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An old acquaintance got the vitruvian man - in a circle - tattooed on his chest/stomach as a ~19 year old. He enjoyed himself too much in his early 20s and the enclosing circle was stretched out to a rough egg shape by his beer gut.

This is the one thing we didn't want to happen

The Unlabored Blade The Unlabored Blade is a soulbound dagger in Pillars of Eternity, added in The White March - Part II expansion. It can be used by characters of any class. As with other soulbound weapons, the in-game ...

I really loved Ninja Gaiden (2004), especially in Black and Sigma iterations. I thought the Wooden Sword/Unlabored Flawlessness progression was so cool that I copied it (sorta) in The White March.

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You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.

Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

Even before this entirely unsurprising news, you were a total mark if you consumed this slop.

it is pleasant to read about whales through their own spectacles

Are the Ellisons the most dysgenic family on the planet? Absolute freaks, all of them.

Thinking about that AAA lead writer role I interviewed for in 2023. I asked how many writers would be on my team and they hesitated before saying, "Well, they're not exactly writers..." It was an all-AI "writing" team. They wanted me to train them all ☠️

Israel Epstein - Wikipedia

Against nominative determinism en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_...

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

The employment rate of non-EU born migrants exceeded that of the UK-born for the first time on record.

Confirms other evidence that recent migrants (even if they did not arrive on work visas) are very likely to be working/have high employment rates.

Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations – Wikimedia Foundation UPDATE: On Monday, 11 August, the High Court of Justice dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations. While the decision does not provi...

Breaking: the court ruling in Wikipedia's legal challenge to the Online Safety Act categorisation regime has just been handed down. The court dismissed Wikipedia's challenge. This is bad. This is very bad. wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08...

AI Vegans have the nerve to call my essay “slop,” but it’s probably not! When I read it later today I’ll post a rev

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made How the success of a singular video game led to crises for almost all its creators

For the FT this weekend, I wrote about the foundation and fallout of Disco Elysium: how two Estonian novelists' successes and failures in literature led to the creation of a video game masterpiece, and an endless font of strife.

www.ft.com/content/5ae5...

does hunt showdown have dancing emotes though.

Visited the barren, overgrazed Hen Tor common yesterday with @tonydartmoor.bsky.social - an ‘ecological dead zone’, as he called it

This is an SSSI that’s now in declining condition with barely any heather left & a single rowan growing on a rocky ledge - and even that had been browsed by sheep!

with a low sucking sound it slowly disappeared again

Reality is now so internet poisoned you cannot say true things without appearing insane. “The New York Times ran a hit piece on Zohran purely so a minor race science blogger could place insider trades on Polymarket” sounds like you are a schizophrenic but it is straightforwardly factual!

Here’s that kids’ ball pit design boss, real fuckin’ ominous 1970s sci-fi, just like you asked

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

OMG! TOO CUTE??? ❤️ Scientists taught rats to drive tiny cars and found that even when they didn't give them treats, they would still intentionally get into car crashes for the purpose of sexual gratification

the script for this iran war drumbeat is EXACTLY the same as the runup to iraq. ive heard almost verbatim "with us or against us" and "the smoking gun will be a mushroom cloud." neocon deep state stays winning

After putting in a bunch of hours I've decided to check out a bit until the full release but can confirm it *slaps*

Matty Mattheson looks like Bam Margera if he ate Phil Margera.

We've got a guaranteed stinker here, boys.

I had an iRiver H140 - similarly forgotten to time. I can also just about recall early Shazam, before it was an app, when you had to call a number and hold your phone to the source. You'd get the result by SMS a minute or so later.

Exceedingly rare Lammy non-L

Hey you’re not overthinking that thing you said. They did take it the wrong way, and the way you said it was actually really weird and off putting

Ill-advised use of "Balmoral" in a Japanese hotel name.