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>70% of people are in permanent slight suffering because they are allergic to making ANY mentally tough decision when there is also an option to do nothing. rant:
then they come up with reasons for why it's so good to not do the thing, and all their friends will agree, because they too don't want the ability to make a tough decision be something they'd every need to consider
"but i made so many tough decisions"
no. when choosing university you HAD to choose, otherwise you become a social outcast. when finding a job, you HAD to just to pay bills
no. when choosing university you HAD to choose, otherwise you become a social outcast. when finding a job, you HAD to just to pay bills
OK one last go..... for those who follow or interact with me the usual caveats around apologising for repetition.
For anyone remotely interested in protecting the vulnerable from sexual and physical harm, particularly children please read the below. All of the facts and statistics I will refer to are openly and relatively early verifiable. Yoy can even use Grok to check should you have difficult believing me.
I work in Public Protection. It comes under many names in different forces, MOSOVO, Jigsaw e.t.c but it all concerns the same thing. Managing the risk posed by Registered Sex Offenders and other Potentially Dangerous Persons to the Public. I have done this role for approximately six years as Police Officer and have a number of other skills and roles which are part time including being a level 2 Officer (riot Officer in common parlance) and a CBRN Officer alongside some additional skillsets. Prior to this I was on a mixture of Response and C.I.D. teams. In my current role I have arrested and taken to Court approximately 300 Registered Sex Offenders for further offending. I say this not to boast or for self aggrandisement but to try and establish my credentials and to demonstrate that what I am saying is backed by experience and profound knowledge of the subject matter.
We are fucked. It is the fault of successive Governments and public apathy. If you wish to know why and the reality of the situation then please read on. If you don't then do so in the knowledge you are making a choice to not understand what is happening to the people trying to protect you and your children from RSO's. That might make you feel angry and upset. It should do. We would not be in this situation without your apathy. If you wish to do something about that we need you to harness those emotions and utilise them accordingly.
The Sex Offenders Register began in 1997. It's genesis came from the realisation and acknowledgement that sex offenders need a degree of monitoring and controlling to protect the public. Thus was born VISOR. The Violent and Sexual Offender Register. This is a database maintained and updated by the Police which monitor and tracks Sex Offenders and tries to ensure they are tracked, monitored and adhering to the requirements needed of them. This was further added to by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and formally codified in the Sex Offender Notification Requirements. These are requirements incumbent on ALL rso's to register their names, aliases, addresses, passports etc. Failure to do so is a criminal offence with a maximum sentence of breaching being 5 years imprisonment.
At this juncture it is worth pointing out that we are one of the few countries to have such a Register. America and Australia (along with a few others) also have one. Almost none of our European contemporaries do. Indeed the idea of a European Sex Offenders registry has been mooted numerous times and has failed to come to fruition. A number of European countries including Spain and France have explicitly argued that such a Register would breach the human rights enshrined by the ECHR for those subjected to it. All these countries despite not having such a Register to manage and Police have vastly greater Policing resources available to them. The U.K. has one of the lowest Officer to population ratio in all of Europe. Approximately half that of France, Spain, Italy, Greece and Russia. About a third less than Germany. Bear that in mind as and if you read on as despite us having such low numbers and resources we have correspondingly far greater duties. All whilst being routinely unarmed.
In the U.K. when the Register was first established it was recognised that it would need officers and staff to manage the RSO's on it. To visit, monitor, support and if necessary arrest them for infractions of their conditions or further offending. When the guidelines for workload were drawn up it was decreed that no individual Officer would have more than thirty Offenders to manage. Anything more was seen and inherently unworkable and likely to result in increased risk. This number and the time it was created is, again, very important to bear in mind as you read on. The limit of thirty was imposed before the creation of Sexual Offenders Prevention Orders and their later successor Sexual Harm Prevention Orders. These are Court Orders bespoke and tailored to an RSO's offending. They will limit things such as an Offenders access to children, Internet access, apps they can use, registering internet enabled devices with Police e.t.c. e.t.c. Their use has vastly increased and results in large numbers of arrests and investigations as Offenders breach them. Again the maximum sentence for breaching such an order is 5 years.
Fast forward to 2010 and the Home Office quietly changed the maximum number of Offenders an individual Officer could manage. Instead of thirty it was now fifty. This was not debated in Parliament. It was not really debated at all. It was not imposed due to increasing resources or lack of work the stark naked truth was there were too many Offenders and not enough Officers. Indeed despite the ever increasing number of RSO's there had been an approximately 20 percent in the number of Public Protection Offficers to deal with them with greater workload and complexity due to the introdution of SOPO's. You will note the date. 2010. The start of austerity. Bear in mind how bad the situation was therfore prior to austerity and brace yourself accordingly for what has come next.
Since 2014 the number of RSO's has doubled. From approximately 50,000 to 100,000. In that same timeframe Police funding has been catastrophically slashed. The Met alone has lost a billion pounds in real term funding. My own force has lost hundreds of millions. Between 6 to 8 hundred Police Stations have closed. Tens of thousands of Officers have left. That was all needed experience. As of today around a third of Officers in the U.K. have less than five years experience. That is an appalling, disastrous figure. Government spokesman about healthy churn. In reality they wished to gut Police of experience as it was cheaper to have lots of inexperienced Officers bith in terms of general pay and pensions.
Governmental Ministers will often talk about protecting the front line. This is meaningless jargon. Back office staff are crucial and critical. Worse when they are gone the tasks they performed still have to be done..... by the front line. Remember this when you are struggling to get hold of emergency response officers with their tiny numbers and horrific myriad of duties and tasks they need to complete. You were warned about this. You were warned of the consequences of the cuts and what it would mean to Policing. You did not listen. The Government gambled, correctly, on your stupidity, myopia, apathy and ignorance. They knew that when the chickens came home to roost that the Police would be Blamed for the effects of the cuts imposed upon them. They were, heartbreakingly, entirely correct to gamble as such.
So 100,000 RSO's, decreasing staff and Officer numbers, greater tasks. On my team the current average is now 64 Offenders each to manage within the community. Over double the number to manage than when the Register started. Every single member of my team failed their last psychological screening which we have to complete yearly. Every single one. If one of them goes off sick or decides they can no longer bear to carry on the number we will manage will jump to around 76 each. This isn't manageable. It isn't right. This is a national disgrace replicated across the board. If you think my colleagues seem weak or unmotivated consider the conditions they labour under on your behalf. Due to our tiny numbers we have noone to hand onto. This means if we arrest someone we deal with them entirely. Arrest, searches(section 32 and 18), interview, casefile building, going to CPS to obtain charges e.t.c. An arrest will usually result in a remand given the level of risk we deal with. That means a shift of, ordinarily, between 16 to 20 hours. On average we arrest 2-3 RSO's a week. Our stations are often, literally, falling apart with leaks and crumbling infrastructure. Waiting for solicitors which, like us, have been denuded of funding and investment so there are not nearly enough. This means my team are exhausted with massive impacts on their personal lives and missing out on children and family events e.t.c... even basic expectations of sleep cannot be met. My colleagues and I regularly deal with extrme offences and exceptionally dangerous people. Two weeks ago one of the men we deal with was sentenced, amongst the things we uncovered, for assaulting two of my colleagues whilst arresting him. To say nothing of the appalling material we regularly are subjected to when gathering evidence. Having to grade multiple videos of babies and toddlers being raped and provide a statment after 16 hours on duty in a station so stripmined off funds it cannot even supply sachets of squash for its officers to drink is not an ideal work environment. All this before we get to the Courts..
The Court system has, broadly, ceased to function. There are not enough specialist lawyers and Judges to deal with normal cases let alone specialist and sexual cases. Trial dates are, in of themselves, a national emergency. Basic task like transferring Defendants from prison to Court or getting liveliness to prison regularly simply fail to work. Accelerated by the privatisation of these services. The prisons themselves are collapsing. In the U.K. the Prison estate is operating at just under 100% capacity. That is a disgrace. Again successive Governments have failed to invest and fund. The Public have failed to hold them to account. Prison Officers operate in squalid, dangerous, terrifying conditions. They don't have the equipment and backup they need because Governments have "allowed" themselves to be led by pressure groups and activisits because its chepaer than properly equipping them. Something that many of these groups may wish to ponder. Yoy are simply carrying water for Governments looking to do things on the cheap. Prison Officers don't have tasers because the reality is it costs money. Both for the equipment and training. It is cheaper to "listen" to pressure groups to provide the political cover as a reason. The Government don't really believe or care that violent prisoners might be "traumatised" by the sight of a taser that may have been used on them outside of prison. It's just a hook to hang failure to resource on.
This complete abrogation of responsibility from those who Govern in our name has made our prison estate woefully over populated, highly dangerous and open to corruption and subversion by organised crime. The tactics and technology are readily available, for instance, to prevent drone drops of money, drugs, phones e.t.c. They are not implemented because they cost money. Or indeed because the tentacles of corruption have embedded themselves ever further up the chain. It is hard to believe our ministers are such paragons of virtue that they are beyond the purview of being corrupted by organised crime.
I am now arresting and breaching Offenders who are arriving at bail hostels with undeclared internet enabled devices, simcards and USB sticks that they have brought with them from prison. Prisoners in many establishments openly film and record themselves, they have YouTube channels and update their dating profiles from inside.... and continue to offend.
That prison crisis directly impacts the management of RSO's. Prison terms have been cut from 50% of a sentence to 40% now to 30%. Ministers have repeatedly assured us that violent and sexual offenders are exempt from th3se releases. That is a straight lie. Sexual and Violent Offenders as graded by Police and Probation are regularly being let out using these schemes. I have already arrested and remanded quite alot of them for further offending. Ministers language has now changed saying that dangerous offenders will not be released. Again this is pure mendacity. Mendacity erected on your gambled ignorance. What Ministers are saying here is that those prisoners designated as a dangerous offender by a Judge and sentenced accordingly are exempt from these release schemes. That is a very rare designation. It means that an offender who is found dangerous will serve two thirds of their sentence and be subject to an extended license period. The vast majority of sexual and violent offenders are not so designated. From rapists to domestic abusers north of 95% of such individuals will not be deemed dangerous. When Ministers say dangerous offenders will not be released they are lying. They are deliberately using technical legal terminology not in any way shape or from the meaning of dangerous as the public would understand it.
There's so much more to discuss but most won't ever read as far as this. Asylum seekers? There's a hot button issue. Are yoy aware that the Home Office won't deport someone (as rarely as they do anyway) if they have an active criminal investigation against them? Repeatedly raped a child?when you're released and waiting for the deportation process carry on committing crime. It stops the process. What a design system. I haven't even touched on Probation and their crucification and disintegration. Reactive management of RSO's? Such a cornucopia of horror and decay you are all kept deliberately ignorant of
I can only use the tools and resources given to me by the Government to protect you. The Government will only give to me what it feelsit can get away with. It is up to the Public to redress the balance. I cannot strike. The Police and the Military give up the right to strike to serve You. You will note that bith organisations have been filleted and gutted by successive Governments. The Police are the Public. The Public the Police. When you denigrate me and mock me for failings that I have had no hand in creating and you have allowed you are simply engaging in self-harm. The results of that are now manifest everywhere in our society. If you want to start to redress the issues than do so. Ask politicians about what i am saying. Demand answers. Is anyone marching and protesting about this? Are they bollox. I have said it before but it is worth repeating I find it more stress relieving and rewarding to drive aid convoys to Kyiv them I do serving the British public. I go again October. I will be met by people who are kind and decent to me, pleased to see and grateful for my meagre efforts at help.
Go on ask your local MP about all thus, ask your elected officials. They will not answer me. I have tried. They will all, uniformly, ignore me.
It's cheaper that way.
For anyone remotely interested in protecting the vulnerable from sexual and physical harm, particularly children please read the below. All of the facts and statistics I will refer to are openly and relatively early verifiable. Yoy can even use Grok to check should you have difficult believing me.
I work in Public Protection. It comes under many names in different forces, MOSOVO, Jigsaw e.t.c but it all concerns the same thing. Managing the risk posed by Registered Sex Offenders and other Potentially Dangerous Persons to the Public. I have done this role for approximately six years as Police Officer and have a number of other skills and roles which are part time including being a level 2 Officer (riot Officer in common parlance) and a CBRN Officer alongside some additional skillsets. Prior to this I was on a mixture of Response and C.I.D. teams. In my current role I have arrested and taken to Court approximately 300 Registered Sex Offenders for further offending. I say this not to boast or for self aggrandisement but to try and establish my credentials and to demonstrate that what I am saying is backed by experience and profound knowledge of the subject matter.
We are fucked. It is the fault of successive Governments and public apathy. If you wish to know why and the reality of the situation then please read on. If you don't then do so in the knowledge you are making a choice to not understand what is happening to the people trying to protect you and your children from RSO's. That might make you feel angry and upset. It should do. We would not be in this situation without your apathy. If you wish to do something about that we need you to harness those emotions and utilise them accordingly.
The Sex Offenders Register began in 1997. It's genesis came from the realisation and acknowledgement that sex offenders need a degree of monitoring and controlling to protect the public. Thus was born VISOR. The Violent and Sexual Offender Register. This is a database maintained and updated by the Police which monitor and tracks Sex Offenders and tries to ensure they are tracked, monitored and adhering to the requirements needed of them. This was further added to by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and formally codified in the Sex Offender Notification Requirements. These are requirements incumbent on ALL rso's to register their names, aliases, addresses, passports etc. Failure to do so is a criminal offence with a maximum sentence of breaching being 5 years imprisonment.
At this juncture it is worth pointing out that we are one of the few countries to have such a Register. America and Australia (along with a few others) also have one. Almost none of our European contemporaries do. Indeed the idea of a European Sex Offenders registry has been mooted numerous times and has failed to come to fruition. A number of European countries including Spain and France have explicitly argued that such a Register would breach the human rights enshrined by the ECHR for those subjected to it. All these countries despite not having such a Register to manage and Police have vastly greater Policing resources available to them. The U.K. has one of the lowest Officer to population ratio in all of Europe. Approximately half that of France, Spain, Italy, Greece and Russia. About a third less than Germany. Bear that in mind as and if you read on as despite us having such low numbers and resources we have correspondingly far greater duties. All whilst being routinely unarmed.
In the U.K. when the Register was first established it was recognised that it would need officers and staff to manage the RSO's on it. To visit, monitor, support and if necessary arrest them for infractions of their conditions or further offending. When the guidelines for workload were drawn up it was decreed that no individual Officer would have more than thirty Offenders to manage. Anything more was seen and inherently unworkable and likely to result in increased risk. This number and the time it was created is, again, very important to bear in mind as you read on. The limit of thirty was imposed before the creation of Sexual Offenders Prevention Orders and their later successor Sexual Harm Prevention Orders. These are Court Orders bespoke and tailored to an RSO's offending. They will limit things such as an Offenders access to children, Internet access, apps they can use, registering internet enabled devices with Police e.t.c. e.t.c. Their use has vastly increased and results in large numbers of arrests and investigations as Offenders breach them. Again the maximum sentence for breaching such an order is 5 years.
Fast forward to 2010 and the Home Office quietly changed the maximum number of Offenders an individual Officer could manage. Instead of thirty it was now fifty. This was not debated in Parliament. It was not really debated at all. It was not imposed due to increasing resources or lack of work the stark naked truth was there were too many Offenders and not enough Officers. Indeed despite the ever increasing number of RSO's there had been an approximately 20 percent in the number of Public Protection Offficers to deal with them with greater workload and complexity due to the introdution of SOPO's. You will note the date. 2010. The start of austerity. Bear in mind how bad the situation was therfore prior to austerity and brace yourself accordingly for what has come next.
Since 2014 the number of RSO's has doubled. From approximately 50,000 to 100,000. In that same timeframe Police funding has been catastrophically slashed. The Met alone has lost a billion pounds in real term funding. My own force has lost hundreds of millions. Between 6 to 8 hundred Police Stations have closed. Tens of thousands of Officers have left. That was all needed experience. As of today around a third of Officers in the U.K. have less than five years experience. That is an appalling, disastrous figure. Government spokesman about healthy churn. In reality they wished to gut Police of experience as it was cheaper to have lots of inexperienced Officers bith in terms of general pay and pensions.
Governmental Ministers will often talk about protecting the front line. This is meaningless jargon. Back office staff are crucial and critical. Worse when they are gone the tasks they performed still have to be done..... by the front line. Remember this when you are struggling to get hold of emergency response officers with their tiny numbers and horrific myriad of duties and tasks they need to complete. You were warned about this. You were warned of the consequences of the cuts and what it would mean to Policing. You did not listen. The Government gambled, correctly, on your stupidity, myopia, apathy and ignorance. They knew that when the chickens came home to roost that the Police would be Blamed for the effects of the cuts imposed upon them. They were, heartbreakingly, entirely correct to gamble as such.
So 100,000 RSO's, decreasing staff and Officer numbers, greater tasks. On my team the current average is now 64 Offenders each to manage within the community. Over double the number to manage than when the Register started. Every single member of my team failed their last psychological screening which we have to complete yearly. Every single one. If one of them goes off sick or decides they can no longer bear to carry on the number we will manage will jump to around 76 each. This isn't manageable. It isn't right. This is a national disgrace replicated across the board. If you think my colleagues seem weak or unmotivated consider the conditions they labour under on your behalf. Due to our tiny numbers we have noone to hand onto. This means if we arrest someone we deal with them entirely. Arrest, searches(section 32 and 18), interview, casefile building, going to CPS to obtain charges e.t.c. An arrest will usually result in a remand given the level of risk we deal with. That means a shift of, ordinarily, between 16 to 20 hours. On average we arrest 2-3 RSO's a week. Our stations are often, literally, falling apart with leaks and crumbling infrastructure. Waiting for solicitors which, like us, have been denuded of funding and investment so there are not nearly enough. This means my team are exhausted with massive impacts on their personal lives and missing out on children and family events e.t.c... even basic expectations of sleep cannot be met. My colleagues and I regularly deal with extrme offences and exceptionally dangerous people. Two weeks ago one of the men we deal with was sentenced, amongst the things we uncovered, for assaulting two of my colleagues whilst arresting him. To say nothing of the appalling material we regularly are subjected to when gathering evidence. Having to grade multiple videos of babies and toddlers being raped and provide a statment after 16 hours on duty in a station so stripmined off funds it cannot even supply sachets of squash for its officers to drink is not an ideal work environment. All this before we get to the Courts..
The Court system has, broadly, ceased to function. There are not enough specialist lawyers and Judges to deal with normal cases let alone specialist and sexual cases. Trial dates are, in of themselves, a national emergency. Basic task like transferring Defendants from prison to Court or getting liveliness to prison regularly simply fail to work. Accelerated by the privatisation of these services. The prisons themselves are collapsing. In the U.K. the Prison estate is operating at just under 100% capacity. That is a disgrace. Again successive Governments have failed to invest and fund. The Public have failed to hold them to account. Prison Officers operate in squalid, dangerous, terrifying conditions. They don't have the equipment and backup they need because Governments have "allowed" themselves to be led by pressure groups and activisits because its chepaer than properly equipping them. Something that many of these groups may wish to ponder. Yoy are simply carrying water for Governments looking to do things on the cheap. Prison Officers don't have tasers because the reality is it costs money. Both for the equipment and training. It is cheaper to "listen" to pressure groups to provide the political cover as a reason. The Government don't really believe or care that violent prisoners might be "traumatised" by the sight of a taser that may have been used on them outside of prison. It's just a hook to hang failure to resource on.
This complete abrogation of responsibility from those who Govern in our name has made our prison estate woefully over populated, highly dangerous and open to corruption and subversion by organised crime. The tactics and technology are readily available, for instance, to prevent drone drops of money, drugs, phones e.t.c. They are not implemented because they cost money. Or indeed because the tentacles of corruption have embedded themselves ever further up the chain. It is hard to believe our ministers are such paragons of virtue that they are beyond the purview of being corrupted by organised crime.
I am now arresting and breaching Offenders who are arriving at bail hostels with undeclared internet enabled devices, simcards and USB sticks that they have brought with them from prison. Prisoners in many establishments openly film and record themselves, they have YouTube channels and update their dating profiles from inside.... and continue to offend.
That prison crisis directly impacts the management of RSO's. Prison terms have been cut from 50% of a sentence to 40% now to 30%. Ministers have repeatedly assured us that violent and sexual offenders are exempt from th3se releases. That is a straight lie. Sexual and Violent Offenders as graded by Police and Probation are regularly being let out using these schemes. I have already arrested and remanded quite alot of them for further offending. Ministers language has now changed saying that dangerous offenders will not be released. Again this is pure mendacity. Mendacity erected on your gambled ignorance. What Ministers are saying here is that those prisoners designated as a dangerous offender by a Judge and sentenced accordingly are exempt from these release schemes. That is a very rare designation. It means that an offender who is found dangerous will serve two thirds of their sentence and be subject to an extended license period. The vast majority of sexual and violent offenders are not so designated. From rapists to domestic abusers north of 95% of such individuals will not be deemed dangerous. When Ministers say dangerous offenders will not be released they are lying. They are deliberately using technical legal terminology not in any way shape or from the meaning of dangerous as the public would understand it.
There's so much more to discuss but most won't ever read as far as this. Asylum seekers? There's a hot button issue. Are yoy aware that the Home Office won't deport someone (as rarely as they do anyway) if they have an active criminal investigation against them? Repeatedly raped a child?when you're released and waiting for the deportation process carry on committing crime. It stops the process. What a design system. I haven't even touched on Probation and their crucification and disintegration. Reactive management of RSO's? Such a cornucopia of horror and decay you are all kept deliberately ignorant of
I can only use the tools and resources given to me by the Government to protect you. The Government will only give to me what it feelsit can get away with. It is up to the Public to redress the balance. I cannot strike. The Police and the Military give up the right to strike to serve You. You will note that bith organisations have been filleted and gutted by successive Governments. The Police are the Public. The Public the Police. When you denigrate me and mock me for failings that I have had no hand in creating and you have allowed you are simply engaging in self-harm. The results of that are now manifest everywhere in our society. If you want to start to redress the issues than do so. Ask politicians about what i am saying. Demand answers. Is anyone marching and protesting about this? Are they bollox. I have said it before but it is worth repeating I find it more stress relieving and rewarding to drive aid convoys to Kyiv them I do serving the British public. I go again October. I will be met by people who are kind and decent to me, pleased to see and grateful for my meagre efforts at help.
Go on ask your local MP about all thus, ask your elected officials. They will not answer me. I have tried. They will all, uniformly, ignore me.
It's cheaper that way.
I appreciate that quite a few people have replied to this post and one of two have privately messaged me. I apologise for not replying yet and will endeavour to do so later when I have a chance.
I am currently at work. I have spent the past five hours grading child abuse material for one of my cases where the Defendant is currently on remand awaiting sentencing.
By policy I should never undertake more than 4hrs at a time of this work due to its nature and the toll it takes. However due to the cuts and lack of staff in conjunction with the desperately urgent need to get the results to Court on average such sessions last eight hours. I'm currently having a coffee and cigarette break and as I would cheerfully stab myself in the eyes rather than get back to what I have just had to be doing I am going to give this post some additional important context.
Please bear in mind that amoung the endless parade of horror that I have just graded one of the videos was of a group of men taking it in turns to try and choke and drown a baby in their semen whilst they high fived above her. You will forgive me if my tone is therfore a little brusque I am currently ill disposed towards the Public.
I said in the post above this that you can face check me. Use Grok should you so wish or any other data available to you. All I say is openly, publically verifiable. That is the tragedy. Should you wish yo be informed you could be. That you are not is, to a degree, personal failure. To a far larger degree it is a failure of those organs of state and media whom are meant to keep you informed and educated so you can, in turn, make informed choices.
I will turn now to something I hold very dear. Something I have dedicated my adult life to. Victims of rape. To listen to media, social and otherwise, rape has been effectively "decriminalised". This is horseshit. In approximately 2014/2015 recording standards for nearly all crimes changed. It became far broader in scope and therfore far more crimes were recorded regardless of the circumstances of them being recorded. Until this point between 8 and 10 percent of all recorded rapes led to trial. Then the numbers nosedived. This coincided with the recording of third hand party reporting of rapes as full offences regardless of whether the aggrieved confirmed an offence had taken place or wished for any action to be taken. The time period also coincided with the widespread adoption of the D.A.S.H. form which is a risk assessment tool implemented to help grade the risk of Domestic Violence to victims. It is not a statement nor is it evidential it is a tool to assess potential risk. One of the questions surround sexual violence. Large numbers of people will disclose sexual violence without wishing to make any form of complaint but will often want it formally logged. All of these contribute to the rape statistics.
A far greater metric is to measure how many rape offences with an aggrieved who wishes to support a prosecution are charged. This drastically changes the picture. There are all kinds of issues with the investigation of rape and serious sexual violence. I do not claim in any way that the system for this is perfect nor that the experience can be extremely difficult, frightening and traumatising. However.
The media are deliberately feeding a narrative that makes victims of rape less likely to come forward because theu think the statistics show there is no point. This simply isn't true. The media know this. So do Politicians. They know this because they have been informed.
Perhaps as I am weary of investigating someone could pick up the slack and opine on why an institution such as say, the BBC, would deliberately put out a statistically warped narrative that discourages victims of rape from reporting to the Police? What a mystery that seems to me.
I know there are issues and failings when it comes to rape investigations and for those who have suffered because of it I am extremely sorry. But if someone is reading this and is scared to report something that has happened to them because they've heard there's no point and it isn't taken seriously please, please dont listen. If you feel strong enough the Police will take you seriously and offer support. The Detectives dealing with these cases are amongst the most dedicated to ever serve.
CEOP and the NCA estimate through IP traffic and consumption of CSAM material that approximately 800,000 people in the U.K. have a sexual interest in children.... and that is only one strand of sexual offending, albeit a large one.
Do you think my team and it's counterparts are going to get eight times the number of Officers anytime soon?
My posts are geared towards Public Protection but I wish to make it clear there ALL my colleagues work in intolerable conditions on your behalf. None more so than Response. When you mock them for Policing "hurty words" it is an incredibly deep betrayal.of what they go through every day to tey and maintain some semblance of order as our Society devours itself.
The woods are burning Joe Public. Over to you. This is your job. We live in a Democracy. Use it.
I am currently at work. I have spent the past five hours grading child abuse material for one of my cases where the Defendant is currently on remand awaiting sentencing.
By policy I should never undertake more than 4hrs at a time of this work due to its nature and the toll it takes. However due to the cuts and lack of staff in conjunction with the desperately urgent need to get the results to Court on average such sessions last eight hours. I'm currently having a coffee and cigarette break and as I would cheerfully stab myself in the eyes rather than get back to what I have just had to be doing I am going to give this post some additional important context.
Please bear in mind that amoung the endless parade of horror that I have just graded one of the videos was of a group of men taking it in turns to try and choke and drown a baby in their semen whilst they high fived above her. You will forgive me if my tone is therfore a little brusque I am currently ill disposed towards the Public.
I said in the post above this that you can face check me. Use Grok should you so wish or any other data available to you. All I say is openly, publically verifiable. That is the tragedy. Should you wish yo be informed you could be. That you are not is, to a degree, personal failure. To a far larger degree it is a failure of those organs of state and media whom are meant to keep you informed and educated so you can, in turn, make informed choices.
I will turn now to something I hold very dear. Something I have dedicated my adult life to. Victims of rape. To listen to media, social and otherwise, rape has been effectively "decriminalised". This is horseshit. In approximately 2014/2015 recording standards for nearly all crimes changed. It became far broader in scope and therfore far more crimes were recorded regardless of the circumstances of them being recorded. Until this point between 8 and 10 percent of all recorded rapes led to trial. Then the numbers nosedived. This coincided with the recording of third hand party reporting of rapes as full offences regardless of whether the aggrieved confirmed an offence had taken place or wished for any action to be taken. The time period also coincided with the widespread adoption of the D.A.S.H. form which is a risk assessment tool implemented to help grade the risk of Domestic Violence to victims. It is not a statement nor is it evidential it is a tool to assess potential risk. One of the questions surround sexual violence. Large numbers of people will disclose sexual violence without wishing to make any form of complaint but will often want it formally logged. All of these contribute to the rape statistics.
A far greater metric is to measure how many rape offences with an aggrieved who wishes to support a prosecution are charged. This drastically changes the picture. There are all kinds of issues with the investigation of rape and serious sexual violence. I do not claim in any way that the system for this is perfect nor that the experience can be extremely difficult, frightening and traumatising. However.
The media are deliberately feeding a narrative that makes victims of rape less likely to come forward because theu think the statistics show there is no point. This simply isn't true. The media know this. So do Politicians. They know this because they have been informed.
Perhaps as I am weary of investigating someone could pick up the slack and opine on why an institution such as say, the BBC, would deliberately put out a statistically warped narrative that discourages victims of rape from reporting to the Police? What a mystery that seems to me.
I know there are issues and failings when it comes to rape investigations and for those who have suffered because of it I am extremely sorry. But if someone is reading this and is scared to report something that has happened to them because they've heard there's no point and it isn't taken seriously please, please dont listen. If you feel strong enough the Police will take you seriously and offer support. The Detectives dealing with these cases are amongst the most dedicated to ever serve.
CEOP and the NCA estimate through IP traffic and consumption of CSAM material that approximately 800,000 people in the U.K. have a sexual interest in children.... and that is only one strand of sexual offending, albeit a large one.
Do you think my team and it's counterparts are going to get eight times the number of Officers anytime soon?
My posts are geared towards Public Protection but I wish to make it clear there ALL my colleagues work in intolerable conditions on your behalf. None more so than Response. When you mock them for Policing "hurty words" it is an incredibly deep betrayal.of what they go through every day to tey and maintain some semblance of order as our Society devours itself.
The woods are burning Joe Public. Over to you. This is your job. We live in a Democracy. Use it.
I'm from Central Italy.
The Italians I know rarely spend their weekends in the hotspot cities.
Not Florence. Not Rome. Not Siena. They drive an hour east, or south, to towns no foreign list ever mentions.
Central Italy is the most concentrated cluster of beauty in the world.
9 underrated towns where the piazza is yours, the trattoria is real, and the Renaissance still feels personal.
🧵
The Italians I know rarely spend their weekends in the hotspot cities.
Not Florence. Not Rome. Not Siena. They drive an hour east, or south, to towns no foreign list ever mentions.
Central Italy is the most concentrated cluster of beauty in the world.
9 underrated towns where the piazza is yours, the trattoria is real, and the Renaissance still feels personal.
🧵
Four things I screen for, in order:
1. Cultural depth. A fresco, piazza, festival, ruin you can't see anywhere else.
2. Real life. Bakeries, schools, doctors. Not a film set rented out from May to October.
3. "Beauty without the crush". Visitable in August without August ruining it.
4. Accessibility. Reachable from Rome, Florence, Bologna, or Ancona without a four-hour ordeal.
San Gimignano is gorgeous. Left it off. Fails the last two. Same for Assisi on a weekend in May (I've been there).
Three Marche, two Umbria, two Tuscany, two Lazio. Two nights minimum per town. Anything less and you miss the tempo.
This is mostly a travel list, but a few of these towns are also genuinely livable year-round.
Let's begin.
1. Cultural depth. A fresco, piazza, festival, ruin you can't see anywhere else.
2. Real life. Bakeries, schools, doctors. Not a film set rented out from May to October.
3. "Beauty without the crush". Visitable in August without August ruining it.
4. Accessibility. Reachable from Rome, Florence, Bologna, or Ancona without a four-hour ordeal.
San Gimignano is gorgeous. Left it off. Fails the last two. Same for Assisi on a weekend in May (I've been there).
Three Marche, two Umbria, two Tuscany, two Lazio. Two nights minimum per town. Anything less and you miss the tempo.
This is mostly a travel list, but a few of these towns are also genuinely livable year-round.
Let's begin.
1/ Ascoli Piceno (Marche)
Population 47,000.
Piazza del Popolo is one of the three most beautiful squares in Italy. The only one most foreigners have never heard of. Travertine paving so polished it mirrors the sky on a wet morning. Renaissance arcades on three sides. Caffè Meletti, an Art Nouveau bar untouched since 1907, on the fourth.
Two rivers wrap the historic center. Over a hundred medieval towers once stood here; about fifty are still visible. More towers than San Gimignano, in a town six times the size that doesn't make a tourist industry of them.
Train from Rome 3h30, from Ancona 1h30 by car. Best base: a small hotel inside the centro storico. You walk everywhere.
Eat olive all'ascolana, the fried stuffed olives invented here. The version at Migliori, on Piazza Arringo, is the original.
I've taken five different friends here. Not one of them had heard of Ascoli before. All five came back.
Population 47,000.
Piazza del Popolo is one of the three most beautiful squares in Italy. The only one most foreigners have never heard of. Travertine paving so polished it mirrors the sky on a wet morning. Renaissance arcades on three sides. Caffè Meletti, an Art Nouveau bar untouched since 1907, on the fourth.
Two rivers wrap the historic center. Over a hundred medieval towers once stood here; about fifty are still visible. More towers than San Gimignano, in a town six times the size that doesn't make a tourist industry of them.
Train from Rome 3h30, from Ancona 1h30 by car. Best base: a small hotel inside the centro storico. You walk everywhere.
Eat olive all'ascolana, the fried stuffed olives invented here. The version at Migliori, on Piazza Arringo, is the original.
I've taken five different friends here. Not one of them had heard of Ascoli before. All five came back.
A remarkable paper appeared on arXiv tonight by Thomas Bloom, Will Sawin, Carl Schildkraut and Dmitrii Zhelezov. In this paper, they prove that there exists c>0 and arbitrarily large finite sets A of real numbers such that max(|A+A|,|AA|)≤|A|^{2-c}. This disproves the well-known sum-product conjecture over the real numbers. The sum-product conjecture considers the two most basic operations: addition and multiplication. A+A is the set of all pairwise sums of two elements in A while AA is the set of all pairwise products of two elements in A. (1/5)
Taking A to be an arithmetic progression, one can have |A+A| approximately the size of A, while taking a geometric progression makes |AA| roughly the size of A. The sum-product conjecture is essentially the statement that both of these cannot occur simultaneously in a very strong sense. Building on a long line of work, before this result, the best known lower bound for max(|A+A|,|AA|) was |A| raised to the power (4/3)+c where c is a small constant. These results demonstrate a weak version of the phenomenon that both |A+A| and |AA| cannot simultaneously be small, but it remained an enduring mystery until now whether the stronger |A|^{2-o(1)} statement held. (2/5)
As stated, these results concern the elementary operations of addition and multiplication for real numbers, but closely related statements (“discretized” sum-product estimates) have played a pivotal role in various problems including recent work around the Kakeya conjecture. All previous results seemed to suggest that the original conjecture would hold, and so the new disproof indicates the presence of far richer structure for us to explore. While the original statement of the conjecture was for the integers, essentially all previous results have been extended to the reals and at least to me I never suspected a difference between the two statements. Remarkably the authors demonstrate that the conjecture is false via using constructions coming from increasing degree number fields; the same key ingredient used in the recent disproof of the unit distance conjecture by the internal OpenAI model! In particular the use of class field towers is a crucial ingredient here as well. While I hoped the ideas in the earlier unit distance disproof would yield further fruit, this is beyond my wildest imagination. (3/5)
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Tak schválně, kdo by vyhrál?
A) údajně neproniknutelná protivzdušná obrana SSSR
B) jeden šílený Němec v Cessně.
Za B je správně. Dnes je to totiž přesně 39 let od chvíle, kdy Mathias Rust přistál s Cessnou uprostřed Moskvy a dokonale ponížil sovětskou protivzdušnou obranu.
Tak schválně, kdo by vyhrál?
A) údajně neproniknutelná protivzdušná obrana SSSR
B) jeden šílený Němec v Cessně.
Za B je správně. Dnes je to totiž přesně 39 let od chvíle, kdy Mathias Rust přistál s Cessnou uprostřed Moskvy a dokonale ponížil sovětskou protivzdušnou obranu.
2/
Začněme ale od začátku. Je rok 1987 a Mathias Rust je nervózní. Tento osmnáctiletý rodák ze západoněmeckého Wedelu je zapáleným mírovým aktivistou a s rostoucín neklidem sleduje zhoršující se vztahy mezi SSSR a USA. Ví totiž, že případná válka by pro jeho zemi znamenala zkázu.
Začněme ale od začátku. Je rok 1987 a Mathias Rust je nervózní. Tento osmnáctiletý rodák ze západoněmeckého Wedelu je zapáleným mírovým aktivistou a s rostoucín neklidem sleduje zhoršující se vztahy mezi SSSR a USA. Ví totiž, že případná válka by pro jeho zemi znamenala zkázu.
3/
Vedle politiky ale má Rust i jinou vášeň - létání. V hlavě mu proto uzraje naprosto šílený nápad; v lehkém civilním letadle osobně přeletí železnou oponu, vytvoří tak metaforický "mírový most" mezi Východem a Západem, a tím přispěje k uklidnění sílících tenzí.
Vedle politiky ale má Rust i jinou vášeň - létání. V hlavě mu proto uzraje naprosto šílený nápad; v lehkém civilním letadle osobně přeletí železnou oponu, vytvoří tak metaforický "mírový most" mezi Východem a Západem, a tím přispěje k uklidnění sílících tenzí.
Wonderful day for a new #LongCOVID paper! Thanks to an incredible collaboration with @VirusesImmunity and brilliant work done by @keylas3, we studied the effects of injecting antibodies taken from people with LC into mice compared with what happened
1/ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
1/ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
when we injected antibodies taken from people who had fully recovered from COVID or never had COVID. This sort of experiment is called a “passive transfer” experiment and the results we saw were extremely interesting. First, when the antibodies were exposed to tissue samples
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in a dish, the LC antibodies frequently created reactivity in the tissue that was not seen in the control samples. Second, when the animals were transferred autoantibodies from people with #LongCOVID, they got sick! The most prominent effect was seeing pain behaviors emerge in
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太夸张了，阶跃星辰的stepaudio-2.5-asr和豆包 ASR（语音转文字）质量持平，但是价格要便宜整整五倍！我那动不动就几个小时的会议转写终于有救了！
我之前抓取对标视频口播文案、总结视频内容和会议纪要，一直用的都是豆包的ASR，我以为豆包一块钱一个小时可能已经很便宜了，但是Step的这个ASR更夸张，一个小时就一毛钱！至于效果，如图所示，中英文识别能力完全相当！
更牛逼的是，Step AI出了一个plan套餐，涵盖了TTS（语音转文字）、ASR、生图和平常Coding的大模型。所以，我现在日常工作就用100刀的Codex，然后再搭配一个Step最便宜的套餐，就能在特殊情况下操控Codex调用Step的API来实现语音转文字、文字转语音的效果，满足更多工作需求。
我这里做了几个demo来演示下@StepFun_ai的这些模型用法：👇
1.“从爱到清醒的决裂”的原创宫廷男女对
2.抖音个人成长赛道百万爆款转写
3.Claude Code接入StepFun
我之前抓取对标视频口播文案、总结视频内容和会议纪要，一直用的都是豆包的ASR，我以为豆包一块钱一个小时可能已经很便宜了，但是Step的这个ASR更夸张，一个小时就一毛钱！至于效果，如图所示，中英文识别能力完全相当！
更牛逼的是，Step AI出了一个plan套餐，涵盖了TTS（语音转文字）、ASR、生图和平常Coding的大模型。所以，我现在日常工作就用100刀的Codex，然后再搭配一个Step最便宜的套餐，就能在特殊情况下操控Codex调用Step的API来实现语音转文字、文字转语音的效果，满足更多工作需求。
我这里做了几个demo来演示下@StepFun_ai的这些模型用法：👇
1.“从爱到清醒的决裂”的原创宫廷男女对
2.抖音个人成长赛道百万爆款转写
3.Claude Code接入StepFun
1.“从爱到清醒的决裂”的原创宫廷男女对话：Hyperframes+Step TTS
#CBSEToolkit. After mismanaging the entire system, CBSE has now switched to damage control mode. CBSE is sending scripts to school principals to defend the On Screen Marking system. Principals making insta reels repeating the same lines given by CBSE.
1. Principal DPS Siliguri
1. Principal DPS Siliguri
2. Principal of Shreeya Devi Bhagirath Rathi Maheshwari Vidyapeeth speaking on #OSM #OnScreenMarking #CBSE
3. Principal of New Ear School Baroda. #cbseosm #OSM
I’ve just run the ENTIRE Arsenal trophy parade route so you don’t have to guess where the best spots are 😂🔴⚪️
And first things first - it’s definitely closer to 10km than 9km.
strava.com/activities/186… (#ukrunchat)
The whole area is already buzzing. Genuinely one of the most joyful vibes I’ve ever experienced around the Emirates. A thread on parade tips 🧵
And first things first - it’s definitely closer to 10km than 9km.
strava.com/activities/186… (#ukrunchat)
The whole area is already buzzing. Genuinely one of the most joyful vibes I’ve ever experienced around the Emirates. A thread on parade tips 🧵
If you want pure chaos (in the best possible way), pubs, singing and limbs everywhere:
• Blackstock Road → Mountgrove Road
• Holloway Road at the start and end of the route
That’s where the biggest concentrations of fans will be and where the iconic photos/videos will probably come from.
• Blackstock Road → Mountgrove Road
• Holloway Road at the start and end of the route
That’s where the biggest concentrations of fans will be and where the iconic photos/videos will probably come from.
Holloway Road is going to be IMMENSE.
Packed pavements, flags everywhere, red smoke, pubs overflowing onto the streets and a wall of Arsenal fans from start to finish.
I’d definitely recommend somewhere like One Eighty One beforehand, but honestly any pub/bar along Holloway Road will be bouncing.
Packed pavements, flags everywhere, red smoke, pubs overflowing onto the streets and a wall of Arsenal fans from start to finish.
I’d definitely recommend somewhere like One Eighty One beforehand, but honestly any pub/bar along Holloway Road will be bouncing.
100 free resource websites that should be illegal.
12 categories. all free. all legal. links in the repo, comment below
media & downloads
1. cobalt tools — download any social media video
2. justwatch.com — find streaming locations for any content
3. archive.org — access any old webpage, plus free software
4. archive.ph — permanently save any webpage
5. tunefind — find songs from any show
6. radio garden — listen to any global radio station
7. musicforprogramming — focus music
8. mynoise.net — custom focus soundscapes
9. summarize.tech — summarize any YouTube video
10. y2mate-style tools aside, cobalt covers most of it
image & design
11. photopea — free photoshop in your browser
12. remove.bg — one-click background removal
13. cleanup pictures — erase objects from photos
14. unscreen.com — free video background removal
15. squoosh.app — free compression for any image
16. tinypng — image compression that just works
17. tineye.com — reverse image search
18. unsplash — free high-res stock photos
19. pexels.com — free stock photos + videos
20. pixabay. — free stock images, vectors, music 21. undraw.co — free illustrations you can recolor
22. heroicons. — free SVG icons
23. lucide.dev — clean open-source icon set
24. coolors.co — color palette generator
PDF & document tools
25. tinywow — 100+ free tools in one place
26. smallpdf — free PDF editing
27. ilovepdf — merge and split PDFs
28. pdfdrive — free PDF downloads (mixed catalog — see note)
29. pdf24 — full PDF toolkit, free
30. sejda — browser-based PDF editor
books, papers & learning
31. gutenberg — 70,000 free classic books
32. openculture — free courses from top universities
33. libgen — millions of free textbooks (grey area — see note)
34. sci-hub — free research papers (grey area — see note)
35. annasarchive — search every book ever written (grey area — see note)
36. standardebooks — beautifully formatted public domain books
37. coursera — audit thousands of university courses free
38. edx — free courses from MIT, Harvard, more
39. khanacademy — free K-12 + college subjects
40. freecodecamp — full dev curriculum, free
41. theodinproject — free full-stack dev path
42. cs50.harvard — Harvard's intro CS course, free
research & academic
43. elicit — AI research paper assistant
44. consensus — search scientific consensus
45. connectedpapers — visualize and map research
46. semanticscholar — free academic search
47. scispace — understand any research paper
48. researchrabbit — discover related papers
49. scholar.google — academic search engine
developer tools
50. regex101 — instantly test any regular expression
51. codebeautify — cleanly format any code
52. explainshell — understand terminal commands
53. carbon — turn code into artwork
54. ray — stunning code screenshots
55. phind — developer AI search
56. devdocs.io — every dev doc in one searchable place
57. caniuse.com — browser support for any web feature
58. jsonformatter.org — format and validate JSON
59. transform — convert between data/code formats
60. crontab.guru — explain any cron expression 61. shields.io — generate readme badges
productivity & whiteboarding
62. excalidraw.com — free hand-drawn charts
63. tldraw.com — infinite whiteboard in your browser
64. miro.com — collaborative whiteboard (free tier)
65. notion.so — free notes/docs/databases
66. obsidian.md — local-first markdown knowledge base
67. cryptpad.fr — encrypted google-docs alternative
privacy & temp tools
68. temp-mail.org — one-click temporary email
69. 10minutemail — instant temporary email
70. privnote.com — send self-destructing messages
71. file.io — share auto-deleting files
72. accountkiller — delete yourself from any website
73. simplelogin.io — free email aliases
74. cryptee — encrypted notes + photos
security & checks
75. haveibeenpwned — check if you've been hacked
76. virustot — scan any file for malware
77. downdetector — check if any website is down
78. urlvoid — check if a URL is sketchy
79. whoer — see what sites see about you
utility & misc
80. wolframalpha — instantly solve any math problem
81. alternativeto — find free app alternatives
82. flightradar24 — real-time tracking for any flight
83. camelcamelcamel — track amazon price history
84. fast — check internet speed
85. speedtest— bandwidth + latency check
86. wetransfer — send files up to 2GB free
87. fakespot — detect fake amazon reviews
88. exchange-rates — clean currency conversion
89. timeanddate — meeting planner across timezones
90. world.taximeter — estimate cab fare anywhere
writing & content
91. hemingwayapp — make your writing clearer
92. languagetool — free grammar checker
93. deepl — translation that beats google translate
94. quillbot. — paraphrase + summarize (free tier)
95. perplexity.ai — AI search with sources
96. claude.ai — yes, this thing
97. you.com — AI search + writing
98. rytr.me — free AI writing (small tier)
audio & video
99. audiomass.co — free browser audio editor
100. clipchamp.com — free in-browser video editor
12 categories. all free. all legal. links in the repo, comment below
media & downloads
1. cobalt tools — download any social media video
2. justwatch.com — find streaming locations for any content
3. archive.org — access any old webpage, plus free software
4. archive.ph — permanently save any webpage
5. tunefind — find songs from any show
6. radio garden — listen to any global radio station
7. musicforprogramming — focus music
8. mynoise.net — custom focus soundscapes
9. summarize.tech — summarize any YouTube video
10. y2mate-style tools aside, cobalt covers most of it
image & design
11. photopea — free photoshop in your browser
12. remove.bg — one-click background removal
13. cleanup pictures — erase objects from photos
14. unscreen.com — free video background removal
15. squoosh.app — free compression for any image
16. tinypng — image compression that just works
17. tineye.com — reverse image search
18. unsplash — free high-res stock photos
19. pexels.com — free stock photos + videos
20. pixabay. — free stock images, vectors, music 21. undraw.co — free illustrations you can recolor
22. heroicons. — free SVG icons
23. lucide.dev — clean open-source icon set
24. coolors.co — color palette generator
PDF & document tools
25. tinywow — 100+ free tools in one place
26. smallpdf — free PDF editing
27. ilovepdf — merge and split PDFs
28. pdfdrive — free PDF downloads (mixed catalog — see note)
29. pdf24 — full PDF toolkit, free
30. sejda — browser-based PDF editor
books, papers & learning
31. gutenberg — 70,000 free classic books
32. openculture — free courses from top universities
33. libgen — millions of free textbooks (grey area — see note)
34. sci-hub — free research papers (grey area — see note)
35. annasarchive — search every book ever written (grey area — see note)
36. standardebooks — beautifully formatted public domain books
37. coursera — audit thousands of university courses free
38. edx — free courses from MIT, Harvard, more
39. khanacademy — free K-12 + college subjects
40. freecodecamp — full dev curriculum, free
41. theodinproject — free full-stack dev path
42. cs50.harvard — Harvard's intro CS course, free
research & academic
43. elicit — AI research paper assistant
44. consensus — search scientific consensus
45. connectedpapers — visualize and map research
46. semanticscholar — free academic search
47. scispace — understand any research paper
48. researchrabbit — discover related papers
49. scholar.google — academic search engine
developer tools
50. regex101 — instantly test any regular expression
51. codebeautify — cleanly format any code
52. explainshell — understand terminal commands
53. carbon — turn code into artwork
54. ray — stunning code screenshots
55. phind — developer AI search
56. devdocs.io — every dev doc in one searchable place
57. caniuse.com — browser support for any web feature
58. jsonformatter.org — format and validate JSON
59. transform — convert between data/code formats
60. crontab.guru — explain any cron expression 61. shields.io — generate readme badges
productivity & whiteboarding
62. excalidraw.com — free hand-drawn charts
63. tldraw.com — infinite whiteboard in your browser
64. miro.com — collaborative whiteboard (free tier)
65. notion.so — free notes/docs/databases
66. obsidian.md — local-first markdown knowledge base
67. cryptpad.fr — encrypted google-docs alternative
privacy & temp tools
68. temp-mail.org — one-click temporary email
69. 10minutemail — instant temporary email
70. privnote.com — send self-destructing messages
71. file.io — share auto-deleting files
72. accountkiller — delete yourself from any website
73. simplelogin.io — free email aliases
74. cryptee — encrypted notes + photos
security & checks
75. haveibeenpwned — check if you've been hacked
76. virustot — scan any file for malware
77. downdetector — check if any website is down
78. urlvoid — check if a URL is sketchy
79. whoer — see what sites see about you
utility & misc
80. wolframalpha — instantly solve any math problem
81. alternativeto — find free app alternatives
82. flightradar24 — real-time tracking for any flight
83. camelcamelcamel — track amazon price history
84. fast — check internet speed
85. speedtest— bandwidth + latency check
86. wetransfer — send files up to 2GB free
87. fakespot — detect fake amazon reviews
88. exchange-rates — clean currency conversion
89. timeanddate — meeting planner across timezones
90. world.taximeter — estimate cab fare anywhere
writing & content
91. hemingwayapp — make your writing clearer
92. languagetool — free grammar checker
93. deepl — translation that beats google translate
94. quillbot. — paraphrase + summarize (free tier)
95. perplexity.ai — AI search with sources
96. claude.ai — yes, this thing
97. you.com — AI search + writing
98. rytr.me — free AI writing (small tier)
audio & video
99. audiomass.co — free browser audio editor
100. clipchamp.com — free in-browser video editor
The Woodpecker is the only proof that God really exists.
And I'm going to prove it to you right NOW:🧵
And I'm going to prove it to you right NOW:🧵
A woodpecker pecks at 20 hits per second.
That's 12,000 pecks per day.
The force? 1,200 g's of impact—enough to liquefy a human brain instantly.
For context, fighter pilots black out at 9 g's.
So how is this bird still alive?
That's 12,000 pecks per day.
The force? 1,200 g's of impact—enough to liquefy a human brain instantly.
For context, fighter pilots black out at 9 g's.
So how is this bird still alive?
## 1. The Shock Absorber Skull
The woodpecker's skull has spongy bone that acts like a crumple zone in a car.
But here's the problem: Regular bone can't absorb that force.
Scientists discovered the bone has a specific density and structure that doesn't exist in any other animal.
The woodpecker's skull has spongy bone that acts like a crumple zone in a car.
But here's the problem: Regular bone can't absorb that force.
Scientists discovered the bone has a specific density and structure that doesn't exist in any other animal.
Gdynia, plac Grunwaldzki, środa, godzina dziesiąta rano. Swój pierwszy dzień w nowej pracy rozpoczyna pan Darek. Jako pracownik firmy ochroniarskiej zdany jest na przegrane/wygrane przetargi swojego pracodawcy. Przez ostatnich kilka lat pracował w instytucji podległej /1
jednemu z ministerstw. Niestety, jego firma nie dostała kontraktu na ochronę miejsca, w którym pan Darek przepracował ostatnie cztery lata i los go rzucił na tzw. „inny odcinek”. Sam mówił, że najbardziej doskwiera mu, że ludzie traktowani są jak rzeczy, bezosobowo. /2
Pogadaliśmy sobie (lubię rozmawiać z ludźmi😋), zrobiłam panu Darkowi zdjęcie w pierwszej godzinie jego nowej fuchy, które wysłałam mu potem na WA, a on je umieścił u siebie na Fejsie.
Przenosimy się na drugą stronę placu, do hotelu, w którym mieszkaliśmy przez parę dni. /3
Przenosimy się na drugą stronę placu, do hotelu, w którym mieszkaliśmy przez parę dni. /3
It's not your diet, but it's also not your genetics.
After decades of research, scientists now believe NAD depletion is one of the key drivers of most of what we blame on aging.
6 things about NAD that changed how I think about getting old:
1) NAD is the fuel your cells run on
After decades of research, scientists now believe NAD depletion is one of the key drivers of most of what we blame on aging.
6 things about NAD that changed how I think about getting old:
1) NAD is the fuel your cells run on
Every cell in your body uses NAD to produce energy, repair DNA, and fight inflammation.
Without it, nothing works properly.
It's involved in over 400 biological reactions meaning your body literally cannot function without it.
Without it, nothing works properly.
It's involved in over 400 biological reactions meaning your body literally cannot function without it.
2) Your NAD levels drop after 40
By the time you're 50, you have roughly half the NAD you had at 20.
Researchers have confirmed this decline in blood, muscle, skin, liver, and brain tissue.
The symptoms?
Low energy, brain fog, slow recovery, poor sleep, stubborn weight.
By the time you're 50, you have roughly half the NAD you had at 20.
Researchers have confirmed this decline in blood, muscle, skin, liver, and brain tissue.
The symptoms?
Low energy, brain fog, slow recovery, poor sleep, stubborn weight.
Ancient texts never gave rituals or gemstones as the first remedy. They gave behaviors.
Behavioural Remedies for all 9 planets - what vedic stories and scriptures suggest you to do ?
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Behavioural Remedies for all 9 planets - what vedic stories and scriptures suggest you to do ?
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After years of deep research into Puranic texts, Sanskrit scriptures, and the mythological framework that Vedic astrology was built upon, one pattern appeared consistently: every planet responds to behavior first.
Before any stone, before any mantra, before any donation. Ancient stories were not entertainment. They were behavioral manuals encoded in narrative form.
Before any stone, before any mantra, before any donation. Ancient stories were not entertainment. They were behavioral manuals encoded in narrative form.
Sun -
King Harishchandra was from the Surya dynasty, the same lineage as Ram. He was known across all three worlds for one quality alone: he never spoke an untruth. Not once.
Not even under destruction.
Rishi Vishwamitra tested him not with temptation but with complete dismantling. Harishchandra's kingdom was taken. His wealth was gone. His wife was sold into servitude.
He was working as a servant at a cremation ground when his wife arrived carrying their dead son, with no money for the cremation fee. His duty required him to collect that fee. He collected it even from her. Even in that moment, the word did not break.
Devraj Indra descended from heaven to witness this. The gods watching could not believe any soul could hold truth so completely through so much. The son was revived.
The kingdom was restored. But what restored everything was not prayer or ritual. It was the absolute, unbroken alignment between words and actions across every moment of suffering.Sun in the chart rules the soul, authority, the father, and authentic self-expression. It weakens in direct proportion to the gap between what is said and what is done. When promises are made and not kept, when the face shown to the world differs from the internal reality, the Sun dims precisely as it dims during an eclipse.
The behavioral remedy for sun -
do not say anything that does not match internal reality. If the answer is no internally, say no. If the commitment cannot be kept, do not make it. If an apology is owed, give it directly without decoration. Not harshness. Alignment.
Every time a word matches an action, the Sun in the chart activates. Harishchandra did not recite the Aditya Hridayam to get his life back. He simply refused to let his words and actions become two different things.
King Harishchandra was from the Surya dynasty, the same lineage as Ram. He was known across all three worlds for one quality alone: he never spoke an untruth. Not once.
Not even under destruction.
Rishi Vishwamitra tested him not with temptation but with complete dismantling. Harishchandra's kingdom was taken. His wealth was gone. His wife was sold into servitude.
He was working as a servant at a cremation ground when his wife arrived carrying their dead son, with no money for the cremation fee. His duty required him to collect that fee. He collected it even from her. Even in that moment, the word did not break.
Devraj Indra descended from heaven to witness this. The gods watching could not believe any soul could hold truth so completely through so much. The son was revived.
The kingdom was restored. But what restored everything was not prayer or ritual. It was the absolute, unbroken alignment between words and actions across every moment of suffering.Sun in the chart rules the soul, authority, the father, and authentic self-expression. It weakens in direct proportion to the gap between what is said and what is done. When promises are made and not kept, when the face shown to the world differs from the internal reality, the Sun dims precisely as it dims during an eclipse.
The behavioral remedy for sun -
do not say anything that does not match internal reality. If the answer is no internally, say no. If the commitment cannot be kept, do not make it. If an apology is owed, give it directly without decoration. Not harshness. Alignment.
Every time a word matches an action, the Sun in the chart activates. Harishchandra did not recite the Aditya Hridayam to get his life back. He simply refused to let his words and actions become two different things.
6 prophetic prayers to pray every morning
1. Prayer for Alignment with God's Will (Matthew 6:10)
Father, let Your will be done in my life today. Align my steps, decisions, and desires with heaven's plan. I refuse to walk blindly—I walk by divine instruction.
Father, let Your will be done in my life today. Align my steps, decisions, and desires with heaven's plan. I refuse to walk blindly—I walk by divine instruction.
2. Prayer for Strength and Protection (Psalm 91:11)
Lord, assign Your angels over my life, family, and territory today. Shield me from harm, evil, and unseen danger. I step into this day covered and untouchable.
Lord, assign Your angels over my life, family, and territory today. Shield me from harm, evil, and unseen danger. I step into this day covered and untouchable.
Ein Beispiel gescheiterter Integration 🧵:
Tschetschenische Familie, infolge des 2. Tschetschenienkriegs nach 🇦🇹 geflohen.
Eines der mittlerweile 7 hier geborenen Kinder ist meine Schülerin - ein liebes, einigermaßen bemühtes Mädel, ein Gewinn für meine Klasse.
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Tschetschenische Familie, infolge des 2. Tschetschenienkriegs nach 🇦🇹 geflohen.
Eines der mittlerweile 7 hier geborenen Kinder ist meine Schülerin - ein liebes, einigermaßen bemühtes Mädel, ein Gewinn für meine Klasse.
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Vater & Mutter sprechen nach Jahrzehnten in 🇦🇹 kein einziges Wort Deutsch, beide arbeiten nicht. Die 9-köpfige Familie lebt von der Sozialhilfe im vom Staat errichteten Gemeindebau.
Die ganze Familie reist regelmäßig nach Tschetschenien, aus dem sie ja geflohen sind.
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Die ganze Familie reist regelmäßig nach Tschetschenien, aus dem sie ja geflohen sind.
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Die Eltern empfinden Schulbildung für ihre Töchter als sinnlos, denn die werden sowieso als de facto-Sklavinnen verheiratet. Schon jetzt müssen die Töchter unmittelbar nach dem Unterricht nach Hause. Kontakt zu Freunden ist verboten.
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