Dear Pay Dirt: My mom asked us for money. Our budget can take the hit, but I’m not sure my marriage will.
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27 September 2025
"Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.
Now it looks as though they're here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be.
There's a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly. ..." - Paul McCartney
The Beatles song “Yesterday” was, for a time, my favorite—back when I was a brooding teenager. Or maybe it shared that honor with “Help,” another track from the same album. “Yesterday” conjured feelings of loss and hinted at emotions that felt ancient, even though I was only thirteen and my life had barely begun. Why it resonated so deeply, I’m not sure. I didn’t have a long-ago past to mourn. But at that age, thirteen years is a literal lifetime.
Thinking of it that way, it’s been more than five lifetimes since.
The lyric about not being half the man I used to be always made me pause. What was I thinking then? Because, quite literally, I wasn’t yet half the man I would become. We see and feel everything from our own shifting vantage point—fluid, evolving—as we add new experiences to our repertoire.
"The "past beats inside me like a second heart.” — John Banville
“Songs are the pulse of memory, the breath of time.” — Ceremonial riff, sovereign dispatch
“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #morning #flowers #roses #Beatles #music ##lyrics #youth #perspective
#SpookySeason but make it cute!
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#art #handmade #SmallBusiness #ShopSmall #SmallBusinessSaturday #Spooky #Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #HomeDecor #Bird #birds #Halloween #Illustration #Artist #Fediverse #FediArt #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #Pixelfed #GiftIdeas #HomeDecor
Welcome to another Hyperlink Roundup!
Let's forget the Windows 10 fiasco of upgrading your family members and enjoy reading some links and watching a new Star Trek video!
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Some of us can relate with the struggle of knowing Windows users in our family at this time. Microsoft will be halting any security updates next month for Wi...Welcome To My Blog
"Saudações a todos 🌌
Estou chegando por aqui para trocar ideias sobre religião, política nacional e global, vida extraterrestre e civilizações perdidas.
Acredito que questionar é essencial para entender o mundo em que vivemos — e talvez até mundos além do nosso.
#Política #Religião #Globalismo #CivilizaçõesPerdidas #VidaExtraterrestre"
Jaguar Land Rover Gets UK Guarantee for £1.5 Billion Loan
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-27/jaguar-land-rover-gets-uk-guarantee-for-1-5-billion-loan?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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It must feel great when your religious beliefs and financial interests line up so perfectly.
That peace and safety are actually the works of the devil and so we should embrace the alternative isn’t the argument I was expecting.
thetimes.com/business-money/te…
Role of Amazon fires in the record atmospheric CO₂ growth in 2024
Link: essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Porky (Capitalist Piggy Bank)
* In a 1920 Soviet agitprop poster, Porky is a cartoon character used to represent the bourgeois or ruling class, a literal capitalist pig. English language idioms related to pigs often have negative connotations of dirt, greed, or the monopolisation of resources.
#EatTheRich #Urban #Photography
George Galloway detained at airport under Terrorism Act
George Galloway detained at airport under Terrorism Act
Counter-terrorism officers stopped the 71-year-old former MP on Saturday as he arrived into Gatwick on a flight from Abu Dhabi.Craig Williams (The Herald)
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Given what we know about the Palestine Action fiasco, this is entirely ludicrous.
That said, Galloway is a racist bizarro grifter: youtu.be/DOqF1Xs8gzU
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The Starmer regime detains a political dissident, George Galloway, at the airport.
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George Galloway detained at airport under Terrorism Act
Counter-terrorism officers stopped the 71-year-old former MP on Saturday as he arrived into Gatwick on a flight from Abu Dhabi.Craig Williams (The Herald)
I monaci di San Maurizio hanno già messo online il concerto di oggi 😬
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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Pressure is heating up in the forest!
The cops have been by since Friday and given us a deadline to be out of the forest by midnight Sunday.
Eviction might happen on Monday!
Be ready - share eviction notices - come and support us
Escalation in Akira Campaign Targeting SonicWall VPNs, Deploying Ransomware, With Malicious Logins - Slashdot
Friday the security researchers at Arctic Wolf Labs wrote: In late July 2025, Arctic Wolf Labs began observing a surge of intrusions involving suspicious SonicWall SSL VPN activity.it.slashdot.org
A collapsing and abandoned theatre, somewhere in Portugal 🇵🇹
#Portugal #Photography #Explore #AbandonedPlaces #Urbex #UrbanExploration
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Am 30.9., 10:00-11:30, erläutert @Sascha online für die VHS Bonn den Vorteil von freien, dezentralen Sozialen Medien gegenüber denen der Big-Tech-Konzerne.
Dezentrale Plattformen wie #Mastodon, #Pixelfed und #Peertube zeigen, dass es Alternativen gibt, die frei von Tracking und Werbung sind. Sie werden von den Usern finanziert, die die Kontrolle über ihre Daten behalten.
Kostenlos.
Mehr Infos und Anmeldung:
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Tettigonia viridissima (Linnaeus, 1758)
Published under #CC0 here flic.kr/p/2rvPtw8
#Orthoptera #Ensifera #Gryllidea #Tettigonioidea #Tettigoniidae #Tettigoniinae #Tettigoniini #Tettigonia #Pentax #Macro #BushCricket #Animal #Wildlife #Nature #Mywork #Photography
Colombian Leader’s Call to Defy Trump Amplifies Rifts in Region
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-27/colombian-leader-gustavo-petro-s-call-to-defy-trump-amplifies-rifts-in-region?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Cal State Targeted by Federal Officials in Antisemitism Inquiry
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-27/cal-state-targeted-by-federal-officials-in-antisemitism-inquiry?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"Antifa, short for "anti-fascist", is a loosely organised movement of primarily far-left activists."
My, how the Overton Window has shifted at the BBC if being anti-fascist now makes you "far left"
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddmn6…
Trump orders deployment of troops to Portland and authorises 'full force'
The president says the latest move to send troops to a major US city is "necessary" to protect immigration detention facilities.Nadine Yousif (BBC News)
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Recent recognitions of a Palestinian state by several European countries are not acts of solidarity but a profound betrayal that undermines our struggle for liberation by legitimizing Zionism.
Please share! Give for 4x impact—help families flee from utter siege in Gaza City, and be matched up to £3,000 ($4,000) 🚨
This is not hopeless, not least of all because our duty is hope in this bleakness.
Help them escape. 2115/7000 by Tuesday night chuffed.org/project/hope-givin…
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Gaza #Palestine
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter.Chuffed
For this weekends Saturday Night Special, I proudly present - Please Don't Go Girl by New Kids On The Block. Alright,so New Kids On The Block can bring up some mixed reactions in terms of the popularity they ended up reaching. And unlike groupie girls who went out to buy their comforters, bedroom sets, pillow cases, dolls and whatever else they were marketing, I always go back to the music. I liked New Kids long before all the crazy popularity set in. I remember when this song first came out, and I was instantly hooked because it had the Jackson 5/New Edition vibe to it. In short, I was NKOTB when NKOTB wasn't cool. This song also holds some fond memories of a person I was dating at the time it came out. Overall, it's just a cute love song. I like the melody, the lyrics, and the grove of it. Anyway, enjoy the trip down memory lane!! 💋
Listen 👇👇👇👇
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#music #fashion #style #video #woman #moodpost #saturday #fotoshooting #stylish #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #glam #photography #studiophography #streetphotography #artlover
Please Don't Go Girl - New Kids On The Block (NEW) 🔥
For this weekends Saturday Night Special, I proudly present - Please Don't Go Girl by New Kids On The Block. Alright,so New Kids On The ...Patricia Jones (Blogger)
Protesters in Cape Town demand SA govt sever ties with Israel over Gaza
CAPE TOWN - More than 3,000 people marched through Cape Town on Saturday, calling for South Africa to cut trade and diplomatic ties with Israel, including by shutting its embassy, over the war in Gaza.
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Saturday's demonstration brought together several pro-Palestinian organisations, political parties, and Muslim and Christian groups in one of the biggest such turnouts in months.
Waving Palestinian flags and slogans such as "Don't just feel bad, do something", the procession handed over a petition of demands at parliament.
South Africa must "boycott, divest and sanction Israel, the same way as the world did for us," said Palestine Solidarity Campaign coordinator, Usuf Chikte, referring to international measures used to pressure South Africa's apartheid regime.
enca.com/news-top-stories/prot…
#soutafrica #protest #gaza #genocide #palestine
Protesters in Cape Town demand SA govt sever ties with Israel over Gaza
The demonstration brought together several pro-Palestinian organisations, political parties, and Muslim and Christian groups in one of the biggest such turnouts in months.eNCA
Welp, I don't see any of @annaleen 's robots here...
But I'm guessing Staybehind does kitchen design full time now.
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In our magazine: Only in #Texas! Let our pal Molly guide you through some of the oddest headlines in recent days ... texasobserver.org/strangest-st…
#comics #weird #culture #news #animals #tech
Strangest State: Cute Robots, Killer Bugs, and Cloud Conspiracies
Weird animals, weird humans, and more: The Observer brings you notes from across Texas.Texas Observer Staff (The Texas Observer)
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House Aura / Presente Estúdio
Completed in 2024 in Santa Maria, Brazil. Images by Cristiano Bauce. For a corner lot, the architectural approach adopted was an "L" shaped plan. The solution had clear objectives: to take advantage of the best solar...Susanna Moreira (ArchDaily)
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🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Microsoft ends Israeli military use of AI, data services for its mass surveillance of Palestinians / Al Jazeera
Not working (yet?) is the non-standard onlinebanking, threema, signal (soon to change)
working: calendar, tasks, addressbook all including sync, calls, messages, whatsapp, matrix, mastodon, rss, discord (no threads), backup, music, dark mode, routing for public transportation, navigation.
Since this is hopeless, there are approaches like slidge. This allows me to use a decent client, be part of a standarized open protocol while keeping in touch with non FSF-folks.
Ob all die, die sich hier oft zu politischen Themen abfällig äußern, dann auch außerhalb der Fediverse-Gleichgesinntenblase im realen Leben engagieren?
Es wäre schön, wenn man neben den 100sten "lustigen" Meme öfter mal hört, "ich hab mich heute hier engagiert, ich habe an Abgeordnete oder die Zeitung geschrieben, ich habe eine Veranstaltung angestoßen usw."
Die Antidemokraten haben nicht so eine Zurückhaltung und überfluten die Leserbriefredaktionen und Politikerbüros.
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Most men want a return to traditional gender roles, but women aren’t so sure
A new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll shows how men and women of every generation, including Gen Z, are divided over questions about who takes on which roles in the family.Mariel Padilla (19th News)
Stationsweg
#Groningen #Monochrome #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #photography
L’accordo Acea – Mekorot
@anarchia
Analizziamo i rapporti tra Acea e Mekorot, la compagnia idrica israeliana che è complice del colonialismo contro la popolazione palestinese e che continua a collaborare con l’azienda Acea dal 2013. La pressione dal basso per costringere il consiglio comunale di...
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L’accordo Acea – Mekorot
Analizziamo i rapporti tra Acea e Mekorot, la compagnia idrica israeliana che è complice del colonialismo contro la popolazione palestinese e che continua a collaborare con l'azienda Acea dal 2013.Radio Ondarossa (Rivoluzione Anarchica)
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How the Commonwealth Organization Colluded with Pakistan to Suppress Evidence of a Rigged Election
Commonwealth was dedicated to improving democratic practices. Now it was being wielded to protect a government that had clearly come to power by stealing an election.Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)
Fancy running Linux on your #pc98 computer? Feel like GCC-2.95 and KDE1 are a bit dated?
I've put together a little guide on getting newer compiler and software on it; upgrading Plamo 3 to Plamo 4 gives your GCC-3.3 and KDE3. Plus I've compiled busybox for it - so you could have modern-ish vi, lsof, and so on.
git.sr.ht/~nkali/plamo98-goodi…
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Thousands in Cape Town march to demand South Africa cut ties with Israel over Gaza
aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20…
#southafrica #protest #gaza #genocide #freepalestine #boycott #israel
LIVE: Israel kills dozens of Palestinians as Gaza war draws global outcry
Family home hit in war-battered Gaza City with children among the dead and wounded.Usaid Siddiqui (Al Jazeera)
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Bene bene bene
A Firenze Toulouse Lautrec e la Belle Epoque
Dedicata ad un'artista unico, scomparso troppo presto all'età di 36 anniredazione (Globalist.it)
Migliaia di israeliani in piazza a Tel Aviv per la pace a Gaza - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2025/09/27/migliaia-di-israeliani-in-piazza-a-tel-aviv-per-la-pace-a-gaza_ada987fa-a610-499b-9f4b-1ffb6dbd89ed.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su ANSA Ultima ora @ansa-ultima-ora-AgenziaAnsa
Migliaia di israeliani in piazza a Tel Aviv per la pace a Gaza - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
Migliaia di israeliani si sono radunati stasera a Tel Aviv come ogni sabato, chiedendo un accordo per porre fine alla guerra di Gaza. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Blender used to put high quality versions of their open movies here:
download.blender.org/demo/movi…
But I can't find anything recent there. I can't find Spring or Sprite Fright, for instance.
I just want a little library of high quality 4k stuff to add to my jellyfin and peertube to demo on nice monitors and projectors, but all their links go to Youtube. Even their official peertube doesn't have high quality anything outside of big buck bunny 🤔
video.blender.org/w/dmhvQNzwBn…
Where did they put the other films (for download)? I am happy to torrent them, but I'm also happy to just download a zip somewhere. I just want them ideally in 4k, but I'll settle for 1080p if they REALLY don't exist in 4k for the public.
#bigbuckbunny #blender #blenderstudio #blenderopenfilms
Big Buck Bunny 60fps 4K - Official Blender Foundation Short Film
Enjoy this UHD High Frame rate version of one of the iconic short films produced by Blender Institute!
Learn more about the project here bbb3d.renderfarming.net. Support more Open Content at cloud.blender.org.NOTE: currently, YouTube allows 60fps only on 1080p videos. We uploaded the video in UHD, so maybe in the future it will be available in UHD 60p. You can download the original version at bbb3d.renderfarming.net.
So they had an additional channel on peertube where they upload more open films!
peertube.tv/w/p/9AkqKddNEUgeu7…
And the rest I found on archive.org :3
I am unstoppable! I found every single film except one called Heros, but honestly it really really warms my heart to see such dedication to open source. Every single one of these is completely open source. You can download the assets and re-render it yourself if you want. The world is your oyster. They used to laugh at people using blender and say that it would never be a professional tool and now it is one of the tools to use for 3D work, and it's free! I love FOSS so much 
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ICE recruitment commercials on during sports look like a particularly hamfisted satire in a Paul Verhoeven film
But yeah the diaper is probably a bit to much for general audiences 😞
韓国国立データセンターで火災、行政システム一部まひ 電池爆発か | ロイター - YAYAFA
［ソウル ２７日 ロイター］ - 韓国中部・大田広域市にある国立データセンターで２６日夜に発生した大規模火災により、行政デジタルシステムや内部ネットワークが一部まひ状態に陥り、復旧作業が進められている。YAYAFA
Jetzt habe ich endlich den Artikel von Leena Simon bei @digitalcourage gelesen. Hat sich gelohnt, so grundsätzlich. Darf gern jeder mit einem eigenen #Blog gelesen werden.
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Die Reichweitenlüge | Digitalcourage
Millionen Follower, null Wirkung: „Social Media“ verkauft uns ein volles Stadion – und schaltet dann das Mikro stummDigitalcourage
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We went to buy our #Halloween pumpkins (early) at a local church we support. They buy exclusively from a Navajo tribe in NV, and the local church does a lot of nice things for young mothers.
They had their usual assortment of cool #pumpkins in addition to what they call "alien gourds, " which were even cooler than last year.
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Kiwi online
blipfoto.com/entry/34187182286…
#blip of a #kiwi vine growing over a high stone wall and cascading onto a telephone and power lines anchored to the side of the wall.
#blipfoto #gimp #rawtherapee #Photography #saintmalo #urban #internet
Wednesday 24 September 2025
Today SFR sent a person around to install fibre, so we won't be cut off when old-fashioned POTS and ADSL is discontinued in a couple of years...Blipfoto
Migliaia di israeliani in piazza a Tel Aviv per la pace a Gaza - Medio Oriente - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/mediooriente/2025/09/27/migliaia-di-israeliani-in-piazza-a-tel-aviv-per-la-pace-a-gaza_ebaf7adc-7236-44e5-b6db-2a308c2858c4.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su ESTERI @esteri-AgenziaAnsa
Migliaia di israeliani in piazza a Tel Aviv per la pace a Gaza - Medio Oriente - Ansa.it
Migliaia di israeliani si sono radunati stasera a Tel Aviv come ogni sabato, chiedendo un accordo per porre fine alla guerra di Gaza. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
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