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Mood ♫ Black Atlass & Jessie Reyez - Sacrifice ♫
Yeah, we could call it love, or we could call it nothing
But you got what I want, so baby, give me something
Yeah, we could call it love, or we could call it nothing
But you got what I want, you know I do, too
.... somebody's got to go in and tell us how cold it is.
Have a whacky Wednesday, or a thilly Thursday if you're in the Southern Hemisphere.
" One moment my friend , the mystical artifact you had me retrieve
cost me the life of one of my men , the price has gone up."
"You failed to mention it was a dark object and quite dangerous" said MR. Crow
Tofu and his cousin Filou often seem to share secrets. I'm not sure if I would really like to know what they are talking about. Sometimes ignorance is bliss ...
A squirrel clings to the side of a tree like it’s halfway through deciding whether you’re worth trusting or just worth ignoring. Sunlight catches the edge of its tail, turning the fur into a soft halo against the rough, textured bark. The white chest and belly pop against the darker tones, giving the whole frame a clean, high‑contrast look that feels both wild and intimate.
The shallow depth of field isolates the squirrel perfectly, blurring the background into soft greens and browns so every whisker, claw, and patch of fur becomes the story. It’s a classic Florida backyard wildlife moment, elevated by tight framing and timing that catches the animal in that split second of stillness before it bolts.
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A pair of royal terns appear to be negotiating over a fish (in the male's beak) and what could follow. Will she or won't she? Stay tuned!
Taken at Fort De Soto in Florida.
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"Wait, what?"
I'm showing you what's possible with an old, broken emergency laptop and Gimp (my main computer died) so photography in SL isn't impossible, just more...challenging. I crashed several times trying to take this as my potato objected to the shadows.
Its actually a great week for RPers in SL - Fantasy Fair is now open with many sims to explore. Several of the Engine Room creators are present too.
Fantasy Fair 2024: Building a World Without Cancer Store List/TP's
Engine Room is closing soon. More details and previews here
Featuring:
⦿ SOMNIUM - - Thief's Plunder Set (fatpack)
At the Engine Room Event March/April 2024
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⦿ toksik - Modest Dress (This dress shows the feet, we made it more historical by lowering it - many colour options available)
At the Engine Room Event March/April 2024
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⦿ Raven Bell - Starling Hair (Many colour options available)
At the Engine Room Event March/April 2024
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⦿ [CABALPIER] - Antique Carpet Stack (in different shades)
At the Engine Room Event March/April 2024
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⦿ LVL9 - Royal Game of Ur (On the table - this is a working, playable game)
At the Engine Room Event March/April 2024
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⦿ *Arts & Gear* - Crash Objects[Vol.1] (attackable and breakable decor for RP and fights!)
At the Engine Room Event March/April 2024
Creator's image
⦿ Volkstone - Alex Facial Hair
⦿ ROZOREGALIA - BJYAN*NECKLACE
⦿ Game Wylder - Leaf Umbrella
Backdrop buildings:
⦿ Del-ka Aedilis - House Guthrum C/M - Summer
Fantasy Fair 2024
Additional clutter by Apple Fall and 8f8.
Some items used in decor are not available anymore :(
Head: LeLUTKA AARON 4.0
Head: LeLUTKA Lake Head 3.1
Legacy Athletic & LaraX bodies
Shapes our own.
Poses my own.
Me: "But Babe, I Don't Feel Like Eating Pussy Tonight."
Rhama: "Aw, C'mon...I'll Just Put In The Clit."
Union Masonic Lodge No. 108 located in the Homesteaders' Village located in the Manitoba Agricultural Museum grounds in the Town of Austin Manitoba Canada
In 1986 Union Lodge decided to give up their charter as an active lodge on the Registry of the Grand Lodge of Manitoba. R. W. Bro. Alvin G. Hewitt was the District Deputy Grand Master of District 2 at the time, he and several brethren of the District decided to have the lodge moved and placed as a working lodge on the street of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum. Negotiations got under way with the Board of the Agricultural Museum and with the Board of General Purposes of the Grand Lodge of Manitoba. An agreement was reached and a small group started on the project of fund raising. The Masons of Manitoba were most generous in their support and in a very short time the building was moved from the Town of Brookdale to the grounds of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum.
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USS Goldsmith, NCC-1979, Overture class starship.
Designed and built for exploration with a specialisation in first contact missions, the crew of the USS Goldsmith opened negotiations with several new civilisations that went on to become members of the Federation.
30 by 30 by 2030: the target of protecting 30% of lands and 30% of waters by 2030. In 2022, at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Montréal, 196 countries agreed to protect 30% of the world’s lands, oceans, coastal areas, and inland waters by 2030 and 50% by 2050, through the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). This idea originated from biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, who was dubbed “Darwin’s natural heir” and “a Darwin for the modern day.” Wilson believed that half the earth needed to be conserved in order to protect 80 percent of the planet’s species. This framework aligns with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. “Tackling this issue is both a moral duty and an economic imperative.”
The 30 by 30 (30 x 30) agenda is being implemented in Canada without a vote, and the public has almost no information on the subject. The Canadian government has signed over 60 agreements with Indian bands across Canada to preserve 30% of lands and waters by 2030 and to preserve 50% of lands and waters by 2050. “Canada, BC, and First Nations governments have joined the United Nations in committing to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030.” The dialectic: problem, reaction, solution. On May 27, 2021, a Kamloops Indian band publicly declared the discovery of an Indian residential school mass grave site. Of course, the mass grave site has no bodies, so they have never dug it up. The United Nations urged the Canadian government to promptly investigate the supposed graves. The mass grave hoax was the excuse needed for the federal government to rally the troops to introduce legislation concerning the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. We must get this fast-tracked! On June 21, 2021, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was put into law. The provincial government of British Columbia had already beaten the federal government to the punch. They had already passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) into law, on November 28, 2019, which established the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Currently, British Columbia is a test site for the implementation of the UNDRIP agenda. Therefore, British Columbians are afraid of losing their private property rights. This United Nations governmental framework is a ploy to abolish private property―AKA communism. Why did a supposedly sovereign nation adapt the laws of an international body? If you are too dull to understand, the United Nations was put into place to bring about a one-world government. The United Nations loves to market global governance as ‘Sustainability.’ Propaganda: UNDRIP has been marketed to Canadians as ‘Truth and Reconciliation.’ The end result of this Truth and Reconciliation: you will own nothing and be happy. Of course, we have also been marketed multiculturalism (decolonialism): you will be replaced and be happy. Part of the 30 by 30 agenda is decolonialism. This means that the Indian’s will be given control of the land.
According to a Canadian constitutional lawyer, there seems to be a caveat in these United Nations agreements. If the Indians mismanage the land, then the United Nations can legally step in to manage the land. The United Nations will then be the ‘guardians’ of the land! Some Indians are afraid that they may lose their land (both present and future lands). If the government can take the land of the majority and give it to the few, they can also take the land of the few. Indeed, Indian bands are famous for corruption and mismanagement. It’s a guaranty that many Indian bands would lose their land. Of course, they will take the land from the Indians. They are pawns! “More broadly, some Indigenous organisations have criticised the way 30 by 30 has been promoted and negotiated, arguing that it risks appropriating Indigenous lands under the guise of biodiversity conservation. The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs described aspects of the initiative as having ‘all the hallmarks of green colonialism,’ citing the marginalisation of Indigenous titles and rights in international conservation processes and warning that expanding protected areas without secure recognition of Indigenous jurisdiction could further entrench colonial patterns of land control.” Indeed, the globalists are the original colonialist gangsters/banksters. The United Nations is just a front organization. Those who make the rules globally will control the world.
The United States of America wasn’t a voting member in the negotiations of the Biodiversity Conference in Montréal, because it didn’t ratify the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1993. However, there is a workaround! Joe Biden issued an executive order for an initiative called Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. “The benefits of this executive order include improving the resiliency of our Nation’s infrastructure and placing the Nation on a more sustainable path for a carbon-free future.” This initiative also included a campaign called Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful. “The first-ever national conservation goal by a President—a goal of conserving at lest 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.” Does this sound familiar? “In total during his first two years in office, President Biden took more conservation actions and protected more lands than any other 21st century President by channeling more than $10 billion to local land conservation. His efforts have conserved millions of acres of lands and waters through designations of national monuments, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, farm bill conservation programs, and more. The President has demonstrated his commitment as a modern conservationist to aggressively pursuing the challenge of conserving at least 30 percent of American lands and waters by 2030.” Straight from the horse’s mouth! “In 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order that put into motion a plan to conserve 30% of the state’s lands and coastal waters by 2030. Since launching the so-called 30 x 30 initiative, the state has safeguarded 26.1% of its lands and 21.9% of its coastal waters, according to a new report.” Thank you Los Angeles Times. Now to Europe! The European Commission’s Biodiversity strategy for 2030 is an essential part of the European Green Deal. Huh, the Green (New) Deal? Sound familiar? “It [the European Green Deal] aims to cut emissions by at least 50% by 2030, rising towards 55%, while legally binding the 2050 neutrality goal through the European Climate Law.” The Biodiversity strategy for 2030 includes the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The European Parliament, despite great opposition from policymakers, introduced measures to restore nature on a fifth of land and sea by 2030. “The law passed narrowly with 336 votes for, 300 against, and 13 abstentions.”
A one-world government is the end goal. In the Book of Revelation, we see a one-world digital currency system implemented with a Mark—the Mark of the Beast (some sort of barcode, QR code, or embedded chip-type technology that will generate a unique transaction code). The Tribulation Period will be a time of totalitarianism, wars, famines, and plagues. Satan and his New World Order minions want to take away your lands and freedom, and then they will kill you with wars and famines and plagues.
Nunber 1
[Deadwool] Revolutionary hats - Fat pack
[Deadwool] Emperor jacket
[Deadwool] Emperor breeches
Number 2
[NC] - Masquerade Jacket (Grey/Blue) from Man Cave Event
[Deadwool] Enigma glasses
Hair: no.match_ ~ NO_HISTORY
Birds: TLC Pride-crested Cockatoo
Cat: JIAN Cat Deco Collection
Palace:
Palace Parlour Skybox ~ Angel Manor Estates
After intense negotiations, he has signed… he is still struggling to recover, his shirt half-open, his skin marked by my kisses, and my panties between his fingers as a souvenir. My proper suit plays with appearances: bold slit, controlled allure, sharp elegance. Businesswoman or predator ? I’m sometimes accused of mixing work and pleasure. Maybe… But the results are here: contract signed, client satisfied, and me… without panties, but terribly satisfied. 💄💋😏
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Agnes: Um, Dave, can I go outside?
Dave: I though you were just outside.
Agnes: I was.
Dave: See, no reason to go out again.
Agnes: I disagree. I want to go out now.
Dave: Does this have anything to do with the squirrel?
Agnes: Nope.
Dave: Good to know. Then what does it have to do with?
Agnes: The squirrel.
Dave: Pardon me?
Agnes: You asked if it had 'anything' to do with the squirrel. That was wrong because it has 'everything' to do with the squirrel!
Dave: You don't need to run outside to yell chase him down whenever you hear him chirping.
Agnes: That's where you're wrong. He needs me to chase him.
Dave: Really? Why can't he live his life peacefully?
Agnes: Because he's a jerk. Total jerk.
Dave: You don't need to go outside and chase him just because you think he's a jerk.
Agnes: Okay.... Can I go outside now?
Dave: Really? I though we settled this.
Agnes: You might think so, but we didn't. You said I couldn't go outside and chase him 'just because' I think he's a jerk. And I don't just think he's a jerk. I think he's both a jerk and annoying.
Dave: Really? This is how you're playing this?
Agnes: I have a long list of other things I think he is too. If I tell you all of them will you let me go outside again?
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Agnes pleading to go outside at the cabin. The squirrel was being particularly annoying on Saturday morning.
We were walking down the street. The three of us. Keiko, Skorj and I. Having a good time, in the drizzly and cool Tokyo afternoon. Minding our own business really. Walking off lunch, chatting, talking shop, taking pictures (At least some of us where, and some others, like me, thought they were, but I digress. You'll get it if you keep reading), marveling at Mr. Skorj's pinhole and Polaroid skills.
Point is we were walking down the street on our way to Ueno Park in search of stray cats to photograph. When all of a sudden. a man approached us, approached Skorj. A man with a somber look and dubious intentions, with an USB cable protruding from his sweater.
He offered to sell Skorj a camera. 1000 yen, he said, in his very thick Russian accent.
Apparently he was a Russian sailor, selling some cameras for pocket money, selling friend's cameras he brought with him on the ship. The rest of the details are fuzzy.
The camera was a Lomo Lubitel 166B. The shutter cocking lever was missing but other than that it looked interesting and in pretty good shape for a toy camera. Ahh, it did have a roll inside, not yet done with, in need of developing.
After a conversation, negotiation and much amusement had by all (except the Russian, who did not smile once) Skorj opted to buy the camera just so he could get the film inside and see what happened with it. The Russian wrote an address on a very colorful Russian photo shop mailer so that Skorj would mail him the photos if they came out? I'm not sure. I have the envelope now.
The 2nd camera offered to us was a very cute half frame toy camera, an old Russian Agat 18, loaded with film. Same price. 1000 yen.
Nobody else wanted it. So, of course, I bought it. I winded the roll in the Agat when I returned home and I do not think I'll get anything from it, but the canister is here, sitting on my desk. As soon as I read the info on the camera that Keiko so kindly sent to me I'll load some film in it and take it out for a spin.
Anyway, back to the story of the photo:
Later on during a coffee break, Skorj offered the Lubitel to Keiko and I. Keiko passed. I passed. But Skorj said he would toss it if nobody wanted it. You can do TTV with it, he said. Hmm, I've forgotten all about TTV. Okay, so, I gladly accepted the gift.
Mind you, I had taken photos of the whole thing. The sale, the passing the camera around, the three of us at the café, the cameras. All with my Hasselblad.
Thing is, later on, while at Ueno Park, when we finally found some kitty cats that stayed and posed for us and meowed for us and let us pet them and after all the wonderful, crazy and funny things that happened to the three of us that day; of meeting Keiko and Skorj and walking and shooting around town, when I finished my 220 roll on the Hasselblad and it was time to wind the film and reload, I realized there was no tension when cranking the back.
There wasn't any roll inside the Hasselblad. I had shot twenty-four imaginary photographs.
Photos of people, of people with cameras, of Keiko and Skorj taking photos with their Polaroids (Keiko's lovely green leather beauty) and pinholes, of hybrid sakura trees with white and intense pink flowers in the same branch, in the same clusters. Photos of kitty cats in Ueno Park and people enjoying picnics under the Sakura trees, with sakura petals raining on them and at least four or five frames of the Russian incident.
Of all the photos taken that Sunday afternoon, this Polaroid is the only hard copy of our Tokyo Russian sailor street camera seller adventure that made it to Seattle with me. I had forgotten all about it until a few days ago, when I found it in an envelope with Akane's postcards and the rest of the Polaroids I brought back with me. This Polaroid alone lived to tell the tale of the Russian and the Lubitel and of a wonderful afternoon spent with two lovely people, two Polaroid friends.
Somewhere along the way from Asakusa to Ueno Park, right before the coffee break and after the restaurant supply shop district.
Polaroid 600/no ND filter/Polaroid SX-70
For day two of Roid Week 2008