The Time a Ouija Board Scared Us
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The Time a Ouija Board Scared Us
The Time a Ouija Board Scared Us We weren’t sure if we were tapping into spirits or superstitions The wooden tray was stored on its side in a lower kitchen cabinet, along with my mom’s metal …Vivian McInerny (Human Parts)
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All the Lights, Everywhere
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All the Lights, Everywhere
All the Lights, Everywhere Gender, Desire, and Failing the Metaphor She was beautiful in that way that made people stop and stare, with a studied elegance that came from fighting to exist. The day we …Karen D Garman (Human Parts)
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Il lato oscuro dell’IA generativa: come Meta ha perso il controllo dei suoi sex-bot celebrity - (in)sicurezza digitale
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> C’è un confine sottile, quasi impercettibile, tra l’innovazione tecnologica e il baratro etico. A volte, per varcarlo, basta un prompt malizioso o un
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Earlier today on my blog: Unblogged August; being notes on things from the past month that I've not written about elsewhere.
‼️🇺🇦Flag-waving Russian invaders wiped out by targeted drones after stunt backfires (The Sun VIDEO) #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #Berlin #London #Brussels #Poland #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Denmark #Finland #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#TrumpIsARussianAsset
Entidades beneficiadas por emendas de Erika Hilton querem atuar no STF contra Isabella Cêpa - Gazeta Brasil-
Entidades beneficiadas por emendas parlamentares da deputada federal Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP) apresentaram pedido para atuar como “amicus curiae” no processoGazeta Brasil
Major European #Warmongers' news of the last days.
"Europe is drawing up "pretty precise plans" for a multinational troop deployment to #Ukraine as part of post-conflict security guarantees that will have the backing of U.S. capabilities, #European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the Financial Times in an interview.
The deployment is set to include potentially tens of thousands of European-led troops, backed by assistance from the U.S., including control and command systems and intelligence and surveillance assets"
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A confidential letter by the French MoH dated July 18, 2025, directed regional health agencies to place hospitals on alert for a high-intensity war scenario in #Europe, likely by March 2026, according to the French weekly Le Canard enchaîné. The preparation includes the massive reception of wounded soldiers and an unprecedented mobilization of medical personnel.
In an article titled "The Ministry of #Health Mobilizes Hospitals for #War," published on August 26, the newspaper revealed that the Ministry called on senior health officials to ensure the health system is ready, by next March, to face a "major mobilization".
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Do you, personally, wait them to build again their man-abattoir?
#FuckWarmongers #imperialism
French hospitals urged by MoH to prepare for war by March 2026
Preparations include accommodating mass casualties and foreign soldier treatment.Al Mayadeen English (French hospitals urged by MoH to prepare for war by March 2026)
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This is what psychologists call "displacement activity." Keeping yourself busy with something irrelevant to the actual problem, to avoid standing helplessly by or even worse, grasping the bull by the horns.
All these plans are built on the assumption that Russia will accept a ceasefire; yet the more they are announced, the more the chances of a ceasefire are cemented at zero. This war started to prevent further NATO presence in Ukraine and, as they're winning, why would the Russians suddenly stop so NATO "peacekeepers" can come in?
Of course the financiers are delighted. They have a new phrase "military Keynesianism" which means corporate welfare for banks & arms firms.
This is a very useful tool to explain the current situation. theanarchistlibrary.org/librar…
Preparedness, the Road to Universal Slaughter
Emma Goldman Preparedness, the Road to Universal Slaughter 1915 First published in Mother Earth, Vol. X, no. 10, December 1915, and also as a pamphlet.The Anarchist Library
Debido a un error, un peligroso paciente de un hospital ha sido dado de alta. A pesar de que el manicomio ha intentado ocultar lo ocurrido, una enfermera se dispone a seguir los pasos de este brutal asesino.
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#Hypnotic Life can be that way! We produce #music & #musicvideos Join the channel! We are always looking for new talent #dancers #singers We will promote #artists or #blogs (No Politics or Religion) youtu.be/mrgxsJhE5b0
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If you’ve read my book, 'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt' I’d be grateful if you left a review wherever you prefer.
This isn’t a plea for 5 star ratings; it’s a request for honesty. Books are personal: I dislike plenty, feel neutral about many, and love a few. Whatever your response, reviews really help. A wall of 5-stars is wonderful, but it can also feel suspicious to readers. A mix of perspectives shows the book is being read seriously.
Patriotism Is No Refuge for Indonesia Inc.
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Mini Crafts Give a Big Boost to Brain Health and Pain Relief
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Mini Crafts Give a Big Boost to Brain Health and Pain Relief
Mini Crafts Give a Big Boost to Brain Health and Pain Relief The fine details help stretch and focus your brain; they even relieve pain. Including a tutorial for upholstering your own tiny …Niddie Bone (Human Parts)
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Where to Kiss a Sailor
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Where to Kiss a Sailor
Where to Kiss a Sailor Retracing my mother’s mischievous past to find laughter where grief once lived “Look, kids! That’s the corner where I kissed the most beautiful sailor. His eyes matched …Paula M. Fitzgibbons (Medium)
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PBS, NPR stations working to cope with — and survive — government funding cuts
Here’s a crazy real-world consequence of a cyberattack: When Nevada's state systems went down, it meant DMV offices closed, dispatch lines were disrupted, and for a while, police couldn't even access state DMV records. A digital problem with very physical effects. #Tech
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L'Iran sur le pied de guerre
Quatre réalisations notables sur le plan militaire pourraient permettre d'anticiper les résultats du prochain conflit, écrit Abdel Bari Atwan.admin (Chronique de Palestine)
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Camino entre hierba, hacia la Horca de la sierra de Ayllón.
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#fotografía #photography #paisaje #landscape #montañas #mountains #SierraDeAyllón #Tortuero #Guadalajara
BILL is hiring Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience (DevX)
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From MULTIPLE sources
Trump wants to forcibly remove the 2,000,000+ Gazans from their homeland and ship them off to some desert country.
The entire population of Gaza would be relocated and the United States would take control of the Palestinian territory under a plan being considered by the Trump regime.
Trump has plans to build Trump hotels on the seashore of what was Gaza!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking #Israel #gaza
"Educazione affettiva"?
Di tutte le parole magiche che circolano nel dibattito pubblico, una delle più abusate e al tempo stesso più vaghe è “educazione affettiva”.Uriel Fanelli (Das Böse Büro)
Un campo di rieducazione per me è ciò che fanno (stando alle informazioni che arrivano qui...) i cinesi. Io alludevo vagamente a qualcosa che non si è mai visto qui (forse?), una specie di "sabato fascista" per adulti, ovviamente ben conscio che non sia una gran bella proposta e ovviamente come tutti gli altri non sarebbe risolutiva.
Die Hard Trilogy (1997) for the SEGA Saturn.
Not to be confused with Die Hard Arcade—that one’s a beat-‘em-up. Trilogy is something else entirely: three completely different games on one disc, all playable with a light gun, and all wildly ambitious for the time.
You get a third-person shooter set inside Nakatomi Plaza. Then a chaotic driving game through the streets of New York. And finally, a first-person shooter that throws wave after wave of enemies at you until your trigger finger begs for mercy.
Also: yes, these Sega Saturn long boxes are fragile and oversized. But when they’re lined up on a shelf? Nothing looks better.
On the news page there is connect.iftas.org/feed/ and connect.iftas.org/comments/fee…
I was just trying to use the first feed with Calibre to generate an ePub that I can read on my eReader... It's a lot more convenient than trying to read it on my phone/laptop/desktop. But, IMO, anyone that wants to use those feed with an aggregator would probably find it annoying, IMO.
Demand Congress investigate Palantir's no bid contract with the Pentagon now
Billionaire Peter Thiel has spent millions to buy political favors in Washington D.C. and it’s paying off.act.perfectunion.us
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#Fujifilm #photography #novascotia #canada #beach #ocean #surfing
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Transcript: Trump’s Angry “Dictator” Rant Unnerves Experts: “Wake Up!”
As Trump’s ugly ramblings about his militarization of cities get worse, prominent legal observer Joyce Vance explains how and why this is all heading to a very dark place—and what we must do to stop it.The New Republic
Israeli Forces Arrest Workers in Kobar, Northwest of Ramallah, Seize Equipment
Ramallah / PNN /Israeli forces arrested two workers in the town of Kobar, northwest of Ramallah, on Sunday.Local sourcesenglish.pnn.ps
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333 🐘 on Instagram: "Excuse My Mouth, They Really Got Me Out My Character"
512 likes, 112 comments - badassxdiamondd on August 21, 2025: "Excuse My Mouth, They Really Got Me Out My Character".Instagram
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Lightning Talks On Time, With This Device
Ask a Hackaday scribe who’s helped run the lightning talks at one of our events, and they’ll tell you that keeping the speakers on time is a challenge. Conversely if the staffer is trying to indicate to the speaker how much time they have left, it must be difficult from the podium to keep track while delivering your talk. Fortunately there’s [makeTVee] waiting in the wings with a solution, a cube whose faces each have a custom 5×7 LED matrix on them. The countdown is clear and unambiguous, and should provide no distractions.
The brains behind it all is a XIAO nRF52840 Sense board using the Zephyr RTOS, the LEDs are WS2812s on their own PCBs, and the party piece is only revealed at the end of the countdown. A tilt mechanism triggered by a servo releases a ball bearing down a track, where it hits a telephone bell and provides a very audible reminder to the speaker. The result saw action during the lightning talks at the Hackaday Europe event earlier in the year, but it’s taken a while for the write-up to make it online.
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'I don't remember': MN Republican suddenly forgets voting against school safety bill
Following a mass shooting in Minnesota, Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) insisted he couldn't remember why he opposed a bill to increase school safety.
In a Sunday interview on ABC, Emmer attacked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) for not giving schools enough resources to prevent a shooting that killed two children in Minneapolis last week.
"It's going to be very important that the schools have the resources," he said.
"You talk about what can be done," host Martha Raddatz noted. "After mass shootings in Buffalo and in Uvalde, Texas, Congress passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions of dollars for schools to expand mental health services, enhance safety measures. You did not vote for that bill. Why?"
"I don't remember the reasons that I didn't vote for that bill," Emmer replied. "I got to tell you, we did a lot for Uvalde, but you can't replace those children, Martha, you can't. And you can't help that community. We're talking about getting on the front end, Martha. We're talking about we need to have the resources."
"This bill sounds like it might have done that," Raddatz pointed out.
Watch the video below from ABC or click the link.
'I don't remember': MN Republican suddenly forgets voting against school safety bill
Following a mass shooting in Minnesota, Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) insisted he couldn't remember why he opposed a bill to increase school safety.In a Sunday interview on ABC, Emmer attacked Minnesota Gov.David Edwards (Raw Story)
An interview with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on the company's M&A strategy as it acquires Madrid-based data observability startup Onum for about $290M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
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Exclusive: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz on $290 million acquisition of startup Onum and security in the AI age
The cybersecurity company, which went public in 2019, is a longtime acquirer, and has acquired data observability startup Onum for about $290 million.Allie Garfinkle (Fortune)
August Resümee.
This month was kinda intense but heartwarming, hosting and reading the German Phantastik Prompts and putting out their Fantastic Prompts English counterpart made it clear to me why I stick to three dailies and don't do a fourth.
I loved seeing all the different answers and loved interacting as much as I did even if I wish I would have answered more of them.
Hind sight I would say I would do it again on a maybe smaller scale.
I love that the German writing community picks it up on a voluntary basis and we managed so many different hosts so far.
I now have a way deeper understanding and respect for all the wonderful people who put out their prompts daily, weekly or so regularly.
This month also had me struggling emotionally private but also absolute highlights like the cross over Art work @art_of_goulwenr did.
Simply: I love Mastodon more than I ever did with other social media and it really feels social.
Thanks again everyone.🙏🏿💚
#writing #Mastodon
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