The game publishing giant EA has been taken over by the Saudi government, Saudi Arabia now owns 93.4% of EA.

LGBTQIA+ rights do not exist at all in Saudi Arabia. The penalty for homosexuality is death.

If you weren't already avoiding EA, it might be a good idea to stop buying their games.

EDIT: Just to make it totally clear, the problem is the Saudi Arabian government, not Saudi people.

It's the authoritarian Saudi regime that represses its own people. The Saudi people are the victims.

cc @gaming

#Gaming #EA #VideoGames

What the actual fuck, Pawtucket. Why is "race" a MANDATORY field for reporting a faulty traffic sign??

Computers were good enough to do everything we need them to do ten years ago. Everything since then is bullshit.

If you can't do your job on a computer from 2016 you're just bad at your job. That's a fact, I don't make the rules.

There are enough computer games to play now too. Your life isn't long enough to play all the ones we have, it's time to stop making more. Just play them.

Stop making more computer. Immediately.

@admin@burnout.cafe @staff OK, so ignoring a lot of the other bullshit folks have already responded to...

A large part of the reason I stopped using Facebook back in the day was the porn. About once a week I'd be scrolling my feed at work and BAM, hardcore porn of all kinds fullscreen right in my face. I've never once had that experience here on Fedi, even though I intentionally follow multiple accounts that regularly post porn.

So first, dafuq are you even talking about? Fedi is already doing far better than they do. Second, saying you worked as a moderator for that company just means you were part of that utter incompetence; that's not really something to brag about.

Docker says I have a dazzling_johnson ;)

Goddamn. I know I've found a good album when I spend a good half hour with one track on repeat just fucking crying...

https://m.soundcloud.com/edrootsmusic/sartellmill?in=edrootsmusic%2Fsets%2Frust-belt-ballads

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2012/12/19/verso-paper-fined-for-fatal-explosion

Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers | Chuffed | Non-profit charity and social enterprise fundraising
https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund

Emmett Doyle, indicted for "conspiring to obstruct U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minneapolis," has some excellent tracks on Bandcamp. Creative Commons licensed.

P9 | Emmett Doyle
https://emmettdoyle.bandcamp.com/track/p9

"Voters hear the same message from a candidate facing off against a corporate-aligned Republican and the person does more than 10 points better if there’s an 'I' rather than a 'D' after their name."

"Leopold and his colleagues additionally found that 50 percent of rural Republicans and 77 percent (!) of beyond-the-’burbs Democrats would favor a viable new party option focused on working-class economic issues."

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Don’t Write Off a Third-Party Challenge to the Democrats
https://jacobin.com/2026/06/third-party-democrats-working-class

I think I'm doing that paleo diet thing.

...wait you're telling me a caveman *wouldn't* just pour a box of dry cereal straight down their throat if they had access to a modern kitchen? That doesn't sound right to me...

You cannot just vote a better party into existence any more than you can play enough Roulette to buy the casino.

--

the $2,000,000 mistake that wasn't - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HKXQCxyRKeU&pp=ygUXcm90YXRpbmcgdmlsbGFpbiB0aGVvcnk%3D

Damnit, mother! Why must you fill every single card with glitter!

...also how have I not learned to open those fucking things CAREFULLY yet?

It's *everywhere*! My life is going to sparkle for *months*...

Bahahaha

Manager at work has gone from "everybody needs to be using AI" to "Make sure you aren't using the AI too much"

He just said in a meeting "try to keep it under $100" and other guy replies "...per week, right??" Nope. Monthly.

Well I'm sitting here at $0 so...no problem!

Wonder what happens when the price starts shooting upwards...

Got a link to a local venue space and the website is on neocities.

Is that site *not* just websites for trans furries? Or is the venue space run by trans furries? I mean seems pretty chill either way, just curious :)

Really wish our best local reporter wasn't using Substack and Youtube...

This was fuckin great though

Providence Worker's Defense - Textron - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2jUz-MGHs3A

They have now dispatched a second tow truck.

Current status: "75 minutes left on prior job"

Fuckin hell. Busy day for the tow companies I guess.

Maybe I'm low priority because it's only going a mile so they can't charge much lol

Ughhh

Car won't start, so called insurance for a tow. They send me GPS tracking of the truck and I watch him driving up the highway...past my exit...into the next state. After about half an hour I hit the "call driver" button and...nothing happens. So I call the insurance company back, they put me on hold, they also can't reach the driver, and now I'm waiting on them to get a supervisor.

So my week is starting off *great*

Maybe he picked up a Porsche and made a run for it xD

TFW you find a cool Javascript library that looks like exactly what you need for a current project until you reach the very bottom of the page and discover it's not Javascript, it's fucking NodeJS.

Guess I'll be rolling my own then!

...this is probably ten kinds of dumb...but I intend to discover why through experience!

(And I don't mean the lock, that's intentionally shit)

But hey if I'm gonna be literally sitting on a kWh of battery I'm gonna play with it. Also I've been carrying around that scrap sheet of aluminum for TWENTY GODDAMN YEARS!

*sigh*
PHP...What are you doing??