A Farm Picture Thread 🪶

My eight (8) favorite pics from yesterday at nearby Mingo Branch Farm (Santa Fe, TN)

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A Farm Picture Thread 🪶

My eight (8) favorite pics from yesterday at nearby Mingo Branch Farm (Santa Fe, TN)

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A Farm Picture Thread 🪶

My eight (8) favorite pics from yesterday at nearby Mingo Branch Farm (Santa Fe, TN)

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Well, I told you to watch the Florida proceedings about whether a “fraud on the court” was committed in the slush fund case, and we now have the federal judge’s decision, and it’s a doozy.

Here’s how she framed the question:

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Whether Trump and the defendants “ignored ethical norms, court rules, and legal authority to manipulate the judicial process …. to gild their efforts to gain unprecedented access to the public fisc with the patina of legitimacy.”

Punchline: they did. “Plaintiffs [Trump et al] improperly employed this lawsuit to justify … access to taxpayer funds and exemption from audits and other investigations … accomplished by leveraging control over Defendants [Blanche et al].”

"Plan A … Nearly all AI research is fully transparent to the public, including AI algorithms, code, & documentation, for all frontier AI projects. … Competitors will dislike that it allows their competitors to catch up, especially companies whose algorithms are their primary moat. Governments generally shy away from giving geopolitical rivals access to information which could then be used against them" lesswrong.com/posts/NLBmTmry…

This would in effect confiscate most of ~$2.4T value of firms that now make/sell AI models. Would we compensate shareholders for this loss, & tax voters to pay for it, or what?

They intend this to greatly decrease the rate of AI innovation - why invent anything if everyone else can immediately see and copy your gains?

@RealCandaceO 1.DECODED
INFLUENCERS 👉cannot be both friends AND influencers.
OVERWHELMING proof👇meaning no OPINION is worthy but those approved by 'them'.
Fed Slop 👉Candace Slop is the TRUE Slop.
Turned himself in👉though he could have shown his receipt from a steak house BUT DIDN'T
2.👇

@RealCandaceO 2.Twigs a Fed👉 Immunity is VERY COMMON nation wide.
Decoys👉Tennis shoes are worn by millions but not maroon shirts.
The car👉no photo of the actual exhaust proves the side view makes them right.
Texts👉they FEEL are sloppy so they Couldn't be real.
3.👇

@RealCandaceO 3. DNA👉 though it was MOSTLY Tyler's and his grandpas gun, an unknown must have borrowed it cause?...they had no gun?
No footage👉 he must be innocent though NO Footage exists Dahmer eating people but the knew it was him.
Pixals👉can't be the killer so chang the focus.
4.👇

You've heard of Flock cameras, but have you heard of NEMA nodes? Those unassuming little plugs on virtually every streetlight in America, silently turning your city's lighting grid into an always-on, AI-powered surveillance mesh that knows exactly where you sleep, drive, and walk... every single night.

What started as 'smart energy saving' has morphed into the backbone of a nationwide tracking system — powering cameras, sensors, and data fusion that governments and tech giants can tap into with a few clicks. No warrants needed when the infrastructure is already watching.

Tonight, @zeeemedia pulls back the socket on NEMA nodes: how they fit into the bigger surveillance grid, and why your local streetlight might know more about you than your own phone. 🧵

Flock cameras became a household name for a reason. The license plate reader network has been tied to documented cases of police officers misusing it to stalk women, and researchers have demonstrated how easily the systems can be hacked and abused, with reports suggesting predators have exploited that weakness.

But while public attention stayed on the cameras, a quieter buildout was happening overhead. Modern LED streetlights across America are being fitted with NEMA control nodes, small modules mounted on top of the fixture. In their simplest form, these are just photocells that turn the light on at dusk and off at dawn. But the newer generation are smart lighting controllers that let a municipality or utility monitor the light, dim it remotely, detect failures, and manage energy use.

The concern being raised is what else they can carry. Modern nodes can include wireless communication, and while the node itself generally does not contain a camera, many are being installed with the ability to add camera capabilities later. The infrastructure goes in first. The sensors come after.

The scale is already significant. In Washington D.C. alone, roughly 75,000 streetlights have reportedly been upgraded with advanced Internet of Things capable nodes. Much of this buildout accelerated during the COVID lockdowns, when infrastructure went up across cities while residents were told to stay home, and most of it went unnoticed.

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@LuginbuhlJenn @MinnOrchia @MaryJoExotic @jk_rowling @threadreaderapp The biological sex (male, female and few intersexuals) is not a costume. Our dresses and, if we use it, makeup, yes! Antropologically, as the Cambridge Dictionary says, the costume is "the set of clothes typical of a particular country or period of history, or suitable for (1/15)

@LuginbuhlJenn @MinnOrchia @MaryJoExotic @jk_rowling @threadreaderapp a particular activity" or depending on the gender. In this case, the costume only becomes fancy dress in transformists, drag queens and kings or demons who have ripped women and changed their legal sex to be near them (although in this case is nothing fancy...). I insist: (2/15)

@LuginbuhlJenn @MinnOrchia @MaryJoExotic @jk_rowling @threadreaderapp the sex is not a costume, it is our biological reality like males or females. But the gender is a cultural construction, based in sex, but cultural construction. This is the reason because I have added it to the definition, because the clothes and the make up are part of a (3/15)

Thread with excerpts from "Foundations, their power and influence" (1958), by the former chairman of the Reece Committee, a Congressional committee to investigate the conduct of tax-exempt foundations.

The administrators of the great foundations formed an interlocking cartel wielding (illegally) immense political and cultural influence using other people's money, as the foundations are tax exempt.

Foundations are tax-exempt because they are supposed to be run for public benefit.

EXCLUSIVE: The Left is building a new voting bloc out of America’s homeless population.

Documents reveal a coordinated operation turning shelters and housing providers into voter-registration hubs, mail-ballot sites, and turnout machines.

Here’s how it works. 🧵

The instructions are explicit:

“Shelters and social services agencies should also consider allowing clients to use their addresses and to receive mail-in ballots at their sites.”

Shelters would no longer just house people. They would become part of the ballot infrastructure.

Other guidance says homeless voters can use a shelter or other “place of temporary residence” as the address for requesting a ballot.

That means ballots can be sent to shelters and service providers while organizers use those same facilities to register and mobilize voters.

I wish someone told me this when I was 18:

The most disciplined Muslims you know aren't more motivated than you.

They just do these 5 Habits consistently:

1. Identify your Nafs triggers

Track for 7 days:
When does my Nafs win? What does it whisper?

Patterns will emerge:

"Just 5 more minutes" (Fajr battle)
"Just one video" (scrolling trap)
"Start tomorrow" (procrastination loop)

You'll find a ton of them.
Once you see the patterns, you can intercept them.

2. Build systems that do not require motivation

Motivation is a feeling that lasts 3 days max.
You need something that works when you feel nothing.

Therefore, build SYSTEMS:

-Phone locked away at night
-Prayer-anchored daily structure
-Non-negotiable Fajr alarm across the room
-A solid routine so you don't constantly decide what to do next

Systems remove the decision fatigue.
Your nafs can't negotiate with a system.

Roger Froikin wrote, "See a developing young politician in Greece, Afroditi Latínopoulou who is a Member of the European Parliament and the founder and leader of the right-wing Voice of Reason party.
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Outside of Greece, however, very few people know anything about her. The left in Europe and America has already begun treating her the same way they have attacked Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and France’s Marine Le Pen.
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This young woman has identified where the problems lie in the EU—an EU that has damaged the Greek economy, flooded the Greek islands with migrants, and turned a blind eye to Turkish aggression.
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She had no husband, no lawyer, no power, and no leverage.

Just one judge who "neither feared God nor cared what people thought" and refused to help her.

So she showed up. Again. And again. Until he gave in.

🧵 A devotional on shameless, relentless prayer.

Luke tells us exactly why Jesus told this story:

"To show them that they should always pray and not give up." — Luke 18:1

A widow keeps coming to an unjust judge asking for justice against her adversary.

He refuses.
She keeps coming back.

Finally, he says to himself: "Even though I don't fear God or care what people think, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually come and attack me!" — Luke 18:4-5

He didn't help her because he cared.
He helped her because she refused to disappear.

Here's the turn that makes this parable so powerful.

Jesus isn't comparing God to the judge; he's contrasting them.

"And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly." — Luke 18:7-8

If a corrupt judge who doesn't care will eventually respond to persistence —
how much more will a Father who loves you respond to your prayers?

The point was never that God is reluctant like the judge.

It's that if reluctant justice bends to persistence, willing love responds even more surely.

A sex therapist says there are 7 daily habits that quietly destroy attraction between couples.

Most people think these habits are harmless. In reality, they're destroying their intimate life permanently.

Here are the habits…

1: Turning your back in bed.

The therapist explained that how you sleep reveals the state of your connection. Couples who sleep facing away from each other, with their backs turned, are unconsciously creating distance. It seems harmless. It is not. The therapist explained that sleeping facing each other, even just for a few minutes before sleep, maintains physical and emotional closeness. Turning your back is a signal. It says "I am not interested in connection right now." Over time, that signal becomes permanent.

2: Checking your phone first thing in the morning.

The therapist explained that how you start your day sets the tone for your entire relationship. When you reach for your phone before you reach for your partner, you are sending a powerful message. They are not your priority. The screen is. The therapist explained that the first five minutes of the day should be for connection. A kiss. A touch. A few words. Before the world gets in. The phone can wait. Your partner cannot.