The good thing about a long commute is that it leaves you with plenty of time to think, so you can really pick at those things in the corner of your brain.

I’m about to half-assed pop psychology all over this crap.

So, yesterday was really interesting from a picking apart Chris Evan’s subconscious kind of an angle. I don’t want to look at the still photos montage. I only want to think about the first and third posted video – the mouth video and the Mario Kart video.

We now know from the scare video dump in January and this dump yesterday that there’s a lot of material floating around out there on cell phones. (But, yeah, we already guessed that, didn’t we.) So, we have to really start finely parsing why a person would choose two videos as bizarrely uncomfortable as those he posted to try to sell a “serious love story” on the holiday for the serious love story. Because neither of those videos sold love or even affection – they sold the subtext of disdain.

When you both say in a video you post “you’re not going to like this” or write “she hates this, but I find it funny,” you are communicating an inherent lack of respect for the person you are showing as the subject of said videos. There’s no way you can look at either video and not see that in some way Alba is being portrayed, whether intentionally or not, as somehow inept or incompetent, hapless or helpless. She “doesn’t know what to say” or do in the first one; she is being put physically in a position which has inherent sexualized overtones from porn culture. He is physically holding her down, to a certain way of thinking. In the second video she struggles to play a video game originated before she was ever born(!), and he finds this ineptitude to be hilarious. From my way of viewing, as the audience, I don’t find either video to be indicative of cute couples’ behavior behind the scenes, but rather of an older dominant male putting a younger more inexperienced female into shaming/ridiculing situations. And then blasting those situations to the world via social media.

Why would you ever make those choices for those videos, knowing you probably have others to choose from that show situations far less riddled with open-ended interpretation. (Let’s be real, he could have shown them skiing at Okemo, not much subtext there.)

This is where we get into the pop psychology angle, which I’m probably just going to massacre, but oh well. We all started musing about that “I hate myself” quote the minute we read it in SMA. Now, I invite you to think about the psychology concept of projection.

I think that self-hatred and self-loathing he holds is far deeper and far more insidious than any of us can comprehend. I’ll give him some credit, he’s done a somewhat good job of covering it up and still having career success even while dragging it around.

But it’s bad, and I think he directs a lot of it into his interpersonal relationships with women.

That self-hatred and self-loathing is what keeps him from having true long-lasting and healthy romantic partnerships. He subconsciously detaches parts of it from himself, through his insecurities, and projects those insecurities onto his partner. Therefore, he’s already given himself an out for why the relationship will fail, but it’s not on him, because he’s projected it onto them. However, it is always on him, even if he can’t see that, because he’s never working on the actual root cause of why everything doesn’t work, doesn’t fit, doesn’t fulfill his intense emotional lacks: because he’s never acknowledged that there is some intense trauma there somewhere that set this self-hate and self-loathing into action, and that it needs to be brought into the light with therapy and worked on. Nothing will change until that happens.

Instead, the subconscious cycles and patterns are self-perpetuating, so he will continue to search out situations which feed the cycles. Ergo, always someone he can project onto, not someone self-realized enough to be the kind of person who could actually help him come to terms with his own trauma.

So, whatever this toxic situation with Alba is, it is even more toxic because it serves his subconscious need to project all his own insecurities onto her. And she’s in no way capable of stopping that, because she just doesn’t have the life or relationship experience to do so. So, I postulate that what you see in those two videos, that’s him projecting his own self-disdain, self-ridicule, and immaturity onto her in a situation he has perfectly created for it. If you’re watching those videos and you feel like Chris is viewing her through a lens of shaming or derision, know it’s not just her: he’s viewing himself the same way as well.

So, I’ll end by paraphrasing a great line from Hamlet: Get thee to a nunnery. (Apt, given Chris also has a really off-the-rails Madonna/Whore complex.)

Chris – get thee to a psychoanalyst’s couch.

(Freud's actual couch.)

DPP loses move to extradite Okemo to UK

DPP loses move to extradite Okemo to UK

Economy DPP loses move to extradite Okemo to UK Thursday December 01 2022 Former energy and finance cabinet minister Chris Okemo. PHOTO | POOL Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji has lost a bid to extradite former Finance and Energy Cabinet Minister Chris Okemo to the United Kingdom for trial over alleged corruption and theft of Sh1.5 billion 23 years ago. City court Chief…

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even if they were supposed to be closed, // Martha’s Vineyard is not closed. A lot of the places shit down but there are still plenty open and you still have lots to do there. Many people still go there during the winter. And we are talking about men here… it’s not like they are going to be wanting to go out hitting the town shopping or what not. This is a beautiful place that they could rent an amazing place by the beach, hike on trails, mess around on the beach, or just hang around and drink, smoke cigars, and party like they do at Chris‘ house. They were after all supposedly at a bachelor party and partying and fireworks out where no one can mess with them or Chris seems like a thing they’d be into.

(Anon2): As a local, there is NO WAY that Chris or any bachelor party was on Martha’s Vineyard over New Years. That’s absolutely hilarious and I can’t stop laughing. It’s 30 degrees and everything is closed for the season. It’s a summer vacation spot. I could go on but it’s just haha not true. Just Google “Martha’s Vineyard January” I assume DM posted it probably knowing it’s not true (since SO many people wrote her about Alba) to get her full audience’s attention with his name and spark someone writing in saying “no I saw him at Okemo” or I saw him in LA, he was with a very young girl” It was clearly a fan who wanted to stop the Alba convo but no it is def not true.

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Kenya Recovers Ksh444 Million in Gicheru & Okemo Case

Kenya Recovers Ksh444 Million in Gicheru & Okemo Case

Kenya has recovered ksh444 million from a corruption case involving former Kenya Power Managing Director Samuel Gichuru and former Energy Minister Chris Okemo.The two are accused of stealing and hiding millions in offshore accounts in Jersey Island, United Kingdom (UK).The agreement for the money to be returned to local taxpayers was struck by Kenyan and Jersey authorities. Former Kenya Power and…

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TTT 10.14.2020 Zoomed out? Join us as we shape alternatives at Youth Voices and NowComment

Here are 10 or 11 reasons for joining us on Teachers Teaching Teachers https://teachersteachingteachers.org on Wednesday evening, October 14th at 9E/8C/7M/6P.

Kiran Chaudhuri, Harvest Collegiate High School, New York, New York

Paul Hankins, Silver Spring High School, Sellersburg, Indiana

Jessica Hernandez-Speer, P.U.L.S.E. High School, Bronx, New York

Janet Ilko, Health Sciences High School and Middle College, San Diego, California

Anna Maine, Berkeley High School, Berkeley, California

Natalia Navarro, Orange Cove High School, Orange Cove, California

Dawn Reed, Okemos High School, Okemos, Michigan

Sam Reed, The U School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Chris Sloan and Bryan Jeffreys, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Salt Lake City, Utah

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We are building what danah boyd describes as "networked publics" with our students on Youth Voices https://youthvoices.live/books and NowComment https://nowcomment.com/groups/literature

Networked publics are publics that are restructured by networked technologies. As such, they are simultaneously (1) the space constructed through networked technologies and (2) the imagined collective that emerges as a result of the intersection of people, technology, and practice. Networked publics serve many of the same functions as other types of publics – they allow people to gather for social, cultural, and civic purposes and they help people connect with a world beyond their close friends and family. While networked publics share much in common with other types of publics, the ways in which technology structures them introduces distinct affordances that shape how people engage with these environments. The properties of bits – as distinct from atoms – introduce new possibilities for interaction. As a result, new dynamics emerge that shape participation.  

Later in the same article, boyd describes the affordances of digital discourse. Is this what is happening in our video-conferenced classrooms? We have the tools, experience, and commitment to build more powerful environments for learning on Youth Voices and NowComment:

The content of networked publics is made out of bits. Both self-expressions and interactions between people produce bit-based content in networked publics. Because of properties of bits, bits are easier to store, distribute, and search than atoms. Four affordances that emerge out of the properties of bits play a significant role in configuring networked publics: 

• Persistence: online expressions are automatically recorded and archived. • Replicability: content made out of bits can be duplicated. • Scalability: the potential visibility of content in networked publics is great. • Searchability: content in networked publics can be accessed through search. 

danah boyd. (2010). "Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances,Dynamics, and Implications." In Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites (ed. Zizi Papacharissi), pp. 39-58.

It's amazing to see the different pieces of work happening in our network. We will share what our students are doing and what we are beginning to imagine they can do together on Youth Voices and NowComment.

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Email Prompts Man to Attend Stranger's Vt. Bachelor Party

A typo in an email address connected total strangers — and will result in an unlikely guest at a party in Vermont this weekend.

“I try to be open to things in life,” said Will Novak of Arizona, who was accidentally invited to the bachelor party of a man he never met.

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A typo meant the invitation went to Will instead of to Bill Novak of Brooklyn, because their email addresses — like their names — are just a single letter off from one another.

“He’s a really nice guy,” Bill Novak said of Will Novak, referring to the email and texting friendship that developed after other party guests sorted out the email confusion.

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The invitation was to a bachelor party for a man named Angelo and will be held this weekend at Vermont’s Okemo Mountain Resort.

Will Novak responded to the misdirected message, accepting the invitation, because he said he thought Angelo and his friends seemed cool.

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“The fact they wrote back and met me at my level of intensity and enthusiasm and were like, ‘You seem great, you’re hilarious, come on out — let’s have fun,’ was amazing,” Will Novak said.

“It’s very crazy,” Bill Novak acknowledged, adding that he thinks his group of friends will all get along with the stranger from Arizona, based on the sense of humor and fun Will has demonstrated.

The director of Okemo’s ski-and-ride school said he will give the Arizonan beginner lessons, hoping to get his skills to the point where he can take an easy run with the whole bachelor party.

“I’ve never heard of anything even close to something like this,” ski-and-ride instructor Chris Saylor said of the unusual reason the guest is attending the bachelor party. “I think the friendship they’re going to build with people they’ve never met before, just through an errant email — it’s going to be stories for a lifetime!”

Bill Novak, the intended guest, said he can’t wait to meet the other Novak, and made a T-shirt staking his claim that he’s the “real” Will Novak.

Will Novak, the one in Arizona, said he is curious if his return trip home Sunday may be delayed by snow this weekend in New England. If it is, no biggie, he said: he’ll just have more time to spend with his new buddies.

Thursday, Gov. Phil Scott, R-Vermont, tweeted well-wishes to the groom-to-be and the guests at the bachelor party.

“Please extend my congratulations to Angelo and his bride-to-be on their wedding!” Scott tweeted. “It’s always great when new people visit Vermont. I hope you all have a fun weekend. Be safe and enjoy the snow!”

Photo Credit: necn Email Prompts Man to Attend Stranger's Vt. Bachelor Party published first on Miami News

Anonymous asked:

Is that Chris in Green and Black?

No, that's either Justin or his boyfriend. All he shows in his latest video is the four of them on the slopes at Okemo from this most recent NYE trip.

And on the second video it's not Scott. When I compare to last year picture with Steve... it's not the same helmet and goggles. And it's not Steve either And the guy look too short to be Scott. Scott is also an expert skiier, and the guy we see going down is no expert.

It's just the four peeps from Portugal: Justin, Francisco, Joana, Alba

This is literally Justin clapping back at all the people who were saying they just drove there to go take the merching pics and then drove away.

DPP Noordin has challenged a decision blocking him from extraditing suspects wanted outside the country. Noordin wants to extradite Chris Okemo and former KPLC boss Samuel Gichuru to Jersey Islands DPP Noordin has challenged a decision blocking him from extraditing suspects wanted outside the country. Noordin wants to extradite Chris Okemo and former KPLC boss Samuel Gichuru to Jersey Islands

Gichuru, Okemo now face 14 years in UK jail

Gichuru, Okemo now face 14 years in UK jail

Economy Gichuru, Okemo now face 14 years in UK jail Monday November 08 2021 Mr Chris Okemo (left) and former Kenya Power and Lighting boss Samuel Gichuru. FILE PHOTO | NMG By JOSEPH WANGUIMore by this Author Summary The Supreme Court allowed the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to proceed with the extradition proceedings that stalled at a magistrate court ten years ago. The pair are…

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Is that Chris in Green and Black?

No, that's either Justin or his boyfriend. All he shows in his latest video is the four of them on the slopes at Okemo from this most recent NYE trip.

But you can also add in that Justin posted that fortune cookie story on Dec 27th from a non-PT time zone (let's face it), and then he went radio silent on posting./// Doesn't mean they were in Vermont. I'm not saying they weren't as there is no proof for either but it's possiblity. They could be in US since 27 but in Vermont for 1-3. We don't even know how long Chris gang was there or if he was even there as we have no proof of him. We assume he was cause why not but.... Everything is still possible 🤷‍♀️

Look, anything is possible, but I'm running on the theory that the schedule of this year's VT NYE trip looked a lot like last year's.

Last year we know the Trio flew into Boston on Dec. 27th. Steve made his IG story post of flying LAX to Boston on Dec. 28th. The next day, Dec. 29th, was the day we got the first pics from VT, from Justin. Steve and Scott both posted that pic of them skiing (yes, that was Okemo, you can match the view to numerous pics on IG) on Dec. 30th. They seemed to be back to MA right after NYE/NYD last year, if Justin's posts were close to real-time.

We know Steve was there this year, from Tara's post. Steve stays in L.A. to celebrate Christmas with his family. (What day did he make that IG story of giving Tobi a bath?) He flies out a couple days after, then they go from MA to VT. This also tracks with Justin going quiet on IG after Dec. 27th.

Possible this isn't what happened, but Chris and his people do seem to repeat patterns.

I was one of the anons who told you was tired of the trollba subject (i know nicknames aren't cute but this is the only one that's oddly appropriate) and that it was best to shelve it yet here I am (i was nice tho). I'm not interested in the schrodinger portuguese nobody gf dimension of the likes and follows but I'm moderately interested in her weird ass behavior on ig. I'm not sure her PR had really something to do w the fake revamp (i could honestly tell she wasn't really gonna do shit, she loves those comments w Chris's name) but she took advantage of the sis follow, her ig location being set to US (i think she's been tampering with it since last year re yoga w Photoshop atl trees and then when he's spotted in a club in LA she magically goes back to PT) and decided to play. She's really been playing the fandom for months (the finstas, i thought it was the brazilian ig lsa stalker behind them not the trio) and she's really not as slick as she thinks. It's coming off as vapid and try hard. Since she's gen z she prob thinks she has the upper hand when it comes to SM but she's very very obvious. Also, about the trips, i doubt CE was ever in okemo w them or even boston (maybe he was in la already) and in January she was commenting on Justin's sister acct so she was not as busy as some think. I'm just happy I'm not rich or famous lol

Even though I'm not really taking asks on this tabled topic anymore, I respected that you sat and typed all that out.

Just a gentle reminder, though: PR is not just what a company you hire for your marketing strategy does for you. PR is everything someone in the public sphere does. So everything she does or has been doing is in some aspect PR. Whether or not she or her hired representation made the decision to deactivate her account is ultimately meaningless.

Now, once again, when it comes to this topic, let's:

Because I for one am tired of giving her free publicity.

Okemo, Gichuru extradition triggers fresh AG, Haji fight

Okemo, Gichuru extradition triggers fresh AG, Haji fight

Economy Okemo, Gichuru extradition triggers fresh AG, Haji fight Friday October 22 2021 Mr Chris Okemo (left) and former Kenya Power and Lighting boss Samuel Gichuru. FILE PHOTO | NMG By SAM KIPLAGATMore by this Author Summary Appearing before a bench of five judges of the Supreme Court yesterday, Mr Kariuki said the proceedings brought against the duo were instituted without written…

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Gichuru, Okemo Britain extradition row restarts

Gichuru, Okemo Britain extradition row restarts

Economy Gichuru, Okemo Britain extradition row restarts Thursday August 12 2021 Mr Chris Okemo (left) and former Kenya Power and Lighting boss Samuel Gichuru. FILE PHOTO | NMG By JOSEPH WANGUIMore by this Author Summary The judges are expected to determine who between the Attorney-General and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has the legal authority to commence extradition…

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