It's challenging writing about fights between the heroine, #OlgaSejeHansen and the bad guys, like, really bad guys. Before joining the Helsinki Police "Bears" unit – Finnish SWAT team – her title was "Unarmed Combat Instructor" at the Utti Jaeger Regiment. She trained Special Forces operatives to fight hand-to-hand asychronously. What does that mean? When baddies face a Tier 1 fighter like Olga, they have little to no idea where the first or next strike is coming from. She doesn't fight to a pattern, but to opportunities. A body feint left, fists up, halfway through the feint she may let go a kick to the groin, or maybe a hook kick to the jaw, or maybe a spear punch to the throat. Even if the opponent doesn't go down, it will hurt or deaden a limb. Either way the strike will momentarily disorient even trained fighters. That moment of confusion is the opportunity for another kind of strike if required. Asynchronous. So unlike most Hollywood fights, there is no pattern, no kata-styled one-two-threes. And definitely no fluff. The aim is to take out an opponent in a few seconds. Does the heroine always get her own way? No. But she is not there to entertain with extended, glamorous fight sequences, or give anyone a chance. So, it is quite hard to write such a degree of unpredictability into action scenes. Rather like describing how we walk, it can also be frustrating to break down the subtleties and even harder to communicate them without a reader glazing over in too much detail. Nothing like a challenge. This is about 6 seconds of action... Seje moved out of range of Bozo’s reflexive flailing hammer fists, angling for a disabling strike to the groin. Fists ready, upper body feinting left then right. On the first feint left her right heel stomped inside by her left foot. A heartbeat later, like a dancer, she flowed her body upright and glided her right leg back into its original rear position. Seventy percent weight on the back leg, still primed to strike with either knee. Bozo was focused on her left leg. One instant muscle memory strike was on its way to find out. Pushing off her right foot, she shifted her weight forward, leg, hips, knee and foot unleashed in one whipping move, full power. No evasive action from Bozo. The dance worked. But as the ball of her foot landed, she realised, "Fuck, he's wearing body armour over his balls." The full force of the strike between Bozo's legs glanced to the side, his thigh absorbing the bulk of the blow. He winced but stood his ground. Re-focusing, she took advantage of a lull in his aggression... "No armour where this is landing." There is a free download on my bio of the first 3 chapters. Seje is not just a fighter, she's a master strategist and to put it mildly, she will do anything to achieve the outcome she needs – even dropping her colleagues in horrendous circumstances. Grim, shocking, funny, nothing is ever gratuitous but advances the plot and the characters. That's #noir!

Social media ban for under 16’s. Boo! Social media addiction affects kids and parents alike, and proposed bans miss the real culprit: toxic business models. The Problem with Banning under 16's Banning kids from mainstream social media criminalizes families while ignoring adult vulnerabilities. You really think we adults are able to resist the influences of 10,000 psychologists from FaceBook, TikTok and Twitter trying to addict then manipulate us into eating E-numbers and voting against our best interests in the next election? Governments dodge the core issue—platforms like Twitter and FaceBook amplify rage for profit, harvest data, and turn users into products. Profit = rising GDP figures and tax revenue – a government’s lifeblood. rest of the article...

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– where Nostr has reached across to WordPress to show legacy internet users what proper social media looks like... zap buttons, my Nostr profile feed, embedded Nostr posts, discounted price for payment in sats, free chapters on Nostr ... To show it is possible to live outside the fiat banking nonsense, the domain name is paid for in Bitcoin, as is the server, as is a Proton suite for hosting free book chapters and email. It was so refreshing not having to provide every damned personal detail to pay a small amount online for a service. As if Lightning were cash, go figure.

I can see naddr info for individual posts. Any idea how to find naddr info for a full feed. Want to use a plugin on WP to show a nostr feed, proof of how good the info is on Nostr! If only I can show it. #asknostr

If you ask ai for advice on a topic you know nothing about you are screwed. The advice Will be skewed towards complications. ( Knowledge is power) Ask It to to refine what you already have a good grasp of, and ai is sweating. We still hold the Keys to the vault - if we so choose.

We all create our own reality. Even if what he’s seeing behind the curtain sounds nuts, it’s such an interesting thesis and most importantly, the solutions to the craziness are wholesome and doable and gel with how people lived for centuries in small communities. Or just live through the spoonfed screen and morph into the blob and live in some nutters’ version of sci-fi surveillance reality.

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It's Up to Nostr users to onboard new Nostr users in person. The chances of a refugee from Facebook landing in the global feed and thinking they found a new online home here is... remote. Sending out raw "Join me on Nostr" invites is like convincing someone who doesn't like to get all dressed Up - to dig out an obsolete party frock gathering dust, or get suited and booted in an outfit from a 1998 wedding do - before the onset of seed-oil spread or 4am workout routine scuppered the Kmart tailor's efforts. You tell them to arrive at the party at a time when you know nobody Will be there - except a buffed mad Uncle in a tinfoil hat, an obsessive nutty computer science professor and an introverted kid who hasn't seen daylight or eaten any vegetables in months. Of course, they are lovely folks with lots to say, and if they were the only other people left on the Planet after the bomb had dropped, you would instantly gravitate towards them, but... ... you were kind of expecting a room full of beautiful people buzzed on music and idle chit- chat - a warm and fuzzy vibe with a glass of something to ease you in to your new home. I think Nostr is the future, and it's already halfway here now, but come on, has anyone actually gone through some of the onboarding processes, and put themselves in the shoes of the unwashed masses who know more about quantum physics than they do about cryptographic key pairs and NIPs? Username, password, copy-paste into a a notepad - for now. Here's a wallet with 10 sats in it ready to use, and a person with an interest you share, to talk to... It's not that hard. Except welcoming new faces to Nostr is hard for the dedicated nutty professor, mad Uncle and prison pallour kid busily building out Nostr. So, on my Wordpress website, I'll be dumping the "Follow me on Nostr" widget - nsec.app 's technically brilliant but perfect techniphobe onboarding sabotaje effort - and sticking with a simple link to my profile page on Yakihonne. I'll Zap new followers a few sats and say Hi. Maybe they can't face deciphering the new vocab to sign Up, but as lurkers their first experience of Nostr community Spirit could be a free download of a pretty good book - which appropriately is not for the faint of heart. Come on Nostr, we can do it. #asknostr

One of the many joys of Spanish life is a carajillo - liqueur coffee. 2€ Max for a cortado with a shot. Classic cold-morning boost or a jump start with the afternoon “merienda”. Another perfect fit in a culture of bars and cafes where you don’t go for a drink with the express purpose of getting bladdered. I don’t have stats, but so much business is conducted over a drink. Notaries and architects loaded down with paperwork, sipping beers with clients. Anglo-Saxons will be tutting by now. Salud 🍻 I will be tackling the taboos around booze later in the #OlgaSejeHansen series. There’s quite the list of uncomfortable topics tucked away behind an innocent drink. But I started with one that ranks quite high in the world of taboos. Whatever the first impression, there is no gratuitous action. It’s all about shining lights on characters’ strengths and failings and finding the pros and cons and absurdities of their surroundings and situations. That’s #noir right?

There's a subtle difference between the geography of the Black County and Birmingham – but to the people who live there they are worlds apart. The narrator of Crimson Lining sets readers straight right from the start. I grew up a poor Brit in 1960's Wolverhampton, pride of the magnificent Black Country. That’s the Midlands, not Birmingham. Don’t lump us in with bloody Brummies. Anyway, despite little education, a face that looks like I got slapped with a kipper at birth, and dress sense that makes Colombo look like a boardwalk model, I made something of meself. Against all the odds, I worked me way up through the police, and struck it lucky over the Pond, a thousand miles from the other Birmingham – Alabama. I had me own desk at what the Yanks call a three-letter law enforcement agency – not the CIA, the other bloody one. Me first mission in yankee land: learn to speak proper. I'm a bit posh for a Yam Yam now – that's someone from the Black Country, in case you were scratching your bonce over that one. I think I've got the hang of me and my now – but initially, no bugger got a word I said. So, I speak different; who gives a toss, asks I? Surely you know what I mean? "Or roight, yow, Trisha? D'ya get tha’ report for me, bab?" I nearly got kicked out on my ear for asking FBI secretaries for reports in me – sorry, my – own lingo. Swallowing my pride, I tried to pull the Ozzy card. They were ’avin none of it. I said to the boss, "Me old paranoid mucker, Prince of Darkness, is a fucking legend in the States. How come nobody made him talk like he had a plum in his gob?" See my profile for first three chapters in free download. As Peter Malone would say, Fill your boots, fellow hypocrites and delusionals! #CrimsonLiningGems #OlgaSejeHansen #psychologicalthriller

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Do you know the origin of DI Olga Hansen's nickname, Seje? (Pronounced "Say-yay”) Ex-Utti Jaeger Special Forces, her Finnish colleagues invented it during a hunt-and-kill mission in the UAE. All revealed in later chapters of #CrimsonLining—first in a 4-book series hurtling from Finland → USA → Holland → Poland. Free content for Nostr only. Read free teaser Chapter 2 now. More snippets to follow. Save tag #CrimsonLiningGems for future reference. Chapter 2 is available to read now via my profile page

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Rough round the edges and never shrugged off his British roots, Peter is an FBI field officer. He’s nobody’s dummy. He’s met Fiona at a dive ...

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