Question for anybody whoβs played a lot of different MMOs: Has there ever been an MMO Raid where one part of the raid has had you do a Power Rangers style βEveryone works together to control a giant robotβ fight, or anything remotely similar? Because I feel like thatβd be sick as hell.
Turns out German farmers grew too much potatoes last year, so now all the extra potatoes have to be consumed (the alternative is just burning them for biodiesel). This means free potatoes for everyone in Berlin! They accept applications for batches over 1 ton until Monday; and also on Thursday and Friday there will be multiple distribution points across Berlin for picking up smaller amounts for personal consumption, measured in kilos. 4000-tonnen.de
π΄ π - AOC: βI understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street.β
βCorrupt, demented circus clownβ: Nobel committee slams door on Donald Trumpβs dream of stealing the peace prize Source: We Got This Covered βCorrupt, demented circus clownβ: Nobel committee slams door on Donald Trumpβs dream of stealing the peace prize Source: We Got This Covered share.newsbreak.com/gq0oo2pk
Hey everybody who knows about the history of mental illness. Someone I care about has ADD and is really badly disabled. I have a big ask of you.
Where can I read a history of societal attitudes to people with poor focus and weak executive functions ***BEFORE 1920***? That is, not a history of the diagnosis. A social history of the empirical phenomenon.
There's lots of books about #depression. Help me out now!
This fascist project is coming to fruition now after 50 years in the planning - 1971 to be more accurate, with the Powell Memorandum & subsequently, Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission.
All because the 1960s gave the rich nightmares involving guillotines.
Given what's happening in the #US at the moment, we need to be really aware as to how Scotland is being used to further that agenda in other places
We can see what #Trump's got at the moment around #Greenland. We don't want to be complicit in that.
βIf we're not asking the questions about what they're doing when they come through #Wick, we should be asking the questions.
In the space of a week, the US administration has #kidnapped the Venezuelan president, suggested it could take Greenland next by force, and seized an oil tanker in Scottish waters.
Renee Good's family received so much money on their GoFundMe that they closed it and said that they would like to have the money go to other families in need... What a beautiful gesture
The fact that Renee Nicole Goodβs family closed their GoFundMe after it reached more than they ever imagined and requested we instead send donations to others in need is exactly the difference between the Good family and grifter Erika Kirk.
As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are βonly doing their dutyβ, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed bomb, he will never sleep any the worse for it. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair] Essay (1941-02-19), βThe Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius,β Part 1 βEngland Your England,β sec. 1, The Searchlight Books [ed. Fyvel and Orwell]
"Three... U.S. senators are calling on Apple and Alphabet's Google to remove X and its built-in [ #AI ] chatbot Grok from their app stores, citing the spread of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors on the platform.
In a letter published on Friday, senators Ron Wyden of Oregon, Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico and Edward Markey of Massachusetts said Google and Apple "must remove these apps from the app stores until X's policy violations are addressed." #tech
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 : Three Democratic U.S. senators are calling on Apple and Alphabet's Google to remove X and its built-in artificial intelligence chatbot Grok from their app stores, citing the spread of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minorβ¦
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i need y'all to understand that the moderate who tells you that you can't protect marginalized people from fascists because it'll paint progressives as dangerous criminals is just as vital a component of fascism as the goon actively rounding up those marginalized people.
fascism's true believers are *very* few in number. the bulk of fascism's power comes from treacherous moderates who will tell you that, yes, fascism is bad - but resistance is worse.
You know how in the early 1900s, radium was discovered and people started putting it into a bunch of random products that were marketed as having any number of magical or healing properties because "ooooo cool it glows" and because radioactivity was such a new concept that no one understood the danger? Or how asbestos was used in like, everything for a while?
This is what generative AI is like, but for the service economy. Future generations are going to treat this shit like toxic waste.
Does anyone following me β or anyone you know who you could forward this to β write content for any intermediary platform like Ghost or Beehiv or Substack, etc.?
Specifically (I think) Iβm talking about a central place where you write blog posts/articles/whatever they may call them in order to get more eyeballs on your stuff but also, as a perk, maybe make a couple of bucks for the effort.
Iβve got some questions about that process, including but not limited to: - Do you still own the writing? - Could you still post it on your own site for casual readers there who donβt catch it on said platform? - Can you drive readers from your writing on the platform to your own site? - Iβm assuming posting regularly is a big benefit vs sporadically (or does that matter?) - Do to need, or is it better to have, an overarching theme to the posts? - Does it cost you anything? And conversely, do you get paid? In either case, how does that math work?
I sporadically put stuff up on my own site that Iβve been told by a handful of folks I should try to monetize (I get that it wonβt be any notable income for all but the 1% of the 1%-type thing, but if I could get even a few bucks a pop vs the nothing I get now, why not?), but itβs rarely themed, and the nature of my work and home life makes it difficult to commit to a set day of the week for X number of words (although Iβd of course be up for trying it), so Iβm wondering if someone could kind of synopsize those answers based on their experience or knowledge.
β¦ or, hey, if anyone knows of any head-to-head type articles that cover the same questions.
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. Each panel shows two people on a sidewalk: One is a masked ICE agent, the other a woman carrying a protest sign which says βabolish ICE.β¦
I hate to say it, but I'm completely unsurprised at the response to this horrific event, when others have been mu**ered by #ICE and barely a word is uttered. Of course, we know what the difference is between them.
Warning for folks in Minneapolis / St. Paul out there active in the community today:
Neighbors have flagged this person as a right-wing agitator, spouting racist and violent BS, out harassing people and cruising for conflict. Eyes out, be aware.
I don't have any further info on their identity, sorry.
"Jd Vance is a pathological careerist liarβa hollow opportunist with no beliefs, no spine, no self. He doesnβt evolve; he rebrands. His politics are cosplay for ambition, whatever sells today. Not principled, not conflictedβjust empty. He changed his name 4 times. He will say anything to advance."
He called trump America's hitler multiple times. He opined about how many people trump had raped. He asked the question: what percentage of the american population had trump sexually assaulted.
Weβre mobilizing across the country this weekend to honor Renee Nicole Good, demand accountability for ICEβs killing of Renee, and make visible the human cost of ICEβs terror: docs.google.com/document/d/1F8β¦
QUICK LINKS AND KEY RESOURCES Rapid Response Call - recording 1/8/2026 Find an event near you Mobilize event creation link ACLU Protest Safety, Know Your Rights, and De-Escalation Training 1/9 8PM ET Safety, Security, and Day-of Preparedness Democrβ¦
That's amazing - and you just know that the people who made the tape had no idea what they were doing. Do you think the tapes were provided to the rafting company with the intro pre-recorded, and then they added on the experience bits themselves? And somehow got the PAL intro tapes? Such strangeness.
@mhkohne a lot places - Disney, Universal etc used to sell PAL & NTSC Versions. Any excuse to get more cash out the tourist eh
My guess is, they had NTSC & PAL tapes duplicated in bulk with the intro on, ready to go. They then strapped on the individual βexperienceβ when ordered.
They picked the correct Intro but forgot / didnt care as they wonβt know till they get home
**** UPDATE **** My girlfriend decided otherwise, see below.
Question to the internet: my girlfriend was in #Dublin before Christmas and flew from there to the Netherlands. Somehow in the chaos of security checks she forgot to take her analog camera; there was confusion on if she should leave it in her bag or not.
She contacted the airport: they found it and they can send it to Germany. Costs close to β¬140 (!!!). She bought the camera for less than half that price.
So a help request for the fediverse: Is someone nearby or does someone come nearby and would be able to pick it up and ship it to Germany themselves?
Because my girlfriend is now contemplating leaving it over there and hunting for another camera, as it doesn't make any sense to have it shipped for that price.
Texas officials have turned over the stateβs voter roll to the DOJ, according to a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of Stateβs Office, complying with the Trump administrationβs demands for access to data on millions of voters across the country.
In Minnesota, the federal government is no longer a trusted authorityβitβs an active threat. After ICEβs massive deployment and the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis resident, Governor Tim Walz has put the National Guard on alert and focused his efforts on defending his state from the regimeβs escalating extremism. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/pβ¦
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Exclusive | Here's who's really behind the Minneapolis ICE
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billionaire George Soros, are behind the anti-ICE protests...
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ICE agent who shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is >
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Exclusive | Here's who's really behind the Minneapolis ICE
resistance movement \
Radical leftist groups, including one financed with $7.8 million from progressive -
billionaire George Soros, are behind the anti-ICE protests...
1 day ago
New York Post \
ICE agent who shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is >
βcommittedβ Christian, βtremendousβ father and husband, i
family says
The ICE agent who fatally shot protester Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is a Trump-
supporting Christian and war veteran who has a Filipina...
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