"By the late Middle Ages, indulgences were used to support charities for the public good, including hospitals.[8] However, the abuse of indulgences for almsgiving, so that they became a method of moneyraising or ignored the requirements for contrition or charity, had become a serious problem which the church recognized but was unable to restrain effectively."

"In 1567, Pope Pius V forbade tying indulgences to any financial act, even to the giving of alms. Reforms in the 20th century largely abolished the quantification of indulgences, which had been expressed in terms of days or years."

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A Mighty Angel appeared in my room and took my spirit out of my body. I was commissioned to pray for the sick children as well as pray for the dead to receive back their lives. This took place somewhere in Africa, I was not given the location nor the name of the school. After the healing, the Angel and I met with the LORD JESUS who commissioned me for another assignment which will be talked about in another video.

Scriptures 🌟 Psalm 34:1-22 [1] I will bless the LORD at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. [2] My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. [3] O magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt his name together. [4] I sought the LORD, and he heard me, And delivered me from all my fears. [5] They looked unto him, and were lightened: And their faces were not ashamed. [6] This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles. [7] The angel of the LO

Original youtube description:

A Mighty Angel appeared in my room and took my spirit out of my body. I was commissioned to pray for the sick children as well as pray for the dead to receive back their lives. This took place somewhere in Africa, I was not given the location nor the name of the school. After the healing, the Angel and I met with the LORD JESUS who commissioned me for another assignment which will be talked about in another video.

Scriptures Psalm 34:1-22 [1] I will bless the LORD at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. [2] My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. [3] O magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt his name together. [4] I sought the LORD, and he heard me, And delivered me from all my fears. [5] They looked unto him, and were lightened: And their faces were not ashamed. [6] This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles. [7] The angel of the LORD e

The Bat People (1974) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
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• I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

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• tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?): https://tubitv.com/movies/100011938/the-bat-people
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• uBlock Origin adblocker should work for those tubi and youtube links, at least on Firefox
• someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at

Cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon has been identified as the primary cause of deforestation,[5] accounting for about 80% of all deforestation in the region.[6][7] This makes it the world's largest single driver of deforestation, contributing to approximately 14% of the global annual deforestation.[8] Government tax revenue has subsidized much of the agricultural activity leading to deforestation.[9] By 1995, 70% of previously forested land in the Amazon and 91% of land deforested since 1970 had been converted for cattle ranching.[10] The remaining deforestation primarily results from small-scale subsistence agriculture[11] and mechanized cropland producing crops such as soy and palm.[12] In 2011, soy bean farming was estimated to account for around 15% of deforestation in the Amazon.[13]

Cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon has been identified as the primary cause of deforestation,[5] accounting for about 80% of all deforestation in the region.[6][7] This makes it the world's largest single driver of deforestation, contributing to approximately 14% of the global annual deforestation.[8] Government tax revenue has subsidized much of the agricultural activity leading to deforestation.[9] By 1995, 70% of previously forested land in the Amazon and 91% of land deforested since 1970 had been converted for cattle ranching.[10] The remaining deforestation primarily results from small-scale subsistence agriculture[11] and mechanized cropland producing crops such as soy and palm.[12] In 2011, soy bean farming was estimated to account for around 15% of deforestation in the Amazon.[13]

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The original was posted on /r/france by /u/OMGIlsOntBanKenny on 2025-04-05 11:42:04+00:00.

Hier soir j'ai parlé de billes au hasard d'une conversation et j'ai essayé de me souvenir des noms qu'on donnait dans ma cour de récré. Jsuis allé sur le net et quelle ne fut pas ma surprise quand j'ai vu à quel point c'était toujours là et pas forcément avec les mêmes noms. D'où ma question, comment vous les appeliez, vous?

Petite liste de différents "types" que j'ai trouvés sur des sites de vente en ligne de bille au détail, mais sentez vous libre :

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::: spoiler spoiler The Vancouver Coastal sea wolf, also known as the Vancouver Island wolf, coastal wolf or sea wolf (Canis lupus crassodon)[2] is a subspecies of northwestern wolf, endemic to the coast of the Pacific Northwest.[3] They are a unique subspecies of wolf due to their semi-aquatic lifestyle, which includes a diet that is almost entirely marine-based.

The wolves play important roles in the cultures and spiritual beliefs of local indigenous people, with mythical creatures like the Gonakadet and Wasgo, found among the Tsimshian, Tlingit, and Haida peoples of British Columbia and Alaska, being inspired by them

Behaviour

One of the defining features of this subspecies is their movements between islands, in some cases swimming up to 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) between landmasses.[7] These movements are sometimes seasonal, including following the migration of salmon,[8] one of their preferred food sources.

Vancouver Island wolves have a diverse diet, with between 75 and 90 p

Yes, we just talked about this a couple weeks ago! And Laserblast (1978) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• Tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?): https://tubitv.com/movies/469612/laserblast
• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf0BCN9L5Q
• uBlock Origin adblocker should work on those tubi and youtube links, at least on firefox
• archive: https://archive.org/details/laserbla

Executive Summary

Tens of millions of people count on the Social Security Administration (SSA) to reliably deliver benefits they need to pay rent or afford basic household expenses. In recent weeks, however, the Trump Administration — including Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (or DOGE) — has taken actions that risk creating unprecedented delays, degraded customer service, and unnecessary barriers for millions of beneficiaries to access the benefits they earned. For these primarily older and disabled people, President Trump’s repeated insistence that he would not cut Social Security benefits may be a distinction without a difference if his Administration’s actions delay benefits or make it harder to get them in the first place, regardless of whether the President ever proposes legislative changes to Social Security.

The Administration, Musk, and DOGE have engaged in four types of activities that each present a clear danger to Social Security but toget

The rise of Chinese private security companies in Myanmar will reshape conflict dynamics. This report to the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries highlights how such companies are proxies for the Chinese State, importing authoritarianism, intensifying militarisation, undermining human rights, and exploiting legal loopholes to operate with impunity.

[...]

Since Myanmar’s 2021 coup, widespread human rights abuses have underscored urgent concerns about the role of foreign private security companies (PSCs), most of which are from China. This report examines the human rights implications of Chinese PSCs operating in Myanmar, not merely as commercial actors but as State-connected forces blurring the line between private security and military intervention. This analysis focuses on how these actors undermine civil and political rights and how their unchecked power exacerbates the nation’s human rights crisis. We present our findings to inform the United Nations OHCHR Work Group on

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The original was posted on /r/peloton by /u/PelotonMod on 2025-03-16 07:01:32+00:00.

A controversy surrounding the AACS processing key arose in April 2007 when the Motion Picture Association of America and the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator, LLC (AACS LA) began issuing cease and desist letters[7] to websites publishing a 128-bit (16-byte) number, represented in hexadecimal as 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0[8][9] (commonly referred to as 09 F9),[10][11] a cryptographic key for HD DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.

Critters (1986) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC CORRECTION 1am Monday UTC bc of US daylight savings
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?; uBlock Origin adblock on firefox works): https://tubitv.com/movies/100001406/critters
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/critters

The plot follows a

The Journey begins!

Psalms 144:1-15 NIV [1] Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. [2] He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. [3]  Lord, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them? [4] They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow. [5] Part your heavens, Lord, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke. [6] Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them. [7] Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners [8] whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful. [9] I will sing a new song to you, my God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you, [10] to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David. From the deadly sword [11] deliver me; rescue me from

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It's got Christopher "Saruman / Count Dooku" Lee! It's got Peter "that guy who blew up Princess Leia's planet" Cushing! Yes, The Gorgon (1964) is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Feb 16, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something...

How to watch the movie:

• someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• archive: https://archive.org/details/the-gorgon
• if you're in North Ameri

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/lil_kouhai on 2025-02-02 07:13:20+00:00. *** The Story Starts With A Single Word:

I commented “Bullsht” under this post claiming:

"Trump says drones over New Jersey were conventional aircraft."

At first glance, it's just another press release. But then, I thought: Wait a second.

1. Trump didn’t even say this himself.
2. It contradicts his administration’s previous statements.
3. It contradicts literally everything that’s been unfolding.

The spokesperson carefully phrased it to downplay the whole situation. But why?

**Imagine if Trump openly backtracked on his promise to uncover the truth.

Controversy

Memory transfer was a biological process proposed by James V. McConnell and others in the 1960s. Memory transfer proposes a chemical basis for memory termed memory RNA which can be passed down through flesh instead of an intact nervous system. Since RNA encodes information[1] living cells produce and modify RNA in reaction to external events, it might also be used in neurons to record stimuli.[2][3][4] This explained the results of McConnell's experiments in which planarians retained memory of acquired information after regeneration. Memory transfer through memory RNA is not currently a well-accepted explanation and McConnell's experiments proved to be largely irreproducible.[5]

In McConnell's experiments, he classically conditioned planarians to contract their bodies upon exposure to light by pairing it with an electric shock.[6][5] The planarians retained this acquired information after being sliced and regenerated, even after multiple slicings to produce a planari

This is a fun, high-energy song that was important to me as an egg, and finds new significance in transition. I didn't realize it was a trans-related song until much later:

Shirley Manson wrote the lyrics based loosely around two novels she had just read, Sarah, which was about a transgender prostitute,[8] and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, written by author Laura Albert under the pseudonym of JT LeRoy.

"I wanted to write an ode to transgender spirit, inspired by my interactions with this peculiar but emotionally generous creature I knew online as JT"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Lips

Anyone else have songs that were significant to them as eggs, or are otherwise trans-related?