i appreciate the grace with which the tumblr zoology pedants allowed me to pretend this was intentional

Having a retired mercenary as minister of police was never going to go well, apart from anything else.

Officer D is the only one who emerges from this with any credit. I hope they won’t suffer too much backlash from colleagues for doing their job properly.

The fact that he's seen as someone who would clean up VicPol says a lot, really.

xavantina.tumblr.com/tagged/murde... is an absolute treasure trove of "I am seen/I have been attacked"

Last 18 months I have had vendors cold-calling me in what seems like sheer desperation. My last job had a landline number that had been plumbed through to soft phones a decade ago so I would get cold calls on Teams of all places.

I don’t know what’s going on in vendor land but it’s not great

Inland seas

In terms of the way Nehru and Nasser reserved the right to side with the superpower blocs as best met their interests at the time, that would fit.