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#THOUGHTS? #Father #Warns His Son To Stay Away From #Transgender Person!
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Thought I'd try a redneck look at the gym today. How y'alls doin'?
#CutOffTShirt #BaseballCap #DaddyStache #GayBear #RedNeck #GymSelfie #MuscleBear #ChunkyGuys #GaysWithBeards
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...though I sure am happy that NYC has a #straphanger mayor, not one that rolls around in a white Bronco.
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Basement Announce New Record; Share “WIRED” And “Broken By Design”
Photo by Adam PowellOn May 8th, British alternative rock mainstays Basement will return with WIRED marking their first new album in eight years as well as a reunion with their original label Run For Cover Records. Across the LP’s 12 tracks fans will hear a return to the unbridled passion and creative intuition that’s always animated their best material.
Today the band — vocalist Andrew Fisher, guitarists Alex Henery and Ronan Crix, bassist Duncan Stewart, and drummer James Fisher — tease Wired with the release of lead singles “WIRED” and “Broken By Design” which together showcase the album’s dynamic breadth. The title-track is the most urgent they’ve ever sounded, a surefire live staple propelled by needling guitars, a slugging drumbeat, and a skyscraping hook that finds Fisher’s voice in peak form. “Broken By Design” has the opposite temperament: dusky, delicate, bass-led, but still quintessentially Basement in its immediate catchiness and moody character.
Speaking of the singles the band’s Andrew Fisher says, “‘WIRED’ is about how sometimes it feels that we are set up to feel and behave in certain ways beyond our control. That no matter how hard you try to hide it, eventually it will come out – either by choice or by force. This song was almost lost – a few of us were into it, but it sort of lost traction for a bit. Then one day it cropped back up and we put it at the forefront of our minds and it ended up being one of my favourite songs to perform and record.”
He continues, “‘Broken By Design’ is about giving something your absolute best and realising it’s destined to fail. Getting to the other side of the situation, looking back and deciding to do everything differently and feeling grateful for the opportunity to grow. We’ve all done a lot of work on getting better at talking to each other as friends and as band mates. Sometimes that’s an easy distinction – or rather, not a distinction at all. Other times, the lines are blurred and we lose track of who we are and why we do this. When I’m singing, ‘let’s go back to the start’ I mean to when we did this purely for fun. For an excuse to see each other, to travel, to be creative, to express ourselves through music. We all feel so lucky to be in a position to still get to do this and this album and this song in particular, is us trying to go back to how it should be.”
Listen to “WIRED” and “Broken By Design” and watch the videos below, with the former directed by Ashley Rommelrath and the latter by Tas Wilson.
https://youtu.be/Sr-TsPc20N8?si=8BXzXTo1lEq0gxOo
https://youtu.be/p83I-tkLcSo?si=MiMCLCVJMfa_0sCO
This summer Basement will embark on a European tour followed by an appearance at London’s All Points East Festival in August. All shows are listed below with North American dates to be announced soon.
Basement were adamant that Wired had to be their most decisive artistic statement yet. A bold musical swing that people will either love or hate, but that absolutely can’t elicit a muted reaction from their fans. The group spent years writing and refining the 12 no-bloat songs, working closer and communicating better than ever while building out the tracklist as a group in various studios long before they began recording. Therefore, the songs were fully formed by the time they hit the studio with powerhouse producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Mannequin Pussy), who helped the band manifest the heightened version of Basement that they’d always dreamt of. Imperfections were celebrated, each member’s ideas were incorporated, and Congleton ensured that every moment on Wired sounds both precise and enervated.
“I never thought Basement could sound like this,” says guitarist Alex Henery. “But in my head, it’s what I’ve always wanted Basement to sound like.”
Every time Basement take a break, their band gets bigger. The quintet’s 2011 debut, I Wish You Could Stay Here, gave them a foothold in the post-hardcore groundswell of the early 2010s, but Basement had already decided to call it quits before their far more evolved follow-up, Colourmeinkindness, had even hit the shelves. Upon disbanding in late 2012 so vocalist Fisher could get his teaching degree, Basement’s underground following ballooned in their absence, and when they eventually reformed in 2014, they were welcomed back as mainstays of the scene.
Basement charged forward with two more LPs, 2016’s snappier Promise Everything and 2018’s sleeker Beside Myself, but after the latter record, which was released on a major label, Basement knew they needed to take a year off to recalibrate. “We were all left with a really weird, sour taste in our mouth after signing to a major label and having all these people control things,” Fisher admits. During their COVID-era hiatus, each member questioned whether the band should even continue as they spent time pursuing their own creative outlets. It was a period of serious existential reflection for the guys in Basement, and at one point, Henery considered stepping away from the band altogether before Fisher intervened, knowing that everyone in Basement needed the band to persevere. ”Alex saying that he was ready to cut the cord was what I needed to be like ‘Nope, we cannot do that,’” Fisher says.
After some deep conversations that reaffirmed their creative alliance, Henery and Fisher reconvened to begin writing again with no label pressures and no strings attached. Instantly, the seeds of Wired began to take shape, and soon enough, the whole band knew they had something special in the works. Coincidentally, not long after Basement began properly sculpting LP5, the Colourmeinkindness song “Covet” caught wind on TikTok and swiftly became a viral hit, earning a Gold certification in 2024 — 12 years after its release — and introducing Basement’s music to a whole new generation of internet-savvy fans.
Once again, Basement find themselves re-emerging with new music bigger and more beloved than ever before.
Basement tour dates
#BASEMENT #GRUNGE #MUSIC #NEWS #POSTHARDCORE #RUNFORCOVERRECORDS
6/5 – Rock Am Ring – Nürburg, RP, Germany (Sold Out, Join Waitlist)
6/6 – Rock im Park – Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
6/8 – Loppen – Copenhagen, DK (with Glare)
6/9 – Kollektivet Livet – Stockholm, Sweden (with Glare)
6/14 – TAMA – Poznań, Poland (with Glare)
6/15 – Schlachthof – Wiesbaden, HE, Germany (with Glare)
6/17 – zakk – Düsseldorf, Germany (with Glare)
6/19 – Hurricane Festival – Scheeßel, NDS, Germany
6/20 – Southside Festival – Neuhausen ob Eck, BW, Germany
6/21 – Farewell Youth Fest 2 – Dresden, Germany
6/23 – Magazzini Generali – Milan, Lombardy, Italy (with Fiddlehead)
6/24 – Dynamo Zürich (Dynamo) – Zürich, ZH, Switzerland (with Fiddlehead)
6/25 – Jera on Air – Ysselsteyn, Limburg, Netherlands
6/26 – Mia Mao – Paris, France (with Fiddlehead)
6/28 – Bowlers Exhibition Centre – Manchester, UK (Outbreak Festival headline)
8/23 – Victoria Park – London, UK (All Points East)
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Beginning to regret the disappearance of the salutation "Dear..." in communications.
Maybe if we used it more often, we'd realise people hold others dear more too?
And the world might be better for that.
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Not me (and surprisingly, not morbid):
https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/1pgdz24/ama_im_a_mortician_since_the_age_of_16/
AMA: I’m a mortician since the age of 16
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Thoughtful With Daisy
#digitalart #noai #woman #daisy #portrait #thoughtful #musing
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Thought of doing a video on some first principles when it comes to architecting and developing cloud applications securely.
Most projects don't fail to follow these principles at first, but more frequently, they fail to keep adhering to them as they go through the project lifecycle.
I've tried to keep the details cloud agnostic as much as possible.
#cloud #cloudarchitecture #aws #awscommunity #cloudsecurity #security
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Thoughts on my visit to the V&A in Dundee 🧵
#dundee #vanda #design #museum #architecture #scotland
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Thought I'd try some of these. If you're not familiar, they're a Li-Ion battery dressed up as AA with an internal PCB that regulates charging and bucks them to 1.5V. Good for devices that aren't happy with the 1.2V of a NiMH AA rechargeable.
The capacity is bullshit, as usual when you buy from China, real one is maybe half that, but that would've been ok.
Not okay: Overheating to the point where the battery compartment is deformed and the device fried*. At least they didn't catch fire. 👎
Can't recommend at all.
* Probably. Can't test it with other batteries because they no longer fit in the deformed housing.
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Thought I'd try some of these. If you're not familiar, they're a Li-Ion battery dressed up as AA with an internal PCB that regulates charging and bucks them to 1.5V. Good for devices that aren't happy with the 1.2V of a NiMH AA rechargeable.
The capacity is bullshit, as usual when you buy from China, real one is maybe half that, but that would've been ok.
Not okay: Overheating to the point where the battery compartment is deformed and the device fried*. At least they didn't catch fire. 👎
Can't recommend at all.
* Probably. Can't test it with other batteries because they no longer fit in the deformed housing.
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Thought I'd try some of these. If you're not familiar, they're a Li-Ion battery dressed up as AA with an internal PCB that regulates charging and bucks them to 1.5V. Good for devices that aren't happy with the 1.2V of a NiMH AA rechargeable.
The capacity is bullshit, as usual when you buy from China, real one is maybe half that, but that would've been ok.
Not okay: Overheating to the point where the battery compartment is deformed and the device fried*. At least they didn't catch fire. 👎
Can't recommend at all.
* Probably. Can't test it with other batteries because they no longer fit in the deformed housing.
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Thought I'd try some of these. If you're not familiar, they're a Li-Ion battery dressed up as AA with an internal PCB that regulates charging and bucks them to 1.5V. Good for devices that aren't happy with the 1.2V of a NiMH AA rechargeable.
The capacity is bullshit, as usual when you buy from China, real one is maybe half that, but that would've been ok.
Not okay: Overheating to the point where the battery compartment is deformed and the device fried*. At least they didn't catch fire. 👎
Can't recommend at all.
* Probably. Can't test it with other batteries because they no longer fit in the deformed housing.
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Thought I'd try some of these. If you're not familiar, they're a Li-Ion battery dressed up as AA with an internal PCB that regulates charging and bucks them to 1.5V. Good for devices that aren't happy with the 1.2V of a NiMH AA rechargeable.
The capacity is bullshit, as usual when you buy from China, real one is maybe half that, but that would've been ok.
Not okay: Overheating to the point where the battery compartment is deformed and the device fried*. At least they didn't catch fire. 👎
Can't recommend at all.
* Probably. Can't test it with other batteries because they no longer fit in the deformed housing.
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At this year’s #CollisionConf, Rebecca Parsons, Thoughtworks’ CTO Emerita, along with Lambert Hogenhout, Chief of Data, Analytics, and Emerging Technologies at the United Nations, discussed why #ResponsibleTech is not only the right thing to do but also makes good business sense.
Watch the discussion here: https://ter.li/3cj50o
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Though I was aware of how algorithms work, I bought into the belief that there was no way the Harris campaign could fail. There was too much on the line and at stake, and how could so many experts in my feed be wrong?
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Thought I'd spruce up the house a little. #HarrisWalz2024 #Obviously
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📢 Revolutionizing patient #DataManagement in healthcare 📢
#Healthcare urgently needs streamlined and interoperable #DataSystems. Thoughtworks’ digital personal health record model envisions giving patients more control over their data, fostering early diagnosis and creating seamless care. This patient-centric approach transforms #Data handling, making healthcare more proactive and efficient.
Read our latest article by Thoughtworks' Programme Director, Martin Warden: https://ter.li/qu6p4j
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The company I work at has a Chaplin service that comes through weekly. One of the Chaplin brings cards with little encouragements written on it.
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Thought I would share this piece from my new inspirational/female empowerment series, Happy Tuesday!
Available Here..https://tina-lecour.pixels.com/featured/she-finally-released-her-fears-tina-lecour.html#female #empowerment #inspiration #inspirational #quotes #quote #portrait #mastoart #fediart #fedigfitshop #woman #women #arte #art #artist #homedecor #interiordecor #wallart #wallartforsale #artprints #artforsale #giftideas #gifts #greetingcards #artbooster #creativetoots #buyintoart #ayearforart #mixedmedia
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Thought I'd try for a little artistic lens flare for Day 142 of #PhoneSolarChallenge seems to have worked out! Cool but clear today, so looking forward to a pleasant #CycleCommute
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Thought it would be fun to sketch a majority of my characters on one page together.
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Though it can be argued I'm never satisfied and always experimenting with brushes I make; I wasn't happy with the direction and setup of my Krita brushes. So I spent the day starting new brushes from scratch...
I need a break, but happier with where these are now and they align more with my personal preferences and traditional art approach better.
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Thoughts On The MacBook Neo
The MacBook Neo is a nice piece of kit. If you’re in the market the price is right, the build is very good, and in my first impressions the laptop is a delight. Any of the complaints and concerns you’ve probably read or heard from those who own more kitted out Macs can be easily dismissed. At the moment. I’d venture to say that for the vast majority of everyday computer users the MacBook Neo will be a nice fit.
One of the folks I support reached out and said they wanted to obtain one, so I picked one up and did the drudge work of installing the OS update and some of the initial setup last week. We later spent some time together getting it set up the way they like. Moving from an M1 MacBook Air bought in 2022, they opted for a Citrus colored 512GB model with TouchID. The good news is there’s no real learning curve for this client when it comes to features and using the device. There is no bad news.
When I say “in the market,” my client is what I consider one of the perfect customers for the MacBook Neo. A retired senior that began using a computer later in life, later jumping on the iPhone train with the iPhone 5.
They do most of their computing on an iPhone and use a laptop for email, messaging, shopping, FaceTime, and some occasional writing. Occasionally they use Photos on a MacBook Air to manage photos, but still do most of that on an iPhone.
Of the fancy new features Apple has released over the last few years the only one they really rely on is seeing notifications from their iPhone on their laptop screen when they are using the laptop. There’s a currently a problem with that, which I’ll address later.
Given their computing needs and desires, they could probably get by without a laptop, but due to decreased finger flexibility, they feel more comfortable using a laptop for apps like Messages and Apple Mail when they are home. The only thing they connect to a port is power.
Hardware
As to the device itself, it feels great and a bit whimsical. As a MacBook Air user (13-inch, M4) I have to say that I’d love to see the guts of the Air in this form factor. They weigh the same, and the Neo is slightly smaller, but it feels tinier and more totable. You give up a bit of screen real estate with the slightly smaller display, but there is no notch. Apple may have cut features now considered defaults on the MacBook Air, but it didn’t skimp on the look and feel quality. In my opinion that and the price point are what sells the device.
We’ve long since reached a point where computing devices, whether in traditional form, or smartphones and tablets, all come with so many features that even power users don’t need or use some of what’s possible. Innovation has always curved towards adding more possibilities, as it should. In my opinion, it’s a good thing to flatten the curve a bit, offering products that don’t need all the bells and whistles.
Color
Apple is taking larger steps towards bolder color choices these days, and the Citrus color scheme for the Neo certainly is another big stride into that orchard. I personally wasn’t that attracted to it when it was unveiled, but after having the Neo around for a bit, I have to say that it not only adds to the novelty, but makes the tool feel a bit more fun. At night under a desk lamp the damn thing gives off an almost otherworldly glow.
One of Apple’s trends of the last few years is to match up UI color schemes and themes with the color chosen for the hardware. Highlights, buttons, and some text reflect and complement the color of the shell. The tinted keyboard of the Neo takes that a further step forward on the fun factor scale. That said, the citrus Neo’s color scheme, bold as it is, often leaves some text harder to read, certainly for older eyes.
We settled on choosing the dark version of the Citrus wallpaper for my client to solve this.
The A18 Pro Chip
Apple raised eyebrows announcing and releasing this new laptop powered by an iPhone chip. An older and binned A18 Pro chip. In my limited time with the Neo I haven’t noticed anything but good performance.
I’ve heard and read others state that the setup process was slower than they have experienced on M-series Apple laptops. That wasn’t my experience. Things moved along readily enough If you count the number of times you have to accept and click on permission popups as something that’s desirable in an out-of-the-box experience. But that’s unfortunately true of any of Apple’s computers.
Again, I’m experiencing this only through setting up and doing a few tutorials for my client, but the performance I’m seeing feels more than adequate to met their needs.
One thing I did notice throughout my hands on time is that the Neo takes longer to connect to a WiFi network than either my MacBook Air or iMac (both M4 devices.) In fact, it feels very much like how long an iPhone sometimes does connecting to WiFi when rebooting. That makes sense on a smartphone when a device immediately connects to a cell signal, but in an age when everything is expecting an Internet connection one way or another, (on setting up a new device one of the first things required is to establish a WiFi connection) it seems like there should be a way to not start reaching out on a previously set up, non-cellular device until after a connection is made.
Battery Life
Setting up any new computer or smartphone puts a load on battery life. That continues during the first day or so after initial setup as things sync up. After performing the first OS update I didn’t use the Neo much until after my client was with me, but even after continuing setup and tweaking a few things there was 68% battery life left. Time will tell how that goes, but given my client’s usage I don’t anticipate them having battery life issues.
Memory Management
Much was also made about the one size fits all 8GB memory cap, regardless of the storage model one chooses. My client doesn’t run a heavy load of applications or keep many tabs open, so I’m not the best judge of how good the swapping out of memory to the SSD works. Apple’s Unified Memory Architecture seems to be working as designed in my limited view. I do wonder how well it does with devices that only have a 256GB SSD if they contain a lot of data.
Screen Size
I prefer the More Space option on displays I use. My client prefers the default view. Even with More Space selected, the Neo feels very much like a one app at a time computer to me, which generally lines up with my client’s needs. I always set up a Hot Corner Shortcut with Mission Control to make window navigation easier, and that feels more necessary on the Neo in the default display mode.
Apple has a feature that allows you to click the wallpaper and move all open apps off of the screen. You can choose to do this all of the time, or only in Stage Manager. I don’t recommend Stage Manager to my clients, and I typically recommend turning off the click wallpaper to show desktop feature. In this case my client likes this fly away feature, and sees it as a bit of whimsy. Even though they prefer to keep the Dock and Menu Bar always visible. So we’ll leave it on.
Trackpad
The Neo has a different trackpad than other current MacBooks. From what I’d read previously I expected to feel more of a difference between it and the trackpad on the MacBook Air. There’s a difference certainly, but it doesn’t feel like that big of one to me. I moved back and forth between the two devices without even really thinking about it.
Notifications from iPhone
I mentioned an issue earlier with iPhone notifications flowing through to the MacBook Neo. This is a feature I use myself. It’s set up through iPhone Mirroring, which you have to open at least once in order to set up.
One of the nifty things about this feature is that you’re allowed to pick and choose which notifications flow through and those you block either on your iPhone, or on your Mac. If you choose to use this feature and set it up, you’ll see an option in your Mac’s settings to allow these notifications.
If you click on Allow Notifications from iPhone, you’ll be taken to another screen. Below the three Allow options here, you’ll see a list of any notifications you’re allowing to flow through or not from you iPhone, and whether you’ve turned them off on your iPhone or they are coming through from an app installed on your Mac. As a reference, the screenshot below is from my iMac.
On my client’s Neo, no apps appeared initially. The section above that begins with Acme Weather is blank on their Neo. There shouldn’t have been many. Regardless none were there. We called Apple Support and opened a ticket. Luckily on the first call we got a senior advisor who understood the issue. After doing some checking the situation turned into something Apple is really interested in tracking down. These are a new line of devices after all. So we were off into the land of running sysdiagnoses. We’re expecting a call back on Friday with any discoveries or solutions Apple may have come up with. Fortunately we have time still left in the return window.
At the Moment
In the opening paragraph of this post I also used the phrase “At the moment.” Two thoughts there.
First, as I’ve described my client, they are not a heavy laptop user. Those who might be looking into the MacBook Neo who are might have a different experience in both the short or long term. I’ve never yet met a computer that doesn’t slow down over time. I doubt the MacBook Neo will be any different. The difference in any performance degradation between the Neo and other Mac laptops is yet to be seen. My hunch is this first MacBook Neo will still be a winner for at least a few years, certainly if you’re a not a heavy user.
Second, the rumors are that the Neo is such a success that Apple might be running out of the binned A18Pro chips it’s using to power the MacBook Neo. Speculation on what happens if that’s true is rampant, and who really knows. Current demand has already caused a delay in shipping times, and I know that secondary retailers Walmart, Target, and Best Buy have plenty of signs, but very limited or no stock. My hunch here is that Apple will be selling MacBook Neos for quite some time, even though it might take you a while to get your hands on one.
Summing Up
To conclude, let me say that I’ve thought since Apple’s announcement of the MacBook Neo that it would prove to be a hit and a palpable one to the laptop market in general. In my brief experience setting up this one for my client and seeing their delight at the form factor, coupled with the high demand, I’ll more than double down on that thinking.
Personally, as I anticipate my computing needs becoming less in the more quickly than I’d like years to come, I could easily see myself relying on a MacBook Neo in the future.
You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.
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"Though named for a children’s story by Oscar Wilde," Clio Barnard’s THE SELFISH GIANT (2013) "finds little scope in its social realism for a happy ending." Screens 8.35pm today at The Prince Charles Cinema #BleakWeek #Movies https://projectedfigures.com/2013/10/25/the-selfish-giant-2013/
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#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:
@laurenshof wrote fabulous reports analysing our #SocialWeb and sadly this included raging techno-ideological #ProtocolWars too. How can we turn that to #Progress?
So much friction and heat in the raging discussions #ActivityPub vs. #ATProto 😭
🔮 What is *much* more relevant in #Bluesky vs AP is WHY ❔ Bluesky + ATProto gets the bigger uptake, despite compromising on #moral and #ethical values and #principles we hold dear.
Knowing the answers to that is where #opportunity for strategic action comes from. And subsequently following what you may call #FocusedPragmatism instead of just 'wild-coding' the chaotic #fedi with countless independent, uncoordinated "Show, don't tells" of yet more code to shove onto the #BigBallOfMud that fediverse-we-have increasingly represents.
#ActivityPubAPI provides such Opportunity.
To revive on a *greenfield basis* doing #Protocol design and adopt lessons-learned from APv1 #Microbloggosphere vs. #Atmosphere.
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Though the road was long and full of obstacles, every hardship became a stepping stone, shaping growth and forging resilience through the toughest times. #JourneyOfGrowth #Resilience #OvercomingObstacles #StrengthInAdversity #PathToSuccess
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Though the fire was brought under control, thick smoke billowing from the building is making rescue operations difficult. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/hyderabad-nampally-fire-commercial-building-five-trapped-nbmf3ec8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #HyderabadFire #Nampally #RescueOperations #HyderabadNews
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Though the fire was brought under control, thick smoke billowing from the building is making rescue operations difficult. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/hyderabad-nampally-fire-commercial-building-five-trapped-nbmf3ec8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #HyderabadFire #Nampally #RescueOperations #HyderabadNews
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Though the fire was brought under control, thick smoke billowing from the building is making rescue operations difficult. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/hyderabad-nampally-fire-commercial-building-five-trapped-nbmf3ec8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #HyderabadFire #Nampally #RescueOperations #HyderabadNews