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Farming, Breeding, and Beekeeping | (Public Release) It was suppose to be dropped in February but huhhhhhhhhhh I deadass forgot + PC Died Models/Map Yinyama3D🔞 Commissions Closed(1/1) Audio OpenNSFW 🟣 Available Now (SFX pack) HentAudio 🇺🇦 🟢COMMS OPEN🟢 (SFX pack) HARULUNA | Voice Actress | COMM OPEN LewdHeart

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🎬Whimsical Reverie | Furniture Preview 🛋️Home Sentiments In celebration of the Home system's launch, stylists can obtain free furniture items via the [Home Sentiments] event after the Version 1.9 update on September 1, 2025 (UTC-7). When the event starts, unlock 1 free furniture piece each day. The event lasts 3 days—claim up to 3 free items in total! The event has 3 rounds, giving you plenty of chances to decorate your home! 🛋️Dreamland Showcase Stylists can earn Dreamland Stones by completing weekly Chronicle Tasks. Dreamland Stones can be used to exchange for items in the Dreamland Shop, including the [Detective's Study] series of furniture and Diamonds. Spend 680 Stellarites to sign the [Dreamland Pact]. Once signed, you can instantly claim the new furniture [Loving Fufu & Flowers] and its Furniture Sketch. Complete the current Chronicle Tasks to earn bonus Dreamland Stones. After signing the [Dreamland Pact] and accumulating a certain number of Dreamland Stones in this phase of Dreamland Showcase, 680 Stellarites will be refunded. You can claim the Stellarites in Dreamland Pact interface. 🛋️Chorus of Stars Purchase the "Stellar Poems Pack" for 1,480 Diamonds to receive 12 types of Diamond-purchased furniture and 8 types of Astralite exchangeable furniture, totaling 20 types and 38 pieces. This pack can only be purchased once. Each type of furniture can be purchased separately with no purchase limit, but it will not be available at the discounted set price. 🛋️Furniture Set Series Purchase the "Leisure Tea Brewing Set I" for 680 Stellarites to receive 6 types of furniture, totaling 14 pieces, including the [Eternal Years Screen]. This set can only be purchased once. Each type of furniture can be purchased separately with no purchase limit, but it will not be available at the discounted set price. Purchase the "Leisure Tea Brewing Set II" for 420 Stellarites to receive 6 types of furniture, totaling 11 pieces, including the [Twilight Incense Burner]. This set can only be purchased once. Each type of furniture can be purchased separately with no purchase limit, but it will not be available at the discounted set price. Purchase the "Leisure Tea Brewing Set III" for 180 Stellarites to receive 3 types of furniture, totaling 8 pieces, including the [Rolling Screen]. This set can only be purchased once. Each type of furniture can be purchased separately with no purchase limit, but it will not be available at the discounted set price. 🛋️Stargazing Reveries Purchase the [Astral Radiance Pack] to receive selected furniture pieces such as [Stellar Cascade], [Echo Waterwheel], and [Seasons Couch]. These selected items are tagged as both "Home Furniture" and "Decoration," and may be placed in your Home or in Miraland. The set is limited to one purchase. If you prefer to buy items individually: [Stellar Cascade] is available for purchase, [Seasons Couch] for 680 Stellarites, and [Echo Waterwheel] for 450 Stellarites. Individual pieces of furniture can be purchased with no purchase limit. —— The Coziest Open-World Game! Infinity Nikki Version 1.9 "Music Season" launches globally on September 1st (UTC-7)! ➤ Download Now: ➤ Join us on Facebook Group: #InfinityNikki

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Sharing My Journey Trading Memecoins on Solana (1 Year 4 Months In) I’ll also be doing a giveaway 0.5 SOL each to 3 lucky winners ( 48 hours ). The rules are simple: Repost and Share your trading experience on Solana (memecoins or utility coins) and tell me your biggest profit and biggest loss in the comment below. Alright, now it’s time for us to get back to the story. I wanna share my personal experience trading memecoins (and some utility plays) on Solana over the past 1 year and 4 months. Before that, I was pretty active on Ethereum since around 2020. So what made me switch to Solana ? It started when someone from my private group pointed out the potential of Solana, the speed, the low fees, and how early the ecosystem still felt at the time. Funny thing is, I actually heard about Solana when it was already at $80, but I didn’t really touch it until it hit around $100, and I started with 20 SOL as capital. It was sometime around February 2024 (don’t remember the exact date), when I first tried trading memecoins on Solana. Back then, wasn’t even popping yet, most devs were still launching manually. No fancy bots, no real token scanners, just pure risk. ( Correct me if I’m wrong about when first launched. ) Honestly, in the beginning, it was tough. New tokens popping up every second, rugs left and right, Solana was in hype mode, and everyone wanted to launch something. But by April, things started to click. I was finally making profits trading Solana coins, memecoins, lowcap utilities, all that. If I compare it to now, I’d say it was way easier back then to catch early entries. Not even exaggerating, 100x plays were way more common. I will put sneak peek of some of my PnL from my personal channel, Of course, it’s not as simple anymore with today’s market; Bundles everywhere, token farming systems, launch metas changing fast… Back then? It was cleaner. Simpler. Honestly, better. Through all this, I’ve always had one dream: To help people who are truly serious about learning the game. That’s why I started Bollish Research , a place for real ones to learn and grow in this space. From the very beginning of Bollish Academy until now, we’ve built the Bollish Research team through real work and honestly, quite a few people have been cut along the way. The older I get, the more I realize the value of staying low key… of building a tight circle and only letting the right people in. You can be open, honest, and real, but still know that not everyone deserves a seat at your table. I’ve come to realize this right now, all I want is to grind hard, make a lot of money, and make the people who’ve stood by me from day one proud. The ones who were there when I was nothing, all the way to who I am now. I wanna help people in need too, using the profits from my trading, because I’ve never had any intention of launching paid classes or any of that bullshit. So if you’re reading this, listen. Most of the time there is no support system, it's just you and your grind. So believe in yourself. Motivate yourself. Celebrate your small wins. Pray to God that you will make it. Don’t lose hope. Stay focused. Stay consistent. Be disciplined. If you wanna see my PnL, you can check it out below or you can join my Journey Channel ( ) Thanks for reading. I love you all

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Voice AI turn taking is a solved problem. The single most common complaint about voice AI, today, is that agents interrupt too often. But the voice agents I build for myself now respond quickly and interrupt me less often than the people I talk to every day. (I actually measured this.) Mark Backman made a Pipecat AI PR two weeks ago that was the last piece of the puzzle for turn taking so good that I no longer ever think about it. The approach combines three layers of processing: 1. Voice activity detection, with a short (200ms) trigger. 2. A native audio turn detection model that's small, fast, and runs on CPU. This model captures audio nuances like inflection and filler sounds that don't get transcribed. 3. A prompt mixin for the conversation LLM that decides turn completion based on conversation context. None of these are new. We've been using VAD for a long time. We trained the first version of the Pipecat Smart Turn native audio model in December 2024. And we've been experimenting with prompt-based large model turn detection (sometimes called "selective refusal") for more than a year. Now, the Smart Turn model and the SOTA LLMs we're using in voice agents have both gotten so good that using them together feels like we've finally "solved" turn detection. Mark also figured out how to elegantly apply a "single-token tagging" technique to this problem. We sometimes use single-token tagging in place of tool calling, when we need a near-zero latency programmatic trigger. Mark's Pipecat mixin defines three single-token characters and prompts the LLM to output exactly one of them at the beginning of every response. - ✓ means the agent should respond normally (immediately) - ○ is a "short incomplete" - the agent should wait 5 seconds - ◐ is a "long incomplete" - the agent should wait 10 seconds The wait times, and the details of the prompt, are configurable, of course. Watch the video to see me talk to an agent that handles all my various pauses and inflections, plus phrases like "let me think," pretty much the way a person would handle them, in terms of response latency. Also, in the second half of the video, I ask the agent to adjust its response pattern because I'm going to tell it a phone number. This kind of "in-context" adjustment of response wait times is really useful. The LLM in the video is GTP-4.1. We've tested the prompt and single-token adherance with GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5, and AWS Nova 2 Pro. Note that older models in all these families (and, in general, smaller open weights models) aren't able to reliably output these single-token tags. But the new models we're using these days are pretty amazing.

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🚨🇸🇦🇹🇷🇵🇰 When Trump Said: "My Office is the Middle East... and Israel is the Pen": The Full Story of the "Malign Alliance of Necessity" That the Mecca Agreement Destroyed Before It Even Began! Every chess game has its backstage. And every backstage has a moment where the masks fall off. What happened in Holy Makkah, and the intense diplomatic activity that preceded it, was no ordinary summit. It was the official announcement of the defeat of the most dangerous project ever plotted against the region. It was the thunderous voice that declared: "Game over." Let's go back. To the true beginning. Before the chaos, before the strikes, before the war. On February 3, 2025, Donald Trump stood holding his pen and uttered the sentence that revealed everything: "Look at this amazing pen. My office is the Middle East, and this pen is Israel. It's a very small piece of land. It's amazing what they've been able to do... but it's a very small piece of land." This was not just a passing comment. It was the key to understanding the whole game. It was an explicit declaration that Israel is not just an ally, but the "tool." The pen with which Washington would write the destiny of the region. The pen that would redraw the maps. The pen that would expand that "small piece of land." Trump said it clearly: the paper is the Middle East, and the pen in his hand is Israel. And so the project began. The "Greater Israel" project. The project to "change the map of the Middle East." Netanyahu, who repeatedly echoed this threat during the phony war on Iran, wasn't speaking in a vacuum. He was executing. He was holding the pen Trump described, ready to write. But Trump wasn't going to grant this expansion for free. The man who seized Venezuela's oil in January 2026 was looking for customers. He had a massive surplus of oil, and his ports were far away. The ships weren't coming to him. So how could he attract them? How could he force the world to buy from him? The answer was: chaos. Creating chaos in Hormuz. Making passage through it suicidal. Closing Bab el-Mandeb by Houthi proxy. Then standing before the world to say: "Come to our safe ports." And just days ago, he declared it explicitly: "America is the number one oil exporter in the world." And here, on this chessboard, the players gathered. A Malign Alliance of Necessity. Not bound by love, but by a single goal: to punish Saudi Arabia and drown it. Iran, with its ideological regime, wants Trump to legitimize its right to manage the Strait of Hormuz. It cares less about the killing of its Supreme Leader than it does about harming the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Gulf states, especially after the liberation of Syria. Likewise, Israel and Abu Dhabi want to punish Saudi Arabia for dismantling the fragmentation project. Israel, the pen Trump described, dreams of a fragmented Yemen and a torn Sudan. And Abu Dhabi, which invested billions in supporting the tools of fragmentation, from the Houthis to the Rapid Support Forces, to bleed Saudi Arabia dry, hoping it might thereby rise. The truth is, it ended up stuck in Netanyahu's quagmire. And so the game began. Trump threatens. Netanyahu roars, "We will change the map." Iran seeks revenge. Iran threatens. The Houthi screams in Bab el-Mandeb. And Abu Dhabi writhes in frustration, declaring at times its phantom participation in the war, and moving covertly at others to fuel chaos in Yemen and Sudan. The American and global media plays its role to perfection: hyping, exaggerating, portraying Trump as if he's about to destroy Iran, while another channel asks leaders to "call Trump to calm him down." All of this to keep the region in chaos. To keep the ships stranded. To paralyze Gulf energy, and to legitimize Iran's right to manage the Strait of Hormuz so it remains closed, then turns into another Panama Canal. 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🚨#Earth2 update 🌏✌️ First I'd like to apologise to our community for the lateness of this message. I was still considering a traditional last timezone #Q2 release but honestly we could use a little more time. As you can see in the screen recording, we've been extremely busy the past 3 months with multiple commits per day on average from our dev team & this recording is only of commits made directly to our #E2V1 repository. It does not include #BE / Server repository commits or tasks completed for custom development from our VFX, SFX, Concept Art & Animation teams or the countless other points of progressive development. While there are some in our community who would better understand what multiple daily repo commits means, the video footage just helps others to visualise how much work goes into the development of just one facet of Earth 2, and even though we may not publish a lot of public updates, we are extremely busy & focused on development & progress behind the scenes. Sometimes you lose track of time with so many different developments in progress. Excitingly for everyone, Chapter 1 is a very big release for us & includes some very important updates that will introduce the foundations for activity & experiences inside #E2V1. There are many moving parts & many new mechanisms we've had to design, develop & implement into an incredibly large, seamless, open world just to make Chapter 1 possible. We're also building a persistent world, meaning we're not just developing for a single player local PC environment, which would be much, much easier, but instead requires a lot of API & server integration for almost every feature implemented - and that doesn't even involve the multiplayer networking element which we've also made good progress on throughout #Q2. We're not implementing API & server integration only for a persistent world, but also to mitigate against hacking. I just wanted to provide this update & apologise for the lateness of this notification. Remember, we are still in a pre-alpha stage so there are inevitably going to be bugs & issues. Seeing as though we are going to miss #Q2 anyway, we could use another week or two to fix some known bugs & make it a little smoother. It won't be longer than that & even though it's not a lot of additional time in the big picture, I still said #Q2 & I apologise that we are going to overshoot that time frame. We will aim to publish an article this weekend to provide everyone with an in depth explanation behind the early access release & I think that article will help our community understand just how much work has gone into the past 3 months by our team. I guess I could have made this post short & sweet but I wanted to provide additional context so thanks for reading through. To end on a more positive note, hands on play testing has been very eye opening to possibilities & immersion #E2V1 offers. There are so many opportunities waiting & so many directions to take .. it really is very exciting. Another positive point is I believe this will be the final quarter of waiting in boredom / pain as moving forward we'll have feet on the ground inside #E2V1 & once it is stable we will be able to release subsequent updates faster. #Earth2 #Metaverse #RealityThreads #E2V1 #PreAlpha

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I meet you on the first Friday of the year not in Jama Masjid, as the Mirwaiz should, but on social media, as I have once again been put under arrest! As another year begins and we look forward to it, painful memories of 2025 stay with us. It was a year marked by tragedy and uncertainty. The horrific Pahalgam attack shook us deeply. Unequivocally condemned by one and all in the valley, it led to a lot of anxiety among the people as they were targeted and homes demolished. This was followed by another India–Pakistan war, and a stark reminder of how fragile peace in the region continues to be. Despite making unilateral changes in 2019, the reality is that the Kashmir conflict continues to keep the region in an unsettled state that can erupt anytime. That is why wars are paused, not ended, and dialogue finds no takers. The year-end witnessed another tragedy — the massive blast and loss of life in New Delhi. Yet beyond these incidents, in which Kashmiris find themselves at the receiving end of suspicion and attacks in parts of India, not much has changed for them. The trust deficit between them and New Delhi has widened, not shrunk. Enforced silence is projected as acquiescence. Wounds remain open, problems unaddressed, and an elected government of a UT complains of being powerless. A sense of hopelessness prevails, along with an existential crisis of losing one’s identity through demographic change since the state was downgraded to a Union Territory, constitutional guarantees withdrawn, and rules and laws tweaked. The year also witnessed the banning of the Awami Action Committee — a socio-political institution that reached out to people in need, advocating peace, dialogue and resolution — along with Ittihadul Muslimeen, which were part of the Hurriyat Conference. Much of that space has now been extinguished. Today we are operating in an environment where any expression of views contrary to the state, or any disagreement, is increasingly criminalised, branded as “anti-national” and penalised. No public space is available to us, and mediums of communication, including most local media, are not ready to provide any space for voicing expressions of people’s demands or views. I do not have the privilege of addressing press conferences. I cannot move without getting official clearance, and people cannot meet me without seeking permission. My access to the pulpit of Jama Masjid — the spiritual heart of Kashmir — is also curtailed. Even last Friday, I was placed under house arrest, and again this Friday too. In fact, last year I was under house arrest for fourteen Fridays. Arbitrary house arrests have become a recurring feature in my life. All this is deeply suffocating — not only for me, but for an entire society that increasingly feels voiceless. So when pressed to make changes to my social media profile — as Hurriyat constituents are banned under UAPA, displaying the title would be considered illegal and the platforms barred to me — I was left with little choice but to safeguard the minimal channel of communication available to me or face the risk of complete silencing, as even today I am addressing you through this channel when I am again put under house arrest. With Hurriyat constituents banned, all offices sealed and institutions closed, leaders and activists either in jails or under constant surveillance, social media remains the only platform that gives some voice and opportunity to connect with people and the outside world. Let me make it clear, my beliefs and convictions have not changed — not even by a comma. Some have criticised this move as a compromise. To them I say, how and for what? They make a strange argument — for being provided security. But it was provided to me since the day of my father’s martyrdom 35 years ago. If I did not compromise for it since then, why should I compromise now?

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq

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BREAKING NEWS: U.S. PRESIDENT Donald Trump is furious with NATO—as the Straits of Hormuz re-open, but only for Chinese, Indian and Pakistani ships. “I have never heard him so angry in my life,” Senator Lindsay Graham posted on X a few hours ago. Also a few hours ago, Trump ordered US armed forces to drop heavy bombs on the coast of Iran to destroy reinforced missile launchpads—but the Iranians have been using mobile launchpads to avoid this specific action. . HORMUZ IS OPEN The Strait of Hormuz is open for the world’s ships to pass through, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, told reporters last night at a press conference in Tehran. “It is only closed to our enemies, to those who carried out unjust aggression against our country and to their allies,” he said. Analysts around the world, including in the west, agree that the US-Israel attack was illegal. “From March 1 to March 15, a total of 11 China-linked vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz,” reported Lloyds List, a shipping data center. But then traffic dropped to zero and is now very gradually rising again. Turkey is also in talks with Iranian authorities to ensure that they are on the safe list. Iran has also said it will favor ships doing business in yuan instead of the US dollar. . TRUMP VOWS VENGEANCE Trump, meanwhile is planning vengeance on the Europeans, Graham said. “The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America,” he said, reporting Trump’s threats. US allies are stuck. Japan, South Korea, the U.K., France and Italy are still hoping the US Navy can strong-arm access for them. They "are largely coordinating with the U.S. and exploring naval escort options rather than negotiating directly with Tehran," says a note to investors by JP Morgan analysts. . 'AFFILIATION CHECKPOINT' Vessel trackers note that some vessels can be seen moving between Larak and Qeshm, two Iranian islands. "This is not a standard route for vessels and could reflect a process designed to confirm vessel ownership and cargo, enabling passage for ships that are not affiliated to the U.S. or its allies," the JP Morgan analysts said. . REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT With their brutal and sustained bombing attacks on Iran, Trump and Netanyahu have achieved something remarkable: they have turned the Iranians into heroes, undoing years of demonization.

Nury Vittachi

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