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Happy Leap Day!
Celebrating with Philippe Halsmann's Jump series: The Women
“In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One has only to snap it with the camera,”
1) Eartha Kitt
2) Jayne Mansfield, 1953
3) Audrey Hepburn, 1955
4) Grace Kelly, 1955#leapday #leapyear #leap #philippehalsman #jump #jumpology #earthakitt #jaynemansfield #audreyhepburn #gracekelly #happyleapday #photography #photgrapher #actresses #1950s #thefifties #fiftiesstyle #portraitphotography #portraits
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Happy Leap Day!
Celebrating with Philippe Halsmann's Jump series: The Women
“In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One has only to snap it with the camera,”
1) Eartha Kitt
2) Jayne Mansfield, 1953
3) Audrey Hepburn, 1955
4) Grace Kelly, 1955#leapday #leapyear #leap #philippehalsman #jump #jumpology #earthakitt #jaynemansfield #audreyhepburn #gracekelly #happyleapday #photography #photgrapher #actresses #1950s #thefifties #fiftiesstyle #portraitphotography #portraits
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Happy Leap Day!
Celebrating with Philippe Halsmann's Jump series: The Women
“In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One has only to snap it with the camera,”
1) Eartha Kitt
2) Jayne Mansfield, 1953
3) Audrey Hepburn, 1955
4) Grace Kelly, 1955#leapday #leapyear #leap #philippehalsman #jump #jumpology #earthakitt #jaynemansfield #audreyhepburn #gracekelly #happyleapday #photography #photgrapher #actresses #1950s #thefifties #fiftiesstyle #portraitphotography #portraits
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Happy Leap Day!
Celebrating with Philippe Halsmann's Jump series: The Women
“In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One has only to snap it with the camera,”
1) Eartha Kitt
2) Jayne Mansfield, 1953
3) Audrey Hepburn, 1955
4) Grace Kelly, 1955#leapday #leapyear #leap #philippehalsman #jump #jumpology #earthakitt #jaynemansfield #audreyhepburn #gracekelly #happyleapday #photography #photgrapher #actresses #1950s #thefifties #fiftiesstyle #portraitphotography #portraits
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Happy Leap Day!
Celebrating with Philippe Halsmann's Jump series: The Women
“In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One has only to snap it with the camera,”
1) Shirley MacLaine
2) Joanne Woodward
3) Marilyn Monroe, 1959#leapday #leapyear #leap #philippehalsman #jump #jumpology #shirleymaclaine #joannewoodward #marilynmonroe #happyleapday #photography #photgrapher #actresses #1950s #thefifties #fiftiesstyle
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Happy Leap Day!
Celebrating with Philippe Halsmann's Jump series: The Women
“In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One has only to snap it with the camera,”
1) Shirley MacLaine
2) Joanne Woodward
3) Marilyn Monroe, 1959#leapday #leapyear #leap #philippehalsman #jump #jumpology #shirleymaclaine #joannewoodward #marilynmonroe #happyleapday #photography #photgrapher #actresses #1950s #thefifties #fiftiesstyle
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Happy Leap Day!
Celebrating with Philippe Halsmann's Jump series: The Women
“In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One has only to snap it with the camera,”
1) Shirley MacLaine
2) Joanne Woodward
3) Marilyn Monroe, 1959#leapday #leapyear #leap #philippehalsman #jump #jumpology #shirleymaclaine #joannewoodward #marilynmonroe #happyleapday #photography #photgrapher #actresses #1950s #thefifties #fiftiesstyle
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Happy Leap Day!
Celebrating with Philippe Halsmann's Jump series: The Women
“In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One has only to snap it with the camera,”
1) Shirley MacLaine
2) Joanne Woodward
3) Marilyn Monroe, 1959#leapday #leapyear #leap #philippehalsman #jump #jumpology #shirleymaclaine #joannewoodward #marilynmonroe #happyleapday #photography #photgrapher #actresses #1950s #thefifties #fiftiesstyle
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Happy Leap Day!
Celebrating with Philippe Halsmann's Jump series: The Women
“In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One has only to snap it with the camera,”
1) Shirley MacLaine
2) Joanne Woodward
3) Marilyn Monroe, 1959#leapday #leapyear #leap #philippehalsman #jump #jumpology #shirleymaclaine #joannewoodward #marilynmonroe #happyleapday #photography #photgrapher #actresses #1950s #thefifties #fiftiesstyle
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[12:10] Rory Gallagher threatens legal action if GAA President Jarlath Burns doesn’t withdraw email raising concerns over Naas appointment
Rory Gallagher has called on GAA president Jarlath Burns to withdraw his action last weekend in contacting Naas GAA to urge caution against Gallagher's appointment as a coach to the club's senior football team.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rory-gallagher-threatens-legal-action-if-gaa-president-jarlath-burns-doesnt-withdraw-email-raising-concerns-over-naas-appointment/a1692445749.html
#RoryGallagher #GAA #JarlathBurns #lastweekend #NaasGAA #Gallagher -
Exclusive Santa Column: SANTA WOKEN FROM HIBERNATION ERROR! 🚨🚨🚨
Following a horrific error at the Santa Claus factory, Father Christmas has been woken EARLY ahead of Christmas 2026. For it is definitely not December 2026! It’s April. Santa is not best pleased with this development…
WHAT THE BLOODY HELL!?
THE ALARMS STARTED WAILING AT 4AM. WAILING. THEY WERE VERY BLOODY LOUD. SANTA WAS ROUSED FROM A MOST DELIGHTFUL HIBERNATION SLUMBER, DROOLING OVER MYSELF, AND MY BELLOWING OF RAGE BEGAN:
“MARKUSS!!!! [Editor: Markus is Santa Claus’ Head Elf] WHAT THE BLOODY HELLLL!?!?!”
The wailing wailed, Santa bellowed, and to top it off Santa had the most bastard SOB hangover imaginable.
It Is Not Christmas
With the entire factory, elf staff, rats, and Kenneth the Gaffer Walrus woken up, Santa gathered my managers into the office quarters. I slugged from a bottle of tequila and spooned Marmite from a jar into my Santa face.
“Markus…” I wheezed, “It is not Christmas…”
“No, sir…” Markus squeaked.
“WHY IS IT NOT CHRISTMAS, MARKUS!?!?” I roared.
“Erm… er… because it is May, sir?”
“THAT IS CORRECT, YOU LITTLE BASTARD!!!! WHY IS IT MAY?!?”
Markus stood there looking baffled, his stupid elf hair all tussled, and he was not wearing his mandatory elf hat!
“ANSWER ME MARKUS! And get your ELF HAT on, you’re violating the Santa Factory dress code, you insubordinate swine!”
Markus ran off to get his elf hat and returned wheezing heavily.
“ANSWER ME!”
“Sir… *wheeze, wheeze*…”
Well, Santa bellowed for some time after that and went very red in the face. By 10am I was too drunk to do anything about it, so slept it off till 3pm and drank a pink of energy drinks, then a pint of coffee, and then started hitting the Lambrini bottle stash.
That was to deal with the ordeal that had come about because of Santa’s investment into the Sleigh-Dar 5000 AI technology, automated software triggered by technical error as a false-positive Christmas siren.
Santa invested $135 million in that! And it’d gone off in May…
That is not the Return on Investment (ROI) Santa had expected. To deal with the disappointment, I quit the Lambrini and went straight for the gin.
Santa Leaks the 2026 Naughty List
In a drunken frenzy, I went and accidentally leaked the 2026 Naughty List (as of Q2) to a decentralised blockchain, then all across the official Father Christmas social media accounts. The posts were laden with extreme obscenities and typos (I was drunk, it happens).
This triggered off a chain reaction of online and international press mayhem, with the tabloid The Daily Disaster ringing me for an exclusive interview. This I did, apparently, as I read the interview the next day. Santa just can’t remember saying any of that crap, so I may sue them for slander and defamation for the hell of it.
The bigger problem was some of the names on the Naughty List. They included:
- Bread Pitt
- Bread Pitt
- Bread Pitt
- Bread Pitt
- I’d added Bread Pitt multiple times for some reason
- Kylie Minogue
- 1996 Formula 1 World Champion Damon Hill
- The entire cast of Cheers
- Sandra Hüller
- Sandra Bullock
- Anyone else called Sandra
The list triggered international outrage from people called Sandra. I don’t give a damn what their issue is! The list is superb. Genuinely superb. Not a thing wrong with it, apart from the misspelling of Bread Pitt’s name… the spelling issue was probably down to the drunken frenzy.
But, notice, Bread Pitt didn’t complain about it! Nary a whiff of an issue from him as he is A REAL MAN and in CONTROL OF HIS EMOTIONS. Unlike women! Silly things. Oh, and on an unrelated note, Santa destroyed the desk in my office in a foul-tempered rage. I got Markus (my head elf) to order me a new one.
The New Santa Desk (and the cryogenic solution)
Yeah. with all the chaos about the 2026 Naughty List I clocked out once the desk turned up.
The new desk was flown in first class, premium delivery, via helicopter. In customer Santa Factory tradition, the helicopter crashed landed just outside the front gates in a hellish fireball of mayhem. Unlike most occasions, there was a survivor! Lucky SOB!
He staggered in pleading for medical assistance. Unfortunately, Nurse Doreen was awake as well and made him a Pot Noodle and glass of hot cocoa. That really didn’t do much for the survivor’s many open wounds and obvious third-degree burns, so I gave him a shot of brandy, patted him on the back for job well done, and shoved him back out into the snow blizzard wilderness raging outside the factory. He’ll be fine!
With the new desk installed, Santa turned my attention back to what needed resolving. That being… how do we all bloody well get back to sleep!? It isn’t Christmas!
We had a meeting in my office and I DECIDED that cryogenics was the ONLY answer.
“Er… I don’t think that’s wise, sir.” Markus squeaked.
I gave him my haughtiest glare. A glare so goddamn haughty it’d scare the bejeezus out of anyone. Markus shut up and I got Nurse Doreen set on the task of setting up the ice cryogenic units to freeze us deep solid until later in the year. Belching exuberantly, I did also worry if the stupid things were in any way dangerous. What if my big Father Christmas beard got messed up!? I asked Nurse Doreen, framing in a way to look like I wasn’t scared.
“Nurse Doreen, will we all die horribly if we use these cryogenics? I’m shitting myself about this, but don’t tell the others!”
She just gazed into the middle-distance, then at me with this glazed over expression akin to a 1000 yard stare, then back into the middle-distance. She opened her mouth as if to speak, but instead she munched on a powered chunk of Turkish Delight. But then she eyeballed me again.
“Mr. Father Christmas… I do not know. I am not a cryogenics expert.”
“BUT YOU ARE A NURSE, ARE NOT YOU!?” I bellowed.
“Mr. Father Christmas, I am hired as a chef, not a nurse.”
Santa had Markus get her contract of employment and we checked it right there and then in the office while Nurse Doreen waited. DAMN AND BLAST! She was right. I’d been calling her Nurse Doreen all these years! She’s listed as a chef… technically I should be paying her double.
I dropped the matter and we got on with it, prepping the cryogenic units.
Santa must stop here. I’m very drunk. I’m not sure how much longer I’ll be able to make any sense. REST ASSURED! Christmas 2026 will be on target and only if you’re Bread Pitt will you not receive any presents. Bread Pitt and all the Sandras of this world, that is…
#Business #Capitalism #Christmas #Entertainment #FatherChristmas #Fun #Humor #Humour #Lifestyle #Santa #Satire #satirical #Silly -
Santa told to slim down sleigh in festive efficiency crackdown
Jamie Burns, from sustainability firm Ailsa, has swapped boardrooms for the North Pole this Christmas, crunching the numbers on Santa’s epic journey. And the results are enough to make even Rudolph break into a sweat.
Reindeer fuel bill revealed
According to Burns, Santa’s nine trusty reindeer need a staggering 24,000 calories each just to get airborne — six times their normal daily intake. That’s the equivalent of 108kg of grain and 108kg of CO₂ emissions before the sleigh even hits the first rooftop.
Keeping the herd fuelled for the full world tour would mean chomping through 77,400 carrots — racking up nearly 1.1 tonnes of CO₂ in one night.
And don’t even think about plugging in an electric sleigh. Burns says the stop‑start journey to 500 million homes would demand 2,400 GWh of energy — generating 1.14 million tonnes of CO₂e. That’s more than some countries pump out in a week.
Santa needs to consider his reindeer fuel bill according to an energy expertFour ways Santa can save Christmas
Burns has drawn up a cheeky four‑point plan to help Santa cut the fat this festive season:
- Streamline the sleigh weight – lighter packaging, digital gifts and pre‑sorted loads could shave hundreds of kilos off the reindeer’s workload.
- Upgrade aerodynamics – candy‑cane runners and sleigh rails could be slimmed down, with low‑friction coatings to cut drag.
- Plan a smarter route – advanced mapping could stop Santa zig‑zagging across continents and wasting energy.
- AI‑assisted flight optimisation – a digital co‑pilot could tweak speed, altitude and chimney sequences in real time.
How kids can help
And it’s not just Santa who needs to change his ways. Burns says children can play their part too.
“Leave out energy‑dense carrot bundles clearly labelled for the reindeer,” he advised.
#Christmas #energy #energySaving #FatherChristmas #Reindeer #ReindeerFuelBill #Santa“And keep Santa’s mince pie and milk within arm’s reach of the fireplace. Every second saved inside each house adds up when you’re visiting hundreds of millions of homes.”
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A U.S. flag flutters amid the remains of burnt buildings in the Pacific #Palisades neighborhood of west Los Angeles, #California, January 8. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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A U.S. flag flutters amid the remains of burnt buildings in the Pacific #Palisades neighborhood of west Los Angeles, #California, January 8. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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A U.S. flag flutters amid the remains of burnt buildings in the Pacific #Palisades neighborhood of west Los Angeles, #California, January 8. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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A U.S. flag flutters amid the remains of burnt buildings in the Pacific #Palisades neighborhood of west Los Angeles, #California, January 8. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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@williamshawn996.bsky.social 2026 Statue Dedication: A 22-foot gold colossus was unveiled at Trump National Doral Miami in May 2026. #Evangelical pastor Mark #Burns led a prayer and dedication, with President Trump's voice appearing via telephone to thank them. #Idolatry
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VA looks to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs – The Washington Post
Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins speaks during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill on June 26. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)WP Exclusive
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
Updated December 13, 2025, 7 min, By Meryl Kornfield, Hannah Natanson and Lisa Rein.
Government reporters Meryl Kornfield, Hannah Natanson and Lisa Rein can be reached securely on Signal at (301) 821-2013, (202) 580-5477 and (202) 821-3120, respectively.
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff, according to an internal memo, VA staffers and congressional aides.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees this year.
Agency leaders have instructed managers across the Veterans Health Administration, the agency’s health care arm, to identify thousands of openings that can be canceled. Employees warn that the contraction will add pressure to an already stretched system, contributing to longer wait times for care.
The decision comes after Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins, under political pressure from Congress, backed away from a plan to slash 15 percent of the agency’s workforce through mass firings. Instead, VA lost almost 30,000 employees this year from buyout offers and attrition.
🏛️Following Politics
The agency hopes that the cuts will reduce the health care workforce to as little as 372,000 employees, a 10 percent reduction from last year, according to a memo shared with regional leaders last month and obtained by The Washington Post. Details of the cuts came into focus in recent days, according to 17 staffers at VA and congressional aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they didn’t have permission to share plans.
VA spokesman Pete Kasperowicz confirmed the planned cuts for unfilled positions. He said the health care system is eliminating about 26,400 of its open jobs, which he described as “mostly covid-era roles that are no longer necessary.”
“The vast majority of these positions have not been filled for more than a year, underscoring how they are no longer needed,” he wrote in response to questions. “This move will have no effect on VA operations or the way the department delivers care to Veterans, as we are simply eliminating open and unfilled positions that are no longer needed.”
The nation’s largest government-run health care system has struggled to fill vacancies amid a broader national shortage of health care workers and a strained federal workforce. Job applications to the agency have also fallen 57 percent from last year, according to the agency’s workforce report last month.
This reorganization comes in advance of an expected announcement next week that Collins plans to also shrink the network of 18 regional offices that administer the nation’s VA hospitals and medical centers, according to four people familiar with the plan. Staff at those regional offices help determine policies and manage staffing. Collins and others have been critical of the agency’s top-heavy administrative offices, arguing that staffing cuts there will free up more resources for health care.
The Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Michael A. McCoy / For The Washington Post)The health system grew by tens of thousands of employees under the Biden administration as more veterans enrolled in VA health care after passage of the PACT Act, which expanded benefits for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. Then-secretary Denis McDonough urged veterans to be seen by VA doctors rather than request referrals to private practitioners outside the system.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: VA looks to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs – The Washington Post
#10000Jobs #Abruptly #DepartmentOfVeteransAffairs #DouglasACollins #Eliminate #HealthCareJobs #HealthSystem #PACTAct #ShrinkRegionalOffices #TheWashingtonPost #Trump #TrumpsCuts #VA #VeteransAffairs #VeteransAffairsSecretary #WashintonDC -
VA looks to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs – The Washington Post
Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins speaks during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill on June 26. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)WP Exclusive
VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
Updated December 13, 2025, 7 min, By Meryl Kornfield, Hannah Natanson and Lisa Rein.
Government reporters Meryl Kornfield, Hannah Natanson and Lisa Rein can be reached securely on Signal at (301) 821-2013, (202) 580-5477 and (202) 821-3120, respectively.
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff, according to an internal memo, VA staffers and congressional aides.
The cuts come after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees this year.
Agency leaders have instructed managers across the Veterans Health Administration, the agency’s health care arm, to identify thousands of openings that can be canceled. Employees warn that the contraction will add pressure to an already stretched system, contributing to longer wait times for care.
The decision comes after Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins, under political pressure from Congress, backed away from a plan to slash 15 percent of the agency’s workforce through mass firings. Instead, VA lost almost 30,000 employees this year from buyout offers and attrition.
🏛️Following Politics
The agency hopes that the cuts will reduce the health care workforce to as little as 372,000 employees, a 10 percent reduction from last year, according to a memo shared with regional leaders last month and obtained by The Washington Post. Details of the cuts came into focus in recent days, according to 17 staffers at VA and congressional aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they didn’t have permission to share plans.
VA spokesman Pete Kasperowicz confirmed the planned cuts for unfilled positions. He said the health care system is eliminating about 26,400 of its open jobs, which he described as “mostly covid-era roles that are no longer necessary.”
“The vast majority of these positions have not been filled for more than a year, underscoring how they are no longer needed,” he wrote in response to questions. “This move will have no effect on VA operations or the way the department delivers care to Veterans, as we are simply eliminating open and unfilled positions that are no longer needed.”
The nation’s largest government-run health care system has struggled to fill vacancies amid a broader national shortage of health care workers and a strained federal workforce. Job applications to the agency have also fallen 57 percent from last year, according to the agency’s workforce report last month.
This reorganization comes in advance of an expected announcement next week that Collins plans to also shrink the network of 18 regional offices that administer the nation’s VA hospitals and medical centers, according to four people familiar with the plan. Staff at those regional offices help determine policies and manage staffing. Collins and others have been critical of the agency’s top-heavy administrative offices, arguing that staffing cuts there will free up more resources for health care.
The Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Michael A. McCoy / For The Washington Post)The health system grew by tens of thousands of employees under the Biden administration as more veterans enrolled in VA health care after passage of the PACT Act, which expanded benefits for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. Then-secretary Denis McDonough urged veterans to be seen by VA doctors rather than request referrals to private practitioners outside the system.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: VA looks to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs – The Washington Post
#10000Jobs #Abruptly #DepartmentOfVeteransAffairs #DouglasACollins #Eliminate #HealthCareJobs #HealthSystem #PACTAct #ShrinkRegionalOffices #TheWashingtonPost #Trump #TrumpsCuts #VA #VeteransAffairs #VeteransAffairsSecretary #WashintonDC -
ICE Uses Graphite Spyware
ICE has admitted that it uses spyware from the Israeli company Graphite.... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/ice-uses-graphite-spyware.html
#homelandsecurity #Uncategorized #surveillance #privacy #spyware #Israel
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ICE Uses Graphite Spyware
ICE has admitted that it uses spyware from the Israeli company Graphite.... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/ice-uses-graphite-spyware.html
#homelandsecurity #Uncategorized #surveillance #privacy #spyware #Israel
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Banks burn, vehicles ablaze, flights grounded: Why El Mencho killing plunged Mexico into turmoil https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/cartel-revenge-el-mencho-killed-mexico-violence-a8len2h2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ElMencho #CJNG #MexicoNews #CartelViolence #Jalisco
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Today I finished the first cardigan I've ever made - also my first cable knit! That was 3 months of work and I burnt through several audiobooks :)
Here's the link for the pattern, btw: https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=11225&cid=9
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“Jerusalem Day was celebrated yesterday with a violent and degrading parade, with the singing of ‘may your village burn’ and mocking songs about the children who are dying in Gaza.”
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid
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Was very pleased with this, got it for $9(I like the crust burnt) https://www.diningandcooking.com/2641691/was-very-pleased-with-this-got-it-for-9i-like-the-crust-burnt/ #Steak #SteakPorn
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This is burnt, not seared, right? https://www.diningandcooking.com/2638777/this-is-burnt-not-seared-right/ #Steak #SteakPorn
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.04.05 —How can the physical form of the writing become part of the storytelling?
Storytelling is at its heart and in its origin an oral tradition. As such, it both had no physical form and a dramatic one, filled with music, gesture, props, and puppets. Insisting on words written in physical form does not divorce the aural aspects. People sound out words in their minds. Words evoke burnt and golden colors of autumn, the rustle and peeps of nature, the smell of flowers, the taste of bacon, and the caress of a fond friend. But where in our modern experience of the craft does the physical form of writing become part of the storytelling?
You know this.
Children's books. Illustrated with images. Letters writ large, loud with color, maybe turned into technicolor snakes. Words literally popping from the page, chased by the characters they evoke.
In a typical novel?
Check out how a novel's cover art and the titling interact…
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#BoostingIsSharing
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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CW: WordWeavers 2026.03.28 —When was the last time your MC got excited? Why? CW: Passing reference to sex in a passage about food.
This passage is near the end of the chapter I am currently writing. Bolt narrates. She's a flighty day angel. You tell me, is she excited?
Gloss: Tarantino teaches us that nothing equalizes people or is as relatable as sharing a meal… Teri is the name the devil-girl is using at this point in the story. It is short for Night Terror. She can perform what to us looks like magic. The passage is a barely revised first draft.
My worries fluttered away like a moth to a street lamp when the server delivered a golden custard dessert, a mound on a plate sealed under a burnt-brown crazed caramel-glass shell, in a moat of purple-brown, fragrant with cooked sugar and orange-berry liqueur.
"What's this?" I asked.
Her spoon floated over and tapped. Shards of glass sugar popped into a rubble skirt revealing the yellow hill, flecked with red, green, and brown herbs, which when I sniffed caressed my nose with hints of anise, mint, cinnamon, and… that tingle? Cayenne?
Teri replied, "We danced, so now you've had dinner and here's dessert."
"Sweet," I said, before thrusting my spoon in. Reflexively.
Dancing, dinner, and dessert? Men propositioned by a woman who was too lazy to have a plan suggested that.
Teri is not a guy, I reminded myself, then, a spoonful of—
Oh. My. Stars! Creamy, spicy, sugary bliss. I hugged myself, wings and arms, brushing the napkin off my lap and nearly dropping the spoon. Sweet was something I rarely had, but need it, want it, must have it instantly commandeered my brain, annihilating all resistance, maybe more so than my excuses to allow myself to be ridden by Teri had. I scooped glistening perfection. I sighed enjoying each spoonful. I won't admit to an occasional moan. I barely paused to wipe my chin.
"You happy now?" Teri asked as I crunched on the faintly carob flavored sugar shards.
"Ecstatic!"
Not exactly When Harry Meet Sally…
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#WordWeavers #excerpt
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory -
Game 92: Bubble Jeopardy (1998), by Dodgy Posse.
Pang! The bubbles burst into smaller ones when shot. Be quick with the purple and orange balls as they'll multiply when left alone, with the orange ones even setting the floor on fire when popped. But do not shoot the blues!
Complex, right? Luckily the first level introduces you to these special types right away, and to the fact that your hit box is much larger than your character.
Better play Buster Bros aka Pang!
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#paedophilia, the sickness of the rich
They should burn