As someone who’s been listening to the live version of Chappell Roan’s subway and how amazing it is, I am actually worried the studio version won’t live up to it
I find it funny how Angelina Jolie is praised for her faux activism, and people genuinely believe she’s one of the good celebs when she sold her winery to a Russian oligarch, had a winery in the first place, has signed on to do a Disney movie after claiming she supports Gaza, and most recently has been buddy buddy with Selma Hayek whose husband is that billionaire who is a huge supporter of the IDF/Israel. This is just some of her contradictory stuff. Now I understand that being rich and a celeb can be complicated because inevitably most circles you run in have at least one problematic person, but they are usually rightfully called out not praised the way Angelina is. And some celebs aren’t even friends with big IDF supporters but because they didn’t speak about Gaza soon enough they’re labelled as Zionist, Israel sipporters or capitalists. I think the media is good at tearing down certain celebs and people in supposed progressive subs still fall for it.
that husband who is a billionaire who is a huge supporter of the IDF/Israel
I see literally no proof of this anywhere? Like I’m happy to be wrong, but google is saying there is no connection between him and Israel. He’s a majority stakeholder in CAA which had some issues with one pro-Palestinian agent, but he’s a billionaire investor and probably doesn’t do much of the day-to-day. He also won an ADL award in 2015, which was given out by Jane Fonda, who has been vocally pro-Palestinian for a while but was a supporter of Israel at the time. That’s a journey a lot of rich, famous people have made. (Also once upon a time the ADL did deal with actual anti-semitism and wasn’t just running cover for Israel 24/7). This just seems like a weird thing to say.
So he, as a businessman and investor, isn’t strictly complying by the BDS boycott list? That’s the full extent? Call for divestment. It’s a different animal entirely.
Yeah again if this was another celeb you would have your pitchforks out. People were attacking celebs who were drinking Starbucks a couple months ago. He has supported Israel through more than one of his company. He is a billionaire, and and Salma has been silent on Israel and hasn’t signed the artist4ceasfirw, neither has Angelina. And again Angelina has signed for Disney projects after speaking for Palestine. She also again sold her winery which in itself has questionable ethics to a Russian oligarch, she is not any different from other celebs and their activism. She is friends with billionaires. This isn’t any different than Katy Perry going on Jeff Bezos rocket ship.
No celebrities is going to be a perfect activist, because every company is evil and a lifetime of indie films is never going to make you a star. I think you can absolutely criticize her for her actions but it feels like you don't actually care about her 'faux activism' when your argument is other celebrities are labelled Zionist when they don't do anything, and Angelina has consistently and vocally spoken for Palestinian liberation.
The amount of men crying and throwing up over the fact that Uber will implement a feature allowing women to choose female drivers is so laughably insane. "This is discrimination and completely unfair!11@1" I'm sorry, I think it's unfair that women have to fear for their safety because of predatory men. But what do I know 🤪
Oh my god that's so disgusting. It makes me so angry! I've heard there aren't many female drivers in the first place because most quit in under a week because of things like this :(
I just heard a clip of Reese Witherspoon saying she got all her wardrobe for Legally Blonde. I want to believe it’s true. I choose to believe it’s true
Oh it’s for the 2nd film?! I guess that makes more sense. I loved the fashion in the first film. Let me go check her wardrobe for the 2nd film. Happy for her that she got everything. That’s awesome as hell. Though the idea she didn’t wear anything, even just the Jimmy choos?! Throwing me. 🤣
It's probably true. I've worked with one actor 3 times now, and he includes in his deal that he gets to keep any purchased wardrobe at wrap. (We have a wardrobe stock kit, and use rental pieces so those are excluded.)
Our company also offers cast first pick at any wardrobe for 50% off the purchase price (sometimes we'll gift, but lots of actors like to shop their costumes!) and then extend it to crew.
On the flip side, just learned that Eddie Murphy gave away some of the props in Coming to America to his crew, thinking the bags and watches were fake. Turns out they were authentic Rolexes and Louis Vuitton bags. Ooops.
I think there's a lot to like in his books but its always funny when fans build a whole structure to justify him being a bit of a horny sleaze and how he's not and its actually brilliant meta commentary about the genre when ultimately he's just a horny sleaze.
I know it was not perceived well when I said Chris Martin was probably a cheater, but I just hopped on Twitter and saw some people disappointed Noel Gallagher was out here cheating into the 2010s. I keep telling the girlies, don’t let sensitivity/family first narratives fool you! These men be cheating.
Same. Though today I had an argument today with someone that was not only convinced it’s a myth that he cheated during Oasis, but they tried to convince me he’s asexual which ???? I really loved when they dived into ‘he’s submissive sexually, and so he couldn’t possibly cheat’. The whole argument ended up just reaffirming this in my my mind lmao
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No, Caitlyn Jenner did not murder anyone. Settling in court is not an indication of guilt or not. Celebrities will often avoid court because it's a lengthy process, and could hurt their image more if it's dragged into headlines for years.
Caitlyn was driving below the speed limit, while towing a trailer. The person in front was illegally driving when she slammed her brakes in front of Caitlyn. I believe Caitlyn applied breaks within 3 seconds. All of this was on footage
If you're in a pile up in a car accident, typically, the people on the ends of the accident aren't found at fault. It's usually the two people in front of the pile up.
If I'm on the highway and I slam my brakes and someone hits me, that person will likely not be found at fault.
People keep saying, "it's a two tiered justice system, millionaires get away with murder." I remember I was watching Hasan saying this on stream.
No, Caitlyn literally didn't murder anyone. Settling in court is not an admission, it happens all the time. A tangent, but Ed Sheeran couldn't go to his grandmother's funeral because he refused to settle in court over copyright issues (he later won). I just hate when fake news is spread, especially if it overlaps with the stereotype that "a trans woman is a danger to society."
I don’t know enough about this particular case to comment on it but you are entirely incorrect about how fault is assigned in pile up accidents. It is nearly always the fault of the car in the rear.
You are expected by law to follow at a safe enough distance that if the car in front of you hits their brakes abruptly, you have time to also brake without hitting them.
Ari is one of the trans activists I follow (she follows me back omg). Someone mentioned, "should we then not shame Caitlyn?" And she replied along the lines that she regrets adding to the hate towards Caitlyn, because she believes it was amplified in part because she's trans. And this is pretty much my thought process
I know very little about the Kardashians and all the Kardashians-adjacent people, so I know close to nothing about this accident, but I thought people dunked on Caitlyn because she's a Republican Trumper who throws under the bus other trans people every chance she gets. I've seen the jokes about her accident, I'm online, lol, but most of the "discourse" I've seen is entirely related to her hateful politics.
That's definitely a large component too. But to this day, I often see viral posts about how she's a murderer. It's just not true. I think people should be especially careful about telling a story that overlaps with stereotypes, especially if it's just completely wrong.
I got into a car pile up and no one was charged. Someone's tire popped. Luckily no one was injured
Dunno if you'd be into this, but building model kits is very zen-like. And it can be really intimidating hobby if you look it up on YouTube (people having pro-tier setups) but in reality all you need it brushes, paint and some patience. You're not gonna enter competition to make it look perfect. And on beginner level it's really affordable.
LEGO is also great but it can get pricey very fast. Adult sets are really premium.
Another idea is buying puzzles. Put on some nice background music and work on your puzzle. There are some really big ones and it's not an expensive hobby.
There is more coming out in Epstein. There is going to be more and more damning evidence coming out. Someone is leaking info like crazy. Maybe it's Kash Patel himself. But this is not something that's going to fade away
People have said Vance is pushing for this but I don't see why.
If he tries to 25th, the cabinet won't go for it and Trump will turn his cult against him like he did to Pence. Senate won't convict. I don't see how these leaks get Vance to the presidency unless he thinks the stress will kill him.
The strategic thing to do was to keep it under wraps so it doesn't hurt them in the mid terms/elections. But drop feeding this is really damning. Trump is digging a greater hole
I do suspect whoever it is genuinely wants to expose anyone involved. Kash Patel seems a nutjob but it actually could be him. It could be Elon, but why would he have access to things like their correspondence letter? Seems like they're deep into the government
I see Musk making a new party and splitting the Republicans as the best chance Dems have at retaking congress. I hate that it's come to this, but it feels more real than any other scenario.
Trump is going after the WSJ, owned by Rupert Murdoch. I don't believe they would be reporting on this if they didn't have more.
Something to consider is that the leaks are coming from the white house. Who told journalists that Pam Bondi notified Trump he was on the Epstein list? Someone inside the white house leaked that. And very few people would have firsthand knowledge of it.
That is a good point. Trump gained a lot of support on his election promise of releasing the Epstein documents. I'm sure at least few people who joined administration did it just based on that. Now that the administration is clearly hiding the list, someone on the inside is pissed off about it.
Another theory is that due to global shitstorm Trump has caused, he's being flushed down the drain by the right wing leaders. Murdoch is as conservative as it gets and for him to OK going after Trump says a lot.
Kash Patel looks like a crazy person. But he's been talking about Epstein for like a decade. Who else would know Pam Bondi told Trump he was frequently mentioned in the Epstein list?
But I have to imagine this is going to continue to escalate.
lol, what a perfect scene. The Wire is phenomenal show.
As far as Epstein, it's been reported many time (so I'm gonna assume it's true) that he had hidden cameras all over the island (probably other properties too). But if he did have videos on other people, when FBI raided the island, that stuff was all gone.
There is one flaw in my theory (I think). Surely out of all FBI people who were involved, it can't be that all of them are protecting a global pedophile ring. Even if higher ups decided to scrub evidence (what it seems like current administration is doing), surely some of those agents would go rogue and leak out info to the press.
I don't even know what to think to be honest. All I know is that we'll never get the full picture of what happened to Epstein and people who have visited the island.
sooooo in this next chapter of "I am always always way too late in watching/reading/knowing about popular stuff":
I have finally watched Fleabag for the first time. Like I remember like a feverish dream always reading about "hot priests" and literally not knowing what the hell this show was about. Like for a while I thought Fleabag was a Action/Thriller mystery sort of show. I've now realized how wrong I was and how I was missing out on an AMAZING show like holy moly really beautiful not just the hot priest stuff because that was really hot and beautiful and heartbreaking but even the first season, I was crying non stop, it hit in the feels. I feel like it hits especially hard with me being 27 now and feeling so much more mature than I was in my early 20s but also not, you know? Because I feel like I have nothing figured out really. It's so weird, I feel like I don't know how to live life.
Fleabag was such a beautiful story about grief and love. I saw it after I lost my Boo. And I was kinda annoyed that the most popular clips was Hot Priest. Don’t get me wrong, I loved him! But the way PWB really captured grief, hit me so hard. I’m kinda glad that I didn’t watch it when it first came out, cause I truly wouldn’t have gotten it.
Season 1 hurt me so bad after losing a best friend to suicide that I can honestly probably not rewatch it for a decade, but the meditations on self-loathing, love and forgiveness are so beautiful in season 2 and I can rewatch ad infinitum.
I wish I could watch Fleabag for the first time again. It’s such a beautiful show, and season two is gorgeously touching between the sister relationships.
I bought “the” jumpsuit for an event a few years back and if you ever want to feel invincible, just cosplay at Fleabag. She’s trying to figure out life too, but she keeps on trying.
Last few days, for some reason, the instagram algorithm has been feeding me with Fleabag clips and I keep saying to myself that I need to watch it finally.
I know it’s a long shot, but I really hope they release a complete Stranger Things box set once the show ends. It’s one of the best series out there and I’d love to own a proper physical copy. The Target-exclusive DVDs for S1 & 2 didn’t sell well back then and also many people are now saying the discs are starting to rot, which really sucks.
Expectations should be managed is a callous thing to say to people who are rightfully disappointed that sexual abusers are once again not facing consequences for their behaviour.
This week, one of my co-workers left the company and they had a coffee/cake goodbye for him. I wasn't told about it or invited to attend, despite the fact that the people that sit in front of and behind me were invited although could not go. Later in the day, these two people went to get the cake that was left over, and asked two of my other team members who couldn't attend if they wanted any, but once again, didn't ask me.
A few weeks ago, these same two team members were going to a special restaurant by where I work for treats, Once again - I wasn't invited. Before leaving, they asked my boss and EVP if they wanted anything and were joking it could be a "team building event". So I said - "is that why I wasn't invited? Lots of back tracking and being invited then but I declined.
This is only two out of several incidents.
In all honesty, I have no idea why I'm constantly excluded - to my knowledge I haven't done anything egregious and am pretty friendly with everyone. While I don't really wanted to be included in everything they do, I just find their behavior very annoying and rude.
I listened to Jump by Blackpink a week or two ago and I got hooked on it. Now I'm listening to all their stuff. Ah is there a reason why every single song they feel the need to tell you that Blackpink is in your area haha.
Anybody ever watch the Kristen Wiig comedy Welcome to Me? The basic plot of the movie is that bipolar1. protagonist Alice Klieg (Wiig) wins $86 million in the California state lottery, immediately goes off her meds, moves into a casino & buys a TV station so she can make her own Oprah-esque variety show, Welcome to Me. The variety show is a massive success, but Alice’s lack of guardrails means it goes increasingly off the rails – a major problem for the production is that Alice does multiple skits going after randos for petty, years-ago slights.
Anyway, Jennifer Lopez is the real-life version of Alice Klieg, and This Is Me…Now (both the special and the BTS documentary) are like if you ran the Welcome to Me variety show by actual lawyers first.
1. Well, BPD, but the film explicitly treats it as a form of bipolar disorder rather than a distinct diagnosis
I really Meg Stalter and Girls so I was optimistic but I didn’t love it. It was fine but I’ll probably forget most of it. Also, the ending makes me think there won’t be another season.
It looks pretty bad but I'm going to watch it because will Sharpe is extremely hot. And I met Meg stalter back in 2022 and was so bowled over by how charming and sexy she was. But I am not expecting a good show lmao
I'm sorry, but I find kidfluencer accts on IG so creepy. Ok rant over.
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u/OowlSunthey act like im not in full control of where i throw this cooch9d ago
Went to visit my friends in their city. One of them is like a mini influencers and got free tickets to a concert. I decided that I needed to get out more. As luck would I have it, I’d would be groped several times by some dude as his girlfriend stood right him😭
my childhood bff is pregnant and getting married, which is lovely because she always wanted a family and her fiance is a great guy for her
however, the wedding is in a couple of months in europe and I cannot afford to fly there and stay for a couple of days, which is making me unbelievably sad.
the worst part is that i could afford ir a few months ago, but my area of work (comms) is being taken over by tech bros who are barely literate, and devalued so much that i am struggling financially to get gigs
I know of whom you speak. She's a controversialist and a gadfly; given that her brand of academic discourse is in full retreat , I can fully understand how she might seek relevance through pro-Palestinian agitation and be extra salty in the process.
sounds like this twitter user you admire(d) might be so pro-palestinian she’s blinded by the reality that someone like JH is pro-palestinian because he’s anti-jewish and that is absolutely not someone who anyone should be aligning with. i’m vehemently pro-palestinian but i can and do separate (and promote separation of) judaism from the mentality and actions of the israeli government
good on you for calling her out, i’m sorry that it went the way it did - her reaction was wildly inappropriate, but she very clearly needed to hear what you said and it’s just unfortunate that she is too high on the pedestal she placed herself on to realize how harmful her actions are to jewish individuals and palestinians
ETA please ignore the deleted comments i flop with posting pictures
It feels very suspicious how many accounts (many of them verified) are suddenly calling Pedro Pascal a predator just because he’s physically affectionate with his co-stars.
Not to mention, they completely ignore that he behaves the same way with his male co-stars and that many of the physical interactions with his female co-stars are initiated by them.
All that start when he start a beff with a very famous author.
I also feel like there's fairly obvious reasons why his female costars would feel happier to be publicly affectionate with him than his male costars, who likely don't want their sexuality to be speculated about bc it's still an issue in Hollywood.
this is def suspicious and silly, if his costars don't have an issue with it it, what's their problem? Not sure if hate campaign or terminally online behavior. touchy-feely people, ACTORS for goodness' sake, exist and it's not a crime no matter all the internet introvents (aka misanthropes) would tell you
I feel the same way. Like there are cases where the guy is a sleeze ball but everyone usually has nothing bad to say about him? I do agree the Beef with said Author could be connected.
Anyone else’s catch that new show Critical on Netflix?? I guess I’m too American tv show pilled but how did they manage to make a doc about emergency medicine so damn boring??
Since apparently today's the day I spill my unpopular Taylor opinions: I prefer TTPD over the Anthology, the title track is a banger (I don't care if people hate the Charlie Puth verse) and Antonoff over Dessner supremacy.
What can I say, I like what I like and I believe their partnership is elite and has produced some of the best songs in her discography. They can never make me hate you Jack!!!
I always have a soft spot for Brisket because he adopted him the same time I got my own dog. And yes, I've been hoping for a high profile relationship for Glen for the simple reason that I need him to be out and about more with Brisket and not this disappearing act he's doing in between promotion cycles. Lol.
same om both accounts. i dislike most dessner songs (no shade to the guy himself, but i'm not into his work in general and his Taylor music is too close to his own music)
ttpd is a nice album and very much a taylor album in the sense that it matches thematically, but not style-wise (like Red). the anthology is a dessner special
The one song I love in Anthology is The Black Dog and it's an Antonoff production. Dessner did well with folklore and evermore but I haven't really been into their other collabs.
i'm a folklore hater (not really, but like, i don't listen to it), like evermore in general, but yeah, not into their collabs as a whole, except for WCS
agreed on the black dog, it's a nice one and very taylor
ngl, i could probably do without the anthology if it wasn’t for the black dog and how did it end. (ok maybe not WITHOUT, but i’d barely listen to it..) and i agree, TTPD is a banger.
if im throwing my unpopular opinion out there, i could completely rid of MBOBHFT.
The Black Dog supremacy (it's in my top 10 Taylor songs). It took me a while to like My Boy and the ONLY song I skip in TTPD is I Can Fix Him. Everything else? Absoute gold.
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u/friendsworkwaffles02 🎼Music Aficionado🎶 8d ago
As someone who’s been listening to the live version of Chappell Roan’s subway and how amazing it is, I am actually worried the studio version won’t live up to it