#thanks for the article anon!!

[free-luigi-mangione]

https://www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-news/2025/04/blair-da-mangione-arrest-was-lawful/

while the prosecution is obviously claiming that everything is alright and the cops were acting completely lawfully, it is their job to do so and they haven't denied anything that Dickey had said, they went umm yeah we did it but we think that's fine because of course we do

let's wait and see what happens and hope that Judge Bernard actually suppresses all evidence in the PA case.

[acti-veg]

According to one analysis of wool production in Australia, by far the world’s top exporter, the wool required to make one knit sweater is responsible for 27 times more greenhouse gases than a comparable Australian cotton sweater, and requires 247 times more land. Sheep farming threatens native species around the world, from koalas in Australia to sage grouse in the US.

Domesticated sheep in the American West have, as my colleague Paige Vega has reported, been implicated in mass die-offs of their wild cousins, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, through the spread of the lethal pathogen Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae.

Ruminant farming’s hunger for land has made it a prime engine for colonial expansion around the world; we see this in Brazil, for example, where cattle ranching is driving illegal seizures of Indigenous land. Sheep brought by colonists to Australia “immediately trampled and destroyed all of the native yams and edible vegetables that Aboriginal people had.

The land that Aboriginal people never ceded was taken for pastoral practices,” said Emma Hakansson, the Australia-based founding director of Collective Fashion Justice, which advocates for what she calls a “total ethics” fashion system: one that’s fair to people, animals, and the planet. “Animal-derived materials in particular are a focus for us because it’s in those supply chains that all three of those groups are consistently harmed.”

[dailytomlinson]

(TWEET)

Louis Tomlinson seems to be stealing the show on-site at Coachella – simply through being himself.

The genial pop hero has managed to navigate immense fame like a champion, remaining grounded throughout his experiences. Whether it’s giving unknown artists their big break by inviting them on tour or meeting fans on a one-to-one basis, the English pop hero remains an absolute champ.

Last summer Louis Tomlinson caused a sensation on the Glastonbury camp-site – the festival opted out of showing England’s crucial international football game, so Louis simply carried his television to the camping area, and let fans gather around to watch the game.

He’s left the TV at home on this occasion, but it seems Louis is busy making friends at Coachella – indeed, his easy-going manner is causing social media bedlam.

Clips from the site are going viral, with fans impressed by his down-to-Earth nonchalance.

Here he is chilling at the bar –

As long-time fans have been quick to point out, Louis Tomlinson has always had a soft spot for festivals – in particular, making friends with passers-by.

That’s not to say he’s left his cheeky side in England, however.

[911onabcbts]

📝: Arielle talking about if she would play Lucy again.

[vamptits]

Could you possibly link me a post about your issue with love languages, if you have made one? I found your posts about IQ and maturing at 25 useful. Also anything about MBTI you’ve written, if you don’t mind. I don’t actually know what that is at all.

Of course!! I said a few things about MBTI here, but tldr it's all eugenistic pseudoscience. And the women who made it up were just so racist.

Love languages are based on a book by a baptist pastor and relationship counselor called Gary Chapman. He is a misogynist, and most of his advice boils down to “women should sleep with their husbands because their love language is physical touch” and “he’s not doing the dishes because acts of service is your love language, not his”.

There’s absolutely no scientific basis for the many books he’s written on the subject (which include ‘The 5 Love Languages for Men’ and ‘The 5 Love Languages Military Edition). He just made that shit up!

"[Chapman’s book] does not provide strong empirical support for the book’s three central assumptions that (a) each person has a preferred love language, (b) there are five love languages, and (c) couples are more satisfied when partners speak one another’s preferred language”

Mainly it’s about as helpful as any online personality quiz and the guy who made it all up sucks. Also I took the test and it’s just the same 5 questions reworded 30 times. Not even fun! And lastly it bears repeating that it’s kinda funny how pervasive this shit has been considering this man also wrote these truly spectacular works of nonfiction:

[shurisneakers]

Oh I am SO rereading Harmless

omg tell me how it is the second time around

[chosetherose]

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/taylor-swift-kamala-harris-endorsement-donations-donald-trump

THE UNITED STATES OF TAYMERICA

Taylor Swift's Kamala Harris Endorsement Has Triggered a Donation Windfall—and Donald Trump

Democrats saw donations roll in as social media popped off, and Donald Trump had a little Brittany Mahomes outburst.

taymerica 😂

[sincericida]

W mag interview. It's really sweet.

Ooooh thank u so much, sweetheart ❤️

[louisliamforever]

It also funny to me how obvious the Lilo falling out was lol the way Nouis were super close in 2016 just because Lilo weren’t…🙈 but I do still think that they loved each other even when they had a falling out….Liam was the only member who attended Jay’s funeral…he still cared about Louis sm even tho they had their differences

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/louis-tomlinson-supported-by-liam-payne-at-mothers-funeral#:~:text=The%20Doncaster%20Star%20reports%20that,days%20before%20Louis's%2025th%20birthday.

Somebody's gotta do a dissertation on this lol. I need all the tea from that time period cause I was pretty much checked out. So Nouis ended up being close that year? That's funny! But crazy that in that way only Liam showed up for the funeral! Like wtf... I mean my Lilo heart is happy ofc but it makes me feel weird about the other boys. So yeah it just goes to show how much they truly loved and supported one another to put aside the differences and be there. I feel like whatever they were upset about was probably more ego bruising than actual like 'whoa how TF could you do that to someone you cared about?' (x)

[mistressemmedi]

https://www.vox.com/2024/3/8/24093296/formula-1-christian-horner-allegations-red-bull-investigation-verstappen-women

Vox wrote a really good article about the Christian horner allegations, and their implications for women in and around the sport.

Maybe I’m too hopeful but I don’t think the pr line that we should focus on racing/no distractions is working. I’ve seen more and more coverage outside the formula 1 bubble from sources that don’t usually give much attention to f1.

This is actually a really good read, and very well laid out.

I quite like this quote "The sport, of course, made promises that it will do better in these avenues. Talk is just talk though, if there aren’t actions to back it up when the stakes have never been higher"

[zot3-flopped]

Payne also had recently made his first serious commitment to sobriety. In 2017, he began a two-year professional relationship with Chip Somers, a psychotherapist and sober companion who had been “put forward as somebody who could deal with people with notoriety and could be trusted to do so.”

“There was a great deal of pressure to keep it private, and quite rightly so,” Somers told The Times. “I don’t believe that anybody should put themselves into a position of pressure in the first year of their sobriety.”

Somers spent almost every day with Payne, he said, and once the performer got clean, “He loved it. Like everybody, he came alive. He had fun. He found a genuine ability to just have a laugh.” The therapist said Payne found joy in simple activities, like playing TopGolf or going 10-pin bowling. When their work together came to an end, Somers was hopeful about Payne’s sobriety.

[sunflowersandscreams]

tell us about your wips plzzz

is there a scene you’re particularly enjoying writing? <3

thank you to the lovely kind person who sent this... i got distracted from answering it... but i appreciate it despite my lateness <33

so many of my wips are like. i read a post -> idea -> haze where i bash out ~500 words. and then i forget to actually develop that snippet into a full idea. which drives me up the wall

but right now!! i am working on a platonic bluedam fic set in bllb area. which i HOPE to have out tomorrow but i'm so inconsistent so we'll see. i like writing them full of hope and yearning but i think i need to go back and re-write them a little meaner they're too nice right now.

i want to write more adansey.... typical me... i'm writing this au where post-trk adam and gansey end up being like telepathically linked because of the cabeswater deal & gansey being made up of cabeswater now. it's very much a vibes based thing (much like the 'magic system' in trc. haha.) and they want each other so bad obviously.

often when i write a specific pairing it's like. yeah focused on that pairing but it's not incompatible with polycule gangsey because i am a believer. so really many of my fics could be that but I don't tend to write them together all at once because i get overwhelmed with so many characters. ensemble casts are my troublesome friend.

i also want to do some more whump stuff like what i used to write a couple years ago that shit was sooo fun. it does feel gratuitous and indulgent but hey. it is fanfiction. come on.

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

Here are the issues I have with the book. Since it's a lot, I'll try to keep it as short as possible and only mention my biggest problems with it. So this list is not complete and I could write pages about it.

Let me start by saying that a good autobiography (or any book that highlights a real life person) should be balanced. It should not glorify that person or pretend that person is a god and without mistakes. I also have no problem with critizing Ze, because, let's face it, yes he made mistakes and fucked things up in the past and not every war decision or speech or whatever was good or perfect. The point is: the critique should be fair and balanced (this obviously doesn't apply to bad people in general and the books about them; but since Ze isn't a bad person...you get what I want to say). The portrayal of Ze in the book is anything but fair or balanced. Or true, for that matter (unless literally every person in Ze's life and who knows him better, including the Kvartal fam, Olena, Andriy or people like them, have been lying to everyone for decades).

Throughout the whole book Shuster does say that Ze is Ukrainian (and Jewish) but also always tries to paint him as an "Ukrainian Russian" - so Ze is actually Russian despite being a "Ukrainian" (basically using one of Russia's Propaganda lies). Ze is basically a stubborn "Ukrainian" who kind of deserves all the hate and arrogance he gets from "real Russians" during KVN times (and later) because Ze is an insufferable asshole during his KVN times. And that Russian treated Ukrainian (or from other former Soviet Union countries) teams badly (including racist remarks, looking down on them, treating them like slaves, insulting them, not giving them a fair chance,...) teams awfully is, in Ze's case, deserved. Because Ze was oh so focused on always winning - no matter what and the cost.

Speaking of KVN: According to Shuster, Ze was terrible as a person during his first years of stardom. A maniac who only lived for applause and needs it to survive and was willing to do absolutely everything to win and beat other teams. Because, you know, he's so obsessed with winning. To a point were even he gives a flying fuck about the Kvartal team and their members (Shuster basically hints that they all disliked Ze and he was some kind of group dictator who only wanted to work and win all the time and was reckless and took to many risks and almost destroyed everyones lifes). When Shuster finds something positive to write about, he quotes people from Kvartal but what he quotes are just general statements or people saying what KVN was like during the 1990s and early 2000s. The moment Shuster writes about Ze and was he (allegedly) like during this time it's almost only "team members" and "people who knem him" and "classmates" and all that stuff - so anon sources. Or it's just Shuster telling stuff without saying what his source is or him just have feelings and thoughts and drawing conclusions. If people get named they - surprise, surprise - have a lot of times bad things to say about Ze or are people who we never ever have heard of as being part of Ze's life. Btw, it's not very hard to guess who the "team member", who talked the KVN years and adds a lot of negative talk about Ze, is... . Denys (yes, THAT Denys) contributed to the book with pictures, so chances are high he also talked to Shuster. If you ever wondered if the asshole would ever get over the fact that he fucked up and Ze kicked his ass out of the group - well, the answer is no. He now just tries to cash in on Ze. And since we are talking about Denys' obvious contribution to the book - he, once again, gave out private photos. How much we all wanna bet that he, once again, didn't ask for consent?!

Shuster also tries to paint Ze's family in a bad light. The father a tyrann who sacrified his wife's (Mama Ze) health for his job and money. Also rarely being at home and giving a fuck about his son and family. Mama Ze spoiling her child and making him entitled. Both to unloving and hard and more or less making Ze's life a living hell. Also that Ze's family was suddenly rich. Not to mention indirectly questioning the trauma his family had to go through (and Ze talked about in the past) under Stalin and the Nazis and family members that are suddenly alive (despite Ze stating in the past that they were dead). Also, Shuster sees in the childhood and family of Ze a part of the explanation why Ze is such a horrible person today, to stubborn to just give up and end the fight (and all that nonsense) and won't win this war. Because the parents put Ze in all kind of activities without him finishing any of it but letting him believe he can do everything and always demanding excellent perfomance in every aspect of his life (to keep it short). So of cooourse Ze had to grow up into a maniac who can't loose and always continues despite what people may tell him and who needs the constant validation and love from others.

There are also a ton of negative remarks about Ze as father and husband in regard of his own family. Not to mentiont hat a ton of informations are factually not correct. Things like birth dates or dates in general, how and where Ze's family lived (missing important context several times), Ze basically being as awful as his father, Ze not giving a fuck about his families safety during the war (Olena was the voice of reason who protects the poor, poor children because their father just wants them back for egoistic reasons and doesn't care about their safety) or not seeing anything concerning about his sons military obsession and instead fueling it (again, it's the poor poor wife who has to protect the son from the awful father), Ze giving zero fucks about his relationship with Olena right from the start and that poor, poor, poor woman always staying behind and having to go through hell and hate because of Ze's maniac ambitions and facing an unsave future in the early 2000s because Ze was so full of himself and had the biggest ego,... . (reading several parts you would think that this "poor, poor woman" is trapped in some abuse situation or Ze somehow tied her to himself and the whole marriage is fake and there is no love) (also Olena simultaniously romantizing things and her life and Ukraine but also being the only who who sees the truth about Ze or several parts of their lives but, of course, can't tell her terrible husband because bad, bad Ze) Also Shuster indirectly claiming that Ze and Olena lied about their relationship and they didn't date for eight years but for a shorter period of time. Because suddenly Olena also was a part of KVN long before Ze (???) and was essentially just his work buddy and friend for a while and somehow and for whatever reason they ended up in a relationship one day. (Also prepare yourself to read about a new version of the "Basic Instinct" story we never have heard before...and Ze and Olena never said.)

Btw, the way Ze is portrayed during his KVN years is essentially with little variation how he's portrayed in later stages of his life. Including his presidency and the war (I'm not going to write several more paragraphes because I think you get the picture Shuster tries to paint of Ze).

Only one thing about Ze's war portrayal: Shuster swings back and forth between Ze as wanna be dictator who will turn Ukraine into something bad as soon as the war is over (and is already starting with that) and who already makes his own rules and gives zero fucks about people and is only interested in his own fame and people applauding him and all that stuff. And Ze being the worst President ever because the war and the current state of Ukraine (which is, of course, very bad and they are about to collapse and loose and big Russia and winning and blablabla) are somehow also his fault. Yes, Shuster really manages to make Ze (and with that Ukraine) partly guilty.

Throughout the whole book he also, sometimes more obvious sometimes hidden, Shuster portrays Ukraine in the worst way possible. He does mention how "bad" Russia is but somehow justifying it several times or leaving out important facts and, once again, context. Also the portrayal of Putin, especially in comparsion with how he writes about Ze, is a joke.

Oh, and, the "inside look in the bunker" life Shuster used for his marketing campaign and that the claim of the book - yeah, bullshit. It's nothing now and anon and all that stuff. Also, once again, portraying Ze in a bad light. Like, yeah, the first weeks of war affected him but to such a worrying point (according to Shuster) that Ze was actually unfit to rule any longer as President but continued (because, you know, he loves power sooo much...). And now he's the mini dictator of Bankova who is always grumpy and changed into a (an even more) awful person and... .

What can I say at the end?! As mentioned earlier, the book has a ton of fake news and wrong facts. It's incredibly poorly researched - if sources exist at all. A lot of times it's Shuster just sharing his feelings or thougths or conclusions or interpretations or whatever. Or just saying things without context. Or writing stuff without giving sources. And to be honest, in some parts it also feels like that Shuster just made stuff up.

If you have no idea about Ze and his life or know very little - that's not the book to get informed. If you know a bit more about Ze, you will surprisingly often feel that certain parts of "exclusive interviews" or "when I talked with XYZ" are strangely familiar...with interviews we all know from Ze's (and several other people) past...because it is these interviews. Just a lot of times missing context, shortening what was said, adding stuff or giving it a new meaning.

Speaking of using old stuff: Shuster also really used his old articles to include them in the book...to a point where it's basically almost word for word.

Overall, the book is in large parts poorly written (so poorly that you wonder how he became a TIME journalist in the first place).

In the end, you probably haven't learned anything new or interesting about Ze, his life, the war or Ukraine. When we talk about Ze, I may have read one, maybe two new things I haven't read before (but questioning both of them and will do research if they are true or just made up by Shuster). It's over 300 sites of wasted paper and ink. I know articles who did a better job than this "book". It's a waste of time and money. And in the end it's a Pro-Russia Propaganda book, trying to undermine the support for Ukraine and hurt Ze and his image (as well as Ukraine's). Shuster tries to be subtle at his try to do this but he isn't not. He tries to come off as critical thinker who wants to portray a balanced picture of Ze and also writes about the sides no one dares to talk about. But nothing about this is balanced. It's just 300+ sites of trashing Ze and backstabbing him and using every possible way. Same applies to Ukraine.

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[joker-daughter]

In a new article published by The Times, to promote the launch of BERO in the United Kingdom this Monday, January 20, Tom Holland commented a little more about the process of creating his brand of non-alcoholic beers:

"I wanted to create something… that would allow you to walk into a bar and order a well-known brand that represented sobriety but was discreet, so that people like me could go to the pub and feel as much a part of that environment as anyone else.

I used to watch The Apprentice, and I love the idea of ​​being given a challenge and creating something from scratch. I've always wanted to do something like that, I just never came across anything that I was particularly passionate about. I've had offers to start sportswear brands and things like that, but the world doesn't need… Tom Holland bodybuilding t-shirts, I never felt like I would give it 100 percent. But with BERO it felt like a really good thing to do. Promoting a healthier lifestyle is something I really believe in.

One of the main differences between being involved in a start-up and making films is that it’s a constant process of improvement and evolution. With films, once the project is launched, there’s nothing you can do, but with BERO, what we can do is adapt and change. We’re flexible and it’s been a really fun process to analyze feedback and change where we can constantly grow and improve.”

Josh Herman, co-founder of BERO, also commented on Holland's involvement with the brand:

"He has tremendous reach, but he was also committed to helping build the brand with me. It wasn't like, 'Hey, build the product and then put that it's sponsored by Tom Holland on the can. ' He was in every meeting and call with me."

👍

[tame-a-messenger]

Hi there :) I just wanted to appreciate you for creating this blog, I adore Damien & Angela’s dynamic so much :D

Smoshtwt isn’t too fond of Damangela, ’cause a lot of them seem to think all of us ship them romantically (it seems like most of us just enjoy their fun & teasing dynamic!), so being over here is just a lot more fun with less drama!

Anyway, it looks like today’s Games video is gonna be a TNTL Trivial Pursuit - hoping for Damangela!!

- 🐦‍🔥

Thanks💖 I'm happy you like my blog! :D

Smoshtwt can be something else I tell ya. If it was all shipping they are still so aggressive for no reason. I try to stay out of it as much as I can.

(I'm a longtime fandoms lurker. There's a lot of new blood all the sudden trying to change things up, I will not sway and buckle because they think it's 'cringe'. Like I know it's cringe?? I just don't care. It brings me joy)(the word "fan" literally comes from "fanatic" and you're telling me I shouldn't be excited about my cuties™?? be quiet.)

TNTL TRIVIAL PURSUIT!!!! I wonder who it will be today!! (as always, hoping for 🕯️🕯️🕯️Damangela🕯️🕯️🕯️)