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Endie retweeted
𝐃&𝐃 𝐖𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐬 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐎𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜, 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐎𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜
A local Wizard claims he's completely out of magic after using his last spell slot, leaving him with nothing but the ability to shoot fire from his hands six hundred times an hour.
“I'm basically useless until we rest,” he explained, launching another Fire Bolt at a passing goblin. “All I can do now is this.”
The others pointed out that he could still throw fire all day.
“It's a cantrip,” the Wizard replied. “It doesn't count.”
Asked why casting Burning Hands a few times exhausted his magical reserves while throwing thousands of Fire Bolts did not, the Wizard told them to read the rules.
The party has since agreed to take a long rest so the Wizard can regain his ability to produce a slightly different kind of fire.
The hapless PM of our country is posting slop that Pangram assesses as 100% AI slop.
Best case scenario is that our PM just sounds like an LLM set on budget thinking mode.
I know people are worried about fuel prices. And I get it. You get to the pump, watch the numbers climb, and wonder why it's costing so much more than it used to.
The reality is that global events are pushing up costs, and families here at home are feeling the impact.
But I won't accept that there's nothing I can do to help.
That's why from today, you'll be able to see petrol and diesel prices on Google Maps, compare nearby stations and find the cheapest option before you fill up.
It's a small change, but if there's a practical way to help people keep more money in their pocket, I'll do it.
Endie retweeted
An incredible letter written by a non-Jewish Scottish professor to his students who voted to boycott Israel
It's a response from Dr. Denis MacEoin to the motion put forward by The Edinburgh Student's Association to boycott all things Israeli, in which they claim Israel is under an apartheid regime.
Denis is an expert in Middle Eastern affairs and was a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly. Here's his letter to the students.
TO: The Committee Edinburgh University Student Association.
May I be permitted to say a few words to members of the EUSA? I am an Edinburgh graduate (MA 1975) who studied Persian, Arabic and Islamic History in Buccleuch Place under William Montgomery Watt and Laurence Elwell Sutton, two of Britain 's great Middle East experts in their day. I later went on to do a PhD at Cambridge and to teach Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle University . Naturally, I am the author of several books and hundreds of articles in this field. I say all that to show that I am well informed in Middle Eastern affairs and that, for that reason, I am shocked and disheartened by the EUSA motion and vote.
I am shocked for a simple reason: there is not and has never been a system of apartheid in Israel .
That is not my opinion, that is fact that can be tested against reality by any Edinburgh student, should he or she choose to visit Israel to see for themselves. Let me spell this out, since I have the impression that those members of EUSA who voted for this motion are absolutely clueless in matters concerning Israel, and that they are, in all likelihood, the victims of extremely biased propaganda coming from the anti-Israel lobby.
Being anti-Israel is not in itself objectionable. But I'm not talking about ordinary criticism of Israel . I'm speaking of a hatred that
permits itself no boundaries in the lies and myths it pours out. Thus, Israel is repeatedly referred to as a "Nazi" state. In what sense is
this true, even as a metaphor? Where are the Israeli concentration camps? The einzatsgruppen? The SS? The Nuremberg Laws? The Final Solution? None of these things nor anything remotely resembling them exists in Israel , precisely because the Jews, more than anyone on earth, understand what Nazism stood for.
It is claimed that there has been an Israeli Holocaust in Gaza (or elsewhere). Where? When? No honest historian would treat that claim with anything but the contempt it deserves. But calling Jews Nazis and saying they have committed a Holocaust is as basic a way to subvert historical fact as anything I can think of.
Likewise apartheid. For apartheid to exist, there would have to be a situation that closely resembled how things were in South Africa under the apartheid regime. Unfortunately for those who believe this, a weekend in any part of Israel would be enough to show how ridiculous the claim is.
That a body of university students actually fell for this and voted on it is a sad comment on the state of modern education. The most obvious focus for apartheid would be the country's 20% Arab population. Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians; Baha'is, severely persecuted in Iran, flourish in Israel, where they have their world center; Ahmadi Muslims, severely persecuted in Pakistan and elsewhere, are kept safe by Israel; the holy places of all religions are protected under a specific Israeli law. Arabs form 20% of the university population (an exact echo of their percentage in the general population).
In Iran , the Bahai's (the largest religious minority) are forbidden to study in any university or to run their own universities: why
aren't your members boycotting Iran ? Arabs in Israel can go anywhere they want, unlike blacks in apartheid South Africa . They use public transport, they eat in restaurants, they go to swimming pools, they use libraries, they go to cinemas alongside Jews - something no blacks were able to do in South Africa .
Israeli hospitals not only treat Jews and Arabs, they also treat Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank.
On the same wards, in the same operating theatres.
In Israel , women have the same rights as men: there is no gender apartheid.
Gay men and women face no restrictions, and Palestinian gays often escape into Israel, knowing they may be killed at home.
It seems bizarre to me that LGBT groups call for a boycott of Israel and say nothing about countries like Iran , where gay men are hanged or stoned to death. That illustrates a mindset that beggars belief.
Intelligent students thinking it's better to be silent about regimes that kill gay people, but good to condemn the only country in the
Middle East that rescues and protects gay people. Is that supposed to be a sick joke?
University is supposed to be about learning to use your brain, to think rationally, to examine evidence, to reach conclusions based on solid evidence, to compare sources, to weigh up one view against one or more others. If the best Edinburgh can now produce are students who have no idea how to do any of these things, then the future is bleak.
I do not object to well-documented criticism of Israel . I do object when supposedly intelligent people single the Jewish state out above states that are horrific in their treatment of their populations. We are going through the biggest upheaval in the Middle East since the 7th and 8th centuries, and it's clear that Arabs and Iranians are rebelling against terrifying regimes that fight back by killing their own citizens.
Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, do not rebel (though they are free to protest). Yet Edinburgh students mount no demonstrations and call for no boycotts against Libya , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Yemen , and Iran . They prefer to make false accusations against one of the world's freest countries, the only country in the Middle East that has taken in Darfur refugees, the only country in the Middle East that gives refuge to gay men and women, the only country in the Middle East that
protects the Bahai's.... Need I go on?
The imbalance is perceptible, and it sheds no credit on anyone who voted for this boycott. I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli embassy. Ask for some speakers. Listen to more than one side.
Do not make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties. You have a duty to your students, and
that is to protect them from one-sided argument.
They are not at university to be propagandized. And they are certainly not there to be tricked into anti-Semitism by punishing one country among all the countries of the world, which happens to be the only Jewish state. If there had been a single Jewish state in the 1930's (which, sadly, there was not), don't you think Adolf Hitler would have decided to boycott it?
Your generation has a duty to ensure that the perennial racism of anti-Semitism never sets down roots among you. Today, however, there are clear signs that it has done so and is putting down more. You have a chance to avert a very great evil, simply by using reason and a sense of fair play. Please tell me that this makes sense. I have given you some of the evidence.
It's up to you to find out more.
Yours sincerely,
Denis MacEoin
Endie retweeted
Today we remember the victims of the October 7 massacre – the killing of innocent Israeli people, the torture, mutilation, rape and kidnapping, parading of the dead, the wanton cruelty and the depraved celebrations of murder, the gleeful delight in brutality, the degeneracy of its perpetrators and supporters. It is a day that stands out for its unparalleled sadism and nihilism.
The scale of the killing of people of all sorts, all races, Jewish and Arab and others, is unequalled in a single day in modern times.
It was the greatest murder of Jewish people since the Holocaust.
Its cruelty and barbarism seem to belong to cruel times long ago – this was a lurch back to the raids and slaughters of the Mongols or the Huns - but it is unique too in its 21stcentury hi-tech modernity: it was filmed live by its perpetrators and other cameras and so unlike any other atrocity in all of human history, its details are beyond question.
It is the most documented butchery and sadism ever perpetrated – and therefore the reactions to it are simply the clearest and most unequalled test of humanity available to us, reactions that will be remembered in the future.
It was also a crime against peace: its effects were utterly destructive for Israelis but also for Palestinians and the innocent people across the whole region who perished in the wars it unleashed.
More than that, it was an atrocity against humanity itself - and the humanist values that mark all decent people, the values of liberal, free, kind societies and communities everywhere.
Its effects were utterly destructive for Israelis but also for the Palestinians and the rest of the region.
Today we remember those who died, those who were wounded, those who were kidnapped, tortured, raped and killed in the tunnels of Gaza, those who lost friends and compatriots.
It was a crime of annihilation to launch the liquidation of an entire people and nation, to kill and torture Israelis and Jews.
Am Yisrael Chai.
Endie retweeted
If Zionism means affirming the Jewish people’s right to self-determination and statehood in Israel, then as a British non-Jew, I’m happy to call myself a Zionist.
Endie retweeted
Just so we’re clear…
Racist:
—Warm ale
—Bare nails
—Academic standards
Not racist:
—No-whites hiring policies
—Calling Suella a coconut
—Thinking the Jews run everything
I must admit, I’m struggling to keep up
Endie retweeted
lol okay chief you let me know when you’ve finished vibe coding the math and subsequent engineering problems on folding space-time
On September 10th, 2001, after two weeks of having the same dream every night, I told my girlfriend (now my beautiful wife) and two colleagues about it.
Each night, I had dreamed that I was in a firefight in a desert country in the Middle East. Then it would cut to me driving through an American city, with huge skyscrapers clad in smoked glass above me. I’d look out to the right* and see a commercial jet on top of the massive skyscraper to my right. I would realise, each time, that the building was about to fall, which it would. I would survive the collapse but would panic that the plane’s fuel would ignite, which it would, at which point I would wake up.
Having told others, I didn’t have this dream on the night of the 10th, but at lunchtime of the 11th, as I drove to the Bank of Scotland’s Leith Walk offices, I got a call from one of the two friends I told saying “are you a witch? You should turn on the radio.”
I know that of seven billion people on the world, some will dream of skyscrapers destroyed by passenger jets any given night. But it was still eery. I’m a profound rationalist in most areas, but this still haunts me a little.
*Obviously, as a Brit, my dreaming self did not remember I’d not be in a right-hand drive car in the US!
Endie retweeted
OUR ALDI SPORTS FUND APPLICATION
Billingham Town FC is a proud grassroots football club currently dealing with the considerable financial burden created by the Strawberry Phill crisis.
Following his decision to order a strawberry daiquiri on a matchday, Phill was given a lifetime ban, detained by the club and informed that his continued existence within the local community was under review.
Unfortunately, our original sentencing proposals were met with unnecessary interference from local government, leaving us with mounting legal fees, potential fines and a prisoner we had never budgeted to keep alive indefinitely.
The £3,000 would therefore go towards secure accommodation, additional restraints, legal representation and researching alternative punishments that comply with the increasingly restrictive standards of modern Britain.
Any remaining funds may be reluctantly diverted towards football.
We’re also delighted that selected clubs could receive a visit from an Olympic or Paralympic athlete. Ideally, we’d like a boxer or karate champion. We’ll provide Phill. What happens during the session is between the athlete, Phill and whichever governing body eventually investigates us.
#BanStrawberryPhill #AldiSportsFund #UTT
