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Unleash Your Home Gym Potential with a Half Power Rack: A Comprehensive Guide. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
Are you struggling to maximise your home gym setup without overcrowding your space? The solution might just lie in a piece of equipment that perfectly balances functionality and space efficiency: the half-power rack. In this blog, we'll explore the benefits, features, and comparisons of half-power racks and their versatile variations, helping you make an informed decision to elevate your fitness journey.
By MD SHOHAN SHEIKHabout a year ago in Pride
Meta Yields to the Right. Top Story - January 2025.
Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg recently announced META (Facebook, Instagram, and Threads) will no longer use fact checkers and rely on a community notes to report information. Zuckerberg announced the decision after meeting with President-elect Trump. However, what Zuckerberg did not announce was overturning protection for LGBTQ+ community, women, and BIPOC. In other words, META users will be able to attack these marginalized groups with no consequences. Since the announcement, many users on Threads have already begun looking for an alternative social media space, or deleting their accounts from all social media. However, it is vital we stay on these apps and continue to make our presence known in the META-verse.
By Iris Harrisabout a year ago in Pride
Ancestry, Addiction, and the American Dream: A Review of "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" by Ocean Vuong
Sometimes you pick up a book that is so deep, beautiful, and layered in meaning, the words, without saying, ask you to put them down for a moment, just to be sure you're ready for them. Ocean Vuong's debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous demands us to feel. It isn't just Vuong's story, or the format of his novel in the shape of a letter to his mother who cannot read, that makes On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous impactful, though. Vuong's craft is so stunning, thought-provoking, and intentional that you cannot help but be suffocated by his words; in that mesmerizing asphyxiation is where we meet his narrator, Little Dog, and in his story, we are reminded of pieces of ourselves, or maybe a loved one, or perhaps the fragments of someone we might once have known. Ocean Vuong doesn't flinch and in doing so connects dots over decades to tell a story that is not just Little Dog's, but so much of North America's.
By sleepy draftsabout a year ago in Pride
2024 and Bisexual?
Sometimes in life, things happen that you can't go back from and these incidents change you. They form and shape you into a different person with different thoughts and different beliefs even. I'm a very open minded person and because of this I'm constantly growing and learning and changing. This year has been a weird one for me. My spirituality is changing and morphing. My belief system going from something strict and concrete to something more fluid and open to different concepts from around the world. I know after waking up to these beliefs that I won't go back. That things can only go forward from here. I also know that some people and some of my family won't like these revelations of mine. I know that I'm going to have to come to terms with this and be who I am regardless. I'm getting in touch with my inner light and learning that we all have Source inside us. The amount of things we are all capable of is astounding. You just have to open your mind to the fact that what you believe and what you put into the universe will be. If you believe you will be broke and miserable the rest of your life you will be. However, if you believe you are abundant and radiate abundance you will do just that. Expel the negativity and drama from your life and you will find life and the universe greeting you with love and kindness. I have also discovered this year that I am okay alone. I've embraced who I am in all aspects and even if I don't feel comfortable sharing that with everyone in my life just yet I'm ok with it. For instance a big revolution that I've just come to the conclusion of is I'm bisexual. Thinking back on it I always have been but I've suppressed these feelings because they were wrong, dirty and sinful according to the way I was raised. I remember though that ever since middle school I've had what I now realize were girl crushes and I would look at a girl and think she's hot. I thought boys were hot too but I do recall thinking about girls in a romantic way as well. So, now, here we are at almost forty years of age trying to learn how to admit this to not only myself but everyone else in my life. I've honestly had my feel of relationships with men. I've been through two failed marriages. My first husband was my highschool sweetheart and he never supported me financially or emotionally. My second husband ended in a toxic, abusive way with emotional, mental and verbal abuse on a daily basis. I've tried to date since then with men but I no longer feel that connection. All I see now is red flags and how deeply engrained with patriarchy they all are and it pisses me off. I've really come into my feminine side these past few months and it has empowered me to be more of a girl's girl then I already was. We are women, hear us roar. We will not back down, we will support each other and love each other because loving each other is often times better than loving a man who thinks he owns the world. The sad part is behind every good man is a woman who keeps him standing so I ask you who needs who?
By Lindsey Altomabout a year ago in Pride
Lies and Truth
Is there any real benefit to hiding our inadequacies, mistakes, or sins? Who does it serve in the end to fill our environment with corrosive lies? Lies have chains that only stretch so far. Once we've reached the end of that chain we are pulled back with a violent whip-lash that leaves us and those within our spheres broken and maimed. What is the true damage in a lie? Is it the power that resides in spoken bonds, or does it rest in denying who we truly are. Can one who is blind to who they truly are ever find a sure place to stand? Why do we lie to our best selves? Is there too much pain? Or is it anticipation? Perhaps we are filled with anxieties of the unknowns of who we truly are? Will we actually like ourselves? Will we be trapped if we look and see, or are we unable to accept our own "un-acceptabilities"? Perhaps there's a notion, or an unspoken pressure, or law from the world that once you've seen yourself you must stay put, slap a sticker label on your forehead, and declare to yourself and the world that this is who you are, and that you require no more looks, time, or reason. In this web of fear it's all to clear that we have hewn the bars of our inward prisons. If the devil cannot keep us from being contented and satisfied with our blindness, then his next course of action will be to convince us that remaining in our assorted ranks and ways will keep us safe, and that any effort to step outside of that norm is dangerous, idiotic, or just not worth the effort. Why did the serpent tell our father Adam and our mother Eve to hide when they could perceive Elohim approaching? Why did he say to take some fig leafs and cover their "nakedness"? Perhaps there was another teaching hidden within the lie communicated by the serpent that was rhetorical? Fear is a powerful motivation to push us to cover our "exposed" places. It seems that the devil was more interested in getting Adam and Eve to fear Elohim to the point of trying to hide themselves from him in a time that they could actually use a councilor and friend- If the devil can win at teaching a false character of God then he does not have to work very hard to convince the sons of Adam, or daughters of Eve to hide from God. There may be a time when we try to hide from our divine self and from God, when our weaknesses or inadequacies are brought into the light. There may even be a time of stepping away, and doing some work so that, like Adam and Eve, we may return to the presence of the divine, where lies disguised as truth cannot be. Walking in the ways of truth- even if it may scourge our pride for a time is much more bearable than continuing to hid and be drown in a flood of lies over time.
By Ari Powellabout a year ago in Pride
Getting to Know Someone – A Lost Cause
Sitting on the subway on a Sunday evening, I witnessed a very intriguing scene. From the very first station, there was a tall man on the train with a striking sense of style. It felt as though his image had been lifted straight out of a music video by an 80s rock artist.
By Nighcat Blackwoodabout a year ago in Pride
