Austin Lowen

[baby🍀 @shalomdfirst]

THIS EDIT WILL MAKE YOUR PICTURES LOOK AESTHETIC PLEASING & CRIPSY✨🔥

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a parasite spreading through the US right now that you cannot wash off your food, cannot catch from another person, and will not feel for a full week after you've already eaten it.

Michigan alone has close to 1,000 confirmed cases. It's called Cyclospora, and almost everything about how it works is backwards from what you'd expect.

Start with the washing. The chlorine rinses that kill E. coli and salmonella on your lettuce do nothing to this. The parasite travels as an oocyst, a shell built to survive in soil and water, and it shrugs off standard produce sanitizer. Rinsing your salad is not enough. Cooking is the only reliable kill.

Then the part that sounds impossible. You cannot catch it from a sick person, even one in your own house. A freshly shed oocyst is completely harmless. It has to sit out in the environment for one to two weeks to ripen before it can infect anyone. So it can never pass human to human. Every single case traces back to contaminated water or raw produce.

That ripening window is also why you don't feel it for about a week after eating. By the time the explosive symptoms hit, the meal that carried it is long gone from memory, which is exactly why these outbreaks are so hard to trace.

And it's a produce problem specifically. Cyclospora is endemic to warm tropical regions and hitches in on fresh imports eaten raw. Cilantro, basil, and berries have all been past culprits. It's why cases spike every summer.

Which explains what Taco Bell actually did. They pulled the lettuce, guacamole, pico, and cilantro-onion. They kept the beef, the beans, the cheese. The raw produce was the only possible vector, and cooking neutralizes the rest.

A parasite that's defenseless the second it leaves your gut, but spends a week in the dirt turning into a weapon.

[Craft Gallery @5min__crafts]

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[Gym Fiesta @GymFiesta]

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[Austin Lowen @AustinL1538]

@Imback0gain @str8assss No I haven't

[theurgist 🇺🇸 🦅 🗝️ @the_Theurgist]

Aleister Crowley famously stated that his magical system was no different than the Catholic Mass. That is, it is magick as well. Later historical research has shown how much the early Christians borrowed from theurgic and hermetic writings. Most scholars think these writings are magically based systems of worship.

There’s a lot of scholarly debate about what magic is. In many ways, these discussions seem to be so much dust in the air. Foremost scholar of Hermetism, Christian Bull, makes no bones about it: Theurgy and Hermetism are magic.

RT Wallis describes quite clearly the goal and praxis of the theurgists. Theurgists enact the same type of rites that we find in the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM). But in identifying which rites the PGM count as anagogic, one must be critical. Many of the rites are purely utilitarian and not very functional in attaining the spiritual objectives of anagogic ascent.

Crowley had great magical insight when he saw the Headless rite as vital for cleansing and purification. Later adepts have pointed to the so-called Mithras Liturgy - neither about Mithras nor a liturgy - and the Eighth Book of Moses as important theurgic rites.

What elements are crucial for theurgic purposes? Those elements are clear from Wallis's statement:

The methods of theurgy were essentially those of ritual magic, its aim the incarnation of a divine force either in a material object, such as a statue, or in a human being, the result being a state of prophetic trance. In its justification, most clearly expounded in Proclus's little essay on the hieratic art, is the magical "principle of correspondence", the idea, first, that each part of the universe mirrors every other part, and secondly, and more important, that the whole material world is the mirror of invisible divine powers; hence, in virtue of the network of forces linking image to archetype, manipulation of the appropriate material objects brings the theurgists into contact with the deities they represent. The principle rests in fact on the Neoplatonic doctrine, systematized, as we shall see, by Iamblichus, that "everything is in everything, but in each appropriately to its nature"; it justified, for instance, the production (begun long before needle Neoplatonism) of long lists of stones, plants, animals, etc. expressing the power of Sun, Moon or other celestial gods. And it was common ground for all Neoplatonists that the sympathy linking all parts of the sensible cosmos enabled the magician to draw power from the celestial spheres. - RT Wallis, Neoplatonism, p. 107.

[autist @litteralyme0]

Growing up hearing “Wikipedia isn't a valid source” and then entering a workplace where people say “just ask ChatGPT” is a surprisingly strange timeline

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

Pick a random Friday six months from now. Mark it on your calendar as 'Everything Worked Out Celebration Dinner'. Watch your mind start acting like it's already on the way.

[dior | coach @visualdior]

marilyn monroe effect 💋

1. create an alter ego — your highest version of yourself who has everything that you want.

2. list down their traits or curate a vision board.

3. step into this highest version of you, when your desire pops up or when you feel like doing so.

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).

We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.

The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.

The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.

A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.

That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.

Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.

The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.

[صحة و لياقة @History_qq]

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[Muscle Freak @AwakenTheAlphaa]

most people never train their hips through their full range of motion.

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

The wildest part about POVERTY is how much time it steals. Waiting for buses. Calling assistance offices. Comparing grocery prices. Fighting insurance. Sitting at laundromats. Being poor is a second job nobody pays you for.

[Squat University @SquatUniversity]

Her hips were WEAK until this…

[Aakash Verma @VermaAakash3]

If you use Gmail, stop scrolling for a second.

Google’s AI is now combing through your inbox and everything in it attachments, bank statements, tax docs, medical letters, the whole stack. It’s enabled by default, and the way it was rolled out is now tied up in a class-action lawsuit.

Here are 5 steps to disable it because the off switch is buried in two different settings:

[conduct|r @conductr_]

whoever said “you MUST BY ALL MEANS develop a strong opinion of yourself so you don't end up internalizing the beliefs others have of you” changed my life.

[Mobility Exercises | Pain Relief Workouts @FeelGoodMovez]

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[mics @caughthoping]

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[Jokker @0xJokker]

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