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You Can Get $150 Off an 11-inch iPad Air for Labor Day

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Labor Day sales are rolling in, and Lifehacker is sharing the best bargains based on product reviews, comparisons, and price-tracking tools before they’re over. You can also subscribe to our shopping newsletter, Add to Cart, for the best sales sent to your inbox.

The iPad Air is the best iPad for people who really like iPads. The regular iPad is great for kids and basic use, while the iPad Pro is designed to handle professional level creative workflows, with its latest M4 chip and tandem-OLED display. The iPad Air, on the other hand, gives you everything you need from an iPad, without the compromises of the base iPad, and for far less than the iPad Pro.

And during Labor Day sales, you can get the 128GB base 11-inch iPad Air for $449.99. That's down from the sticker price of $599, and it's the lowest price yet for the latest iPad Air.

Apple iPad Air 11-inch with M3 chip Built for Apple Intelligence, Liquid Retina Display, 128GB, 12MP Front/Back Camera, Wi-Fi 6E + 5G Cellular, Touch ID, All-Day Battery Life — Blue

The device has an 11-inch Liquid Retina display with 500 bits of brightness and 2360×1640 resolution. It's powered by the M3 chip from last year, which is still way more powerful than most iPad users will need, with an 8-core CPU, a 9-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine. There is also 8GB RAM and 128GB storage. Even when you factor in the new multitasking and freeform window support coming to iPadOS 26, this thing can handle it.

The iPad Air supports both the Apple Pencil (USB-C) and the Apple Pencil Pro. And unlike the iPad Pro, it uses Touch ID in the power button for authentication, rather than Face ID. In its expert review, PCMag gave the M3 iPad Air a 4-star rating and an Editor's Choice award, noting, "[The] iPad Air remains the best choice for students and creators who need a powerful tablet at a decent price."

If you want to go a size larger, you can also check out the 13-inch iPad Air, which is also discounted to its lowest price ever, at $649 (down from $799).

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Some Great Starter Ryobi Cordless Tools Are on Sale at Home Depot for Labor Day

Posted by Becca Lewis

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Labor Day sales are in full force, and Lifehacker is sharing the best sales based on product reviews, comparisons, and price-tracking tools before they’re over. You can also subscribe to our shopping newsletter, Add to Cart, for the best sales sent to your inbox.

If you need a basic tool set for home maintenance or want to expand your DIY skillset, a set of cordless tools is a necessity. Shopping Labor Day sales is one of the best ways to save money on tools. I'm a fan of Ryobi's cordless offerings, and Home Depot has some great starter sets on sale for Labor Day.

Ryobi ONE+ 18V Cordless 3/8 in. Drill/Driver Kit

Ryobi ONE+ HP 18V Brushless Cordless 1/4 in. Impact Driver

$109.00 at Home Depot

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$109.00 at Home Depot

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Ryobi ONE+ 18V Lithium-Ion Starter Kit

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If you’re building a home maintenance tool kit, a <a href="https://zdcs.link/Qqw6Lp?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=Ryobi%20drill&short_url=Qqw6Lp&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window"><u>Ryobi drill</u></a> for $39 is a standout deal. The 18-volt, ⅜-in chuck Ryobi drill is 65% off and it comes with a set of driver bits, a 1.5-amp-hour battery, and a charger. This kit is ready to use out of the box, and it comes with a battery set that is compatible with any 18-volt Ryobi tool, allowing you to try out new tools as you build your set.</p><p>The <a href="https://zdcs.link/zEgODo?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=Ryobi%2018-volt%2C%20%C2%BC-inch%20chuck%20impact%20driver&short_url=zEgODo&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window"><u>Ryobi 18-volt, ¼-inch chuck impact driver</u></a> is also on sale for Labor Day for $109.97, 39% off its regular price. The driver comes with a 2-amp-hour battery and a charger. An impact driver can make driving fasteners easier by adding some mechanical momentum as you drive your fastener for a powered assist when your driving screws and bolts.</p><h2 id="the-best-labor-day-deals-on-batteries-and-bonus-tools">The best Labor Day deals on batteries and bonus tools</h2><p>A set of spare batteries for your Ryobi tools can come in handy when you’re using more than one tool at a time, and having a spare battery while you’re working so you can always have one on the charger will allow you to keep going without having to wait for it to charge. </p><p>The <a href="https://zdcs.link/zJgmJn?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=Ryobi%2018-volt%20battery%20starter%20set&short_url=zJgmJn&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window"><u>Ryobi 18-volt battery starter set</u></a> is on sale for $79, 61% off its regular price. It comes with a 2-amp-hour battery, a 4-amp-hour battery, and a charger. This is a good set as an add-on for a tool that doesn’t come with batteries, or to expand your cordless tool set.</p><p>There are two other notable deals on Ryobi batteries that come with bonus tools. You can get the <a href="https://zdcs.link/QP8q1j?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=Ryobi%2018-volt%20battery%20starter%20set%20with%20a%20reciprocating%20saw&short_url=QP8q1j&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window"><u>Ryobi 18-volt battery starter set with a reciprocating saw</u></a> for $158, 41% off its regular price, or a <a href="https://zdcs.link/91j4gq?pageview_type=RSS&template=content&module=content_body&element=offer&item=text-link&element_label=starter%20set%20with%20a%20portable%20fan&short_url=91j4gq&u=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Ffeed%2Frss" rel="sponsored" target="_blank" title="open in a new window"><u>starter set with a portable fan</u></a> for $108.97, 51% off its usual price. A reciprocating saw can be used for trimming hedges as well as for cutting lumber. A fan is a good way to add ventilation if you’re working on something that produces dust or paint fumes. </p><h2 id="why-i-like-ryobi-tools">Why I like Ryobi tools </h2><p>For DIY and home maintenance, a set of tools that is reliable and versatile is key. Ryobi  batteries are cross-compatible with over 300 tools, including drills, drivers, saws, landscaping equipment, and finishing tools. Building your home tool set on a battery type that allows you to add tools without needing a whole new set of batteries will make building your kit more affordable.</p><p>Also, because the tools are backwards compatible with Ryobi 18-volt tools released over the last decade, your batteries and chargers will likely be compatible with future Ryobi tools as well. 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Guardian Readalong wrap-up

We've reached the end of our Guardian novel readalong, extras and all! A million thanks to everyone who participated in the discussions, and especially everyone who made and hosted posts. *twirls you all*

Of course all the previous posts are still open for comments, and you don't have to read the existing comments to jump into the discussion anywhere, at any time. So don't hesitate! But let's take this week to look back at our readalong:

Volume 1
prologue, chapters 1 & 2 | chapters 3 & 4 | chapters 5 & 6 | chapters 7 & 8 | chapters 9 & 10 | chapters 11 & 12 | chapters 13 & 14 | chapters 15 & 16 | chapters 17 & 18 | chapters 19 & 20 | chapters 21 & 22 | chapters 23 & 24 | chapters 25 & 26 | chapters 27 & 28

Volume 2
chapters 1 & 2 | chapters 3 & 4 | chapters 5 & 6 | chapters 7 & 8 | chapters 9 & 10 | chapters 11 & 12 | chapters 13 & 14 | chapters 15 & 16 | chapters 17 & 18 | chapter 19

Volume 3
chapters 1 & 2 | chapters 3 & 4 | chapters 5 & 6 | chapters 7 & 8 | chapters 9 & 10 | chapters 11 & 12 | chapters 13 & 14 | chapters 15 & 16 | chapters 17 & 18 | chapters 19 & 20 | chapters 21 & 22 | chapters 23 & 24 | chapter 25 & epilogue
Extras: Sage 1 & Sage 2 | The Mountain Spirit | Pocket Dimension

Questions:
Was this the first time you read the novel, or a reread? Did you read the official translation, the fan translation, or a Chinese version (which?) - and do you have any thoughts about the differences between versions? What do you like best about priest's writing?

What were your favourite moments or scenes? What are you most confused by? If you could change one thing about the novel or its worldbuilding, what would it be? What stands out as most different from the drama? Do you have different favourite side characters in the novel vs. the drama?

ETA: Which detail surprised you the most (either because you didn't know, or because you had forgotten)?

(As usual, these are all just conversation starters - feel free to answer all, some, or none, or to talk about completely different things!)

(Also, sign-ups are open for the drama slo-mo rewatch and for Guardian Wishlist! Come and join the fun!)

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8/30/2025 Loop Rd and Laurel Cyn Tr west

This weekend is forecast hot (for here) and there were more cars at the Loop Road gate than I can recall seeing, people getting out while it was cool, I guess. This morning I took another bit of trail I hadn't taken since I started going north out of the Nature Area, just a short connector between Loop Road and the service road. I found nothing unexpected, bar maybe the Cliff Swallow, but it was nice to be in the trees away from the road even briefly. ( The list: )

I remembered there being some tricky places in the trail and there definitely were, including one partial washout that I don't expect to be passable after another winter. That trail is now on the long list of things I'm glad I did and don't anticipate ever doing again.:)

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Fannish 50 S3 Post 35: Killin' It Girl x 3

"Killin' It Girl (featuring GloRilla)" was the third and final song of J-Hope's English Trilogy. Like the rest of the fandom, I 😵 after watching the MV. Nothing, though, could've prepared me for the HOT AF live performances.

It's the weekend, so I figured I'd share the top 3 music show performances in ascending order.

Trigger warning: The camera moves around a lot as expected in a Korean music show (panning, zooming in/out, shaky-cam effects happen, etc.) The background graphics flash. There are lots of stage lights. The audience is happily screaming the fanchants and/or Hobi's name. These are not videos you'll want to sit thru IF you have any kind of photosensitivity. <3

3. Love the fit and the set design for this one.

Watch on YouTube

2. OTOH, this is the set with the truest minimal aesthetic. OTOH, the (on purpose) glitches, busy background graphics, and (once again) wild camera work overwhelm me in the best way possible.

Watch on YouTube

3. My absolute and ultimate fave. Not only does it have an epic, minute and a half intro, BUT it also features Hobi wearing one of the fits from the MV...

Had anyone told me, a few years ago, that there would be a day where Hobi would be onstage wearing a leather jacket without anything else underneath, I'd have thought I was being pranked.

In any case, this performance!!! He's so intense, sensual, and magnetic from the second he steps onstage. 🥵🥵🥵

Watch on YouTube

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activity result

Activity Results for #96 Around the Block

Wow, I am so impressed by everyone's blocking skills! Thank you everyone for participating!

( 39 icons by 7 makers )

Feel free to comment here or on each maker's threads linked next to their name.

Our next activity will come right up!

[ SECRET POST #6812 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6812 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 37 secrets from Secret Submission Post #973.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #974 ]

[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #974 ]

The first secret from this batch will be posted on September 6th.

RULES:
1. One secret link per comment.
2. 750x750 px or smaller.
3. Link directly to the image.

More details on how to send a secret in!

Optional: If you would like your secret's fandom to be noted in the main post along with the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret. If your secret makes the fandom obvious, there's no need to do this. If your fandom is obscure, you should probably tell me what it is.

Optional #2: If you would like WARNINGS (such as spoilers or common triggers -- list of some common ones here) to be noted in the main post before the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret.

Optional #3: If you would like a transcript to be posted along with your secret, put it along with the link in the comment!

Current Mood: calm

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Poised between now and now

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scathach,
travel

france travelogue II: traveling

( versailles, driving, prehistoric art )

Next: Gorges du Tarn, the Camargue, Marseille.

today is apparently grief awareness day

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10 Nothing But You icons for fandom10in30

This month's challenge #60 at

fandom10in30 was a bingo challenge! We had to pick two lines from a card and make ten icons from those. I picked Nothing But You as a fandom, I was itching to make icons from the caps I made, and I had a lot of fun with these.

Enjoy!

( 10 icons + 2 alts )

Concrit welcome! Comments adored! Credit appreciated! Take and use as many icons as you like. If you want to know whose textures and brushes I use, take a look at my resource post.

Previous icon posts:

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hockey

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books,
shakespeare

The Last True Poets of the Sea - Julia Drake

In the spirit of fully committing to 2025 as the Year of Twelfth Night, I re-read The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake, a YA retelling (remix?) that leans into the more melancholy aspects of the play - the shipwrecks and grief and mismatched/misdirected/unrequited love - although not necessarily in the same ways. With her family reeling from her brother's suicide attempt, 16-year-old Violet is shipped off to spend the summer with her uncle in Lyric, Maine, where - despite swearing off romance, and shaving her head to prove the point - she immediately falls for both Orion, her sweet co-worker at the local aquarium, and Liv, who is a. Orion's crush, b. Orion's dead best friend's sister, and c. obsessed with finding the shipwreck that Violet's great-great-great-grandmother survived, leading to the founding of Lyric. As a retelling of Twelfth Night, it's exclusively focused on the Orsino-Viola(-as-Cesario)-Olivia love triangle - no Malvolio; Violet's uncle is named Toby but otherwise bears no resemblance; there are characters clearly corresponding to Sebastian, Feste, and Maria, but even they don't really have the same "roles" since there's no Malvolio subplot or cross-dressing twin shenanigans - but also, as a YA novel, it's actually not exclusively romance-focused. (Also, ( spoiler alert )) To steal my own comments from when I originally read this a few years back, "it's about grief and creativity and mental illness and survival and growing up and different types of love"; it's bittersweet and a bit twee, but not in a bad way, and I really liked it, especially since this time I'd recently seen Twelfth Night and caught more of Drake's little nods to the play.

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Peeple B weerd

Casn't seem to locate link to the article but apparently taking your dog to the movies is a thing these days? YOY? - and apparently one reason is so as not to have to get in a dogsitter for pooch while out at the pictures. What happened, we asked, to leaving one's faithful canine to guard the house during one's absence? O tempora, o mores, etc.

Presumably contra-indicated viewing would be Old Yeller....

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Also in modern-day weirdness, another thing that is apparently A Thing is doing Extreme Days Out, which involves jetting off at the crack of dawn to some touristic spot, doing The Sights (at presumably a brisk pace) and then jetting home again, no doubt to soak in a recuperative hot bath.

Aside from the horrid environmental impact going on with this, how far can anyone be enjoying Tourist Spot if they're going at high-speed clip to fit everything in? It sounds like hell. No time to stop and stare and appreciate. Point thahr, misst.

I was therefore delighted to come across this in Lucy Mangan's column:

[O]ver breakfast I read about the great sunflower fields at Westgate Farm near Walsingham, Norfolk, which for the two weeks that the mighty blooms are in mighty bloom across its 16 acres invites people to come and pick their own for a small fee. Have you ever heard of anything better? Desire – no, need – filled me.
I demanded my husband – the driver of the family, for Walsingham is a short car trip away – abandon his desk, crowbarred my son out of bed and by 10am we were looking out over acres of sunflowers under an azure sky, and do you know what? It was even better than I had imagined. It’s just sunflowers, you see. Sunflowers almost literally as far as the eye can see. All facing the same way, because they are – get this – flowers that follow the sun.
We followed the little dusty tracks that led through the fields and wind about so that eventually you are facing the flowers and they are facing you, and the effect is so joyful and uplifting that even your family hostages begin to break into smiles.
We picked our allowance of five each and were home by lunchtime. They are now in a massive vase I was once mocked for buying but which I must have known somewhere deep in my soul was meant for this, and life is good.

Even if I was then depressed by her mention of the high levels of Ye Clappe in North London, sigh.

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Covid vaccine access at pharmacies

Because RFK Jr. is out to get us, CVS (and possibly other pharmacies) isn’t shipping the updated covid vaccine in 16 states. https://www.idse.net/CDC-News/Article/08-25/CVS-stops-COVID-shots/78068

In Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Nevada, state law says pharmacists can’t give vaccines that aren’t CDC-approved. In another 13 states, they can, but it requires a prescription.

These are state laws, so call your state respresentatives.

Here’s a script, and the Massachusetts phone numbers:
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This is in addition to calling your doctor’s office (if you have one) to ask for the vaccine.

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well-written

i accidentally a sonnet

COMMENTER 1: I'll predict that when he's dead and buried, the ground will be quite damp.
COMMENTER 2: And have a certain Musk also, too? One can but hope.

Look, if you're gonna leave me an opening iambic pentameter line the morning after I've been rereading Mike Ford, I'm gonna take it.

Well, I'll predict that when he's dead and buried,
The ground above his corpse will be quite damp
And have a certain Musk of odor, carried
To grace our noses with that acrid stamp.
Upon gold highlights golden showers splash,
Reflecting further graveyard elegies.
Veneer peels back; someone has saved some cash
With accents from Home Depot shopping sprees.
His plastic headstone rapidly decays,
Collapsing into softened earth, until,
Weaken'd by overzealous acid sprays,
It's indistinguishable from landfill.
So shall that asshole lie; then we'll begin
To scrub the mess he's left our country in.

Not bad for under an hour's work.

The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin (1975) [part 2 of 2]

This is part two of my review of Le Guin's first short story collection. (Here's part one.)

( Things (1970) )

( A Trip to the Head (1970) )

( Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (1970) )

( The Stars Below (1973) )

( The Field of Vision (1973) )

( Direction of the Road (1974) )

( The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (1973) )

( The Day Before the Revolution (1974) )

Current Mood: worried and angry

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Covid vaccine heads-up

Because Bobby Brainworm is out to get us:

RFK Jr blocked CDC approval of the updated covid vaccine. There are three states where pharmacists can't legally give a vaccine without CDC approval: Massachusetts (where I live), Nevada, and New Mexico. In another 13 states, pharmacists can give the vaccine but only with a prescription, and CVS isn't shipping the vaccine to pharmacies in any of these 16 states.

Note: the vaccine is legally available in every state, because the relevant FDA committee did approve it, but some of us will have to get it from a doctor's office, which will be more of a hassle even when it’s possible.

P.S. Walgreen’s too, per a comment at Universal Hub.

Those are state laws, so call your state representatives and governor and tell them to change it.

( “Massachusetts )