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  • This one is insane. The police response really does feel like it’s straight out of an action movie.

    On 7 November at 9:30 am, Operation Magician was under way, commanded by Detective Superintendent Jon Shatford of the Metropolitan Police. A total of two hundred officers were involved in the operation, of which forty were from the Specialist Firearms Command (SCO19). A further sixty armed Flying Squad officers were stationed around the Thames, and twenty on the river itself to hamper any escape attempts. Surveillance officers were disguised as Dome employees. The Millennium Dome’s CCTV room was used by the police as a control room.

















  • While I don’t have the answers I did attempt to write a book for fun many years ago. It was quite an eye opening experience, because it turns out writing a book is hard, and very time consuming. I was only about 20 pages in before I gave up the idea.

    That said, you don’t have to actually write a book. Writing creative essays, short stories, and even articles can be very rewarding without needing any long-term commitments. I’d give those a shot before jumping into something as big as making a real book. I still enjoy writing and I’m sure you will too, but you need a ton of commitment to make a book.



  • simple@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzSpread the load
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    1 year ago

    The trick is to always be prepared…

    Edit: I was going to say and always have alternate accounts from my alt account but this comment isn’t showing up there lol. Seems Lemmy World is still having server struggles.

    Edit 2: For all fellow Lemmy World users, it seems federation is pretty broken right now. No comments are going through.