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SimonCHulse

@SimonCHulse@mastodon.nz

32 // Reformed Baptist Christian // Pāpā to Theodora (2) // Husband to Michaela // Autie 🧩 // Geek 🖖🏻 // Amateur Camera Guy 🎥 // BTheol Grad 🧑🏼‍🎓// Wellingtonian ☕️ // Keen Cyclist 🚴‍♂️ // TTRPG, Card, & Board Game Nerd 🎲 // Ākonga o Te Reo Māori // big fan of puns and dad jokes 😂 DP: Me at night on a verandah wearing a brown fedora with darker brown leather band with a large purple feather in it.
Cover pic: Me & my daughter with a giant rusty metal Trex in the background.

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randahl , (edited ) to random
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Do you think bleeping swear words on tv is good or bad?

SimonCHulse ,
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@randahl I think it’s a good idea, with the caveat that it’s in a time slot when children will likely be watching. After 8pm is probably fine to not have the bleeps.

SimonCHulse , to random
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Via @richardhulse

Three panel comic strip one long extra panel along top with a row of grey cars. First panel: long haired blonde person saying “IT'S HARD TO GET EXCITED ABOUT THESE NEW ELECTRIC VEHICLES WHEN I'VE SEEN MUCH MORE AMBITIOUS POSSIBILITIES IN FICTION.” Short brown haired person replies: “SCI-FI FAN, HUH?” Second panel, blonde person looking at book saying “uhh… yeah, sci-fi.” Third panel has an arrow showing what they’re looking at: a page from one of Richard Scarry’s kids books with a mouse driving a car shaped like a pickle, a worm driving a car shaped like an apple and a pig driving a car shaped like a hotdog. Byline: “Tom Gauld for New Scientist”
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    randahl , to random
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    This is awesome: 🙌🏻

    The Baltic countries are raising the middle finger to Putin and switching their railway from the old Russian width to European width, and building an enormous railway all the way from Helsinki in Finland to Warsaw in Poland, where it connects to the existing European railway system.

    249 kph means 3½ hour rides between European capitals — using clean electrical energy thereby helping our climate too.

    B1M has a video about the Rail Baltica:

    https://youtu.be/spQ4v0Y2FfM?si=PmTaLt_JQY_2gewt

    SimonCHulse ,
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    @randahl saw this video yesterday. Fascinating.

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    Study I'd like to see that won't ever get done:

    Do adults who participate in "structured make - believe" things like roleplaying games, collaborative stories etc. believe in conspiracy theories more or less.

    The thing I want to be true is that there is some innate need for imaginary play, and conspiracy theories are a maladaptive way to fill that need. But that's my bias speaking, it could really go either way.

    SimonCHulse ,
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    @futurebird I ran the idea by my D&D discord and everyone thinks the two kinds of imagination are very different.

    SimonCHulse , to random
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    TIL that the works of J.R.R. Tolkien passed into the public domain in NZ and Canada this year (life plus 50 years)… but also won’t for another 20 years in much of Europe, and 40 years in the USA…

    & peeps: What on Earth does it mean if someone writes a derivative work here in NZ and then tries to republish it overseas? Or if it is published here and then imported to a different country via the internet or otherwise?

    Please retoot so this post finds a person who can answer it!

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