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Healey is expected to shield low-income pensioners from income tax – but how will it work?
By Hilary Osborne
Retirees will get a personal allowance aligned with the new state pension, but experts say it could get complicated
#Pensions #Olderpeople #Budget2026 #Budget #Economicpolicy #UKnews #Society #Politics #Money #Statepensions #Tax #TheGuardian #HilaryOsborne
مدعوما بالذكاء الاصطناعي ومتعدد اللغات.. دار القرآن الكريم في العتبة الحسينية تعلن قرب إطلاق تطبيق موسوعة أهل البيت (ع) القرآنية
#المرجعية_الدّينيّة_العليا #العتبة_الحسينيّة_المقدّسة #دار_القرآن_الكريم #موسوعة_أهل_البيت_القرآنيّة #الهواتف_الذكية #الذكاء_الاصطناعي #كربلاء_المقدّسة #العراق
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The #pedestrianisation of #London 's #OxfordStreet : cities should be designed around people, not #cars
The transformation of Europe’s busiest shopping street should be a case study in making cities #greener , less congested and more inviting places to live
The little pump that changes everything for your knees #kneepain #mobility #wellness
Back lunge… https://ift.tt/Zxi8IGA
The Community has spoken… Join us for Quarkus:Dev!
The Quarkus developers conference, February 2-3. Two half-days of developer focused sessions that’s free, open to all, and won’t take up your whole day. The CFP will be opening very soon.
The three gunmen who carried out a mass shooting at a Greek Orthodox Church in Karak Governorate, #Jordan are wounded and arrested after a shootout with security forces at an abandoned building.
The GOP is spinning out as the midterms loom
Your Daily Kos live blog for Oct. 26, 2026.
The horse that ushered in Manchester United’s tragic arc | Jonathan Wilson
By Jonathan Wilson
There’s plenty of blame to go around at Old Trafford. Like all downfalls it started with a seemingly small, unconnected moment
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/oct/26/the-horse-that-brought-down-manchester-united
#ManchesterUnited #PremierLeague #MichaelCarrick #Football #Sport #USsports #Horseracing #TheGuardian #JonathanWilson
The Greenland Diaries: Day 77
Last night, I’m not sure what happened, or why there were people moving through the area in the darkness, but around midnight the shadows were flashing with popping gunfire and small explosions. I followed the sounds of the bullets, and they bounced off of everything in hollow glances and pings. A few even hit the shed. I covered Snowy with my backpack and put her around my chest.
I was so worried that a shot would pierce the shed and split one of us open.
I hugged up so tightly to her, she would lick my face through the backpack as the thunder of distant mortars and rockets threw tree branches everywhere. They sounded hollow and rocky, like skeletons were trying to swallow up the shed and pull it away. A few times I shifted to the other wall and buried us beneath the boxes of supplies and gallons of water.
I heard machines rolling through the streets, hundreds of them. The pavement cracked and moaned against their heavy treads. The grinding was so intense, I thought the earth was going to fall apart and my house, shed, and everything would be swallowed up. It’d be nice to go out that fast. It’d be nice to avoid the shadows and wild claws.
The Drum still beat behind the whirlwind of gunpowder. I stayed still the entire night as the shooting raged. Seldom did I hear a gun or cannon stop firing to reload. It was like they were spending every inch of ammunition on this battle. I know the Unnamed aren’t overt and present when you fight them. I’ve been lucky enough to fight them in close quarters. At a distance, they’re nearly impossible to see, especially in the dark. How could these people fighting them possibly know where they were hiding?
Around four in the morning, they finally stopped their fighting, and the world returned to the Drum and the silence between each beat. There were no illusions or Unnamed sulking around the empty spots of crumbled houses or caved-in walls. I stayed up all night watching them, but there was nothing. Only the bugs brewed about in aimless clouds.
In the morning, I scouted the area for traces of the battle. I looked for bits of fresh rubble, empty bullet casings glittering in the sun, and bits of torn clothes with inky blood beneath their layers. There was nothing though, not a single crater in the ground or pulverized wall from any of the nearby houses. In previous battles, I’d find this debris so fresh, it’d be shedding dust in the sun like wayward dandruff.
There is nothing though, no sign of the previous night’s battle.
I walked around the block three times with Snowy, looking for the smallest, most minuscule remnants of the battle. Nothing moved. Only the trees and sheets of thick grass shook against the breeze. The plants always look like they’re ready to bubble and burst.
I stopped searching in the late afternoon. It had been an illusion. It was all part of some massive trick by the Unnamed and their unseen allies. When I wandered back home with a worried Snowy, I saw the kid from before. He had been following me the entire time, dodging behind the houses like I used to do when I played with Nerf guns when I was his age.
I bet he regrets any imaginary nightmare he played war with now, the apocalypse was too real
“Don’t get tricked by the battle, they’re illusions too,” I yelled, as he ran away from me. I hope he listens. I don’t know why he always runs.
I’m not going to hurt anybody.
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The GR Pride Center does amazing work, and it would be a huge loss to the community if they have to close. Please send them some love, whether it’s a donation to their fundraiser or just good vibes :heart_progress: #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #GrandRapids #Michigan
‘Bluey’ Soundtrack Gets the Box Set Treatment With New Collectible Vinyl Release
#Music #MusicNews #Bluey #Vinyl
The murder MI5 wants to hide
https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-murder-mi5-wants-to-hide/
The horse that ushered in Manchester United’s tragic arc | Jonathan Wilson https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/oct/26/the-horse-that-brought-down-manchester-united #ManchesterUnited #PremierLeague #MichaelCarrick #Football #Sport #UsSports #HorseRacing
Virgil van Dijk outlines the blunt 'reality' for Liverpool's £364m trio after Brighton win
The Big Bang: How the City of London was catapulted into the modern age
Monday 26 October 2026 1:15 pm | Updated: Monday 26 October 2026 1:20 pm The ‘Big Bang’ in 1986…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #CityofLondon #bigbang #Business #FTSE100 #Labour #LabourParty #londonstockexchange #margaretthatcher #nigellawson #ukeconomy
https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/44883/
Blog: What the Heck is With the Malfoid Meme?
Generally, I am not a fan of fanfiction. In theory, it’s an excellent way to learn how to write stories and characters, and it serves as a creative outlet. Heck, when I started learning how to write stories as a small child, I was largely writing fanfiction. And, in some cases, the fan’s work may even be so good that it rivals the original work that it was based on.
In practice, however, as beneficial as fanfiction might be for developing writers, it has become largely synonymous with degeneracy with how much of it is smut. Just look at 50 Shades of Grey, which started as a Twilight fanfic, but ended up becoming a best seller infamous for being porn geared towards women. Or the Harry Potter fanfic My Immortal, which has become a meme for its poor grammar and spelling, laughably edgy main character, and, naturally, smut-laced plot lines.
I could go on with even more examples of famous fanfics – some of which have even been published as books- that give fanfiction a bad name. However, within this quagmire of filth are a few hidden gems. A recent example of this was The Other Bennet Sister, a delightful Jane Austen fanfic available on Amazon that focuses on Mary Bennet, the often-forgotten sister of Elizabeth and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. It’s a fun, cute story that does justice to Jane Austen’s work and explores a character who plays a minor role in the novel, giving her her own voice and storyline.
However, besides The Other Bennet Sister, there is a new fanfic that has taken the Internet by storm and that is the Malfoid trend. At first, I had no idea what the heck it was or why I was getting recommendations for it on my For You page. I thought it was just another Harry Potter fan coming up with a gender-bent Draco Malfoy x Harry Potter fanfic, which is nothing really special. That ship has been a thing for years. I had no idea what the hype was about or why major streamers like Nux Taku were reacting to it.
Then I went on a deep dive after hearing about how important this Malfoid movement has become to Gen Z men.
Apparently, the Malfoid trend started when a fan artist drew a picture of Draco Malfoy as a female and named her “Malfoid” back in 2024. The name itself was interesting because in internet slang, “foid” has come to mean “biological woman.” Thus, it’s been argued that Malfoid isn’t necessarily a gender-bent version of Malfoy from the books/movies but is her own new character that replaces him.
From there, the original Malfoid picture has gone viral as people have used her to create the ideal heterosexual fanfic between her and Harry Potter, that in many ways improves upon the original story. The entire dynamic is changed between Harry and Draco, now that Draco is a biological female. Malfoy’s petty and effeminate actions make more sense in the context of the character being biologically female, and in the case of a relationship between Malfoid and Harry, the fandom says that it makes a more compelling love story than the one we get in the books or movies.
As for this love story, it has been surprisingly wholesome. Though fanfiction is notorious for being disgusting, any sexualization of Malfoid by the internet (particularly by OF girls) has been largely rejected by the men who are the primary fanbase of this trend. They love the story for its traditional gender roles, compelling romance, and culmination in marriage and a family, and see the sexualization of Malfoid as a middle finger to that. One X user even went so far as to say:
Another X user also explained in detail what the Malfoid trend rules are, saying:
Okay. So let’s lay out the rules then.
Now, does this mean that there is absolutely no sexualization of Malfoid within this trend? No. Unfortunately, while doing research about this topic on X, I ran across several posts where the character was absolutely hypersexualized (which is disturbing given that the character is technically a minor even in the fanfic). Thankfully, most of the comments were reacting with disgust towards the creator putting the content out there.
Moving on from that, however, the love of the story for its overall wholesomeness has caused the tagline of this fanfic to be “Yearn.” It is an encouragement for men to yearn for the good in the world and the things beyond themselves. It’s not there to fulfill a man’s fantasy as we so often think of it. It’s become a cultural wakeup call to get men to rise up and fulfill their higher fantasy of providing for and protecting a woman. It accomplishes this by being a traditional romance story, where both the man and woman are virtuous, and through their love, defeat evil. Malfoid, though still portrayed as powerful, is still in need of Harry.
Even better is that this story is not only inspiring men and women to put themselves out there and work to become the best they can be, but it’s also helping them become creative again. Almost everyone in the new Malfoid fandom is getting in on writing fanfics, adding to the story, and even creating short episodes of what a Malfoid T.V. show would look like using AI. And, frankly, the AI episodes of the Malfoid saga really make me think Hollywood is doomed because while you can tell its AI, people have been given the power to make the adaptations and stories that they want to see for a relatively low price.
Until next time,
M.J.
#Blog #BookReview #Books #Fanfiction #fiction #HarryPotter #JKRowling #Malfoid #Memes #OpinionPeice #Review #Writing #X
The Autumn Lisp Game Jam begins this Friday! We've got pumpkin-spice parentheses and apple cider REPLs. Put on a cozy sweater and get hacking!
The Pigtail Has Got to Go (1898) by Louis Dalrymple, from Puck, v. 44, no. 1128.
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4d77aee4-e3d4-4f1f-87d0-b86fdeeeb35f
#america #periodical #hairstyle #progress #immigration #parasols #chromolithography #magazines #haircut #racism #lithography #printmaking #line #art #publicdomain
“The world of computing was once rich with opportunities for mavericks and the marginalized, but several trends have threatened the freedom to innovate.”
Our author Andrew Oram explores what this means for our digital environment.
Read Part 1 of this LPI series: https://lpi.org/oplm
#linux #FOSS #opensource #freesoftware #linuxcommunity #LPI #AI #chips #quantumcomputing
The #PHP Meltdown Shows How #AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
https://www.wired.com/story/kernel-panic-the-php-meltdown-shows-how-ai-makes-bugs-more-exploitable/
The pre-bursting of a tech bubble is called a "burbble."
#poll Is that the thing about congestion this time of year, you can’t run from it?
The Maryland State Board of Elections has received my ballot. 🥳
The Evolution of Agentic Harnesses: From Chains to Graph to Code, by @infoq.com:
https://www.infoq.com/articles/agentic-ai-architecture-harness-evolution/?ref=frontenddogma.com
The very requested shoebill deserved her own full illustration 🙂↕️
#art #illustration #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Artist #traditionalArt #Painting #cutePosting #fediArt #MastoArt
#poll Do you know why in college it’s one foot in and in the NFL it’s two feet in?
‘Students are hungry for God’s Word’: Southern Baptist Gateway Seminary reports record enrollment
Gateway Seminary, a California-based theology school affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, has reported record enrollment for its fall semester.
Source: https://www.christianpost.com/news/gateway-seminary-reports-record-enrollment.html
