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  • xorollo@leminal.spacetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•What other great opening lines do you know?.English
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    1 month ago

    From The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemison

    LET’S START WITH THE END of the world, why don’t we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.

    • The Fifth Season

    HMM. NO. I’M TELLING THIS WRONG.

    • The Obelisk Gate

    TIME GROWS SHORT, MY LOVE. Let’s end with the beginning of the world, shall we? Yes. We shall.

    • The Stone Sky

    The dedications are good too. As are the entire books, go read them. The dedications in respective order:

    For all those who have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question

    To those who have no choice but to prepare their children for the battlefield

    To those who’ve survived: Breathe. That’s it. Once more. Good. You’re good. Even if you’re not, you’re alive. That is a victory.

  • xorollo@leminal.spacetoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Florida schools will test armed drones this fall to thwart shootersEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I was in a high school that received this active shooter campus wide recognition system. It included a few physical security systems to help autonomously alert if there were gun shots fired somewhere. One of the systems was these green lights inside the normal flourecent lights. They would turn red or flash or something as a visual alert. But the green light cast this weird green glow everywhere in the school and to me it was this eerie constant reminder of the threat. I was only a visitor for a special program for a few days, but even this was a little traumatizing for me. The drone would be terrifying.