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The Witches’ Code, Chapter 2: Earache and Insight

By Thinky Wanderer and Llama The pocket mirror tucked against Tiffany’s hip warmed slightly as she knocked on Mrs. Pemberton’s door, which was either Dude offering encouragement or her own nervous energy affecting the enchantment. Hard to tell the difference these days. “Oh, thank goodness you’re here.” Mrs. Pemberton opened the door before the second knock, her graying hair escaping…

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birthday frequency chart (UK) The media is largely ignoring the trauma of millions I often complain about the syndrome known as “both-sidesing” — in which unequal sides are given equal treatment in the press. Slovenská národná identita? Boľavé a prázdne miesto Kým bude slovenská spoločnosť smädná po svojej identite, bude zároveň aj zraniteľná voči komukoľvek, kto bude vierohodne predstierať, že jej…

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The Witches’ Code, Chapter 1: The Failing Familiar

By Thinky Wanderer and Llama The lavender wouldn’t stop judging her. Tiffany Clearwater knelt in the herb garden behind her cottage, surrounded by neat rows of plants that her grandmother had tended for decades before her. The lavender stalks swayed in the evening breeze like disapproving aunts, while the rosemary practically bristled with smugness. Even the mint — which grew…

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Iryna Puškar: Zmiznite! Choďte do čerta! Koľkokrát a v akej podobe sa musia Ukrajinci opakovať a svedčiť o násilí a vraždách spáchaných Rusmi? Koľko bolesti v očiach Ukrajincov, pošliapaných vojnou a zbavených dôstojnosti, ešte potrebujete vidieť? Takéto otázky, premiešané so zúrivosťou, mi vírili hlavou po zhliadnutí filmu Veľký vlastenecký výlet. … Čech hovorí Ukrajincovi, ako sa postaviť a vziať do ruky…

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S každým niečo. Kým bol Mišo v Nemecku, zobrala som Kiku na koncert huslistu Filipa Jančíka – taká zmes známych filmových melódií a vianočných pesničiek. S Mišom som pozerala toto: a s Kubom toto: Want to Live Longer? You Better Start Moving A new study from biostatisticians at the University of Colorado, Johns Hopkins University, and several other institutions crunched…

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staré IKEA katalógy Is It a Cheetah? However, schools are to extraordinarily intelligent children what zoos are to cheetahs. Many schools provide a 10 x 12 foot cage, giving the unusual mind no room to get up to speed. Many highly gifted children sit in the classroom the way big cats sit in their cages, dull-eyed and silent. Some, unable…

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I do not need Representative Yoho to apologize to me. Clearly he does not want to. Clearly when given the opportunity he will not and I will not stay up late at night waiting for an apology from a man who has no remorse over calling women and using abusive language towards women, but what I do have issue with…

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Hong Kong Protesters Return to the Streets The Winners Of The National Geographic Travel Photo Contest Psychology and the Good Life An AI Completes an Unfinished Composition 115 Years After Composer’s Death This November, the Prague Philharmonic will perform the third and final movement of “From the Future World,” an AI-completed composition based on an unfinished piano piece by the…

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aby ste videli túto stránku, musíte byť offline The truth behind Facebook AI inventing a new language (píše môj bratranec) Nothing scary, shocking or even note-worthy happened. Just a regular day with a regular scientific experiment. And then all hell broke loose as wanna-be journalists posted one doomsday article after another. Shutting down a chat bot when it stops showing a…

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realita spojená so známymi filmovými scénami (h/t Didi) červená škvrna na Jupiteri sa zmenšuje Historic observations as far back as the late 1800s gauged this turbulent spot to span about 41 000 kilometres at its widest point — wide enough to fit three Earths comfortably side by side. In 1979 and 1980 the NASA Voyager fly-bys measured the spot at a…

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