#tethering

eSIM statt Roaming

Im August 2023 will ich für ein paar Tage eine Freundin in der Schweiz besuchen. Da ich dort auch außerhalb des Freundinnen-WLANs online sein möchte und mein Mobilfunkanbieter horrende Beträge für Datenroaming verlangt, überlege ich, ob sich wohl eine Schweizer Prepaid-Karte lohnt. Mir fällt ein, dass ich in meinem Handy eine physische SIM-Karte habe, es aber zusätzlich eSIMs unterstützt. Ich könnte also vielleicht schon von zuhause aus eine solche kaufen, sodass sie gleich bei der Einreise zur Verfügung steht. Bei einer Internetrecherche stoße ich jedoch auf ein mir bisher unbekanntes Konzept: Zahlreiche internationale Anbieter haben sich auf den Verkauf von eSIMs spezialisiert, die ausschließlich Datenvolumen für genau diesen Fall bieten. Es gibt Optionen für einzelne Länder oder gleich ganze Regionen. Die Preise sind meist gestaffelt nach verfügbarem Volumen und Gültigkeitsdauer (z. B. 5GB, die innerhalb vom 10 Tagen aufgebraucht werden können). Da es sich nicht um die großen Mobilfunkanbieter handelt, sondern um Unternehmen, von denen ich noch nie gehört habe, bin ich ein bisschen misstrauisch. Ich verlasse mich aber auch die Empfehlung auf einer Reiseberater-Seite. Sollte es nicht funktionieren, wäre das natürlich ärgerlich, aber finanziell im verkraftbaren Rahmen.

Nach dem Kauf bekomme ich innerhalb weniger Minuten einen QR-Code per E-Mail zugeschickt. Diesen scanne ich mit dem Handy ein, wodurch die eSIM automatisch eingerichtet wird. Bei der Einreise in die Schweiz muss ich nur noch einstellen, dass diese für mobile Daten verwendet wird. Ich muss also meine deutsche Handynummer für Telefonie und SMS nicht deaktivieren. Mein Misstrauen erweist sich als unbegründet: Ich merke keinen Unterschied zu meiner üblichen Handynutzung. Das Einzige, was mich stört, ist, dass ich keinen Überblick über die verwendeten bzw. noch verfügbaren Daten habe. Ich gehe aber davon aus, dass 10GB für einen viertägigen Urlaub, in dem ich oft im WLAN der Freundin sein werde, mehr als ausreichend sein sollten. Bei der Ausreise stelle ich den Datenempfang einfach wieder auf die deutsche SIM-Karte um.

Im Dezember desselben Jahres reise ich in die Türkei. Aufgrund meiner guten Erfahrung möchte ich wieder eine eSIM kaufen, schaue mich aber nach anderen Anbietern um, die vielleicht günstiger sind oder bei denen man Überblick über die Datennutzung erhält. Die Preise sind bei allen Anbietern ähnlich, es gibt aber solche, die eine App anbieten, über die man den Verbrauch überwachen und bei Bedarf direkt zusätzliches Volumen hinzubuchen kann. Außerdem stoße ich auf einen Anbieter, der tagesbasierte Tarife mit unbegrenztem Datenvolumen hat, und beschließe, diesen auszuprobieren. In der Türkei angekommen, schalte ich wie beim letzten Mal die mobilen Daten auf die eSIM um, und es passiert zunächst ein mal gar nichts. Ich bin verärgert und fühle mich betrogen, habe aber zunächst andere Dinge (Passkontrolle etc.) zu tun. Später funktioniert es dann aber doch; die eSIM hat nur eine Weile für die Aktivierung gebraucht, danach funktioniert sie einwandfrei.

In der türkischen Wohnung angekommen, erwartet mich aber die nächste Hürde: Ich möchte auch mit dem iPad online sein, das nur Wifi-fähig ist. Ich erstelle hierzu einen mobilen Hotspot auf dem Handy und verbinde das iPad damit, welches mir anzeigt: "Verbunden – Kein Internetzugriff". Das Handy ist jedoch nach wie vor online. Ich schaue noch einmal auf die Webseite des Anbieters, und tatsächlich: Bei genauem Lesen hätte ich wissen können, dass bei Tarifen mit unbegrenztem Volumen Tethering nicht erlaubt ist. Aus Anbieter-Perspektive macht das durchaus Sinn, ich hatte es jedoch überlesen, da ich bisher nicht einmal wusste, dass das etwas ist, was der Anbieter beeinflussen kann. Da ich jetzt aber schon für sieben Tage bezahlt habe, suche ich im Internet nach einem Workaround und werde sehr schnell fündig: Ich lade auf dem Handy eine kostenlose App runter (kein Problem, da ich ja unbegrenztes Datenvolumen habe), die einen Proxy-Server einrichtet. Auf dem iPad muss ich jetzt nur noch in den WLAN-Einstellungen eintragen, dass der Datenverkehr über diesen Proxy-Server laufen soll. Am ersten Tag ist das Ganze ein bisschen unzuverlässig, bis ich auf die Idee komme, auf dem Handy die Batterieoptimierung für die Proxy-App auszuschalten, sodass sie nicht nach einer Weile im Hintergrund automatisch vom Betriebssystem beendet wird. Von nun an habe ich eine zuverlässige Internetverbindung auf beiden Geräten und muss mir keine Gedanken mehr über das verfügbare Volumen machen.

Energetic tethering is the phrase I use to describe the way energy is sent between two connected points, so let’s dive in. This is a bit complex, so bear with me.

What is energetic tethering?

In a previous post, I talked about how the earth’s energy travels between two points along ley lines, essentially creating an energetic grid. But energy also can travel between two entities as well. So if, for example, you are one energetic point, you can receive energy from another energetic point, or person, via a tether. Think of this like an energetic chord that connects you both. When people talk about chord cutting they are talking about cutting a tether.

First, let’s explain the basic soul connection: Resonance

So, in my post on souls, I talked about how souls are evolving mosaics and when you have soul connections it’s because you each share a piece of a harmonic frequency or the same frequency. Harmonic frequencies are frequencies that are so close you can pick them up. Think of this like a radio and how you can pick up some stations but they are staticky. A harmonic frequency is like that, close enough to pick up but not as clear as the same frequency.

One of the reasons that celebrities can connect en masse is that they have a part of their frequency that is harmonic to many frequencies which is how so many people connect with them energetically. This in and of itself doesn’t create a tether. A lot of people feel connected to celebrities because of the resonance which is why the celebrity feels safe or comfortable or likable. Resonance happens when a frequency feels similar to your own, even if it’s not the same. Again close enough to hear but not the same frequency. Because most people have the capacity for spiritual gifts, they may resonate with a person and mistake that as a soul connection. We are all technically connected, so in effect, we are all connected spiritually which is why, if you train, you can learn to pick up information about anyone. What you are training is your ability to tune to other frequencies, which allows you to connect with others better. The difference in connections has to do with intensity and closeness. Resonance is a basic way two energies relate and we can resonate with many people.

So what’s a tether then?

A tether is different. It is a direct line of energetic exchange between two beings which means both beings have to consent to the connection. It’s a next level up from a mere resonance. It’s literally a lifeline. When you establish a tether to someone, they are able to access your energy and you can access theirs. There are many reasons you may establish a tether to another. You may need the energetic exchange during a time when your energy is depleted. Most of of us have tethers to people we deem close. Part of that closeness is that we share energy with one another. It’s how someone you love can pick up on how you’re doing from far away. Some tethers we carry through lifetimes, but we can also create tethers.

How do we create tethers?

In order to create a tether, you must share an exact frequency with the other point. There must be a need for the tether to exist, not just a desire. This need can be energetic in nature (ie needing help processing energy, needing access to more energy, needing protection, needing healing) or emotional (falling in love, adopting a child). Just because you have a soul contract doesn’t mean you have a tether to someone. We have contracts for many different souls to come into our lives, but a tether is more intimate. So for example, you may have a soul contract to meet your boyfriend in this life, and you may have agreed that he would play the part of this super kind guy that showed you what kindness means, and you agreed to show him what it means to be nurturing. Through this exchange, you fall in love. Technically when you learn true kindness from him, and he learns nurturing from you, the contract is up and you can part ways. Why many people don’t is that they formed a tether. Yes, tethers can be formed in toxic dynamics as well. Through your love, you created a channel for energy to travel to and from each other. Why? Because soul contracts usually have at least a harmonic or very close frequency with us, which is how we have any connection and they aren’t a complete stranger, and through time, both people can shift each of their energy slightly enough to find the same frequency and tether.

Tethers are very potent things and can be hard to sever as they are basically like a vein. When you cut it, energy can spew everywhere until it heals. Remember how I talked about energy leakage? Well this is one way you leak energy. The more energy you both pour through the tether the stronger it becomes.

Toxic tethers

Toxic tethers can be challenging because usually they are unbalanced and one energy is giving more than the other. Ideally, you’d both be giving energy equally in the dynamic. I’ll give an example. My abusive ex. We were contracted to meet, because we promised to meet and experience what we couldn’t in another life. The first time he was physical with me and I left, we had actually finished our contract. I had experienced all I had promised him in our past life and he had shown me dark truths about the world. What brought me back to him was the tether we had created together. I have described this relationship like a heroin addiction. When I first left him, I felt so painfully drained and empty that I went back to him. Why? Because we were still tethered and he was taking my energy unequally. The only way I felt I got energy from him was in his presence. Although I was contractually able to walk away, the tether boomeranged me back to him. And honestly, I’m not sure I’ve fully cut the tether yet. It’s very minimal now, but we are still connected through the pain he caused me. It’s a thin thread but he still pulls on it sometimes and so do I. It’s not always intentional, sometimes I stir emotions when I’m writing out my feelings and our tether activates. Time and distance can lessen the tether and you will know you are fully untethered when your emotions become peace. I’m still tethered to him because I still feel anger and grief tied to him. Although you both made the tether together, it only takes one person to break it.

Celebrity and public figure tethers

Celebrities and public figures are a bit different because they have a public persona. This persona is a frequency that’s like a basic frequency. I think of frequencies like music okay. Celebrities have a public persona frequency that’s basically an eight count. Almost every single song (soul) has a basic eight count in it. Almost every single soul has a frequency that contains this frequency. This is how they connect with so many.

They can be tethered to fans in a way. I’ll do my best to explain. Celebrities and public figures are sent tons of energy all the time, and one way they combat that is through energetic tethers with some souls. This exchange is called offloading. They are able to offload that energy onto someone else. They can also pull on the energy when they are depleted. Usually you can tell if you have this connection with a celebrity if you are feeling their emotions intensely or you feel very emotional about them. That’s a sign they are offloading or drawing on your energy. It sounds horrible like they are using you, but you agreed to this role. You are experiencing a service tether.

Basically for a soul to take on a big collective mission, it has to be supported by many souls. Usually this happens from a need, whether that is a collective need for positivity or learning through cruelty (yes even “villains” are chosen for their roles for the greater good). This means a lot of souls asked for this person to come here and do this work. Why? Because this person clears a lot of karma for many souls, especially the ones directly asking for them to serve. Just like our ancestors have us come in and clear our bloodlines, those on collective missions come and clear karma for many in the collective which is why it takes a lot of energy exchange for them to be successful.

This soul agrees to serve the mission and the souls that made the request agree to serve in this capacity as like assistants in a way. So think about the energy of Trump supporters and how emotionally activated they are. This is what I’m talking about. They are serving the collective and Trump’s soul, who agreed to come here to play this role in order to catalyze/activate a lot of humanity and to clear a lot of karma of these assistant souls. This assistant role is critical because souls serving collective missions are actually putting themselves at risk energetically. They become magnets for leeching energies and are tested deeply and repeatedly on whether they will allow their energy to be co-opted. It’s not easy choosing a collective role. These souls are still on individual and even sometimes partner missions. These service tethers help protect the person’s energy by allowing it to disperse in a way that doesn’t spread more lower frequencies. A lot of public figures transmute energy, so having many tethers helps with processing the collective lower frequencies. Service tethers can sever when the individual who asked for help has cleared the karma with the aid of the public personal soul. Usually not all service tethers are activated at the same time, so the public persona always has some assistance, at least until they choose to step back from the public significantly. If they fulfill their mission or become too exhausted, they may step back and fade away. Those who still pop up every now and again have usually completed their mission but still want to use their lifetime to the fullest and will continue to do more.

Where do we tether from?

The heart chakra!

Okay anything else?

Yes! I was explaining this to a friend. Readers don’t create tethers to people to read their energy. Essentially a reader is someone who knows how to attune to different frequencies. Like I explained in the souls post, we have to translate our soul energy to corporeal form and we do that through our chakra system/aura. When a reader reads a person, all they are doing is attuning their own energy to that of another person. It’s different from a resonance, it’s that they can tune to the exact frequency of that person, get some information that spirit allows and then tune out. By tuning into the exact frequency, they can pick up on the soul translating to the body. They are not effecting it. It’s like Walky Talkies and how if you find the exact frequency two people are using, you can overhear their conversation. It’s like that. That’s sometimes why you can pick up a soul connection someone has because a soul connection of yours will share either the same mosaic piece of the same frequency or a harmonic, a frequency close enough that it can get picked up with as well. So you and this soul connection may not be on the same frequency just yet, but you can pick them up in the static. A tether to the soul is different. That is a direct line of energy flowing between two people.

That was a lot. Hope it makes sense.

If you're coming from Lightroom, there's a huge change in store for you.

Today, Capture One 21 is getting several enhancements ahead of the release of Capture One 22. To kick this off, some users will see a 500% catalog load-speed improvement. I’ve known about this in beta for a while, but didn’t test it. I’m pretty sure that the folks who will see the most significant changes are using Apple M1 laptops. Then there are improvements with both Sigma and Fujifilm…

Person without a fence: What's a good stake and tether to keep my dog on my property and able to be outside with me while I garden for an hour or two?

Furmommies/daddies: NEVER chain a dog! *shares AR propaganda* Chaining is CRUEL, you shouldn't have a dog if you don't have a fence!!!

Y'all can fuck right off with that anti animal ownership bullshit. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using a chain/tether to contain a dog. Your idiotic AR Lite mindset is what's killing legal animal ownership. It's also classist as fuck. Not everyone can afford a fence and not every dog will stay in one.

Mature T cells throw out tube-like protrusions to avoid being swept away by blood rushing by at high speed. As they gently roll along, tether after tether is peeled loose and slung forward like a lasso to gain new traction.Credit: Michael Abadier, Ph.D., La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology

To eradicate pathogens or counteract inflammation, cells of the immune system move through often rapid blood flow toward peripheral disease sites, such as skin, gut or lung. Thus a goal of immunologists has been to define the repertoire of molecules that not only keep fast-moving immune cells on course but allow them to access inflamed tissues.

Now, a team led by La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (LJI) researcher Klaus Ley, M.D., reports that helper T cells move toward inflamed tissue using membrane protrusions that stabilize them and provide traction on the vasculature. Using high-resolution microscopy and global molecular analysis, the team shows that immature T cells lack these protrusions but that maturing T-cells switch on a gene expression program to create material to construct them.

That work, published in the Dec. 26. , 2017, issue of Cell Reports, provides a brand new collection of factors potentially useful to modulate immune responses in conditions as diverse as cancer and autoimmune disease.

"Immature T cells remain in lymphoid organs and can't move into sites of infection," says Ley, a professor and head of in LJI's Division of Inflammation Biology. "To reach their targets, T cells must first acquire biomechanical properties necessary for migratory behavior. We now know they do that in part by deploying strategies similar to those we previously discovered in cells called neutrophils."

Everything, Not Quite Everywhere

Vor der Abreise nach Orkney habe ich W. noch empfohlen, sich eine EE-SIM zu kaufen. Sie hat in St Andrews, wo wir Zwischenstation machen, über fehlenden Empfang geklagt, und ich habe mit EE seit 2016 auf dem schottischen Land gute Erfahrungen gemacht, mit anderen Anbietern nicht so sehr.

Auf Orkney gibt es allerdings, wie sich herausstellt, nur an wenigen Stellen Empfang mit EE. Und da auch Aleks auf meinen Rat so eine SIM besitzt, sind wir jetzt alle drei beim falschen Anbieter. W. weicht auf das Roaming ihrer österreichischen SIM-Karte aus. Ich wechsle ins Roaming meiner AldiTalk-Karte. Aleks hat nur die eine SIM und damit sehr wenig Netz. In den meisten Unterkünften und Pubs gibt es WLAN, das meistens auch einigermaßen funktioniert. Wo es nicht anders geht, hängen W. und Aleks via Hotspot an meiner AldiTalk-SIM, bei der ich unbegrenzt Daten nachkaufen kann.

Dazugelernt: Es gibt auch außerhalb Deutschlands immer noch Gegenden, in denen Handyempfang ein Problem darstellt. Und wenn man in unbekannte entlegene Gegenden fährt, sollten besser nicht alle Reisenden beim gleichen Mobilfunkanbieter sein.