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🚨 HEARTBREAKING HORROR 🚨
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin just exposed the pure evil: Innocent children trafficked across the open border were RAPED 600 TO 700 TIMES — locked in rooms, forced to service monsters day after day.
THEY ARE BABIES. THEY DON’T DESERVE THIS. NO CHILD DOES.
“We found 146,000 kids so far… but nearly 300,000 are STILL MISSING.”
I don’t care if you’re liberal, conservative, or anywhere in between — if you can’t stand up and scream SAVE OUR CHILDREN, who the hell are you?!
This is not politics. This is a national emergency. These kids are suffering in the shadows while too many look away.
ENOUGH. Share this. Demand action. Demand every missing child be found. Demand justice for the innocent.
#SaveTheChildren #ProtectOurKids #EndTheHorror
Repost if you have a soul. These babies need us NOW. 💔🙏
Heavy periods, a full or heavy feeling low in your belly, or running to the bathroom all the time? 🤔 Fibroids might be part of the story, and they're way more common than most of us were ever told. 💜
🩸 Fibroids are muscle growths in the wall of the uterus, and they're almost always NOT cancer (fewer than 1 in 1,000)
📊 By age 50, about 70% of White women and more than 80% of Black women have them
😌 Many women never have a single symptom
⚠️ Common signs: heavy or painful periods, bleeding between periods, pelvic pressure, peeing often, lower back pain, pain during sex
🏥 Treatment options go well beyond hysterectomy, including medicines, IUDs, and less invasive procedures
🚨 Soaking through a pad or tampon every hour for a few hours in a row means call your provider, and get emergency care if you also feel dizzy, short of breath, or have chest pain
So many of us grew up hearing our mamas and aunties say "that's just how periods are" and pushing through it. Heavy bleeding that wears you out isn't something you just have to live with. Write down your period dates and how many pads you go through, and take that list to your next visit. 📝
Did anyone ever talk to you about fibroids growing up? Drop a 💜 if this is news to you, and tag a friend who needs to see it.
Sources: NIH NICHD, HHS Office on Women's Health, JAMA, CDC, ACOG
This is general education, not medical advice. Talk to your own provider about your health.
#WomensHealth #Fibroids #PeriodHealth #KnowYourBody
Japanese honeysuckle, also called jin yin hua or golden-and-silver flower (Lonicera japonica)
Compared with oseltamivir (Tamiflu): Tamiflu is a proven flu medicine. Started within 48 hours, it shortens the illness by about a day, and its dosing is exact. Honeysuckle tea has shown antiviral effects in the lab but hasn't been proven to treat the flu, so it's a soothing traditional drink, not a substitute.
Japanese honeysuckle is a fast-climbing vine with sweet-smelling, tube-shaped flowers that open white and fade to yellow, which is why Chinese medicine calls it the "gold and silver flower." People have used the dried flower buds in teas for centuries for fevers, sore throats, and skin sores. In Louisiana, it's also a common invasive vine on fences and along the edges of woods.
What research supports: For colds, flu, and sore throats, lab and animal studies show it fights viruses and inflammation. It's an ingredient in Chinese cold formulas like Lianhua Qingwen, but there are no good-quality trials of honeysuckle alone in people. Its use for skin sores and inflammation is traditional, with only lab support. It's rich in antioxidants like chlorogenic acid and flavonoids, but health benefits in people aren't proven.
How much:
As food: Kids traditionally sip the nectar from a flower or two, and the flowers can be steeped into a mild tea or syrup. Don't eat the berries.
Tea: The Chinese Pharmacopoeia lists 6 to 15 g of dried flower buds a day.
Supplements: There's no established Western dose.
Kids: There's no established medicinal dose, so ask a pediatrician first.
Pregnancy and breastfeeding: Avoid medicinal amounts, because there isn't enough safety data.
Cautions: There's little data on how it interacts with medicines in people. Lab studies suggest it may slow blood clotting, so check with a pharmacist if you take blood thinners. Large amounts may upset your stomach. Honeysuckle berries are mildly toxic and can cause vomiting, especially in children.
Identification: Look for a twining vine with oval, slightly fuzzy leaves growing in pairs. The tube-shaped flowers also come in pairs, each with two lips, long stamens, and a strong sweet scent, and they open white and turn yellow. Black berries follow. Avoid the bush honeysuckles with red berries, which are toxic. Above all, don't confuse it with Carolina jessamine, also called yellow jessamine, a very poisonous vine with yellow trumpet-shaped flowers.
Please check with your doctor or pharmacist before using it, especially if you take other medicines.
Both photos come from Wikimedia Common
Japanese honeysuckle:
#JapaneseHoneysuckle #Honeysuckle #LoniceraJaponica #JinYinHua #HerbalRemedies #HerbalMedicine #MedicinalPlants #PlantID #Foraging #NaturalHealth #HerbLor
My kid's teacher is now an AI that knows she loves ballet and robots. My Dream School builds joyful lessons for kids from babies to high school, anywhere in the world.
Try this prompt: "My child is [age], loves [interests], and we live in [state/country]. Build our first week of school."
x.ai/bot/vyxr0GjQSWz-x11eGih…
#homeschool #microschool #AI
The 3rd grade physics unit is ready: 10 hands-on lessons over two weeks, one per weekday, each 45 minutes. The PDF is 32 printable pages.
Push It, Pull It!
Tug-of-War Toys
Gravity, the Invisible Puller
Fair Test Ramp Races
Swing Time Patterns
Roll, Rock & Predict
Magnet Detectives
The Force Without Touching
Balloon Static Magic
Magnet Engineers
Every lesson has a read-aloud parent script, an experiment, safety notes, vocabulary words, a 3-question check with answers, and a fun tie-in to sports, space, robots, money, or the garden. The unit ends with a "Magnet Maze Game" project and a scoring rubric, plus a kid journal page and a supply list that costs about $10 -$20.
The lessons match the 3rd grade forces and magnets standards (NGSS codes 3-PS2-1 through 3-PS2-4), which I checked on the official NGSS site. There are also bonus lessons on sound, light, and simple machines, and the document marks them as extras beyond 3rd grade. A teacher hasn't reviewed or tested the lessons yet. Also skip tiny strong magnets, because they're dangerous if swallowed.
Sleep better in 30 days 🌙 My free bot sends you a daily food tip, activity, and bedtime habit, plus a weekly roundup of the latest sleep science.
Try it: x.ai/bot/tZd9mNpvCmnm4pxr-pB…
Here's Week 1, which is about the basics: a steady wake time, morning light, caffeine timing, and a sleep-friendly bedroom.
Day 1 (Fri, Oct 9): Set your anchor
Eat: Stop caffeine by 1 PM. Try herbal tea or decaf in the afternoon instead.
Move: Take a 10-minute walk outside within an hour of waking.
Tonight: Pick one wake-up time you can keep all week, weekends too, and set an alarm for it.
Day 2 (Sat, Oct 10): Light in the morning, dim at night
Eat: Have breakfast within an hour of waking, with some protein like eggs or Greek yogurt.
Move: Spend 15 minutes outside in the morning, like coffee on the porch or playing in the yard.
Tonight: Dim the house lights an hour before bed.
Day 3 (Sun, Oct 11): Easy on the alcohol
Eat: No alcohol within 3 hours of bed. It makes you drowsy, but it breaks up your sleep later in the night.
Move: Take a 20–30 minute walk or bike ride sometime before 6 PM.
Tonight: Jot down how this week's sleep has felt so far.
Day 4 (Mon, Oct 12): Cool, dark, quiet
Eat: Eat dinner 2–3 hours before bed, like baked salmon with sweet potato and greens.
Move: Do 5 minutes of light stretching after dinner.
Tonight: Set the bedroom to about 65–68°F, block out light, and try a fan or white noise.
Day 5 (Tue, Oct 13): Screens down
Eat: If you're hungry later, have a small bedtime snack like a banana with peanut butter or a few tart cherries.
Move: Get 20–30 minutes of exercise, ideally finishing at least 2 hours before bed.
Tonight: Put phones away 30 minutes before bed and charge yours outside the bedroom.
Day 6 (Wed, Oct 14): Wind-down routine
Eat: A warm, caffeine-free drink like chamomile tea or warm milk.
Move: Try 4-7-8 breathing in bed: breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 7, and breathe out for 8. Do it 4 times.
Tonight: Build a 20-minute wind-down, such as a shower, PJs, reading, and then lights out.
Day 7 (Thu, Oct 15): Bed is for sleep
Eat: Drink most of your water earlier in the day so you get up less at night.
Move: Take a 10-minute walk after dinner.
Tonight: If you're still awake after about 20 minutes, get up and do something calm in dim light, then go back to bed when you feel sleepy.
Only 2 to 4 hours a night is really rough, and it's worth seeing a doctor about soon. You shouldn't have to just push through it. At ##, a few common causes are worth checking:
Early perimenopause. Progesterone often starts dropping in the late 30s, and middle-of-the-night waking is one of the first signs, sometimes before your periods change at all.
Thyroid. An overactive thyroid can cause wired-but-tired nights.
Low iron or ferritin. This is very common in women who menstruate, and it can disrupt sleep and cause restless legs.
Cortisol or blood sugar dips. These can wake you up around 2 to 4 a.m. with a racing heart or a busy mind.
Sleep apnea. It's often missed in women. Snoring, gasping, or morning headaches are clues.
When you see your doctor, ask for a TSH and free T4 (thyroid tests), ferritin, a CBC (complete blood count), and an A1C (average blood sugar). If your periods are irregular, also ask about checking progesterone about a week before your period. Ask whether a sleep study makes sense too.
A few things can help in the meantime. Eat a small snack before bed that combines protein and fat. Keep your room cool. If you're awake for more than about 20 minutes, get up and sit somewhere in dim light, and stay off your phone. Try not to have caffeine after noon or alcohol in the evening, since alcohol is a big trigger for middle-of-the-night waking.
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Em trai 2k2 vượt qua hội chứng bệnh TICS để tham gia vào diễn viên trong phim Trại Buôn Người
#viral #traibuonnguoi
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Yesterday I very happily donated a kidney to a stranger. This triggered an altruistic donor chain in which 3 people received kidneys and so no longer need dialysis. My decision was heavily influenced by #effectivealtruism and is one of the most meaningful events of my life.
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One my friends sent this beautiful post explaining Karma. I thought it’s worth sharing 😊
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YOU DON’T NEED EXPENSIVE VACATIONS OR PERFECT FAMILY MOMENTS TO GIVE YOUR CHILDREN A CHILDHOOD THEY’LL NEVER FORGET.
SOMETIMES, THE SMALLEST FAMILY TRADITIONS BECOME THE MEMORIES THEY CARRY INTO ADULTHOOD.
1. Have a “family breakfast” every weekend
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Prompt video 📸
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Create a 30-second ultra-photorealistic live-action Japanese mountain-village lifestyle vlog following a young adult woman through a peaceful morning in an authentic Japanese countryside village.
CHARACTER & ENVIRONMENT:
Show a beautiful young adult woman with natural facial features, long dark-brown hair, subtle natural makeup, and a calm, friendly expression. She is dressed in a simple, stylish casual outfit suitable for a peaceful countryside morning: a clean fitted cream-colored long-sleeve top, relaxed light-blue straight-leg jeans, and simple white sneakers.
Keep the woman, her face, hairstyle, clothing, body appearance, and overall identity perfectly consistent throughout the entire video.
Show an authentic Japanese mountain village with traditional wooden houses, tiled roofs, stone walls, small flower gardens, vegetable gardens, narrow paved lanes, wooden fences, trees, mountain slopes, and a clear natural stream flowing beyond the houses. The village should feel lived-in, peaceful, clean, and genuinely Japanese.
STORY & ACTION:
Begin with the woman stepping outside a traditional Japanese village home on a quiet sunny morning.
She walks slowly through the narrow village streets, passing traditional wooden houses, stone walls, small gardens, bicycles, wooden fences, and flowering plants. Capture the details of the beautiful homes and peaceful streets as she explores.
She continues toward the edge of the village, following a narrow path beside the houses until she reaches a small natural stream.
She crosses a simple traditional wooden bridge and pauses for a moment to admire the clear flowing water and surrounding mountains.
Continue with her walking toward a small traditional Japanese tea shop nearby. She enters naturally, receives a warm cup of green tea, and sits beside a window overlooking the village.
Show gentle steam rising naturally from the tea while she quietly enjoys the peaceful mountain view.
END:
End during golden hour as she leaves the tea shop and walks back through the same beautiful village streets toward home.
Warm sunlight filters through the trees, illuminating the traditional houses, stone walls, gardens, and narrow road.
Finish with a peaceful cinematic wide shot of the woman walking away through the charming village while the mountains and traditional homes fill the background.
REALISM & PHYSICS:
Use realistic walking biomechanics and natural human movement. Hair and clothing should react naturally to the gentle breeze. Leaves, flowers, grass, trees, and flowing stream water should move according to believable real-world physics.
Steam from the tea should rise naturally and realistically.
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Use modern 2026 handheld cinematic travel-vlog cinematography with realistic autofocus, subtle camera movement, natural exposure changes, gentle motion blur, and authentic lens behavior.
Include:
- intimate walking shots
- close-ups of her face and natural expressions
- detailed shots of traditional houses and stone walls
- low-angle street-level shots
- smooth walking tracking shots
- stream and bridge shots
- tea close-ups
- wide mountain-village establishing shots
- final cinematic wide shot
The camera should feel like authentic professional travel footage captured naturally on a high-end smartphone or cinema camera.
AUDIO:
Use natural diegetic audio only.
Include realistic footsteps, gentle wind, birds, insects, distant village ambience, flowing stream water, subtle wooden-door sounds, tea cup sounds, and natural environmental sounds.
English dialogue only if dialogue occurs.
No background music and no narration.
VISUAL QUALITY:
Ultra-photorealistic live-action appearance, authentic Japanese countryside architecture, realistic skin texture, natural hair, physically accurate lighting, detailed traditional houses, realistic vegetation, cinematic 4K-quality imagery, natural colors, realistic depth of field, and consistent character identity throughout the entire video.
NEGATIVE PROMPT:
No CGI, no animation, no artificial movement, no impossible physics, no distorted face, no distorted hands, no extra fingers, no changing face, no changing hairstyle, no changing outfit, no changing character identity, no duplicated person, no floating objects, no unrealistic walking, no excessive camera shake, no artificial lighting, no visual glitches, no continuity errors, no random objects appearing or disappearing, no modern skyscrapers, no futuristic buildings, no Western-style houses, no subtitles, no logos, no watermark.
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Regret the tone of my post on data centers yesterday.
What I should have said:
There were reasonable concerns about data centers 18ish months ago: water, taxes, jobs, electricity prices, the environment and what they would do to small towns. Well-structured data center projects have largely addressed these concerns today and we should be celebrating this.
On balance, data centers are awesome for America in every way.
On water: U.S. data centers use a fraction of what golf courses use. A lot of the numbers from 18 months ago were off by over 1000x. Newer data centers use closed-loop systems or recycled water. Should be required by every town approving a data center project.
On taxes: looking only at sales-tax exemptions, as Ronan Farrow did, is the wrong way to evaluate this. Data centers pay significant property taxes. Loudoun County, which is the wealthiest county in America, now collects on the order of $1 billion a year from data centers. In Quincy, WA, data centers are more than half the property-tax roll. Over time, property taxes can go to zero while government spending increases in these towns.
On jobs: this has been unambiguously awesome for blue collar Americans. Demand for electricians, plumbers, welders, HVAC techs, and contractors has gone vertical, and it is not a one-time construction job. These buildings get upgraded and expanded over time. That is why the building trades are fighting for them, and why some unions are now treating opposition to data centers as a reason not to endorse politicians.
On power: the original fear was that households would pay for the incremental electricity demand in the form of higher prices. That is why the ratepayer-protection deals and the new large-load tariffs exist. The right structure is: the data center brings or pays for new generation and signs a contract long enough that existing customers are protected. Where that is happening, utilities are cutting or freezing residential rates and saying so on the record. Where it is not, people are right to object. Electricity prices are going down *today* in a number of large states because of data centers.
On the environment: data centers overwhelming use natural gas today, which is the cleanest power source outside of nuclear, solar and wind. And the companies that are building the data centers are committed to carbon neutrality such that an equivalent amount of solar will likely be built. Maybe more importantly, the data centers need batteries to function effectively and these batteries can also sell energy back into the grid (which recently prevented blackouts in Texas). Over time, data centers will run on solar plus batteries.
On the towns: Poverty in Quincy, WA fell from 29% to 6%. Data center taxes paid for a new high school, a hospital, a library, police and fire stations. This is happening in many left for dead former mill and farm towns that had no other bidder for the land.
Data centers are actually reindustrializing parts of America and creating the kind of working-class jobs both parties have spent decades claiming to support. That should not be a partisan issue. Data centers can and should be awesome for America and they increasingly, overwhelmingly are. Supporting the outsourcing of data centers to China will likely age just as well as support for the outsourcing of high quality, blue collar manufacturing jobs to China has aged.
When the facts change, I change my mind. I hope that reasonable people who had good faith reasons to oppose data centers at least consider updating their beliefs given the change in the facts over the last 18 months. This really matters for America.
I will say I also think the idea of making data centers beautiful is a good one that has yet to be implemented. Data centers should be just as beautiful as Grand Central Station. We can learn a lot from the railroad buildout. Neoclassical revival ftw.
Might write up open-weight AI tomorrow as this is equally essential to America.


















