Hey #LafayetteIN, what dumb mischief can we get into today? At the #MoseyDownMainStreet.
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Find out 11 facts about the NES/Famicom that you maybe didn't know!
link: youtu.be/ZV8H_M3nzIg
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DnB songs are competing with each other on who can have the longest drum pause in their chorus, and I'm all here for it.
Each additional beat of pause makes me enjoy it even more.
For example, here's DNMO's "Together". Check out the section from 2:30 to 3:05, there's 3½ _bars_ of drum pause 😍
Reminds me of Donald Dark's "Sleeping in My Car" medley, where they're gradually increasing the pause between "in my" and "car" at the end of the song 😂
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Together by DNMO
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Databricks is hiring Engineering Manager - Backend
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We went out for Kyle's birthday and were able to sit outside, which was awesome. It was even warmer than inside (why so much AC?!?)
Happy early birthday @ksawatsky 💕
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California lawmakers kill plans to curb AI-manipulated prices: calmatters.org/economy/technol…
> A secretive appropriations process killed or reined in three bills regulating the use of pricing algorithms. A bill to monitor data center electricity use was also culled.
A crackdown on predictive software that sets prices and can rip you off seemed to be brewing in the California Legislature earlier this year, but today lawmakers eased up, voting to kill bills that would have kept software from setting the price of apartment rentals and other goods and services. Another bill, which sought to bar the use of personal information to set prices, was reined in to apply only to grocery stores.
Lawmakers also killed a bill that aimed to protect electric utility customers from bearing higher costs associated with data center proliferation […] The measure would have required data centers to publicly disclose how much energy they use.
California gives AI price discrimination some breathing room
Three bills to regulate AI price discrimination died or were scaled back in the state legislature during a secretive appropriations process.Khari Johnson (CalMatters)
Maine congressional candidate Graham Platner just scored Bernie Sanders's endorsement
Perché in Giappone i giovani snobbano la carriera militare
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Gaza, economia sotto assedio: tra embargo, ricostruzione e il business della guerra
Gaza, economia sotto assedio: tra embargo, ricostruzione e il business della guerra
La Striscia di Gaza è oggi il teatro di una crisi umanitaria e sociale senza precedenti. Mentre il conflitto israelo-palestinese continua a...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
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Analyzing Hostile Data
Analyzing hostile data and hostile code, finding interesting patterns in the machine instructions.Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
The City of Cassville pushes barges up the Mississippi River
Quincy, Illinois, USA
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From the Tool Library, elsewhere:
We're bringing Fix-It Night back to the NE Seattle Tool Library on Thursday, September 4th, so make sure to bring your broken household treasures along too!
Sign up and learn more here: seattlereconomy.org/event/fix-…
📍 NE Seattle Tool Library (10228 Fischer Pl NE, Seattle)
📅 Thursday, September 4
🕕 5pm-8pm
💰: FREE
If you'd like to sign up to be a Fixer, this link is for you!:
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We don't have a regular schedule for Fix-It Nights at the NE Seattle Tool Library determined quite yet, but be on the lookout! If you know of anyone who could volunteer their time for these monthly events, please send them our way.
📨 info@seattlereconomy.org
#seattle #shoreline #FixIt #diy #ShorelineToolLibrary
Fix-It Night at the NE Seattle Tool Library
Bring by your broken household items for a night of fixing and community building at the NE Seattle Tool Library!It\'s time to start collecting all those items around the house […]\nseattlereconomy.org
US reportedly suspends visa approvals for nearly all Palestinian passport holders | Trump administration | The Guardian
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@palestine
US reportedly suspends visa approvals for nearly all Palestinian passport holders
Restrictions to prevent travel for healthcare and college and come after denying visas to Palestinian Authority leadersGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Não compre uma air fyer: conheça 5 eletros mais úteis para sua cozinha
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“Scientists Warn Planet Unsafe”: Report Reveals 60% Of Global Land Now Beyond Limits As Governments Struggle With Escalating Environmental Threats
A groundbreaking study reveals that human activities have pushed Earth's biosphere to a critical tipping point, threatening the planet's ability to sustain life and prompting urgent calls for immediate global action.
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“Scientists Warn Planet Unsafe”: Report Reveals 60% Of Global Land Now Beyond Limits As Governments Struggle With Escalating Environmental Threats
The integrity of Earth's biosphere is under unprecedented threat, according to a recent study that sheds light on the planet's declining ability to maintainEirwen Williams (Sustainability Times)
Rudy Giuliani injured in New Hampshire car crash, his spokesperson says
Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a fractured vertebra and other injuries following a car crash in New Hampshire, a spokesperson for the former New York City mayor said Sunday.
Giuliani’s vehicle was struck from behind while traveling on a highway Saturday evening, according to a statement posted on X by Michael Ragusa, Giuliani’s head of security. “He sustained injuries but is in good spirits and recovering tremendously,” Ragusa said, adding: “This was not a targeted attack.”
Giuliani, 81, was taken to a nearby trauma center and was being treated for injuries including “a fractured thoracic vertebrae, multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg,” according to Ragusa.
https://apnews.com/article/rudy-giuliani-car-crash-7cef14a0e682391de2f03d0450d3393a
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US-Richterin blockiert Abschiebungen von Kindern nach Guatemala
Die US-Regierung will hunderte unbegleitete Minderjährige nach Guatemala abschieben, nach Angaben ihrer Anwälte rechtswidrig. Teils sitzen die Kinder und Jugendlichen schon im Flugzeug. Doch eine Richterin stoppt die Abschiebungen - vorerst.
The SCO Summit in Tianjin and Turkey’s dilemma
The SCO and BRICS have a value that lies not in institutional effectiveness, but in the formation of a new symbolic center: an “order without…Strategic Culture Foundation
Well, still #blogging about #gaming!
Here are some honorable mentions that didn't make it to the #top25games, at least right now.
This is post 31 of #Blaugust2025
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Top 25 Games Honorable Mentions
Games that didn't make it to the Top 25 but I'll talk about them anywayjoelchrono.xyz
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My only suggestion to this informative list would be to include what platforms you played these games on and/or what platforms they’re available to play on. I seemed to have a pretty low batting average trying to find them on iOS, for instance. But it’d be good to know where else I COULD play them.
Checking out your top 25 list now…
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There are new phishing attempts that are making their rounds around the Fediverse, asking people to verify their accounts.
I have reported two this morning.
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Il y a de nouvelles tentatives d’hameçonnage qui font leur tour du fédivers, demandant aux gens de vérifier leurs comptes.
J'en ai signalé deux ce matin.
Accounts/Comptes:
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Two Arguments Against Libertarianism
Libertarianism – in a coarse telling – is political philosophy that places primacy on individual freedom over all other values. As such, it’s often placed in contrast to tradition…Ockham's Beard
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The UN should immediately move out of the US. Unthinkable how a world government, who believes to be the top democracy of the world, could be so corrupt! #Landgrabbing #corruption
All UN Security Council members, except US, say famine in Gaza is 'man-made crisis'
Is Captain Pike canonically polyam in Strange New Worlds?
In the episode "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach" he sleeps and discuses future plans with an alien lady called Alora while he is in a relationship with Captain Batel. The relationship with Alora ends because of some horrible revelations about her planet, but at no point are the two parallel relationships presented as potential for conflict. It think it's therefore safe to assume that Pike and Batel's relationship does not contradict other, parallel romantic or sexual relationships.
However if Pike is indeed canonically polyam, it's strange that I never found that topic in any discussion about queerness in modern Star Trek.
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Batel and Pike's relationship is one of the first things we learn about in Strange New Worlds. In the very first episode we see them sharing breakfast after having shared a bed during the night. The scene implies some routine to this arrangement. Generally when discussing Pike people seem to agree that she is his girlfriend.
Sure, it is possible that their relationship actually is just this one super casual encounter between friends that becomes a romantic relationship later. However, I don't see why this is a more likely explanation than them just not having a problem with each other having other romantic or sexual relationship/encounters.
The show just showing us a polyamorous character would also fit in with how they introduced other queer characters in modern Star Trek. They mostly just are what they are without any discussion or explanation. I belive the only exception to this is Adira Tal in Discovery who has a very undramatic coming out moment with Paul Stamets (when they correct him on their pronouns).
Okay, I've now spent two hours or something rewatching parts of some episodes.
I agree that it _can_ be seen as a polyam relationship, but that's not the way I'm interpreting it. To me, it seems as if it's more of a "friends with benefits" kind of situation in S1, evolving throughout S2 and becoming much more committed in S3.
Now, would I love some polyam representation in Trek? Absolutely. But it seems like The Expanse is where that's gonna stay for now.
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The major clue to me was their interaction at the beginning of 1x10. Batel asks him "how have you been holding up", which implies they haven't really talked between 1x01 and 1x10. I'd expect more (subspace comms) interaction in a committed polyam relationship.
And also, she says she's having a "date" with someone, and the way Pike reacts just doesn't _feel_ polyam to me. It's less "interesting, tell me" and more like "yeah sure, go have fun".
I could be wrong of course.
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> The major clue to me was their interaction at the beginning of 1x10. Batel asks him "how have you been holding up", which implies they haven't really talked between 1x01 and 1x10. I'd expect more (subspace comms) interaction in a committed polyam relationship.
In general I would agree with you, but they are also in a setting where subspace communications is not always possible. Maybe they just did not have the opportunity to talk for longer than usual.
> And also, she says she's having a "date" with someone, and the way Pike reacts just doesn't _feel_ polyam to me. It's less "interesting, tell me" and more like "yeah sure, go have fun".
That's a good point. I would probably be more like "interesting, tell me" and less like "yeah sure, go have fun", if my partner told me about dating someone else, too. But maybe that's just not their dynamic.
To be honest, I think the two of us might have already been spending more time thinking about this than the writers. It wouldn't be the first time that Star Trek is inconsistent between different episodes, because they have different writer involved.
I guess, I will chose to see Pike and Batel as polyam as a fun head canon for me. I think it can be at least interpreted that way.
The same one, 1x10, at 3:05.
Batel: "Well. Much as I love you being mysterious, I've got a date on the far side of the Neutral Zone. [kisses Pike]"
Pike: "Anyone I know?"
Batel: "Not that kind of date, actually."
Pike: "You know, I'm making osso bucco next week, if you're interested."
So, it's not a real date, but Pike doesn't know that when he asks the question. It's just … the way that he asks it is very casual and more like a quip than genuine curiosity.
> I think the two of us might have already been spending more time thinking about this than the writers.
Don't know about that, but you have certainly given me an interesting question, should I ever talk to the writers, or Anson, or Melanie.
> I guess, I will chose to see Pike and Batel as polyam as a fun head canon for me. I think it can be at least interpreted that way.
I agree, it can 😀 Enjoy!
perspective
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framing is everything
focus is too
being alive
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filtering out the noise
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Hey videographers/film makers/photographers:
Have you used Kit Split to rent gear, or rent out your gear?
If so, how'd it go?
I have some lenses, cameras, audio gear and a bunch of related gear that doesn't get enough use, but I definitely want to hold onto, so figured I might try to list them for rental.
In Trump’s Federal #WorkForce Cuts, #BlackWomen Are Among the Hardest Hit
#Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the #federal work force, disproportionately affecting #Black employees.
When Trump started dismantling #FederalAgencies & dismissing rank-&-file #CivilServants, Peggy Carr, the chief statistician at the #Education Dept, immediately started to make a calculation.
#Math #WeSeeYou #WhiteSupremacy #law #labor #discrimination
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