#vietnam metro

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Why Hanoians Choose the Metro: Insights from Metro Users

It's been a transformative period in Hanoi since the introduction of the city's first metro system. The bustling Vietnamese capital, accustomed to motorbike commutes, is experiencing a shift in lifestyle. To unravel the motivations and perceptions of metro users in Hanoi, we conducted a quantitative research study.

Frequent metro users

Our findings paint a picture of significant reliance on the metro for daily transportation needs. Around 50% of respondents utilize the metro at least once a day. Primarily, the metro serves as a pivotal mode of transport for commuting to work or school, while also facilitating connections and leisure activities.

Convenience and safety avoiding the traffic jam

They used to rely on motorbikes before metro service started. So what made them start using metro over motobike? The top three motivations cited for choosing the metro over other modes are avoiding traffic congestion (90%), convenience (72%), and safety concerns (69%).

Users praise the metro for its affordability, cleanliness, and freedom from traffic congestion. We hear the comments from the representative such as "Traveling by metro is cheap, cool, and clean, with no traffic jams."

The consensus among users is that the metro offers swift above-ground travel, eliminating the fatigue of traffic congestion.

How do they come to the stations and go to destinations

The metro users have to commute themselves to the station, then to the destinations. How do they take care of these transportations from / to the stations. The majorities of them walk from / to the stations, while some use motorbike including the ride hauling such as Grab. The metro users are the ones who only need to walk a few hundred meters from / to the stations and walking is not going to be huge issues for them. Also the service like Grab help them to ease their commuting.

Good satisfaction for comfort, speed and safety

Users express high satisfaction with various aspects of the metro, including affordability, comfort, speed, punctuality, service, and safety. However, the parking facilities require enhancement, especially considering that 37% of users still commute to the metro by motorbike.

Metro has changed the lifestyles of some who particularly have their residence or school / office near the closest metro stations. Metro will start their operation in HCM in 2024 and we would see the lifestyle change resulting from the new commuting style soon.

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2 bedroom apartment inspo cute modern under decks ceiling interior design brand new affordable house located at rumuekini new layout in port Harcourt city rivers state Nigeria

[the-king-of-hotel-amenities]

Vietnam Hanoi MRT unboxing!

The first MRT in Hanoi, Vietnam was finally completed at the end of 2021. Although there are not many attractive attractions around the MRT station so far, let's take a look.

[therealtorasia]

Metro Line 1 delays commercial operation to the end of 2024

The Ho Chi Minh City Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR) has reported to the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Office on the progress of the Metro Line No. 1 project. According to the report, commercial operation of the metro line is expected to commence in late 2024, instead of July 2024 as previously planned. The report states that the project will complete the acceptance of fire…

[adastra-sf]

Climate change-driven heatwaves threaten millions

Extreme record-breaking heat leads to severe crises across the world.

Already in 2024, from Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria in the West; to Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, China, and the Philippines in the East; large regions of Asia are experiencing temperatures well above 40°C (104°F) for days on end.

The heatwave has been particularly difficult for people living in refugee camps and informal housing, as well as for unhoused people and outdoor workers.

Using the Heat Index Calculator, at that temperature and a relative humidity of 50%, residents see a heat index of 55°C (131°F) - a temperature level humans cannot long survive:

In February, the southern coastal zone of West Africa also experienced abnormal early-season heat. A combination of high temperatures and humid air resulted in average heat index values of about 50°C (122°F) - the danger level, associated with a high risk of heat cramps and heat exhaustion.

Locally, temperatures entered the extreme danger level associated with high risk of heat stroke, with values up to 60°C (140°F):

Even here at Ad Astra's HQ in Kansas, last summer we saw several days with high temperatures of 102°F (39°C) at 57% humidity, resulting in a heat index of 133°F (56°C):

Of course, the major difference in survivability in Kansas versus some of the places suffering extreme heat right now is that air-conditioning abounds here. Those who live somewhere that faces extreme heat but can escape it indoors are a lot more likely to survive, but a person who lives somewhere without such life-saving gear faces not just discomfort, but heat stroke and even death.

This includes unhoused and poor people here in the wealthier parts of the world, who often do not have access to indoor refuge from the heat.

About 15% of US residents live below the poverty line. Many low-wage earners work outside in construction or landscaping, exposed to the ravages of heat. Many do not own an air conditioner, and those who do might need to budget their body's recovery from heat against cost to purchase and run cooling equipment. Because heat stress is cumulative, when they go to work the next day, they’re more likely to suffer from heat illness.

Bad as that is, for those living on the street, heatwaves are merciless killers. Around the country, heat contributes to some 1,500 deaths annually, and advocates estimate about half of those people are homeless. In general, unhoused people are 200 times more likely to die from heat-related causes than sheltered individuals.

For example, in 2022, a record 425 people died from heat in the greater Phoenix metro area. Of the 320 deaths for which the victim’s living situation is known, more than half (178) were homeless. In 2023, Texans experienced the hottest summer since 2011, with an average temperature of 85.3°F (30°C) degrees between June and the end of August. Some cities in Texas experienced more than 40 days of 100°F (38°C) or higher weather. This extreme heat led to 334 heat-related deaths, the highest number in Texas history and twice as many as in 2011.

The Pacific Northwest of Canada and the USA suffered an extreme heat event in June, 2021, during which 619 people died. Many locations broke all-time temperature records by more than 5°C, with a new record-high temperature of 49.6°C (121°F). This is a region ill-suited to such weather, and despite having relatively high wealth compared to much of the world, many homes and businesses there do not have air-conditioning due to a history of much lower temperatures.

Heatwaves are arguably the deadliest type of extreme weather event because of their wide impact. While heatwave death tolls are often underreported, hundreds of deaths from the February heatwave were reported in the affected countries, including Bangladesh, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and the Philippines.

Extreme heat also has a powerful impact on agriculture, causing crop damage and reduced yields. It also impacts education, with holidays having to be extended and schools closing, affecting millions of students - in Delhi, India, schools shut early this week for summer when temperatures soared to 47°C (117°F) at dangerous humidity levels:

At 70°C (157°F !), humans simply cannot function and face imminent death, especially when humidity is high. This is the notion of "heat index," a derivative of "wet-bulb temperature."

Though now mostly calculated using heat and humidity readings, wet-bulb temperature was originally measured by putting a wet cloth over a thermometer and exposing it to the air.

This allowed it to measure how quickly the water evaporated off the cloth, representing sweat evaporating off skin.

The theorized human survival limit has long been 35°C (95°F) wet-bulb temperature, based on 35°C dry heat at 100% humidity - or 46°C (115°F) at 50% humidity. To test this limit, researchers at Pennsylvania State University measured the core temperatures of young, healthy people inside a heat chamber.

They found that participants reached their "critical environmental limit" - when their body could not stop the core temperature from continuing to rise – at 30.6°C wet bulb temperature, well below what was previously theorized. That web-bulb temperature parallels a 47°C (117°F) heat index.

​The team estimates that it takes between 5-7 hours before such conditions reach "really, really dangerous core temperatures."

On March 5, 2024, Hong Kong saw temperatures of 27°C (80°F) with 100% humidity, which results in a heat index of 32.2°C (90°F) - seemingly not so bad until considering it's higher than the critical wet-bulb temperature. Also, if you watch the video, imagine the long-term effects of water accumulating in residences, such as dangerous mold.

We are witnessing the effects of climate change right now, all around the world, and rising temperatures are just the most-obvious (what we used to call "global warming"). Many, many other side-effects of climate change are beginning to plague us or headed our way soon, and will affect us all.

Unfortunately, those most affected - and those being hit the hardest right now - are people most vulnerable to heatwaves. With climate crises increasing in both intensity and frequency, and poverty at dangerous levels, we face a rapidly rising, worldwide crisis.

We must recognize the climate crisis as an international emergency and treat it as such. So much time, creative energy, resources, and life is wasted in war and the pursuit of profit or power - consider how much good could come from re-allocating those resources to ensuring a future for Earthlings, instead.

(Expect to see a "Science into Fiction" workshop on climate change coming soon - SF writers have a particular responsibility to address such important topics of change and global consequence.)

[hopefulkidshark]

Tao Dan Park,  Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Tao Dan Park is an urban park in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam behind the Independence Palace. It is of the largest parks in the city, covering 10 hectares. Part of the park will be used for the Ho Chi Minh City Metro Line 2's Tao Dan Station. Wikipedia

[mickstart]

tell me about your favorite blorbo? like ramble tf away about it, let the hyperfixation take over, i'm so fuckin ready to know everything about them xD

okay I was gonna talk about aventurine but @chevaliermalfets also said I had permission to talk about Adler so.

Russell Adler Propaganda Hour

Okay so first I have to explain Call of Duty Black Ops.

Call of Duty is a franchise but within that franchise there are 3 studios all working on separate games with their own lore. Black Ops, or Blops, is a "universe" within call of duty and it's pretty much the only thing the Treyarch studio works on. (It's kind of connected to the other universes now, I DON'T have the time to get into that so just forget it. Like Dumbledore's sexuality, it is not relevant to Adler's journey.) Black Ops spans 80 years and the lore got Convoluted but they refocusd it again with the last 2 games like: okay. Blops is about top secret CIA operations during the second half of the 20th century.

Black Ops Cold War

The fifth blops came has a simple introductory plot. "It's 1981, you're CIA agents, there's a Bad Russian (Perseus) who wants to do things with Nukes. Standard cold war aesthetics shit. Go get the bad russian. Here's a team led by your NEW BEST FRIEND Adler." You mostly play as Bell. Adler is Bell's Best Friend they fought in vietnam together Adler always wants Bell on his team they're besties. Also, yes, this is the call of duty where you choose your pronouns and Reagan respects them. Much like Reagan I will be using they/them for Bell because I'm not a coward.

So yeah this plot is simple. Adler and you have been chasing the Bad Russian for years. You do various chaotic shit during this campaign. (Sneaking into East Berlin through the underground metro. Breaking into THE FUCKING KGB HQ AND HAVING AN OPEN FIREFIGHT IN ITS VAULT? ADLER? WHAT THE FUCK?) But throughout the game you get little hints something Isn't Right with Bell. They forget things, their past isn't as clear as the other characters, the CIA handler overseeing your op, Hudson, oesn't Trust them and often he and Adler argue about bringing Bell along.

And then :) A mission goes Very Wrong, one of 2 characters die and Bell gets Fucked Up. Adler basically drags you back to the safehouse and the surviving team members start putting you on a gurney. Hudson starts yelling at Adler to stop wasting time, that Bell is no use to them anymore, and the team ignore you. You're like "aww, Adler cares about Bell so much he's gonna waste time to help the- Adler why are you pointing that needle at Bell's eye... OH MY FUCKING GOD!!"

And then you find out that up until like a month ago Bell was working FOR PERSEUS. And then a jealous associate turned on Bell - and you WATCHED THIS HAPPEN from the POV of Adler's team. Bell is a nameless grunt that got shot in a car in the first mission. Adler and the team found Bell, took them back to the CIA, and when Bell didn't break under torture, they BRAINWASHED BELL with MKUltra shit to believe they and Adler were best friends so they'd willingly give him information.

They basically erased Bell's fucking psyche and replaced their memories with implanted memories from Adler's time in Vietnam. BELL IS NAMED AFTER THE BELL ADLER USED TO CONDITION THEM TO RESPOND POSITIVELY TO HIM. BELL HAS BEEN BRAINWASHED TO COMPLY AND OBEY WHENEVER ADLER SAYS "WE HAVE A JOB TO DO." THAT'S WHY ADLER TOOK YOU EVERYWHERE. THE BRAINWASHING IS CENTERED AROUND ADLER. HE CONTROLS BELL.

And you find this out as Adler is guiding you through a fucked up mindscape based on one of his Vietnam missions. He's trying to get you to open a red door - a kind of visual metaphor for the block you've had in your mind protecting the last SLIVER of free will and information you've managed to hold back from him. And as Adler gets angrier and pumps you full of more and more drugs the dreamscape starts getting trippier. At one point he's like "ENOUGH FUCKING AROUND!" and the visuals crumble around Bell and they get flung back to where Adler wants them to be. At one point Bell starts remembering the lab where this happened and Adler just goes "-exasperated sigh- Why is Bell in the lab? I don't want the lab, I want the bunker."

And then Bell wakes up. And let me tell you it's genuinely extremely effective going from Adler being 'protective' of you the whole game to Adler having a hand around your throat cursing you out like you're his enemy. Because you are. After Some Arguing Adler is like "okay, tell me where Perseus is." and YOU can choose to either lie or tell the truth. If you lie Europe gets nuked, but you get to stab Adler in the heart and kill everyone else who did this to you and reunite with Perseus who is immediately Very Concerned about you and Very Proud of you for managing to survive this ordeal.

If you tell the truth (the canonical ending) you get a long cutscene where Adler monologues about "A Few Good Men Making Bad Decisions To Protect The Free World" basically the motto of the US Military's imperialism. And then you and the team stop Perseus and save the world ... and then in the credits, Adler takes Bell up a hill and says "this little thing between you and me wasn't personal" ... and he draws to shoot you and Bell draws like a milisecond after bc after all the programming Bell can read Adler just as well as Adler can read them they're supposed to be bffs after all.

It cuts to black like the fucking sorpanos but the implication is that Adler *KILLS* Bell. Because they've outlived their usefulness. If you choose The Right Thing, Adler KILLS you presumably on CIA orders bc Adler only cares about The Mission.

And that's just COLD WAR!!!!!!!!!!

(Adler pic for making it this far)

Black Ops 6

10 years later during Operation Desert Storm. This game isn't even ABOUT Ader, except it is bc he steals every scene he's in. Case in point, he enters the campaign by striding out from behind a car, coming out of the dust like a demon, and shooting a friendly, unarmed man in the head with no explanation, justification, or apology, while everyone screams. One character literally says "Adler!" but not like they're calling out to him, like the way you might call out a warning like "gunship!" "tank!"

(And then they wrestle with him and he's out of breath and panting and on his knees w/ a gun to his head heehee hoohoo I'm normal I'm normal.)

Anyway Adler has been on the run for a while because he's suspected of being a mole who fucked up a crucial CIA operation. He claims he's being framed, and the CIA are compromised. He gets thrown in a CIA black site and once you investigate and find out he's probably telling the truth you have to put a team together to uncover The Truth and to break him out.

And THEN you have to deal with his chaos for the rest of the campaign the highlights of which include: shooting an unarmed man and going "whaaaat? :( he was going for his gun" when called out, trying to throw a confessing, surrendered man into a jet plane engine, and just carrying CIA MKultra torture drugs around in his bag and pulling them out when necessary like they're chapsticks. Everything Adler does is so fucking funny in how cartoonishly evil it is he is a DELIGHT. This is Adler NOT pretending to be a decent guy like he was with Bell.

(Also you can indirectly ask him about Bell and he shuts that shit down immediately. >:) That's theirs. That's his and Bell's and nobody else will understand their fucked up hannibal lecter will graham antics.)

I don't even know how to summarise the plot except at one point a character is reliving her worst trauma and she claims Adler killed her parents in front of her when she was a child and they were CIA agents and Adler was ordered by the CIA to kill their own, and I started LAUGHING AND CLAPPING LIKE A SEAL it hit like meth. The game claims this did NOT happen and she has been misled but I refuse to accept that. It happened. Adler killed this women's parents in cold blood and then mentored her in the CIA. I hope he killed her pet hamster too. I hope he ate her last lunchable from the fridge and stole money from her piggy bank.

Yes, he is STILL SUPPOSED TO BE A PROTAGONIST. And you have to understand how incredible that is. Call of Duty does NOT let its characters be Proper Bastards. Call of Duty characters always need to turn to the camera and say "but of course, as a us military soldier, I would never commit a war crime because we are the most ethical military in the world."

But Adler is a *protagonist* and he not only commits war crimes, when other characters judge him for it he's like "uh we work for the CIA dipshit the blanket war crimes permission came free with our badge bc WE get to decide when a war crime is necessary! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!"

Call of Duty doing this is like a dog learning to ride a bike. That's not an expectation I ever had for the dog, nor is it something I thought he could do. Frankly, I don't know what this dog riding a bike MEANS in the grand scheme of things. But goddamn that sure is a dog riding a bike and I want to see more of it.

Questions You Might Have

What's with the facial scar?

Adler refuses to tell the real story like any good Bond Villain he just HAS a cool scar covering half his face.

Why does he dress like that?

BC it's a period piece in the sexy Spies And Soviets era and he's watched too many movies. I hope he went to see Top Gun

Why is he like this?

>:) Because he's a beast created by the US Military's total lack of oversight and self-legitimising discourse that means anything is true and permitted as long as they say it is.

Why is he so funny?

Bc he's a call of duty character who is aware they are in call of duty and therefore any attempt to minimise their evil is wasted breath and pointless effort. This is like the reverse of parody. This is face-value "yes we really mean this" taken to such a ridiculous extreme it BECOMES Parody. This is like the reverse of why Senator Armstrong saying "Make America Great Again" 4 years before Trump Presidency happened hits like crack.

How did call of duty make this?

I have no fucking idea dude I think someone from metal gear snuck into the building.

Wait didn't you tag something as AdlerBell but they-

I subscribe to the NBC Hannibal school of "sometimes ruining someone's life can be intensely romance coded if you two are the only two people alive who can understand what went on between you." I think Bell should eat him.

Are you okay?

Absolutely not. I think Adler has MKUltra'd me.

[sapropel]

From the Jewish Voice for Peace Boulder/Denver Chapter newsletter:

"For over six months, tens of thousands of Jews, and countless other people of conscience, have fought to end the Israeli government's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

As our movement continues to grow, student antiwar protesters set up an encampment at the Auraria Campus, home to the University of Colorado Denver, Metro State University, and Community College of Denver. Denver Students for a Democratic Society initiated the encampment Thursday, and the protest quickly gained momentum.

The Denver/Boulder chapter of JVP showed strong support, standing in unwavering solidarity with the students and activists at Tivoli Quad on the Auraria Campus, beginning Thursday night and continuing through the weekend.

Before long, students and faculty from diverse backgrounds were participating. There was significant support from the wider Denver community, demonstrating broad solidarity with our demands, including for the Biden administration to end its support for Israeli genocide.

On Friday, a day later, the Denver Police Department arrested more than 40 peaceful protesters defending the encampment. Despite this, students quickly reestablished the encampment and continued their protest.

That evening, JVP Denver/Boulder led a Shabbat service at the encampment following Jummah prayer.

Despite rain, snow and sleet, the students remained at the encampment, organizing further speakers and rallies on Saturday.

These events were attended by local political leaders, university professors, and representatives from community groups, including JVP.��

Dr. Angela Davis, renowned activist and scholar, visited the encampment. Her inspiring presence lent significant historical and moral weight to the students' efforts.

Dr. Davis gave a moving speech linking the encampment to a long history of civil rights and student activism, describing it as a pivotal moment in contemporary social movements and something she hadn’t seen since the student movements to end the Vietnam War.

Now, the encampment continues, with students and supporters remaining until all their demands are met."

Image IDs:

#1: A student encampment on the Tivoli Quad at Auraria campus. Masked protesters wear keffiyeh scarves and ponchos--they are sitting on blue tarps in the rain. There is a sign that says AURARIA ENCAMPMENT FOR PALESTINE: CU DIVEST FROM GENOCIDE.

#2: Dr. Angela Davis stands at a microphone, hand to her chest. She is in front of a Palestinian flag, wearing a yellow-brosn keffiyeh. On the left side of the image, three protesters wearing keffiyeh scarves and a fourth mostly obscured protester listen to Dr. Davis' words. They all stand beneath tarps or tents in the rain.

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Holidays 11.8

Holidays

Abet and Aid Punsters Day

Aboriginal Veterans Day (Canada)

Aicardi Syndrome Awareness Day

Colorism Awareness Day

Day of Baku Metro Employees (Azerbaijan)

Days of History and Memory (Kyrgyzstan)

Euterpe Asteroid Day

Feast of Pamphleteers

Global Day of Action Against Waster Incineration

Going Ramos Day (Aklan, Philippines)

I Hate to Cook Day

International Cleaning Woman Day

International Day of Radiology

International Hug an Exchange Student Day

International Human Animal Bond Day

International Vampire Day

Intersex Day of Remembrance (a.k.a. Intersex Solidarity Day)

Leadworts Day (French Republic)

La Almudena (Madrid, Spain)

Merchant Sailing Ship Preservation Day

Moon Festival (Elder Scrolls)

National Aboriginal Veterans Day (Canada)

National Adam Day

National Ample Time Day

National Ashley Day

National Canine Companion Graduation Day

National Christopher Day

National Dunce Day

National Elevate Day

National First Generation College Student Day

National I Read Canadian Day (Canada)

National Irene Day

National Journalists Day (China)

National Kyle Day

National Leon Day

National Loneliness Awareness Day

National Parents As Teachers Day

National Shot Day

National Signing Day

National Spatial Planning Day (Indonesia)

National S.T.E.M. Day (a.k.a. National S.T.E.A.M. Day)

National Thalassemia Prevention Day (Pakistan)

Nice Boobs Day (Japan)

Octave Day of All Saints (Anglicanism)

Personal Liberty Day (Chicago celebration of Prohibition's repeal)

Plastic Free Lunch Day

Rorschach Test Day

School Sport Jersey Day (Canada)

Scylla Asteroid Day

Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day

Symphonic Metal Day

Talk Money Day

Victory Day (Azerbaijan)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Day

World Day Without Wi-Fi

World Gift Day

World Pianist Day

World Radiography Day (a.k.a. X-Ray Discovery Day)

World Town Planning Day

World Urbanism Day

World Ventil8 Day

X-Ray Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day

Harvey Wallbanger Day

National Cappuccino Day

National Pupusa Day (El Salvador)

National Roast Dinner Day (UK)

Sandwich Day (Earl of Sandwich’s Birthday)

Try a New Recipe Day

Independence & Related Days

Montana Statehood Day (#41; 1889)

Pohnpei Constitution Day (Micronesia)

2nd Friday in November

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Domino Day [2nd Friday]

Fish & Chips Friday [2nd Friday of Each Month]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Follow Friday [2nd Friday of Each Month]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

Frugal Friday [2nd Friday of Each Month]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

International Mushy Pea Day [2nd Friday]

National Donor Sabbath Weekend begins [2nd Friday]

National DTC (Direct-to-Consumers) Friday [2 Fridays before Black Friday]

National Walk to Work Day (Australia) [2nd Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning November 8 (1st Full Week of November)

Jersey Shore Restaurant Week (Jersey Shore, New Jersey) [thru 11.17]

San Francisco Restaurant Week (San Francisco, California) [thru 11.17]

Festivals Beginning November 8, 2024

ArmeniaFest (Carrollton, Texas) [thru 11.10]

Big Boy's Main Street Cook Off (Thibodaux, Louisiana)

Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival (Bilbao, Spain) [thru 11.15]

California Wine Festival Huntington Beach (Huntington Beach, California) [thru 11.9]

Cayman Brac (Cayman Islands) [thru 11.17]

Eat Drink SF (San Francisco, California) [thru 11.17]

Garagiste Wine Festival (Paso Robles, California) [thru 11.10]

Lake Erie Maple Expo (Albion, Pennsylvania) [thru 11.9]

New England Christmas Festival (Uncasville, Connecticut) [thru 11.10]

Ricefest (Riceboro, Georgia) [thru 11.10]

Santiago International Book Fair (Santiago, Chile) [thru 11.17]

Sebastian Clambake (Sebastian, Florida) [thru 11.10]

South Carolina Peanut Party (Pelion, South Carolina) [thru 11.9]

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Tallinn, Estonia) [thru 11.24]

Tarpon Springs Seafood Festival (Tarpon Springs, Florida) [thru 11.10]

Waterfowl Festival (Easton, Maryland) [thru 11.10]

Feast Days

Adeodatus I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Appreciate Your Loved Ones Day (Pastafarian)

Arduino Cantafora (Artology)

Big Bird’s Daddy (Muppetism)

Bram Stoker (Writerism)

Charles Demuth (Artology)

Clarence Gagnon (Artology)

Cybi (a.k.a. Cuby; Christian; Saint)

Demetrius (Orthodox Church; Saint)

Deusdedit (Christian; Saint)

Elizabeth of the Trinity (Roman Catholic Church; Blessed)

Erika Abels d'Albert (Artology)

The Feast of the Four Crowned Ones

Feast of the Kitchen Goddess (Pagan)

Festival of the Mania (Ancient Rome)

Four Crowned Brothers (Christian; Martyrs)

George Bouzianis (Artology)

Godfrey of Amiens (Christian; Saint)

Fuigo Matsuri (Honoring Hettsui No Kami, Kitchen-Range Goddess; Shinto; Japan)

Intersex Day of Remembrance

Isabella of Castille (Positivist; Saint)

Johann von Staupitz (Lutheran)

John Duns Scotus, Blessed (Christian; Saint)

Kazuo Ishiguro (Writerism)

Lighting the Twin Flame Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Mae West Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Mania Festival (Old Roman)

Margaret Mitchell (Writerism)

Martha Gellhorn (Writerism)

Masashi Kishimoto (Artology)

Mundus Patel (Ancient Rome)

Saints and Martyrs of England (Church of England)

Samantha Shannon (Writerism)

Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers of Heaven (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Threefold Tripling (Sacred #27; Celtic Book of Days)

Tysilio (Christian; Saint)

Willehad of Bremen (Christian; Saint)

Wish-Granting Championships (Leprechauns; Shamanism)

Yam Offering Day (Haiti; Everyday Wicca)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

Ace of Spades, by Motörhead (Album; 1980)

Buddy’s Circus (WB LT Cartoon; 1934)

Carol at the End of the World (Animated TV Series; 2023)

The Complete Stories, by Flannery O'Connor (Short Stories; 1971)

Days of Our Lives (TV Soap Opera; 1965)

Doctor Sleep (Film; 2019)

8 Mile (Film; 2002)

Everybody’s Talking’, recorded by Harry Nilsson (Song; 1967)

The Goodies (UK TV Series; 1970)

Henry V (Film; 1989)

Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino (Novel; 1972)

Jailhouse Rock (Film; 1957) [Elvis Presley #3]

Klaus (Animated Film; 2019)

Led Zeppelin IV, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1971)

Life with Father, by Clarence Day Jr. (Play; 1939)

The Little Wise Cracker (Barney Bear MGM Cartoon; 1952)

The Mechanical Handy Man (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1937)

Metropolitan (Film; 1935)

Midway (Film; 2019)

Mutiny on the Bounty (Film; 1935)

Night School, 21st Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2016)

Oh, Kay!, by George & Ira Gershwin and P.G. Wodehouse (Broadway Musical; 1926)

Quo Vadis (Film; 1951)

The Robber Bridegroom, by Eudora Welty (Novella; 1942)

Robin Hood (Animate Disney Film; 1973)

Sacred Arias, by Andrea Bocelli (Album; 1999)

Sheer Heart Attack, by Queen (Album; 1974)

Stairway to Heaven, by Led Zeppelin (Song; 1971)

Surfin’, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1961)

Thor: The Dark World (Film; 2013)

12 Years a Slave (Film; 2013)

Today’s Name Days

Gottfried, Willehad (Austria)

Angel, Gavrail, Gavril, Mihaela, Mihail, Ognyan, Ognyana, Plamen, Plamena, Rada, Radka, Radko, Rafail, Raia, Raika, Raina, Rangel (Bulgaria)

Bogdan, Bogoljub, Gracija, Gracijan (Croatia)

Bohumír (Czech Republic)

Cladius (Denmark)

Nele, Nella, Nelli (Estonia)

Aatos (Finland)

Dora, Geoffroy (France)

Gottfried, Karina, Willehad (Germany)

Angela, Angelos, Gavriel, Michalis, Stamatis, Stamos, Taxiarchis (Greece)

Zsombor (Hungary)

Goffredo (Italy)

Agra, Aleksandra, Sandors, Sandra (Latvia)

Domantė, Gotfridas, Severinas, Svirbutas (Lithuania)

Ingvild, Yngvild (Norway)

Dymitr, Godfryd, Gotfryd, Hadrian, Klaudiusz, Sędziwoj, Sewer, Sewerian, Seweryn, Wiktor, Wiktoriusz, Wiktoryn (Poland)

Gavriil, Mihail (România)

Bohumír (Slovakia)

Godofredo, Segundo (Spain)

Vendela (Sweden)

Michael, Michaelina, Raphael (Ukraine)

Geoff, Geoffrey, Jeff, Jefferson, Jeffery, Jeffrey, Mercer, Montana (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 313 of 2024; 53 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 45 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Yi-Hai), Day 8Bing-Zi ()

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 7 Heshvan 5785

Islamic: 6 Jumada I 1446

J Cal: 13 Wood; Fryday [12 of 30]

Julian: 26 October 2024

Moon: 41%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 5 Frederic (12th Month) [Sixtus V / Charles V]

Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 2 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 47 of 90)

Week: 1st Full Week of November

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 16 of 30)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 11.8

Holidays

Abet and Aid Punsters Day

Aboriginal Veterans Day (Canada)

Aicardi Syndrome Awareness Day

Colorism Awareness Day

Day of Baku Metro Employees (Azerbaijan)

Days of History and Memory (Kyrgyzstan)

Euterpe Asteroid Day

Feast of Pamphleteers

Global Day of Action Against Waster Incineration

Going Ramos Day (Aklan, Philippines)

I Hate to Cook Day

International Cleaning Woman Day

International Day of Radiology

International Hug an Exchange Student Day

International Human Animal Bond Day

International Vampire Day

Intersex Day of Remembrance (a.k.a. Intersex Solidarity Day)

Leadworts Day (French Republic)

La Almudena (Madrid, Spain)

Merchant Sailing Ship Preservation Day

Moon Festival (Elder Scrolls)

National Aboriginal Veterans Day (Canada)

National Adam Day

National Ample Time Day

National Ashley Day

National Canine Companion Graduation Day

National Christopher Day

National Dunce Day

National Elevate Day

National First Generation College Student Day

National I Read Canadian Day (Canada)

National Irene Day

National Journalists Day (China)

National Kyle Day

National Leon Day

National Loneliness Awareness Day

National Parents As Teachers Day

National Shot Day

National Signing Day

National Spatial Planning Day (Indonesia)

National S.T.E.M. Day (a.k.a. National S.T.E.A.M. Day)

National Thalassemia Prevention Day (Pakistan)

Nice Boobs Day (Japan)

Octave Day of All Saints (Anglicanism)

Personal Liberty Day (Chicago celebration of Prohibition's repeal)

Plastic Free Lunch Day

Rorschach Test Day

School Sport Jersey Day (Canada)

Scylla Asteroid Day

Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day

Symphonic Metal Day

Talk Money Day

Victory Day (Azerbaijan)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Day

World Day Without Wi-Fi

World Gift Day

World Pianist Day

World Radiography Day (a.k.a. X-Ray Discovery Day)

World Town Planning Day

World Urbanism Day

World Ventil8 Day

X-Ray Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day

Harvey Wallbanger Day

National Cappuccino Day

National Pupusa Day (El Salvador)

National Roast Dinner Day (UK)

Sandwich Day (Earl of Sandwich’s Birthday)

Try a New Recipe Day

Independence & Related Days

Montana Statehood Day (#41; 1889)

Pohnpei Constitution Day (Micronesia)

2nd Friday in November

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Domino Day [2nd Friday]

Fish & Chips Friday [2nd Friday of Each Month]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Follow Friday [2nd Friday of Each Month]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

Frugal Friday [2nd Friday of Each Month]

Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]

International Mushy Pea Day [2nd Friday]

National Donor Sabbath Weekend begins [2nd Friday]

National DTC (Direct-to-Consumers) Friday [2 Fridays before Black Friday]

National Walk to Work Day (Australia) [2nd Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

Weekly Holidays beginning November 8 (1st Full Week of November)

Jersey Shore Restaurant Week (Jersey Shore, New Jersey) [thru 11.17]

San Francisco Restaurant Week (San Francisco, California) [thru 11.17]

Festivals Beginning November 8, 2024

ArmeniaFest (Carrollton, Texas) [thru 11.10]

Big Boy's Main Street Cook Off (Thibodaux, Louisiana)

Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival (Bilbao, Spain) [thru 11.15]

California Wine Festival Huntington Beach (Huntington Beach, California) [thru 11.9]

Cayman Brac (Cayman Islands) [thru 11.17]

Eat Drink SF (San Francisco, California) [thru 11.17]

Garagiste Wine Festival (Paso Robles, California) [thru 11.10]

Lake Erie Maple Expo (Albion, Pennsylvania) [thru 11.9]

New England Christmas Festival (Uncasville, Connecticut) [thru 11.10]

Ricefest (Riceboro, Georgia) [thru 11.10]

Santiago International Book Fair (Santiago, Chile) [thru 11.17]

Sebastian Clambake (Sebastian, Florida) [thru 11.10]

South Carolina Peanut Party (Pelion, South Carolina) [thru 11.9]

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Tallinn, Estonia) [thru 11.24]

Tarpon Springs Seafood Festival (Tarpon Springs, Florida) [thru 11.10]

Waterfowl Festival (Easton, Maryland) [thru 11.10]

Feast Days

Adeodatus I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Appreciate Your Loved Ones Day (Pastafarian)

Arduino Cantafora (Artology)

Big Bird’s Daddy (Muppetism)

Bram Stoker (Writerism)

Charles Demuth (Artology)

Clarence Gagnon (Artology)

Cybi (a.k.a. Cuby; Christian; Saint)

Demetrius (Orthodox Church; Saint)

Deusdedit (Christian; Saint)

Elizabeth of the Trinity (Roman Catholic Church; Blessed)

Erika Abels d'Albert (Artology)

The Feast of the Four Crowned Ones

Feast of the Kitchen Goddess (Pagan)

Festival of the Mania (Ancient Rome)

Four Crowned Brothers (Christian; Martyrs)

George Bouzianis (Artology)

Godfrey of Amiens (Christian; Saint)

Fuigo Matsuri (Honoring Hettsui No Kami, Kitchen-Range Goddess; Shinto; Japan)

Intersex Day of Remembrance

Isabella of Castille (Positivist; Saint)

Johann von Staupitz (Lutheran)

John Duns Scotus, Blessed (Christian; Saint)

Kazuo Ishiguro (Writerism)

Lighting the Twin Flame Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Mae West Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Mania Festival (Old Roman)

Margaret Mitchell (Writerism)

Martha Gellhorn (Writerism)

Masashi Kishimoto (Artology)

Mundus Patel (Ancient Rome)

Saints and Martyrs of England (Church of England)

Samantha Shannon (Writerism)

Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers of Heaven (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Threefold Tripling (Sacred #27; Celtic Book of Days)

Tysilio (Christian; Saint)

Willehad of Bremen (Christian; Saint)

Wish-Granting Championships (Leprechauns; Shamanism)

Yam Offering Day (Haiti; Everyday Wicca)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

Ace of Spades, by Motörhead (Album; 1980)

Buddy’s Circus (WB LT Cartoon; 1934)

Carol at the End of the World (Animated TV Series; 2023)

The Complete Stories, by Flannery O'Connor (Short Stories; 1971)

Days of Our Lives (TV Soap Opera; 1965)

Doctor Sleep (Film; 2019)

8 Mile (Film; 2002)

Everybody’s Talking’, recorded by Harry Nilsson (Song; 1967)

The Goodies (UK TV Series; 1970)

Henry V (Film; 1989)

Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino (Novel; 1972)

Jailhouse Rock (Film; 1957) [Elvis Presley #3]

Klaus (Animated Film; 2019)

Led Zeppelin IV, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1971)

Life with Father, by Clarence Day Jr. (Play; 1939)

The Little Wise Cracker (Barney Bear MGM Cartoon; 1952)

The Mechanical Handy Man (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1937)

Metropolitan (Film; 1935)

Midway (Film; 2019)

Mutiny on the Bounty (Film; 1935)

Night School, 21st Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2016)

Oh, Kay!, by George & Ira Gershwin and P.G. Wodehouse (Broadway Musical; 1926)

Quo Vadis (Film; 1951)

The Robber Bridegroom, by Eudora Welty (Novella; 1942)

Robin Hood (Animate Disney Film; 1973)

Sacred Arias, by Andrea Bocelli (Album; 1999)

Sheer Heart Attack, by Queen (Album; 1974)

Stairway to Heaven, by Led Zeppelin (Song; 1971)

Surfin’, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1961)

Thor: The Dark World (Film; 2013)

12 Years a Slave (Film; 2013)

Today’s Name Days

Gottfried, Willehad (Austria)

Angel, Gavrail, Gavril, Mihaela, Mihail, Ognyan, Ognyana, Plamen, Plamena, Rada, Radka, Radko, Rafail, Raia, Raika, Raina, Rangel (Bulgaria)

Bogdan, Bogoljub, Gracija, Gracijan (Croatia)

Bohumír (Czech Republic)

Cladius (Denmark)

Nele, Nella, Nelli (Estonia)

Aatos (Finland)

Dora, Geoffroy (France)

Gottfried, Karina, Willehad (Germany)

Angela, Angelos, Gavriel, Michalis, Stamatis, Stamos, Taxiarchis (Greece)

Zsombor (Hungary)

Goffredo (Italy)

Agra, Aleksandra, Sandors, Sandra (Latvia)

Domantė, Gotfridas, Severinas, Svirbutas (Lithuania)

Ingvild, Yngvild (Norway)

Dymitr, Godfryd, Gotfryd, Hadrian, Klaudiusz, Sędziwoj, Sewer, Sewerian, Seweryn, Wiktor, Wiktoriusz, Wiktoryn (Poland)

Gavriil, Mihail (România)

Bohumír (Slovakia)

Godofredo, Segundo (Spain)

Vendela (Sweden)

Michael, Michaelina, Raphael (Ukraine)

Geoff, Geoffrey, Jeff, Jefferson, Jeffery, Jeffrey, Mercer, Montana (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 313 of 2024; 53 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 45 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 13 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Yi-Hai), Day 8Bing-Zi ()

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 7 Heshvan 5785

Islamic: 6 Jumada I 1446

J Cal: 13 Wood; Fryday [12 of 30]

Julian: 26 October 2024

Moon: 41%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 5 Frederic (12th Month) [Sixtus V / Charles V]

Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 2 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 47 of 90)

Week: 1st Full Week of November

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 16 of 30)

[purplesurveys]

1936

[sarajade @ bzoink]

What were you doing one hour ago? I was in the car at the parking lot of the mall we were at, waiting for my family to finish shopping. I wasn't in the mood to stroll + besides, it's Halloween weekend so the mall was fucking packed with kids asking for candy and running about...I couldn't handle the energy LOL so I asked permission to go ahead in the car, where I had no problem waiting for them.

Where were your parents born? My dad was born in a province an hour away from Manila; my mom was born within Metro Manila but I'm not giving away the city.

Have you ever used public transportation to get to work? No, I honestly don't know how to commute. I'm not willing to learn until this country gets their shit together and improves our public transport system. I've booked trips to the office via Grab, though, but that's the closest to commuting that I'm willing to do.

What do you miss the most from before Covid times? Honestly...very little. Society is ever so slightly a lot more slow-paced now, which I feel is an effect of the pandemic that we were all successfully able to carry over into the post-pandemic era. People are a lot more conscious about personal space; we're all a lot more cautious whenever we need to cough or sneeze; most offices follow a hybrid set-up except for the few assholes who've implemented a full RTO...things like that.

If anything I only feel regret that I wasn't able to spend all four years of college onsite.

What has been the best thing to happen to you in the past year? Geez, it would be hard to tell. This year felt like a fucking car crash, but I guess it's also my quarter-life crisis in action. Hm...I like that I saw Seventeen, I like that Jin and J-Hope are back from the military, and I like that I was able to travel to Vietnam. Those three I would say have been the highlights of the last 366 days.

Who do you have listed as emergency contacts in your phone? I don't think I have anyone, but in general I usually list my mom.

Are you prone to jealousy? No, I'm pretty nonchalant these days.

How did you get through the lowest point in your life? I drowned myself in work + discovered BTS.

Have you ever been someone's first love? I think so, yeah.

Have you ever played frisbee golf? Not sure what that is so I'll say no. I casually played frisbee in high school, though.

What is your favorite silly, feel-good movie? 13 Going on 30 :) To be fair, the older I get, the more problematic I increasingly find some of its plot elements to be (Jenna tracking down Matty?? Matty cheating???), but I guess I haven't and can't let go of how cute I found it to be at some point.

How old were you when you got your first gaming console, and what kind was it? I never really got gifted 'my own' console because I was never a gamer to begin with, but the first one I had exposure to was the PS1 just because we already had one when I was born.

Who in your family has the coolest job? I really admire my cousin, who's a teaching assistant in economics at our alma mater.

Is cereal technically a soup? Well, no, it's just milk.

Have you found your first gray hairs yet? They come up every now and then but always irregularly.

What is something that drains your energy really quickly? Unreasonable clients, clients who message on the weekend, clients who have sky-high expectations...you get the route I'm headed.

Did you parents teach you how to make a budget before you moved out on your own? They never taught me anything about money. They've just sort of expected to me to learn on my own, which I guess is not wrong but I do wish I got guided just a little bit.

What is your favorite food to put gravy on? Just fried chicken. I'm not so much a fan of gravy...

Do you know anyone from Canada? I've had a couple of friends/family friends move to Canada. It's a fairly popular country for Filipinos.

What's your opinion on astrology? No.

Do you use TikTok? Yeah but only because it makes up a sizeable portion of my work. I'm constantly working with influencers and digital media, so I need to know who's been getting popular/what the trends are.

What do you have going on the rest of the day? I printed out coloring sheets that I'll be filling out. I'm also gonna play a bit of my rhythm game tonight.

[albertserra]

White guy on the metro wearing a shirt with the map outline of vietnam and the words “every clime and place” and I was so confused I had to google.

Well I’ll kill myself

[gonzalo-obes]

IMAGENES Y DATOS INTERESANTES DEL DIA 30 DE ABRIL DE 2024

Día Internacional del Jazz, Semana Mundial de la Inmunización, Año Internacional de los Camélidos.

Santa Sofía.

Tal día como hoy en el año 2004

La cadena CBS emite por primera vez en Reino Unido fotografías de torturas y vejaciones a presos iraquíes cometidas por soldados estadounidenses.

1977

En Buenos Aires, Argentina, Azucena Villafor de Vicenti y otras 13 madres se manifiestan por primera vez, y con gran valentía, en la Plaza de Mayo, frente a la sede del gobierno (Casa Rosada), para solicitar información de sus hijos secuestrados, torturados y asesinados por la dictadura militar, considerada como la más sangrienta de la historia del país, caracterizada por una constante violación de los Derechos Humanos. Ante la orden policial de no detenerse ni agruparse, sino circular, las Madres deciden caminar alrededor de la mencionada Plaza. (Hace 47 años)

1975

Concluye la guerra de Vietnam al anunciar el gobierno de Saigón su rendición incondicional a las fuerzas de Vietnam del Norte. El presidente Duong Van Minh, que ha estado en el cargo sólo tres días, hace el anuncio en una emisión de radio a la nación a primeras horas de esta mañana, solicitando a sus fuerzas que depongan las armas y pidiendo al Ejército de Vietnam del Norte y del Vietcong que pongan fin a todas las hostilidades. El anuncio es seguido rápidamente por la llegada de tropas de Vietnam del Norte, que entran en la ciudad prácticamente sin oposición. (Hace 49 años)

1931

Con 381 metros de altura y 102 plantas de lujo, se inaugura en la Quinta Avenida de Nueva York (EE.UU.) el Empire State. Hasta 1972 será el edificio más alto del mundo. (Hace 93 años)

1897

En una conferencia que pronuncia en la Royal Society de Londres, el físico británico Joseph John Thompson anuncia el descubrimiento del electrón, partícula elemental del átomo. Thomson recibirá el premio Nobel de Física en 1906 por sus estudios sobre la conducción de la electricidad a través del interior de los gases. Calculará la cantidad de electricidad transportada por cada átomo y determinará el número de moléculas por centímetro cúbico. (Hace 127 años)

1838

Nicaragua se independiza de la Federación de Estados Centroamericanos, debido a que sus líderes sólo miran por los intereses particulares de cada una de las provincias, y se convierte así en una república independiente. (Hace 186 años)

1803

Los enviados especiales del presidente Thomas Jefferson, compran Luisiana (EE.UU.) a Francia por 15 millones de dólares. (Hace 221 años)

1789

En EE.UU. y siguiendo los planos del ingeniero francés Pierre l'Enfant, se inicia la construcción de la ciudad de Washington, para albergar la sede del gobierno federal y terminar de este modo con la disputa entre Nueva York y Filadelfia por ser la capital. (Hace 235 años)

1789

George Washington, que ha sido el comandante en jefe que ha llevado a la victoria al Ejército Continental para lograr la independencia de los Estados Unidos, se convierte en el primer presidente de la Unión. Estará en el cargo hasta marzo de 1797. (Hace 235 años)

1725

En Austria se firma el Tratado de Viena entre Felipe V, rey de España, y Carlos VI, emperador del Sacro Imperio poniendo fin a un periodo de negociaciones con el objetivo de solucionar los conflictos de ambas Coronas en Italia, estableciendo un vínculo entre ellas mediante el doble matrimonio de los infantes Carlos y don Felipe con dos hijas del emperador, y prestarse ayuda mutua, sobre todo en los conflictos de Gibraltar. (Hace 299 años)

1492

Los Reyes Católicos ordenan que dos carabelas que están atracadas en el puerto de Palos de la Frontera (Huelva, España), que están allí condenadas a servir la Corona durante dos meses, se pongan al servicio de Cristóbal Colón y que además se les pague cuatro meses adicionales al precio habitual para completar los seis meses que se prevé durará la travesía proyectada por Colón. La Corona reduce de esta manera los gastos de la expedición y vincula a ella a los expertos marinos de Palos. Asimismo, expiden a favor de Colón los títulos de almirante, virrey y gobernador de las tierras que descubra. (Hace 532 años)

313

En la Batalla de Tzirallum (actual Turquía), el emperador Valerio Liciniano Licinio, vence a las tropas del emperador Maximino y unifica todo el imperio romano de oriente. A partir de este momento el imperio pasa de triarquía a diarquía y queda dividido entre Licinio, en Oriente, y su cuñado Constantino en Occidente. Maximino morirá en agosto tal vez envenenado. (Hace 1711 años)

311

En el Imperio Romano de Oriente, concluye de manera oficial la persecución a los cristianos instituida por el emperador Diocleciano, mediante la promulgación del llamado Edicto de Tolerancia de Nicomedia en el que el emperador Galerio, implacable represor e impulsor de las persecuciones, además de los emperadores Licinio y Constantino, ordenan por motivos de clemencia y oportunidad política, el cese de las persecuciones anticristianas a la vez que se reconoce existencia legal a los cristianos, la libertad para celebrar reuniones y la posibilidad de construir templos. (Hace 1713 años)

[sammmyy223]

I run a shit post dnd game. The players and I refer to it by one of two names. Weednd or The Brewicide Squad. The players and I get inebriated before and during each sessions.

This is the information I provided to the players when we were planning on starting the game. The hook so to speak. There are also the 4 unique feats you can choose depending on where you are from.

Brethea is a land of wonders and holds many a great deal of things. The land is ruled over by 4 major factions

The Weed Wizards-

One more Rip- once per long sesh user pulls out a spell rolled joint and can cast any first level spell

The Miller High Mages-

Feat: Gods Drunkest Driver- once per long sesh the user down a teener and spawn a set of car keys. The car keys are a magical item when used that summons a magical car that will take you where you need to go,

The Pack Priests of Stanktopia-

Herbal Remedies- one per long user can heal the party 1d8 as they share a medicinal blunt. The healing power increases by 1d8 at level 6, 10, 14, 18

The Wocky Warlocks-

Double Cup Alchemy- one per long sesh the player may roll a d20 in order to generate a double cup potion.

Brethea a land of rich and deep lore, built upon the ashes of many a sesh amongst the leaders of the four groups.

One day a black spot opened in between the four kingdoms and since then evil has been plaguing the land, trying to claim the holy relics of the kingdoms to resurrect an evil demon.

The four great rulers of the nation, Franko Skunkberry of Stanktopia, Yung King of Wocky, Flooberus Bobsnarl Jr. of the Miller lands, and Quincavius Diesalbrau of the wizards have come to an agreement that shall recruit aspiring heroes of their nation and pair them in teams of adventurers to stop the forces of evil. You are a team of those heroes. Your goal is to get as much information you can on the upcoming evil and potentially put a stop to it!

Short sesh, or long sesh instead of short or long rest.

I also wanted to share the current list of side quests I have for the players

Side Quests

Trivia with Tim-

Vietnam

Guppy’s MTV Crypt Episode

The fat king and the praising staff- you have to compliment the king or get put to death

Zoober Zone- a multidimensional plane of existence where the Hashtral Projectionists hang out

Minecraft ravine exploration

The fermented lake and the micks chosen select ultra can that whoever brings it up from and drinks it, becomes the king of beertopia. Beertopia is like el dorado of beer.

Devil fruit sesh

Chaos Sparkplugs

Metro 42033

Killing the Council

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

Next Tuesday (December 5), I'm at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org's Bill McKibben called "The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful."b

#20yrago Bruce Sterling hits his stride on his blog https://web.archive.org/web/20040505163610/https://wiredblogs.tripod.com/sterling/index.blog?entry_id=154868

#20yrsago Hayes Micro: the moral is, take the money and run https://web.archive.org/web/20031205001612/https://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/1103/23hayes.html

#20yrsago Fan builds 11,000 sqft Haunted Mansion replica https://web.archive.org/web/20031203011208/https://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/gwinnett/1103/26haunted.html

#15yrsago Neil Gaiman explains why he opposes laws banning speech he disagrees with https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-icky-speech.html

#15yrsago Why Candyland doesn’t suck https://web.archive.org/web/20081205063135/http://playthisthing.com/candy-land

#15yrsago Vietnam’s amazing phone-unlockers https://www.cnet.com/culture/unlocking-iphone-3gs-the-vietnamese-way/

#15yrsago UK to punish “publishing police info” with 10 years in jail https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/11/413023.html

#10yrsago Porno copyright trolls Prenda Law fined $261K https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/unhappy-thanksgiving-for-prenda-law-ordered-to-pay-261k-to-defendants/

#10yrsago Presenting political argument on Twitter, and the “prestige economy” https://www.mic.com/articles/48829/why-you-should-never-have-taken-that-prestigious-internship

#10yrsago Apps come bundled with secret Bitcoin mining programs, paper over the practice with EULAs https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2013/11/potentially-unwanted-miners-toolbar-peddlers-use-your-system-to-make-btc

#10yrsago Study shows removing DRM increased music sales https://torrentfreak.com/what-piracy-removing-drm-boosts-music-sales-by-10-percent-131130/

#10yrsago JP Morgan’s “Twitter takeover” seeks questions from Twitter, gets flooded with critiques of banksterism #AskJPM https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/30/shock-poll-reveals-gulf-britain-eu-france-germany-poland-hostile

#10yrsago UK Home Secretary Theresa May secretly charters private jet to (unsuccessfully) deport dying man to Nigeria https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/30/theresa-may-hunger-striker-ifa-muaza-asylum-uk

#5yrsago To save Brexit deal, Prime Minister Theresa May dropped an assault rifle ban https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2018/11/something-crazy-happened-parliament-last-night-and-no-one-talking-about-it

#5yrsago David Byrne’s “Eclectic Music for the Holidays” playlist http://davidbyrne.com/radio/david-byrne-presents-eclectic-for-the-holidays

#5yrsago Incredibly detailed technical guide to camgirling is a mix of advanced retail psychology and advice on performing emotional labor https://knowingless.com/2018/11/19/maximizing-your-slut-impact-an-overly-analytical-guide-to-camgirling/

#5yrsago AI scientist who quit Google over Chinese censorship plans details the hypocrisy that sent him packing https://theintercept.com/2018/12/01/google-china-censorship-human-rights/

#5yrsago St Louis cops indicted for beating up a “protester” who turned out to be an undercover cop https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/30/its-still-blast-beating-people-st-louis-police-indicted-assault-undercover-officer-posing-protester/

#1yrago All the books I reviewed in 2022 https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/01/bookishness/#2022-in-review

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EL RUIDO DEL RELOJ -Hobie Brown x Reader

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CAPÍTULO 4: Día soleado

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CAPÍTULOS: PRÓLOGO, CAP 1, CAP 2, CAP 3

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Verano de 2023, 3 de Agosto Hora: 17:20

La parada metro de Queens estaba llena de gente cuando salió por las escaleras. La gente caminaba en una misma dirección, gritando y recitando un cántico en inglés que el líder -o la persona que iba delante con un megáfono- iniciaba cada cinco o diez minutos. Solo llevaba diez minutos caminando y enfrentándose a esa masa furiosa cuando y ya estaba cansada.

Los padres de Khristina dejaron de ser hippies para darle una mejor vida. Antes, vivían fuera de la ciudad y apenas tenían estudios hasta que se quedaron embarazados y volvieron a la urbe. Los abuelos de Khris les ayudaron a pagar los gastos los primeros meses de recién nacida. Si alguno de sus abuelos viera aquello, pensaría que estaban volviendo a los años 70 y 80 donde la libre expresión dependía de un fino hilo por culpa de la Guerra de Vietnam.

Se dirigía al Distrito Financiero para solucionar unos problemas del banco. Si no le iban a dar la beca, al menos estaba bien conocer la situación financiera en la que se encontraba. Para ello, tenía que coger el metro. Moverse por Nueva York era una pesadilla no solo si eras turista y estabas perdido. Si vivías en Queens, lo más probable era que pensasen que no tenías oportunidades y te miraban mal dependiendo del barrio. Al menos no se habían instalado en el Bronx y la gente de ese distrito no salía mucho de su zona. Por algo eran conocidos.

Khistina miró la primera señal que pudo ver cuando la multitud no la estaba arroyando. Iba en dirección contraria a la parada a la que necesitaba ir. Miró a todos lados buscando el camino o una zona lo suficientemente tranquila para pararse y mirar en un mapa online hacia donde tenía que ir.

Hasta que vio el coche de un policía aparcado y a su piloto vigilando el paso de la masa. La policía debía de estar controlando que aquellas personas no se fueran de la zona acordonada o que no causasen problemas. Era Queens, ¿qué diantres pensaban que iba a pasar? Se acercó a él chocándose con los hombros de la gente, recibiendo alguno insultos de por medio los cuales ignoró.

El policía la vio venir y ya la advirtió con una mirada cargada de aburrimiento.

-El paso está cortado en esta dirección. Sigue la masa y busca otro camino.

-Tengo que ir por aquí. Si voy por el otro lado tardaré más.

-No es mi problema -se cerró en banda.

Khris estuvo a punto de gritarle lo capullo que estaba siendo, pero se reprimió porque meterse con la policía en un sitio como aquel era estar en medio de la guerra.

-Oye...

Pero se vio interrumpida por un hombre adulto y con una gorra verde.

-¿Qué coño te pasa, tío? ¿Ahora le niegan el paso a los ciudadanos por las calles de su propio barrio? Sois unos lameculos -se acercó a decir un chico. Debía de haberlos escuchado y parecido mal lo que discutían.

-Señor, cálmese y siga el recorrido...

-¡Y una mierda! -exclamó otro, que actuó por su propia cuenta y al contrario que sus compañeros manifestantes.

Khristina se tapó la cabeza cuando vio un golpe venir. El policía reaccionó antes y se apartó, pero el coche no tuvo esa misma suerte. La persona cayó directa sobre este, resultando el trabajo del oficial sencillo. Este sonrió con burla, lo que solo consiguió enfadar más a quienes lo habían visto. Los gritos y el revuelo alrededor de ellos inició.

-¡Cabronazos!

-¡Perros del Estado!

-¡Nos estáis matando! -gritó una mujer de mediana edad y con una pancarta que decía lo mismo que gritaba.

La misma mujer se acercó a ellos, y empujó a Khristina hacia donde la multitud empezaba a manifestarse. Hacia el grupo de coches de policía más cercanos que empezaba a revolverse y a tomar medidas. Mientras no tomasen las pistolas... Qué diablos. Eran policías. La mayoría eran unos corruptos cuando entraban en Queens. Sacarían las pistolas en cualquier momento que la cosa se pusiera más seria.

A Khristina le llegó la punta de un codo que no iba a por ella directo a la mandíbula. La punzada de dolor le recorrió toda la mandíbula y parte del oído. Se cubrió la zona antes de recibir otro que la obligara a echar sangre. ¿Pero a dónde iba? Estaba desorientada en una zona que no conocía y sin poder sacar el móvil porque lo perdería si se le caía. "Joder", pensó.

-Eh -escuchó que alguien decía a sus espaldas. Ese acento británico... Se dio la vuelta con dificultad, recibiendo algunos codazos y pisotones dolorosos.

Khris se encontró con un rostro cubierto por una máscara de color rojo y líneas blancas verticales y horizontales. Dos grandes ojos blancos con contorno negro chorreante, pues le recordaba a la típica corrida de rímel negro, la observaban. La parte superior de la cabeza estaba llena de picos a modo de peinado punk... Khristina lo reconoció, pero él fue más rápido en reaccionar. La cogió de la mano y la arrastró con él empujando a la gente y gritando por encima de todas esas personas nerviosas.

De nuevo, antes de poder decir algo y dándose en cuenta de que la situación se iba a poner peor si seguían allí, el Hombre Araña la tomó por la cintura y estiró el brazo por encima de sus cabezas. Una tira blanca similar a una cuerda en apariencia y grosor salió de la zona alta de su muñeca, la misma con la que la había atado al contenedor junto a los ladrones.

Khristina chilló cuando ambos salieron por los aires. Dos personas que habían estado a su lado chillaron con ella, pero al segundo de hacerlo dejó de escucharlos porque los oídos se le taponaron con la repentina subida a las alturas. Dejó de agarrarla por la cintura y contra su cuerpo cuando pisaron tierra...en la azotea curva de un edificio. Él le pegó la mano a un palo metálico en forma de cruz y ella pegó todo el cuerpo, consiguiendo sacarle una risotada.

-Utiliza todos los dedos.

-¡TÍO! ¿De qué coño vas?

Pero él la ignoró. Se sentó como los perros en la curva a sus pies mirando el espectáculo de abajo.

-Las cosas están difíciles ahí abajo -señaló a la masa de gente conflictiva que acababa de llegar y se enfrentaba a la policía. Y ese capullo había empezado todo. Se giró para mirarla, y casi pudo ver su tonta sonrisa-. No te has quitado el collar, eh.

-Bájame ahora mismo -le ordenó.

Sin embargo, él tenía una idea contraria.

-Puedes lanzarte. Cuidado al doblar las rodillas.

-¿Pero tú eres tonto del bote o qué?

Casi vio como abría la boca al estirarse la tela de la mandíbula. Era una expresión tonta, y se estaba burlando abiertamente de ella. Y ella se estaba aferrando a la vida para no caerse desde cincuenta metros.

-¿Y ese lenguaje? ¿Besas a tu abuela con esa boquita?

-Y tú debes hacerlo cuando te da la gana después de empezar una guerra. Si por ti fuera la Guerra Fría hubiera acabado con Europa debastada.

Se puso recto y se acercó a ella. Caminaba despreocupado, sin cuidado, y con un equilibrio espectacular para seguir teniendo un equilibrio humano. Mierda, joder. Las noticias nunca hablaban de los héroes o de los Vengadores con tanto detalle. ¿Este tío estaba entre sus filas o era un desgraciado más? Pensaba que era más lo primero.

-ACAB*, amiga.

*ACAB: All Cops Are Bastards.

-Vete a la mierda.

Entonces, el ruido de una melodía los pilló a ambos desprevenidos. Los huecos blancos de la cara, donde debían de estar los ojos,

-Hobie, te necesito ya. Hay problemas.

Khristina levantó la cabeza nada más lo escuchó.

Los oídos le pitaron unos segundos, y luego explotaron por la diferencia de altitud que habían tomado. Por fin, se había acostumbrado. Pero seguía sintiéndose como el culo. Varios mechones oscuros de pelo le bailaron por la cara en sentido contrario, empujados por el viento. Miraba al holograma naranja que acababa de aparecer en ese extraño reloj que desentonaba con el traje.

Hobie era un nombre que conocía. Uno que llevaba tiempo escuchando y con quien se había encontrado. Pero no podía ser. No existían ese tipo de personas, y ahora... Ahora estaban en lo alto de un edificio de más de veinte plantas hablando de fascismo y la policía.

El nombre de la persona que llevaba en la púa.

-¿Hobie? -se atrevió a preguntar.

-¿Eh? -Spider-Punk se giró en su dirección.

Khris apoyó la suela del zapato en lo que pensaba que era una superficie estable y se soltó de donde estaba agarrada. Spider-Punk apretó un botón del reloj y silenció a la persona con la que estaba hablando, pues dejó de escuchase su voz, pero la persona seguía ahí. Llevaba una máscara blanca y una capucha del mismo color.

No la reconoció. Pero mientras intentaba identificar de quien se trataba, sus ojos viraron hacia lo que había debajo de ellos. No el suelo. No los pájaros apoyados en las cornisas...Sino la diferencia de altura que había entre el suelo y ellos. Supo que no saldría viva de eso con tan solo verse flotando y cayendo. Hacia donde estaba la multitud.

-¡Khris!

Khirstina gritó por ayuda, aterrorizada. Las palomas apoyadas en las repisas salieron volando al verla caer, alguna ululando asustadas. ¿Quién estaba más asustada, ella o esas ratas del aire? Sacudió las manos en el aire, como si agarrarse a algo inexistente la fuese a salvar de una muerte asegurada. De una muerte digna de los documentales de investigación que su madre veía por la tarde cuando no trabaja con ella.

Y...de repente ya no. Una tensión en su pecho la obligó a abrir los ojos. Lo primero que vio, aparte de verse reflejada en una ventana que seguramente diese al despacho de un empresario, fue un precioso cielo azul celeste despejado de nubes. Lo siguiente, fue una cabeza asomándose desde lo alto y mirándola. La mitad de su cuerpo estaba pegado y en equilibrio a varios metros de altura de ella, con el brazo estirado. Sujetando la cuerda que la mantenía entre la vida y la muerte.

Khristina sollozó. La había atrapado. Estaba bien, ¿no? Mierda. Había estado a punto de morir. Y lo estaría dentro de poco también si esa cuerdita blanca se rompía.

La respiración de Khristina estaba acelerada, como los latidos de su corazón en busca de oxígeno. La reacción de cualquier otra persona habría sido ponerse a chillar que la bajara y que no volviese a ponerle la mano encima después de eso o llamaría a la policía. Pero la policía no podía meterse con los superhéroes por el Tratado de Sekovia sin una escusa. Y ese chico no parecía estar dentro del Tratado. Khristina solo podía pensar en una cosa: podría haber muerto.

-Khris...

Pero ya era tarde.

Ella ya estaba desmayada.

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