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Currently in the recovery stages of norovirus, and that was no joke. Partner had it a couple of days ago and I started getting it yesterday evening Thankfully it’s over very quickly, but it’s 8 hours of feeling like you’ve been possessed by a demon. Would not wish that on my worst enemy. For us, it was about 8 hours of brutal, constantly coming out of both ends simultaneously and at a force that is incredibly violent and doesn’t feel human, my partner lost consciousness a couple of times during it - and we were still dry heaving like crazy for hours even when everything had left the system, then we just need to sleep for about 20 hours and everything in your body aches, you barely have the energy to lift your arm, but we were slowly introducing liquids and simple foods and seeing if we can keep them down. But it’s basically over within 36 hours. Thankfully we didn’t have it at the same time so could look after each other. Would hate to have that while living alone.

Don’t know if anyone watched Tom Scott. He used to be one of the UK’s biggest YouTubers. He came out of his pause to do a series on an interesting thing in every uk county. Actually starts with Leicestershire with the UK’s last remaining bell foundry, which is a good watch

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Why are Trump and Hegseth crying about their allies not joining them? Isreal did join them. What other allies do they think they have left besides Isreal? Everyone else they’ve tried to publicly cut ties with.

If you have family or friends there I understand it, I definitely wouldn’t go to the US just on holiday anymore though, wouldn’t put money into the US economy when I don’t need to, and have been trying to buy European/Canadian/Australian/Japanese/Korean products over American ones if there’s a choice - already planning on switching from iPhone to Samsung phone.

Good. Will force us to publicly do what the majority of the population wants us to do - abandon the US and get a closet and more united Europe

Even Meloni turning against Trump now Rome denies US request to use Sicilian air base for bomberspublished at 13:58 President Trump has just called France "very unhelpful" for not letting planes heading to Israel with military supplies fly over French territory. Earlier, Italy reportedly denied a US request to use the Sigonella air base in Sicily for military aircraft a few days ago, in a move that underscores Rome’s cautious approach to involvement in military operations. Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera reported on Tuesday that Defence Minister Guido Crosetto denied authorisation after learning of a US flight plan involving aircraft that were due to land at Naval Air Station Sigonella, in the southern Italian region, before continuing towards the Middle East. The plan was reportedly communicated while the aircraft were already in flight, and no prior approval had been requested from Italian authorities. Checks suggested the aircraft were not carrying out routine or logistical operations covered by existing agreements between Italy and the US, according to the report. The request reportedly involved bombers, which require specific approval and parliamentary oversight. The Italian government has not commented publicly on the episode. Contacted by the BBC, the defence minister’s office was not immediately available for comment.

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Surely the Russia-Ukraine conflict has shown that “boots on the ground troops” just get mowed down by cheap, easy to mass produce drones nowadays? Feels a bit like early WW1 where people hadn’t come to terms with modern technology yet so just got thousands of men mowed down by machine guns. I can’t imagine America sending troops into Iran will go for them, or how the US public will like sending 1,000s of Americans to their inevitable deaths. This whole war has WW1 energy of tragically ridiculous, it was like they expected to just kill the leader on day 1, and then expected the regime to fall on day 2, and had no other plans if they didn’t. I would’ve thought 25 years of US foreign policy in the Middle East would’ve taught them it’s not that easy by now.

If you like either video game or table top RPGs the books are great fun, it’s clever how it parodies a lot of the classes, spells, achievements, loot boxes, levelling etc. But they’re also just great stories even without that with sort of a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy style sense of humour, I forget it’s about being in a game after a while. The writing does start out a bit crass, but settles down after the first part of the first book. And as said, the books get better and better as it goes on, and the world and characters both inside and outside “the crawl” grow. They’re very “popcorny” in that they’re very easy to read but hard to put down, so definitely worth giving a try if you think you’d like it for sure.

It’s Monday and end of month, Trump is just trying to get the markets to go up, it’s been obvious from that start that Iran aren’t going to agree to anything.

It’s weird, Blair’s reputation had had a decent amount of rebuilding in recent years, but this Iran stuff is kind ruining it again. Last I saw, only 8% of British people said we should join attacks in Iran and only around 25% supported us letting the US use our bases. I think hes massively out of step with public opinion on this one.

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I thought someone else might be reading them too as it seems like the most popular sci-fi/fantasy series going atm. A couple of friends of mine have been reading them and hyping them to me for about a year, and finally started after Christmas and am already on book 7. Cant remember the last time I just destroyed a series like that, but I find them such an easy read but such page turners and impossible to put down and get out of my head. They gets better and better as the books go on too. Book 5 and 6 which are the last 2 I’ve read are both brilliant. I delayed it when my friends were hyping it because I thought it sounded like a fun premise (essentially aliens turning Earth into a deadly game of D&D that humans have to compete in, streamed on an galaxy-wide version of alien YouTube), but I doubted you can make an extended series of that premise. But it really builds and builds and the world and characters opens up as the books go on. Just has the perfect mixture of comedy, traumatic horror, action, intergalactic politics and human character drama. Honestly, most addictive books I’ve read in ages.

Nemesis one of my absolute favourites. Always comes with so many “remember that time when…” moments you and your friends still retell years later

I’ve always been a PC gamer, but PS2 was the best console for me - Silent Hill 2-4, Metal Gear Sold 2 & 3, Forbidden Siren, Resident Evil 4, Killer7. Great times.

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