#16/03/2022

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Classificados do Edimilson: veja as vagas de emprego da semana de 25 a 29 de setembro

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[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

Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

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[helveticablanc]

From the Archives — 2022 03 16-22

[koch-snowflake-blog]

早川真由　@mayu

生年月日 : 2004/03/30 (20)

身長 : 166cm

血液型 : A型

MBTI：ISTJ

出身地：岐阜県

趣味: コスメ集め、愛犬の散歩

特技: 器械体操、珠算

【経歴】

〜2020年〜

・講談社 ミスマガジン2020 ベスト16

〜2021年〜

・主婦の友社 Scawaii!掲載

・主婦の友社 STRiKE!掲載

・デジタル写真集「清楚なあの子の妄想白ビキニ」

〜2022年〜

・1stDVD 竹書房 ｢ピュア・スマイル｣

〜2023年〜

・2ndDVD ラインコミュニケーションズ「18才の小夜曲(セレナーデ)」

〜2024年〜

・雑誌Cream2月号掲載

・雑誌Cream4月号掲載

・雑誌Cream6月号掲載

　　

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[slimedryer]

TO BE A FLY ON THIS WALL (or: time. pain.)

A 41 minute, 14 second compilation featuring the breakdown during every live, formal performance of "The Foundations of Decay" in 2022 and 2023, in chronological order.

(Many thanks to @sleepoutro and @angstics for their foundational data compilation work. More information, credits, and individual video details after the cut.)

During work on a separate Foundations video project, I decided the the breakdown footage wouldn't be used. Of course, it's an impactful moment every show — the footage shouldn't go unseen, and the most fun My Chem fans can have is finding parallels, noticing patterns, etc. So, that project was put on hold while this compilation was made.

Hopefully the final product looks deceptively simple. I'd estimate 150 hours of work including learning DaVinci Resolve, footage discovery (YT search is borderline useless now?), review, and editing. If, after all that time, there's any discrepancies in the data, links, or audio/video sync, let me know.

link to angstics masterlist: angstics.tumblr.com/post/714904480751206400/

link to sleepoutro masterlist: sleepoutro.tumblr.com/post/702020960719683584/

I also utilized the MCRchive Dropbox catalogue, but for this project didn't include any videos I wasn't able to source directly from YouTube (note: two videos from edmorris2191 were set to private between sourcing and publishing).

DATE (YMD) | VENUE LOCATION | UPLOADED BY | LINK TO FULL VIDEO

2023 03 26 | Intex Osaka, Osaka, Japan | kei-y | youtube.com/watch?v=GroVKRMiFrc

2023 03 25 | Makuhari Messe 9-11 Hall, Chiba, Japan | liveshowclips (video) | youtube.com/watch?v=1BrZ9Xj8deg (video) | maddhatter_yungho (audio) | youtube.com/watch?v=5lnNus6nZ-8 (audio) [The visual here was fantastic but the audio was better on an alternate recording.]

2023 03 20 | Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, Australia | gin4918 | youtube.com/watch?v=p7Kw70LCkCQ

2023 03 19 | Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, Australia | Australian_Satan | youtube.com/watch?v=GpttxJILB_k

2023 03 17 | Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia | xander85 | youtube.com/watch?v=H8gutfrqkTQ

2023 03 16 | Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia | kingswrestlingtalk4234 | youtube.com/watch?v=A95Fma0PocA

2023 03 14 | Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, Australia | camosconcerts | youtube.com/watch?v=AdY6luAduWs

2023 03 13 | Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, Australia | JBfromOZ | youtube.com/watch?v=rsUFHis8nLE

2023 03 11 | The Outer Fields at Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand | Dirvinator | youtube.com/watch?v=0207hOpIFkA

2022 11 18 | Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City, Mexico | wikiconcerts | youtube.com/watch?v=--ag8X-RhTM

2022 10 29 | Las Vegas Festival Grounds, Las Vegas, NV, USA | sirsuchil290 | youtube.com/watch?v=uZoEQeIjOC4

2022 10 17 | Kia Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA | deadhoarse | youtube.com/watch?v=4BSpQGxiFq0

2022 10 15 | Kia Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA | untamedb3ast813 | youtube.com/watch?v=YDiIztE4ZuY

2022 10 14 | Kia Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA | craiggaynier1565 | youtube.com/watch?v=pm-mWFCYZzw

2022 10 12 | Kia Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA | danszig77 | youtube.com/watch?v=ldIbzKhQkPk

2022 10 11 | Kia Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA | edmorris2191 | Video Made Private

2022 10 08 | Discovery Park, Sacramento, CA, USA | KobeA7 | youtube.com/watch?v=lTbVkbjqJKs

2022 10 07 | T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, NV, USA | Arguetil3am | youtube.com/watch?v=lmQzMFiFENk

2022 10 05 | Oakland Arena, Oakland, CA, USA | sorryimaiden | youtube.com/watch?v=oa4lUEn-B60

2022 10 03 | Tacoma Dome, Tacoma, WA, USA | BrandinoLee | youtube.com/watch?v=19UhkSGbQkI

2022 10 02 | Moda Center, Portland, OR, USA | Gravity.Prince | youtube.com/watch?v=La29nwYG3iQ

2022 09 30 | Ball Arena, Denver, CO, USA | feedbackmusicbar | youtube.com/watch?v=xXk9kfAuj0A

2022 09 28 | American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX, USA | osceola13 | youtube.com/watch?v=dfC-in1S9Z0

2022 09 27 | Toyota Center, Houston, TX, USA | ericrainey7143 | youtube.com/watch?v=giVqgehNAZk

2022 09 24 | FLA Live Arena, Sunrise, FL, USA | marcg.3333 | youtube.com/watch?v=HjUYgchyTO4

2022 09 23 | The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway, Dover, DE, USA | aleneb5712 | youtube.com/watch?v=z6NGn_L3uis

2022 09 21 | Prudential Center, Newark, NJ, USA | odetoanathema | youtube.com/watch?v=xr_V-hRH3Gs

2022 09 20 | Prudential Center, Newark, NJ, USA | jimpowers10411 | youtube.com/watch?v=Me2Zzrm1E4k

2022 09 18 | Ameris Bank Amphitheatre, Alpharetta, GA, USA | siberwolf | youtube.com/watch?v=A2hC7TZPplc

2022 09 16 | Douglass Park, Chicago, IL, USA | cynthiachang465 | youtube.com/watch?v=lienHKv6JFs

2022 09 15 | Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN, USA | Kittycat12353 | youtube.com/watch?v=4WQ5zCETOs8

2022 09 13 | Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, MI, USA | i.i.i.1 | youtube.com/watch?v=EWeF7jkZAdE

2022 09 11 | Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA | tomsarchive3623 | youtube.com/watch?v=F1ARCm_tzzY

2022 09 10 | Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA | maes6050 | youtube.com/watch?v=5UvEJxDMXW0

2022 09 08 | TD Garden, Boston, MA, USA | Lilazzini | youtube.com/watch?v=bkJfbcaoNIU

2022 09 07 | TD Garden, Boston, MA, USA | wesleyjillson4810 | youtube.com/watch?v=6a0xlGlzAWU

2022 09 05 | Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, ON, Canada | Eddievanhello | youtube.com/watch?v=wSJPOrNWv8I

2022 09 04 | Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, ON, Canada | AruWindRabbit | youtube.com/watch?v=xUjfaf0da2U

2022 09 02 | Centre Bell, Montreal, QC, Canada | Nataly080186 | youtube.com/watch?v=cX9K9yTVwuY

2022 09 01 | Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT, USA | kylestraveljournal | youtube.com/watch?v=UJ7F1Ps5RzE

2022 08 30 | MVP Arena, Albany, NY, USA | deterioration | youtube.com/watch?v=sYESfqGtbMo

2022 08 29 | Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA | deadhoarse | youtube.com/watch?v=cEu8nRD2-H4

2022 08 27 | UBS Arena, Elmont, NY, USA | anonymousconcertwatcher7879 | youtube.com/watch?v=M8tbKjJQtPE

2022 08 26 | PNC Arena, Raleigh, NC, USA | divineproxie7736 | youtube.com/watch?v=CAqDdKQC5CE

2022 08 24 | Heritage Bank Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA | DatBlizz | youtube.com/watch?v=Y6CpUbyLeRk

2022 08 23 | Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN, USA | MoshPitChronicles | youtube.com/watch?v=Nks-iLsYPYk

2022 08 21 | AT&T Center, San Antonio, TX, USA | dragontype191 | youtube.com/watch?v=OVAEdXT3FqM

2022 08 20 | Paycom Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA | xXspiraloutXx | youtube.com/watch?v=LIUrd6hYNxs

2022 06 18 | Kunstrasen Bonn, Bonn, Germany | edmorris2191 | Video Made Private

2022 06 17 | Kunstrasen Bonn, Bonn, Germany | starstrucklilly9024 | youtube.com/watch?v=rnu1LOWYGbY

2022 06 14 | Stora Scenen, Gröna Lund, Stockholm, Sweden | JulianneSands | youtube.com/watch?v=x2pXYuTMi5s

2022 06 12 | Velodrom, Berlin, Germany | cybeshi | youtube.com/watch?v=PA1DtnMdy5g

2022 06 11 | O2 arena, Prague, Czechia | matovkanal5361 | youtube.com/watch?v=yGh889k4Pj0

2022 06 09 | Letnia Scena Progresji, Warsaw, Poland | wiktoria.j | youtube.com/watch?v=OpdxyuvKFFU

2022 06 07 | Budapest Park, Budapest, Hungary | FMA4EVERX3 | youtube.com/watch?v=I2xoDB6Z3b8

2022 06 06 | Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany | gabrielaw.8449 | youtube.com/watch?v=thhZGzpYk4U

2022 06 04 | Arena Parco Nord, Bologna, Italy | EndlessNightMCR | youtube.com/watch?v=bAmJQL2RY3k

2022 06 02 | Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands | Prinren | youtube.com/watch?v=ue_cUm1oYjQ

2022 06 01 | Accor Arena, Paris, France | parisandallthatjazz | youtube.com/watch?v=aoNzsPOe7Lc

2022 05 30 | The OVO Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland | DrFluffyNips | youtube.com/watch?v=0zqCiEMg0uA

2022 05 28 | Sophia Gardens Cricket Ground, Cardiff, Wales | visiblexperia6693 | youtube.com/watch?v=o5z_iYjLu1M

2022 05 27 | Victoria Park, Warrington, England | darrenquin317 | youtube.com/watch?v=Mxso0GJyjSE

2022 05 25 | Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland | SelfishxRomance | youtube.com/watch?v=ucoez2VlGVo

2022 05 24 | Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland | calumharkness3932 | youtube.com/watch?v=SMLoZotO-S8

2022 05 22 | Stadium MK, Milton Keynes, England | MrDunky123456 | youtube.com/watch?v=DEOicrAKyuk

2022 05 21 | Stadium MK, Milton Keynes, England | ErynnHalvorson | youtube.com/watch?v=xWYsVgDNMMw

2022 05 19 | Stadium MK, Milton Keynes, England | owenpower03 | youtube.com/watch?v=L-notPaM_ow

2022 05 17 | The Eden Project, St Austell, England | keeleyduckworth500 | youtube.com/watch?v=lz5mywxeyoI

2022 05 16 | The Eden Project, St Austell, England | jannersontour8696 | youtube.com/watch?v=q9-GcMktJuA

[kal8elle]

Superman: Son of Kal-El 16 (2022)

Action Comics v1 1035 (2021)

Superman: Kal-El Returns Special 01 (2022)

Absolute Power 03 (2024)

Superman v5 07 (2019)

Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths v1 06 (2022)

Superman: son of Kal-El 17 (2022)

[tigerbears]

THE PRONOUNS ESSAY IS FINALLY OUT!

(Are they non-binary? — Analyzing Undertale/Deltarune's trans representation.)

The quint essential video on Undertale and Deltarune's trans and non-binary representation. If any video is going to end nearly a decade of discourse/arguing over if these games have non-binary characters or not, it's probably this one!

(Oh what am I kidding people are still going to scream about the gender and pronouns discourse but one can hope!)

Every argument is tackled!

Someone on Reddit claiming that Legends of Localization supposedly confirms that the character's genders are up for interpretation? We analyses what the book actually says!

Someone says that they/them pronouns aren't exclusive to enbys? We'll take every other logical explanation for they/them pronouns (besides an enby gender idendity), and analyses almost every single they/them character in UT/DR, to see if their pronouns can be explained without a non-binary gender identity!! (Spoiler alert, most can't be explained without an enby gender!!!)

If someone tries to argue why Kris is non-binary, this video likely debunks their argument! It's probably one of, if not the most extensive video analyzing, and arguing for Undertale and Deltarune's Transgender/Non-Binary Representation!

This is a video I've spent many long and hard months making so I hope it makes a difference!

Below is a list of all of the sources, videos, and music used in the essay.

Sources:

First, while I don’t use any of their content in the pronouns essay, I have to thank trans-utdr on Tumblr for cataloging most of the instances when characters are they/themed. Their blog was a great help in the creation of this video essay. https ://www.tumblr.com/trans-utdr

Also forgot to mention this, but Catticus helped out with the creation of the subtitles, so giving them credit for that.

[00] 00:12 "UNDERTALE Release Trailer" — FwugRadiation:

https://youtu.be/1Hojv0m3TqA

[01] 01:49 Archive of Toby Fox's Twitter:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150102011636/https://twitter.com/FwugRadiation

[02] 02:18 "Undertale - Mad Mew Mew (Full Boss Fight) - SPOILERS for Switch version" — Todd Christiansen:

https://youtu.be/h__y5gyJZKw

[03] 02:56 “Kris and I - Queer Joy in the Undertale and Deltarune Fandom” — Shadow of Roserade:

https://youtu.be/ykIiHLVbk5E

[04] 03:20 Archived Outer Wilds Fig page: Localization

https://www.mobiusdigitalgames.com/news/localization

https://web.archive.org/web/20200417195939/https://www.fig.co/campaigns/outer-wilds/updates/831

[05] 04:45 "Bridget Trans Real" — Guilty Gear Official: (I don't think this is the real official one btw just a fan channel)

https://youtu.be/1mJZR9MpIL8

[06] 05:16 "In Stars and Time - OUT NOW on PC, Switch, PS4, and PS5!" — Armor Games Studios:

https://youtu.be/Glec7uzohbg

[07] 05:22 In Stars and Time Steam Page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677310/In_Stars_And_Time/

[08] 05:25 "Celeste Any% in 24:58.023" — secureaccount

https://youtu.be/jNE6lSSbYNM

[09] 05:28 "MaddyMakesGames Article 'Is Madeline Canonically Trans?'"

https://maddymakesgames.com/articles/is_maddy_trans/

[10] 05:32 (and 04:56 was when it was first used) "Guilty Gear -Strive- - Bridget Announcement Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games" — PlayStation:

https://youtu.be/3GYL5FVpjG4

[11] 05:35 "Guilty Gear Strive Developer: Bridget Identifies as a Woman"

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2022-09-14/guilty-gear-strive-developer-bridget-identifies-as-a-woman/.189673

[12] 05:35 "Guilty Gear -Strive- Developers: Bridget Was Always Meant to Be Transgender"

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2022-10-31/guilty-gear-strive-developers-bridget-was-always-meant-to-be-transgender/.191273

[13] 07:34 Legends of Localization Book 3 Undertale — Clyde Mandelin

https://www.fangamer.com/products/legends-of-localization-undertale

[14] 09:21 "OneShot: World Machine Edition - Announcement Trailer - Nintendo Switch" — Nintendo of America:

https://youtu.be/8PaAA0GkSv4

[15] 09:30 "What is Niko's gender" An ask on Eliza's Tumblr:

https://elizavq.tumblr.com/post/113737817876/hello-i-really-like-this-game-but-one-question-I

[16] 09:33 "Is Niko a boy or a girl?" An ask on Nightmargin's Tumblr:

https://nightmargin.tumblr.com/post/140577597251/what-is-nikos-gender-if-they-have-one-i-heard

[17] 09:38 OneShot Fandom Wiki page for Niko:  

https://oneshot.fandom.com/wiki/Niko#Trivia

[18] 09:50 Singular they — Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

[19] 10:47 (46) "Arthur. Season 9 Episode 2: Buster the Myth Maker" — Clip from Mr. Toydarian.

https://youtu.be/iHrZRJR4igQ

[20] 11:08 "UNDERTALE 6th Anniversary So We Play DELTARUNE Chapter 1 For Some Reason - LIVE!" — Fangamer: (01:26:04)

https://www.youtube.com/live/rksOYId-cNA?t=5164

[21] 11:15 "Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams" — Clip from No Roof Access.

https://youtu.be/0RFwyobtnKA

[22] 11:24 Retrospective on UNDERTALE’s Popularity. — Toby Fox

https://undertale.tumblr.com/post/150397346860/retrospective-on-undertales-popularity

[23] 11:27 "Undertale Dev: “Every Monster Should Feel Like an Individual”" — The Escapist

https://www.escapistmagazine.com/undertale-dev-every-monster-should-feel-like-an-individual/

[24] 11:30 "INTERVIEW: TOBY FOX OF UNDERTALE" — The Existential Gamer

https://web.archive.org/web/20151009110646/https://existentialgamer.com/interview-toby-fox-of-undertale

[25] 11:34 Archive of Toby Fox's Twitter:  

https://web.archive.org/web/20190104182550/https://Twitter.com/tobyfox/status/1081239086847967232

[26] 11:37 "What's NEXT For Theorist and GTLive... |  Goodbye Internet Meme Review 👏🖐" — GTLive (00:39:23)

https://youtu.be/ytiOWeRWTWc?t=2363

[27] 12:37 Undertale Goblin Finally Plays the Earthbound Halloween Hack: — Andrew Cunningham (03:48:53)

https://www.youtube.com/live/RkbhUqpAriw?t=13733

[28] 13:17 "Undertale, Deltarune, and Shattering The 4th Wall - Deep Dive & Analysis" — Pet Brick Productions (long video but the section used is early in the essay)

https://youtu.be/R_MPC6SF_-Q

[29] 13:43 Community post on the future of Underverse — Jael Peñaloza

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxA_OLCv2J__KjAS12U5y2uc13rRGW8_dZ

Update — Jael Peñaloza

https://youtu.be/OC9Ob7pHUlA

[30] 13:46 TC-96: — Endertale

https://xxtc-96xx.tumblr.com/post/152843470458/the-cover-page-to-endertale-da-da-daaaaaaaaa

[31] 13:43 "ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING! | Undertale LIVE - Part 1" — Mariplier (00:03:44)

https://www.youtube.com/live/9rvY7uvZhtw?t=224

[32] 13:48 "Game Theory: Who is W.D. Gaster? (Undertale)" — The Game Theorists

https://youtu.be/8wzxbR5vfjE

[33] 14:07 "OneShot Trailer" — KOMODO

https://youtu.be/ctYNBd6t4-g

[34] 14:21 “Watsonian versus Doylist” — TV Tropes:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WatsonianVersusDoylist

[35] 16:16 SPAMTON SWEEPSTAKES — Fangamer

https://deltarune.com/sweepstakes/

[36] 16:20 Twitter's Spamton Q&A — Fangamer

https://web.archive.org/web/20220919005433/https://twitter.com/Fangamer/status/1571363913543061505

[37] 17:23 Archive of Toby's old posts on starman.net:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151215011757/https://forum.starmen.net/forum/Community/PKHack/UnderBound/page/1#post1915463

[38] 18:04 Out of Context Toby Fox: Cursed bottomless Asriel retweet.

https://twitter.com/OutOfRadiation/status/1522037914565332992

[39] 18:15 "Non-binary characters in Undertale and Deltarune" — suzyundertale on Tumblr:

https://suzyundertale.tumblr.com/post/185072983702/non-binary-characters-in-undertale-and-deltarune

[40] 18:59 Undertale 5th anniversary alarm clock app —

https://undertale.com/alarmclock/flowey/

[41] 19:08 The 9th anniversary newsletter Chara 9 letter

https://toby.fangamer.com/interviews/letter/

[42] 19:14 "Soulless Genocide Ending (3 Geno Runs in a Row)" — Lucas

https://youtu.be/SUW7ZTr36QI

[43] 19:33 "English neutral pronouns" — nonbinary wiki

https://nonbinary.wiki/wiki/English_neutral_pronouns#It

[44] 20:06 "Responding to 1200 Comments on my Deltarune Video [Part 1]" — Andrew Cunningham (01:25:03)

https://www.youtube.com/live/vuP97sQGwy4?t=5103

[45] 20:25 "An Undertale Goblin's first Earthbound Playthrough [Part 5]" — Andrew Cunningham (02:59:26)

https://www.youtube.com/live/aE_ZS0HOUCE?t=10766

[46] 22:15 "Some comments on Deltarune’s official Japanese translation" — kazarinn on tumblr (Basically, these are some Japanese tweets translated into English.)

https://kazarinn.tumblr.com/post/179845924892/some-comments-on-deltarunes-official-japanese

[47] 24:22 "Star Trek: The Next Generation" S5: EP 17 —

Use a VPN to access it on Netflix if you're in a country where it's not on Netflix.

[48] 24:54 Catticus's neocities

https://catticus.neocities.org/

[49] 25:37 "Personal pronouns in Japanese." — Wa-pedia

https://www.wa-pedia.com/language/japanese_personal_pronouns.shtml

[50] 25:43 "自分 is a Japanese pronoun that means "self."" — tofugu

https://www.tofugu.com/japanese-grammar/jibun/

[51] 26:29 "Undertale - Nintendo Switch Release Trailer" — IGN:

https://youtu.be/SqjY_-beWi0

[52] 27:19 "Why Mad Mew Mew Matters | Undertale Character Analysis" — Dorked

https://youtu.be/Qld3inSZdjc

[53] 27:48 "Undertale Xbox One Dog Shrine Fuzz Dialogue" — Jacky720

https://youtu.be/0MhVfjqKbqw

[54] 31:39 Artwork of Felix (A Perseverance/Purple SOUL OC) by Venn November

https://vennnovember.tumblr.com/post/759592211087245312/my-perseverance-soul-interpretation-felix

[55] 31:39 Artwork of Clover from UTY's GameJolt Page. (Idk who made it)

https://gamejolt.com/games/UndertaleYellow/136925

[56] 33:37 "Deltarune Chapter 1 Demo Unused" Text — The Cutting Room Floor.

https://tcrf.net/Proto:Deltarune/Chapter_1_Demo_(2018)/Unused_Text#Glow_Tile_Puzzle_Hint

[57] Spamton Sweepstakes "the n3w3st g1rl g1rl" post from Noelle (the newest girl girl)

https://deltarune.com/the_n3w3st_g1rl_g1rl/

[58] 35:03 "UNDERTALE 6th Anniversary So We Play DELTARUNE Chapter 1 For Some Reason - LIVE!" — Fangamer (03:28:03)

https://www.youtube.com/live/rksOYId-cNA?t=12483

[59] 36:50 Azzypants artwork by sleepyfox on ACDS

https://sleepyfoxstudios.tumblr.com/post/755248104212709376/dumping-all-my-3-of-my-azzypants-here

https://discord.com/channels/919115374316908584/1105217442692735147/1202150731982049340

[60] 40:29 "UNDERTALE 6th Anniversary So We Play DELTARUNE Chapter 1 For Some Reason - LIVE!" — Fangamer (01:19:15)

https://www.youtube.com/live/rksOYId-cNA?t=4755

[61] 41:01 "The Japanese Version of Deltarune" — @guster-animations

https://guster-animations.tumblr.com/750855218738200576/the-japanese-version-of-deltarune

[62] 41:10 Rakugo NZ

https://rakugonz.com/2017/08/23/welcome/

https://rakugonz.com/2020/11/18/many-ways-to-say-i-in-japanese-explained/

[63] 41:22 "CHAPTER 2 CONCEPT ART!!!" — 9th-anniversary newsletter.

https://toby.fangamer.com/interviews/chapter2_concept/

[64] 41:34 "Artwork of Jevil from Temmie Chang" — Temmie's twitter.

https://web.archive.org/web/20181106165142/https://twitter.com/tuyoki/status/1059681874707144704

[65] 42:27 Valentine’s newsletter letters Archived by @obscuretobyfox

https://obscuretobyfox.tumblr.com/post/742265034465509376/tumblr-limits-30-images-to-a-post-so-these-three

[66] 42:34 "What are El Niño and La Niña?" — N.O.A.A

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ninonina.html

[67] 42:38 El Niño–Southern Oscillation — Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o%E2%80%93Southern_Oscillation#Definition_and_terminology

[68] 42:42 "el & la" — spanishdict

https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/the?langFrom=en

[69] 42:52 "UT/DR Summer 2024 Newsletter" — fangamer

https://toby.fangamer.com/newsletters/summer24/

[70] 43:00 "QUESTS TO RELEASE CHAPTER 3&4!!" — fangamer

https://toby.fangamer.com/updates/quests/

[71] 44:19 Antlers — Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antler#Female_antlers_in_reindeer

[72] 44:24 “Role of gonadal hormones in the regulation of the seasonal antler cycle in female reindeer, Rangifer tarandus” In Reproduction

https://rep.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/rep/101/1/jrf_101_1_019.xml?rskey=2YvrOn&result=1

Where to find music used:

UNDERTALE Soundtrack:

https://tobyfox.bandcamp.com/album/undertale-soundtrack

OneShot Soundtrack:

https://nightmargin.bandcamp.com/album/oneshot-soundtrack

Omori OST:

https://omori.bandcamp.com/album/omori-ost

Unused Music from the 9th-Anniversary UT/DR Newsletter

https://toby.fangamer.com/interviews/chapter2_music/

Outer Wilds - Original Soundtrack:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1286760/Outer_Wilds__Original_Soundtrack/

Mother 3's Soundtrack:

You figure it out! You can't buy the game after all!

In Stars and Time (a soundtrack)

https://thumpypuppy.bandcamp.com/album/in-stars-and-time-a-soundtrack

Celeste Original Soundtrack

https://radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/album/celeste-original-soundtrack

Chrono Trigger OST

Idk maybe spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/2kOD9QzcUkeT57RJkNvQpH

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Original Soundtrack

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1335140/Phoenix_Wright_Ace_Attorney_Original_Soundtrack/

Homestuck: Unreleased Tracks

https://youtu.be/sCFuOmInTxQ

Minecraft: Story Mode (Original Soundtrack)

https://antimo.bandcamp.com/album/minecraft-story-mode-original-soundtrack

Undertale: Your Best Companion Soundtrack

(Basically the tracks not in the UT soundtrack/more accurate to the in-game versions)

https://sanctferum.tumblr.com/post/139856660312/undertale-your-best-companion-soundtrack

Spamton Sweepstakes Music

Find Her

https://deltarune.com/dess/

Battle Vapor https://deltarune.com/shadowmen/

Star Trek: The Next Generation Soundtrack

Also "idk maybe spotify" https://open.spotify.com/track/5uVt4uR9bdqYnhcQ0IUhVc

Undertale (Switch)

Mad Mew Mew https://youtu.be/aeM0EVs1ON8 (Though I use the "Your Best Companion" version in the video)

Brandish SNES OST

Don't think it's been released officially so idk you figure it out.

Miscellaneous

Nightmare Knight https://fwugradiation.tumblr.com/post/94770096436/every-5000-years-the-terrible-nightmare-knight

Battle Vapor (extended) by Witherskull42: https://soundcloud.com/gaster-78444506/deltarune-battle-vapor-ogg

Music Used:

00:01 Undertale: Your Best Nightmare

00:12 Undertale: Snowdin Town

01:16 OneShot: Phosphor

01:56 Omori: Where we used to play 44

2:29 9th-Anniversary UTDR newsletter’s unused tracks: Spamton battle forgotten

2:40 Outer Wilds: Timber Hearth

4:11 Mother 3: Alec’s Log House

5:16 In Stars and Time: Title Theme

5:24 Celeste: Frist Steps

6:24 Chrono Trigger: Black Dream

7:22 Ace Attorney: Objection! 2001

8:41 HOMESTUCK: [S] Jane: Blast off.

8:46 Ace Attorney: Pursuit - Corner the Culprit

9:30 OneShot: On little Cat Feel

10:11 Ace Attorney: Pursuit - Corner the Culprit (Variation)

11:24 Minecraft: Story Mode: Ivor’s theme [101]

11:51 Deltarune: NOW’S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A

12:40 Oneshot: Geothermal

14:44 Deltarune: A Town Called Hometown

16:00 Deltarune: Hip Shop

16:58 Undertale: Another Medium

17:27 Undertale: Dog Song

17:40 Undertale Bonetrousle

18:14 Undertale: Snowey (well, used a version closer to the one used in ingame)

18:49 Undertale: Star (Unused)

19:38 Undertale: The Core (Geno version)

20:09 Mother 3: Sorrowful Tazmily

20:32 Spamton Sweepstakes (and maybe Deltarune in the future: Find Her.

21:20 Undertale: Waterfall

22:12 Deltarune: Vs. Susie

22:49 Deltarune: Chill Jailbreak Alarm to Study and Relax to

23:19 Undertale: Death By Glamor

24:22 Star Trek: The Next Generation: Main Theme.

24:46 Undertale: Metal Crusher

25:58 Undertale: The Core

26:29 Undertale Switch (From the "Your Best Companion" Collection): Mad Mew Mew

28:01 Undertale: Dummy!

29:57 Undertale: Hotel

31:19 Undertale: It’s Raining Somewhere Else

33:25 Deltarune: Quiet Autumn

23:02 Ace Attorney: Pursuit - Corner the Culprit (again)

35:38 Deltarune: Pandora Palace.

37:09 Deltarune: Another Him

38:00 Undertale Amalgam

39:35 9th Anniversary UTDR Newsletter: POWER OF NEO (Complete)

40:16 Deltarune: Lantern

40:50 Brandish SNES: Quiet Shop

41:17 Deltarune: Smart Race

41:55 Deltarune: The Chase

42:10 A Cucumber Quest fansong by Toby Fox: Nightmare Knight

42:15 Deltarune: The Door

42:23 Spamton Sweepstakes: Battle Vapor

42:25 Battle Vapor (extended) Witherskull42:

43:14 Deltarune: You Can Always Come Home

43:31 Deltarune: Girl Next Door

46:03 Undertale: Last Goodbye

[incubusparadox]

DIR EN GREY in Taiwan: a hellish journey as beautiful as a nightmare, as real as a letter written in blood

After nine years, DIR EN GREY finally returned to Taiwan. Following the conclusion of their U.S. tour, they kicked off their Asian leg on May 10 at Zepp New Taipei. This stop of the “TOUR25 WHO IS THIS HELL FOR?” was titled mode of VULGAR, and while it was centered on the 2003 album VULGAR, the setlist served as a condensed retrospective of over 20 years of career: a deep exploration of their musical roots and a frenetic ritual that stared straight into the abyss of human nature. With “pain” as its core, DIR EN GREY remains a symbol of both visual kei and extreme metal—dark and beautiful, violent yet filled with hope.

Crossing boundaries of nationality, gender, or age was no obstacle: fans gathered to experience this intense performance, where pain and hope intertwined like a scream etched into the bones.

The five members of DIR EN GREY emerged amid passionate screams. The night opened with “人間を被る” (2018), a sonic explosion that marked the entry into their spiritual realm. It was followed by “The Devil In Me,” a new song accompanied by its music video—a dialogue with deceased criminals and inner demons.

Next came the iconic “DRAIN AWAY,” unleashing a frenzy among fans, who sang through tears and laughter. In “13” (from the album PHALARIS, 2022), Shinya’s drums sounded like a beast on the march, while 京 (Kyō) writhed on stage like a cursed flame—clearly evoking the brazen bull on the album cover.

The emotional descent deepened with “禍夜想” and “The Perfume of Sins,” where 京 (Kyō)’s piercing high notes and the floral projections created a dreamlike and distressing atmosphere. The ballad “朧” played under red lights and visions of a bloody childbirth, detaching the audience from reality.

Without pauses or MCs, they attacked with “VINUSHKA” (UROBOROS, 2008), a harrowing epic that condemns war, even projecting images of atomic bombings. Yet, brief glimpses of the band members added visual flair: 薫 (Kaoru)’s avant-garde hairstyle, Die’s flowing hair, Toshiya’s charisma, and Shinya’s elegance.

The heart of the show brought the essential “かすみ” (from VULGAR), with 京 (Kyō) improvising over the melody. The red mic cable looked like a living vein transmitting his voice straight to the audience’s soul. It was followed by “audience KILLER LOOP” and “OBSCURE,” experimental pieces far ahead of their time. With this album, 京 (Kyō) abandoned the title of “vocalist” and proclaimed himself a “prophet,” breaking away from traditional rock roles.

The final songs before the encore were “落ちた事のある空” and “Eddie” (PHALARIS), performed at hellish speed. The crowd screamed, pumped their fists, and released years of emotion. 京 (Kyō) threw down the microphone and left the stage.

For the encore, 京 (Kyō) appeared without makeup to perform “CHILD PREY,” featuring a new electronic intro and visuals that retained its original futuristic essence. Everyone sang with raised fists, unleashing long-restrained feelings. Then came “THE IIID EMPIRE” (VULGAR), an explosive political critique that fused rage and sorrow.

With “鱗,” 京 (Kyō) used his operatic tenor voice to embody the twisted mind of the oppressor. To close, he shouted, “Taipei! The last song!” before unleashing the brutal “詩踏み” (2016): riffs like saw blades, vocals like gunfire. Even as the screen marked the end, the crowd kept screaming, hoping for a second encore. As they exited, a piano instrumental version of “アクロの丘” played—like a final caress for the soul.

DIR EN GREY TOUR25 WHO IS THIS HELL FOR?」 LIVE IN TAIPEI 「mode of VULGAR」

2025.5.10 Zepp New Taipei

【SETLIST】

01. 人間を被る

02. The Devil In Me

03. DRAIN AWAY

04. 13

05. 禍夜想

06. The Perfume of Sins

07. 朧

08. VINUSHKA

09 かすみ

10. audience KILLER LOOP

11. OBSCURE

12. 落ちた事のある空

13. Eddie

-SE- G.D.S.

14. CHILD PREY

15. THE IIID EMPIRE

16. 鱗

17. 詩踏み

Photos and report by Rakuzine

Translation by @incubusparadox

[charl0ttan]

i really loved polygondwanaland but havent listened to much of king gizzards music otherwise do you have any reccomendations..? ^_^

hi smiles at you:) i really really love ice death from 2022 its my favorite^-^ not to spoil things but magma is extremely face melting. the most face melting ending of all time i think. im honestly so so sad that its effect has worn off a little bit after listening to it so much over the years lol. also ice v is funnnnnnnn and mycelium is sillyyyyyyyy. and ambys frog breath steam tent at the end of iron lung is amazingggggggggg when he go AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! :V

but also i really love float along fill your lungs as an #underrated fave! cute little awesome heavily psychedelic early album with such classics as the 16 minute head on/pill and god is calling me back home (my favorite on the album purely for the moment at 1:03 when all the instruments come in real loud and groovy) and ALSO i really like let me mend the past its very nice

mind fuzz is also a classic #starter album that i like pretty well. her and i is so so beautiful and loveys and i love it👍fill her heart with a lot of love so the sun can shine a little brighter🫶

[temosvagasrj]

Classificados do Edimilson: veja as vagas de emprego da semana de 17 a 21 de julho

Confira as vagas dos Classificados do Edimilson desta semana. Se você está contratando, anuncie de graça pelo e-mail rjtvemprego@g.globo. 1 – Carioca Empregos A plataforma de divulgação de vagas on-line promove oportunidades para diferentes setores profissionais. As vagas são anunciadas diariamente às 9h na página do Carioca Empregos. Os interessados podem acessar o canal da plataforma para se…

[mostlysignssomeportents]

NLRB rules that any union busting triggers automatic union recognition

Tonight (September 6) at 7pm, I'll be hosting Naomi Klein at the LA Public Library for the launch of Doppelganger.

On September 12 at 7pm, I'll be at Toronto's Another Story Bookshop with my new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.

American support for unions is at its highest level in generations, from 70% (general population) to 88% (Millenials) – and yet, American unionization rates are pathetic.

That's about to change.

The National Labor Relations Board just handed down a landmark ruling – the Cemex case – that "brought worker rights back from the dead."

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-08-28-bidens-nlrb-brings-workers-rights-back/

At issue in Cemex was what the NLRB should do about employers that violate labor law during union drives. For decades, even the most flagrantly illegal union-busting was met with a wrist-slap. For example, if a boss threatened or fired an employee for participating in a union drive, the NLRB would typically issue a small fine and order the employer to re-hire the worker and provide back-pay.

Everyone knows that "a fine is a price." The NLRB's toothless response to cheating presented an easily solved equation for corrupt, union-hating bosses: if the fine amounts to less than the total, lifetime costs of paying a fair wage and offering fair labor conditions, you should cheat – hell, it's practically a fiduciary duty:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/468061

Enter the Cemex ruling: once a majority of workers have signed a union card, any Unfair Labor Practice by their employer triggers immediate, automatic recognition of the union. In other words, the NLRB has fitted a tilt sensor in the American labor pinball machine, and if the boss tries to cheat, they automatically lose.

Cemex is a complete 180, a radical transformation of the American labor regulator from a figleaf that legitimized union busting to an actual enforcer, upholding the law that Congress passed, rather than the law that America's oligarchs wish Congress had passed. It represents a turning point in the system of lawless impunity for American plutocracy.

In the words of Frank Wilhoit, it is is a repudiation of the conservative dogma: "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect":

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288

It's also a stunning example of what regulatory competence looks like. The Biden administration is a decidedly mixed bag. On the one hand there are empty suits masquerading as technocrats, champions of the party's centrist wing (slogan: "Everything is fine and change is impossible"):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge

But the progressive, Sanders/Warren wing of the party installed some fantastically competent, hard-charging, principled fighters, who are chapter-and-verse on their regulatory authority and have the courage to use that authority:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/18/administrative-competence/#i-know-stuff

They embody the old joke about the photocopier technician who charges "$1 to kick the photocopier and $79 to know where to kick it." The best Biden appointees have their boots firmly laced, and they're kicking that mother:

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

One such expert kicker is NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. Abruzzo has taken a series of muscular, bold moves to protect American workers, turning the tide in the class war that the 1% has waged on workers since the Reagan administration. For example, Abruzzo is working to turn worker misclassification – the fiction that an employee is a small business contracting with their boss, a staple of the "gig economy" – into an Unfair Labor Practice:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/10/see-you-in-the-funny-papers/bidens-legacy

She's also waging war on robo-scab companies: app-based employment "platforms" like Instawork that are used to recruit workers to cross picket lines, under threat of being blocked from the app and blackballed by hundreds of local employers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork

With Cemex, Abruzzo is restoring a century-old labor principle that has been gathering dust for generations: the idea that workers have the right to organize workplace gemocracies without fear of retaliation, harassment, or reprisals.

But as Harold Meyerson writes for The American Prospect, the Cemex ruling has its limits. Even if the NLRB forces and employer to recognize a union, they can't force the employer to bargain in good faith for a union contract. The National Labor Relations Act prohibits the Board from imposing a contract.

That's created a loophole that corrupt bosses have driven entire fleets of trucks through. Workers who attain union recognition face years-long struggles to win a contract, as their bosses walk away from negotiations or offer farcical "bargaining positions" in the expectation that they'll be rejected, prolonging the delay.

Democrats have been trying to fix this loophole since the LBJ years, but they've been repeatedly blocked in the senate. But Abruzzo is a consummate photocopier kicker, and she's taking aim. In Thrive Pet Healthcare, Abruzzo has argued that failing to bargain in good faith for a contract is itself an Unfair Labor Practice. That means the NLRB has the authority to act to correct it – they can't order a contract, but they can order the employer to give workers "wages, benefits, hours, and such that are comparable to those provided by comparable unionized companies in their field."

Mitch McConnell is a piece of shit, but he's no slouch at kicking photocopiers himself. For a whole year, McConnell has blocked senate confirmation hearings to fill a vacant seat on the NLRB. In the short term, this meant that the three Dems on the board were able to hand down these bold rulings without worrying about their GOP colleagues.

But McConnell was playing a long game. Board member Gwynne Wilcox's term is about to expire. If her seat remains vacant, the three remaining board members won't be able to form a quorum, and the NLRB won't be able to do anything.

As Meyerson writes, centrist Dems have refused to push McConnell on this, hoping for comity and not wanting to violate decorum. But Chuck Schumer has finally bestirred himself to fight this issue, and Alaska GOP senator Lisa Murkowski has already broken with her party to move Wilcox's confirmation to a floor vote.

The work of enforcers like DoJ Antitrust Division boss Jonathan Kanter, FTC chair Lina Khan, and SEC chair Gary Gensler is at the heart of Bidenomics: the muscular, fearless deployment of existing regulatory authority to make life better for everyday Americans.

But of course, "existing regulatory authority" isn't the last word. The judges filling stolen seats on the illegitimate Supreme Court had invented the "major questions doctrine" and have used it as a club to attack Biden's photocopier-kickers. There's real danger that Cemex – and other key actions – will get fast-tracked to SCOTUS so the dotards in robes can shatter our dreams for a better America.

Meyerson is cautiously optimistic here. At 40% (!), the Court's approval rating is at a low not seen since the New Deal showdowns. The Supremes don't have an army, they don't have cops, they just have legitimacy. If Americans refuse to acknowledge their decisions, all they can do it sit and stew:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/26/mint-the-coin-etc-etc/#blitz-em

The Court knows this. That's why they fume so publicly about attacks on their legitimacy. Without legitimacy, they're nothing. With the Supremes' support at 40% and union support at 70%, any judicial attack on Cemex could trigger term-limits, court-packing, and other doomsday scenarios that will haunt the relatively young judges for decades, as the seats they stole dwindle into irrelevance. Meyerson predicts that this will weigh on them, and may stay their hands.

Meyerson might be wrong, of course. No one ever lost money betting on the self-destructive hubris of Federalist Society judges. But even if he's wrong, his point is important. If the Supremes frustrate the democratic will of the American people, we have to smash the Supremes. Term limits, court-packing, whatever it takes:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/20/judicial-equilibria/#pack-the-court

And the more we talk about this – the more we make this consequence explicit – the more it will weigh on them, and the better the chance that they'll surprise us. That's already happening! The Supremes just crushed the Sackler opioid crime-family's dream of keeping their billions in blood-money:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/#justice-redeemed

But if it doesn't stop them? If they crush this dream, too? Pack the court. Impose term limits. Make it the issue. Don't apologize, don't shrug it off, don't succumb to learned helplessness. Make it our demand. Make it a litmus test: "If elected, will you vote to pack the court and clear the way for democratic legitimacy?"

Meanwhile, Cemex is already bearing fruit. After an NYC Trader Joe's violated the law to keep Trader Joe's United from organizing a store, the workers there have petitioned to have their union automatically recognized under the Cemex rule:

https://truthout.org/articles/trader-joes-union-files-to-force-company-to-recognize-union-under-new-nlrb-rule/

With the NLRB clearing the regulatory obstacles to union recognition, America's largest unions are awakening from their own long slumbers. For decades, unions have spent a desultory 3% of their budgets on organizing workers into new locals. But a leadership upset in the AFL-CIO has unions ready to catch a wave with the young workers and their 88% approval rating, with a massive planned organizing drive:

https://prospect.org/labor/labors-john-l-lewis-moment/

Meyerson calls on other large unions to follow suit, and the unions seem ready to do so, with new leaders and new militancy at the Teamsters and UAW, and with SEIU members at unionized Starbucks waiting for their first contracts.

Turning union-supporting workers into unionized workers is key to fighting Supreme Court sabotage. Organized labor will give fighters like Abruzzo the political cover she needs to Get Shit Done. A better America is possible. It's within our grasp. Though there is a long way to go, we are winning crucial victories all the time.

The centrist message that everything is fine and change is impossible is designed to demoralize you, to win the fight in your mind so they don't have to win it in the streets and in the jobsite. We don't have to give them that victory. It's ours for the taking.

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/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks

[capyphoenix]

Alleged February 2022 breakup timeline

A new anon had questions about the alleged breakup in February 2022. I directed her to the Lazy Anon list but apparently that wasn't extensively covered besides the facts MG seen in Brazil this date, back in Monaco this date. So I went hunting. Obviously with Steppy gone it's a bit more complicated but here's things that happened around the time I didn't even remember. I haven't looked/read through the list thoroughly since they were originally posted. Only when I needed to look up for a specific date for a post myself.

18/01 people find out about MG's ex AN and that she is liking all his posts even though she's not following him

19/01 MG says haters use her social media to hate so from now on will only post on closed friends and her private account

20/01 that didn't take long. Posted a picture with Mini MG and the cat.

21/01 MG unlikes all the AN posts. An account named mysticalkelly posts about it. He sees their story and refollows MG.

23/01 Deuxmoi allegedly posted about it but I can't find the actual post itself. The twitter account that stated in December 2021 to have seen MG very intimate with a mystery man came back and said the mystery man looks a lot like AN. Mysticalkelly was suspended.

24/01 Max and MG fly to Austria together where he has to do some Redbull PR. Over the next week "anons" defend MG like crazy on tumblr and IG. Some messages sound suspiciously like MG herself.

31/01 oh look pregnancy rumors started and MG posts cryptic shit again.

04/02 over the past days "Max" went on a blocking spree and MG responded in DM he is furious this needs to stop. Minion army activated and bully a lot of anti accounts

11/02 another cryptic message. Kellyteaquette gets suspended. Rumor about pregnancy and end of. Pinterest handholding picture gate. Allegedly MG posted a picture (that should be in the Lazy list or Flower has for sure talked about it. But it was found on Pinterest and it's not known if this was actually posted and quickly deleted by MG or made up [by whom?]) But MG had a reason to call out fake things. This reminds me a lot of the Natty situation after Monaco GP 2024 when old things that could be argued as fake (still believe it's true) was reshared for her to claim AI fake news but not address real gossip. February 11th 2022 was definitely a very busy day.

12/02 Serendipity exposed. What was a theory for a long time finally gets exposed in a long 3 part series. This was posted so many times I won't bother to repost it.

14/02 Valentine's day and there's reason to believe the bouquet she posted was from 2021

16/02 Anti accounts get a lot of Max has always loved her and chased her since he was very young messages. As proof it says the old likes on her posts. One anon claimed that these likes on old pictures are new because they've checked after the first rumors of them in 2020 aka Serendipity happened and at that time in October/November 2020 he did not have a like on old MG posts from 2016.

21/02 MG deleted 200 posts mostly with Kvyat from her IG and she unfollowed him. Do we know when Kvyat started dating again. Is it possible he got a girlfriend on February 21st 2022? Or is that when Max and her allegedly broke up?

23 to 26/02 Preseason testing in Barcelona. No MG and somebody who claimed to be there allegedly overheard Max on the phone.

27/02 MG shows up in Brazil out of the blue. Breakup rumors in Brasilia.

28/02 MG back liking AN posts

02/03 alleged Monaco based anon claimed MG left few days ago with a lot of luggage and Max's mother arrived to his apartment

03/03 a Max fanpage posted a picture of him holding a little child. Anons find out it's old and was posted on 13th December from when he was in Brazil during the race weeks earlier. Immediately after a MG fanpage posted her with the same child at a later date trying to make it seem like Max is in Brazil with her. He was not. The season starts very soon and he's busy flying between Monaco and Milton Keynes. Max announces his new contract with Redbull until 2028 and of course she's all over the comment section.

04/03 MG posts she's back home with full blown otitis. Max is in Ibiza to celebrate his father's birthday. She later posts a table full of flowers and a flower teddy bear and tags him however the tag doesn't work and doesn't link to his account. Anon finds out that the flower shop in Monaco does not sell the flower teddy bear for months as it's from an old collection and the new one has different boxing.

05/03 twitter anon came back with a recap of all rumors

07/03 elevator selfie of sick MG and Max "back from taking this sick puppy to the doctors". This wasn't posted by Max. It was posted by her. However Max's jet was in Milton Keynes that day.

10/03 we find out about the group chat MG is part of with her minions and gives them information. The following days minions get very aggressive towards every anti page on tumblr and IG because of the group chat leak.

13/03 people question where Mini MG is and suspect she's still in Brazil. Several comparison pictures of "new" and old were posted but I don't want to repost mini MG here. If she's indeed still in Brazil it also proofs the welcome back flowers are old because Peppa Pig was running on TV in the background

15/03 MG in Bahrain. The very first mentions of his nudes I could find. Very interesting.

18/03 rumors of an argument at breakfast and MG won't be at the track posted in the morning. And she was not at the track.

19/03 MG did go today. They looked tense.

20/03 she walks in by herself posing for the photographers but ends up watching the race from the tower and not the garage as usual. Rumors from the paddock after the race.

22/03 MG contacts the admins of various wag fan pages and asks them to delete some pictures. There's a wag admin group chat (different from the minion chat) and their conversation gets leaked. Some unedited pictures were unflattering and started pregnancy rumors again.

23/03 anons realised MG wasn't following her "bestie" Yasmin anymore. 4h later she commented on Yasmins post and refollows.

25/03 MG partied in Milan. Meanwhile there's no proof Mini MG has been with her for the past weeks.

28/03 MG finally returns to Monaco and is reunited with her daughter

And with that this episode of where they on a break or not has finished. Unfortunately since Steppy is gone I could not find what I was looking for to begin with. There was someone who claimed a friend of MG warned Max that she's trying to baby trap him and the friend thinks Max is too kind and sweet to be trapped like that so informed him. Many of us believed that friend was Yasmin Maybe one of you has it?

No way. In order to fill in some dates I wanted to check this very old IG account that posted everything about AN back than and which Jos was following. I last checked a couple of months ago to help Flower with her research. The account still exists but now has all posts deleted. Including the ones that weren't even about her. How strange. They weren't active in 3 years.

[labiodentalfricative]

Nettles, Ethel Cain // Dan and Phil

You'll go fight a war

I'll go missing

I warned you, for me, it's not that hard

That picture on the wall you're scared of looks just like you

I want to bleed, I want to hurt the way that boys do

Maybe you're right and we should stop watching the news

'Cause, baby, I've never seen brown eyes look so blue

Tell me all the time not to worry

And think of all the time I'll have with you

When I won't wake up on my own

Held close all the time

Knowing I'm half of you

References:

Nettles, Ethel Cain

Photo taken by Angelina Clark at We’re All Doomed, 2022

DAN AND PHIL MASSIVE PIZZA MUKBANG 2. Timestamp: 28:03

Daniel Howell, Twitter: “i literally peaked age five” August 8 2019. 

Dan and Phil - TERRIBLE INFLUENCE (Official Full Stage Film). Timestamp: 57:13

Daniel Howell: WE’RE ALL DOOMED! (Full Comedy Show). Timestamp: 2:05:11

Daniel Howell: WE’RE ALL DOOMED! (Full Comedy Show). Timestamp: 1:59:24

Why I Haven’t Been Uploading. Timestamp: 1:54

How Phil Nearly Died. Timestamp: 24:47

Phil Lester, Twitter: “how i nearly died!” July 11 2024.

Daniel Howell, Instagram: “the box boys are now officially homeowning homosexuals” June 18 2021

BONCAs 2016 - Gamer of The Year & British Creator of The Year. Timestamp: 5:18

phil is not on fire. Timestamp: 3:16

[koch-snowflake-blog]

早川真由@mayu

生年月日 : 2004/03/30 (20)

身長 : 166cm

血液型 : A型

MBTI：ISTJ

出身地：岐阜県

趣味: コスメ集め、愛犬の散歩

特技: 器械体操、珠算

【経歴】

〜2020年〜

・講談社 ミスマガジン2020 ベスト16

〜2021年〜

・主婦の友社 Scawaii!掲載

・主婦の友社 STRiKE!掲載

・デジタル写真集「清楚なあの子の妄想白ビキニ」

〜2022年〜

・1stDVD 竹書房 ｢ピュア・スマイル｣

〜2023年〜

・2ndDVD ラインコミュニケーションズ「18才の小夜曲(セレナーデ)」

〜2024年〜

・雑誌Cream2月号掲載

・雑誌Cream4月号掲載

・雑誌Cream6月号掲載

　　

[seoul-bros]

Jikook Week 71 Complete (15-22/04/2025)

Jikook have finalized their 71st week in the military and it's time to look back at this week in 2022.

It was an amazing time to be a BTS fan. The group were on an extended visit to the States to perform at the Grammys, record videos for Yet to Come and a live performance for the Proof album, and play four nights at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

They left SK in dribs and drabs with JK flying out slightly ahead of the rest only to be holed up in a LV hotel with COVID 19 from 27/03 to 03/04 . RM, Jin, Suga, Jimin and Tae left on the 28/03 and J-Hope flew out on 02/04 after completing his COVID 19 quarantine.

By the time this week came around the group had already played two PTD concerts at the Allegiant Stadium (08-09/04) and they had two remaining on the 15-16/04. Even ARMY that weren't lucky enough to be in Las Vegas could live the experience vicariously through the countless concert fan cams and photos posted nightly to TwiX/IG.

PTD Day 3 in Las Vegas

"Love you"

Love is nothing stronger than a boy with luv

We don't need permission to dance.

PTD Day 4 in Las Vegas

Boy with luv part 2

At the end of Day 4, BTS dropped the news that their new album, the record breaking anthology Proof, would be out on 10/06/2022. Little did we know that this was going to be the last BTS album for 3-4 yrs.

They left the stadium that night dressed in The Lab merch and Jimin posted this Jikook selca on 18/04 as they headed back to SK.

The Lab posted this jikook clip with the caption, "Love them,💜✨"

Jimin, as we now know, was inspired by the conversations with his band mates in Las Vegas to begin the process of creating his debut albums Face and Muse upon his return. Their solo journey's were just about to begin.

Cr. to OPs

Post Date: 22/04/2025