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“More,” Sam moans, rocking down hard against Lara’s finger inside of her. “One more, Lara, please.”

Lara obliges, slipping a second finger into Sam’s cunt with another soft moan into her pussy, the sound vibrating straight up Sam’s spine. She feels Lara scoot closer on her knees, her other hand reaching around to seek out Sam’s clit, drawing sloppy, hurried circles against it. The sounds they’re making now are obscene — the low bass hum of Sam’s heater overlaid with the desperate, breathless lapping of Lara’s mouth against her went cunt. She’s a noisy eater, long unrestrained moans and whines muffled poorly by Sam’s cunt, punctuated by obscene slurping and sucking sounds that have Sam’s face flushing, her shoulders climbing nearly to her ears in embarrassment, the feeling only heightened further by the steady, wet squnching sounds from Lara’s fingers driving up into her pussy.

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Ríhanna Kelver, a bartender and trans rights advocate in Laramie, has been charged with aggravated assault and possession of a deadly weapon with unlawful intent after a 13 September 2025 confrontation outside the Crowbar & Grill, whereshe worked. Kelver could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison if convicted on both charges.

Despite Wyoming’s “Stand Your Ground” statute, which allows people to use reasonable force in moments of self defense, Kelver faces up to 15 years in prison for both charges, as well as up to $11,000 in fines, per Cowboy State Daily. Kelver faces an additional year and $1,000 fine for a charge of interference with a peace officer. [...]

Kelver corroborated a report identifying the attacker as Scott Wayne Durham, a Patriot Front member from Aurora, CO. First unmasked as Patryck “Scott” Durham, he has posted fascist, white supremacist, and Patriot Front propaganda since high school, operating under the online handles “Kevin – CO,” “Fedposter,” “WallaceCarden,” and numerous others. Durham was barred from his high school graduation after being unmasked in 2022, and in 2023 left enrollment at the University of Colorado Boulder after a flyering campaign alerted students to his history. On June 10, 2025 he changed his name (p. 26) to Scott Wayne Durham and is now listed as an honor roll student at the University of Wyoming, located in Laramie.

So whether they know it or not, the prosecutors are helping a Neo-Nazi who tried to commit a hate crime.

1: socks are not super complicated. they are a tube with one end closed. good socks are a tube with a bend at one end and then the short end closed. As clothing go, that's fairly simple.

2. they are a high wear item--even the most well-cared-for sock is going to wear out faster than most of your clothes because, well. you walk on them all day.

3. feet are one of the most homogenous human body parts. feet come in a fairly limited size range which can mostly be accomodated by stretchy fabric and two or three size ranges. even outliers in size are still the same shape.

notably, this is not true for other areas of the body where a tube shape would work! human torsos can come in many different shapes and sizes! all of which change the places and ways that tube top/dress/skirt would need to stretch!

Climate change is pushing ticks into new habitats across southern Canada, and experts say the blood-sucking pests will keep advancing. Disease-carrying ticks were barely on Canada's radar until the 1990s, but scientists say various species are travelling north from the United States at a rate of 35 to 55 kilometres per year. "Where the vast majority of the Canadian population lives, which is near the American border, are all in areas that are already climatically suitable for tick populations," said Katie Clow, an assistant professor in the department of population medicine at the University of Guelph. "Likely, the invasion process is just going to continue to sort of fill that ecological niche." Clow says parts of southern Canada that do not yet have ticks will likely see them emerge over the coming decade.

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it seems like really great art (in a variety of mediums) only really arises out of a whole ecology supporting that art—e.g.,

-> you don't get great oration the way you did during Frederick Douglass's time because oratory is no longer a “live” art in the way it was back then (audiences prefer other options for entertainment/information; audiences don’t have the patience for that style of delivery, etc);

-> Mozart's genius for improvisation, while impressive, was an outlier on a spectrum of talent that existed back then, and wasn’t categorically different; he was pulling from a massive vocabulary of licks/phrases/etc that he knew by heart because that was How Music Education Worked Back Then—i saw a video recently that talked about that, and which also claimed the mythopoetic status of “singular genius composer” only began to rise and become so socially prominent during the Romantic era specifically because the ecosystem that supported that style of music education (e.g. sacred music and the church and such) was on the wane, which is FASCINATING even if it’s probably more “complicatedly true” rather than “straighforwardly true”;

-> and also, i enjoyed this Kanakia column that argued that the Western (as in "western/cowboy novels") managed to produce some truly great work, but only when that general *ecosystem* reached its apex…

anyway.

most people, i think, don't think of the arts like this?  like, i was into composing music when i was a kid, and i remember my parents—who are lovely, just not AT ALL musical—regarded it with a bit of awe.  after i worked really hard writing this one song & performed it at a recital, my mom asked me if there would be more if i only “had one song in me.”  she wasn’t asking in a negative “you should be doing more” way!  but in a wistful-earnest way, like, “wow, it’s so lucky you had even this one song in you; sometimes that’s all there is and we just have to be grateful for it” kind of way.  they asked me where my ideas for songs came from.  and i, being a kid, was like “uhhh idk they just come to me” and they were awed all over again.

as an adult i know that wasn’t the whole story—the real answer is, well, i had piano lessons, so i already had some idea (both intuitive and formal) of common chord/arpeggio/etc patterns; i played a lot of nobuo uematsu and frédéric chopin so their compositional styles "lived" in me; and so when i started playing with a little melody for fun, i had some “hunches” for where to take it, how to develop it, and “it just came to me” but… only because i had this whole vocabulary that i, being a kid, didn’t even realize was a learned thing; it just felt like part of the air i breathed.

anyway!

i got to thinking about this recently when reading adam kostko's post about the process of learning to how to better listen & look in order to better appreciate art… and he argues that e.g. those with some formal music education may in fact get less out of a music performance because they’re trying to “decode” the piece rather than really listen.  which is interesting, and i think has some truth, but i suspect it’s *specifically* that music education today mostly involves learning some theory “in a vacuum” (e.g. “label these chords”-style worksheets) and learning how to precisely replicate prewritten songs, rather than… developing that fluency & that access to the wider ecosystem

With pre-war Hormuz traffic at 30,000 vessels and 7.6 billion barrels of oil per year, this could generate $10+ billion in annual revenue for Iran, and comes on top of the $300 billion in reconstruction funds directly sent to Iran.

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