I thought I was being a reductionist but it seems from that article I might be closer to the truth than I thought. It's weirdly disappointing that it simply boils down to some childish tactic of pretending to be confused by the results, instead of there being some obscure legal precedent.
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Can someone better versed in US politics give a quick rundown on how the fake electoral scheme actually works? I’m aware of the physical steps involved but I don’t see how the scheme doesn’t just fail at the first hurdle. In what world can a person not assigned as elector send in their own certificate and not be immediately disregarded? To my mind it sounds like this:
Mrs Krabappel: I’m the fourth grade teacher and have counted the votes for fourth grade class president. Martin Prince wins with 2 votes.
Miss Hoover: No, I’m the real fourth grade teacher and I declare that Bart Simpson wins with 2 votes.
Principal Skinner: There’s no way of discerning who the real fourth grade teacher is. My only option is to ignore the results of the vote and decide by fiat.
Sorry but that knife screams “mall ninja.”
They’re the same picture.
Depends on your frame of reference. When traversing the surface of a globe, your described concept of a straight line isn’t intuitive.
Forgive the ignorance, but are regular OBGYN appointments a thing in the US? From the media I’ve consumed it appears so. I know people with actual gynaecological issues like endometriosis, and even they find the idea of regular checkups without a cause weird.
”For a comment.”
In this day and age, who hasn’t made incredibly specific ultraviolent threats against an elected official while constantly reassuring others that they are serious/making a promise to enact these threats? Did this upstanding citizen simply forget to cite his first amendment rights to the agents?
The is me with my PhD thesis. I wrote it, submitted it, planned for an absolute grilling in the Viva, got waved through the Viva with just minor corrections for grammar, went overzealous with corrections, submitted for review, got accepted, finally graduated.
It still makes me sick to look at it on my bookshelf.
This really makes me grin, as I've argued these "theological debates" on multiple sides depending on which splatbook I'm into at the time. I've definitely been on both sides of the Caine vs Prime Archmage debate.
Jarl Balgruuf energy.
“They don’t have the courage to say the N-word’: Baltimore mayor rips right-wing “DEI mayor” attacks
We both know who cares. Who would derail a discussion about bigotry by making pedantic observations on grammar or language?
Hello everyone and welcome back to the Dream Cycle Book Club. This week we will be discussing the first three parts of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
Our reading for this week will be parts IV and V of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, thus finishing the story. The text, collated as part of a collection by The Arkham Archivist, is found here. An audio recording by the talented HorrorBabble can be found here.
The image is a portrait of Vincent Price who played the role of Charles Dexter Ward/Joseph Curwen in the 1963 film The Haunted Palace. Art credit goes to Shayu Dan
Just a vibe check of the Lemmy community with a deliberately exaggerated meme.
A reddit post would get flooded with argumentative mini-essays from folks who can’t string together 5 words in-character.
Hello everyone and welcome to the tenth week of our Dream Cycle Book Club. In this thread we'll be discussing Lovecraft's epic novella The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.
This week's reading is The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Written in 1927. This is another novella of Lovecraft, weighing in at 104 pages in my copy of his fiction. I'm aware that 100 pages of Lovecraft's often verbose prose can be trying. Thankfully, Lovecraft actually separated this story into parts, which allows for easy splitting up of the reading. Our reading for this week is parts I-III, with parts IV and V covered next week. The text is available in PDF format courtesy of the Arkham Archivist here. Audio is provided by the talented HorrorBabble here
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Hello everyone and welcome to Week Nine of our Dream Cycle Book Club. This week's thread is for the discussion of the three stories from last week: The Outsider, The Silver Key, and The Strange High House in the Mist.
Our reading for this week is a single story, The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. It is Lovecraft's first novella-length Dreamlands story and ties together many of the disconnected stories that we've read in previous weeks. The PDF is available via the Arkham Archivist here. Audio is provided once again by the talented HorrorBabble here.
The Silver Key used in the OP was created by the Rhode Island based sculptor Gage Prentiss
Hello everyone and welcome back to our Dream Cycle Book Club. This week we will be discussing What the Moon Brings and The Hound.
There are only three more short stories until we reach the first novella length dreamlands story. If I'd had a bit more forethought, I'd have loaded one of the last two weeks with a third story, as both featured very short stories. Hopefully this week's reading doesn't prove too much. We have three stories for this week: The Outsider, The Silver Key, and The Strange High House in the Mist.
Our First story, The Outsider, was written in 1921 but is listed on Wikipedia as 1926; this led to me missing it a couple weeks ago. It is available in PDF format via the Arkham Archivist here, and a LibriVox audio recording is available here.
The Silver Key is our second story this week, written in 1926. It is available in PDF format via the same link above, and a LibriVox audio recording is available here
Our third story for this week is The Strange High House in the Mist, written in November 1926. It is available in PDF format via the same link above. I cannot find a LibriVox recording, so I rely once again on HorrorBabble who has narrated the story here.
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Welcome back everyone, to the seventh meeting of our Dream Cycle Book Club. This week we will be discussing Hypnos and Azathoth.
Our reading for this week is two more short stories: What the Moon Brings and The Hound.
What the Moon Brings was written in June 1922. It is available in PDF format via the Arkham Archivist here. An audiobook version is available via LibriVox here
The Hound was written in September 1922 and is the last dream related story written by Lovecraft in 1922. It is available in PDF format via the same link given above. I cannot find a LibriVox recording so I once again link to a reading by the talented HorrorBabble here.
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Welcome back to our adventure into the Dreamlands as described by H.P. Lovecraft. In this week's thread we will be discussing the reading of last week, The Quest of Iranon and The Other Gods.
This week we reach the "midway point" in terms of stories read in the Dream Cycle, though the stories in the latter half tend to be weightier volumes. We will be reading two more tales: Hypnos and Azathoth.
Our first story, Hypnos was written in March 1922. It is found in PDF format via our friend the Arkham Archivist here and in audio format via LibriVox here.
Our second story, Azathoth is the shortest of our tales thus far and is reportedly the beginning to an incomplete novel of Lovecraft. It can be found in PDF format via the same link above. I failed to find a LibriVox audio recording, thus I rely once again on the talented YouTuber HorrorBabble. A link via piped is available here.
Image Credit Carlos Palma Cruchaga.
Sorry for a couple of late submissions. The previous one was due to my brother's stag, and this week I'm visiting the in-laws.
Welcome once again to our investigation into the world of Dream as defined by our favourite horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft. In this thread we will be discussing the reading assignment for the past week: Ex Oblivione and The Nameless City.
Our reading assignment for this week is two more short stories: The Quest of Iranon and The Other Gods.
The Quest of Iranon is another of Lovecraft's tales explicitly inspired by Lord Dunsany. The story, written in February 1921, is available in PDF format via the Arkham Archivist here. Unfortunately, LibriVox does not have an audio version of this story available, thus our audio recording for this week is via the YouTuber HorrorBabble. The video, filtered through Piped (a privacy friendly alternative YouTube Frontend) is available here
The Other Gods is also heavily inspired by Dunsany's Work. Written in August 1921, the text of the story is available via the same link above, and a LibriVox recording is available here
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Hello Everyone and welcome back to the Dream Cycle Book Club! In this thread we will be discussing the reading assignment for the past week: Celephaïs and Nyarlathotep.
For this week we have two more short stories to read: Ex Oblivione and The Nameless City.
I can't find much information on when Ex Oblivione was written, though considering it's publication in the March 1921 edition of The United Amateur, it has been given a writing date in the range of late 1920 to early 1921. It can be found via the Arkham Archivist's trusty PDF here and in audiobook format here.
The second story for this week, The Nameless City was written in January 1921. Though it is only tangentially related to the Dreamlands, it is fantastic Mythos reading. It can be read in PDF format via the same link above, and can be found as an audiobook here
On a side note: it's great to see that the community is becoming active.
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There should be a narcissist’s prayer for people who bury their heads in the sand.
That didn’t happen
And if it did, it’s contained online
And if it isn’t, it’s not popular
And if it is, you can ignore it
And if you can’t, ¯\(ツ)/¯