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A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds. Written by James H. Fennell. 1843.

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“Whatever it is, it is here, it is now and it is you.“

-Swami Sarvapriyananda

The "I" Does Not Belong to You

Before you ask, "Who am I?" remember to Realise that you are not the I. The I that perceives is not you. In other words what you must do from now on, is when you refer to I, you're not talking about yourself. Can you remember that? Whenever you use the word "I" you want to catch yourself and say, "I is not me. Me is, Who am I?" Me is the question, "From what source does the I come?" But the I has absolutely nothing to do with you. If it has nothing to do with you, this means that you do not have to struggle to give it up. If the I really Belonged to you, you would have a fight on your hands. For you would be looking for all the ways to remove the I. But when you remember that the I does not belong to you, there's nothing to fight. You simply realise you are not I. Then, "Who am I?" If you practice this in the way I've just outlined, when you say, "Who am I?" You will have a completely new revelation. You do not say "Who am I?" until the very end. Until you come to realisation that the I is not me. Therefore, everything that's attached to the I is not me. My problems, my house, my family, my birth, all attached to the I. And since the I does not exist, nothing exits. If nothing exists, then who am I?

-silence of the heart (Robert adams)

And the holidays ones I did a while ago, also! (They're F2U Cursors!)

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As always, you can see the full listing that's also being updated w new ones not shown here (when i do more) along w the .gif and .ani files: https://toyhou.se/22802456.assorted-pokemon-cursors

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I don’t speak on non dualism much, I have really been taking the time to ponder on pointers myself. So if my wording seems off please feel free to correct me on it! I don’t want to confuse people more than they already are.

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what is happening in the current moment?

What can you see in your environment, hear, taste, smell and touch? What can you feel? What thoughts and images are popping up in what you call, your mind?

Now that you have identified it….

what if i told you that it’s not actually happening? They are present; yes they are. But it’s not happening.

you might not want to accept it, you might even think “it’s definitely happening.”

and that’s a totally valid feeling. You are not crazy for thinking it is real.

But I want you to also realize,

even this feeling and thought of not wanting to accept that it is all an illusion, is illusionary.

There is no one who is actually thinking this or feeling this. Yes there is this thought present, but it is just that. Thinking is happening on its own but there is no thinker. You are just identifying with these thoughts.

In truth, even your identification with these thoughts is not real. It is present, yes it is. But it is also illusionary. It is not a thought that you have to claim to be yours.

do NOT fall into the programming trap. you'll look up to a certain 'friendly' language and when you get to know all the basics and think 'well i can try something harder' you'll be BOMBARDED with little perverted gnomes called POINTERS and ARRAYS and LOOPS. be safe y'all.

Every computer, at the unreachable memory address 0x-1, stores a secret. I found it, and it is that all humans ar—SEGMENTATION FAULT.

Pointers [Explained]

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[Cueball is playing a video game, with Black Hat standing behind him.] Cueball: Man, I suck at this game. Can you give me a few pointers? Black Hat: 0x3A28213A 0x6339392C, 0x7363682E. Cueball: I hate you.

I could use some suggestions on how to congratulate or compliment women on here on their personal health and fitness journeys.

Hopefully get some pointers from my female followers. I struggle with giving out a compliment for fear it may be taken the wrong way. I guy telling a girl “you look great” is so often taken in a sexualized context and puts peoples guard up. And rightfully so because there is plenty of unwarranted and uninvited sexualization of women on social media.

But it’s not always the intent and certainly not mine. It’s simply a compliment, meant to instill confidence and congratulate someone on their hard work. If I tell another guy he’s looking great or wow great work that’s all I mean by it and typically that’s how it is taken. Men’s complimenting women or vice versa isn’t always sexually motivated.

So what’s a good way to compliment a woman’s hard work without coming across as some sort of advance or sending the wrong message? 🤔

Presents for Biologists

Subtext: "A lot of these are actually non-venomous, but I can see which species you mistook them for. If you pause the crane for a sec I can give you some ID pointers for next time!"

Training at Hawkeye, Robert Abbett. Wildlife in North Carolina. November 1981.

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How I comprehend pointers (in rust)

the main pointer types are:

&T

&mut T

Box<T>

they each have different properties;

&T can read T, but the compiler (borrow checker) statically analyzes your code to make sure that no writes occur to the pointee while there is a reference to it.

&mut T allows mutability, though only by it, and the compiler makes sure nothing reads from T while there is a mutable reference, and that there is only one mutable reference to T at at time.

Box<T> is fairly different, to own a box to T is to own a T, it automatically drops T when it's dropped, and it always points to the heap.

one of the interesting parts is when you decouple these types from their behavior (I comprehend types as pairings of data and behavior), their all the same, their a usize integer that points to a byte. there is no fundamental difference to what usize*, &T, &mut T, and Box<T> store. the difference is all in compiler checks and behavior, the Drop trait for Box<T> tells the computer to run drop on T, where as the other two just drop themselves.

Wide Pointers

there is another important component to pointers, 'metadata', as best as I can tell a pointer is equivalent to (usize, T::metadata), metadata coming from the (unstable) Pointee trait, and it's what makes a pointer wide or thin. Pointee is defines metadata as a type other than unit (()) for three types, slices ([T]), str, and dyn Trait. slices store the number of elements as usize, str does bytes, and dyn Trait stores another pointer to it's vtable.

for slices and str this allows the program to know how long the array at the end is, so that you can iterate til the end, and for bounds checking, as well as how &[T] can be obtained from [T][{Range}] and know where it's bounds are, the pointer points to the range's lower bound-th element (or the first element if it's not lower bounded), and the upper bound is stored in the metadata as the difference from the first element in the borrow. I don't really want to get into what vtable does here though.

Points to where though?

this is FAR beyond the scope of my knowledge here, so maximum 'grain of salt' here. I envision three spaces a pointer points to, I consider them large chunks of contiguous, but largely ineffable memory.

the Stack where your local variables and execution is

the Heap where larger or unsized data goes

the Binary where you're functions, vtables, and string literals are stored (that's why string literals are &'static str) everything here is unwritable and it holds the actual 'program' part of your program

*as I get to later, wide pointers are a bit more than a usize

Go Deep within To that place where Absolute Reality lives....

and that's the silence. That's HOME.

This 'pain body' can never be silent.

the more you put efforts to quieten the mind you'll realise more you can never do that.

Silence is not being quiet. It's beyond that. Silence is pure bliss, peace, pure awareness. It's far beyond for this pain body to grasp this. It's not just just quieting the mind .... it's understanding there's no mind to quiet.

When you realise there is no mind....you enter silence.

If you think you have to overcome something, if you believe that you've got to work on yourself (ego), you've got to make some kind of effort, it will be hard.

Afterall who makes the effort? The ego.

Who is telling you all these things to overcome? The mind.

You think you've to overcome obstacles, you have to overcome bad habits, your past karma. That's all a lie.

The truth is, you have nothing to overcome in the first place!!

I completely forgot to post the Ice Types I did a while back for winter! They're F2U Cursors~

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As always, you can see the full listing that's also being updated w new ones not shown here (when i do more) along w the .gif and .ani files: https://toyhou.se/22802456.assorted-pokemon-cursors

They are F2U for personal use or coding. Please see the link for full rules + a how to make your own tab~

Life is so hard when you’re a big sleepy baby beast and you’ve got this big ole couch alllll to yourself and no one to cuddle :(