Bring it back

Putin is almost certainly behind this. Trying to stop a Democrat politician and help Trump in the midterms. Remember not voting is a vote for Trump.

Felt like sharing my art. I started drawing again since a few months ago, and I felt like I improved a lot. Got into digital art after getting a tablet, and here is what I can draw now.

One character from a world I imagined as a kid, drawing was a way for me to give life to this world of my imagination.

I just no longer believe that I have a future. Im 24. I studied a computer science degree, actually got a job.... except its gonna be automated by an LLM at some point. The tools are already there.

If I lose this job, everything else in my field is just gonna be AI. Its used a lot in my job and by my coworkers... its gonna be hell to compete with AI to get a job in the area.

I think what broke me is reading about open ai generating a lean proofs for hundreds of theorems. I like maths, i wont be a math researcher, but I would imagine that killing any desire to be a mathematician professionally. I understand that maths is a lot much more then just results, but for my field it kinda is just about results. A well working feature is a well working feature.

So thats my career prospects, something i was excited about, just fucking dead. Now what? I dont fucking know. I dont wanna spend another 10s of thousands of dollars in something and for that to get automated. I have no idea at all what field i could work in as a career that isnt something in STEM. Thats where my skills are. Im happyish to do other work, but I so doubt my abilities. Im autistic af, so i have no idea how ill function in for example retail, or hospo work. I hardly function at home atm.

Now feel free to comment on whether you agree with me on my analysis on future career prospects in tech fields im just some junior, but of course main thing is how I feel about it not what I think atm.

Now theres my lack of hope from climate change, and politics. I worry a great deal. The first really crushes my hope, its such a big thing.

Politics stresses me tf out as a trans women,... i worry about getting attacked both literally, and politically. Reduced access to HRT, no legal protections in the future run in my mind. Trans people are under existential threat.

For now, I do have a lot to look forward to. Ive been socialising more, Im transitioning into a women, its been good. But that doesnt mean I have hope.

Haii

I have a halloween thing soon, and guess WHAT. Im gonna go as a cat!! Big surprise. CANT FUCKING wait.

Im gonna have so much fun picking my outfit and shit hell yeah. Make up too, got myself some BLACK lipstick.

Gonna be meowing and mrrping fr

Ok thats all this post is lol

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The West must work to prevent China and Russia from seizing control of the new maritime route opening up in the Arctic and turning it into a chokepoint on global trade, the European Union’s chief diplomat has warned.

Brussels is due to announce a more muscular approach to asserting Europe’s interests against Beijing and Moscow in the High North.

This updated strategy, to be unveiled on Wednesday, will include a surveillance centre for tracking suspicious shipping activity, support for military-grade ports and airports for the rapid deployment of troops, and a hub for monitoring and repairing subsea data cables in case of sabotage.

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It is designed to counter Sino-Russian efforts to dominate the Arctic Circle. There is particular concern about the Northern Sea Route (NSR) over the top of Russia, which is increasingly becoming a significant alternative to the Suez Canal as the sea ice retreats due to the effects of global warming.

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Western naval strategists suggest that the two hostile powers are extending their military capabilities along the NSR, which largely skirts Russia’s territorial waters and is already starting to be plied by commercial shipping from China and other Pacific states to Europe. During the summer months, the voyages are at least a third faster than the established route through the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

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China claims the status of a “near-Arctic” country, despite its northernmost point being on roughly the same latitude as Manchester and Hamburg, and all of its significant commercial ports being more southerly than Turkey. It has begun sending research fleets of icebreakers to the High North and has tried to acquire critical resources on Greenland.

“It’s not an Arctic country, that’s for sure, but we need to understand the Chinese are always very strategic about the steps they are taking, and that’s why I think we need to be very strategic in the Arctic as well,” Kallas said.

“They [and Russia] are actually mapping the region to understand where the possibilities are … This is what they are doing in other waters as well to map the cables, to map the connectivity, so that this is also our vulnerability. It’s clear that this is not only scientific research for the sake of climate change.”

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The EU’s existing Arctic strategy, published in 2021, was primarily concerned with the environmental effects of global warming and pollution.

The updated version is a much more geopolitical statement of intent. It will commit to building up Europe’s icebreaker fleet and allocating €260m for Arctic-capable military technologies such as extreme-weather aircraft and long-range sensors.

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Kallas said “European security is Arctic security” because of trade, energy, communications and military factors, including the vast concentration of Russian nuclear weapons on the Kola Peninsula next to Finland and Norway.

That leaves it reliant on partners that are recalibrating their ties to the bloc. Canada is negotiating an unprecedented “associate membership” of the EU. Iceland voted at the end of August to reject accession talks but indicated that it wished to deepen economic relations.

Norway is similarly perched just outside the EU but gingerly seeking closer alignment. Britain, which among other things provides a base for European Arctic aerial surveillance missions at RAF Lossiemouth, is also gradually drawing nearer.

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Asked about Andy Burnham’s suggestion that the UK could try to reverse Brexit should Labour win the next election, Kallas said most Europeans would welcome Britain back.

“The Brexit process has definitely left scars on many people in Europe, especially those who were part of the negotiations,” she said. “But that said … coming from my own country [Estonia], I can tell you that we were very sad when the UK left because you were our good allies and we really enjoyed working with you there.”

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Using a stacked difference-in-differences design covering shootings between 1990 and 2025, I compare cohorts at affected universities before and after the shooting with cohorts at matched control universities. I find no detectable effects on time to degree, but undergraduates enrolled at the time of the shooting are 4.2% less likely to pursue further studies. Those who do continue shift toward health: the share of exposed cohorts who later enroll in a health degree rises by 1.3 percentage points (8.8%), and this effect persists among cohorts who enroll after the shooting. Effects on students present during the shooting are consistent with a response to trauma; for later cohorts, I find evidence of sorting, as master’s students with prior healthcare experience become more likely to enroll in affected universities. These results suggest that mass shootings leave institutional and cultural legacies that outlast the students who witnessed them.

after further research, fuck apple. even windows somehow has better interoperability with other systems, with making recovery media, virtualization, and just basic, basic shit.

trying with high sierra now.

At this point, they have all been adopted. We kept the one that bonded with our older cat even though he is a little weirdo.

Hope you enjoyed the journey. Obviously there are a thousand more photos but you know how it is.

Asked whether Netanyahu should be prosecuted, Navi Pillay says he and other Israeli leaders should face trial. Her warning: countries have a duty to prevent genocide, not wait until it’s too late. Clip via Middle East Eye. Original interview: Sky News, 14 October 2026.