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  1. Prince William Reportedly Warns of ‘Consequences’ If Prince Harry Continues Royal Swipes

    Prince William has privately warned that ‘there will be consequences’ if Prince Harry continues taking public ‘swipes’ at…
    #RoyalFamilies #Royal #Royals #Europe #Europa #EU #children'supbringing #consequences #PrinceHarry #princewilliam #royal #RoyalFamily #RoyalFamilytensions #royals
    europesays.com/2989283/

  2. At some point, someone will get angry enough to choose #violence. Maybe a #player #character, maybe an #NPC. Even if the fight halts before any serious casualties occur, #consequences still may be #catastrophic.

    As I write the major #NPCs in this story, I find interesting #tension between them. Between husband and wife. Between brother and sister. Between rival families. Between #villain and #thrall. The #party must have the #opportunity to find and use those tensions to steer the story.

  3. At some point, someone will get angry enough to choose #violence. Maybe a #player #character, maybe an #NPC. Even if the fight halts before any serious casualties occur, #consequences still may be #catastrophic.

    As I write the major #NPCs in this story, I find interesting #tension between them. Between husband and wife. Between brother and sister. Between rival families. Between #villain and #thrall. The #party must have the #opportunity to find and use those tensions to steer the story.

  4. At some point, someone will get angry enough to choose #violence. Maybe a #player #character, maybe an #NPC. Even if the fight halts before any serious casualties occur, #consequences still may be #catastrophic.

    As I write the major #NPCs in this story, I find interesting #tension between them. Between husband and wife. Between brother and sister. Between rival families. Between #villain and #thrall. The #party must have the #opportunity to find and use those tensions to steer the story.

  5. All choices have consequences. Including symbolic action, and inaction.

  6. All choices have consequences. Including symbolic action, and inaction.

  7. All choices have consequences. Including symbolic action, and inaction.

  8. @EdwinG

    So, any MAGA / Trump-voter types out there, if you just had your long-held summer vacation flights cancelled out from under you, have fun booking new tickets now that ticket prices have doubled due to inflated fuel costs because Dipshit Donnie started the next forever war in the middle east. At least you know who to blame!

    To any sane people out there also affected by this, you have my empathy.

    #USPol #schadenfreude #DipshitDonnie #Trump #MangoMussolini #OilCrisis #Hormuz #war #Iran #FAFO #consequences #MAGA

  9. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Essay (1881-08) “The Christian Religion,” “Is All of the Bible Inspired?” ch. 2, North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 297

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #consequences #God #morality #natural #naturalselection #nature #outcomes #punishment #results #reward #causeandeffect

  10. A quotation from Mark Twain

       “You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory — must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
       “O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
       (After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Story (1905), “The War Prayer”

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/5637/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #warprayer #blood #consequences #defeat #destruction #devastation #divinewill #divinewrath #enemy #imprecation #intercession #killing #prayer #suffering #tragedy #unintendedconsequences #victory #violence #war #divineintercession #curse #divinelove

  11. A quotation from Mark Twain

       “You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory — must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
       “O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
       (After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Story (1905), “The War Prayer”

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/5637/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #warprayer #blood #consequences #defeat #destruction #devastation #divinewill #divinewrath #enemy #imprecation #intercession #killing #prayer #suffering #tragedy #unintendedconsequences #victory #violence #war #divineintercession #curse #divinelove

  12. A quotation from Mark Twain

       “You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory — must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
       “O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
       (After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Story (1905), “The War Prayer”

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/5637/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #warprayer #blood #consequences #defeat #destruction #devastation #divinewill #divinewrath #enemy #imprecation #intercession #killing #prayer #suffering #tragedy #unintendedconsequences #victory #violence #war #divineintercession #curse #divinelove

  13. A quotation from Mark Twain

       “You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory — must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
       “O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
       (After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Story (1905), “The War Prayer”

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/5637/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #warprayer #blood #consequences #defeat #destruction #devastation #divinewill #divinewrath #enemy #imprecation #intercession #killing #prayer #suffering #tragedy #unintendedconsequences #victory #violence #war #divineintercession #curse #divinelove

  14. Palantir Goes Mask-Off For Fascism. It Won’t End Well.

    techdirt.com/2026/04/20/palant

    the company seems to be betting that Trumpist-flavored authoritarianism is a permanent feature of the American political landscape — and that going all-in on it will never, ever have any long-term consequences.…

    #Palantir #MaskOff #Fascism #AllIn #Consequences #GlobalSurveillance #KillChain

  15. theguardian.com/world/2026/apr. "[Victoria Bonya] rattled off a list of #issues she said no regional governor would dare raise with #Putin directly: #flooding in #Dagestan, #oil #pollution along the #BlackSea coast, #livestock culls in #Siberia, #internet blackouts & a squeeze on small #businesses from rising #prices & #taxes... Bonya... lives outside #Russia." She couldn't have made the #video inside Russia without dire #legal #consequences to herself.

  16. theguardian.com/world/2026/apr. "[Victoria Bonya] rattled off a list of #issues she said no regional governor would dare raise with #Putin directly: #flooding in #Dagestan, #oil #pollution along the #BlackSea coast, #livestock culls in #Siberia, #internet blackouts & a squeeze on small #businesses from rising #prices & #taxes... Bonya... lives outside #Russia." She couldn't have made the #video inside Russia without dire #legal #consequences to herself.

  17. theguardian.com/world/2026/apr. "[Victoria Bonya] rattled off a list of #issues she said no regional governor would dare raise with #Putin directly: #flooding in #Dagestan, #oil #pollution along the #BlackSea coast, #livestock culls in #Siberia, #internet blackouts & a squeeze on small #businesses from rising #prices & #taxes... Bonya... lives outside #Russia." She couldn't have made the #video inside Russia without dire #legal #consequences to herself.

  18. theguardian.com/world/2026/apr. "[Victoria Bonya] rattled off a list of #issues she said no regional governor would dare raise with #Putin directly: #flooding in #Dagestan, #oil #pollution along the #BlackSea coast, #livestock culls in #Siberia, #internet blackouts & a squeeze on small #businesses from rising #prices & #taxes... Bonya... lives outside #Russia." She couldn't have made the #video inside Russia without dire #legal #consequences to herself.

  19. theguardian.com/world/2026/apr. "[Victoria Bonya] rattled off a list of #issues she said no regional governor would dare raise with #Putin directly: #flooding in #Dagestan, #oil #pollution along the #BlackSea coast, #livestock culls in #Siberia, #internet blackouts & a squeeze on small #businesses from rising #prices & #taxes... Bonya... lives outside #Russia." She couldn't have made the #video inside Russia without dire #legal #consequences to herself.

  20. The acceleration of history carries consequences of its own, independent of the actual directions of change. The simple speed-up of events and reaction times produces its own effects, whether the changes are perceived as good or bad.
    -- Alvin Toffler

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlvinToffler #Change #Consequences

    #Photography #Panorama #BWCA #Canoe #Minnesota

  21. If Baron* is guilty of insider trading, Baron goes to prison. Them's the breaks. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

    *Same goes for both/either Baron.

    #uspolitics #fascism #cronyism #nepotism #InsiderTrading #corruption #consequences #AndJusticeForAll

  22. If Baron* is guilty of insider trading, Baron goes to prison. Them's the brakes. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

    *Same goes for both/either.

    #uspolitics #fascism #cronyism #nepotism #InsiderTrading #corruption #consequences #AndJusticeForAll

  23. If Baron* is guilty of insider trading, Baron goes to prison. Them's the breaks. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

    *Same goes for both/either Baron.

    #uspolitics #fascism #cronyism #nepotism #InsiderTrading #corruption #consequences #AndJusticeForAll

  24. If Baron* is guilty of insider trading, Baron goes to prison. Them's the breaks. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

    *Same goes for both/either Baron.

    #uspolitics #fascism #cronyism #nepotism #InsiderTrading #corruption #consequences #AndJusticeForAll

  25. #Trump is going to prove #TACO #tomorrow and it is anyway for the best as using #Nukes #against #Iran is a #very #bad #idea and would have #consequences #beyond his (lack of) and his aides' #imagination

  26. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    Books were the proper remedy: books of vivid human import, forcing upon their minds the issues, pleasures, busyness, importance and immediacy of that life in which they stand; books of smiling or heroic temper, to excite or to console; books of a large design, shadowing the complexity of that game of consequences to which we all sit down, the hanger-back not least.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1884-05), “Old Mortality,” ch. 1, Longman’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 19

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #books #consequences #humancondition #humannature #reading

  27. A window on reality.
    We all look. Some see farce, some see righteousness.
    Is that who everyone accepts?
    Is this our choice?
    There are better ways.
    #choose #awareness #consequences #system #collapse #hegemony #holonics #systemchange #beinghuman

  28. People seem to love philosophical trolley problems, but they expose more about ontological grammar than a morality profile.

    philosophics.blog/2026/03/28/h

    The first of a 2-part series on the trolley problem. Part 2 will extend the issue out of the lab and into reality with autonomous devices.

    #philosophy #psychology #morality #ontologicalgrammar #harm #trolleyproblem #choice #legibility #acculturation #society #ethics #deontology #virtue #consequences #utility #value #stoicism #blog #podcast

  29. هيئة #الطاقة #الذرية #الإيرانية تؤكد إصابة محيط #محطة #بوشهر #النووية بمقذوف دون وقوع #أضرار، محذرة أن أي #ضرر لمحطة #بوشهر قد يؤدي لحادث #نووي خطير له #تبعات على #المنطقة.

    Iranian #Atomic #Energy #Agency reports the vicinity of #Bushehr #Nuclear #Plant was hit by a projectile without causing #damage, warning that any harm to #Bushehr #Plant could trigger a serious #nuclear #incident with regional #consequences.

  30. The tips in the reply are really spot-on! Not just #PaganCommunities, but any kind of event or protest where #ToxicMasculinity, #Egotistic "leaders", and #ActivistBros lurk -- waiting to manipulate their next victim!

    Question on Reddit from 2021: How do you deal with a toxic pagan community?

    Answer (by sidhe_elfakyn)

    "Background

    I don't have experience with organizing Pagan events, but I have several years of experience with organizing events in general. My main area of focus has been event safety and culture, especially related to abuse and harassment. I burned out after about 4 years or so and I disconnected from that for a few years, but I'm getting back into it, at least informally.

    Introduction

    Unfortunately, toxic, unsafe events are extremely common. I believe one of the factors that exacerbates the situation is the fact that religion and spirituality are one of those key areas of the self where people can find a sense of shared identity, meaning, and direction. Leaders can act as gatekeepers for someone's feeling of belonging and acceptance, and that's prime ground for abuse.

    Regarding what you can do: one of the key aspects is ensuring that your events are safe. You've got your events, and you have other events and the community at large. The first one you have a great deal of influence over; for the most part you have only indirect influence over the second.

    At your events

    The key words for leading safe events are culture and values. Culture comes from the top down. You want to engender the culture at your events that matches your values (for instance, a value that attendee safety and comfort is paramount). Your community will self-select based on the culture of your events. So if you want to maximize women's feeling of safety, that needs to be baked into your events' culture.

    The primary way to do that is through policies and processes.

    - Have policies in place around #harassment and #ToxicBehavior, including #consequences for harassment. Publicize your policies, put them front and center. That right there will already select out a lot of toxic people and include people who feel unsafe at other events.

    - Publicize a way to report harassment and other toxic behavior. Make it easy. It's already hard enough to come forth with reports of harassment.

    - Have a process to investigate and handle such reports (offer both anonymous -- where the reporter doesn't share their identity -- and confidential -- where the reporter shares who they are but you keep it secret -- options). Be particularly mindful of the emotional burden and potential trauma of the person who reported it.

    - Make sure your processes are capable of dealing with reports of leaders committing abuse.

    - Remember that if you don't remove toxic people from your events, you'll drive away their victims instead.

    Your events will thus differentiate themselves from others where there is toxicity. Your membership will form into people who will uphold your event's culture of safety. There's a lot to be said here, these are just some ideas.
    Interacting with other leaders and events at large

    There will hopefully be other organizations like yours, that pay particular attention to safety. Reach out to those leaders, establish communication, form a network.

    Vet those organizations to make sure they are a right match for you. Create joint activities and events. This way your culture and values of safety will spread. You will lead by example and show that your events are safer, more comfortable, people are more engaged, participate more etc.

    What about toxic leaders and events?

    I've yet to find a way to influence other leaders into being less toxic. You can carve out a pocket of safety at your events but if a leader and event are toxic, it is very important to not affiliate yourself with them. Don't recommend people to their events, don't do joint activities etc.

    Having been on both sides, both as an attendee who has been sexually harassed and abused, and as an event organizer, I can say that affiliating yourself with toxic leaders will simply send the message to the people at your events that you are OK with their behavior (even if you're actually not, that's unfortunately the message that is being sent!); people will pick up on that and your event's culture and the people who go at your events will reflect that.

    There is no changing #ToxicLeaders' minds. The most important thing is to make sure your events are safe and to associate yourself with other safe leaders, and to disassociate yourself from toxic people. This will send the message that you are, in fact, not ok with that behavior and you will not associate with it.

    What about events that aren't intentionally toxic?

    I've seen plenty of leaders who want a safe community but inadvertently foster an unsafe one. This can happen for many many possible reasons, and it is an art and science in itself to figure out what's going on and address it. Keep an open channel of communications with these leaders. Lead by example. Show them how you do things and how your community is safe. If you do joint events, be very very careful; you don't want to expose your communities to toxic behavior, since people will be made uncomfortable or possibly even harmed and trust in your events' safety will be broken.

    Share your expertise, share your policies, offer mentorship and coaching, but don't overextend yourself. Your primary responsibility is towards your events and members.

    Closing thoughts

    I'm in the NYC area. Of the types of events that I used to lead, I can only think of a handful of safe ones. In New York Fucking City, only a small handful. However the community around these events is magnificent. New people seek out the safe events, word spreads, and these events are some of the most vibrant and alive, because people will return when they feel safe and welcome, when they feel their concerns are taken seriously and acted upon, and when leadership holds itself accountable, too.

    There will always be toxicity around. However, if you carve safety at your events, others will take notice. Over time, a network will form of safe events and leaders. Toxic leaders will keep being toxic, but the leaders who are having trouble creating a safe event will take note, will follow your lead, and will come to you for mentorship and guidance.

    Good luck! It will be difficult but extremely rewarding."

    Source:
    reddit.com/r/paganism/comments

    #WeKeepUsSafe #EventSecurity #SafeEvents #Accountability #Leadership #EventSafety #BuildingCommunity #BelieveVictims

  31. It's kinda #sad when a #Canadian who's just a moderately-informed layman interested in world affairs and #geopolitics has a better grasp of what the USA starting a #war with #Iran would entail in terms of consequences than the "president" who ordered it or the Secretary of Defence that is carrying it out.

    #USPol #SecDef #Trump #Hegseth #Kegbreath #MangoMussolini #idiot #consequences #FAFO #USA #USAnian

  32. The biggest #AIrisk isn’t rogue agents, it’s silent failure at scale: As #AIsystems grow too complex for humans to fully understand or control, small errors can quietly compound over weeks. Despite most deployments still being early-stage, companies are racing to adopt AI out of fear of falling behind. Experts warn this #goldrushmentality leaves little room for #guardrails and the #consequences could tip the #economy into disorder. cnbc.com/2026/03/01/ai-artific #AIagent #AI #LLM #GenAI