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d-criss-news · 3 days
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littleshopnyc: PLANTS Just Wanna Have Fun!
What a privilege to have THE Cyndi Lauper at #LittleShopNYC this weekend!
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manuhigueras · 2 years
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Eclipsing the Eclipse.
Challenge: Attract younger audience.
https://youtu.be/Y4BzEVxpZrs
https://winners.epica-awards.com/2018/winner/39-00425-ALT/weber-shandwick/eclipsing-the-eclipse
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royalteachitchat · 2 months
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Wow! 👏👏👏 JDEadonWriter on X, put this amazing post out today. Check this out!
Are Meghan Markle's kids FAKE? 🤔
Megnant
1 Size: Bump drastically altering in size, even in a single day 😯
2 Slip: Bump slipped down to her knees in Birkenhead, UK 😯
3 Wobble: Bump wobbled side-to-side as she crossed the street. 😯
4 Clutching: Supporting her bump with her hands overly often. 🤔
5 Popping: audibly popped in a video, and wafted her clothes😯
6 Shape: Bump unnaturally shaped on Netflix🤔
7 Straps: Moonbump straps outlines visible under clothing in several photos. And something snapped, impacting the clothing fabric (video of H&M in London)😯
8 Biology: An absence of swelling of ankles, and other subtle biological (non)signs.🤔
9 Holding: Carrying a (doll?) infant on her bump, instead of on her hip.🤔
10 Squats: Squatting, effortlessly, with her knees together in videos and photos. In heels.😯
Births
11 Announcements: Royal official birth announcements are indirect. One states they are delighted "by the news of the" (not by the actual) birth.🤔
12 Coverup? A medic who certified a birth closed down her practice shortly afterwards.😯
13 Certificates: Questions linger over the birth certificates signatures, etc.🤔
14 Leak: An official Royal twitter account tweet indicated that Meghan’s kids are fake, before being taken down. An innocent prank?😁
15 Recovery: Epidural (ouch!) birth in a bath description anomalies and arriving home too soon afterwards to be quite plausible.🤔
16 Born Of Body?: Meghan allegedly told a friend she was infertile, when at college, and there was a reported alleged hysterectomy before the births.
17 Silence: Meghan is silent on her claimed births, despite always flashing her bump; having a "Capacity for over sharing"; boasting about being a “Mom”, and always talking about herself (apparently) on her feminist podcast. 🤔
Rented Infants
18 Archie Model: The real parents of the infant predominantly shown in Archie photos are identified. 💥
19 Lilibet Model: Parents of the infant shown in Lilibet photos are identified.💥
20 Loan: Mother of “Lilibet” commented on Insta that she does not "loan" her daughter to Meghan any longer.😯
21 Shape-Shifting: Different infants used in photos of both Archie and Lilibet.😯
22 Photoshopping: A litany of incompetently-photoshopped “family” photos. (A huge topic in itself).🤔
Dolls
23 Reborn Doll: Seemingly cradling a doll (a product called Darren) in official photo of Archie 🪆
24 Party Doll: Meghan seemingly cradled a similar doll when gate-crashing a polo match party, begetting astonished looks.😯
25 Bumpy Ride: Meghan seemed to be lugging an inanimate doll on top of her bump through some woods in Canada. Whilst grinning at a hired pap.🪆
26 Twisted: In one photograph, Archie's head is twisted more than 90 degrees 🪆
27 Carrying: A high % of photographs show them carrying the “kids” 🪆
28 Backs-Turned: A high % of Photos are of kids facing away from the camera 🤔
Other Oddities
29 Website: A startling absence of updates of Royal website on Meghan’s offspring.🤔
30 Bishop: Los Angeles christening cleric was not the official Bishop the Harkles claimed he was.🤔
31 Implausible Platitudes: Claiming Archie’s first word was “Crocodile”, and that he demands a Leica camera for his birthday. As tots do...🤔
32 Merch: An uncharacteristic unwillingness to merchandise their kids, for $$$ or PR.🤔
33 Invisible: The Harkles are never seen with their kids. There are hints of "home schooling" (will they ever be allowed out?)😯
34 Family Holidays: Weirdly, the Harkles never take their kids on holiday, and, if they pretend they did, they incompetently photoshop them into pap snaps on Insta.🤔
35 Everything Else: All the stuff I overlooked in this hastily speed-typed list.🤔
🤔🤔🤔
Why does it matter? 🤔
Because rich Prince Harry wants we skint, long-suffering tax payers, to pay for his security expenses; he’s a traitor, and, well, it’s fraud, isn’t it? 💥
Feel free to leave evidence I missed out in the comments. 👍
#MeghanMarkleIsAGrifter
#MeghanMarkleExposed
#WhereAreTheKids
#sussexbabyscam
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ghostiiess · 1 year
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currently playing….nsb’s songs!
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header by @yvbiko ! dividers by @cafekitsune ! my requests are closed!
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OT7 (only hc atm)
how the media team (and ty) would stop the boys argument (fluff, y/n's not included in this one)
"i can't wait to see edits of us together." (fluff, famous!gf x nsb members)
the boys giving you princess treatment (fluff)
what the other boys think about you and a member's romantic relationship (fluff)
the boys getting you promise ring (fluff)
the boys seeing you in lingerie (suggestive)
comforting them about your ex (reverse-comfort!)
when they see their girl breaking down because of all the studies they have (comfort)
when they do a prank on youtube and call you clingy and actually hurt you (angst with comfort at the end, happy ending)
the boys taking care of you while you're sick (fluff, comfort)
them seeing their girl being jealous (fluff, comfort)
them taking care of you when you’re pregnant! (fluff)
christmas with them (fluff)
you celebrating your birthday with them (fluff)
my drabbles / shorts work!
NSB LOVE LETTERS - special valentine's day! (fluff)
the tweets they make about you (fluff)
texts with nsb members - when they mention you on their lives (fluff)
texts with nsb members - when they see you sad (comfort)
texts with nsb members - random questions they ask you at 3am (fluff)
texts with nsb members - when you’re scared of the dark (oli’, seb’, justin’, and ryan’s part) (fluff, comfort)
texts with nsb members - when you’re scared of the dark (kane’, darren’, and regie’s part) (fluff, comfort)
texts with nsb members - when they’re jealous over a fictional character (fluff)
most to least discreet when they're in love (fluff)
most to least anxious when their girl don't text them back (fluff)
most to least insecure when they're jealous (fluff)
nsb as your bestfriends (pictures)
EVENT OCTOBER 2023 - 7 daily post until halloween
click here to see all the posts!
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oliver moy:
home alone? (suggestive, imagine)
oliver moy being your boyfriend (fluff, hc)
aquarium date with oliver moy (fluff, hc)
oliver moy seeing you in his tshirt (fluff, hc)
oliver being protective of seb (fluff, hc, y/n is not included in this one!)
oliver moy singing you to sleep (fluff, hc)
oliver moy seeing you during their tour (fluff, hc)
oliver's reaction when he see you didn't shaved (comfort, hc)
walking outside hands in hands with oliver (fluff, hc)
oliver moy as your boyfriend (pictures)
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sebastian moy:
period comfort (fluff, comfort, imagine)
i can't drive because you drive me crazy (suggestive, imagine)
i'm the one for you.. (FEAT JUSTIN PHAN) (comfort and angst with a happy ending, imagine)
sebastian moy being your boyfriend (fluff, hc)
movie night with seb (fluff, hc)
what i think sebastian moy would do if he saw you crying in the dark (comfort, hc)
what would seb do if you were smaller than him (fluff, hc)
touring with seb (fluff, hc)
coming out to seb (LGBTQ+) (fluff, comfort)
oliver being protective of seb (y/n is not included in this one!!) (fluff, hc)
"i'm scared, y/n. i'm really scared." (reverse comfort!)
buying halloween stuff with seb (fluff, hc)
sebastian moy as your boyfriend (pictures)
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justin phan:
happy birthday, kitten.. (suggestive, imagine)
" your anxiety is lying to you, my love " (comfort, imagine)
i'm the one for you.. (FEAT SEBASTIAN MOY) (fluff, angst with a happy ending, imagine)
justin phan being your boyfriend (fluff, hc)
cooking with jp (fluff, hc)
how i think justin would express his love towards you (fluff, hc)
him asking you out on a date (fluff, hc)
how i think jp would help you with your mental health (comfort, hc)
justin phan as your boyfriend (pictures)
‘i’m in love with a skater boy’
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ryan nguyen:
next round (suggestive, imagine)
carving pumpkins with ryan (fluff, hc)
ryan being your boyfriend (fluff, hc)
going to a concert with azngami (fluff, hc)
ryan introducing you to the stars (fluff, hc)
you cut yourself while cooking (comfort, hc)
ryan nguyen as your boyfriend (pictures)
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kane ratan:
" want to do 7 minutes in heaven with me? " (suggestive, imagine)
going shopping with kane! (fluff, hc)
going to an anime convention with kane! (fluff, hc)
kane being your boyfriend (fluff, hc)
what i think kane would do if he see you being upset (comfort, hc)
traveling with him! (fluff, hc)
kane trying to speak your native language (which is not english) (fluff, hc)
watching scary animes with kane (fluff, hc)
kane ratan as your boyfriend (pictures)
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darren liang:
seb's car talk is always right (angst, probably not a happy ending, imagine)
darren being your boyfriend (fluff, hc)
you holding darren's hands for the first time (fluff, hc)
what i think darren would do while you're on your period (comfort, hc)
saturday night with lildarbear (fluff, hc)
selfcare night (fluff, hc)
finding a matching costume with darren (fluff, hc)
darren liang as your boyfriend (pictures)
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regie macalino:
regie being your boyfriend (fluff, hc)
regie's reactions when he saw you crying in the bathroom (comfort, hc)
date with regie!! (fluff, hc)
having a dog with regie be like (fluff, hc)
doing arts with macalino (fluff, hc)
making aesthetic pumpkins with regie (fluff, hc)
regie macalino as your boyfriend (pictures)
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eretzyisrael · 8 months
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The House will vote on Tuesday on a resolution introduced on Monday by House Republicans rejecting claims that Israel is racist or an apartheid state, condemning antisemitism and declaring support for Israel.
While the text of the legislation itself does not mention Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) by name, the brief, eight-line resolution comes in response to comments over the weekend by the congresswoman describing Israel as a “racist state.”
The resolution was introduced by Reps. August Pfluger (R-TX), alongside the two Jewish Republicans in the House, Reps. David Kustoff (R-TN) and Max Miller (R-OH). House Republican leadership fast-tracked the legislation to a vote on Tuesday, ahead of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.
In statements on the legislation, its sponsors specifically called out Jayapal and other Democrats critical of Israel.
“Representatives Pramila Jayapal, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar’s repeated comments denigrating Israel are unacceptable and disgusting,” Pfluger said in a statement. “I am proud to introduce this resolution ensuring all Americans know where their Representatives stand when it comes to supporting Israel and our Jewish communities.”
Kustoff called Jayapal’s comments “repulsive and repugnant” with “no place in the hall of Congress, nor in our national conversation.”
Miller, who sponsored the legislation earlier this year that expelled Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that “Congresswoman Jayapal can try to take back her comments, but her intent was crystal clear—and absolutely deplorable… There is no place for this type of rhetoric in the House.”
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said the legislation comes “in light of the recent rise in anti-Semitic rhetoric we’ve seen from leading figures in the Democrat Party,” without referencing Jayapal, and noted that he’s “proud to schedule this bill ahead of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit.”
The resolution is expected  to receive wide bipartisan support. Democratic leaders in the House quickly distanced themselves from Jayapal’s comment. On Monday, 43 House Democrats joined a statement led by pro-Israel Jewish Democrats disavowing Jayapal’s comments and declaring support for Israel.
Signatories to that statement include nine members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which Jayapal leads: Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Frederica Wilson (D-FL), Darren Soto (D-FL), Dan Goldman (D-NY), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Mike Levin (D-CA), Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Grace Napolitano (D-CA). Additional progressive lawmakers have also distanced themselves from Jayapal’s remarks.
At the same time, some on the left have dismissed the legislation.
“This is not a pro-Israel resolution. It’s a cynical ploy so that Republicans can continue to waive their arms and yell about Israel and antisemitism while not doing anything to make life better for Israelis, much less even acknowledging that Palestinians exist,” Americans for Peace Now CEO Hadar Susskind said in a tweet. “It’s garbage.”
J Street, which endorsed Jayapal, did not respond to a request for comment on how or whether it was advising members to vote on the resolution.
On Monday, Jayapal tweeted out excerpts from a New York Times op-ed by columnist Michelle Goldberg that derided the backlash to her initial comments as a “hysterical overreaction.”
“The rush to condemn her offhand remarks is […] about raising the political price of speaking about Israel forthrightly. […],” the excerpt that Jayapal tweeted read. “It’s easier for Israel’s most stalwart boosters to harp on a critic’s slight misstatement.”
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drawnaghht · 9 months
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"Wait hold on is there a Japanese dub? Or am I reading wrong oop"
@freakova Yes! yes there is! :D :D whoever edited that TVtropes page I mentioned is wrong, I'm not sure if they just didn't have the track available bc of region-restrictions on Netflix (like here for example, we don't get some shows) or bc they have some downloaded version which only has other tracks, but whoever recorded/ripped it originally, didn't have the JP dub track. I suspect it might be the latter.
I know I watched a bit of the japanese version in august, so I wonder if it's those 2 options or maybe even that most people don't watch netflix on PCs/laptops on their browsers, and so they miss out on the extra dubs on TV. That's smth that I often miss on our Netflix, i.e. some shows will have a finnish dub (the closest language to estonian where I don't need subtitles myself), but if it's smth super popular, it won't show the option for the finnish dub on the TV version of netflix at all. Japanese is a language very often missing in the TV version for many things, doesn't seem to be related to how J is in the middle of the alphabet, but rather, whatever system of regions Netflix uses to give suggestions to users. But if I switch to finnish on my PC, it will continue that show/other shows with available dub in my selected language. This goes for subs too!
Lol if u have a friend with Netflix or have it yourself, you can check it out. I have watched it with japanese dub + sub on at the same time to get any interesting language/delivery differences but also just to watch it out of curiosity. this is what I base some of my posts on too like the one's about names, but when I was just curious to see what the JP subtitles were like I got curious abt the dub too and then switched to both. It's
I also added this on the TVtropes page as a source to avoid ppl changing it, but Usagi's japanese VA, Kengo Takanashi, actually tweeted about his involvement for the airing of S2 (for those unfamiliar with voice actors there, like I am, he plays Link in the newer Zelda games. But also, fun TMNT trivia: he plays Donnie in the Bayverse japanese dub hehe x3 )
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I think I found this randomly while going through twitter searching for something else. Definitely did not know about this VA before, but it's cool how happy he seemed about tweeting abt this show.
He sounds really nice as Usagi! He has that youthful and curious but annoying quality to it which makes Usagi unique and he sounds just as excited as the original, so the acting is on-point too. I've heard some people say that they like the JP dub over the EN original, but I honestly like both. There is a bit of a difference between Kengo (JP) and Darren (EN) with how different of a timber their voices have, but it's a very subtle difference. I've also watched the finnish and german dubs (both languages which I actually understand/speak more than japanese) and those also had very good Usagi voices. The russian dub versions sounds a bit deeper/ older but otherwise, the acting itself is fine, so it doesn't really bother me. In some versions, either Tetsujin or Gen sound either too young or too old for their roles, but otherwise, most of the dubs for this show at least, sound pretty good and similar to the og.
Anyway, I am not thinking of doing a spring cleaning on TV tropes now to clean up any more old/misleading info hehehe >:3c
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burningspy · 8 months
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Update on my post from last night: (catch up here)
I decided to do what it seems most people do when they have a complaint about a company these days, I ranted about it on twitter.
Eventually, I got an automated response from their tech support account asking me to send them a DM and they would look into my issue. So I did just that, giving them a bit more detailed info on what was going on.
The first person to respond was a total asshole. Didn't even take time to pretend to research a solution. Just automatically said the phone I bought will not work, then proceeded to list several other phones I could purchase at one of their stores.
Obviously, I was not very happy with that answer. So I gave a slightly angry (for me) reply stating that I will not buy another phone; I only want to use the phone I already spent $800 to purchase, and that the manufacturer assures that it is fully compatible with T-Mobile network. After that, the "support" person just disappeared. Never replied again.
I decided to take a new screenshot of their site showing that the IMEI number is compatible and will work. This time more detailed and even showing that number, as well as writing another statement about my confusion on this issue.
45 minutes later, I get another automated response tweet (the same as the original) asking for me to send a DM and they would help. I simply tweeted back that I've already done that and the original person abandoned the convo.
Shortly after that a new (and much better) tech support guy replied to the screenshot and message I had sent earlier. He was as confused as I was about why the website would show the phone was compatible, but their internal systems claim that it's not. He even stated that he would try to do some deeper research into the problem and asked if there was anything else I needed help with while I waited.
To which I said no, but asked if it was possible if I just took the SIM card from my old phone and put it into the new one? Would that cause any problems?
He quickly replied telling me to go ahead and try it whenever I was ready and to let him know the results. He was just as curious about this issue as I was.
After which, I did exactly that. Powered up the new phone with the old SIM card, and ... "Can't connect to network." Damn! "Try again?" Of course! .... and success. It connected the second time and I have not noticed any issues. I made a couple test phone calls just to be sure, then informed Darren (very helpful tech support guy) of my results. We were both very happy with how things turned out.
So, now my new phone is working and I'm spending way too much time still trying to get everything set up the way I want it.
TLDR: T-Mobile tried to tell me that my new Nothing Phone 2 would not work on their network and I proved them wrong!
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spaceorphan18 · 1 year
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Oh I just had a memory hit me.
I can probably pinpoint when Chris was officially done doing anything in public with Darren. Or at least social media wise.
Every year for the first couple Chris would wish Darren a happy bday. Chris said this to everyone -- this was back when Chris was using social media all the time.
Which - side tangent - if you weren't around for Chris using twitter liberally...oohh boy was that an interesting time. Chris is very professional and very measured about using social media now, but there was a time when he wasn't and just said whatever thought popped into his head.
Sometimes I miss those days.
Anyway... some time in Season 3 or 4? Chris tweeted Darren a happy birthday.
And then Jesse Tyler Ferguson - of Modern Family Fame - tweeted an addendum that said -- to my lover.
And Chris was done. He tweeted back - 'you're on my list' and that was it. That was pretty much the end of Chris socializing with Darren on social media.
I know years and years later - prompted by Naya - they both talked about Baby It's Cold Outside. And Chris, of course, reached out with condolences after Chuck passed. But I remember that was a huge thing to happen. Chris closed himself off a lot on social media after that.
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toushindai · 1 year
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while we're talking about skellydysseus
stygiusfic did ask greg and darren if skelly was meant to be odysseus; darren simply liked the tweet (darren what does that mean) and greg said that skelly has already told us everything he's going to tell us about himself. mr. greg WHO in their right mind would believe ANYTHING that someone who MIGHT BE ODYSSEUS self-reports
Once you've had the discussion with asterius confirming that asterius remembers a schelemeus existing, skelly can say "remember me, bull boy?" when summoned against him. but like. who cares. maybe he just means "remember me from the last time boyo summoned me." and he can only say this after the discussion with asterius for. unspecified reasons.
literally neither of the above matter, there are lots of us and only one of greg
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beardedmrbean · 1 year
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Elon Musk caused a flurry on social media after the tech CEO posted a meme mocking CNN’s concerns about free speech on Twitter. 
Musk posted a picture of CNN’s Don Lemon on Monday, alongside a satirical chyron that read "Elon Musk could threaten free speech on Twitter by allowing people to speak freely."
Some Twitter users were confused about whether the meme was from an actual CNN broadcast. The image is originally from Geniuses Times, a satirical website that describes itself as "the most reliable source of fake news in the planet." 
Nevertheless, Musk’s post prompted a wide range of responses, from conservative praise to liberal meltdowns. 
ELON MUSK TROLLS CRITICS WITH NEW 'STAY AT WORK' MERCHANDISE, FOLLOWING 'WOKE' DISCOVERY
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Ronald Brownstein, a senior editor at The Atlantic, claimed that Musk was simply repackaging hate speech as free speech to empower extremism on the far right. 
"Simple equation: Musk repackages hate speech racism anti-semitism homophobia and far-right intimidation as ‘free speech’ & any effort to hold him accountable for injecting it into US society as the ‘woke mob.’ On both ends, same goal: amplifying & empowering far-right extremists," he tweeted. 
Meanwhile, The Jewish Voice, a news and opinion site dedicated to promoting classical Judaism, asserted that Don Lemon’s continued presence on CNN would ensure most Americans would click off the channel. 
"How ridiculous can it get?" author James Arthur Ray chimed in. 
"I’ve always said what I want and always will speak from heart," actor and comedian Tommy Chong tweeted. 
MSNBC’S CHRIS HAYES FRETS HIS ‘WORST FEARS' HAVE BEEN REALIZED SINCE MUSK ACQUIRED TWITTER
Morten Øverbye, a tech entrepreneur and former managing editor of CNN Norway, slammed Musk for appearing to float his own rule to label parody. 
"Just 17 days ago, Musk made up a new rule saying accounts engaged in parody must include ‘parody’ in their name," he said.
Musk said on November 10 that accounts engaged in parody must include the word "parody" in their actual name, not just their bio.
Musk’s criticism of CNN and Lemon comes days after the network anchor attempted to fact-check the Twitter owner, claiming that context was needed after Musk posted a tweet calling the "Hands up, don’t shoot" myth "made up."
ELON MUSK SWIPES ANOTHER NEWS OUTLET FOR 'MISINFORMATION,' AFTER STRIKING DOWN 'FLAT WRONG' REPORTS YESTERDAY
The phrase originally stemmed from Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, when he was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson. Soon after, it became a rallying cry for racial justice protests, but the Obama administration’s Department of Justice concluded that Brown did not raise his arms to surrender before his death. 
Lemon admitted that the DOJ report "cast doubt" on the narrative about Brown’s death, but also noted that "some said" Brown did attempt to surrender. 
Musk has previously spoken out against the liberal media network. 
Musk sat down last December with The Babylon Bee, a satirical website that recently had its Twitter account reinstated. During a discussion about "pointless" companies that "shouldn’t exist," a co-host joked they did not feel qualified to interview Musk. 
"You can be on CNN right now," co-host Kyle Mann quipped.
"I’m not perverted enough, I guess," Musk responded, likely referencing a satirical Bee headline, as well as recent allegations of sexual misconduct at CNN. 
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d-criss-news · 7 months
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marisaroffman: A+ sign choice from Darren Criss. 😂 (More #Glee stuff will be up on @GiveMeMyRemote later today.)
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grandhotelabyss · 1 year
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Do you have any "must-read" literary magazines/book publishers/blogs, etc.?
I think the best literary coverage in magazines these days is in Compact and Tablet, because whoever's putting up the money and whatever their agenda has evidently and wisely decided to keep the cultural coverage much more free of overt politics than other venues. I'm not only talking about "wokeness" here but also the nonsense we find in the "anti-woke" venues, like, just to give an example, this tacky "Zombie Reagan" complaint in Quillette that English departments are dying because they teach, and I quote, "Foucault, Judith Butler, Kant, and Gloria Anzaldúa," yes, I repeat, Kant. Whereas Compact gives Gasda free rein to take it to the Oxfordians (not least Yarvin), and let the tech-adjacent neoreactionary politics fall where they may, just as Tablet lets Blake Smith chart the uncharted middle course in subtle essay after subtle essay on queer theory and politics, the very subtlety itself guaranteed to offend activists of all camps. Not to mention that both venues publish interesting free agents like Valerie Stivers and Naomi Tanakia. In the same vein, Unherd is good for political and cultural commentary—pretty unpredictable, if convergent upon what we might call the new center. The Mars Review of Books also seems interesting, but it's too soon to tell. There's still good material in the usual places like LRB, NYRB, The Nation and Harper's—Will Self almost (almost!) persuading me to read a book I've privately been calling Adenoid, for example—but it's been more mixed since the commanding heights crudely tried to requisition the whole of humane culture in reaction to Trump. (Full disclosure: I've written for Tablet a time or two myself.)
In our agitated and ever-shifting media environment, one would have to cover Twitter accounts, Substack and other newsletters, podcasts, and YouTube channels too, across the cultural and political spectrum, so I have both too much and not enough to recommend. I've always thought Katherine Dee had her finger on the pulse of the culture, so her work in various venues is a longstanding recommendation. The renegade and provocateur Justin Murphy is always interesting if often silly or willfully offensive. The aforementioned Matt Gasda's Substack "Writer's Diary" is always compelling. Lately I've been admiring Emmalea Russo's tour of the Divide Comedy with reference to cinema and astrology and modernism and theory and what have you, also on Substack. The collected 1990s-era YouTube lectures on great books and intellectual history by Michael Sugrue and Darren Staloff are also recommendations of long standing, and Sugrue and Staloff also now produce new material, if more casual. My favorite podcasts specifically for literature and the arts are Manifesto! and Art of Darkness.
Favorite book publishers? Not exactly. The go-to answer is NYRB Classics; they publish a lot of stuff that interests me, including things I didn't know would interest me until they published it, especially their nonfiction catalogue, whether Simon Leys's collected essays or Simone Weil on the Iliad or Gillian Rose's incomparable Love's Work, and their attention to major world fiction neglected by other publishers (Platonov, Jünger, Salih). But as I believe Ann Manov once Tweeted, some of those midcentury novels might have been deservedly forgotten; hate me if you must, but I never did finish Stoner. They should reprint the whole of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage, though who knows what the copyright situation is there. Another publisher recommendation: you'll rarely go wrong reading a classic in the Norton Critical Edition.
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By: Thomas Chatterton Williams
Published: Feb 1, 2023
On Friday, Memphis police released body- and street-cam video of five officers beating Tyre Nichols, an unarmed civilian who later died of his injuries. Unlike many recent notorious examples of police brutality, in this instance the victim and perpetrators were all Black, leading to confusion and distress. The basketball star LeBron James tweeted, “WE ARE OUR OWN WORSE ENEMY!” This kind of self-directed criticism is familiar to anyone who has had their hair trimmed in a Black barbershop. What is novel today is the amount of anger and the specific form of critique that James’s tweet, for one prominent example, engendered. One of the more polite and re-printable responses: “i’d say white supremacy was our worse enemy but okay lebron.”
White supremacy used to refer to the belief, encoded in both custom and law, that white people sit at the top of a biological racial hierarchy and that they must remain there. But in the past decade or so, it has become a much vaguer and more totalizing concept, denoting invisible structures, latent beliefs, and even innocuous practices, such as punctuality, that supposedly maintain the comparative advantage of white people at the expense of everyone else. After the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and the period of racial reckoning that followed, all manner of experience was probed for evidence of “white supremacy.” Some on the left have adopted the term as a sort of shorthand for the the invisible hand of all American social and political life.
This understanding of white supremacy has led progressive journalists and activists to bring attention to (some might say obsess over) racial background in lethal encounters involving white and nonwhite people. George Zimmerman, who killed Trayvon Martin, was a white Hispanic. Darren Wilson, who killed Michael Brown, was not merely an agent of the state but specifically a white police officer. Derek Chauvin, a white man in a multiracial group of officers responding to the scene, was the one to kneel on George Floyd. When Robert Aaron Long, a white man, murdered eight mostly Asian workers in three massage parlors in Atlanta in 2021, he said he was a sex addict and suggested he was driven by shame. But some community leaders insisted that anti-Asian animus was the X factor. According to one media narrative, repeating Long’s professed motive amounted to making “excuses” for “white male murderers.”
For some on the left, whiteness and white supremacy retain their explanatory power even when white people are nowhere to be seen. The same year as the spa shootings, when Americans were bristling against school and business shutdowns and crime rates were spiking, nationwide hate crimes against Asian Americans surged by 339 percent. Anti-Asian violence in America has always been “a diverse and majority-minority affair,” as Wilfred Reilly wrote in 2021. “The 2019 Bureau of Justice Statistics report [found] that 27.5 percent of violent criminals targeting an Asian victim are black and only 24.1 percent are white.” Yet as video and anecdotal evidence emerged of vicious Black-on-Asian assaults and homicides, progressives wouldn’t let go of their hobbyhorse.
“Ultimately, there is a failure to remember what got America to this place of racial hierarchies and lingering Black-Asian tensions: white supremacy,” a 2021 Vox article explains. “White supremacy is what created segregation, policing, and scarcity of resources in low-income neighborhoods, as well as the creation of the ‘model minority’ myth—all of which has driven a wedge between Black and Asian communities. In fact, it is white Christian nationalism, more than any other ideology, that has shaped xenophobic and racist views around Covid-19.”
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Like everyone I have spoken with, I was sickened and saddened by the killing of Tyre Nichols. When the videos were released, I was visiting my parents, and the footage was all any of us could talk about. Any attempt to make sense of the atrocity felt insufficient. My mother, an observant Christian, pointed to the existence of evil. My father, a sociologist by training, noted how power dynamics can affect, or corrupt, encounters between strangers. I stressed the role of ego and general incompetence—these officers were young, granted far too much authority, and grossly inexperienced.
Writing at CNN on Friday, Van Jones offered another explanation under the headline “The police who killed Tyre Nichols were Black. But they might still have been driven by racism.” It is certainly possible that the five young, dark-skinned men who beat Nichols so mercilessly had each internalized a poisonous self-hatred. (On Monday, the Memphis police department revealed that two other officers had been disciplined as part of the investigation, at least one of whom is white.) And there is also a serious argument to be made that racism does not require interpersonal malice but may be understood as the limited and limiting system in which individuals make free but constrained decisions. In the latter telling, the institution of American policing is foundationally derived from southern slave patrols and now operates as a disciplining force to protect capital and hold the poor and marginalized in place—all of which makes it an inherently anti-Black enterprise, regardless of the racial or ethnic makeup of the individual officers in its employ.
I am, to a degree, sympathetic to these views. I will never forget the day my brother had his front teeth separated from his mouth by the cold flashlight of a cop whose skin was darker than his own. But I am deeply skeptical of the reflex to attribute all violence and misconduct to structural racism, to impose that smooth framework on every atrocity no matter its jagged grain. I tweeted in response to Jones’s headline that we ought to at least consider the possibility that these five officers’ reprehensible actions fall on them alone.
By the next morning, that tweet had gone viral. I attempted to extend the thought further, writing, “Twitter is an amazing prism because you can watch fringe epistemologies congeal into orthodoxy in real time. A view that still strikes most as an enormous stretch—that white supremacist racism explains bad actions of non-whites even where no whites are present—is one example.”
This statement drew support as well as ire. The writer Joyce Carol Oates quoted it with a rebuttal: “yours is a somewhat disingenuous interpretation of a simple theory: that the race of the victim may determine the punishment, regardless of the race of the perpetrators. (in which case, if the victim had been white, the Black officers might have treated him less brutally.)” That tweet went viral, too, generating millions of views. Soon, my notifications were flooded with responses making a similar point, many of them quoting a specific passage from James Baldwin’s 1985 book, The Evidence of Things Not Seen:
Black policemen were another matter. We used to say, “If you just must call a policeman”—for we hardly ever did—“for God’s sake, try to make sure it’s a White one.” A Black policeman could completely demolish you. He knew far more about you than a White policeman could and you were without defenses before this Black brother in uniform whose entire reason for breathing seemed to be his hope to offer proof that, though he was Black, he was not Black like you.
Baldwin made this point with psychological acuity throughout his career. In his 1955 debut, Notes of a Native Son, he writes—eerily, in light of Memphis—“There were, incidentally, according to my brother, five Negro policemen in Atlanta at this time, who, though they were not allowed to arrest whites, would, of course, be willing, indeed, in their position, anxious, to arrest any Negro who seemed to need it. In Harlem, Negro policemen are feared even more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it.”
Those were Baldwin’s insights some 40 and nearly 80 years ago, respectively, and they say something historically true with ramifications for the present. I erred on Twitter in dismissing as merely “fringe” this position—that even nonwhite actors can buy into notions of their own personal or group inferiority, and also contribute to their own structural disadvantage. And yet, is even Baldwin’s exquisite articulation really the last or even the most compelling word on what is happening between and within groups in 2023?
Americans hardly have a monopoly on brutality, or state-sanctioned brutality, such that only peculiarities of American history can explain violence in the present. We have spent the past year observing groups of white-skinned Russian men do unspeakable things to the white-skinned Ukrainians at their mercy—things most of these same men would never do by themselves—simply because they were together and they could. Strength is provocative; weakness is too. I believe that this is what my father means when he invokes power dynamics (it may also be what my mother means by evil), and it cuts across every ethnic line.
In the case of Tyre Nichols, in particular, the offending officers are Black, but so is the city’s chief of police, the majority of the force she oversees, and the community at large. The notion that the most likely explanation for this specific horror in this specific locality at this specific time ought to be reduced to a permanent, invisible, and unfalsifiable force called white supremacy veers dangerously close to determinism. Perversely, this infantilizing logic can’t help but absolve the five officers of responsibility for a heinous crime that most people and most police officers of any background do not commit.
Such moral reasoning has become conventional wisdom, embraced vocally by white liberals, among others. But white and nonwhite people alike should be wary of forfeiting their agency so easily. We should always remain skeptical of systems-level thinking that reduces the complexity and unpredictability of human action to a simple formula.
Why did those officers kill Tyre Nichols? I don’t know, and I’m wary of anyone who says they do.
[ Via: https://archive.vn/eVOYu ]
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Presupposing the motivation for a social phenomenon is no better than academics starting with their conclusion and working backwards, or Xians and Muslims scouring their scripture for verses they can interpret as scientific "proof" of their god.
"Faith is pretending to know things you don't know."
-- Peter Boghossian
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the-paris-of-people · 2 years
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I think the main thing that makes me scared they are going to have Devi end up with Paxton is just my trauma from Jane the Virgin. 💀
I WAS JUST THINKING THAT TOO!!! I think with Rafael, Jennie Snyder Urman fell in love with the whole fantasy of "Wow I accidentally got pregnant with this hot guy's baby, wouldn't it be so cute if they ended up together?" rather than "Jane should be with a stable, supportive partner who is an incredibly stepdad to my kid" That show definitely gave me trust issues, but I feel like with Never Have I Ever they haven't done anything like kill Ben off just to bring him up and completely change his personality so Devi can end up with Paxton. I truly don't know why Lang insists they continue the love triangle next season because it makes no narrative sense, especially with Paxton going to college (I read an interview today that said he would be in s4 as much as s3) but this is why I trust the NHIE writers more than Jane the Virgin:
1.) Every season of NHIE has been about building Ben and Devi's relationship. In season 1, Ben and Devi's relationship transformed from enemies to frenemies to something a little more, in season 2, they were ex-lovers who still harbored feelings for each other even up until the season finale; in season 3, it's about ex-lovers who have tried to move past their history and forge a friendship but who ultimately are drawn to each other and have this intense care and companionship they can't form with anyone else. In season 2 and 3, Paxton and Devi's relationship has been more about Paxton's feelings than Devi's (even saying in s3 finale that Paxton does not give Devi stomach knots at all while Ben does) Margo is a potential obstacle in the road for them which I think is really cheap and lazy especially given that sure, Ben may be interested in Margo but he's been IN LOVE with Devi for ages.
2.) Darren saying outright that he says Ben and Devi interact and thinks they're in love. He's 100% more Team Ben than Team Paxton.
3.) Jaren's tweet about how we're going to lose it when we watch season 4. Honestly we're blessed they've already filmed it because Jaren and Darren truly cannot say anything without implying what will happen in season 4.
4.) Mindy is a Ben girl (as am I) while I think I remember at one point the whole cast was Team Michael except Jennie
In conclusion, I'm fine with Devi ending alone but plopping her and Paxton together would make absolutely no sense in the context of the entire series. But I understand because having trust issues with TV writers is REAL
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ghostiiess · 9 months
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[NSB HEADCANONS] - the tweets they make about you
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pov: the title say everything
warning: none? except it's a bit cheesy and lovey dovey
type: wholesome
members: all of them
*i know these aren't all the boys username. i didn't want to use the real boy's username for this post since idk what people can do with these :) the tweets on this post are all invented and created by me and they aren't made by any of the boys! none of the tweets are real*
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OLIVER
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(the rest under the cut!)
SEB
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JUSTIN
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RYAN
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KANE
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DARREN
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REGIE
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taglist (open! send an ask if you want to be in it!) : @nsb-rkive @kentisbaby @firebenderwolf @hyuneee0
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ipwarn · 1 year
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I get it’s Snixxmas time and so we are getting a lot of Glee cast love, but it’s been a lot the last few days. And I am loving it. 
the tweets today from Kevin and Darren, sent almost simultaneously, about Amber
Dianna commenting on Darren’s insta post about his residency 
Lea auctioning off her final Rachel Berry costume for charity - or at least the one she sang “This Time” in - and talking about filming that day on her instagram 
Kevin listening to Breakaway and posting about it - I don’t even remember that song 
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