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'I've pre-warned my parents about steamy sex scenes' admits Caitríona

Irish catwalk model turned actress Caitríona Balfe has admitted her parents will leave the room when her love-making scenes appear on screen.

Caitríona has become an overnight star in the US thanks to her leading role in Outlander - based on the historical fantasy book series.

The major new period blockbuster set to be aired on RTE Two tomorrow night is already being billed as the feminist answer to the Game of Thrones, thanks to her central role of the feisty World War I combat nurse in a ashow which has already pulled in eight million viewers in the US.

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And Caitríona said that she's given her parents a heads-up about steamy scenes in the time-travel show in which she plays Clare Randall.

"I've pre-warned my parents that there are a couple of scenes where they can go out and make a cup of tea, but they will enjoy watching it," said the Monaghan star.

Caitríona’s breakthrough movie role was in the 2013 film Now You See Me, opposite Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo and Isla Fisher and she also appeared in Escape Plan with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

But Caitríona (35) revealed how she was scouted when she was packing bags.

"At the end of my first college year, I was packing bags in a supermarket for charity and I was scouted as a model," she said. "I went bright red, being very shy, but I remember the girls on the tills getting excited, shouting, "Yer one is only after being asked to be a model" all over the shop. That's where it all began."

Caitríona said that she created "life lists" while living in a dingy apartment on the South Circular Road with her pal while studying in DIT.

"Sometimes we would wake up in the middle of the night and make tea and toast, and write these life lists. Where will you be in five years? Where will you be in 10 years? I still have the notebooks. I remember saying I wanted to be an actor, but I wouldn't have imagined my life would be so chaotic. I think I've surpassed my own ambitions."

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The actress, who left Ireland aged 19 to model in the US, said she loved the chance to get back home more often when she was filming Outlander in Scotland.

"I left in 1999 but obviously my parents are still there and I have a sister in Dublin and a brother in Limerick and another brother in Monaghan and I get home as much as I can," she said. "It's usually about twice a year. I love going home and it will still always be home to me."

Before her acting fame, she became the country's most successful model, walking the runway for designers like Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci along with being the only Irish woman to appear on the catwalk for Victoria's Secret.

Independent.ie 19 October 2014

Remember… there are a couple of scenes where they can go out and make a cup of tea. — Caitríona Balfe

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QUESTÃO ENEM RESOLVIDA: BIOQUÍMICA | METABOLISMO ENERGÉTICO |TERMOGENINA

Resolução da questão sobre a ação da enzima termogenina na geração de calor. Prova do ENEM de 2022.

Os ursos, por não apresentarem uma hibernação verdadeira, acordam por causa da presença de termogenina, uma proteína mitocondrial que impede a chegada dos prótons até a ATP sintetase, gerando calor. Esse calor é importante para aquecer o organismo, permitindo seu despertar. SADAVA, D. et al. Vida: a ciência da biologia. Porto Alegre: Artmed, 2009 (adaptado). Em qual etapa do metabolismo…

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The Principles of Extropy: Version 3.11 (2003)

Perpetual Progress: Extropy means seeking more intelligence, wisdom, and effectiveness, an open-ended lifespan, and the removal of political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits to continuing development. Perpetually overcoming constraints on our progress and possibilities as individuals, as organizations, and as a species. Growing in healthy directions without bound.

Self-Transformation: Extropy means affirming continual ethical, intellectual, and physical self-improvement, through critical and creative thinking, perpetual learning, personal responsibility, proactivity, and experimentation. Using technology — in the widest sense to seek physiological and neurological augmentation along with emotional and psychological refinement.

Practical Optimism: Extropy means fueling action with positive expectations — individuals and organizations being tirelessly proactive. Adopting a rational, action-based optimism or “proaction”, in place of both blind faith and stagnant pessimism.

Intelligent Technology: Extropy means designing and managing technologies not as ends in themselves but as effective means for improving life. Applying science and technology creatively and courageously to transcend “natural” but harmful, confining qualities derived from our biological heritage, culture, and environment.

Open Society — Information and Democracy: Extropy means supporting social orders that foster freedom of communication, freedom of action, experimentation, innovation, questioning, and learning. Opposing authoritarian social control and unnecessary hierarchy and favoring the rule of law and decentralization of power and responsibility. Preferring bargaining over battling, exchange over extortion, and communication over compulsion. Openness to improvement rather than a static utopia. Extropia (“ever-receding stretch goals for society”) over utopia (“no place”).

Self-Direction: Extropy means valuing independent thinking, individual freedom, personal responsibility, self-direction, self-respect, and a parallel respect for others.

Rational Thinking: Extropy means favoring reason over blind faith and questioning over dogma. It means understanding, experimenting, learning, challenging, and innovating rather than clinging to beliefs.

Source: https://lifeboat.com/ex/the.principles.of.extropy

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shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

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I could NOT get this out of my head for the life of me

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Spent a ridiculous amount of time last night obsessively editing my hand written zines in Photoshop to take away any tiny blemishes so they were definitely readable.

Whatever. Understand or don't.

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One of the reasons the walrus-versus-fairy thing was so contentious is that not only did the person who originally posed the question strongly believe the correct answer was obviously the fairy, their reasoning for why the fairy was obviously more surprising was that seeing a fairy would instantly refute the validity of human reason as a tool for understanding the universe and bring your entire worldview crashing down. The sensible response is, of course, to point out that people don't work like that, and realistically nobody is going to see something mildly inexplicable and fall to their knees wailing in existential despair unless we're living in an H P Lovecraft novel, but I'm not gonna lie, I'd probably pay money to read a story about a dude having a full on Lovecraft protagonist breakdown in response to seeing Tinkerbell.

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i don't really like when people say dungeon meshi is accidentally good autistic representation, because while i understand not wanting to make conclusions without explicit confirmation from the author, there's always the weird assumption that non-western authors somehow don't know about things like neurodivergency/queerness/etc. (on top of the assumptions that east asian authors are somehow more naive or oblivious to "western" social issues).

given that dungeon meshi started being published in 2014, it's not really a "work belonging to its times"—it's as contemporary as any other media we discuss on this site, which means it should be fair to assume it engages with contemporary topics (and at the very least, you shouldn't say that the representation is accidental with so much confidence)

but anyways, the chapter "perfect communication" in ryoko kui's "terrarium in a drawer" is some of the most straightforward autistic representation I've seen, and from now on I'm going to assume that laios's character writing is absolutely intentional in that regard:

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happy birthday miku! her official age in 2007 was 16, so she’s 33 years old today. Luka got her a cake.

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DATENA E PABLO MARÇAL SE TORNAM ENTRETENIMENTO NA INTERNET

Marçal entendeu direitinho que a política brasileira é uma piada, em tempos de internet, um reality show.

TSE colocando o dedo nas campanhas, proibindo obviedades, na próxima, ele deverá proibir os shorts. Desliga a porra da internet sempre que começa às campanhas. O mecanismo tá irritado.