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Due to an influx of requests, we are happy to provide this pre-signed note from the esteemed Gamer Practitioner - Dr. A. Renanet. Should you require further proof, unfortunately, Dr. A. Renanet will be out on vacation for at least two weeks, starting October 28th, 2025.

Castora promises beauty and danger in equal measure. Are you ready? #GW2VoE #GW2

Excitement abounds with the release of Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity! Join us in the final countdown while window-shopping for tomorrow's new goodies: www.guildwars2.com/news/our-vis...

Epic adventure beckons… ✨ Guild Wars 2: Visions of Eternity arrives Oct 28! Perilous wonders await. Prepurchase for bonuses! Dive into the details: bit.ly/44QL8uo #GW2 #VoE

Full pockets do not weigh down idle hands—but do often bolster plans.

Fun fact: One of EA's new owners, Affinity Partners (investment group founded by Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner) has a similar logo to fictional Templar-run evil Assassin's Creed gaming company Abstergo Entertainment

A government elected a little over twelve months ago and yet so exhausted and stale that we get "errr, how about we try ID cards again?". Is this what the fag-end Major years were like?

This is the predictable & unprecedented new level of open corruption that happens when the president openly monetizes his hotel in plain sight for four years & we don't do anything about it.

I doubt the observation is unique to me, but it's funny how it's always "women should simply fight the pain" and not "men should simply fight the flaccid penis"...

Dutch late night TV has its take

US appeals court orders deportation of Atlanta journalist detained by Ice Mario Guevara faces imminent removal from US as his attorney files emergency petition

With the news cycle focused on ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, a journalist with a valid US work permit and pending green card application is about to be deported for the crime of reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

TRUMP: That's why I sued the New York Times two days ago for a lot of money

KARL: A judge just threw that out

TRUMP: I'm winning. I'm winning the cases.

I absolutely adore haggis on a burger with peppercorn sauce. Oh god, I'm so hungry right now! I'm not actually sure if I've had a haggis pizza. If I have it must have been unremarkable.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says Sinclair has "every right" to demand that Jimmy Kimmel to donate to Turning Point USA

Never heard of it. Had a wee look and suspect it's not for me as I don't like mustard, but the way I look at it, if you're eating that then there's more cheapo Blue Dragon sauce for me! 🤣

Postcard of Horton and submarine E9, issued after he sank SMS Hela at the start of the Great War. The brass HATED the Jolly Roger, so it's not featured here.

A happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day to Lt. Cmd Max Horton, who might not have talked like a pirate but damn well flew a Jolly Roger like one.

Girl, nine, shot with airgun in ‘racially aggravated assault’ in Bristol Police seek white male suspect and are treating incident as a hate crime after ‘traumatised’ victim hit three times A nine-year-old girl was shot with an airgun in what is being treated as a racially aggravated assault in Bristol, said police, who have increased patrols in the area. The victim, who has been left “traumatised”, was hit three times by a pellet and the white male suspect, thought to be 17 to 18 years old, shouted racially abusive language at the girl, Avon and Somerset police said. Continue reading...

Girl, nine, shot with airgun in ‘racially aggravated assault’ in Bristol

It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so here are some things you didn’t* know about pirates (*unless you already did), and which I didn’t know until I read my niece’s Masters dissertation a while back. Firstly – remarkably – pirate ships were democracies with a pretty flat management structure

It is now!

Haggis pakora (or any sort of battered deep fried haggis) is best served with cheapo Blue Dragon Thai Sweet Chili Sauce from the supermarket. I said what I said.

Haggis Pakora

Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan

I should have specified Edinburgh, Scotland lol, I forgot there were bound to be namesakes.

The Hidden Story Of My Family’s Link to Jeremy Thorpe – And The Truth It Reveals About Post-War Britain Some 60 years ago my grandmother was reaching the end of her tether. A single mother, abandoned by her husband, she was struggling to raise four yo...

I grew up believing I was closely related to disgraced Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe

But digging into the truth revealed a very different story, and a glimpse into a post-war Britain wrestling with class, identity and aspiration

Scientists confirm discovery of a new otter species New scientific discovery: DNA reveals that the neotropical otter is not one, but two distinct species in Latin America.

New Otter just dropped.

www.earth.com/news/scienti...

Kaitlin Collins tweet: The president on Air Force One: “When you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump, that’s all they do — if you go back, I guess they haven’t had a conservative one in years, or something — when you go back and take a look, all they do is hit Trump. They’re licensed. They’re not allowed to do that.”

The president of the United States believes he has the right and the authority to use the firepower of the federal government to crush people who say things about him that he does not like. It's as simple as that.

This by @irathethird.bsky.social is the most elucidating paragraph I’ve read so far on the parallel-universeness of Charlie Kirk reactions.

open.substack.com/pub/iramadis...

My mum saw one of the Harlem Globetrotters in Edinburgh in the 80's in McDonald's. Everybody knew they were in town so there was no mistaking the fella. Mum's shrunk now but she was probably as tall as FIVE FOOT at the time! 🤣

Anthony Gordon's dedication to recreating all of Princess Diana's iconic looks is to be admired

Massive Attack remove music from Spotify to protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military The band cited a ‘moral and ethical burden’ placed on artists by revenue from their work ultimately funding lethal technologies Massive Attack have become the latest act – and first major-label one – to pull their catalogue from Spotify in protest at founder Daniel Ek investing €600m (£520m) in the military AI company Helsing. In June, Ek’s venture capital firm Prima Materia led the defence tech firm’s latest funding round. Helsing’s software uses AI technology to analyse sensor and weapons system data from battlefields to inform real-time military decisions. It also makes its own military drone, the HX-2. Ek is also chairman of Helsing. Unconnected to this initiative and in light of the (reported) significant investments by its CEO in a company producing military munition drones and AI technology integrated into fighter aircraft, Massive Attack have made a separate request to our label that our music be removed from the Spotify streaming service in all territories. In our view, the historic precedent of effective artist action during apartheid South Africa and the apartheid, war crimes and genocide now being committed by the state of Israel renders the No Music for Genocide campaign imperative. In 1991 the scourge of apartheid violence fell from South Africa, aided from a distance by public boycotts, protests, and the withdrawal of work by artists, musicians and actors. Complicity with that state was considered unacceptable. In 2025 the same now applies to the genocidal state of Israel. As of today, there’s a musician’s equivalent of the recently announced @filmworkers4palestine campaign (signed by 4,500 filmmakers, actors, industry workers & institutions) – it can be found @nomusicforgenocide & supports the wider asks of the growing @bds.movement . We’d appeal to all musicians to transfer their sadness, anger and artistic contributions into a coherent, reasonable & vital action to end the unspeakable hell being visited upon the Palestinians hour after hour. Continue reading...

Massive Attack remove music from Spotify to protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’