#borrowed from fb

[childoftheriver]

Oh

#oh my my my #greg lake #this is a beautiful photo #his eyes #and his chin #oh his mouth #that little peep of chest #this really is a perfect picture #sigh #elp #emerson lake and palmer #emerson lake & palmer #emerson lake palmer #a greg a day (or two or more) #borrowed from FB

[callmethehunter]

My heart is full! Look!! 💕

#our beautiful boys #borrowed from Led Zeppelin Radio Forum in FB #led zeppelin #Babies

[lightning-flight]

Our hometown's experiencing some flooding right now.

I am so glad we live far enough away from the river to not be affected.

#kyle post #Casually borrowing the pictures from local FB groups

[m-a-n-c-a-v-e]

Borrowed from Museo Ducati FB;

“Exclusive and iconic: the Panigale V4 SP2 30th Anniversary 916 is a celebration of a legend, a tribute to Ducati 916.

With a livery inspired by the victorious 996 Superbike World Championship winner with Carl Fogarty in 1999, this bike joins the legacy of @TAG’s two most legendary families.

A limited edition celebration of 500 copies, combining exceptional performances and history.”

[scuderiabandini]

Borrowed from Museo Ducati FB;

“ 1986. The Red Ducati.

One of the symbols of the epochal change that Ducati went through in the 1980s is not a motorcycle, a designer or an engine. It is simply a color: Red.

The Paso 750, in fact, is designed with this in mind, with the integral fairing, the dome and even the saddle that highlight the impact of the red colour.

Red means passion, energy, commitment and dedication. A color that becomes one of the distinctive features of the motorcycles built in Borgo Panigale, outlining the scenario on which Ducati built its future.”

[bengiyo]

The Sign Ep 5 Stray Thoughts

Last week, Phaya ended up staying by Tharn for a night, Tharn had an erotic dream about Phaya, and Phaya flirted relentlessly. Phaya borrowed Tharn's pants and split them before the investigation into this serial killer led them into the woods. Phaya almost got hurt, and Tharn and Mayris almost got killed in a fire. Tharn's powers gave him insights into the case, and Dr. Cholatharn is intentionally causing strife between Tharn and Phaya.

Ah, right. We suspect it's a member of their team that is the killer.

Whoa. Phaya struck Tharn. Well, he is a cop.

Yai is as big as a truck and for what? He got wrecked twice just now.

Curious where the show goes with this thing with this skeevy man.

Narong really went on FB Live with this.

Uh oh, the protection amulet came off.

What the hell kind of green power just activated around Narong?

Tharn has not been helpful in this fight.

So Tharn got stabbed and then tapped into the same kind of power as Narong?

Why are they hugging?? Tharn was stabbed!

Oh, so we're gonna just say the vest saved him? Sure, let's move on to the emotional reconciliation and open discussion of the supernatural.

Why does this man have a coke nail?

Oh, this whole justice thing is extremely heavy handed. Reminder that this show is copaganda.

Ah, so we're trying to appease grandmas this time. That's why Phaya gets to stay.

These two and their fantasies about each other. This feels like a Phaya fantasy.

Mhmm. This show is trolling us.

Interesting. Does Phaya realize he burned Cholatharn, and does Cholatharn know his eyes flashed green? Seems like the doctor knows.

Billy has nice thighs.

Here we go with the sponge baths.

Ooo, bolster role reversal.

Ope, he put that thing down, flipped it, and reversed it. Get wrecked again, Phaya.

I wonder what the monk's goals are in this faction war.

Not the grandma reading Danielle Steele!

What in the Pagemaster is happening next week??

I'm glad we transitioned from the case resolution back into the supernatural stuff, because this doesn't feel enough like a procedural to end on the strength of that alone.

#Ben watches #the sign the series #thai bl #bl series

[ducatif1]

Borrowed from Guzzi Motobox FB;

“ We offer this exclusive Ducati 750 F1 Montjuic for sale. The bike comes with a multi-adjustable Ohlins rear shock absorber. The engine runs but a complete tune-up or restoration is needed. This is number 157 of 200 that were made. Remember that this version comes equipped with Marvic Magnesium wheels, 40 mm Dellorto carburetors, aluminum swingarm, crossed camshafts, 4-piston Brembo gold series calipers, and floating brake discs on both wheels. The engine only has 9000 km. It is located in Spain and its price is €27,000. French documentation. We ship worldwide. Greetings to all! “

[oledavyjones]

Harry Thode holding a piston. He worked at Alpha Diesel in Frederikshavn, Denmark. Photo from the 70s.

Borrowed from FB / Serdar Başaran / the FB group abt. B&W.

#piston #alpha diesel.70s #frederikshavn

[thorraborinn]

I know you've written about the Gullveig/Freyja theory but I keep seeing the equation of Angrboða with the witch whose heart Loki ate according to Voluspa hin Skama and both of them being equated with Gullveig. I want to know where this idea comes from. I mostly see it on FB in the Norse Gods Discussion Group and a couple Lokean groups {although, not as much anymore}. I honestly think this is just too much of a leap in logic. I know Genevieve Gornichec put Angrboða as Gullveig in her book, but I'm not sure if she equated them with the heart eating thing. I didn't read it.

I'm asking because I've been looking for good fiction about Norse mythology but keep running into the idea that Loki is an abusive husband but also that killed his mistress and ate her heart, which kinda doesn't make sense to me because why wouldn't he have just slept with her if he wanted more children or whatever.

I'm going to stick to Greek or Egyptian mythology based fiction like ENNEAD for now, whilst looking for good Norse ones.

The first author that I know of to describe Gullveig/Heiðr, Angrboða, and the heart into a single figure is the 19th century Swedish author Viktor Rydberg (he also included Aurboða and Hyrrokkin in this complex). Rydberg was convinced that there was a single original epic narrative that was shared by all the Germanic-speaking peoples, and that myths, legends, and folklore of Germanic Europe was made up of the decayed, corrupted fragments of it. He also believed that he knew how to put it back together, sometimes even borrowing from non-Germanic narratives.

In order to make that make sense, a lot of his work is very preoccupied with merging different figures together, because he can't really allow any loose ends. His work is also characterized by a fairly strict polarity between the gods (unambiguously good) and their enemies (unambiguously bad) which, to be fair, was not uncommon among scholars in his day. He had some things to say that were important for the 19th century, but his work should not be taken seriously today.

He does still have a small but very prolific following among modern heathens including the authors of the so-called "Asatru Edda" and whoever runs www.germanicmythology.com.

I'm not sure if more recent Lokean/Rökkratrú theorizing about Gullveig/Heiðr and Angrboða is related to Viktor Rydberg or not. I could imagine that the sort of Þursatrú/Nordic Satanism types might have some things in common with the Rydberg-inspired heathens, taking the same black-and-white, hardline good-vs-evil view, but siding with the opposing team, and being favorable toward the Gullveig/Angrboða/Aurboða/Hyrrokkin complex; and then this could filter into other Lokean or Rökkatrú spaces. To me, the burnt heart seems to point to Rydberg. I don't think that Völuspá in skamma gives an impression that the heart that Loki eats belongs to Angrboða. Rydberg only came to that conclusion by inserting Völuspá into the context of Völuspá in skamma, so that Angrboða is mentioned as the mother of Fenrir, then is burnt (as Gullveig), then the burnt heart is eaten before she's resurrected. I find this pretty unintuitive, and unlikely to be thought of twice independently of each other, but I could be wrong.

On the other hand, sometimes ideas just go into circulation without anyone knowing where they come from, not thinking to question it. It's possibly that Rydberg was the ultimate origin of this, but that nobody spreading the idea knows it.

There are also a lot of heathens who worship Angrboða, but since she's only mentioned by name once in all of Norse mythology (twice if you count Snorri, but it seems like he's working from Völuspá in skamma, so it's probably just the first reference again), it seems natural to look for traces of her elsewhere. Merging her with other figures like Gullveig/Heiðr might be a way of adapting other lore so that their goddess has more written about her.

As an aside, if a figure from Völuspá is to be identified with Angrboða, I would expect it to be the unnamed in aldna í Járnviði, whose children are "Fenrir's kind."

I'm not really very familiar with Lokean groups or even really Facebook heathenry in general anymore, so it's very possible I'm missing some things. I don't really know anything about Norse mythology-inspired fiction.

[acurlygirlamy1]

The Genius of Steven Wright:

1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.

3 - Half the people you know are below average.

4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.

9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.

10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ..... But she left me before we met.

12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?

13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?

14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.

19 - I intend to live forever ... So far, so good.

20 - If Barbie is so popu, why do you have to buy her friends?

21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."

24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name

25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.

33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.

34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work

Found on FB. No credits to be found. Just thought it was Tumblr worthy.

[tittyinfinity]

A couple of days ago when I had to pay back a friend, they said that facebook pay was the best way to get the money to them since their cashapp was having issues.

So I went to send it over messenger and it did something it had never done before, which was ask for my legal name, my birthday, and my social security number. It said it wanted to "make sure my payments were in compliance with federal regulations."

Which means they're looking for sex work and drug deals. Facebook has the ability to send your data to the police/government. They're already starting the process of making sure everyone on the website has their real identification attached to it.

But this is dangerous for me in a completely different way – I'm on disability, and if any math doesn't add up correctly with my transactions I could lose some if not all of my monthly payments. Thankfully, most of my transactions are through cashapp, but if the money I borrowed and the donations I received were reported as income, I could be sued for fraud, despite only needing the money for regular necessities like bills and household items.

I messaged them and told them "I'm so sorry, I know this is an emergency but I absolutely cannot send the money like this. I'm going to have to drive the money to you, but it will be a couple of bucks short because I have to get cash back."

I eventually ended up being able to send it to their mom's paypal instead.

But yeah, if fb asks for your personal information like this, DON'T DO IT. Not only for yourself, but because it could put your friends in danger, too. Even if my legal name isn't attached to everything yet, if one if my friends is legally verified, they could quickly find out my identity from their information.

My fb is already deactivated, so I'll be getting rid of messenger now. I highly suggest y'all get rid of your Facebook accounts too

#.bdo

[samkat10423]

Sister, I am with you.

  I hope this doesn’t come off as morbid, but once it clicked with me just how short my time on earth really is, I started thinking about the end of my life.

Not in a bad way, or a sad way. Just in a how-do-I-make-the-most-out-of-my-time kind of way. Does that make sense?

And the conclusion I came to is that at the end, I don’t think I’ll care about my looks. I don’t think I’ll care whether people thought I was pretty, or thin. I won’t care what my clothes looked like or if they were expensive or on trend. I won’t care if my hands were perfectly polished and manicured and I won’t care if my hair was the right shade of blonde.

I don’t think I’ll care what my house looked like or if my walls were painted the trendy new color. I don’t think I’ll care how much my dining room table cost. I don’t think I’ll care about stains on the rug, or having a living room that looked like it belonged in a magazine.

I don’t think I’ll care how much money is in my bank account and I don’t think I’ll care about awards, or trophies, or climbing the ladder of success.

I don’t think I’ll care whether I was popular, or if I had the right social status. I won’t care if a lot of people knew my name, or if I was impressive. I think I’ll only care that the people closest to me were made better by knowing me.

I won’t care about who people thought I was.

I’ll care about who I actually was.

And I won’t care about having a life that looked good on social media, I’ll care about having a life that actually was good.

I’ll care that I lived well and I’ll care that I took chances. I’ll care that I soaked every single bit of joy out of my time that I possibly could. That I was grateful. I’ll care that I danced and ran through the rain and gave out compliments to random strangers and acted like my weird, quirky, authentic self.

I’ll care that I built strong relationships with my friends. I’ll care that I showed up when it mattered and that I was honest and compassionate. I’ll care that I talked to God all the time and that I tried to get it right. I’ll care that my life produced good fruit…patience, kindness, gentleness, self-control, peace, joy.

I’ll care that I believed the best in others and that I gave them grace. I’ll care that I refused to hold grudges and that I didn’t dive head first into petty drama about petty things that really don’t matter. I’ll care that I kept going when things got tough and that I persevered and that I was a light in dark places and dark times.

I’ll care that I gave Jesus my heart and I’ll care that others knew His name because it came out of my lips and because it was evident with the way I treated my neighbors that He was the King to me. That He ruled my life and that I followed Him, not my feelings and not the rest of the world. Him.

And I’ll care that I loved and loved well. When it was difficult. When they were difficult. When it didn’t come naturally or easily.

And I think that’s it.

I’ll care that first things came first and I didn’t waste my time playing stupid games to get stupid prizes. That I knew what was important and that I held those things dear and watered the right plants and let the rest fall away like a bunch of dead leaves.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, take a minute to think about how short life is and what you really want out of it. Who do you really want to be?

Because, what I’ve learned, is that the things that will be important to me at the end of my life need to be the things that are important to me today. The things I want to be remembered for tomorrow need to be the things I live out in this moment.

Not tomorrow.

Not when I’m older, or retired, or when things have settled down.

This moment.

borrowed this from a friend on fb.

[m-a-n-c-a-v-e]

Borrowed from No al Motociclismo Moderno FB page :

“Swissauto V4 500 two stroke: (maybe) the best two stroke engine ever built.

Born from Urs Wenger's "pencil", initially born to replace their 4-in-line sidecars, he made his debut in 1995 on Rolf Biland's LCR sidecar, who finished second, winning four races.

The engine immediately developed a significant maximum power (180hp) and the secret was in its configuration: a single engine shaft but only two crank chambers, that is, each V worked in sync, with two ignitions at a time, almost a natural "big bang", so less friction, less load losses fluidodynamics and output was immediately high.

The V was 108°, the slate intake in the cranket and the weight was incredibly low: 37kg, that is the same as April 250 and 7kg less than the Yamaha 0WD3.

In the meantime, Wenger tried to install the propeller in a '93 Harris chassis, doing a first test on the track and got the interest of Serge Rosset (ROC), whose headquarters were 200km away from Swissauto.

The turning key to the realization of the Swissauto motorbike was the intervention of Swiss entrepreneur Michel Métraux, president of IRTA and committed sponsor of all the best Swiss GP drivers, as well as owner of the Parisienne 250GP team of the mid-1980s and the Swiss Automotive Group of Métraux which included the Swiss distributor of ELF lubricants, one of the reasons why all the bikes it sponsored for over twenty years always carried ELF stickers. From there, gaining the support of the French multinational to support the development of a brand new all-European 500GP motorcycle, was only one formality and at the '95 GP of Catalonia the agreement was announced: the elf was returning to the 500 after seven years of absence.

The Swissauto engine raced in the World Cup from 1995 to 1997 with the LCR sidecars, in 1996 and 1997 with the Elf-ROC, in 1998 and 1999 with the MuZ, after which the Swiss house, with the amendment of the sidecar regulation allowing the 1000 4-stroke, decided to withdraw.

In 2001, with the name Pulse, the elf reappeared in the Moto World Cup 500.

For the record, the Swiss V4 was installed on a Proton KR chassis in 1999 (a prototype that never raced) and starred in one of the most monumental April Fools' Day in motoring history: the Aprilia 500 V4.

But that's another story.”

[scuderiabandini]

Borrowed from Museo Ducati FB

[cutawaycars]

Borrowed from Motorsport Magazine FB post;

The 'lost' Geoff Ferris sketches of Colin Chapman's Lotus Type 66 Can-Am beast.

Clive Chapman, Simon Lane and Russell Carr spoke to Motor Sport about bringing the incredible car to life over 50 years later – "like finding a lost Beatles single":

https://bit.ly/45hapw0

[shihalyfie]

So i'm rewatching ep 37 of 02, and apparently Qinglongmon kind of implies that the Four Holy Beasts actually intervened occasionally to allow Digimon to reach the Perfect level, which sort of explains Tailmon randomly evolving into Angewomon in ep 13, right? And I feel like this can be extrapolated to other instances of Digimon surpassing Adult between May 2000 and December 2002. Like Hurricane Touchdown maybe? Since Kaiser went on a Dark Tower spree later, the FBS were blocked. Makes sense?

As far as I can tell, while they didn't directly say they intervened with evolution, it does seem that they intervened in some way (since the D-Terminals being able to store Digimentals is explicitly pointed out to be an unexpected circumstance they adapted to on the fly), and were able to have indirect influence such as sending the second batch of Digimentals and create the Digimental of Miracles. And given that the ability to (easily) evolve to Perfect was given directly to the Four Holy Beasts to unseal them, and the fact that temporarily getting it back during the later parts of 02 was from one of Qinglongmon's DigiCores, and the fact that HolyAngemon's appearance in 02 episode 34 comes from touching one of their Holy Stones, and the fact that the Four Holy Beasts aren't necessarily portrayed as being stingy about providing power when they need it...yeah, this seems like a reasonable rationalization!

I also do feel like the "rules" regarding evolution and when and how they can happen are actually a lot more loose in practice than the fanbase tends to think. The 15th Anniversary drama CD, which takes place in summer 2001 (explicitly after they gave up said Crest power in summer 2000) has Palmon, borrowing some power from the Holy Beasts, evolve straight into Rosemon -- for no good reason. Even in the drama CD itself, the characters are completely puzzled as to how that's even possible, and there's no explanation given (of course, the real answer is just "because it's funnier that way"). And no, this isn't arbitrary ignoring canon or anything, this drama CD was made by Kakudou, Yoshimura, and Seki themselves (in fact, it was the last Adventure-related piece of canon Kakudou was ever involved on). And you know how usually stickler Kakudou is about his setting compliance, but despite all that, things related to evolutionary mechanics seem to really be a "don't worry too much about it" issue, so I honestly think any explanation you can come up with is fine.

#agumonger #shiha's ask box