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Bethany Black (bethanyblack@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 20:19:13 JST Bethany Black
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@cstross absolutely. This is the key stuff, prevention is always better

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  Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 20:19:14 JST Charlie Stross
  
  @BethanyBlack Also maybe snatch and replace—with a competent obstetrics team—the idiot doctors who delivered the future Kaiser Wilhelm II with mild brain damage (leading to fits of rage and what sounds to modern ears like PTSD … a bad thing when you're in charge of an army and a navy) and a withered arm.
  
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  dannysolsman (dannysolsman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 20:31:29 JST dannysolsman
  
  @BethanyBlack Well Just find the abandoned nazi ufo time machine hidden somewhere in Europe.
  
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  eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 20:48:28 JST eribosot
  
  @BethanyBlack Stephen Fry wrote a cautionary tale about all these kinds of shenanigans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_History_(novel)
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    Making History (novel)
    
    Making History (1996) is the third novel by Stephen Fry. Its plot involves the creation of an alternative historical timeline in which Adolf Hitler never existed. While most of the book is written in standard prose, a couple of chapters are written in the format of a screenplay. The book won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. Plot Changing history The story is told in first person by Michael "Puppy" Young, a young history student at Cambridge University on the verge of completing his doctoral thesis on the early life of Adolf Hitler and his mother. He meets Professor Leo Zuckerman, a physicist who has a strong personal interest in Hitler, the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust. Michael assumes this is due to his Jewish heritage. However, it is later revealed that Leo was born Axil Bauer, the son of Dietrich Bauer, a Nazi doctor at Auschwitz who – when the Nazi defeat became certain – gave his son the identity of a Jewish doctor that he murdered. Leo has developed a machine that enables the past to be viewed—but it is of no practical use as the image...
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  rticks (rticks@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 21:55:27 JST rticks
  
  @BethanyBlack lolol I love it :)
  https://youtu.be/9srlLFItUFU?si=AwMwZHdodgHbJZ8J
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    Franz tells his younger self to kill a Time Traveling Goebels who is going to hire him in the future. Franz does this but his problems only start then.

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