#Rated 70-74

[maltrunners]

Lagavulin 8 Year vs. 9 Year Game of Thrones

Review by: ZoidbergOnTheRocks Two young Lagavulin to mix things up a bit. In general I’m a fan of young Islays, and I was really happy to see Lagavulin make the 8 an annual release. I can’t honestly say that I remember how the GoT bottle stacks up, so let’s find out. Tasted on 11/7/2020, neat in a Glencairn. Lagavulin 8 Year 200th Anniversary This is the first 8 year old Lagavulin bottled for…

[euthymiya]

I cannot believe I’m finally free of this curse dear god

[todayisawthewhxlewxrld]

Spellbound

you might be void of feelings i fear i haven’t felt for anyone

synopsis// by no means did you hate soulmates, you just hated that he was your soulmate. not like megumi was ecstatic that he was your soulmate either. but that’s fine, both of you found someone else to keep you company.

status// finished!

updates// everyday unless said otherwise

warning// dating app!au, soulmate!au, college!au, no curses!au, enemies(?) to lovers, profanity, megumi and y/n are edgy pieces of shit <3, kys jokes, crack humor? i’m going back to my cringe 2020 smau roots with reaction images id say i’m sorry but i’m not, if any characters or dynamics r ooc take that up with the universe not me !!

☆ this smau wasn’t inspired by a song but the title was!! ‘twas inspired by spell strike by provoker, so besides the title and lyrics on here the song holds little to no relevance :) ☆

you might be the only one

might be the only one for me

feeling 1. young and stupid

feeling 2. child of divorce

feeling 3. no schedule just vibes

feeling 4. six feet under

feeling 5. this is my fight song

feeling 6. success rate

feeling 7. lone wolf

feeling 8. dumpster fire

feeling 9. retail therapy

feeling 10. be normal

feeling 11. the enemy has been defeated

feeling 12. enemies to lovers irl

feeling 13. exorcism

feeling 14. shut ur up

feeling 15. winner

feeling 16. hip hip hooray

feeling 17. swiped right!

feeling 18. silly little mystery

feeling 19. for no reason

feeling 20. i guess so

feeling 21. sigh of relief

feeling 22. relationship territory

feeling 23. don’t hmu

feeling 24. major in loser

feeling 25. fight club

feeling 26. jigsaw

feeling 27. ghosting

feeling 28. cold shoulder

feeling 29. before marriage

feeling 30. meant to be

feeling 31. a hunch

feeling 32. survival of the fittest

feeling 33. he knows

feeling 34. so close yet so far

feeling 35. (disrespectfully)

feeling 36. regressing

feeling 37. take pity

feeling 38. telepathy

feeling 39. betrayed

feeling 40. two birds with one stone

feeling 41. dead end

feeling 42. mass hysteria

feeling 43. an apology

feeling 44. baby’s first reciprocated love

feeling 45. psychological warfare

feeling 46. jealous

feeling 47. a facade

feeling 48. learning to coexist

feeling 49. with you

feeling 50. useless E information

feeling 51. good idea

feeling 52. break the peace

feeling 53. enjoy the peace

feeling 54. revenge

feeling 55. tolerable

feeling 56. catastrophic

feeling 57. fumbled

feeling 58. easier than you think

feeling 59. no downtime

feeling 60. caught red handed

feeling 61. for good

feeling 62. replace megumi with megumi

feeling 63. delicate

feeling 64. best bet

feeling 65. valid question

feeling 66. devils incarnate

feeling 67. patience is a virtue

feeling 68. grow and change as a person

feeling 69. megumi truthers

feeling 70. knock on wood

feeling 71. come find me

feeling 72. cryptic

feeling 73. more than aware

feeling 74. see the future

feeling 75. trying to be nice

feeling 76. why do you hate me

feeling 77. knight in shining armor

feeling 78. perfect paradox

feeling 79. idgaf war

feeling 80. stay like this forever

feeling 81. baby bird

feeling 82. found your way back

feeling 83. heart racing

feeling 84. loverboy activities feeling 85. megumi this megumi that feeling 86. protect you feeling 87. flirt back feeling 88. wingmen feeling 89. in love with megumi allegations feeling 90. more broken feeling 91. gets shirtless again feeling 92. 1 new message!

feeling 93. protecting your peace

feeling 94. tired of waiting

last feeling. a kiss and a fight

epilogue/bonus feeling. spy

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this New York Times story:

The two tracts of land at the edge of the ancient forest in Borneo were relatively small: One was just 74 acres, the other 195. They had also been heavily degraded by human activity. One site consisted of abandoned rice paddies, leaving barren spaces largely devoid of wildlife. The other was deforested grassland that caught fire every year.

But starting in 2009, people from neighboring communities were hired by a local environmental group to help restore the land. They planted native seedlings, yanked out weeds, dug firebreaks and watered the area during droughts. Aided by the region’s heat and abundant rain, the young plants, which included native hardwoods and fruit trees, grew swiftly, and soon created a canopy.

Late in 2020, cameras were set up on the replanted tracts. The land bordered Gunung Palung National Park, home to endangered orangutans, pangolins, white-bearded gibbons and macaques, and researchers wanted to see if wildlife was coming back.

Their findings were heartening. The cameras documented 47 species of mammals, birds and reptiles, 18 of them at risk for extinction, including an endangered Sunda pangolin and two endangered Bornean orangutans.

The study, recently published in the journal Tropical Natural History, shows that community involvement can play a vital role in restoring wildlife habitat and forest ecosystems, according to researchers.

“When we do community-run reforestation, things really grow back faster,” said Nina Finley, the research manager at Health in Harmony, an American nonprofit organization that conducted the study along with an affiliated organization in Indonesia, Alam Sehat Lestari, and staffers from the national park.

Earlier reforestation efforts with less community involvement resulted in young plants that were vulnerable to weeds and wildfires, Ms. Finley said. But after villagers were hired to regularly weed and water the land, the survival rate of saplings rose substantially, and is now above 70 percent.

Ms. Finley said that addressing the needs of the people living nearby first was key to the project’s success.

[femsolid]

TW: Trans activists

For more than a decade now, trans activists have been harassing those who belong to a feminist philosphy we call radical feminism or the women’s liberation movement.

Radical feminists, like most feminists, believe that men use sex to oppress women. Meaning they oppress women through sexual exploitation and by perpetuating sexist discrimination towards those who belong to the female sex. They were the first to research and expose violence against women as endemic and traumatizing, and to create shelters for rape and domestic violence victims. Those shelters are now being vandalized and defunded by trans activists.

Because radical feminists don’t believe in gender identities, gendered souls, gender roles or any form of innate personality based on sexist stereotypes, they have been receiving rape and death threats on a daily basis. The acronym “terf” was soon invented and is now used to describe any person who doesn’t support the trans movement, even if they’re not feminists, just as long as they're women, though lesbians and feminists tend to be the primary targets.

As a whole, the trans movement claims that its biggest enemy and threat, its most pressing matter, its most dangerous opponent is the women’s liberation movement or what they call “radfems” or “terfs”. This is where their energy and anger is directed, typically in the form of sexist and sexual harassment, intimidation techniques, violence, censorship and social isolation. So let’s talk about that.

From the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace:

Cyber harassment involves threats of violence, privacy invasions, reputation-harming lies, calls for strangers to physically harm victims, and technological attacks.

Victims’ in-boxes are inundated with threatening e-mails. Their employers receive anonymous e-mails accusing them of misdeeds. Even if some abuse is taken down from a site, it quickly reappears on others. Victims’ sites are forced offline with distributed-denial-of-service attacks.

While some attackers confine abuse to networked technologies, others use all available tools to harass victims, including real-space contact. Offline harassment or stalking often includes abusive phone calls, vandalism, threatening mail, and physical assault.

The Internet extends the life of destructive posts. Harassing letters are eventually thrown away, and memories fade in time. The web, however, can make it impossible to forget about malicious posts. And posts that go viral attract hundreds of thousands of readers.

Online harassment can quickly become a team sport, with posters trying to outdo each other. Posters compete to be the most offensive, the most abusive. An accurate name for such online groups is cyber mobs. The term captures both the destructive potential of online groups and the shaming dynamic at the heart of the abuse.

Cyber harassment disproportionately impacts women. The U.S. National Violence Against Women Survey reports that 60 percent of cyber stalking victims are women, and the National Center for Victims of Crimes estimates that the rate is 70 percent. Of the 3,393 individuals reporting cyber harass-ment to WHOA from 2000 to 2011, 72.5 percent were female. The most recent Bureau of Justice Statistics report found that 74 percent of individuals who were stalked on or offline were female, and 26 percent were male.

Researchers found that users with female names received on average one hundred “malicious private messages,” which the study defined as “sexually explicit or threatening language,” for every four received by male users.

According to the study, “Male human users specifically targeted female users.” By contrast, men are more often attacked for their ideas and actions. John Scalzi, a science fiction author and popular blogger, has found online invective typically situational. When he writes something that annoys people, they tell him so. People do not make a “hobby” out of attacking his appearance and existence as they do female bloggers.

The nature of the attacks similarly attests to bigotry’s presence. Hate expresses something uniquely damaging. It labels members of a group as inhuman “others” who do not possess equal worth. It says that group members are inferior and damaged. Bigotry conveys the message that group members are objects that can be destroyed because they have no shared humanity to consider.

Cyber harassment exploits these features by exposing victims’ sexuality in humiliating ways. Victims are equated with their sexual organs, often described as diseased.

Once cyber harassment victims are sexually exposed, posters penetrate them virtually with messages that say “I will fuck your ass to death you filthy fucking whore, your only worth on this planet is as a warm hole to stick my cock in.” 

Rape threats profoundly impact women: over 86 percent of rape victims are female. Virtual elimination may follow the imagined penetration: “First I’ll rape you, then I’ll kill you.”

One woman who faced online abuse noted, “Someone who writes ‘You’re just a cunt’ is not trying to convince me of anything but my own worthlessness.” Despite the gravity of their predicaments, cyber harassment victims are often told that nothing can or should be done about online abuse. Journalists, bloggers, lay observers, and law enforcement officials urge them to ignore it. Victims are called “whiny baby girl[s]” who are overreacting to “a few text messages.” Often victims are blamed for the abuse. They are scolded for sharing their nude images with loved ones or for blogging about controversial topics. They are told that they could have avoided the abuse had they been more careful.

A related message sent to victims is that the benefits of online opportunities are available only to those who are willing to face the Internet’s risks. They are advised not to expect anything different if they want to make a name for themselves online. The choice is theirs: they can toughen up or go offline.

The Internet is governed by society’s rules. Life online bleeds into life offline and vice versa. The notion that more aggression should be tolerated in cyberspace than in real space presumes that virtual spaces are cordoned off from physical ones.

Most victims do not report cyber harassment to the police because they assume that nothing will be done about it. Sadly, they are right. Law enforcement frequently fails to act on victims’ complaints even though criminal law would punish some of the behavior. Victims are told to turn off their computers because “boys will be boys.” Online harassment victims are told that nothing can be done; they are advised to ignore rape and death threats. During the summer of 2013, high-profile women were subjected to a torrent of online threats. The feminist activist Caroline Criado Perez received hundreds of graphic rape threats via Twitter after her successful campaign to feature more female images on British banknotes.

Members of Parliament and female writers who publicly supported Criado-Perez faced the same, including bomb threats. One tweet featured a picture of a masked man holding a knife with the message, “I’m gonna be the first thing u see when u wake up.”

Because the Internet serves as people’s workspaces, professional networks, résumés, social clubs, and zones of public conversation, it deserves the same protection as offline speech. No more, no less.

Without doubt, the free speech interests at stake are weighty. Free expression is crucial to our ability to govern ourselves, to express our thoughts, and to discover truths. For that reason, government cannot censor ideas because society finds them offensive. Truthful speech must not be banned just because it makes people uncomfortable.

But credible threats, certain defamatory falsehoods, social security numbers, and nude images posted without consent contribute little to discourse essential for citizens to govern themselves and discover truths. Their net effect is the silencing of victims. Victims could blog, post videos, and engage on social networks without fear of destructive cyber harassment. They could raise money using networked tools unencumbered by rape threats, reputation-harming lies, and distributed- denial- of- service attacks. They could take advantage of all of the expressive opportunities available online. Protecting against online harassment would secure the necessary preconditions for victims’ free expression.

With the help of law and the voluntary efforts of Internet intermediaries, parents, and teachers, we might someday achieve a free and equal Internet. We need to take action before cyber harassment becomes a normal feature of online interactions. A hostile online environment is neither inevitable nor desirable. We should not squander this chance to combat discriminatory online abuse; it is early enough in our use of networked tools to introduce equality of opportunity as a baseline norm of interaction.

[katyspersonal]

Let's try to count female (?) characters in Elden Ring!

1) Marika

2) Malenia

3) Melina

4) Trina

5) Ranni

6) Rennala

7) Rellana

8) Moonrithyll

9) Finlay

10) Tiche

11) Alecto

12) Lansseax

13) Florissax

14) Sellen

15) Dolores

16) Therolina

17) Nepheli

18) Roderika

19) Fia

20) Vyke's Maiden

21, 22) Irina and Hyetta

23) that Finger Maiden who is found dead at Church of Anticipation

24) Enia

25) Tanith

26) Rya

27) Dancer of Ranah

28) Rakshasa

29) Tricia

30) Lhutel

31) Latenna

32) Phillia

33) non-respawning Albinauric woman behind Gaius' boss battle (it is still hysterical that she is the one who drops pants from his set btw fffkffkf)

34) Loretta

35) Adula

36) Leda

37) Freyja

38) Gloam-Eyed Queen

39) Romina

40) Hornsent Grandam

41, 42) Jolan and Anna

43) Hilde

44) Meera

45) Blue Dancer / Water Fairy

46) Devonia

47) Siluria

48) Formless Mother (?)

49) Metyr

50) Nanaya

51) Jori

52) Grandmother

53, 54) those Nox women whom puppetry originates from

55, 56) Aurelia and Aurelitte

57) the first Astrologer who discovered a Moon

58) Anastasia

59) Daedicar

60) Lanya

61) Lacrima

62) Boc's mother

63, 64, 65, 66) Gilika, Maggie, Margot and Marigga (named Demi-Human Queens)

67) Grana (it is a name of the one behind Witch Crown from cut content, but basically it is the woman among the portraits in Debate Parlour! I doubt this is Sellen because why would they keep face of enemy of the Academy?)

68) the woman whose body was used for Sellen to live in it again (she has Witch Crown too but it's crystal is not cracked like Sellen's, and given that 'witch' conspectus did exist.. yeah this is more likely a person another Seluvis's victim than not)

69) Millicent

70, 71, 72, 73) Mary, Maureen, Amy and Polianna (Millicent's sisters)

74) the sixth sister (there is a scarlet flower near Malenia but she is said to only bloom second time in her boss battle, and near that flower you find the same set as what other two are wearing)

75) Greyoll

76) Eleonora

77) Bernahl's Maiden

78) Miriam

79) Arghanthy

80) Twinbird

81) Cleanrot Knight in Stillwater Cave (what makes her stand out is that you find the set Gowry wears here! otherwise this set doesn't have connection with Scarlet Rot (which this cave is filled with) but is simply a set of sorcerers that got kicked for herecy. maybe this cave is where Gowry did something with his glintstone to be able to possess any Kindred of Rot body, and perhaps she helped him with it?)

82) single Nox Swordstress as a boss in Sellia

83) a Black Knife with unique wounded model unlike any other of them in Deathtouched Catacombs

84) wife of Garris

85) Jar Bairn

Potentially:

86) there is 'Gaia' mentioned as someone who studied Gravity Magic along with Gaius, and apparently it is not mistranslation of Ogha. the only one it could be is his BOAR xD this name sounds feminine though, so maybe boar is a she?

87) Fortissax's gender is not confirmed; Japanese description doesn't have any pronouns at all, so English just said 'it'! However, Godrick monologues to the dead drake that they're "both relatives of the dragons", which could be literal considering Godwyn and Fortissax were so close 🤔

88) Eiglay (Eglė is "the Queen of the Serpents" in Lithuanian folklore, and I don't think you need me to tell you the two names are similar ahahah)

89) Asimi (cut content but Mimic Tear was supposed to be the girl who bonded with us first, it is hard to tell whether we can count the final one as Asimi or not)

90, 91) two 'female' Mimic Tears from four of these hostile NPCs (I feel like Silverfolk origin for Tarnished descends from Silver Tears rather than Albinaurics, so they can become solid people! these two perhaps are just fleshed out in this form at this rate! these do respawn though, so it is hard to tell if they count, or if this is actually their gender and not just mimicry)

92) Miranda (in cut content it was the first floral Crucible known, for now this is the name of the big flowers, two of which are also Dungeon bosses! however, ALL of them are called 'Miranda flowers', so maybe the actual character Miranda whom flowers with the same name descended from is still palatable!)

[redistrictgirl]

As of September 22nd, 2024, Kamala Harris is moderately favored (74% chance) in the race for the presidency.

Never mind, something happened.

Not in Nebraska, mind you, where it seemed Republicans would get their wish of a winner-take-all system. The effort appears to have fallen short by just one vote.

But state-level polling has reflected a post-debate bounce for Vice President Harris in a way that national polls just haven't, especially in the Rust Belt. As such, former President Trump's paths to victory seem to be getting narrower and narrower. The battlefield at large has also narrowed as about a tenth of last week's undecided voters have committed to a candidate, with states like Iowa, Florida, Virginia, and Maine showing over 19-in-20 odds for their favorite. With that said, let's go over the closest states:

Arizona (50% chance for Trump) - The Grand Canyon State is about as neck-and-neck as you'd expect from 2020, with both candidates leading polls here this week. Mr. Trump did hit 50% in an Emerson poll, which is enough to maintain an edge in that department, but the overall rating, once you factor in fundamentals, is a genuine coin flip.

North Carolina (51% chance for Trump) - Ms. Harris at this point holds a slim lead in polling in the Tar Heel State, but my model expects some reversion to the mean in a highly polarized southern state. Overall, the advantages each candidate holds here are actually opposite to Arizona, so I feel like the median outcome really is each party winning one of these coveted Sun Belt tossups.

Georgia (70% chance for Trump) - The narrowing window for upsets really puts an exclamation mark on this state, where the former president gets his first 50% and consistently leads in the polls. There's still a meaningful window for the Vice President - the southern trend of reversion to the mean actually helps her somewhat here.

Nevada (75% chance for Harris) - Now, we move onto vulnerable states for Democrats, though we remain in the Sun Belt. Ms. Harris hit 51% in a Morning Consult poll this week - genuinely impressive! - but my model isn't convinced that she's truly consolidated majority support here.

Wisconsin (79% chance for Harris) - The polls say that Mr. Trump is down by two points and that only about 3.5 percent of voters remain undecided for a head-to-head. Remember that not all undecideds will commit to a candidate (historically this number is about two-thirds), so... yes, he's in deep trouble here, though it's not insurmountable, especially if the polls actually miss. As always, the fundamentals point towards a substantially closer race.

Now, let's go over the elephants in the room... or perhaps the donkeys?

Pennsylvania (80% chance for Harris) - The Keystone State rocketed towards Democrats this week on the heels of an extremely robust polling sample. Only one out of ten polls showed Ms. Harris under 49% of the vote here or gave the Republican a lead. That's a very brutal combination. The polling still isn't as commanding for Democrats as it is in Wisconsin, but the fundamentals are a lot rosier for them.

Michigan (90% chance for Harris) - Good lord. If you're wondering why this number is so high, look at this week's polling. 52% for Harris, 52% for Harris, 50%, 51%. It seems clear at this point that she has the support of a majority of voters in the state.

Overall, this race has very much begun slipping away from the former President. At this point, he needs at least one genuine upset in the Blue Wall while holding onto two coin flips in the Sun Belt. That math is tricky, and unless the Vice President's numbers start coming back down to earth or a genuine polling error happens, it will be an incredibly difficult tightrope to walk. And things could still change - he still has one-in-four odds, after all - but all the pressure is clearly on him.

[ratethisalbum]

#175) UNDERTALE Soundtrack

Toby Fox

Suggested by: Anonymous

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Spotify ~ Youtube

(Remember to listen first, then rate!)

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Tracklist:

1 Once Upon a Time

2 Start Menu

3 Your Best Friend

4 Fallen Down

5 Ruins

6 Uwa!! So Temperate

7 Anticipation

8 Unnecessary Tension

9 Enemy Approaching

10 Ghost Fight

11 Determination

12 Home

13 Home (Music Box)

14 Heartache

15 sans.

16 Nyeh Heh Heh!

17 Snowy

18 Uwa!! So Holiday

19 Dogbass

20 Mysterious Place

21 Dogsong

22 Snowdin Town

23 Shop

24 Bonetrousle

25 Dating Start!

26 Dating Tense!

27 Dating Fight!

28 Premonition

29 Danger Mystery

30 Undyne

31 Waterfall

32 Run!

33 Quiet Water

34 Memory

35 Bird That Carries You Over A Disproportionately Small Gap

36 Dummy!

37 Pathetic House

38 Spooktune

39 Spookwave

40 Ghouliday

41 Chill

42 Thundersnail

43 Temmie Village

44 Tem Shop

45 NGAHHH!

46 Spear of Justice

47 Ooo

48 Alphys

49 It's Showtime!

50 Metal Crusher

51 Another Medium

52 Uwa!! So HEATS!!

53 Stronger Monsters

54 Hotel

55 Can You Really Call This A Hotel, I Didn't Receive A Mint On My Pillow Or Anything

56 Confession

57 Live Report

58 Death Report

59 Spider Dance

60 Wrong Enemy !?

61 Oh! One True Love

62 Oh! Dungeon

63 It's Raining Somewhere Else

64 CORE Approach

65 CORE

66 Last Episode!

67 Oh My…

68 Death by Glamour

69 For the Fans

70 Long Elevator

71 Undertale

72 Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans

73 The Choice

74 Small Shock

75 Barrier

76 Bergentruckung

77 ASGORE

78 You Idiot

79 Your Best Nightmare

80 Finale

81 An Ending

82 She's Playing Piano

83 Here We Are

84 Amalgam

85 Fallen Down (Reprise)

86 Don't Give Up

87 Hopes and Dreams

88 Burn In Despair!

89 SAVE The World

90 His Theme

91 Final Power

92 Reunited

93 Menu (Full)

94 Respite

95 Bring It In, Guys!

96 Last Goodbye

97 But the Earth Refused to Die

98 Battle Against A True Hero

99 Power of "NEO"

100 MEGALOVANIA

101 Good Night

[crevicedwelling]

hi.. i want to get a pet centipede (a flagtail centipede), but looking at places online isnt helping me figure out how much space they need or if they need extra heat. what do you recommend?

well, I’ve tried just about everything and 8/10 of the wild caught Alipes grandidieri I’ve kept have died without ever eating anything and I’ve heard more or less the same from nearly everyone who’s kept them. they are very fragile and almost always in poor shape after being imported, so expect yours to die. it’s beginner-friendly in terms of size and habit, but I would rate it as extremely difficult to establish in captivity, at least in the US where the imports are so unhealthy.

successes:

one female on eggs; brooded, molted, lived for about 2y with me and ate live prey. kept at room temp (~70-74°F), died of unknown causes.

one unsexed individual; eats live prey. have had for several months at same temperatures and is experiencing bizarre “bleaching” of all pigmented tissues, still seems active and healthy otherwise. still alive

the rest needed to be assist fed, and none of them molted before withering away.

try something warmer, maybe? I still can’t figure out if they like drier or wetter environments and have mostly given up trying to rehabilitate wild caught and am trying to get a gravid female again to start from a blank slate. the captive hatched babies thrived in captivity in fairly similar conditions and grew very quickly, but unfortunately desiccated when I was away for a while.

[outofthemouthsof]

My QL Year in Review (part 2)

This was my first full year as a BL/GL watcher, so I wanted to do a wrap up of 2024 from my POV!

I watched 131 shows all the way through (many of them shorts) and abandoned 13, so my total attempted was 144.

Of those, 74 were from previous years (some of them very old as I caught up on the history of BL. So I’ll only focus on ones that ended in 2024, 70 in all.

I started with my “bottom 50” (which I didn’t tag because why would I when they’re not rave reviews? But they’re there if you’re curious.) But now is the fun part—my top 20!

I rate shows in 9 categories of adjectives but I tried to assign them letter grades so it’s easier to see what I mean. Oh and they’re not ranked within each grade category, just chronological by when I finished them.

All my top 20 shows were in three categories—one that I invented this year because two shows were so incredible they broke my ratings system. It was an amazing year for me, needless to say!

PERFECTION++ (A+)

These two series could not be more different. One made me feel like I was floating on a perfectly delightful fluffy cloud. The other was gritty and full of pain and frustration, but it still enveloped me so I felt like I was dreaming the whole time. Both give me butterflies just thinking about them.

1. Cherry Magic (Thai)

2. Jack & Joker: U Steal My Heart!

Perfection (A)

These were completely captivating in every way and I wouldn’t change a thing about them.

3. Pit Babe

4. Wandee Goodday

5. Century of Love

6. Monster Next Door

Amazing (A-)

These were potentially perfect shows marred by dropping the ball somewhere, or flawed shows elevated by some incredible elements. Either way, they weren’t perfect but there was something exceptional about them.

7. Last Twilight

8. The Sign

9. AntiReset

10. Deep Night

11. Unknown

12. Blue Boys

13. We Are

14. The Rebound

15. Meet You at the Blossom

16. This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans

17. 4 Minutes

18. My Stand-In

19. The On1y One

20. Every You, Every Me

(Jack & Joker gif from @chinzhilla )

(Cherry Magic Thailand gif from @namchyoon )

[tropic-havens]

April 3 is Haitian Women’s Day.

The literacy rates for Haitian young women aged 15 to 24 years is 70% against 74% for young men. They are likely to leave school at the secondary earlier than boys.

[maltrunners]

Bruichladdich 16 Year The Sixteens First Growth Cuvée A: Pauillac (Château Lafite-Rothschild)

Review by: TOModera So that’s a long name… may have missed the last part. This is part of the reviews for the recent Feather’s Pub meetup , with other redditors, out beyond our natural habitats, drinking like fools. I’m also going in reverse order due to a tick that burrowed into my brain when I was younger. Or rather, because I wanna. So the night is going well. I’ve skipped Lowland…

[covid-safer-hotties]

Also preserved on our archive

By Chris Dall, MA

New data published yesterday in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) show older adults continue to be hospitalized for COVID-19 at a much higher rate than other age groups.

The data analyzed by the COVID-Net Surveillance team, which includes researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state public health departments, show that cumulative rates of COVID-19 hospitalization from October 2023 through April 2024 were the lowest for all adult age groups during the October-to-April surveillance period since the first year of the pandemic. An estimated 40,761 COVID-19–associated hospitalizations occurred during the surveillance period, 38,900 of them in adults ages 18 and older.

But adults ages 65 and older accounted for 70% of all adult COVID-associated hospitalizations, and hospitalization rates were highest among those ages 75 and older, with nearly one COVID-associated hospitalization for every 100 persons. Relative to adults ages 18 to 49 years, cumulative hospitalization rates among adults aged 65 to 74 and over 75 years during the surveillance period were 7.3 and 24.1 times as high, respectively.

"These findings suggest that COVID-19–associated hospitalization among adults aged ≥65 years remains a public health concern," the study authors wrote.

Racial and ethnic disparities, low vaccination rates The data, collected from 90 counties across 12 states, also showed that disparities in COVID-19 hospitalization by race and ethnicity have decreased but continue to persist.

During the surveillance period, hospitalization rates were highest among non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native (AI/AN) and non-Hispanic black adults; rates among both groups were 1.4 and 1.3 times higher than those among Hispanic and non-Hispanic White adults, respectively. Data from the July 2021 to August 2022 surveillance period showed that age-adjusted COVID hospitalization rates were twice as high for AI/AN and Black adults compared with White adults.

Another significant finding from the report is that among a sample of 1,320 adults hospitalized for COVID-19, 88.1% had not received the 2023-24 COVID-19 vaccine and 57.7% had not received the 2022-23 vaccine.

"Receipt of COVID-19 vaccine has been demonstrated to reduce the risk for COVID-19–associated hospitalization," the authors wrote.

Further analysis of that sample found that 80% had at least two underlying medical conditions and 16.6% were residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs). Among all in-hospital deaths, 45% occurred in patients aged 75 and older.

The authors say that adults 65 and older can reduce their risk for COVID-19–associated hospitalization by receiving recommended COVID-19 vaccines, adopting measures to reduce their risk of infections, and seeking early outpatient COVID-19 antiviral treatment.

Antiviral treatments underused in older adults But in another study published yesterday in MMWR, a team led by CDC researchers found that COVID-19 antiviral treatment remains underutilized in older adults.

The findings, based on electronic health record data on 393,390 patients aged 65 and older who received a COVID-19 diagnosis at 28 US healthcare systems, show that from April 2022 through September 2023, only 45.9% received recommended COVID-19 antivirals treatments (nirmatrelvir-ritonavir, molnupiravir, monoclonal antibody, or remdesivir). The percentages were even lower among those ages 75 to 89 (43.5%) and over 90 (35.2%).

Patients aged 75 to 89 and over 90 years had 1.17 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.15 to 1.19) and 1.54 (95% CI, 1.49 to 1.61) times the adjusted odds of being untreated, respectively, compared with those aged 65 to 74 years.

Although the study did not investigate the reasons why older patients didn't receive COVID-19 antiviral treatments, the researchers note that frequent self-reported reasons for nonuse of antivirals include the presence of mild signs and symptoms, lack of awareness of eligibility, and absence of a provider recommendation. Other reasons cited include delays in seeking treatment and missing the treatment window (5 to 7 days after symptom onset) and concerns about drug interactions.

Whatever the reason, the authors say improving COVID-19 antiviral use among older adults should be a public health priority, given that older age is a strong risk-factor for severe COVID-19–associated outcomes.

"In addition to vaccination and access to early sensitive diagnostics such as polymerase chain reaction testing, COVID-19 treatment should be routinely discussed with older adults with mild or moderate COVID-19," they wrote. "Public health efforts to address provider hesitancy and patient knowledge of COVID-19 antivirals and to eliminate barriers to COVID-19 diagnostics and treatment are needed, especially among older adults."

Studies referenced: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7339a3.htm?s_cid=mm7339a3_w www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7339a2.htm?s_cid=mm7339a2_w

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🟦 Latest Updates from Israel  

✡️ Tonight is SUKKOT.. Sukkot celebrates the gathering of the harvest and commemorates the miraculous protection G‑d provided for the children of Israel when they left Egypt. We celebrate Sukkot by dwelling in a foliage-covered booth (known as a sukkah) and by taking the “Four Kinds” (arba minim), four special species of vegetation.   https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4784/jewish/What-Is-Sukkot.htm

⚠️HOME FRONT COMMAND NOTICE.. Staying in the Sukkah during the holiday? The sukkah is not a protected space (from rockets)! If a warning is received, you should leave the sukkah and enter a protected space or a shelter in a nearby building. 

.. It is important to leave the access to the protected space LIT and clear of obstacles, so that it can reached it in a calm and safe manner. 

♦️INTERROGATION of captured Hezbollah Rawan invasion force terrorist, English subtitles:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yrj0bjqw_PqTpZm1EOnCRvcULcR9hqAx/view?usp=sharing

“Everyone fled, the commander of the area and his deputy, from the beginning, they already fled.  Lack of faith, people without religion, came to receive money and that’s it, they were afraid [of Israel]... they wanted to respond to an attack, advance into the Galilee, but after the assassination of Hassan (Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader), no one has seen any of them.”

♦️BEIRUT.. The IDF confirms: after six days, an attack was carried out in Dahiya, Hezbollah’s Beirut neighborhood, on an underground weapons warehouse.  The IDF is calling on the residents to evacuate the Da'ahia.

♦️ASSASSIN!  Iranian assassin caught.. thwarting of Iran's attempts to recruit Israelis continues: the Shin Bet and Yahbal Lahav 433 arrested a resident of Petah Tikva, who agreed to carry out an assassination in Israel for $100,000 and had already acquired a gun and ammunition.

♦️IDF ATTACKS.. A wave of attacks by the IDF in Beirut this morning.

♦️IDF CAPTURES.. its 5th Hezbollah Radwan invasion force terrorist.  From a soldier in the field: most of the Hezbollah terrorists fled and did not fight against our soldiers - and some also surrendered.

.. And Israeli flag spotted flying over Meiss El Jabal, south Lebanon.

♦️COUNTER-TERROR.. (Enemy report) Significant IDF forces moved from Kiryat Arba into Hebron overnight.

.. IDF security forces foiled two terrorist attacks, entering Jenin to kill a terrorist who was planning to carry out an attack in the immediate time frame, and the IDF captured a terrorist armed with weapons near the border fence seam-line area.

⭕HEZBOLLAH ROCKET HIT civilian home in SAFED overnight, 2 lightly injured - damage to the house.

🔹THE INTL POLITICS.. Iran informed the UN Secretary General last night of its intention to respond firmly if Israel attacks it.

🔹SYRIAN REBELS ON THE MOVE.. Intense gun fire reported on Aleppo front line between Syrian Army forces and Syrian Rebels.

🔸GAZA HOSTAGE DEAL NEWS.. The American administration: Hamas leader Sinwar shows zero interest in continuing the talks, so there is no negotiation taking place.  The Qatari’s however blame Israel: The Prime Minister of Qatar, on the deal for the release of the kidnapped-  "An agreement cannot be reached when one of the parties is not interested in it," he added, “especially in recent times, the side that failed was the Israeli.”

▪️HEALTH.. In the last decade and a half, decrease in the incidence of prostate cancer in Israel with survival rate increase.  Based on age and per 100,000 people, the incidence rate of invasive prostate cancer is 45.  From 2006-2021, a decrease of 7.5%.  

The main incidence of prostate cancer is at the age of 50 and over, with the majority age 70-74.

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the creeping shadow reread

30th October

6 I hope Lucy kept the mirror for some reason

11 Poor Ted and Tina, lmao Dave "an angry tree stump"

Thursday 31st October

21 it IS an honest profession Skull

24 "Lucy, Lucy... it nevers end well"

33 "Lucy has been gone ages" bless Dave

37 adults can be helpful not this one

49 interesting word choice bud "why don't you hook-up with Anthony Lockwood again?" and why do we need a rating Harold? why would you need a rating of danger when you're going to destroy the Source????

60 is it Lockwood? Yeah it is "As I met his gaze, he smiled- and that smile was a world away from the 100-gigawatt version you saw in the papers. It was warm but somehow hesitant, as if it hadn't been used recently" it'd be so funny if she just closed the door on him, also the specific type of mess? him holding her laundry? I would rather die

66 I loved the tea making scene in the first read of this book and I love it now

70 just like how I love Lucy wanting Lockwood to beg for her return to the company "on bended knee"

[hey guys I wonder how this scene would play out in the show would we see Lockwood approach her door? or would we see him leave and smile at the baby steps I want option two because Cameron has an adorable smile]

74 Poor Georgie "George was pretty cut up about it"

76 hey more Listeners for my glossary card and the wiki

80 hey a Lockwood smile

85 complimenting Marissa

96 "mad and bad" just the way you lunatics like it right? "Penelope Fittes knew I had a reputation too." hahaha

103 "Studious unconcern" what are you think about bud?

108 black market hunting

111 was Holly going to ask what Lucy found in Jessica's room? (I think I had the same question last time as well)

Friday 1st November 2024

115 so glad we can't see Guppy

126 What's up Skull? "for a moment I thought I felt..."

131 Kipps being punished for being independent

134 big guy indeed

154 lmao Kipps "what do you idiots want now?"

157 happy Lucy "I couldn't help smiling back at him"

160 crowbars whoop!

176 "You waltzed off on a whim and left us to pick up the pieces"

184 I love this description and the emotional lockdown Lucy is on realising her place was broken into and the Skull was gone

191 "what's that rank smell?" Now is not the time + comments that kind of ruin the tension a little bit

195 (chapter 12) such an innocent picture of a guy sitting on bench enjoying the sun

202 chilling moment "its lifeless occupant with the twisted, broken neck"

206 I wonder what would have happened if she used her torch sparingly (and as a weapon? blinding her pursuers?)

218 Lockwood and George going overboard on dressing her wound

222 this hurts very much them keeping her room the same but also storage the idea of Holly staying over and where she would be staying

249 Lockwood not sharing the plan again and lmao Holly "it was like a bomb went off" like she knew Lucy wasn't the tidiest of people at the best of times so she had to realise. Also Lucy avoiding Lockwood's eyes is so funny

253 Poor kitty cats fuck Rotwell

260 folklore is so interesting and I want to know more about their research

264 Did Holly realise Lockwood was why Lucy left and making him look like that is her revenge?

270 what's moving in Flo's bag?

275 Hope the kid is okay?

281 I love you Skull and yes Lockwood and Lucy are dense

2nd Nov 2024

283 "missed you so much Lucy"

289 Ding! Ding dots are connected

291 Leopold recognising Lucy is great

294 Bless Flo

296 "Scariest of the lot" yeah Mrs Winkman is scary in that she doesn't really look it

299 "he pulled me to him" as things exploded

313 compliments "You're an amazing agent, Lucy"

316 "I found Lucy" adorable and I bet you flushed Lucy

321 the secretary is very sweet but alas is a tosser of the Orpheus Society

325 what did happen at the opening of Mrs Barret's coffin?

326 Immortal you say? interesting word choice

328 Jaw dropped competition

342 Fight the kid... do it

348 It is a bit severe execution for selling rotten meat pies

353 "spooning his stew round and round, as if by some alchemy it might become edible" I know that feeling Kipps

357 Electrical interference ding! ding!

363 RIP model ship

378 Lmao Lockwood does have a reputation

380 I love this smile

394 what is Lockwood thinking? "We could always do something much simpler"... when were you guys holding hands?

406 clever boys asking questions of all these coincidences

423 recognition "they stared at the baton, open-mouthed"

425 this is bad "we were loyal enough" and I really can't pinpoint why other than "you have to tell him no"

429 "oh God. Yes" lmao

437 "it was ugly, heavy, brutally functional" and very unwieldy

442 lmao Skull and into the unknown

449 why not name the Fetch instead of saying "a ghost"

450 Locklyle shipping "I'm glad I've got you with me. I think you keep me safe if anything. Right then, the cape wasn't the only thing that kept me warm"

469 Skull helping is great

475 I love George

481 love Lockwood saving Kipps

485 Suck it Steve

496 I love Holly

500 Chips are nice

503 Danny is very cute

510 why not both? Skull enjoys the view and gets to scare the toddlers next door and yes it is awkward

520 fuck off Rupert and always find information

524 Leave Kipps alone

528 dun,dun,dun

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surprising facts i learned from the wikipedia page for down syndrome

The probability increases from less than 0.1% in 20-year-old mothers to 3% in those of age 45.[4] (1 in 30!)

Many (15%) who live 40 years or longer develop Alzheimer's disease.[67] In those who reach 60 years of age, 50–70% have the disease.[9] (genpop rate of alzheimers past 60 is like 10%!) The dementia that occurs in Down syndrome is due to an excess of amyloid beta peptide produced in the brain and is similar to Alzheimer's disease, which also involves amyloid beta build-up.[120] Amyloid beta is processed from amyloid precursor protein, the gene for which is located on chromosome 21.[120] Senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are present in nearly all by 35 years of age, though dementia may not be present.

they get these little white spots in their irises, call brushfield spots. think theyre harmless though

Although the overall risk of cancer in Down syndrome is not changed,[74] the risk of testicular cancer and certain blood cancers, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL) is increased while the risk of other non-blood cancers is decreased.[9] 

People with Down syndrome tend to be more susceptible to gingivitis as well as early, severe periodontal disease, necrotising ulcerative gingivitis, and early tooth loss, especially in the lower front teeth.[87][88] While plaque and poor oral hygiene are contributing factors, the severity of these periodontal diseases cannot be explained solely by external factors.[88] Research suggests that the severity is likely a result of a weakened immune system.[88][89] The weakened immune system also contributes to increased incidence of yeast infections in the mouth (from Candida albicans).[89] People with Down syndrome also tend to have a more alkaline saliva resulting in a greater resistance to tooth decay, despite decreased quantities of saliva,[90] less effective oral hygiene habits, and higher plaque indexes.[87][89][90][91]