ICYMI, a lot was announced for Fallout last week:
ℹ️No Fallout Day Broadcast this year, but we’ll see you next year in Washington, D.C.!
☢️Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas Remasters are on the way.
🤝We’re teaming up with Obsidian Entertainment on a new Fallout project.
⛰️Major Fallout 76 expansion, Raven Rock, is coming next year.
🎬Season 3 of the Award-Winning Fallout TV Series is in production alongside an unscripted Fallout Shelter project.
🏘️More Fallout Shelter seasons!
5️⃣Fallout 5 in preproduction.
Pope Leo XIV has written a foreword to a new book, calling for peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Originally published by Vatican News, the pontiff’s text is part of the new book “Disarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift,” published by the Vatican Publishing House (Libreria Editrice Vaticana) in Italian on July 21. Edited by Alessandro Banfi, the book is a collection of Leo XIV’s addresses and reflections on peace since his election to the papacy in 2025.
The pope also invoked in his foreword American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan as well as Servants of God Dorothy Day, Floribert Bwana Chui, and Giorgio La Pira.
Leo began the foreword with what had been his first words as pontiff, proclaimed from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica: “Peace be with you.” He explained the theological significance of those words, spoken by Christ after his resurrection, and decried the modern tendency for war.
“This was also the first gift the risen Christ offered to his friends and to the whole world: peace,” Leo wrote. “That gift, however, did not come ‘cheap.’”
“Today, a good 103 states are involved in some way in a war on Earth. Weapons boom and kill in Ukraine, in the Middle East, in Sudan, in Myanmar, in Yemen, in Congo, and in many other situations.”
He also referred to his predecessors Pope Francis and Sts. Paul VI and John Paul II, who also called for peace and nuclear disarmament:
“Especially after the terrible consequences of the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the recourse to war is ever more an ‘adventure with no return,’ as St. John Paul II stressed.”
In his foreword, the pope referenced American singer Bob Dylan, who criticized the manufacture of nuclear bombs during the Cold War in his 1963 song “Go Away You Bomb.”
“As singer-songwriter and poet Bob Dylan wrote, figuratively addressing the atomic bomb, in one of his poetic compositions: ‘I hate you cause yer man-made and man-owned an’ man-handled,‘” Leo said.
The pope also explained that the threat of nuclear catastrophe looms large unless action is taken.
“History has already seen us come close to nuclear catastrophe.”
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It is not atomic weapons that generate #peace, but disarmament. This truth, which seemed clear in past decades when we witnessed a nuclear de-escalation, has been obscured by a race to armament that today frightens and terrifies.
Des vagues de chaleur extrêmes et une sécheresse sans précédent sont à l’origine de l’une des saisons de feux de forêt les plus intenses de l’histoire du Canada. Les feux sont particulièrement dévastateurs dans le nord-ouest de l’Ontario, où plus de 10 communautés ont déjà été évacuées.
Face à ces feux dévastateurs, le Canada mobilise toutes ses ressources.
Plus de 5 300 pompiers ont été déployés dans tout le pays. Près de 300 aéronefs sont sur le terrain, qu’il s’agisse de bombardiers à eau, d’hélicoptères ou d’avions d’évacuation. Nous exploitons les données, les drones, les nouvelles technologies et l’imagerie thermique de pointe pour soutenir les efforts de détection et d’atténuation en temps réel.
Au nom des Canadiennes et des Canadiens, je tiens à exprimer toute ma gratitude aux premiers intervenants et aux bénévoles qui sont aux premières lignes. Nous mobiliserons toutes les ressources nécessaires pour assurer la sécurité de la population canadienne.
Trump and his ICE goons really fucked up this time. Everyone is sick of their shit. I’m even seeing routinely delusional right wing accounts disgusted by today’s events.