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pers-books · 9 months

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Jodie Whittaker for The Age magazine (Australia). Photographer unknown.

#Jodie Whittaker #TV: One NIght #The Age

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fourorfivemovements · 1 year

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Mia Wasikowska, for The Age, by Dominic Lorrimer (x)

#loml #Mia Wasikowska #Dominc Lorrimer #The Age #My Post

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marsconer · 2 years

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not to obsess about never! tedros but imagine if my boy ended up in evil. everything is almost the same.

#the school for good and evil #sge #the age #tedros of camelot #tedros pendragon #tedros my boy #he’s a stupid little boy who gets murder as a treat #mommy issues making you a sociopath <3 #never ! tedros #never tedros

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dialogue-queered · 11 months

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James Kilner (The Telegraph)

Extract 1: Putin’s aura of invincibility and control, badly fractured by his misguided and failed invasion of Ukraine, will now be shattered.

Russians prefer their leaders to be tough and regard weakness as terminal....

Formerly obsequious Russian officials who had crawled over one another to please Putin in the hope of currying fortune and favours will now look to others.

Extract 2: However the rebellion is dressed up, Putin is the head of the Russian state. If Russian soldiers are fighting Russian mercenaries in Russia, his leadership will be permanently compromised.

And this also appears to be a well-planned rebellion by Prigozhin and his private army. Reports have said that they have captured key military sites around the cities of Rostov and Voronezh and that they plan to march on Moscow.

Extract 3: With Russian forces decimated and demoralised after 16 months of war in Ukraine, the Kremlin will be worried. Reports from the frontline have also said that Ukrainian forces have pushed their counteroffensive as Prigozhin’s coup unfolds, testing the mettle of already-brittle Russian soldiers.

#putin #russia #ukraine #mutiny #russo ukrainian war #june 2023 #the age #the telegraph

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after-zeno · 11 months

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3 July 2023

Extract 1: It took the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket two years of exhaustive research to conclude there is an elitist and exclusionary culture at the heart of the game in England. Had Cindy Butts and her fellow commission members been at Lord’s on Sunday, they could have taken five minutes to come to much the same view.

The title of their report published last month, Holding up a Mirror to Cricket, neatly sums up what members of the Marylebone Cricket Club – the self-appointed guardian of the rules and spirit of the game – unwittingly did when they abused the Australian team from inside the Long Room.

Extract 2: Footage from the Long Room shows that whatever was said in heat of those spiteful short moments stopped [Usman] Khawaja in his in tracks. Where most Australian players shrugged or laughed off the abuse as they continued on to the dressing room, Khawaja confronted his hecklers with the same calmness he brings to a seaming pitch.

He later explained to Nine’s broadcasters that he was more disappointed than angry. “Lord’s is one of my favourite places to come,” he said. “There is so much respect shown at Lord’s, particularly in the member’s pavilion and the Long Room, but there wasn’t today.

Extract 3: This is the third time that Khawaja, the Muslim son of Pakistani immigrants and, according to former Australian captain Ricky Ponting, “probably the nicest man that’s ever walked on the planet”, has copped the worst of England.

During the first Test at Edgbaston, when he was dismissed after a match-winning innings of 141, the foul-mouthed send-off he received from Ollie Robinson was jarringly out of place. Robinson was unapologetic for his actions, saying those who couldn’t handle an earful in an Ashes series, couldn’t handle much.

After the match, Khawaja’s faith became fodder in a broader culture war, when nationalist politician Nigel Farage questioned why the Australians didn’t douse themselves in alcohol in victory. “Once again the Australian cricket team do not celebrate in champagne style because one of the team members is a Muslim,” Farage tweeted. “Are we all to suspend normal life because of the minority?”

#Cricket #australia #england #2023 #lord's #usman khawaja #sport #the age

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gniteruirui · 2 years

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Ugh my back

My back

#rui rui #sleeping in bad position #the age

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septemberkisses · 5 months

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the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

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doccywhomst · 5 months

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#i’ve been thinking abt that cringe post #i think the latent feelings behind ‘cringe’ are shame and sometimes envy/bitterness #same vibes as when six year olds say ‘those toys are for babies’ if they’ve been shamed for their age by older kids #anyway. i think part of the healing process is realizing that shame puts you at war with yourself bc part of yourself is a social being!#and that part of you wants community and acceptance (maybe love). shame is the absence of acceptance #unlearning shame means learning self-love and gaining the confidence to find your people #jerma #cw jerma #(someone asked me to tag lol)

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plaguedocboi · 1 year

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We need to go back to using sailing ships full time like immediately. Yes it would take longer to get places but the Aesthetic is unmatched

Like there is nothing sexier hthan this

#bring them BACK #I will never be okay with missing the age of sail

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planefood · 8 months

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this is how the cold war ended

#ive had this idea in my head for ages I just remembered to draw it #funnies #art #comics

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atissi · 4 months

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i don't really like when people say dungeon meshi is accidentally good autistic representation, because while i understand not wanting to make conclusions without explicit confirmation from the author, there's always the weird assumption that non-western authors somehow don't know about things like neurodivergency/queerness/etc. (on top of the assumptions that east asian authors are somehow more naive or oblivious to "western" social issues).

given that dungeon meshi started being published in 2014, it's not really a "work belonging to its times"—it's as contemporary as any other media we discuss on this site, which means it should be fair to assume it engages with contemporary topics (and at the very least, you shouldn't say that the representation is accidental with so much confidence)

but anyways, the chapter "perfect communication" in ryoko kui's "terrarium in a drawer" is some of the most straightforward autistic representation I've seen, and from now on I'm going to assume that laios's character writing is absolutely intentional in that regard:

#beepbeep.txt #dungeon meshi #ryoko kui #this is me trying to explain h/ollow knight lore #also yayyyy reading new things. chapter 18 'spring' is basically UFUT if you squint (sorry for the jumpscare if you know UFUT)#but the last two pages were such a surprising gut punch....it's hard not to see it as a metaphor for both the experience of raising childre #and of taking care of your parents in old age....aughh....

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emilnikos · 4 months

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I need non autistic people to realise meltdowns are a real debilitating thing that has a serious effect on your mental and physical health NOWWWWW!!! The way its been trivialized and lessened pisses me the fuck off. It's not a tantrum and it doesn't come from "being too weak-willed" it's painful and it's embarrassing AND MOST OF ALL IT'S INVOLUNTARY!! Don't claim to be an ally to autistic or disabled people and then make fun of people who have meltdowns. Literally get the hell out of my sight

#i can't believe i have to day it but autism /is/ a disablity. its disabling. meltdowns are part of that.#'oh this is a lukewarm take' you dumbshit fucks have been throwing the word neurodivergent and meltdown around so #casually they have both been said at me with the same disdain as a swear word. you guys will accept making fun of autistic people #if someone jn your circle who is 'cool' does it first. at your big ages. shut the hell up

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allgremlinart · 2 months

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au where Aang gets told he's the Avatar (and subsequently frozen) at 16 like he was supposed to.... I think it would change a lot honestly

#atla #aang #zukaang #<- ever so lightly. a smooch of it. because thats how it reads when u age Aang up...#kataang #allgremlinart

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dialogue-queered · 8 months

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Comment: Useful reflections on the PRC.

10 Sept 2023

Latika Bourke

Extract1: One of Europe’s top business figures in China says there is no hope that anyone can influence President Xi Jinping to retreat from his aggressive foreign policy.

Joerg Wuttke, the president emeritus of the EU Chamber in China, is in Australia to address the Asia Society on Monday about the economic trajectory of the world’s second-largest economy.

Extract 2: He said he did not believe this would lead to conflict over democratically ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own and Xi has threatened to take control of, with military force if necessary.

Wuttke said that although Xi had to service his domestic crowd with patriotic statements, he would assess the risks and costs of starting a war as too great. Xi was “not a man in a hurry when it comes to Taiwan”.

“I really don’t see any military conflict in Taiwan, everything I hear here is too rational,” Wuttke said in an interview over Zoom from Beijing, where he has been based since 1997.

“He’s a man who doesn’t gamble. Unlike Putin, he’s a man that wants security and controllable security – and a war in Taiwan is anything but.

“I guess that he will not make the mistake of going down the road that has unintended consequences as he has seen from the US in Iraq and Afghanistan: it is easy to start a war and it’s very difficult to end it and win it.”

Extract 3: China’s economic coercion and the supply chain gaps exposed by the pandemic have led to Western countries adopting policies of de-risking and diversification, setting up potential friction between businesses that have profited from their Chinese operations and governments that want to lessen their public’s dependence on authoritarian states.

Earlier this year, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Europe would be seeking to “de-risk” from China. This language has gone on to be adopted by the White House, the G7, Wuttke’s native Germany, Japan and, most recently, Australia’s Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Extract 4: “Now what keeps the party in office is utter, 110 per cent control.”

Wuttke said China’s tactics were deliberate and that the economic weakness invited the question of how stable the country could be in the “enhanced Xi Jinping echo chamber” that prevails in Beijing.

#china #de-risking #the age #taiwan #2023 #auspol

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rivetgoth · 2 months

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It's honestly crazy that discussion around testosterone HRT skews so much towards the beginning stages of it (to the point that you have dozens of guys thinking their transition is "failed" if they don't pass by like a year in lol) and what the initial changes of the first couple of months to years look like, like the classic laundry list of those early basic changes like bottom growth, voice drop, etc, when IMO literally none of that compares remotely to the depth and intensity of the long term total masculinization you start to experience like 3-5+ years in.

#also has made it increasingly difficult to relate to those early into their transition honestly #like not in a bitter way it’s just like hard to express how diff the experience is #of being like a year on T vs 5 😭#ETA I muted this post ages ago now but fwiw seeing transphobes pop up in the notes on occasion just to say cruel reactionary shit #you are clowns I cannot imagine seeing a post that is ONLY about discussing with folks about the reality of a medication #and choosing to make that your moment to get a schoolyard bully jab in about how you find it gross or something.#you are less well adjusted than most children. may the universe be kinder to you than you are to others.

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shcherbatskya · 10 months

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starting a collection. pierre talking to natasha in war and peace

#it’s soooo funny i don’t know……#he’s like really not that old like the age gap between them can’t be more than like ten years max he just talks like he’s on his deathbed #samael speaks

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