Answer: they are a big company and can afford good lawyers.
PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT)@pun-ki.bsky.social · 12h agoYou should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid
have absolutely no intention of going to see Digger so I decided to read the plot on Wikipedia and, from the bottom of my heart: what
A friend always argues the weirdest thing about modern society to two thousand years ago might actually be seeing the Mediterranean as the dividing line rather than the epicentre of civilisation
Me, hearing about a new faction in 1649:
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14h ago"Digger" sounds fascinatingly nuts.
reinstalling the consciousness of my Mentat from scratch because he got a virus browsing porn on the Akashic Record
Why would you allow this in court ever in a million billion years
Pop Base@popbase.tv · 2d agoAn Arizona man that fatally shot another male in a road-rage incident will be resentenced after an AI-generated video of the victim forgiving him was improperly used during sentencing. The initial judge said he felt that the AI-generated depiction of the victim portrayed “genuine forgiveness.”
Guys how do some of you still dont know that the point of Dune is that JFK is Satan
Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴@dov.bsky.social · 3d ago
Today in ‘you can’t park there, mate’ we have the General Sherman edition. Details in ALT
financial journalists post in all caps because they are shouting to be heard above the din of a busy trading floor
I was annoyed in 2015 when someone took the already-annoying neologism "Grexit" (re GR-Euro-crisis) and backformed it into the even worse "Brexit". "Breturn" is still worse than that so I expect it's going to become the name that everyone decides to use, because that's what seems to happen.
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d agono I'm sorry who told Le Monde we were calling it "Breturn", own up
“Jude Bellingham isn’t English” is one hell of a thing to try to sell to the electorate
Not a novel observation by any means but the irony here, of course, is that it is precisely the UK’s successful approach to multiculturalism that has allowed us to generate a brown white nationalist.
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d agoSuella Braverman suggests on #BBCQT that you can't be English unless you are white, and have a lineage or heritage going back some generations
oh actually a friend recently infected me with another one, which is that when you order like a diet coke or a soda water in a pub and they ask if you want a pint or half pint, you can then sternly go "a half, I'm driving"
every single time I have to be patted down by security in any way I have to physically restrain myself from saying "hey, buy me a drink first!", every *single* time
Ah yes discuss the future of the alliance by excluding 2/3rds of its nuclear armed members.
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4d agoPer Politico citing 6 diplomats familiar with the matter, Trump admin is excluding the UK, France and Baltic countries from a NATO meeting on alliance’s future next month in Poland — after threatening to deploy a “naughty and nice list” against governments that have run afoul of Trump’s priorities.
Hell Yeah
Star Wars X-Wing in Space
ALT: Star Wars X-Wing in Space
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Chris Kempshall@chriskempshall.bsky.social · 4d agoToday is the day! ‘Star Wars: Star Pilots’ has officially published by @dkbooks.bsky.social in the UK! Only a few more days to wait across the Atlantic! I am so excited for you all to now get the chance to go on this reflective adventure with Wedge Antilles & a whole bunch of new & familiar faces!
You can tell exactly when Poland became a major power in European politics, because EU institutions very suddenly started calling history's most famous female physicist by a double-barrelled name
European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 4d agoAfter a record number of applications to the most recent Call for proposals, we have given a boost of over €210 million to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. Now more than 700 additional researchers will be able to build their career in Europe.
Statements issued after someone checked how many working tanks there were available today
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d agoKremlin: “Russia’s warning about the consequences of possible attempts to blockade Kaliningrad should not be seen as a confrontational statement.”
if you think about it, winning via a direct connection to the divine father of all creation through His appointed emissary on Earth is a much more egregious cheating scandal than banging on trash cans
Sarah Langs@slangsonsports.bsky.social · 4d agoThe first team in MLB history to make the postseason after even two consecutive 100-loss seasons (they had 3) just won a postseason series These White Sox, what a story!
Seal the tomb, salt the earth. He must not rise again.
I cannot emphasize enough that the guy who owns Manchester City and the guy who pays the RSF are the same exact guy
