Thought Catalog : How to win at video games – When I was little, I would go on Nickelodeon.com all the time and they had this game similar to Club Penguin, except it was called Nicktropolis. ( #Laughter )

By January Nelson January Nelson
Updated 2 years ago, November 14, 2024

And if you forgot your #password, a #security question you could choose was “What is your eye color?” and if you got it right it’d tell you your password.

So I would go to popular locations in Nicktropolis and write down random usernames who were also in those areas, and then I would log out and type in the username as if it were my own and see which of these usernames had a #security question set to “What is your eye color?”

(Which was most of them, since it was easy and we were all kids).

I would then try either brown, blue, or green, and always get in, then I would go to their house and send all of their #furniture and #decorations to my own #accounts.

And if I didn’t want it, I could sell it for #money.

#ProphecyNewsWatch : Rigby’s #theology goes considerably further.

By PNW Staff
September 28, 2026

The #Texas Tribune reported this year that he #avoids #traditional #Christian #prayers and creeds in #services because he doesn’t want non-Christians to feel excluded.

It reported that he sees #Jesus as closer to a “loving #atheist than an indifferent theologian.”

Think about the contrast.

Thought Catalog : All the fish – I went to this girl’s party the week after she beat the $hit out of my #friend. ( #Laughter )

By January Nelson January Nelson
Updated 2 years ago, November 14, 2024

While everyone was getting trashed, I went around putting tuna inside all the curtain rods and so like weeks went by and they couldn’t figure out why the house smelled like festering #death.

They caught me through this video where these guys at the party were singing Beyoncé while I was in the background with a can of tuna.
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#Biometrics #News : #Privacy versus #safety trade-off ‘no longer holds,’ says k-ID

Sep 29, 2026, 11:59 am EDT |
Joel R. McConvey
Biometrics News

Luc Delany, chief #corporate affairs officer for #compliance provider k-ID, sees the #UK #announcement as a step forward in addressing the privacy versus safety #debate.

“A feature-led test means services will need to show which features are available to under-16s, and which defaults apply to 16 and 17-year-olds,” he says, in an email sent to Biometric Update.

“That is age #adaptation rather than a ban, and it is already live in other #jurisdictions.

Discord last week began #adapting features by age band, with k-ID supporting the age #assurance step.”

Delany #believes “the privacy versus safety trade-off that has framed this debate no longer holds.

With AgeKeys” – the age assurance tech based on the #passkey model – “a user who has completed an age check stores the result as a passkey on their own device.

The site requiring the check never learns who the user is, and the user does not need to repeat the check for every service.”

Delany believes the UK is in a unique #position that will allow it to move quickly on the file, since “the under-16 power already sits inside the #Online #Safety Act and #Ofcom is in place.”

#ProphecyNewsWatch : When #Christianity Stops #Correcting The #Culture

By PNW Staff
September 28, 2026

#Consider what is happening within the #Presbyterian #Church (U.S.A.).

#Developments inside America’s largest mainline Presbyterian body #illustrate something much bigger #happening throughout #progressive #Christianity.

Rev. Jim Rigby has pastored St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, #Texas, for #decades.

Recent undercover footage showed Rigby explaining that the #congregation typically gives new #members The Inclusive #Bible, a #translation deliberately constructed to reduce gendered #language.

Rigby praised it for being “good on the gender stuff.” Reporting on the translation notes that it #alters traditional #formulations involving titles such as “Son of #God.”

Thought Catalog : The fake report card – I failed the first quarter of a class in middle school, so I made a fake report card.

By January Nelson
Updated 2 years ago, November 14, 2024

I did this every quarter that year.

I forgot that they mail home the end-of-year cards, and my mom got it before I could intercept with my fake.

She was PISSED—at the school for their error.

The teacher also retired that year and had already thrown out his records, so they had to take my mother’s “proof” (the fake ones I made throughout the year) and “correct” the “mistake.”

I’ve never told her the truth.

ProphecyNewsWatch : These stories contain an extraordinary irony.

By PNW Staff
September 28, 2026

People immersed in occult and alternative spirituality can reach a moment when they recognize that following Jesus means surrendering things that are incompatible with Him.

But what happens when churches stop asking anyone to surrender anything?
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Biometrics News: Lingering uncertainty over enforcement regime.

Sep 29, 2026, 11:59 am EDT |
Joel R. McConvey

Nandy is on board with fast changes.

She doubles down on her promise that the government of Prime Minister Andy Burnham will come down hard when it comes to online safety, declaring the belief that “it is uniquely wrong that we have allowed the online spaces to be treated as private spheres, policed and regulated only by the private sector.”

“We believe there is a really strong role for the government here to step up and you can expect to see a much more interventionist government in this area.”

In order to make good on that promise, the government has some work to do in deciding on where enforcement power should sit.

Currently, Ofcom is in charge, but there remain lingering questions about capacity to be forceful enough.

One suggestion, from Maeve Walsh, director at the Online Safety Network, is to invest statutory powers in the Digital Regulations Cooperation Forum, which brings together existing regulators that cover online safety, including Ofcom, the Information Commissioner’s Office, the Competition and Markets Authority and the Office of Product Safety and Standards.
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Thought Catalog : Now that’s what I call stupid.

By January Nelson
Updated 2 years ago, November 14, 2024

In my junior year of high school, this guy asked me on a date.

He rented a Redbox movie and made a pizza.

We were watching the movie and the oven beeped so the pizza was done.

He looked me dead in the eye and said, “This is the worst part.”

I then watched this boy open the oven and pull the pizza out with his bare hands, rack and all, screaming at the top of his lungs.

We never had a second date.

#ProphecyNewsWatch : She explained that the transformation hadn’t happened overnight.

By PNW Staff
September 28, 2026

For nearly a year she had been questioning, praying and wrestling with what she believed.

Eventually, Christianity became incompatible with the spiritual practices that had made her famous.

So she walked away.

Her old account had accumulated tens of millions of likes. Yet she abandoned the very content that had built her following.

Then consider Kat Von D.

The famous tattoo artist had long cultivated a dark, macabre aesthetic and possessed books dealing with witchcraft, the occult and tarot. In 2022 she publicly announced that she was getting rid of them.

“I got a lot of things wrong in my past,” she wrote.

Von D later described some of the alternative spiritual practices she had pursued as empty attempts to fix something deeper. Eventually she began attending church, embraced Christianity and publicly underwent Christian baptism.
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