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As newer MMOs shutter or struggle find an audience, 22-year-old Eve Online recently saw a massive surge in new players. But why? Eurogamer speaks to Bergur Finnbogason about Eve Online, the state of MMOs, and how Eve is able to entice players into a game that's over 20 years old.

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3 months ago 7 3 0 0
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.

A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.

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'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Emily Atkinson
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST
2 min read

A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

BBC 'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed Emily Atkinson Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST 2 min read A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat. Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

4 months ago 15637 5809 276 366
Vaccine Safety
MENU V
For Everyone
NOV. 19, 2025
KEY POINTS
• The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
• Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
• HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism,
including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. • HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.

Period.

This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

5 months ago 2928 1116 107 87
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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

6 months ago 2 0 0 0
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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...

7 months ago 4 2 0 0

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"

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.

8 months ago 4816 2033 272 333

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.

10 months ago 0 0 2 0
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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

10 months ago 1082 174 47 4

OMG Væb made it to the #Eurovision2025 finals!!

11 months ago 2 0 0 0
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LEGO sushi.

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

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

bsky.app/profile/smik...

1 year ago 3 4 0 0

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

1 year ago 5 0 0 0
A shot from Eyes Wide Shut: two people, dressed in black robes, wearing Venetian carnival masks, eyeing an outsider (Tom Cruise) down below

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

1 year ago 37 2 0 0
everytime blackpink said "blackpink in your area"
everytime blackpink said "blackpink in your area" YouTube video by swiftiepink

blackpink in your area
www.youtube.com/watch?v=odqz...

1 year ago 1 0 0 0
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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

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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.

1 year ago 4 0 0 0
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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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1 year ago 7 0 0 0
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

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

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.

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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

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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

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

1 year ago 13380 5318 377 1092

🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸 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.

1 year ago 16 0 1 0

That was such a strange movie.

1 year ago 1 0 1 0

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

1 year ago 0 0 1 0

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.

1 year ago 0 0 1 0
Imperium Capital Fleet Moves to UALX
Imperium Capital Fleet Moves to UALX YouTube video by Shingly

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

1 year ago 2 1 0 0
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I have problems dealing with the fact that Titanic’s 30 year anniversary is a few years away.

1 year ago 2 0 0 0
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #131,234!

1 year ago 3 0 0 0

Clearly they are being blackmailed by an LLM.

1 year ago 0 0 0 0
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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.

1 year ago 13 1 2 0

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. 🤣

1 year ago 14 0 1 0

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.

1 year ago 18 0 2 0
Tweet from Kamala HQ Twitter account with video described and linked above with the text "We approve this message"

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."

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