"Zeus should've just chosen Hera as the fairest/most beautiful of the gods it wasn't That Hard" actually it WAS that hard because if Zeus' only role was being Hera's husband and not Olympus' king I don't think he'd have a doubt to say his wife is objectively the hottest because she is, but because he is King of The Gods and considering the other major contenders are his favorite daughter and his aunt-daughter-daughter-in-law it was obviously crucial for the judge to be impartial.
Also I don't think Hera would be the type to enjoy being called the best if it came with some bias / wasn't fair, yes she likes to play dirty at times but she does it in the way it feels deserved to her. Her vanity is quite specific in the sense.
Iliad Schol. (D) Il. 1.609 to his own couch (πρὸς ὃν λέχος):
...Of these, they say, Zeus and Hera fell in love during the reign of Cronos...(gap)... Zeus and Hera for three hundred years, as Callimachus says in the second book of the Aitia “when Zeus loved for three hundred years” (fr. 48 Harder)....
"Hera the Titan's daughter took strong part in the war against Kronos her father and helped Zeus in his fight."
The Iliad Book 14:
And at one glance
the lust came swirling over him, making his heart race,
fast as the first time-all unknown to their parents-
they rolled in bed, they locked and surged in love.
He rose before her now, he savored her name:
"Hera-where are you rushing?
What wild desire brings you here from Olympus? Where are the team and car you always ride?" (Zeus savoring her name gaea he's whipped)
The canon of Zeus and Hera being youth war sweethearts tastes so sweet
hate hate hate how sites are increasingly trying to make right click saving images impossible. facebook, instagram, reddit (app), pinterest*, etc... all make you jump through hoops just to save an image. can you guys not please. how ddo i make them stop. can we get one of those EU regulations or whatever that makes them all comply, or are we going to have to wait for global socialism for that. ugh
PSA to fan creators who don't have a lot of regular contact with children: They are almost always bigger than you think. A 1-year-old baby may already be walking. A toddler is likely already hip-high. A 10-year-old may already be taller than at least one of their parents. A 14/15 year old may already have reached their adult height.
[Text ID: #I am once again asking everyone writing kids ages 14 and under to read Yardsticks on openlibrary dog org #you don't even have to read the whole thing just read the section for the age you're writing #it will tell you where they most likely are re: physical emotional and cognitive development #also please stop drawing characters who are like 8 as waist-high on their teenage siblings #or 12-year-olds as teeny weeny next to adults #I was the smallest kid in my class and I was still 4 foot 6 by the time I was 11 #and the 7th graders are always taller than I am by the time spring rolls around /end ID]
Can unfortunately confirm this is 100% real. Sources and more info below.
EFF's Threat Lab used static code analysis to confirm Meta deployed facial recognition to millions of Ray-Ban smart glasses. The "Name Tag"
TL;DR: On June 4, 2026, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published “Move Fast, Surveil Things,” confirming through static code analysis that Meta has already deployed facial recognition code to millions of Ray-Ban smart glasses. The internal “Name Tag” feature converts every face in view into a 2,048-number faceprint array and matches it against a stored database. An EFF researcher activated the feature in debug mode and watched the glasses detect a known face in real time. Meta’s spokesperson says this is just “evidence of exploration.” Exploration doesn’t ship to millions of devices. This is staging for launch, and internal documents show Meta planned to flip the switch while privacy groups were too busy to fight back.
...You don’t need a central database when every user builds their own local faceprint collection. The faces still get scanned. The biometric data still gets created. Meta just outsources the storage to your phone, and the legal liability to you.
-via State of Surveillance, June 7, 2026. Emphasis mine.
But good news! There are things you can do to protect yourself and your community. As quoted from the article:
What You Can Do
Assume You’re Being Scanned
If someone near you is wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses, treat it like a running camera, because it is. The small LED indicator that’s supposed to signal recording can be covered with tape, and Meta’s “always enabled” mode processes video without activating it [6]. The Nearby Glasses app can detect Meta Ray-Bans via Bluetooth.
Lock Down Your Meta Profiles
Name Tag matches faces against Meta platform data. If you have Facebook or Instagram accounts, set your profile photo to something that isn’t your face. Make your accounts private. Better yet, consider whether you need them at all. Every photo of your face on Meta’s platforms is training data for identifying you later.
Support the Legal Pushback
The EFF, ACLU, and EPIC are fighting this on legal, legislative, and technical fronts. Texas’s investigation proves state-level enforcement works: Meta paid $1.4 billion last time Texas came knocking over biometrics. Push for biometric privacy laws in your state. Illinois and Texas showed the way.
Don’t Buy the Glasses
Every pair sold expands the surveillance network. Meta has shipped millions already. Each one is a camera pointed at everyone else. If you own a pair, understand that the facial recognition code is on your device right now, and Meta can activate it with a software update whenever they decide the political moment is right.
-via State of Surveillance, June 7, 2026. Emphasis mine. And remember that for an undocumented person in the US right now, facial recognition spyware identifying them could be the difference between life and death.
Ok so at this point I've had two people roll up to me in manual wheelchairs, well, one of them was somebody pushing somebody who was nonverbal at the time, but it still counts. They asked me why I had zip ties around my tires.
It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.
I chose to space them out pretty evenly so there's about one for every spoke. You could probably do more or less depending on how many you want and how much traction you get but I wouldn't go more than three per spoke. I realize that it's a bit later in the winter, and I probably should have made a post about this sooner, but I came up with it about a week ago. So please share this, even if you're not disabled, because there are tons of people I know who are stuck in their houses because they can't get around in the snow. A pack of zip ties costs about $5, which compared to $200 knobby snow tires is a big save, and if you want to invest you could get colored zip ties.
(for anyone using their chair both indoors and outside, highly recommend wheelchair 'slippers'/wheel socks like these so you don't tear up wood/vinyl/linoleum flooring with the zip ties!)
i don’t know i just think that loving your deeply flawed country and/or community enough to want to meaningfully change it will always be more worthwhile than writing it off as a lost cause and telling everyone who lives there that they need to leave or else they’re complicit. demanding that i condemn my home as uniquely evil and irredeemable is shitty and bad. stop telling people this. also it isn’t true.
Yeah sorry I can't come into work today. I accidentally heard Primadonna by Marina formerly of and the Diamonds. So I need the day to be a primadonna girl. Yeah it's going to be the whole day.
