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I wish I lived in a climate where this was viable for more than three months of the year!

We’ve got a poll going in Discord. Peter Thiel was the frontrunner before the mods did a bot purge; now the American people seemingly want Hornet from Silksong.

Gil-galad was an elven-king;
Of him the harpers badly sing
For none can rightly say his name—
Jill misappropriates his fame

It looks from the head of the post like there was once a top pole.

Probably got damaged from someone sitting on it or climbing over. Or someone interpreting the “dispose of trash” sign too enthusiastically.

It’s Hamtramck, Wayne County, Michigan, USA, since the title is clickbaity. It’s just outside a city within Detroit, and the population is around 28,000, though it was historically more populous.

It’s has a lot of immigrants settle there from Yemen, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and south-east Asia since the town had a financial crisis in the mid-2000s stemming from factory closures. The council has typically had a Muslim majority in the past two decades.

Yeah, but it’s OpEx, so it’s just imaginary expenditure.

That’s a portal disguised as an old lady disguised as Steve Bannon.

Ospreys.

Weak article, clickbait title, and not actually news since they’ve been breeding in the UK for 24 years (in Rutland and Cumbria), but still nice to see.

Literally never heard of it. Are you talking about Microsoft 365 Copilot, formerly known as Microsoft 365, formerly known as Office 365?

Bot’s not even literate. “With this being said” is the introduction to a contrary statement, like “on the other hand” or “despite this.” It’s not a declaration of “we have spoken; make it so.”

I once met a koala holding a little plaquard saying “Bear X-ing”

Do you live in a Richard Scarry book?

A squat, maybe, or just a private place to spend time without getting rained on. I don’t know about Schwabach, but lots of places don’t have a good “third place” for young pole.

That article is a mess! Jumps all over the place. Might clean it up later.

*boucey – they’re Irish, not Scotch

When you install TikTok, it fabricates its own independent SoC within your phone. Sometimes you can tell because the case bulges slightly, but it depends on the model.

This isn’t strictly forbidden by Android and iOS APIs (yet), but there are limitations – this most notably affects the capacitors on the new SoC which degrade quickly and can make a faint clicking noise, hence the name “TikTok”.

Use whatever software you want, more power to you, but I’m not totally convinced that “chaired by a fascist transphobic multibillionaire oligarch who actively subverts democracy at every opportunity” and “introduced a feature I don’t want to use into my free secure messaging app” are even close to equivocal?

I really hope that this is the answer, purely because adding more tape to fix an incredibly tape-heavy setup would be hilarious.

I really wanted to like Baldur’s Gate 3. I didn’t play the prior games in the series, but I know a bunch of people who brim with excitement about it.

I’ve not really been involved in DnD in any form. I played the original Warcraft RTS as a kid, I’ve read everything from Tolkien, and I love some of the Elder Scrolls games, but that’s about it. I’d always got the impression that a lot of it was a bit hammy and amateur on the writing side, but I assumed BG3 would buck the trend.

…I just didn’t vibe with it at all. I found the combat exasperating, I didn’t mesh with the character motivations, and I failed to really get immersed. Maybe I really needed more backstory than a couple of lore lessons over beers.

It’s obviously a great game, but it was such a miss for me, and I wish that weren’t the case.

He rejected the Polish government’s offer to send a member of the Polish foreign office along with him, on the basis that he thinks they’ll offend Trump and his officials.

Got to block out time or you’ll find yourself accepting an invite to Janine’s three-hour-long cross-project check-in meeting even though she knew you were hibernating that season.