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When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc. I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant" People got SUPER mad with it. Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

My Animorphs fic about this concept. archiveofourown.org/works/54814594

Oh lordy. I heard these stories from various people involved. If you want to work in TV, or just are curious about how thoroughly things can go wrong, definitely check this out.

Warning, this is an excellent way to get attention and interest, but if you do it too much, you turn into Blizzard Overwatch.

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

In case anyone has never seen the commercial that Terry Pratchett said inspired him (sort of) while writing Good Omens:

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

So let me get this today’s drama right: * Jay followed noted transphobe Jonathan Chait * Blacksky user Link pointed that out that’s fucked up after the past week * Link was banned on Blueskys appview presumably by Jay * But Link is also hidden from Blacksky b/c it still uses said appview

My experience is that there was a an absolutely huge gap between people’s beliefs about how their immigration systems work and how they actually work, and if you’ve had experience of the immigration system in the US or UK, you’ll spend a lot of time with one raised eyebrow when the topic comes up!

“The first documented case of sexually transmitted CTE” is the one that ended me

philadelphia sports comics

Today is the 63rd anniversary of the London premiere of Dr. No, which means (well, obviously) it’s time to tell you a ridiculous shaggy dog story about the theft of not one but two portraits of the Duke of Wellington

Every time I have to mod a game that isn't by Bethesda I hate it. Props to Bethesda for at least making things easier.

absolutely fucking incredible. this belongs in both the bsky louvre and the actual louvre

Achievement unlocked: Someone is writing a fic with the working title “Hugin’s fault”.

I've been watching a bunch of bbno$ music videos, after the incredible discovery that he is a Canadian rapper (name pronounced "BabyNoMoney") and not, as I had assumed for years, some sort of cryptocurrency hashtag thing that trends on social media every so often.

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

This probably sounds minor to many of you but closing the commissaries will....not be taken lightly by the US all-volunteer standing military. The PX is everything (literally, as it's not just groceries!)

"Former gifted child" is online slang for "neurodivergent and traumatized by the education system", so at the very least existing Gifted and Talented programs need to be HEAVILY reworked.

this is basically portland's version of a haka

100% All Achievements xkcd.com/3148/

my usual october plea to make ur tober prompts a series instead of one big fic that updates every day and has a million tags

Why is this so hard for most politicians to say?

This of course also works the other way if you are looking *for* all the [whatever]tober works; just take the NOT out.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

In 1945, the Allies faced a tricky question: where to hold Nazi war criminals until the trials. A run-down hotel in Luxembourg was quickly converted to a prison ("Camp Ashcan"). The hope was to keep the nature of the prisoners secret. In May 1945, this failed, and almost turned into a disaster. /1

Could we survive eating only humans? Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! youtu.be/PUtI3xoaHx0

fewer than 1% of the human population will ever get to type a comeback as contextually devastating as this

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

(solemnly) You've had mail.

So best-case scenario, for the next 5 years there's a fire sale on basically every dev studio and IP they own as the new owners try to cash out before it shutters. Worst-case is basically the same but slower and they forget to sell a bunch of stuff EA hasn't touched in a decade.

Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)

More public transportation so you can get a few beers with the fellas

I'm not gonna share the AI "Walmart was cool in 2002" video, so instead as a person who worked at several Walmarts between 1998-2011 I'm gonna share stories of what it was actually like back then. A man with a 32 oz Budweiser in his pocket tried to tickle me several times & we had to call the cops.

The bees have discovered Brutalism

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First time this guy has ever made me laugh

Broadview Police have opened an investigation into an attack from federal agents on a CBS crew at Broadview, per BPD Chief Mills.

it comes to my attention that not everyone knows that American fluid ounces and British fluid ounces are different measurements and therefore you should clarify which size pint

I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is. Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.

Live by exploiting others, die by others exploiting you, have companies literally raise your image from your grave to exploit you further. Like to be clear this sucks and shouldn't happen. But also, if Stan Lee could have done this to collaborators who told him to fuck off he absolutely would have.

See, if you're from a country with a less wildly corrupt police system, when you see 'speed trap' you think of 'a sudden change in the limit that catches people off guard but exists for a reason like a school crossing' not 'deliberately crafted system of extortion' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rom...

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...