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A fabricated statement from Nintendo of America's Twitter account addressing a fictitious scenario in which the Earth's oxygen supply is presumed to be depleting at a rapid pace, leaving humanity with mere days to live. "This is Miyamoto. On behalf of everyone who is employed at Nintendo Co. LTD and its subsidiaries, we deeply mourn the countless human lives which will be lost due to the depletion of the global oxygen supply. To anyone who has ever played one of our games, we are eternally grateful to have created long-lasting fun and memories for you. To ease the suffering of families and children across the world, the Mario Kart World game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be available as a free download on Nintendo eShop for the foreseeable future. We hope this small gesture of kindness will ease the pain as humanity prepares for a worst-case scenario." The statement is distastefully plastered with logos for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as with a render of Mario from Mario Kart World.

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. John Default Profile Picture: "No one read this statement and thought it was distasteful? Why did Miyamoto think this would help anyone?" NintenDeen: "Simple: Nintendo is so depraved that they'd exploit a global crisis to boost the player count of the failed Mario Kart World and force consumers back into the Switch 2 ecosystem to boost sales and player numbers."

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. PlayStation Nation: "What the fuck are you doing falsely advertising sales during these trying times? I went to the website and Mario Kart World is still selling for $80 USD." Kremling Kevin: "If you actually read the statement, it clearly says the discount is available on Nintendo eShop. Meaning the application on the Switch 2 itself, not the web browser version." PlayStation Nation: "Point still stands."

A fabricated Tweet responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. Isaboner: "Nothing for Switch 1 owners?"

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

Construction.

Guess it's that time of the year to wheel this out... 😏

An abandoned Soviet era circus! 🤡😍 Now technically receiving funding from EU to try and renovate it but no renovations seem to have happened yet. Stunning 😍

Moldova 🇲🇩

I saw this last night…
#Photography

Mary statue in a nook, on a wall, downtown.

Crooked Mary...
in a vent, on wall, with missing plaster making a big cross.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed #Photography #Bluesky #Stilllife #Urbangaze #Random

A digital illustration of a cartoon character kicking a blue pig while holding up a sign. Above the sign reads "Remember", and within it reads: "Do not sign up to join a protest. Just show up!". A speech bubble leading to the character contains the words: "That's how all your info gets put on a list!!".

stop being silly in front of me

#art

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

A black and white photo of a crowd of observers standing in front of what looks like ICE/CBP agents (one man has a vest that reads police on the back but it does not look standard issue). One one woman in the crowd is colorized. She standing in an aquamarine bathrobe and slippers holding a phone filming the masked thugs.

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years Gallup will no longer track presidential approval ratings after more than eight decades doing so, the public opinion polling agency confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. The company said starting thi…

Totally normal democracy we have here, 10/10, no notes

thehill.com/homenews/med...

In Minnesota families are in hiding, teachers & neighbors are delivering groceries to those who cannot leave their homes because it is unsafe, children cannot go to school because it is unsafe.

Minnesota is under an unconstitutional federal occupation that needs to end.

#Pinks
#ICEOUT

A few days following the King Kong “incident,” New Yorkers return to business as usual.

A few days following the King Kong “incident,” New Yorkers return to business as usual.

A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...

Never before has a VA and a musical accompaniment so understood the tone necessary.

SHE’S FINISHED! My 5-foot-long Enterprise D oil painting is complete after nearly 100 hours of work!

I remember being 13 years old or so and trying to draw her and it was so hard, and all I wanted was to be able to do something like this. Truly a dream come true. 🥰🖖

This clip of John Williams & Steven Spielberg tinkering with the E.T. theme will always have me floating. History in the making.

Has anyone seen the video or heard whether Congress ever received the video of Epstein hanging himself?

#USDemocracy

An AI-generated slop pic of a fish diagram, labeled “Fish Fish: Toxic gallbladder plem”

I once tried searching about invasive species in Lake Michigan and was rewarded with this slop

XhatGPT idiotic layout of 13amp plug wiring. Just random wires really.

CoPilot AI diagram of plug wiring. Two live wires, one forked off the earthm and a screw head is also labelled Live.

And finally, Gemini AI diagram of 13 amp plug wiring. Hard to know where to even begin with this. Just a mess really.

One of the easiest ways to shoot down the idea that "AI" is an expert is to show how it deals with something people know about.

Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.

From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:

On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was

An image showing an email sent from the address of the late, disgraced sex offender and close friend of Donald Trump for many years, Jeffrey Epstein has had the recipient's email address and, strangely, the word "Don't" redacted

It's almost as if they've just done a find and replace to remove any instances of the phrase 'Don T', without reviewing them before selecting 'Replace All'

#POTUS
#EpsteinFiles

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Times article has an incredible illustration

Down in front! I'm trying to look at this beautiful keyboard!

I didn’t share any of the progress on this one, but turns out I was right. It was a big pain to sculpt, but dang, I’m happy with it.

Screenshot of the practice site for my static site generator project, webette. Homepage.

Screenshot of the practice site for my static site generator project, webette. Introduction.

Screenshot of the practice site for my static site generator project, webette. How to Insert an Image.

🇬🇧 My webette project is coming along great!
I finished the practice site design: the first one you’ll build with my static site generator.
It’ll also be used for the docs and the main site.
Can’t wait to see the personal sites, Neocities, and Nekoweb projects people make with it!

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Image of an old Deutsches Rotes Kreuz ambulance.

Heres one I stumbled upon in Carlisle.

A great blue heron catches a bluegill in a pocket of open water surrounded by ice during the final winter light in Longmont, Colorado. In this horizontal color photograph, the heron stands nearly body-deep in a small opening in the frozen pond near the shoreline. Shown in right profile, the bird’s head feathers lift and curl as it wrestles with the fish. The last rays of sunlight strike the fish and the front of the heron, setting them aglow against a background of solid, frozen ice. Photo by Kort Duce

A great blue heron catches a fish, in a pocket of open water surrounded by ice, in Longmont, Colorado.

#BirdoftheDay #LongNecks #bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #photograph #greatblueheron #greatblueherons #heron #herons

RFK Jr. Questions Efficacy Of Skin

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