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Panorama of the Whale Galaxy
Credits: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, #NASA, Nikolaus Sulzenauer
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Popeye, Tintin enter the public domain in 2025

Tintin, the seminal hero of the pulp genre of boy adventurers, enters the United States public domain in 2025, though in a way that probably wouldn’t please his creator Hergé very much. Not necessarily because the cartoonist would be angry at other folks being able to legally make Tintin stories — but because the Tintin […

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AMD Continued Ramping Up Their Linux & Open-Source Investments In 2024

AMD's new products this year have not only been supported well on the server side with their new EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors but also on the consumer side with the Ryzen AI 300 series laptop and Ryzen 9000 series desktop Zen 5 processors. AMD provided timely Zen 5 support across the stack as well as pursuing new AMD P-State driver optimizations, getting out the AMDXDN…
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2024’s best games channeled the heart and soul of the ’90s

After years of chasing live-service and open-world blockbusters, games like Astro Bot and Balatro showed that old formats could be a solution to modern industry problems.

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B10 - Dungeons and Dragons

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Publisher: Adventures in FilbarWith this being the 50th year for D&D, we are returning to our roots and offering Basic/Expert/OSR games every month. This offering sends your brave PCs to deal with a threat hiding in an old shrine! We have all heard the…








Educate or Not -- It's no wonder that Project 2025 calls for putting an end to the Department of Education. (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)

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CHEATS. Sham sleeves to put over a dirty shift or shirt. See SHAMS.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Probably very handy if you were a maid- scrubbing one minute, expected to look clean while serving food the next.

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