Realme Golden Festival begins! Bumper discounts are available on these wireless earphones and earbuds
Realme Golden Festival begins! Bumper discounts are available on these wireless earphones and earbuds
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Customers can bring Realme Buds Air 3S home for just Rs 2,299 instead of Rs 2,499
Customers are being given a discount of Rs 200 on Realme Buds Q2 Neo.
Realme’s Golden Festival Sale has been organized on the occasion of Christmas.
new Delhi. realme christmas (Christmas Day) on the occasion of Realme Golden Festival has started. In the cell, customers are being given good discounts on…
Wizkid Shuts Down ‘2022 Wireless Festival’ With Electrifying Performance (VIDEOS)
Wizkid Shuts Down ‘2022 Wireless Festival’ With Electrifying Performance (VIDEOS)
Iconic Nigerian recording and performing artiste, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, professionally known as Wizkid delivered a stellar performance at the 2022 Wireless Festival. The Grammy award winning singer, songwriter and entertainer who was named as one of the performers at the 2022 Wireless Festival gave fans and music lovers a memorable day with an electrifying performance. The Wireless Festival…
On September 22, I'm (virtually) presenting at the DIG Festival in Modena, Italy. That night, I'll be in person at LA's Book Soup for the launch of Justin C Key's "The World Wasn’t Ready for You." On September 27, I'll be at Chevalier's Books in Los Angeles with Brian Merchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine.
#15yrsago Cybersquatters register domains for potential bank-mergers https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/sep/21/technology.banking
#10yrsago Implementing a Turing machine in Excel https://www.felienne.com/archives/2974
#10yrsago Ryanair vows to reduce fewer customers to tears https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24171384
#10yrsago Jungle Boat skipper gives a tour of the wall around the construction site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DakW1GtyTVA
#10yrsago Terms and Conditions May Apply: documentary about abusive license terms, privacy and surveillance https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/19/data-digital-identity-cullen-hoback
#5yrsago Defunct Vancouver tech retailer’s servers sold off, containing credit cards and other customer details https://www.eteknix.com/ncix-database-servers-sold-craigslist-without-wiped/
#5yrsago California farm lobby’s sellout to John Deere will cost its members their right to repair https://www.wired.com/story/john-deere-farmers-right-to-repair/
#5yrsago Middle school cop who arrested seventh graders “to prove a point” may yet face consequences https://www.techdirt.com/2018/09/20/ninth-circuit-says-no-you-fucking-may-not-arrest-bunch-middle-school-students-to-prove-point/
#5yrsago Puerto Rico is a tax-haven for rich mainlanders and is also too broke to survive hurricanes: are these facts possibly related, somehow? https://www.gq.com/story/how-puerto-rico-became-tax-haven-for-super-rich
#5yrsago Carriers to FCC: Americans would totally be happy with throttled, capped wireless at home instead of home fiber https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/despite-data-caps-and-throttling-industry-says-mobile-can-replace-home-internet/
#5yrsago Nature’s greatest con-artists: the parasitic beetles that trick ants into barfing into their mouths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ-k0TBwvL0
#5yrsago Supreme Court decision will rip away Dark Money’s veil of secrecy https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/19/supreme-court-decision-dark-money-were-about-know-lot-more-about-who-funding-our
#5yrsago As Canada-US trade-war draws nigh, so does the threat to nationalise US pharma patents https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canadian-officials-mulling-attack-u-s-pharma-says-ottawa-lawyer-165038690.html
#5yrsago Europe’s copyright catastrophe is a harbinger of bad times for Canadians https://macleans.ca/opinion/the-spectre-of-bad-internet-laws-in-europe-should-be-a-warning-shot-for-canadians/
#1yrago Book-banning wingnuts are a tiny, vocal minority https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/20/the-moral-majority/#is-neither
It honestly amazes me that people still manage to have their phones pickpocketed without realising immediately. And its apparently getting worse at festivals? Bro. Inside pocket. Make one if you don't have one. Pocket must close, shitty zips that open roughly and loudly and require effort to open are best. Safety pin the zippy dangly bit to your clothes for added security. If that is not possible, try an under-clothing travel pouch. If all else fails, make a small hole in the lining of your clothes. It is very difficult to get the phone out again without a) knowing the phone is in the lining, b) knowing where the hole is and c) removing the clothes or at least moving them significantly enough that the wearer would notice.
Wired headphones, if u must advertise the fact u have a phone, is also helpful as long as the phone is still being kept in a secure place (try making additional holes for the cable to throw off pickpocketers on where the phone actually is), you're gonna know if the security fails and it gets pinched and pickpockets know that. People using wireless headphones are not gonna notice so quick, a thief can be a far way off before the headphones disconnect (tho wireless does have the advantage of giving no indication of the phones location, this is outweighed by the fact that near everyone getting robbed are wireless using, iPhone using tits who keep their phone in the front pocket of a backpack).
Also aim to keep it somewhere that makes it easy for you to create a physical barrier. I like to keep mine on the side of my body on my cane side and keep the cane close. Pinching the phone then requires going under my arm, which I will notice. Maybe also try multiple layers and keep the phone on the bottom layer. Hey! If you are skilled enough, get some chunky platforms, make a hole in the sole from the inside, cover with an insole. No one is getting ur shoes off without u noticing.
Yes its inconvenient but IF YOURE GOING SOMEWHERE WITH PICKPOCKETS MAYBE U SHOULD INCONVENIENCE URSELF, AND THEREFORE, THE FUCKING THIEVES. If you are honestly keeping ur phone in ur back pocket or ur handbag or backpack in 2022 u deserve to be robbed. U brought it on urself.
(None of this is effective against muggers for that u should have a decoy phone, kept alongside ur actual phone if u use wired headphones so u dont end up reaching for the wrong pocket and clue them in on the ruse)
thank you @sun-lt and @dahliaaz for tagging me in this!
here are my top albums of 2022!✨ (some of them were released in 2022, and some weren’t but i discovered them in 2022, so i hope that still counts!)
i tag @pop-punklouis, @sweetest-devotion , @itslottiehere, @dragmedown, @becauseheartsgetbroken-hs, @allmylouv and anyone else who wants to do it! (no obligations! ✨❣️)
harry’s house - harry styles
the album that was the soundtrack to my summer. from going from listening every single day to hearing my favourites from the album live in a few months felt incredible. I haven’t stopped listening since it’s been released. i’ve had it blaring from the speakers any chance i can get at home, and i always go to listen to it as soon as i open spotify. i didn’t know what to expect when we had as it was as the only single leading up to it, but it exceeded all my expectations! it felt like he had the most fun with this album, and he wanted us to have as much fun as he did with it and i can’t not be in a good mood when listening to every song. he amazes me every single time with his work, and i think it will always be constantly on my ‘on repeat’ spotify playlist.
faith in the future - louis tomlinson
the best album to close my year off with! i was really curious to see what the entire album would sound like considering he kept saying this was the music he always wanted to make, and i wanted to see what he has always been working towards. if this is the music he’s always wanted to make, then i am fully on board and will continue to fall in love with his work. it was a mix of songs that each told their own story, and made you relate moments of your own life to the memories he’s singing about. i can’t wait to see this live.
the car - arctic monkeys
i wasn’t a huge fan of arctic monkeys’ last release, so i wasn’t too excited about the car but i decided to pre order the vinyl anyway just to go out on a whim! i think it’s definitely one of my favourite AM albums, and i kind of wish i’d bought tickets for their next tour since listening to it a few times.
doomsday - lizzy mcalphine
my third most played artist on my spotify wrapped behind harry and louis. i fell in love with give me a minute during lockdown, so i was excited to see what else she was releasing! it did take me a while after the album was released to actually listen to it, but every song i love. i have it as my ‘wfh concentration album’ and it’s very mellow and just perfect. her voice is incredible, and i wish she was touring more local to me i’d love to see her!
stick season - noah katan
very late to the game with this one but i fell in love with it from the get go! i feel very calm and chill when i’m listening to this album, and like i just need to listen to it when i’m sitting on a bench somewhere and looking at the world pass me by. it makes you think a lot about your own memories when listening, and i had goosebumps listening to a few! it kind of reminds me a bit of mumford and sons, and i love them a lot.
take time - giveon
this is a 2020 album so i’m very very late to this one! i saw the performance he did of heartbreak anniversary at wireless festival this year and fell in love with it, so i immediately had to see what else he’d released. a lot of his songs have been good to listen to when i was writing (or trying to write) and the storytelling of his music kind of inspired a few stories of mine.
(i would have followed you) - delaney bailey
the best album to listen to when i just need to cry. the most angelic voice i’ve ever heard, and a bad album to listen to when it’s like 3am and you are overthinking everything that’s ever happened in your life. my heart broke 100 times over with every song and i loved every second of it.
emails i can’t send - sabrina carpenter
i haven’t listened to sabrina since 2018 when she released singular act one, so i was going into this with a four year break almost. i really really liked it! it feels like the kind of album you’d listen to when you were on a late night drive with your friends just blaring out the songs. that was the energy i got from it and you always ALWAYS need an album like that in your life.
the otherside - cam
for some reason, i’ve only listened to changes that harry wrote since 2020, but never the entire album that came along with it! i’m secretly a fan of country (not all country but a fair bit i like!) and this just felt like the right amount for me to enjoy! she reminds me a bit of old dolly parton (especially with the song diane) and i feel like my grandad would have really really loved her, and that is always a winner for me.
Signal Boost & HP Fest Schedule: June 24 - July 17
A signal boost for two HP communities.
WeasleyJumpers is a Weasley-centric community for the core Weasley family, anyone related to them by blood, and next gen kids. The comm is also on Dreamwidth and Livejournal. They run a different fest every year: a comment fest in 2020, a prompt-and-claim fest in 2022, etc.
They are currently asking for people's ideas on what to do for this year's fest. You can find more information on Tumblr and DW.
Harry Potter Fanwork Recs is a new HP rec community that started up on Dreamwidth. While you'd need to become a member of the comm (along with having a DW account) to make a post, you don't need a DW account to reply to posts. They already have some fantastic recs posted to the comm.
And a few things on Potterfests:
We got a Masterlist of HP Fests and Communities on Potterfests. It's organised by category, and it includes fests and communities that are active within the last 5 years or so.
For current and upcoming fest, see HP Fest News Round-up (also on Livejournal).
You are always welcome to promote any HP fests and communities on Potterfests on Dreamwidth and Livejournal. If you don't have a DW or LJ account, you can send me a DM on Tumblr.
Here's a sneak peek at what's coming up in July. The fest dates span from June 24 to July 17. For more fest dates, see 2023 HP Fest Schedule.
June 24
Kill Your Darlings 2023 (major character death): Prompting ends.