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magicaltrash · 1 year ago

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It's time for the 5th annual Magical Trash Year-in-Review, where we take a look at trash cans at the Disney theme parks and resorts worldwide. Yes, it's a weird idea, but you are going to keep reading, right? (View previous Year-in-Reviews) Some may note that it's been a somewhat rocky year for the Mouse, but trash can activity has been strong. As we've seen in previous years, this year's additions were primarily driven by attraction openings, including Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway at Disneyland, the opening of the World of Frozen in Hong Kong, and the arrival of the Zootopia in Shanghai. Unfortunately, we also saw the fastest introduction-to-removal can timeline with the closing of Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser - which had opened just a year earlier at Walt Disney World. Over the past year, MagicalTrash.com celebrated the 1,000 trash can photo milestone (only took 14 years!), while adding over 100 new entries. This was complimented by 1,600+ posts across social media networks, including Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. Posts were also added to Twitter/X, but frankly it's hard to continue supporting that platform due to its overall decline on many fronts (and I say that as someone who works in corporate social media professionally!). For 2023, Magical Trash tracked 16 substantial trash can design changes, a 14% increase vs. 2022's 14 tracked changes:

Added: 14

Historical Cans Added: 4

Updated: 0

Endangered: 0

Removed: 2

The US-based parks saw the most activity, with Disneyland Resort experiencing 6 changes, while Walt Disney World recorded 4 changes. Hong Kong Disneyland Resort and Disneyland Paris Resort both recorded 2 updates, and Shanghai Disney Resort saw 1 new addition. No notable changes were recorded for Tokyo Disney Resort or Disney Cruise Line.

Here's a detailed breakdown of updates:

ADDED New trash can designs that debuted in Disney theme parks over the past year

Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway (El CapiTOON Theater) - NEW Disneyland, Mickey’s Toontown With a movie theater setting, iconography is anchored by a popcorn bucket image with large “EC” letters.

Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway (M.A.G.I.C.) - NEW Disneyland, Mickey’s Toontown Outside the attraction are cans associated with M.A.G.I.C. - short for the Municipal Agency of Garbage Identification and Collection. Now that's a group we want to join!

World of Frozen (Arendelle Crest) - NEW - NEW Hong Kong Disneyland, World of Frozen The official crest of Arendelle features a crocus - a multi-color flowering bulb that typically blooms in the spring - and seen throughout the Frozen franchise.

World of Frozen (Wandering Oaken’s Sliding Sleighs) - NEW Hong Kong Disneyland, World of Frozen Furthering the rugged forest theme of the family coaster, decorative Scandinavian folk art patterns are found throughout queue, with geometric shapes highlighted in red, green, and orange hues.

Zootopia - NEW Shanghai Disneyland, Zootopia A surprising entry to Shanghai's bland trash can scene, green trash cans with zebra-like stripes on the lower portion combine with a city emblem.

San Fransokyo Square - NEW Disney California Adventure, San Fransokyo Square The shoehorned Big Hero 6 retheme of DCA's Pacific Wharf gave us new cans that looked a lot like the old cans - but with bonus "SFS" branding. Ho hum.

Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana - NEW Walt Disney World, Epcot, World Nature You can tell this is a modern Disney attraction because the name is an IP-laden paragraph. Lots of storytelling to explain "scenery."

Parkside Market - NEW Disneyland Resort, Downtown Disney Probably one of the more visually-stunning additions in 2023, Mickey Mouse + mid-century design. Simple concept, well-executed.

The Villas at Disneyland Hotel - NEW Disneyland Resort, The Villas at Disneyland Hotel New DVC borrows much of its design from Aulani. Not ugly, but also not magical. Were these picked out of a catalog?

Pixar Place Hotel - NEW Disneyland Resort, Pixar Place Hotel The retime of Disneyland's Paradise Pier Hotel features trash cans very similar in design to those implemented at The Villas at Disneyland Hotel. Maybe they got a 2-for-1 deal?

Disneyland Paris Reusable Tableware Cans - NEW Disneyland Paris, Adventureland France's Anti-Waste and Circular Economy Law is focused on phasing out improper disposal of waste. Food service at the French parks has implemented reusable table settings, which has impacted trash can design.

"Fantasyland 2" Backstage - NEW Disneyland Paris, Fantasyland A backstage can makes an appearance onstage as a support trash can from the “Fantasyland 2” zone, parked where everyone can see.

Pym Test Kitchen Food Waste - NEW Disney California Adventure, Avengers Campus After debuting combination food waste trash cans in Tomorrowland around 2021, Disneyland expanded the practice to the Avengers Campus at DCA.

Jollywood Nights Temporary Media Can - NEW Disney's Hollywood Studios, Grand Avenue Throw a sticker on an existing trash can and it's something new! Temporarily rethemed can at Disney's Hollywood Studios during a media event for Jollywood Nights holiday entertainment.

HISTORICAL CANS ADDED Retro trash can designs that were unearthed by new research this year, but are no longer in use

MK Main Street (1974) - HISTORICAL ADDITION Magic Kingdom, Main Street U.S.A. Early years of the Magic Kingdom featured very detailed trash cans on Main Street U.S.A, often in multiple colors. Quite a contrast from the undecorated brown cans used in the 2000s.

Farmer's Market (Late-1980s/Early-1990s) - HISTORICAL ADDITION Epcot, Future World, The Land The famed umbrella tables at The Land found their shapes emulated via the trash cans, which were primarily brown with light tan arches represented on all sides.

River Country (2010) - HISTORICAL ADDITION Walt Disney World, Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground 9 years after the water park closed, remnants of the ‘Ol’ Swimmin’ Hole’ could still be spotted at Fort Wilderness.

Mulholland Madness (2007) - HISTORICAL ADDITION Disney's California Adventure, Paradise Pier Tacky theme was on-point for DCA 1.0. This green can with road sign decal found a home in Paradise Pier.

UPDATED Existing trash can designs that have been modified or revised in the past year

None for 2023

ENDANGERED Trash can designs that still exist, but will most likely disappear in the future

None for 2023

REMOVED Trash can designs that have been eliminated from use at Disney theme parks

Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser (Interior) - REMOVED Walt Disney World, Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser The in-wall trash cans for the 100-cabin Corellian MPO-1400 model Galactic Starcruiser were in use for just 579 days.

Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser (Terminal) - REMOVED Walt Disney World, Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser You won't be needing to dispose of your garbage before boarding the MPO-1400 Star Cruiser Halcyon, as these cans will probably have a longer life than the hotel ever had.

One massive disappointment in 2023 was Walt Disney World's opening of TRON Lightcycle / Run in the Magic Kingdom's Tomorrowland. Generic silver cans, thus reinforcing WDW's continual cheapening out on themed trash can design. Paul Pressler called and even he thinks you can do better.

Here at Magical Trash we celebrated our 14-year anniversary covering the world of Disney trash cans, which included keeping up with various salt shaker merchandise releases that showcase the iconic can shape. 6 new designs were released during festivals: The Dude with the Food (DCA Food & Wine 2023), Amazingly Sweet (DCA Food & Wine 2023), Groovy Garden Orange Bird (Epcot Flower & Garden 2023), Stuck on Imagination Figment (Epcot Flower & Garden 2023), Chef Mickey (Epcot Food & Wine 2023), and Spaceship Earth (Epcot Food & Wine 2023).

If you happened to be at Tokyo Disneyland, you could have picked up a mini figure version of a Tomorrowland trash can or a TDS trash can toy. In the U.S. you could pick up a shirt or water bottle with a recycling can image proclaiming that you "Love Our Disney Parks" -- Disneyland or WDW-specific versions. There was plenty of trash can auction action as well.

Thanks to everyone who contributed photos, visited MagicalTrash.com, and interacted with this weird hobby over the past year. You've put a smile on my face as we all follow this goofy passion. As it's impossible to be omnipresent at 12 theme parks and numerous resorts around the world, let us know what we've missed! Thanks for an interesting year, CanFans! - Steve Tanner, your Magical Trash host

[All photos used by permission.]

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neo-shitty · 2 years ago

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road runners — l.yb

description. road running was just like any other high-paying job brought about by the new road management system. high risk, high reward. another position had been vacated in your station, you just hoped the newbie would last a little longer than the last one did.

pairings. lee felix x gender-neutral reader

genre. dystopian!au, kind of workmates!au

warnings. graphic imagery, slight discussions on morality, animal death, multiple death by accidents, implied suicide (not of main characters), major character death

word count. 2.6k

notes. posting this after seeing this scene in the 5 star trailer haha kinda morbid thinking how i came up with this in driving school lmao hope everyone’s doing well! it’s been so long (。_。)

On the job, you were but an observer—an additional pair of eyes with the extra skill of executing actions that the cameras could not. There would come a time when the development of technology would give birth to advancements that’ll eventually take over most human labors. But that day was not today, nor do you imagine it to be any time soon. For now, you’re stationed on one of the many towers that lined the Gyeongbu Expressway, roving the highway for something interesting. Just like usual, there’s nothing.

Becoming a road runner had been every child’s dream at some point. Every head turned towards car windows on expressways and busy highways, watching out for the moment the black-suited figures zipped from one tower to another. You were no exception, so when the teachers asked what you wanted to be when you grew older you answered the same thing every year: I want to be a road runner.

It wouldn’t be until high school when you learned the grim reality behind the coolest job you’ve ever known. Road runners never existed until about half a century ago when the government decided on the full enforcement of all traffic laws to eliminate the ever-growing traffic problem. A decade-long transition was put into motion in the year 2068; road and highways were reconstructed, and at the end of the ten years, most of the country’s major networks functioned in the same way train railways had, complete with a centralized system to track all of its users.

Automatic transmission vehicles ATVs took on a new definition, now functioning on auto-pilot and programmed to sync with the central system. While some people resorted to purchasing new cars with the built in systems, the government couldn’t force everyone to make the switch. They could, however, launch the strict implementation of all road and traffic laws through the system.

And so they did.

The decision was marred with controversy when the accidents began to happen. While most citizens brushed it off their shoulders as a good riddance for nuisances, others saw through and began thinking there was a more sinister reason to it. The government never explicitly stated that MTVs were banned from the streets, though driving them grew more and more risky. They were rogues to the system, undetectable. Highways have turned into railroad tracks, cars into bullet trains. ATVs were hot-wired pods meant to get you to your destination via the quickest route possible and on the road, there was no stopping them.

Both traffic and pollution significantly lessened with the transition, but one problem spiked—road-related accidents. Pedestrians were ploughed by high-speed ATVs, MTVs crushed by collisions, and the death toll reached hundreds within months of its implementation. But the government did not waver, nor did it carry the blame for everything that had happened. They wiped their hands clean.

“The system has been programmed with rules that have long been implemented, pre-existing ones we were already meant to follow beforehand,” they said. The ignorance of the law excuses no one, and so the government played court and passed judgment.

Right wings argued that roads were meant for vehicles alone. Why were pedestrians prioritized all the time when there were designated times and places for them like sidewalks, crosswalk lights, their very own safe zones. Pedestrians and other street-users abused their privilege, compromising vehicle drivers and contributing into traffic congestion. Humans were smart but they were slaves to their own egos, susceptible to being easily put back into place when reminded of a higher authority.

Sanctions towards traffic law violators were dropped. No more fines and months in probation and arrests. If you weren’t registered into the system, you were still free to use the roads as you liked. You could cross it whenever you liked, drove an MTV side by side with the ATVs but you could no longer sue other parties for what could happen to you on the road.

Little by little, as every road was remodeled and programmed with the centralized system, traffic law enforcers one by one disappeared—giving way to another job, one that acted as a countermeasure to the growing number of highway traffic accidents, road running.

The government thought response teams took too long to get to the accident area, hence the birth of the organization for road runners. Road running was a high paying profession, right for a job just as risky. Runners were stationed along major highways and roads, functioning as both lookouts and quick response teams for any accident, be it minor or major, that may occur. Minor accidents were meant to be dealt with by a single runner or in groups of three depending on the gravity. Major accidents were reported to the system which then rerouted upcoming road users for an hour until the highway was once again spotless.

You never thought you’d land the job as an act of desperation but you did, filing in your application within days from quitting school and getting it. For a job that was sought for, it was vacated a lot. Runners either chickened out when accidents finally did happen or died in the process of cleaning up one. It wasn’t an easy job, it was gruesome. You felt the same way towards it when you were met with an accident a week into the job. But the fear and the ick passes and you began to look at things differently, observing street users with the detachment of someone who agreed with the government’s ideals.

For the past year, you’ve kept to yourself most of the time—staying on your tower through all the eight hours you’re supposed to be there unlike the others who roved around for anything. Compared to prior years, accidents now happened few and far between and most of the time on purpose. Your shifts were more eventless than not. Until a rally against corrupt ATV manufacturing companies took to the streets to make their point a couple of months ago. No rerouting was called that day, not until each and every one of the protestors lied mangled on the streets. The massacre was quick but the repercussions it left behind went far and wide, giving birth to a generation of new-minded individuals who were curious why the way of things had to be that way.

Felix was one of them and he joined the road runners in the midst of it.

“Chan quit. We’re getting a new guy today.” Changbin doesn’t even bother looking up to greet you, gaze fixated on his phone—making the most out of the few minutes before your shift began.

Beneath your finger, a green light flashes and the machine beeps. “Saw that coming,” you said, looking across the room to where Chan was stationed, a part of the tower office that you’ve seen more often vacated than occupied. “New guy on an expressway? That’s new.”

“Heard he’s one of the fast ones.”

Either that or they needed more people on the expressway. You joined the runners back when the positions were still fought for, the profession respected rather than shun. Starting out as a newbie, they assigned you to small streets and country roads until you were working on bigger roads then national highways. It wasn’t because you were getting any better in your job but because those positions were harder to keep than to earn.

The new guy was a bright-eyed boy with star-studded cheeks and a nervous smile. He blinked at the both of you as he walked in, unsure of what to say when you just stared at him back. The scanner beeps beneath his finger and he walks to the back of the office to where Chan used to sit.

“Lee Felix, right?” He turned to you, wide-eyed and alert.

Road runner contracts only lasted a year and even then only a few stayed in the job long enough to renew it. It took one good look at Felix to know that he’d be one of those who wouldn’t make it past the year—either by quitting or some foolish mistake on the road.

An alarm blared as the clock struck 4 and runners from the last shift burst through the doors of the tower from both sides of the line. It wasn’t the splotches of wetness on their suits nor the expressions on their faces that gave it away, but the metallic stench that followed them as they came in.

“What happened?” Changbin rose from his seat, giving way to the runner who shared his desk.

“Someone tried to cross the street on a green light.”

“How many?”

“Just one,” he answered, before finally looking around. “New guy?” He pointed at Felix who still stood frozen in the middle of the road. The quiet boy nodded. “Good luck then, kid.”

You never liked it when anyone glossed over the truth of the road-running profession. It paid high for the risk of cleaning roadkill carcass all the while preventing yourself from becoming one, but it never compensated for the images wedged into your subconscious of mangled bodies, scattered insides and pools of blood. So you’ve made it a habit to put a fair warning to anyone new to the job, turning to Felix as he followed you out the tower saying, “Do yourself a favor and quit.”

But of course he didn’t, they almost never did until witnessing their first deaths. The only thing that was different with Felix was his unpredictability because he stopped his first accident from happening. It wasn’t that you didn’t see it coming. He was curious and inquisitive, a dead giveaway of his political biases. He always asked why you never stopped the pedestrians or flagged down the MTVs and you always answered the same thing: these people knew the rules and the law and whatever consequences they suffered were beyond you.

Felix never seemed to get it, his humanity completely intact. Of the three of you, he always ended up black out tired by midnight, running up and down the road to warn people to use the overpass instead of the road or entertaining impatient folk and tricking them into waiting until the crosswalk lights turned green.

But just like him, there were hard-headed people who never listened regardless of the measures he took. The first time he saw a person carelessly cross the road in a manic sprint, he jumped right after them. Grappling hooks burst out of his belt, piercing through the wind to hook onto metal bars across the highway and he swung across like a madman, saving the man at the last second before a truck rolled past where they once were.

You met his triumphant smile with disbelief and horror. “Maybe they haven’t oriented you, Felix, but our job is to clean up, not pick up.”

“I know and I don’t get it. Of all people, road runners can save lives and lessen traffic accidents, so why not do it?”

You’ve heard of this subtle leftist movement spreading across the provinces, the new generation of road runners adding saving pedestrians into their list of obligations. It was counterintuitive to what the government wanted to be done, but it was morally aligned with what most people thought. Road runners were being hailed again, looked up to. But the inversely proportional scales tipped, lower accident rates meant higher risks for runners.

It didn’t guarantee a 100% success rate. There was a dog one day, got loose from its leash and sprinted off the highway sidewalk. Felix had been the first one to see it, tunnel vision narrowed to the dog’s path as it leaped onto the highway. But you’ve seen it too, along with the bus barrelling down the highway that maybe he didn’t.

“Felix, stop!” You dashed from your station, reaching him before his grappling hooks shot out. The dog continued running across the street, the bus continued moving at speed limit. Wind blew past you as it passed, leaving you puzzled on the sidewalk with nothing but dust and a carcass in its wake.

“I could’ve saved it,” Felix said, already mourning the pup he’d only met seconds ago. But even he sounded hopeless, half-knowing that there was no way helping that dog out of this one because he couldn’t have made it across without the bus ramming into him in exchange.

You remembered a time when you thought the same way but the years have dulled your hope, whatever righteousness you’ve had in you dissipating with the disbelief that people still refused to listen. And the accidents came often, desensitizing you with every death happening before your eyes. These people didn’t care about themselves no matter how hard you tried to save them.

While you grew to accept it as the months passed, Felix did not, or he wasn’t on the field long enough to know that in the end he couldn’t do anything about it if the same people who were saved never wanted saving.

Felix was never assigned to your part of the highway before, so he never knew about that regular passerby—one who only sat by to observe the timing of things. The man always came by on weekday afternoons rain or shine. The expressway was never made for pedestrians but he still came anyway. It wasn’t hard to predict what was in his mind but you never made a move to approach nor interfere. And he disappeared for quite a while, months, and you thought he finally kicked the bucket. But he comes back one day, with a brighter expression over his once gloomy face and you’ve seen too many suicides to know what another attempt looks like.

Felix, however, did not. You didn’t see the man coming because if you did, you would’ve stopped him the way you did before during close calls. But he sees the man before you do and in the spur of the moment, the man had jumped into the highway, Felix following immediately behind him. And you can still hear Changbin behind you, shouting about upcoming cars but it falls on deaf ears and you watched the accident happen—both the man and Felix run down by a parade of cars coming from a recently greenlit intersection. You saw them launched into the air, landing so far from the point of collision and further ploughed by upcoming vehicles. Pieces of the body landed scattered down the highway, cars coming too often for any of you to get any cleaning done.

You didn’t realize you were holding your breath until you felt your lungs begin to burn. For a moment you stood there, both in shock yet expecting what had happened. It was only a matter of when it would happen. Eventually you snapped out of it when the cars stopped coming, green light finally turning red.

From your pocket you dug out the device meant to access the central system and set the timer. The system closes off the highway and reroutes all upcoming vehicles to other roads. You began the dreadful trek to where the bodies, or most of it, actually were. Changbin called for a highway sweep, the two-man team seeming not enough to clear all parts of the bodies off the street.

“Shame, I thought he’d last longer.” Changbin muttered as he caught up beside you, his mask and gloves already on.

“He didn’t really have it in him, you know? He was too soft.” You answered. “This might’ve been the best way to go and better now than later.”

#felix angst #skz angst #felix fluff #skz fluff #skz scenarios #kwritersworldnet #felix scenarios #felix x reader #skz x reader #felix imagines #skz imagines #felix timestamps #lee felix #skz #stray kids #skz felix #toff.writes

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controlaltaigis · 7 months ago

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I played railway three again

Yeah I did this a month ago and just now felt like posting something

My main strategy for segment one was to have a set up turn where I fired off bodysack with rcliff and lobcorp Faust’s skill two for the haste, and then use Hex Nail -> Quick Supression for the three pierce fragility, one envy fragility, and four normal fragility, which then led into Harpoon of Obsession, D.D.E.D.R., and Rip Space. I would have overclocked it for more envy fragility instead of pierce fragility but I was too poor on resources teehee. I reset SO many times for that four turn siltcurrent fight, I managed to kill it before it even started its actual gimmick. Good stuff.

Segment two is where I debuted my much more experimental, some may say Fuckung Stupid strategies, featuring stars like LCCB Ishy, Butler Faust(‘s support passive), Ring Yi Sang(‘s support passive) and yeah it’s Wingbeat I used Wingbeat on Skin prophet. You can tell by the five turn count that I got tired of resetting for it EXTREMELY quickly and stopped trying at four reuses. very sad. This unfortunate strategy had the side effect of making Ardor Blossom Moth SO FUCKGINTNT ANNOYING I only played it out like three times before I just said fuck it and kept my six turn win.

Segment three brought back an actual good Ishmael ID as well as adding Regret Faust, Spicebush Yi Sang, and Classic Character Cinq Sinclair. The rude and worthless three wave mermaid encounter was rude and worthless as usual and I was *fine* with seven turns but the TRIO was a real fight, that one was fucked up. I’m genuinely so fucking proud of a five-turn trio, bursting down Ahab through two health bars across two turns was extremely difficult to plan out and just as tough to execute, this was the longest I spent on any single fight for sure. I kinda dropped the ball on Gasharpoon though, ten turns is pretty pathetic. Worse yet that I got her down to SIX HP on turn nine and just. didn’t reset. why? I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t kn

Spiral of Contempt was boring and annoying as usual I used a sinking team I love my sinking team I could have knocked off a turn or two with more attempts but I didn’t want to keep fighting Spiral of Contempt.

Congrats W Don for dealing the most damage I am proud of you,

#limbus company #project moon #refraction railway three #im mostly proud of this run #nonzero chance I do it again before railway four drops #thank you himejoshi Faust thank you hex nail

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racefortheironthrone · 2 years ago

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How did Lincoln's economic policy set the GOP on their path towards corporate domination?

To be fair, I do approve of much of Lincoln's economic policy - the first income tax, the use of greenbacks, land grant colleges, etc. - so it's more that there are a couple areas of economic policy where I think Lincoln's administration had that effect, and the extent to which I think it's fair to hold Lincoln accountable for the long-term implications varies:

Procurement: to be fair, Lincoln inherited a Federal government that really didn't have a modernized procurement system. However, between that and the pretty thorough corruption of Secretary of War Simon Cameron and others within the Federal government, a lot of businessmen got rich selling substandard goods to the Union army and navy at a markup in exchange for kickbacks - so much so that the term "shoddy" became generalized and popularized as a result. (Previously, "shoddy" had specifically referred to reprocessed wool.)

Bonds: in order to finance the Union war effort, the Lincoln administration sold an enormous amount of bonds - and Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase basically turned the Union's bond drive over to Jay Cooke, a politically-connected Philadelphia banker. To give him credit, Cooke was very good at selling bonds both to ordinary bankers and the man on the street, but Cooke's personal commission meant that he (and the men he hired as his sub-agents) became staggeringly wealthy and thus a major donor to the Chase presidential campaign in 1868. Cooke ultimately was bankrupted when his Northern Pacific Railway went bust in the Panic of 1873.

Banking: while the National Banking Act of 1863 had many good elements - nationalizing the currency, and establishing Federal charters that allowed the Federal government to regulate banks on capital and reserve requirements - it also had the effect of further concentrating currency and credit in Northeastern banks (which could more easily meet those requirements due to being better-capitalied to begin with), which was a bit of a problem when you realize that the U.S didn't have a central bank to ensure that all regions of the country had decent access to currency and credit.

Railroads: the Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 and 1864 provided for the Federal subsidization of transcontinental railroads through the granting of Federal land. While this got the railroads built, it didn't come without a healthy side-order of corruption: understanding that they stood to make a fortune if the railroad acts went through, railroad companies gave out a lot of free stock to U.S Congressmen, who in turn made sure the Acts passed and the Federal government was generous with land grants, loans, etc. This wouldn't blow up until the Credit Mobilier scandal of 1872, but the roots go back in the 1860s.

As you might expect, a lot of the bankers and railroad executives who had gotten rich off the Civil War became major donors and activists and party leaders and elected officials of the Republican Party. This had a significant impact on the party's political and policy direction: by 1868, the Republican Party's national platform mixed calls for civil rights and equal suffrage with demands that Civil War debt be redeemed in gold rather than paper money (which contributed to post-war deflation and represented a repudiation of the Greenback Acts), and that progressive taxation be done away with.

#history #u.s history #republican party #gold standard #monetary policy #greenback party

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brookstonalmanac · 1 year ago

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Events 12.29

1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church. 1503 – The Battle of Garigliano was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo. 1607 – According to John Smith, Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan leader Wahunsenacawh, successfully pleads for his life after tribal leaders attempt to execute him. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia. 1812 – USS Constitution, under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle. 1835 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States. 1845 – The United States annexes the Republic of Texas and admits it as the 28th state. 1860 – The launch of HMS Warrior, with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete. 1874 – The military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed First Spanish Republic and the monarchy is restored as Prince Alfonso is proclaimed King of Spain. 1876 – The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio. 1890 – On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment. 1911 – Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia. 1913 – Cecil B. DeMille starts filming Hollywood's first feature film, The Squaw Man. 1930 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan. 1934 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. 1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution. 1940 – In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, killing almost 200 civilians during World War II. 1972 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on board. 1975 – A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring more than 75. 1989 – Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia. 1989 – The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble. 1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached. 1994 – Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board. 1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war. 1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the Cambodian genocide that claimed over one million lives. 2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. 2006 – The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt. 2013 – A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others. 2013 – Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a massive head injury while skiing in the French Alps. 2020 – A large explosion at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden kills at least 22 people and wounds 50.

#Events

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rray-gunn · 2 years ago

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Friends at the Table: PALISADE NOTES Ep 3: Conflict Turn session 1

EDIT: tumblr’s bullet point formatting is absolute ass, so here’s a link to my cohost where you can view the exact same post but, uh, prettier to read. If anyone has tips for formatting bullet points in tumblr lmk.

SPOILERS UNDER THE READMORE!

*Note: I take these notes as I listen, so they’re kind of a chronological reading guide to help me as I re-listen. I hope I got everything correct, but there will inevitably be mistakes with my spelling and comprehension of events that happen in these episodes. PLEASE feel free to let me know if I missed or misinterpreted anything. These notes are to help me and others make sense of the really dense and lore-heavy conflict turn episodes, so it’s important to me that I’m as accurate as I can be. I’m posting these notes on my tumblr and cohost. If you can think of anything that would be helpful for future notes posts, such as timestamps, links, fanart images, etc, please let me know. -Ray*

Jack’s faction:

Division:

The Curtain (Stel Kesh) as Bilateral Intelligence Services. Formerly called the Curtain, the BIS is a Kesh-operated organization which specializes in espionage, subterfuge, and surveillance. Though it is as secretive as ever, it is no longer the true source of power in Kesh territory. Instead, Cynosure Whitestar-Kesh has modernized its structure and operation, and has ensured that it remains well integrated into the Bilateral Intercession’s greater workings—as to better keep one eye on them.

Major division

Type: Subterfuge (deploying spies or agents to deal with things covertly)

3 pillars:

1) Diadem Grav Train

Kesh has reactivated this railway via an operation center in Carmathen.

It can circumnavigate the planet

Very scary and fast

2) Stargrave Elcessor

Ensures Kesh’s primacy.

Woman from Kesh, collects vintage cameras, went to military school

3) The Paint Shop

Elaborate castle on the tallest peak, taken over & added on to

Anor Londo but if it was a bohemian artist’s commune full of spies

This is the most Cold War-esque shit ever JDQ I love you so much

Imagine Warhol-esque parties where people do performance art by splashing paint on an object and several floors below there’s a guy sitting in a room wearing headphones listening to everyone

After Palisade:

Peaceful Princept reconfigured the curtain into this current form

A modern organization for a new time. It’s the CIA.

Have deployed on Palisade

Seek to control/control the following:

Carleon-Upon-Whisk, Carmathen, Steeple Cateric (headquarters), Tintagel (military base),

Stargrave: a senior kesh military executive such as an admiral

They have the “authority” to destroy the nearest star, akin to US nuclear launch codes.

Leader is the Princept

Stargrave reports up to them

Kesh:

The oldest established power in the galaxy, built around a stuffy (and secretive) aristocracy. They are tied to the Past. History, knowledge, stubbornness.

Art’s faction:

Division:

Stel Nideo as the Divine Crusade. Leads Stel Nideo’s occupation on Palisade along with their Elect, Gentian. Crusade is an enormous, bipedal machine covered (or perhaps made with) beautiful stained glass.

Minor division

Type: Curator (stealing that which doesn’t belong to them whoops all British)

3 pillars:

1) New Asterism

Settler colonial project intent on taking over and replacing the populace culture of Palisade

Fake Gur Sevraq: “cultivate saplings” it’s a very manifest destiny vibe, a very “tame the wild west” vibe, very “these people weren’t doing this right and we are going to cultivate this land

2) Bontive Valley

Blessed by the Divine Bounty, a heartland that provides highly nutritional grain, etc

This is where you’ll find Crusade walking around trying to make people associate them with providing food rather than knives

Also its close to Carleon-Upon-Whisk and therefore close to Kesh and the Fab Duchy

Also very near one of the big conflict fronts

3) The Divine Resonance

Watchful guardian and caregiver/supporter of the Nidean colonial project on Palisade

It’s everywhere. It’s a surveillance system. Everyone knows it’s there and is touted as a parental, protective Alexa

The state protects and attends to its settlers.

It also is monitoring for “terrorists” and Millennium Break.

The Divine Crusade

Giant stained glass figure

Beautiful, terrible, made with Independence tech from TM (Twilight Mirage)

Nideo:

Created the largest faith in the empire, and used that influence to shape (and surveil) mass culture. They are tied to the Present. Faith, coercion, stability.

Control the following:

Temple of the threshold (home of new asterism and its false prophet),

Aram’s Gate

City City

A fever dream. City is a verb. City is a noun. City is an adjective. We are city. We city.

A joint project btwn Nideo and the Frontier Syndicate. The output of something in Baseline (the data town)

Austin’s faction

Division:

The Frontier Syndicate as the March Institute

Minor division

Type: research (developing new Enchantments ™ and Rituals ™ )

3 pillars:

1) Lone Marble Group

Builds BiLat war machinery

Based around one artifact recovered from an advent facility, in southeast Greenfield

AKA THE FUCKING MARBLE FROM TM

2) Divine Arbitrage

The amoral machine turned de facto treasurer

Operates out of Braunton

Runs commerce, everyone’s favorite capitalism algorithm

Currency: Glint

3) Composure’s Colosseum

Operated by a revived Divine that instrumentalizes data from fucked up sports aka gladiator fights babyeeee

How can fucked up bloodthirsty sports give us #bigdata???

Frontier Syndicate:

A powerful conglomerate with a broad purview, including technology, heavy industry, entertainment, telecommunications, and transportation. Led by Exenceaster March (he/him), the Syndicate betrayed the Pact of Free States and joined the Bilats in order to be part of their colonization efforts on Palisade.

Founded/led by Exenceaster March

He’s an entrepreneur that left the Pact of Necessary Venture (aka now the Pact of Free States) to join the Bilateral Intercession

(see Downstairs episodes in Road to Palisade)

Made up of many subsidiaries such as:

The March Institute (the leading subsidiary)

It’s a bunch of different companies that make up one super-company

Think same structure as ancient OriCon from Counter/WEIGHT

It’s a bit of Columnar, a little bit of Orion,

Pioneering new styles of technological military and social exploitation

Kinda concerned with the future. Think AI shit, chatgpt, etc and the kinds of problems from big tech companies. Elon Musk loooooves the Frontier Syndicate.

Comprises: Most of shale belt mineral highlands by Braunton, Baseline (the fucked up data town, like an atomic doom town, where people get to live there for free so long as they sign away their rights to informed consent and they get experimented on for #bigdata)

Misc Divisions (parts of the Cause, AKA MB)

Jade Kill

A military camp.

Based in Joyous Guard, former Fab Duchy city (see Wagon Wheel game)

Leader: August Righteousness, revolutionary chef who executed a crusader king’s plot

captured the ex-leader of the Fab Duchy, who is upset at how the Stargrave runs things now

Military arm of the cause

Operated by Kalar’s Giant Killer unit

and a wing of Swordbreakers

Violet Cove

A strange type of faction dealing with weird and unexplained

A bunch of weirdos and oddballs.

The Dim Liturgy (cult) and the Divine Devotion (cult)

Dim Liturgy: a cult whos sacred text is the battered and corrupted backup of Crystal Palace’s final predictions for the future.

They predicted that they would sign up with Devotion. And so they signed up with Devotion.

Just two bestie cults working together against the BiLats!

Grey Pond

With members of the Oxblood Clan, the Company of the Spade, and the Shale Belt's Concrete Front, these blue collar revolutionaries are experts at getting the Cause the equipment it needs (and maintaining what it has when that's the only available option).

Supplier type

New equipment and supplies

Based in Sinder Karst (like the Sierra Madres- sometimes insurgents go into the hills because hills are good for hiding insurgents.)

They’ve taken the top bit of the Frontier Syndicate’s territory in the Shale Belt.

Carmine Bight

From ramshackle additions to the rocky shores of Rifle Island, Captain Skelton Knaggs (he/him) and his fearsome flotilla launch rusted pirate vessels beneath the waves, guided by a coalition of Hyphan navigators.

Submarine pirates!

Type: adventurers. Bold action and unpredictable actions.

Long descendants of the Lineage Brighton, etc.

Rose River

Though they are undoubtedly committed to the Cause, this unique research unit (combining Veronique (she/her), her Divine Fealty (any pronouns), and their followers with an out-of-time NEH Sleep Detachment squad) hope for a day when they can be something other than soldiers.

(see first ep of Road to Palisade: On their way to the gates of the TM, Fealty and Veronique found an old NEH sleep detachment ship that needed help, and whoops ANOTHER CULT FORMED

Based in New Oath

Oh cool, another Divine kneeling over a town……

Melancholy war story vibe. Touchstone is “thin red line,” a WWII film that, dreamlike, builds and overwhelms into an outbreak of violence.

When we last saw Veronique, her cockpit was filling with the colors of the TM, and all of the sleep detachment people have awoken from a long, long sleep- remember how Morning’s Observation felt? It’s very dreamlike.

The people who were in there were actually in the episode descriptions for some TM episodes: Lani and Tee (frank ocean and tyler the creator as college kids) that were going to school- there’s lecture notes- and got in a pod and got shot through space and woke up thousands of years later and woke up and the war that they didn’t have any strong feelings about- it was just a job, easy money- the war was over, and replaced by a different war that they are immediately caught up in. So yeah that’s the vibe

Wayward factions:

The Crown of Glass

The domain of the Witch in Glass

largest non-BiLat city on the planet

has assets from the principality and palisade itself

type: bandits. Robbery and sabotage.

The Afflictions

Type: despoilers

Ravel

A massive brain neuron traveling the hills and valleys

Refrain

An abandoned theater which appears as if from nowhere, with the projection of a person on the stage

Cleave

The dragon made of knives is this one’s minion

Scary beast

Dust

“what if a mummy could be a mech?”

Oversight

Slowly moving statue whose faces are always fluctuating under a shroud

The Pact of Free States

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NOW THE CONFLICT STARTS BAYBEEEE

Note: Grip = HP

Recapping which factions are controlled by which players-

JDQ: Bilateral Intelligence Service, Rose River, Carmine Bight

AMT: Stel Nideo, Violet Cove, Crown of Glass

AW: Frontier Syndicate, Jade Kill, Grey Pond, the Afflictions

Bilateral Intelligence Service’s turn

Passive ability: Every turn, place 1 grip on a faction or pillar of your choice

Divisions want to gain authority on factions/pillars

Places 1 grip on the Violet Cove.

A spy is sent:

Marlon Styx, big eyebrows, pious stern bald man pulls up on a rowboat.

A champagne bottle opens. An artist is painting something gaudy. We travel down the floors of The Paint Shop, past an art party, past a security guard, past an office with people sketching on a wall, deeper into the bowels of the castle where someone’s working on art in a production room, painting stripes on horse armor, further down until we get to a 70’s British conference room with an overhead projector. The presenter is sent to replace the director of this operation.

Interference: Violet Cove interferes (namely the Dim Liturgy, the ones that follow the predictive engine of Crystal Palace)

Someone reads in a book about the spy being sent. They see how the events unfold.

Fool Factotum, a junior agent in the BIS, in a simple grey skirt and jacket, a little hat, pale and short wavy brown hair, cold grey eyes, thin gaunt features, either 27 or 47, you cannot tell. She/her. She’s among a group of 14-15 people.

It’s year 1429 of the Perfect Millennium. The lights go down, and a man stands from the front row. He’s totally unremarkable looking- you wouldn’t be able to describe his features an hour later, totally generic. He looks like George Smiley. He thanks the previous director for their work in setting up this operation in this building. He gestures to the screen and it shows “adagio in G.”

Summary: “My name is Ryar Conidine. I’ve spent most of my career in the BIS. I specialized in psychological operations and folklore. Did service, became a teacher, and now the Princept has ordered me to join the service again. A brief history lesson: For basically ever, Kesh has been a principality of spies. Understatement. 5000 years ago, our predecessors started a psychological operation. Using the future-seeing power of an oracle engine, they generated 100,000s of near perfect predictions. They were made in a loop, and over 2000 years, actors played out these predictions and made sure they would happen. I have been sent to Palisade to bring the planet on the cycle. The machine has been lost, but Kesh understands that we must adapt. Workshops are being constructed. Prop makers are assembling quite the paint shop. We are distributing predictions. A star will fall, and our ships are in position to shoot down the satellite. Our alliance with the Fab Duchy. They pass down their predecessors in liquid inside glass bodies. We are infiltrating them and making one of them into a puppet, so their entire people think it’s all normal. We are making the planet go into a dance. Any questions?”

People are confused and awestruck. One says “sir, what does this have to do with intelligence?” “Control of all kinds is intensely useful.”

Fool Factotum: “we don’t have eyes in a number of places. How will we get those people in costume?” aka pointing out blind spots. Answer: “we know this won’t be easy. I’ve been assured of mutual cooperation with March.”

In the texts back at Violet Cove: The outcome is predicted- It’s arrogance. Being in the war college is not the same as being in the war.

NEVERMIND REROLL IT, SAYS AUSTIN!

Somewhere on the island of the broken key, a devotion cultist, says “the game’s on!” and they turn on their TV, helping Composure’s Coliseum collect data. Welcome to GPT style generated content.

2 major sports on Palisade: basketball and basically bloodbowl but with mechs

This does not reflect in the Dim Liturgy’s book. This is one of the ways that the book is broken. The book itself is weird Nostradamus junk: vague and weird.

So basically they’re going to do this psyop with sports.

There begins to be leaks. “Did you hear that this was predicted?” “no it wasn’t, you buffoon”

There’s a spy both ways: one in steeple cateric, one in Violet Cove. The monks saw there was an opportunity to put someone in. They’ve swapped spies lol

Marlon is the spy working for Violet Cove (doing both sides)

Outcome:

Do they do the plan? Yes.

Who benefits the most? BIS.

Recap as explained by Austin in Ep4: It’s festival season! There’s been a lot of community outreach from…. Somewhere??? (this represents a new plan deployed by Stel Kesh via the Paint Shop: they are putting the planet on cycle. The BIS’s new plan, called Adagio in G. (From TM, the principality of Kesh used to be “on cycle”. Their entire lives were scripted. If you deviated, you were inducted into the rapid evening and shipped off to the edge of the principality where you could defend everybody on the interior remaining on cycle.) Here, on Palisade, Kesh thinks it would be cool to do that again. Except they don’t have the predictive engine Crystal Palace (aka Divine Past) anymore so it’ll be more difficult. But they’re doing this by making people participate in local harvest plays, getting more involved in sports, etc. Dressing up and putting on plays. One such thing: They decided that a woman on a white horse would show up. This is easy to do. They have infiltrated the Fabreal Duchy and got a horse of the right color, and a new long-lost duchess of folklore showed up. Like people claiming to be descendants of the long lost Russian royalty, like the fake Anastasia. This prediction was made by either/both the remains of Crystal Palace, or people in the Paint Shop.

Stel Nideo’s turn

Passive ability: start or advance a 4-part clock titled “take something that’s not yours”

Scene: Discourse.

Gentian (the elect of Crusade) is holding a reception at the foot of Crusade. She is impossibly old. She has four attendants. She is wearing an embroidered robe. The reception has little sandwiches.

Two swordbearers (for a Soul Edge-esque sword that can be split in two: Ramondra sh/sh and Ignadiah h/h)

One who holds a ceremonial big cup cut from one giant emerald (Pereval th/th)

One who holds a big book of crusades. (Clawed, 6’5”, muscular, the book is super heavy for him. h/h)

If Gentian dies, one of these four will be the next elect of Crusade.

In Dark Souls, you would fight them separately except the swordbearers would be one boss fight. They are rivals.

Pereval opens the ceremony, holding the cup in both hands. “welcome to the Bontive Valley. Eat our food and bask in the warm light of crusade.” There are people sitting on blankets, there are columnar, Fab Duchy, etc. Ramondra makes a subtly snide remark at Pereval. Clawed talks flippantly about their duties. “Isn’t there more important work to be doing right now?” Gentian, who is supernatural in her speed, leaves another conversation and interrupts Clawed, who persists and doubles down that this reception is not as important as, say, fighting the Concrete Front. She explains how the project of Crusade is about fighting, sure, but this is equally important: there’s a lot of diplomats and important inventors/sympathists here and this is one of the ways we win the war.

Kenneth Marion Culver, the viceroy of Kesh on Palisade who works underneath the Stargrave (famously quoted: “you can’t colonize your own home!”) comes over to try to pull Gentian away. This is the person who gets sent out to talk to people. “Your excellency, we need to talk about these bread rates.” He is an unctuous person demanding cheaper bread prices. “It’s so important, I agree,” says Gentian, “but I am busy.” Culver remarks that “the Stargrave will take notice” and Gentian, annoyed, makes Pereval discuss the bread. No one at all from Crusade gives two shits about bread taxes. They’re from the place where the bread is free. But this is also about how Culver wants *Bontive* bread. It’s almost a holy thing. Otherwise they would be going to Arbitrage.

A Baroque chamber ensemble plays. Ramondra and Ignadiah flirt: they’re both trying to be the most interesting person at the function. One was invited to hunt quail with the duke. The other was invited to hunt boar. How boar-ish, one remarks. They keep this up.

A new duke arrives on a horse. This was predicted. Perpetual Luster, the Duke of Glass, was kidnapped and is being held at Joyous Guard. But now a new duke arrives. A Fab Duchy duke: Constantina Malady. (So they have a new Duke now??? They replaced the old one?? Oooooo) They arrive with a gift for Gentian, with a train of delegates in tow. She makes a show of announcing that she has returned from travel and welcomes her people “from the stars.” She’s ornate, made of glass, with a cool toga thing. The gift is in a large trunk, and Gentian grins as she sees what’s inside.

Frontier Syndicate’s turn

Passive ability: The director may force a re-roll every scene.

Scene: a chase.

We go back to the events of the previous episode. The Blue Channel crew is getting on the ship with their new comrades, the two Twill and Partial Palisade, in the Fundament Node. We see it from afar, as if from a digital pair of binoculars, zoomed in, with a living watercolor effect on the zoomed in version.

Members of the authority attack on this place from the table siege tower mech that shot out people- those people got out in the weirdly lit green valley in the bottom of the diadem.

This person is trying to get away and they go to their pickup line but it’s the grav train and it isn’t working right now! Thanks blue channel.

There’s a group that is a subsidiary of the Frontier Syndicate called Locke & Cross security services, who are two divorced columnar women too committed to the cause to actually separate the business, and this is Margate Locke, retreating. Her crew didn’t make it, but she has the information, she saw it with her painting goggles. She’s trying to get away to any major BiLat location for a pickup. Who is chasing her?

There’s a fully stocked library from 5000 years ago, deep underground in the Diadem, this fully ready city that no one ever moved into.

Someone is lying on their back in a pile of papers. They pick up the papers and read them over their head, shining a flashlight held in their mouth on the papers. This is Candle’s Penumbra. She has long blond hair that’s getting filled with dust. Her walkie talkie blips up on a shelf and it falls and hits an old tape projector. A video about the Diadem clicks on, volume off, but the clicking and whirring of the tape persists. Gucci Garunteen’s voice comes through. “Rose River agent, this is Watershed. Come in.”

Candle’s puts her hand between the projector and the wall, watching the dust motes catch in the light. “Yes?” There’s a loose end she needs to tie up. Coordinates are given. “Huh. Okay.”

Candle’s leads Locke into a trap. There are parks and homes and shops around. This was a supermall that was supposed to be a place to live in. There was supposed to be a bridal shop here, and it shows three mannequins with decaying dresses. In the back, sheets of white silk and velvet and chiffon hang from the ceiling, in endless rows. Locke is led into this maze of white fabric. Margate Locke is white, like a porcelain figure. Her individual plates are either unpainted or pristine. There, among the white sheets, she is led into a trap. An ancient AI projection of a ghost tailor and a ghost bride turn on, perfect and heteronormative, going from fitting for the dress to kissing the groom at the wedding, and sanding in the background of the wall of the dress fitting is Candle’s Penumbra, projection flitting across her, and as the scene changes to the happy couples faces turning in to profile to kiss, her face is between them staring forward, jarring. She draws a weapon. It’s a flail.

Sparks bounce off Locke’s porcelain body as this blond woman with dusty hair lays into her. One of Locke’s plates on her plated arm shatters like glass. She lifts her other arm and smashes the inner glass as a way to launch the shrapnel into Candle’s face. She makes a run for it.

The camera goes into super slow motion. The frame rate is bad. The projector is still going, catching the shattered glass. Candle’s tackles Locke. They fall from the balcony on back of the bridal shop into the back of another shop, a floor below.

Margate Locke is not unprepared. Candle’s stands up, and they see Locke, 8 times, as 8 Margates begin clone jutsu. Candle’s goes for one of them immediately, caught in the dusty mania of the chase. They go over a bridge.

The bridge breaks. It shatters. Candle’s falls and grabs Locke’s belt. Somehow Locke wins this thing.

You thought you won but you didn’t- Locke’s body breaks the fall and the panels shatter, exposing the standard columnar body. Last minute, Locke gets one bar of signal and sends back the data she has about the little Twill village, in the fundament node, the person/figure that left, the members of the blue channel. In doing that, Locke has her back turned to Candle’s. We see the flail.

A clock is started: Harvest the Fundament Nodes.

Fundament Nodes are tied to something ancient in Palisade (meaning the corpse of the Divine Palisade)

(definition: things deep in the belly of the planet that lets you control huge parts of what the planet is/does)

*****

If you read this far, thanks! Again, please feel free to let me know if I need to correct any mistakes. The Adagio in G plan was particularly dense for me. I had to listen to it a few times to figure out what was happening exactly. These notes are mostly for me, so they’re formatted in my preferred style (bullet points), which I know can be a bit much for some people so bear with me. I’m also going to post the maps with some small annotations I did but I’ll do that in a different post as this one is long enough. Bye! -Ray

#palisade #friends at the table #palisade spoilers #f@tt #partizan #the divine cycle #twilight mirage #counter/weight

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I hate the comments on this post going 'actually we should all be happily taking two hour showers during international flights while shoving red meat into our mouths, absolutely nothing about our life needs to change at all because companies invented the personal carbon footprint as a propaganda tool'.

Like, damn, like the very last bit of that sentence is true byt how fucking far can you overshoot into the opposite direction that you start thinking that we can save the planet by just guillotining a few oil executives and other rich folks while 1.475 billion cars keep driving and 35 million flights per year keep flying and 92 billion animals get slaughtered annually?

It is true that individual consumer choices aren't going to save us. A lot of the changes we need are systematic. We need a strong railway transit system so people don't need flights, we need abundant access to affordable healthy foods so reducing the consumption of animal products is easier to maintain, we need to restructure our economy to prioritize what will stop global warming while increasing human well being, not profits.

But all of that will change our day to day lives in almost every possible way. That is very much a part of not burning up the planet.

And while personal choices won't bring the systematic change that we need, if you can do so without sacrificing an unreasonable amount of quality of life, reducing the biggest CO2 output factors in your own life is a good idea.

Trying to keep your footprint as low as possible is a great way to self-destruct.

And I'm not saying this to people who take two hour showers during international flights while shoving red meat into their mouth. I'm saying this to my fellow activists who feel conflicted about heating their home on fossil fuels even though they don't have any other options (and struggle to afford it).

Like, we can talk about how 'consumer choice' is never going to save the planet and stuff, but more importantly: You are not a sin. Your basic needs deserve to be met. You deserve to be warm and filled with food that satisfies you and you deserve to see your friends.

We are not fighting to save 'the planet', that's a piece of rock. We want to save ecosystems and plants and animals, including people. You are part of that. Don't leave yourself out of the list of creatures that deserve to thrive.

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[ad_1] Harish Duhan has been selected as the new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited. The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) conducted interviews for the position on December 07, 2024, following which Duhan’s name was recommended for the role. Currently serving as Director (Technical) in Central Coalfields Limited (CCL), another subsidiary of Coal India, Duhan is set to take over the CMD role at SECL after formal orders are issued by the Ministry of Coal and Coal India Limited. The CMD position at SECL is classified as a Schedule B post. The selection process saw participation from 11 senior officials from various organizations, including: Mohammad Azhar Alam, Director (Finance), Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) Rajneesh Narayan, Director (Finance), Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) D Sunil Kumar, Director (Finance), SECL PD Rathi, General Manager, NCL Chittaranjan Kumar, General Manager, CCL Satyajit Ojha, General Manager, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) Suresh Chandra Suman, Director (Mining), Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) Satyendra Rai, Executive Director, National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) Naveen Kumar Singh, Chief General Manager, Indian Railway Stores Service Praveen Kumar Pandey, Chief General Manager, Munitions India Limited Harish Duhan assumed the role of Director (Technical) at CCL in November 2023, prior to which he served as a General Manager at NCL. www.indianpsu.com wishes Harish Duhan the very best for his upcoming assignment. [ad_2] Source link

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Freshers are offered training and job opportunities at DXC freejobs4u.in

Latest Job Openings In DXC | DXC Recruitment 2024

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In July 2017, the company started a three-year plan to reduce the number of offices in India from 50 to 26 and reduce headcount by 5.9% (around 10,000) employees.

In 2018, DXC split off its US public sector segment to create a new company, Perspecta Inc.

In June 2019, with about 43,000 employees in India and one of its most significant delivery engines for application outsourcing and software development, the company restructured its workforce to meet its new revenue profile.

Mike Salvino, the former Accenture chief group executive, was named president and CEO of DXC Technology in September 2019.

In February 2021, French technology services and consulting firm Atos ended talks for a potential acquisition of DXC.[12][13] Atos had proposed a US$10 billion acquisition, including debt.

As of November 2021, DXC employed 134,000 people in over 70 countries, including the United States, India, the Philippines, Central Europe, and Vietnam.

In May 2022, Salvino was appointed chairman of DXC’s board, taking over from Ian Read after his retirement in July 2022.

In October 2023, DXC was delisted from the S&P 500 Index and moved to the S&P SmallCap 600 Index.

In December 2023, it was announced that Salvino would no longer be CEO of DXC Technology.

Raul Fernandez, a member of the board of directors, was appointed president and chief executive officer of DXC Technology on February 1, 2024.

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Trans Day of Remembrance -names and their deaths

TW: Violent death

Of the 350 names this year, Dowling of the substack abomination about town compiled a partial list. (See original here:https://abominationabouttown.substack.com/p/sit-with-your-discomfort-transgender?r=yw1on&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true)

The following is a partial list of those we have lost:

Lisa was shot in the back while she walked home from a friend’s house.

Evelin was shot and killed in her home.

Liah was shot. She died waiting for help to arrive.

Chyna was shot by a masked man as she sat in her car.

Dulce was shot. It looked like an execution.

Shakira was shot multiple times by a man passing on a motorcycle.

Chay was kidnapped, shot and dumped in the street.

Keny was shot at a party. Six people carried her to the street and left her to die.

Bruna was shot three times. They found her on the beach.

London was shot in her home. Her grandmother watched, unable to help.

Samantha was shot in a parking lot by the men who had been hunting her.

Miriam was a candidate for a political party. She was shot in the street by a group of men.

Maruca was ambushed while she was driving. She was shot multiple times.

Savannah was shot by a man after she’d sex with him. He said he “had to do it”.

A’nee was assaulted. When she fled her attacker chased her, running her with down with their car.

Fabinha was beaten to death by two men, one a police office. They claimed she was shoplifting.

Gaby went missing. Her blood was found in a car. They never found her body.

Rayane was beaten to death with a tire iron by two men.

Diana, a trans community leader, was stabbed to death in a hotel by her partner. He later turned himself in.

Jesús was stabbed by their boyfriend who then killed themself.

Isa was stabbed in the street. She died after being ignored by onlookers.

Valentina was shot in the nightclub where she worked.

Alejandra was found wrapped in a tarp. The police interrupted her killers while they were digging a grave to dispose of her.

Kamylla was stoned to death.

Blanca was stabbed by their partner. Their neighbours had ignored the cries for help. They thought it was just another argument with their abusive partner.

Ariya was robbed and shot. Her killer used her social media profiles to taunt police with the phone they stole.

Amber was shot. She was found in a driveway. It was Christmas Eve.

Obaidy was shot in the street by her boyfriend.

Meghan was shot by a delivery driver. She’d objected when he misgendered her.

Manu was found beaten to death on a railway line. Their family buried them under their deadname.

Lex was killed by a drunk driver

Jay was strangled. They were a well-known vocal coach.

Kitty was attacked on new-years day. A man and woman chased her, beat her and then ran over her with their car.

Laila was beaten in the street by her ex-partner. Witnesses filmed the attack instead of intervening. She died of her injuries.

Gaby was found abandoned on a rural road. She’s been tortured.

Giovana was stabbed to death in the street by their partner.

Emma was beaten to death by a man after he discovered she was trans. She was a teenager.

Bruna was beaten to death by her ex-partner. Her body was found at a construction site.

Cristian was shot four times by the men who broke into her home.

Mayla was stabbed. She was found at a farm, wrapped in a plastic tarp.

Samantha was a shot fourteen times. She was the second trans politician to be murdered in the space of a week.

Rafaelly was stabbed to death by her husband.

Kal was kidnapped and tortured. He had left the house to buy food. They cut off his head, his arms and his fingers.

Jasuhara was beaten and drowned.

Parsa was murdered by their father. He had subjected them to imprisonment and abuse for years.

Jazmin was shot in the head in front of her friends while they drank in the street.

Hellen was attacked by a man with a machete who fled.

Abigail was brought to a vacant lot to be executed. They shot her in the head three times.

Angelique was stabbed in her home.

Arcel was stabbed. They were found in the river.

Halia was stabbed in a bar by a woman who stared an argument with her.

Pamela was in the courtyard of her home when men on motorcycles approached. They shot her to death.

Niurka was shot as she left a nightclub. She died at the hospital.

Teresa was found in a vacant lot. The police tried to say it was suicide.

Devanny refused to pay an extortionist. They beat her to death.

T.K. argued with his cousin. They shot him three times.

Shaina was beaten to death in a night club.

Asma was shot in park.

Aliza was found near the bar where she worked. She’d been suffocated with her own blouse and shot.

Reshma was found in a graveyard, her hands and feet bound. She’d been stabbed.

Jhenifer was lured out to meet a man via social media. He strangled her to death.

Diamond was shot in the street.

Alex was shot and found in the desert. Three teenagers were arrested.

Anastasia was shot.

Riana was stoned to death.

Joelma was beaten to death. She was found in an alley.

Barbie was strangled to death by her partner.

Patrícia was strangled. She was found in the river where her killer dumped her.

Meraxes was dragged from their car and shot.

Dámaris was beaten to death by her partner.

Tee was shot outside a mall. He’d been telling people his life was in danger.

River was stabbed by their boyfriend.

Gisa was beaten to death in an empty lot.

Meredith died in hospital. She and her friends had been beaten by four men.

Jorrana, a social activist, was shot by three men as she sat in her car.

Fernanda was hit by a truck. Her killer fled.

Alyson was shot. Her attackers set fire to her apartment after beheading her.

Babli was found near a canal. She’d been tortured and lynched.

Valentina was pushed down the stairs of a nightclub.

Andrea was beaten with a pipe while she slept.

Noelia was stabbed to death.

Selena was shot trying to defend a colleague.

Charmy was stabbed to death, stripped naked and mutilated.

Kita was struck by two cars. Someone pushed her into the road.

Manji was strangled to death by her partner.

Cássia was stabbed nine times by her ex-boyfriend.

Natasha was shot in the street. She died in hospital.

Jazlynn was shot in her car. A teenager was arrested for her murder.

Babli was shot by her brother and his friends. They said it was an ‘honour killing’.

Romo was stabbed in the street. Thirty minutes passed without authorities coming to her aid. They said it was another departments responsibility.

Karabelo was stabbed twenty times by a man when he discovered she was trans.

Mónica was beaten to death. She was found in the river.

Kenji was shot in a restaurant parking lot.

Ketilly was shot in the back and head.

Sheela was found near railway tracks. She’d been beaten to death.

Camila was shot multiple times in the street.

Lubaton was beaten to death. Her boyfriend attacked her with a hammer.

Cristell was shot eight times by men on a motorcycle.

Monique was shot in the parking lot of the mall.

Indianara was thrown out of a truck and run over.

Vanity was shot to death in the lobby of her apartment.

Clemmy was shot in the street while she walked home.

Rigo shot four times in the street.

Aquilla was chased by a car and run over.

Cony was stabbed in the street by three men.

Dayana was found in a vacant lot. They’d been beaten with a concrete block.

Bárbara was found in her boyfriend’s house. She’d been strangled.

Larissa was found in the street, stabbed in the neck. She’d previously survived a similar attack the year before, but not this time.

#transgender #trans day of remembrance

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