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Had a job interview today. I honestly think its a perfect fit for me. I have the right technical background, company is the right size, its a European company which I think is a positive. I think i have made it past the HR screen and into the next round, she said as much in the interview. The recruiter thinks I am 1 of 5 candidates currently.

I just do not want to get too excited. It impossible to say how things will go but at the same time I would love to get the offer from this company in particular.

Actually Nippah and Ebola both can be dormant for up to 14 days. As a zoonotic disease spread by bats the low spread is partially tied to the regions these outbreaks occur. Not in places with strong infrastructure and fast travel.

Nippah I think has minor transmission through breath/droplets at short range I believe. Ebola has a strain that’s airborne that currently only infects monkeys but we know Ebola can be easily weaponized to be airborne. Ebola’s can also spread through sweat, I don’t think nippah can.

In any event fuck RFK man is a menace. Vaccines rule! Thank god we know have vaccines for Ebola. The WHO does more positive than harm and early attention, quarantines and testing are vital for dealing with epidemics.

Chance, on 28 January 2026 - 04:08 PM, said:

I will have to revisit that chapter I think.

I don't think Harrys Soul enters into it because he would never do that and be crazy to boot to try it.

The winter mantle made him of Faerie and so Lara eating it 3 times (ritually significant number) made her bound to winter/Faerie (Don't eat the food). This doesn't seem to be the primary hook though, Lara instead implies that the Hunger is simply now addicted to Harrys super food and if she tried going back to regular feedings he hunger would kill everyone she feeds on and still not be satisfied. It came across that Lara could go this route if she was willing but it would mean becoming a raging addict always desperate for the next hit and would leave a trail of bodies. This would also make her look weak and she would be ousted. It may be that eating faerie food doesn't enthrall you outright but rather by their rules eating their food obligates you pay back that debt and so Mab and her agents may simply be able to act against lara in ways they couldnt before.

My read on the super food was that Harry was feeding her raw magic, the energy of creation, and part of his magic juice is now at least powered by the winter mantle (hence fae food). It almost seems absurd that no one in the white court ever tried this before. The outsiders goal is to consume our reality of all energy/matter/creation/souls/anything until literally nothing is left, Empty Night, so pure magic is the super food. What exactly is magic and if its finite is still too esoteric to eveen know. I mean wouldnt regularly feeding lara then slowly weaken winter? I liked that there had been enough forshadowing of this that the White court being outsiders felt believable.

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Something I glossed over too quickly. Mab said nemesis had 13 puppets. Is down to 12 (loss of leansidhe) and will be down to 11 with the loss of Justine. However Nemesis has lost the leansidhe and Maeve no? or am I not remembering the numbers right? Also interesting that Mab knows their are 13 puppets and is the implication that the lost puppets cant be replaced or is there simply a maximum of 13 at a time? What happened to elder Malk I forget if he died or escaped?

Mab finding justine without any problem also seems perhaps completely in keeping with her power and resources but also came across as too easy. When Harry began to worry about a set up from nemesis and he may have been about to summon it to demonreach it seemed entirely plausible.

I would love to know how much of the dresden files late game Butcher had in his head when he wrote the first 3 books say versus how much of it just came together as he went. I could see it either way. Nemesis really could be responsible for all the crazy magic from the beginning or it could just be a good villain he created later to fit that role. Its even a question fo which came first Nemesis or the black council.

QuickTidal, on 28 January 2026 - 12:30 PM, said:

As someone who is not a fan of his ex-brother-in-law and likely future brother-in-law again I can commiserate but sadly have no constructive advice. Its painful when you feel you have a clear eyed perspective from the outside and your siter blinded by love or habit cant see the damage this person has wrought or forgives him for it. My ex-brother in law seems to have turned around quite a bit and even so I am not ready to trust him yet.

I guess I do have one piece of advice, whatever happens support your sister and make sure she knows its HIM not them. Thats a difficult line to walk of course.

More distraction?

What will the strike meaningfully accomplish? I don’t see how air strikes will support the portetestors?