from chaosorc

As soon as the door closed behind them Sandra turned around to face Ian, Jaden was behind her looking around the room.

You can only wear a condom in here, she pointed with her hand low, balanced on one foot because she was standing on the toe of her sock, stepping out of it. She spun on the ball of that foot and faced Jaden.

You

He turned to face her, she curled her finger and stepped onto the toe of the other sock. He put his arms around her and they kissed while Ian's clothes hit the floor. Shirt, pants, boxers.

Socks?

They can stay

He clapped his hands together and she clenched her ass like she knew he was staring at it.

He rolled the condom on and stepped in behind her.

She turned to face him and Jaden began removing her clothes. She worked her hand on the condom and stared in Ian's eyes.

Someone needs to dim the light

I know, he laughed nervously, oh my god

She shifted her head from looking down her nose at him like he was prey to making direct eye contact, a predatory grin pushing through her smeared lipstick.

Jaden knelt and pulled her panties off and it was done, she wore only stockings.

She turned around and pushed Jaden onto the bed and put her mouth on him.

•

Connie returned and Sandra was seated on the couch, a bath robe pulled around her. Evelyn was still in the kitchen with Phil and the gang.

What's up

Get fucked

Got fucked, you

Same

Was it good

Sandra held her hand in front of her flat and tilted it back-and-forth, you?

Good

Sandra smiled and sipped her drink. She turned to face Connie.

Jaden

Thumbs?

Thumbs came the moment my mouth hit his dick

Rude

That is rude, Evelyn standing in the room now.

Connie's brows furrowed, Evelyn looked indignant, her mascara was running.

What's wrong?

Rough day. But continue. You were saying something about premature ejaculation.

They laughed.

A quarter bounced and the ping of a shotglass, cheers from the kitchen.

Connie shrugged and Evelyn rolled her eyes.

Ian was going strong but I was riding and he just passed out.

Evelyn said oof.

These men

The guys

The fucking guys

Well how was yours

We had to do it in his car

You sure it was his car

Smelled like him

Evelyn and Sandra looked at eachother, a knowing pause.

What, it did

That good or bad

Don't tell me, Evelyn turned and left the room.

It was really good, just cramped.

He fucked you in an uncomfortable place

He did, they tapped glasses together, I need a refill.

When she returned with the two refreshed drinks, so he was not up for it?

Definitely not.

He had a knife in one hand and a club in the other. And he came to get it done once and for all.

She wanted him to use her so she got on all fours and turned her body.

He struck her once and she lowered her shoulders to the floor, head sideways and looking away, wincing with pain.

He began to cut off her clothes and she smiled, wiggling her body to give him better access.

When he had enough he stuffed the club in her mouth and held it there, pulling her head off the floor and her body back into his, onto his lap, penetrating her.

He hooked the dull edge of the knife around her elbow and pulled her arm back, wrapping it in his own arm so he could put the flat of the blade on her soft lower back.

He twisted the blade and she gasped at the feeling of the flat edge and its point, then he began thrusting hard and deep.

She turned her head so she could look back at him, her mouth off the club, his grip slipping as he braced himself, approaching climax.

He saw her eyes and pushed the club behind him and put the knife next to it. He pulled her other arm up so she was no longer supporting herself on the floor. She sat flat on his lap with both arms pinned in one of his, then he gripped her hair and held her up by the back of her head, thrusting again until he finished inside of her.

 
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from chaosorc

Two guys were sitting in the emergency room, one has his fingers in a bag of ice, bruises risen up on his good arm. They looked like whipped dogs.

The man next to fingers had a massive swell rising up out of his head above his eye, his shoulder a red and rashy bruise. They kept their heads down either out of shame or because they didn't want to draw attention.

And when we go back there we are going to fuck him so hard.

Fingers had frozen, staring at the entrance.

What, you don't want revenge

Is that Gomez

The dark silhouette of a man wearing a black pillowcase loomed beyond the sliding door, dusk illuminating him, he stepped sideways and disappeared out of sight.

Looked like him

Think he needs help

I can go check

Eth-ridge, Carl, the nurse called out.

Fingers groaned and worked his way to his feet, his friend remained seated.

Well

He motioned with both hands as claws, gave a frustrated look, lots of yellow teeth, squinting eyes.

Are you gonna check or what, he motioned with his ice finger bag at the door.

Fine, he put his hands on his knees, leaning forward to stand.

Carl nodded at the nurse and walked her direction.

•

He stood in the parking lot and looked around. They had parked directly in front of the emergency room entrance before dusk and there was a trail of blood leading back to the car. He looked to his right at the parking garage and Gomez stood on the top level, still wearing the black pillow case.

Ricky lit a cigarette with his zippo lighter and took a drag on it, glaring at Gomez, knowing he couldn't see him from that far away.

He limped and smoked, taking his time, watching for cars, eye swelling beneath the floppy black blob on the side of his head.

•

The elevator opened and Gomez dove inside, smashing Ricky's body against the wall. He gasped but his ribs were shattered, Gomez kicking his feet and pressing his forearm into Ricky's collapsing throat. Gurgling, arms pressing feeble, scraping and sliding on the dirty floor, a hand in a puddle of coffee. Gomez continued to scrape his boot feet on the floor, wriggling his shoulders and torso like a snake, pressing to find a deeper part of Ricky's neck to smash. Then Ricky's eyes went out. Gomez leaned close and looked in with his milky eye. He released him, body slid to the floor and the death rattle.

•

Gomez was in his pickup truck, driving with his one good eye. Watched cars in the intersection. Drove through a residential neighborhood. Parked within walking distance of Carl's apartment. Followed the path between the houses that the children took on their way to school. They saw him and cowered by the fence. When he reached the apartments he knelt by the stairs and waited.

I wish he would stop calling

I wish he would stop coming by, knocking the door

I wish he would stop coming to my work

Asking how I'm doing

Asking what happened

 
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from Kretyen Etranje

Corpowhore: (noun) (neologism) a person or organisation that acts like a complete, utter and reprehensible douchebag in its treatment of people in pursuit of its own greed for profit.

That about sums up what Spotify has come to embody for me. Now, for the full disclosure. I have known for some time there are far better options out there that Spotify and that the corporation itself is Mammon's slut. One would think that Spotify's new terms for authors uploading their audiobooks to the platform would enrage me enough to quit. Sadly, in some twisted logic, it did not. It has only taken them to cancel my password around ten times or more in order for me to finally break their grip on me. As a wannabe writer myself, this is even a more shameful confession. An intellectual property rights grab like Spotify attempted should have shoved me out of the digital door like a hurricane in a hoe down. You may cast your stones now. For years, I have hung out in Bandcamp, developing a small collection of sounds. With their app allowing downloads and playlists, Bandcamp have rendered Spotify less relevant to people like me. While Bandcamp does not allow you to store downloaded music on external storage yet, it is a slick and simple way to listen to your collection. The other option is set up a third party player on your device and put your library where you want it.

For those wanting to kick DRM to the side, Bandcamp is also a great option. You can download your collection and stick it where you want and play it on whatever app you want.

But what if you like streaming some stuff? I think that is where SoundCloud step in. The platform has nowhere near the traction that Spotify has. The play counts for tracks are way fewer. The apps, especially the Beta version Windows app, are far less polished and have little glitches in them that can be a bit annoying. So, why am I sticking with SoundCloud for now?

I use a VPN for any activity online. Spotify kept cancelling my password every time I changed the exit server. This time, they did it again, and I have stayed with the same server for the last few months. SoundCloud, when the algorithm gets a little concerned, will just give you a “are you human” check. Once. And then, you're good to go.

I did contact Spotify's support crew about this apparent aversion to people using a VPN. Their solution was remarkably simpl: don't use a VPN. If I were on a video conference with the dude, he would have seen a middle finger and then a dark screen.

Spotify is not interested in the people it is supposed to serve. Understandably, the CEO's and other management slags have to make money to do their jobs properly. In the process, like so many other corpowhores such as Apple, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Google and more, they exploit both artists and their fans to an egregious degree.

 
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from An Open Letter

I know after T I understood what a firework relationship was – burned incredibly fast, violently intense, and ends as soon as it starts. I guess C was just a reminder about my naivety and an indication of the things I should be aware of. I saw the signs, but I chose to ignore them – so I guess this was kind of a test that I had failed. I need to wake up early so I can workout with S, I guess it’s more appropriate to say so I get to work out with S. I’m glad to spend time with friends. I think I have a lot of thinking and consideration to do which is something I’m thankful for.

R – 3 breaths

E – C blew up in a ball of flames, and it was over a horribly handled misunderstanding.

S – I think it’s a great metric and something to understand that I value – the cornerstone of any relationship should be the ability to resolve conflict more than anything else.

T – I guess for the time being remind myself I can enjoy life single.

 
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from phillip prado

I am a huge fan of Flatpak applications on Linux. I like how they work. I like how easy they are to install. I like how you can control their permissions with such granularity. Etc.

Well now, I have yet another reason to love Flatpaks: easy installation reproducibility. Let me show you what I mean.

Let's say you have been using Flatpaks for a while, and you have all the apps you could want installed on your system.

Then, for whatever reason, you have to set up an OS on a new machine. For example, it could be that a new version of Ubuntu is about to drop, and you want to install it from scratch on your laptop.

Well, now you can easily install all the Flatpaks that you use and love on that new OS with just a few commands.

First, on your current machine, we want to list out all the installed Flatpaks. But, we don't want to just do it with a flatpak list, because that gives us too much information.

All we want right now is a list of the Application IDs. We can do that with the following command:

flatpak list --app --columns application

Now, this is great, and we can just manually copy and paste this list into a text file if we want.

Instead, what we are going to do is take that output and redirect it to a file with the output redirection operator. We are going to call that output something like “flatpaks.txt” or something else unimportant, because we need to rename the file in the next step.

flatpak list --app --columns application > flatpaks.txt

Great! Now, we have a text file of every Flatpak we currently have installed on our system. Next, we need to format it, so we can easily input the contents of the text file into the command line for install at a later time.

We can easily format this file appropriately with the next command and output the contents into a new text file. In my experience, if we try to overwrite the contents of the first file, the command won't work. Here's how to do it:

cat flatpaks.txt | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/ $/\n/' > flatpakinstalls.txt

Now, this is technically a few commands, and when broken down they simply say “take this file's contents, replace the new lines with spaces, remove the trailing space at the end of the line, and write this new output to a new file.” Regular expressions are wild.

The last thing you'll want to do is delete the original file, since now you have two:

rm flatpaks.txt

With that, you have a clean text file containing all the Flatpaks installed on your system that you can reference on any other machine. But, we can actually do this a little better.

With all of that out of the way, we can take that three or four-step process and boil it down to one simple copy pasta command thanks to the and operator, &&:

flatpak list --app --columns application > flatpaks.txt && cat flatpaks.txt | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/ $/\n/' > flatpakinstalls.txt && rm flatpaks.txt

That's it! Easy as pie.

Just keep this file backed up and safe. Then, after you are done installing your new OS, you'll need to make sure Flatpak is set up and ready by following the official Flatpak documentation.

After that, you can move this text file over to that machine, copy the contents, and paste them after the flatpak install command to quickly and effortlessly reproduce the Flatpak setup you had on your old installation.

Hope you find this as helpful as I will.

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from Roscoe's Story

Tuesday 23/Apr/2024

Prayers, etc.: • 05:00 – Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel • 06:00 – the Angelus • 09:45 – The SORROWFUL MYSTERIES of the Holy Rosary. Followed by The Memorare. • 12:00 – the Angelus • 13:50 – Thought for today from Archbishop Lefebvre: In order to sanctify ourselves, we have to retire into silence. Remember that our spiritual life is much more important than our temporal life, than our bodily life. Our mind, our heart, our imagination are caught up in the things of this world, in our work, in our family, and so on. Certainly, we must not neglect all that, but we need to put everything in its proper place. And the first place has to be for God. God has to be our first love. And that holds true even for married people, even for people in the world. They, too, need to go on retreats in order to put everything in its proper place. • 18:00 – the Angelus • 19:00 – The hour of Compline for tonight according to the Traditional Pre-Vatican II Divine Office, followed by Fr. Chad Rippberger's Prayer of Command to protect my family, my sons, my daughter and her family, my granddaughters and their families, my great grandchildren, and everyone for whom I have responsibility from any demonic activity. – And that followed by the Tuesday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.

Health Metrics: • bw= 224.0 lbs. • bp= 141/73 (61)

Diet: • 05:45 – ½ pb&j sandwich, 1 banana • 10:15 – applesauce & cottage cheese • 11:30 – fried chicken, and fish sticks • 16:45 – 1 ½ BLT sandwiches, with extra bacon

Chores, etc.: • 04:30 – listen to local news talk radio • 05:30 – monitor bank accounts activity • 06:00 – listen to An interview with the CEO of LiChess • 09:30 – load weekly pill boxes • 11:30 – watch old episodes of Wheel of Fortune • 12:00 – eat lunch at home with Sylvia • 14:30 – Caitlin Clark? – United States Congress Traitors – EP #189 – Please Call Me Crazy – Royce White • 16:00 – local news and weather • 16:30 – tuned into WTAM Cleveland for the Guardians pregame show before their MLB game vs the Boston Red Sox. I plan to stay here for that game, opening pitch scheduled for 17:10.

Chess: • 11:25 – moved in all pending CC games

posted Tuesday 23/Apr/2024 ~21:30 #DLAPR2024

 
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from Ratt's Blog

As someone who has benefited firsthand from AI's ability to assist with tasks—such as helping write the first draft of this very blog post—I can't help but feel excited about the promise of artificial intelligence and what it may be able to accomplish in a future that is much closer than any of us realized only a few years ago. The potential for AI to help solve major problems facing us, such as finding innovative solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change, for example, is tremendously hopeful.

When developed and applied responsibly, AI seems poised to greatly benefit society as a whole.

However, it would be naive not to also acknowledge some of the risks and fears that have been raised about AI. Personally, my concerns do not stem from the technology itself, but from how it could potentially be misused or applied in harmful ways by people. As with any powerful tool, there are opportunities for both benefit and abuse. Issues around job disruption, mass surveillance, autonomous weapons, deepfakes, and more all deserve open and ongoing discussion to help maximize the upsides of AI progress while mitigating any downsides.

In the end, I remain cautiously optimistic that artificial intelligence will become an immense benefit to the human race, but only with openness, vigilance, and cooperation between experts, leaders, and citizens. With care and conscience, AI can be developed and applied for the betterment of us all.

Disclaimer: This content was created with the assistance of AI, specifically Claude 1.2 Instant by Anthropic via DuckDuckGo AI Chat.

 
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from The happy place

I’ve heard there are tools searching text (code) even faster than ag, “thesilversearcher”, but I’ve never been in that big of a hurry, so I’ve not tried. I wouldn’t know.

It’s one of those doors which I’ll never open.

I shaved my beard. I do that when the moustache grows into my mouth. That’s the only grooming I ever do outside of jira.

Now I look like Barbapapa until it grows back.

 
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from Roscoe's Quick Notes

Massive insomnia last night. Think I got maybe 3 hours total sleep. And that has left me pretty foggy all day despite the mid-morning nap I was able to grab.

Hopefully I'll be able to sleep well tonight.

posted Tuesday, Apr 23, 2024 at ~2:15 PM #QNAPR2024

 
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from mimo

La ministre fédérale des Finances dit, dans son dernier budget, vouloir «explorer de nouvelles mesures pour élargir l’accès aux produits de financement de rechange, comme les prêts hypothécaires islamiques». Elle aura provoquét une levée de boucliers contre la finance islamique. Pourtant, cette dernière est bien implantée au Canada depuis de nombreuses années.

#Finance #Islam #Religion

Au fond, ce que les personnes qui sont intervenues contre l'idée des prêts hypothécaires islamiques souhaitent, c'est l'interdiction d'une finance liée à l'Islam.

La finance islamique est sans doute la finance religieuse la plus importante en chiffre dans le monde, la Banque islamique de développement regroupant à elle seule plus de 57 pays, mais ce n'est pas la seule finance liée à une religion.

L'association entre finance et religion est également présente dans le monde chrétien, ainsi que dans le monde hindou et possiblement dans d'autres contextes religieux.

Ce qui n'est pas non plus nouveau, c'est l'agitation autour de cette question. Déjà en 2007, l'arrivée possible de banques musulmanes au Canada avait provoqué tout un remue-ménage à Ottawa.

Toute cette agitation étonne quelque peu. Il y a peu d'années, en effet, un diplômé des HEC, Lachemi Siagh, dont la thèse porte sur ce sujet, faisait profiter de son expertise la branche financière du groupe SNC-Lavalin, la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec et la Société de développement des exportations. Jean-Claude Leclerc, L'argent selon la charia – L'arrivée de banques musulmanes remue le monde de la finance au Canada. Le Devoir, 1er octobre 2007.

Deux ans plus tard, on apprenait qu'Ottawa retardait depuis un an la publication d'un rapport sur la possibilité de permettre à des sociétés d'offrir des prêts conformes à la loi islamique. C'est la Société canadienne d'hypothèque et le logement (SCHL) qui avait commandé ce rapport en 2008.

Les prêts hypothécaires conformes à la charia étaient déjà offerts au Canada. Le problème était de savoir comment la SCHL pouvait intervenir dans ces transactions, différentes des transactions hypothécaires qu'elle assure.

Selon l'éditorialiste Michel David, la SCHL «avait écarté cette possibilité qui n’intéresse encore aucune des grandes banques.»

J’en doute, si je me fie ce qu'écrivait la journaliste montréalaise Jillian D'Amours en 2016, dans un reportage traduit et repris sur la version française du site Middle East Eye.

Les banques plus traditionnelles semblent être en train de s’engager dans le secteur : la Banque canadienne impériale de commerce (CIBC), l’une des principales institutions financières du pays, propose désormais des conseils en investissement halal. La Bourse de Toronto a même créé en 2009 un indice conforme à la charia, l’indice islamique S&P/TSX. Jillian D'Amours. Le Canada, prochain centre de la finance islamique ?

D'accord on parle ici d'investissements et non de prêts, mais le fait est que la finance islamique demeure aussi un marché du côté des prêts hypothécaires et je serais étonnée que ce marché n'intéresse aucune grande banque canadienne.

Pour en revenir à l'interdiction d'une finance liée à l'Islam, les recherchistes du Bloc Québécois ont certes bien fait leur travail et leur chef a pu citer Tarek Fatah, à la tête du Congrès des musulmans en 2009, pour qui les prêts hypothécaires conformes à la charia étaient une manifestation du front financier du mouvement islamiste. Rien de moins.

C’est ce qui s’appelle une culpabilité par association.

Au-delà de l'avenir au Canada de cette niche financière, ce qui est sûr, c'est qu'il faut protéger les personnes qui ont recours à du financement conforme à la charia.

Ce n'est pas avec une attitude de rejet qu'on va y parvenir.

————— Pour aller plus loin sur la finance islamique: Fakhri Korbi. La finance islamique : une nouvelle éthique ? Comparaison avec la finance conventionnelle. Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. (PDF).

 
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from Telmina's notes

またしても、帰宅後最低限のことだけしたら寝落ちしてしまいました。

　どうも、先週末からずっと絶不調の状態が続いており、このまま大型連休に突入してしまうと、アラフィフにして五月病に罹患しかねない状況です。

　昨夜、結局自分は、ソニーのフルワイヤレスイヤホン「WF-1000XM5」を購入してしまいました。

ケースが前機種「WF-1000XM4」よりもさらにコンパクトになった「WF-1000XM5」

　しかしその後も、物理的に破損してしまった「WI-1000XM2」の代替品となる首掛け式かつノイズキャンセリング機能搭載のイヤホンをあきらめることが出来ず、昨日仕事上がりに「ヨドバシカメラ マルチメディアAkiba」に立ち寄り、ダメ元で他社製品を含めその手のものが無いかもう一度探してみましたが、やっぱりありませんでした。

　ノイズキャンセリング機能をあきらめれば、首掛け式のイヤホンの選択肢はかろうじてまだあります。しかし、通勤時に用いることを考えると、ノイズキャンセリング機能は絶対要件です。

　その一方で、通勤時に混雑した電車内で使用することを大前提とするならば、昨夜購入した「WF-1000XM5」のようなフルワイヤレスイヤホンはそもそも論外です。

　何度も申し上げていることですが、「WH-1000XM4」のような完全に耳を覆うタイプのヘッドホンの場合、夏場に使用するのは相当厳しいです。

　結局、あちらが立てばこちらが立たずといった状態になってしまっているのですが、オーディオ業界全般的にこの状況が全くわかっていないと思われます。その点、少なくとも私にとっては、「WI-1000XM2」は完璧と言ってもいいイヤホンだったのです。

　私は、「WI-1000XM2」の後継機種が「WF-1000XM5」と同程度以上の音質とノイズキャンセリング機能をひっさげて登場することを期待しており、またそのニーズは確実にあるのですが、業界側がそれを全くわかっていないようです。

　そもそも何故、フルワイヤレスイヤホンなどという容易に紛失しやすいものを平気で売ることが出来るのか、私には到底理解出来ません。儲け第一主義のなせる技なのでしょうか。

　ソニーに限らずオーディオ業界には、今一度、首掛け式ノイズキャンセリングイヤホンを再考して欲しいです。

#2024年 #2024年4月 #2024年4月24日 #ひとりごと #雑談 #イヤホン #ノイズキャンセリングイヤホン #SONY #WI1000XM2 #WH1000XM4 #WF1000XM5

 
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from Now Listening to... 🎧

Beautiful cover by Boyce Avenue. Love the numerous chord changes in this song. The inflection in those subtle chord changes brings about different emotions. At one point the song sounds happy, then sad, then in awe, etc... They don't make songs like this anymore.

The lady in red is dancing with me cheek to cheek There's nobody here, it's just you and me It's where I want to be But I hardly know this beauty by my side I'll never forget the way you look tonight ♪ ♫ ♪

#BoyceAvenue

 
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from Attach to Process

Fire and forget template for C#/.NET to run something that you don't need to wait on and don't care about the results.

Task.Run(() =>
{
	//code goes here
});

In ReactJS, if ESLint says you cannot use inline arrow functions to pass in props in JSX, a solution is to wrap them with the useCallback hook.

Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36677798/5041911

Modals — can be used to add dialog or popup info boxes on your ReactJS app.

So using this library actually helped me solve my Azure Application Insights logging issue. The issue being, since I had a dateOfBirth object in my formData object, app insights would save it as an object, as opposed to something like dateOfBirth: 2024-04-16. The solution was to flatten the formData object so it will get logged properly in Azure App Insights.

Rendering the HTML string in React — short tutorial on how to render an HTML string in ReactJS/Gatsby.

Series: #DevNotes Tags: #CSharp #DotNet #Template #ReactJS #Azure #ApplicationInsights #Gatsby

 
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