Finally 100% completed the achievements for most of the @assassinscreed games, just in time for Valhalla! Did most of these (last 4-5) within this year, so 2020 hasn't been too bad, in the assassination aspect.

UK officials have now admitted that the under-16 ban will require *adults* to verify their age with a passport. And that the under-16 ban is the beginning, not the end point, of the online safety campaign. This is why we’ve been warning about the coming risks to online speech.

Every time I tell someone "It's fine." I just think about this

i get where y’all be coming from but i be coming from somewhere else

My death is more guaranteed than my wedding so instead of looking for my soulmate im going to look for my soul

some of you were never the third friend who had to walk behind when the sidewalk is too narrow and it shows

Why does homosexuality seem to be the only "sin" Christians are concerned with? The Bible has plenty to say about adultery, greed, hatred, lying, stealing, hypocrisy, judgment, and how we treat others.

I'm peeing

Woke this, woke that. When's the last time you woke up next to a woman

A plumber’s relationship with poop is like Batman and the joker. They are enemies but they need each other

So let me get this straight. People at anthropic believe that they are birthing a new species, potentially conscious and human-like. They are concerned about the well being of Claude, etc.. The company then goes around talking to relugious leaders about potentially extending moral worth to AI models. If Anthropic is correct (very unlikely), they are basically saying that they have enslaved a sentient being and used it to generate billions of dollars. Apparently they are also concerned with how the Vatican is entirely focused on the protection of humanity in the age of machines and not giving any thought to the possibily of claude sentience. Zero self awarness on behalf of these people. This is all so strange. nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/an…

They say they hate “wokeness,” but what they really hate is empathy. Because once you start caring about other people’s experiences, inequalities become harder to ignore, and privilege becomes harder to defend.

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

It's VERY IMPORTANT we hide away the disabled man from the awards ceremony regarding the film that goes into excruciating detail about how miserable his life has been due to his disability and how if we were all a bit more accepting and tolerant the world would be a better place.

Today is the first day since 2001 that US troops have not been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. It's barely a headline. There's an argument to be made that today is the true end of the GWOT.

“Films in Concert… 🎦”. Maestro of the Movies: A Tribute to #JohnWilliams with the LSO Saturday, 31 October 2026 #StarWars: #ANewHope in Concert with the LSO Thursday, 29 April – Saturday, 1 May 2027 #StarWars: #TheEmpireStrikesBack in Concert with the LSO Friday, 30 April – Saturday, 1 May 2027 #StarWars: #ReturnoftheJedi in Concert with the LSO Sunday, 2 May 2027 royalalberthall.com/ #RoyalAlbertHall #London #LondonSymphonyOrchestra

I wasn’t expecting to be agreeing so much with Rees-Mogg this evening, but he put this very well. How our culture is built by others coming in and feeling included, regardless of their DNA.

rory stewart turning to intensely stare at ailbhe rea bbc newsnight

love this answer from Lucas on how he came up with The Phantom Menace :

Happy Batman Day to everyone from London! 🦇🦇

People outside of the field of wildlife are pretty surprised by the idea that species can just hide in plain sight like this. Scientists know of around 40 or so living wild cats (I work on some of these in international contexts) and the last new species were named in the 1920s or thereabouts. This particular cat in Bolivia looks so much like other cats (like the so-called “tiger cats”) but thanks to advances in genetics we can tell it split off from tiger cats (not tigers, tiger cats) 1.4 million years ago. So that visual similarity plus the need for cheap and advanced genetics studies is why many people can lay eyes on a cat like this but it only “becomes a new species” when we have that genetic confirmation. The other thing about the leopardus group, they’re what we call “cryptic species” they occupy overlapping habitats, look almost identical to one another to the untrained eye, and were lumped together by someone working on specimens in a museum some time ago. Whole genome sequencing getting faster and cheaper will reveal more of these. We are describing something like 16,000 new species a year (faster than ever in the history of taxonomy) mostly insects and fungus. New mammals, especially charismatic mammals are rarer and more buzz worthy. I’d die for this cat.