At a family gathering, a wake or a Christmas hooley, other children would step forward to sing a rhyme or dance a hornpipe.

The email followed years of racist activity online. Van Alphen’s account on Gab features a slew of bigoted posts written between 2016 and 2019. The most recent, posted more than a year ago, reads “HBO’s Watchmen is just as pozzed you’d expect given its (((writer))). Whitey bad, whitey racist. N*o good, n*o noble.”

These correspond to an indirected parallel write and an indirected parallel read operation respectively.

I wonder whether this could be a fact; hairy oobits do sting, rather like nettles, if angered. As a child I collected thirty-five once in my hands and they fought, leaving my hands, their battlefield, covered with a rash like measles which lasted for some days.