Kovid is a plausible Indian name (the developer of Calibre is named Kovid Goyal). Not sure if spelling it with a C is common, though.

They spoke in codes. A lot of those hokey greeting cards from the Victorian era, with specific flowers and chaste, maudlin sentiments, were probably widely understood as codes for the most torrid of passions.

“encompassed all of Poland” except for the half or so taken by Prussia/Germany and the Habsburg/Austro-Hungarian Empire.

I once caught a cab in Belfast and, in the 15 or so minutes, the driver revealed he was a former paramilitary fighter, and recounted a conspiracy theory about the sinking of the Titanic having been faked as an insurance scam.

Means of cisport include swings, rocking chairs and smaller amusement park rides.

CBS settled because a corrupt Trump administration could have cost them far more through acts of revenge. Settling was the cost of doing business. AOC doesn’t have any business interests a hostile, weaponised government could harm, so unless the legal system has been corrupted to the point where the government could charge her with libel (or treason or terrorism or anything else; at this point, there is no longer meaning, only power) because they say so, she has a solid defence.

This is what unmedicated mental illness looks like.

Of course, the idea that the President’s head can just explode for no reason in view of the public, and by implication, so can anyone else’s at any time, is far more existentially terrifying than any assassination plot, so, to avert mass panic and social collapse, the FBI hurriedly framed some local weirdo, and then killed him before anyone could flag that he probably had nothing to do with it, which is the only reason why everyone’s life savings still had any value afterwards.

The UK’s nuclear arsenal is still dependent on the US for maintenance, with warheads going to North Carolina periodically.

The new strategic nukes Starmer is ordering will be tied into the US infrastructure, as are the F-35s to launch them, though given the last-resort nature of nuclear weapons, their actual purpose may be to keep Trump onside politically while Britain’s everyday military capabilities integrate more closely with its European neighbours.

Apparently the Argentine equivalent is something like “take your hat off, you’re not in this photo”

And throw away the key

Either that or he’ll vote for Musk’s Epic Based Lulz Party

Dude slathers himself in antelope guts, jumps the fence into the leopard enclosure, then complains about his face having been eaten.

You laugh now, but a hundred years after the collapse of technological civilisation, the surviving mass-produced artefacts of that lost age will be associated with great prestige and power. Imposing buildings like palaces and cathedrals will feature parts from long-lost machines as prominent architectural features to signal the power and proximity to the divine of those who commissioned them.

There’s probably a market for targeting people matching not only a demographic category but the combination of one and attempts to keep it private, like religious conservatives who browse gay porn in incognito mode or seemingly progressive people who have right-wing views they keep secret.

Every generation thinks it invented being a wiseacre.

A good start.

The great* thing about wars in the Middle East is that you can recycle old ethnic slurs just by prefixing them with “sand”

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Hopefully this is like the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989: the tipping point when the authorities realise that they no longer have authority.