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Writer/editor of NI's longest-running #SciFi, #Fantasy + #Horror webzine. Keeping you up to date on #SpeculativeFiction in N.I. since 1999.

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To commemorate D-Day weekend, we take a look at the #USRangers mural in #Carrickfergus #NorthernIreland where they were stationed during WW2 https://t.co/5YJPfsdtAn

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@Pirat_Nation I'll go one better. Negative income tax. Everyone pays 25% but gets a rebate equal to 25% of median income. Eg if median income is 64k Everyone gets 16k rebate. Problem solved.

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@andyinsdca @Brownkyl1 #EmanuelleChriqui

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@RageCrusader @IGN They did that already with stargate universe. Designed it for the Battlestar galactica reboot fans, alienated the SG1 fans. Predictable results.

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@d0bzee @nikicaga Same things. The Poles represented legal migration. Brexit just meant getting illegal immigration instead. If you criminalise migration, you will be overrun by criminals.

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@StoriesBySammi So the ranchers pays about 20 bucks per annum. Replace the bison with 1000 cattle earns the taxman 20k. Does not seem enough. Was the fee determined in the 1970s or something?

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@Norsehound @woofknight If the flintlock is a pistol it would be a great melee weapon. Fire over the enemy heads, you'll knock a horde of orcs down like bowling pins.

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@williamwhiz1 announces new book "Faces of War" to be launched at Enniskillen comics fest #NorthernIreland 5TH JUNE 2026 https://t.co/tkiv1bXEZE

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@paddy_brown to launch new book "Penny Blood" at Enniskillen comics fest #NorthernIreland 5TH JUNE 26 https://t.co/KeImbl4HVo

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@theRebel_Lord @PsychtalesX @histories_arch Inheritance from husband is bad?
Inheritance from father is good?
Hmm.

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@nrken19 Great map of the Amber Roads of bronze age Europe, but can you mark the tollense valley on it? The Battlefield being the greatest unsolved mystery of that era ...

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@Jordan_W_Taylor I'll go you one better... https://t.co/IL0nRSu8ug

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Here's my take on @cw_architect's plan to copy the @CircleLineBT plan on a much bigger scale. A train from Belfast to Newcastle... upon tyne! https://t.co/tYameF16B2

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@CalDesertSun @SamuelFByers I live in the UK.
WRT negative effects: landlords will always maximise their income regardless. LVT simply taxes them for doing so. They benefit from the roads and the military, so they should pay for it.

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@CalDesertSun @SamuelFByers Planning permission is a superior equivalent to Euclidean zoning. It dictates the maximum productivity of the land, which then dictates its saleable/taxable value.

Infrastructure costs should include local military spending: main purpose of the military is protecting Homeland

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@CalDesertSun @SamuelFByers The value of the land is determined by what planning permission it has, and what government infrastructure it is linked to. A land value tax will thereby pay for the infrastructure, which gives the land value to begin with.

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@DrGregLittle2 The mounds were probably used as cemeteries in the first place because the rest of the land was flat enough for farming. So it's like a self-selection process.

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@DrGregLittle2 The mounds were probably used as cemeteries in the first place because the rest of the land was flat enough for farming. So it's like a self-selection process.

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@therlwrites HI fellow horror fan. I've just realised that the early 80s slasher craze was a reaction to the late 70s Vietnam dramas like deer hunter, apocalypse now, first blood. Comments?

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@sarahreesbrenna and #RuthFrancesLong at #Norncon in Belfast https://t.co/0oubTNMhiU