Hahahahaha. That’s hilarious and a good idea. Since it seems you have to pay to be put on this site, you know they’re genuine entries.
The petition was filed a month after the Irving City Council approved rezoning for a destination resort near the site where Texas Stadium once stood.
Fort Worth Opera is lifting its voice at Bass Performance Hall with its first full-scale production at the iconic downtown venue since 2019.
Don’t feel bad, going by the replies and myself, you’re definitely not alone.
Harry Kim 😁
Yeah, I never understood why I needed calculus for my software engineering degree, much less three classes worth.
Ours are usually on the first Wednesday of the month, but we had a scheduled one this week on Thursday and it scared the shit out of me.
This is fantastic! My (I know, I know…) favorite Pokémon! I haven’t been as lucky yet.
Some details:
According to ZeniMax Online Studios (ZOS), this innovation results in over 3,000 possible skill line combinations, paving the way for an extraordinary variety of builds—from highly optimized PvP juggernauts to imaginative PvE hybrids.
It’s worth noting that while this system offers a high degree of customization, it comes with a few important boundaries:
Players cannot replace all three of their original class skill lines; at least one must remain from the character's base class. Only complete skill lines can be selected—individual skills cannot be cherry-picked or mixed across multiple classes.
This seems pretty exciting to me and quite a nice change for a game this late in its life.
New ESO Subclassing System - Play Any Class on One Character
For a game that came out while I was still in high school, I agree completely.
The original Guild Wars is getting an anniversary update on April 15th, 2025
Hello friends!
As we announced last week, there will be a special update to Guild Wars on April 15th featuring permanently updated availability for a number of limited weapons and miniatures.
Various weapons from pre-order bonuses, special promotions and a few weapons previously exclusive to the PvP Reward system have been added to loot tables across Tyria, Cantha, Elona and Eye of the North. These weapons only appear as Rare quality drops (with a few exceptions as noted) and are randomized rather than featuring the fixed stats and free creation of their bonus-item incarnations. Rods, Staffs, Shields and Focuses can also drop with a variety of stat requirements.
List of changes is available here: https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Game_updates
TEXRail riders will be able to travel to Dallas, Collin and Denton counties once two transit systems complete their expansions.
This is great news for the area. Though it is probably covid related, this was good to hear:
TEXRail, which runs from downtown Fort Worth to downtown Grapevine and Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, has seen a 90% increase in recent ridership, Richard Andreski, president and CEO of Trinity Metro, told conference attendees at the Hurst Conference Center.
The city announced the shelter closures March 27, citing its need to contain and mitigate the spread of the highly contagious, incurable and airborne canine distemper virus. Since then, the shelters have been on lockdown, not allowing the intake or release of any dogs.
Caused by the distemper virus, but this now appears to be under control.
I have been waiting so long and am so excited for this movie. I'm sad that Sam and Quorra don't seem to be a part of it, but Gillian Anderson makes up for that. I'm happy to hear Flynn's voice again.
Indulge in cake, XP buffs, and bonus rewards during the 2025 Anniversary Jubilee Event
Event runs from April 3rd to April 22, 2025.
This is very 90s screensaver and I love it.
We finished season three yesterday and it is still a show where I’ll watch a season in one day because I’ve just got to know what happens. I agree, they’re pretty creepy.
I’m not sure if it is obscure, but I had never heard of it. Husband and I have been watching SyFy’s Channel Zero and love it.
I’m not advocating for this, and I would rather just donate, but how would you feel about ads that are in no way targeted? Or maybe ads that target the sub you view them in and not per user?
Yeah, it’s an urge I’ve been fighting myself.
It was great news to wake up to! I don't live there, but it was still nice to see. How he is blaming the loss on Soros... how do people not see through that? What a tool.
I hope we get to see a few familiar faces on the Star Trek Academy show. I need more Tilly in my life. Reno as well.
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I think so highly of anyone who admits they are wrong to me. It is that rare.
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This is definitely true. Don't ever forget that!
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What is the most annoying thing about adults? Not including your dad, because he is great.
Just an hour outside of Dallas, Eden Green Technology is one of the companies that has navigated the challenges of indoor farming.
Thanks! That’s exactly where I never checked. Haha. It’s also why I stopped uploading after I did the most heavily trafficked areas in my county. As of right now, there are no plans for an OSMUS server as far as I know. They are unfortunately working with Mapillary.
Following a series of legal action and scrutiny from North Texans, Fort Worth leaders parted ways with the fertilizer company contracted for the city’s biosolids processing operations.
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/25255100
I haven't kept up much with this since moving, but I first read about Synagro and their biosolid fertilizer when it started causing problems in Johnson County, Texas.
Long story short,
This company has been selling a biosolid fertilizer that people have been using in their fields, which has led to incredibly high levels of PFAS contamination in nearby ponds and animals. A couple in Grandview lost a good portion of their cattle mysteriously at the same time.
This actually led to an investigation in Johnson County, but since counties can't regulate PFAS levels and the state (at the time, I'm not sure about now) hasn't regulated it either, there wasn't much that could be done.
Following the county’s investigation, Woolley led the charge to pass a local resolution urging farmers to stop using biosolids on their land.
The resolution called for Fort Worth to stop sending its biosolids to fertilizer co
Following a series of legal action and scrutiny from North Texans, Fort Worth leaders parted ways with the fertilizer company contracted for the city’s biosolids processing operations.
I haven't kept up much with this since moving, but I first read about Synagro and their biosolid fertilizer when it started causing problems in Johnson County, Texas.
Long story short,
This company has been selling a biosolid fertilizer that people have been using in their fields, which has led to incredibly high levels of PFAS contamination in nearby ponds and animals. A couple in Grandview lost a good portion of their cattle mysteriously at the same time.
This actually led to an investigation in Johnson County, but since counties can't regulate PFAS levels and the state (at the time, I'm not sure about now) hasn't regulated it either, there wasn't much that could be done.
Following the county’s investigation, Woolley led the charge to pass a local resolution urging farmers to stop using biosolids on their land.
The resolution called for Fort Worth to stop sending its biosolids to fertilizer companies until the TCEQ tests them for the presence of PFAS and asked the EPA to
The ruling comes just weeks after a federal lawsuit was filed in an effort to block the school’s ban on drag shows.
Only a temporary block at this point, but I love the advice here by the judge:
"Anyone who finds the performance or performers offensive has a simple remedy: don't go."
For as free as conservative Texas politicians claim their constituents are, they sure can’t mind their own business.
Shaymin Artwork
I haven’t collected cards in years, so seeing these cool, small pieces of art is nice.
The investigation was triggered by a federal judge, who questioned the state’s recordkeeping. Inmates are suing the state, alleging the heat inside the state’s dozens of un-air conditioned prisons is dangerous.
I have been hearing about temperature issues in prisons in Texas since I was a child. I can't help but think this stems from a lot of Americans thinking of prisons as places to be punished, not rehabilitated. This quote makes me crazy:
Department officials acknowledge it is hot inside its prisons but deny that the conditions are unconstitutional. During testimony in the case last year, Department Executive Director Bryan Collier argued it would be financially and logistically impossible to immediately install A/C in every one of the state’s prisons and noted that he is working diligently to fix the problem within their fiscal constraints.
This has been an issue for a WHILE. Bryan Collier's statement makes it seem like this is something we just found out about that can't all be fixed at once.
I understand (some) people go to prison for awful things they've done, but they shouldn't have to deal with a Texas summer with no AC on top of that.
Minecraft Vibrant Update
It would be best to go to the site itself to see the changes, but here is a snipper:
What is Vibrant Visuals?
Vibrant Visuals is a visual graphics upgrade that will transform the way players experience Minecraft. Initially releasing for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, it is our developer’s vision for what Minecraft looks like with improved visual elements such as directional lighting, volumetric fog, and more. The result is dazzling – shadows move as the sun arcs across the sky, water reflects the landscape around it, and clouds appear infinite as they stretch far into the distance.
Vibrant Visuals brings thousands of individually crafted elements while preserving what makes Minecraft unique. Chief Creative Officer Jens Bergensten describes it as “a new look that still stays true to our creative principles”, as biomes and builds come to life with the addition of a range of graphical enhancements. But what you will
Madcap Merriment Marks Marvelous Rewards as the Jester's Festival Events Returns
Dates: March 27, 2025 10:00 EDT - April 3, 2025 10:00 EDT
Items included in the Stupendous Jester's Festival Box, earned by completing event daylies:
One of the following:
In addition to the aforementioned rewards, the Stupendous Jester’s Festival Box has a chance to contain the following goodies:
The upcoming Cyrodiil Champions PvP test isn't a full-fledged feature--yet.
I've only played in Cyrodiil a handful of times so I haven't really noticed the performance issues associated with it, but its nice to see they are trying other methods to try and figure out where the performance bottleneck is.
It sounds like they are going to separate PvE and PvP effects on abilities, looking to simplify what goes on in the background.
Las Vegas Sand Corp. dropped the casino portion of its Irving rezoning request after a lengthy meeting earlier in the week, during which opponents of the plan turned out in droves.
From the story as written, it seems locals see this as a temporary win, knowing that Las Vegas Sands will keep trying to get a casino approved until they get what they want.
It seems that this company is full of Dallas Maverick people, leading some to wonder if the team will be moved from the American Airlines Center to this new development in Irving.
Las Vegas Sands first entered into an agreement to buy the land in 2022, and the purchase was finalized in 2023, months before primary Las Vegas Sands shareholder Miriam Adelson acquired a controlling stake in the Dallas Mavericks.
Patrick Dumont, governor of the Dallas Mavericks, was also recently named the next chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands.
The Sands’ attachment to the project raised additional concerns about whether Mavericks ownership would move the team from the American Airlines Center in Dallas to the new Irving location — something Birkenheide neither confirmed nor denied at Monday’s planning and zoning commissio
"If that's a stump, it's the weirdest stump I've ever seen."
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/24698265
A hunter found a mammoth tusk sticking out of a creek bed on a ranch in the Big Bend region. There is an interview with Bryon Schroeder, director of the Center for Big Bend Studies at Sol Ross (a Texas university), on the linked page, but I'll add a few quotes:
How could this be overlooked for so long? It must be just that remote.
I think it’s that remote and there’s not that many people out there. I think these hunters had a little serendipity involved. These guys were out, you know, the right place at the right time.
It could have also just been dislodged rather recently because, I mean, it was in the creek drainage. So it could have just been exposed that quickly.
And it was it was it known that prior to this discovery mammoths lived in this region or what?
Yeah, so Harvard, with Sul Ross, did a very early, very large study out here in the late 1920s, early ’30s. And they knew about
"If that's a stump, it's the weirdest stump I've ever seen."
A hunter found a mammoth tusk sticking out of a creek bed on a ranch in the Big Bend region. There is an interview with Bryon Schroeder, director of the Center for Big Bend Studies at Sol Ross (a Texas university), on the linked page, but I'll add a few quotes:
How could this be overlooked for so long? It must be just that remote.
I think it’s that remote and there’s not that many people out there. I think these hunters had a little serendipity involved. These guys were out, you know, the right place at the right time.
It could have also just been dislodged rather recently because, I mean, it was in the creek drainage. So it could have just been exposed that quickly.
And it was it was it known that prior to this discovery mammoths lived in this region or what?
Yeah, so Harvard, with Sul Ross, did a very early, very large study out here in the late 1920s, early ’30s. And they knew about a lot of mammoths, and we’ve been actually trying to find those mammoth localiti
