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To kill a French vampire, you need to drive a baguette through their heart. That might sound easy, but I assure you, it's painstaking.

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I remember being up at the customary 3am Sunday morning to watch it live, having the VCR running just in case...

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One of those weird things about aging, watching and the commentary talking about Albert Park being around since 1996 in the same tone people at that time talked about the 60s and 70s is..a mood. It doesn't feel long ago to me.

@Flick @HebrideanHecate Sam Harris has tackled 'the JKR thing' and it's a pretty good listen. Had my differences with Harris recently but I remain fairly open minded, this is a good chunk of it samharris.org/podcasts/making-

My autocorrect was obsessed with changing 'distro' to 'bistro' so there's probably still some in there I didn't catch

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Some people happen to like the way Slackware does things. These complaints come around every so often on LQ by people that I think in the nicest possible way are missing the point of it all.

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Bunch of bullshit

reddit.com/r/slackware/comment

The tool is not the work, use whatever works for you and enables you to carry out what you want it to.

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Today in 1921, 102 years ago: the universities of Oxford and Cambridge contested, for the hundredth time, their classic race of eight with helmsman in the Thames.

#OnThisDay

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Oh god snap is a trash fire. They have a thing that inhibits updates for up to 14 days if an app is running.. but the Snap Store is a snap... and it runs in the background... so now everyone's had a notification that they should quit the snap store in the next 14 days but nobody knows how because it doesn't look open.

So the solution is to open the terminal because it always, always is.

askubuntu.com/a/1412580

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Today in 1856, 167 years ago: The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.

#OnThisDay

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Today in 1918, 105 years ago: Beginning of the bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.

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Two consecutive days of frost. Everything's dead :( All the lovely flowers had briefly come out, only to be murdered by Sprinter

The hoaxers are out in full force today. School next door swarming with police. Same with others across the state. Great work, arseholes.

I usually am remote mon/tues but because of new starter have done both on-prem this week; It's had a really weird effect on my internal clock as I'm sure it's Thursday.

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