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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yep, they do a nice job of wiki integration. We definitely want something similar with Ibis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

My thinking was that Lemmy instances could have their own Ibis instance that would include a page for each community named “c/community”.

While I doubt Fediverse wikis will replace Wikipedia, it can definitely take on wikis/fandom but, as mentioned, it can also act as the kind of wikis subs have. So you might have:

"c/community/faqs" "c/community/archive" "c/community/tutorials" "c/community/resources" "c/community/recommendations"

Depending on their needs - meme communities might not need much, while computing, privacy, etc might want quite a few to add in useful information and links that might otherwise get buried.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

ibis.wiki/threadiverse_privacy

So top level might be:

ibis.wiki/threadiverse_categories

Under which you might have:

  • [[threadiverse_technology]]
  • [[threadiverse_media]]

The latter then might contain:

  • [[threadiverse_books]]
  • [[threadiverse_films]]
  • [[threadiverse_television]]
  • [[threadiverse_comics]]

Then the last one would include:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Very impressive.

This is not finished - not in categories, not in organisation, not in communities, but I’m getting exhausted currently.

It must be collaborative or you'll burn yourself out.

I wonder if it can be done on [email protected] and then that information gets pulled through to another site where it could be used for filtering. And/or, as Ibis now federates with Lemmy (see [email protected]), it would just appear on here anyway and you could search "political communities" and it would bring up the relevant wiki page inside Lemmy.

This also fits with what I was pondering on Threadiverse community alternatives to subs. There are a few sites that went up with the first Rexxit but they are no longer maintained and it would be better done in a wiki.

My thinking was that Lemmy instances could have their own Ibis instance that would include a page for each community named "c/community". So we'd have:

wiki.feddit.uk/c/privacy

And elsewhere you'd have:

wiki.lemmy.world/c/privacy wiki.lemmy.ml/c/privacy

And these could then be linked in from both:

ibis.wiki/sub_alternatives ibis.wiki/threadiverse_privacy

Nail down your naming structure early on and it should go smoothly, with wikis being flexible enough to allow changes to be made if we needed to tweak things.

It is one of the reasons why I asked @[email protected] about being able to log into Iris with your Lemmy account, because you could closely integrate Lemmy and Ibis, especially now it federates (no point in having two accounts).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

As one studio after another began clamoring to pay Sinners’s $90 million-ish asking price, the director’s agents at WME notified them of a few strings attached. Coogler would retain final cut (a creative dispensation reserved for the industry’s crème de la crème), command first-dollar gross (that is, a percentage of box-office revenue beginning from the movie’s theatrical opening rather than waiting for the studio to turn a profit), and, most contentiously, 25 years after its release, ownership of Sinners would revert to the director.

And they say it like this is A Bad Thing, creators should have more control over the things they make - Hollywood shafting people just makes everything worse. The studios are still going to make plenty of money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I've cut out added sugar apart from special occasions but I'd still pick up something for family or friends (Malteaster bunnies or white chocolate and raspberry eggs have been popular in the past) but I haven't seen anything that didn't look like a standard chocolate brand trying a rip-off egg with underwhelming contents. I might look a bit harder tomorrow but I can't see myself getting anything this year.

What I have noticed is an attempt to sell seasonal tatt as they do at Halloween and Christmas - I've even seen "Easter bunny please stop here" signs and lawn decorations that seem an increasing trend.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)
 

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Not as far as I'm aware - The Guardian says it was only officers who trans women with a GRC who were allowed to search those AFAB. So officers couldn't pick and chose to suit them.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago (25 children)

The BTP jumped on this almost instantly as they'd been under fire because trans women on the force could strip search those AFAB.

I'm waiting for next shoe to drop when someone AFAB complains because they get strip searched by a big hairy bloke because he was also AFAB. At no point does anyone seem to have considered the effect this law will have on trans men now having to go into women-only spaces. I don't think JK Rowling cares about the messy fallout from her War on Trans Women.

 

The notorious “Am I The Asshole?” subreddit is being turned into a gameshow for Comedy Central UK hosted by LOL: Last One Laughing UK’s Jimmy Carr. Jimmy Carr’s Am I The Asshole? will invite members of the public to come before the host and a panel of two other comedians to ask controversial questions. These questions will cover everything from jaw-dropping relationship disputes to the pettiest of family squabbles and stories of behaviors that are guaranteed to split opinion. The “Am I The Asshole?” sub-reddit is famous worldwide and uses the acronym AITA. The BBC mined Reddit in the past for its hit comedy Am I Being Unreasonable?, which is also a famous subreddit. Jimmy Carr’s Am I The Asshole? is being produced by STV Studios-owned Tuesday’s Child. The series will be filmed in late spring and is due to air later this year on Comedy Central UK. Carr said: “There are an impressive number of assholes in our country and they’re finally getting the recognition they deserve on national television.”

Note: because of markdown formatting I have had to change "a**hole" to 'asshole". While it should obviously be "arsehole", it isn't actually clear what the series will be called, it might actually be using the bowdlerised version in the title.

 

Netflix‘s strategic investment in Welsh production hubs has generated more than £200 million ($265 million) for the U.K. economy since 2020, according to a report released Wednesday by the streaming giant and Creative Wales.

The economic windfall comes as the streamer gears to bow director Gareth Evans’ action thriller “Havoc,” starring Tom Hardy – now holding the distinction as the largest feature film ever shot entirely within Wales.

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The Welsh investment represents part of Netflix’s broader U.K. production strategy, with the nation becoming a key filming destination for the streamer’s high-profile content. Beyond “Havoc,” Wales has hosted production for tentpole series including “The Witcher,” creating substantial economic ripple effects throughout the region.

According to the report, Netflix productions have supported over 500 Welsh businesses across multiple sectors since 2020. For every £1 ($1.32) spent by the streamer in Wales, 58 pence (76 cents) flows to TV and film sectors, with the remainder benefiting industries including rental and leasing, creative arts, and food and hospitality. The financial impact extends beyond direct spending, with each £1 invested by Netflix generating an additional 80 pence ($1.06) across the Welsh supply chain.

 

A year ago, Lionsgate flew Henry Cavill to Las Vegas, where he charmed audiences at CinemaCon with tales of the extensive sword training he was undergoing to star in Highlander for the studio. The project had been in development for almost a decade with filmmaker Chad Stahelski, but finally seemed to be moving forward.

Now, that project is indeed still moving forward, but it will be headed to Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists, which is in final negotiations to acquire the package from Lionsgate. The film is intended as a theatrical play.

At one time, Lionsgate was plotting an entire universe for Highlander, with Stahelski to oversee it all. But the new deal will give UA full rights to the franchise, which dates back to the 1986 feature about immortal warriors starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery. As the tagline “there can only be one,” suggests, these warriors are pitted in battle agaisnt one another. With each immortal they kill, they become stronger, until only one will remain. The film spawned four sequels and three television series.

Under the deal, UA’s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt will produce. Neal H. Moritz will also produce with Stahelski’s banner, 87Eleven Entertainment. Michael Fench, who worked on Stahelski’s John Wick: Chapter 4, will pen the script.

Cavill has been attached to the proejct since 2021, while Stahelski has been attached since 2016.

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Cavill is already in business with Amazon, starring in its upcoming Voltron movie, and is developing Warhammer 40,000 as a franchise.

 

A series of exceptionally dry summers that caused famine and social breakdown were behind one of the most severe threats to Roman rule of Britain, according to new academic research.

The rebellion, known as the “barbarian conspiracy”, was a pivotal moment in Roman Britain. Picts, Scotti and Saxons took advantage of Britain’s descent into anarchy to inflict crushing blows on weakened Roman defences in the spring and summer of AD367.

Senior Roman commanders were captured or killed, and some soldiers reportedly deserted and joined the invaders. It took two years for generals dispatched by Valentinian I, emperor of the western half of the Roman empire, to restore order. The last remnants of official Roman administration left Britain about 40 years later.

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The study, published in Climatic Change, used oak tree-ring records to reconstruct temperature and precipitation levels in southern Britain during and after the barbarian conspiracy. Combined with surviving Roman accounts, the data led the authors to conclude that severe summer droughts were a driving force.

Little archaeological evidence for the rebellion existed, and written accounts from the period were limited, said Charles Norman of Cambridge’s department of geography. “But our findings provide an explanation for the catalyst of this major event.”

Southern Britain experienced an exceptional sequence of remarkably dry summers from AD364 to 366, the researchers found. In the period AD350-500, average monthly reconstructed rainfall in the main growing season was 51mm. But in AD364, it fell to 29mm. AD365 was even worse with 28mm, and the rainfall the following year was still below average at 37mm.

Prof Ulf Büntgen of Cambridge’s department of geography said: “Three consecutive droughts would have had a devastating impact on the productivity of Roman Britain’s most important agricultural region. As Roman writers tell us, this resulted in food shortages with all of the destabilising societal effects this brings.”

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By AD367, the population of Britain was in the “utmost conditions of famine”, according to Ammianus Marcellinus, a soldier and historian.

Norman said the poor harvests would have “reduced the grain supply to Hadrian’s Wall, providing a plausible motive for the rebellion there, which allowed the Picts into northern Britain”.

The study suggested that grain deficits may have contributed to other desertions in this period, and therefore a general weakening of the Roman army in Britain.

Military and societal breakdown provided an ideal opportunity for peripheral tribes, including the Picts, Scotti and Saxons, to invade the province.

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The researchers expanded their climate-conflict analysis to the entire Roman empire for the period AD350-476. They reconstructed the climate conditions immediately before and after 106 battles and found that a statistically significant number of battles were fought following dry years.

 

Elon Musk has joined forced with Republican power broker Peter Thiel on a bid to help build Donald Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” missile defence shield.

Mr Musk’s SpaceX is partnering with Mr Thiel’s Silicon Valley data company Palantir Technologies and US drone builder Anduril Industries on a joint proposal for the project.

It would involve SpaceX supplying up to 1,000 orbiters that would provide an early warning of a missile or nuclear launch against the US.

A separate fleet of 200 attack satellites armed with missiles or lasers, probably from another manufacturer, would then shoot down the enemy warheads.

While Golden Dome has attracted interest from more than 180 companies, the three companies have already pitched the plan to top officials from the White House and the Pentagon, according to Reuters, which reported the story citing unnamed sources.

The situation is likely to fuel criticism that Mr Musk is profiting from his political role in the White House. He holds the title of “special government employee” at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), the agency Mr Trump created to reduce wasteful federal spending.

US defence officials are said to be conscious of the relationship between Mr Trump and Mr Musk, who donated almost $300m (£227m) to his election campaign.

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Mr Thiel, the billionaire PayPal co-founder, is also a prominent supporter of Mr Trump and played an influential role in the rise of JD Vance, now vice president. Anduril Industries was set up by Palmer Luckey, another Trump supporter.

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/27660145

Rob Liefeld: It’s a love letter to the team books that I grew up with, like The Avengers, The Titans, The Justice League, and The Fantastic Four that I grew up. Those books don't exist anymore, and let me tell you something, I miss them. There's a different dynamic. They don't approach these books in the same way. So, this is my love letter, and I think it's kind of a How To Do Team Books manual.

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Youngblood #1 starts a storyline, but it is actually is 92nd issue of Youngblood. In eight issues, it will be the hundredth issue. And at that point, I'm flipping to legacy numbering, so you'll soon be picking up Youngblood #100, #101, #102... I originally didn't want to come back with issue #92, but my publisher, Eric Stevenson, helped me and said, "Rob, you're at this many issues. You should consider that going into it."

It's a brand new storyline. There is a new menace that they're encountering, but some of the things that he's doing tie back into events of extreme comics in the past. As issue #2 will reveal, there are some big consequences coming. If you've ever read a Youngblood comic, you know who they are on page 3; they're each identified. Then each character has a "get to know me" moment.

...

The other comic that I'm going to finish here in the next few weeks, because of the 50th anniversary of Giant-Size X-Men #1, is Giant-Size Youngblood #1. That's the standalone story that I think people are going to totally dig. I was drawing it as an homage to the X-Men one, which I believe is the most influential comic of the last 50 years and changed the game. It will be out in the Summer.

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ScreenRant: You're also releasing Youngblood Deluxe #1 this April. What makes that the ultimate way to experience the series?

Rob Liefeld: That's taking you all the way back to the original. I did that on a whim in 2007 and 2008, and we collected it together in a hardcover, and the hardcover sold out. I remastered along with Joe Casey; we reshuffled pages, we made them new, but we never released them as singles. I went to get a hardcover because we were running low - and my wife lets me know when I break the cardinal rule of not having enough family copies - but they're like $150 bucks. These hardcovers are really hard to obtain.

It was supposed to be out this week, but tariffs delayed it by a week. Thank you, tariffs. But I think the buzz about Youngblood will be there, so you can jump on board. We're releasing one issue a month of the original series, remastered and recolored, as an all-new presentation of this original material. You get to see directors do it in film all the time, right? It's like a director's cut of Youngblood. I think it's a perfect storm of having something new with the classic material. Trust me, there are more exciting Youngblood merchandise and licensed products to come.

 

Rob Liefeld: It’s a love letter to the team books that I grew up with, like The Avengers, The Titans, The Justice League, and The Fantastic Four that I grew up. Those books don't exist anymore, and let me tell you something, I miss them. There's a different dynamic. They don't approach these books in the same way. So, this is my love letter, and I think it's kind of a How To Do Team Books manual.

...

Youngblood #1 starts a storyline, but it is actually is 92nd issue of Youngblood. In eight issues, it will be the hundredth issue. And at that point, I'm flipping to legacy numbering, so you'll soon be picking up Youngblood #100, #101, #102... I originally didn't want to come back with issue #92, but my publisher, Eric Stevenson, helped me and said, "Rob, you're at this many issues. You should consider that going into it."

It's a brand new storyline. There is a new menace that they're encountering, but some of the things that he's doing tie back into events of extreme comics in the past. As issue #2 will reveal, there are some big consequences coming. If you've ever read a Youngblood comic, you know who they are on page 3; they're each identified. Then each character has a "get to know me" moment.

...

The other comic that I'm going to finish here in the next few weeks, because of the 50th anniversary of Giant-Size X-Men #1, is Giant-Size Youngblood #1. That's the standalone story that I think people are going to totally dig. I was drawing it as an homage to the X-Men one, which I believe is the most influential comic of the last 50 years and changed the game. It will be out in the Summer.

...

ScreenRant: You're also releasing Youngblood Deluxe #1 this April. What makes that the ultimate way to experience the series?

Rob Liefeld: That's taking you all the way back to the original. I did that on a whim in 2007 and 2008, and we collected it together in a hardcover, and the hardcover sold out. I remastered along with Joe Casey; we reshuffled pages, we made them new, but we never released them as singles. I went to get a hardcover because we were running low - and my wife lets me know when I break the cardinal rule of not having enough family copies - but they're like $150 bucks. These hardcovers are really hard to obtain.

It was supposed to be out this week, but tariffs delayed it by a week. Thank you, tariffs. But I think the buzz about Youngblood will be there, so you can jump on board. We're releasing one issue a month of the original series, remastered and recolored, as an all-new presentation of this original material. You get to see directors do it in film all the time, right? It's like a director's cut of Youngblood. I think it's a perfect storm of having something new with the classic material. Trust me, there are more exciting Youngblood merchandise and licensed products to come.

 

Key features

Its a massive house

Its not that bad really!

Huge potential

No forward chain

Description

I am probably going to get sacked when the owner reads my description...but in the meantime we are running with it! Yes its a right dump, but its a large dump. And actually look a little closer and its not as bad as it may seem. There are number of replacement windows, has a modern fuse box and the roof looks good with lead flashing around the firewalls and chimney. And its big, offering a large sitting room, dining room, kitchen, conservatory, three bedrooms and an upstairs bathroom. The garden is pretty decent too. This is your chance to save Santa and bag yourself a bargain too! Offered for sale with no forward chain.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61518387

With 82 reviews, it has an average rating of 8.70 out of 10.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sinners_2025

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/27615437

I developed a love for graphic novels around ten years ago. Back then, I lined a bookshelf with volumes. Now my comics are digital, and I'm enjoying them even more.

Back then, there was a larger gap between a digital comic and a physical one due primarily to the LCD screens that most of us had. Our phones didn't have the pixel density that they do now, and our tablets had even less. It was perfectly fine and enjoyable, but I'm not sure I would call the experience better than print.

Display technology has come a long way since then. This is apparent when comparing the original Nintendo Switch released in 2017 with the Nintendo Switch 2 launching later this year. Even though they both use LCD panels, the difference is night and day. The Switch 2's LCD is even a big upgrade over the Switch OLED.

I now read comics on a pixel-dense 7.6-inch OLED screen. The colors pop more than they do on the physical page. The contrast ratio is striking. There's no counting pixels.

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I only purchase DRM-free comics, buying from publishers that release their works without digital restrictions such as Image Comics, Iron Circus Comics, and Vault Comics.

Most of my collection has come though Humble Bundle. The site is usually offering at least one comic book bundle at any given moment in time. I purchase several bundles throughout the year, which each typically containing the entire run of multiple series.

This is an option that simply isn't viable with physical books. Quite frankly, it would cost me hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars to acquire physical copies of the comics I get for under $20 from Humble Bundle, if physical editions can still be found at all.

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In the US, if you have a library card, you can read many comics for even less—as in, for free—through Hoopla. I find that, at least for western comics, Hoopa tends to have what I'm looking for. I still buy comics anyway because I prefer to read them in a separate app, but I can only imagine how many comics I might have read if Hoopla were around back when I was a teenager.

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Besides, there's no reason you can't mix and match. Put physical copies of your favorites up on a shelf and carry all the rest with you when you leave the house.

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