100 results for “sentience”
Anastasia Marshall jailed for helping ex-wife’s alleged murderer evade police
A woman who helped cover up the death of her ex-wife at their Aldinga Beach home in 2023…
#Australia #arson #AU #Austrlia #housefire #Sentence
https://www.europesays.com/australia/127982/
Two sentences. That’s your entire playground. 🖤
Give us something creepy, strange, nasty, funny-dark or completely unexpected. There’s no winner to chase and no shortlist to make in Flash Fiction Frenzy. Every valid entry is published in the next issue of Dark Descent.
✍️ Come and have some fun with it.
🔗 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/darkforum#thread/6a957daaa733aa059370fc56
#TwoSentenceHorror #FlashFiction #HorrorWriters #WritingCommunity
Texas man sentenced to prison in $3.1 million NBA Ponzi scheme https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/10/24/NBA-ponzi-scheme-prison-DOJ/5571792895001/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
In this sentence, I've changed the word 'guests' to 'paying customers'.
"One woman, who owns three listings in Townsville, told the ABC earlier this week she was considering banning the use of her kitchen if paying customers were unwilling to clean their own dishes."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-24/airbnb-checkout-chores-ban-backlash/107300484
Laura Owens Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail for Pregnancy Fraud Targeting ‘The Bachelor’ Star Clayton Echard
#TV #TVNews #Podcasts #TheBachelor #Truecrime
A Guatemalan court sentences seven former police officers to prison terms of up to 60 years for offenses related to the 2024 torture and killing of a gay couple at a police station.
A Tunisian military court sentences politician and businesswoman Olfa Hamdi to four years in prison on state security charges linked to social media posts, including accusations of inciting military personnel to disobey orders.
Pet Peeve #3,298: starting a sentence with "Yet." It's probably considered OK and whatever, but I sort of hate it.
#Warsaw #Warszawa Warsaw Man Receives Local Sentence For Battering Pregnant Woman https://wars.aw/xYYh
#WordWeavers 2026.10.22 — Share a sentence from your WIP that you're especially proud of.
There are plenty sentences I find especially well crafted, but there's none that stand out in my memory. Let's go with this one. The mob boss, introduced as a patron of the arts, unexpectedly shows up in a celebrity actor's dressing room during an interview Bolt was photographing for a reporter. He asks a leading question to which a stunned Bolt narrates:
I could not glibly say that I was a reluctant courier for the mob† , that he was my employer who directed most of the underground economy in Home City, or that I was a criminal; were I to, the bodyguard lurking in the shadows behind the boss would kill both Shugh and Morning Glory [the reporter and the actor], leaving the boss very angry that I'd messed up whatever business he'd obviously invested in here. I'd die, then be blamed for a murder-suicide.
=~=~=~=~=~=
† The sentence in which I inserted the title of the novel, as it turns out. 😋
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
Ex-University of Tokyo professor gets suspended sentence over bribes
The Tokyo District Court on Thursday sentenced a former University of Tokyo professor to two years in prison, suspended for three years, and fined him about ¥1.83 million for accepting bribes over a joint research project at the university’s gradu…
#Japan #JP #Tokyo #Japanesecourts #news #tokyonews #UniversityofTokyo #東京 #東京都
https://www.alojapan.com/1557049/ex-university-of-tokyo-professor-gets-suspended-sentence-over-bribes/
Ex-University of Tokyo professor gets suspended sentence over bribes
The Tokyo District Court on Thursday sentenced a former University of Tokyo professor to two years in prison,…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #Tokyo #Japanesecourts #universityoftokyo
https://www.europesays.com/japan/110955/
TheLostogle: Brent Swadley Gets Sweetheart Suspended Sentence…
https://thelostogle.com/2026/10/22/brent-swadley-gets-sweetheart-suspended-sentence/
#oklahomanews #oklahoma #localnews #okla.social
TheLostogle: Brent Swadley Gets Sweetheart Suspended Sentence…
https://thelostogle.com/2026/10/22/brent-swadley-gets-sweetheart-suspended-sentence/
#oklahomanews #oklahoma #localnews #okla.social
#WordWeavers 10/22
Share a sentence from your WIP that you're especially proud of.
The loose stones of [the watchtower’s] outer walls looked as if they’d been smashed by giants and reassembled by children.
#WordWeavers 10/22 - Share a sentence from your WIP that you’re especially proud of.
"Adventures do not have pissing in the dark."
Better in context:
After a moment, she heard some shuffling, bumping, sliding, and a thump she imagined was a heavy crock being set on the earthen floor. Although it was pitch black in the smokehouse, she shut her eyes, trying to ignore the sound of splashing liquid. “This is a fate I never planned for this afternoon or eventide or anytime during this life, for that matter.”
“We can think of it as an adventure,” said Tommy, almost cheerfully.
“This is not an adventure. Adventures have elves or talking woodland creatures or puppets that turn into real boys. Adventures do not have pissing in the dark. Goldilocks did not piss in the dark. Sleeping Beauty did not piss in the dark. Princess-boggynficking-Buttercup did not piss in the dark.”
“Very well. Call it a test then.”
“I pray you passed the aiming test.”
Tongan man deported from Australia sentenced to 12 years’ jail over bid to set up Comancheros branch
A Tongan man deported from Australia has been sentenced to 12 years’ jail over his role in establishing…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #Cocaine #comanchero #comancheros #drugs #gang #meth #Pacific #president #Taumoefolau #tonga
https://www.europesays.com/australia/126970/
Was watching a video from @jadi and one of his sentences was too cool for me not to share. The talk was in Persian, and I translated and somewhat paraphrased:
> For digital freedom, protocols are more important than platforms.
To add to context, RSS is a protocol, any feed reader such as the good old Google Reader was a platform.
Video URL (Persian):
https://youtu.be/Iy0jN7JrDlk
Военный суд в Ростове-на-Дону приговорил двух украинцев к 24 и 23 годам по обвинению во взрывах в оккупированном Мелитополе
Challenged to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence:
"You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think."
#DorothyParker #Parker
The government is pushing for the introduction of a “life sentence without parole” to permanently is..
Reviewing the operation of isolation facilities for perpetratorsPromotion of ‘safe patrol’ in the victim’s residence 사진 확대 President…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #SouthKorea #domesticviolence #drafts #LeeJaeMyung #quarantinefacilities #Safepatrols #SeniorSpokesperson
https://www.europesays.com/korea/199519/
Killers behind 2023 machete murder of teenager Ethan Hoac sentenced to jail terms
Ethan Hoac, 14, was murdered on the side of a Melbourne road in an unprovoked attack that a…
#Australia #Melbourne #attack #crime #EthanHoac #machete #murder #teenager #youth
https://www.europesays.com/australia/127706/
Iran-based news site says Supreme Court upholds death sentence for political prisoner months after granting him reprieve
Editor’s note: this story was translated from the original VOA Persian article. An Iranian news site says the…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Iran #Deathsentence #ManouchehrFallah #VOAPersian
https://www.europesays.com/iran/338659/
23 October 2026: The Daily Express leads on demands for tougher sentences after record levels of violence against women, alongside government warnings to prepare for food shortages and disruption caused by potential cyber attacks. #TomorrowsPapersToday
Swiss supreme court upholds Guatemala ex-police chief sentence
Switzerland’s supreme court announced Thursday it had rejected the appeal of former Guatemalan police chief Erwin Sperisen, jailed…
#Switzerland #CH #Europe #Europa #EU #Nachrichten #Nouvelles #schweiz #Suisse #switzerland
https://www.europesays.com/3325362/
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@astralia/117485058260225126
There’s one sentence in my post written with AI. Can you spot it?
RE: https://mas.to/@dfwsupportcommittee/117481579875805404
She was sentenced to 50 years.
Americans have to vote this year.
Not voting might result in the total disappearance of the life and freedom that have existed in the USA till recently.
New prisons and camps are being opened all over the USA by for-profit companies.
They will want a return on investment, and sentences like this are their way to get it, and they serve as proof for Trump and Project 2025 that opening even more prisons was the right future for America.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@sophieschmieg/117479475937857216
With sentences like these, companies erase all remaining trust in them:
> "Last weekend, an independent researcher found that the weak keys could be reverse-engineered possibly with AI-assisted techniques."
How to irritate the citizens of various European countries with one sentence.
Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/10/24/dostoyevsky-execution-life/