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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 7h

That's a terrifying series name, but cool, thanks!

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 7h

I mean, I was shocked at Mengsk's reveal as a kid. (Also, linky?)

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 8h

🤔

A lifeguard with British Household Cavalry helmet, epaulettes, and braid crudely photoshopped on her

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 13h

AESL especially, since I saw someone argue that with just Inquistion you could argue that Sloane is Just Some Dude fucking with Bashir.

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 1d

We would have lost out on Ezri (probably), but "Jadzia begs Worf to continue with the mission and *he does so*" would be really powerful. If they'd done it right, it's probably be up there with "In the Pale Moonlight".

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 1d

It's especially bad because Change of Heart, earlier in the season, would have been an *incredible* way to kill Dax.

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 1d

But the number went up*, Dragon! The number went up!

*The number was "Net Material Product" instead of "NYSE Composite Index", so it's more communist and better.

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 1d

"In order to defeat Archimonde, thousands of wisps had to be sacrificed. This doesn't sit well with me."

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

Remember our mantra:

Don't Engage, Just Block.

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 2d

Of course women don't like the Cybertruck. Women only want one thing, and it's the Batmobile.

Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 3d

I'm trying to figure out a way to phrase that he's not good at the wizardry skills not is he a good person who is a wizard, but he is good at *being* a wizard? If you get me?

(Also I need to play Riven, I've forgotten the LP puzzle solutions from years ago but I need *time* 😭)

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 3d

Today in "movies that probably suck ass but have all-timer loglines":

Imdb page for "She Devil (1957)". "Doctors Scott and Bach inject the dying Kyra Zelas with a formula which saves her life - but also renders her almost immortal and wickedly evil."

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 3d

Barnes: "my sister got a symbiont. Completely changed her personality."

Rutherford: "because of all the memories of past hosts?"

Barnes: "no, she just only talks about having a symbiont now."

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 3d

$3.99 sausage is pretty good.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 3d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 3d

What the actual fuck.

In her closing submissions she has said that she has been taking sleeping tablets as a result of her inability to sleep and that her state of health and peace of mind has been affected, not least by the way in which Ms Saunders continually reminds the individual lodge owners about the litigation, including by sending emails on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. Ms Berwick refers to it as the “deliberate drip-drip of reminders”.

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not sure what the standard is for perjury charges in the UK but this seems like a pour encourager les autres situation.

Darren Honeywill was plainly furious about what had happened to Ms Beresford-Ambridge, which resonated with what had happened to him a few days earlier. Before the video was played to me counsel, on instructions, said that Ms Saunders was now saying that the cup of tea had been taken out of her hand and thrown over her before the video started and that was why it could not be seen on the video. Having seen the video I asked whether it was being said by Ms Saunders that the cup of tea had been taken out of her hand, thrown over her, and then given back to Mr Verdier as the video showed him with two cups. It was then said, on instructions, that when she said “thrown” what she meant was that the cup had been taken out of her hand and that the tea had gone over her hand. A different allegation to the one pleaded and supported by her witness evidence. When it was clear, on slow motion playing of the video, that when the cup was taken out of the hand of Mr Verdier it was a full cup of tea (so it could not have either been “thrown” over Ms Saunders or “gone over” her hand when the cup was removed from her) she said that the tea had splashed on her when it went onto the ground.

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 3d

Just got to the claim that the defendants breached Covid regs by remaining in place at the cottages rather than immediately returning to their primary residences. I don't think that's how the lockdowns worked.

Judge: "It wasn't."

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 3d

I'm about there too, and jesus, this lady sounds like a nightmare.

Ms Saunders unsuccessfully relied upon the provisions of section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act to seek to have evidence from her own dashcam excluded from the Crown Court’s consideration of her appeal. The reason she said that she did not want the Crown Court to see the dashcam footage was because “I don’t think it’s right for them to do it as though it’s proof against me, when I’m so absolutely adamant that that shows that I didn’t strike her.” The Recorder tried her very best to understand why Ms Saunders did not want the court to see something that she said showed that she had not hit Ms Beresford-Ambridge. The Recorder could not understand why someone would not want something played which she contended was exculpatory. I had a similar exchange with Ms Saunders’ leading counsel in this case. Ultimately, I decided I did not need to see the video (even though I would have been happy to do so) as the Crown Court had seen it and Ms Saunders made the following signed written statement to this court on 22 May 2025:

“I Vivien Saunders confirm that I accept that there is a conviction for assault but do not want the Judge to see the videos because I am concerned that there could be an adverse impact on my application to the CCRC (Criminal Cases Review Commission).”

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 4d

English serial killer who buried the bodies at his house. (Looking it up, the actual Fred West burined them in his backyard instead of a basement, but the intent of the statement is still clear, and also 😬)

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 4d

It's not clear from this ruling specifically, but googling around it sounds like she was trying to constructive-evict a bunch of tenants so she can sell their land to developers.

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 4d

"I've got six filing cabinets full of documents in my Fred West cellar."

Well, uh, I would have maybe named it something else, personally.

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 4d

Not gonna lie, I sat up a little straighter when I reached that line. What the hell.

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 4d

40 vertically-stacked oars, one rower on each. 😌

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Zyzzyva @zyzzyva.bsky.social · 4d

I do love how the first season is a more or less straight historical drama procedural and then Peter Keleghan shows up in the finale and the show realizes what direction it *actually* is going to end up going.

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