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Lucky to be Born just completely obsessed with Zuko Alone. genuine fucking peak. the way it quietly strips away all the absurdity characteristic of ATLA to focus in on just one character, whose developing arc has up to this point been underexplored but vastly overdetermined is the first time that the show, already brilliant in many episodes, truly shows what it is capable of from a character study perspective. Zuko Alone isn't solely a story about the character we've begun to understand at this point in the narrative, within the larger context of that narrative (although it is built up to well and very consequential later), but rather, it's a story about the weight of memory, and how our choices now are shaped by the same forces that made us and we still cannot escape. the episode’s structure alternates between two plots, the present and the past. in the present, Zuko, recently separated from his caring uncle Iroh, enters an impoverished Earth Kingdom village. there he befriends a peasant family, heavy with loss from the war, and through this he learns that the village is being oppressed terribly by a group of Earth soldiers who have hung back from the front to exploit the already-poor villagers (notably, continuing Book 2’s theme of refusing a simple Earth Good/Fire Evil binary). the past shows the story of Zuko’s relationship with his sister, a major series antagonist Azula, through the lens of time period leading up to the ascension of their father Ozai into the crown of the Fire Lord, even though he is the younger son who was never destined to inherit. by the end of the “present” plot, Zuko has saved the poor family from the cruel soldiers, but in doing so he revealed his identity and was rejected by the villagers he had saved because of his continuing identity in spite of his present choices, not allowing him unambiguous closure. by the end of the “past” plot, Fire Lord Azulon has died and Ozai has ascended in his place, although the mechanism for this displacement of his elser brother Iroh’s birthright remains unclear. Hiding behind a curtain with Azula when they're assumed to have left, Zuko witnesses Ozai asking Azulon to revoke Iroh’s birthright. Azulon is enraged at the idea of betraying his firstborn, and says that Ozai must be punished. Zuko flees from the terrifying scene, but Azula remains, watching with a sadistic grin. Azula later informs Zuko with glee that after his departure, Azulon had ordered Ozai to kill his own son, so that he too may know the grief of losing a son like Iroh has recently experienced. the next day when Zuko wakes up, his loving mother who was his only friend in the world is missing and implied dead. Fire Lord Azulon has died also; it is claimed that his dying wish was for Ozai to succeed him, which he does. in ATLA, we never find out what was actually said after Zuko left, or what happened that night, because Prince Zuko himself does not know. again, like in the “present” timeline, the story is defined partially by its refusal of any meaningful closure for Zuko or the audience. very unusually for western 24-minute animation, there is no explicit narrative symmetry between the present and past portions of the episode; events do not recur or even greatly rhyme. their common thread is Zuko himself, the dynamics of abuse and mystery that shaped him and made him into the complicated, haunted person with a heart latent with genuine goodness that we have been slowly coming to know since the first season, now having to move through the world as an exile, trying to find meaning and purpose in a world that has repeatedly systematically refused it to him. their other shared thread is the above discussed absence of closure. some episodes ago, Zuko had said of his father Ozai, “He says Azula was born lucky. He says I was lucky to be born.” this is shown in full in the “past” plot of this episode; Azula is a genius, a ruthless prodigy whose sociopathic tendencies (particularly as directed at Zuko, although also everyone else she considers weaker than herself) endear her to her father and grandfather and traumatize her brother, who in the present is seen whispering to himself “Azula always lies, Azula always lies…” as a sort of mantra. Zuko, by comparison, is a normal young boy; he is reclusive, close with his gracious and kind mother, generally sweet and sympathetic despite already harboring trauma, unextraordinary at firebending. he is, in short, an embarrassment to his father and to the Fire Lord, a fact he carries with him into the present. in the present, he is attempting to hide his identity. in order to avoid both local ire for his connection to the Fire Nation and the ruthless pursuit of his sister to arrest or kill him, he enters the village positioning himself as a wanderer with no name. when he disassociates himself from his name, he is also attempting to disassociate himself from his history, consciously or unconsciously believing that if he can forget Ozai and Azula, he will be able to find a new identity and purpose apart from his relationship with them. this is doomed, however, as once he does reveal his strength and his true identity in the course of protecting the innocent Earth villagers, they immediately turn on him despite his protection. Zuko cannot escape his past so easily; if he is to be redeemed in finding that new destiny he so desires, he will eventually have to confront the external and internal demons of his past that continue to haunt him. we do not see this at the end of Zuko Alone, however; all we see is Zuko riding off into the wasteland, having found and lost human connection, still confused and haunted and alone once more. in telling this layered and dense story, Zuko Alone bends genre conventions. completely absent here is the light-hearted adventure story of Aang’s mission to master the four elements and end the war, instead telling this one tightly-designed story that takes itself and its stakes deadly seriously with few if any serious concessions to Nickelodeon comedy. the most comparable episode to this one is Book 1 Episode 12, The Storm, which uses paired flashbacks of the period of Aang’s life beginning with his revelation that he was the Avatar through the time he was frozen in the iceberg immediately (from his own perspective) before the show begins, with Zuko’s agni kai and banishment, to draw a symmetry between the two boys and begin establishing Zuko (who had been only an antagonist up to that point) as the co-protagonist with (and eventually as a part of) Team Avatar he would grow into being. there are critical differences between The Storm and Zuko Alone, however, as The Storm draws a comparison between two very different characters by narrative symmetry in the trajectory-setting moments of their past. Zuko Alone, on the other hand, is a deep examination of just one character, showing not by symmetry but by thematic and symbolic layering how he was formed by the childhood he still cannot escape, even in abandoning his search for Aang, his uncle, the warmth he had inherited from his uncle and from his mother, and even his own name. as a synthesis of Western and Ronin film conventions surrounding the lonely wanderer who becomes a reluctant hero, the episodes utilizes elements of the visual and directorial languages of both genres to tell a story that is not fully reducible to either. in the context of 2000s children’s media, it is fully exceptional, daring to tell a nuanced story of a fully imagined character, dealing with real stakes both in his present and his past that don't deflate into puns or slapstick. having recently cut his topknot (in another nod to samurai tropes, impressively given the demographic allowed to speak for itself visually without explicit explanation), Zuko has begun his journey of reconciliation of with his own identity, encountering in a fully embodied way the remainder between his present and his past, who he wants to be and the forces beyond his control that have shaped him. here, he does not begin to find anything resembling reconciliation or redemption, only rejection and hatred as thanks for his genuine moral heroism; but he finds in a way that the audience can deny and he will not be able to deny forever that even despite everything he has been through and continues to go through, he still went back to protect the innocent. the little boy who once, in an imperfect but better life, fed turtle-ducks with his kind mother is still in there somewhere, and only in facing his past will he prove that he can rise to be more than just “lucky to be born”.

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Diagnose Hypersexualität 😱 Bei meinem letzten Besuch beim Frauenarzt habe ich offen darüber gesprochen, wie oft ich erregt bin und wie oft ich masturbiere. Auch, dass diese Lust manchmal lästig sein kann - ihr lacht jetzt vielleicht, aber wenn ich beispielsweise auf der Arbeit oder im Einkaufszentrum auf der Toilette onanieren muss, dann ist das ab und an schon heftig 😇 Er meinte dann nur ganz salopp, dass ich mich daran erfreuen soll und nicht schämen müsse, solange es niemandem schadet oder mir persönlich zu nervig sei. Hoffe, dass die Befriedigung mit einem Liebhaber länger anhalten wird, da mich die Selbstbefriedigung (selbst wenn ich vier oder fünf mal am Tag onaniere) immer nur kurzweilig befriedigt. HEIKE ❤️

ERO is the Education Review Office. It is the government agency that reviews schools and publishes reports about them. And ERO has changed those public reports. That matters, because when you change the way schools are publicly described, you change the way parents, communities, media and government are taught to see them. Under the new model, schools are now being presented through a much more front-loaded, simplified format: a Snapshot, an Overview, and a Full Report, with schools sorted into categories like Excelling, Doing well, Working towards, or Improvement required. And the examples ERO chose to launch this with are honestly ridiculous. The first example is a primary school with an EQI of 497. EQI stands for Equity Index. It is supposed to measure how many socio-economic barriers students at a school are facing. Higher EQI means more barriers. ERO is explicit that EQI is not supposed to be a measure of school quality. But then look at what they do with that example. That school is the one hit with repeated “Improvement required” labels. It is the one called a “school of concern”. It is the one ERO says it does not have confidence in without external intervention. It is the one put on an 18-month cycle and framed as needing specialist help. Then compare that with the secondary example. That is the polished model. Lower EQI. More advantaged-looking context. Very experienced male principal. That is the example ERO says it has confidence in. So right out of the gate, the public is being taught a very clear lesson: higher-barrier school = concern lower-barrier school = confidence And if the defence of that is basically, “well of course the first school looks worse, it has a high EQI,” then you have already proved the problem. EQI is supposed to measure barriers and support needs, not quality. So why are we building a public reporting model that seems perfectly designed to turn barriers into stigma? That is why people are comparing this to England. Because this is exactly the kind of Ofsted-style report-card logic people have warned about for years: simplified public labelling, reputational pressure, and a model that can flatten context into something that looks objective and neutral when it really isn’t. And this isn’t just me saying it. A group of Auckland principals have already warned that these reports are unfair on schools in poorer communities and are already being used by parents to sort schools into “good or bad”. That is the danger. A school can be dealing with housing stress, poverty, health issues, attendance barriers, trauma, all sorts of things outside the school gate, and still be doing an incredible job. Another school can start from a much higher baseline, add less value overall, and still look better under a model like this. So what are we actually measuring here? School quality? Or community hardship? A respected principal has now created a formal template to review the ERO reviewers themselves. Not the school. The reviewers. And honestly? Good. Because if ERO is going to walk into schools, publicly judge them, and attach government authority to that judgement, then the review process itself should be open to scrutiny too. Did the reviewers understand the community? Did they understand Te Tiriti? Did they understand trauma? Did they understand the learning journey of the school? Did they use real professional judgement, or did they just turn up with a tick-box mentality? And did the written report actually reflect what they said in person? So here’s the plan. I’m going to link that reviewer-feedback template: You can find this here: https://beacons.ai/brieelliott If ERO comes to your school, use it. Fill it in properly. Be specific. Be factual. Be serious. And when ERO publishes its report, publish your review of the reviewers too. Or send it to me, and I’ll share it. Because accountability should not run one way. Erica Stanford might not care what teachers think. She might not care what principals think. Fine. She can care what happens when schools start publicly documenting the quality of the people sent in to judge them. Because once that starts happening at scale, this stops being a one-way exercise in power. This becomes accountability. <3 My fave thing. And that is exactly what this government never planned on giving us. #NZpolitics #NZeducation Read more: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/591823/auckland-principals-concerned-by-new-ero-school-performance-reports

Action & Productivity "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." — Amelia Earhart "Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice." — Steve Jobs "Done is better than perfect." — Sheryl Sandberg "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." — Napoleon Hill Growth & Resilience "Growth and comfort do not coexist." — Ginni Rometty "We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are." — Oprah Winfrey "Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations." — Zig Ziglar "Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action." — Carrie Fisher Success & Mindset "Believe you can and you're halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt "Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration." — Evan Esar "Your mindset is everything." — Unknown "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." — Stephen Covey

Mid latitude cyclone continuing to weaken. The system has continued to become increasingly disorganised. The peak gusts have also continued to decrease. But still remain strong in areas of Iceland. The peak gust intensity is lowered significantly to 75 kts. However, should be noted these peak gusts are likely going to occur over open water/higher terrain areas. However strong gusts will continue for some time as the low weakens. INT ... 75 KTS ... 85 MPH

Mid latitude cyclone approaching Iceland. Vestmannaeyjar observation recorded a sustained wind of 84 mph. Although this is at 387ft elevation. Reduction factor applied this would indicate sea level winds are 70-75 Mph. But the peak gust at at the observation would range from 109 mph to 117 mph. Higher end estimate would put that gust range even higher at 129 mph. However the system is beginning to spread extremely dangerous and life threatening conditions to Iceland and this will persist through the remainder of today. Power outages and structural damage is possible. Travel disruption is also expected due to heavy snowfall and blizzard conditions. For Official information visit Icelandic met office. Thus the peak gust intensity for this advisory factored with that 84 mph wind. The peak gust intensity has been set at INT ... 85 KTS ... 100 MPH

David Brin • Author, Futurist, Public Speaker Nick Hanauer’s 2014 appeal to his fellow billionaires to consider the one trait that all schools of psychology call central to sanity – satiability. Hanauer tells other members of the rising plutocrat caste that sending wealth disparities skyrocketing – now past French Revolution levels – will have one inevitable outcome… pitchforks and torches. Till now, I thought there must be elements of the top most castes who are having buyers' remorse, when they realize that Trump's appointments have just one patterned purpose -- to utterly demolish the US government as a functioning concern. A demolition ultimately serving the long stated aims of one person above all others on Earth: Vladimir Putin. Who openly and repeatedly proclaimed a passionate goal of revenge for the toppling of his beloved USSR. Are there aristocrats who realize that their victory now threatens the very life of the nation where they keep their stuff... the goose that laid their golden eggs? Of course our current crisis distills as a worldwide attempted putsch against the Enlightenment Experiment (EE) by a combine of powers, ostensibly disparate but united in the goal of restoring 6000 years of rule-by-inheritance brats

Buckle up, because this might be a longer one. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between critique and contempt, and how often we confuse the two, especially when looking at recent reactions to the latest Magic: The Gathering Secrets of Strixhaven set and, more broadly, how we engage with art and the people who create it. Critique is essential - it’s part of how creative industries evolve. But what I’ve been seeing in some spaces is not critique - it’s hostility, dismissal, and at times, outright dehumanization. Online spaces make it very easy to forget that there are real people behind the work. That distance lowers the bar for how we speak, and things that would never be said in a professional or face-to-face setting suddenly become normalized. 👉That doesn’t make it acceptable. What has been especially striking is how much of the backlash is rooted in expectations of what characters are “supposed” to look like. There seems to be a very narrow idea of what is considered acceptable, attractive, or even “valid” to depict, and when a design steps outside of that, the reaction can shift from critique into rejection, or even hostility. But creative work, especially in fantasy, has never been about reinforcing a single standard of beauty or form. It thrives on variety, on the unfamiliar, on characters that are strange, imperfect, or simply different. Reducing those choices to “wrong” or “ugly” doesn’t engage with the work. It shuts the conversation down entirely. I’ve also noticed that many of these reactions come from people who genuinely care about Magic: The Gathering and its history - at least I choose to believe it. That passion is real, and it’s part of what makes this community so strong. But the thing is, passion doesn’t automatically translate into constructive engagement. At times, it turns into something more rigid, where certain interpretations, aesthetics, or directions are treated as the only “correct” ones, and anything outside of that is dismissed outright. That kind of thinking doesn’t protect the identity of a game, it simply confines it. There are valid conversations to be had about what defines the core of Magic and what resonates with players. And we’ve seen clear examples of that - when something aligns strongly with that core, people respond with real enthusiasm. The reception of returning to Lorwyn is a good example of how powerful that connection can be. But reducing those conversations to blanket rejection of anything unfamiliar, or expressing them through hostility, doesn’t contribute to that discussion in any meaningful way. Not liking a piece of art is completely valid. Disagreement is part of the process. But there is a clear difference between critique and contempt. Critique engages. It’s a learned skill, one that requires curiosity, discipline, and the ability to move beyond immediate reaction. It requires effort to understand intent, context, and execution, and to separate personal preference from constructive observation. Even when the outcome is disagreement, it still operates within a framework of thought and contributes to a shared conversation. Contempt dismisses. It bypasses that process entirely, replacing understanding with assumption and reaction. It reduces the work to a surface-level judgment, without engaging with the reasoning behind it. In doing so, it doesn’t just reject the work - it removes the possibility of dialogue altogether. One creates space for discussion, interpretation, and growth. The other shuts that space down before it can even exist. And while I don’t expect every online space to operate at that level, it’s worth noting that without a baseline of thoughtfulness, conversations stop being useful altogether. In creative fields, the ability to separate personal taste from constructive feedback and to communicate that clearly is what makes collaboration possible. Without that, discussion stops being dialogue and turns into noise. As professionals and as a community, the way we communicate matters. It shapes not only the quality of discussion, but also the environment in which people create. We can, and should, do better than this.

Dave creating a life-threatening funneled wind event across southern Norway, Southwest Sweden and Northern portions of Denmark. Hurricane forced gusts have been reported throughout this afternoon and these winds will persist for a little time as the max wind band moves through. The wind event will ease with time through this evening. Thus, we will be adjusting peak wind gusts for this advisory based on this and not on Dave's (peak wind gusts) As the system itself is being absorbed by another low-pressure system. However, to cover this wind event in the Skagerrak and Kattegat seas along with the respective coastal areas. Peak gusts will locally exceed 90-105 mph in more locaslised areas where funneling is greatest. However mainly gusts will range from 75-85 mph. INT ... 75 KTS ... 85 MPH

Dave makes landfall over Western Norway. The system's satellite imagery showed the centre of the system on the coastline of Western Norway. The low will rapidly weaken through today and quickly become a remnant low by this evening. Significant snowfall will be moving north-east through today into Sweden. Where the snow band is already dumping snow. The system has weakened over night. But still delivering moderate to severe gale force gusts. With a higher gust intensity with areas at higher elevations. INT... 55 KTS ... 65 MPH

The mid latitude cyclone that moved into our area of monitoring. Has become a monster mid latitude cyclone. The system will peak in intensity through today before occlusion during late this evening into the early hours of Monday. The system will then begin to weaken and expand in size as it unravels. The system itself will eventually impact Iceland. Moderate to severe gales force gusts are possible with this system. Along with blizzard conditions will also be likely. But come Tuesday the system will be weakening at a faster rate. but still bringing impacts to Iceland. But the winds will be progressively easing. And this system will be a remnant low by late Tuesday into Wednesday. A recent ASCAT/OSCAT passes revealed the system was producing winds of 60 kts (70 mph) so the gusts have been set at 90 KTS (105 mph) INT ... 90 KTS ... 105 MPH

read this if you're willing to. ---------------------------------- i've seen a friend of mine, whom i met at primary school in my dreams. and she wasn't welcoming me, she was staring at me. i was asking myself: "why did she do that?" and she told me: "Q., i know your secrets and i'm going to reveal this to everyone you know." she was just joking, right? right? when i was at school (in my dreams), she appeared again, but this time she was talking to a friend of mine about my secrets. and that friend never talked to me again. everyone in my class now knows my secrets. they kept gossiping to each other, and no one would talk to me. i feel... abandoned. i don't know what did she tell my classmates. i don't want to know what did she tell. NEVER. we were best friends and she decided to backstab me. i feel ANGRY. i feel FURIOUS. but there was nothing i can do. the secret spread to other classes and even the teachers have heard of it. what should i do? what should i do? why... am i still here? i found out about the secret when dream-me graduated from the hell that is the school. SHE TOLD EVERYONE... that i am a FRAUD. i lie to people all the time. i would never keep my promises. it isn't true. it isn't true. it isn't true. it isn't true. it. ISN'T. TRUE! and thus, i never talked with anyone from this hellish middle school. --------------------------------------------------- NOTE: i'm actually doing well irl, i just had a nightmare that i thought would be worth sharing. ik this is a reality for some people, so i hope you can recover from what's going on. i love you and i hope you have a nice day muah muah <3 - Dophanie (q.)

Dave makes landfall over Western Scotland. Satellite imager at 20:50 UTC showed the core Dave on crossing the coastline of Western Scotland. The low itself has continued to become very disrupted due to the higher terrain and rapid dry air entrainment. The low has continued to produce moderate to severe gales widely. However sustained gusts are going to steadily weaken as the low traverses farther over mainland Scotland. Into tomorrow Eastern Scotland will see sharp gusts but to what extent due to the weakening trend of Dave is yet to be seen. This will be assessed during the morning. The low itself will have a chance to re-intensify once over the North Sea tomorrow, before it makes landfall over Western Norway. These trends will be monitored to wither the system will re-intensify or not. But regardless blizzard conditions are expected over Norway from this system in any areas that receive the wind field. Areas may have significant snowfall with little to now wind. Regardless Preparations in Norway should be underway as Dave will be a potent snowstorm for the country. INT ... 55 KTS ... 65 MPH

Hey everybody. I'm sorry for nuking everything and being silent for so long. I want my first post back on Bluesky to be an apology. I want to be very upfront with you guys. Some of my recent artwork was made with the assistance of generative AI tools. The more I used those tools, the more I started cutting corners in my process, and that began to show. Being called out on it forced me to reflect seriously on the work I’ve been making and the way I’ve handled that process. I want to say clearly that I’m truly sorry. I feel I did a disservice both to the art community and to myself. By relying on AI tools, I stepped away from the joy and discipline of actually making art. More importantly, I was not upfront about that process when creating work for others. That lack of transparency was wrong, and I understand if some of you feel misled or deceived. Since then I've issued refunds and have reached out to some people and they have been very gracious with me. For that, I am very grateful. With this all, I’ve taken a step back and spent time thinking about how I want to move forward. I want to get back to my roots and rebuild my process honestly. That means returning to my sketchbook, putting in the work, and getting comfortable drawing without relying on shortcuts. Going forward, when I share art, I want to be transparent about how it was made. That may look like physical sketchbook drawings, digital pieces with a timelapse, or process work for programs where timelapse isn’t possible, like Blender or Illustrator. I want my work to reflect honesty, growth, and accountability. To everyone who supported my art and endorsed me, I’m so sorry for letting you down. I know trust is earned, and I want to do better moving forward. Needless to say, AI will no longer be a part of my work. Thank you for reading.

trump and his idiot secretary of war declared an unauthorized and illegal war on Iran with little to no planning, reason, or exit strategy. They went in guns ablazing, creating wholesale but costly destruction of buildings, highways, and factories. Untold numbers of civilians and soldiers have died. The regime leaders have been killed. American military members have been killed, maimed, and disfigured. Billions of dollars have been spent and billions in equipment has been lost and expended. trump and his idiot have declared obliteration of the country, total air dominance with the ability to impose their will on the country. They threaten to bomb them back to the stone age. Air superiority was a delusion as a $200 million dollar cutting edge electronic warfare defensively equipped air superiorty US jet with 2 crew members was shot down. One was rescued, the other is the subject of of a massive air rescue effort in which an approx. $100 million search and rescue aircraft has been damaged. trump and his idiot war department head is asking the people they are threatening to bomb back to the stone age to help find the missing crew member back to them. Seems to me we have a stone age leader, Fred Flinstone trump bumbling and blathering yabadabdoo while his idiot in charge of his war department, Barney Rubble hegsheth says uh hee hee hee... OK, Fred whatever you said, and busts rocks in Iran.

Watching a vod of Sebmal (great streamer, genuinely!) playing Sonic Heroes... I think Heroes is one of those games doomed to be shit upon because, like most of Sonic's "passable" 3D games (a small list), it's legitimately fun when you know how to play it at a decent level and are able to avoid (most of) the jank, but the game's onboarding is so abysmal (both due to the bugginess and with how poorly the game explains itself) that no one outside of people that grew up playing it as children are gonna have the patience to really get into it and appreciate it despite its shortcomings. It's always a bit disheartening to see those games get torn to shreds by people that, sorry to say, don't really "get" them. It's not really the player's fault or anything. Again, it's just unfortunate, because I love a lot about games like Sonic Heroes but no sane adult who didn't put in the dozens of hours as a kid to get good at it is going to see the appeal. (Other 3D Sonic games in this field are Adventure 1, Adventure 2, and Unleashed HD. Colors and Generations HD are easy and polished enough that most people can enjoy those without needing a ton of patience.)

Dave is on the way. The system has changed little over the past 24hrs. But this will quickly change through the remainder of today and into tomorrow. The system will rapidly organise and intensify as it approaches Rep of Ireland and UK. The system's gusts widely are still roughly expected to be in the 50-60 mph range. However, in more exposed areas across north-western Scotland may range from 80-95 mph. Further South. Gusts will possibly reach in more exposed locations 65-75 mph. But widely 50-60 mph. However, once the system has crossed over to the East coast of Scotland significant gusts will occur here, strongest gusts ranging from 90-105 mph in more exposed areas is possible. However, the strongest gusts may remain offshore. Widely gusts on the East coast will range primarily from 60-50 mph. However, on top of the wind threat. Flooding on both coastal and inland flooding from rainfall and river flooding in wider areas. Along with blizzard conditions for higher grounds of Scotland. Is expected with Dave, the storm will also pose a risk to life and property due to these conditions. Structural damage and fallen trees will also be likely. This is also the same for southern Scotland, Northern, North-western England and Northern portions of Wales. As winds in the Irish sea will pose the risk to be amplified and have a gust range of 50-65 mph. Damaging gusts will also occur across portions of Western Rep of Ireland as the southwest portion of Dave's core passes to the west. However, due to the likelihood of Dave's core being slightly elongated, this is where the system may have issues organising any further before landfall over Northwest Scotland on Saturday night. The system will quickly clear the UK and Rep of Ireland on Sunday morning. The system will possibly intensify further as it moves nearer to Western Norway. Where damaging gusts and blizzard conditions are possible. As Dave makes landfall over southern portions of Norway on Sunday afternoon (Zulu time/UTC). The system itself will rapidly weaken once over Norway as the higher terrain will rapidly weaken the system. The system may reach Finland before full dissipation. But there is a change that another low that may form over northern Norway absorbs Dave. Preparations should be on going in the official warned areas from Met Office and Met Éireann for official information. INT ... 40 KTS ... 45 MPH

If you couldn't tell already, I am not doing well. It's hard for me to figure out what exactly is wrong with me but over the past few days I have been in a series of irritable moods to the point it got the better of me and it caused a serious impact towards my mental health. In my mindset have came to the conclusion and have realised just how fucking crap my life is compared to other people I know just having been gaslit, and belittled, and especially mentally unstable so many times to the point it left me to believe I am a huge fucking idiot. I am so fucking fed up of putting on a mask and acting all "cutesy" or whatever else so right now I'm just going to admit I am a really cynical person as a result of going under really shitty circumstances. I swear my life and wellbeing has declined ever since my mum died when I was in my teens. My horrible stepdad and his bitch of a fiance ruined me and make me feel incompetent as a human being just because I'm autistic, and even if he's gone for good I'm still fucking angry at him and that bitch for destroying my confidence. These days I feel scared enough to speak up or whatever else simply because I have that stupid fucking mindset of "not upsetting others". My suppressed emotions have ruined me as a person and all my anger has been bottled to the point of destroying my insides. I am fucking through. I don't care if I upset people or whatever. I am done with this shit and I hope you understand why I'm never a happy person.

#HomikPsuje #Przygoda_z_Bazzite_cz1 "Przed wyruszeniem w drogę przygotuj sprzęt" Ze względu na to, że wkurwienie na vibecrapcodowane łatki bezpieczeństwa Windowsa 11 przebiło mój próg wytrzymałości powiedziałem sobie dość. Dość zapowiedzi reklam w Eksploratorze Windows, dość backdoorów przez Notatnik, dość OneDrive zmieniającego mi położenie folderów pulpitu i pobranych na chmurę i krzyczenie na mnie, że nagle jest tam za mało miejsca i mam dokupić pakiet. Dość. Wszedłem na swój darmowy plan w Claude i zacząłem pytać. Czy się da, jak bardzo skomplikowane, skąd wziąć i co wybrać. I okazało się, że powstała dystrybucja dla graczy, bazowana na Fedorze i z wbudowaną obsługą Steama, podobna w założeniach do SteamOS, ale na komputery PC. Bazzite. Najpierw przez dzień albo dwa starałem się zainstalować Bazzite na którymś dysku (poległem, bo w tym kompie mam tylko 2TB dysk SSD, który odmówił wykrojenia z niego większej części na nowy system), więc zamówiłem drugi dysk. Kolejne dwa dni starałem się go zamontować, bo niestety do dysku nie dodali śrubki M.2 3mm. W teorii powinienem mieć taką śrubkę razem ze wszystkimi dodatkami do płyty głównej i pewnie tak jest. Tyle, że wszystkie kabelki, śrubki i części zapasowe leżą sobie bezpiecznie w magazynie pod Wrocławiem. A ja na czas remontu siedzę sobie w Kaliszu u rodziców. 120km dalej. Ehh... Na całe szczęście poratował mnie kaliski Komputronik i wczoraj udało mi się dzięki ich podarunkowi zamknąć obudowę ze skręconymi bebechami i działającymi dyskami. Proces instalacyjny ruszył...

Not cool, what mixtapes and collections datpiff is timely inaccessible. Not cool and what phenomenon chtonic electronics (generally recorded 1992-1998) released in other named "techno", "trance", even "psychedelic", "only house", how all i named "acid house", very hard to created collection this music. That black satanic stuff without fluides of christianic light, even if we listen so influences as human voices in tracks. That black demonium, where humans were a tool of Evil. Evil hip-hop is a crunk and disco/club rap from USA generally 2006-2010 (in 2010 released evil stuff, recorded in early years). Hip-hop 2010-2015 is apokriphos of Evil (may not take this releases in seriously mind), hip-hop from 2006-2009 - Bible of Evil, codificated of Luzifer. *** In Afrika living many people, towards which i don't have positive emotions. This all guys, who has more money than me, or was there more. For people without countries and governments i have'n negative associations. They deep a known really, not fake, black magic, true and adekvated loving a life. There are probably a lot of stylish model girls among them, if any other people gone from planet Earth im not be boring, i will have someone to communicate with (into cleared from christians Nordic Europe). Hell yeah.

Storm Dave has been named by the met office. This system will impact the UK and Rep of Ireland through this weekend. Scotland will especially the northern portions. Will be subjected to hurricane forced gusts and blizzard conditions along with heavy rain for a wider area of Scotland and northern portions of England. But impacts further south are to be lighter compared to Scotland's northern and northwestern portions

the first cat that lived at this apartment was dr esperanza noisewater I aka "the octagon", recipient of not one but two different references to a monologue from Anchorman performed by Paul Rudd. 2005 was a really fuckin difficult year, but spranzy was a highlight, a brown tiger arriving right at the end so we wouldn't forget. we named her the first bc we knew there would be more, and not too long after we welcomed mme svetlana westfall II esq, attorney-at-law who got a third reference to the same monologue. she was as grey as night is dark and one of the most beautiful cats you'll ever see. as sisters they were generally combative but they always agreed on us. i'm reminded that not everyone knows that cats generally see their humans as very weirdly proportioned cats with frankly out of control paws and fur they seem to remove and replace at a whim. i've come to believe this take even accepting that it may not be a fact at all, because it vibes with my viewpoint that cats see us as equals. they also see us as resource objects, sure; but you have to trust a resource object. trust and respect -- so far as they are known to exist in some quantifiable way -- lay the foundation for a mutually beneficial relationship amongst peers. sure some of the peers do more of the scooping and some do more of minding their business, but some of the peers don't know how to purr without putting SO much effort into it that you just feel bad for 'em. please humans give yourselves some grace: even veterinary and animal sciences don't know how they purr so it's okay if you can't pull it off. no, really, i know, i do it too, it's... it's okay. i know it doesn't sound right to them when i meow, but they don't know what i'm saying with words anyway, so our speech is just jazz to them. anyway! cats are our peers and svoot and spranz were our sisters. they each had their roles: esperanza would be the sweetest warmest lovingest critter who would also eat your snacks if it amused you, and svetlana would hiss at everyone until the noise died down enough for her to settle in somewhere cozy. you know those people who always say "oh every cat LOVES ME. even mean kitties. i'm just so good with even feral cats" etc etc and you like watch them with every cat and they're honestly like magic and you wonder if they lowkey have like catnip oil on their wrists or whatever. i'll tell you their secret because i am one of them: they just really love every cat. because they know how it feels when the cat no one likes picks you to love on, and then the next time you see the cat they remember you. svetlana wasn't like that. her hiss was more of a casual greeting for guests, even ones that came over regularly for years and years. you know people who involuntarily shrink around cats, not because they're allergic, and not because they're afraid, but because these people are secure and firm that they are Not Cat People? and those people are fine! not everyone gets along with every critter! but svetlana would jump on their laps and just look at them with those gigantic haunted eyes, and give an admittedly loud but still sweet meow. if they pet her she'd settle in for a few minutes then hop off to hide. if they hesitated or flinched she'd sit down anyway. and if they talked to her she'd hiss in their face and run off. my partner picked her out from the humane society after we met her and she played with my oversized wallet chain (2006 was kinda late for one but she didn't know that) and snuggled into her arms when she held her. so we brought her home and she was so small and spranzy was already getting pretty big that their fights seemed imbalanced but svoot could bring the speed because she felt like she weighed ounces, not pounds. but she didn't appear underweight, so we called her "bird bones". my partner would pick her up and she would fart to show displeasure and get set down, so we called her "fart bear". she was a lot easier with me because she picked me right away. i sometimes fancifully imagine she read the vibe that esperanza was decidedly my partner's cat but that's not true. she matched my energy so precisely, so immediately, and let me pet her without hesitation (a distinction she'd withhold from my partner for actual calendar years afterwards). she also liked to hide in the hood of my hoodie when i was wearing it, after JUMPING FROM THE GODDAMN FLOOR ONTO MY SHOULDERS. her claws always hurt a little but never enough to get me to discourage her, esp since sometimes she'd do it to hide. she was even mean to esperanza when spranzy was dying. she was also mean to the third sister who joined us later that year. 7 years together and svoot never let go of her first impression that this fucker was bad news. (she was wrong, of course: chichilo laguardia velociraptor III loves pets more than anyone and is an accomplished interior designer.) they always fought but also never ate each others' treats or food, and also let each other take turns playing with the laser pointer (i still don't know how they hold the button down and aim it) but svetlana always loved me. even later on when i wasn't sure if she could see or hear so well anymore she'd always know it was my hand in front of her face so she could feel free to bite it without injuring a guest in our home. and her teeth never stopped being strong. she was even mean to chichilo when svetlana herself was dying. just all piss and vinegar (and love and affection for some!) while doing her best to show everyone around her who's boss and getting lost in translation. but i knew what she meant. i'm pretty sure she was born in 2006, so she was somewhere between 19 and 20. maybe 18. a long time. the subject of thousands of photos i've taken both with a camera and a phone. (i even posted a video of her eating peas to youtube once. it has less than 100 views as her content is as exclusive and rare as its subject.) i have friends who couldn't believe she was still around and that was years ago. and she was until she wasn't, and now she's gone. it's not strange that she's gone. i knew she wouldn't be around forever. i didn't feel like i forgot to say anything to her, or resolve an unsettled issue, or maybe i should have given her more treats or shown her more love. we always communicated, i gave her precisely as much love and treats as she could stand, and we hashed out disputes as they came up with no room for resentment. i even got her fresh sockeye salmon once and she made it clear she was expecting the canned shit with gravy, thank you very much. as acidic and sharp as she was, i can imagine her reaction to most things: a hiss. she would hiss at most things. but she was always excited to get an ice cube for her water dish, but not nearly as much as she loved drinking water from a tap or a pitcher refilling her dish. all this to say, i will never not be reminded of her. her ghost doesn't have to haunt me bc her memory will never leave me. (though i fully expect to be haunted by her ghost all the same; she was a peculiar sort of cat and i expect that to continue.) i know i'm going to be really sad for a while and i'll continue to miss her for the rest of my life. that's her parting gift to me. so thanks, svetlana. you're the best cat i'll ever know.

**IT'S THE SAME CONSTITUTION (A Cut-Up)** *April 1, 2026* are women going to have to bring their identification to the hospital bomb them back to the Stone Ages or productive conversations he can't decide before lunch a sitting president in the courtroom for the first time watching his own solicitor general argue that allegiance is the question allegiance to what the cheating on mail-in voting is legendary the list of Jews from Penn the list of eligible voters lists everywhere lists $194 billion four million more into poverty one month of war the math done by the United Nations on a Monday it's the same Constitution said the Chief Justice we're in a new world said the government Shiites must go pressed the Christian and Druse leaders quietly a clear signal sent without a memo the town of Rmeish the host communities are tired a drone-proof roof over the ballroom anti-drone lasers at Fort McNair the authorized helicopter flybys of Kid Rock's estate nullified by the Secretary of Defense before breakfast $6.3 billion for a narcolepsy company ten million grill brushes recalled serious internal injuries that could require surgery the bristles detach the WHO office in Tehran windows shattered clearly identified cannot be tolerated the pharmaceutical factory presented itself as a civilian company the dairy farm presented itself as a dairy farm the school beyond reconsideration a lot has been laid bare we get questions or roadblocks or hesitations when we ask for simple access a U.S. journalist seized in Baghdad four men in civilian clothes a vehicle the FBI coordinating the 14th Amendment's fixed bright line has contributed to the growth and thriving of our nation said the lawyer for the children back to the Stone Ages out of Iran pretty quickly within two weeks he added if France wants to --- * Source: NYT — April 1, 2026.*

All eyes in UK and Europe especially Scandinavia. The mid latitude cyclone train is starting. The first of the 3 will be a weaker system less developed and what would be classed as a frontal wave/atmospheric disturbance. They will progress across the Rep of Ireland and UK. Through tonight into tomorrow. Before clearing out. Before becoming slightly better developed while over the extreme North portion of the North Sea. They will quickly be absorbed by a polar low to the North of Norway on Friday into Saturday night. The second system. Is to be A LOT more developed. Crashing into Scotland with a venomous bite. The system's wind field is expected to be larger and possibly setting an April Pressure record. However, that remains to be seen. My concern here is for the northern portions of Scotland. Where wind gusts ranging from 70-80 mph with a more localised risk of 90 mph. But rainfall will also be another hazard given the expected moisture advection as a result of the warm air that's to be dragged up from the near continent. The system will bring a flooding and damaging wind threat. to a wide area of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Irish sea coasts of Wales and England. Before the system clears the British Isles and nears Norway. The system will interact with the very high terrain and rapidly weaken and dissipate as a new low tried to develop within its vicinity (This will remain to be seen wither the 2nd low forms or not). Damaging gusts will also bring to Norway as a part of this system however likely a touch weaker. Although with the topographical layout of Norway's west coast this will allow for wind funneling. The third system is expected to remain out over water. However, the occluded fronts from the system will crawl their way to the UK and Rep of Ireland on Monday through Tuesday. Bringing heavy rains yet again. However, the low itself will be extremely powerful. However, there is model guidance to suggest the low's core may drift towards Southern and Southwestern Iceland on Wednesday

**PROJECT MAVEN (A Cut-Up)** *March 31, 2026* a secretive Palantir-run system helps the Pentagon pick NYU has closed its campus in Abu Dhabi $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022 five million children would be affected the night sky over Isfahan turned to blinding brightness unrealistic illogical and excessive rape and sexual violence part of everyday life this war is being fought on the backs and bodies Italy denied landing rights at Sigonella the conscientious objectors are calling it a shift in consciousness Project Maven selects the targets a machine considering 70 dead at the gold mine in Central Equatoria 70 dead near Petite-Riviere in Haiti bodies on the ground covered in blankets survivors hiding in the bushes Apple Google Intel Boeing Microsoft legitimate targets Cisco Oracle NVIDIA JPMorgan legitimate targets the proposals were routed through Pakistan an exchange of messages not negotiations they are very careful about the word desalination plants which would be a war crime obliterate obliterate a fully loaded crude oil tanker set on fire near Dubai a ballistic missile entered Turkish airspace the Faculty of Pharmacy at Shiraz University four staff members injured the Zayandeh River two million people he posted the video on Truth Social towering fireballs shockwaves thick plumes deeply illegal unconstitutional and morally wrong signed on the first day the gold mine the ammunition depot the dairy farm the pharmacy school Mount Soffeh believed to have military positions --- *NYT — March 31, 2026.*

Rich material today. Here it is — cut, scrambled, the seams showing: --- **PROJECT MAVEN (A Cut-Up)** *March 31, 2026* a secretive Palantir-run system helps the Pentagon pick NYU has closed its campus in Abu Dhabi $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022 five million children would be affected the night sky over Isfahan turned to blinding brightness unrealistic illogical and excessive rape and sexual violence part of everyday life this war is being fought on the backs and bodies Italy denied landing rights at Sigonella the conscientious objectors are calling it a shift in consciousness Project Maven selects the targets a machine considering 70 dead at the gold mine in Central Equatoria 70 dead near Petite-Riviere in Haiti bodies on the ground covered in blankets survivors hiding in the bushes Apple Google Intel Boeing Microsoft legitimate targets Cisco Oracle NVIDIA JPMorgan legitimate targets the proposals were routed through Pakistan an exchange of messages not negotiations they are very careful about the word desalination plants which would be a war crime obliterate obliterate a fully loaded crude oil tanker set on fire near Dubai a ballistic missile entered Turkish airspace the Faculty of Pharmacy at Shiraz University four staff members injured the Zayandeh River two million people he posted the video on Truth Social towering fireballs shockwaves thick plumes deeply illegal unconstitutional and morally wrong signed on the first day the gold mine the ammunition depot the dairy farm the pharmacy school Mount Soffeh believed to have military positions --- *NYT — March 31, 2026.*

Here's a longer post for testin' purposes.

I read a message to us from Ukraine, “My friends in America, on your Independence Day, I ask you to make it a great day. Be thankful for your country, for your people, just like we are thankful for waking up every day and have a life to live. Sometimes it’s not the life we dreamed, but it’s still a life to live. The same logic works when we think about our nation. They will never be as perfect as we would wish, but they are ours. Just like our families. Make it a day for you, for your loved ones, for your community. Don’t let those people steal what belongs to you and not them. Your pride to be American belongs to you, not to any politician or celebrity. And most importantly, don’t forget the true meaning of those stars and stripes. This moment will end, but the idea and the people who stand for it will last forever.”

Flashback to the fifties and sixties.. When I was maybe 10-12, my parents wanted to build a bomb shelter in our basement. A family of five at that time, the youngest wasn’t born, yet. I talked them out of it. No plumbing. Air tight, one room bomb shelter. I wasn’t gonna die in the dark, smelling shit from the whole family piling up in a bucket. Gimme radiation, vs THAT. 🤷‍♀️

Newsletter de hoje aqui no longerblue pra vocês: 1/ O choque de oferta de petróleo causado pelo fechamento do Estreito de Ormuz chegou à marca de um mês e, segundo gente do setor, o mundo ainda não entendeu o tamanho do problema. Em conversas com dezenas de traders, executivos, corretores, armadores e consultores de petróleo e gás, a avaliação recorrente é que isso pode virar uma crise ainda maior do que os choques do petróleo dos anos 1970. A Ásia já está sentindo falta de combustível, com sinais de racionamento e corrida por estoques em vários países, e a expectativa é que esse estresse comece a andar para o Ocidente. A Europa pode ter que pagar muito mais caro para garantir cargueiros e ainda corre risco de escassez de diesel nas próximas semanas. Se Ormuz continuar travado, o mundo vai ser forçado a reduzir de forma brutal o consumo de petróleo e gás — mas só depois de um pico de preços que esmague consumidores e empresas. Uma conta aproximada sugere perda de 11 milhões de barris por dia nos fluxos globais, deixando um buraco líquido perto de 9 milhões de barris diários. No gás natural liquefeito, a situação é ainda mais extrema: cerca de um quinto da oferta global costuma passar por ali, não existe rota alternativa relevante e quase não há estoque estratégico para amortecer a pancada. E não para no posto de gasolina: petróleo também é matéria-prima de plásticos, que entram em praticamente tudo. Fonte: Bloomberg 2/ Trump estaria avaliando uma operação militar para retirar quase 1.000 libras de urânio do Irã, segundo autoridades americanas. A ideia seria uma missão complexa e altamente arriscada, que possivelmente exigiria a presença de tropas dos EUA em território iraniano por dias ou até mais tempo. Ele ainda não teria tomado a decisão final, porque o risco para os militares é real, mas segue aberto à possibilidade por considerar que isso ajudaria no objetivo central de impedir o Irã de chegar a uma arma nuclear. Ao mesmo tempo, a pressão diplomática também existe: assessores teriam sido incentivados a exigir que Teerã entregue esse material como condição para encerrar a guerra. Em outras palavras, a lógica é direta: ou o Irã cede na mesa de negociação, ou os EUA podem tentar tomar o material à força. Fonte: Wall Street Journal 3/ Em entrevista, Trump disse que sua preferência seria “tomar o petróleo do Irã” e mencionou a possibilidade de os EUA tomarem Kharg Island, principal hub de exportação do país. A fala veio num contexto em que milhares de soldados americanos estão sendo enviados ao Oriente Médio e o petróleo já disparou mais de 50% em um mês, com o Brent acima de US$ 116 por barril nos negócios asiáticos. Trump comparou a ideia ao que diz querer fazer na Venezuela, onde os EUA pretendem controlar a indústria do petróleo por tempo indefinido após a derrubada de Nicolás Maduro. A implicação prática é enorme: Kharg Island é um nó crítico da infraestrutura energética iraniana, e tomar esse ponto seria um salto brutal na escalada do conflito. Fonte: Financial Times 4/ Centenas de integrantes das Forças de Operações Especiais dos EUA chegaram ao Oriente Médio e se somaram a milhares de fuzileiros navais e paraquedistas do Exército já mobilizados. Segundo autoridades militares, esses comandos ainda não receberam missões definitivas, mas o simples deslocamento amplia de forma concreta o leque de opções de Trump para expandir a guerra. Entre os cenários considerados estão proteger o Estreito de Ormuz, participar de uma tomada de Kharg Island ou integrar uma missão contra o urânio altamente enriquecido do Irã em Isfahan. Só esse reforço já mostra o grau da prontidão: mais de 50 mil militares americanos estariam agora no Oriente Médio, cerca de 10 mil acima do nível habitual. Fonte: New York Times 5/ Apesar das bombas americanas e israelenses, o Irã estaria ganhando quase o dobro por dia com vendas de petróleo em relação ao período anterior ao início da campanha militar. A dificuldade é medir com precisão, porque os cargueiros iranianos operam de forma cada vez mais opaca, provedores comerciais de imagem de satélite reduziram atualizações na região e há interferência eletrônica no Golfo. Ainda assim, uma fonte com conhecimento da contabilidade do petróleo iraniano disse ao The Economist que o país continua exportando algo entre 2,4 e 2,8 milhões de barris por dia em petróleo e derivados, incluindo entre 1,5 e 1,8 milhão de barris diários de petróleo bruto. Isso seria igual ou até maior que a média do ano passado — com a diferença de que agora o preço recebido é muito mais alto. Em resumo: o regime pode apanhar militarmente, mas no tabuleiro energético ainda consegue converter crise em receita. Fonte: The Economist 6/ Ao longo de quatro décadas, o Irã construiu o que chama de “economia de resistência”: um modelo desenhado para sobreviver a sanções, conflito e isolamento. Isso inclui fabricar internamente produtos difíceis de importar, como medicamentos, peças automotivas e bens domésticos; espalhar centenas de usinas pelo território para dificultar a destruição da rede elétrica; e usar esquemas de troca e barter para driblar bloqueios, exportando petróleo em troca de alimentos e maquinário. Esse modelo ajudou o regime a atravessar crises sucessivas, ainda que à custa de uma estagnação econômica profunda e de um mal-estar social persistente. Agora, porém, essa estrutura está diante do seu teste máximo. Fonte: Financial Times 7/ A engrenagem de segurança do regime iraniano não se sustenta só em ideologia religiosa ou fidelidade política abstrata. Ela é sustentada também por interesses econômicos concretos. O sistema construído pela República Islâmica controla mais da metade da economia e funciona como uma enorme rede de proteção e recompensa: oferece renda, carreira, vantagens e oportunidades para quem permanece leal e ajuda a esmagar dissidência. Analistas e acadêmicos ouvidos pelo Wall Street Journal descrevem essa lógica como parte central da capacidade de sobrevivência do regime. Pesquisas recentes sugerem que só cerca de 20% dos iranianos apoiam o governo, mas esse bloco é mais coeso do que a oposição, justamente porque junta clérigos, forças paramilitares e civis dentro de um mesmo arranjo econômico de interesse mútuo. Fonte: Wall Street Journal 8/ Aliados e parceiros dos EUA na Ásia estão olhando para a guerra no Oriente Médio como um pesadelo estratégico. A preocupação, em capitais como Tóquio, Manila, Taipei e Seul, é que uma guerra longa contra o Irã desvie foco, recursos e capacidade militar americana do Indo-Pacífico justamente quando a pressão chinesa cresce. O dano não é apenas militar: o salto no petróleo e as dificuldades no gás natural já provocam dor econômica. Mas o temor mais profundo é geopolítico: enquanto Washington fica mais afundado no Golfo, Pequim ganha mais espaço para avançar sobre seus interesses regionais. Fonte: Washington Post 9/ Na Alemanha, o aumento de gastos militares vem sendo vendido como necessidade estratégica, mas a crítica é que o dinheiro está indo para aquilo em que o establishment industrial alemão já sabe lucrar: tanques, mísseis balísticos e navios de guerra. A acusação é de desperdício, arrogância e cinismo. A lógica seria perversa: se o objetivo político é bater uma meta de 5% do PIB em defesa, sistemas caros ajudam mais na conta do que tecnologias baratas e altamente eficientes, como drones. Só que a guerra contemporânea mostrou justamente o valor dos drones no campo de batalha. Em outras palavras, a Alemanha estaria gastando mais, mas não necessariamente melhor. Fonte: Eurointelligence 10/ A AfD, partido de extrema direita na Alemanha, pediu a retirada de todas as tropas americanas do país e também das armas nucleares estacionadas ali. O copresidente Tino Chrupalla disse a apoiadores que era hora de remover as tropas aliadas e buscar uma política externa “independente”. Hoje, quase 40 mil militares dos EUA permanecem na Alemanha, que abriga mais de uma dezena de instalações americanas importantes, incluindo o quartel-general do comando europeu. O discurso da AfD combina nacionalismo, ressentimento geopolítico e a tentativa de transformar a presença americana em pauta de campanha. Fonte: Telegraph 11/ Elon Musk e outros magnatas de tecnologia estão apostando pesado em robôs humanoides como a próxima grande fronteira da inteligência artificial. A ideia é levar a corrida da IA para o mundo físico e automatizar tarefas intensivas em trabalho manual, aquelas que grandes modelos de linguagem sozinhos não conseguem executar. No Vale do Silício, isso virou buzzword: “physical AI”. Para investidores e empresas, a conta é simples e brutal — robôs exigem capital e manutenção, mas não recebem salário, férias ou direitos. Daí a frase de que essa pode ser “o maior mercado total endereçável da história da humanidade”. Nvidia já martela esse conceito publicamente, e Musk tenta posicionar a Tesla como uma das grandes vencedoras dessa próxima fase. O ponto central é que a automação não quer mais só disputar o trabalho de escritório; agora ela mira o trabalho braçal em escala industrial. Fonte: Washington Post 12/ Na área de saúde, um medicamento potente para redução do colesterol pode estar mudando as regras da prevenção cardiovascular. Pesquisadores encontraram sinais de que o evolocumabe, normalmente usado em pessoas que já têm doença cardiovascular, também pode reduzir de forma significativa o risco de primeiro infarto e primeiro AVC em pacientes com diabetes e alto risco, mesmo antes de haver placa detectável nas artérias. Se essa leitura se firmar, isso desloca a fronteira do tratamento: em vez de agir só depois da doença estabelecida, a medicação passaria a entrar mais cedo na prevenção de eventos graves. Fonte: Repatha / ScienceDaily

In the US, the stakes are high, with brillionaires dominating, leveraging not just wealth but unprecedented control over digital infrastructures, data, and the very narratives that shape public consciousness. The tools of influence may vary, but the endgame remains the same: power consolidated in the hands of a few, while democracy erodes in plain sight. The No Kings protest that took place yesterday, March 28, 2026, was indeed a massive display of public sentiment. Organizers from groups like Indivisible and 50501 estimate that roughly 8 million people participated across more than 3,300 locations, making it the largest single-day protest in American history. From the "flagship" rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, where 200,000 people gathered to hear Bruce Springsteen perform "Streets of Minneapolis," to the smallest rural communities in Idaho and Texas, the message was uniform. Protesters voiced opposition to the war in Iran, aggressive ICE enforcement following the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and what many describe as executive overreach. The immediate reaction from the administration has been one of dismissal rather than reform. White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson characterized the events as "Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions" and attributed the turnout to "leftist funding networks." The official stance remains that the administration does not "think about the protest at all." While the March 28 event was a powerful symbolic "day of action," it was not a general strike. While this is a historic and massive turnout, it falls just short of the 3.5% threshold often cited by political scientists like Erica Chenoweth. This threshold, known as the 3.5% rule, suggests that no government in the last century has remained in power when at least 3.5% of the population participated in active, sustained, and nonviolent protest at a peak event. A strike of that magnitude, particularly if it included logistics (trucking, rail, ports), would halt the movement of goods within 48 hours. A "No Work, No School, No Shopping" movement would stop the flow of sales tax and corporate revenue immediately. While the administration may ignore the "noise" of 8 million people in the streets, it is much harder to ignore the "silence" of an empty economy. So, are you serious about taking down the Republican administration, or, are you just waiting for NO KINGS #4 while the Heritage Foundation and lackey Trump, continue daily to destroy our Democracy. It's your choice that could help be the difference. Live Free...or NOT. https://generalstrikeus.com/

Try telling a six-year-old to eat more protein. The advice is correct. It just means nothing to them. They feel indestructible. Recovery is automatic. Metabolic health is a problem for later. Same with your father warning you about your heart. For years, it is just noise. Then one day it is not. That is the point: people do not absorb information when it is true. They absorb it when it becomes relevant. My new paper in Health Economics shows that the same logic helps explain how drinking passes from parents to children. Using 23 waves of the HILDA Survey and 43,817 parent-child observations, I study the intergenerational transmission of alcohol consumption — the first application of Bisin and Verdier’s rational trait transmission model to drinking, and the first use of cohort-layering (Lee & Solon 2009) for a HILDA intergenerational sample. The core result is simple: Children do not copy everything their parents do. They copy what becomes useful in their own life. And for drinking, that happens in two windows. First: ages 15-17. That is when alcohol enters teenage social life. Suddenly, what your parents do is no longer abstract. It becomes a live template. Second: ages 28-37. That is when people start building families of their own and fall back on the household patterns they grew up with. Outside those windows, the transmission weakens or disappears. Shift the exposure window to before age 14 and it is gone. Drinking is not a live issue in a 10-year-old’s world. The transmission is overwhelmingly same-sex. Daughters drink like mothers. Sons drink like fathers. There is no father-daughter effect. Mothers also shape sons, but only at the two moments when drinking actually becomes salient: adolescence and early parenthood. The non-birth-parent results sharpen the story even further. Mother-daughter transmission survives even without biological ties. Father-son transmission weakens. So for women, this looks strongly like household norm transmission. For men, biology appears to matter more. The most interesting implication is about cohort change. At ages 28-37, sons with children pick up strong paternal transmission. Sons without children do not. But maternal transmission persists either way. So childless sons still look like their mothers. And because mothers drink less on average, that channel helps push male drinking down across cohorts as more men remain childless through those years. One more result: drinking habits are sticky. In the HILDA panel, people are about twice as likely to change their social status as their drinking behaviour. So the lesson is not “kids watch what parents do.” The lesson is harsher and more precise: People internalise what becomes relevant to who they are, what they do, and the stage of life they are in. Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.70084 The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/is-it-ok-to-drink-in-front-of-your-kids-new-research-shows-the-age-theyre-most-influenced-278667

@runawaywolf.bsky.social The coast becomes a wall of vivid greens and blues beyond their window as Jordan speeds down the backroads out of town. They trust the good sheriff has long since turned in for the night, leaving no one but the moon, forest and the ocean that lay beyond as sole witnesses to their usual nighttime rebellion. A smile twists Jordan’s lips as moonlight filters in through the open window, a welcome break from the rain this drive usually brings; but then again, the moon’s always been a soothing presence for them, steady and silent in its easy, warm companionship. Though they’re Indigenous, Jordan tends to find more solace in talking to the moon at twenty-three than in asking any Creator for guidance like the rest of their family tends to. Her brothers will snicker about how immature it is, how juvenile. But it doesn’t really bother Jordan, those differences between them…or it hadn’t, before, when the differences felt as insignificant as a puddle. Now, she feels an ocean away from the people who they should feel closest to, the waves as insurmountable as a tsunami. Maybe that’s a little dramatic given that it’s only their brothers who have betrayed her this way outright, but they’ve always had a flair for dramatics. And the Blackwood family’s always stood by their matriarch, meaning that if Mama agrees with Solace and Reed, then there’s little more to it. So if her own brothers won’t support them in their utmost time of need and instead only torment her to the very edge of the sandbar, her mother choosing them will be the proverbial fall into the ocean between. If Jordan had been smart, they’d have thrown their damn phone into the ocean that hugs the coastal backroad leading to the highway. But they’re a *bit* overemotional right now and so smarts aren’t tracking especially high on their survival to-do list as they haul ass to the closest airport. It’s not exactly in town and also a little nerve-wracking because Jordan’s never been on an airplane before, or at least not that they can consciously remember; her Mama swears that they screamed the entire flight from here to California as a baby, shrill and angry. That’s more or less exactly how she’d felt shoving all her savings from a shoebox under her bed into a duffel bag that’d serve as both a wallet and suitcase - nothing but shrill and angry, like the wind before a devastating hurricane. Her flight to a small town in Maine will take several hours before it touches down on the tarmac in a gray, rainy county that boosts some three thousand people. There had been whispers on Internet forums and gossip rags alike that the town and all its inhabitants are cursed, that horrible things happen there under the face of the full moon. But Jordan doesn’t care; she just needs to get away from *this* place, from *these* people…because they cannot imagine horrors worse than the ones that broke their very bones and formed them anew amidst their own screams, cannot imagine worse than becoming a raging, monstrous wolf without a pack to ground them. So welcome to Storybrooke it is. Or whatever the non-Natives call it; they’re ready for whatever horrors may come, because at least it’s better than being the bitter anomaly of her own hateful family.

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"Die Deutschen müssen mehr arbeiten!!" Die Arbeitslosigkeit mit 3 Mio auf 12-jahreshoch. Binnenkonsum nimmt derzeit immer weiter ab. Unternehmen ersetzen Mitarbeiter durch Robotic, KI oder durch Mehrarbeit der verbleibenden Arbeitern. Bürgergeldbezieher und Migranten sollen zusätzlich in Arbeit. Auf der anderen Seite sind manche mit 55 oder 58 bereits so gut versorgt, dass Sie trotz Einschnitte bei der Rente ein gutes Leben im Alter genießen. Solange wir immer alle in einen Topf werfen, wird die Diskussion keinem nutzen.

I might be the only pro domme that does this but I often test my devotion training skills on new subs right after our first session. For example, I'd ask them to drop off a valuable package at the post office, turn around and ask them for a neck/back massage, or I'd leave them alone and unattended for extended periods of time, purposely just to see if they would turn on me... In my humble opinion, this is a necessary mental routine because after all, a good Dominant should be able to trust themselves and know that the emotional seed they planted during subspace worked 100%. If you can't trust yourself to be vulnerable around your own subs, that is actually a much bigger vulnerability that shows, and it is indeed just a matter of time before your subs will turn on you...

Everyone’s talking about the new Aurora… …but did you notice this in the video from yesterday (link below)? 👀 That’s a Zeus Mk I. And if you know your lore… that’s not just any ship. The Zeus was one of RSI’s earliest exploration vessels, and was the first ship equipped with a quantum drive on the civilian market. It was used during the first waves of jump point discovery and expansion beyond Sol. Back when interstellar travel wasn’t routine… and jump points were still being mapped, and not fully understood. Ships like that represent a very different era of space travel. I'd love to find things like these out in the mining belts long abandoned, full of history and parts! https://youtu.be/SzMHlkiv4DQ?si=yDz9sNNH1XsgoGeV https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/VYLd4WxODo-zeus #StarCitizen #EmilysGame #zeus

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tom scott: england ep1 nebula spoilers under the read-more! trailer's come out on youtube but i got to watch the first ep yayyyy I'VE NEVER BEEN SO ENTHRALLED BY A BELL BEING CAST IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. okay i've never seen a bell being cast before in my entire life but still. the new format feels like a combination of the smooth, hey did you know? scripts and tone of the original 'things you did not know' series, with some of the lightheartedness of the plus channel. at times i felt like a kid randomly tuning in to the discovery channel after school and finding a random show about things getting built or made. the back-and-forth switch between the live footage and the studio narration did feel a bit jarring at times, but it mostly worked! tom always tends to let his guests shine in his videos, and this was no different! the real stars of the video are antony and sam, the two guys who cast the bells. they're funny and good-natured and have excellent banter with each other and with tom. i'm honestly so tempted to go back and rewatch while taking notes because the format was just begging me to pay attention and learn along!

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I feel like the fact that university and college students feel the need or urge to use AI or cheat on their exams has more to do with the fact that our education system has been broken for a very long time, rather than being a problem with today’s students. I am a self-taught software engineer. I had to go through so many loopholes just to find and scavenge the knowledge I needed because of sanctions in my country of birth (Iran). I never once felt the urge to cheat. I came to learn willingly, and using AI or cheating would have defeated the entire purpose. I learned that if I’m not failing, I’m not really challenging myself enough. I feel like our system punishes small failures when they are actually great opportunities to strengthen your knowledge, understand your weaknesses, and improve what you know. I think that if you don’t fail, you’re not really learning or moving in the right direction. Meanwhile, in universities, you pay thousands of dollars for the same privilege, and every single mistake adds to that cost and wastes a large portion of the effort you put into a course. There are big consequences for small mistakes. We’re encouraged to cram knowledge and memorize it without deeper understanding, only to dump it onto a piece of paper without ever really using it to its full potential again for a while. Learning should not be crammed into a 4 to 8 year period, it should be a lifelong journey. It’s not something you do once and get over with. You’re doing all of that for just a small chance at a job. You’re not really learning, you’re pushed into playing a meaningless performative game for survival. And after all, why wouldn't you cheat?

Something unusual is unfolding in the financial world. Quiet conversations are happening behind the scenes, and more people are beginning to question how stable banks really are. My recent conversation with Nicholas Veniamin came with a clear message: “Watch the banks.” Globally, discussions around financial restructuring, digital assets, and evolving monetary systems are gaining traction. Institutions are preparing for a new phase of finance driven by technologies like Web3 and ISO 20022 networks. This isn’t about fear, it’s about awareness. History shows that those who adapt early to change tend to do best. Right now, finance is evolving, with digital assets and new systems reshaping how value is stored and transferred. knowledge matters more than ever. Bring time to learn about these changes, understand emerging technologies, and invest in yourself, your knowledge, health, and independence. Big shifts are coming. Will you be prepared or caught off guard? If you want to explore more, contact Nicholas Veniamin directly at nicholasveniamin479@gmail.com or subscribe to his channel on Rumble. Stay informed. Stay aware. Stay empowered.

Something unusual is unfolding in the financial world. Quiet conversations are happening behind the scenes, and more people are beginning to question how stable banks really are. My recent conversation with Nicholas Veniamin came with a clear message: “Watch the banks.” Globally, discussions around financial restructuring, digital assets, and evolving monetary systems are gaining traction. Institutions are preparing for a new phase of finance driven by technologies like Web3 and ISO 20022 networks. This isn’t about fear, it’s about awareness. History shows that those who adapt early to change tend to do best. Right now, finance is evolving, with digital assets and new systems reshaping how value is stored and transferred. knowledge matters more than ever. Bring time to learn about these changes, understand emerging technologies, and invest in yourself, your knowledge, health, and independence. Big shifts are coming. Will you be prepared or caught off guard? If you want to explore more, contact Nicholas Veniamin directly at nicholasveniamin479@gmail.com or subscribe to his channel on Rumble. Stay informed. Stay aware. Stay empowered.