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Premieres sometime in 2025. Check out the ANN article for additional information. Synopsis of the source manga from AniList:

In a city so dismal it's known only as "the Hole," a clan of Sorcerers have been plucking people off the streets to use as guinea pigs for atrocious "experiments" in the black arts. In a dark alley, Nikaido found Caiman, a man with a reptile head and a bad case of amnesia. To undo the spell, they're hunting and killing the Sorcerers in the Hole, hoping that eventually they'll kill the right one. But when En, the head Sorcerer, gets word of a lizard-man slaughtering his people, he sends a crew of "cleaners" into the Hole, igniting a war between two worlds.

Palestinian Territory - Israel’s consistent obstructions of all United Nations investigations into allegations of sexual violence since 7 October 2023 is profoundly concerning. These obstructions, coupled with substantial evidence indicating systematic and widespread acts of rape and other forms of sexual violence by Israeli forces against Palestinians, including prisoners and detainees, constitute grave violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. The grounds for the inclusion of Israel on the UN’s blacklist of entities suspected of perpetrating sexual violence in conflicts are compelling.

For the past 15 months, Israel has consistently refused to cooperate with all United Nations bodies with an investigative mandate to examine allegations of rape and other forms of sexual violence arising from the attacks of 7 October.

It was disclosed last Wednesday that Israel has once again denied authorisation for an investigation by the UN Special Representative on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, Pramila Patten. This refusal reportedly stems from concerns that a comprehensive investigation would expose Israel’s systematic use of mass rape against Palestinians, including women and children, as Patten had insisted that access to Israeli detention centres to investigate allegations against Israeli soldiers was a crucial requirement for the process.

Israel’s refusal is particularly striking given that Israeli civil society, until recently, held a generally favourable view of Patten, and even called on her to revisit Israel.

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canva fucking sucks.png < my literal screenshot filename. Anyway... Yeah, I wanted to make a circle with white fill. That's it, I gotta PAY for that. wtf?

Crazy Taxi Returns to AGDQ After 10 Year Absence With Live Backings

The Original Crazy Taxi Last Appeared at AGDQ in 2015

Over the weekend, a Crazy Taxi speedrun took place at Awesome Games Done Quick 2025, with background music performed by a live band as a creative to avoid copyright issues with the game's licensed music. Crazy Taxi, which first appeared in arcades in 1999 and later on the Dreamcast in 2000, featured music from punk bands like Bad Religion and The Offspring.

Innovation to Beat Copyright Issues

To overcome copyright challenges, Crazes 825 and 2dos came up with a unique solution by having 2dos perform covers of the game's music with a live band. This innovative approach allowed for the inclusion of Crazy Taxi in AGDQ, which has not featured it in nearly a decade.

Behind the Scenes and Future Prospects

As they shared on Reddit after the run, 2dos explained their initial idea: "We had submitted Crazy Taxi several times over the years without success after our AGDQ 2015 run. We would have needed to mute the soundtrack if it did get in during those times for licensing reasons. I got the idea from watching CZR [the guy who did the SM64 run last year], and thought to myself 'We could do that'."

On whether they plan to execute similar submissions for future events, 2dos stated: "Maybe, maybe not. There are similar runs that could be executed this way (Crazy Taxi 2, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, etc) that could potentially be submitted by us. But I hope GDQ gets fresh ideas too. I really hope we inspired other folks to come up with unique submissions in the future!"

Impressive Fundraising and Future

AGDQ concluded having raised an incredible $2,556,305 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, alongside hours of entertaining speedrunning.

What are your thoughts on how AGDQ handles such challenges in the future? Do you think this is a great way to include difficult-to-license games?

cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/4902478

TIL about "Michelin Tire Baby Syndrome", a condition occurring in babies that is characterized by multiple, symmetric, circular skin creases, or bands, on the forearms, lower legs, and often the n...

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Original Title: TIL about "Michelin Tire Baby Syndrome", a condition occurring in babies that is characterized by multiple, symmetric, circular skin creases, or bands, on the forearms, lower legs, and often the neck that are present at birth.

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In Spain, the housing crisis has a particularly strong impact on religious and ethnic minorities, for whom access to housing is even more difficult. The systemic discrimination they suffer can cause serious damage, says Bianca Carrera.

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https://bsky.app/profile/freeourfeeds.com/post/3lfmvqip7zk2v

tldr, it's a new foundation launching with an open letter signed by:

Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia

Shoshana Zuboff, Professor Emerita, Harvard Business School and author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

Alex Winter, Actor and filmmaker

Audrey Tang, Former Minister of Digital Affairs, Taiwan

Roger McNamee, Businessman and author of ‘Zucked’

Brian Eno, Musician

Carole Cadwalladr, Investigative journalist

Cory Doctorow, Blogger and journalist

Akilah Hughes, Writer and comedian

Sebastian Soriano, Former Chairman, Arcep

Rosie Boycott, Member, UK House of Lords

Alexandra Geese, Member of the European Parliament, Greens/EFA

...

Bluesky has expressed a clear interest in public governance of the protocol they have developed. We are establishing a Foundation to help steward this process, to ensure that the AT Protocol remains capture-resistant and is instead governed in line with a thriving public interest and open community.

As the title says, I was wondering what'd make for good horror in the medium, and thought I'd try to ask here!

Obviously I understand the trash can icon, but I didn't delete my own comment so is that telling me the mods or the original poster deleted my comment? Does the symbol on the right mean they blocked me?

I tried finding info anywhere in the sync app and looked for Lemmy FAQ pages but none of them had anything on the symbols anywhere.

After one long, cold final night fighting through light winds off the Brittany coast, Charlie Dalin, the French skipper of MACIF Santé Prévoyance crossed the Vendée Globe finish line this Tuesday morning at 07:24 UTC to take victory. Dalin has been the most regular and consistent leader of the solo non stop race around the world, heading the fleet for a total of 42 days, including an unbroken run since 30 December, takes victory in the most prestigious solo sailing race in the world.  By winning in an incredible time of 64 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes and 49 seconds, Dalin has smashed the previous record set in 2016 by Armel Le Cléac’h (74 days and 3 hours) by an incredible 9 days, 8 hours, 12 minutes and 57 seconds!

I am currently planning to set up nextcloud as it is described in https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-docker-compose-setup-with-caddy-2024/204846 and make it available via tailscale.

I found a tailscale reverse proxy example for the AIO Version: https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one/discussions/5439 which also uses caddy as reverse proxy.

It might be possible to adjust it to the nextcloud:fpm stack.

But it might also be possible to use the built in reverse proxy of the tailscale sidecar by using a TS_SERVE_CONFIG . In this json file the multiple paths (/push/* and the / root) can be configured and can redirect to the right internal dns name and port (notify_push:7867 and web:80) https://tailscale.com/blog/docker-tailscale-guide

Has anyone done that? Can someone share a complete example?

“Ukraine is ready to hand over Kim Jong Un’s soldiers to him if he can organize their exchange for our fighters who are being held captive in Russia,” Zelensky said in a social media post late Sunday, referring to the North Korean leader.

Zelensky added that “for those soldiers who do not wish to return” to North Korea, “there may be other options available.” He did not provide further details, other than to say that “those who express a desire to bring peace closer by spreading the truth” about the war in Ukraine “will be given that opportunity.”

“There will undoubtedly be more” North Korean soldiers captured, he said.

Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/HIMse

"Every 1's a Winner" is the third single from the 1978 Hot Chocolate album of the same name. The single was released on 4 March 1978 on RAK Records in the UK and Infinity Records in the US. It peaked at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart and number 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100; it was the band's second-highest-charting single in the US, behind "You Sexy Thing".[3][4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_1%27s_a_Winner_(song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLb9AiTk-YY