#Neisse

[thehmn]

All of them are acting like you’d expect them to according to Scandinavian folklore: The gullible troll, the flirty huldrakarl, the suspicious gnome, the untrustworthy mermaid, and the creepy åmand (stream man or man of the stream)

Additional info: Trolls in Scandinavian folklore aren’t big dumb monsters but more like strong, less bright people of the woods/mountains. Huldrakarl is the less famous male version of the huldra. Gnomes are house spirits who help and protect the family they live with and are often the first to notice if something is off. Scandinavian mermaids are specifically said to have huge breasts which they use to lure sailors to their deaths. Though they’re often confused for each other Åmand is different from Näcken because more often than not he’s only heard but never seen, and will usually loudly announce that he plans to take a life days or even weeks before someone drowns in his waters.

And I just realized there are a lot of creatures with weird tails in Scandinavian folklore…

[witekspicsoldpostcards]

NEISSE - now NYSA in POLAND.

[witekspicsoldpostcards2]

NEISSE - now NYSA / POLAND

[nordleuchten]

Hello! Do you have any information on Lafayette and/or Adrienne de Lafayette's imprisonment?

Dear @mxtallmadge,

yes, I do indeed have some information about La Fayette’s and Adrienne’s time in prison. I have made a series of post about this time – the series is not yet complete and some posts need a bit of editing, but here are the first eight posts:

La Fayette in Prison – Overview

La Fayette in Prison Part 1 – Wesel

La Fayette in Prison – Part 2 – Magdeburg

La Fayette in Prison – Part 3 – Neisse

La Fayette in Prison – Part 4.1 – Adrienne in the Auvergne

La Fayette in Prison – Part 4.2 – Adrienne in Paris

La Fayette in Prison – Part 5 – Georges in America

La Fayette in Prison – Part 6 – Olmütz

I also have a tag “la fayette in prison” or “lafayette in prison” that I use for posts that are in relation to La Fayette imprisonment. Some deal more directly with the subject, some less directly but I think you might think it useful to have a look at the posts tagged thus. There is also the “lafayette in exile” tag that might interest you.

Lastly, if you have any specific question, just let me know and I will do my best to give you an answer. :-)

I hope that helped and that you have/had a great day!

[lollobarcollomanonmollo]

This could have been us but you playin

[bigfootbeat]

Bigfoot Town Hall

Harrison Daily (Arkansas), Sept. 21st, 2024

[hotelfrankfurtoder]

HotelFrankfurtOder -und-Radwandertipps

[mapsontheweb]

Allied proposals for partition of Germany after World War 2

by theflagmapguy_2.0

At the Potsdam Conference (17 July to 2 August 1945), after Germany's unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945, the Allies officially divided Germany into the four military occupation zones — France in the southwest, the United Kingdom in the northwest, the United States in the south, and the Soviet Union in the east, bounded on the east by the new Poland-Germany border on the Oder-Neisse line. At Potsdam, these four zones in total were denoted as 'Germany as a whole', and the four Allied Powers exercised the sovereign authority they now claimed over Germany in agreeing 'in principle' to the ceding of territory of the former German Reich east of 'Germany as a whole' to Poland and the Soviet Union. In addition, under the Allies' Berlin Declaration (1945), the territory of the extinguished German Reich was to be treated as the land area within its borders as of 31 December 1937. All land expansion from 1938 to 1945 was hence treated as automatically invalid, including Eupen-Malmedy, Alsace-Lorraine, Austria, Lower Styria, Upper Carniola, Southern Carinthia, Bohemia, Moravia, Czech Silesia, Danzig, Poland, and Memel. • 🗣️ What's your favorite proposal from these?

[mariacallous]

After trying for five years to dissuade lawmakers in Missouri from enacting laws he believed would endanger his son and other transgender youth in the state, Russel Neiss finally admitted defeat.

The state’s ban in 2023 on transgender medical care for minors devastated Neiss, but it also came with something of an upside for him: no more sacrificing his family’s time to testify at the Missouri statehouse. No more sitting politely with his son while enduring hurtful comments from officials.

The battle was over, and it was time to find somewhere else to live — a state without legislation that could lead to loss of custody over his son, or the denial of medical care. But not just any haven for transgender youth would do. It also had to be a place where the family could continue to live as Orthodox Jews, with a synagogue that wouldn’t shun their child. 

“Trying to figure out where to go, we counted 10 Orthodox communities nationwide that might accept our family,” Neiss said, noting that he consulted a list of LGBTQ-friendly congregations compiled by a group called Eshel. “There are about four places that we can afford, and maybe one place where we actually wanted to live.”

He is married to Rori Picker Neiss, who is a “rabba,” a title for Orthodox women trained in Jewish law, and works as the senior vice president for community relations Jewish Council for Public Affairs.

Their son’s bar mitzvah in April 2024 — which they made sure conformed to Orthodox standards — also served as an occasion to say goodbye to their community in Missouri. A few months later, they relocated to Pennsylvania, joining a congregation called South Philadelphia Shtiebel.

“There’s a reason we drew a mile-radius circle around Shtiebel, and were like, ‘We need a house somewhere in here,’” Neiss said. “They have built the most welcoming space I have ever been a part of. Full stop.”

It was a blissful time for the Neiss family.

“We had a solid six months of not worrying at every moment,” he said. “In Missouri, we were fighting legislation and the stress was hanging over us, day after day after day. So we were enjoying the respite.”

That respite ended in January when Donald Trump was inaugurated as president. He had run on an anti-trans platform targeting health care, athletics and social protections. 

In the 11 days after his swearing-in, Trump has begun to make good on those vows. On his first day in office, he signed an executive order recognizing only two sexes, male and female, and invalidating anyone’s deviation from their sex as a “false claim” spurred by “gender ideology.” Next, he banned transgender troops from serving in the military. Exact numbers are unknown, but several thousand U.S. service members are transgender. In his executive order, Trump suggested that they are mentally or physically sick, dishonorable and selfish. 

On Tuesday, he signed an executive order that aims to outlaw gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, describing such treatments as a form of child abuse, a view that implicates both medical providers and parents.

Neiss and his family had been expecting this, and preparing for it.

“It was just a question of how much, how fast and what would they get away with?” he said. “And then, well, what do we have to do to keep our family safe and secure?”

For fear of the worst coming to pass, he declined to detail what specific measures the family might be considering.

Caution when discussing contingency plans is not unique to Neiss. One Jewish woman with a transgender child agreed to discuss her family’s preparations on condition of anonymity. Living in Colorado, the family was feeling relatively safe. That changed with the inauguration. 

“We are now very scared to the point that we’re packing go-bags,” she said. “We have mapped a route to drive out of the country if something goes crazy. And we’re buying gold bullion.”

The woman, who comes from Holocaust survivors, continued, “I’m not waiting until they come to round us up. And I know that sounds hysterical, but, listen, my grandparents waited too long.”

Minors who transition can be offered therapy to help process the change, as well as social support in picking a new name and clothing. Some may take puberty blockers and at an older age, receive hormone therapy. In rare cases, doctors may administer mastectomies and genital surgery. 

Gender-affirming interventions have been shown to reduce rates of self-harm and depression among transgender youth. 

The nonprofit organization Keshet and other Jewish LGBTQ advocates were among those who denounced Trump’s executive orders as hateful and dangerous. 

“As people who come from a tradition that sees each one of us as created in the divine image, we recognize these actions as defaming God and betraying the preciousness of life; we see these actions as motivated by people in power seeking to create a world in their narrow image — certaintly not God’s,” Keshet said in a statement following Trump’s latest action. 

In social media and texting groups, LGBTQ Jews and their allies are supporting each other by sharing feelings of dismay, fear and despair. They are also consulting their communities on what measures they can take to safeguard their families. Those who may not be directly or immediately affected are offering material support. 

A Jewish woman in Oregon, for example, posted that her home is available to take in transgender youth who are escaping abusive or unsafe situations. She noted that her home is “moderately kosher.” (The Jewish Telegraphic Agency is not providing her name given the sensitivity of the issue and because she did not respond to an inquiry.)

Rabbi Mike Moskowitz of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, which bills itself as the world’s largest LGBTQ synagogue, posted a video message for transgender Jews on the synagogue’s Instagram page.  

“For those of you who feel scared or alone, we see you, we love you,” Moskowitz said. “God doesn’t put extra people in this world — we need you.”

In Chicago, where transgender rights are relatively secure, Danielle Solzman, a freelance film critic who is transgender, is considering immigrating to Israel. For her health care, she relies on Medicaid, which is a federal program and therefore run by the Trump administration. Trump has so far not targeted gender-affirming care for those, including Solzman, who are 19 years old and over. 

“If things get worse, as I expect they will. It’s going to give me no choice but to move to Israel, where the treatment I need is accessible,” she said in an interview. 

Solzman was already considering moving there, but for a different reason. 

“Right after Oct. 7, it was going to be antisemitism that would force me into moving, not federally mandated transphobia,” she said. “Trump is not looking at trans people as being human. He’s looking at us as being subhuman. It’s like 1930s Germany all over again.”

Several lawmakers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government are openly anti-LGBTQ rights, but Netanyahu has vowed to block them from advancing discriminatory legislation. The country scores relatively high on LGBTQ legal rights compared to the rest of the world, according to an index by a group called Equaldex, which says Israel is among 28 countries where gender-affirming care is legal. With the country’s universal healthcare system, Israelis generally have access to many kinds of treatments, including hormone replacement therapy. 

In the United States, the policy effects of Trump’s executive orders are still mostly uncertain, and they have no direct or immediate impact on Neiss’ son. But the message they send is clear to Neiss. 

“The order suggests that living as a trans person — that my son’s entire existence is up for debate, and that is unconscionable,” he said. “When you start talking about people as lesser than or as inhuman, that’s language which puts people at risk.”

Neiss is also disappointed that the historical echo of Nazism he hears in Trump’s rhetoric isn’t spurring more alarm among mainstream Jewish leaders.

“The dominant Jewish community has nothing to say on this particular issue, and it is a huge moral failing,” he said. 

Transgender rights are not at the center of the mainstream Jewish advocacy agenda. Many left-leaning Jewish groups, however, have at minimum criticized efforts to ban transgender women and girls from participating in women’s sports. In January, before the inauguration, more than 100 groups — including the umbrella organization for Reform Judaism, the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly, the leading Reconstructionist Jewish groups and the National Council of Jewish Women — signed a letter opposing a transgender sports ban bill in Congress.

Neiss and his wife don’t immediately update their 13-year-old son with every news headline. As with many parents in difficult circumstances, the Neisses want to deliver the unvarnished truth without sparking panic in their son. 

“We’ve made sure that he’s gotten the love and support that he needs and so we can be truthful with him,” Neiss said “Then we tell him, ‘We got your back.’ And he says, ‘I know it,’ because he believes it.”

[getoutofthisplace]

Dear Gus & Magnus,

We put in around 25,000 steps yesterday, and then we topped that today, starting with a walk to breakfast, then we met Arika and Chu at the Museum of Modern Art. My favorite piece was George Grosz's The Poet Max Herrmann-Neisse. We got coffee and pastries in the Singapore Food Court, visited the Public Library, then Lily joined us for dinner in Koreatown at Osamil. Afterward we walked to a Korean market, then the High Line, where we took a picture with a giant pigeon, and eventually split off from the Lais. By the time we made it back to our hotel we were a little hungry, so we ducked into a dim sum and noodle place before calling it a night.

Nene sent us photos of you two and Cate eating s'mores around the fire pit at her house. We're glad you're having a good time.

Dad.

New York City, New York. 11.16.2024 - 7.28pm.

[rosesonapond]

Next Gen AUs Ships and Characters with Children

OTPverse

Rose Lotus (aka Crimson / Red Lotus)

Iceberg (aka Neiss)

Tauradonna (I want to write it as close to canon as possible, but canon Adam sucks, maybe he'll be revived, rescued, or stranded vers.)

Arkos

Cinnabun

Orange Sherbet

Ironwitch

Rich Data Farms (aka Oscar x Whitley x Nora)

Elderburn (aka Yang x Winter)

Thunder Thighs (aka Nora x Mercury)

CinderOo (not romantic)

NeonSage

FlyntCiel

FelineFriendly (aka Sienna x Tukson)

Lieutenant

The 4 Royal Families of Remnant

Black Lotus verse

Black Lotus

Red Sea (aka Ruby x Neptune)

White Knight

Neon Bull (aka Neon x Adam)

SunNora

Yang Sage

FelineFriendly (aka Sienna x Tukson)

RoboCyborg (aka Mercury x Penny)

Ironwitch

QrowWinter

Rich Farmers (aka Oscar x Whitley)

Lieutenant

The 4 Royal Families of Remnant

White Lotus verse

White Lotus (aka Weiss x Ren)

Lancaster (aka Jaune x Ruby)

Catmeleon (aka Blake x Ilia)

YangJR (aka Yang x Junior)

NepNora (aka Neptune x Nora)

PyrSun (aka Pyrrha x Sun)

FelineFriendly

Data Farms (aka Oscar x Penny)

Ironwitch

Whitley

Adam

Winter

Lieutenant

The 4 Royal Families of Remnant

Silent Love verse

NeoRen (aka Neo x Ren)

Ladybug (aka Ruby x Blake)

WeissPilot

Sea Dragon (aka Neptune x Yang)

Arkos

Stike Marigolds (aka Henry x Nora, might not be romantic, not sure yet really)

Time Freeze (aka Ciel x Winter)

Broken Machines (aka Whitley x Penny)

Sun Rise (aka Adam x Sun)

FelineFriendly

Ironwitch

Lieutenant

The 4 Royal Families of Remnant

Envy Zinnia verse

Envy Zinnia (aka Emerald x Ren)

White Rose

Black Sun

Nora's Arc (aka Nora x Jaune)

High Tide (aka Neptune x Pyrrha)

Wintermeleon (aka Winter x Ilia

Investor (aka Whitley x Ciel)

Dairy Farm (aka Neo x Oscar)

IronQrow (aka Ironwood x Qrow)

Lieutenant

The Four Royal Families of Remnant

Canon verse

Re/nora

Bumble/bee

White Knight

Rose Garden

Emercury

Sun

Neptune

Ilia

Winter

Whitley

Lieutenant

The 4 Royal Families of Remnant

Black Rose Lotus verse

Black Rose Lotus

Lucky Charm (aka Qrow x Clover)

Negatives (aka Mercury x Weiss)

Rainbow Quartz (aka Ilia x Emerald)

Sync or Swim (aka Neptune x Penny)

Dragon Slayer (aka Yang x Jaune)

Sun

Winter

Whitley

Oscar

Lieutenant

The 4 Royal Families of Remnant

Sunflowyr verse

Sunflowyr (aka Yang x Ren)

Wild Rose (aka Ruby x Whitley)

KnightShade (aka Blake x Jaune)

White Sun (aka Weiss x Sun

Winter

Nora

Whitley

Neon

Flynt

Oscar

Emerald

Mercury

Ilia

Neptune

Lieutenant

The 4 Royal Families of Remnant

Bittersweet verse

Tauradonna

Cinnabun

Iceberg

Wild Rose

MerCinder (aka Mercury x Cinder)

Nora

Winter

Cinder

Oscar

The 4 Royal Families of Remnant

Reverse Human/Faunus AU #1

Rose Lotus

QrowWinter

Cinnabun

Arkos

Rich Farmers

NepNeo (aka Neptune x Neo)

Thunder Thighs

Immortal Souls (Salem x Ozpin)

Lieutenant

Reverse Human/Faunus AU #2

Sunflowyr

Ironwitch

Immortal Souls

Emberald

Iceberg

Arranged Marriage AU# 2

Poly NG AU (might make a rule in legacy challenge poly next gen aus, have to find lovers outside their respective universe and go into another)

Crossover verses

(Not complete, but might as well post it)

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NEISSE - now NYSA / Lower Silesia, Poland

[moonatic-game]

"Wake Up" EP is now out on spotify!

セルゲイ・ニースfeat.TheHirouとIme44によるMOONATICのテーマソングEPをお聴きください。TheHirou and いめ44 アルバムイラスト：HITOTWO Have a listen to our upcoming RPG game MOONATIC's Theme Song EP by Sergey Neiss feat. TheHirou and いめ44 Cover Art by HITOTWO

[kick-a-long]

You ever gonna find him Robert Stack? You got any tips from the 90s to run him down? You still in contact with Todd Neiss, Bigfoot hunter?

Any updates on the swamp ape Mr. Stack? The world is waiting.

[neoninglitchen]

this song is so SILLY!! so JOYUS!! and WHIMSICAL!! i feel like a cartoon character WAKING UP (get the joke har har) in my CAREFREE show

[deerspace9]

Neoliberals will go on twitter and post NATO memes about gay marriage and then won't even advocate for the immediate post-WW2 Germany style occupation and martial law of every NATO country to the east of Oder-Neisse