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Turns out detroit in Effect were playing a set in Bristol last night and fuckin hell

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It's free Paul​ Johnson​ edit

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For the past month of excruciating headaches, I’ve finally found out what was the cause of the pain. It’s my goddamn teeth, the nerve’s have been disrupted from the fillings that were put on before.

I’m currently not employed with no unemployment/gov benefits and without dental insurance. Had to get my Mom to pay for my X-Rays, so I can continue figuring out what is wrong w me. Here are the list of issues I need to get fixed.

The dentist recommended that I get my crowns done immediately if I want the pain to go away, which is the 2nd to the last box on the first image you see here. Overall, it will cost me $1,405! 😩

Any help is much appreciated, of course if you do not have the funds to support a fellow blogger, keep your money 🙏🏽 Thank you for your support! Please boost & reblog, it’s the least you can do <3

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PEANUTS HOTEL “Happiness is a warm puppy” ROOM64 Snoopy (Large)

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Cy Twombly - Lirios, 1990

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Hangover breakfast

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34k steps mostly just from jumping

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God I love tunes

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Beer and dangerous heat baby

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Finally met @warmheartworm and got some action shots from her :^}

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“They don’t pay actors like they used to, and with streamers, you no longer get residuals,” Sweeney told The Hollywood Reporter. She cannot do what Jennifer Aniston did a generation ago—be on a network television hit that gets replayed and replayed so frequently for so long that her life would unfold like a 300-thread-count sheet before her. Sweeney could have an entire career of choosing only hits, of never taking a break, and still not reach the kind of money the generation before her made more or less passively once their work was done. That passive income, which is the real American dream, is no longer something that the actual artists—not just actors but writers and directors and everyone else who ever made a dime off of residuals—involved in the entertainment business get to enjoy.

The same situation is happening in media, too. Writers are paid less now than they were 50 years ago, for the same work. Ernest Hemingway was paid $1 a word in 1936. That’s more than $21 per word in today’s dollars. The maximum I was ever paid to write for a glossy magazine in print was $2/word, in 2021. No one (and I really mean no one) in media makes $21/word. That compensation just doesn’t exist. You could be the most popular novelist in the world and not make $21/word to report. You could argue that no writer today is as good or popular as Hemingway was at his peak, but no writer today is even making half or a quarter of what he made, and writers only ever get so famous. If someone were paid $5/word in 2022—which is something I have never heard of happening and is a full $2 more than than anyone I know has ever been paid per word—that would be a quarter of what Hemingway was paid. That writer would be able to pay their rent and health insurance premiums and tuck some money away in savings off a standard-issue story per month, but again, that lucky writer does not exist.

What this means is that the door a writer could step through to make a career 50 or even 20 years ago, the one opening onto a life where someone who works hard and does well could buy a house on the strength of that work alone, has been slammed shut.

That’s not because there isn’t money to be made in any of these industries, either—not just Sydney Sweeney’s, but mine, too. Some people are making very good money in these fields, and have been for a long time. They just aren’t the people making the art—the product, if you want to think about it like that. They aren’t the people whose names you know, whose lives can upend overnight because of the attention and lack of privacy that fame brings. They are people who profit off art without actually making it.

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There is no argument to be made that Sweeney is destitute. She is still (if we count her house) a millionaire. A Global Wealth Research Report from Credit Suisse reported that there were 22 million millionaires in the United States in 2021. That puts Sweeney in the top 15 percent of the richest people in the United States. I do not want to make a habit of defending millionaires. But people are making far more money than Sweeney for doing work that both demands and contributes far less. Why should any CEO make more than the actresses whose labor and beauty they sell? Why should a second-year management consultant at every major consulting firm make more than every single writer I have ever known? It’s not even a question of principle. People buy things: services and products and experiences and feelings. How is it that the creation and provision of those things is valued so little, when it is so essential?

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