Little Big Swedish Lapland
Tilt-shift journey through Lapland
Googly eyes appear on statues in Bend
Comical googly eyes have appeared on statues and murals around the city of Bend, Oregon in December. The city has asked residents to top adding them since it costs money to remove them safely without damaging the art, but one Facebook user responded with “It would cost $0 to leave them on”
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Game jams
If you’re trying to get yourself into game development, a great way to get a start is to make something. Working in a game jam is a great way to get experience, build your portfolio, and learn invaluable teamworking skills.
Itch.io has an extensive list of game jams for you to participate in.
O Antiphons of Advent
Starting on Dec 17 until Dec 23rd, the “O” antiphons will be sung as part of the Magnificat during Evening Prayer. It’s a tradition that’s dated back until at least the 8th century.
December 17
O Wisdom of our God Most High,
guiding creation with power and love:
come to teach us the path of knowledge!
December 18
O Leader of the House of Israel,
giver of the Law to Moses on Sinai:
come to rescue us with your mighty power!
December 19
O Root of Jesse’s stem,
sign of God’s love for all his people:
come to save us without delay!
December 20
O Key of David,
opening the gates of God’s eternal Kingdom:
come and free the prisoners of darkness!
December 21
O Radiant Dawn,
splendor of eternal light, sun of justice:
come and shine on those who dwell in darkness and in the
shadow of death.
December 22
O King of all nations and keystone of the Church:
come and save man, whom you formed from the dust!
December 23
O Emmanuel, our King and Giver of Law:
come to save us, Lord our God!
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1970 Cadillac Coupe DeVille on the Nurburgring
Misha Charoudin is an excellent driver who drives people’s cars crazy fast around the Nurburgring. This had me smiling the whole time because he isn’t driving a Porche, M5, or Lamborghini – he’s driving an absolute boat – a 1970’s Cadillac Coupe DeVille. They even lose a hubcap on a tight turn just like in an old Hollywood chase scene.
Stripper seriously stabs DJ at Portland’s Vegan Strip Club
In the ‘you can’t make this stuff up’ department, a stripper who was apparently having a mental health crisis at the local Casa Diablo vegan strip club stabbed the DJ 4 times in an apparent random attack – nearly killing him.
The DJ Duncan Allen was rushed to the hospital, underwent multiple hours-long surgeries, and is currently recovering at Legacy Emmanuel Medical Center.
Peyton Lathan, the stripper that stabbed him, was found by the police hiding in bushes alongside the road. During her arrest she said she is “pleading insanity”. She will be arraigned on her indictment Tuesday morning.
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Kindergarteners make Thanksgiving meals
Kindergarteners are nothing if not inventive. Chris Duffy has a friend that teaches kindergarteners and records their recipes for Thanksgiving each year. Below are the 2024 class recipes for stuffing/dressing and turkey.
Read the rest of the recipes here on Chris Duffy’s post: https://www.threads.net/@chrisiduffy/post/DC4U4HRJd-m
Cleaner browsing
12ft.io can help you clean websites a bit. Enter your url at their website and it’ll return a cleaned version.
Useful if you’re on a mobile device with a browser that doesn’t offer decent ad blockers.
A Dark Room
A Dark Room was one of the first really fun browser games I found (outside the amazing Kingdom of Loathing). It was mysterious and took me a long time to beat.
Turns out, there’s an easier way to get to the end than grinding all the resource gathering.
- Right-click on the page and ‘Inspect’
- In the panel, select Console
- Type the following and it will give you 100,000 units of whatever you have.
$.each(State.stores, function(e,i) { State.stores[e] = 100000; })You will need to re-enter this command line any time you get access to another resource type to fill it up, but it makes a very long game into one that can be beaten in about an hour.
Overdose deaths increase 3x since legalization
Liz McCarthy, an Oregon Health Authority epidemiologist, released the finalized overdose data for 2023 and it shows a tripling death rate since legalization and harm reduction efforts were passed. Even worse – the rate is increasing dramatically with a doubling rate of almost every 2 years.
Even worse, most of the rest of the country are seeing a dramatic DECLINE in overdose deaths – so this is clearly a local/policy problem.
The newest numbers show 1,833 people died in Oregon from a drug overdose last year, compared to 1,383 in 2022, 1,189 in 2021, 824 in 2020 and 626 in 2019
This increase mirrors the same timeframe of drug decriminalization and hundreds of millions spent on harm reduction efforts in Oregon. The tripling of the overdose death rate in the same time is yet one more data point that proves that legalization and supposed harm reduction efforts do the very opposite.
Dramatically more people are dying now than even arrest and jail time. Jail was actually saving more lives than legalization and harm reduction.
Anyone that has compassion for the plight of drug addicts should demand change of policy. The sad reality is that many Oregonians continue to support these ideological policies when it’s clear they’re killing hundreds more people every year.
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