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A piece of concept art in the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book is overlaid with the text "Note: Relief is temporary." While it actually refers to the fact that the design of the relief carving is not finished, it inadvertently appears to make an existential statement instead.

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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

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Senator, welcome to Bluesky. Can you explain why you're sponsoring a bill to repeal Section 230, which would effectively make it impossible for Bluesky to do what it's doing today, creating this kind of space? Thanks. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

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The secret to a successful snack product launch is that you can make literally anything you want as long as it sits at the height of a child’s eyes in the grocery store checkout aisle

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This is so goddamn embarrassing. www.axios.com/2025/02/24/u...

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A witchcraft case involving Zambia’s president brings scrutiny of a colonial-era law and traditions

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Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

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My God this is embarrassing

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reading Addiction by Design by Natasha Schull and it is seriously horrifying. we talk a lot of the need for CS majors to take ethics classes, but i have a growing conviction that we need this for video game designers as well -- this should be required reading for every designer everywhere

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NEW: Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.

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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

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the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

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chat it is NOT going well over here our shadow president is wearing shirts made for 13 year old gamer boys

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This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

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From this day last year, was playing around with a fantasy-style map of Alberta in Procreate. #Alberta #Canada

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Whenever Mario uses the Blue Shell power-up in New Super Mario Bros., his body retreats into the shell. To accomplish this, his model is deformed severely. Below is a look at Mario's state within the shell.

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The other website is pretty much done

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"You should have never started it" -- Trump to Ukraine, which very much did not start the war

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I was fresh out of prison and dragged into the studio to find four kids dressed for church and put on the spot. They started grilling me and my addled early 30-something brain wouldn’t let me say anything funny or clever. And that’s the story of this spot.

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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

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Media are missing this if they don't include it. Yes, Judge Chutkan just denied temporary restraining order in New Mexico v Musk. But judge signals plaintiffs have the better argument when this reaches the merits: That Elon Musk is exercising power in violation of Appointments Clause. ⬇️Key para⬇️

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SWAN: DOGE and SpaceX employees are now working directly at the FAA and DoD, agencies that have billions of dollars of contracts with Musk's companies or regulate them. How is that not a conflict of interest? TRUMP: Well I mean, I'm just hearing about it

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Happy Presidents' Day from The Ghost of Abrajam Lincoln, an actual character concept from the unproduced N64 horror-themed basketball game Monster Dunk by Mindscape archive.gamehistory.org/item/54f8254...

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Say what you want about the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series but it gave us some great screenshots

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The technology brothers have invented “Goons as a Service”

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So while Amazon Prime hasn't totally purged all mentions of trans identity from its movie descriptions, its algorithm does seem to go out of the way whenever it can to avoid mentioning "transgender" in its plot descriptions, even when the character's gender identity is the central plot point.

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Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

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Elon Musk’s unparalleled online reach has given him a powerful tool to attack individuals who criticize DOGE, with one post able to spark hundreds of blistering responses from his followers.

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Paying my respects to "BOOBY MASTER" from the end credits of Technosoft's Hyper Duel

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As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

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Randomly remembered this science textbook for Christian homeschooling.

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When SpaceX’s Starship blew up in January, Musk called it “barely a bump in the road,” brushing off the FAA’s concerns. Yet during the accident, dozens of airplanes scrambled to avoid debris. Pieces of the craft were later found on beaches and roads.

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The World Health Organization released new findings about an ‘alarming’ lack of awareness about alcohol's link to cancer across Europe and called for clear and prominent tobacco-style warnings in the region with the world's heaviest drinkers reut.rs/3D00wdN

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The White House blocked an AP reporter from President Trump's news conference with India's prime minister over AP's style decision to stick with the name “Gulf of Mexico." apnews.com/article/ap-w...

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