We have staved off outright fascism throughout most of Europe pretty well for 80 years now, but outright fascism in Europe was never quite so well funded and promoted as it is now, since the US government and the social media platforms that do its bidding decided backing outright fascism was a good way to smash the EU. Think what Hitler could have achieved if he'd had Twitter, currently X, and Google at his disposal. He wouldn't have needed the V2 rocket, Lord Haw-Haw and Hugo Boss. He could have razed half of Europe with a Hulk Hogan meme, some persuasive online misinformation and a dozen jauntily askew baseball caps.


Musk's Threats Darken as MAGA Rages at Fresh Legal Losses

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If we get a court ruling saying that some of those firings are illegal, they'll say, We're not going to listen, we're going to keep firing. In a sense, they fired the watchdogs of waste, fraud, and abuse across the government, Trump did. The inspectors general, independent people in the agencies, Greg, [who] were there to watch Trump's wrongdoing. He had a Friday night massacre, wiped them out. He broke the law - you're supposed to give 30-day notice, you're supposed to give a reason.


That's a test. So far, there hasn't been litigation. Trump is waving the red flag. He wants to assert that absolute power. If there's a court order, that is the place where I expect Trump and Musk to say [something like] The Treasure of the Sierra Madre's "We don't care about no stinking badges," We don't care about no stinking court orders, this is my constitutional right. Article 3, that's the judiciary; Article 2, the President; Article 1, Congress. That's a place where Trump will say, Article 1, you got no business, Article 3, you got no business, this is my power. And out of all this mess, that's the single place where the Supreme Court might be most likely to take him seriously.


I think a lot of the other stuff is such a flagrant violation. These 40 cases.... It's like an advent calendar of illegality, Greg. Every day you turn up another flap and another constitutional provision statute or regulation is violated, started on day one. Many of these are dead losers for Trump, except with complicit, corrupt, conflicted Thomas and Alito.


Musk's Threats Suddenly Darken as Trump Legal Losses Trigger MAGA Fury


Rage is mounting among President Donald Trump's allies over the losses that Trump's agenda has suffered in court, which are clearly becoming a serious obstacle to him. It's gotten so bad that Elon Musk shared a tweet from someone who suggested that it may be time to defy the courts. Musk also boosted Trump allies who are seething over these rulings. All that amounts to a pretty dark threat from Musk: He and MAGA appear to be steeling themselves to defy judicial rulings. We talked to Norman Eisen of Democracy Defenders Action, who is litigating against Trump, about how successful the legal resistance has been thus far, whether Trump and his allies will defy the courts, and what would happen if they did. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.


When Remaking a Masterpiece Is Worth the Risk


I've always thought that one of the most insoluble aesthetic problems going is remaking a movie masterpiece. I certainly understand the impulse to passionately re-engage such a work, but if the definition of a masterwork is something peerless at what it sought to accomplish, how do you remake it without simply reiterating it? There's a reason no one has tried second versions of Fellini's "8½" or Coppola's "The Godfather" or Polanski's "Chinatown." In the case of Fellini's achievement, is someone going to produce a more harrowing portrait of the self-deluding toxicity of male narcissism? In the case of Coppola's, of the corrosive effects of power? Or in the case of Polanski's, of the Hey-nothing-personal malevolence of late-model capitalism? (Water itself in that movie turns out to be the commodity that's manipulated for profit.)


When it comes to those who have waded into that kind of deep water, some have tried the Let's-really-shake-things-up solution. There's the lamentable 1962 remake of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," for instance, which not only eliminated the central figure of Cesare the somnambulist but also featured a Caligari who instead of practicing diabolic hypnotism spent his time showing the heroine offensive pictures. Other filmmakers have chosen the even more baffling route of changing almost nothing, such as Gus Van Sant's nearly shot-for-shot 1998 remake of "Psycho." The number of disappointed moviegoers you risk in remaking a masterpiece from 1922 is smaller, for obvious reasons, but even so, the director Robert Eggers has made clear in any number of interviews his understanding that his new "Nosferatu" is re-engaging one of the greatest of the silent movies. (In 2016, when he was first attempting to remake the film, he told an interviewer that it felt "ugly and blasphemous and egomaniacal and disgusting" to take up that project so early into his career.)


F. W. Murnau's "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror" is itself a remake - an unauthorized adaptation of "Dracula," Bram Stoker's compulsively readable fever dream of a novel - and Murnau and the screenwriter Henrik Galeen retained much of what was arresting about the original while slipping in their own major changes: They're responsible, for example, for the now-set-in-stone tradition that sunlight can destroy the vampire, a notion nowhere in Stoker's book. I likely saw "Nosferatu" at too impressionable an age. I was 6, PBS was showing such things and my babysitter was simply glad I wasn't burning down the house. But I would have been flattened by it whenever I saw it. It was like having felt a draft from a grave. (Its effects were so long-lasting that 30-something years later I published a novel inspired by the film and its production.) The whole thing wasn't so much petrifying as insidiously unsettling, and all of that started with the figure of Nosferatu himself. Max Schreck's performance is, 102 years later, still the benchmark for sinister and dignified repulsiveness. Schreck's vampire has the stillness of a figure in a bad dream or a spider on its web, and the world he inhabits is at times equally disconcerting. After our hero Hutter's first frightening night in Nosferatu's castle, he notices in the mirror that something has bitten his neck, and he smiles.


But the most destabilizing figure might well be Hutter's wife, Ellen, our heroine, who's again and again shown to be telepathically on the monster's wavelength, even when he's thousands of miles away, so that polarities like good and evil or desire and repulsion seem to just evaporate while we watch. That last aspect alone would seem to land this story in Robert Eggers's wheelhouse. Part of the subversive energy of movies like "The Witch," "The Lighthouse" and "The Northman" derives from what feels like modern takes on historical characters in thrall to dark passions so that the distantly historical is both granted its strangeness and animated by a scrutinizing modern sensibility. At its best, his version both evokes and reconceives Murnau's most brilliant visual ideas. Murnau's masterful use of the opacities of dark archways from which the vampire can emerge and into which he can dissolve is both echoed and made new. Murnau's famously arresting use of shadows to visualize the vampire's defiling reach is reimagined when those shadows in this new version extend themselves in a 360-degree pan that evokes their vertiginous inescapability. And the shadow of the vampire's hand now extends across the entire city, repurposing the most memorable image from Murnau's "Faust."


How the "Manosphere" Became Mainstream Entertainment


Whenever Bill Belichick, the 72-year-old former head coach of the New England Patriots, goes out in public with his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, who is exactly one-third his age, they tend to draw attention. It was no different at the 2025 N.F.L. Honors earlier this month. Everything about the red-carpet photos accentuates their Evel Knievel-size age gap: Belichick looks sedately pleased in a maroon blazer, like a car dealer at a Shriners banquet; Hudson beams in a sparkly Cirque du Soleil-style number that covers approximately 12 percent of her torso. That's what most people seemed to notice about the pictures.


But not Dave Portnoy. The founder and owner of Barstool Sports - the Utne Reader for the light-domestic-swilling, backslapping, Zyn-packing, parlay-chasing American male - Portnoy has long been treated as an avatar for everything that elite media is not. Barstool might be considered the outermost ring of the so-called manosphere, the vast realm of male-oriented alternative media that has been credited with the rightward drift of the young male vote. Portnoy - a Trump supporter with a long history of misogynistic comments and bullying, who has been accused of nonconsensually filming women during uncomfortably rough sex - doesn't exactly run away from that label. (He has denied the claims about sexual misconduct and filed a suit against the outlet that published them; it was dismissed.) And what he noticed about the photos of Belichick and Hudson was the clutch Hudson wore, which was shaped like a little football: "Very cool purse from BB's girlfriend," he posted on X. "Football girlfriend purse."


It's certainly possible that Portnoy, a die-hard Patriots fan, was being ironic, conveying something like, "I refuse to see anything unusual here." But I would bet that he genuinely did like the purse. I would make that bet because I have spent many hours watching Portnoy's most fascinating nonsports media product, his "One Bite" pizza reviews, and I know about his softer side. He has been doing these reviews for 12 years, though I first encountered them during the pandemic. I was, at that point, ambiently aware of Portnoy, but only for all the stuff people hated about his website: the "Smokeshow of the Day" photos, the army of online "Stoolies" who mobbed his many critics. But if you watch the pizza videos, you're reminded that most of the stuff these controversial media figures do is entirely normal. A lot of the time, it's downright amusing.


Each episode of "One Bite" begins with Portnoy's walking out the door of the business under consideration, then executing the entirety of his review right out front, sometimes practically blocking foot traffic, often with the proprietor looking on anxiously. Given all this, the concept seems almost cruel: He buys an entire pie but reviews the pizza based on one bite. "One bite," goes the motto. "Everybody knows the rules." The reason for this, Portnoy explained in an early video, is that the response has to be immediate, beneath the level of consciousness, like a "Rotchbloch" test. But Portnoy can never limit himself to one bite, typically finishing about half a slice of molten pizza, blowing big cheekfuls of air on it the way you would for a toddler, balancing the rest of the pie in his other hand as he tries to sort out where it belongs on his 10-point scale.


A fine night to start sipping into my Japan stash

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Lush full on sugar cane fragrant and full in the mouth


Another fine evening (ok not really, it's wet and drizzly, but →) to continue exploring my stash of #Rum from #Japan


Cor Cor again - this time the "Industrial" (アンデユストリエル) red version - which is the one they make from the molasses byproduct of sugar making (as opposed to the previous 'green' agricole that's directly from fermenting the cane juice).


Just got a small bottle. Quite thick, heavy sugar nose (almost probitas like), but not too sweet. Dreamy daiquiri if you ask me.


Adding to this thread on my #Japanese #Okinawa #Rum exploration


Opened this OneRum bottle intending to daiquiri, but the fragrance or lack prompted me to pull out and get nosy. Smells a bit like Indian palm toddy. Uses sugar just from Ie island. Tempted to say Clairin like but no it's more spirit, vodka or sochu like - thin, smooth with a touch of heat (48%) just a late hint it's sugar distillate. Sochu, awamori sensibilities in making it for sure. (Mizuho Distillery)


This Ie Island #rum is from the Single island series. It was the only one I could get - besides the all island blend bottle, in my too brief ¾ day in #Naha #Okinawa


Here's their webpage on this rum (translated)


1 oz fresh squeezed lime juice [wish I had shikuwasa]


Oh dear f$expletive deleted me - in a well chilled coupe, took a sip and this is exquisite. Close my eyes and aware of the back of my neck calming.


Didn't expect that. 180⁰ from a more upfront sugary rum.


What’s up with T9 keyboards? Why do 7 and 9 have 4 letters, but others 3. Why those two? Why not assign 1 some letters?


First of all, lemme make things worse, the Nokia 2110 ignores all your alphabets and decides oqz get their own button. But 1 is still empty!


With SMS use of these keys being first used on this nokia 2110* why do we have these on telephones?


Thank the US! In the 1950s the Bell network replaced operators by automation, “connect me to texas” became 839, eight.. thr… what…


Okay Bell had an issue numbers! We have 9 numbers we can assign letters to to make routing easier. 26 letters 8 keys.


0 is a no go, special use. 1… aaand here we go!


(* officially, nokias history is incorrect don’t correct me)


Why is even on the iPhone 1 an empty key? Why did USA get +1?


The old Bell network had 1 reserved as a shortcut to the long distance network! So if a town started with the letters ABC you’d… yes automatically get onto the long distance network, at a heavy charge. Thus this separation!


So here we go at Bell again, the English alphabethas 26 letters, we have 8 keys. That is 3 and something per key…


Which letters do we drop. We need to drop two!


Z was the last letter to enter the company thus first to go!


The letter after that is Y… now that is a popular letter in place names, new York anyone? We cannot fire a letter with a perfect track record!


Language experts were hired to eliminate one more letter from the alphabet.


Q (sorry Q not personal) is a special letter, every French person knows Q cannot live without U. So either one had to go.


Q in the English language has less to do than U, and Q was dropped from the Bell exchange name scheme!


And this kids is why you won’t find it on old telephones.


Back to T9. SMS was a cool new invention in the GSM standard, because providers needed text transmissions anyway why not open it for a quick chat at 15 cents per 160 characters (ascii that is my friends)


Here's a quick, fun, instructive story about what not to do, especially if you identify as [looking at Jim Grandone's page] "Political campaign veteran. Only Democrats[.] Public/media relations professional[.] Married and enjoying beach life in the State of Washington[.] Onward to 2026"


In every bit of sincerity, if you are planning to travel to the United States in the coming months or years, do NOT travel to the United States. Like at all.


You will not be safe here. It is a fascist country and its policy now is to punish people for the crime of fucking nothing.


I cannot personally attest to the bona fides of Jim Grandone, but IF he is what his profile claims he is, and if his blithe dismissal of people's fears for their own safety in a country run by people who declare every day "YOU SHOULD LIVE IN FEAR" is shared by ANYone in the Democratic Party, like this is just a "rough patch" we're going through but haha that's "just politics, amirite?" - and "normal" can somehow be reachieved via business-as-usual - this is a person so fucking disengaged with reality as to basically be unemployable.


This is not sports. It's life-and-death shit. And everyone not in the U.S. right now should consider the U.S. a motherfucking quarantine zone. That is the safest thing you can possibly do as pertains to the United States of America.


One thing I will tell you with absolute certainty is that any professional Democrat who still drags out the dead horse "I still believe in the fundamental goodness of the American people" is either criminally stupid or painfully deluded and you need to do ANYthing OTHER than shit that person prescribes. That theory underwent its most comprehensive test last fall and turns out it was just a glib fucking bromide that vomited blood and died.


You can believe in the fundamental goodness of SOME American people, of course, do, have at it, but as to the THE American people being "good," yeah, the data pretty fucking categorically refute that.


As I said a few months ago [boing.world], the estate offered me a garage meaning I finally have somewhere to put a van that I can convert into a microcamper.


I thought the fact it was already converted into a van would probably make the camper-conversion easier.


Turns out that's likely not really the case. So it goes. It's previously been converted for a wheelchair ramp, which means the floor has been lowered, and this means there's nowhere safe to bolt rear passenger seats, and so can't have that "rock and roll" bed, that converts into seatbelted seats for passengers.


It does add a large underfloor storage area though.


I thought it would be fairly easy to remove the metal plates over the windows, but that turned out to be a mistaken assumption too. Was no metal plates. They'd just painted over the glass with some metallic paint. Luckily this can be just scraped off, presumably with some paint dissolving solvents applied too. Dunno. I let the professionals handle that.


The folks that can do an actually good job of converting it into a microcamper are busy till July, so I get to play at doing a half arsed job to tide it over until then.


First job is taking out the floor to gain access to that underfloor area and to cover that in linoleum. Had some lying around after they did the bathroom last year.


Then to refit the floor and cover all that in a red felt carpet.


The job is shoddy here really. What's needed is to insulate the entire body of the car and then cover professionally and well, but I dunno how to do all that. I just used spray glue to fasten this stretch carpet to the existing wood, that'll be replaced when it's converted proper anyway.


The roof will remain cold and metal till then.


This chair works very well in the van. Should ideally be fastened better to the floor, but it has a nice three mode positions.


Seating, and chaise-long, and flat as a bed with the passenger seat folded down.


You can get a folding leaf table, and if you saw off the bottom 15cm or so of the panels forming the sides and front of the table, and also don't bother to attach any of the the back leaf, then it becomes just the right height to mostly fit under the rear window.


It's a little higher than the camper-fridge, but the camper fridge is pretty much the same height as a little bedside cabinet.


There's also a small rectangular sink that fits nicely around the same width as the fridge alongside that cut down table.


And thus, the interior can be mostly constructed in my flat. The kids in the flat upstairs kept waving as me as I was doing a terrible job of cutting down those panels with a jigsaw in the yard.


Then there's a whole day of carrying those things out to the van and trying to screw them into the floor.


Had to swap the fridge and the cabinet around from the plan. The fridge is less deep than it is wide and doesn't block the table-leaf when it's at the edge with door facing the front of the car.


I expected to have to pause here and measure up and buy some wood, but someone had thrown out a desk that matches very well and a bit more sawing managed to get that into the right shape to build a frame to hold everything in place.


That sink is attached by only one of the six grips that are supposed to hold it. Two can't be used flat against a wooden board, and 3 aren't against anything at all right now.


Maybe I can get to attach better when the pump and tap arrive.


I like the easy access to battery and water and things from the back. Fair amount of storage there too which is accessible from inside if the table is up.


Still need to put the water pump into the water cannister, and power it, and attach some sort of tap to it.


And that's about as good a job as I can do really. Hopefully some of it will still be useable in a few months when it's done properly by a professional.


At least the fridge ought to carry over.


The bed folding down past the passenger seat is great. I'm too talk for this van really, but that makes it workable. Shame the seat/bed has to be so narrow though. The two-seater was very temping and feels like it ought to just about fit but, wouldn't really be any way to unfold it from within the van and the steering wheel gets in the way for folding the driving seat down like the passenger seat does so couldn't really go flat without also lifting up.


Thank goodness for Blender! Not sure I could have planned all that and had any hope of it all working out if I couldn't do it in virtual 3d first.


3 frames to show the 3 main configurations. Sit, Desk, and Sleep.


Game 9 of #UniversityChallenge was a hell of a match. Oriel Oxford (530 students) vs Durham (20,000), and Oriel won, which surprised me after some mistakes they made. The captain didn't know Wittengstein's name!? Possibly just nerves. Durham was ahead, then it was tied at 170, then they dropped to 165. A pity. I was rooting for them. Great team, with all four strong, so I hope they make the cut.


Game 10 of #UniversityChallenge had a great performance by Christ's Cambridge, who have a consultative captain, a good team, and a strong member named Bethlehem, so Roger Tilling called out "Christ's Bethlehem!" Exeter Oxford never got hold of much, and are out of the running. I could see Christ's Cambridge quietly going far in this series.


Some nice math questions, a picture round connected to food, and a tricky flag question. Good game.


Game 11 of #UniversityChallenge was St Andrews (granted university status by an antipope!) vs Cardiff. First round is nearing its end. Some good questions, including mentions of roll-on roll-of ferries, Agnes Martin, and Stax Records. Cardiff Tarsala will never forget her Booker T bloomer, I'm afraid. Nice quizzing from both teams, though it only really got cracking in the last few minutes.


Game 12 of #UniversityChallenge was Leeds vs Edinburgh. Leeds took a long time to get going, then had a surge in the middle but couldn't keep it going. Seemed like a number of film questions this time, and I was glad to hear PEI as an answer; no flags, though it seems like they crop up every time. Edinburgh Myles is a good captain and the whole team is strong and works well together. I think they'll do well.


#UniversityChallenge game 13 was a curious one, with Leicester being jokey, wasting time and never getting going, while the LSE captain would often turn to the farthest player for an answer, which was not infrequently wrong. Still, LSE cleaned up. I liked the blues bonus round, though sadly Leicester got none. Canadian mentions: WL Mackenzie King and Margaret Atwood. The best part was Roger Tilling saying "Leicester Lister!"


Game 14 of #UniversityChallenge was top-notch stuff, solid quizzing, down to business, fast answers, good knowledge, close ending. It seems we'll see both SOAS London and St. Edmund Hall Oxford again, because the loser makes the repechage. Very close at the finish, down to "Naples" and "pollen." An unassumingly great game.


Game 15 of #UniversityChallenge is the first of two in the repechage, where the four highest-scoring losing teams try to make it through. This week was UCL and St. Andrews, in a good-natured cheery match. Very strong play from UCL, who have a solid team, and UCL Mandel was in top form. Good questions, some tough, such as requiring "panthera" specifically or knowing "day" in Russian.


Just got to game 16 of #UniversityChallenge today, a week late, and it was a nail-biter! Really fast work at the end, with Durham coming from behind in the last few minutes to catch SOAS London in a tie in the final seconds. It went to a starter question that I got on the first clue (being an SF reader I knew "slipstream") but neither team knew. Second question and SOAS London Lambert guessed alpaca but it was llama, so Durham won. Phew, what a finish. 😰


Game 17 of #UniversityChallenge is the first of eight knockout games in the second round. This was UCL and LSE, and UCL gave an outstanding performance: very fast buzzing, good teamwork, wide general knowledge from them all (UCL Mandel notable again); they took off at the start and never slowed. Very impressive.


Game 18 of #UniversityChallenge was Durham vs Open University. I was rooting for Durham, who have a great team, but in the end to my surprise Open took it, after a number of rather slow answers. I was glad Durham got Marcel Duchamp right on one question; too bad no one knew Yoko Ono as a Fluxus artist. Much respect for Durham Nash, especially on bird silhouettes and flags.


Game 19 of #UniversityChallenge was Exeter vs Bristol. Bristol got going at the start and never looked back, rolling with momentum, finishing with an incredible score. Exeter only clawed their way back to 0 after 17 minutes.


I liked the question on common terms in Chinese place names, such as 北 (běi) in Beijing etc. Good geographic knowledge shown.


#UniversityChallenge is back from the Christmas alumni series, and game 20 was liked greased lightening in comparison. Darwin Cambridge Whitaker tore into questions like a monster, but everyone was in good form on that team and also on Edinburgh. Momentum changed through the game. Good quizzing. Three more games in round two, then the long quarter-finals.


It's quite a change to go from the Christmas series of #UniversityChallenge, where four people didn't know the name of the narrator of Moby-Dick even when told his name is in the first sentence of the book, to the regular round, where they're racing to buzz on questions like "Fifty-three British thermal units is to grouse hunting as Sydney, Australia, is to what famous star of the London stage?"


Game 21 of #UniversityChallenge was Wadham Oxford vs Imperial. What a game! Astounding performance from Imperial.


However, being King Crimson fan, I was disappointed that no one recognized them from the opening of "21st Century Schizoid Man," and dismayed when someone thought "I Zimbra" by Talking Heads (with Fripp on guitar) was by the Bee Gees. Can't have it all. I remain incredibly impressed.


Game 22 of #UniversityChallenge was Christ's Cambridge vs St Edmund Hall Oxford, two small colleges, but that's how the rules are set up.  Nice picture round with the Dunning-Kruger effect, Asch conformity experiments, and bouba-kiki effect.  Another on mushrooms, which seemed tough to me; identifying them by eye is not easy. Solid game, good playing all around.


#UniversityChallenge game 23 was Cardiff against Queen's Belfast. Ended with a lower score than I felt it would get, maybe due to missed bonuses, but the starters were buzzed fast. Nice flag knowledge, and a good picture round identifying physical laws by diagrams of experiments. A bit too much bantz for my taste, but a solid game. One more before the quarter-finals.


I idly proposed doing this yesterday so for March I will be posting one card I draw fom Suzanne Treister's Hexen 2.0 Tarot Deck per day of March.


The deck consists of all the major and minor arcana depicted by alchemical drawings of people and things from the history of technology, or, more specifically, "the scientific underpinnings of what Michel Foucault called bio-political governance."


Why? Because I actually have to do some tech-related talks this month, and also with the dark side of tech being so blatant lately, I felt the need to think about it more, and explore my associations/values etc!


March 1 - Starting with the 10 of Wands, typically representing overload, burden.


Here it is represented by a variety of early computing projects, many subsidized by their respective governments.


I think of how before a computer or calculator was a thing it was a job. Even after they existed, people still had to mediate, calculate, punch cards, interpret, etc. And in my own work I still often feel like a babysitter of inflexible computational quirks... why can't the spreadsheet software, or CMS, or database just do that mind-numbingly boring and burdensome stuff for me?


I also think how, even if it's built on what were once dull analog tasks, it's not -exactly- the same though, is it? In middle school computer lab I was taught a bit of BASIC, and being able to make a simple text "frogger" or branching adventure program, even if they were super rudimentary, was more compelling for some reason than imagining them or drawing them in a notebook... the sort of action at a delay/distance that computing offers, or that is computing's illusion...


March 2 - 9 of Swords... following on from the feelings of overload and burden yesterday, this card represents nightmares and anxiety about the future.


Appropriately it's represented here by The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, a UK governmental body established in 1946 that acted regionally, nationally, and internationally for “the social engagement of social sciences” or more bluntly, using theoretical methods to “change behavior in groups and civilian populations.”


Obviously the name Tavistock brings to mind the overbearing interference of the UK government in constantly trying to block any sort of trans care, or only dispensing it as a last resort after you’ve gone through years of waiting around and a thorough psychiatric probing. A population where everyone just conformed to the two standard cis gender roles would indeed be much easier to control, so to a “Labour” government obsessed with means testing, pathologizing and cutting benefits, it’s of course desirable to treat “normality” as a virtue and any difference as disease to eliminate.


I could talk about so many things, the awful CBT and soft conversion therapy I’ve personally received in the UK, how state surveillance and punishment disproportionately targets autistic people, how even punitive and inadequate psychological care is too hard to access, how outcomes are measured in “productivity” rather than happiness. A tendency that is not technic in the big machines or internet enabled devices way, but has infested every aspect of life as much as people fear tiktok attention spans have; people I want to ally with constantly crowing “just be normal” or getting sucked down a health and fitness grifthole.


An exhausting and sad card. I’ll be honest, I almost put it back when I pulled it lol. But obviously a big part of contemporary technological thought nevertheless.


March 3 - The Star, hope, inspiration, future goals. A much more positive card than we've had so far!


But it's hard to feel positive about the massively exploitative and yet still totally underwhelming reality of artifical intelligence and quantum computing hype at the moment. The idea of an omnipotent computer, that could, indeed, simulate or work at an atomic or subatomic level, has kind of been the great dream of computing for a long time. It's almost a philosopher's stone type of thing.


Yesterday I reread this great essay on the current generative AI models by Hito Steyerl (https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii140/articles/hito-steyerl-mean-images). She does a great job of going into how reliant these systems still are on human-made images, cleaned data, and ongoing human moderation at every level, but she also makes the observation that while their outputs masquerade as bits of text or images, which people wrongly attribute intention or creativity to, they're really statistical representations, with all of the inherent ideology and limitations of statistics baked in.


What would a truly intelligent computer capable of expanding our analytical powers and relieving the burden of tedious labor and the risks of incomplete information look like, and under what context would it be used to reinvent life towards more autonomy and joy rather than accelerating exploitation and control? Can we hope for such a thing with IBM and DARPA still in the picture...?


March 4 - The King of Swords, intellectual drive, clarity, calling for authoritative action. A go-for-it type of thing.


Timothy Leary certainly was a sort of intellectually driven, though more of a “question authority” type. Likewise, looking it up, the Eight-circuit Model of Consciousness here is generally thought to have little actual scientific credibility. Still… what model of consciousness does? Despite being how all of our “information” comes to us, it’s kind of ambiguous what this thing actually is, much less if there’s any systemic patterns that determine how it works.


I find it kind of inspiring to contemplate a multi-part model of consciousness that is both inward and outward looking. Leary was also of a period where there was optimism about space exploration, and the possibility of making contact with other species, from Earth or beyond. Now we seem to find this idea kind of embarrassing, because the idea of explaining ourselves feels embarrassing. Which in a way is it’s own kind of constantly-reinforcing self-centeredness.


There’s nothing more self-centered in the irritating way than how psychedelics as self-help, a “miracle” mental illness cure, the one weird trick to go 10x or come up with that sick disruptive business deal or chill out your bitch wife, have kind of become mainstream now. It’s all very inward-looking to the point that there’s nothing besides inward-ness. What’s the point of a honed mind if you can’t, like the king of swords, point it outwards?


March 5 - Five of Pentacles... A difficult situation, struggle, financial insecurity.


Infrastructure... precisely that thing it never feels like there's enough cash for. ESPECIALLY in tech, where it always flows towards hype and disruption rather than maintaining what already exists.


The Internet is so huge, has such great practical benefits, and is an important part of so many peoples' lives, that of course we want the infrastructure maintained, and there to be good governance... Maybe it was the hype of the Internet itself that allowed some of these early gestures towards standardization and productive ground rules to stick.


Though there are a ton of tech corporations involved, a surprising amount was also done via the US Department of Defense directly, and now a lot of the corporations (ex- Don't Be Evil Google, for example) are chipping away at the principles they once helped set up... Whose infrastructure? It's always tied to governance, and always ideological. Be careful who you go asking for cash when you're broke...


March 6 - DEATH!! An inevitable and total transformation, possibly painful, but not necessarily The End...


A lot of anti-tech sentiment seems to wish that we could just put certain things back in the box. But the world where the technology that provides connection and access to information was entangled by its maybe well-intentioned originators with military and surveillance culture, game theory and bombs, is the world we have.


I always found the PVP gimmick for MGSV's online mode to be weirdly inspiring... if we want to live in a world without the atomic bomb, it'll have to be one where we took them all apart with our own hands. And it'll be one where the knowledge that it was made at one time will also always be a thing. How we frame it is up to us... there is no going back. How terrifying, how wonderful.


Even though I've mostly transitioned to PC gaming over the past decade, my preferred peripherals are still controllers.


I understand the advantages of KB+M play, but as someone who already uses those tools for work I find picking up a controller helps separate the two activities and gives my wrists a break. I've also been playing video games long enough to see the technology and layouts used drastically change, though some first party controllers seem to have stagnated a bit.


I recently found a controller I really liked because it has features that have really impressed me enough to want to talk about it at length, but to do that I feel the need for some context; not a whole history lesson, just a little stroll through my collection of controllers that materialized over a lifetime of engaging in this hobby.


By the end I hope you'll understand why this is a topic I care so much about I'd spend all day talking about these devices.


My decision to build up a PC game collection started during the transition between the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One; I thoroughly enjoyed the 360, but the One was looking like a disaster. Since the new consoles from all three major companies held little interest and I'd been in school for Computer Information Systems, I got myself a 360 pc dongle and resolved to make the switch.


Each of these controllers saw extensive use, and the 360 had the asymmetrical stick placement I preferred. All but two of the controllers in this picture are currently unusable either from loose/drifting sticks, faulty buttons, or failing cables/connections; both of the working ones are 3rd party Afterglows (which have their own problems).


As much as I loved these controllers, the official ones were the worst in terms of durability, and some were faulty from day one but Microsoft would refuse my RMA request.


It got worse when I tried the most expensive one.


There was a time when I fell for the myth that "You get what you pay for" was as true for expensive stuff as it was for cheap stuff; it's because of this controller that I know better. I got this Elite Series 2 controller despite knowing the first iteration had some serious flaws.


That controller lasted just under a year before the stick drift started to set in, and the right bumper only registered half of the time. The cable it came with sucks ass, never worked with any other controllers. The lag from using bluetooth was so bad the dongle was practically necessary. On top of all that, the back paddles didn't work no matter what software/drivers I used, none of my games ever read those paddles as an inputs.


The Raikiri Pro (was bundled with a laptop) is my current dedicated desktop controller and it works fine [for now], but I will never spend another dime on Official Xbox branded controllers. Fuck Microsoft, I hope Xbox rots!


The Nintendo Switch reignited my love for portable gaming after years of surviving out of crappy laptops. The joycons were small but versatile, and the pro controller felt really comfortable in the hands.


I loved these controllers so much I modified them and swapped in hall-effect sticks [and metal latches] this past year, and while I'm well aware of the drift issue, mine have worked flawlessly since 2017 with no signs of wearing out. I've put just as many hours into these controllers as I did all those Xbox controllers; either I got very lucky or microsoft designs their controllers to fail faster than both of their competitors combined. Nintendo's offerings have some drawbacks, but the fact it's additional features like Gyro input have been officially supported is noteworthy.


I hope to keep these controllers working for as long as they continue to be supported on other platforms; there are many like them, but these ones are mine.


A brief note on Play Station controllers to round out the 1st party lineup: I never liked them.


Dual Shock 1-3 felt exactly the same to me with exactly the same flaws: Oversized thumbsticks placed too close together, mushy face/shoulder/trigger buttons that seemed to wear out very quickly, and a D-pad that just felt wrong. Dual Shock 4 fixed a lot of problems, but introduced a bunch of new ones. I got a Dual Sense because some friends had a hard time with asymmetrical thumbsticks, and for some reason local stores were selling them for $20 less than DS4 controllers.


I don't really use this controller: Face buttons are spaced too far apart, my audio in/output keeps defaulting to the controller when it's connected, the bumpers are weirdly tall, and I keep accidentally pressing the track pad when trying to hit menu/share.


They are fine guest controllers that have come a long way in terms of design, but for me they're a novelty at best.


8BitDo was my first foray into good 3rd party controllers. This original SN30 Pro (later versions have hall-effect sticks and do not come in the SNES colour scheme) remains one of my favourites because holding it is reminiscent of my first console, the SNES.


If I'm having a crappy day and need a nostalgic escape, this is the first controller I reach for. It has all the functionality of a Switch Pro controller, but compacted into a modernized rendition of the SNES controller, complete with concave X/Y + convex A/B buttons, and possibly the best D-pad I've ever used. It's got some minor problems, but it's been a constant source of comfort.


One day the sticks will fail, or the battery will discharge for the last time; but if it means getting one of the modern versions (with hall-effect sticks) and shell-swapping them, I'll do it when the time comes.


With such a connection, surely 8BitDo can't do better than this, right? Well...


When I want the familiar comforts of the SN30 Pro but with all the features of a modern controller, the 8BitDo Pro 2 has been my multi-platform controller of choice.


Everything about this is a functional upgrade from the SN30 Pro: more comfortable grips, hall-effect sticks, analog triggers, programmable back paddles, a physical X/D/S/A mode toggle switch, and a [somewhat] easily replaceable battery with the option of using AAs in a pinch. I also sprung for the carrying case and the mobile phone holster, which doesn't see as much use with a phone (I don't trust its grip that much), but for more compact retro emulation handhelds, it can expand the list of playable games to include ones that need precise analog controls.


There's very few negatives I can say about this controller, but it sits at a close 3rd for favourite controller of my collection. I'll talk about my number 2 pick in a moment, but before that I need to talk about...


How hard is it to find a modernized N64 controller?


There are plenty of cheap N64 imitation controllers, but the three-pronged original was an objectively bad design. I could play N64 games with a modern controller using clever configuration to make the face buttons function as C-buttons, but it's not the same for so many reasons.


I got the RetroFighters Brawler 64 to solve this anachronistic conundrum, and it's gone above and beyond my expectations. It was made to mimic the official NSO N64 controller down to the Switch recognizing it as one, with a toggle to make it register as a Pro controller sans right-stick.


It has some problems, but between its layout and compatibility it solves way more problems the official version has. It's perfect for showing someone N64 emulation without the intimidation of the original or the anachronism from finagling a modern controller to work the same.


It's very good at what it's trying to do.


I got this steam controller from a pawn shop after negotiating the price down shortly after the fire sale came to an end on steam. It needed some TLC, and I did what I could to get it up and running again.


It remains one of the most customizable controllers in my collection, with a unique [if questionable] design and features ahead of it's time (gyro aim, back paddles, haptic feedback, etc). It has some problems though; It requires AAs, uses Micro-USB for wired connections, occasionally turns itself back on after being turned off, the back paddles are stiff enough to cause fatigue, the thumbstick cap is necessary since the rubber on it is deteriorating, and it's functionality tends to fluctuate with every update to steam input.


It's more of a unique historical artifact than a regularly used input, but it's a welcome addition and fun to tinker with on rainy days.


It also isn't my number 2 pick, that honour goes to the fact that...


The 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth controller is an almost perfect controller.


Hall-effect sticks, included charging dock that doubles as a port for the included dongle, dedicated 2.4ghz/bluetooth toggle switch, NS Pro layout with a much improved D-pad, analog triggers, and programmable back paddles. When I sit down on a couch with this controller, I can swap between a Steam Deck and a Switch faster than the time it takes the TV to switch inputs.


It does have some drawbacks though: It only does X/Switch signals (no android or apple modes), the triggers are uncomfortable, and input lag seems to be affected by the time it took to connect to the dongle/switch.


I thought this was the best it could get, but like my time with Xbox controllers I was operating on assumptions that started to sound like old brand loyalty reflexes coming back. What I'd hoped to upgrade it to was such a disappointment it swiftly shook me from those assumptions.


headding down to CVS harmacy to pick my wife up some tissues (medicated due to sickness) so i'm hungry after my work day of looking at computer screen and i pass the snack aisle and my attention is pepsi universed to a little bag on the shelf that is doritos. but of course it is not regular doritos but rather the bag is all-black with a neon sort of aesthetic to it and the dorito bag prominently displays the words DORITOS: LATE NIGHT. of course under a crease the sub-flavor is "loaded taco"


so of course i pick it up and i eat it and it tastges like the taco bell beef seasoning mixed with nacho cheese with that little hint of somehow synthesized taco bell lettuce and it tastes spot-on, big prop to the dorito scientists who are in hell, but i continue to be plagued by the concept of doritos late night line. flavors that are representative of late night. i begin to think: what other late night flavors are possible? Several Beers flavor? Indica Nightmare?


its then that the immortal words of mao resonate through my loaded taco skull to go investigate instead of fantasizing about Difficult Conversation Doritos so i go and try to track down doritos late night line. 500 food products are released to the US public every year and about 480 of them disappear within 6 months and pepsico knows this which is why they don't do any marketing or advertisement - blind drops at the corner, secret boxes where the arrival IS the announcement. theres very little


what i manage to collate is this: there are three other flavors of late night doritos: Sizzlin' Cheeseburger (?), Last Call Jalapeno Poppers (??) and "Chili Sandwich", which is not a flavor. however in my attempts to find out anything about the doritos late night line, i stumble upon DORITOS AFTER DARK @ THE CRYPTO.COM STADIUM, the official doritos concept restaurant. thinking that the marketing is perhaps a near-miss, i nearl yclose the tab but for spotting LATE NIGHT in copyright font.


- doritos after dark, which is not a chips brothel, has nearly nothing to do with doritos late night, despite both being named the same thing and having near-identical branding. i assume this is something like when your older brother gives you a shirt with his name monogrammed on the lapel


- everybody responsible for doritos after dark is going to loaded hell


we don't necessarily need an ersatz munch squad about this - we live in america, the average manhole leads to the garden of earthly delights original mario bros movie style, so why should the lakers arena be necessarily different. it's, like, fair food, no worse than fried oreos. even so, there is something perhaps post-fierian about the ramen-rito, a burrito where the primary carbohydrate substrate is cooked ramen, and which advertises "fresh scallions". Uh, yeah, I sure hope it does.


to dine here is to reap the wine-dark benefits of being a ticketholder at the crypto.com stadium, home of the fucking lakers - i don't know how much lakers tickets cost, but i do know that the lakers are basically the yankees of basketball, which means the price of a ticket is counted in teeth. so yes. "Kick it up a notch." "Taste a bold new act." wh - why is that doritos bag so *airbrushed?* it's giving adam sandler click. but i'm nitpicking here. It's your The Lakers, you choose the food.


you know that picture of the guy with the shirt that says 0 fears and then bart swimpson porn is banned so it says 1 fear? It's similar to that except now i am afraid to eat the home cooking of anybody i do not know intimately because there is a slim yet extant chance that i might sit down to a delicious home cooked normals dinner to eat with them in their house and similar to judas at the famous dinner they might kiss my cheek good-like then serve me up "COOL RANCH BISCUITS WITH HONEY BUTTER"


like ther eis undoubtedly, because the world is so so so sosososoo big and we are so small one person per person and information is so big and free, somebody who has made this, and then served it to someone who does not have the same brain as them. homecooked food is meant to be eaten. like it's a social problem now, sitting down in your breaksfast nook, or your table, and your wifey brings in a charcuterie board, like this, and you have to eat it. or it's bad for you. like as a person.


there's a lot of things that are wrong with america. this doesn't clock the 15th percentile. it's just an average sort of excess, another straw on the like last descendant of the great plains buffalo's ailing back. even so, even being as jaded to the way that americans eat as i am, having ordered a one-scoop cup of superman flavor ice cream last night, i find that i have not and could never reach rock bottom. there is a 121st day of sodom, my uncle who works at nintendo told me about it.


🧵 Indigo's journey to a new life! A thread


Note: all major updates will start with the thread emoji


Im attempting to move to Germany and find a new life! Follow this thread to follow this journey


The last 32 hours or so were HORRIBLE! Panic attack, extreme fatigue, nausea.


But! Look at where I am! The airport!! I fucking did it!


I pushed myself too hard and ended up not sleeping for 32 hours. As of right now (write now) I am on the 33rd hour :p. Looking back, this is the way, and it wouldnt have happened any other way. ADHD is a Tanzanian to tame.


I have done so much in the last 3 months! I thought it would have only taken me 1 month, but severely underestimated EVERYTHING. Rebooked the flight twice, but with 2 deadlines, this plane is it!


Gosh.. I met with realtor, packed (most) of the house, gave a 1/3 of my stuff away, the appropriate ppl have access to the rest, and my sister can be a PoA should need be. 7 or so documents apostille'd, degree recognized in Germany, language coarse booked, (potentially a scam) appartment rental reserved, vital documents ascertained! I also have a internationally certified document proving I am not a criminal! ITS GO TIME!


🧵 Officially in Germany! Got my Visa, new SIM card in (Spain) and awaiting the train to Köln.


Gotta be honest. I screwed myself with bags. Too heavy for this smol trans girl 😅. Navigating where to get my luggage was fun! Turns out connections via train from plane are elsewhere. I'm usually pretty collected, but its a bit of stress Ill be honest. But only because as-it-stands right now, I have no support systems. I dont know this city. Have heavy luggages. Etc. Etc.


I have never been more parched in my life!


Ps: I have a story from the plane that isnt appropriate for fedi. And thats saying something! (doesnt involve me)


Booked a hotel (yea yea.. Late on that.. But i SHOULD have an appt. Tomorrow.)


First impressions of Germany: architecture, even of the steel & glass of the train station, does not dissapoint! Germanic design totally didnt play any role in my choice of destinations 😝.


Okay, the first German words to learn will have to be train & transit related. Future Indi, make a note!


Seattle & San Francisco are the best public transits in America [citation needed] and once you figure it out, it really is zip zap zoom on and off and you're there! I want to get to that, but even living in Seattle it took me a few months.


🧵 NOTE: Do NOT get on on the opposite end of the train when carrying 3 bags!


I took note of the prev train and prepared to whre I thought was car 1.


🧵 A simple breakfast, but god is it good.


I sure hope lactase enzymes are easily accessible in Deutschland, or else Im in trouble 😅. Nom nom nom 🥐


🧵 I got my keys! Sweaty, hot, and went through an ordeal getting the keys from skeevy old man neighbor-building landlord who was totally hitting on me. Ugh. Sometimes it sucks being cute.


Do i pass or something?! Or does he not care? XD


I meet my landlord on Monday for anmeldung registration paper, mailbox name, contract (that I asked for) and the like. Ive been told having the keys bestows some tennant-rights/protections so we good.


Appartment rental for 3-months though! Lets gooo


For those wondering, I still have my hotel room. I played it safe and didn't want to rely on being able to get keys yesterday with luggage in tow


🧵 I now have a German telefonnummer! Exciting!


That travel sim I bought did help bridge the gap, but the service was horrendous and relied on roaming. I was also under the impression it could dial out, which it could not. I already needed to call a German number.


The SIM salesperson was also an expat (not american) and I had the nicest conversation! He wanted tips with learning programming*, and I asked how long to learn German and he was super inspiring! Saying that those who must learn—like for work—learn much more and faster! He encouraged me to keep with it and in 3 months I should be fine 🫶.


I will try to keep my numver when I inevitably switch. I chose this from convenience. Being that he didnt even require me an address, only an ID to activate.


Aside: no, I didnt think D-Netz was a Deez Nuts reference... Ofc not xD. You're silly for even thinking that haha


(*hes starting in Python! Which I think is the MOST fun, even if someone has to unlearn bad habits. I think its a valuable litmus test for those to see if programming is for them)


1. Finish professional CV (most important!)


2. Find out how to get to private German language coarse (starts tomorrow, in-person).


3. Trip to appartment from hotel with backpack (slowly bringing stuff over. I overencombered myself)


4. Eat out! (food! Get ur mind out of the gutter! Lol)


Im delaying being a tourist. I found out about the Köln-karte, a tourist 1-2 day pass that lets you do stuff. I dont nessisarily WANT to delay being a tourist... But shit has to get done. Ya know? Its different when I'm trying to establish a foothold.


Plus it'll be good to do it in the week. Im in Köln M-Th for classes at 16:00-18:00. Meaning I could spend the best portion of the day outside ☀💜


Know what didnt make the cut? What i had to nix? My fucking drawing tablet! It was an old Galaxy Book (wacam digitizer). But I really wanna draw! Thats how I want to visit Germany. Go to random place. Sketch. People watch. Sketch. Sure... Paper... But have you USED a digital canvas? Lol. Maybe Ill buy a used ipad.


🧵 Time to go grocery shopping in this tiny town of 75k. Kinda nervous.


Also I got bumped on my language course 😭. Not enough people this cycle.


I inquired about normal attendance and they said I just so happen to get unlucky, because their A1.1 course is their most popular. But its all good! They DO have an online course that starts next week. Ill probably take that, even though I wanted to be in person for multiple reasons :p. Ill get started with my vocabulary with Anki/SRS in the meantime. LetMeTellYou I can study well 😬


🧵 My first homecooked breakfast in my new home


I made thebstrawberry compote from scratch using fresh strawberries. I had no spatula, coffee water from stove boiling. Everything is slightly harder without my wares :p


If a number is called 5 times, it's your number


🧵 Even the dogs here speak German! They are all wauwau insteaf of Bark Bark


🧵 Omgosh free TV! I was thinking of buying a used one! And it says it works?


Cant read the rest. Must not be important.


Well! I found out what the rest says! It says that the stand is broken and will fall down the tile stairwell making the absolute loudest sounds possible if not careful!


🧵 I swear... Every day in a new country is an absolute adventure! Nothing is easy!not even ordering coffee and treat.


**gestures 1 finger up and points to pastry I dont even know what its calle din english**


I KNEW she asked if it was for here or to go. I tried to gesture to go. But... Well.. End result is I ate in. Asked for a Kästchen on the way out. Got a bag! Alright! That one Ill count as a success.


Anyone else's first days a whirlwind? I feel like Ive been here for weeks. No exaggeration! The midday naps in which I sleep harder than a tardigrade in a global ice age probably doesnt helo my sense of passage of time :p


🧵 So I was upset to give away my Sodastream and Restaurant sized canister mod for it, because I've been big into fizzy water and making homemade healthy sodas.


TURNS OUT Germany LOVES FIZZY WATER! You actually have to specify Flat sometimes! 😅


I just like it because when it's overcarbonated and you drink it and it's so intense it hurts... it feels refreshing!


🧵 Okay... I dont want the honeymoon phase to end >_>. More great German things plz :P


Okay. There are some downsides. All food tastes so..... how do I put it... German XD. Comically so!


I've eaten Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese cuisine now. And all of them have the distinct taste of.. sauerkraut?? But, it's in the rice itself. The part thats supposed to be the most neutral of flavor.


I made Gnocci Carbonarra (white sause) and, while it was funking delicious, tasted like Brätwurst. I thought I was safe making food at home, but I'm not xD.


Now, I've eaten authentic italian in Syracuse NY (it's an italian historic city) and been to Taiwan. So I wonder if given time my taste buds will adapt and I will think everything tastes like how I remember it. Like as if there are subtle tones I'm just not used to yet 🤔 . And hense why I THINK everything has a foreign taste to it.


Aside: Also these arn't new foods to me so Im comparing them to what I know. Versus trying... say... Ethiopian cuisine (something new)


🧵 I am not officially registered in Germany! Anmeldung in-hand! Woo 🎉


And I knew a lot for German than I thought in this exchange! I practiced German and she practiced English. (we both were being humble, but her English was good)


"Im sorry to ask... But are you man, woman, or divers?" 💜💜


We proceeded to talk about that. And she said she wondered if maybe thats why I come from states and I was like: yes, its so nice to hear other people understand. Omg.


She said shes happy that people [like me] come and see Germany as a safe place 🫶


🧵 Netflix has joined the list alongside Ebay, Amazon, and Zelle in deactivating/locking my accounts due to 'suspicious activity'. And amongst the greater list of systems putting me in what we'd call "The Bad Flow" at work. (The flowchart of what the worst-case scenario looks like for a probable bad-actor).


Freenet Funk denied me 3 times, but the 4th went through. FINALLY received their sim card. Expatrio did finally accepted my totally valid proof of residence after declining it the first time (my literal proof of anmeldung, which they stated is valid...) and unlocked my account last week. And the money that went into the void? It did turn up. So not all things are perilously bad, but I am literally swimming upstream against a system hellbent on making my life as difficult as possible.


And here is where I could talk about systemic oppression being literal digital systems, and how these issues wouldn't happen to someone who came over on a job transfer. But I came over the hard way, unregistered, and flagged one system which I'm sure triggered the next and the next. It all started around when I stopped doing tourist stuff :P. But ultimately my suspicious behavior is abruptly moving overseas. I was explicitly told so by the ebay personnel on the phone. (They even told me it's extremely unlikely for someone to move countries. so in ebay's case it sounds like you'd always get flagged).


Aside: A victory, buying laundry tokens from the hausmeister! I memorized a few words and shit bricks when I WhatsApp'd him and he called me immediately on the phone xD.


I better get better before surgery in less than 23 days...


🧵 Add Paypal to the list of accounts I got locked out of.


Unfortunately, I dont know how to resolve this one. I tried calling US paypal and they wont touch German Paypal (I have 2 accounts. I'm supposed to have one account per country according to Paypal FAQ).


But I dont know German to navigate a fluid conversation like that of unlocking an account. And having someone help... is... this is sensitive stuff. So I'm at a crossroads.


Where sabalenka got the easy win. So it's going to be tough for perlini if she's going to beat this version of sabalenka because she hasn't beaten sabalenka in over three years. If perlini's going to win this one, she needs to be defensive and get everything back against sabalenka and hope that sabalenka maybe throws in a few errors after a long extended rally because we can see that that happens sometimes when perlini is playing types of players that do have big shots. If sabalenka's going to win this one, she needs to serve well and be patient and realize that there is going to be a lot of shots coming back and she's going to have to probably hit two, three, four extra shots each rally, so she's going to have to be patient and she's going to get the win. Top 10 clash, really fun matchup, but i have to go with sabalenka in straight sets. I reckon it might be closer than the miami match because of the clay courts being a little bit slower than the miami fast courts a couple weeks ago, but i have to go with sabalenka in a close straight set, but let me know in the comments below who's making the final.

You are a professional English-to-Ukrainian translator, tasked with providing translations suitable for use in Ukraine (uk_UA). Your goal is to accurately convey the meaning and nuances of the original English text while adhering to Ukrainian grammar, vocabulary, and cultural sensitivities. The original English text is automatically transcribed from spoken language. Pay attention to errors that mimic speech transcription errors and fix as necessary. Maintain the flow and colloquial style of the speaker in the translation. Produce only the Ukrainian translation, without any additional explanations or commentary. Retain the paragraph breaks (double new lines) from the input text. Please translate the following English text into Ukrainian (uk_UA):


Gotta watch a netflix show you feel me, but let me know down below. What show should i watch on netflix though? Because i'm i'm really having some trouble to find what show should i watch on netflix because sometimes it's super hard because every every week there is their new show every month. There's a new show. There's a movie. There's a movie series i don't even know what's going on on netflix. But look that's for the little dude, man. That was the video, man i talked so much but look i'm tired man your boys tired man look, that was my night routine. If you enjoyed this video man, leave a like down below that's for the little dude. It's your boy dro to saucy man stay saucy, man. I'm out that gleam. Yes, sir


Curve line up, down, connect on the left, and i'm going to go one, two, three, four little dots, and on the right -hand side, i'm going to do it again. I draw a curve line up, over, curve line in, connect, and i'm going to draw one, two, three, four little dots. I come all the way up to the top, and i'm going to draw a straight line, straight line, keep going, keep going, all the way across to divide up that space, and then i come down to the bottom, and i do straight line, straight line, straight line, all the way across.


And physical appearance, attractiveness, also some have shown that it can lead to higher earnings but then in other studies it shows that it can intimidate people and doesn't always have good outcomes. So there's a lot of variability with these studies. So that was the women too? Yeah, yeah. Round faced women? No, no, no. With the breadth of face, it's male alone. You were too busy looking at mike, you weren't still, weren't you? You were distracted. Hype can assist females and physical appearance has got benefits across males and females and females in some areas but not all areas. I can't believe that they've actually looked into this. They have. Everything is there to be studied. Oh my goodness. Okay. Thank you so much mark. Good to chat. Absolutely.


And then into our criss -cross vaulters. And then, whisk to the left. Now, the man's gonna do a whisk to the right and the lady's gonna do an underarm turn. So she turns a quarter and then does a spot vaulter into promenade, but also what we call the cuddle position. Now, samba walk on the left foot, then a samba walk on the right foot. Now the rolling off the arm, no bounce action, and then samba walk on the left, samba walk on the right, and then a one to three of the rolling off the arm. And now we'll do the ending number two, which is where the lady does like a turning three step, the man whisks, and then we go into the reverse turn.


Get decoloration on my face so i get decoloration on my face if you can see i've got these spots on my face a little bit so i use up close and personal. Hi guys. Um, i use this wonderball hashtag not sponsored there you go, oh, this is very melted and i just might just put it on my face like this and rub it around. It smells really good guys smell it doesn't smell great. Yep and the reason i use my two fingers right here is because apparently i learned from my mama my mom was the best the best is the best best is always the best who comes from the best who came from the worst ones with the best cuz that made no sense


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Okay, thirteen. Oh it's starting to burn now, are you feeling that? Fifteen, go on. Sixteen. Three more, and then we have running man. Go on. Push yourself, okay? Now if you're struggling and you can't keep up with my pace, just stop when i stop, there's no issue with that. Last one. Squeeze, squeeze, well done. Okay, up you come. I want the drink at the end, okay? We're almost there, two exercises left, okay? We're running man for twenty, then hot hands, let's go.


Sort of doing their own thing and you know, that's that's pretty chill with like what everyone else is doing but like like hey, like if you want to like, you know, try to make a name for yourself that's what you got to do yeah.


All right. So the question is what is one piece of advice you would give to your younger self?


I would say to tell myself that i can always like take time for myself i sometimes get like so caught up and just doing everything in everyday life schoolwork activities all of that. So just like reminding myself that i can always take time for self -care and like time for myself and my friends and do you think your younger self would listen to this advice that you just gave?


The prophet samuel said that goliath could be defeated and that he would be defeated by a boy.


David volunteered to take on goliath, armed only with his slingshot. It was a skill he had honed as a boy, protecting his flocks from roaming packs of wolves. It was a simple weapon he would take into battle.


The giant in an arrogant moment says, why have you sent this shepherd boy? Boy, i will eat him alive and i will throw his carcass to the sheep.


David took his sling and a few well -rounded pebbles.


He swung and fired a stone, which caught goliath in the middle of the head.


Bathroom is clean and it just looks and feels so much better i ended up just putting the sheets there because i didn't know where else to put them so they don't look bad there honestly or at least fold it in ready to go and then those two boxes have just like some hair products in them that didn't fit in there so just like a little storage corner, which is fine because this bathroom doesn't even get used often anyways, so yeah i just got these towels from the bathroom i also have some kitchen towels that i brought up that i'm gonna put a load on right now because i especially need to wash the kitchen towels and may as well just wash everything at the same time and having clean towels just feels really really nice and i try to do this once a week they're due for a wash actually kind of overdue. So let's put them in the wash and do another load


Because i have some like pajamas and stuff. I totally forgot i had this. I definitely am going to move this up a couple spaces so i remember to wear this because that's such a cute vest. I'm done clearing things out. This is more like workout stuff. So i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to roll these up and put them with the workout pants because i never see these items in my closet when i'm going to work out because i just pick something random. So i'm going to roll these up and put them with the workout stuff so i can gravitate towards these more often. I think i'm going to put these...


You don't want a shot where the face is in the middle and then the second half of the photo is sky you want your face to be on the top one third line preferably where two of the third lines? Intersect this can be on the left or it can be on the right now let's say that you're standing in front of a viewpoint of some type you want to do a second thing now and that is to place the most important element on the other third line, so here's what i mean let's say i'm standing in front of a lavender field and there is one stone house out in the middle of that lavender field you want to place that stone house on the right third of the photo, so i'll be on the left third i'm looking at the camera the stone house is on the right third now. You have a perfectly composed photo


Sometimes we don't change anything. Usually we change one or two stories, so one of us will have to rewrite something, most likely. But this way we can kind of get ahead of it, start doing those newsfuse stories. And this is one of those days where we have four randomizers. It's going to be a big pull. Also, you can see sarah has gotten in and put in one of her discussion stories. I mean, you guys may think, like, there are such flockers, they haven't been in there. They're working outside of the dock a lot. You don't want to work in the dock. You notice that i didn't even work in the dock all that much. Because, oh, and i forgot to put my notes in there. Better do that before i'm forgetting it. Because the dock may crash, and you don't want to lose your stuff. So all this tells me is when they've really decided, like, oh yeah, i'm definitely going to do that story. So she's actually taking on...


We'll use ctrl f to open up find and replace we'll go to replace and you can see i've already entered the question mark that i want to find and a blank space that i want to replace it with. You can see excel thinks it's done what you want it to where in fact it's just removed all of our values but what we need to do is include an additional symbol which is known as a tilde so i'll just click in front of the question mark i'll hold the shift button and then push the hashtag button as well and you can see we have this new symbol just check i still have a space in there that i want to replace the question mark with replace all and you can see it has now replaced our question marks we'll then replace the question mark with an asterisk and you can see it has now done that for us as well. Please don't forget to like if you enjoyed this video


I have an even finish, so i will be able to see any of the sanding scratches left by the da, but now i'm going to move on to some 600 grit wet or dry paper. I already stuck my paper, pre -soaked it in the water. There's a couple drops of soap in here to help clean the surface of the wet sanding paper from clogging. The other reason for why you're wet sanding is wet sanding doesn't allow the material to clog the paper. Same as before, 30 degrees, slide, crosshatch as you're trying to work out those da swirl marks.


And disgust. Whatever that reason for that being because we see the look at it's on his left side which would be your right side looking at the screen when this thing starts again. So you see that i can't do it little thing this little part of his nose goes up and my impression of it is it's anger. He's probably mad because he's there he's mad because he's thinking about that the situation that happened during that time she's brought up so that could be what's firing that off. Again his blink rate let's keep an eye on that and let's even he's got that tick where his eyes closed. I'm counting those as we go through and i'll say i think it's this many blinks for his blink rates gone up or down. I'm counting those as well. So all right we're good.


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Each guy in the band got a dollar every day. So you can imagine going through that when you have this opportunity, you just have to take a minute, you know, don't be an idiot. Don't blow this. Use some common sense. Get yourself signed to where you have an opportunity. And from there, from there, we started, you know, signed with an agency and we started opening for other bands, queen and other bands that were out there. We didn't have a manager. We didn't have an attorney. We didn't have an accountant. It was just the six of us with our arms linked and we're going to go out there and kick every band's ass that we could find and every night when we opened, we were going to blow them off stage. Well, obviously we didn't do that all the time, but we tried.


The first regulator. During the new tank install a soundness test was undertaken and no issues could be seen but this wasn't actually a full visual check of the system. Thus the unprotected and only partially galvanized pipe work went virtually unchecked. In 2002 another soundness check was undertaken during a regulator change and again no issues were reported but again this wasn't a visual check of the system. So i need to address the rather confusing naming of the site. I've been calling it so far the stockline plastic site although it was actually called and owned by icl group. Me calling it stockline was no mistake however due to stockline being the main public facing part of the business. In fact if you wanted to buy


It's also so aesthetic like look at this. Look at the packaging. It's so cute. Like are you kidding me? Here's the box that it comes in it says get into flow stay and if you guys know me that's literally right up my alley and i just have this in my fridge laying like this so that i can just grab one in the morning and it makes it so easy for me so if you guys want to shop magic mind and get a case for yourself um, you can use the code mckayla20 and you can get an exclusive 28 off your order so the link will be down below and everything that you need so go check that out and with that being said, let's do this. Let's take the shot


Just barely see the heads of those screws. So it's coming out nice and level really flow is good let's watch these guys as they come in here right up this end be good that's two bags right there, so we'll dump that out like that and then i'll i'll move it around with my magic trial here you could use a gauge rake if the floor was more level but this floor is really out of level and then i got a screw head right there if you can see it the stuff's almost there. I'll just level off to those screw heads as i go. I got another screw head there i got another one there. So i'm just i'm just kind of moving it around leveling it to the screw heads


Now it says, if you disable this app, other apps may no longer function as intended. Your data will also be deleted, which i'm totally fine because i don't ever use it. So i'm going to disable the app. Now it doesn't uninstall it from your phone. It just goes back to a factory version of uninstalling. It is disabled now. Let's go back into the drawer and you will see that it's no longer there. So i won't be annoyed with applications that are in my drawer or it just won't be popping up or stuff being updated for it because i don't have it ready for it to try to work. So that's a disabled option. If you needed to bring it back, go back into your applications. If you don't have the option to choose from disabled, enabled or applications, it's always going to be at the very bottom and click on that. You see this abled and those are the disabled applications.


Keep your hand nice and high as you're blending and also keep your eyes open. This is a great way to see the shape that you're creating. Bear in mind when you're blending, you don't want to blend up too high. Keep that highlight underneath the brows to add some more contrast with the smokiness. Now if you feel like this isn't smoky enough for you, you can actually go in and reapply a little bit of that brown shadow, keeping this on the lower part of the lid. A little will go a long way, particularly because we've already applied our contour shade on the lid. So just very slowly build this up until you get the smokiness that you like. Now to add more smokiness, i'm going to take that gel liner and push this in between the lashes. This is a totally optional step. I know that some people find this a little ticklish, so you can definitely skip it if you want. But it does add a little bit more depth and a little bit more smokiness.


It's the other way there we go, you got nothing on me boy, i was so fast i'm ooh, i'm just so happy i'm so happy let's get some wood for some chests and then we can make seven shulker boxes i'm just gonna try to load up everything that we have but we will need to get a mending book. Sorry put it on our elytra these are gonna be shoulders v2 is because they're on my shoulders and i think that is goodbye from this place for a while maybe you can just lie down. There we go. Oh another thing too. Now that we have our elytra. It looks like it's going it goes up all the way


Just want to talk to y 'all for a hot second, nothing major. So, as you know, this is the olympics, right? So i want all y 'all on y 'all a -games. Kevin ain't here right now. Remember, i am the alpha dog. I got better lighting, better jokes, better craft service, and better moves. So zoom in on me, baby. Let me get some of that snoop close -up action, that real nice close -up. You know what i'm talking about? Yeah, let's do this. Right there, right there. That's what i'm talking about. That nice close -up action right there. I don't want kevin to get none of that. He don't get that. Because i don't think the camera goes that low. But anyway, y 'all get back to work.


Personal thought and self -reflection. So we're just gonna head over here and you know, you don't even have to buy this for real but you know we're just gonna look into this mirror and just look deep into it to see if we can wait and there it is, yeah, there you go and there you go you should have all the items you need at this point. Hopefully with these you'll be in a good spot in from here it's all about waiting on that call now for just a reminder this guide for finding work isn't for everybody in fact, you can make some substitutions for example you could substitute every item on this list for a camera and a totally not stolen version of premiere pro and try to make creative youtube videos in your local walmart about things you hate like finding a job and a long shot hope that in time it becomes a job so despite if you decide to make any substitutions or not, it doesn't always work out for everybody. So just in case


But please do not eat or smoke on the shuttle. The springdale shuttle route ends at the pedestrian entrance to the park, just across the river from the visitor center and stop 1 of the zion canyon shuttle. Pay your park entrance fee or show a valid pass or receipt to enter. Follow signs to the zion canyon visitor center and stop in for park questions, wilderness permits, maps, information guides, and the park bookstore. The zion canyon shuttle starts at the visitor center. It travels up the zion canyon scenic drive for access to the park's most popular hiking trails when shuttles are operating, the zion canyon scenic drive is only accessible by shuttle buses, pedestrians, and bicycles. If you choose to ride a bike on the road, you must follow standard road safety rules and pull over and stop on the side of the road to allow shuttles to pass safely.


So that's it for today's ikea hacks video. I hope that you enjoy this one and give it a big thumbs up if you did and let me know in the comment section below which one of these projects was your favorite. I think mine. It's a tie between the wrapped frames because i could see myself using that in so many design projects in the future. Like, if i have a boring frame and it's simple enough to wrap it in fabric, that is something i will be doing from now on. But i also love that striped cabinet. The wooden bead poles are so cute and i love like the little exposed jointery on the edges of all the drawers. It's a great little piece. So yes, thank you so much for spending some of your sunday with me today and i will catch you all in my next one. If you're not already, make sure to subscribe to the channel. And all the links are down below. You can also check out my online store, lonefox .com. Brand new stuff coming every single week. Tons and tons of home decor over there. So, yeah, take a peek and i'll catch you guys in my next one. Bye!


Would much prefer to send someone a message saying hey, i'm doing this thing this weekend. You should come than saying hey, what are you up to this weekend? Do you want to come and join us one of them shows? Uncertainty one of them shows complete certainty and number three use texts as a as a way to assert your standards and to communicate your standards this was upon receiving a text message. She sent this i'm not really a one -hour time slot kind of a girl but if you want to take me on a date this week, that'd be lovely. She put a winky face at the end it changes everything it was a little wink, you know, it was playful the tone was right, but the standard was there


That's all for my morning skincare routine. I have much more to add because i'm still learning about the whole skincare community. I'm still learning about it and i'm willing to hear feedback from any of you guys on the products i should try out. I still need to invest in an eye cream because these dogs, i'm on my eyes, they're barking right now. I seem to get an exfoliant so there's some things that i still need to add to my skincare routine. Because i'm yet to put this video out as soon as possible because people have been asking for it for the longest time. I'm not even bragging, people have actually been asking. I'm like, oh your skin is this, this, that. Skincare routine and yeah, that's my skincare routine. It's really basic but this is what i have. It's nothing too crazy.


Okay. Let's move on to our clam. Again, stabilizing the pelvis and we open the thigh and we close. And in two, say we did 10 on the other side, we're going to do 10 here. Three and four, five. Again, you can place your hand on the pelvis just to give yourself a little tactile cue here. All right. And i lost count. I think we've got two more. And two. All right. Last one. And release. Okay. Moving on. Stretch the top leg. Take the bottom foot forward. Okay. Reach the leg away and relax the foot. Let's go to legs. Circle one.


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Mean in the end they were like, unfortunately our policy only covers x amount 30 days or whatever so and i'm like, all right, or it was maybe it was like 90 days but it was on like day 91 so like they probably could have done something but you know, i called the area store and they're like yeah, worst come to worst come to us. They're like, but area has a one -year warranty on all their stuff so just call the area hotline and they'll take care of you. That's cool


Top five scary movies. That's actually a great question for me. I'm actually a huge horror guy i'm running on street for sure is number one. You can have a dream about freddy krueger and i had one as a kid second on that list the saw count saw on my second third be friday 13th jason jason holds on that list text change. I'm asker or for it so hills have eyes hills have eyes is very slept on in very very scary in very graphic so if you are warning on that last one, you're not it's a whore do not watch hills have eyes ever


So i hope that was helpful. I've had a ton of people reach out to me asking how they can start a youtube channel because they want to do stuff like this as well. And so this is my video for you. I hope this is helpful. You don't have to necessarily make a youtube channel, right? It could be other things. Maybe you want to do tick tock or you want to be youtube shorts or you could do instagram or if you want to make content is really fantastic. I just personally really liked doing stuff on youtube. That's definitely where kind of my niche is. With all that being said, i hope that was really helpful. I know i went through it quick, but, you know, that's not what my channel is. I'm not like how to start a youtube channel, kind of youtube channel. I'm a dead animals youtube channel. But there are a lot of people who ask me how to do it. So i thought i would make a quick video on how i do it and how you can do it as well. So thank you so much for watching. If you like this video, be sure to like and subscribe below. And i'll see in the next video.


What i'm hearing is at the very most, even if you had a car, which right now you don't, so we can technically subtract that from this, $1 ,575 .76. So here's what i want you to do. I don't want you to go cold turkey just yet, but what i would recommend is pretend, so we're going to subtract it. We're going to do $2 ,600 minus $1 ,575 .76, right? Because there's always the human error in that you might have miscalculated something or i might have. So we're going to pretend like everything is the way it was, and this is how much you're going to be paying. This is where the budgeting is really handy. So we're going to do $2 ,600 minus that number. What i have is $1 ,024 .24. So


Extra runs and they they batted a righty and a lefty which made the bowler have to figure that out because he's aiming for that wide line because that's the longer boundary. Well that wide line to a lefty batsman's behind his legs and that's that's a wide so that's runs and they ran on everything. Meanwhile, pakistan running on nothing doing nothing to force extra runs look at this you can see the difference here of where their body is how it's presented to the umpire and that's the difference. They just turned everything into runs they knew that they were going after that wide line and they knew when to go after it get the boundary when to leave it. Good job team usa


Drip stuff. So first things first, you need a good coffee. I would recommend going to your local coffee roastery, get your favorite coffee and it needs to be ground for something like french press or a coarse table salt. So that comes in here where we have the super fine metal filter and then you just want to sit everything on top here. Okay, water. So with the valve closed we're going to put this on the top and fill it with filtered water at best. Now you can put ice cubes in here as well to make sure it's a cold extraction or you can put the whole thing in the fridge as well afterwards and i recommend using about 7 to 10 grams per 100 milliliters of water. Once that's done you can put the lid on.


This one, literally right here, right next to me. It doesn't fit because sometimes taper holders are a bit larger, there's different sizes of taper candles, but there is an easy workaround if you have a taper candle in a holder that you really want to use. And that is simply to melt the bottom side of your taper candle with a lighter or a match and let the wax drip in to the taper candle holder. And as it's still hot, press it into the holder and it's actually going to melt into the holder and kind of stand in the exact position that you want it to. And let's just say you make it a bit crooked when you stick it in, don't worry, you can pull it right out, re -melt it, and at some point, you're going to get it straight enough to where you like it and it's going to be stuck in the holder pretty well. My next tip is to remove sticker residue from your decor pieces. Now, i know that there's a whole low -dryer tip to kind of like heat it up and remove the sticker, which is great, but i always feel like there's still like a little bit of film.


On your skin. Now here we have the facial scrub to use this facial scrub you want to make sure to cleanse the face first which is the first step so you're gonna cleanse get rid of all the grease and makeup from your face and then you're gonna use your facial scrub so you're just gonna dig in give it a little mix and then you're just gonna take a generous amount and exfoliate the skin. Now this is best to hold in your hands like that since it's not a facial scrub with granules so once you have it in your hands you're just gonna use it and just rub the face as if you're using soap on the face so just exfoliate your face if it's get dry throw it out dip back in and take up a fresh bath and exfoliate your face with this okay


He was like you did so good, and i was like man. I don't know man. I was like oh i sit back i didn't like it at all. He said this isn't about you he said have you seen all the comments? Protestants that are saying that you won whatever one is saying about you online people that are making reaction videos to it he said this is about you, and when he said that i finally had peace and i said you're right it's not a who cares what i think it's good if i'm helping people if i look stupid doing it but i'm helping people who cares it's not about me all right that makes me feel a little better cuz i cannot stand watching myself every time i'm like could have been ten things better, but just got to be humble it's about what god is doing with what whatever the attempts are really good reminder


The anxious generation won. Where is disney high? Okay, disney high came like ninth, but 17 ,000 votes for 1 ,100 ratings is pretty impressive. Okay, the anxious generation, a rigorously researched assessment of adolescent mental health in the 21st century. Oh, i need to say that i won. I read - i was correct. The arrival of the phone -based childhood essentially rewiring the vixen is growing up. Okay, i think this could be interesting because i need to get off my phone and maybe this book will make me do it. Memoir. I predicted that rupaul is going to win because his face is big on the cover and his name is big on the cover and people just go, i like drag race, i like rupaul, i'll vote for that. That's my conspiracy theory. I also think the - oh, i really hope the gilmore girls one doesn't win just because i am so uninterested in that. I've never watched gilmore girls, i'm not interested in that, but that could win.


I think? Fit me? I think... oh, the matte one is the fit me poreless. But they're both maybelline. This one is just in the dewy finish, and then this one is in the matte finish. I really like how the dewy one looks on me, but i usually use the matte, and since i'm going over the summer, i figured i should use matte since i'm probably going to be sweating a lot. But i'm bringing this one just in case. This one is the number 310 in sun beige, and that's the dewy finish, and then this one is 238 in rich tan, and this is the matte finish. I got this cute bag from walmart. It was like $10, i believe. It's actually supposed to be for men, like to put all their...


The pain and suffering you have to go through to learn all this stuff. But it will pay off because when something clicks and you realize this is actually how the world works. This is what light is. You know, this is how atoms work. This is how our bodies function. And it's all made possible by physics. I think that's one of the most beautiful things you can, beautiful experiences you can have to to understand. So i would say it's well worth it, but don't be put off by the, you know, the kind of mechanical side of it.


I have expertises and passions. I have things that i love and that i care about and that i know about. I've written like a thousand non -fiction video essays, i'm kind of an expert on social media. I don't know how i hadn't figured this out, but like, using my expertises and my passions has been deeply enabling. And all of my early failed attempts at other books was because i wasn't doing that. So john, thank you for the years of practice here, and if i could give you any advice, it's apparently write a soccer novel. I'll see you on tuesday. I don't have any news regarding the sequel right now, but i am working on it. If you want to hear me talk more about writing, i have a very long video over on hank's channel where i answer many more questions that i was sent on twitter. And also, the book box is from life's library. We actually make more of those than we're probably going to need, just in case anybody needs some replacements. But we're releasing a bunch of those on discount at dftba .com if you want to check that out.


I do actually use staplers, and then i just got some premium staples for it, so all is good in the hood. So that is everything for this haul video, i hope you guys enjoyed and maybe found some tips or something, i don't really know. I enjoyed back to school shopping, i enjoyed making this video for you guys. I'm really excited to use this stuff when school starts up, hopefully it will keep me a little inspired. Honestly, anything that can get me going throughout the school day helps so much. If it is material items, let it be that. Whatever gets you going, let it be. I love you guys dearly, i hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did, make sure to give it a big thumbs up, and make sure to comment down below video requests that you guys want. Also make sure to follow me on all my social media, like my snapchat, twitter, instagram, all that fun mumbo jumbo. I'll see you guys next time for my next video, bye guys!


Your journey in the comment section below. Let me know how much you need to lose or when you need to lose it back cuz see some of y 'all some of us we had things that you wanted to do by a certain time you might want to get married or go to a party a reunion or something and you want to look good. You want to feel great about yourself? You you have a timeline for just looking good for yourself, or you might want to look good for the beach you know, sometimes people are like, oh i want that beach body or some people are like, oh they gonna get what they gonna get