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
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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
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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.
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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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Nove pessoas são internadas por drinks 'batizados' com metanol em bares de São Paulo - Gazeta
A Secretaria Nacional de Políticas sobre Drogas e Gestão de Ativos (Senad/MJSP) emitiu um alerta nesta sexta-feira (26) após nove pessoas serem internadas emGazeta Brasil
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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Legal Internship Opportunities
Applications are now open for the Spring 2026 Intern Class, with a deadline of November 1. See below for instructions and a link to the application.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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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.
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I am a woman from Gaza, I lost my home and my dreams under the rubble of war… and today I live without shelter, moving between displacement and fear every day.
I turn to you with compassionate hearts, for your support may not only help me rebuild my home, but also restore my hope in life.
🙏🏻 Any donation – small or large – makes a difference and could give me a new beginning in the midst of this harsh ordeal.
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Tettigonia viridissima (Linnaeus, 1758)
Published under #CC0 here flic.kr/p/2rvPtw8
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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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Scontri corteo pro Palestina Torino Caselle - LiberoReporter
Scontri corteo pro Palestina Torino Caselle: due agenti feriti durante il tentativo dei manifestanti di raggiungere l’aeroporto, tensione in centro cittàBre-news (LiberoReporter)
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.
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#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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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)
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