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  1. Reading up on #Wellington #Water #Works, it seems that
    Rates are going down by a whopping $10-$15 a week
    Water rates are coming in at about $50/week.
    A 30%~ish raise in rates for everyone, despite promises of no extreme increases

  2. #LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert

    Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?

    Pretty/Handsome
    * Pretty/Handsome is a 2008 television pilot by Ryan Murphy that was not picked up to series by FX

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty/H
    Discussion: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi

    #Works #Television #Transgenderrelated #Unaired

  3. A quotation from Brennan Manning

    The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I drop hints about the absolute priority of meditation and contemplation to create the impression that I am a man of prayer. At some unremembered moment I have lost the connection between internal purity of heart and external works of piety. In the most humiliating sense of the word, I have become a legalist. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

    Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
    The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)

    More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8348…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #appearances #faithandworks #intention #legalism #legalist #motivation #motive #performance #purpose #sin #virtue #wordsanddeeds #works

  4. A quotation from Brennan Manning

    The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I drop hints about the absolute priority of meditation and contemplation to create the impression that I am a man of prayer. At some unremembered moment I have lost the connection between internal purity of heart and external works of piety. In the most humiliating sense of the word, I have become a legalist. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

    Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
    The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)

    More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8348…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #appearances #faithandworks #intention #legalism #legalist #motivation #motive #performance #purpose #sin #virtue #wordsanddeeds #works

  5. A quotation from Brennan Manning

    The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I drop hints about the absolute priority of meditation and contemplation to create the impression that I am a man of prayer. At some unremembered moment I have lost the connection between internal purity of heart and external works of piety. In the most humiliating sense of the word, I have become a legalist. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

    Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
    The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)

    More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8348…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #appearances #faithandworks #intention #legalism #legalist #motivation #motive #performance #purpose #sin #virtue #wordsanddeeds #works

  6. A quotation from Brennan Manning

    The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I drop hints about the absolute priority of meditation and contemplation to create the impression that I am a man of prayer. At some unremembered moment I have lost the connection between internal purity of heart and external works of piety. In the most humiliating sense of the word, I have become a legalist. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

    Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
    The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)

    More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8348…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #appearances #faithandworks #intention #legalism #legalist #motivation #motive #performance #purpose #sin #virtue #wordsanddeeds #works

  7. East Coast artist Pru Davis showcases ocean-inspired works at Matawhero Art Gallery

    “I clearly remember my mum always outside painting somewhere with her easel and palette and, of course, paintings…
    #NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #Art #Artist #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #at #AU #Australia #coast #davis #Design #east #Entertainment #Exhibition #explore #Gallery #inspired #Landscape #likes #lives #matawhero #Ocean #oceaninspired #pru #showcases #works
    newsbeep.com/au/612746/

  8. Weekend Side Note
    If a hypothetical investment fund of significant size, say $180B, were to badly underperform for 2025, the results have serious implications.
    In Canada, the TSX performed an astoundingly rare return of 28.5%. A well- managed fund performing at the rate of the market should expect a return of $50B resulting in a fund sized around $230B at year end.
    If a hypothetical, poorly managed investment fund gained, say, a paltry 7.5% on such a generously giving market year, they should get a return of around $14B and final fund total of $194B at year end.
    Counted in billions, 14 can appear a big number unless weighed against its absence of return. The poorly managed fund has actually incurred a short-term “loss of gains” in a rarely generous year of around $35B.
    In the long term, over say the next ten years, that loss of $35B increases, at a yearly return of the initial paltry 7.5% (normally good for an underperforming year), to roughly double or $70B.
    Fortunately, if the hypothetical fund continues under its current mismanagement, the ten-year 7.5% return is unlikely, thereby reducing the “missed out on” $70B to around $40B as best, or in this case worst, result from an extreme hypothesis of missing funds during one calendar year. Such “loss of gains” exaggerated annually accumulate to massive losses of squandered opportunity over decades.
    In the real world, it is merely $14B thanks to the generous “hard to lose” market year, and the loss of opportunity goes unchecked while the pennies get counted.
    #how #money #works

  9. "…a damning new study could put #AI companies on the defensive. In it, #Stanford and #Yale researchers found compelling evidence that #AImodels are actually copying all that data, not “learning” from it. Specifically, four prominent LLMs — OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet — happily #reproduced lengthy excerpts from #popular — and #protected#works, with a stunning degree of #accuracy."

    futurism.com/artificial-intell

  10. A quotation from Hilaire Belloc

    When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
    “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) Franco-British writer, historian [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc]
    Poem (1923), “Epigram 1: On His Books,” Sonnets and Verse

    More about this quote: wist.info/belloc-hilaire/82367…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #belloc #hilairebelloc #aspiration #author #character #epitaph #fame #heritage #legacy #reading #sin #success #works #writer #writing

  11. A quotation from Hilaire Belloc

    When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
    “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) Franco-British writer, historian [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc]
    Poem (1923), “Epigram 1: On His Books,” Sonnets and Verse

    More about this quote: wist.info/belloc-hilaire/82367…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #belloc #hilairebelloc #aspiration #author #character #epitaph #fame #heritage #legacy #reading #sin #success #works #writer #writing

  12. A quotation from Hilaire Belloc

    When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
    “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) Franco-British writer, historian [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc]
    Poem (1923), “Epigram 1: On His Books,” Sonnets and Verse

    More about this quote: wist.info/belloc-hilaire/82367…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #belloc #hilairebelloc #aspiration #author #character #epitaph #fame #heritage #legacy #reading #sin #success #works #writer #writing

  13. A quotation from Hilaire Belloc

    When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
    “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) Franco-British writer, historian [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc]
    Poem (1923), “Epigram 1: On His Books,” Sonnets and Verse

    More about this quote: wist.info/belloc-hilaire/82367…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #belloc #hilairebelloc #aspiration #author #character #epitaph #fame #heritage #legacy #reading #sin #success #works #writer #writing

  14. A quotation from Hilaire Belloc

    When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
    “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) Franco-British writer, historian [Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc]
    Poem (1923), “Epigram 1: On His Books,” Sonnets and Verse

    More about this quote: wist.info/belloc-hilaire/82367…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #belloc #hilairebelloc #aspiration #author #character #epitaph #fame #heritage #legacy #reading #sin #success #works #writer #writing

  15. ◆動く背景素材◆ 縁側と床の間がある和室の動く配信用背景素材を公開しました。 春夏秋冬オールシーズン対応! こちらBOOTHにて販売中です。 yumemayoi.booth.pm/items/7975304 #illustration #works #Vtuber素材 #VTuberAssets

  16. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
     
    [Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 9, ch. 5 (9.5) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2572…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #injustice #injury #harm #action #deed #evil #inaction #meme #passivity #sin #sinofomission #works

  17. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
     
    [Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 9, ch. 5 (9.5) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2572…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #injustice #injury #harm #action #deed #evil #inaction #meme #passivity #sin #sinofomission #works

  18. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
     
    [Ἀδικεῖ πολλάκις ὁ μὴ ποιῶν τι, οὐ μόνον ὁ ποιῶν τι.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 9, ch. 5 (9.5) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2572…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #injustice #injury #harm #action #deed #evil #inaction #meme #passivity #sin #sinofomission #works