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Circana: EA's Battlefield 6 became 2025's best-selling US game less than a month after its October 10 debut; Pokémon is 2025's fastest-selling physical game (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

💥2000 meters to Andriivka
The closer you get to combat, the more jarring it becomes.
Death comes randomly.
The noise is terrifying;
the fear is stifling.
And most people can’t bear to see what war actually does to the human body
—how a brief instant can transform a living, breathing person
into ugly scraps of flesh.
The fighting in Ukraine has, in many ways,
transformed the nature of warfare.
As many as 80 percent of battle casu…

A War Film to Change All War Films
An Oscar-shortlisted documentary shows battle in startling clarity.

No one has ever liked Andrew. There was a leak from the Buckingham Palace police protection squad back in the 1990s IIRC, where inter alia the code names they used over radio were given:
The Queen: Purple One
Prince Phillip: the Greek
Prince Charles: Big Ears
Prince Andrew: the C*nt

RE: https://amicale.net/@franceinfo/116103984223978829
Flattery and corruption work so well with Trump.

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116094529575866670
America is profoundly nuts. And that's not new.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@davidzipper/115746520818673258
I would call it asshole-mode, rather than Max Max, and note that it is really symbolic of techbro-ism. Taking advantage because we can get away with breaking the rules.

The Irish Times making point today as Garda receives suspended sentence for domestic violence
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026/01/20/gardai-investigated-how-irish-times-reporter-learned…

Gardaí investigated how Irish Times reporter learned of domestic violence charge against member
Initial reporting into Garda Trevor Bolger case in led to journalist being questioned about sources

Public service journalism: data on the Dublin November 2023 rioters
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026/01/19/the-dublin-rioters-who-are-they-and-what-82-prosecutions-tell-us-about-those-involved/

Who were the Dublin rioters? What 82 prosecutions tell us about the unrest
Many of those taking part in the disorder on November 23rd, 2023 were ‘opportunistic’ and swept up in events – but not all, court cases have shown

This guy won't be attending the World Cup, or the Olympics.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2026/01/19/irish-man-risks-us-retaliation-for-unmasking-thousands-of-ice-officers-online/

Irish man risks US retaliation for unmasking thousands of ICE officers online
Dominick Skinner started publishing identities last year and is assisted by over 500 volunteers across America

I'm using Davmail to get Linux to talk to Outlook for my work email.
https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
Works great, except for a tedious manual re-authentication every 90 days.
Panicking today, though, when re-authentication appeared to work at first and then stopped. Has MS put another…