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“Made ya look!”

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Love the fact that when I try to focus on working on my studies, my brain decides now is the perfect time to work on that Spencer Reid fic based on that one article I read from a therapist about the neurodivergent love languages.

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you're humming. Santa's cheating on Mrs Claus And you're humming. Santa's committing blatant adultery with an ingénue sugar baby w/ the voice of an angel Eartha Kitt. and you're SINGING ALONG

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GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS

DECEMBER 23rd

AKA

THE 357th DAY OF THE YEAR

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Wong Liu-tsong

Known professionally as Anna May Wong, Wong Lui-tsong (1905-1961) was the first Chinese-American Hollywood star. An international fashion and film star, her work as an icon perseveres.

Wong was born in Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese-American immigrants. She was immediately interested in films, and would often miss school to watch them. From age 9, she would beg filmmakers to give her roles.

At 14, she began working as an extra and dropped out of highschool in 1921 to pursue a full-time acting career. Her first starring role in The Toll of the Sea (1922) was met with widespread critical praise. However, the racism of the time often relegated her to supporting, stereotyping roles even when she was a household name. This was largely due to anti-miscegenation laws, which meant she could not be cast opposite non-Asian men.

Wong's film career continued to grow. Her career spanned silent and sound films, America and Europe, stage, and television. She continued acting until her death, finishing with her TV show The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, the first U.S. TV show with an Asian American lead, ever.

Now, we may look back on her career and be taken aback by her stereotypically demure "Butterfly" roles and her stereotypically sexual "Dragon Lady" roles, as well as her willingness to play the roles of (caricaturistic) Native American and Inuit characters. However, her dedication to playing and creating roles for Chinese actors was absolutely unheard of in her own time.

Wong will appear on the reverse of the quarter (USA currency). She will be the first Asian American to appear on US currency.

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LESS movies about the lgbtq experience MORE movies about people who just happen to be lgbtq. is it really that hard to understand

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I’m seeing a bunch of posts that make me think most USAmericans don’t know about The No Surprises Act.

It was passed in 2021 (thank you Biden) and essentially states that if you don’t have insurance or your insurance doesn’t cover a service you need (or want) you are entitled to a Good Faith Estimate of the cost of care. (If your insurance does cover the service, you should be able to estimate the cost of care based on your deductible and co-pay.)

As a healthcare provider who does not accept any insurance, I am very careful to not violate The No Surprises Act. Why? Because for every penny more than $400 that the Good Faith Estimate was “off” (or if it wasn’t provided), you are entitled to a refund for that amount.

Y’all. Ask for a Good Faith Estimate. Get it in writing. Compare it to what you are paying. If you are not provided an estimate or if it’s wrong by more than $400, demand a refund.

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Diz the Season

(originally posted to my old Twitter on 12/31/2016)

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An adaptation of Sherlock Holmes set in a world in which the fictional character/literary juggernaut Sherlock Holmes, and all the subsequent adaptations thereof, still exist.

Sherlock Holmes (pronounced Holl-mess, as he is constantly reminding people) just had the misfortune of having parents who really liked the books, and his attitude towards his fictional counterpart is pretty much the same as that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sherlock runs a Youtube Theory channel called Mysteries Unwrapped with Sherlock Holmes. He has received no less than seven cease and desist letters from the Conan Doyle estate, all of which he has so faded managed to rebuff by pointing out that that's literally his name.

(No he won't change his name. He's Sherlock Holmes the real live human person. Let Sherlock Holmes the non existent fictional character change his name.)

John is Sherlock's flatmate. Sherlock almost refused to live with him once he realised that it would mean staying with a medical student named John, and only gave in once John pointed out that: a) he's a biomedical student, which is completely different from an md, and b) his surname isn't Watson.

It's now been three years, which is long enough for them to have developed a genuine friendship, and for John to have a) started working towards his PhD in biotechnology, and b) for him to start dating somebody with the surname Watson.

Sherlock can feel the narrative closing in.

His Youtube channel is meant to be focused on lost media, fan theories and stuff like that, but he keeps accidentally stumbling upon and then solving genuine crimes.

His brother Mycroft may or may not have chosen that name after he transitions specifically to annoy him.

He doesn't even live in London, but somehow the only flat they could afford was on a street named fucking Baker Street.

Sherlock Holmes and the Unescapable Power of the Narrative.

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When were you radicalized?

Guess what? Trump and MAGA will make this worse.

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hey everyone be careful

I don't know if anyone has talked about this, but lately this has been happening in other fandoms too. There'll be these bot accounts that straight up steals people's posts and adds "expand" "read more" "continue" as a link in the end of the post - DON'T CLICK ON THAT, it's most likely a malware or something of the like.

so if you see a post like this: no profile picture, something that looks reposted (I've seen this happening to artists too) and a link at the end, even if the post has tags, that's a bot. Block and report it.

stay safe, and I hope @staff finds a way to stop these bots soon!

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mr sandman

man me a sand

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"I have always loved Peanuts. I don't think I trust anyone who doesn't. So it's surprising that the last line of the very first strip was:

"Good Ol' Charlie Brown. How I hate him!"

Now, how could anyone hate Charlie Brown? But the choice is brilliant. From the beginning, Charles Schulz made it clear that Peanuts, while about children, was not going to be childish or simple or simply for children. It was going to be funny and sad and, best of all, funny about being sad. Or as Charlie Brown might say, "Good Grief." For 50 years, Peanuts was king of the comics page, and people of all ages read it every day, because Schulz knew that our inner lives as adults are rooted in our childhood wants and fears-emotions that we never fully leave behind. So, we recognize ourselves in the little victories and defeats of these l'il Folks. No matter how old we are, the tree will eat our kite. The little red-haired girl may never notice us. We get no Valentine's mail or Halloween candy. Our dog is more popular than we are. The football gets pulled away at the last minute, again. And again. But we know we will never give up trying. Every spring, we think this will be the winning season-blockheads to the end.

But in all this, Schulz, a man of deep faith, never points us toward despair. In that first strip, Charlie Brown strolls by the boy who hates him, as happy and oblivious as the Fool. Maybe he doesn't hear what Shermy says, or maybe he is just pretending he doesn't hear it. Either way, from the first strip to the last, Charlie Brown keeps walking on, forever a hero of hope."

- Stephen Colbert, Foreword of The Peanuts Book: A Visual History of the Iconic Comic Strip

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“NBC News concludes its story on the dismissal of the Jan. 6 case against Trump with this gut punch: “He is expected to walk through the lower west tunnel, where some of the worst violence of Jan. 6 took place, to be sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 2025.””

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Donald Trump Got Away With A Violent Insurrection

In the future, there will be an annual gathering to burn effigies of Merrick Garland.