#taekookau

“Get off me.”

Jungkook groans in annoyance as he pushes the angel away, his rough skin accidentally scraping the latter.

“Chill— fuck you cut me.”

The angel growls through gritted teeth, eyebrows furrowed, eyes burning with rage.

“You’re the one who attacked me first.”

The demon dusts the ash off his tight suit, the fabric having turned gray and a tad bit looser— they used to hug his muscles more tightly, tracing every line.

“I fell, you don’t need to be so aggressive.”

Taehyung scowls at him again, this time taking a step closer to threaten him further.

“I don’t give a fuck, don’t fall on me.”

The demon remains arrogant and displeased with the collusion; the accident having occurred due to an experiment gone wrong.

His witch best friend created an explosion that blasted him to the other side of the city— Jungkook’s stupid side.

“You’re such a moron.”

The angel scoffs as he touches the bruise, hissing when the pad of his fingers meet his red flesh.

“I’m the moron? You’re the one who decided to fall from the sky—why didn’t you use your wings?”

Jungkook looks genuinely annoyed, he always carries hate for Taehyung, but today is rather worse.

“It was an accident, okay? I’m sorry, damn, chill.”

Kicking off WW84 and listen it starts with showing me Connie Nielsen and Robin Wright and Doutzen Kroes so whatever else happens that can’t be taken away from me.

Gotta say this obsessive lesbian erotic thriller vibe coming off Kristen Wiig is a lot of fun as a WW84 bonus item

I’m absolutely loving the rejection porn in WW84 of Diana just telling men no ☺️

Watching WW84 not thinking “please step on me Diana!” but instead thinking “please step on ALL MEN, Diana!!!”

L O L the Internet is so weird!

I read things, you see?
I read a lot of things. I know how rapidly everything can change. When I see you try to declare "they're just not regularly around women and don't know them" I mock you and will continue to do so. Because you have no idea what's happened.

Kant never really got around to being near women.

Did he hate them?

Yet there are contradictions and I've noticed that where they are seemingly present, rumination is a normal behavior.

That'll drive you insane. I would know.

While I've learned to see it and let go of nearly all of it after the fact I don't think most people understand that almost none of it is real.

Rumination is like a miniature psychosis that normal people can suffer and induce. That's what it's like.

I’ve enjoyed reading @AlexJLanglands The Ancient Ways of Wessex & learned how #chalkstream #winterbournes & #springs have influenced our culture & cultural heritage - #Ridgeway paths that are now #NationalTrails

Perhaps old news to many, but new to me so here’s a short thread…

Our #ridgeway paths are a bundle of numerous routes which I always assumed followed the high ground for strategic purposes & avoiding the muddy clay vales. Timperley & Brill (1965) described our #ridgeways as literally high ways, although they could have called them “dry ways”.

Langlands (2019. p14) explains that #ridgeways or watershed-ways were used out of necessity to avoid #winterbourne streams, springs and wetlands lower down the escarpments & that in summer when the #winterbournes were dry travellers could use routes along the lower slopes....

Quoting Grundy (1918. p70-72; downloadable on Google), Langland calls these lower routes #summerways and suggests there are summerways parallel to nearly all of the great #ridgeways - twin summerways and ridgeways

Looking at the Downs near Whitehorse Hill, the B4507 road follows the escarpment at a relatively steady height just above the spring line - almost a dot-to-dot line linking spring heads and their #winterbournes - could that be the old #summerway I wonder?

Incredible paediatric ST3 regional teaching day organised by @DrSeanMon

Feel so privileged to be a @WMPaeds Trainee and have monthly study leave to attend this amazingness 🤩

#PaedsRocks #ChoosePaediatrics

A summary of my highlights:

First up Sean did an interactive session on #debriefing sharing frameworks for structuring a debrief both from literature & his own top tips(using pics to illustrate rather than lots of text -love this @DrSeanMon #MedEd technique, def going to steal this for future teaching 😆)

Sean's framework top tips:

1) Get Out --> get off the shop floor, go to private place and fill it with tea and biscuits

2) Get the whole team together

3) Ask "Are you ok?" then ask again #asktwice

4) Recap what has happened

Sean's tips continued...

5) What went well - although outcome may be sad, your team was likely all kinds of awesome, highlight this!

6) Could anything have gone better?

7) Is there any other learning here to be discussed?

8) Summarise and thank your team 🧡

Next up Dr Doug Simkiss gave an incredibly engaging talk about Social Determinants of Health:

-Striking graphs illustrating the effect of social deprivation on child outcomes

-Actions we can take as trainees - take a detailed SHx!

-List of essential & additional reading

December 2020 Let’s Go A Fishing
Theme: Voice of Hope
Location: Okitipupa, Ondo State
Date: Wednesday, 23rd of December, 2020

#LetsGoAFishing2020
#VoiceofHope

In the Name that is above every other name, you will never forget today.

#LetsGoAFishing2020
#VoiceofHope

I’ll give you one reason why you can never forget today, when we go a fishing like this, I normally would visit several places but your place is the first place we are visiting this time.

#LetsGoAFishing2020
#VoiceofHope

After the Congress, you are the first people we are having an encounter with.

I have no doubt at all, your time to fly has come.

#LetsGoAFishing2020
#VoiceofHope

I am delighted that the Almighty God arranged it in such a way that nothing has been able to stop our coming.

I have come to pray for you but before I pray for you, let me share a few words with you from
Isaiah 3:10

#LetsGoAFishing2020
#VoiceofHope

I need one of these networks to make @AuthorBJackson’s “The Ties That Bind” into a movie.

The book takes us through college @HowardU in the 60’s, the Vietnam War, the Black Panther movement — with mystic undertones, classism and a twist at the end ...[Thread ⬇️]

that makes you believe in LOVE. Funny thing about this book is I found it at the airport, abt 10 years ago now, and I’ve read it at least 10 times. It’s exceptional, and it’s needs to be a movie. So, casted it. @ava or @LenaWaithe — y’all should make this happen lol ⬇️

Randolph: @_Brandon_Bell
Jenna: @KekePalmer
Ellie: @iamtikasumpter
Leigh: @DomiNqueP
Ross: @TyLepley
Noah: @MehcadBrooks
Angela: @BiancaLawson
Grandmother Fuller: @msdebbieallen
Gramma Mattie: @PhyliciaRashad
@strongblacklead — that’s a CAST. Lol, more abt the book ⬇️

Randolph Fuller (@_Brandon_Bell ) comes from a family of prominent lawyers on the paternal side and from the Gullah people on the maternal side. Jenna Haywood (@KekePalmer) is considered too dark by the Fullers and did not have any “prestige” behind her name ⬇️

These differences between the two did not matter they loved each other, but to Grandmother Julia Fuller (@msdebbieallen) it was a disgrace. Jenna and Randolph were in love and planned to be together for the rest of their lives. However, an obsessed Angela (@BiancaLawson) ⬇️

I just read a somewhat clueless post from one of those "moderate" Right Wing Instagram handles. You know, the sort that has a Sanskrit word in the name and is run by middle-class techie. After a significant amount of groaning, I decided to write this response about their...

...seeming worshipful attitude about capitalism. First - no, Capitalism isn't always evil. Many smaller businessmen are capitalists and do contribute to the nation by creating jobs. Having said that, the issue many people have with big capitalists is actually about power. When...

...a corporation grows too big and has stakes in every imaginable sector, it becomes a threat not only to those Communists you hate, but also to capitalists - small businesses and budding entrepreneurs (such as yourself perhaps). When people raise suspicions about the intent...

...of a big corporate, they aren't being unreasonable. They are pointing at a sword hanging above all our heads. And your saying "that sword is for all of our benefit" isn't an argument that can be taken seriously. It's childish and facile logic from someone who has been...

...conditioned from early on to see his corporate masters as benefactors and to think that the greatest compliment anyone can pay him is that he is "employable". Capitalism, at the end of the day, is about the pursuit of profit. And that's fine. But when things gets to a stage...

A lot of folks are grappling with, "What comes next? How do we atone for our part in what happened?"

We Jews have a ~700 page book you can turn to, The Gateway to Repentance. It painstakingly catalogues what true atonement requires.

But I want to tell you WHY we have this book.

Have you heard of Maimonides, aka The Rambam, aka Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon?

He was a Torah scholar, Saladin's doctor, wrote widely on mysticism and rationalism, and was super controversial.

He lived in Spain. Here's a common rendering:

He was born in 1138. He wrote The Guide for the Perplexed. In the late 1100s, controversy erupted over the fact that he had the gall to suggest that Torah scholars should work rather than live off of benefactors, and that his Mishneh Torah was more helpful than many rabbis.

The Guide for the Perplexed attempts to reconcile science and philosophy with rabbinic Judaism. This is no small thing! Assimilation in Spain and France was rampant among Jews, and many were not happy about this work, to put it lightly.

So the author of the book I posted, Shaarei Teshuvah, is Rabbi Yonah of Gerona. He is born in 1180. Unlike Maimonides, he spent all day learning Torah. He is related (by blood and marriage) to the Ramban, aka, Nachmanides, aka Rabbi Moses ben Nahman.

(Maimonides dies in 1204.)

Did U know there is a Book of the Bible that blesses you w/ reading it out loud?
▪️”Blessed is he that readeth, & they that hear the words of this prophecy, & keep those things which are written therein: for the TIME is at HAND.” Revelation 1:3 KJV
▪️Revealing truth to us

1/ In the Michael Butter book I read Saturday he made some interesting points. Up to the 1950s, in the West, conspiracy theories were regarded and completely legitimate forms of knowledge whose underlying assumptions were beyond question ( it was normal to believe in them)

Promising Young Woman has actually given me an idea fora Batman pitch, which I am going to post here since I obviously have no aspirations of ever working for DC Comics. For all I know, it's been done in some elseworlds, but I'm gonna try anyway. (1/x)

Okay, so we open on a glitzy dinner. A bunch of obnoxious rich people are wining and dining together. They get into discussing their businesses, and the youngest man there starts discussing his interest in getting into the arms business, with an older man w a trophy wife (2/x)

The older man says it's a great business, but he didn't know Waynecorp was interested, the liability has gotten so high lately, what with all the school shootings. "Everyone who gets shot in an alley these days can su - I mean. Um" (3/x)

Bruce replies that it's fine, he believes companies have to make money however they can, and makes conversation with the trophy wife for a bit. He arranges a business meeting to discuss a possible acquisition of the gun company by Waynecorp (4/x)

We switch to the trophy wife (we'll call her Susan)'s POV, as she and her gun CEO husband wait for an Uber. They get into the Uber from the backseat and remark that the driver looks a little shady, and this is why the CEO always carries his own gun (5/x)

28 Recommended Books That Will Improve Your Writing And Freelance Business Right Now:

📖 On Writing by Stephen King

Stephen King’s classic will appeal even to those who avoid King’s renowned horror-packed tales. In this book, King discusses how he came to be the writer we know today.

📖 The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

Annie writes about how hard it is to write and how sometimes it is necessary to destroy paragraphs, phrases and words to re-form them as something even better.

📖 Word Work: Surviving and Thriving as a Writer by Bruce Holland Rogers

Word Work is packed with practical advice for overcoming procrastination, finding happiness in writing and even conquering writer’s block. It also covers how to handle rejection and success.

📖 Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Bird by Bird is an essential part of any writer’s toolbox. In this work, Lamott shares herself and her craft with readers, including anecdotes that tie the pieces together into all-around great writing.

To celebrate Dave Grohl's birthday, here's a thread of some of our favourite moments featuring the nicest fella in rock...
[📸: PA]

1. When he read the news on our Breakfast Show... ICONIC!

2. When he surprised his fans by busking on the street 😲

3. When he perfectly summed up the beauty of live music 💜

4. When he sang with Elmo and Big Bird on Sesame

To the Victoria Embankment, there to take our Government-mandated exercise by following the lines of two waterways, the Bloomsbury Ditch & the #CockAndPye Ditch. These were channels which drained the marshland that surrounded the village of St Giles - current-day Covent Garden.

The walk is one devised by @teabolton in the second volume of his guide to London’s lost rivers, & follows the line of the 2 linked ditches from the Thames at Victoria Embankment Gardens & then back to Cleopatra’s Needle. #CockAndPye

"With no known natural watercourses between the Fleet, to the east, and the Tyburn, to the west, Covent Garden and Soho are gaps in the London river map. It is, however, quite possible that the ditches rechannelled small streams that existed before the earliest maps" - @teabolton

The fields of St Giles-in-the-Fields were notoriously boggy. St Giles itself stood by the main London-Oxford road (as in Oxford Street), but was sufficiently isolated that when, c. 1120, Henry I's wife Matilda founded a monastery here, it doubled as a hospital for lepers.

St Giles always had a marsh-tang of misery & sedition about it. It remained a leper colony - on & off - until the Reformation, & was the centre of Sir John Oldcastle's Lollard rebellion in 1414. (Sir John was executed at what's now the Oxford St-Tottenham Ct Rd x-roads in 1417.)

A special dispensation has been agreed, I will be allowed to open my Christmas present today because as my wife says,

"This is something special"

Off to the barn now....

I just opened the present from my family.

Many years ago like most young men I wanted a motorcycle but with only limited funds available I was only able to afford a rather tired and long past its best 1967 T120 Triumph Bonneville. Two tone dark red and white.

. I loved that bike, it took me all over the UK as well as to holidays in France, Austria and Germany. It was easy to work on and I did nearly all the maintenance myself, despite its age and mileage it never let me down and I always said I would never sell it.

After I became a soldier I put it into storage in my father's garage in London. I have on many occasions promised myself I would bring it over to France and start the restoration it needed but always something came along first that needed my attention.

THREAD — what history tells us

It’s a short book. But one of the most consequential in American history. Haunting.

And I keep going back to it now.

The Strange Career of Jim Crow, by C. Vann Woodward

1/

And it’s scary as hell to say it, but the moment we’re in, and the next 2 years at least, greatly resemble the moment that the progress of Reconstruction hung in the balance.

(Let’s be clear about how dangerous ‘22 is. With a new round of districting

2/

primaries and a mid-term, some of the very extremists who fomented the insurrection could gain MORE power)

Strange Career is about how the Reconstruction era became the Jim Crow era, which lasted close to a century.

And it’s primary lesson could not be more clear:

3/

“The South’s adoption of extreme racism was due not so much to a conversion as it was to a relaxation of the opposition. All the elements of fear, jealousy, hatred & fanaticism had long been present, as they are present in various degrees of intensity in society. What enabled...”

“...them to rise to dominance was not so much cleverness or ingenuity as it was a general weakening and discrediting of the numerous forces that had hitherto kept them in check”

In the wake of that “relaxation,” dedicated extreme forces took over, locking Jim Crow into place

4/

Hey @caroljsroth, I was just listening to your podcast with @JesseKellyDC and I wanted correct some errors concerning the Dickinson/Jackson duel of 1806. I am working on my PhD thesis related to Jackson and host the @AgeofJacksonPod. 1/

The origins of their feud begin not with Rachel Jackson’s honor, but rather over horseracing. Jackson was a horseracing enthusiast, as were most southern gentlemen of the planter class. Cutting a long story short, it comes down to money. 2/

Basically, Dickinson was in on a bet against Jackson’s horse but withdrew and paid the forfeit. The problem is rumors began to fly that Jackson wasn’t thrilled about this, because they apparently wanted to use promissory notes as payment. 3/

Things start to get very testy between the two men are insults are exchanged and circulate around Nashville. Eventfully things get even more public when all this gets published in the newspapers, with the two calling each other cowards more or less. 4/

So, what about Rachel? That’s the funny thing, Rachel is not mentioned in any of the newspapers and in the letters between the men and their associates leading up to the duel. I’m not saying it was not a contributing factor, but it hard to find solid evidence for it. 5/