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The jury has reached a verdict on four of the five counts Diddy faces, but are unable to on the fifth - the racketeering conspiracy charge
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They’ve only been in there a couple of days… I think they should keep at it at least another for that last charge.
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IMO, the racketeering case will expose many other high profile names involved, and that will hangvthis jury…
we shall see.
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The ones expressing outrage at the “minor pop group” would, of course, consider shooting (brown) people standing in line for food a very, very fine thing. Therefore, I will not hold my breath for said outrage.
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Been listening to them when I was out walking the dog and running earlier. I was debating what songs to put up in the music thread. But I will be putting them there.
Unlike the IDF when it deliberately kills civilians, they are facing consequences. I believe The Bobs will get through it. Tiocfaidh a lá!
(For context they do repeatedly say “tiocfaidh ár lá” in one of their songs)
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I had not heard of them before this, so will definitely be checking them out now. Anything you put in the music thread will get a listen!
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I have so.many.questions about that image!
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I did a reverse image search
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-police-cuff-crooked-demon-doll-chucky-2023-09-23/
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you can never be too careful, I say…
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No idea where to put this:
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I’m sure Mush took good notice…
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Copy pasted from FB:
Matthew Boroson
14.1.2025This is about Neil Gaiman.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME is a great book. Insightful, beautifully written, profound.
Coates modeled his book on James Baldwin’s THE FIRE NEXT TIME.
We know this because Coates was open and up-front about this fact.
George R.R. Martin’s GAME OF THRONES/A Song of Ice and Fire is a great series.
Martin modeled his books on THE ACCURSED KINGS by Maurice Druon.
We know this because Martin was open and up-front about this fact.
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s THE SYMPATHIZER is a great book.
He modeled it on THE SORROW OF WAR by Bảo Ninh.
We know this because Nguyen was open and up-front about this fact.
Neil Gaiman’s THE SANDMAN is a great comic book series.
Gaiman modeled his series on Tanith Lee’s TALES FROM THE FLAT EARTH.
But you wouldn’t know this, because Gaiman has never given her any credit.
Despite the fact that the main character - a byronic, pale, otherworldly, deity-like character - is the prince of night and dreams.
Despite the fact that every time people see art depicting Tanith Lee’s main character Azhrarn, they think it’s Morpheus from the Sandman. (How bad is this? When people see depictions of her character, they say SHE must have ripped HIM off.)
Despite the fact that the dream lord’s younger sibling is Death.
Despite the fact that other members of his family include Delusion, Delirium… They are not gods but beings older than gods, and when the gods die, Dream, Death, Delusion, and Delirium will remain. This family of immortal, eternal, unchanging beings, who each embody an eternal abstraction starting with the letter D.
Someone else on the internet, noticing the similarities, flipped open the third book in Tanith Lee’s series to a random page, and lo and behold, there’s a description of a character who was clearly the inspiration for Gaiman’s Mazikeen.
The prose, the characters, the narrative strategies, the mythology, the story structure, all of it: Gaiman found it all in Tanith Lee’s writing and never gave her any credit.
He became rich and famous profiting from her ideas. People effused over his amazing imagination, when the ideas they praised him for were actually created by Tanith Lee. And, while he was building his name and fame, she was struggling. In the 1990s, toward the end of her life, she complained in an interview that magazines weren’t buying her stories anymore.
A simple “If you like The Sandman, you should really read Tanith Lee’s books!” from Neil Gaiman would have meant so much to her career. To the livelihood of a struggling, less- privileged writer, whose amazing imagination Gaiman was actively ripping off.
People praised The Sandman comics for their depiction of gay and trans identities. But in the original material, Tanith Lee was far more progressive about Igbtq+ identities, and that was twenty years earlier.
I first read Tanith Lee’s book NIGHT’S MASTER (the first in the FLAT EARTH series) in maybe 2005, about 10 years after first reading The Sandman. I looked to see if Gaiman had credited her for “his” ideas; as far as I could tell, he never had.
And for the subsequent 19 years, whenever I see a new Neil Gaiman interview, the first thing I do is ctrl-F to search to see if he mentioned Tanith Lee. And he never has, that I’ve seen.
I have no difficulty believing the accusations against him.
Because I know - KNOW - that he has felt entitled to take what he wants from a woman, without her permission, and without any acknowledgement of her contributions.
And, finally:
If you loved Neil Gaiman’s stories, if you are heartbroken to learn the storyteller you loved is apparently an abuser, here is my suggestion:
track down Tanith Lee’s TALES FROM THE FLAT EARTH books. Her prose is more exquisite and imaginative, her ideas more original, her empathy real.
Edited to add: the illustration is by an artist who goes by Azhrarn on DeviantArt, depicting Tanith Lee’s Azhrarn.
Edited again: A lot of people are buying Lee’s book THE EARTH IS FLAT. This is the wrong place to begin; it’s a collection of posthumously published stories set in the same world as the series. The place to begin would either be NIGHT’S MASTER or the omnibus edition of the first three books, LORDS OF DARKNESS.
Did you know that you can’t copy text from Facebook at least with this phone browser I’m using…
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That is powerful information. Kudos to Matthew Boroson for bringing this to people’s attention.
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