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Christmas Day is my Bondversary.

I watched Skyfall on Dec 25, 2015, a few weeks after the BBC premiered London Spy.

The rest is history!

I FOUND MY FIRST-EVER 00Q POST LOL

christmas day was my 1st bondversary so i went looking for my first 00q freakout post from last year, sometime after london spy aired in the UK. it’s a freakout because i just got so excited seeing how gay the gif sets looked

here it is. thanks to everyone who helped introduce me to this pair! great stuff in the notes! this is weeks before i saw my first bond movie (skyfall)

thank you to the amazing @skylocked who was so warm and friendly and made me feel like family in the fandom xxx

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Source: @complexmagazine on Instagram

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As always, gratitude for @kate2kat on this Christmas Day for making the Kings College Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols a part of my morning since at least 2018

Audio:

Program:

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1923 Christmas Day Menu from the Poinsettia Soda Grill at the Central Avenue-Poinsettia Hotel. This is a premium price for a dinner in 1923.

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📸 daily mail uk

And Tom Hardy is up there with one of the nicest guys in showbiz, along with Keanu Reeves and Hugh Jackman.

Tom recently offered to pay the wages of an entire TV set crew on the new Guy Ritchie series after a construction company went into liquidation.

The Venom star, 47, recently filmed scenes for Guy Ritchie 's upcoming TV series, The Associate, in London.

But around 50 freelance building workers were left devastated after Helix 3D, the construction company contracted to build sets, went bust, The Times reported.

This is when Tom stepped in and offered to pay the workers' wages that Paramount resolved the situation and set about sorting their paychecks.

And after Tom's sweet gesture this week, MailOnline takes a look at who the nicest guys in Hollywood are...

#TomHardy #thefixer #VenomTheLastDance

#GuyRitchie

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Source: @complexmagazine on Instagram

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hi, i’m your local laid off discord employee, here to talk about exactly how safe it may or may not be to talk about Political Activism on discord. my credentials here are that i was a senior member of discord’s trust & safety team, which is the team that handles bans, legal investigations, and legal compliance. (my speciality was in child safety, anti-grooming, and taking down CSAM, but i also worked occasionally in low level terrorism issues and assisted that team in investigations.) i also know most of the people still working there in these capacities.

the tldr and most important thing to know is: i do not recommend you plan, discuss plans, or use any kind of hyperbolic (or not) language about violence to government officials or anyone in that vicinity on discord. please use signal instead.

a discord trust & safety employee is technically able to see any message you’ve sent under your account, going all the way back to the beginning of your account. unless you have manually deleted a message, it is viewable to a tns employee. now: it is a tremendous part of being on a tns team that we did NOT invade user privacy without cause. cause was usually: another user reported something you said, and we thought the reported message indicated you might be doing something elsewhere that was illegal (for example: a user says “i’m talking to this girl but she’s in high school lol.” i would then try to find evidence as to whether or not there was a child safety issue there. in this example, we’d require clear admission of age from both the user and the alleged high school girl, and then clear evidence of sexual talk between them, and go from there.) finding evidence required looking though all of that user’s messages.

most of the tns team, as i know them, are pretty resolute about not going further in looking than would be needed for action. most of the tns team that i still speak to is very much on the side of blue. your general conversations are probably perfectly safe, and we were very good at figuring out quickly if someone has reported you maliciously. i don’t believe you need to worry too much about your porn and fanfic and all that.

HOWEVER: reported content must be investigated, and discord can, and has been, legally subpoenaed to turn over user information. again, this has nominally been in Very Evil cases (CSAM and grooming, school shooting threats, murder admissions, etc.) but that could change, either at the federal level, or at the discord policy level. discord, like any social media company, could easily be pressured or forced into taking on different internal policies that could get you in serious trouble if you are organizing violent or “illegal” resistance. if that happens, there is a scenario where this incoming administration is given access to your messages.

again: please do not organize your political or social resistance on discord from now on. please use signal to ensure your maximum safety. do not panic if you have already talks about things on discord: you can easily delete your messages, and that WILL remove from an employee’s view. do that and use signal from now on.

stay safe. i love you. 💕

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So Barbs and Jeff Bezos are fighting

James Bond has dodged more than 4,000 bullets. He has jumped from an airplane, skied off a cliff and escaped castration by laser beam.

Now, 007 is in a new kind of peril.

Nearly three years after Amazon acquired the right to release Bond movies through its $6.5 billion purchase of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio, the relationship between the family that oversees the franchise and the e-commerce giant has all but collapsed. The decaying partnership has scuttled any near-term hope of a new Bond film—a black eye for Amazon’s ambitions in Hollywood, since at the time of the MGM sale, the Bond franchise represented a significant share of the $6.5 billion the company paid for the studio. 

When it comes to Bond’s future, the power lies in the hands of Barbara Broccoli, who inherited the control from her father, Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, and who for 30 years has decided when a new Bond movie can go into production. She has told friends she doesn’t trust algorithm-centric Amazon with a character she helped to mythologize through big-screen storytelling and gut instinct. This fall, she characterized the status of a new movie in dire terms—no script, no story and no new Bond.

To friends, Broccoli has characterized her thoughts on Amazon this way: “These people are f— idiots.”

A representative for Eon, the production firm behind the Bond films, said Broccoli and other members of the family had no comment. 

The two sides are at an impasse: Amazon needs Broccoli to furnish them with ideas for a new Bond movie, but Broccoli doesn’t want to make a new Bond movie with Amazon. The standoff, say people on both sides of the divide, boils down to a clash between the 20th-century Hollywood of big screens and big swings and a new entertainment industry ruled by Silicon Valley firms that prize data, algorithms and streaming subscriptions. 

This story is based on interviews with more than 20 people familiar with the Broccoli-Amazon feud, including executives, business partners and friends. 

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Ok fam I’d like to take some credit for this since I’ve literally been using the tag #SIRNOLAN for twelve years ok!!!!!

British Royal Family - King Charles III made Sir Christopher Nolan, from London, Filmmaker, a Knight Bachelor during an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London. The honour recognises services to film. (Photo by Jordan Pettitt) | December 18, 2024.

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Officially Sir Christopher Nolan and Dame Emma Thomas <3

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Arise Sir Christopher!

and of course - Dame Emma

but never forgetting Nolan's true king:

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Christopher Nolan & Emma Thomas have been knighted as a Sir and a Dame by The King of England.

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00QAD Night In: A Christmas Story

Keeping the holiday spirit going with a watch party for A Christmas Story! This 1983 movie is a Christmas classic.

I'll be hosting the watch party on Saturday, December 21st at:

7:00am LA

10:00am NY

3:00pm London

5:00pm Helsinki

11:00pm Hong Kong

For an invitation to the 00QAD Discord, please send a non-anon tumblr Ask to the @00qad-fandom tumblr!

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00QAD Night In: A Christmas Story

Keeping the holiday spirit going with a watch party for A Christmas Story! This 1983 movie is a Christmas classic.

I'll be hosting the watch party on Saturday, December 21st at:

7:00am LA

10:00am NY

3:00pm London

5:00pm Helsinki

11:00pm Hong Kong

For an invitation to the 00QAD Discord, please send a non-anon tumblr Ask to the @00qad-fandom tumblr!

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00QAD Night In: The Muppet Christmas Carol and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

Get in the holiday mood with a double feature of The Muppet Christmas Carol and the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

I'll be hosting the watch party on Saturday, December 14th at:

7:00am LA

10:00am NY

3:00pm London

5:00pm Helsinki

11:00pm Hong Kong

For an invitation to the 00QAD Discord, please send a non-anon tumblr Ask to the @00qad-fandom tumblr!

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I’m so excited for this! Feels like the 2015 London Spy watch parties! @kate2kat will you join us?

00QAD Night In: Black Doves

Ben Whishaw is shedding his prim and proper Quartermaster attire and getting his hands dirty in "Black Doves," a six episode British spy series also starring Keira Knightly and Sarah Lancashire!

I will be hosting watch parties in the 00QAD Discord, showing one episode per week, starting at this time:

2:30pm in Los Angeles

5:30pm in New York

10:30pm in London

12:30am Wednesday in Athens

6:30am Wednesday in Hong Kong

Episode Schedule:

Season 1, Episode 1: Tue Dec 10th

Season 1, Episode 2: Tue Dec 17th <<Break for Christmas Eve & New Year's Eve>>

Season 1, Episode 3: Tue Jan 7th

Season 1, Episode 4: Tue Jan 14th

Season 1, Episode 5: Tue Jan 21st

Season 1, Episode 6: Tue Jan 28th

For an invitation to the 00QAD Discord, please send a non-anon tumblr Ask to the @00qad-fandom tumblr!