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I have a milestone birthday in december; if youd like totreat me here is my registry ♥️ etsy.com/registry/MTY2N…

I remember being friends with a huge Persona 5 translator. His account was MASSIVE,but he ended up in serious hot water with SEGA, and then he vanished. A year later this cutesy Japanese Atlus insider showed up and allot of the men in the fandom fell for her. She was leaking —

Predicting we're about to learn something heinous about how this app is being used and you can probably guess what it is

”The Bank of France has emptied its gold stocks held in New York to store them in Paris and has realized a hefty capital gain of 13 billion euros”

all of my european oomfs please rise for our national anthem, dragostea din tei

Now seems like a good time to let everyone know that PinkNews has not only decided to shift to an AI-operated newsroom without the need for reporters, they’re also notorious for refusing to cover trans issues and focus only on LGB stories, especially gay men

There is no Easter Bunny, there is no Tooth Fairy, and there is no anti-war constituency in the Republican Party

BREAKING: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer closed. It is no longer open. It is something the world has never seen before: a permissioned corridor run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, priced at $2 million per vessel, payable in yuan. Three ships transited in the last 24 hours. Three. Out of a pre-war average of 60 per day. Total throughput: 310,000 deadweight tonnes. Three percent of normal. Four hundred vessels are waiting outside the strait right now. One hundred and fifty tankers. One hundred and twenty bulk carriers. One hundred and thirty others. Waiting for permission from the IRGC Navy to enter a 5-nautical-mile channel between Larak and Qeshm islands inside Iranian territorial waters. This is how the gate works. A vessel operator contacts approved intermediaries with IRGC connections, submitting full documentation: IMO number, ownership chain, cargo manifest, destination, crew list. The intermediaries forward the package to the IRGC Navy’s Hormozgan Provincial Command for sanctions screening, cargo alignment checks that prioritise oil over all other commodities, and geopolitical vetting. The toll is approximately $2 million per tanker. For a VLCC carrying 2 million barrels, that is $1 per barrel. Preferred currency: yuan. If the vessel passes, the IRGC issues a clearance code and route instructions. Upon approach, VHF radio hail, AIS verification, patrol boat escort. One ship at a time. Through the narrowest channel of the most important waterway on Earth. Iranian crude is still flowing. Approximately 1.1 to 1.5 million barrels per day, mostly to China, at near pre-war levels. Iran’s own oil transits the strait it controls. The blockade applies to everyone else. Iran is simultaneously the gatekeeper and the primary beneficiary. The toll funds the IRGC. The IRGC maintains the gate. The gate generates the toll. The circle is self-sustaining. Now look at what is NOT transiting. Fertiliser. Gulf nations supply 49 percent of the world’s exported urea. Ammonia requires the natural gas that Qatar declared Force Majeure on and that Iranian strikes disrupted at South Pars. Effectively zero fertiliser vessels have received approval through the permissioned corridor. The IRGC is prioritising oil because oil generates revenue. Fertiliser does not. The molecules that feed four billion people are trapped behind a gate that only opens for molecules that fund the gatekeeper. The yuan preference is the structural shift that outlasts the war. Every tanker that pays in yuan instead of dollars establishes a precedent. Every precedent weakens the petrodollar architecture that has governed energy trade since 1974. The IRGC is not just blocking a strait. It is building an alternative payment rail under live fire. The $2 million toll in yuan is not a fee. It is a proof of concept for a post-dollar energy settlement system, stress-tested in the most extreme conditions imaginable: a three-front war with the world’s largest military. The world’s central banks are trapped by the same strait: the Fed cannot cut, the ECB is hiking, the BOJ is tightening. Six countries are rationing fuel. Japan’s 10-year yield hit a 27-year high. Slovenia has QR codes at the pump. South Korea is barring government vehicles one day per week. And behind all of it, 400 ships wait outside a 5-nautical-mile channel for a clearance code from the IRGC Navy, payable in a currency that is not the dollar. Twenty percent of the world’s oil supply. Controlled by a VHF radio call and a yuan transfer. The strait did not close. It changed ownership. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

this is how the app is supposed to be used and yall wanna commit h@te crimes anytime someone feels joy

Libya negotiated. Let's be precise about what happened to Libya. In 2003, Muammar Gaddafi made a strategic decision to abandon his weapons programs, open his country to international inspectors, and normalize relations with the West. He paid reparations for Lockerbie. He dismantled his nuclear program. He cooperated with Western intelligence against Al-Qaeda. He did everything that was asked of him. He negotiated. He complied. He normalized. In 2011, NATO bombed Libya for seven months. His own military turned against him with Western backing. He was captured in a drainage pipe. A mob sodomized him with a bayonet while Western officials watched via satellite feed. Hillary Clinton laughed about it on camera. "We came, we saw, he died." The man who gave up his deterrent in exchange for promises of security and normalization died in a drainage pipe while the people who made him those promises laughed at the footage of him being sodomized with a bayonet. And Libya, which had the highest GDP per capita in Africa, free healthcare, free education, housing subsidies, and a functioning welfare state, became a failed state with open slave markets within three years. This is what negotiated security guarantees look like. This is the documented outcome. Not a fringe case. Not a misunderstanding. The most complete, unambiguous illustration possible of what your weapons are worth the moment you give them up. The lesson is not complicated. The only deterrent is a deterrent you still possess. The moment you negotiate it away, you have nothing left to negotiate with.

Today I met my university professor… the doctor who once taught me Organizational Behavior. I approached him with a smile and said, “How are you, doctor? I hope you are well.” He looked at me with tired eyes and replied, “I’m not well… who are you?” I felt embarrassed and said gently, “You don’t remember me? I’m Mohammed… you taught me at the university.” His answer shocked me: “Which university? Which course? When?” I froze. I started wondering… did I mistake him for someone else? Or did he lose his memory? Or did the war take something from his mind? I couldn’t continue the conversation. I left quietly, feeling that I had just met a man who looked like my professor… but wasn’t him anymore. When I returned to my tent, I called a friend who studied with me and is related to him. I asked him what happened. He paused… then said: “He is the only survivor from his family. Their house was bombed… everyone was killed. Since that day, he hasn’t been the same. It’s like he lost his mind… the shock broke him.” I was devastated. I wished I hadn’t left him standing there alone. I wished I had hugged him… sat beside him… He once taught me, and I loved him like a father. War doesn’t only destroy homes… it breaks minds, shatters souls, and leaves people alive… but lost. May God ease your pain, doctor. Please keep him in your prayers. 💔

Chat, I'll tell you one thing right now, this LiteLLM supply-chain attack is one big stinky mess. No information has been released publicly (yet) on vendors impacted, but the stink I've been sniffing suggests this is very serious shenanigans and DFIR nerds are not happy

Update: The mayor and an aide were TAKING OUT CITI BIKES at 5th and 78th

Researching more of Newsom’s opinions on trans issues… y’all it’s bad

Find out more about this concession item by looking up the court filing for “Gouvernement du Québec v. Boston Red Sox and Aramark”

Democrats introduced bills to end the TSA shutdown on: March 5 March 11 March 12 March 18 March 19 (x2) March 21 March 23 Republicans blocked TSA funding every single time.

keeping young trans girls out of places that have accepted them for years for no reason beyond the transphobia of a few fully-grown adults with nothing else to live for! grim stuff :/

Pregnancy gets endless attention, even though many women never experience it. Menopause happens to nearly all of us yet it’s rarely discussed openly. We need more women sharing those real stories.

Jezebel was one of the few outlets that took us seriously at Planned Parenthood when we were pitching stories about how Republicans wanted to end Roe. Many other outlets basically called us hysterical

I am completely tuned out of whatever the whole “Lindy West” storyline is but the idea of having a worldview that fucking Jezebel could have blog posted their way to codifying Roe but chose not to is hilarious, please donate your brain to science

the us has 1.3 billion parking spaces for 280 million registered vehicles which means there are roughly 74 parking spaces for every car. we paved the entire country so your honda civic could have options and you still circle the block at whole foods for ten minutes