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If reports of Turkish armour stacking at the border are true, I do wonder if they're intending to go further than their 'safety area'.

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As the Middle East appears ready to boil over, I'm curious about some things:
i) What are Turkey's objectives in Syria? Really just a 'buffer zone'?
ii) What is Russia's thinking on i)
iii) Where does Iran fit into all of this?

Not sure why letsencrypt just suddenly changed the cert path slightly, I think I missed something.

Le Carre and the BBC mini-series were my introduction to the genre, so I have fairly high standards.

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I really want to love but the plotting is pretty shaky. It's flawed, but still great TV. Similar to Engrenages in many ways.

I enjoyed these declassified Soviet jokes, and the fact it was the job of some Virginia analyst to compile them all. cia.gov/library/readingroom/do

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> Footage of the incident on Friday shows the banker, who was not identified, surrounded by media while protesters shout at him to “Go back to the mainland!”

Oh no. Come on, don't do this stuff. It's about the administration, not individuals who happen to come from a place.

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📚 I'm making a big high quality English Pepper&Carrot comic book using only FLOSS from scratch! Here is a first blog post report (a bit technical) of my research and test with #Krita, #Inkscape and #Scribus on #Kubuntu 18.04.2 LTS: davidrevoy.com/article735/

There is a bite to the wind today. First time since April.

lol Scorsese has upset Comics Twitter, I suspect he couldn't care less. He had everyone after him a few years ago.

I just got a nice cookie from the campus coffee shop, straight out of the oven. Little Friday afternoon pleasures.

9yrs ago - and still in England - I took a drive out to the New Forest and met these donkeys near Exbury -

I really did not realise I needed this information, but I really did. c.c. @bird@nulled.red getpocket.com/explore/item/eve

Got the bus home for the first time since I moved to the 'burbs. I'd forgotten the chill of a bus, being able to unwind and let someone else worry about the road. Nice chatting to people too.

UKPOL, Brexit 

I largely stay out of this, but this made me laugh.

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