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[Amílcar Ortega @Hefner]

Fuck the police...

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Counter-Strike 2 still has 1.3 million concurrent players right now. Dust2 has been in every single version of the game since March 2001. There are people who can navigate Long A, B Tunnels, and Mid Doors faster than they can navigate their own downtown.

De_Dust2 holds the Guinness World Record for most inhabited virtual environment by cumulative gameplay hours. A 25-year-old map that one developer named Dave Johnston built before Counter-Strike even officially launched.

The map is based on Morocco. The 2017 update confirmed it: taxi cabs match real Moroccan ones, a building says “Pharmacie du Maroc,” road signs reference “Historique Kasbah.” Johnston originally drew inspiration from early Team Fortress 2 desert screenshots and created something so spatially intuitive that Valve barely changed the layout for two and a half decades.

The scale of Counter-Strike is hard to process. 26 million unique players logged in last month alone. The franchise peaked at 1.8 million people playing simultaneously. A YouTube stick-figure animation of Dust2 from 2009 has 114 million views. The map has been cloned inside Minecraft, Far Cry, and at least three separate Chinese knockoff shooters. Paintball arenas have built physical replicas of it. A game called Dustnet is set in the far future, entirely inside “the last copy of de_dust2 in the world,” treating the map as a cultural artifact worth preserving.

That guy walking through ruins and recognizing the layout from muscle memory is the product of the largest shared spatial training program in history. Hundreds of millions of people built a mental floor plan of a place that doesn’t exist, and the moment they see the real-world architecture that inspired it, their brain pattern-matches instantly.

The map has been played longer than most countries have had their current borders.

[Pedro @PedroVn]

Dios bendiga a Venezuela

[Pedro @PedroVn]

@bochabatista Estafador

[Pedro @PedroVn]

Que grosería

[rhein; 🇯🇵🇻🇪⭐ @RheinV_]

Así son las matemáticas.

[☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ @SecretFire79]

ST. CARLO ACUTIS🇻🇦🕊️

While it can sometimes seem as if saints are a thing of the bygone era, or that they do not have modern interests and talents like ours, St. Carlo Acutis shows us that saints can be “normal” teenagers with extraordinary faith, even in the Internet age!

St. Carlo Acutis was born on May 3, 1991 in London to non-religious parents. However, much of his family was Catholic, and he was baptized a few weeks after his birth. Shortly after, he moved with his family to Milan, where his parents would work for family businesses. Since his parents worked, Carlo was often entrusted to the care of nannies or daycare centers. From a young age, he demonstrated an interest in Catholicism, and one of his babysitters would answer the questions he had about her faith.

From this young age, Carlo began showing extraordinary signs of devotion to Christ. When he was three years old, his grandfather died and appeared to him in a dream asking for prayers. Shortly after, Acutis put on his coat while his grandmother was watching him and asked to be taken to church so he could pray for his grandfather, who according to Carlo “had gone to see Jesus.”

Carlo’s mystifying faithfulness extended to ordinary situations, too. One time at daycare, some other children were bullying him. Thinking he was being too nice to them, a nanny tried to teach Carlo to set some boundaries so that the other children would not steal his toys. Carlo replied that “Jesus would not be happy if I lost my temper.”

After spending summer days at the beach, Carlo would join the older women of his local parish to pray the rosary. On walks to school, he would take time to learn the names of people working along the road and greet them personally every morning, from then on.

After his first communion at age seven, Acutis would frequently attend Mass to receive the Eucharist, & regularly went to Eucharistic Adoration. His faith & his incessant questions eventually brought his mother back to the faith. The Acutis household employed a Brahmin immigrant named Rajesh Mohur, whom Carlo befriended and later inspired to get baptized, too. Mohur’s friend & mother also converted after hearing Acutis speak about the faith.

As a teenager, Carlo loved reading and computer science & he taught himself to code & play the saxophone. He enjoyed playing video games such as Halo, Super Mario & Pokemon but according to his mother, he exercised great discipline & only allowed himself to play video games for one hour each week in order to avoid addiction. At 12 years old, he became a catechist & began sharing his faith with his peers. He also showed interest in the lives of the saints, especially Francis of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, Francisco and Jacinta Marto & Dominic Savio, and he was said to have a special devotion to both his guardian angel & St. Michael Archangel.

When Carlo was 14, his parish priest asked him to create a webpage for his parish in Milan. Then, a priest at his high school asked him to create a website to promote volunteering. For his work on the website, Carlo won a national competition called Sarai volontario, which translates to “You will be a volunteer.”

Following these successes, Carlo used his coding skills to create a website cataloguing every reported Eucharistic miracle in the world & maintain a list of Marian apparitions recognized by the Catholic Church. He launched the website in 2004, then worked on it for two more years before unveiling it publicly on October 4, 2006, the feast of St. Francis.

A few days earlier, however, Carlo had developed an inflammation of the throat. Doctors diagnosed him with parotitis, which is typically a mild infection & dehydration. A few days later, his condition worsened & by the next Sunday, he was too weak to get out of bed for Mass. He was brought to a clinic & diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia, with little chance of recovery. He was transferred to intensive care, then to another hospital, for treatment.

[Foo Fighters @foofighters]

Studio 606 / 2025

[Papa León XIV @Pontifex_es]

La vida y el testimonio de San Agustín nos recuerdan que cada uno de nosotros ha recibido dones y talentos de Dios, y que nuestra vocación, nuestra realización y nuestra alegría nacen de devolverlos en amoroso servicio a Dios y a los demás.

[Universitarios Católicos @UniCatolicos_es]

Un día San Agustín paseaba por la orilla del mar, dando vueltas en su cabeza a muchas de las doctrinas sobre la realidad de Dios, una de ellas la doctrina de la Trinidad.

De repente, alza la vista y ve a un niño, que está jugando en la arena, a la orilla del mar.

Le observa más de cerca y ve que el niño corre hacia el mar, llena el cubo de agua del mar, y vuelve donde estaba antes y vacía el agua en un hoyo.

[Papa León XIV @Pontifex_es]

San Agustín pasó por una juventud tempestuosa, pero no se conformó, no silenció el clamor de su corazón. Buscaba la verdad que no defrauda, la belleza que no pasa. ¿Cómo la encontró? ¿Cómo encontró una amistad sincera, un amor capaz de dar esperanza? Encontrando a quien ya lo estaba buscando, Jesucristo. ¿Cómo construyó su futuro? Siguiéndolo a Él, su amigo desde siempre. #JubileoDeLosJóvenes

[cassie 🇻🇦 @CatholicCassie]

Pope Leo XIV signed a Pokémon card

[EWTN Vatican @EWTNVatican]

Blessed José Gregorio Hernández will be canonized on October 19, 2025, by Pope Leo XIV.

[Pedro @PedroVn]

Bueeeeno, se les quiso. Chau

[Tibiwar @Tibiwar]

“Siempre he pensado que Caracas es una ciudad donde no puede existir ningún recuerdo”.
☹️

José Ignacio Cabrujas.

[Pedro @PedroVn]

@fmonroy @MovistarVe @TuMundoInter Alguna noticia de Supercable?

[Leonardo Rizzo @LnrdRizzo]

How we "guessed" the Pope using network science: inside the cardinal network. A study by me, Beppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio. Article: https://t.co/xQ0fTmpVxb @Unibocconi