#home expansion

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There are modern extension ideas to suit every home if you look hard enough, no matter if you are building an extension to a new or period home. There is absolutely nothing to say that the extensions must match the building to which they are being added.

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Unlocking Space: The Benefits Of Building A Loft

Expanding Your Living Space with a Loft A loft offers numerous advantages for homeowners seeking to maximize their living space and enhance their property’s value. From added square footage to versatile usage options, here are the key benefits of building a loft: 1. Increased Square Footage A loft provides additional square footage without the need for a full-scale extension or renovation. By…

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Indianapolis Medium Sun Room Mid-sized elegant sunroom photo with a standard fireplace and a brick fireplace

[shadowbirdsitu]

New York Bathroom Kids Photo of a single-sink bathroom in a mid-sized transitional kids' room with multicolored ceramic tile, shaker cabinets, a two-piece toilet, gray walls, an undermount sink, quartz countertops, a hinged shower door, gray countertops, and a freestanding vanity.

[beingjellybeans]

Is Your Home Keeping Up with Your Growing Family?

As your family grows, so do your needs for space, comfort, and functionality. The house that was once perfect for a couple may start feeling cramped as children come into the picture, bringing their toys, activities, and unique requirements. Knowing when to consider upgrading your house size is essential to ensure that your family’s changing needs are adequately met. When Should You Upgrade Your…

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Medium - Sun Room

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summore splats

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Oh even THE double black are panicking... it's bungou stray OVER

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new look, new you!

original : X

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Starfish 💙🌟

Trying things out with this tablet, mostly overlays

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[larkspurglove]

I feel like the hsr fandom needs to talk about Genius Soicety member #4 Polka Kakamond more.

Yes it’s probably because no one read the walls of text in the Simulated Universe add-ons but she’s possibly one of the biggest Erudition-based Chekov’s guns we have! Ruan Mei went from a really rare occurrence to an actual playable character so no way Polka doesn’t get her screentime considering how much we know about her.

Basically, Polka is a genius society member who killed three other genius society members, erased all visual depictions of herself in the universe, and then went radio silent and disappeared. She’s also got something to do with the Nihility. If you remember that one occurrence that’s called ‘Supreme Organic’ or something, she’s the lady that ‘kills’ you.

The main reasons I bring her up is because firstly, she’s one of the earliest Genius Society members to be picked by Nous (if the numbers are given in order of who’s joined, that is) as well as I think she’s the reason the Genius Society doesn’t really do working together than often.

(While I don’t think the society would’ve been all buddy-buddy beforehand either, I think there was a lot more collaboration and general in-person interaction)

Due to her seniority, Polka was likely a core member of the society, so for her to turn on her fellow members and kill them would likely instigate paranoia amongst the members. Stephen Lloyd doesn’t even show himself in person, like, at all, and as the newest Genius Society member I’d imagine it’s because he heard of Polka.

One of her titles is literally ‘The Lady of Silence’, and combined with her association with the Nihility, she’s somewhat of an antithesis to the idea of being a Genius Society member. Nihility believes nothing matters, while Erudition seeks to understand the entire universe and 'solve' it. Lore wise, they’re two paths that don’t work well together. (Granted Nihility doesn’t work well with most paths but besides the point)

She can’t be trusted and strikes whenever she fancies. There’s no images of her out there so you don’t even know who to look out for. Polka Kakamond kills Genius Society members and that scared the society.

What’s interesting is despite her radio silence Herta thinks she’s still alive. So, I propose that the next Simulated Universe expansion will be about Polka Kakamond-

[worldsewage]

Imagining an octo expansion with an altered Tartar. I never draw tartar but let it be known that the octo expansion plot is my fav part of home run .

[lilbittymonster]

Estinien and the WoL when they arrive at the same dock in Tural

[fatehbaz]

[T]he Dutch Republic, like its successor the Kingdom of the Netherlands, [...] throughout the early modern period had an advanced maritime [trading, exports] and (financial) service [banking, insurance] sector. Moreover, Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery stretched over two and a half centuries. [...] Carefully estimating the scope of all the activities involved in moving, processing and retailing the goods derived from the forced labour performed by the enslaved in the Atlantic world [...] [shows] more clearly in what ways the gains from slavery percolated through the Dutch economy. [...] [This web] connected them [...] to the enslaved in Suriname and other Dutch colonies, as well as in non-Dutch colonies such as Saint Domingue [Haiti], which was one of the main suppliers of slave-produced goods to the Dutch economy until the enslaved revolted in 1791 and brought an end to the trade. [...] A significant part of the eighteenth-century Dutch elite was actively engaged in financing, insuring, organising and enabling the slave system, and drew much wealth from it. [...] [A] staggering 19% (expressed in value) of the Dutch Republic's trade in 1770 consisted of Atlantic slave-produced goods such as sugar, coffee, or indigo [...].

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One point that deserves considerable emphasis is that [this slave-based Dutch wealth] [...] did not just depend on the increasing output of the Dutch Atlantic slave colonies. By 1770, the Dutch imported over fl.8 million worth of sugar and coffee from French ports. [...] [T]hese [...] routes successfully linked the Dutch trade sector to the massive expansion of slavery in Saint Domingue [the French colony of Haiti], which continued until the early 1790s when the revolution of the enslaved on the French part of that island ended slavery.

Before that time, Dutch sugar mills processed tens of millions of pounds of sugar from the French Caribbean, which were then exported over the Rhine and through the Sound to the German and Eastern European ‘slavery hinterlands’.

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Coffee and indigo flowed through the Dutch Republic via the same trans-imperial routes, while the Dutch also imported tobacco produced by slaves in the British colonies, [and] gold and tobacco produced [by slaves] in Brazil [...]. The value of all the different components of slave-based trade combined amounted to a sum of fl.57.3 million, more than 23% of all the Dutch trade in 1770. [...] However, trade statistics alone cannot answer the question about the weight of this sector within the economy. [...] 1770 was a peak year for the issuing of new plantation loans [...] [T]he main processing industry that was fully based on slave-produced goods was the Holland-based sugar industry [...]. It has been estimated that in 1770 Amsterdam alone housed 110 refineries, out of a total of 150 refineries in the province of Holland. These processed approximately 50 million pounds of raw sugar per year, employing over 4,000 workers. [...] [I]n the four decades from 1738 to 1779, the slave-based contribution to GDP alone grew by fl.20.5 million, thus contributing almost 40% of all growth generated in the economy of Holland in this period. [...]

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These [slave-based Dutch commodity] chains ran from [the plantation itself, through maritime trade, through commodity processing sites like sugar refineries, through export of these goods] [...] and from there to European metropoles and hinterlands that in the eighteenth century became mass consumers of slave-produced goods such as sugar and coffee. These chains tied the Dutch economy to slave-based production in Suriname and other Dutch colonies, but also to the plantation complexes of other European powers, most crucially the French in Saint Domingue [Haiti], as the Dutch became major importers and processers of French coffee and sugar that they then redistributed to Northern and Central Europe. [...]

The explosive growth of production on slave plantations in the Dutch Guianas, combined with the international boom in coffee and sugar consumption, ensured that consistently high proportions (19% in 1770) of commodities entering and exiting Dutch harbors were produced on Atlantic slave plantations. [...] The Dutch economy profited from this Atlantic boom both as direct supplier of slave-produced goods [from slave plantations in the Dutch Guianas, from Dutch processing of sugar from slave plantations in French Haiti] and as intermediary [physically exporting sugar and coffee] between the Atlantic slave complexes of other European powers and the Northern and Central European hinterland.

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Text above by: Pepijn Brandon and Ulbe Bosma. "Slavery and the Dutch economy, 1750-1800". Slavery & Abolition Volume 42, Issue 1. 2021. [Text within brackets added by me for clarity. Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

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Baby T'Rahni'hk! ft. The haircut her mom gave her.