Ha! Just finished Thank Goodness You’re Here and it was the silliest, raunchiest, Northern Englishest?? thing I’ve played in a while. It was a bit of a fever dream. Like an Adult Swim cartoon with a joke a minute that you’re sort of “playing.” There’s not much in the way of controls and yet it was still incredibly satisfying how you unexpectedly interact with this bizarre world. Everyone in this town is off their rocker yet also loveable? I don’t even know how to describe it it was so unique. I guess just play it if this at all sounds intriguing. Short, but a completely wonderful way to spend a few hours.

A little something for the older lemmings.

@angierozelaar

Not mine! It’s too hard and I don’t have the special Mont Blanc pastry nozzle, which is a real thing.

Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics, its lender and primary supplier, will acquire all of iRobot’s shares.

Archive article: https://archive.is/DgylK

Chief microcontroller rival Adafruit has argued that the new terms threaten open principles by restricting reverse engineering of cloud tools, asserting perpetual licenses over user uploads and implementing broad monitoring for AI-related features.

As a complete beginner, what can I do with a raspberry pi 4b?

*MP allegedly greeted a party colleague at German parliament building ‘with a heel click and a Hitler salute’*

*Vacation travel to U.S. down as Canadian tourists make strategic decisions on where to spend time, money*

Shaving every tenth of a degree off whatever final thermometer number we end up at means a few more glaciers hanging on, diminished perhaps, but a glacier still, with room to grow.

*Embattled FBI duo face renewed scrutiny over botched response to Brown University shooting*

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/59687591

“The short-term strategy is, win the House of Representatives,” stated the former president, garnering applause. “Because that’s going to be the circuit breaker that will give us control of one major component of the federal government. With that as a bulwark, we’re now able to block some of the worst impulses that are coming out of this White House.”

One of the lesser known Fedora spins under the “Fedora Labs” initiative is the Fedora Games Lab that showcases some open-source games and can serve as an easy demonstrator for Linux gaming. Looking forward to 2026 with Fedora 44, there is a proposal to revitalize Fedora Games Lab to become a better showcase for the modern potential of Linux gaming.

https://wronghands1.com/2020/12/18/a-christmas-carol/

*Proposal is part of new package of security guarantees, backed by the White House, that could mark breakthrough in reaching agreement*

“We are considering that because a lot of people want to see it — the reclassification, because it leads to tremendous amounts of research that can’t be done unless you reclassify. So, we are looking at that very strongly,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

“The ones who made the games are outside. [Bosses and executives] are inside patting themselves on the back”

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Apparently the USA now thinks referring to literal demons in a psychology essay is hunky dory.

“*The authoritarianism of China and how little it cares about individuals is so scary!*” - US Conservatives screech with shrill voices as they deport innocent people to said authoritarian and scary country for no good reason other than blind hatred and a lust for authoritarian violence as if it will somehow magically bring them comfort or prosperity in a zero-sum process.

*House of Commons calls on Keir Starmer to condemn Donald Trump’s ‘interference’ in European politics*

After yet another year of high-profile news stories and internet trends, Merriam-Webster has chosen one word to sum up 2025: “slop.”

Vladimir Putin is stalling efforts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, and is testing the West with tactics that fall “just below the threshold of war,” the head of Britain’s MI6 spy agency said Monday.

(And I use “Free” loosely because I do pay for Prime Video, so it went from paid to much more expensive)

The machine will once again be used at the Toy Museum at Penshurst Place and Gardens in Kent.

On Sunday, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani invited members of the public to meet with him, one on one, for three minutes at a time, in a sparely appointed room at the Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria.

@vanessafoley

Web archive link

> ❗️Warnings over settlement plan on Qalandia Airport land aimed at separating Jerusalem from Ramallah

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that the FBI disrupted a “massive and horrific terror plot” by an anti-government extremist group allegedly planning a series of bombings against multiple targets in Orange County and Los Angeles, California, beginning on New Year’s Eve.

> ❗️Major investigation exposes Israel working to thwart war crimes prosecutions worldwide

Sat 13 Dec 2025 02.00 EST

Taiwan’s story is the mirror image. Twenty-three million people built a world-class economy and a resilient democracy by pairing technological excellence with open debate and free exchange.