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Residents had serious concerns about the project. While companies often win major tax breaks by promising jobs and economic stimulation, data centers bring few permanent jobs and can drain municipal water resources, drive up electric bills, rob cities of tax revenues, and cause damaging noise, light, and air pollution. Already, Wisconsin residents have seen some of these impacts at data center sites in Port Washington and Beaver Dam. Residents in Port Washington have complained about the disruption caused by around-the-clock construction at the new data center. Families near the construction in Beaver Dam have reported that their wells have run dry.

Although the Menomonie City Council voted to annex and rezone the land for the data center in early September [2025], pressure from local campaigners was so great that Mayor Randy Knaack announced at a Sept. 22 city council meeting that he had notified Balloonist that the city would not be moving forward with a development agreement. More good news came in January when the Menomonie City Council voted unanimously to place additional regulations on data center projects.

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Love, grief, and magic in the mundane

oh my god, you guys. it's done. i actually finally Finished The Fucking Thing. This is by far the longest and most complex thing i've written to date, and that's not even taking into account the fact that it's only one movement in my first multi-movement work. it's not perfect, but damn. i'm proud of myself 😂

it does need a good edit, as do all the other movements in this quartet, but as i'm kind of burnt out on it again i don't know when i'll get around to doing that. i'd love to look it over with a teacher or in a workshop setting, actually, since there are things i'm not happy with that i don't know how to fix or sometimes even identify the problem....but idrk where or how to find something like that in my area, so. for now, please enjoy my over-eight-minute monster baby.

here's the current state of other three movements also, if you wanna check em out (unfortuately i cant upload the full thing at once bc the audio is too big LMAO):

i've been working on this quartet for about a year and a half now, so i'm honestly very eager to switch gears to other things LOL. up next on my docket is a piano/vocals trio, which i already have the lyrics and melody for, so it might show up pretty soon~ after that i think i want to try my hand at a concert overture (my first symphonic work!! aaa!!), though that might take longer because i'm juust dipping my toes into writing for wind instruments.

For example, a couple years ago, while learning Spanish, I encountered the word for a store, "la tienda." I thought "huh, that's a lot like tener (tiene) - the word for store in Spanish literally corresponds to 'to have/keep'. How interesting!"

half the wishes, double the trouble: a pop idol vanessa mystery [link]

Written by @tumblerislovetumblerislife (with illustrations by @edmcmayonnaise)

It was just… Pop Idol Vanessa Mystery never got to have its own live action movie or series, even though the fans had been begging for it for years. (Well. There was one adaptation. The movie that made the main four act like sisters, and gave Vanessa some random boyfriend. It Was Not To Be Spoken Of.) Niko had always wanted to see her childhood crushes on the big screen, saying all the brave things she could only dream of.

So when the genie asked, in a deep, portentous voice, “What is your greatest wish?”, Niko (very understandably) said, “I want my favorite manga to come to life!”

Or: A genie takes a wish too literally. Everyone deals with the consequences.

Thank you to @deadbangdetectives for all your hard work and energy with organising this event!

here's the sexual content guidelines saying nudity is ok

here's the bit from the termination email telling you you can make a new account as long as it doesn't break the same rule

here's the guidelines for what counts as explicit (not mature, aka grounds for content deletion)

here's the section telling us that you will always be able to respond to content getting flagged as explicit (lie)

here's the section where it says you will be notified when your accunt gets terminated, and that the appeals are reviewed by humans (both lies)

and by the way, posting a single thing against ToS isn't supposed to be grounds for deletion,

@deadline Anthony Head, the British actor best known for roles in 'Ted Lasso' and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' has died, aged 72.⁠

Head’s daughters Emily and Daisy, both actors themselves, told BBC News that he “passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family.”

Here’s HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year!  Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3