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1·14 hours agoInternal US news is not World. See !news@lemmy.world or !politics@lemmy.world
19·15 hours agoYup. I remember sending people the transcript when they were trying to say “Yeah, he didn’t mean violently…”
Uh… did you read the transcript? 🤔
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial
In fairness, the unedited speech urged violence…
Complete for now… Martin is the hang up at this point. 😉
But serious shout out to Folio for doing some of the best books in the business. I’ve spent way too much money with them. LOL.
It’s like illustrated editions are cursed or something…
Bloomsbury was doing gorgeous Harry Potter illustrated editions. They got through 5/7 and the illustrator burned out and stepped down. 😟 In theory they have a replacement and #6 will be out next year.
https://www.harrypotter.com/news/bloomsbury-announce-levi-pinfold-as-new-harry-potter-illustrator
The Folio Society was doing a fantastic illustrated sets of the original James Bond books, then their artist got caught stealing the work of other artists in their Wizards of the Coast work, that de-railed the final book in the series, but it DID finally come out.
https://commandersherald.com/trouble-in-pairs-accused-of-plagiarizing-cyberpunk-novel-cover/
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/fiction/the-james-bond-collection
That’s how the Narnia books end funnily enough.
“And everyone died in a train crash, the end!”
Sorry if I spoiled the ending of a 70+ year old book series. 😉
The worst are the books that just don’t have an ending. I had that with Stephen King’s “Cell”. Fantastic premise, an alien information virus hijacks cell phone signals to turn people into mindless zombies building something.
What are they building? 🤷♂️
Were the heroes successful in stopping it? 🤷♂️
What the hell happened? 🤷♂️It’s like King went “Oh, shit, the deadline is today? Fine, pack it up and ship it.”
For the film version they had to invent a new ending because the book just doesn’t have one, it stops, but no ending.
I was wondering why he just doesn’t cut the manuscript in 1/2, publish the first as “Part 1” and re-set his publication clock.
Apparently he has somewhere between 1,100 and 1,200 pages completed.
But as he explained elsewhere, he doesn’t write linearlly. He focuses on one point of view “chapter” and then that informs other point of view chapters, so there’s a lot of back and forth.
So 1,100 to 1,200 finished pages doesn’t mean a cohesive narrative.
So here’s my story… Not a fan. I found the first book to be a slog with nothing happening for the first 400 pages. Lots of people sitting around in rooms talking.
I also didn’t care much for any of the characters and from that point on chose only to read the Jon and Arya chapters.
So when I hit Arya discovering the aftermath of the Red Wedding I was like “Well, clearly I missed something…” Backtracked and read that chapter and went “Well… glad I wasn’t invested in THAT character!”
From a non-linear creative process, imagine if he wrote the Arya chapter first. I don’t know that that’s how he specifically did it, but he’s describing a similar process on the new book.
Now he has to go back and write that whole thing that he described the aftermath of.
It wouldn’t be publishable without it.
Looking forward to the announcement that he’s 3/4 done with the final 1/4. 😉 Then we just need the announcement that he’s 3/4 done with the final 1/16th…
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-zeno/#Dich
“I’d love to turn it over to the publisher, but I’m having trouble deciding on the final punctuation mark.”
Yahoo notoriously linkjacks other sites, in this case “The New Republic”.
Please update it to the original source or we’ll have to remove it.
41·2 days agoBlows my mind that Sony was supporting the PS1, 2 and 3 in 2006.
They are still making PS4 games. Just because a new gen launches doesn’t mean the previous gen is cut off.
Doesn’t this just confirm the comically large check that was released previously from the birthday book?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/epstein-trump-birthday-book.html
The skin community is going to be all over the swappable panels like butter on hot corn.
Edit That didn’t take long…
I dunno, Lemmy wasn’t around then, but let’s take for example the time Stephen King got hit by a van and was damn near killed:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/sep/24/stephenking.fiction
I’d say no, not World News. Definitely fit for News, Books, I dunno is there “Entertainment”?
But a car accident in Maine involving all Americans wouldn’t be World News.
There are no legitimate questions about the fairness of it:
https://www.genderjustice.us/commentary/trans-athletes-are-not-the-real-threat/
“In fact, after hormone therapy, trans women’s performance aligns with cisgender women’s performance.”
The key bit there being “hormone therapy”.
Your notion that men choose to compete as women so they can dominate is absolute, complete, 100% transphobic bullshit.
That’s not the way ANY of this works.
The real question to ask is why Republicans want to ban hormone therapy.
This is really on the line for world news.
American author, American artist, the only thing that barely qualifies it here is the Penguin half of Penguin/Random House is a UK Publisher and the conglomerate itself is owned out of Germany.
Allowing it for now, but it’s right on the line.
People are getting too hung up on the name and not hung up enough on Trump advocating to use the military to protect commercial properties, in other words literal Fascism.
I’m not faulting him for Miracle over Magnificent, because that’s not the real problem. 😉
“Believe you’d get your ass kicked wearin’ that around here.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20140206132245/http://www.oregonlive.com:80/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1208571924253070.xml