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Somehow, Manager for Jess McDonell. I occasionally write books and make YouTube videos. https://www.youtube.com/@JulienCFDurand he/they
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Wonderful news from France! The National Assembly has voted to advance a billionaire's tax—116 in favor, 39 against. The tax enjoys huge public support, with 75% of the French backing it. Similar levels of support are seen in polls across other countries, including the U.S.

Can Football Australia get the Matildas an actual coach please?

Flashbacks to the stats in BG3 Early Access where almost every single player pursued at least one romance. People may not ADMIT to wanting sex and romance in games, but their behavior says otherwise, basically every time.

The Matrix: Resurrections

If even Turnbull reckons we should scrap AUKUS, I still cannot fathom why Labor is so rusted on to the idea that we should spend hundreds of billions on something we’ll never get whilst people are dying because they can’t afford food or shelter.

Fuck anyone who reports on this story like this. A. Where is this energy with the billions in subsidies to oil, gas, and other billionaire/foreign-owned endeavours? B. That's not how government money actually works. Which you should know.

I can’t wait to watch this hole in one.

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

Within each of us there are two wolves.

Microsoft recently conducted research and found that their employees who are using AI more often are becoming less curious, less adept at problem solving, and are reducing their use of critical thinking skills but okay.

Jess just did a feature on WhatCulture that's about exactly this - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaZ9...

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

It's actually the most Arsenal thing ever to annihilate City and then to disappoint against Newcastle. Keeping the brand alive.

For the Israeli and American governments, this has always been the endgame. It was never about hostages or Hamas. It was about claiming the land and the vast reserves of natural gas just offshore.

LOL. If you buy me a flight to Fiji, I vow I can buy you a house, but I’ll only do it after I’m out of the country. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

It's difficult to wrap your head around the enormous atrocity the Trump administration is committing *right now* -> 1,500 babies getting HIV each day. All to score some political points. God, this is sickening.

Kachow

I got into video games later in my teens, but among my first experiences were Mass Effect and Dragon Age. They showed me games could be so much more than the shooting galleries my friends played. Stunningly developed characters, deep worlds, and stories that moved and horrified in equal measure.

People keep saying “the point of all this stuff is psychological warfare” but like I’m pretty sure the point is to do all the things they intend to do as fast as possible like their website said they would do

“Their light shines even after they’re gone.” Okay but why did Sonic 3 fully make me cry?

imagine if people went to retailers and just took stuff and called it "generative shopping" and then, when the retailers said that's illegal, people said "regular shopping is too expensive so we have disrupted it" and then the retailers were like "OH! Carry on, innovators!"

Tree.

How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced.

Split Fiction GOTY 2025

I did this. You’re welcome.

Manifesting a Witcher Ciri game for tomorrow.

PC gamr.

SZA? I hardly know A!

Now do Shadow of the Erdtree for the same reason.

We've all heard the theory that bloated Hollywood budgets are used to launder money, but Morning Brew's recent video gives a practical, easy-to-understand example of how "Hollywood Accounting" robs workers from their rightfully earned share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-l2...

Saying that elden ring should have an easy mode in a room full of men just to feel something

i hope chappell roan is even meaner in 2025 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Also, this our cat, Elphaba. She’s always flying off the handle.

Loving a movie can be about who you go see it with. I liked Wicked, but experiencing it with my partner - feeling her joy when it started, feeling her teardrops on my arm, sharing in her catharsis as it ended. She’d been waiting for this movie all her life, and I got to the share in that moment.