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Since a certain leader has a penchant for renaming bodies of water, perhaps he should consider changing the Strait of Hormuz to Dire Straits.

Trying to wean governments away from the cesspool of X (twitter) is a tough slog.
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca
https://youtu.be/eVlQBnGqZ_U?si=rd8P2ulgcBSLmPQd

Mid-March limerick
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The middle of March is a muddle
Today snow; tomorrow a puddle
Pi Day, the Ides and St. Paddy’s crowd in
The equinox asks if she can come in
And the rest just fuddle their duddle

I’ve finally started the Great Canadian Novel.
I’m great a starting things, not so good at following through. So while I have completed the first few paragraphs, I invite you to contiue on, adding however much text you feel like in the comments. The following person can continue on from there, and so on. Let’s see how far we get.

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Opening paragraphs:

Her hand shook slightly as she held the pipette over the beaker.
“If our calculations are correct,” she said, raising her eyes to those watching the video stream, “the mixture of these two liquids will change the world forever.”
The hand belonged to Nancy Weymouth, and the moment was a cumulation of 12 years of intense research and experimentation she and her team had been working on.
This was the moment. And an estimated 60 million people were tuned into the livestream: expectant, hopeful, tense.

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Over to you . . .

#writing

Terry Mosher, drawing under the pen name Aislin, had prepared a cartoon for tomorrow’s Montreal Gazette. It was rejected. Here’s his Facebook comment.

“Every once in a while, The Gazette will spike one of my cartoons as with this one, meant for tomorrow’s newspaper. The newspaper has its reasons for doing so, and are always very polite about it, allowing me to post the killed cartoon on various platforms to garner public reaction. What do you think? Would you have printed this or not? Terry”