A note to my friends who still back Trump:
I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.
Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.
And the green water?
A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.
Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.
That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.
The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.
Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.
Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.
Prove them wrong.
I used to play Xbox 360 late into the morning when I was in school. My parents found out and started turning the router off at night.
Amazingly they didn’t require a parliamentary majority and royal assent.
Call their bluff.
Close all local UK operations, so that no employees or corporate officers can be arrested.
Refuse to comply, and dare them to geoblock. Without Google and Apple, the UK economy would probably collapse. It isn't so much that those services are crucial (although they are), it's that Britain is already on the fiscal brink and all it would really take is a little push.
I'm sure blocking the Internet would go over really well with the British people, too.
The “Stop Killing Games” movement gained traction because gamers are tired of paying full price for games that companies can later shut down, lock away, or render unplayable.
Many feel companies sell games as if you own them, but in reality you are just renting access until they decide otherwise.
European politician Markéta Gregorová said at the parliament: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing.”
She was not saying piracy is good. Her point was simple: if companies can take away games people already paid for, then calling it “buying” feels dishonest.
People are not asking companies to support games forever; they just want what they paid for to keep working instead of disappearing because a publisher flipped a switch.
The video game industry is lobbying against Stop Killing Games
California is considering a new law called AB 1921, also known as the Protect Our Games Act.
If passed, the bill would apply to paid digital games sold after January 1, 2027.
It requires that if a company shuts down the online services needed to play the game normally, it must give players 60 days' notice and either release a patch so the game can still be played or offer buyers a full refund.
The bill does not require companies to keep servers running forever. It simply prevents them from making a game unplayable without warning or a solution for those who already paid for it.
The Entertainment Software Association, the main group representing video game companies in the United States, is lobbying against the bill.
Their arguments are basically the usual ones:
>games are licensed, not owned
>online services are complicated
>third-party licenses expire
>security risks exist
>this could be hard or expensive to enforce
Supporters of the bill, including the Stop Killing Games campaign, say this is basic customer protection because when you buy a game, it should not suddenly stop working with no remedy.
The bill gives companies clear options and applies only to future games. A hearing is scheduled for this Thursday in the California Assembly Appropriations Committee.
If you are part of an organization in the United States, especially in California, you can submit a letter of support to the committee. This is an important step for better rights for players who buy digital games.
A preview was released yesterday in the new 'Stranger Than Heaven' Game Trailer
Satoshi Fujihara from Official Hige Dandism and Tori Kelly are also featured, with the full song releasing this Winter!
You like one halo post yesterday and half your timeline is suddenly halo.
You've never interacted with sports and all the untagged ads are sports.
You've like anime/manga/Yuri posts for 10 years and there's 1 every 1000 posts.
Wtf is twitter doing with the algorithm????????
All of the maga people saying that Pope Leo isn't their pope are the same people that yelled in your face that Trump was your president and to get over it. After crying that Biden wasn't their president. Bad news cause the popes gonna be around a lot longer than Trump or Merica
I normally don't respond to stuff like this. When I see negative posts from people who have no idea what its like to live a life with PI. There are so many people out there living with primary immune deficiency. So many people who cannot leave their homes or their beds. So many people who struggle to find a normal life struggle to do the most basic human things.
I got lucky enough to have a community that supported me. They helped me crawl out of a deep hole that I feared I could never get out of. Without them I would not be here today. I also got lucky to have found such a wonderful friend who isn't afraid to do cringe silly stuff that may seem weird to some but to me it means the world. Now I am finally able to do things I never thought I would ever get to do.
If i can just give one person with my disease or any other debilitating illness out there a bit of hope and a bit of happiness. I am happy. Please know you are not alone and somehow you too can find a way to take back your life and live your life your way. Donate plasma if you can and support the @immunedeficienC if you can.
Thank you everyone for being a light in my life.
Splitgate is implementing peer-to-peer (P2P) servers as part of its end-of-life plan, ensuring the original game remains playable even after official servers are shut down.
The developer 1047 Games directly acknowledged the StopKillingGames movement as part of the motivation behind the decision.
The studio said it has seen the ongoing conversations around preserving online games and wants to make sure players do not lose access to a title they have invested time and passion into.
Starting with the server shutdown, the original game transitions to player-hosted matches through P2P networking, allowing fans to continue playing multiplayer matches without relying on centralized infrastructure.
The developers are also unlocking cosmetics and preserving core content so the experience remains intact.
This is exactly the kind of responsible end-of-life planning many players have been asking for across the industry.
This should be standard practice for online-only titles
For the first time in 10 years, 32 teams have been assembled for a Counter-Strike Major in the Cathedral of Counter-Strike. 🇩🇪
YOUR #IEM COLOGNE MAJOR 2026 INVITED TEAMS ARE CONFIRMED 👇