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Swede’s Photographs

Good morning, friends. 🌹🌹🌹

15 April 2025

Several boards on my utility trailer need to be replaced. I've been keeping an eye on them for a few months, and the other day, I noticed that one had deteriorated to the point where it now has a hole. The boards are secured at both ends with top and bottom enclosures, making their removal and replacement a bit of a challenge. To replace a board, you use what's known as the "teeter-totter" method. This involves sliding one end of the board into position, placing a block underneath to bend the board enough for the other end to clear the metal lip of the trailer, and then removing the block to let the board settle into place. It reminds me of my old saying: "nothing is ever easy."

“Everything is difficult," she whispered. "Maybe that's something else that I've learned.” - Alison Croggon, The Singing

Heart of the Rose "This is an exquisite photograph of a fully blossomed red rose. The deep crimson hue of the petals evokes elegance and passion, while the soft, velvety texture adds a luxurious feel to the flower. Each petal is arranged in a mesmerizing spiral, drawing the eye to the heart of the bloom. The background, with its darker tones and hints of green foliage, beautifully complements the rose, emphasizing its vibrant charm. The signature "© Swede's Photographs" in the bottom left corner lends a personal artistic touch to the image." - Copilot
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beSpacific

@embiggenData Cannot stress often enough - Understand #Rump #trump #mus #vought #MAGA #GOP are liars. They #lie constantly, loudly, with bravado, and every media outlet panders to their every pronouncement report the #lies as #facts. #democracy is #difficult. It takes time, engagement, effort, hard work by all of us. We cannot simply accept the lies. We have to fight back with the truth constantly. Time consuming but folks will always take the easy route which now is to oblivion.

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ThunderPerfectWitchcraft
It took longer than planned, but we just released Bjørnstigen - a map for Venzone, which is an ASCII platformer game made by @ffaff .

https://thunderperfectwitchcraft.itch.io/bjrnstigen

Rather exotic for the genre, Bjørnstigen is primarily focused on narration: Obstacles, difficult situations, and the flow of the level design are used as tools to convey emotions and ideas. But still, it is directed to experienced players, and playing the original game is very recommended before tackling it.

#game #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #underground #undergroundgame #floss #opensource #free #freegame #gaming #platformer #narrative #experimental #adventure #mountains #ascii #retro #freesoftware #openculture #difficult #interactivefiction #if #itch #art #digitalart
ASCII-Cross, in the background a mountain range. The text reads: A single cross behind a fence within the barren, lonely range. Inscribed were the names of people who lived up here, many of which died young. A testament to the rough living conditions, a signpost told us. The scenery around us was of utmost beauty, the weather was great. Looking forward to the hike, we turned back to go for the trail.
ASCII mountains, the floor is fragmented, ranging over a deep abyss. The text reads: When we exited the bush, we had ascended to the height of the glacier on the other side of the valley. Below, a wild, vivid canyon unfolded. The view was mesmerizing, but the abyss beneath us was nauseating. Surely, a single wrong step would be our last one up here. I started to feel a bit dizzy.
A ASCII cave. The text reads: A sign greeted us. It listed some emergency numbers, and told us that usually, there wouldn't been signal available up here. It concluded with the words: "May god protect you, wanderer!" The path still went up, and even steeper so.
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ThunderPerfectWitchcraft
Arcane Cache: Review to Pocico, an abstract, minimal puzzle game.

Located in the perfect spot between minimalism and aesthetic, looking like a abstract or concrete painting that came to life, and its pentatonic scaled sound effects and reluctant, for the most time invisible user interface are a perfect fit. ... Whetever you are a casual puzzle player or an hard boiled enthusiast – Pocico will offer you a good time with its witty, deep gameplay and its great style.​

https://thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/arcane_cache/2024/07/28/pocico/

#gaming #game #undergroundgame #art #digitalart #puzzle #logic #indiegame #videogame #indiedev #gamedev #review #sdl #abstract #minimal #style #difficult #opensource #freesoftware #openculture #libre #floss #freegaming #free #gpl
Screenshot of Pocico, showing a grid consisting of squares and triangles in red and orange.
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Chuck Darwin

Trump's entire #Project2025 Policy Agenda is huge
--over 900 pages as I understand it
--but given the nature of this website, I'm going to restrict myself to discussing the #healthcare policy section, which is thankfully "only" 54 pages long.

Since there's so much to wade through here, I'll be breaking this into several individual posts.

First up, according to Edwin Park, Research Professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families,
here's how Project 2025 would impact #MEDICAID:
• It would convert federal Medicaid funding into #BLOCK #GRANTS (a set amount of money which would remain the same regardless of increased healthcare cost growth, enrollment growth, unexpected additional costs from recessions, disasters, another global pandemic, etc.
• It would require #states to pay a much larger share of Medicaid costs
• It would eliminate states ability to use provider #taxes, which states use to pay part of their share
• This in turn would prevent states from being able to access even the already-reduced #federal #revenue
• It would eliminate many Medicaid protections & requirements, including adding coverage time #limits and lifetime benefit #caps
• It would allow states to increase #premiums & cost sharing for enrollees and add them to #children and pregnant women
• It would allow states to drop coverage of #nursing home care and long-term services
• States would no longer have to coverage non-elderly non-#disabled parents
• It would add more red tape & make it more #difficult for people to apply for, enroll in and renew their coverage
• It would let states add work reporting #requirements, which have proven to be a disaster in the handful of states that it's been allowed for to date
• It would push for Medicaid #vouchers for less affordable & far less comprehensive private coverage
• It would remove most federal #oversight of state Medicaid programs...except for #abortion & reproductive healthcare, where it would crack down with #draconian federal requirements including prohibiting Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funding, prohibiting coverage of travel to get an abortion and eliminating Medicaid funding for states which require abortion coverage in private policies*

*Note: As of 2022, that included California, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, New York, Oregon and Washington.

Overall, Park estimates that
🔸 Project 2025 would slash federal Medicaid funding by more than 50% over the next decade.🔸

acasignups.net/24/07/05/lets-t

ACA Signups · Let's take a look at Donald Trump's #Project2025 Medicaid Agenda, shall we?Before I get started, I want to be clear about two things. First, what exactly is "Project 2025?" Via Wikipedia: Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project, is a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican Party candidate win the 2024 presidential election. It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of merit-based federal civil service workers as political appointees in order to replace them with those who will be more willing to enact the wishes of the next Republican president. It asserts that the president has absolute power over the executive branch. Critics of Project 2025 have characterized it as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist plan to transform the United States into an autocracy. Many legal experts have asserted it would undermine the rule of law, the separation of powers, the separation of church and state, and civil liberties.
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