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๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐? she thought, and she slid off the side of the bath onto the floor and sobbed quietly into her knees, two patches of tears spreading on her pyjama bottoms, the bracelet clutched in her hand.
She knew how much hard work Cormoran Strike would have put into this, he who found present-giving an onerous chore, who found it inexplicable that anyone would remember what anyone liked, or wore, but heโd remembered all of this, and he wanted her to know he remembered it, and ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐
, ๐ฐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐, thought Robin, and then another voice in her head said sternly,
๐ต๐, ๐๐๐ ๐
๐๐โ๐.
๐ฐ ๐
๐, ๐ฐ ๐
๐โฆ
๐๐๐โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐
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Wiping her eyes, Robin reached out for her phone. She didnโt care if she woke him. (โฆ..)
Thank you. I love it so much xxxxx
And two hundred and fifty miles away in his sisterโs spare room in Bromley, sleepless โฆ and grumpy after what was probably the worst party heโd ever attended, Cormoran Strike heard his mobile vibrate and reached for it in the dark. Looking down at Robinโs text, Christmas, and the unusual opportunities it afforded you, if you were prepared, at last, to put in the work, suddenly seemed a wonderful thing.
Iโm glad, he typed, and then, slowly, painstakingly, he added a kiss for every one of hers.
#TheHallmarkedMan, Chapter 41
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The countdown is on for a traffic-free Oxford Street.
Monday 26 October marks a new chapter for the nationโs high street as it becomes pedestrianised.
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Stop treating the adult population like children and stop allowing adults who behave like despotic toddlers to decree what the rest of us are allowed to watch.
BBC removes 11 Mitchell and Webb comedy sketches from iPlayer bbc.in/4799EIB
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J.K. Rowling is creatively involved in HBO's HARRY POTTER TV series
There been no difficulty casting the series because of her views, 'not even a little bit' according to Casey Bloys, CEO of HBO
(deadline.com/2026/09/casey-bโฆ)
522 years ago, a block of rejected marble stepped into immortality.
On September 8, 1504, Michelangeloโs David was unveiled in Florence.
The marble was already damaged before Michelangelo touched it
The block had been sitting outside for 40 years, exposed to weather, and was considered too narrow and too flawed for a heroic figure.
Two sculptors tried before him but both gave up.
Non amo tanto leggere circondato da persone, perchรฉ non sopporto i rumori e il parlottare delle persone, ma questo pomeriggio, vuoi per la bella giornata e vuoi per la voglia di una granita ho deciso di portare con me un libro e sedermi al bar. Le persone mi hanno guardato quasi sbalordite e un signore mi ha perfino detto โcomplimentiโ.
I'm just a few days away from turning 35, and the technology of recent years has almost obliterated the world as I knew it. It may be the words of an old man, but there's no longer any certainty that a book, a song, or any other work is the exclusive fruit of humankind. And for me, that's a problem, because I believe that putting your soul into what you create is a fundamental part of art. #gpt6Astra #OpenAI
Mamma mia che emozione il nuovo trailer di Harry Potter ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ #HarryPotterHBO
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The Great Hall flooring is based on the Oxford Dining hall and is a mix between Georgian and Victorian gothic revival. Hogwarts is meant to be based on an old elite British school/uni. So the castle is implicated to have undergone refurbishment.
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My position is that gender dysphoria is a real, painful condition and that for some adults, the only way they may feel able to resolve that inner conflict is transition. If thatโs the road they choose I wish them long life and happiness and I would vigorously oppose any discrimination against them when it comes to employment, housing or voting rights.
I do not believe children have the capacity to consent to treatments that may leave them infertile and, in some cases, anorgasmic. Multiple studies have shown that gender dysphoria in childhood and adolescence is not uncommon, for gay kids particularly, but it also occurs in, for example, straight girls who hate the idea of becoming women and sometimes, tragically, in children whoโve been abused. The available evidence shows that in the majority of cases, gender dysphoria resolves after the person has gone through adolescence. I am strongly opposed to the experimental treatment of blocking puberty in dysphoric children. I believe trans activists have behaved hugely unethically and irresponsibly in pretending that there is good evidence that these treatments are beneficial (there isnโt), that puberty blockers are completely reversible (there is a mounting body of evidence to suggest they arenโt) or that children are likely to kill themselves if denied blockers (there is no evidence to support this and suicide prevention charities warn against making such statements, due to the very real danger of suicide contagion.)
Of course, not all trans-identified people are dysphoric. Erotic transvestism, also known as autogynephilia, (getting a sexual thrill out of dressing as/pretending to be a woman) has been around for a very long time. I believe lesbians are entitled to exclude straight, cross-dressing men from their dating pools without being accused of bigotry and worse (same goes for gay men with trans-identified women). Itโs profoundly homophobic to attack gay people for being same-sex attracted.
I donโt believe anyone, adult or child, is โborn in the wrong body.โ That is an unfalsifiable, quasi-religious belief. A person may *feel* as if theyโre in the wrong body, but humans cannot literally change sex. However they identify, men donโt belong in the single-sex spaces for which women fought so hard.


























