Could maybe help with level design for a game titled Psychonauts 3: Probably At The Next Gas Station.

Brave Georgian protesters are still blocking Rustaveli Avenue, risking days or even years in jail. GD has arrested more than 80 protesters in the past few days for participating in the #GeorgiaProtests. Day 331 of uninterrupted protests.

Technically this would be an example of decessor bias.

I daresay Mr Putin is loth to attack China, another country with both a history of repelling invaders and world-class expertise in manufacturing drones.

Today, GD arrested over a dozen people who attended yesterday’s protest — some for wearing scarves while walking away, others for standing on the sidewalk, and the rest for blocking Rustaveli Avenue in peaceful resistance. Still, even more people showed up tonight. Day 326. 🇬🇪

“Noe Dispensation by Non obstante of or to any Statute or any part thereof shall be allowed but the same shall be held void and of noe effect Except a Dispensation be allowed of in such Statute” Wondering what this is? It's the surviving text of the 1688 Bill of Rights, in English law, as amended.

A woman with a penis? They'll probably try to use he/him pronouns. (the penis in question is the size of a standard Frog Army inflatable)

I'm torn on Thriller. On the one hand, the accusations that Michael Jackson was an abusive criminal are convincing. On the other hand, even for a track that's about zombies, what a vamp.

I-44 Pizzicato? (the D-50 had a great list of patches, mind)

Yesterday, Gary Larson put out some new Far Sides. One for Jane Goodall, even. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/36...

The latest firmware for Minirig 4 portable speakers is pretty good. Handy advanced-mode features like being able to use it as a Bluetooth → wired headphone DAC, and the core thing of playing clear sound loudly works fine.

@danjarvismp.bsky.social calling for the government to be unequivocal on its position in respect of human rights. I fully expect them to equivocate on whether this includes humans in Israel and / or Palestine.

Today I learned: Morgan McSweeney's dad spent time in UK prison for involvemen­t in £1.2m fraud to sell Lamborghin­is

Sending cruise missiles to Ukraine could mean the war is soon over. And by "the war" I mean both Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and world war 3. I am not sure there is a good answer here. Anyway, my experience-shaped opinion is that whatever Mr Trump recommends isn't it.

Kind of daydreaming, kind of a feature request list… • shelter buildings where the crew retreat too if the main facility is too degraded • automatic partitioning into a main base and an outpost if the connecting infrastructure fails • radio towers and (tethered) relay balloons • bridges over tracks

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross had something to say on this, I reckon.

9/11 The other two are: Redistribution: Acknowledging that the burdens of loss hit the most vulnerable the hardest, and working to share those burdens more justly. Acknowledgment: A psychological approach—neither denying loss nor fixating on it, but integrating it into our collective story.

Georgian protesters who gather on Rustaveli Avenue every day often end up celebrating their birthdays right here. Happy birthday to Nestan! 🎂 Day 318 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia. #GeorgiaProtests

Why would a Russian asset want to drain the Pentagon's reserves? Why would Putin want to encourage this approach? Nope, can't figure it out.

In June, w/ @trialinternational.bsky.social, the @icws-sas.bsky.social, Physicians for human for Human Rights, Source International, 40 + practitioners met in Geneva for an expert consultation on the dev. of Guidelines on the #Documentation & #Investigation of Environmental International Crimes.

As chronic conditions go, that one must be quite an ordeal.

“Hey there Alice, would you like to coauthor that paper on smirking?” “I'm sensing there might be a catch…?” “Well, the classifier has a minimum requirement. We need at least ten minutes of footage.” “So you need ten minutes of video where Boris Johnson isn't lying. And you want me to find it.”

This Faderpunk thing looks neat.

This sounds like a handy way to spot how much helium is leaking out.

Government funded, sure. But in the absence of a better technique, botanists ought to be in charge of delivery.

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile at Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT. Only at The Onion on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU

ძალა ერთობაშია ("strength is in unity")

I don't know if they realise this but @reform-uk-official.bsky.social seem not to have known that many members of Hamas, a proscribed terror organisation, died attacking Israel that exact day. And yes, "all those whose lives were lost". Unless they don't think of Palestinians as people. Surely not?

Georgian police are asking protesters to clear Rustaveli Avenue, blocked for the 314th consecutive day. Protesters refuse. It’s clear Georgian Dream is getting increasingly desperate to suppress the daily protests. #GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪

🌍 On June 17, 40+ global experts met in Geneva to discuss how to investigate & litigate environmental international crimes. The message was clear: we need practical, multidisciplinary & accessible guidelines. Well, they're here! Read key insights: 👉 trialinternational.org/latest-post/...

What could possibly go wrong?

I just searched Bluesky for "tomorrow" and it feels like around half of the posts are about ensuring that tomorrow's live stream goes well. Bluesky folks, I admire your preparedness and your (presumably wholesome?) appetite for video content production.

This did make me chuckle / eye roll: "The sustainable florist choice comes with a glass vase as standard, please do not select the add vase option". Lovely touch there.

It's clear that she had fondness not just for primates like gorillas, but also bronterocs.

"The Conservatives made a total mess of protest laws and left us with the worst of all worlds – wasting police time arresting people for legitimate peaceful protest, while letting others get away with inciting violence. I fear Labour seem to be following them down the same path" buff.ly/PAisAD7

Rustaveli right now

If there are top up payments for cases like healthcare, childcare or disability support then I can make this into a grandiose sounding formulation: "from each person according to their harm; to each person according to their needs"

Georgia has been facing a wave of protests against its government's repressive policies. Authorities have responded with mass arrests, steep fines, and new laws, targeting protesters, rights groups, and media.

No #palestine

Protesters have gathered at the Freedom Monument in Tbilisi to demand freedom for Georgia’s latest political prisoner, activist & opposition member Gela Khasaia. Today marks Day 309 of uninterrupted nationwide protests in Georgia.

This escalated quickly.

“I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.” — William Pitt, first prime minister of the UK (previous prime ministers had been leaders of Great Britain; Ireland didn't have one)

It's because they, Israel, want the future message to be approximately "look, how can five thousand people need all this empty land?"

Labour leadership appears to think questions of English identity are too risky to be properly acknowledged. They’re wrong. If progressives don’t try to define an inclusive sense of identity, then we leave it to the far right to determine who does & doesn’t belong. Me for @byeliness.bsky.social

Those big screens look impressive, and I genuinely think that Greece has done a good job overall. But specifically on those screens, which were part funded by EU money … are they, in fact, mainly there for when the UEFA cup is on?

Only a cynic would suggest that app-based, digital ID cards are a ploy to make it easy to specifically mark all trans people with a mass update. I mean, they would make doing that easier. But only a cynic would suggest it.

The last lot of Labour-backed ID cards had chips in them. It's hard to find a modern economy where ID cards don't. But … what's the actual benefit? Irregular entry in a small boat is already illegal; you can already report potholes; and you can bet scammers will still pretend to be the government.

…and then he switches, having talked about beards and body hair, to talking about trans women, as if those are things trans women have. It's too pointed to be an accident. This is someone who wants to portray trans people as lesser.

This is great, and it's promising for people who do want a trip too. A better understanding of psychedelics would mean that (eg) www.beckleyfoundation.org have a better chance of finding safe ways to alter your mind without damaging it.

One of my statements at the UN 80th General Assembly: "We did not stop the Holocaust. We did not stop the genocide in Rwanda. We did not stop the genocide in Srebrenica. Now we have no excuses left; we must stop the genocide in Gaza."