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In a move that left hundreds of longtime residents scrambling to find alternative housing, municipal construction crews reportedly demolished a local Black neighborhood Thursday, part of an ongoing city project to make room for nothing in particular. “For decades, this part of Fort Worth has languished as nothing more than a loving community for African American families and a bustling hub for Black-owned businesses,” said Mayor Mattie Parker, adding that the destruction of dozens of beloved restaurants, theaters, barbershops, and newspapers was an essential step toward creating more vacant lots that could sit empty behind fences for an indefinite length of time.

The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.

The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.

Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.

Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me)

Here is my custom Frankenstein doll based on Guillermo Del Toro's movie. His outfit is from a pair of altered BTS doll pants, a Pullip corset top, and a custom fur coat I sewed myself and a pair of EAH doll boots I altered by gluing on fur and adding 1inch thich platforms to the sole.

This is more of a Monster High take on the design so he leans a bit more stylish than slavishly recreating his look as I wanted him to slot into my collection. I added the choker as a throwbgack to the character's early life in the film where he's chained up and thought it was a fun detail to add.

Posting the pictures of the harpies yesterday reminded me that I’ve never posted these pictures here. I think they’re from like. October? November?

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