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It is aĀ standing atmospheric waveĀ created by a powerful jet stream that wraps around the pole. Winds along its edges can exceedĀ 300 km/h (about 220 mph).
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The crux of the anti trans movement is a war on bodily autonomy. They don't want you to have any agency over what you look like, how you dress, who you date, whether to have kids, etc.
They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.
Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone's self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.
Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Our rights are your rights. Our destruction is your destruction.
I made a similar post about KOSA 2 years ago and it blew up, so I'm hoping to get the same hype for this.
The EU wants to implement an even worse legislation called Chat Control, in which a trained AI will scan every single one of your messages and photos before they're even sent. They want to destroy end-to-end encryption and scan every single one of your messages in the name of "child protection" from predators.
They want to end privacy with the excuse of protecting children, giving them the possibility to utilize this legislation for far worse. From political expression to free speech, this legislation could put an end to all of it. Everybody in the EU will be affected. You, your family, your friends, your personal feelings and ideas. They will see everything.
If you want to fight it, please, i ask you to visit this website and contact your representatives with a written email, show them the population is against this.
Remember one thing: THEY'RE voting. NOT us. This is not what our democracy says. We've got 2 weeks to do the biggest push against this law. You have to act NOW.
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
The data engineer started as a casual reader of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Then he became obsessed, and built the most extensive network gra
In February, a user named EricKeller2 posted on Reddit. āI mapped every connection in the Epstein files,ā he wrote. He had built a website and database of more than 1.5 million files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. A giant interactive network graph showed the connections between 1,000-plus people in Epsteinās social worldāthrough flight manifests, email exchanges, and other documents that connect them. The post included a link to the site: Epsteinexposed.com.
That post got 5.5 million views. Hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world visited the site in the days that followed. And EricKeller2 was busier than ever.
EricKeller2ās real name isnāt Eric Keller. He used a pseudonym to protect himself and his family from Jeffrey Epsteinās rich and powerful friends. A thirtysomething data engineer with a wife and kids, heād been following the child sexual abuse case for yearsāreading court filings, depositions, materials from the Giuffre v. Maxwell case. But in the fall of 2025, as the initial deadline from the Epstein Files Transparency Act approached, he got more organized. And then he got obsessed.
Every day since then, Keller has been doggedly loading hundreds and hundreds of files into his database. Epstein Exposed contains material from many sources beyond the US Department of Justiceās file dump, including unsealed court records and FBI tips, and it focuses on exposing āthe connective tissue,ā as Keller put it, between the files. The site calls itself āthe most comprehensive searchable database of every person, document, flight, and connection in the Epstein files.ā
āThere were nights I had to stop,ā he tells me. āThere are descriptions of things no human being should have experienced.ā He remembers one 2017 email thread between Epstein and an intermediary, in which Epstein offers $300 to a girl for a topless massage. The intermediary tells him that the girl wasnāt available because she had school on Monday. Epstein then ups the offer to $400.
āYou can build a mental wall between yourself and what youāre reading, but it doesnāt always hold up,ā he adds. āSome nights it doesnāt hold at all.ā
He has a personal reason for pouring himself into this project. āI am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse,ā he tells me. Itās why he canāt seem to look away from the horror inside those files. And so he builds.
The Epstein Library on the Justice Departmentās website is a model of disorganization. In early December, Keller was clicking through the tens of thousands of pages of documents in the library and feeling āfrustrated disbeliefā at the chaosāfiles that could be hundreds of pages long, text that was sometimes blurry or sideways, a wire transfer with no context, an email chain with half the names blacked out, a flight log with only initials. āItās disorienting,ā he says. āYouāre reading fragments of something enormous and trying to figure out which fragments matter and how they connect.ā
One night, he spent about four hours trying to trace a single personās name across some 30 documents in the archive. āI just stopped and thought, I am doing by hand what a database could do in milliseconds,ā he says. As a builder of database infrastructure at a midsize company, he knew exactly what to do next. āI opened a code editor and started building. By 3 am I had a basic search prototype working against a few hundred documents,ā he says.
Around that time, a site called Jmail.world was making a splash as a tool for people to peruse Epsteinās emails as if using a Gmail interface. Launched in mid-November and built by a group of tech-savvy volunteers, it has since grown to include, among other things, his photos, flights, and Amazon purchase history, also displayed as if the reader is viewing Epsteinās own accounts. Keller used the tool and liked it. āJmail was proof that the community could build better tools than the government was providing,ā he told me.
It also helped him hone his own project. āInstead of thinking about one category of documents, I started thinking about the network,ā he says. āHow do you connect a person who appears in an email to a flight they were on, to a wire transfer, to a deposition they gave? That cross-referencing problem is what I wanted to solve.ā
Then, on December 19, the Justice Department released its first big tranche, adding hundreds of thousands of new documents to the existing archive. Immediately, Kellerās workload ballooned to an all-time high. The prototype he had built earlier in the month became the foundation for processing all of it.
Most nights he worked until 3 or 4 am, sipping cold coffee while navigating a sea of open tabs.
Because of his childhood, he says, āwhen the first documents started dropping, I couldnāt look away. I understood at a gut level what was being described in those files.ā In the evenings, heād return home from his day job and, once everyone in his family was in bed, heād hole up in his home office and spend hours scrolling through downloaded PDFs.
Many documents were posted as images, and heād run each page through layers of software to convert them into searchable textāsometimes one system would fail to convert the text and heād run it through a second or third. Then heād use another system to extract important details such as names, organizations, dates, and locations. Heād perform hash verificationāa process that checks whether the Justice Departmentās files have been tampered withāand redaction analysis, to scan for inconsistencies in how the government blacked out information. He tracked all his work in a meticulous, digital, color-coded ledger. āItās not uploading files,ā he says. āItās rebuilding a crime scene from 2 million fragments of evidence.ā
At the end of January, the DOJ dropped an even bigger tranche, this one containing more than 3 million files. Although the workload swelled even more overnight, Keller says the file drop was validating. After all, the entire system heād been building had been designed for that moment.
On February 5, Keller registered his domain. A week later, the number of files in his database had crossed a million. Heād also set up the first version of a colorful, interactive network graph that showed the connections between the powerful figures orbiting Epsteināfinanciers, politicians, academics, royalty. He decided he was ready to share it with the world, and he turned to Reddit.
With the sudden influx of visitors, the site needed constant attention. At one point it crashed in the middle of the night; Keller got it stable by dawn only to have it crash again that afternoon.
A former investigator messaged him, wanting to cross-reference a specific set of Deutsche Bank wire transfers against flight dates to see if money had moved on the same days that people had flown. A journalist from a major European outlet was using the site to investigate connections between Epsteinās financial network and someone in their country, and wanted help finding every document that mentioned certain company names. A forensic accountant specializing in financial crime reached out, offering to review a pattern of wire transfers that Kellerās site had surfaced; that person said that certain transaction patterns were consistent with layering techniques used in money laundering. āThe response tells you something specific,ā Keller said. āThere is a real community of people who have been trying to get to the truth here for a long time, and the site gave them something they did not have before.ā
The site kept crashing, and he was rewriting infrastructure deep into the night. In the mornings, heād stagger into his day job and pretend that everything was normal. What fueled him was anger, he saysāa sense that the DOJ had made the files practically unsearchable and that the public deserved better.
Twelve days after the launch of Epstein Exposed, Keller quit his job. On Reddit and through his siteās contact email, people were asking him how they could contribute, so he set up a donation page. āWhen I looked at what had come in, and what the site had become, it was clear that this was now the work.ā
Even committing himself full-time to the site, heās stretched thin. He forgets to eat, he says, unless his wife puts food in front of him. His back hurts. His eyes are constantly tired. He drinks too much coffee. Some mornings he forgets what day it is or when he last went outside. āMy wife jokes that when this chapter is over I owe her about three months of normal,ā he says.
Heās also under legal pressure. He has received formal demand letters from law firms representing individuals in the database. The letters arrive with 24-hour deadlines. āSome are on behalf of genuine victims, and I take those seriously,ā he says. āIāve redacted dozens of documents for verified survivors. But not all of them check out.ā
Keller says the files force him to reflect on his own childhood trauma. āWhen Iām reading through testimony or looking at records of what was done to these girls and young women, Iām not seeing strangers. Iām seeing something I understand from the inside,ā he says. Sometimes the emails stop him cold. In one from March 2014, someone writes to Epstein: āThank you for a fun night. Your littlest girl was a little naughty.ā Or thereās the email from 2017, in which someone tells Epstein they met a girl whoās ālike Lolita from Nabokov, femme miniature,ā and asks if they should send him āher type of candidates only.ā
āTheyāre referencing a novel about a man raping a 12-year-old,ā Keller says. āAs scouting criterion. In an email.ā
Keller canāt help but think about his own kids too. āThere are moments where that connection hits you, and you have to stop and just sit with it. Itās part of what makes it hard to walk away at the end of the night.ā
Scroll through the hundreds of replies to Kellerās launch post on Reddit and youāll notice a recurring sentiment: Heās building the infrastructure that the government should have set up in the first place.
For some time now, online communities have been helping to fill holes left by institutions. Reddit in particular has stood out. Last month, when the DOJ gave lawmakers a strict window in which to peek at the unredacted Epstein files, many members of Congress felt overwhelmed. Congressman Maxwell Frost, a Democrat from Florida, knew he needed to ābe strategic and act fast.ā
āOn Reddit, there was an active community (r/Epstein) crowdsourcing information and digging into the details, so we posted there to gather direct links to the DOJās website and better understand what to prioritize,ā Frost told me. āMillions of people interacted with that post, which made clear that the American people want answers.ā
As Keller sees it, the online communityās role in the Epstein saga is, primarily, to refuse to let the issue dieāto spur new prosecutions and to help the victims see justice. āI think about them constantly,ā he says of the survivors. āIf they can come to this site and search and find documentation that confirms yes, this happened, yes, it was real, yes, the world knows,ā he said, āthat matters in a way I donāt have adequate language for.ā
Since quitting his job, Keller has found himself burning through his savings faster than he expected. He says he spends roughly $3,500 a month to keep the server running, and some weeks the donations donāt cover it. But he says his wife understands why this matters to him and has been supportive. The database has now indexed 2.15 million documents, cataloged 1,500 people, and mapped tens of thousands of Epsteinās connections. āYou donāt walk away from that,ā he said. āImagine where this can be in six months or a year from now. I believe this will make a difference. I have to. These things cannot be allowed to stand.ā
Traffic to his site remains high for now, but Keller says he isnāt obsessed with those numbers. āEven if the traffic drops to 10 people a day, those 10 people might include a journalist working on a lead, a researcher writing a paper, or a survivor looking for their own name in the record. Thatās enough,ā he says.
The work is far from over. He recently finished building out a forensic finance system. More than 130,000 documents still need to have their text made fully machine-readable. Hash verification is only 64 percent complete.
Not to mention, community members are still submitting names and researchers are still flagging new connections between documents. Itās why he doesnāt think this project has a finish line. So for now, Eric Keller will do what heās been doing for months: sit down at his monitor, sip some stale coffee, and get back to work.
Twelve days after the launch of Epstein Exposed, Keller quit his job. On Reddit and through his siteās contact email, people were asking him how they could contribute, so he set up a donation page
Ok, mother of GOD that's a lot of responses and I am but one man with Excel. I'll update these ASAP but also some rules:
A Pokemon only counts for itself, not its evolution line.
A Pokemon with multiple forms (like Zygarde) will only be counted for the specified form. A Pokemon with multiple appearances (like Spinda, Vivillon, Sylvally, etc.) count for all their appearances.
I'm literally doing this as a testament to my own depression that not everyone is lovable, so add that to the weight of this post's meaning.
Oh hey, do you know what time it is? It is highly specific resource time!
Today we have the Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank! There are HUNDREDS of stitch types in the RSN Stitch Bank.
And more added regularly, letās look at a recent addition
I picked the first one in the 25 recently added Elizabethan stitches, the Elizabethan French Stitch
The stitch bank provides written and photo tutorials as well as a video option to learn to do it yourself. There are examples of the stitch in use, resources, references, everything but a needle and thread!
I looked at some of the tutorials last night and holy shit I'm so impressed! They're SO thorough!
Not only do they have written and video instructions, but there are photo and illustration options for each image AND a "flip view" button so that left handed people can see all the images in reverse!
I am going to jump in and add, as you said they are very detailed in their directions, something that takes a lot of time and money.
If anyone who has enjoyed this resource has the means, I encourage you to adopt or sponsor a stitch to help keep this free to access. I know not everyone has the means to (fair, been there) but if you can, check out their sponsor options
RSN Stitch Bank Progress
And one other resource I have shared before, The Lady's Magazine. Embroidery patterns from 1770-1819. In case anyone wants some historic ideas for using all these new embroidery stitches
This is one slice of an incredible high resolution, enhanced color image of Pluto, recently released by NASA. You can see the full, larger version here.Ā
happy normal fuckin day to everyone who doesnt celebrate christmas or rly any holidays today n tomorrow. hope you have an average day. hope its chill like any other
I donāt know who needs to hear this but if youāre celebrating Christmas you do not have pleny time. You do not have pleny time at all. We are in the 12 days till Christmas danger zone
today is the one-year anniversary of Brian Thompson's shooting, so this is a friendly reminder that Luigi Mangione is innocent until proven guilty and that, hot as he may be, he's still Just Some Guy who's life has been ruined over the last year in a high-publicized trial for a crime that he pleaded innocent to
disabilities are not superpowers, that being said having auditory processing disorder my entire life made me insane at freestyling, cause my mental libary of homophobic phrases (rhymes) is massive and keeps expanding every day
