Mark Wilkins / CCP Darwin 🇮🇸🇺🇸

Got taken down, but archive.org grabbed it quickly enough! web.archive.org/web/20251021...

Scifi Shooter | EVE Vanguard EVE Vanguard is a sci-fi sandbox FPS where every fight, scavenged resource, and choice shapes a brutal, player-driven universe at war.

I got to play @PlayEVEVanguard's Operation Nemesis event that's still live and free to play right now until Oct. 2nd. Here's some beginner tips to get you started. Play at evevanguard.com #sponsored www.youtube.com/watch?v=th2W...

Homeland Security @DHSgov Which way, American man? http://JOIN.ICE.GOV photo of uncle sam with his hat off at a crossroads with title "America Needs You, Join ICE Now"

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?

Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

Id dot me is a nightmare. I had horrible problems with them trying to submit a utility bill to prove my address. Yes, much of it was in a foreign language, but it was obviously a utility bill and had my name and address. Anyway, I thought they now allow using the alternate login dot gov service.

Me: take hours to read a book

You: have your super hot ChatGPT girlfriend download a million books, read them, then summarize them all to you in a barrage of lies that you can't even tell are lies because you don't read books; also you have the critical thinking skills of a shovel-struck donkey

OMG Væb made it to the #Eurovision2025 finals!!

LEGO sushi.

Leaving the country? Do yourself a favour and get your important documents “apostilled” before you go…

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I am certainly a grave disappointment to my Icelandic tutor, but she puts on a brave face.

A shot from Eyes Wide Shut: two people, dressed in black robes, wearing Venetian carnival masks, eyeing an outsider (Tom Cruise) down below

when they realize you're not supposed to be in the group chat

YouTube video by swiftiepink everytime blackpink said "blackpink in your area"

blackpink in your area
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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

In my years at Dreamworks, they never would have made a special dish, but they might decorate something specially for a special occasion. They wouldn’t do this all the time because people would get very sick of it.

Moving into the Future: Upgrading to Python 3 A dev blog about the challenges and rewards of upgrading Carbon, the engine upon which EVE Frontier is built, from Stackless Python to Python 3.

This dev blog covers what I spent most of 2024 working on!

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weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

Well this is grim

🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸 Today was the first time we have voted in an Icelandic parliamentary election. Ten years after arriving in Iceland, it’s a big deal.

Í dag var í fyrsta skipti sem við höfum kjósið í Alþingiskosningu. Tíu ár eftir komuna til Íslands, þetta er mikið mál.

That was such a strange movie.

I worked at Disney Animation back then, and the attitude was “Kids will watch anything. Our job is to entertain the parents.

Iceland is my adopted home but it’s as bad or worse than the U.S. in terms of regulatory capture and self-dealing. I wouldn’t be so quick to bump it to the top of your list.

YouTube video by Shingly Imperium Capital Fleet Moves to UALX

Have to share this wild video: Eve Online's largest coalition is moving, and they made a time lapse.
youtu.be/OcHUJkuQyLI?...

I have problems dealing with the fact that Titanic’s 30 year anniversary is a few years away.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #131,234!

Clearly they are being blackmailed by an LLM.

Did you get sign off for the KPI? KPI. We need to circle back. Circle back. Did you define OKRs? OKRs. Let’s circle back. Circle back. Let’s parking lot that. Parking lot. Can we take this offline? Offline.

Ok, you’re on baseline. Let’s end early and give you back 5 minutes.

Yeah. In the case of a food that weren’t to my taste, I’d never call it “quite nice,” but instead focus on offering thanks for the host taking the trouble to prepare it. Among Americans, the thanks would be genuine and they’d still get the message. 🤣

What’s missing for an American is the convention that it is deliberately weak praise only when there is a social expectation to say something positive. Many Americans would just be (slightly) more direct about their feelings.

Tweet from Kamala HQ Twitter account with video described and linked above with the text "We approve this message"

8-SECOND KAMALA HARRIS AD: x.com/KamalaHQ/sta...

TRUMP AT RALLY: "And then their campaign says (goofy voice) 'I'm the prosecutor, and he is the convicted felon—"

HARRIS (VOICEOVER): "I'm Kamala Harris, and I approve this message."

The dissents’ positions in the end boil down to ignoring the Constitution’s separation of powers and the Court’s precedent and instead fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals about a future where the President “feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.”

Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

Closeup of Iteron booster directed at part of the ship itself.

The iteron was inspired by the fact that at least one bulkhead likely gets a little warm in flight...

blue and red Enyo

orange, red, yellow Iteron

red-splattered black Vexor

gold and black Machariel

CCP devs using the new Eve Online SKINR tool to make one-of-a-kind SKINs for the Art Without Borders charity? Yes! #SKINRShowdown

Here are mine: Enyo, Vexor, Iteron, Machariel.