#Monday 26 August

[rightnewshindi]

Aaj Ka Panchang, 26 August: जानिए सोमवार 26 अगस्त का पंचांग, राहुकाल और शुभ मुहूर्त

26 August 2024 Ka Panchang: 26 अगस्त को भाद्रपद कृष्ण पक्ष की अष्टमी तिथि और सोमवार का दिन है। अष्टमी तिथि सोमवार देर रात 2 बजकर 20 मिनट तक रहेगी। 26 अगस्त को दोपहर बाद 3 बजकर 55 मिनट से मंगलवार सुबह 5 बजकर 39 मिनट तक सर्वार्थसिद्धि योग रहेगा। साथ ही सोमवार को दोपहर बाद 3 बजकर 55 मिनट तक कृत्तिका नक्षत्र रहेगा। इसके अलावा 26 अगस्त को श्री कृष्ण जन्माष्टमी व्रत और कालाष्टमी है। 26 अगस्त 2024 का…

[laz-kay]

The noise boi 📢

[rabbitcruiser]

Motorist Consideration Monday 

Motorist Consideration Monday is dedicated to being considerate, patient, and courteous while traveling, no matter what one's mode of transportation is—whether it be by car, bike, public transportation, or even by walking. The day is part of Be Kind To Humankind Week, "a celebration of people and the kind acts they perform all across the globe," which was created in 1988 by Lorraine Jara of Toms River, New Jersey.

How to Observe

Some ways to be a considerate motorist today as suggested by Be Kind To Humankind Week include:

Move over for emergency vehicles.

Do not speed.

Turn on your lights in the daytime so you are more visible to other vehicles.

Don't pass stopped school buses. Also, kids riding buses should make sure to be considerate to their drivers.

Don't engage in road rage.

Don't tailgate or drive aggressively.

Do not drink and drive.

Let fellow motorists merge in front of you.

Yield to pedestrians.

Wear a safety belt and use child safety seats for all children.

Don't text and drive.

Slow down if the weather is bad.

Some other ways to be a considerate motorist today include:

Leave a safe distance between your vehicle and the one in front of you.

Drive a safe speed. Base this on the speed limit, but also on factors such as traffic, weather, and road surface.

Make sure other drivers don't have to brake when you move into their space.

Use your blinker when turning or changing lanes, and make sure to turn it on far enough in advance.

Make sure to come to a full stop at stop signs, and never run a red light.

Don't block intersections.

Don't pass on the right.

Drive in the middle or right lanes, instead of in the left lane, which is for passing.

As a pedestrian, make sure to use crosswalks.

As a cyclist, make sure to use hand signals and to wear a helmet.

Source

[anotherlifeofmine]

[tracychamberlainhigginbotham]

(via “Do Something”– Turns into a Charleston Dance Gathering in Syracuse)

[reasonsforhope]

"Millions of Australians just got official permission to ignore their bosses outside of working hours, thanks to a new law enshrining their "right to disconnect."

The law doesn't strictly prohibit employers from calling or messaging their workers after hours. But it does protect employees who "refuse to monitor, read or respond to contact or attempted contact outside their working hours, unless their refusal is unreasonable," according to the Fair Work Commission, Australia's workplace relations tribunal.

That includes outreach from their employer, as well as other people "if the contact or attempted contact is work-related."

The law, which passed in February, took effect on Monday [August 26, 2024] for most workers and will apply to small businesses of fewer than 15 people starting in August 2025. It adds Australia to a growing list of countries aiming to protect workers' free time.

"It's really about trying to bring back some work-life balance and make sure that people aren't racking up hours of unpaid overtime for checking emails and responding to things at a time when they're not being paid," said Sen. Murray Watt, Australia's minister for employment and workplace relations.

The law doesn't give employees a complete pass, however...

"If it was an emergency situation, of course people would expect an employee to respond to something like that," Watt said. "But if it's a run-of-the-mill thing … then they should wait till the next work day, so that people can actually enjoy their private lives, enjoy time with their family and their friends, play sport or whatever they want to do after hours, without feeling like they're chained to the desk at a time when they're not actually being paid, because that's just not fair."

Protections aim to address erosion of work-life balance

The law's supporters hope it will help solidify the boundary between the personal and the professional, which has become increasingly blurry with the rise of remote work since the COVID-19 pandemic.

A 2022 survey by the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute, a public policy think tank, found that seven out of 10 Australians performed work outside of scheduled working hours, with many reporting experiencing physical tiredness, stress and anxiety as a result.

The following year, the institute reported that Australians clocked an average of 281 hours of unpaid overtime in 2023. Valuing that labor at average wage rates, it estimated the average worker is losing the equivalent of nearly $7,500 U.S. dollars each year.

"This is particularly concerning when worker's share of national income remains at a historically low level, wage growth is not keeping up with inflation, and the cost of living is rising," it added.

The Australian Council of Trade Unions hailed the new law as a "cost-of-living win for working people," especially those in industries like teaching, community services and administrative work.

The right to disconnect, it said, will not only cut down on Australians' unpaid work hours but also address the "growing crisis of increasing mental health illness and injuries in modern workplaces."

"More money in your pocket, more time with your loved ones and more freedom to live your life — that's what the right to disconnect is all about," ACTU President Michele O’Neil said in a statement.

The 2022 Australia Institute survey... found broad support for a right to disconnect.

Only 9% of respondents said such a policy would not positively affect their lives. And the rest cited a slew of positive effects, from having more social and family time to improved mental health and job satisfaction. Thirty percent of respondents said it would enable them to be more productive during work hours.

Eurofound, the European Union agency for the improvement of living and working conditions, said in a 2023 study that workers at companies with a right to disconnect policy reported better work-life balance than those without — 92% versus 80%."

-via GoodGoodGood, August 26, 2024

[whos-orion]

Ok!!!! Here’s my list of “when will the countdown stop” theories and the names I’ve given them (including ones that have been disproved, still possible theories have a ‼️ next to them)

UPDATE WEBSITE IS OPEN

Gatsby time theory: countdown stops at 3 hours 14 minutes, the time it takes to read The Great Gatsby (disproved)

Pi time theory: countdown stops at -3:14:15 for Pi, the “end of math” (disproved)

Pi time theory v2: countdown stops at -3:14:15:26 for Pi, the “end of math”, now including the day (disproved)

-3:33:33 theory: countdown stops at -3:33:33, 3 for triangle (disproved)

-6:66:66 theory: countdown stops at -6:66:66, devil’s/demonic number. Bill is a demon. (disproved)

-7:00:00 theory: countdown stops at -7:00:00. Something was found in codes abt it. (disproved)

Mabel theory: countdown stops at -8:00:00. Mabel said smth in GF about -8 as a number. Saw it in a post. (disproved)

7pm PST theory: countdown stops at 7pm PST, some sort of trigger was allegedly found in the website’s code for an event at this time. (disproved)

Reverse time theory: countdown goes until it is the reverse of what it originally was.

Time is an illusion theory: countdown goes forever.

Files theory: there’s something in the files that triggers the countdown to stop and for the next event/announcement/whatever happens

Book theory: there’s something in the book to make the countdown stop, a code or secondary password

Password theory: a password is needed to stop the countdown

Stanley theory: countdown ends at -18:00:00 because that’s how long the portal took in GF (disproved)

True error theory: https://www.tumblr.com/feelsmetal-alchemist/757476967322959872/anyways-i-think-ive-figured-out-the-issue-with

S2 theory: there is a password we need to input, but it cannot be accepted until august 1st, ten years since s2’s release.

End of summer theory: countdown stops at the end of summer (august 31st)

Triangle theory: countdown stops at 3 days, 33 hours, 33 minutes, and 33 seconds (or 4 days 9 hours 33 minutes and 33 seconds). Triangle. (disproved)

SUMMONDAY THEORY: MONDAY END DATE. Jason Ritter’s twitter posted a vignere code that said “you too can end up in a prism of my own design! See you SUMMONDAY!” (Sum)Monday. (disproved)

3 day theory: countdown stops at -3 days. (disproved)

Summonday, the 8th day of the week theory: countdown stops at -8 days, Summonday is the 8th day of the week (according to Jason Ritter post) (disproved)

Idaho theory: (disproved)

Lmk if there’s any others!!

[hd-collab]

Here we go again! Drarry Collab Fest is back and we're ready to get started in just a few weeks!

We encourage all kinds of collaborations:

Co-written fics

Co-drawn art

Co-narrated podfics

Illustrated stories

And anything else you can dream up! Just like in previous years, we’re open to all kinds of fanworks as long as they’re collaborative. Mark your calendars and join the fun. The sky’s the limit!

Here's our 2025 schedule:

Sign-ups for premade teams: Saturday, February 1 - Friday, February 28

Solo sign-ups: Saturday, February 1 - Saturday, February 22 with matches sent by: Friday, February 28

Claiming: Saturday, February 1 - Saturday, May 24

Check-ins: Sunday, June 1 & Saturday, July 5

Works due: Friday, August 1

Posting begins: Monday, September 1 💙

Reveals: Friday, September 26

Check out all the rules and sign-up info below:

Introduction - Schedule - Pre-made Team Sign-ups - Matchmaking Sign-ups - Prompts - Submission Guidelines - Past Reveals - Credits

[greasegotahold]

Lots of debate on the timeline of events in the outsiders and ages fitting into that, but according to Hinton Pony was born July 22, and he'd been 14 for about a month (line in the movie) when the main events kick off. That would put the murder during late August, which is exactly when that schoolyear would be starting. They only hide out for 5 days, which would put them at early September when they end up back home.

The rumble, Johnny's death, Dally's death, and Pony's concussion fainting happens the night after they get home.

Ponyboy comes to after 3 days, then ends up on bedrest for another week, where he displays delusional thought.

The Juvenile Court hearing presumably occurs shortly after that bedrest, as Pony is still not considered fit to testify on the murder, placing it squarely into the month of September.

It's not super clear how long the depressive episode lasts for Pony, but it's long enough that he is failing his classes and Syme is offering to bring him up to a C. Recalling my high school days, overall grades for fall semester were usually evident by like mid October, so I would give Pony 2-3 weeks, maybe a full month before Syme reaches out.

However, we also know Pony was procrastinating on his assignment, it's part of Darry's nagging iirc, so that + the theme being a final project for the semester, it was probably due mid-late November/maaaayyybe early December.

This is where ages come in bc some of the ages we have from the TV Show Bible don't align with the story's events happening in August.

However.

We know that we are reading Ponyboy's theme. It ends cyclical to the beginning, and there's also evident effort on Ponyboy's end to avoid writing profanity into his recollection. He's 14, been to Hell and back, and also procrastinated on his essay. That is to say, I'd believe it if the argument was made that for some of the surviving characters, he just mentioned how old they were at the time of writing.

Side note, too, that the musical does corroborate the main events happening in late August imo, as it explicitly ties the Curtis Parents' deaths to Darry's birthday; Darry was born January 5, and they died 8 months before the story took place; 8 months from January is obviously September, technically. However. Looking at the calendar year for 1967 (the musical is bumped up 2 years), Darry's birthday fell on the first Thursday of January. If Pony's birthday is July 22nd and it's been a month (not confirmed in the musical to have been a month, but confirmed that he would be 15 next July), the Friday Night Drive-In encounter would have been August 25 (literally the first week of school), 7 months and 3 weeks after the crash; technically not 8 months, but extremely close. If we want to push it closer and move the events a week later, then the drive in would have happened September 1.

In conclusion, my proposed book timeline, cross-referenced with calendars and given school start dates:

Tuesday, January 5, 1965—Darry's Birthday, potentially also the death of Curtis Parents

Thursday, July 22, 1965—Ponyboy's 14th birthday

Thursday, August 26, 1965—Pony gets jumped

Friday, August 27, 1965—Pony goes to the drive-in, Johnny kills Bob (technically this happens in the wee hours of Saturday, but the jumping that led to it was a consequence of the drive in so I'm lumping them)

Saturday, August 28-Wednesday, September 1, 1965— (technically the actual time of Bob's murder) + Windrixville hideout + fire + Hospital reunion

Thursday, September 2, 1965—Rumble + Johnny's death + Dally's Death + Pony's concussion

Friday, September 3-Sunday, September 5, 1965—Pony in feverish delirium

Monday, September 6-Sunday, September 12, 1965—Pony on Bedrest

Monday, September 13, 1965—Juvenile Court

Tuesday, September 14, 1965-Depressive fugue begins

Monday, October 11 or 18, 1965—Mr Syme alerts Ponyboy of his failing grade+presents semester's final project in the form of a personal theme.

Mid November, 1965—theme is written

[a-fox-studies]

August 26, 2024 • Monday

second year day 1 :3 Classes were chill today, not much happened. Spent an hour in the library reading some python concepts, and I came across something funny.

Duck typing is a concept in dynamic programming where the type of an object iss determined by its behaviour rather than its class definition. In other words, it's based on the idea that "if it walls like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck."

Funny right?

🎧 Idhayane — Anirudh Ravichander

[arsonist-tittyfuck]

Hi I'm Nat and as of Monday August 26, 2024 I am a bored college student. Who's in a pysch class despite not being a pysch major, I'm an education major and I think it's required class because there's a few other kids in my small major in my class

SO YOU MAY BE WONDERING "Hey Nat where is this going?" well you see I'm actually pretty familiar with psychology. I took AP Psychology my senior year of high school last I just got a 2 on the exam so need to retake it in college now.

In my college boredom and the need to spite my friend (hi @cheercake this is your fault!!) I have created a survey that has already wielded some interesting results.

Here's the survey!!

This survey will be studying correlation and causation. Specifically the correlation between people have more dead grandparents and being attracted to Stan, Ford, or both.

My current results show that people with 1 or none dead usually don't find either attractive meanwhile people with 2 or more find at minimum 1 attractive. Feel free to prove me wrong this is just the trend I've noticed!!

Thank you for your participation!! Remember this is just for fun!!

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Monday 26 August 2024

A vigorous semi-evergreen climber Lonicera × brownii 'Dropmore Scarlet' (honeysuckle) will flower over a long period from mid summer to late autumn. The terminal clusters of trumpet-shaped bright scarlet flowers looked striking against this black painted wall.

Jill Raggett

[ftlgbtales]

Once Upon a Time...

Do you like fairy tales but find yourself wishing they weren't always so hetero-normative?

You're not alone. That's why we feel it's time to shake things up a bit and give some of these stories an LGBT+ update.

And that's exactly what this event is looking to do! This summer we invite you to re-imagine a classic story, or come up with one all your own, starring Fairy Tail characters!

Event Information

Dates: August 23 - August 26

Submissions: Anything that inspires you - art, fics of any length, poetry, aesthetics, edits, head canons, etc.. Both ship and platonic entries are welcome. The most important aspect is that the piece focus on an LGBT+ character(s).

Prompts: We've chosen two different tropes for each day from here that we thought might be fun, but you are welcome to pick others if they inspire you more!

Day 1 (Friday): Cursed ✦ True Love's Kiss

Day 2 (Saturday): Other Dimension ✦ Impossible Quest

Day 3 (Sunday): Abandoned Child ✦ Surprise Royalty

Day 4 (Monday): Forbidden Love ✦ (Un)Happily Ever After

Event Tag: Use the tag FTOUAT in your first five so that we can see it!

General Rules: No character bashing, pedophilia or incest, all content must be previously unpublished and original to the blog posting it. Tag all content appropriately for triggers.

If you have questions, send us an ask!

We love getting likes, but we'd appreciate it even more if you could reblog this post to help us get the word out!

@ftguildevents @fthostevts @ft-reboost

[literaryvein-reblogs]

1912 Diary Entries: Franz Kafka

31 January. Wrote nothing.

25 February. Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

26 February. Better consciousness of myself.

8 March. Day before yesterday was blamed because of the factory. Then for an hour on the sofa thought about jumping-out-of-the-window.

11 March. Yesterday unendurable.

16 March. Rather be sleepless than live on in this way.

17 March. Today, painfully tired, spent the afternoon on the sofa.

18 March. I was wise, if you like, because I was prepared for death at any moment, but not because I had taken care of everything that was given to me to do, rather because I had done none of it and could not even hope ever to do any of it.

22 March. (The last few days I have been writing down the wrong dates.)

29 March. Delighted with the bathroom. Gradual understanding. The afternoons I spent on my hair.

1 April. For the first time in a week an almost complete failure in writing. Why? Last week too I lived through various moods and kept their influence away from my writing; but I am afraid to write about it.

8 April. Saturday before Easter. Complete knowledge of oneself.

6 May. 11 o’clock. For the first time in a considerable while a complete failure in writing. The feeling of a tried man.

22 May. Yesterday a wonderfully beautiful evening with Max. If I love myself, I love him more.

25 May. Weak tempo, little blood.

1 June. Wrote nothing.

2 June. Wrote almost nothing.

6 June. Without weight, without bones, without body, walked through the streets for two hours considering what I overcame this afternoon while writing.

7 June. Bad. Wrote nothing today. Tomorrow no time.

6 July. Monday. Began a little. Am a little sleepy. Also lost among these entirely strange people.

9 July. Nothing written for so long. Begin tomorrow. Otherwise I shall again get into a prolonged, irresistible dissatisfaction; I am really in it already. The nervous states are beginning. But if I can do something, then I can do it without superstitious precautions.

7 August. Long torment.

8 August. Completed ‘Confidence Trickster’ more or less satisfactorily. With the last strength of a normal state of mind.

9 August. The upset night.

10 August. Wrote nothing.

11 August. Nothing, nothing.

15 August. Wasted day. Spent sleeping and lying down.

16 August. Nothing, either in the office or at home.

30 August. All this time did nothing.

25 September. By force kept myself from writing.

Excerpts from "The diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923"

[anotherlifeofmine]

[hooked-on-elvis]

Those are absolutely two of my favorite pictures of Elvis. Of course I like the details and all the info I can get on the pictures. One thing I have to say is that in that moment Elvis was in his 7th season at the International Hotel in Las Vegas (August 4th - September 4th 1972), and it was the first time he brought Linda Thompson to accompany him during the concerts (prior to that she had only accompanied Elvis during rehearsals in July). You can imagine how jealous I am of her because, well, just look at Elvis! 🫠🥲 Anyway, here's a little story about the fans with Elvis in those pictures:

Las Vegas, NV. Monday, August 28, 1972. Elvis with two Italian fans. The woman is Nicla Crippa and the man was the President of the Italian fan club, his name is Livio Monari. Livio Monari started the Italian FC in 1962. Together with Nicla Crippa, a personal friend and member of his Fan Club, they met Elvis just after the Midnight show on 26th August 1972. Photos taken that day didn't come out, so they asked to see Elvis again... to have new ones taken on the 28th August (2nd meeting) which are the ones shown above. They had just attended the Dinner & Midnight shows on the 28th Aug: when a waiter approached them - that Elvis was waiting for them.

Nicla said the following about the meeting:

1972 was a special year for me, I picked up all my saving of a year and together with Livio Monari at that time president of the E.P.F.C. of Italy, I flew to Las Vegas in August to see Elvis performing. When we arrived we were so excited that we started immediately to ask anybody of Elvis entourage if we could meet Elvis, crook Col. Parker was at a gambling table with his cigar and he said very rude "NO, you cannot met Elvis", then Joe Esposito who said No too, and when I told him "Hey Joe you are Italian like us" he answered "I'm not Italian, I was born in Chicago" very rude too... until I saw the name of Emilio Muscelli on an office door, I knocked and entered and I said with all my 18 years old enthusiasm (in fact I was not yet 18, I would have turned 18 on December 30) "Hi Emilio, we are Italians and we are here to see Elvis concerts and meet him"... well he took it good to his heart and from that point on he treated me like his daughter - he was 50 years old. We saw 14 concerts in 7 days and we met Elvis TWICE, the first time on August 26 but the pictures Joe Esposito took with Livio's camera did not come out as Livio due the emotion charged an already used film in the camera... the second time on August 28, this time we called a professional photographer to take the 2 pictures to be sure. When I saw Elvis the first time coming out of his dressing room I ran towards him and I almost jumped on him, I hugged and kissed him and he returned the hugs and kisses to me and he asked me "Hey baby how old are you" I answered "18" and he said "And you came all the way from Italy just to see me?" "Yes Elvis" and he "Oh baby..." and he hugged me again very tight. We stayed with him for 15 minutes, we gave him a trophy we brought from Italy unfortunately we have no picture of Elvis with our trophy but I saw it at Graceland Trophy Room in 1987. He wrote a dedication to me, and one to Livio, on 2 LPs we brought with us, he gave us a yellow scarf each, but especially I held his right hand in my hands for a long time, and he did not withdraw it, on the contrary he caressed my hands. He was such a gentle, sweet and tender person, he made us feel at ease and he slowed down speaking English as at that time I could not speak English well. We asked "when will you come to Europe?" he said looking at Joe "I definitely wanna go, after a project I have for January 1973 (Aloha from Hawaii) I'll ask Parker to organize a tour to Europe". The night after Emilio gave us seats in the first row, Elvis saw me from stage and he stooped down and he put a red scarf around my neck... and on August 28 we met him again same place backstage and he said "Hey you are still here, good", he had such a sense of humour. Those 2 meetings with Elvis still are the best moments of my life!

Credits: elvis-collectors.com