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A Tom Gauld classic, scarily on track

This is a Tom Gauld comic strip about a female writer whose fictional dystopian novel becomes a reality. The essential information is:

A writer decides to write a novel set in a horrific dystopia.

Frame 1 - "I'm going to shut myself away and write a novel set in a horrific dystopia"

Frame 2 - 5 years later "Finished"

Frame 3 - she steps out into a real life dystopia of women under control and armed guards, tanks and helicopters and exclaims "Damn!"

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TIL: The earliest use of the word "terrorism" identified by the Oxford English Dictionary is a 1795 reference to tyrannical state behavior, the "reign of terrorism" in France."

The term was coined to describe the actions of the state during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, where agents of the Committee of Public Safety, referred to as "Terrorists," enforced the government's policies with violence against perceived enemies.