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Evergreen.

US team should just pick up the ball and start throwing it into the goal tonight and have their president overturn the handball calls

The red card suspension is obviously farcical. Blatant favouritism. I only wish we had this much outcry from the football world about treatment of Iran's team with the visa fuckery in the group stage.

Ronaldo got his three game suspension lifted and Trump’s state department did everything in their power to make the Iranian team’s experience horrible. They also refused entry to the ref from Somalia. It’s nonsense to say that reversing a bullshit red card suspension is what tainted this WC.

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

The beautiful thing about the internet is that there are niche communities for every special interest. Threads, for example, is a whole app dedicated to lead poisoning.

A small thread about the favourite physical games I own, because I appreciate them so, so much and wish younger generations could experience this same joy. 💔

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

Strongly advise people to get a Blu-ray/DVD player as soon as possible and start going to your local resale shop for all your favorite films and shows

PlayStation in 2026

Nintendo has the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSI...

Living next to a giant data center isn’t that bad. Yes, it’s a huge black cube that blots out the sun. And I dislike having to enter it every day at 4pm and leave at 8pm with no memory of what transpired inside. It’s annoying that we have to call the cube “Father” or guards tase us. But otherwise

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

mad how the defining cultural image of Steamboat Willie is Mickey whistling and driving the boat, and not the bit where he plays a pig's nipples as a musical instrument while it shrieks in pain

Staying hydrated just so the data centres get less water.

Shareholders.

The date is November 19th 2026, I have just bought Grand Theft Auto VI. It takes 8 days to download, I pee in a Gatorade bottle. It will be the greatest art humanity has ever created. I start the game. I see a fake electronics store called ‘Circuit Titty’. “They’ve done it” I think. I begin to weep.

If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

Reminder from Mehdi Taremi (captain of the Iran team) that the World Cup is a disaster: www.reddit.com/r/soccer/com...

Does being from Dunboyne make CMAT a culchie - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

I know we all know this, but just to reiterate, when a company lays off workforce *without itself closing* what the executives are actually doing is stealing the future wages of their workers - wealth that the workers themselves generated - to line their own cash-stuffed pockets.

Anyway, we go on. A Dublin #painting, "Heuston III" I painted because I love train stations and the areas around them. This was my 3rd time I painted the main station for trains to the west of Ireland with the bridge that shares its name. And a bonus Luas for tram lovers. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #Art

Well, I've been affected by the Bungie layoffs, and I guess I'm now looking for work. I'm a senior narrative designer on Destiny 2. I'm going to thread a little list of stuff I've done on the game; normally I go out of my way to avoid attention, but today I'd appreciate reposts.

>GTA6 is 80$ The only real way to enjoy GTA was to buy a bootleg San Andreas dvd from this guy on a post-Soviet flea market for the equivalent of 5 bucks in 2005

So tired of blacking out every full moon when I really want to stay up and help the townsfolk hunt for the werewolf

more of this real journalism pls #SciArt #comic

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

I’m an writer and I don’t use AI because, as you might recall my mentioning earlier, I’m a writer.

one of the ads of all time www.youtube.com/watch?v=7umH...

'Went twice' lol

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

Majority of Dublin discourse is about how it's a shithole, but being out and about at the Stoneybatter festival is a ✨delight✨ Good reminder of how great this city can be.

needing AI to write an email for your emails job is the most pathetic shit I can imagine. you can't write some sentences? you can't say Hey Mike, Circling back, do we think we'll have an update on this before the vendors' meeting? I'd like to get this resolved before the audit rollout. Thanks,

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Pretending that education is just job training and that it should be stripped of all non-utilitarian elements is one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas. Acting like it's some kind of axiom we should be using to orient ourselves at the moment is disastrously wrong-headed.

Was searching for why women get a cap for graduation and made a typo and thus proving that AI will make up all sorts of random crap.

In fairness, the vast majority of them are dead.

We can be upset that folks didn't engage with more great media that deserves to shine, absolutely. We can be annoyed and mad as hell But I also need us to understand there's no amount of sales that would've "saved" some studios/games from corporate greed. The industry at large has a PROBLEM

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. If you've looked upon my works and despaired please consider leaving a review on one of the major online retail sites.

Something I found that really helps writers especially is to tell them you read their work. There is a friend of mine who thought their work went completely unread for ages, they had no idea, I would read every update of theirs no matter how small. I told them their work was important to me.

"ai can't write good stories, but it's useful for concept art" "ai slop can't replace real artists, but it's fine for programming" "ai can't write maintainable code, but it's good for translations" everyone assumes their own field cannot be replaced by ai, but fields they understand less can be

Do posh people not go to therapy, is that the issue here? Why is any of this happening in a national publication

“Do what you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” Yeah, because they’ll fucking lay you off to spend a trillion dollars making Clippy able to stand in as a virtual wife who has positive views on school shooters

I'd say "read a book" but you could just listen to Zombie for this one ffs.

Proud American tradition of incredible takes on Belfast continues. Same energy.

I love football and the World Cup more than almost anything. But I won't be tuning in and I think you shouldn't either. Wrote about why here: www.narramblings.com/why-im-not-w...