Matthew Shepard should be turning 50 years old this year. We must never stop sharing his story. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/matthew-shepard-should-be-turning-50-years-old-this-year-we-must-never-stop-sharing-his-story/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #lgbtq #lgbt
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CW: Some beer I've been drinking
@caskfan was drinking a #IndiaPaleAle by #ShepherdNeame at #UntappdAtHome on Saturday at 21:12 Served from bottle, I rated it at 3.5 (good to very good) #beer #alcohol #untappd #beersofmastodon
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Lake Tekapo has the very instagrammable Church of the Good Shepherd which is especially beautiful during the lupine blooming season from mid-November until the end of December. We loved it - have you been here? #NewZealand https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Lake-Tekapo/#church
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Today’s evidence of events in my second play-through of “Mass Effect (Legendary Edition.” Commander Ridley Shepard is now a Spectre and has a full crowd of people to use as her ‘Away Team.’
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Had a dilemma when choosing two bottles of fine ale for my birthday tomorrow. They had both Shepherd Neame Bishops Finger and Fullers ESB on the shelf. My two favourites. Of course the answer was obvious!
(And it wasn't one of each) 😊Faux #ai would have suggested 'one of each' which precisely illustrates why those ghastly works of darkness should be driven out and cast down into the pit by good folks with their flaming torches and pitchforks! Yay and verily!!
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HD Hyundai to Build U.S. Shipyard After Failing to Buy One
The 41,000-ton cargo supply ship USNS Alan Shepard of the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet is moored at Yeompo…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #HDHyundaiHeavy #ChungKi-sun #HDHyundai #HDKiewitShipbuilding #Hyundai #Kiewit #Korea-U.S.shipbuilding #MASGA #U.S.shipyard
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https://www.europesays.com/es/833699/ El cierre de BioWare no acaba (del todo) con ‘Mass Effect’: Amazon confirma que su serie sigue adelante, pero no esperes al Comandante Shepard #Ciencia #CienciaYTecnología #CienciaYtecnología #ES #España #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #ScienceAndTechnology #Spain #Technology #Tecnología
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Located At: Pima Animal Care Center - Tucson
Description: My name is Beeg Baby*.
I am a spayed female, tan German Shepherd Dog.
Weight: I weigh approximately 47.00 lbs.
Age: The shelter staff think I am about 4 years old.
More Info: I have been at the shelter since Aug 26, 2026 and am ready to go home today!
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#WritersCoffeeClub – 25th Oct. Tell us about inspiration from an unlikely source.
My published fiction output across almost 30 years was "The Report From Potter's Point," a serial about characters in a small New England town, appearing at first weekly in three newspapers, and later rebooted to longer monthly installments in a magazine. In all that time, nobody ever had a pet, believe it or not. No dogs. No cats. Not even a goldfish.
In January 2019 a mini Australian Shepherd entered my life. And now in my current WIP, Jack has a dog named Wolf. (And there are a couple of cats here and there, too.) Who'da thunk?
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Halloween Horror Movie Review: The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Title: The Return of the Living Dead
Release Date: August 16, 1985
Director: Dan O’Bannon
Production Company: Hemdale Film Corporation | Fox Films, Ltd. | Cinema ’84
Main Cast:- Clu Gulager as Burt Wilson
- James Karen as Frank Johnson
- Don Calfa as Ernie Kaltenbrunner
- Thom Mathews as Freddy Hanscom
- Beverly Randolph as Tina
- Miguel A. Núñez Jr. as Spider
- John Philbin as Chuck
- Jewel Shepard as Casey
- Brian Peck as Scuz
- Linnea Quigley as Trash
- Mark Venturini as Suicide
- Jonathan Terry as Colonel Horace Glover
- Cathleen Cordell as Ethel Glover, Colonel’s Wife
- Drew Deighan as Jerry, The Paramedic
- James Dalesandro as Tom, The Paramedic
- Robert Libman as Tac Squad Captain
- Derrick Brice as Gunnery Sergeant Jefferson
- Allan Trautman as Tarman Zombie
- Terrence Houlihan as Yellow Cadaver Zombie
- Jerome Coleman as Legless Corpse Zombie
- Cherry Davis as The Voice of The Female Torso Zombie
- John Durbin as The Zombie Who Calls for More Paramedics
- David Bond as The Zombie Who Calls for More Cops
Synopsis (via Letterboxd):
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
My Thoughts:
Night of the Living Dead co-writer John Russo split off from George Romero to create his own zombie franchise beginning with this 1980s time capsule of a movie. The movie is set around a medical supply warehouse in Louisville where drums of the toxic gas that causes zombieism were accidentally sent by the military. Remember the Reagan Era 80s when nonetheless the cultural zeitgeist was deeply mistrustful of the military rather than “support the troops?” Naturally, the gas is released affecting not just the warehouse but the nearby cemetery where a group of punks have gathered to party.
The blue collar workers (all of whom seem to be played by familiar character actors that I cannot place where I’ve seen them before) get most of the best lines. There’s the wiseacre Frank training the new hire Freddy, their hapless boss who makes all the wrong decisions when he takes charge, and the deadpan mortician Eddie. The punks are funny in that 80s movie punks are always the same over-the-top stereotypes. The girl who strips naked for the entire film is gratuitous though.
And then there are the zombies who just want “BRAIIIIIINSSS!!!” because they stave off the pain of decay (possibly a metaphor for substance abuse?). It’s hard to believe that is the first depiction of zombies craving brains. The idea of zombies who not only talk, but can hold conversations is a bit off-putting, but then again the “Send more cops!” gag is hilarious.
This isn’t a masterpiece, but it’s corny fun with a lot of great one-liners, and probably would be exponentially more enjoyable at a crowded theater screening.
Rating: ***
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I won't repost the FT columnist in Bluesky using Nazistack, but she makes a good point. Even when honest students try to get the LLM bot to do one approved thing for them, it unhelpfully does FAR more than they ask, creating headaches for them as they can't stop the behavior.
And knowing as I do that faculty at my institution have complained about tutors to their dept head for doing too much of the students' work instead of tutoring them... WHY on EARTH do the same faculty shepherd their students to genAI which does just that and there's no recourse to stop it? It sounds nonsensical because it is! #genAI
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Mass Effect: Universe Would Have Mixed James Bond, John Wick and Hitman, Claims Community Adviser
With BioWare being shuttered by the now Saudi-owned EA, we’re starting to get more details about the Mass Effect game that the team was working on. A leaked internal trailer gave us a look at the visual style and tone, and now we have people who were involved with BioWare giving us insights into what Mass Effect: Universe was going to be.
AdvertisementsDantics is an Australian YouTuber who claims he was a member of the Mass Effect council. In his video discussing the cancelled game, he explains: “They would send me what they were working on and I would provide feedback.”
In other words, his involvement was advisory, but assuming his claims are true, he would have had access to a lot of information. There is indeed such a thing as the Mass Effect council — it popped up in the credits of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, for example — and council members have previously discussed providing feedback on marketing and development on other BioWare games. What I can’t verify is whether Dantics was actually a member, but my gut instinct is that he’s telling the truth.
According to Dantics, Universe was going to take place more than 600 years after the original trilogy. The galaxy has split into three main factions: an alliance led by the humans that also includes the batarians and krogan; another alliance made up of the Council races; and a third faction in the rising geth superpower, which has also been making megastructures.
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“Now, the three factions aren’t in open war,” he says. “Rather, it’s a cold war situation with an unknown enemy seemingly pulling the strings, which you are sent out to investigate.”
Shepard and crew were fairly straightforward operatives, but Dantics describes the new protagonist as more of a secret agent/spy. Like Shepard, this customisable lead character is an N7 agent, although the developers apparently had a different style of action in mind.
“They wanted the gameplay to feel more like James Bond meets John Wick,” Dantics explains. “You’re a super spy, an agent, being tactful if you want and forceful when you need.”
The character would also have “experimental tech in your head that uniquely interacts with your physiology.” Dantics compares its abilities to Cyberpunk 2077’s hacking, including looking through walls and remotely exploding pipes behind enemies.
Missions would use handcrafted maps like the original trilogy, but offer something closer to Hitman’s freedom of approach.
“Your missions would be similar to Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3’s traditional handcrafted maps, but you can approach them freeform, similar to the Hitman series or the start of Noveria. You can talk to people, assess, analyse, and execute with more freedom. But if you wanted, you could go in guns blazing.”
Liara would return as a powerful asari matriarch, which we glimpsed in the leaked trailer. Other companions included a krogan, a quarian and a human woman available to romance. Again, we caught some glimpses of them in the trailer.
AdvertisementsThe setting would also attempt to accommodate Mass Effect 3’s three main endings. After six centuries of technological progress, Reapers would be outdated and people would already be partly synthetic, reducing the differences between Control and Synthesis.
“Reapers are outdated tech, so if you chose Control, they’re not going to be as impactful as they were,” Dantics says. “Everyone at this stage is part synthetic, so picking Synthesis works out a similar way.”
Shepard would be long dead even if they survived Destroy, but their legacy would remain. Exactly how earlier decisions would be represented isn’t clear. Dantics says “your choices might even come up,” which suggests references to the trilogy rather than establishing how much those decisions would affect Universe.
As for how much of this BioWare had actually made, Dantics claims: “Not to rub salt in the wound, but they were a lot further in development than their statement suggested.” Insider Shinobi602 has offered a similar account, although neither has supplied a completion percentage or demonstrated a near-finished game.
In ResetEra comments reported by TwistedVoxel, Shinobi602 says the story was established, squadmates were implemented, hubs had been built and new combat and quest systems were being developed. He also claims development was progressing well, rather than suffering the problems associated with Andromeda and The Veilguard.
Shinobi602 describes the leaked trailer as an internal mood piece made for leadership, using placeholder assets to communicate the game’s direction. He says the team had been diverted to help finish The Veilguard before returning to Mass Effect following its release. His account is that EA leadership had been enthusiastic about the project, with the cancellation reflecting changing priorities at the publisher.
There is some first-hand support for the team’s ambitions. Former BioWare cinematic supervisor Tony de Waal wrote on LinkedIn that the project aimed for “a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has been able to match.” He cited Larian and CD Projekt as inspirations while stressing the team’s desire to stay true to the trilogy. De Waal also said he was among roughly 50 remaining BioWare employees who lost their jobs, a number which was also mentioned by Jason Schreier in his reporting.
However, ambition and progress don’t tell us how much work remained. Jason Schreier confirmed the leaked trailer was authentic, which establishes its origin rather than how representative it was of the wider game. BioWare’s closure statement still described the project as being in early development, and the footage itself uses pre-production assets.
Regardless of how close the game may or may not have been to release, Dantics’ details paint a pretty interesting picture. The idea of a Mass Effect game with more freedom to tackle objectives and the option to approach situations more like a secret agent than a soldier sounds awesome. But of course, it’s also easy to make a game sound good on paper — most cancelled games can be made to sound like they would have been spectacular. It looks like we will never know, unless this version of Universe gets handed off to a different team.
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