UK Uncut's arguments received a simultaneous shot in the arm.
But you won't be alone: about 80 people will be mapping in person at Guardian HQ in London, and there are eight other simultaneous events around the world, from San Francisco to Jakarta.
Abu Ghraib was the scene of the biggest – and most damaging – breakout in 2013, with up to 500 inmates, many of them senior jihadists handed over by the departing US military, fleeing in July of that year after the prison was stormed by Islamic State forces, who launched a simultaneous, and equally successful, raid on nearby Taji prison.
Bribery and doping allegations in football and athletics are threatening to drag sportswear maker Nike into two simultaneous PR crises that could tarnish the iconic swoosh brand.
It ended shockingly, as Wojciech Szczesny and Laurent Koscielny had a simultaneous brain freeze to gift Birmingham the Capital One Cup.
Thousands also watched a simultaneous broadcast on screens at parallel events around the country.
The thought of the two men up there, delivering simultaneous acceptance speeches – Tarantino letting off rockets, Haneke trying to get a word in edgeways – is too much to resist.
The mission to combat piracy led to simultaneous global rollouts – "day and date" releases, in Hollywood lingo – and that was the policy picked for Star Wars: Attack of the Clones back in 2002.
Gay people in Nigeria have been set upon by mobs.The simultaneous advance of gay rights in the developed world and its retreat in some other places throws up difficult dilemmas for the West.
Each extra qubit in a quantum machine doubles the number of simultaneous operations it can perform.
The shares of Priceline.com dropped by 24% after the announcement of its profit (and simultaneous loss).
