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[vestaignis]

Парящие в небесах: монастыри Метеоры.

Метеорами (Μετέωρα) называют скалы на севере Греции, которые образовались более 60 милл��онов лет назад и в то далекое время являлись каменистым дном доисторического моря. Они состоят из песчаника и обломочной горной породы и достигают высоты 600 метров.

Свое название эти скалы получили не зря. В переводе с греческого «Метеора» переводится как «парящий в воздухе». И действительно, эти скалы выглядят именно так – висящие, замершие в воздухе глыбы представляют собой что-то таинственное и божественное. Но самым диковинным является то, что на этих скалах разместились православные греческие монастыри, что добавило еще большее величие и очарование этому месту.

Первые кельи отшельников тут начали появляться больше 1000 лет назад. Считается, что некий Варнава обосновался тут в 950 году, а затем к нему стали подтягиваться и другие монахи. Два-три века образованная ими монашеская община жила без особых проблем. Но потом в 13-14 веке в Фессалию потянулись любители лёгкой наживы, вроде крестоносцев и турок. Несколько монахов бежали со Святой горы Афона в Метеоры. Один из них, Афанасий, и положил начало строительству монастырей. Всего их было 24, но дожило до наших дней только 6 — четыре мужских и два женских. Сегодня монахи в Метеорах живут по строгому Афонскому уставу, не имеют частной собственности, работают в монастырском хозяйстве, наставляют прихожан, занимаются просветительской деятельностью и культурными проектами типа возрождения византийской музыки, обучения иконописи и создания музейных экспозиций.

Опытные туристы считают, что в Метеоры нужно обязательно приезжать с ночёвкой, чтобы спокойно погулять днём по монастырям и сделать их фото при дневном свет�� и вечером, когда монастыри освещает закатное солнце, или когда в монастырях зажигают огни…

Floating in the sky: the Meteora monasteries.

Meteora (Μετέωρα) is the name given to the rocks in northern Greece, which were formed more than 60 million years ago and at that distant time were the rocky bottom of a prehistoric sea. They consist of sandstone and fragmentary rock and reach a height of 600 meters.

These rocks got their name for a reason. Translated from Greek, “Meteora” means “floating in the air.” And indeed, these rocks look exactly like this – hanging, frozen in the air boulders represent something mysterious and divine. But the most outlandish thing is that Orthodox Greek monasteries were located on these rocks, which added even more grandeur and charm to this place.

The first hermit cells began to appear here more than 1000 years ago. It is believed that a certain Barnabas settled here in 950, and then other monks began to join him. For two or three centuries, the monastic community they formed lived without any particular problems. But then, in the 13th-14th centuries, lovers of easy money, such as the Crusaders and the Turks, began to flock to Thessaly. Several monks fled from Mount Athos to Meteora. One of them, Athanasius, began the construction of monasteries. There were 24 of them, but only 6 have survived to this day - four male and two female. Today, the monks in Meteora live according to the strict Athonite charter, do not have private property, work in the monastery economy, instruct parishioners, engage in educational activities and cultural projects such as the revival of Byzantine music, teaching icon painting and creating museum exhibits.

Experienced tourists believe that it is necessary to come to Meteora with an overnight stay in order to calmly walk around the monasteries during the day and take photos of them in the daylight and in the evening, when the monasteries are illuminated by the setting sun, or when the lights are lit in the monasteries…

Источник: //tourpedia.ru/meteora-monastery/ ,//alexio-marziano. livejournal.com/193649.html,/www.airpano.ru/gallery.php?gallery=77, /www.vash-otdyh.by/images/Blog/Greece/Meteora/Греческие_ Метеоры.jpg,/pikabu.ru/story/meteoryi_gretsii_7932658,/dzen.ru/a/ZDlcHwAyoF1ar_Nf,/tourpedia.ru/meteora-monastery/,// t.me/roundtravel.

[mariacallous]

lol philadelphia inquirer bodying nyt

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/first-presidential-debate-joe-biden-donald-trump-withdraw-20240629.html

President Joe Biden’s debate performance was a disaster. His disjointed responses and dazed look sparked calls for him to drop out of the presidential race.

But lost in the hand wringing was Donald Trump’s usual bombastic litany of lies, hyperbole, bigotry, ignorance, and fear mongering. His performance demonstrated once again that he is a danger to democracy and unfit for office.

In fact, the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

Trump, 78, has been on the political stage for eight years marked by chaos, corruption, and incivility. Why go back to that?

To build himself up, Trump constantly tears the country down. There is no shining city on the hill. It’s just mourning in America.

Throughout the debate, Trump repeatedly said we are a “failing” country. He called the United States a “third world nation.” He said, “we’re living in hell” and “very close to World War III.”

“People are dying all over the place,” Trump said, later adding “we’re literally an uncivilized country now.”

Trump told more than 30 lies during the debate to go with the more than 30,000 mistruths told during his four years as president. He dodged the CNN moderators’ questions, took no responsibility for his actions, and blamed others, mainly Biden, for everything that is wrong in the world.

Trump’s response to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection he fueled was farcical. He said a “relatively small number of people” went to the Capitol and many were “ushered in by the police.”

After scheming to overturn the 2020 election, Trump refused to say if he would accept the results of the 2024 election. Unless, of course, he wins.

The debate served as a reminder of what another four years of Trump would look like. More lies, grievance, narcissism, and hate. Supporters say they like Trump because he says whatever he thinks. But he mainly spews raw sewage.

Trump attacks the military. He denigrates the Justice Department and judges. He belittles the FBI and the CIA. He picks fights with allies and cozies up to dictators.

Trump is an unserious carnival barker running for the most serious job in the world. During his last term, Trump served himself and not the American people.

Trump spent chunks of time watching TV, tweeting, and hanging out at his country clubs. Over his four-year term, Trump played roughly 261 rounds of golf.

As president, Trump didn’t read the daily intelligence briefs. He continued to use his personal cell phone, allowing Chinese spies to listen to his calls. During one Oval Office meeting, Trump shared highly classified intelligence with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.

Trump’s term did plenty of damage and had few accomplishments. The much-hyped wall didn’t get built. Infrastructure week was a recurring joke. Giant tax cuts made the rich richer, while fueling massive deficits for others to pay for years. His support for coal, oil drilling and withdrawal from the Paris Agreement worsened the growing impact of climate change.

Trump stacked the judiciary with extreme judges consisting mainly of white males, including a number who the American Bar Association rated as not qualified. A record number of cabinet officials were fired or left the office. The West Wing was in constant chaos and infighting.

Many Trump appointees exited under a cloud of corruption, grifting and ethical scandals. Trump’s children made millions off the White House. His dilettante son-in-law got $2 billion from the Saudi government for his fledgling investment firm even though he never managed money before.

Trump’s mismanagement of the pandemic resulted in tens of thousands of needless deaths. He boasts about stacking the Supreme Court with extreme right-wingers who are stripping away individual rights, upending legal precedents, and making the country less safe. If elected, Trump may add to the court’s conservative majority.

Of course, there were the unprecedented two impeachments. Now, Trump is a convicted felon who is staring at three more criminal indictments. He is running for president to stay out of prison.

If anything, Trump doesn’t deserve to be on the presidential debate stage. Why even give him a platform?

Trump allegedly stole classified information and tried to overturn an election. His plans for a second term are worse than the last one. We cannot be serious about letting such a crooked clown back in the White House.

Yes, Biden had a horrible night. He’s 81 and not as sharp as he used to be. But Biden on his worst day remains lightyears better than Trump on his best.

Biden must show that he is up to the job. This much is clear: He has a substantive record of real accomplishments, fighting the pandemic, combating climate change, investing in infrastructure, and supporting working families and the most vulnerable.

Biden has surrounded himself with experienced people who take public service seriously. He has passed major bipartisan legislation despite a dysfunctional Republican House majority.

Biden believes in the best of America. He has rebuilt relationships with allies around the world and stood up to foes like Russia and China.

There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be.

[pseuddamntired]

Needle Lace Resources

This is a very long post, so I'm including a cut.

Tutorial-like Things, Others' Work

An overview of the stages of needle lace (specifically learning from Alençon, I believe. They link to a documentary type of video on Alençon lace): https://www.taixtile.com/needle-lace-first-steps/. This blog has links to other resources (one link is broken, if I recall correctly).

A very approachable first project, I think. From a lace maker who has done very cool illustrations with lace, Maggie Hensel-Brown: https://youtu.be/OLuRpJ96p4Q?si=gqBWqYxa755gFozr

This channel has videos of the stages of needle lace making. They specifically demonstrate Irish lace, I believe. But the stages are very similar to or the same as the stages in Alençon lace. https://youtu.be/dZVagIFCnLc?si=d8lRnPsmz5iTM0Z_

Pierre Fouché has a video about making dense filling stitches and even doing short rows to makes curves (something I tried but did not yet succeed at): https://youtu.be/DK5cMQND3b8?si=qySmT9yaoTcpsUV9 He also does really cool bobbin lace illustrations by constructing patterns in cell-like units.

An embroiderer tries needle lace in two videos. In one of them she tries different styles from different places: https://youtu.be/eTO7dA4oyl4?si=VInx35kql115bIIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Wa6-Qf5xw

Example of a different style of needle lace. Unsure what it is exactly. Some sort of cut work or reticella, idk: https://youtube.com/shorts/7DFogWC3tDI?si=uju74sPFbRj3_wrn

Sampler directions: https://youtu.be/oDKBfjDYBnU?si=shQYvaT4kAZD7BgV

Again, a more geometric style of needle lace. I don’t know the particulars of this style (styles?), since I’ve mostly been looking into styles similar to Alençon because I’m aiming for more illustration-like lace. This channel has multiple videos demoing and explaining that process: https://youtu.be/gJd6mkrsUCQ?si=AfVIiwljHvfismrX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dk721UwW4

Not so much instructions but video of a very skilled lacemaker working on a project: https://youtu.be/01H2GdEXLrs?si=2suFHSG4Kwa6Yl2m

Another lacemaker's work on their blog. I don’t know if they do as much lace making as they do other needle arts https://www.robesdecoeur.com/blog/needlelace-my-work-so-far

A lacemaker's work... the site is older and kind of tricky to navigate. Like. there's no home button, as far as I can tell. Album of their work: https://www.lacemakerslace.oddquine.co.uk/album/index.html Home page, I think: https://www.lacemakerslace.oddquine.co.uk/

Useful/Interesting Things to Know

Alençon lace -- specific French style from the Alençon region, which has a history of point lace and a current institution dedicated to preserving the skills and producing lace. This is the style that I was looking at examples of to try and learn from.

Search terms like different styles of lace that I’m not qualified to talk about but you can look into and do research on: Battenburg, point de gaze (very very fine work, like gauze)… More to be added as I learn about them.

The terms "needle lace" and "point lace" are both used to refer to lace made with a needle. I'm unclear on if there are subtle distinctions between them or if it's simply a matter of location. But having versions of a search query for both terms should help find more results than just using one.

Encyclopedia of Needlework by Therese De Dillmont is an excellent resource to learn how to do different stitches. It seems these stitches mostly come from Irish lace, according to the book. HTML copy of book available on Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20776/20776-h/20776-h.htm I recommend using ctrl+f to search for "lace stitch" on the page. The end of each chapter in the HTML version seems to have a link to the Table of Contents that is at the end of the entire document. It has chapters for plenty of other needle arts, so it's a good resource all around.

If you want to find examples of needle lace, look on Wikimedia Commons! Using a variety of search terms will help you find more material for inspiration/observation than otherwise

If you want to design your own needle lace depicting objects, it might be worth looking at stained glass to see how larger shapes are broken up into smaller shapes that still feel complete.

You can use multiple colors! Let yourself use multiple colors, like stained glass!

Thoughts from the Learning Process So Far (some terminology used here, look them up so you know what the actual definitions are, but I’ll define what I mean by them)

Tacking vs Couching... I'm unsure about the actual definitions so I may be using them wrong here. In the videos I’ve seen tacking seems to be making a stitch that runs along the way the cordonnet will run. Couching seems to be just when the thread that secures the cordonnet comes up through the backing and goes down through the backing at the same point. With these definitions… Tacking went faster for me than doing couching, but it feels a lot less secure and precise for the form of lace I’m making. Unless I made the tacking stitches perpendicular to the cordonnet's path, the outline cord moved too much due to tension. If it's perpendicular and not a very short stitch, it might get in the way of your filling stitches or binding off stitches. Which might be fine, since you pull them out anyways. But it would also mean more holes in the backing, and at some point the holes are too close together and might tear the backing and pattern. I don't like that. Couching—much, MUCH more tedious for me because I’m not practiced at making the needle come up in exactly the right spot. but it feels more secure to me. The outline seems to be less affected by tension as you work. And I took some shortcuts for couching that helped. I don’t couch the doubled cord, instead I whip stitch back over the already-secured cord. I might make a post to demonstrate what I mean. It kind of messes with the shape/placement of my cordonnet, but for the sake of my impatience I’m willing to sacrifice the precise shape.

Backing material... To use fabric in backing like the instructions usually say, or not? Idk. For me, it’s hard to find the right hole for the couching stitches when I can't see my pattern from the back. It took a lot of trial and error until I got a feel for how to predict where my needle would come up. I don't like the way the poke-and-check method of stitching the cordonnet down tends to rip the pattern up (at least, with my easy-to-access materials. Probably better with better materials and more practice. Using my thumb to find approximately the right spot helped, but not enough). So I just used a sandwich of tape/paper/tape as my backing. If you're willing to fuss around with fabric in your backing, it might make it easier to remove the couching threads after you're done, and when I tried. The directions I've seen usually say to use a backing of doubled-up fabric, clay paper (I'm unsure what this is. might be a thicker paper than cardstock, or it might be paper made to contain clay particles. Probably more like the first option), and contact paper. My last attempt at making a backing used notebook paper (or other type of paper) with packaging tape on both sides to provide a smooth surface and structure. I think it worked fairly well, and I didn't have to figure out where to buy contact paper (or figure out exactly what contact paper was).

[apod]

2024 July 1

Time Spiral Illustration Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi via Wikipedia

Explanation: What's happened since the universe started? The time spiral shown here features a few notable highlights. At the spiral's center is the Big Bang, the place where time, as we know it, began about 13.8 billion years ago. Within a few billion years atoms formed, then stars formed from atoms, galaxies formed from stars and gas, our Sun formed, soon followed by our Earth, about 4.6 billion years ago. Life on Earth begins about 3.8 billion years ago, followed by cells, then photosynthesis within a billion years. About 1.7 billion years ago, multicellular life on Earth began to flourish. Fish began to swim about 500 million years ago, and mammals began walking on land about 200 million years ago. Humans first appeared only about 6 million years ago, and made the first cities only about 10,000 years ago. The time spiral illustrated stops there, but human spaceflight might be added, which started only 75 years ago, and useful artificial intelligence began to take hold within only the past few years.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240701.html

[kimyoonmiauthor]

Writer tip: Repeating a character trait doesn't make it true.

"he/she/they were clever." said ad nauseum doesn't make it true. Prove it in the text, demonstrate it.

I mean you could tell me. And you could show me the university certificate, but it doesn't make it true and I won't believe you.

s/He was an inventor. Fine. He was an inventor, then demonstrate it in the text. Are they a one-trick pony and can't apply it after you introduce it? Then I think he stole the invention. He doesn't know how it works, can't demonstrate it being useful in other applications, can't figure out how to invent anything on the spot, has no mind of being an engineer. I don't believe you. Give me the mindset of the person.

The person was intelligent... again, demonstrate this is true in the text by them using words in context that makes them sound emotionally and intellectually intelligent. I'd be much more impressed if they were explaining fancy mathematical theory to a three year old using three-year old language than I would be them using long multi-syllabic words at random. That takes extra intelligence, to me. Fermat's Theorem AND be sensitive enough to get a Three year old's attention, hold it, and get the kid to understand. That's like intelligence on steroids.

It's not show or tell in this case, it's *actually put it into the text* instead of slamming me with the character trait over and over.

If I went around telling everyone every ten seconds I was smart, and I was clever, would you believe me? If I said I got into Yale, maybe you would wince and ask something like, Iunno, were you a nepo?

But if I told you I watched an episode of MacGyver and then broke apart a mechanical pencil for the spring and used some sticky tack to fix a screen door. That would lead some credence to how I was smart.

(BTW, he wasn't fixing a screen door in the episode).

If I told you I used dental floss to make a locking door open from the other side, you might believe me (It was a lunchroom push door. I'd gone to the dentist the previous day and had it in my pocket. I got sick of getting up for the door, so rigged it.)

BTW, this isn't a copy-paste moment, but to think up your own creative solutions to problems and try to borrow the mindset of everything can be fixed with duct tape, for example.

In another words, the more I demonstrate the logic, the mindset, then you'll start to believe me.

This person was creative. Still doesn't make it true. This person did avante garde paintings challenging colonialism and a dying planet using mixed mediums and trash, might tip those scales.

Frankly, I don't care if you tell me, or if you show me, just demonstrate it on the page it's true instead of repeating it over and over at me.

Go MacGyver with your engineer. Know your art movements for your artist. Know your pirouettes for your ballerinas. Pick up at least a fraction of the mindsets, so when Iunno, a computer engineer looks at someone saying the UX person told them that the program functions, but it doesn't actually work, it makes sense. (I saw a Japanese drama do this brilliantly, BTW, and I was delighted. On the flip side, I've seen people try to pass HTML and Javascript as "programming" especially badly formatted Javascript. I'm looking at you Square Space. WTF was with that badly formatted Javascript and calling that "programming". I may lack game, but seriously, that's not a good advertisement. Look, our program spits out terrible javascript and we don't know what programming and scripting is...) This is why the best writers are nerds. Wok Hei for your Chinese chef. I spent 3 hours looking up old waterwheels to get the engineering.

Again, don't use AI to get there, do the work and find an edge to play with. A gap. Because AI can't find gaps. A lot of professions have mindsets or varying mindsets. And if you capture that, you'll get ahead. Did I watch Cells at Work because doctors highly recommended the anime, yes I did. But I also picked up how doctors think.

BTW, dropping into process story structure for a little bit to demonstrate the impact or the brilliance of a chef, a painter, an engineer, etc usually tips people over the edge. It doesn't have to consume that long in the book either.

[pinkkop]

I've now posted my second weekly QL recap post and I'm honestly just really proud of myself. Not just that I've stuck to doing it but also that I've managed to make it something I might actually be able to keep doing because I've made it as easy as possible for myself. That way it's less likely that it'll start feeling like a chore or that it'll take up a lot of my time when I'd rather be talking about the shows than formatting a post.

So because I'm a nerd and I kinda wanna show off a little bit because I'm proud of what I've managed to make, let me tell you exactly what I've set up to make my weekly recap post.

The basis for the post is simple enough: an excel spreadsheet and a python script.

My Spreadsheet of BLs

The spreadsheet is based on My Watchlist on MyDramaList which I literally just do ctrl+A and copypaste into a sheet. This is then automatically compiled into a different sheet where I've made a better overview of all the shows I'm watching and have watched in the past.

Based on this I've set up the weekly overview in a separate sheet shown below

When I'm compiling my weekly recap I can then easily add any new information here.

For new shows I add the information below to the sheet

- MD Title (copied from MyDramaList overview sheet)

- Title (usually copy of MD title with minor edits)

- Site I'm watching the show on

- Tags I want to use for the show

- Episode nr. I'm starting the show on

I also make a banner for the show but I've found a good source for images so it doesn't take long most of the time.

I have to manually upload the banner for the first week but then for the second week a show is in the recap, I can add the HTML for the banner from the previous week's post to the sheet. That way the banner will just be automatically be added to the post every week after that.

Throughout the week I then write notes on each episode I watch into the sheet and before I make the actual post I add the order I want the shows to appear in on the post.

The Script is Where the Magic Happens

When I've finished filling out the spreadsheet for the week I go to my python script, change the week number in the script and run the script.

In the script I've taken the HTML code from my original recap post and set it up so the script fills the information from my spreadsheet for each show into the right places in the HTML code. Since I doubt you guys would find it riveting to look at my full script, here's a little snippet!

When I run the script it then prints out the HTML for the post which I can insert into a new post on tumblr and voila, a weekly recap!!!

I do then have to go through the text for each show and add breaks and spellcheck because that's easier to do here than in the excel cell where I write the notes to begin with. If I have any overall notes or any new banners I have to add, then this is also when I'd do it.

I'm sure there are things you could set up in a better way but this works for me and reduces the amount of time I have to set aside every week for creating the post by a lot. It just makes it easier for me to share my thoughts in a way that's nice to look at without having to spend a ton of time formatting a post each week.

Hope this didn't take away any of the magic behind my posts but just gave a cool insight into the things you can do to make recurring posts easier to make.

Any questions or comments are welcome!

Side note: if you use tumblr on the mobile app and notice that any of the lines with "Episode x of x || Watching on:[site]" are split into two lines, let me know!

That line was surprisingly the hardest to make look the way I wanted because the width of posts and look of text types change depending on whether you're on desktop or the mobile app.

[beardedmrbean]

Question for you. How do you feel about the one CEO saying Endometriosis isn't a gynaecological condition? I mean it technically is, isn't it?

https://news.yahoo.com/trans-ceo-charity-founder-says-210134975.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00

Oy vay, what now, lol. Gonna use my psychic powers to say we're entering a world of equality where women can have prostate cancer as well.

Gonna tl:dr at the end

Endometriosis is not a gynaecological condition, the founder of a charity supporting women with the disease has suggested, after appointing a transgender woman as its chief executive.

Jodie Hughes, the founder of Endometriosis South Coast, recently appointed Steph Richards, a trans woman and activist, as chief executive.

Ms Hughes told BBC Woman’s Hour on Wednesday that referring to the disease as a “gynaecological disorder” may be the reason medical research into the issue has not progressed further.

Endometriosis causes tissue similar to the lining of the uterus to grow outside of the womb, often causing severe pelvic pain. It can also affect fertility.

Another charity, Endometriosis UK, describes it as “the second most common gynaecological condition in the UK”. It affects around 1.5 million women in the country.

Appearing on the BBC programme alongside Ms Richards, Ms Hughes said: “Endometriosis is a systemic inflammatory condition. We need to move away from the gynaecological side of things because you don’t have to be born with a womb to have it.”

She also claimed endometriosis is “not a reproductive disorder”, adding: “It’s being seen as a gynaecological disorder maybe is the reason why the past 200 years research and medicine isn’t progressing.”

Ms Richards, 71, whose appointment drew criticism from some women’s groups, was asked on the programme if she could fully represent women with endometriosis when she previously had not used the word “woman” to describe those suffering from disease.

She said she was “happy” to use the word but did not want to ignore how endometriosis could also affect trans men and non-binary people.

Men diagnosed

Ms Richards also claimed that endometriosis was not only seen in women because 29 men had been recorded as being diagnosed with the disease.

“I look at women but I also look at the issue of trans men and non-binary people. There’s something like 5,500 trans men who had endometriosis who probably feel rather left out and also non-binary people,” Ms Hughes said.

The charity faced a backlash this week after appointing Ms Richards to the role.

Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, told The Telegraph: “Endometriosis is a disorder that involves cells from the womb lining finding their way to other parts of a woman’s anatomy, and it can cause infertility.

“So, of course, it’s a women’s reproductive issue; it’s absurd and offensive to the many female sufferers of this debilitating condition to say otherwise. Yes, women who identify as men or non-binary can have the disease – how you identify obviously doesn’t change your biology. And, yes, there are a handful of cases in the literature where biological men suffer from something similar, but these are ultra-rare exceptions.”

Ms Joyce said that Ms Hughes’ remarks suggesting endometriosis should not be framed as a gynaecological issue were “offensive”.

“Endometriosis is poorly understood and researched precisely because it only affects women and our reproductive systems. This is part of the systemic lack of research and funding for “women’s issues”.

“The answer is for the medical profession to step up and do more for women – not to rebrand women’s disease by pretending they also affect men. People can’t in reality change sex, and men won’t start suffering from endometriosis even if we pretend people can change sex (and no man should want this disease; it’s horrific).” _________________________________

This entire article is lunacy.

For the first bit it's a gynecological condition because it's people with uterus's that get it

Endometriosis causes tissue similar to the lining of the uterus to grow outside of the womb, often causing severe pelvic pain. It can also affect fertility.

until they get the uterus transplant thing down this is something that will hit AFAB people and telling transmen this also almost sounds like telling them they don't need to go to a gynecologist to me.

It's not sexist or transphobic to say you need a gynocoligist if you have, vulva, vagina, uterus, cervex, fallopian tubes, ovaries and any bits I didn't mention, they're the doctors that specialize in those body parts

I'm very trans positive and supportive, this woman is an idiot however, and people are going to get hurt as a result of her being an idiot if she keeps going with this shit.

If you have a uterus you can get endometriosis.

If you have a uterus you go to a gynecologist to get those bits looked at, you can pull the gender away and be fine with it, gynecologist is a doctor that works on parts that 50% (or so) of the human population have.

Issues dealing with those bits are gynecological issues, make it gender neutral in your head if you need to.

We're getting dangerously close to a trans woman threatening to sue an oncologist because he said she has prostate cancer.

TL:DR; whole thing is insanity and will wind up killing people if they don't knock it off, you can call it whatever you want to call it but don't tell the professionals they're wrong on this one.

if it's a job for a OBGYN then it's a gynecological issue

[saide-hossain]

Let's understand HTML

Cover these topics to complete your HTML journey.

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard language used to create web pages. Here's a comprehensive list of key topics in HTML:

1. Basics of HTML

Introduction to HTML

HTML Document Structure

HTML Tags and Elements

HTML Attributes

HTML Comments

HTML Doctype

2. HTML Text Formatting

Headings (<h1> to <h6>)

Paragraphs (<p>)

Line Breaks (<br>)

Horizontal Lines (<hr>)

Bold Text (<b>, <strong>)

Italic Text (<i>, <em>)

Underlined Text (<u>)

Superscript (<sup>) and Subscript (<sub>)

3. HTML Links

Hyperlinks (<a>)

Target Attribute

Creating Email Links

4. HTML Lists

Ordered Lists (<ol>)

Unordered Lists (<ul>)

Description Lists (<dl>)

Nesting Lists

5. HTML Tables

Table (<table>)

Table Rows (<tr>)

Table Data (<td>)

Table Headings (<th>)

Table Caption (<caption>)

Merging Cells (rowspan, colspan)

Table Borders and Styling

6. HTML Forms

Form (<form>)

Input Types (<input>)

Text Fields (<input type="text">)

Password Fields (<input type="password">)

Radio Buttons (<input type="radio">)

Checkboxes (<input type="checkbox">)

Drop-down Lists (<select>)

Textarea (<textarea>)

Buttons (<button>, <input type="submit">)

Labels (<label>)

Form Action and Method Attributes

7. HTML Media

Images (<img>)

Image Maps

Audio (<audio>)

Video (<video>)

Embedding Media (<embed>)

Object Element (<object>)

Iframes (<iframe>)

8. HTML Semantic Elements

Header (<header>)

Footer (<footer>)

Article (<article>)

Section (<section>)

Aside (<aside>)

Nav (<nav>)

Main (<main>)

Figure (<figure>), Figcaption (<figcaption>)

9. HTML5 New Elements

Canvas (<canvas>)

SVG (<svg>)

Data Attributes

Output Element (<output>)

Progress (<progress>)

Meter (<meter>)

Details (<details>)

Summary (<summary>)

10. HTML Graphics

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Canvas

Inline SVG

Path Element

11. HTML APIs

Geolocation API

Drag and Drop API

Web Storage API (localStorage and sessionStorage)

Web Workers

History API

12. HTML Entities

Character Entities

Symbol Entities

13. HTML Meta Information

Meta Tags (<meta>)

Setting Character Set (<meta charset="UTF-8">)

Responsive Web Design Meta Tag

SEO-related Meta Tags

14. HTML Best Practices

Accessibility (ARIA roles and attributes)

Semantic HTML

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Basics

Mobile-Friendly HTML

15. HTML Integration with CSS and JavaScript

Linking CSS (<link>, <style>)

Adding JavaScript (<script>)

Inline CSS and JavaScript

External CSS and JavaScript Files

16. Advanced HTML Concepts

HTML Templates (<template>)

Custom Data Attributes (data-*)

HTML Imports (Deprecated in favor of JavaScript modules)

Web Components

These topics cover the breadth of HTML and will give you a strong foundation for web development.

Full course link for free: https://shorturl.at/igVyr

[moviesludge]

ok so I finally started working on my actor tag page. i figure that this whole project of retagging gifs is such an undertaking in the first place that it will be very gradually done. So to start gradually creating a tag page for actors is reasonable.

i was thinking back to when i learned a little html, and thought it might be more economical (space wise) to create a table of actor links in the space I have. Everything I currently have (on the movie link list) is in an ordered list with only one column. The table would allow me to have three columns of links (I tried more columns but it won't work with the space I have). So I read up on html tables and figured out some basic code for one and messed with it until I got it looking reasonable. The spacing and the text size and the table size are all tricky bs and I hate it, especially when combined with all the complicated css stuff that exists outside of the coding you can do on individual pages within the blog theme. But I managed to get it looking decent anyway (somehow). Once I figured out all the particulars, building the list went quickly. So far I have surnames starting with A & B. https://moviesludge.tumblr.com/actors . As I tag more gifs, the pages will be more complete. And this list will eventually have more actors added to it, even within what's already here. I'll probably break up the actor lists into chunks, like A-M, N-Z or something.

Also, I've been keeping a running list of all the tags I'm using on my blog in a spreadsheet. I have a list of all the actors I've tagged so far (1,318). But I had them listed alphabetically by first name. So I had to look up sorting by last name, which required me to figure out the "SPLIT" function that takes 2 pieces of data from one cell (like first and last name) and splits them into 2 cells. It's not too hard to do, but any three-named people or "Jr.s" or anything else that required 2 spaces got messed up (not to mention single-named-actors). But it's a minor problem. After splitting I was able to sort by surname. Then came the task of CHOOSING the names I want to include in the link list. It ended up not being as hard as I thought.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

#15yrsago Gibson’s self-destructing poem Agrippa: screen-movie https://agrippa.english.ucsb.edu/post/bibliography-subcategories/video-resources/a-run-of-william-gibsons-agrippa-poem-made-from-playing-a-copy-of-original-1992-agrippa-diskette

#15yrsago Chinese “poem” on the cover a scholarly journal is actually an ad for a brothel in Macau https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/chinese-classical-poem-was-brothel-ad-1058031.html

#15yrsago Theme Time Radio Hour: With Your Host Bob Dylan — the greatest shuffle-run on Dylan’s MP3 player https://memex.craphound.com/2008/12/09/theme-time-radio-hour-with-your-host-bob-dylan-the-greatest-shuffle-run-on-dylans-mp3-player/

#15yrsago Stem-cell trachea transplant was endangered by EasyJet: “your cell culture is a security risk” https://web.archive.org/web/20081214063827/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3490549/Easyjet-threatened-to-derail-stem-cell-transplant.html

#15yrsago HOWTO Carry a gun onto an airplane https://web.archive.org/web/20081218004445/http://wbztv.com/local/fake.federal.agent.2.874625.html

#10yrsago Lessons from Glitch http://20minutegarden.com/2013/12/09/life-lessons-from-glitch-the-game/

#10yrsago TSA seize tiny, itsy-bitsy gun from sock-monkey https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tsa-agent-confiscates-sock-monkeys-toy-pistol/281-246977307

#10yrsago Spooks of Warcraft: how the NSA infiltrated gamespace https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-spies-online-games-world-warcraft-second-life

#10yrsago We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: spectacular, deep, zingy novel https://memex.craphound.com/2013/12/09/we-are-all-completely-beside-ourselves-spectacular-deep-zingy-novel/

#10yrsago Elsevier censors self-publication by papers’ co-authors https://svpow.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-is-taking-down-papers-from-academia-edu/

#5yrsago Uber is a “bezzle,” doomed to disappoint the suckers who buy into its IPO https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/will-uber-survive-the-next-decade.html

#5yrsago Argentine hacker mods Furby so it quotes Borges, creates a “Borgy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jlDL-j9upg

#5yrsago Merry Mixmas! It’s time again for DJ Riko’s badass Christmas mashup http://djriko.com/mixmases.htm

#5yrsago Uber forces its drivers to arbitrate, rather than sue, but Uber also won’t arbitrate https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-otc-uber/forced-into-arbitration-12500-drivers-claim-uber-wont-pay-fees-to-launch-cases-idUSKBN1O52C6/

[annoyingstrawberrybread]

Question 1: Cell phones have become important tools for activism. Explain how cell phones give power to individuals to document and share social injustices and enable movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo to gain momentum. How does this ability change who has the power in society？ Any examples should be from the last 5 years. 

Mobile phones are no longer merely tools for communication; today, they serve another crucial function—driving social change. With the ability to record videos and audio, individuals can easily document instances of social injustice and upload them to social media, bringing these issues to light and garnering widespread attention. As public concern grows, citizens unite to form an undeniable force, pushing for justice and fairness. The rise of social media has freed people from reliance on traditional media, allowing direct information dissemination to a vast audience. This power has not only fueled global movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo, but it has also sparked similar social awareness and change in China.

The 2022 "Chained Woman" incident in Jiangsu is a striking example of how mobile phones, combined with social media, can expose social issues and ignite widespread discussion. In January 2022, a mobile phone video surfaced online, showing a woman locked in a dilapidated rural house with an iron chain around her neck. This severe human rights violation quickly triggered nationwide outrage, with netizens questioning what had happened to her. As public scrutiny intensified, investigations revealed that the woman was a victim of human trafficking and forced marriage.

Initially, authorities attempted to downplay the incident, but due to continuous exposure on social media and mounting public pressure, the government was forced to intervene. Further investigations confirmed that the woman had indeed been trafficked. On April 6, 2023, a Chinese court issued its first-instance verdict: the woman's husband, Dong Zhimin, was sentenced to nine years in prison for abuse and unlawful detention, while five other defendants were convicted of trafficking women, receiving prison sentences ranging from eight to thirteen years, along with fines.

The widespread attention and eventual legal action in this case were direct results of decentralized information dissemination and media democratization. As Hailey said, "At its best, media shines light on injustices, ensures transparency between leaders and the public, and prevents abuses of power."（Hailey，2024）

The sharing of information and decentralization enabled by mobile phones is reshaping the power dynamics of society. In the past, media narratives were largely controlled by the government, and only traditional, authoritative media outlets had the right to report information. These reports were often subject to layers of approval and editing by higher authorities before being released to the public.However, the rise of social media has disrupted this centralized structure. Today, ordinary citizens can document and share social injustices through their mobile phones, turning public opinion into a powerful force that compels governments to respond. The democratization of media has contributed to greater social justice.As demonstrated in the case I shared earlier, the democratization of media and public discourse played a crucial role in exposing and combating human trafficking. By amplifying grassroots voices, decentralized media has empowered citizens to hold authorities accountable and drive meaningful change.

References:

Da Hao Chongta. (2022, June 27). [404 Library] Echoes of Voices | Focus on Fengxian: Remembering the Suffering of One Woman During a Joyful Chinese New Year. China Digital Times.

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/676463.html

Liyan. (2022, June 27). Chinese court sentences "Iron Chain Woman's" husband to nine years in prison. The Wall Street Journal.

https://cn.wsj.com/articles/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E6%B3%95%E9%99%A2%E5%88%A4%E5%A4%84-%E9%93%81%E9%93%BE%E5%A5%B3-%E4%B8%88%E5%A4%AB%E6%9C%89%E6%9C%9F%E5%BE%92%E5%88%91%E4%B9%9D%E5%B9%B4-31ae49af

Reissman, H. (2024, January 25). Navigating the intersection of Media and Social Justice. Anneberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania.

https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/navigating-intersection-media-and-social-justice

[flipbookfliperrr]

Main five Flipbook WordPress modules you can consider for adding intuitive flipbooks to your site

1. Fliperrr

Highlights:

A Flipbook WordPress plugin allows you to transform PDF files, images, or HTML content into an interactive, realistic flipbook format on your website. These plugins are designed to create an engaging user experience with features like 3D page-turning effects, customizable layouts, and responsive design for mobile and desktop. Popular plugins like Real3D FlipBook, dFlip PDF FlipBook, and Interactive 3D FlipBook offer rich customization options, such as zoom, background themes, and branding integration. Flipbook plugins are ideal for digital magazines, catalogs, and brochures, providing a modern, user-friendly way to display content.

2. dFlip PDF FlipBook

Highlights:

Involves WebGL for 3D flipping impacts.

Responsive and dynamic plan.

Upholds PDFs and pictures with simple installing choices.

Adaptable foundations, topics, and marking choices.

Stars: Lightweight, quick stacking, incredible for versatile.

Cons: Restricted in customization for specific components.

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3. Intelligent 3D FlipBook

Highlights:

Upholds PDF, pictures, and HTML content for flipbooks.

Adjustable with page flipping sounds, shadows, and lighting impacts.

Advanced for Search engine optimization and quick page loads.

Chips away at both work area and cell phones.

Professionals: Profoundly intuitive, extremely point by point 3D impacts.

Cons: More extreme expectation to learn and adapt for customization.

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4. Responsive FlipBook WordPress Module

Highlights:

Changes over PDF documents into responsive flipbooks.

Profoundly adaptable, with choices for pagination, subjects, and route.

Completely responsive and chips away at all gadgets.

Masters: Simple to set up, offers a few plan and route choices.

Cons: Less high level special visualizations contrasted with others.

Connection to Module

5. FlippingBook

Highlights:

Changes over PDF archives into intelligent flipbooks with interactive connections, inserted recordings, and pictures.

HTML5 watcher for consistent gadget similarity.

Adaptable topics, foundations, and toolbar choices.

Stars: Proficient, smooth plan, with simple sharing and installing choices.

Cons: Can be pricier than different choices.

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These modules offer a scope of choices for adding intelligent flipbooks to your WordPress site, from lightweight PDF watchers to cutting edge 3D flipping impacts. Pick one in light of your customization needs and execution prerequisites.

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[resistantbees]

This is about  bees in Arnot Forest, New York State, USA. There has developed an isolated and resistant wild bee community : https://www.apidologie.org/articles/apido/abs/2007/01/m6063/m6063.html The authoritative researcher is Tom Seeley, who has been studying these survivor hives for many years. Now, Tom Seeley always evasively responded to the repeated questions by Dee Lusby, which cell sizes these wild bees really build. Again and again he responded very negative to Dee Lusby's comments on the artificially enlarged cell size of our bees. Now a very interesting study appeared, in which Tom Seeley was significantly involved. Sasha Mikheyev, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan, is the primary author. This scientific research from 2015 is about: Some honeybee colonies adapt in wake of deadly mites A new genetics study of wild honeybees offers clues to how a population has adapted to a mite that has devastated bee colonies worldwide. The findings may aid beekeepers and bee breeders to prevent future honeybee declines. To read here: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/08/some-honeybee-colonies-adapt-wake-deadly-mites and then Tom Seeley suddenly says that the bees are smaller in Arnot forest: Tom Seeley said:  The surviving bees evolved to be smaller, suggesting these bees might require less time to develop. Since the mites infest nursery cells in hives, the shorter development time may allow young bees to develop into adulthood before the mites can finish their development. Mite-resistant honeybees in Africa are also small and have short development times, Seeley said. , the full article: A new genetics study of wild honeybees offers clues to how a population has adapted to a mite that has devastated bee colonies worldwide. The findings may aid beekeepers and bee breeders to prevent future honeybee declines. The researchers genetically analyzed museum samples collected from wild honeybee colonies in 1977 and 2010; the bees came from Cornell University’s Arnot Forest. In comparing genomes from the two time periods, the results – published Aug. 6 in Nature Communications – show clear evidence that the wild honeybee colonies experienced a genetic bottleneck - a loss of genetic diversity - when the Varroa destructor mites killed most of the honeybee colonies. But some colonies survived, allowing the population to rebound. “The study is a unique and powerful contribution to understanding how honeybees have been impacted by the introduction of Varroa destructor, and how, if left alone, they can evolve resistance to this deadly parasite,” said Thomas Seeley, the Horace White Professor in Biology at Cornell and the paper’s senior author. Sasha Mikheyev ’00, an assistant professor of ecology and evolution at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan, is the paper’s first author. “The paper is also a clear demonstration of the importance of museum collections, in this case the Cornell University Insect Collection, and the importance of wild places, such as Cornell’s Arnot Forest,” Seeley added. In the 1970s, Seeley surveyed the population of wild colonies of honeybees (Apis mellifera) in Arnot Forest, and found 2.5 colonies per square mile. By the early 1990s, V. destructor mites had spread across the U.S. to New York state and were devastating bee colonies. The mites infest nursery cells in honeybee nests and feed on developing bees while also transferring virulent viruses. A 2002 survey of Arnot Forest by Seeley revealed the same abundance of bee colonies as in the late 1970s, suggesting that either new colonies from beekeepers' hives had repopulated the area, or that the existing population had undergone strong natural selection and came out with good resistance. By 2010, advances in DNA technology, used previously to stitch together fragmented DNA from Neanderthal samples, gave Mikheyev, Seeley and colleagues the tools for whole-genome sequencing and comparing museum and modern specimens. The results revealed a huge loss in diversity of mitochondrial genes, which are passed from one generation to the next only through the female lineage. This shows that the wild population of honeybees experienced a genetic bottleneck. Such bottlenecks arise when few individuals reproduce, reducing the gene pool. “Maybe only four or five queens survived and repopulated the forest,” Seeley said. At the same time, the surviving bees show high genetic diversity in their nuclear genes, passed on by dying colonies that still managed to produce male bees. The nuclear DNA showed widespread genetic changes, a signature of adaptation. “Even when a colony is not doing well, it can still produce a batch of males, so nuclear genes were not lost,” Seeley said. The data also show a lack of genes coming from outside populations, such as beekeepers' bees. The surviving bees evolved to be smaller, suggesting these bees might require less time to develop. Since the mites infest nursery cells in hives, the shorter development time may allow young bees to develop into adulthood before the mites can finish their development. Mite-resistant honeybees in Africa are also small and have short development times, Seeley said. Next, the researchers will study which genes and traits confer resistance to Varroa mites. The findings may help beekeepers to avoid pesticides for controlling mites and to trust the process of natural selection, and bee breeders to develop bees with the traits that have enabled bees to survive in the wild. The study was funded by the OIST and the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign. Here is the full study: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8991 also as a pdf for download. The vast majority of mitochondrial genetic diversity in the old population (blue) has been lost in the modern population (red). The most common haplotype present in many modern bees and one of the old bees is identical to the mitochondrial haplotype 53 of A. mellifera ligustica (Italian). The modern population seems to have descended from a relatively small number of queens. wild bee hive in Arnot Forest: A comment: a beekeeper colleague has sent me a very interesting comment about Tom Seeley: Hello, Two weeks ago I was in Weimar, germany,  at a bee Symposium, where also Seeley has given some lectures on the resistant bees in Arnot Forest. I asked him if he knew the bees of Dee Lusby and if the resistance of the bees in Arnot forest was also achieved through small cells. He replied that he knew the method of Dee but did not have contact with her, but he tested small cells and could not determine resistance in these hives. He also said that the resistance of Lusbys bees was only due to here africanized bees and had totally different genetics. In that respect your article surprised  me, since some days ago you just stated the opposite. It was also incomprehensible to me that the researchers did not team up with beekeepers to further promote bee health and its conservation. Greeting W. This is very interesting what Tom Seeley has said in Weimar. He allegedly tested small cells and then found no resistance among his hives. BUT he clearly states that the bees are smaller in the Arnot forest: Tom Seeley said:  The surviving bees grew smaller, suggesting that these bees need less time to develop. As the mites infest bee brood cells, the young bee can develop through the shorter breeding season before the mites can complete their own development. Mite-resistant honey bees in Africa are also small and have short development times, Seeley said. . And this is also highlighted in the research report: Changes in body size and shape Having found evidence of selection on developmental genes, we predicted that we would find morphological changes over time. Indeed, there has been an overall reduction in body size (head width: n = 64, t43.3 = -8.0, P = 4.0 × 10-10; intertegular span: n = 64, t62.8 = -8.6, P = 3.35 × 10-12; .......... African honey bees, which show resistance to V. destructor, are smaller than European honey bees honey bees of african descent. . And smaller bees require the construction of smaller cells in the brood nest, much like the african bees, which build cell sizes around 4.7mm. So why Tom Seeley is not able to imitate the situation of the small bees in the Arnot Forest? They are smaller and resistant, but he can not do it! Now Erik Österlund recently gave a lecture in Graz, Austria,  and Tom Seeley was also among the speakers. Erik is a vehement advocate of small cells. He told me that he repeatedly asked T. Seeley about cell size of the bees in the Arnot Forest. He squirmed and did not want to make a definite statement, Erik said. This researcher Tom Seeley is a bit suspicious to me, because I red how he reported that he deliberately killed a resistant hive in Arnot forest in order to examine it. He handled a cyan compound and by his clumsiness he almost poisoned himself, he reports. Why on earth do you have to kill a survivor bee hive to be able to examine it ??? And now comes the supreme impudence of Tom Seeley. He answered in Weimar to the question of our colleague: He also said that the resistance of Lusbys bees was only due to here africanized bees and had totally different genetics. . Ed & Dee Lusby got their bees analysed in 1986 by Prof. dr. N. Koeniger from  the institute of bee investigations in Frankfurt, Germany. This has been published on Dee's website for many years, but again and again the same hostility towards Dee Lusby appeares. https://beesource.com/point-of-view/dee-lusby/lusbys-bee-biometrics/ Here Professor Koeniger wrote: We did the biometrics now and it resulted in clear differences of your black bees compared to the usual U.S. mixture. Your bees are quantitatively significant more towards Apis mellifera carnica und Apis mellifera caucasica. The Italian influence is very limited. . the original letter: Prof. Dr. N. Koeniger INSTITUT FUR BIENENKUNDE (Polytechnische Gesellschaft) Fachbereich Biologie der J. W. Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main 6370 Oberursel 1 Im Rothkopf 5 W.-Germany May 12, 1986 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Lusby, Thanks for the letter of March 19th and the samples of bees. We did the biometrics now and it resulted in clear differences of your black bees compared to the usual U.S. mixture. Your bees are quantitatively significant more towards Apis mellifera carnica und Apis mellifera caucasica. The Italian influence is very limited. We thank you again for your hospitality. Hope to meet you some day again. Attached you will find the values of your samples (cubital index). Sincerely N. Koeniger As Professor Koeniger says, the bees of Ed & Dee Lusby are clearly related to Carnica and Caucasica bees and show a clear difference to usual american bees. This has been public since 1986 and why does Tom Seeley dare to assert that Lusby's bees are africanized and that their resistance results in this fact? Does he do it purposely to discredit her? Read the full article

[jaidonschool]

PWA v Webapp v App

"When the iPhones first came out there were no apps. Jobs original vision was for all the apps to be HTML based so your phone would be basically a thin client with the only real app being a web browser.

This has a lot of advantages in that the phone can be simpler, doesn’t need a lot of memory, etc. kind of like a chrome book but a phone. “Apps” were basically just shortcuts to websites.

There is a few issues with this, especially when the iPhone came out. The wireless infrastructure was not there to support it. Go one a plane, or be out of range of a cell tower and your “apps” didn’t work. You were dependent on the app server to hold state or it had to be held with cookies." - Reddit

App Store (Native Apps): Highest potential for direct revenue through app purchases and in-app purchases. Better performance and access to device feature. Higher development costs and maintenance (need separate iOS/Android versions). Apple/Google take ~30% cut of revenue. Users trust App Store apps more.

PWA (Progressive Web Apps): Lower development costs (one codebase for all platforms). No revenue sharing with app stores. Can still work offline and use some device features. Harder to monetize directly (no built-in payment system). Less discoverable than App Store apps. Growing in popularity but still less mainstream

Web App: Lowest development cost. Works everywhere instantly. Easier to update. Can monetize through subscriptions/ads. No app store fees. Limited access to device features. May need separate mobile/desktop versions.

-Claude Sonnet 3.5

[seo-agency-digital-media]

SEO-Friendly Website Development Tips in Erode

Today, an online presence for every business is essential. An eye-grabbing website that is not only user-friendly but also optimized for search engines may be the golden key to pull or retain customers for individuals and businesses in Erode. Whether you are a small business owner or a freelancer, you should be aware of the basics of SEO-friendly website development that makes all the difference between obscurity and being searched online. In this blog post, we will walk you through essential tips that would help develop an SEO-friendly website suitable for Erode's unique market.

Understanding SEO and Why It Matters

SEO is the process of improving one's website visibility on Google. The best way to make sure that your site appears at a higher ranking for a search term is through proper implementation of SEO. This enables customers in Erode to find you more easily.

Why SEO Matters to Your Website

Higher ranks translate into more visitors that can ultimately become more customers. Web pages with listings on the first page are perceived to be more trusted. Cost-effective marketing - it brings a long-term ROI Basic guidelines for an SEO-friendly web development in Erode

Choose a right domain name Your domain name is what users first see, so make it memorable and relevant to your business. Then you should recall adding keywords about your services or location: in this example, Erode, to further optimize for SEO. In the example used above, a local bakery may use something like a domain like ErodeBakery.com.

2. Structure Optimization A well-structured website helps the user, but it also helps search engines understand your content. Here are some structural tips:

Use Clear Navigation: Implement a simple menu with clear categories. This helps users find information quickly. Create a Sitemap: A sitemap helps search engines index your pages efficiently. Mobile Responsiveness: Ensure your website is mobile-friendly, as many users access the web on their cell phones.

Implement SEO Best Practices Include some of the critical SEO elements on your website for better visibility:

Title Tags and Meta Descriptions: Write unique and descriptive title tags and meta descriptions for all pages, which include relevant keywords.

Header Tags: Use H1, H2, and H3 for proper structuring of content. The main title should preferably be the H1 tag, and the secondary titles can be H2 or H3. Keyword Optimization: You will have to put relevant keywords in the content without spamming it. Use 1-2% density of keyword.

Valuable Content Well, Content is the real King of Search Engine Optimization. Good quality contents that have knowledge and value for users will take you high in SERPS. Here are some tips on creating great content:

Focus on the Local Relevance: Write about topics that matter to your Erode audience. This could include local events, news, or guides related to your industry. Use multimedia: Make use of images, videos, and infographics to increase engagement. All media files should be optimized with alt text that has relevant keywords in it. Add new content from time to time. This makes your website look active and relevant to search engines.

Optimize Your Website's Loading Speed A slow-loading website is a surefire way to make users bounce off of it and kill your SEO. Here are ways on optimizing your website's loading speed: Image Optimization: You compress the images. Reduces file size, losing nothing in quality. Minify Code. All your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files will cut down the loading times dramatically since they contain minimal useless characters. Use a Good Hosting Service. Hosting company should ensure full-time availability with substantial speedy loading times.

Generate Quality Backlinks Backlinks are references back to your site provided on other sites. It is basically responsible for increasing your authority and ranking of your website. How to generate good backlinks?

Guest Blogging: Create content for high authority blogs in your niche. This not only proves your authority but also brings backlinks to your website. Deal with Local Businesses: Sponsor other businesses in Erode for mutual promotion, which is also a source of acquiring backlinks from their end. Social Media Share: Share content through all sorts of social networking sites to increase visibility and make sharing happen, which always results in backlinks.

Track and Analyze Your Performance Regularly monitor the performance of your website by using Google Analytics tools and look at the following: Sources of Traffic: Find where you get visitors so your marketing strategies can be tweaked to optimize them. Bounce Rate: A higher bounce rate could mean that your content does not interest the visitor enough. Conversion Rate: Monitor who is converting based on some desirable actions, such as a contact form or buy.

Conclusion

Developing an SEO-friendly website is just the need of the hour for any business in Erode, with a hope to thrive in the competitive online marketplace. With these strategies, you can develop a website that would attract visitors and convert them into loyal customers. SEO is a continued process; thus, keep yourself updated with the latest trends and refining strategies for improved results. Happy developing!