convention will be in Milwaukee, WI July 15, 2024.

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Not sure what that has to do with the potential for shenanigans given the public news of a sentencing date being 4 days before the nominating convention, but ok.

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Yes, but when those payments were to another party than the candidate to provide a non-monetary service to the campaign (burying news that could affect people’s actions) what’s called an in-kind contribution. If you don’t report those benefits publicly (or you try to disguise them as something else like legal fees for example), congratulations you broke election laws and interfered with the lawful election process.

Yes “Election Interference” is a specific term of art related to the conduct of the actual election and electioneering, but it can also be understood more broadly by laypersons as anything that interferes with the legal conduct of a wider election/campaign event.

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I finished Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn and really enjoyed it. If you struggle with dyslexia or are an adapted dyslexic reader like my wife, the last ¾ of the book gets pretty tough to read. I’m reading Swordheart by T. Kingfisher now. It’s the last book in her World of the White Rat collection I hadn’t read yet.

As to moving books around, absolutely! That’s in fact what I’ve had to do in the past Bingos when I had better options for some squares that left easier ones open as I went through the year.

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Have you read The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton yet? It’s a pretty solid and enjoyable locked room style mystery. I read it a few years ago for a different Bingo and really liked it.

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I’m split on King. Some of just stuff like Eyes of the Dragon I’ve read multiple times because it’s so good, others like Needful Things I DNFed quickly.

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Uh, no; They were saying “Booo-urns! Booo-urns!”

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I heard Biden lieks Mudkipz.

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I’m reading Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. It’s an epistolary novel where the author must continually use fewer and fewer letters of the alphabet due to actions within the story. It’s been pretty good so far. It is my experimental square.

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Without thinking about the validity of the ICCs argument for it, I wonder if part of their concern is whether or not having an antagonist like the ICC doesn’t shore up potentially eroding domestic support from Gantz and his allies.

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Not “may”, the wording is “shall” and “with””. And while I would have rather they try to end run around the road block, shall and with have specific meaning in legal documents that is much less wishy-washy than “may”

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Not even being subtle here.

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In a normal media environment I’d agree with you completely, the problem is that we have a media apparatus that is set up as a propaganda arm of a political party and mainstream media thinks that balance is that any negative news story must be balanced by a negative news story in the other direction (“Trump incites riot and Biden mispronounced his granddaughters name, why both could mean the collapse of their campaigns” type coverage), instead of being balanced in standards of reporting.

I don’t know what the solution is. My strategy though is to work down ballot to get better people in positions to push Biden and get him more flexibility to make better choices and changes.

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I’m a Xennial and we had a console TV growing up and used it throughout the 90’s (possibly after in the early 2000s as well). We moved twice and that thing was a beast to move. No remote control though. The kids were the remote control for the grown ups.

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Pitch for the NYT:

THIS Week: Top Republicans not sure if they’ll accept election results. And Biden is so old and confused he mispronounced the name of the prime minister of Belarus. Which is worse? We asked ten voters in a diner.

9/10 agree it’s Biden.

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“There are just too many pre-trial motions yet to be decided for us to continue on the original plan*” she opined, having chosen not to decide them in the when they were raised months ago.

*- not an actual quote

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I have a feeling that’s kind of where I’m gonna end up as well. As a general statement, I’m not sure that I enjoy the genre on its own like I generally do fantasy, mystery, or science fiction, but I am definitely enjoying a few of the books in the genre a lot.

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Do you have any recommendations?

Maybe:
One you feel is the Best?
First I should read to get a feel?
Your Favorite?

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Thanks, I bought the series a while back and I have yet to start reading it, but I’m looking forward to it

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It’s too bad the judge is playing Calvin Ball

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Not yet. He’s made reference to it in a couple filings, but hasn’t actually filed yet. My guess is that it’s such a monumental request for this particular trial, he needs there to be no question that he has her dead to rights, “When you strike at the king you must kill him”.

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I first read her stuff when she did a bunch of early Star Trek and Star Wars books in the 80s-90s. I always loved her stuff. Great choice.

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I’ve been way busier than I expected with the end of the school year coming up. I managed to finally start The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids by Michael McClung though. It’s been near the top of my TBR list when someone recommended it alongside The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch as great thief/heist style books. And it works for a Bingo Square.

I’m not really far enough in to have an opinion though.

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You mentioning this is what made me think to post this post about LitRPG/GameLit.

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Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ9a1SEqrohLZ1-lGYtX-uvHUQDKGTyo1

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The fact that you still can’t arrange your desktop by penis is a travesty.

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Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtjme5if5dJWtSoUUhXMiVvpOHNO5fGBw

Welcome to the Inaugural books@lemmy.world Bingo for 2024!

We wanted to invite other Lemmy readers to join us in a reading challenge, we have tried to structure this so it’s very flexible with regards to genre, and we don’t require you to join or post on !books. We had just put in the work to make it and thought we could share the fun. (Admins/Mods please feel free to delete if...

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I definitely was thinking of how litRPG fit in when working on a couple of the squares. I have a soft spot for JP Valentine since I was introduced to the genre via his books.

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  • This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
  • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  • Space Vampire (Choose Your Own Adventure #9) by Edward Packard
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I had a similar experience when I was working through some of the early “The Shadow” pulps and was surprised a couple times at just how blatant the racism was.

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Normal rules apply, feel free to do a blackout, but you only need 5 for a bingo. That said, you are welcome to do as much or as little as you want of any length of work. We wanted this to be fun and not a stressor.

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That’s awesome. A couple of us were looking for something similar when we left a year ago, and I’m glad you’re looking forward to it.

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That’s a good question, and if you’re referring to the book I think you are that was a tough one for me when I was thinking about it.

Where I came down ultimately was whether or not the disability required some level of adaptation in day to day tasks for a non insignificant passage of time.

The D&D artifacts The Eye of Vecna and The Hand of Vecna are good comparisons. Both require removing the corresponding body part to use, but if you replace your original one with the artifact immediately after removing the corresponding body part and you have similar functionality as you did before but now with extra abilities; the you never really need to learn to adapt to the loss. Now if a character had been born blind and later gained the Eye of Vecna, they would gain sight, but would have had a significant experience of managing without it.

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One other square as it exists on your card. If you swap a square to an alternate, that square now exists on your card, otherwise they do not.

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