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from Douglas Vandergraph
There are chapters in the Bible that read like history, chapters that read like poetry, and chapters that read like instruction. Then there is Revelation 12, which reads like the curtain being pulled back on reality itself. It is not simply a story about a woman, a dragon, and a child. It is the unveiling of the invisible war that has always been raging beneath every heartbreak, every temptation, every prayer, every miracle, and every moment of your life. Revelation 12 does not explain a single event. It explains all of them. It tells you why the world feels hostile when you try to walk in truth. It tells you why spiritual progress is always met with resistance. It tells you why love is contested, why faith is fought, and why hope feels like a battlefield instead of a refuge.
If you have ever wondered why doing the right thing feels harder than doing the wrong thing, Revelation 12 answers that. If you have ever wondered why breakthrough always seems to come with backlash, Revelation 12 answers that. If you have ever wondered why your faith seems to attract storms, Revelation 12 answers that too. This chapter is not about symbols for the sake of mystery. It is about symbols because the truth it is describing is bigger than words.
John sees a woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She is pregnant, crying out in birth pains. Then he sees a dragon, red and monstrous, standing before her, waiting to devour her child the moment it is born. That image alone should stop you in your tracks, because it tells you something terrifying and beautiful at the same time: before the child has done anything, before the child has spoken a word, before the child has healed anyone or taught anyone or sacrificed anything, the enemy already wants to destroy it. That is how evil works. It does not wait to see what you will become. It tries to kill what you could become.
This woman is not just one person. She is the people of God. She is Israel, she is Mary, she is the Church, she is the community through which God brings His purposes into the world. She is every place where God plants promise. And wherever God plants promise, the dragon shows up. The dragon is not subtle. The dragon does not negotiate. The dragon does not wait for you to make mistakes. He stands ready to devour what God is birthing.
The child, of course, is Christ. He is the fulfillment of every prophecy, every covenant, every whispered promise God ever made to humanity. And what Revelation 12 is showing you is that Christmas was not just a peaceful nativity scene. It was a declaration of war. The birth of Jesus was not just heaven touching earth. It was heaven invading enemy-occupied territory. And the dragon knew it. That is why Herod tried to kill every baby in Bethlehem. That is why violence erupted around the incarnation. That is why the world shook when Christ entered it.
This is the first thing Revelation 12 wants you to understand: every time God moves, resistance moves too. Not because God is weak, but because darkness knows what light threatens. When Jesus was born, hell knew its time was limited. When you were called, hell knew something eternal was about to be released through your life. The opposition you face is not proof you are doing something wrong. Often it is proof you are doing something right.
The dragon fails to destroy the child. Christ fulfills His mission. He lives, He dies, He rises, He ascends. And then something shocking happens. War breaks out in heaven. Michael and his angels fight against the dragon and his angels. And the dragon loses. He is cast down to the earth.
This is one of the most misunderstood parts of spiritual reality. Satan is not God’s equal. He is not God’s opposite. He is a created being. He can be resisted. He can be defeated. He can be cast out. Revelation 12 tells you that there was a decisive moment when the authority of Satan in heaven was revoked. The accuser lost his courtroom. The prosecutor lost his seat. The one who brought charges against God’s people lost his platform.
That is why the chapter says that the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before God day and night, has been cast down. For centuries, Satan had functioned as a spiritual prosecutor, pointing out humanity’s sin. But the blood of Christ ended that role. The cross did not just forgive sin. It disarmed accusation.
This is where Revelation 12 becomes deeply personal. You do not just struggle against temptation. You struggle against accusation. You struggle against the voice that says you are unworthy, that you have failed too much, that you are not really loved, that you are not really forgiven, that you will never really change. That voice is not just your psychology. It is spiritual warfare. It is the echo of a fallen prosecutor who no longer has legal standing but still tries to intimidate.
The text says they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. That means victory does not come from your perfection. It comes from Christ’s sacrifice and your confession of it. Every time you agree with what Jesus has done instead of what the accuser says, you participate in that victory. Every time you speak grace instead of shame, you enforce heaven’s verdict against hell’s lies.
But the dragon is not gone. He is thrown to the earth. And that is why the chapter says, “Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” That one line explains the chaos of the world better than any headline ever could.
Evil is loud because it is desperate. Darkness is aggressive because it is running out of time. Fear is intense because its days are numbered. The rage you see in culture, the hostility toward truth, the resistance to holiness, the mockery of faith, the obsession with destruction and deconstruction, all of it is the tantrum of a defeated enemy who knows the clock is ticking.
Revelation 12 then returns to the woman. When the dragon cannot destroy the child, he goes after the woman. That means when Satan cannot stop Christ, he tries to stop Christ’s people. That is not a metaphor. That is a strategy. If he cannot silence the Savior, he tries to silence the witnesses.
The woman flees into the wilderness, where she is protected by God for a time. This is one of the most tender moments in the chapter. God does not remove His people from danger. He shelters them within it. He does not promise a life without wilderness. He promises provision inside it.
The wilderness is where Israel learned to depend on God. The wilderness is where Jesus fasted and overcame temptation. The wilderness is where John the Baptist heard his calling. The wilderness is not a punishment. It is a place of protection and preparation. When the dragon is raging, God creates space. When the enemy is attacking, God provides refuge.
But the dragon does not give up. He sends a flood after the woman, trying to sweep her away. And the earth opens and swallows the flood. This is one of the most powerful images in Scripture. It means that even creation itself will cooperate with God’s plan to preserve His people. When the enemy unleashes chaos, God can use the very structure of reality to block it. You may not see the flood that was meant for you. You may not know the disaster that was diverted. But Revelation 12 is telling you that protection you never noticed is still protection.
When the dragon fails again, he becomes enraged and goes to make war with the rest of her offspring, those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. That is where you come in. You are not reading about ancient battles. You are reading about your own. If you follow Jesus, you are part of this story. The dragon is not after you because you are weak. He is after you because you belong to something eternal.
Revelation 12 is not meant to scare you. It is meant to clarify you. It is meant to explain why faith feels costly. It is meant to explain why obedience attracts resistance. It is meant to explain why loving God feels like swimming upstream. You are not crazy. You are not broken. You are not imagining the struggle. You are standing in the middle of a war that began before you were born and will continue until Christ returns.
And yet, the most important thing Revelation 12 says is not that there is a dragon. It is that the dragon has already lost. The war is real, but the outcome is settled. The enemy is active, but he is defeated. The conflict is intense, but it is temporary.
There is something profoundly stabilizing about that truth. It means your suffering is not meaningless. It means your endurance is not wasted. It means your faith is not fragile. You are not fighting for victory. You are fighting from victory.
Every time you choose love when bitterness would be easier, you are enforcing Christ’s triumph. Every time you choose truth when lies would be more convenient, you are participating in heaven’s authority. Every time you pray, forgive, hope, or trust, you are pushing back against a defeated dragon who is trying to pretend he still has power.
Revelation 12 does not minimize the battle. It redefines it. It shows you that what feels personal is actually cosmic. What feels random is actually targeted. What feels exhausting is actually significant. You are not just trying to survive. You are part of a story that God Himself is writing across eternity.
And the woman, the child, the dragon, and the war are not distant images. They are the spiritual architecture behind every day of your life.
Now, we will go even deeper into how Revelation 12 reshapes how you see suffering, identity, spiritual opposition, and the hope that no enemy can touch.
There is a quiet truth buried beneath the thunder of Revelation 12 that most people never stop to notice, and it changes everything once you see it. The dragon is never shown creating anything. He never builds. He never gives life. He never brings healing. He never restores. All he does is stand, accuse, chase, rage, and destroy. That detail matters because it tells you something profound about the nature of evil. Evil has no creative power. It only reacts to what God creates. Satan is not the author of stories. He is a vandal of them.
That means every attack in your life is proof that something sacred is being targeted. The dragon does not waste time on empty places. He goes where God is moving. He goes where promise is being born. He goes where destiny is forming. If you have ever wondered why your growth feels contested, why your calling feels opposed, or why your healing feels delayed, Revelation 12 is whispering the answer. You are not being resisted because you are insignificant. You are being resisted because heaven is invested in you.
The woman in Revelation 12 is not weak, even though she is in pain. She is in labor. Pain in Scripture is often not the sign of failure but of something coming into the world. Birth pains are not death. They are the cost of life. That means some of what you feel right now is not destruction. It is delivery. You are not breaking apart. You are being brought forth.
This is one of the hardest spiritual truths to accept, because when you are hurting, it does not feel holy. It feels confusing. It feels unfair. It feels lonely. But Revelation 12 shows you a woman crowned with stars crying out in agony, and heaven does not rebuke her for it. Heaven recognizes it as part of the process. You can be chosen and still be in pain. You can be called and still be crying. You can be loved and still be laboring.
The dragon waits to devour the child because he understands something many people miss. The greatest threat to darkness is not sin. It is birth. New things terrify old powers. New identity threatens old control. New freedom undermines old chains. The enemy is not afraid of your past. He is afraid of your future. That is why he tries to intercept it before it can breathe.
But Revelation 12 shows you that God always protects what He births. The child is caught up to God and to His throne. That is not just about Christ ascending to heaven. It is about the security of God’s purpose. What God starts, He finishes. What God promises, He preserves. What God calls, He carries.
When the dragon is thrown down, his rage increases, but his authority decreases. That is how spiritual defeat works. A losing enemy often becomes louder, not stronger. The devil’s fury is not evidence of his power. It is evidence of his deadline.
That is why the world feels unstable. That is why truth feels controversial. That is why good feels fragile. You are living in the season of a furious but defeated enemy. The battle is intense because the end is near.
This helps explain something many believers struggle with. If Jesus won, why is there still so much pain? If the cross defeated Satan, why does the world still feel broken? Revelation 12 answers that. The war is won, but the cleanup is ongoing. The dragon has been evicted from heaven, but he is still causing damage on earth. He is like a criminal who has been sentenced but not yet imprisoned. His guilt is settled. His activity continues.
That is why the Bible never tells you to be afraid of the devil. It tells you to resist him. It tells you to stand. It tells you to put on armor. You do not armor yourself against a king. You armor yourself against a rebel.
The most powerful line in the chapter is this: “They loved not their lives unto the death.” That does not mean Christians are reckless. It means they are free. When you no longer fear losing your life, you can finally live it. The dragon thrives on fear. The Lamb triumphs through surrender.
The blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony are what overcome the enemy. That means your story matters. Your faith matters. Your voice matters. When you speak what God has done for you, you are not just encouraging others. You are waging spiritual war. Silence helps the accuser. Testimony breaks his grip.
Revelation 12 also reframes what it means to be attacked. The dragon goes after those who keep God’s commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus. That means obedience paints a target. Faith draws fire. Commitment invites conflict. But it also means you are never fighting alone. Heaven knows your name. Angels are not indifferent to your struggles. God Himself has already declared the outcome.
The wilderness, the flood, the pursuit, all of it is part of the journey. But the woman is never abandoned. God makes a place for her. God protects her. God limits the enemy. That is what He is doing in your life too, even when it feels chaotic.
There are battles you never see. There are attacks that never land. There are dangers that never reach you. Not because you are lucky, but because you are kept.
Revelation 12 is not just prophecy. It is perspective. It tells you that your suffering is not random. Your resistance is not pointless. Your faith is not fragile. You are standing in the middle of a story that began before time and will end in glory.
The dragon may roar, but he cannot reign. The Lamb has already taken the throne.
So when you feel weary, remember this chapter. When you feel attacked, remember this chapter. When you feel unseen, remember this chapter. You are not fighting alone. You are not losing. You are not forgotten.
You are part of the woman’s story. You carry the testimony of Jesus. And that makes you dangerous to darkness.
No matter how loud the dragon becomes, his end is certain. No matter how fierce the battle feels, your victory is secure.
That is the war behind the curtain.
And that is the hope that nothing in heaven or on earth can take from you.
Your friend, Douglas Vandergraph
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Um memory leak (vazamento de memória) acontece quando uma aplicação mantém na memória blocos de dados que já não têm mais utilidade. Em outras palavras, a aplicação continua ocupando espaço de RAM de forma desnecessária, o que leva a um consumo progressivo de recursos e, em situações mais graves, pode resultar em lentidão ou falhas por falta de memória (Out of Memory – OOM).
Esse é um problema que pode ocorrer em qualquer linguagem de programação. No caso de ambientes que contam com Garbage Collector, como o Node.js, a causa mais comum não é a falha na coleta em si, mas sim referências que permanecem acessíveis em estruturas de dados, caches, closures ou listeners, mesmo quando já não deveriam estar em uso.
Ao longo deste texto, vamos analisar o problema sob a ótica do Node.js. Como a plataforma organiza a memória, de que forma o Garbage Collector atua, quais métricas e ferramentas podem auxiliar na identificação de vazamentos e quais práticas de código contribuem para preveni-los. Também veremos como detectar e mitigar esses problemas para prevenir falhas críticas.
O que é gerenciamento de memória e como funciona?
Para entender como ocorre um vazamento de memória, precisamos primeiro compreender o que significa gerenciamento de memória. Esse conceito reúne um conjunto de técnicas que garantem que uma aplicação utilize os recursos de memória de forma eficiente, equilibrando o espaço disponível com as necessidades do programa.
O gerenciamento de memória envolve quatro responsabilidades principais:
Alocação – reservar blocos de memória para armazenar variáveis, objetos e buffers necessários durante a execução.
Rastreamento – manter metadados sobre quais blocos estão em uso e quais podem ser reutilizados.
Utilização – manipular os dados alocados de forma segura, sem sobrescrever ou acessar regiões inválidas.
Liberação – devolver ao sistema a memória que já não é mais utilizada pela aplicação.
Em linguagens de baixo nível, como C ou C++, essa responsabilidade recai sobre o desenvolvedor, que precisa invocar manualmente funções de alocação (malloc) e liberação (free). Esse modelo oferece controle total, mas também amplia o risco de falhas críticas, como o double free, quando a aplicação tenta liberar o mesmo bloco de memória mais de uma vez, os dangling pointers, que são ponteiros que continuam apontando para regiões já liberadas ou ainda vazamentos por simples esquecimento da liberação.
Já em linguagens de alto nível, como JavaScript, Python ou Go, o gerenciamento é delegado ao Garbage Collector (GC). O GC tem a função de identificar automaticamente objetos que não possuem mais referências ativas e liberar o espaço ocupado por eles, reduzindo a probabilidade de erros manuais.
Um exemplo simplificado desse ciclo em uma API:
O servidor recebe uma requisição e aloca memória para armazenar metadados (cabeçalhos, parâmetros, corpo).
Durante o processamento, cria objetos temporários (consultas ao banco, arrays de resultados, buffers de resposta).
Quando esses dados deixam de ser utilizados, tornam-se elegíveis para coleta.
O Garbage Collector detecta que não há mais referências a essas estruturas e libera a memória, mantendo o processo estável.
Esse fluxo parece simples, mas em sistemas de alta concorrência, qualquer estrutura que não seja liberada corretamente pode se acumular rapidamente, degradando a performance e levando a falhas por falta de memória. Por isso, entender como o GC atua e quais padrões de código impactam esse ciclo é essencial para desenvolver aplicações estáveis.
Como o Node.js gerência memória
O Node.js é construído sobre uma arquitetura que combina diferentes componentes: o V8, motor de execução do JavaScript, e a libuv, responsável pelo event loop e pelas operações assíncronas de baixo nível (I/O, timers, sockets).
O V8, desenvolvido pelo Google inicialmente para o Chrome, tornou-se a base de diversos runtimes, incluindo o próprio Node.js. Ele é responsável por compilar JavaScript em código de máquina nativo e por administrar o heap de memória da aplicação, aplicando os ciclos de Garbage Collection (GC). Em outras palavras, sempre que o Node.js precisa lidar com objetos, arrays, buffers ou funções, é o V8 quem de fato realiza a reserva e a liberação da memória.
Mas como o V8 organiza essa memória? Diferente de tratar o heap como um bloco único, ele o divide em regiões especializadas chamadas memory spaces. Essa segmentação permite adotar estratégias de coleta e otimização específicas para cada perfil de objeto. Os principais espaços são:
New Space – região destinada a objetos recém-criados, geralmente pequenos e de vida curta. Por ser limitada em tamanho, sofre coletas frequentes. O GC utiliza aqui o algoritmo Scavenge, que copia objetos vivos entre duas áreas de memória e descarta os mortos. Objetos que sobrevivem a vários ciclos são promovidos ao Old Space.
Old Space – concentra objetos de longa duração, como caches, sessões ou estruturas persistentes. É bem maior que o New Space e sofre coletas menos frequentes, mas mais custosas. Nessa região, o V8 aplica algoritmos como Mark-Sweep, que marca objetos vivos e remove os mortos, e Mark-Compact, que reorganiza os objetos restantes para reduzir a fragmentação.
Large Object Space (LOS) – usado para armazenar objetos muito grandes, como arrays extensos ou buffers volumosos. Cada objeto ocupa um segmento próprio de memória, evitando movimentações desnecessárias. Porém, o uso excessivo dessa região pode levar a um crescimento rápido do heap.
Code Space – armazena o código das funções JavaScript compiladas para instruções nativas de máquina. É a única região marcada como executável, sujeita a restrições de segurança específicas.
Map Space – guarda metadados internos conhecidos como hidden classes, que descrevem a estrutura de objetos JavaScript. Essas informações permitem ao V8 otimizar o acesso a propriedades, aumentando a performance da execução.
Outros spaces especializados – além dos principais, o V8 mantém áreas adicionais, como Cell Space, Property Cell Space e Allocation Sites Space, voltadas para valores globais, variáveis de escopo e dados usados em otimizações de caching e profiling.
Em resumo, o Node.js delega ao V8 a gestão fina do heap por meio de memory spaces especializados. Essa segmentação permite aplicar políticas de GC adequadas a cada perfil de objeto.
O que são vazamentos de memória e como o Node.js lida com isso?
Agora que entendemos o que é gerenciamento de memória e como o Node.js executa essa tarefa por meio do V8, podemos avançar para um ponto crucial. O que de fato significa um memory leak.
Um memory leak ou, vazamento de memória, acontece quando a aplicação mantém referências a objetos que já não são mais necessários, impedindo que o Garbage Collector os libere. Em outras palavras, a memória é retida sem utilidade prática, o que provoca um crescimento gradual no consumo de RAM. Esse acúmulo geralmente é silencioso, não gera erros imediatos, mas ao longo do tempo pode degradar seriamente a performance e até levar o processo a falhar por falta de memória.
No contexto do Node.js, isso é especialmente crítico, pois estamos falando de um runtime orientado a longa execução, como: servidores HTTP, APIs, filas de mensageria ou workers que ficam ativos por dias ou semanas. Diferente de um script curto que encerra logo após a execução, um processo Node.js exposto a vazamentos vai acumular consumo de memória a cada requisição, evento ou tarefa mal gerenciada.
No modelo de concorrência do Node.js, a maior parte das aplicações roda como um único processo, ou em alguns casos com alguns workers rodando em paralelo, que compartilham o mesmo heap de memória. Isso significa que o mesmo espaço é continuamente reaproveitado para lidar com todas as requisições que chegam ao servidor. O detalhe crítico é que, se cada requisição deixar para trás uma pequena quantidade de memória não liberada, por exemplo, entre 1 e 2 KB devido a um listener não removido, um cache sem política de expiração ou uma referência esquecida em uma closure, esse consumo não está associado a um único usuário, mas a cada evento processado. O efeito, portanto, escala diretamente com o tráfego. E como o Garbage Collector do V8 só consegue liberar objetos que já não possuem referências ativas, qualquer elemento ainda acessível no código mantém a memória ocupada, mesmo que os dados já não tenham mais utilidade.
Esse acúmulo aparentemente pequeno por requisição se transforma rapidamente em um problema sério. Imagine um servidor processando 200 requisições por segundo. Se cada uma delas deixar apenas 2 KB de memória retida, temos um vazamento de 400 KB a cada segundo. Em uma hora, isso significa cerca de 1,44 GB de memória que nunca é devolvida ao sistema. Em poucas horas, esse crescimento constante degrada a performance, aumenta a frequência e o custo das pausas do Garbage Collector e pode levar a aplicação a atingir o limite de memória disponível, resultando em falhas críticas ou até em reinícios forçados pelo orquestrador, como acontece comumente em containers no Kubernetes.
Embora o Garbage Collector do V8 seja sofisticado, ele não consegue adivinhar se um objeto deveria ou não ser mantido. Se houver uma referência ativa em algum ponto da aplicação, o GC assume que aquele objeto ainda é necessário. Por isso, o problema de memória em Node.js não é uma falha da coleta em si, mas sim de design e gestão de referências no código da aplicação.
Para ilustrar o problema de forma prática, vamos imaginar o seguinte cenário:
O time estava com uma meta de latência para o endpoint GET /products/:id: manter p95 < 200 ms sob tráfego alto. Em horários de pico, a consulta ao produto no banco oscilava entre 300–450 ms, puxando o p95 para cima. Como não havia Redis ainda provisionado para aquele serviço e o prazo do sprint era curto, a solução rápida foi criar um cache em memória do próprio processo
Objetivo imediato: aliviar chamadas repetidas para o mesmo produto por alguns minutos.
Implementação escolhida:
Estrutura: Map global, populado sob demanda.
Chave: req.originalUrl
Então temos uma implementação simples:
import express from “express”;
const app = express();
const cache = new Map();
// usa a URL completa como chave (alta cardinalidade) app.get(“/products/:id”, (req, res) => { const key = req.originalUrl; // ❌ anti-padrão let data = cache.get(key); if (!data) { data = getProduct(req.params.id); // ~24 KiB de payload cache.set(key, data); // ❌ sem TTL/limite } res.json({ cached: !!data, size: data.details.length, entries: cache.size }); });
app.listen(3000, () => console.log(“Leaky server: http://localhost:3000"));
A cada requisição com uma nova querystring (ex.: ?ref=promo1, ?ref=promo2), o serviço armazenava mais um objeto de ~24 KiB no Map. Como o cache global mantinha referências vivas para todos esses objetos, o GC não podia coletá-los. Com um fluxo de 80 req/s e destas 40 req geram novas chaves retendo ~24 KiB, chegamos ao número de 960 KiB/s, e em uma hora de operação teríamos uma saturação na heap de 3 GiB.
Conclusão, o ponto crítico aqui não é o Garbage Collector “não funcionar”. O V8 continuava varrendo o heap em busca de objetos inacessíveis. O problema é que o Map global mantinha referências ativas a cada payload de produto. Enquanto houver referência, o GC considera o objeto vivo e não pode descartar.
Cada payload armazenado inicialmente entra no New Space, uma região otimizada para objetos jovens e de curta duração. Em condições normais, esses dados seriam rapidamente coletados pelo Garbage Collector. No entanto, como o Map mantém referências ativas, eles sobrevivem a sucessivos ciclos de coleta. Com o passar do tempo, esses objetos persistentes acabam sendo promovidos ao Old Space, uma área maior do heap, sujeita a coletas mais pesadas e menos frequentes. O resultado é que centenas de objetos que deveriam ser ciclo curto acabam se acumulando e tornando-se permanentes, fazendo com que o Old Space cresça continuamente e pressione o coletor de forma cada vez mais custosa
O resultado é um heap que cresce a taxas previsíveis (nesse caso, ~3 GiB/hora), até que o processo atinge o limite de memória e falha com OOM. O leak, portanto, não está no GC: ele está na política de retenção de referências no código. O V8 fez exatamente o que deveria — preservou os objetos que ainda estavam acessíveis. É a lógica de aplicação que enganou o coletor, ao manter referências sem utilidade prática.
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There is a quiet ache that lives in people who are meant for more but are still surrounded by what no longer fits. It is not loud. It does not always show itself in tears or arguments. Sometimes it shows up as restlessness. Sometimes as exhaustion. Sometimes as that strange feeling that you are outgrowing conversations you used to love, dreams you used to settle for, and versions of yourself that no longer feel true. You can be grateful for the people who walked with you through earlier seasons and still feel the ache of knowing that something is shifting. God does not change us by accident. When He starts to awaken something deeper inside you, the walls that once felt safe begin to feel small, and that discomfort is not rebellion. It is invitation.
A circle becomes a cage the moment it stops stretching your faith and starts shrinking your future. That does not happen because the people around you are evil. It happens because growth is directional. You cannot walk into who God is calling you to be while constantly being pulled back into who you used to be. Familiarity is comforting, but it is also limiting when it becomes the ruler of your life. You can love people deeply and still realize they do not have the spiritual eyesight to see where God is taking you. That realization hurts, but it is holy.
God has always used separation as preparation. Not to punish, but to protect. Abraham was not told to leave because his family was bad. He was told to leave because the promise was bigger than their perspective. Joseph was not betrayed because he was arrogant. He was betrayed because his brothers could not imagine what God had shown him. David was not overlooked because he was unqualified. He was overlooked because those around him were still measuring worth by old standards. When God places a vision inside you, it will almost always exceed the imagination of the people who knew you before that vision existed.
That is why growth feels lonely before it feels glorious. When you begin to step into your calling, you will notice a widening gap between where you are going and where others are comfortable staying. Some people will cheer. Some will question. Some will quietly drift away. That is not because you are unlovable. It is because you are no longer manageable. You are becoming dangerous to the limitations that once defined you. The cage was never made of iron. It was made of expectations. It was built from the unspoken agreement that you would not change too much, dream too big, or believe too boldly.
You begin to realize you are in a cage when you start editing your dreams so they do not make others uncomfortable. When you shrink your faith so it does not challenge their fear. When you silence what God is saying in you because it disrupts the balance of the room. That is not humility. That is captivity. God did not give you a vision so you could hide it. He did not place fire in your bones so you could pretend to be cold. He did not call you forward so you could keep living in yesterday.
Spiritual growth always exposes relational misalignment. You cannot grow without friction. You cannot become without conflict. Every time God has moved someone into a higher calling, there has been resistance from the people who benefited from them staying the same. When you were insecure, people felt needed. When you were unsure, people felt important. When you were small, people felt big. But when you begin to stand in who God says you are, the dynamics change. Not everyone will celebrate that. Some will feel threatened. Some will feel left behind. Some will try to pull you back with guilt, jokes, or subtle discouragement.
That is when you have to decide whether you will obey God or manage other people’s comfort.
There is a holy loneliness that comes with obedience. It is not the loneliness of abandonment. It is the loneliness of alignment. It is the quiet space God creates when He is rearranging your life around a higher purpose. Moses had to leave the palace. David had to leave the pasture. Elijah had to leave the crowd. Jesus Himself had to step away from the multitudes to be alone with the Father. God does His deepest work in the quiet places where there is no applause and no interference.
When your circle changes, it is often because God is changing your assignment. You cannot build what God has called you to build with the same tools that built your past. Some relationships were only meant for survival, not destiny. They were there to get you through, not to take you all the way. And that does not diminish their value. It simply honors the season they belonged to. You are allowed to graduate from people. You are allowed to move on without bitterness. You are allowed to love them and still walk away.
The cage convinces you that loyalty means staying small. God says loyalty means staying true.
You do not betray your past by stepping into your future. You fulfill it.
A circle that is aligned with your calling will not be threatened by your growth. It will celebrate it. It will not mock your faith. It will multiply it. It will not remind you of your mistakes. It will call you higher. You will know you are in the right circle when you leave conversations feeling more alive instead of more tired. When you leave interactions feeling encouraged instead of diminished. When you leave gatherings feeling closer to God instead of further from who you are becoming.
The wrong circle drains you. The right circle builds you.
The wrong circle makes you doubt what God has spoken. The right circle confirms it.
The wrong circle keeps you explaining yourself. The right circle helps you become yourself.
God is not interested in you fitting in. He is interested in you standing out in obedience. You were never meant to be caged by other people’s limitations. You were meant to be carried by God’s promises. And when you begin to choose alignment over approval, your life will start to open in ways you never imagined.
There is a freedom that comes when you stop trying to be understood by everyone and start being obedient to the One who called you. There is peace that comes when you realize you do not need a thousand people to believe in you. You need God and a few people who can see what He sees. Jesus changed the world with twelve, and even then not all of them understood Him.
You do not need a crowd. You need a calling.
You do not need to be liked. You need to be led.
And when you let God break the bars around your becoming, you will discover that the cage was never meant to be your home. It was only meant to show you how badly you were meant to fly.
There is a sacred moment that comes after you step out of a cage, and it is quieter than most people expect. It is not applause. It is not instant success. It is a deep, steady sense of alignment, like something inside you has finally stopped fighting itself. You may not have more people around you at first, but you will have more peace. You will have more clarity. You will have more courage. And those three things are more powerful than any crowd that ever kept you small.
When God begins to shift your circle, He is not removing support. He is refining it. The people who truly belong in your life will not compete with your calling. They will cooperate with it. They will not feel threatened when you grow. They will feel proud. They will not try to remind you of who you were. They will speak into who you are becoming. That is what spiritual alignment feels like. It feels like oxygen after holding your breath for years.
One of the hardest truths to accept is that some people are only equipped to love the version of you that needed them. When you start to become the version of you that God is building, the dynamic changes. You no longer need approval to feel secure. You no longer need validation to feel valuable. You no longer need permission to dream. That shift can make some people uncomfortable, not because you have done something wrong, but because you have done something brave. You have stopped shrinking.
And shrinking is a form of fear.
Faith expands. Fear contracts. Faith says God can. Fear says what if He does not. When you live by faith, your life will eventually outgrow the rooms you once fit in. You will find yourself sitting in conversations that no longer feed your spirit. You will hear jokes that once made you laugh now feel hollow. You will feel an ache to talk about deeper things, to dream about bigger things, to live for something that matters more than survival. That ache is not dissatisfaction. It is destiny.
God will not let you be satisfied with a cage when He has called you to a kingdom.
The cage is comfortable because it is predictable. You know what people will say. You know how they will react. You know the roles everyone plays. But predictability is not the same as peace. Peace comes from living in alignment with truth. And truth is that you were created for more than just getting by. You were created to reflect God’s glory in a way only you can. That requires growth. That requires risk. That requires walking away from what is familiar in order to walk into what is faithful.
Jesus said that anyone who wants to follow Him must be willing to leave houses, family, and old ways behind. Not because love ends, but because obedience begins. He was not asking people to abandon relationships. He was asking them to release control. To stop letting the past dictate the future. To stop letting the opinions of others drown out the voice of God.
Your calling will always be louder than your cage if you let it be.
There will be moments when you miss the simplicity of who you were before you started changing. There will be moments when you wish you could go back to being understood without having to explain your faith, your vision, or your growth. But if you are honest, you will also know you cannot go back. You have seen too much. You have felt too much. God has stirred something too deep inside you. You are not who you were, and that is a gift.
Do not confuse loneliness with failure. Sometimes God pulls you into quiet so He can speak without interruption. Sometimes He thins out your circle so He can thicken your anointing. Sometimes He removes voices so you can finally hear His. Every great transformation in Scripture happened after a season of separation. The wilderness is not where you die. It is where you are redefined.
You will meet new people when you walk in your new identity. They will speak your language. They will understand your hunger. They will recognize your faith. You do not have to go looking for them. Alignment finds alignment. When you choose God’s direction over people’s expectations, the right relationships begin to appear. They are drawn to obedience. They are attracted to authenticity. They recognize when someone is living on purpose.
And purpose is magnetic.
You are not losing people. You are making room.
You are not being abandoned. You are being prepared.
You are not outgrowing love. You are outgrowing limits.
The cage is breaking because you are rising. The walls are cracking because you are becoming. And what God is building in you is bigger than anything you are leaving behind.
Do not apologize for your growth. Do not explain your calling. Do not dim your light.
God is doing something new, and it will require a new circle to sustain it.
You were never meant to be contained. You were meant to be sent.
You were never meant to be caged. You were meant to be called.
You were never meant to stay small. You were meant to become who heaven already knows you are.
So step forward.
Let the old fall away.
Let God lead you into the wide open spaces of His purpose.
Your life is just beginning.
Your friend, Douglas Vandergraph
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wystswolf

What is restrained will never extinguish.
She was the sea. He was the land.
A story of never— for to join would mean ruin.
So they learned to ache in fragments: wave, shore, tide— stolen touches torn away.
Their lust was not gentle. It was the kind of force that bends planets, that births stars, collates matter.
To touch fully would be to release it— to break the world they loved.
Restraint became their magnum opus.
Forever.
And still—
look closely: wherever they meet you find traces of passion.
She is the sea. He is the land.
#poetry #wyst #star
How many of you have problems buying so many notebooks but never finish a single one? I always end up with two problems. One, I have multiple notebooks of separate topics but still have plenty of blank pages left. Two, I write anything and everything in one notebook and my mind gets so scrambled I start a fresh notebook.
It also doesn’t help I buy multiple packs of notebooks as if I’m expecting a nuclear disaster and all the world’s production of paper gets destroyed. Assuming I survive such an event, what am I going to do? Throw pieces of paper into my makeshift fire pit? Write my last will and testament? Or write “valuable” insight to revive human civilization?
Okay, got way off topic. So, this is my best system on how to finish a notebook. First, I buy a pocket notebook (3”x5” or 4”x6”) and keep it in my pocket or nearby at all times. What’s great about smaller notebooks is that I keep my writings short. Second, I use it only for my thoughts and blog posts so it’s easier to review back a topic. Finally, I don’t under any circumstances, use another notebook until I finish it. Once done, I write my name, dates started and finished, and a table of contents written on the inside book cover.
I buy larger notebooks (8.5”x11”), for long essays and book projects and leave them at home. Anything I write on my smaller notebooks that needs to be expanded I transfer to the larger notebook.
A small and large notebook is all you need. And don’t buy more than three notebooks of each size at a time. You have enough writing material without acting like a crackhead always needing a fix. If you have a better system let me know.
#writing #notebook #system
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FEDITECH

Il est difficile de croire que Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre qui a démocratisé l'accès au savoir universel, fête déjà son quart de siècle. Pour marquer ce vingt-cinquième anniversaire, la fondation Wikimedia ne s'est pas seulement contentée de souffler des bougies. Elle a profité de cette occasion symbolique pour dévoiler une série de nouveaux partenariats commerciaux avec la crème de la technologie mondiale et les pionniers de l'intelligence artificielle.
Au cœur de cette nouvelle stratégie se trouve Wikimedia Enterprise, un produit commercial développé par la fondation. Loin de trahir sa mission d'accès gratuit pour le grand public, cet outil est conçu pour répondre aux besoins titanesques des entreprises technologiques. Il permet une réutilisation et une distribution à grande échelle du contenu de Wikipédia et des autres projets affiliés. Si un partenariat avec Google avait déjà été officialisé en 2022, Wikimedia a levé le voile sur l'ampleur réelle de son réseau de clients. Au cours de l'année écoulée, des accords ont été conclus avec des mastodontes comme Amazon, Meta et Microsoft, mais aussi avec des acteurs émergents et disruptifs de l'IA tels que la start-up française Mistral AI et le moteur de réponse Perplexity. D'autres collaborations avec Ecosia, Pleias, ProRata, Nomic et Reef Media viennent compléter ce tableau impressionnant.
Ces accords offrent à Wikipédia un nouveau levier indispensable pour assurer sa pérennité économique. Nous vivons une époque où le contenu de l'encyclopédie est massivement aspiré et réutilisé par des modèles de langage et des services technologiques pour fournir des réponses factuelles et instantanées aux internautes. Plutôt que de subir ce pillage numérique, Wikimedia Enterprise transforme cette dépendance en opportunité. Le service ne se contente pas de faire payer ces entreprises pour l'usage des données. Il leur offre en retour un accès privilégié, rapide et volumineux, spécifiquement calibré pour alimenter leurs algorithmes gourmands en informations.
Il faut dire que l'enjeu est colossal. La fondation a rappelé dans son billet de blog que Wikipédia figure toujours parmi les dix sites web les plus visités au monde. Avec plus de 65 millions d'articles rédigés dans plus de 300 langues et près de 15 milliards de vues par mois, l'encyclopédie constitue le socle de vérité sur lequel repose une grande partie du web moderne. C'est précisément cette base de données humaine que les géants de la Silicon Valley s'arrachent.
Pourtant, au milieu de cette effervescence technologique, la fondation tient à rappeler une vérité fondamentale à travers l'importance du facteur humain. Selena Deckelmann, directrice des produits et de la technologie, a souligné avec justesse que le savoir est intrinsèquement humain et qu'il nécessite ces derniers pour être créé et maintenu. Dans un monde de plus en plus automatisé, la connaissance générée par les bénévoles de Wikipédia est plus précieuse que jamais. C'est grâce à l'aide continue des lecteurs, des éditeurs volontaires et des donateurs que la plateforme restera ce carrefour indispensable de la collaboration en ligne.
Les célébrations de cet anniversaire ne se limitent toutefois pas aux annonces corporatives. Wikimedia a lancé une vaste campagne commémorative incluant une nouvelle série documentaire vidéo. Celle-ci offre une plongée fascinante dans les coulisses, mettant en valeur les visages des bénévoles qui, aux quatre coins du globe, construisent l'encyclopédie jour après jour. Une capsule temporelle numérique a également été inaugurée pour explorer le passé, le présent et le futur du site, avec la participation narrative de son fondateur, Jimmy Wales. Pour couronner le tout, un événement en direct est prévu aujourd’hui sur les réseaux sociaux de Wikipédia, promettant divertissements et invités de marque.
Ces annonces dessinent le portrait d'une organisation qui refuse de vieillir. Entre la modernisation de son infrastructure technique, ses propres expérimentations avec l'IA et l'introduction de nouveaux formats comme la vidéo courte, elle prouve qu'elle est prête à affronter les vingt-cinq prochaines années avec la même pertinence qu'au premier jour.
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G A N Z E E R . T O D A Y

Bathed her today and, surprisingly, she still doesn't hate me.
It's mating season for the cats these days and there are more cats than humans in Cairo, which is a city of over 20 million people, which makes cat-mating season kind of a warzone.
She may just be seeking refuge from all the horny bobcats out there, of which I can see four sniffing around the studio doors as I type.
In the process of recalibrating my daily routine; Bedtime reading just ain't for me, so instead I'm taking up reading first thing in morning. My place doesn't get any direct sunlight, which is a blessing in the hot summer months, but a frigid curse worthy of Norse gods in the winter. I may have to incorporate a daily noon-time stroll into my routine just to get some sun. I'm terrible at aimless walking though, and need to figure a destination into my plan to make it work.
In other news: I think I'm getting the hang of homemade egg pasta. No machines.

The plan to give up smoking will likely not come to pass, but I can at the very least attempt to heavily reduce it.
#journal
from Lastige Gevallen in de Rede
In verhoorkamer 200.1 van de Smægmåånse Veiligheidservice zat Zinspecteur Click Klak tegenover de gisternacht opgepakte wereldberuchte terrorist Ali Neeja.
Na een tip afkomstig van notabene zijn echtgenote tevens partner in de terroristische huishouding W. Itlijn. werd het gezin metname Ali jarenlang op de voet gevolgd door de vaderlandse diensten verlenende kantoor opgericht voor alles wat veilig is en of daar voor door gaat. Gisternacht besloot de dienst tot actie over te gaan na een allesbehalve geheime bezorging van alweer een pakket vol explosief materiaal.
Met veel bombarie, lawaai, glanzend en flitsend materiaal, reden zinspecteurs Click Klak en zijn manschapen naar de Laan van de vrijheid nummer 666, gebouwd in een luxe wijk waar de rijksten der rijken woonden, dat wil zeggen een plek met enorm veel groen, leef optrekken met een grote leegte tussen muren, wijds uiteen staande en vaak verdomd weinig mensen bewegend tussen die muren, stevige wanden gemaakt van duizenden opgestapelde met mortel aan elkaar gelijmde gebakken stenen afgewisseld met hier en daar een kijk naar buiten gat. Al die huizen zijn altijd voorzien van de best betaalbare en meest eenvoudig instelbare bewakingsystemen om al het aangeschafte, binnen gegraaide spul daar binnen binnen voor eigen pupillen te houden, de huidige waard opgesloten in die huis zone verhoudt zich tot de soortgelijken buiten de eigen wanden wereld zoals hij is.
Dit systeem begon meteen nadat de dienstverleners de voordeur tot ontploffing hadden gebracht onderdeel te worden van Zinspecteurs Click Klaks 666e kakofonie, tussen de sirenes door klonk Da da da du liebst mich nicht, het lied van Trio maar dan in een illegaal verkregen acid house versie, Click Klaks mannen wisten dat dit zou gebeuren. Ze hadden deze inval van verre zien aankomen allemaal dankzij de online werk agenda en daarom ook tot die tijd in details kunnen voorbereiden zodat ze alweer niet voor verassingen kwamen te staan.
Het moment van de inval was weliswaar omstreden, de inval was net tijdens de school voorjaarsvakantie en velen wouden liever met hun gezin naar een huisje te Elders op aard dan hier een inval doen op onbehaaglijke naarlingen zoals Ali Neeja en W.
Itlijn. Echter ze kregen loon naar werken en op vakantie gaan naar Elders of Ergens anders hoort daar niet bij dat is slechts het resultaat van dit hele gebeuren, vakantie werk daar dankzij werk voor veilig voor zichzelf en anderen hier, al is het tijdens het beste moment voor zo'n vakantie.
De vele geluiden stapelden zich op, de commando voerder schreeuwde zijn commando re mi fa so ti do's zo hard dat zelfs de buren 110 meter verderop het zouden kunnen horen, de optocht ervoor hadden ze zeker niet gemist. De vijf kleurrijk uitgedoste wagens, de valse noten blazende speakers altijd gepaard met neon knipper lichten, het noodzakelijke lawaai opdat de vele onschuldigen levend hier in Smægmå zich ondanks alle slechtheid op de wereld zich een beetje veiliger voelen. Dat en cultuurlijk om die in en in slechten de stuipen op het anders zo rustige maar boze lijf te jagen.
De tot in de puntjes voorbereide inval verliep vanzelfsprekend vrij vlot, binnen luttele seconden na het inbeuken van de slaapkamerdeur werd Ali Neeja door de speciaal daarvoor ingehuurde expert Klaas Vaker wakker geschudt uit zijn immens diepe slaap, W. Itlijn was afwezig, op vakantie naar Benjemaleisië met de kinderen Fantasia en Fata Morgana en haar publieks geheim, minnaar “”! Op en naast het bed van de terrorist lagen vele explosieven, ook op vele andere plekken in de villa vonden de veiligheidsdiensten verlenende ambtenaren heel veel explosief materiaal. Deze net ontwaakte man was inderdaad een gevaar voor de staat.
Nu zat Ali Neeja klaarwakker tegenover Click Klak, de zinspecteur maakte tss, tsss, geluiden terwijl hij overbelichte foto's liet zien van bijna al het explosieve materiaal gevonden in zijn huis en in containers rondom naamloze villa 666 op De Laan der Vrijheid. Hij sprak “Terrorist Ali u was tot op heden een gerespecteerd lid van de vaderlandse elite met een peperduur contract, had alles wat u hartje kon begeren en aardig wat spul dat u hoofdje dacht te moeten willen, waarom bent u dan zo boos!” Het is zo dat Ali Neeja had van voor dit verhoor had gevraagd of hij zich alsjeblieft mocht beroepen op zwijgrecht, gebruik mocht maken van ijzige stilte in ieder geval tijdens dit verhoor, dit mocht, en daarom zei Neeja deze keer en alle komende keren waarop hij iets kon zeggen, niks, hij slaakte enkel zuchten op gepaste tijden.
Het veilige woord zou dus dit gehele stuk aan Click Klak toebehoren “U heeft uwer gezin, W. Itlijn, Fantasia, Fata Morgana en de Schildpad Stoffel meegesleept in deze blinde haat jegens ons, u denkbeeldige vijand. Stel dat u kind dit materiaal in de vingers had gekregen, wat dan! Het had massaal kunnen exploderen, enorme schade aanrichten, u opgezadeld met levenslange spijt” geslaakte zucht 2 De zinspecteur fluisterde iets in zijn mini microfoontje, het verhoor werd elders in Kantoor twee te Zęįst door een tweede virtueel aanwezige zinspecteur live gevolgd zodat Click Klak mogelijke verhoor fouten meteen kon herstellen en daarnaast stond hij in direct contact met zijn vijftien assistenten en hun secondanten aan de andere kant van de verhoor, bestudeer en doorvraag kamer deur, In dit specifieke geval schakelde hij de hulp in van de tweederangs secondanten. Even later bracht een gepantserde persoon een gepantserd koffertje in de praatruimte, opende deze metalen koffer en vertrok daarna schielijks met samengeknepen billen. geslaakte zucht 3.
In de koffer lag een klein deel van het gevonden explosief materiaal. Click Klak nam daarvan een nog kleiner deeltje in handen, keek even naar camera drie achter spiegel twee, zijn spontaan ingestudeerde actie werd na enig gekrakeel in de studio goedgekeurd door de VAZ. Het verhoor kon op deze wijze uren voortgaan. “Dit materiaal lag in de keuken meneer Neeja, op maar 15 meter afstand van Stoffel, 25 van Fantasia en 31 meter van Fata, dit ene stukje plastic had kunnen zorgen voor ernstige gevolgen, als je op zo'n gevuld extreem druk gevoelig bultje drukt is de ellende niet te overzien en op een zo'n stukje zitten honderden van die nopjes. Als u en u mogelijke handlangers dit spul samen tot ontploffing zouden brengen vrees ik dat de wereld in geen tijd ten onder gaat, in ieder induvidueel nopje zit valse lucht met opzet daarin geplaatst opdat het echt niet mag ontsnappen, nooit. Allemaal in het kader van onze veiligheid, stootvastheid, voorkomen van ellende oftewel waarborgen van de kwaliteit des levens. Zoiets laat je niet moedwillig ontsnappen. Geslaakte zucht 4
Zinspecteur Click Klak was wederom opgestaan uit zijn pluche zetel om te lopen ijsberen rondom de op een houten klapstoel gezetelde terrorist, zogenaamd diep in gedachten, turend naar de betonnen vloer, loenzend naar Ali, wachtend op een geweldige ingeving waarmee hij deze baksteenrijke misdadiger voor altijd op het goede pad zou brengen ver weg van deze levensbedreigende plastic lakens vol kwalijke staatsgevaarlijke lucht stukje voor stukje vastgeklonken in makkelijk te detoneren bubbels. Na vijf minuten rondjes rennen in de kleine ruimte gaf hij het op Dit keer werd geen zingeving door het dribbel ritueel opgeroepen. De volgende slaak zucht kwam op naam van Click Klak Geslaakte zucht 1 meteen gevolgd door Geslaakte zucht 5 opdoemend uit het keelgat van de terrorist.
In ongemakkelijke stilte werd het verhoor voortgezet tot aan de rust. Tijdens de rust bleef Ali Neeja in de grauwe grijze half duistere spiegelkamer. Click Klak vertrok naar de kantine vergader kamer voor nodig overleg met zijn inmiddels 50 assistenten en 50 secondanten. Een brainstorm rondom de grote hete koffie bron komt de staatsveiligheid altijd ten goede. De vergader eettafel was ruim voorzien van alle brandstoffen om iedereen actief en allert te houden tijdens de dagelijkse crisis situaties, slagroomgebak, borrelnoten, een plank met vele kazen, wijn, water erbij, hartige taarten, pasta schotel, rijpe vruchten, alcohol vrije frisdrank en een sorbet na, het land was bij de service altijd in goede handen. Dit soort bijeenkomsten waren altijd goed voor een doorbraak, hier kwam ieder overleg een persoon aankakken met de werkzame oplossing voor alle onze persoonlijke veiligheid bedreigende aardse problemen en bijpassende personen. Het is dan ook in het belang van ons allen, onze vrijheid, handelingsbekwaamheden, efficiëntie, koopkrachten oftewel het veilig heden dat ik hier verder geen woorden meer aan smerig maak. Het land zou anders teveel over zijn echte leiders komen te weten.
Terug in de benauwende ruimte was de zinspecteur voorzien van goede enerverende brandstof en hij zat redelijk vol goede bruikbare gedachten, zoveel als een net tot de nok gevulde maag mogelijk maakt dan. Hij moest en zou Ali Neeja breken, op de best mogelijke manier toespreken, zodat deze tot inkeer kwam, daarna als herboren met veel plezier zijn twintig jaar extra straf ging uitzitten, zichzelf zinvol ging maken in dat voor alle anderen, de onschuldigen in dit verhaal, afgesloten hol, samen werken met alle andere tot inkeer gekomen of komende terroristen aan de oplossing voor puzzels en of voorlezen van gedrukte bladzijden. Click Klak had dankzij jaren speurwerk hier aan vooraf al een helder beeld van het hele netwerk van deze eenkennige leider, vooralsnog leek het een lone wolf die zijn geliefde staat, land vol liefhebbend en goed volk, met deze valse lucht wou ondermijnen. Hij moest echter een volledige bekentenis aan Ali Neeja ontfutselen zodat hij ook echt kon worden gestraft voor de aangeschafte en uitgevoerde misdaden.
Tijdens het overleg was in alle haast Ali Neeja's bekentenis geschreven, Click Klak had dus alleen nog maar handtekeningen nodig onder dat document. “Dus” zei Click Klak. *Geslaakte zucht 6” “daar zit ik weer in mijn heerlijke relax stoel en jij nog altijd op je klap stoeltje, heb je al inkeer? Voel je de schuld opkomen, besef je wat je hebt gedaan Ali Neeja?!”
Zucht zeven ontsnapte uit het lippen paar van de terrorist lippen, meer niet. Er ontstond even een spannend moment toen de tl buis boven spiegel drie begon te knipperen, Beide heren werden nerveus door het probleem met wisselspanning in de lichtbuis. De zinspecteur meldde het probleem en een kreeg advies van een secondant. Click Klak liep naar het flikkerende licht en drukte op het aan en uit knopje, het licht ging weg en hield op met knipperen, De zinspecteur drukte nogmaals op het knopje en het probleem begon opnieuw. Het probleem was door deze interventie niet opgelost. Dit irriteerde Klak mateloos, de secondant van de secondant kwam na de reprimande de kamer binnen verwijderde de tl buis. Daarmee was dit tot overspanning leidende probleem in elk geval tijdelijk opgelost. Beide heren waren iets minder zichtbaar opgelucht.
“Wij, ik en mijn team van veilig deskundigen hebben tijdens het overleg aan je bekentenis gewerkt, ik zal hem voordragen dan is daarna het naamwoord aan jou, woorden, drievoudig, daar exact op die vooraf gefabriceerde locatie, onderaan de A4 om te erkennen dat je een misdadiger bent die ondanks al het goede dat dit land je gaf, dit volgeplempte begrensde levensgebied toch willens en wetens in gevaar hebt gebracht, oke?” sprak Click Clak die daarna een stap opzij moest zetten zodat camera vier Ali Neeja's knikje nogmaals, nadat de zinspecteur de verdachte wees op zijn onduidelijk toegeven, deze fysieke jawel kon registreren, tussen zucht 8 en negen kon iedereen die dat moest zien Ali nu wel duidelijk in beeld zien knikken. De voordracht van de bekentenis kon beginnen.
Ik Ali Neeja gehuwd burger van Smægmå met het burger dienstverlenings nummer 1234454345 wonend op De Laan der Vrijheid 666 geboren op een dag in een land ver ver van hier verklaar dat ik de thuisstaat, het pappieland Smægmå met opzet zin in gevaar bracht doormiddel van het kopen van onschuldig ogende producten waarom heen zat gewikkeld het eigenlijke gewilde explosieve materiaal, het object vol valse lucht onveilig opgesloten in grote en of kleine makkelijk tot ontploffing te brengen bubbels een welke u met geweld heeft laten, zie bewijzen 1 tot en met 123324, of nog wou laten ontsnappen en dus loslaten op ons, gedienstige, goed willende en gelovige inwoners plus bezoekers van dit geweldig gezellige en o zo vruchtbare belasting paradijs. U heeft aldoende gebruik gemaakt van en daardoor mede ontwikkeld een imposant netwerk waarin die zeer explosieve materialen, dit vreselijk gevaarlijke goed snel en efficiënt bij u thuis kon worden afgeleverd. Deze contacten staan bij deze bekentenis alfabetisch gerangschikt op bijlage 15 tot en met 83. U heeft weet van de gevolgen van het laten ontsnappen van deze valse lucht op u zelve als ook alle anderen, iedereen hier en daar, u beseft ten volste dat door u handelen iedereen vandaag de dag en alle op deze volgende in levensgevaar verkeerd.
Met vriendelijke groet ... (uw naam 3x)
geslaakte zucht 10 Een lange stilte volgde, Ali Neeja las de hele bekentenis ook de verzwegen stukken inclusief de duizenden bijlagen twee keer maar tekende het papier niet. De zinspecteur wees de terrorist op het vele werk door hem en zijn team verricht, de uren, het overleg, het plaatsen van apparatuur in zijn huis, de gevaren waaraan ze toen werden blootgesteld, het vele eten nodig om zoveel mensen dat werk te laten doen, de kosten voor de bouw van het veilig kantoor, de problemen daarbij, steeds meer geld was er nodig, de inkomens van iedereen noodzakelijk voor deze bekentenis kon worden voorgedragen en dat het niet meer dan normaal zou zijn dat Ali Neeja dus dat document de moeite waard zou maken alleen maar door 3 keer zijn naam te zetten onder dat witte A4 papier op exact de juiste plek. Op dat moment net na die lange speech begon tl buis twee boven gebroken spiegel één te knipperen, de spanning bij Ali Neeja was inmiddels door de druk om de waarheid te verhullen te hoog opgelopen om dit euvel nog te kunnen verdragen en zodoende zette hij hevig ademend reeks moeizame zuchten zo goed als vrijwillig met misschien een beetje hulp van de hand van Click Klak, we denken van niet, maar ja, door de spanningsproblemen in de lichtbuis was de beeld registratie apparatuur ook even uitgevallen, gelukkig meteen na bekentenis ondertekening hersteld zodat iedereen aan de andere kant van de spiegels en op het scherm Zinspecteur Click Klak triomfantelijk zag staan met de drievoudig ondertekende bekentenis.
Ali Neeja werd versuft, geblindoekt en lusteloos afgevoerd, vervolgens getransporteerd naar het zwaar beveiligde “Zijspoor” Bajes, Theater en Horeca complex. Click Klak werd op schouders genomen, een groot feest kwam op gang, hij en zijn team gingen met de bekentenis in handen op een boot door de grachten van Smægmå waar langs de kanten achter de omheining de wild enthousiaste veilige bevolking Hoezee, Hoezee roepende het leven voluit vierde.
Eind Veilig, dus Goed.
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FEDITECH

Nous adorons tous la magie de la technologie, surtout lorsqu'elle simplifie nos interactions quotidiennes. Prenez Google Fast Pair, par exemple. Ce protocole a été conçu avec une idée noble, permettre aux utilisateurs d'Android et de ChromeOS de connecter leurs gadgets Bluetooth en une fraction de seconde, d'une simple tape. Fini les menus de configuration interminables. Pourtant, cette quête de l'ultra-commodité vient de se heurter à un mur de sécurité inquiétant.
Des chercheurs en sécurité de l'université KU Leuven, en Belgique, ont révélé une réalité glaçante. Le protocole même qui rend vos connexions si fluides peut être retourné contre vous. Baptisée WhisperPair, cette collection de vulnérabilités permet à des pirates de prendre le contrôle de centaines de millions d'écouteurs, de casques et d'enceintes, transformant vos accessoires audio en outils d'espionnage redoutables.
L'équipe de recherche a identifié des failles critiques dans 17 accessoires audio utilisant le protocole Fast Pair, vendus par des géants de l'industrie comme Sony, JBL, Xiaomi, Nothing, OnePlus et même Google. Le scénario d'attaque est d'une simplicité effrayante. Un pirate équipé d'un équipement peu coûteux (comme un Raspberry Pi) et se trouvant à portée Bluetooth (environ 15 mètres) peut détecter votre appareil et s'y connecter silencieusement. Selon Sayon Duttagupta, l'un des chercheurs, l'attaque est fulgurante:
« Vous marchez dans la rue, écouteurs sur les oreilles. En moins de 15 secondes, nous pouvons détourner votre appareil. »
Une fois connecté, l'attaquant devient le maître à bord. Il peut injecter son propre son à un volume assourdissant, couper vos appels, ou pire, activer le microphone pour écouter vos conversations ambiantes à votre insu. L'aspect le plus pernicieux concerne la localisation. Les chercheurs ont découvert que certains modèles, notamment chez Google et Sony, peuvent être exploités pour traquer physiquement la victime. Si vos écouteurs n'ont pas été préalablement liés à un compte Google (par exemple, si vous êtes un utilisateur d'iPhone qui utilise des écouteurs tiers) un pirate peut lier l'accessoire à son propre compte Google via l'attaque.
Dès lors, vos écouteurs deviennent une balise de suivi dans le réseau “Localiser mon appareil” de Google. Le pirate peut suivre vos déplacements en temps réel sur une carte. Bien que Google et Apple aient mis en place des alertes pour prévenir le harcèlement, la victime recevrait une notification indiquant qu'elle est suivie par... ses propres écouteurs. La plupart des utilisateurs, pensant à un bug, ignoreraient probablement l'alerte, laissant le champ libre au stalker. Google a réagi en publiant un bulletin de sécurité et en déployant des correctifs pour ses propres appareils et pour le système Android. L'histoire ne s'arrête pourtant pas là. Les chercheurs ont déjà trouvé un moyen de contourner ce correctif concernant le traçage, prouvant que le jeu du chat et de la souris est loin d'être terminé.
Le problème structurel réside dans la nature même des objets connectés. Contrairement à votre smartphone ou votre ordinateur, qui vous harcèlent pour faire leurs mises à jour, vos enceintes et écouteurs restent souvent sur leur firmware d'origine. Pour vous protéger, vous devez généralement télécharger une application spécifique au fabricant (comme l'appli Sony ou JBL) pour installer les correctifs. Soyons honnêtes, la grande majorité des consommateurs ignorent même que ces applications existent ou que leurs écouteurs ont besoin de mises à jour logicielles. Tant qu’elles ne sont pas effectuées, les vulnérabilités persistent. Les chercheurs avertissent que des millions d'appareils resteront probablement vulnérables pendant des mois, voire des années.
L'origine du problème semble être un mélange de spécifications techniques mal interprétées par les fabricants de puces et de faiblesses dans le standard Fast Pair lui-même. Bien que Google certifie ces appareils, les tests n'ont visiblement pas suffi à détecter ces aberrations de sécurité, comme le fait qu'un appareil déjà couplé accepte une nouvelle connexion sans authentification forte. Alors, que faire ? La recommandation immédiate est de vérifier si vos accessoires audio disposent d'une application compagnon et de forcer une mise à jour du firmware dès aujourd'hui.
Au-delà du correctif technique, WhisperPair nous rappelle une vérité fondamentale de l'ère numérique, la commodité a un prix. En voulant supprimer les frictions technologiques pour nous faciliter la vie, les constructeurs suppriment parfois les barrières qui nous protègent. Comme le conclut le chercheur Nikola Antonijević: « La commodité ne devrait pas signifier moins de sécurité. »
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Lanza el dodo
Casi marzo ya y aún no había escrito un resumen de 2025, así que me pongo a ello. Va a ser un resumen somero por varias razones:
Voy a agrupar algunos títulos en categorías porque si no estoy aquí hasta mañana.
Ya sé que medir todo no es lo mejor para la cabeza y tal, pero también es bueno hacer check, y es una forma de comprobar si tiene sentido comprar según qué juegos para que estén pillando polvo. Y esto tiene como resultado saber que he jugado menos a menos juegos distintos (también está sesgado por cómo apunto las partidas online), así que tocará aprender más juegos este año.

Para 2026 me he propuesto varios retos, como jugar al menos una partida a todos los juegos que tenga en casa con reglas para 1 jugador, así no tengo excusa de no tener amigüitos y me fuerzo a no perder el tiempo de maneras menos satisfactorias.
Y eso es más o menos todo el resumen, ¡pasadlo bien!
Tags: #boardgames #juegosdemesa
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Skiathos är en grekisk ö som ofta beskrivs som liten till ytan men stor i upplevelser. Här möts frodig natur och klart, ljusblått hav på ett sätt som känns både lättillgängligt och genuint. Ön är känd för sin gröna vegetation, sina många sandstränder och sin avslappnade atmosfär där semesterlivet får ta plats utan att kännas stressigt. Samtidigt finns ett levande vardagsliv med små tavernor, hamnpromenader och byar där tempot är lugnt men aldrig sömnigt. Kombinationen av naturskönhet, badvänliga stränder och grekisk charm gör Skiathos till en plats som passar lika bra för total avkoppling som för den som vill upptäcka nya miljöer i sin egen takt.
Skiathos är en av de grekiska öar där stränderna inte bara är många, utan också väldigt olika varandra. Det gör att ön passar lika bra för den som vill ha stillhet och natur som för den som söker liv, musik och rörelse vid havet.
En av de mest älskade stränderna är Koukounaries, ofta beskriven som en av Medelhavets vackraste sandstränder. Den långa, mjuka sanden sluttar långsamt ner i ett klart och lugnt hav, och bakom stranden breder en grön pinjeskog ut sig som ger både skugga och en speciell doft som hör platsen till. Trots sin popularitet känns stranden sällan stressig, och det är lätt att hitta sin egen rytm här.
En helt annan upplevelse väntar vid Lalaria, som nästan känns mer som ett naturfenomen än en traditionell strand. De vita klipporna, de runda stenarna och det mjölkigt turkosa vattnet skapar ett dramatiskt landskap som etsar sig fast i minnet. Eftersom stranden bara nås med båt blir besöket ofta kort men intensivt, och känslan av att ha kommit till en avlägsen plats är stark redan när man kliver i land.
För den som uppskattar öppna ytor och ett lugnare tempo är Mandraki ett utmärkt val. Här möts man av sanddyner, vidsträckt strand och ett hav som kan vara både spegelblankt och lekfullt beroende på vinden. Atmosfären är avslappnad och naturlig, och stranden passar lika bra för långa promenader som för stillsamt badande.
Agia Eleni är känd för sitt varma ljus och sina solnedgångar som färgar himlen i mjuka toner av orange och rosa. Det är en strand som inbjuder till att stanna kvar längre än planerat, kanske med något kallt i glaset medan dagen sakta övergår i kväll. Kombinationen av fin sand, lugnt vatten och en behaglig stämning gör den till en favorit för många.
Vill man istället ha mer puls och energi är Banana Beach svår att motstå. Här finns musik, strandbarer och vattensporter som ger platsen en livlig och social karaktär. Samtidigt är vattnet klart och inbjudande, vilket gör att stranden fungerar både för bad och för den som vill umgås och känna semesterkänslan på hög volym.
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FEDITECH

Si vous pensiez que la période de l'efficacité chez Meta était terminée, détrompez-vous. Mark Zuckerberg et sa garde rapprochée viennent de dévoiler leur dernière arme pour presser le citron jusqu'à la dernière goutte avec un nouveau système d'évaluation baptisé “Checkpoint”. Sous couvert de simplification administrative et de récompenses financières alléchantes, ce programme, qui entrera en vigueur d’ici mi-2026, semble surtout marquer l'avènement d'une culture d'entreprise impitoyable où la compétition interne prime sur la collaboration.
Selon des documents internes obtenus par Business Insider, l’entreprise américaine promet désormais des bonus pouvant atteindre 300% du salaire de base pour une poignée d'élus. C'est le miroir aux alouettes classique, agiter une carotte dorée pour faire courir l'ensemble de la meute plus vite. Mais derrière ces chiffres qui donnent le tournis se cache une mécanique bien plus sombre, celle d'un darwinisme corporatif assumé qui ne laisse aucune place à l'erreur.
Le nouveau système divise les employés en quatre catégories distinctes. D'un côté, l'élite, les “Outstanding” (environ 20% des effectifs) qui toucheront un multiplicateur de 200% et une infime minorité recevant le nouveau “Meta Award” avec un multiplicateur de 300%. De l'autre, la masse laborieuse classée “Excellent” (environ 70%), qui recevra 115% de son bonus cible. L'excellence est donc devenue la norme, le minimum syndical. Ce qui était autrefois une performance louable est désormais considéré comme le point de départ, la ligne de base.
Mais le véritable danger réside dans le bas du classement. Environ 10% des employés se retrouveront dans les catégories “Needs Improvement” (50% de bonus) ou “Not Meeting Expectations” (0% de bonus). Dans un contexte où Meta a récemment exigé de ses managers qu'ils classent de force 15 à 20% de leurs équipes dans les catégories inférieures, ce nouveau système ressemble moins à un outil de développement qu'à un algorithme de licenciement déguisé. Être classé dans ces catégories revient pratiquement à recevoir une notification de préavis.
Pour vendre cette pilule amère, la direction utilise l'argument fallacieux de la bureaucratie. Le mémo interne déplore que les managers passent 80 heures par an sur les évaluations et que les employés perdent collectivement 330 000 heures en feedbacks. L'objectif officiel est de sauver du temps. En réalité, en réduisant l'importance des retours entre pairs, Meta élimine l'un des derniers remparts d'humanité et de nuance dans l'évaluation du travail.
Le passage à deux cycles d'évaluation complets par an (milieu et fin d'année) avec la même échelle de notation ne va pas réduire la pression, bien au contraire. Il va instaurer un climat de surveillance perpétuelle. Les employés ne pourront plus jamais relâcher la pression. Ils seront constamment sur la sellette, jugés tous les six mois avec la menace implicite de voir leur bonus fondre ou leur poste disparaître. C'est l'institutionnalisation du stress chronique.
Ce virage n'est pas là par hasard. Il trouve sa place dans une tendance lourde de la Silicon Valley, où Google et Amazon durcissent également leurs processus d'évaluation. Mais chez Meta, le cynisme atteint des sommets. Après avoir licencié des milliers de personnes et qualifié 2025 d'année “intense”, l'entreprise transforme ses bureaux en arène de gladiateurs.
En promettant des sommes astronomiques aux “super-performants”, elle brise la cohésion d'équipe. Pourquoi aider un collègue si cela risque de permettre à ce dernier de vous voler votre place dans le top 20% ? Ce système “Checkpoint” est conçu pour extraire le maximum de productivité par la peur et l'appât du gain, sacrifiant au passage le bien-être mental des salariés et la culture de l'entraide. Sous les dehors brillants d'une réforme moderne, c'est un retour aux méthodes de management les plus archaïques et déshumanisantes.
from Unvarnished diary of a lill Japanese mouse
JOURNAL 15 janvier 2026
Je suis devant Tôdai, ma princesse, mon soleil va apparaître sous peu, éblouissant la nuit, chassant l’ombre autour d'elle. J’ai eu une grande consultation aujourd'hui, je ne reviendrai plus voir mes psy avant un mois, puis on verra disent-ils, mais peut-être plus du tout. J’ai cerné et éclairci mon dernier problème, le plus profond, ça s'est fait tout seul, tranquillement pendant les vacances et ces jours derniers, je suis capable de le voir maintenant clairement et calmement. J'en parlerai plus tard. C'est drôle j'avais totalement étouffé ce trauma-là, plus profondément blessant que tous les autres. Je développerai. On m'a fait des compliments insensés aujourd’hui, que je ne répéterai pas, en résumé je suis physiquement une “athlète discrète” et mon mental est celui d'un moine zen, je suis “désespérément saine”. J’ai réussi tous les tests, je n'ai aucun trouble psychologique, j'avais juste une accumulation de traumas empilés et se masquant les uns les autres. Les psys me disent que sans eux j'aurai certainement réussi à tout régler seule, mes mécanismes mentaux me le permettaient ça m'aurait juste demandé plus de temps et aussi de douleur.
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Je suis en mesure maintenant d’en parler J’ai vu et compris quel était mon traumatisme majeur, celui qui a dépassé tous les autres et que j'ai refoulé au point de l'oublier totalement sous l'empilement des traumas successifs. je peux le regarder calmement maintenant de manière objective et dépassionnée. À partir de la mort de maman je me suis accrochée à mon frère aîné malgré sa dureté malgré les coups. Je suis devenue une enfant prodige du sabre pour lui plaire. Il était devenu ma référence, le point central de mon univers. J'avais pour lui un amour total. Ce jour que sortant d’une profonde dépression d'un an après le viol, je n'avais pas encore 16 ans, devant toute l'assemblée familiale les cadres de l'entreprise et autres réunis pour la cérémonie anniversaire du décès de mon grand-père, le criminel de guerre, soudain j'ai pris la parole pour dénoncer ce qu'on m'avait fait subir. Je m'attendais à être soutenue, consolée par mon modèle… au contraire répondant à la rage de mon père ce sont mes frères, l'aîné en tête qui m'ont fait taire, maîtrisée dans ma colère et enfermée dans le placard du garage. Là dans le noir et l´incertitude du sort qu'on me réservait, mon cœur s'est brisé, je me suis effondrée comme une poupée de chiffon. J'étais incapable de pleurer depuis ces jours où mon entraînement interdisait toute plainte toute larme. Le choc était si violent que mon esprit a créé un masque, fermé la porte de ce souvenir. Tout m'est revenu, tranquillement, comme un vieux film oublié petit à petit en douceur pendant nos vacances. J'ai aimé follement mon frère et il m'avait trahi froidement, mécaniquement, sur ordre de mon père probablement, lui ne m'avait jamais vraiment aimé d'ailleurs et certainement pas avec l'intensité que moi j'y avais mise. C’est sans doute la vraie raison qui m'a conduite à le provoquer et me battre avec lui il y a quelques années le bokken en main faute de tirer le sabre en vrai. Je pensais devoir lui en parler, et puis il m'apparaît clairement que non je n’en ai pas le droit. Il culpabilise déjà énormément à cause de ce qu'on m'a fait je ne veux pas rajouter ma peine, d’ailleurs évacuée, à la sienne. Je respire librement maintenant. Le passé ne pèse plus sur mon âme je n’ai plus de cauchemars, plus d´hallucinations éveillée, ma pensée est claire, il n’y a plus de recoins obscurs, je ne crains plus mes démons, la lumière dans mon cœur les a chassés. Je suis heureuse en compagnie de la femme que j’aime plus que tout au monde plus que moi-même et qui m'aime en retour sans limite. Je vois son sourire calme tandis qu’elle travaille sur son laptop. Je la regarde et mon amour explose dans mon cœur des larmes d’amour me viennent. Vous connaissez ça les larmes d'amour ?
#douleur
from An Open Letter
I feel like I’ve written about this before, but I had a really really good gym session with E today. We left around midnight, and it was 1 hr 40 minutes of legs, including 4 sets of bulgarian split squats. I felt so fucking alive. I almost cried at home while I told E about music and just art overall. Fuck man I’m happy to be alive.
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laska
Je viens de finir une BD, Punk à sein de Magali Le Huche.
Je lis très souvent des témoignages de maladies en BD, je pourrais en faire un très gros article. (Un jour. En attendant je vous en mets quelques-uns à la fin).
L’autrice parisienne raconte son cancer du sein, sans utiliser les termes de “warrior”, ce genre de vocabulaire malvenu quand en vérité c’est la loterie devant l’issue.
Les phases de tout va bien aller, les phases où l’on fait semblant, celles où l’on est au fond du bac : tout est abordé, qu’est-ce qui fait mal, le rapport à son corps, les regrets. Les chirurgiens cons, ceux qui sont super, la salle de réveil.
Le fantôme de la mamie qui a eu un cancer jeune, qui n’en a jamais parlé et toute cette honte qu’elle portait. C’était pas mieux avant, non.
Les proches de Magali sont super, mais elle croise et raconte des patientes qui se font larguer illico.
(D’ailleurs, les statistiques de séparation selon le genre n’ont pas l’air si tranchées que ça. Mais si quelqu’un peut m’aider à comprendre ces pourcentages…).
Les passages les plus sympas sont sur ses copines de cancer et leurs “cafés nichons”. Tout de suite, une vieille amie l’appelle, une autre amie la met en relation avec une amie à elle. C’est tout bête, mais je n’aurais pas eu spontanément l’idée.
Le titre a un sens particulier : j’ai mis les Clash en fond, obligée. Quand certain’es se tournent vers la spiritualité, l’autrice évacue son trop-plein avec le punk. Et avec l’histoire des Clash, qui s’élevaient contre les injustices sociales. C’est inattendu, parler frontalement politique et musique dans ce genre de témoignage.
Les remerciements finissent sur l’importance des services publics. “Vive l’hôpital public”.
Que survivent les services publics à cette BD de 2025, ce serait bien, oui.
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Les BD de témoignages qui me viennent à l’esprit :
Globules et conséquences de Catherine Pioli. Sur sa leucémie, c’est très pédagogique et j’aime beaucoup le ton et le trait.
Le très connu mais finalement pas tant que ça (offrez le aux soignant’es autour de vous…) Goupil ou face de Lou Lubie sur la cyclothymie et la bipolarité. Ici aussi, très pédagogique. Et pas un ton lourd. (Journal d’une bipolaire est bien plus rude à lire mais témoigne d’une expérience plus floue du diagnostic).
Sur le diabète, L’escroqueuse est magistral. Expérience individuelle avec les effets secondaires et la difficulté des symptômes, le déni… Mais aussi la mainmise des laboratoires sur les traitements et toutes les injustices engendrées. Ça parle du diabète de type 1, celui qu’on a enfant (le type 2 étant acquis adulte).
Et je finis, malgré de nombreuses tentations (je n’ai qu’à jeter un oeil sur mes étagères) par les BD de Juliette Mercier sur sa maladie de Crohn. Beaucoup d’humour de dérision, mais pas de voile pudique sur les symptômes et leur impact.
Bonnes lectures !