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Legally Blonde AU part 3 💖

Whaddaye say?

Sloppy Astyle??

(quite an alluring ofer if i do sayso myzelf……..

line 1: german pervert

line 2: scottish pervert

line 3: italian pervert

Ph. Eduardo Soteras

Ph. Bete Giyorgis

Ph. Sean Gallup

The small town of Lalibela in Ethiopia is home to one of the most extraordinary sacred sites in the world. Its eleven churches were carved directly out of solid volcanic rock. This dusty, rural town only gained access to electricity relatively recently, and it still has no paved roads. Originally called Roha, the town was later named after King Lalibela of the Zagwe dynasty, who ruled the Ethiopian Empire from 1181 to 1221. During his reign, this remarkable complex of eleven churches was created. What you see in these photographs is not a group of buildings made from stone blocks. Each church was carved from a single mass of rock, with no joints, bricks, or mortar. The builders first cut a deep trench around the future church, separating it from the surrounding bedrock. They then worked from the top down, carving the exterior before gradually hollowing out the interior. Once the doors and windows had been opened, workers entered the rock itself and carved out rooms, columns, passages, and sanctuaries from within. That is why these churches are described as monolithic: each one was shaped from a single piece of stone rather than assembled from separate materials.

This method required extraordinary technical knowledge, precision, patience and skill. Even more remarkable was the vision and courage behind the idea itself. The overall concept, the architectural design, and the artistic details and ornamentation are achievements in their own right.

As archaeologists have described it:

Like Gastornis was thought to be a carnivore for decades and then carbon isotopes were like, "nah this thing was basically a giant goose honk honk".

Art by Ja Chirinos

Oviraptor was thought to be an egg eater, then much ink was spilled about whether it ate mollusks, and now it's thought to be an omnivore, but mostly a fruit/seed eater like a parrot.

Somehow this Adobe Stock image is the only art of an Oviraptor eating plants I can find. How is that?

And even birds with some teeth are getting in on these dietary mysteries.

Longipteryx was first thought to be a kingfisher-like hunter of aquatic prey, but it has since been found with seed contents in its guts, making it another surprise frugivore.

However: I was out getting ramen with a buddy of mine, guy who works at one of those huge-big software companies in a senior position. This restaurant had one of those digital menus, where you scan a QR code and have to order your food on their website. And the website they had... christ almighty! It took a full 10 seconds to respond to any of my inputs!! If I was booting up fuckin noclip dot website here I might understand, but this was literally a list of meals and a button to check out. What in god's name could this website be doing behind the scenes that was causing such latency???

I complain about this to my buddy, how absurd it is that their website was lagging this bad, and what this extremely skilled, senior software developer at a billion dollar company said in response was "ah, but it's a pain in the arse to support older phone models, so really this one is one you".

I worked in healthcare technology for a few years on a software sold to hospitals in the US. Specifically, we provided the service for hospitals and other medical providers to send automated texts and emails. We did a lot of appointment reminders, but we our main thing was specific care instructions which could be sent to both the patient and their caregiver, if needed, for medical procedures. These would send in real time, informing them to start meds, fasting, etc., and often were paired with short links to additional care info.

There were a few main rules to these texts, including but not limited to:

1. They should be sub 160 characters. Older phones, flip phones, etc cannot always process longer texts. They will either split them up into multiple messages (sometimes out of order) or, worse, entirely not send them.

2. Important info should always be included in the text itself. Many phones cannot open links for one reason or another.

At the time of me working there (2020 🥴) I believe we ballparked about 10% of patients would be negatively impacted by not following these 2 rules alone (tho unfortunately I don’t remember how we landed on that number).

Quite a few hospitals just DID NOT CARE. They would be told “hey, 10% of your patients will have a bad time if we don’t follow these rules, and these rules affect how we are telling them to prepare for major surgeries” and some admin would reply “but two texts YUCKY and they don’t look PROFESSIONAL.” And we would say “again, 10% of your patients will suffer for it.”

The key thing to remember is who has that older phone. For hospitals, this happens to be some of their most vulnerable populations, such as:

Geriatric patients

Addicts

Unhoused people

Poor people (more broadly)

(This list both has a lot of overlap and is also by no means exhaustive.)

The thing is, the entire reason a hospital would use our service is that we actively were saying “hey, we can help you reach your hard-to-reach patients so they are more like to come on time and come prepped correctly. This is better for your scheduling and internal operations, but also for the patients that need care and their literal surgical outcomes.” And, critically, this program WAS effective. Reaching your patients means they know what to do when and they are more likely to get the care they need correctly. No no-show fees, no going home after failing to medicate properly, clear info on what counts as a designated ride home after surgery (ride shares are a no-no for the record), guidance on getting child care, and so on.

But I think it was super telling that hospitals were sometimes so resistant to double-texting and stuff. There really were some that just could not be bothered accommodating “old tech” and really prioritized keeping it modern feeling over keeping it functional for EVERYONE.

(Also, you can only begin to image how much messier this gets once you also roll in multi-lingual support. “Why are we sending TWO texts! We only want ONE!” “Well, some Spanish words are longer than their English equivalent.” “Change it.” “No.”)

So they say back in 1951, County Mayo had won the All Ireland Football, and the team were naturally in high spirits on the bus coming home, and they passed by a funeral

After being asked to be more respectful and all, nobody listened because the excitement was just that high, so the priest placed a curse on them, saying Mayo will never win another All Ireland Final so long as the team members were still alive (although I've heard in other stories it was some eldery woman who cursed them)

So like, they probably thought it was a load of nonsense and continued celebrating, but after that, the years kept coming and Mayo didn't get into a final for years, and when they did they lost, and people were like, "oh shit, maybe the Mayo tram has been cursed"

So anyway one by one over time, the members of the team passed away, the last one passing away in 2023

And finally, the curse being broken, Mayo managed to win the All Ireland Football Final today, July 26th 2026, after a 75 year wait