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Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

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Did you know that you can waste your free time by not knowing which activity to do so you do none of them

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No offense his actor but the fact that there are people who want to fuck the white vampire from sinners and Michael B. Jordan is in the movie???? Like. It has to be racism there's no other excuse.

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Predictions for the future of Doctor Who

disney backs out

2027 gives us a special that explains whatever the fuck's going on with billie piper. It makes everyone very angry but it ends with us getting a new doctor and the promise of a full new series in 2029!

the 2029 series has less budget and is only six episodes long. The producers try to explain this is actually a Good Thing because they can make a really tight epic story arc that's going to be Doctor Who Like You've Never Seen It Before!

It's followed by another 6 episode series on 2031. These series are generally agreed to be Shit, with a couple of absolutely amazing completely bizarre episodes that will be remembered forever.

The BBC do not cancel Doctor Who. It's just going on a little bit of a hiatus. Don't worry about it.

Wilderness Years 2 Electric Boogaloo begins.

Big Finish gets a big boost in popularity as people go there for new Doctor Who content. They produce more and more adventures with no more plot than, "And we have this Fan Favourite Character back to team up with this other Fan Favourite, and fight this Classic Monster!!" as quality goes steadily downhill. By 2035 they're releasing a new audio every day and using AI write their scripts.

The BBC licences a new series of novels that they don't really care about, which are generally agreed to be some of the greatest Doctor Who stories of all time.

In 2050 or so Doctor Who is brought back as a hard reboot, using a lot of ideas from the 2005 series (the Doctor is the Last of the Time Lords, there's a large focus on the companion's home life). This makes a lot of Doctor Who fans extremely angry but also genuinely refreshes the franchise and makes for an extremely good series. David Tennant makes a guest appearance as the Master.

In the 2062 season finale, there's a surprise appearance from Jodie Whitaker, who comes out in costume and frantically explains to the current Doctor that the Division have Done It Again and erased a whole lot of their past.

This leads into next year's 100 year anniversary special, which retroactively reconises all of original Doctor Who. It's bad.

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if you are young and impressionable and are planning to go to art school because you love art and want it to be your life. please PLEASE P L E A S E ask what the program is going to do to prepare you for a job in your field and for a life as a self employed artist. if they can't give you a good answer that includes how to network amongst artists and galleries, how to interview well and build a portfolio, access to internships, apprenticeships or assistant positions, and how to essentially create your own business (because you are your own business if you are s self employed artist) then find a different school and program. im so for real and so serious. school is too expensive for them NOT to help you make a profession out of what you're going for

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it is HYSTERICAL getting this ad from tumblr considering i remember what it was like on here the night kissinger popped it

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vetinari: this is my awful son and if i don’t let him take over another major branch of government every year to keep him busy he’s going to start doing crimes again

vimes, exasperated: couldn’t you just give him a fucking rubix cube

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is there a name for this new type of mean girl (gender neutral) who grifts as a leftist to get asspats for their perceived moral purity and think it's praxis to just be a huge asshole to everyone. I haven't been on tiktok in months but I remember seeing a ton of them. no connection with their community, no part in mutual aid, no solidarity with marginalized groups. just thinking that being mean and putting every day strangers "in their place" is activism

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I've been fully obsessed with the Rivers of London books for about two years now, so it's about time that I drew the OG Folly gang! I love all of them, and I'm really pleased with how this group shot turned out - it's probably the most complicated multi-character illustration I've done to date.

(Drawn in alcohol markers and fineliners on smooth cartridge paper)

I've got some A4 size prints of this one available - check my blog page or pinned post for links!

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Peter: Family vacation! <3

Abigail: so my brother died and there's a big empty hole inside of me that will never fully heal

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fuck "proving you're a Real Boy by learning to love," every fictional robot who's a person needs a highly specific Thing to have strong opinions and/or pick fights about as soon as they're free and/or awake. for Murderbot that's its daytime tv, for Dorfl it's the existence of gods. my man Dorfl had barely had self-determination for a day before he was picking debates with evangelists and telling gods straight to their priests that he doesn't believe in them. dorfl's function and character arc had nothing to do with gods before he self-determined; he just woke up and chose atheism. if your fictional robot isn't at least half this opinionated about shit that is not its business wyd.

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Excerpts from ‘They control everything’: How the Dallas Stars monopolized Texas youth hockey (archived) by Kenny Jacoby for USA TODAY, published August 1, 2025.

(Note: this is the final frame of an interactive graphic available on the live article. It shows the Stars' acquisition of rinks over the years)

Lisa Bry expected a standard meet-and-greet when she visited the manager of the local ice rink. Instead, she says that a front-office executive for a $2 billion National Hockey League team threatened her.  Bry had just been elected president of Frisco Ice Hockey Association, a nonprofit hockey club for middle and high school students in Frisco, Texas. One of its board’s first actions under her leadership was to cancel the contracts of two coaches who had received dismal reviews from parent feedback surveys. But at the April 2023 meeting, Bry said Dallas Stars executive Keith Andresen told her that the Stars, which ran the rink where the club practices, wanted those coaches to stay.  His next words are seared in her memory:  “Let me remind you where you get your ice from.”

In the face of Andresen’s threat, Bry stood her ground. The club did not renew the two coaches’ contracts. Emails, meeting audio, internal documents and dozens of interviews detail what happened next. That summer, the Stars informed all two-dozen local high school hockey clubs that the NHL team would be taking over their operations. No longer would the clubs set and collect their own fees, negotiate their own practice ice time, hire and pay their own coaches or sign sponsors without the Stars’ approval. All players would now pay the Stars directly. All coaches would now be Stars hires and employees. Immediately, the Stars imposed a new fee structure that raised registration fees for many players while reducing the number of ice hours their teams received. All teams would now get two preseason games – one fewer than in years past – and no more than one hour of practice ice a week. The Stars later reduced the regular-season schedule from 18 games to 16. That’s less than half the number of weekly ice hours that USA Hockey’s American Development Model recommends for teenagers to improve. Bry and the other club leaders were stunned. The Stars stripped the clubs of their agency, practically overnight. The Stars reinstated the two coaches. And there was nothing Bry or the club leaders could do – because the Stars controlled the ice.

Pierce, who runs a Facebook group called Texas Hockey Parents with more than 4,000 members, criticized the Stars in a 2021 post after a game in which her son sustained a concussion. That post landed her in hot water with Todd Cochran, then the StarCenter McKinney general manager and president of the McKinney North Stars. According to Pierce, a SafeSport complaint she later filed and her typed notes memorializing the conversation, Cochran instructed Pierce not to post in her Facebook group for at least six months “if your son wants any future here in Dallas hockey.” Cochran, who no longer works for the Stars or McKinney North Stars, did not respond to phone and email messages seeking comment. Pierce said Cochran also instructed her to remove other “negative” posts from the Facebook group. Many times, Pierce complied. “I definitely made myself small for a period of time out of fear,” she said. “You get so beaten down, and you see your kid get screwed over for opportunities, and you decide, ‘You know what? Maybe I do have to play by their rules to get where I want to be.’”

Anyone who has a problem with the way the Stars do business can take it up with the Texas Amateur Hockey Association, the USA Hockey affiliate that regulates the sport in the region. The problem: Its board has long been filled with Stars executives, some of whom used their positions to enrich themselves.  USA Hockey, recognized by federal law as the sport’s national governing body, delegates much of its authority to its 34 regional nonprofit affiliates, including the Texas Amateur Hockey Association, which oversees amateur hockey in Texas and Oklahoma. The association’s board members are elected by the region’s clubs and leagues. But their votes are weighted by the number of players they register – a structure that gives the Stars a colossal advantage. Of 13,700 players in the two states, more than 5,000 were registered with the Stars’ for-profit adult, house and high school hockey leagues, membership data from midway through the 2024-25 season show – 37%. The players themselves don’t cast votes; a Stars representative casts votes on their behalf. Roughly 2,800 more players – another 20% – registered with travel clubs that rent Stars ice or played in the Dallas Stars Travel Hockey League, which used Stars rinks for tournaments and games. Voting against the NHL team’s interests comes with the implicit risk that the Stars could stop selling them ice or oust them from the league. Until recently, Stars employees held four of the 11 Texas Amateur Hockey Association voting board seats, including president and secretary. That changed after a USA TODAY investigation in March revealed that President Lucas Reid and Secretary Brad Buckland – both of whom served as Stars executives – used their positions for personal gain.  For years, Reid, Buckland and Stars vice president Damon Boettcher organized Stars tournaments that required out-of-town participants to book minimum three-night stays at select hotels – or risk their teams being kicked out of the tournaments without a refund. At the same time, the three executives ran their own for-profit company that took a cut of the revenue from each hotel booking.

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