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He’s still here. He’s got a fan club. Including us.

Don’t Nod, the studio behind the original Life is Strange, is collapsing. The French developer is facing a near-total layoff, up to 85 jobs, which would leave its French teams with only a small number of employees. The studio has struggled with a string of underperforming releases, the most recently the sci-fi adventure Aphelion. Don’t Nod has warned that it may not have enough funding to continue operating beyond January 31, 2027, and has entered a French “safeguard” procedure to restructure its finances.

Friends, the sheer volume of fraud taking place in recent years throughout the world, and in America in particular, is staggering. I heard recently that the high end of federal estimates of the amount of money stolen per year in America is greater than the GDP of Vietnam, the Philippines, or Denmark. This is a real blight upon our society, made possible, at least in part, by religious disaffiliation. Since morality is grounded, ultimately, in God, one consequence of disaffiliation is an increase in moral drift, relativism, and indifference. If we want to protect the common good, we have to recover a moral integrity rooted in the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, and the parables of Jesus.

Today I issued an Executive Order designating “Seminole Wind” by John Anderson as the official anthem of Florida. I have also directed the @FLSecofState to erect historic markers in the City of Apopka depicting John Anderson’s contribution to Florida’s heritage. In addition, I have tasked @FLDEPNews to work with the @SJRWMD to designate wildlife drive and trail system within Lake Apopka North Shore as the John Anderson Wildlife Drive and Trail System.

I'm sorry, but the prequels were terrible. Just complete nonsense, cringe trash. Unbelievably bad writing, terrible acting by every actor (which made the writing worse). George Lucas should have been chained to a wall away from all creative input. He is just the worst.

If cracking eggs and being explicitly transgender sets the community back then we never had a chance Every little thing sets you people off, every little controversy feels like the end of the world to you grow a fuckin spine, a set of balls, and get over it, its not a big deal

Lauren McCluskey did everything she was told to do. She still died. She was a 21-year-old University of Utah track athlete and honors student. In October 2018 she briefly dated Melvin Shawn Rowland. When she discovered he had lied about his age and identity and was a registered sex offender on parole, she ended it. The harassment continued. He threatened to release intimate photos unless she paid him. She reported the extortion and harassment to campus police multiple times, handed over messages and the photos as evidence, and asked for help. Days before she was killed, an officer assigned to her case, Miguel Deras, displayed those private photographs to at least three male coworkers. An independent Utah Department of Public Safety investigation later found the displays were not for legitimate investigative purposes. Officers made unprofessional comments; one account described Deras saying he could look at the images whenever he wanted. The university only learned of the misconduct after media reporting, well after her death. On the evening of October 22, 2018, Lauren was walking back toward her dorm while on the phone with her mother. Her mother heard her scream. Rowland confronted her in a campus parking lot, forced her into a vehicle, and shot her multiple times. Officers located her after her father called, but she was already dead. Rowland later died by suicide as police closed in. Subsequent reviews documented serious failures in how university police handled her reports—delays, failure to properly check his status as a parolee and sex offender, and an overall minimization of the threat. In 2020 the University of Utah settled with her family for $13.5 million ($10.5 million to the parents and $3 million to the Lauren McCluskey Foundation). The university publicly acknowledged that it had failed her and that her death was preventable. Her family has continued advocacy through the foundation and Lauren’s Promise, an effort focused on campus safety and supporting victims. Eight years later she would be 29. Instead, her parents and those who knew her are left marking the life she never got to finish. When someone repeatedly reports stalking, harassment, and extortion and provides evidence, should law enforcement be required to take stronger protective steps before the situation escalates? Lauren followed the advice victims are routinely given. She reported it. She supplied proof. She asked for help. It was not enough. 💔

Chaos in Rome. Masked rioters storm the Colosseum, forcing the entrance barriers. "Peaceful protest" they say. Unbelievable.

That right-wing film about shooting immigrants dropped out of the zeitgeist quickly. Elon posted the full thing on his account and I can't even remember what it was called.