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Stardew Valley has sold nearly 50 million copies, outselling Pokémon and The Legend of Zelda. Why can't gamers put it down?

Mince, mushroom, courgette and cheese!

Maybe that Mention trick you floated the other day... Just have every reply mention everyone in the conversation all of the time.

police had seized two consignments of drugs, totalling 630kg of methamphetamine worth $220 million, and 112kg of cocaine worth $50.4m

One gang in particular may have a set of baggage handlers which they will almost hire or rent out to another gang, to take a cut of the profits.

arguing that the ‘Fall of Rome’ created a ‘Dark Ages’ which was bad and is a term that is pejorative from a place of total ignorance.

All hands man your battle stations, all hands man your battle stations, this is a drill this is a drill

Spotify leadership didn't see themselves as a music company, but as a time filler. The employee explained that, "the vast majority of music listeners, they're not really interested in listening to music per se. They just need a soundtrack to a moment in their day."

Simply providing a soundtrack to your day might seem innocent enough, but it informs how Spotify's algorithm works. Its goal isn't to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop. [...]

Artists, especially new ones trying to break through, actually started changing how they composed to play better in the algorithmically driven streaming era. Songs got shorter, albums got longer, and intros went away. The hook got pushed to the front of the song to try to grab listeners' attention immediately, and things like guitar solos all but disappeared from pop music. The palette of sounds artists pulled from got smaller, arrangements became more simplified, pop music flattened. [...]

It found that while new music discovery is traditionally associated with youth, "16-24-year-olds are less likely than 25-34-year-olds to have discovered an artist they love in the last year." Gen Z might hear a song they like on TikTok, but they rarely investigate beyond that to listen to more music from the artist.

I haven't been following the ins and out of all this but John Tamahere has a history of manipulative horrible bullshit so I'm inclined to believe Kapa-Kingi on this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tamihere#Other_political_controversies_while_in_office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tamihere#Radio_career_and_the_"Roast_Busters"_controversy

I'd bet money on Tamahere having a lot of dark triad stuff going on.

Six out of ten of the young people had ADHD either diagnosed or suspected. Three of those diagnosed were unmedicated. Other learning difficulties among the cohort also included auditory processing challenges for example.

Mental health issues were noted for several young people including difficulty regulating emotions, anxiety, suicidality and PTSD. Almost all had substance abuse noted in their assessments.

Getting all the shares available under this package over the next 10 years would be the equivalent of earning US$275m a day.

A team of scientists has developed a highly accurate blood test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The test reads tiny DNA patterns that reveal the biological signature of the illness. For millions who’ve faced doubt and misdiagnosis, it’s a breakthrough that finally validates their experience — and may help diagnose long Covid too.

A team of scientists has developed a highly accurate blood test for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

This extension replaces images of Trump and Musk with a placeholder.

Soon I will add a configuration screen to it so you can put in any names you like.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uglymug/

Half of Cebu City submerged as Tino triggers massive floods

It just checks image alt text for keywords. No AI weirdness.

If it is approved it will be available at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uglymug/. I don't plan to submit it to the Chrome extension store but anyone is welcome to copy the code and do so.

Meanwhile if you'd like to try it out before it's approved (trust me bro) you can get the extension from https://we.tl/t-VZw12WGo7q and then unzip the contents into a new folder.

Installation Instructions:

For Chrome:

1. Open Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions/
2. Enable "Developer mode" (toggle in top right)
3. Click "Load unpacked"
4. Select the folder where you unzipped the files to.

For Firefox:

1. Open Firefox and navigate to about:debugging
2. Click "This Firefox"
3. Click "Load Temporary Add-on"
4. Select the manifest.json file

Yes, we know.

This is a blog post about Anubis I wrote a few months back, when I thought I had it working https://join.piefed.social/2025/07/09/an-anubis-config-for-piefed/

After writing that post I took another approach and moved the logic into nginx instead as the Anubis configuration language was impossible to debug. That seemed fine but then a different weird Anubis bug that had been languishing in their issue queue for months with no solution hit me and I gave up.

It's just not ready. It's bad software. Their documentation is very misleading. I hope no one else loses as many days as I did.