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Now presenting the trailer for new @dropoutdottv series, Gastronauts! 🚀🧑‍🍳

Launching October 11th, Gastronauts takes you to the final frontier of culinary chaos, as host Jordan Myrick brings aboard 3 comedians every episode to task real, professional chefs with increasingly absurd challenges. It's a cooking competition like nothing the universe has ever seen.

In addition to Jordan Myrick, the show features a slew of comedians, including Brennan Lee Mulligan, Isabella Roland, Oscar Montoya, Ify Nwadiwe, Lily Du, Grant O'Brien, Zac Oyama, Jacob Wysocki, Vic Michaelis, Sam Reich, Elaine Carroll, Kendahl Landreth, Rekha Shankar, Jess Ross, Luke Field, Mike Trapp, Chris Grace, and Brian David Gilbert.

The chefs include Angel Ortega Gonzalez (Chopped), Arturo Avallone (Chopped), Cici Celia (Chopped), Dominique Crisp (Save The Leftovers), Harrison Bader (The Next Food Network Star, Supermarket Stakeout), Jessica Tiffany Luevano, Jeromy Wright (Chopped, Supermarket Stakeout), Joshua Mouzakes (Beachside Brawl, Alex vs. America, Chopped),  Kat Turner (Chopped), Kenneth Anderson (Supermarket Stakeout), Kyndra McCrary (Chopped), Lauren Lawless (Supermarket Stakeout, Hell’s Kitchen, Masterchef, Chopped), Mark Esposito (The Great Food Truck Race), Patrick Costa (Chopped), Pratik Bhakta, Samantha Quintero (Chopped) and Trevor Ross (Supermarket Stakeout).

The 6 episode season will air biweekly, exclusively on Dropout.

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A message to the Dropout community --

First off, we want to tell you how much we appreciate everyone who reached out expressing discomfort about the use of an outdated and offensive term in not one, but two pieces of content within the past few weeks - our Dropout Presents special Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson and the most recent episode of Breaking News. These should have been caught and removed at an earlier stage, and we want to apologize for letting this happen, especially to all indigenous Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut fans. Chris brought the issue to our attention as well, and we've been working with him to ensure everything was properly addressed.

But what are we doing about it? For one, removing the offensive slurs from those respective episodes. And second, we're donating $5,000 to Arctic Rose, a non-profit organization that helps Northern Inuit & Indigenous youth by providing safe spaces to participate and grow through Indigenous-led, arts-based, and culturally grounded programs.

We appreciate everyone who brought this issue to our attention, and will be mindful about it going forward!

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Additionally, Chris wanted to put together a statement of his own, which you can read here!

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Hot take: Westley is way too dramatic and Extra ™ to not be bisexual.

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HUGE win for Amazon drivers

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I'm so for yaoi helping the union

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An update on Massachusetts’ new taxes on the rich

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Donating blood is really easy! They also give you snacks and most places also have prizes/rewards like movie tickets, shirts, raffle entries, etc. If you go specifically to a blood donation center they also do this all day every day so the nurses there are REALLY good at it. I get antsy around needles and sometimes I barely feel it, it's kind of amazing haha. They're also very used to people who are nervous so they've always been kind if I or a friend want to not see the needle, need to hold a hand, need a blanket, etc. They're very gentle and caring and kind.

They recommend making an appointment but lots of places have space for walk-ins too (they just don't advertise it).

Blood donations literally save lives! Please consider donating!

How to find a donation center near you: USA

Canada

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i think part of the reason the response was so overwhelming is people are just Not Doing Well In General, but i think there's also a sense of: elmo was in your home when you were a small child, telling you that you did a good job, explaining that it's ok to cry, teaching you about something that might be your favorite now. elmo held a very parental-adjacent/older brother/loving mentor position for a lot of people as kids. when that type of person (or puppet) asks you how it's going, i think a lot of people felt more compelled to be honest, even if only half jokingly.

the fact that they chose to have him and the rest of the characters respond in the same supportive way they would to kids having a bad day is really beautiful, and i think captures the magic of sesame street. like the song says: sweepin' the clouds away, everything's a-ok, friendly neighbors there.

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I don't see people talking about this so today is the 110th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in where the factory owners locked working women and girls inside to "eliminate the risk of theft" (in reality it was too keep them from taking breaks), which resulted in the gruesome deaths of 123 mostly immigrant women and girls and 23 men, many of whom jumped to their deaths from the ninth floor either in a panicked attempt to escape or in order to die quickly. There were reports that some of the workers were on fire already as they jumped.

The eighth floor of the building was able to telephone the tenth floor to warn them about the fire, but the factory on the ninth floor where these women and girls labored had no such communication and such warning.

The factory owners were criminally charged with manslaughter for actions that contributed to the mass deaths but acquitted. However, this tragedy led to mass sympathy to the labor movement, and unions spurred on safety regulations that passed in New York state and eventually the entire country, and activists were able to reduce child labor in the process.

This tragedy is a reminder that has been forgotten in the 110 years since: every safety regulation-- every scrap of paperwork contributing to the hundreds of pages of red tape people like to complain about--every word of it was written in the blood of a laborer.

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Literally what could be inappropriate about just acknowledging the fact that people menstruate?? Why don't we ban teachers from mentioning blinking or chewing too, jfc.

Also important: a lot of the men making laws about women's bodies don't know SHIT. Who was the politician a while back who told a woman to 'hold in' her period because was 'tired of women using periods as an excuse for bathroom breaks'???

Send this to someone in your life you don't want to embarrass themself:

“So if little girls experience their menstrual cycle in 5th grade or 4th grade, will that prohibit conversations from them since they are in the grade lower than sixth grade?” asked state Rep. Ashley Gantt, a Democrat who taught in public schools and noted that girls as young as 10 can begin having periods.

“It would,” McClain responded.

Unbelievable. Link to article.

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couple little oil paintings inspired by music 6″x6″ panels “Rock in Black” and “Top Pop Songs of 2012″

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If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.

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NINETY PERCENT lmao

✨ Please reblog the polls before the poll ends (there is no point in sharing a closed poll) to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨