#05/10/2020

[callmelanser]

Cidade dos sonhos perdidos

Fadados a viver na cidade dos sonhos perdidos.

Estamos fadados a viver na cidade que nos prende de viver.

Onde estou?

Aonde estou?

Eu me sinto tão sufocado.

Parece que faço parte das paredes.

Alguém está me escutando?

Eu estou aqui!

Será que você pode me ouvir?

Que muro é esse?

Na cidade dos sonhos perdidos, onde ninguém vive, apenas sonha.

E o que eu faço? Eu não sei.

Eu apenas perco.

Eu disse para mim 'eu consigo, tenho nada a perder'.

E então eu perdi.

Eu perdi tudo que me dava força na cidade que fez sonhar.

Perco a mim mesmo de vista. Perco meus desejos. Perco meus sonhos, ah merda, a confusão está tomando minha cabeça.

Estamos vivendo preso na cidade dos sonhos perdidos.

05/10/2020

[myloveonherknees]

@/hisethelcain. “10/5/19 @ the bark (shot by @/faunfawn)” twitter, 23 jan 2020.

[antonellaxgeneration]

GEOPLITICAL WEEK RASSEGNA NOTIZIE 30 09 2024 05 10 2024

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The US Copyright Office frees the McFlurry

I'll be in TUCSON, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the GUEST OF HONOR at the TUSCON SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION.

I have spent a quarter century obsessed with the weirdest corner of the weirdest section of the worst internet law on the US statute books: Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the 1998 law that makes it a felony to help someone change how their own computer works so it serves them, rather than a distant corporation.

Under DMCA 1201, giving someone a tool to "bypass an access control for a copyrighted work" is a felony punishable by a 5-year prison sentence and a $500k fine – for a first offense. This law can refer to access controls for traditional copyrighted works, like movies. Under DMCA 1201, if you help someone with photosensitive epilepsy add a plug-in to the Netflix player in their browser that blocks strobing pictures that can trigger seizures, you're a felon:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-media/2017Jul/0005.html

But software is a copyrighted work, and everything from printer cartridges to car-engine parts have software in them. If the manufacturer puts an "access control" on that software, they can send their customers (and competitors) to prison for passing around tools to help them fix their cars or use third-party ink.

Now, even though the DMCA is a copyright law (that's what the "C" in DMCA stands for, after all); and even though blocking video strobes, using third party ink, and fixing your car are not copyright violations, the DMCA can still send you to prison, for a long-ass time for doing these things, provided the manufacturer designs their product so that using it the way that suits you best involves getting around an "access control."

As you might expect, this is quite a tempting proposition for any manufacturer hoping to enshittify their products, because they know you can't legally disenshittify them. These access controls have metastasized into every kind of device imaginable.

Garage-door openers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain

Refrigerators:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/12/digital-feudalism/#filtergate

Dishwashers:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/03/cassette-rewinder/#disher-bob

Treadmills:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/22/vapescreen/#jane-get-me-off-this-crazy-thing

Tractors:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/23/reputation-laundry/#deere-john

Cars:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

Printers:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/07/inky-wretches/#epson-salty

And even printer paper:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/16/unauthorized-paper/#dymo-550

DMCA 1201 is the brainchild of Bruce Lehmann, Bill Clinton's Copyright Czar, who was repeatedly warned that cancerous proliferation this was the foreseeable, inevitable outcome of his pet policy. As a sop to his critics, Lehman added a largely ornamental safety valve to his law, ordering the US Copyright Office to invite submissions every three years petitioning for "use exemptions" to the blanket ban on circumventing access-controls.

I call this "ornamental" because if the Copyright Office thinks that, say, it should be legal for you to bypass an access control to use third-party ink in your printer, or a third-party app store in your phone, all they can do under DMCA 1201 is grant you the right to use a circumvention tool. But they can't give you the right to acquire that tool.

I know that sounds confusing, but that's only because it's very, very stupid. How stupid? Well, in 2001, the US Trade Representative arm-twisted the EU into adopting its own version of this law (Article 6 of the EUCD), and in 2003, Norway added the law to its lawbooks. On the eve of that addition, I traveled to Oslo to debate the minister involved:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#felony-contempt-of-business-model

The minister praised his law, explaining that it gave blind people the right to bypass access controls on ebooks so that they could feed them to screen readers, Braille printers, and other assistive tools. OK, I said, but how do they get the software that jailbreaks their ebooks so they can make use of this exemption? Am I allowed to give them that tool?

No, the minister said, you're not allowed to do that, that would be a crime.

Is the Norwegian government allowed to give them that tool? No. How about a blind rights advocacy group? No, not them either. A university computer science department? Nope. A commercial vendor? Certainly not.

No, the minister explained, under his law, a blind person would be expected to personally reverse engineer a program like Adobe E-Reader, in hopes of discovering a defect that they could exploit by writing a program to extract the ebook text.

Oh, I said. But if a blind person did manage to do this, could they supply that tool to other blind people?

Well, no, the minister said. Each and every blind person must personally – without any help from anyone else – figure out how to reverse-engineer the ebook program, and then individually author their own alternative reader program that worked with the text of their ebooks.

That is what is meant by a use exemption without a tools exemption. It's useless. A sick joke, even.

The US Copyright Office has been valiantly holding exemptions proceedings every three years since the start of this century, and they've granted many sensible exemptions, including ones to benefit people with disabilities, or to let you jailbreak your phone, or let media professors extract video clips from DVDs, and so on. Tens of thousands of person-hours have been flushed into this pointless exercise, generating a long list of things you are now technically allowed to do, but only if you are a reverse-engineering specialist type of computer programmer who can manage the process from beginning to end in total isolation and secrecy.

But there is one kind of use exception the Copyright Office can grant that is potentially game-changing: an exemption for decoding diagnostic codes.

You see, DMCA 1201 has been a critical weapon for the corporate anti-repair movement. By scrambling error codes in cars, tractors, appliances, insulin pumps, phones and other devices, manufacturers can wage war on independent repair, depriving third-party technicians of the diagnostic information they need to figure out how to fix your stuff and keep it going.

This is bad enough in normal times, but during the acute phase of the covid pandemic, hospitals found themselves unable to maintain their ventilators because of access controls. Nearly all ventilators come from a single med-tech monopolist, Medtronic, which charges hospitals hundreds of dollars to dispatch their own repair technicians to fix its products. But when covid ended nearly all travel, Medtronic could no longer provide on-site calls. Thankfully, an anonymous hacker started building homemade (illegal) circumvention devices to let hospital technicians fix the ventilators themselves, improvising housings for them from old clock radios, guitar pedals and whatever else was to hand, then mailing them anonymously to hospitals:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/flintstone-delano-roosevelt/#medtronic-again

Once a manufacturer monopolizes repair in this way, they can force you to use their official service depots, charging you as much as they'd like; requiring you to use their official, expensive replacement parts; and dictating when your gadget is "too broken to fix," forcing you to buy a new one. That's bad enough when we're talking about refusing to fix a phone so you buy a new one – but imagine having a spinal injury and relying on a $100,000 exoskeleton to get from place to place and prevent muscle wasting, clots, and other immobility-related conditions, only to have the manufacturer decide that the gadget is too old to fix and refusing to give you the technical assistance to replace a watch battery so that you can get around again:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255074/former-jockey-michael-straight-exoskeleton-repair-battery

When the US Copyright Office grants a use exemption for extracting diagnostic codes from a busted device, they empower repair advocates to put that gadget up on a workbench and torture it into giving up those codes. The codes can then be integrated into an unofficial diagnostic tool, one that can make sense of the scrambled, obfuscated error codes that a device sends when it breaks – without having to unscramble them. In other words, only the company that makes the diagnostic tool has to bypass an access control, but the people who use that tool later do not violate DMCA 1201.

This is all relevant this month because the US Copyright Office just released the latest batch of 1201 exemptions, and among them is the right to circumvent access controls "allowing for repair of retail-level food preparation equipment":

https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-ifixit-free-the-mcflurry-win-copyright-office-dmca-exemption-for-ice-cream-machines/

While this covers all kinds of food prep gear, the exemption request – filed by Public Knowledge and Ifixit – was inspired by the bizarre war over the tragically fragile McFlurry machine. These machines – which extrude soft-serve frozen desserts – are notoriously failure-prone, with 5-16% of them broken at any given time. Taylor, the giant kitchen tech company that makes the machines, charges franchisees a fortune to repair them, producing a steady stream of profits for the company.

This sleazy business prompted some ice-cream hackers to found a startup called Kytch, a high-powered automation and diagnostic tool that was hugely popular with McDonald's franchisees (the gadget was partially designed by the legendary hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang!).

In response, Taylor played dirty, making a less-capable clone of the Kytch, trying to buy Kytch out, and teaming up with McDonald's corporate to bombard franchisees with legal scare-stories about the dangers of using a Kytch to keep their soft-serve flowing, thanks to DMCA 1201:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cold-war

Kytch isn't the only beneficiary of the new exemption: all kinds of industrial kitchen equipment is covered. In upholding the Right to Repair, the Copyright Office overruled objections of some of its closest historical allies, the Entertainment Software Association, Motion Picture Association, and Recording Industry Association of America, who all sided with Taylor and McDonald's and opposed the exemption:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/us-copyright-office-frees-the-mcflurry-allowing-repair-of-ice-cream-machines/

This is literally the only useful kind of DMCA 1201 exemption the Copyright Office can grant, and the fact that they granted it (along with a similar exemption for medical devices) is a welcome bright spot. But make no mistake, the fact that we finally found a narrow way in which DMCA 1201 can be made slightly less stupid does not redeem this outrageous law. It should still be repealed and condemned to the scrapheap of history.

Tor Books as just published two new, free LITTLE BROTHER stories: VIGILANT, about creepy surveillance in distance education; and SPILL, about oil pipelines and indigenous landback.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/28/mcbroken/#my-milkshake-brings-all-the-lawyers-to-the-yard

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[hotmalemugshots]

Tanner Loy Harness

1st Arrest: 9/3/2020

Charge: PUBLIC INTOXICATION (PI)

2nd Arrest: 9/27/2020

Charge: DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED (DWI)

3rd Arrest: 5/18/2021

Charges (3):

CRIM TRESPASS HABIT/SHLTR/SUPRFUND/INFST: 10,000$

MOTION TO REVOKE / MTR MISD: 10,000$

CRIMINAL TRESPASS

4th Arrest: 12/27/2021 (No mugshot available)

Charge: PUBLIC INTOXICATION (PI)

Bond: 0$

5th Arrest: 05/21/2022 (Tanner was 21)

Charges (6):

RECKLESS DRIVING

FAIL TO MAINTAIN FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

DRIVING WHILE LICENSE INVALID CLASS C

EXPIRED LICENSE PLATES

OUT OF COUNTY WARRANT (BRAZOS COUNTY)

OUT OF COUNTY WARRANT (BRAZOS COUNTY)

6th Arrest: 7/21/2023

Charges (3):

MOTION TO REVOKE / MTR FELONY: 40,000$

SPEEDING (>/= 10% ABOVE POSTED LIMIT)

PUBLIC INTOXICATION (PI)

7th Arrest: 5/10/2024

Charge: PURCHASE FURNISH ALCOHOL TO A MINOR

[henrykathman]

The Miraculous Horror of Stop Motion

From the same artform that brought you Coraline and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, comes three stories that evoke the existential fear of art.

Original Music by Molly Noise

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Brubaker, Charles. “The Japanese Studios of Rankin/Bass.” Cartoon Research, Jerry Beck, 14 Apr. 2014, cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-japanese-studios-of-rankinbass/.

Bute, Paris. “Introduction to “a Rankin/Bass Retrospective from a New Perspective.”” Citizen Jane, Stephens College, 19 Nov. 2021, www.citizenjane.org/home/cwwicd2ucb2fvs64kgfaocfykjhaum. Accessed 19 June 2024.

Crome, Althea. “Coraline.” Althea Crome | Micro Knitter, 2012, www.altheacrome.com/coraline. Accessed 19 June 2024.

Harold Halibut. Directed by Onat Hekimoğlu, Slow Bros., 16 Apr. 2024.

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Orland, Kyle. “Claptrap Voice Actor Accuses Gearbox CEO of Assault, Underpayment.” Ars Technica, 7 May 2019, arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/05/claptrap-voice-actor-accuses-gearbox-ceo-of-assault-underpayment/. Accessed 19 June 2024.

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Randles, Jonathan. “VFX Studio with Star Wars, Jurassic Park Credits Goes Bankrupt.” Bloomberg Law, 1 May 2024, news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/vfx-studio-with-star-wars-jurassic-park-credits-goes-bankrupt. Accessed 19 June 2024.

Shanley, Patrick. “Gearbox Software CEO Accused of Contempt in Latest Filing.” The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Aug. 2019, www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/gearbox-software-ceo-accused-contempt-latest-filing-1235064/. Accessed 19 June 2024.

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[sertsiken0606]

Önce karısı sonra kendini siktim

Merhaba hocam ben Özcan 33 yaşında sarışın mavi gözlü beyaz tenli yakışıklı bir gencim babam Türk annem Yugoslavya göçmeni bir kadın. Annem ve babam yılın her gecesi sikişmeden uyumazdı bende annem gibi bir kadınla evlenmek istiyorum. Annem adet günlerimde babama oral ve anal seks yapar babam mutlu bir şekilde yatar uyurdu.

Ben de küçük yaşlardan itibaren seksi çok isteyen heran seks yapacakmışım gibi yaşıyorum. Üniversite yıllarında Fatma isminde türbanlı çok güzel bir sevgilim vardı çok güzel olmasına karşın seksi hiç sevmiyordu 1 kez anal ve 1 kez de oral seks yapmıştık üniversite bitince mecburen Fatma memleketine gitti bende hemen iş bulup ilk Aydın a oradan devlet memuru olarak Ankara ya tayin oldum 5 yılda çalıştığım yerde müdür yardımcılığına kadar yükseldim. 2018 de yapılan seçimlerden sonra bir aile büyüğüm sayesinde TBMM de görev almaya başladım , birgün Fatma yanında bir kadın ve bir erkek ile benim odama girdi o kadar şaşırdım ki Fatma da beni görünce şaşırdı. Yanında gelenler kocası ve kaynanasıymış kocası işsiz üniversite mezunu biriydi İsmi Haşmet ti . Birkaç yer ile görüştüm onay aldım iş görüşmesine gönderdim Fatma çıkarken elime bir kağıt parçası sıkıştırdı . Onlar gider gitmez kağıdı açıp okudum yarın beni 11 den sonra ara numaram bu yazmıştı. O gece sabaha kadar Fatma yı düşünerek 31 çekmiştim. Ertesi gün saat 11 de telefon numarasını çevirdim Fatma açtı efendim Nazlı dedi bende ses çıkarmadan kapattım demek ki müsait değildi 11 35 te telefonum çaldı arayan Fatma ydı açtım konuştuk 4 yıl önce evlenmiş kocasının ne yatakta ne de başka bir yerde hiçbir işe yaramadığını söyledi. Daha önce bahsettiğim milletvekili ile görüştüm Fatma yı devlet Hastanesine işe aldırdım 2 hafta sonra işe başladı . Bu süreçte her gün telefon da konuştuk 4 yıl içinde 4 kez seks yapmadık dedi bende sen zaten seks yapmasını sevmezsin ne güzel işte dedim. Yok aslında çok seviyordum da kızlığımı elimden alırsın sonra evlendiğimde kocama ne derim diye düşündüğüm için sevmiyormuş gibi yapıyordum dedi. İşe başladığı günden itibaren her gün konuştum artık konuşmuyor seks yapıyorduk telefonda , sonuçta hastanede çalışan biri illa nöbet olacaktı şift ( vardiya çizelgesi ) hazırlanmış bana attı cuma akşamı eve gitmeyecek hastanede nöbetçi olarak kalacak bizde özel odalardan birinde seks yapacaktık.

Cuma akşamı olmuş eve gittim hazırlandım belki erken boşalırım diye hap bile aldım, saat 21 gibi hastaneye gittim ortalık sakin herşey yolundaydı odasına gittim yanında 2 hemşire ve q hasta bakıcı vardı elime yine bir kağıt parçası sıkıştırdı 5 kat 507 numara yazıyordu , hemen odaya çıktım stor perdeleri kapattım 10 dakika sonra geldi kapıyı kilitledi öpüşmeye başladık öpüşürken soyunarak okşuyorduk birbirimizi, yatağa uzandı 69 pozisyonuna geçtik o kadar güzel kokuyordu ki o da kendini bana hazırlamıştı belki 1 saate yakın amını götünü yaladım o da bana sakso çekti kendi kendime işte aynı annem gibi bir kadın elimin altında ve ben bu kadına gerçek anlamda sahip değilim ama altındaydı. Ben ilaç aldığım için boşalmıyordum Fatma enaz 4 kez boşalmıştı altımdan kalktı sikimin üstüne çıkıp oturdu zıplamaya başladı birlikte patladık ama ne patlama zevkten kendimizi kaybetmiştik. Giyinip odadan çıktı gitti bende biraz TV izledim belki 30 belki 45 dakika sonra geldi soyunup amını ağzıma verdi sikimi ağzına aldı sikim kazık gibi olmuştu yatağa yatırıp bacak arasına girip sikimi amına soktum pompalamaya başladım ben her girip çıkmamda zevkten inliyordu bu sefer ağzıma boşal döllerini yutmak istiyorum sonrakini götüme boşalmanı aynı okuldaki gibi beni sikmeni istiyorum dedi. Dediğini harfiyen yerine getirdim . Her orgazmdan sonra işinin başına geçti sonra tekrar benim koynuma geldi .

Korona başlamıştı ilk ben korona oldum benden de Fatma ya bulaştı ben hayattayım ama Fatma 03. 05. 2020 de hayata gözlerini yumdu. Nurlar içinde yatsın kocası ile şimdi çok iyi bir arkadaşız yeniden evlendi ikna ettim karısını bana kendi elleriyle siktirecek karısı bilmiyor ama kocası benim altıma yatıyor bana canım ne zaman isterse sakso çekiyor. Birgün karısı ile seks yaparsam ertesi gün sizlere anlatacağım. Okuduğunuz için teşekkür ederim

[iraot]

Hi everyone! This is my new masterlist. I wanted to edit it ( 05/31/2025 ) and give it a fresh look! I've had the previous masterlist since 2020, I do take requests & commissions, and I will be making a post about that then link it here once it's posted!

Currently I write for Love && Deepspace. I am open to other things but its on a case by case basis, if I don't write your request its nothing personal. Here is a link to my archive

The Alpha Equation | Alpha Zayne x Omega F!R x Alpha Caleb | 18+ Empire of Devotion | Prince Caleb x Maid F!reader | 18+  From Here to Forever | College AU Caleb X F!reader | 18+ A Kiss | Caleb x F!Reader | F Everything | Caleb x F!Reader | 18+ In the Heat of Desire | Caleb x f!OC x Xavier | 18+  ( COMM ) Annotations in Desire | Zayne x F!r x Caleb x Sylus | 18+ ( TRADE )

Inescapable Tide | Rafayel x F!Reader | 18+ Heat Haven | Alpha!Sylus x Omega F!reader x Beta!Rafayel  | 18+ Tethered to The Tide | Treasure Hunter Rafa x Marine Bio. F!R | 18+ Toxic Vow | Dark! Rafayel x F!Reader | 18+  Thalassa | Eldritch Horror Themes | Sea God Raf x F!reader | 18+

Heat Haven | Alpha!Sylus x Omega F!reader x Beta!Rafayel  | 18+ The Art of Submission | Massage Parlor AU | Sylus x Xavier | 18+ Annotations in Desire | Zayne x F!r x Caleb x Sylus | 18+ The Sound of Staying | Sylys x f!reader | Mature The Third Thread | Snowcrow x F!reader | 18+ Poly

No Turning Back | Alpha!Xavier x Omega F!reader | 18+  The Art of Submission | Massage Parlor AU | Sylus x Xavier | 18+ Prove It | Big Dick Xavier x F!Reader | 18+ In the Heat of Desire | Caleb x f!OC x Xavier | 18+  A Garden of Promises [01] | [02] | [03] | [04] | [05] | [06] | [07] | END

The Alpha Equation | Alpha Zayne x Omega F!R x Alpha Caleb | 18+ Every Answer, Always | Zayne x Overthinking F!reader | M ( no smut ) Covalent Bonds | College AU Zayne x Sorority Girl F!Reader | +18 Swallow | Dom Zayne x Sub F!reader | 18+ Annotations in Desire | Zayne x F!r x Caleb x Sylus | 18+ Poly Dead on Paper | Assassin Zayne x f!reader | 18+ The Third Thread | Snowcrow x F!reader | 18+ Poly

The Weight of Roses | Lord Rafayel x Caleb x F!Reader | 18+ [01] | [02] | [03] | [04] | [05] | [06] | [07] | [08] | [09] | [10] | [11] | [12] | [13] | [END]

A Garden of Promises | Xavier x f!reader | 18+ [01] | [02] | [03] | [04] | [05] | [06] | [07] | END coming soon - sylys x zayne x f!reader

Burn Protocol | Alpha Gideon x Omega F!reader | 18+ coming soon ... greyson ( heat haven series ) ... luke & kieran not together ( heat haven series )

  𝐒𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧

James “Bucky” Barnes Faded (a)(f)(s) 18+ Soldat (a)(s) 18+ Aplinee Has Logged Off (s)(f) 18+ Locked In (a)(s)(d) 18+

Lee Bodecker Disingenuous (d)  18+ You’ll See Darlin’ (a)(s)(d) 18+ What I Want (s)(f) 18+

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Steve Rogers Did You Even Think | 18+ The Small Things  (f) Illusion of Warmth (d)(s)  18+ No Use Waiting (d)(s) 18+ Don’t Go (a) Stay (a)(f) Unwavering (s) 18+ On Your Mind (s) 18+ Not Like Drowning (a) 

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Joel Miller Whiskey & Wine (a)(f)

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Tommy Miller Wild Hornets (f)(s) 18+ Until I Found Her (a) (f) The Way You’ll See Me | d 18+

[jokeroutsubs]

Joker Out Masterpost for new fans

New fan of Joker Out? Say no more! 

Getting to know a new artist you’ve found can be intimidating if it’s all in another language, so we’ve compiled some of our favourite interviews, articles and lore here! You’ve arrived in a wonderful fanbase, welcome from all of us here at JokerOutSubs! 

If you’d just like a short overview of the band and their history, you can watch this excellent Finnish summary of them that we’ve translated (14m 53s).

But if you want to dive into the details, then check out our timeline, full of videos and articles translated by JokerOutSubs! 

Timeline graphic:

Timeline in details below the cut 👇

Timeline in details: 

How did the band form? 

Joker Out was formed from two bands, Apokalipsa and Buržuazija. 

Apokalipsa included Bojan Cvjetićanin (vocals), Martin Jurkovič (bass) and Matic Kovačič (drums) 

They gained some traction with young people around Slovenia, particularly with their song 'Mogoče' ('Maybe'), which you can watch on YouTube here.

They came to the attention of Kris Guštin, who was inspired to start learning guitar! He discusses the details in this video (at 9:40). 

Kris then met Jan Peteh, another student of his guitar teacher, and at their teachers advice, they formed the band Buržuazija. 

Bojan attended their second ever gig in 2016, and decided these two excellent guitarists were exactly what had been missing from Apokalipsa, as he wasn’t happy with their current guitarists. He asked them to join, and they accepted

The new lineup (Bojan, Jan, Kris, Martin and Matic) decided to rename themselves Joker Out. The name means nothing, but they thought it sounded good and was the ‘least horrible’ of all the ideas they could think of. 

So, in 2016, Joker Out was officially formed! 

November 2016, Kot srce ki kri poganja: 

Joker Out’s first music video was for their song ‘Kot srce ki kri poganja’ ('Like a heart that pumps blood'), filmed in Jan’s hometown of Vrhnika! We eventually got this song on Spotify on their 2023 album Live from Arena Stožice!

Music video: Kot srce ki kri poganja

English Interview (from 3:37 to 6:05): Joker Out discusses filming the music video

June 2017, Špil Liga:

One of the earliest performances for Joker Out was at Špil Liga, a competition for young bands in Slovenia. They won, and recorded their winning song, Omamljeno telo (intoxicated body) in November as part of the prize. 

Live (33m): Joker Out at Špil liga

Interview (5m): Reflections on Špil Liga in 2023 

c.2017/18, Bojan’s attempt at going solo:

The band took a hiatus c.2017/18, and Bojan considered going solo at that time, even working with a few producers. He eventually realised that he belonged with the band! Hear him tell the story:

Reel (1m 23s): A1 Vajb - Bojan’s fail

2019, A change up for the band:

The band began working with their current producer, Žare Pak, and their videographer Mark Pirc, in 2019 - both of whom have been referred to as the sixth member of the band. This led to a change in their sound and production quality, which culminated in ‘Gola’ ('Naked'), the first of their songs to be a big hit!

Music video: Gola

Zlata piščal ('Golden Flute') - Best New Artist 2019:

Joker Out won their first Zlata piščal award in 2019, for best new artist (one of many they’d go on to win!) This is a kind of Slovenian Grammy! Covid interrupted the proceedings, but you can see their interview for it here (3m 59s)- 

Interview: Joker Out wins a Zlata piščal ('Golden Flute') for Best New Artist 2019

Umazane misli, and a new member: 

During the Covid times, the band began recording their first studio album, 'Umazane misli' ('Dirty thoughts'), which was originally going to be released in March 2020 but was repeatedly delayed until October 2021. The first half was recorded with drummer Matic Kovačič, but the band felt they needed something extra and brought in Jure Maček to help write the arrangements. They loved him so much, he never left! 

Interview (from 10:40 to 11:36): Bojan talks briefly about Jure joining the band

COVID times, and Cvetličarna: 

The band had arranged to do two concerts at Cvetličarna, a very important venue in Slovenia and a big break for them. This was delayed several times due to Covid, but eventually managed to go ahead in October 2021 for the release of their first album. 

Video (1m 14s): Cvetličarna promotional video

Live (1h 28m): Joker Out at Cvetličarna

Interview (34m 55s): Bojan discusses Cvetličarna, its importance, and Covid

Umazane misli album launch: 

'Umazane misli' was extremely well received! The band would go on to win two more Zlata piščal awards, Newcomers of the Year in 2020 and Artist of the Year in 2021.

Interview (37m 08s): Umazane misli album presentation

An acting career for Bojan? 

Around the same time as 'Umazane misli' was released, Bojan began considering an acting career. He acted in two episodes of the series ‘Gospod Professor’ and in another series, which was eventually reworked as a film called ‘Kaj pa Ester’ and released in December 2023. He decided music was his passion though, and he wanted to fully focus on that. 

Interview (from 10:04 to 11:30): Bojan discusses his acting career

Interview (2m 11s): Kaj pa Ester interview

Interview (2m 30s): Kaj pa Ester première

Article: Bojan on Kaj pa Ester

September 2022, Križanke:

The band got straight to work writing their second album, 'Demoni' ('Demons'), and decided to present it in September 2022 at Križanke, another hugely important venue in Slovenia. This whole concert wasn’t recorded, but we have an interesting advertisement they did for it, an interview and a clip of one song live from Križanke! 

Video (5m 4s): Full Joker Out Hotline trailers

Interview (2m 16s): Joker Out with parachutes to Križanke?

Live (4m 7s): 'Novi val' ('New wave') live at Križanke

Interview (44m 35s): Demoni album presentation

Another new member! 

After Križanke at the end of 2022, Martin Jurkovič, one of the founding members of the band, made the decision to leave to focus on his studies.

Video (2m 20s): Martin's departure

Thankfully, he was replaced by the wonderful Nace Jordan, who remains the bassist in the current lineup.

Article: Nace Jordan discusses joining the band

2023, Eurovision:

Joker Out were then internally selected to go to Eurovision 2023, and began recording their Eurovision song, 'Carpe Diem', in Hamburg in December 2022. To learn more, you can watch the Carpe Diem series, a documentary series which followed their entire journey. 

The first episode, recording Carpe Diem, can be found with subtitles in multiple languages by JokerOutSubs!

Video (16m 41s): Carpe Diem Ep. 1 - Hamburg

The band performed their song for the first time live on Misija Liverpool, a televised debut, on the 4th February 2023.

Video (27m): Joker Out performing at Misija Liverpool

There are quite literally hundreds of interviews with Joker Out during the Eurovision era. Here's one from just before the final, that we have translated.

Interview: Joker Out before the final on the 13th May

And a few English interviews that became famous in the fanbase! 

Interview (24m 29s): Eurovanja

Interview (8m 10s): Seize the Day situations

Interview (17m 18s): Tiktok Live

Interview (6m 30s): ‘Never have I ever’

Interview (14m 12s): Madrid Eurovision

Result

Joker Out came 21st at Eurovision, which they were satisfied with.

Interview (1m 36s): Bojan talks about their results

European tour and Sunny Side of London (22nd September)

Luckily, the best was still to come for Joker Out! The rest of 2023 was spent on an extremely successful European tour, and they also released their first English single, 'Sunny Side of London', in September. 

We at JokerOutSubs were also thrilled to interview the band twice on their tour!

Original Interview (15m 25s): JokerOutSubs interview in Tampere

Original Interview (14m 37s): JokerOutSubs interview in Poznań

6th of October 2023, Stožice:

All of this, however, was building up to Stožice. This is the biggest closed venue in Slovenia and Joker Out managed to sell out their October show there - an extremely important milestone for Slovenian artists. 

Interview (15m 4s): Stožice and their whirlwind post Eurovision career

Live: Full concert live-streamed part 1 and part 2

A lovely moment at Stožice was when former members Martin Jurkovič and Matic Kovačič joined the band onstage to perform 'Kot srce ki kri poganja'!

Interview (2m 4s): Martin and Matic discuss the experience

Interview (5m 9s): Joker Out post Stožice impressions

London era and Everybody’s Waiting: 

Joker Out spent the beginning of 2024 in London, where they wrote new music, did live cooking shows on Instagram and met the incredibly talented photographer, Damon Baker, who did a beautiful series of photoshoots with them. They also released their next English single, 'Everybody’s Waiting', in February. 

They sat down with us at JokerOutSubs to discuss all this on the 20th February!

Original Interview (59m 13s): JokerOutSubs interview in London

March and April 2024, ‘See you soon’ tour:

The boys then embarked on the ‘See you Soon’ tour, another very successful European tour. They played three new songs live during the tour, two of which we translated from the concert videos of our members!

Live:  First performance of 'Bluza' ('Blouse')

Live: First performance of the hugely popular 'Šta bih ja' ('What would I')

We at JokerOutSubs also interviewed the band a fourth time in Padova!

Original Interview (22m 7s): JokerOutSubs interview in Padova

Now you know a little bit about Joker Out’s history, let’s look a little bit at the members of the band as individuals! 

Who are the members?

Bojan Cvjetićanin - singer

Charming, charismatic and an all round green flag, deep down we’re all Bojan girlies! See him here on Cosmopolitan's Blind date, Portrait with Coffee and a lovely interview he did for Delo! 

Interview (8m 49s): Cosmopolitan's Blind date

Interview (18m 3s): Portrait with Coffee

Article: “If we believed that we were “kings”, that wouldn’t be us”

Jan Peteh - guitarist

The mysterious mathematician of the band, Jan and his cat Igor have stolen the hearts of the fanbase. Here he is on Undercover Mathematician and on Metropolitan podcast with ex bassist Martin! 

Interview (3m 26s): Undercover mathematician

Interview (43m 57s): Jan and Martin on Metropolitan podcast

Kris Guštin - guitarist

Known for his organisational expertise, 'slay pose' and 'cake baking skills,' Kris stays fabulous on and off stage!

Video (1m 5s): NGVOT backstory (Kris’ breakup) at Cvetličarna

Article: Interview with the entire Guštin family

Jure Maček - drummer

Described consistently by his band mates as ‘čaga’ (party), Jure brings a chaotic energy to Joker Out that we love to see!

Video (41s): Jure’s cheating (in school!) story

Interview (18m 3s): Sunday Chat on Radio 94

Nace Jordan - bassist

The oldest member of Joker Out, Nace is a genuine sweetheart who fit like a glove into Joker Out despite joining much later! 

Article: "Enriched by a special [Eurovision] experience"

Interview (18m 24s): Interview with JokerOutSubs in Umag

Get to know the whole band! 

They mostly do interviews together, so here are some of our favourites!

Interview (16m 52s): Vičstock Unplugged

Video (7m 3s): Joker Out pre-Križanke Instagram Q&A compilation

Interview (54m 42s): Multisciplinary panel at Bežigrad High School

Article: Joker Out for DELO

Article: Joker Out for Mladina magazine

Interview (6m 42s): Joker Out for RTV SLO

Interview (1h 1m): Joker Out for N1 podkast

We hope you’ve enjoyed learning a bit more about our favourite band! 

If you’d like even MORE translated interviews, articles and Instagram stories, you can find us on Tumblr, X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Spotify under the name JokerOutSubs!

P.S: If you wish to share this post with new fans, we also provided QR codes!

[thealieninhiding]

The Katie McGrath Archives (WIP)

A repository of my ongoing digital archeology & archival work please contact me if you have anything to contribute and buy me a coffee if you value my content

Updates

(last updated 2025-01-14)

2025-01-14

Scans:

2008-10 InStyle (LQ)

2009 DRAMA Magazine (LQ)

2009-10 The Sunday Times Style (Ireland)

2010-10 Tatler

2010-12 InStyle

2011-02 Instyle (LQ)

2011-07 Tatler (LQ)

2011-10 Sunday Independent

2012-03-14 Sci-FiNow

2012-03-23 The Lady Magazine

2024-07-03

Scans:

2014-02-07 London Times - Dracula sets

Audio:

(Un)likeminded 2x02 How to Survive The Apocalypse

2024-05-24

Video:

2017 Katie McGrath interview [CW|KMcGsource]

2017 Supergirl Season 3 Sweet dreams (are made of this) Music Video

2017 CW SDCC Promo Supergirl and Arrow

2019-01-01 The CW Promo Open To All

2021-04-25 Supergirl Season 6 Katie McGrath Lena Luthor

2021-09-15 Supergirl Season 6 Katie McGrath Reflecting on Supergirl

2024-05-22

Audio:

Interview - 2009-07-17 Katie McGrath Mr Media interview

Interview - 2009-10-15 Geek Syndicate Merlin BTS special

Video:

BTS - 2008-10-08 Blue Peter Merlin BTS

Events - 2009 TV Choice Awards Digital Spy interview

Events - Getty Videos of 2009 TV Choice Awards, 2010 Merlin Series 3 launch, 2011 W.E. premiere, 2017 King Arthur Premiere

2024-05-17

Archived interviews

2008-12-07 Tribune Magazine - What Katie Did

2011-10-14 What's on TV - Merlin's Katie McGrath- 'Bad girls have more fun!'

2012-12-03 Fanhattan Blog - Colin Morgan, Katie McGrath and Bradley James on Season 5 and The Series Finale

2018-08-01 The TV Junkies - Supergirl SDCC 2018 Interviews- Lena’s Impractical Lab Outfits, the Return of Reporter Kara and a More Grounded Season 4

Audio

HHush samples

Interview - 2009-2011 Sci-fi Talk rewind merlin the series specials episode 1

Interview - 2011? Merlin S4 Sci-fi talk byte katie mcgrath on morgana

Interview - 2013 BBC Radio 1xtra part 1 & part 2

(Un)likeminded 1x02 While You Were Dreaming

Trees a crowd- Irish folklore segment

Magazine scans

2008-09-20 Radio Times

2009-06-08 TV Week (Aus)

2010-09-05 Sunday Express

2010-09-30 Totally Merlin Magazine

2011-12 Total Film

2012-03-14 Sci-Fi Now

2012-10-06 Radio Times

2013-04-06 Irish independent

2013-09-02 Marie-Claire (UK)

2013-12 Instyle

2013-12 Total Film

Video:

Fans - 2012-04-16 Merlin4 [carlospyrrhus]

Fans - 2017-08-30 Supergirl cast together on set [Joyce Law]

Interview - 2009-09-?? Merlin S2 audio interview with Katie McGrath [BJsRealm] part 1

Interview - 2010-09-06 Merlin Series 3 - BBC Radio 1xtra Interview with Angel Coulby & Katie McGrath [BJsrealm]

Interview - 2011-10-14 Merlin S4 Colin Morgan, Eoin Macken Katie McGrath on The Late Late Show

Interview - 2012-07-15 Colin Morgan and Katie McGrath at SDCC 2012 - innerSPACE [merlinnetwork2]

Interview - 2012-07-18 Katie McGrath Talks Merlin At Comic Con 2012 [ThinkHeroTV]

Interview - 2012-10-25 BBC Radio 1 Breakfast - Colin & Katie part 1 & part 2 [BJsRealm]

Interview - 2012-12-03 Merlin S5 Katie McGrath interview international press day [BJsRealm]

Interview - 2012-12-03 Colin, Bradley, Katie phone interview [BJsRealm]

Interview - 2013-11-09 Katie McGrath on BBC One Saturday Kitchen [BJsRealm]

Interview - 2019-07-22 ENTREVISTA SUPERGIRL Elenco fala sobre a nova temporada [Warner Channel Brasil]

Interview - 2019-07-23 Melissa Benoist Teases Directing An Episode Of 'Supergirl' [ET Canada]

Interview - 2020-02-21 ‘Supergirl’ Celebrates 100th Episode [ET Canada]

Panels - 2011-07-28 Merlin Comic Con 2011 Panel [ThinkHeroTV]

[accio-victuuri]

what’s with the kadian 16:23?

we have a couple of number combinations that have meaning to the fandom and this one is making the rounds lately. primarily because xzs have been posting material related to this album at this time. i understand 10:00 and 10:05, even 10:30, 11, 12, 13:00 but for some reason the 16:23 has been very consistent and too specific. the conversation around it and digging up times related to it became louder because of how xzs featured this specific time on their video from friday. personally, 16 to me is yibo’s number and 23 is ofcourse love zhan. so putting that together in a bjyx-kadian-biased way made sense to me.

maybe it’s as simple as someone from xzs team asking gege if there is a specific posting time he wants and he said 16:23.

if we are going by that assumption, then these may be some reasons why it’s important…

1. I’m seeing some throw in the explanation that this may be a substitute to 18:23. It may be too sus to use this repeatedly when everyone knows what it means lol. So 16:23 may be a safer choice, those who know that 16 is yibo’s number will understand. and not many are aware of this fact. He also allegedly has a fake account called ASAP16

2. XZ has used 1623 license plate before which i understand is stalker information and more likely than not out of their control. I’m just putting it out there.

3. Back in 2020, WYB bday post was a shoe. This was back when he was a Nike boy. But the posting of 16:23 is unique and why would he choose that for a special day.

4. This is more of the number 16, there was a LRLG rumor where it appears they are talking about this pig doll with a 16 on it. I really think that this kadian is directed more towards the 16 to represent Yibo.

🟢: "It's getting cold. I'm afraid his head will freeze. Doesn't this hat look pretty?"

🔴: "Well, you're pretty good at taking care of yourself."

Wang laoshi then just locked the phone and refused to reply? Hahahahahaha. It was a little piggy doll wearing a hat with the number "16" on it. Very cute

5. There are other times that XZS posted at this time and one if for the new year and GG’s bday. I’d like to think that this has always been a favorite but it’s more in our face with the album promotion.

compared to other kadian, this is one that may need more time to be fully realized. i find it significant that out all the songs, Lighthouse got the 16:23 written all over it. if you believe that it’s a song for yibo, then maybe the 16:23 is really what we think it is. 🫶🏼

lastly, another cpn connected to this is how xzs skipped to post anything on GRA weekend. but to me this was more of professional courtesy to this important event. xz and his team most likely didn’t want to be mistaken as trying to overshadow anyone. there are other times where i think their studios are coordinated in order to not clash — for example this tuesday, the main release time for XZ materials is 10:00 and WYB’s magazine release is 12 onwards — but this incidence ( at least to me ) is not one of those.

END.

disclaimer that i’m not reducing the releases and all the content gg and his team has worked hard for to prove some kind of cpn. this is just to explain what the posting time may mean. it may or may not be significant at all and that’s just how cpns work.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they're going HARD

On June 20, I'm keynoting the LOCUS AWARDS in OAKLAND.

Let's take a sec here and notice something genuinely great happening in the US government: the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's stunning, unbroken streak of major, muscular victories over the forces of corporate corruption, with the backing of the Supreme Court (yes, that Supreme Court), and which is only speeding up!

A little background. The CFPB was created in 2010. It was Elizabeth Warren's brainchild, an institution that was supposed to regulate finance from the perspective of the American public, not the American finance sector. Rather than fighting to "stabilize" the financial sector (the mission that led to Obama taking his advisor Timothy Geithner's advice to permit the foreclosure crisis to continue in order to "foam the runways" for the banks), the Bureau would fight to defend us from bankers.

The CFPB got off to a rocky start, with challenges to the unique system of long-term leadership appointments meant to depoliticize the office, as well as the sudden resignation of its inaugural boss, who broke his promise to see his term through in order to launch an unsuccessful bid for political office.

But after the 2020 election, the Bureau came into its own, when Biden poached Rohit Chopra from the FTC and put him in charge. Chopra went on a tear, taking on landlords who violated the covid eviction moratorium:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cfpb

Then banning payday lenders' scummiest tactics:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/29/planned-obsolescence/#academic-fraud

Then striking at one of fintech's most predatory grifts, the "earned wage access" hustle:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/01/usury/#tech-exceptionalism

Then closing the loophole that let credit reporting bureaus (like Equifax, who doxed every single American in a spectacular 2019 breach) avoid regulation by creating data brokerage divisions and claiming they weren't part of the regulated activity of credit reporting:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/16/the-second-best-time-is-now/#the-point-of-a-system-is-what-it-does

Chopra went on to promise to ban data-brokers altogether:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/13/goulash/#material-misstatement

Then he banned comparison shopping sites where you go to find the best bank accounts and credit cards from accepting bribes and putting more expensive options at the top of the list. Instead, he's requiring banks to send the CFPB regular, accurate lists of all their charges, and standing up a federal operated comparison shopping site that gives only accurate and honest rankings. Finally, he's made an interoperability rule requiring banks to let you transfer to another institution with one click, just like you change phone carriers. That means you can search an honest site to find the best deal on your banking, and then, with a single click, transfer your accounts, your account history, your payees, and all your other banking data to that new bank:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/21/let-my-dollars-go/#personal-financial-data-rights

Somewhere in there, big business got scared. They cooked up a legal theory declaring the CFPB's funding mechanism to be unconstitutional and got the case fast-tracked to the Supreme Court, in a bid to put Chopra and the CFPB permanently out of business. Instead, the Supremes – these Supremes! – upheld the CFPB's funding mechanism in a 7-2 ruling:

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/05/supreme-court-lets-cfpb-funding-stand/

That ruling was a starter pistol for Chopra and the Bureau. Maybe it seemed like they were taking big swings before, but it turns out all that was just a warmup. Last week on The American Prospect, Robert Kuttner rounded up all the stuff the Bureau is kicking off:

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-06-07-window-on-corporate-deceptions/

First: regulating Buy Now, Pay Later companies (think: Klarna) as credit-card companies, with all the requirements for disclosure and interest rate caps dictated by the Truth In Lending Act:

https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2024/06/cfpb-applies-credit-card-rules

Next: creating a registry of habitual corporate criminals. This rogues gallery will make it harder for other agencies – like the DOJ – and state Attorneys General to offer bullshit "delayed prosecution agreements" to companies that compulsively rip us off:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-creates-registry-to-detect-corporate-repeat-offenders/

Then there's the rule against "fine print deception" – which is when the fine print in a contract lies to you about your rights, like when a mortgage lender forces you waive a right you can't actually waive, or car lenders that make you waive your bankruptcy rights, which, again, you can't waive:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-warns-against-deception-in-contract-fine-print/

As Kuttner writes, the common thread running through all these orders is that they ban deceptive practices – they make it illegal for companies to steal from us by lying to us. Especially in these dying days of class action suits – rapidly becoming obsolete thanks to "mandatory arbitration waivers" that make you sign away your right to join a class action – agencies like the CFPB are our only hope of punishing companies that lie to us to steal from us.

There's a lot of bad stuff going on in the world right now, and much of it – including an active genocide – is coming from the Biden White House.

But there are people in the Biden Administration who care about the American people and who are effective and committed fighters who have our back. What's more, they're winning. That doesn't make all the bad news go away, but sometimes it feels good to take a moment and take the W.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/10/getting-things-done/#deliverism

[spnscripthunt-inactive]

Here's around six hundred (600) horror film screenplays so you can learn about our shared cultural heritage.

Updated 05/10/2025:

Werewolf of London (1935)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Gaslight (1944)

The Spiral Staircase (1946)

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

Rear Window (1954)

It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)

Vertigo (1958)

Gorgo (1961)

Cape Fear (1962)

Night Stalker (1972)

Westworld (1973)

The Keep (1983)

The Terminator (1984)

Threads (1984)

Deadly Friend (1986)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986) [Final Draft]

Fatal Attraction (1987)

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Hardware (1990)

Naked Lunch (1991)

Dust Devil (1992)

Leprechaun 2 (1994)

The Stand (1994)

Copycat (1995)

Leprechaun 3 (1995)

Crash (1996)

Leprechaun 4: In Space (1997)

The Mummy (1999)

Hellraiser: Inferno (2000)

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

El Espinazo Del Diablo/The Devil's Backbone (2001)

Gothika (2003)

Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood (2003)

Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns (2005)

War of the Worlds (2005)

Funny Games (2007)

My Name is Bruce (2007)

The Happening (2008)

The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

Mirrors (2008)

Prom Night (2008)

Antichrist (2009)

The Collector (2009)

The Fourth Kind (2009)

Pandorum (2009)

The Last Exorcism (2010)

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

Love and Monsters (2020)

The Gorge (2025)

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[archivalofsins]

Not sure if this is the right time to ask this but how old are the prisoners now? We know what their age was going into Milgram, but what is it now? Since Mahiru was just short of her birthday

Star and I have been looking for the post where I list the characters ages and birth years though neither of us can find it at the moment I'll link it again if one of us do.

Sakurai, Haruka

Age when brought to Milgram: 17 (said he was this age but didn't really care too much about his own age. So, he wasn't sure. Actively lied about his age is one of the oldest young adult prisoners here. He is older than Mahiru, Futa, and Kotoko.)

Turned: 18 (said he was seventeen in his first voice drama meaning he would have turned eighteen the first year he was in Milgram if this were true. It's not it's fiction he made it up.) Haruka Sakurai was 22 when brought into Milgram and turned 23 during his first two months of incarceration within Milgram.

Birthdate: 06-22-2001 Lying dead bastard- 06-22-1997

Age at demise: would have been 23 (this is based on a lie and inaccurate) 27 or 28 if he passed away after June 22, 2025

Kashiki, Yuno

Age when brought to Milgram: 18

Turned: 19 her first four to five months of incarceration in 2020

Birthdate: 09-02-2001

Current Age: 23 turning 24 on September 02, 2025 (if she lives to see it)

Kajiyama, Futa

The specialist birthday boy. Had his birthday right before being taken to Milgram. His character description on the website says he's twenty. His birthday is on April 19 the first video for Milgram the MILGRAM / Teaser Movie released on April 27, 2020 after Futa's birthday.

So for him to be twenty when he was brought there means the prisoners must have awoken or been brought to Milgram on either the day the MILGRAM -ミルグラム- / PV video came out April 27, 2020 or when the MILGRAM / Jackalope’s “This is the MILGRAM” video came out on May 1, 2020.

Futa's age gives us a big hint for when the prisoners arrived within the prison in that sense.

I believe it was the former since the video released on April 27, 2020 is when we hear Es and all the prisoners for the first time. This also aligns with the beginning of the timelines as well.

20/04/28

Jackalope: Hey, have you been behaving yourselves while you waited? I’ll explain what it is you need to do. ……come back on May 1st at 7pm. I’ll tell you everything you need to know about MILGRAM then. In the meantime, you should bring in as many other people into MILGRAM as you can. You’ll be considering the prisoners’ “sins”…… it’s important to have a lot of different ways of thinking and feeling. You understand, right? Jackalope: ……also, all of you who’ve been calling me a rabbit on Twitter. Just know I remember all your icons……

Age when brought into Milgram: 20 (he would have been twenty for eight days if they were brought here on April 27, 2020 if it was on May 1, 2020 he would have been twenty for twelve days.)

Turned: 21 a few days before one year into his incarceration within Milgram on April 19, 2021.

Birthdate: April 19, 2000

Current age: 24 going on 25 April 19, 2025 (if he lives to see it he more than likely should but who knows if he'll get to twenty-six)

Kusunoki, Mu

Age when brought into Milgram: 16

Turned: 17 going on three months of her incarceration within Milgram.

Birthdate: 07-05-2003

Current Age: 21 going on 22 on July 05, 2025 (If she lives to see it.)

Kirisaki, Shidou

Age when brought into Milgram: 29

Turned: 30 going on six months into his incarcerations at Milgram.

Birthdate: 10-24-1990

Age at demise: 34 would have been 35 October 24, 2025.

Shiina, Mahiru

Age when brought into Milgram: 22

Turned: 23 nine months into her incarceration at Milgram 2021.

Birthdate: 1-17-1998

Age at demise: 26 would have been 27 January 17, 2025

Mukuhara, Kazui

Age when brought into Milgram: 39

Turned: 40 going on four months into his incarceration in Milgram.

Birthdate: 8-05-1980

Current Age: 44 going on 45 August 05, 2025. (If he lives to see it.)

Momose, Amane

Age when brought into Milgram: 12

Turned: 13 going on two months into her incarceration in Milgram.

Birthdate: 6-27-2007

Current Age: 17 going on 18 June 27, 2025. (If she lives to see it.)

Kayano, Mikoto

Age when brought into Milgram: 23

Turned: 24 going on six months into his incarceration at Milgram.

Birthdate: 10-06-1996

Current Age: 28 going on 29 October 06, 2025. (If he lives to see it but let's be real he'll probably outlive everyone here given he's not fully restrained and may probably be less restrained now that he's innocent.)

Yuzuriha, Kotoko

Age when brought into Milgram: 20

Turned: 21 going on eight months into her incarceration at Milgram.

Birthdate: 12-15-1999

Current Age: 25 going on 26 December 15, 2025. (If she lives to see it which she might not but hell if Shidou couldn't extract that fang then she probably gon' be fine.)

Es

Age when Milgram started: 15

Birthday: Unknown

Current Age: 19 going on 20 whenever their birthday is. So literally Futa's age when he did what Es/the audience found him guilty for driving someone to suicide and or instigating someone's death but not killing them directly. Man it would be awkward if they did the exact same thing at the exact same age now wouldn't it- Luckily we don't live in that timeline.

My apologies that this took a bit to answer. I had @apatchworkstar check over it to make sure I was doing the math right before posting just in case I messed up and I did with Mahiru. Now no one will ever know how. Yay always have someone check over your work when you suck at mental math and are greatly out of practice with the subject and art of it.

Hope this is helpful to you and others in some way. Honestly more art of the prisoners at the irl time ages would be great. So maybe this may lead to that or nothing but just more knowledge being out there.

[zeiinoviahh]

Turns out you're a dark one, Anna who they call Angel.

(originally posted 05/10/2020)

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