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Just finished "Gillies in tornment". I loved it so here is a link because I want to share great ffs. Gillies In Torment - Chapter 1 - ersatzach - Murdoch Mysteries [Archive of Our Own]

[murdochautismmoments]

Remember that time james pendrick kissed julia? yeah she was an allegory for william murdoch. pendoch is real.

[mariacallous]

The first thing to say about the hate and scorn currently directed at the mainstream US media is that they worked hard to earn it. They’ve done so by failing, repeatedly, determinedly, spectacularly to do their job, which is to maintain their independence, inform the electorate, and speak truth to power. While the left has long had reasons to dismiss centrist media, and the right has loathed it most when it did do its job well, the moderates who are furious at it now seem to be something new – and a host of former editors, media experts and independent journalists have been going after them hard this summer.

Longtime journalist James Fallows declares that three institutions – the Republican party, the supreme court, and the mainstream political press – “have catastrophically failed to ‘meet the moment’ under pressure of [the] Trump era”. Centrist political reformer and columnist Norm Ornstein states that these news institutions “have had no reflection, no willingness to think through how irresponsible and reckless so much of our mainstream press and so many of our journalists have been and continue to be”.

Most voters, he says, “have no clue what a second Trump term would actually be like. Instead, we get the same insipid focus on the horse race and the polls, while normalizing abnormal behavior and treating this like a typical presidential election, not one that is an existential threat to democracy.”

Lamenting the state of the media recently on X, Jeff Jarvis, another former editor and newspaper columnist, said: “What ‘press’? The broken and vindictive Times? The newly Murdochian Post? Hedge-fund newspaper husks? Rudderless CNN or NPR? Murdoch’s fascist media?”

These critics are responding to how the behemoths of the industry seem intent on bending the facts to fit their frameworks and agendas. In pursuit of clickbait content centered on conflicts and personalities, they follow each other into informational stampedes and confirmation bubbles.

They pursue the appearance of fairness and balance by treating the true and the false, the normal and the outrageous, as equally valid and by normalizing Republicans, especially Donald Trump, whose gibberish gets translated into English and whose past crimes and present-day lies and threats get glossed over. They neglect, again and again, important stories with real consequences. This is not entirely new – in a scathing analysis of 2016 election coverage, the Columbia Journalism Review noted that “in just six days, The New York Times ran as many cover stories about Hillary Clinton’s emails as they did about all policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election” – but it’s gotten worse, and a lot of insiders have gotten sick of it.

In July, ordinary people on social media decided to share information about the rightwing Project 2025 and did a superb job of raising public awareness about it, while the press obsessed about Joe Biden’s age and health. NBC did report on this grassroots education effort, but did so using the “both sides are equally valid” framework often deployed by mainstream media, saying the agenda is “championed by some creators as a guide to less government oversight and slammed by others as a road map to an authoritarian takeover of America”. There is no valid case it brings less government oversight.

In an even more outrageous case, the New York Times ran a story comparing the Democratic and Republican plans to increase the housing supply – which treated Trump’s plans for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants as just another housing-supply strategy that might work or might not. (That it would create massive human rights violations and likely lead to huge civil disturbances was one overlooked factor, though the fact that some of these immigrants are key to the building trades was mentioned.)

Other stories of pressing concern are either picked up and dropped or just neglected overall, as with Trump’s threats to dismantle a huge portion of the climate legislation that is both the Biden administration’s signal achievement and crucial for the fate of the planet. The Washington Post editorial board did offer this risibly feeble critique on 17 August: “It would no doubt be better for the climate if the US president acknowledged the reality of global warming – rather than calling it a scam, as Mr Trump has.”

While the press blamed Biden for failing to communicate his achievements, which is part of his job, it’s their whole job to do so. The Climate Jobs National Resource Center reports that the Inflation Reduction Act has created “a combined potential of over $2tn in investment, 1,091,966 megawatts of clean power, and approximately 3,947,670 jobs”, but few Americans have any sense of what the bill has achieved or even that the economy is by many measures strong.

Last winter, the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who has a Nobel prize in economics, told Greg Sargent on the latter’s Daily Blast podcast that when he writes positive pieces about the Biden economy, his editor asks “don’t you want to qualify” it; “aren’t people upset by X, Y and Z and shouldn’t you be acknowledging that?”

Meanwhile in an accusatory piece about Kamala Harris headlined When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t propose price controls?, a Washington Post columnist declares in another case of bothsiderism: “Voters want to blame someone for high grocery bills, and the presidential candidates have apparently decided the choices are either the Biden administration or corporate greed. Harris has chosen the latter.” The evidence that corporations have jacked up prices and are reaping huge profits is easy to find, but facts don’t matter much in this kind of opining.

It’s hard to gloat over the decline of these dinosaurs of American media, when a free press and a well-informed electorate are both crucial to democracy. The alternatives to the major news outlets simply don’t reach enough readers and listeners, though the non-profit investigative outfit ProPublica and progressive magazines such as the New Republic and Mother Jones, are doing a lot of the best reporting and commentary.

Earlier this year, when Alabama senator Katie Britt gave her loopy rebuttal to Biden’s State of the Union address, it was an independent journalist, Jonathan Katz, who broke the story on TikTok that her claims about a victim of sex trafficking contained significant falsehoods. The big news outlets picked up the scoop from him, making me wonder what their staffs of hundreds were doing that night.

A host of brilliant journalists young and old, have started independent newsletters, covering tech, the state of the media, politics, climate, reproductive rights and virtually everything else, but their reach is too modest to make them a replacement for the big newspapers and networks. The great exception might be historian Heather Cox Richardson, whose newsletter and Facebook followers give her a readership not much smaller than that of the Washington Post. The tremendous success of her sober, historically grounded (and footnoted!) news summaries and reflections bespeaks a hunger for real news.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The first thing to say about the hate and scorn currently directed at the mainstream US media is that they worked hard to earn it. They’ve done so by failing, repeatedly, determinedly, spectacularly to do their job, which is to maintain their independence, inform the electorate, and speak truth to power. While the left has long had reasons to dismiss centrist media, and the right has loathed it most when it did do its job well, the moderates who are furious at it now seem to be something new – and a host of former editors, media experts and independent journalists have been going after them hard this summer.

Longtime journalist James Fallows declares that three institutions – the Republican party, the supreme court, and the mainstream political press – “have catastrophically failed to ‘meet the moment’ under pressure of [the] Trump era”. Centrist political reformer and columnist Norm Ornstein states that these news institutions “have had no reflection, no willingness to think through how irresponsible and reckless so much of our mainstream press and so many of our journalists have been and continue to be”.

Most voters, he says, “have no clue what a second Trump term would actually be like. Instead, we get the same insipid focus on the horse race and the polls, while normalizing abnormal behavior and treating this like a typical presidential election, not one that is an existential threat to democracy.”

Lamenting the state of the media recently on X, Jeff Jarvis, another former editor and newspaper columnist, said: “What ‘press’? The broken and vindictive Times? The newly Murdochian Post? Hedge-fund newspaper husks? Rudderless CNN or NPR? Murdoch’s fascist media?”

These critics are responding to how the behemoths of the industry seem intent on bending the facts to fit their frameworks and agendas. In pursuit of clickbait content centered on conflicts and personalities, they follow each other into informational stampedes and confirmation bubbles.

They pursue the appearance of fairness and balance by treating the true and the false, the normal and the outrageous, as equally valid and by normalizing Republicans, especially Donald Trump, whose gibberish gets translated into English and whose past crimes and present-day lies and threats get glossed over. They neglect, again and again, important stories with real consequences. This is not entirely new – in a scathing analysis of 2016 election coverage, the Columbia Journalism Review noted that “in just six days, The New York Times ran as many cover stories about Hillary Clinton’s emails as they did about all policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election” – but it’s gotten worse, and a lot of insiders have gotten sick of it.

In July, ordinary people on social media decided to share information about the rightwing Project 2025 and did a superb job of raising public awareness about it, while the press obsessed about Joe Biden’s age and health. NBC did report on this grassroots education effort, but did so using the “both sides are equally valid” framework often deployed by mainstream media, saying the agenda is “championed by some creators as a guide to less government oversight and slammed by others as a road map to an authoritarian takeover of America”. There is no valid case it brings less government oversight.

In an even more outrageous case, the New York Times ran a story comparing the Democratic and Republican plans to increase the housing supply – which treated Trump’s plans for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants as just another housing-supply strategy that might work or might not. (That it would create massive human rights violations and likely lead to huge civil disturbances was one overlooked factor, though the fact that some of these immigrants are key to the building trades was mentioned.)

Other stories of pressing concern are either picked up and dropped or just neglected overall, as with Trump’s threats to dismantle a huge portion of the climate legislation that is both the Biden administration’s signal achievement and crucial for the fate of the planet. The Washington Post editorial board did offer this risibly feeble critique on 17 August: “It would no doubt be better for the climate if the US president acknowledged the reality of global warming – rather than calling it a scam, as Mr Trump has.”

While the press blamed Biden for failing to communicate his achievements, which is part of his job, it’s their whole job to do so. The Climate Jobs National Resource Center reports that the Inflation Reduction Act has created “a combined potential of over $2tn in investment, 1,091,966 megawatts of clean power, and approximately 3,947,670 jobs”, but few Americans have any sense of what the bill has achieved or even that the economy is by many measures strong.

Last winter, the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who has a Nobel prize in economics, told Greg Sargent on the latter’s Daily Blast podcast that when he writes positive pieces about the Biden economy, his editor asks “don’t you want to qualify” it; “aren’t people upset by X, Y and Z and shouldn’t you be acknowledging that?”

Meanwhile in an accusatory piece about Kamala Harris headlined When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t propose price controls?, a Washington Post columnist declares in another case of bothsiderism: “Voters want to blame someone for high grocery bills, and the presidential candidates have apparently decided the choices are either the Biden administration or corporate greed. Harris has chosen the latter.” The evidence that corporations have jacked up prices and are reaping huge profits is easy to find, but facts don’t matter much in this kind of opining.

It’s hard to gloat over the decline of these dinosaurs of American media, when a free press and a well-informed electorate are both crucial to democracy. The alternatives to the major news outlets simply don’t reach enough readers and listeners, though the non-profit investigative outfit ProPublica and progressive magazines such as the New Republic and Mother Jones, are doing a lot of the best reporting and commentary.

Earlier this year, when Alabama senator Katie Britt gave her loopy rebuttal to Biden’s State of the Union address, it was an independent journalist, Jonathan Katz, who broke the story on TikTok that her claims about a victim of sex trafficking contained significant falsehoods. The big news outlets picked up the scoop from him, making me wonder what their staffs of hundreds were doing that night.

A host of brilliant journalists young and old, have started independent newsletters, covering tech, the state of the media, politics, climate, reproductive rights and virtually everything else, but their reach is too modest to make them a replacement for the big newspapers and networks. The great exception might be historian Heather Cox Richardson, whose newsletter and Facebook followers give her a readership not much smaller than that of the Washington Post. The tremendous success of her sober, historically grounded (and footnoted!) news summaries and reflections bespeaks a hunger for real news.

Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell’s Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunatabua of the climate anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

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List of Met Galas since 2001

I've gotten a few asks for a list of Met Galas. Technically, the gala has existed since 1948, and been themed since 1973, but I started at 2001 to keep it short (there was no gala in 2000 apparently). If you're interested in every theme that's ever existed, there's a chart on Wikipedia.

Most lists online start somewhere around 2011-2013, since it wasn't covered by the press the same way before then.

2001 Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Christina and Lindsay Owen-Jones, Annette and Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera Caroline Kennedy and Edwin A. Schlossberg

Sponsor: L'Oreal

2003 Goddess: The Classical Mode

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Tom Ford, Nicole Kidman

Sponsor: Gucci

2004 Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Renée Zellweger, Lawrence Stroll, Silas Chou, Edgar Bronfman Jr. Jacob Rothschild, Jayne Wrightsman

Sponsor: Asprey

2005 The House of Chanel

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Karl Lagerfeld, Nicole Kidman Caroline, Princess of Hanover

Sponsor: Chanel

2006 AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Christopher Bailey, Sienna Miller Rose Marie Bravo, The Duke of Devonshire

Sponsor: Burberry

2007 Poiret: King of Fashion

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Cate Blanchett, Nicolas Ghesquière François-Henri Pinault

Sponsor: Balenciaga

2008 Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Giorgio Armani

Sponsor: Giorgio Armani

2009 The Model As Muse: Embodying Fashion

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Kate Moss, Justin Timberlake Marc Jacobs

Sponsor: Marc Jacobs

Ticket Price: $7,500

2010 American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Oprah Winfrey, Patrick Robinson

Sponsor: Gap

2011 Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Colin Firth, Stella McCartney François-Henri Pinault and Salma Hayek

Sponsor: Alexander McQueen

2012 Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Carey Mulligan, Miuccia Prada, Jeff Bezos

Sponsor: Amazon

2013 Punk: Chaos to Couture

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Rooney Mara, Lauren Santo Domingo, Riccardo Tisci Beyoncé

Sponsor: Moda Operandi

Ticket Price: $15,000

2014 Charles James: Beyond Fashion

Co-chairs: Aerin Lauder, Anna Wintour, Bradley Cooper, Oscar de la Renta, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch

Sponsor: AERIN

Ticket Price: $25,000

Theme Announcement: September 4th, 2013

2015 China: Through the Looking Glass

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Jennifer Lawrence, Gong Li, Marissa Mayer, Wendi Murdoch, Silas Chou

Sponsor: Yahoo

Ticket Price: $25,000

Theme Announcement: September 11th, 2014

2016 Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, Jonathan Ive Nicolas Ghesquière, Karl Lagerfeld, Miuccia Prada

Sponsor: Apple

Ticket Price: $30,000

Theme Announcement: October 13th, 2015

2017 Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady, Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, Rei Kawakubo

Sponsor: Apple, Condé Nast, Farfetch, H&M, Maison Valentino

Ticket Price: $30,000

Theme Announcement: October 21st, 2016

2018 Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Rihanna, Amal Clooney, Donatella Versace Christine and Stephen A. Schwarzman

Sponsors: Christine and Stephen A. Schwarzman, Versace

Ticket Price: $30,000

Theme Announcement: November 8th, 2017 (currently the latest they've announced the theme)

2019 Camp: Notes on Fashion

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Lady Gaga, Harry Styles, Serena Williams, Alessandro Michele

Sponsor: Gucci

Ticket Price: $35,000

Theme Announcement: October 9th, 2018

Planned for May 4, 2020 (canceled) About Time: Fashion and Duration

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nicolas Ghesquière

Sponsor: Louis Vuitton

September 2021 In America: A Lexicon of Fashion

Co-chairs: Timothée Chalamet, Billie Eilish, Amanda Gorman, Naomi Osaka, Tom Ford, Adam Mosseri, Anna Wintour

Sponsor: Instagram

Ticket Price: $35,000

2022 In America: An Anthology of Fashion

Co-chairs: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Regina King, Tom Ford, Adam Mosseri, Anna Wintour

Sponsor: Instagram

Ticket Price: $35,000

2023 Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty

Co-chairs: Anna Wintour, Dua Lipa, Michaela Coel, Penélope Cruz, Roger Federer

Sponsors: Chanel, Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld (brand)

Ticket Price: $50,000 (most expensive to date)

Theme Announcement: September 30th, 2022

[holylulusworld]

Barnes vs Barnes (7) - Zero

Summary: The unavoidable happened. What will Bucky do now?

Pairing: Mobster!Bucky Barnes x Wife/Ex-Wife Reader

Characters: Lloyd Hansen, Steve Rogers, Nick Fowler, Matt Murdoch

Warnings: angst, mentions of infertility, strong reader, mentions of past cheating, Lloyd being Lloyd

A/N: Please be aware this is an AU. Bucky is an ass and OOC in this story.

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<< Part 6

“Doll, I was worried about you. Where have you been?” Bucky jumps up from his seat. He’s about to hug you when Lloyd and Steve step in front of you. “Baby doll.”

“Sir. Mr. Barnes,” Matt clears his throat to draw Bucky’s attention toward him, “we came here to discuss your separation. No hugging my client. No touching my client. Not talking directly to my client.”

“She’s my wife,” your husband growls at Matt. It’s worse enough that his best friend seems to be on your side, and that he knew exactly where you are hiding from your husband. Suddenly, he is being told how to behave around his wife by some strangers. “If I want to talk to her, I’ll talk. If I wish to touch her, I will touch her.”

“No. You won’t,” Steve pats the gun hidden under his jacket. “Buck, don’t make this harder for Y/N. She has been through enough because of you, don’t you think?”

Bucky glances at you as he says, "We are still...I love her. Y/N let’s talk in private. I know I fucked up again, but I love you. Please.”

“There’s nothing left to say, James,” you use his first name on purpose. Another jab at his aching heart. “You knew this would break me beyond repair. Still, you went home with that woman and fucked her. You even wanted to raise her child with her. How could you? How?”

You blink a few times to push the tears away. “It was a moment of weakness, doll. Natasha means nothing to me. You know that. I hate myself for hurting you.”

“And weeks of lying to me,” you huff. “We could have it all, Bucky.” You step next to Steve to look your husband straight in the eyes. “It was you who decided that what we had didn’t matter. That I didn’t matter. The moment Natasha stepped back into your life you fell for her. Again. Just like you did back then.”

“Baby…I…” Bucky shakes his head. He can’t accept that he won’t have you in his life anymore.

“Save it, James,” you say, standing your ground against your husband. “I will not forgive you this time. After everything I gave up for you. I could’ve been happy with someone else. But you made me come back only to break me again.”

“I can still give you a baby. We can fix this,” he says as he paces the room like a caged animal. “I love you. You love me. We can save our marriage.”

“I don’t want to,” you shrug when Bucky snaps his head toward you. His face falls as the woman he knew doesn’t look back at him. It’s a different woman. A new one. Reborn through fire and pain. “And according to the rumors I heard, you can’t give me a baby. You are the failure here, Bucky. Not me.”

“What? No,” Bucky shakes his head, remembering the trauma he endured thanks to his brother. “The doctor said all is fine…they said…no…”

“Well, your parents lied,” you hold back a chuckle. You are not like this. “If only you had gone to the doctor as I suggested. It wasn’t my fault. I guess fate doesn't want us to have children.”

“How do you know?” he asks. “Only four people knew what happened back then. Two of them are dead, and the other one…”

Bucky’s eyes widen. “Guess the cats out,” Lloyd smirks darkly. “You’re lucky Steve was around when that asshat tried to grab Y/N. If not, both of you would be six feet under already.”

“Lloyd,” you warn.

“Sugar plum, let me stab him a little,” Lloyd grins as you roll your eyes. He won't stop bugging you. “Please. I got all these nice knives…”

“Nick is back in town." Bucky's legs are about to give in when he hears his brother is back in town. “He knows about you. I got to keep you safe.”

He holds out his hand. “She’s got me,” Steve shoves you behind his back. He makes sure Bucky knows that this time he won’t back down for his friend’s sake. “I gave up my chance on her for you once. I won’t do it again.”

“Gentlemen, the lady is right here,” Matt chastises. “We came here for a reason.”

Lloyd hums. He already imagines stabbing Bucky in the back, or ass. Whatever body part he can reach first.

“No stabbing, Lloyd,” you warn.

“Why did you tell me he’s back?” Bucky asks. "Using this to your advantage would have been a smart idea. If he kills me, everything I own will be yours.”

“I’m better than this,” you snap at Bucky. “Unlike you and your brother, I don’t take advantage of people. Whatever messed up shit is going on between you and Nick, I don’t want to get involved in this. I love you, so I see this as my way of saying goodbye. I don’t want you to die, but I don’t want you in my life either.”

“So, this is the end," Bucky swallows thickly.

He could never have imagined that you would turn your back on him forever. He knew what he did hurt you deeply, and you needed time to forgive him.

“This is the end, James,” you say as you hold his gaze. “I cannot trust you anymore. Not with my heart, and not with my life. You hid that you had a brother. If not for Steve, I would be in Nick’s hands. Held hostage or worse. All you did was lie. Our marriage is one big lie.”

“You should leave talking to the lawyers now,” Matt interjects. “I came here for a reason, Mr. Barnes. Let’s settle this now. You don’t want to make things more difficult for Y/N. Right?”

“I-Y/N, baby doll,” Bucky pleads one last time. “Please talk to me. We can still…”

“James don’t be ridiculous,” you sneer. “There is nothing worth saving. Our marriage is over. We are over. I have zero tolerance for your behavior. Matt will handle everything else. Lloyd will stay with him to make sure you act like a gentleman around my friend.”

“Doll…please.”

You turn around, not looking back as you walk out of the room. Steve follows you hot on your heels. Since your encounter with Nick, he has been by your side.

“That was…you were…I mean…”

“Can we just leave?" you ask. “I don’t know for how long I can keep myself from crying, Steve.”

“Of course, darling.”

Steve would like to wrap his arms around you. But he knows the last thing you need is another man fighting for your attention.

“Bucky looks awful.”

“He’s a mess without you,” Steve says softly.

“Good. I hope he regrets breaking my heart for the rest of his life.”

“What will we do about his brother now?” he looks at you. “Do you want me to take him down?”

“I don’t know yet,” you sigh. “He won’t give up so easily. Just like Bucky. He kept it together today. But I know my husband. He’ll try to get me back. No matter what.”

“No welcome back brother or a hug,” Nick smirks. He leans back in Bucky’s chair as his brother steps into his office.

“How did you get in here?” Bucky growls.

“Your men let me in. We still have the same face, remember? It was child’s play to get inside your home,” he dips his head to look Bucky up and down. “No wonder your wife ran for the hills. You lost weight and look like crap. I bet she will choose a real man. Someone who can give her a baby.”

“So, it’s true, you threatened my wife.”

Nick is unimpressed when his brother gets his gun out. Laughing about Bucky, he looks amused. “I did not threaten your sweet wife. I offered to look after her. I bet she didn’t get a good—”

A bullet hits the wall next to Nick’s head. “You will keep her out of this. I did enough damage to her heart.”

"I will do whatever I want to do with your sweet wife.”

Nick slowly gets up from the chair. He grabs the wedding portrait of you and Bucky, smirking as his brother fires another bullet into the wall.

“I will kill you if you try to get close to her again.”

“If you wanted to kill me, I’d be dead by now. We both know you cannot kill your own brother…”

Tags in reblog.

[freakytofu]

Podcasts take ages to put together (plus researching). Its unlikely it's in response to David Tennant because that was only a few days ago (it was probably in the works pre election announcement too)

Plus think about this in regards to the general public- are they going to go 'an author who's work david Tennant been in has been accused of sexual assualt? Hes so wrong for supporting trans rights!'

If someone was going to make stuff for TERF reasons, wouldnt they accuse a trans person?

(Also I'm so mad that a cishet guy being accused of rape has become a conversation about trans people. This sucks)

I never said it was in response to David Tennant directly. I understand how long it takes to produce and research articles and podcasts because I work in media/journalism.

I just think this is very advantageous for them in terms of SEO as these names are often associated with each other, and having a major streamer like Netflix drop information about Sandman yesterday means Neil Gaiman's name is probably doing well on Google Trends today. Google Discover picks news up and pushes it aggressively for about 48 hours, and Tortoise Media probably wants to ride that wave. And if not, it was very, very fortunate timing for them.

Think about it this way. If something like that podcast is as thoroughly researched as you say, they likely had this information ready to go the moment it was needed. How do we know the podcast wasn't recorded in advance, perhaps tweaked a little to sound more relevant, and then pushed at an opportune time?

I would not put it past someone to have said "we need something on X to go out now", and then the newsroom made it happen. The founder of Tortoise is James Harding, former BBC News director and editor of The Times (Rupert Murdoch's centre-right publication). This is a vocally pro-Israel Cambridge boy who is absolutely connected and this is the sort of "evergreen" story that isn't time-sensitive that can go out when it is most convenient. Breaking a big, exclusive story like this would be huge for them too because they rely on subscriber memberships.

I do not like that these possible SA victims' experiences have been co-opted for political purposes. I do not like that trans rights have been co-opted either. But the truth of the matter is that trans rights is a big point of debate in the upcoming UK General Election, and the UK public more or less just knows that Gaiman is a famous leftist author and trans rights supporter, and has vocally opposed Rowling and her ilk in the past. I would not be surprised if this was a calculated move, even if we the public can't fully see why the move is being made.

Again, I'm not excusing anything here, I'm only reminding people to pay attention to the source and context surrounding the news they consume.

Also, why the anon?

[jessythebunny]

💞 official ships 💞:

💙•Jessy(me) x Jonathan (oc)•🤎

💗•Messy(my twin sister) x Liam(oc)•💛

💜•Lucy(oc) x Rami(oc)•💙

🩵•Venessa(oc) x Ken(oc)•🤍

💜•Saiko(oc) x Alex(oc)•🩷

💙•Anna(oc) x Otis(oc)•💜

💙•Thomas x Rosie•❤

❤•James x Emily•💚

💙•Gordon x Rebecca•💛

🤎•Toby x Henriata•🧡

💚•Duck x Oliver•💚

💚•Henry x Hiro•🖤

🖤•Donald x Jamie(@jammyjams1910)•🩵

🖤•Douglas x Emily(@just-a-douglas-simp-existing)•💗

🖤•Diesel x Mavis•💛

💚•Percy x Lady•💜

💚•Boco x Daisy•💚

💚•Luke x Millie•💙

💙•Edward x Molly•💛

🧡•Murdoch x Mia(oc)•🖤

🤍•Skiff x Marina(oc but she's a mermaid)•💛

🧡•Rusty x Duncan•💛

❤•Skarloey x Rheneas•♥

💙•Sir handel x Peter sam•💚

💗•Caitlin x Spencer•🤍

🩶•Cranky x Carly•💛

🧡•Nia x Paxton•💚

💙•Timothy x Marion•🧡

🩶•Timothy(ghost train) x Hannah•💛

🩶•Toad x Dilly•🤍

❤•Bertie x Bulgy•❤

❤•Mike•❤ x 💙•Bert•💙 x 💚•Rex•💚

🤎•Diesel 10 x Bert•💛

🖤•Sir topham hatt x Lady hatt•💜

❤•Rocky x Harold•🤍

💙•Captain x Butch•💛

💛•Stephen x Glynn•❤

💜•Ryan x Arther•❤

💚•the flying scotsman x connor•🩵

💛•Kevin x Philip•💚

💙•Porter x Salty•❤

💙•Belle x Flynn•❤

💚•Edd x Ell•💚

💙•Tom x Tamara•💙

💜•Matt x Matilda•💜

❤•Tord x Tori•❤

💙•Sportacus x Robbie Rotten•💜

🩷•Stephanie x Ziggy•🩵

💛•Stingy x Trixie•❤

🤎•Milfred the mayor x Miss Busy Buddy•💙

💛•Cuddles x Giggles•💗

🧡•Handy x Petunia•💙

💚•Flippy x Flaky•❤

💜•Lammy x Truffles•💙

💙•Splendid x lovely(oc)•🤍

❤•Splendont x Patty•💛

🤎•Xebas x Liz(oc)•🧡

🧡•Nicky x Gina(oc)•🤍

🤍•Snowers x Winter•🤍

💙•Sniffles x Nutty•💚

💙•Lumpy x The mole•💜

💜•Toothy x Kira(oc)•🩵

❤•Splendien(oc) x Disco bear•🧡

💙•Splendiana(oc) x Wonder Wanda•🧡

💚•Sneaky x Mouse kaboom•🧡

💚•Green x Light green(oc)•💚

💜•Purple x Red•❤

💙•Blue x Pink•💗

🧡•Orange x Cyan•🩵

❤•Remzi x Kadriye•💜

🤎•Merkit x Faride•🩷

🩶•Talking Tom x talking Angela•🤍

💙•Talking Hank x talking Becca•🖤

🧡•Dogday x Catnap•💜

💚•Hoppy hopscotch x Bobby bearhug•❤

🩷•Picky pig x Craftycorn•🩵

💙•Bubba bubbaphant x Kickin chicken•💛

❤•Miss delight x Baldi•💚

💙•Hefty smurf x Smurfette•💙

💙•Handy smurf x Marina•💚

💙•Brainy smurf x clumzy smurf •💙

[novemberhush]

Tag 9 people to get to know better or catch up with

Thanks for tagging me, @littleblackraincloudofcourse !❤️

Three ships you like - Just off the top of my head, Buddie (Buck x Eddie from 9-1-1), Marvey (Mike x Harvey from Suits) and Chenford (Lucy Chen x Tim Bradford from The Rookie). I have so many more, lol.

First ship ever - These are all from roughly the same time, and I was only a kid at the time, so I’m not sure which came first, but I’d say Maddie Hayes x David Addison from Moonlighting, Jim Dempsey x Harriet ‘Harry’ Makepeace from Dempsey & Makepeace, and Anne Shirley x Gilbert Blythe from the 1985 made-for-television adaptation of Anne of Green Gables and its 1987 sequel. In my teenage years, I seriously shipped Benton Fraser x Ray Vecchio from Due South.

Last song you heard - I stopped at the Tesco Express on my way home from work earlier to see if they had anything I fancied for dinner (spoiler alert - they didn’t) and You Can Get It If You Really Want came on over the sound system, much to the seeming delight of everyone in the store because we all started humming, whistling and, in the case of one customer, even singing along. Oh, and it was the Jimmy Cliff version, not the Desmond Dekker one, or at least it sounded like it.

Favourite childhood book - Ooh, that’s a difficult one! I devoured books as a child (a habit I’ve been getting back into this year and last) and I don’t know if I could pick just one.

Currently reading - The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson (the sequel to The Jigsaw Man, which I just finished earlier this week), and I’m also making my way through a book of short stories called That Was A Shiver, and Other Stories by James Kelman.

Currently watching - I finally got around to watching the last half of the last season of The Blacklist this week, watching the very last episode just last night. I’m also watching reruns of The Closer and the original The Twilight Zone, as well the current seasons of Death in Paradise, Murdoch Mysteries, N.C.I.S. and Law & Order. I’m also watching Tatort Saarbrücken, but I’m trying to make the episodes last because there’s only five of them and the next one doesn’t air until January! I have a whole stack of other stuff I still have to get around to as well, but there’s only so many hours in the day.

Currently consuming - A tin of Pepsi Max.

Currently craving - Ice cream, even though it’s really cold here at the moment.

I tag @imwritesometimes @slow-burn-sally @firemedicdiaz @tulipfromtheinternet @fireladybuckley @smowkie @all-or-nothing-baby @mistmarauder @katries and anyone else who wants to play. No pressure on anyone who doesn’t!😘

[pop-pop-pop-popculture]

MET GALA 2024 Review: May 6, 2024

I feel that there's more photos and guests, but vogue.com only posted 263 images.

Yes

Lana Del Rey

Dua Lipa

Zendaya

Jessica Biel

Harris Reed

Penélope Cruz

Aurora James

Jennifer Lopez

Lil Nas X

Karol G

Natasha Poonawalla

Christine Beauchamp

Jennie Kim

Tory Burch

Grace Murdoch

Taika Waititi

Rita Ora

Ivy Getty

Nelly Korda

Michelle Williams (I love the pink hair!)

Taraji P. Henson

Shakira

FKA Twigs

Ugbad Abdi

Shakira

Doja Cat

Nicki Minaj (OUTFIT, NOT PERSON.)

Camila Mendes

Adut Akech

LaQuan Smith

Usher

Anok Yai

Imaan Hammam

Karlie Kloss

Cardi B (OUTFIT, NOT PERSON.)

Tyler Mitchell

Kaia Gerber

Iris Law

Men either try or don't try at all, so kudos to the stylists of the men that actually tried.

No

Serena Williams (The gold was gorgeous, but I don't like the construction of the dress. On top of that, it didn't flatter her physique well.)

Kylie Jenner (obviously)

Kris Jenner (obviously)

Michelle Yeoh

Sydney Sweeney (I like the shade of blue and flower appliques, though.)

Yes and No

Ariana Grande

Elle Fanning

Kylie Minogue

Kendall Jenner

The Redmayne's (They went all out, that's for sure, but I don't see how their outfits correlate to the theme.)

Olivier Rousteing (I like the top and flare pants!)

Irina Shayk

Camila Cabello

Kelsea Ballerini

Naomi Campbell (The color and fabric are pretty, but I feel like she went a little too safe.)

Taylor Russell

The F*ck?

Cara Delevingne

Lizzo

I know that there were a ton more people, but I wanted to keep the list of each category short.

🌸 May 8, 2024 🌸

[roleplayfinder]

Hello! I am sixteen years old and seeking a Harry Potter or Murdoch Mysteries roleplay.

Characters I play: Draco Malfoy, Remus Lupin, original Lestrange character, James Gillies

Pairings: any gender, ocxoc, ccxcc

Preferably I'm looking for Drarry, Wolfstar or Jamesdoch / Robert x James. Please be at least fifteen, I don't mind rping with adults. We can dicuss plots.

I'd prefer if you message me on Discord - zaneausteen - but will reply in due time if you message on Tumblr.

.

[megalosaurusstudios]

(My AU) List of the North Western Railway’s Steam Fleet as of 2023 (Updated)

NWR #1 “Thomas”: Glyncorrwg Colliery #2 “Thomas” 0-6-0T (built by Kitson and Company in 1921).

NWR #2 “Edward”: LSWR X2 Class (Built by Nine Elms Locomotive Works in 1890).

NWR #3 “Henry” GNR C1 class (built as a Faulty Gresley Pacific in 1919 before being rebuilt into a C1 at Doncaster works in 1935).

NWR #4 “Saint Gordon”: GNR/LNER A1 class (built by Doncaster works in 1922).

NWR #5 “James”: USRA 0-6-0 with Sloped Tender (built by ALCO in 1919).

NWR #6 “Percy”: T. Brown Distilleries #3 0-4-0ST (Built by Kitson and Company in 1920).

NWR #7 “Toby”: GER G15/LNER Y6 Class (Built by Stratford Works in 1897).

NWR #8 “Duck”: GWR 6400 class (built by Swindon Works in 1932).

NWR #9 “Donald” and NWR #10 “Douglas”: Caledonian Railways C12 class (Built by Sharp, Stewart and Company in 1899).

NWR #11 “Oliver”: GWR 1400 Class #1420 (Built by Swindon Works in 1933).

NWR #12 “Murdoch”: British Rail Standard 9F #92015 (built by Crewe Works in 1954).

NWR #13 “Archie”: Brill Trolley (Built in 1927).

NWR #14 “Neil”: Neilson 0-4-0 box tank (Built by Neilson and Company in 1861).

NWR #15 “Hiro”: JNR 9600 Class (Built by Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing in 1913).

NWR #16 “Bloomer”: LNWR Bloomer Class (built by Sharp, Stewart and Company in 1851).

NWR #17 “Emily”: GNR No. 1 class 4-2-2 Stirling Single (built by Doncaster works in 1895).

NWR #18 “Katie”: Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST (built by the Hunslet Engine Company in 1962).

NWR #19 “Sam”: Virginian Railway AG class #906 (Built by Lima Locomotive Works in 1945).

NWR #20 “Ashima”: NMR X class (built in the Golden Rock Railway Workshop in 2011).

NWR #21 “Big City Engine”: LMS Patriot Class #5533 “Lord Rathmore” (Built by Derby Works in 1933).

NWR #22 “Little Afton”: Peckett #1900 0-4-0T “Flying Bufferbeam” (built by Crovan’s Gate Works in 2015).

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.21

Beer Birthdays

Josef Groll (1813)

Christian Diehl (1842)

David "Zambo" Zamborsky

Julian Shrago (1977)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Count Basie; jazz pianist, bandleader (1904)

Aubrey Beardsley; English artist, illustrator (1872)

Friz Freleng; animator (1906)

Joe Strummer; English rock singer, songwriter (1952)

Peter Weir; film director (1944)

Famous Birthdays

Janet Baker; English soprano (1933)

Nikolay Bogolyubov; Russian mathematician and physicist (1909)

Usain Bolt; Jamaican sprinter (1986)

Sergey Brin; Google co-founder (1973)

Bo Burnham; comedian (1990)

James Burton; guitarist (1939)

Dina Carroll; English singer-songwriter (1968)

Kim Cattrall; English-Canadian actor (1956)

Augustin-Louis Cauchy; French mathematician (1789)

Wilt Chamberlain; Philadelphia 76ers C (1936)

Jackie DeShannon; singer (1944)

Addison Farmer; bassist (1928)

Art Farmer; jazz trumpeter (1928)

Hubert Gautier; French mathematician (1660)

Charles Frédéric Gerhardt; French chemist (1816)

Carl Giammarese; singer-songwriter (1947)

Otto Goldschmidt; German composer (1829)

Eric Goles; Chilean mathematician (1951)

Nathaniel Everett Green; English painter and astronomer (1823)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze; French painter (1725)

Stephen Hillenburg; marine biologist and animator (1961)

Patrick Juvet; Swiss singer-songwriter (1950)

Angel Karaliychev; Bulgarian author (1902)

M.M. Kaye; British writer (1908)

X. J. Kennedy; poet (1929)

Ruth Manning-Sanders; Welsh-English author and poet (1886)

Giacomo F. Maraldi; French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (1665)

Patty McCormack; actor (1945)

Jim McMahon; Chicago Bears QB (1959)

Jules Michelet; French historian and philosopher (1798)

Christopher Robin Milne (1920)

Carrie-Anne Moss; Canadian actor (1967)

William Murdoch; Scottish engineer and inventor (1754)

Barry Norman; English author (1933)

William Henry Ogilvie; Scottish-Australian poet and author (1869)

Ozma, Queen of Oz; book character (1904)

Hayden Panettiere; actor (1989)

Frank Perry; film director (1930)

Basil Poledouris; Greek-American composer (1945)

Blossom Rock; actress (1895)

Kenny Rogers; country singer (1938)

Christian Schad; German painter (1894)

Lucius Shepard; author (1943)

Harry Smith; television journalist (1951)

Steve Smith; rock drummer (1954)

Ivan Stang; author (1953)

Jean Stas; Belgian chemist (1813)

Robert Stone; writer (1937)

Jeff Stryker; porn actor (1962)

Melvin Van Peebles; actor (1932)

Pete Weber; bowler (1962)

Clarence Williams III; actor (1939)

Mark Williams; New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter (1954)

Hugh Wilson; actor and film director (1943)

Alicia Witt; actor (1975)

[tonkitour]

Apple wwdc

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Make sure to tune in and follow Trusted Reviews‘ coverage to stay abreast of all the developments. In 2022, WWDC might just see the launch of the new MacBook Air for example. In recent years, we’ve seen more and more product launches occurring at the event.

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However, despite the name, WWDC isn’t just about software – often, new hardware can share the stage too.

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While the event itself takes place in June, we often need to wait an extra few months to see the software get rolled out to our devices, unless you’re keen even to install beta versions on your devices. This conference is the perfect launching pad to announce changes coming to these operating systems, including incoming new features or tweaks to apps and the interfaces, and while developers need to know the technical details in order to change their apps accordingly, the rest of us can tune in to see what could be different about our Apple products in a few months’ time. You’ll see announcements regarding iOS for the iPhone, macOS for computers and desktops, and iPadOS for – you guessed it – the iPads. Those stripes move when users touch the Apple Watch’s screen.As mentioned, the focus of WWDC is Apple’s new software across its range of tech products. The watch face, which will be available on June 4 when Apple’s WWDC kicks off, features a blue background with vertical rainbow stripes. One more thing…It’s Pride Month and Apple is celebrating with a special Apple Watch Pride Month watch face.

The iPhone maker decided to close its Atlantic City store this week after it suffered from a “ sharp decline in tourism and visitors to the area.” Apple said 52 employees would be impacted by the closure, but they were all offered jobs elsewhere within the company.

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Learn how you can integrate Apple Music features into your web service or Android app, make requests to the Apple Music API to discover and fetch content, and personalize the experience for subscribers. Sonos speakers and Amazon’s Echo smart home device also work with the feature. Explore the Apple Music API and MusicKit client frameworks.

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The update also adds the ability for HomePod owners to sync speakers in different rooms, so they play the same music. The feature was teased at the HomePod’s unveiling last year, but it wasn’t available with its release this year.

Apple this week updated its iOS mobile operating system with a feature that lets two of its HomePod smart speakers be used in unison to create stereo sound.

But Apple plans to exclusively move to OLED next year to keep pace with competitors, like Samsung, that only use OLED in high-end phones. Apple announced today that it will be implementing its Passkey feature across iOS and macOS devices, enabling users to manage accounts via. Apple currently offers the older LCD technology in its iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus and the newer, thinner, and better-performing OLED in its iPhone X. Written by Taylor Clemons, Staff Writer on June 6, 2022.

Apple next year will convert all of its iPhone displays to organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology, Bloomberg reported this week.

But in an interview at the Code Conference this week, Fox chief James Murdoch said that Apple’s “dabbling” in programming could make it “very challenging” for the company to be successful in the entertainment industry. Platforms State of the Union June 6, 1 p.m. Join the worldwide developer community for an in-depth look at the future of Apple platforms, directly from Apple Park.

Apple has been quietly acquiring a variety of original television series as part of a broader effort to build a television-streaming business. The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off with exciting reveals, inspiration, and new opportunities.

Android users, however, have access to an update Telegram released in May. As of this writing, the last Telegram update was made in March. He said that Apple hasn’t allowed Telegram to update its app since Russia banned use of the encrypted-messaging service within its borders in April.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov accused Apple this week of preventing his private-messaging company from updating its app in the App Store.

Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter Until then, read on for a look back at some of the biggest Apple news from the past week: Remember to check back on Monday for Fortune‘s wall-to-wall coverage of the event.

[houseboatisland]

I read your asks on James x Murdoch and I just adore them! I just wish there was more content about them. Would you be able to share anymore details on the two together? ❤️x🧡

hi! terribly sorry about answering so late!

let's see

If you want a sure-fire way to get James to pull trucks without complaints or incidents, you have him double-head with Murdoch. Being with Murdoch in general casts a spell on James. He becomes so agreeable and lax and even humble in some moments. An added benefit is that while James is famously terrible at managing trucks, Murdoch has this down to a science, so they'll never try James' patience when the 9F is on the same train.

James hasn't pulled the express in a few decades because it's gotten too heavy for him. Murdoch, meanwhile, was one of a very few 9Fs on the Mainland to barely touch coaches. When James learned this, he was appalled and told Murdoch he was selling himself short. He then made it his business to tell other engines, yard foremen, inspectors, ANYONE he could get to listen that Murdoch deserved to be trialed on passenger work, and (without backing it up,) that he was PERFECT for the job. It ended with James volunteering Murdoch to stand in for Gordon on the express one day, after a truck had derailed under very suspicious, red Mogul-related circumstances to trap him in a siding. Murdoch was a nervous wreck at first, but he got the train underway and finished two minutes early. He later thanked James for helping him broaden his horizons and have a lovely, but also asked him please not to go behind his back and shove him out of his comfort zone like this again, thanks? And ever since, Murdoch has been part of the Express Engine Rota.

In vengeance, Gordon later caught James near some wheelbarrows of ash and wheeshed them with everything he had. Then he rolled slowly and aloofly away as if he had just slapped James with a glove.