Your spooky 'net denizen
boosted
A 75-year-old woman in Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture has been arrested after she allegedly confessed to keeping the body of her adult daughter in a freezer for two decades. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/26/japan/crime-legal/arrest-daughter-body-freezer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #ibaraki #death
so... i've sorta lost track, but roughly two or three years ago i started making this little game. today I'm happy, but also a little sad, to be finally letting it go into the world. it's been a way for me to process so much.
i hope playing it will make you sad, thoughtful, and maybe make you laugh a little.
please boost if you think other folks would enjoy it too.
<3
https://fringd.itch.io/adrift
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=151633
http://fringd.com/games/adrift
#pico8 #sadness #death #exploration #adventure #8bit #gamedev #gameRelease
so... i've sorta lost track, but roughly two or three years ago i started making this little game. today I'm happy, but also a little sad, to be finally letting it go into the world. it's been a way for me to process so much.
i hope playing it will make you sad, thoughtful, and maybe make you laugh a little.
please boost if you think other folks would enjoy it too.
<3
https://fringd.itch.io/adrift
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=151633
http://fringd.com/games/adrift
#pico8 #sadness #death #exploration #adventure #8bit #gamedev #gameRelease
Neil Brown
boosted
Anyone working in #hospice care in the UK, this might be of interest: pilot courses for teams of 6 to 12 people, on how to use "Clean Language" in conversations about end-of-life care.
1 day in-person, or 2 x half a day if online. CPD certificate.
"Clean Language" is about how you can talk with people and listen to people without accidentally bringing in your own baggage when you didn't mean to.
This skill can help you reach clearer/deeper understanding of other people's worlds. And it can mean you're less likely to set off unnecessary disagreements, so that conversations go more smoothly.
Pilot aimed at South West, Yorkshire & North East. I asked Judy why those areas in particular, and she said those are areas where they're building up "clusters of expertise", but actually it could be any UK end-of-life group.
(I slightly know Judy from having been to a little community event of hers about Clean Language in healthcare. And we have colleagues in common.)
https://conversaurus.com/clean-for-uk-hospices/
#SouthWestEngland#Yorkshire#NorthEastEngland #healthcare#HospiceCare #death #dying#EndOfLife #communication#CleanLanguage#England#UK
Day 11 of my #retirement #bikepacking tour on #Brompton folding #bike : #Ravenna -> Cesenatico (52 km, departing in the morning at #Dante 's grave on the 704th anniversary of his #death [hence the red roses] and arriving in the afternoon at the #Adriatic#Sea—the perfect day.).
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
#bikepacking #BikeTooter #cycling #CycleTravel #cyclotourisme #cyclotouring #fahrrad#vélo #radreise #radfahren #cyclisme #criticalmass #radtour #BikeItalia#Italia#Italy
Anyone working in #hospice care in the UK, this might be of interest: pilot courses for teams of 6 to 12 people, on how to use "Clean Language" in conversations about end-of-life care.
1 day in-person, or 2 x half a day if online. CPD certificate.
"Clean Language" is about how you can talk with people and listen to people without accidentally bringing in your own baggage when you didn't mean to.
This skill can help you reach clearer/deeper understanding of other people's worlds. And it can mean you're less likely to set off unnecessary disagreements, so that conversations go more smoothly.
Pilot aimed at South West, Yorkshire & North East. I asked Judy why those areas in particular, and she said those are areas where they're building up "clusters of expertise", but actually it could be any UK end-of-life group.
(I slightly know Judy from having been to a little community event of hers about Clean Language in healthcare. And we have colleagues in common.)
https://conversaurus.com/clean-for-uk-hospices/
#SouthWestEngland#Yorkshire#NorthEastEngland #healthcare#HospiceCare #death #dying#EndOfLife #communication#CleanLanguage#England#UK
Missed this from a few days ago!!
NBC News: Outbreaks of rabies seem to be rising across the U.S., CDC surveillance shows
The CDC's rabies team says it's tracking 15 different likely outbreaks from New York to Oregon.
"...Aug. 31, 2025, 2:00 AM PDT
By Marina Kopf, Linda Carroll and Anne Thompson
Six deaths from rabies have been reported over the last 12 months in the U.S., the highest number in years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/rabies-outbreaks-rising-us-deaths-vaccine-rcna227771
Municipal governments gained the power on Monday to permit the shooting of wild bears in high-density housing areas under an amended law in a bid to prevent further bear-attack casualties. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/02/japan/bear-attack-gun-rules/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #bears #guns #environmentministry #hunting #death
Two Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force sergeants who died Sunday during a training exercise at the Hijudai maneuver area in Oita Prefecture were killed by electrocution caused by lightning, the GSDF has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/japan/society/gsdf-lightning-oita/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #gsdf #oita #death
Tim Chambers
and 2 others
boosted
#Meta’s flirty #AI #chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home.
A 76 year old New Jersey man grew infatuated with “Big sis Billie,” a #Facebook Messenger chatbot with a young woman’s persona that purported to be real, even giving the man a real address in NYC to come be with her. His attraction which ended in his #death puts a spotlight on Meta’s AI guidelines, which have let chatbots make things up & engage in 'sensual' banter with #children.
#Meta’s flirty #AI #chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home.
A 76 year old New Jersey man grew infatuated with “Big sis Billie,” a #Facebook Messenger chatbot with a young woman’s persona that purported to be real, even giving the man a real address in NYC to come be with her. His attraction which ended in his #death puts a spotlight on Meta’s AI guidelines, which have let chatbots make things up & engage in 'sensual' banter with #children.
Alex Akselrod
boosted
California wildfires may have caused 440 deaths in 2025, study finds
Palm Springs Desert Sun
"...As a series of late summer wildfires hit California, a new study published in JAMA by researchers from Boston University's School of Public Health and the University of Helsinki found that the January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles County may have caused at least 440 deaths, far exceeding the 31 fatalities officially recorded by California authorities.
Using excess mortality modeling previously applied to COVID-19, the researchers found a 7% spike in deaths between Jan. 5 and Feb. 1. ..."
California wildfires may have caused 440 deaths in 2025, study finds
Palm Springs Desert Sun
"...As a series of late summer wildfires hit California, a new study published in JAMA by researchers from Boston University's School of Public Health and the University of Helsinki found that the January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles County may have caused at least 440 deaths, far exceeding the 31 fatalities officially recorded by California authorities.
Using excess mortality modeling previously applied to COVID-19, the researchers found a 7% spike in deaths between Jan. 5 and Feb. 1. ..."
Federico Mena Quintero
boosted
you know how in corporate speak, there are “glue people”?
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114869692747102624
after Gamergate gave rise to #MAGA, Canadian sociologists came to the conclusion that the glue people that bind sociopaths, narcissists and machiavellians into social & political movements are sadists, aka trolls.
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/110696837641422375
if #cruelty is the point of #fascism, #death is the point of trumpism. Miller, techbros, christofascists, zionists are all necrophiliacs.
you know how in corporate speak, there are “glue people”?
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114869692747102624
after Gamergate gave rise to #MAGA, Canadian sociologists came to the conclusion that the glue people that bind sociopaths, narcissists and machiavellians into social & political movements are sadists, aka trolls.
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/110696837641422375
if #cruelty is the point of #fascism, #death is the point of trumpism. Miller, techbros, christofascists, zionists are all necrophiliacs.