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Punk band UK Subs were detained upon entering the US and kept locked up for 24 hours with little to eat or drink and no sleep before being sent back to London.

They had the correct paperwork for their visit.

Basically don't bother going to the US folks, waste of your time and money.

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My dreams are cinematic. I can sometimes not be in them. Other times I can get stuck for what feels like weeks or months in a progressing story. This past week has given me 2 doozies, so I'll share. granted, these haven't been edited for anything more than spacing

it's a roger rabbit esque world

an actor/extra walking through a lot, is met up with by daffy duck who is constantly getting into shenanigans with people moving set pieces and large props. average looney tunes silliness.

Daffy is telling him that he knows the look and the feel of long term big stars and that the man feels like he's going to be the it boy of the next few years after their movie. they've been working on it for the past 4 years and this was supposed to be a wrap day, the filming of the penultimate scene.

the man is humble and states he's at least grateful to have gotten to work with such a cool guy as mr. duck.

"We're friends now, sport. You call me Daffy. I'll see you out there." they split ways.

Cut to an assistant handing a big wig a coffee, the big wig (also a toon) states that Daffy's a great comedic mind and comedic minds are great in serious roles. just let it flow and see what there is to take. The director looks long suffering and defeated, goes to his chair behind the screens and waits for set up.

There is a fight. civil war times. There's the extra from earlier, He's getting roughed up here and there, This is one take, 16 cameras all around to catch the whole thing as some form of organic scene building.

The flash of a pistol and he swings his rifle to point at Daffy who was behind him as they ran to meet the "enemy".

"Say it's not you, general!"

"It's not you, general." Daffy lunges at the man.

they argue and many shots are taken, a la elmer fudd. "liberty and freedom" vs "tradition and glory" FIRE! Daffy is hit.

They fall into the mud. The extra is holding him, asking why. Daffy pats his face with a mud and blood hand.

"Take this lesson, jonny boy, money and fear are the world's worst motivators." Daffy's hand falls, ripping a primal anguished scream out of the actor as he looks up to the rain machines, the other actors all stop to watch.

The crew is enrapt.

"Cut! That's a wrap!" Cheers from all around.

Daffy playfully smooshing the extra's other cheek with mud "Geez, MC, way to eat the scene"

They laughed and MC helped Daffy to his feet before climbing up himself. The director and the bigwig were talking lowly at the edge of the set, the director giving the MC a very knowing look, one that he missed by talking with the duck.

MC, now showered and coming into a lovely home is greeted by his long time GF. They give a cute kiss and she states that her and the kids made a treat today. she is compiling rolls (look like slices of croissant like buttery goodness) to fill a tray.

The 14 year old, 8 year old, and 7 year old happily call them butt munch buns. 8 year old then claims that is was for MC. MC says he wishes either they'd stop calling him that or at least call the buns something better.

The gf chides all parties a little, and says that theyre all getting ready to go out to eat to celebrate the movie wrapping and a small return to normalcy. She asks if he would please get his daughter motivated to go, since they still have a few hours before dinner. He looks excited that she is home.

a knock, "SC, you decent?"

"At a lot of things. Why what d'ya need?"

he comes in. the daughter is black and older. obv not part of the brood downstairs.

"Very funny. You here for the weekend?"

"Yeah, figured I'd check on you, GF, and the rowdy bunch."

"They made those rolls"

"I'm not putting anything named after you like that near my mouth. don't need that taste association"

"Fair enough. How were midterms? I don't want to pry, given you're a few years into your program now, but I get curious"

"Dad, what are you talking about? I'm still in kindergarten."

They're on a walk around the neighborhood, she asks if he met anyone interesting. He says Daffy Duck is pretty cool for an older dude, didn't know he's still doing his own stunts.

"Him and Jackie Chan probably have the same health insurance."

She asks when he's going to see her mom next. He says soon. Just had to get the time off. She asks why he still goes after what she did.

"she's your mom, kid. I owe her some recognition for that."

cut to reporters asking an attorney how mrs MC is eligible for parole/in low security. The attorney is stating that while on the rarer side, it is indeed an illness that she has. it's been confirmed by medical professionals and will continue to be studied. -- in a facility. pt. on one side of desk, dr and toon nurse on other.

"No. There's nothing there. I'm telling you that something is strange, but it isn't living cartoons!" She says to a human doctor who is looking at a toon nurse.

"so what do you see holding up the clipboard?"

"It's a floating clip board. but I'm sure that i can literally walk through the air around it!"

"let's not get more charges on your record, hm?"

She sat at a table, tapping her finger on the surface, "How am I supposed to keep up with everyone else's imagination? How am I supposed to know when there's a "toon" person in front of me? I don't hear them, I don't see them. then I'm told I'm covered in blood and whatever else. Why dont they ever hurt or interact with me then?"

That's the point I woke up. The next night: Had a dream where I was back at uni and was taking my usual resting nap under my favorite tree when I overheard 3 people laughing and mid conversation walking by.

1: "Everything got ooze man."

2: "Ghosts aren't real, and even if they were, ectoplasm isn't the same as mucus."

1: "But that's what I'm saying! What if mucus membranes are only changing what would be ectoplasm into mucus because of an evolutionary thing that the meat did?"

3: "Please quit referring to living things as meat. Especially since you're lumping mushrooms and plants in there."

2: "You'll need to rewrite that book. "Not everything poops, but everything got ooze."

1: "Correction: spooky ooze. But I'll definitely get on it. Anything's better than stats homework."

then I rolled over to see who tf it was and opened my eyes in my room.

Anyway, that's what I got to offer this go around. It should be noted that Uni was back in 2008 and I haven't seen Roger Rabbit in like 10 years.

hey say something nice to me

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You want to call your House rep now and tell them Trump needs to be impeached immediately for defying a Supreme Court order (re: Kilmar Abrego Garcia), which functionally voids our constitution and means no one in America has rights anymore.

I am not exaggerating.

As of now, anybody can be disappeared, no due process, no recourse. Trump is openly disregarding a Supreme Court order and says he’ll send US citizens to El Salvador.

This is not a drill.

Call your House rep and tell them they must impeach. Tell them if they cannot bring themselves to impeach, they must resign. A more open and shut case to impeach is not possible. Trump and his administration are saying openly, in public, that anybody can be kidnapped by ICE, even in error, and disappeared permanently.

Call your senators, too, and tell them to support impeachment (it goes to them once it passes a majority House vote).

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niche indie art is great because most of it is very middling in a genuine and charming way. this song melody is kind of nothing but the lyrics are clever. this novella plot is flimsy but the prose has a lot of bounce. this video essay could have been a text essay and lost nothing but it's still intellectually interesting. and then one day you take a gamble and click something that you don't really know much about and you're like. ah. they put some god in this one.

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Jacek Yerka, Eruption 

www.artsytoad.tumblr.com

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The opposite of “manic pixie dream girl” is “depressed goblin nightmare man,” and, judging by this site, it’s just as attractive to some.

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glimpse into my beautiful imaginary world where arthropods are really big and we domesticated them

edit: people are starting to say some "my worst nightmare" or "eeeww no that one is yucky and scary" comments on this like they do on any bug post and id like to say. it's fine if you don't like bugs it's fine if you're scared of bugs but don't put that on MY post clearly talking about how much i like them and how cute i think they are. you can make your own damn post about how much you hate wasps or spiders or whatever. i'm blocking people who make these kinds of comments.

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A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why. ... Fellow researchers took to social media over the weekend to register their concern over the series of events. "None of this is in any way normal," Matthew Green, a professor specializing in cryptography at Johns Hopkins University, wrote on Mastodon. He continued: "Has anyone been in contact? I hear he’s been missing for two weeks and his students can’t reach him. How does this not get noticed for two weeks???" In the same thread, Matt Blaze, a McDevitt professor of computer science and law at Georgetown University, said: "It's hard to imagine what reason there could be for the university to scrub its website as if he never worked there. And while there's a process for removing tenured faculty, it takes more than an afternoon to do it."

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only thing that comes to mind today.

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I assigned a writing prompt a few weeks ago that asked my students to reflect on a time when someone believed in them or when they believed in someone else. One of my students began to panic.

“I have to ask Google the prompt to get some ideas if I can’t just use AI,” she pleaded and then began typing into the search box on her screen, “A time when someone believed in you.”

“It’s about you,” I told her. “You’ve got your life experiences inside of your own mind.” It hadn’t occurred to her — even with my gentle reminder — to look within her own imagination to generate ideas. One of the reasons why I assigned the prompt is because learning to think for herself now, in high school, will help her build confidence and think through more complicated problems as she gets older — even when she’s no longer in a classroom situation.

She’s only in ninth grade, yet she’s already become accustomed to outsourcing her own mind to digital technologies, and it frightens me.

When I teach students how to write, I’m also teaching them how to think. Through fits and starts (a process that can be both frustrating and rewarding), high school English teachers like me help students get to know themselves better when they use language to figure out what they think and how they feel.

. . .

If you believe, as I do, that writing is thinking — and thinking is everything — things aren’t looking too good for our students or for the educators trying to teach them. In addition to teaching high school, I’m also a college instructor, and I see this behavior in my older students as well.

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This! This is what scares me the most about AI! Physical exertion is difficult if someone isn't used to it, and it gets easier the more often it's done. When it's done often enough, it becomes a habit. Mental exertion is exactly the same. Thinking is a learned skill just like a sport is, and an entire generation is growing up without that most critical skill.

An unthinking populace is a more easily controlled populace.

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not to be a killjoy but it's still crazy to me that it's considered mean to be like "maybe you should read / play / watch the source material before creating fanworks and diving into the fandom" bc every time i see somebody going "i havent played disco elysium or know anything about it tbh but uwu here's harry and kim kissing" idk maybe you should engage with it. maybe you should play the anti-capitalist surrealist game where you investigate the murder of a mercenary who led the gang rape of a foreign girl and process that for a bit? and then you can do cutesy mlm or whatever idc. but like at the absolute bare minimum you should understand what the source material involves otherwise we get the phenomenon of people joining a dragon age server and wanting content warnings for like, mage racism. like it's fine to ship and transform the genre into whatever but if you arent comfortable with discussions of the actual source content itself then maybe the fandom isnt for you and a different one is. peace and love.

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Is anyone else just... exhausted?

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please🙏

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Get to know Hashem's family

My name is Hashem from Gaza. I am 32 years old and my wife, Samar, is 27 years old. We have a child born in the eighth month of pregnancy. His mother was premature because of my wife's fear of war. My large family consists of 8 members: my father, mother, four male brothers and 2 females. My father died in the war due to a lack of medicine in hospitals as a result of the fierce war on Gaza.

My story began when we were displaced from our home in northern Gaza in mid-October 2023 after a letter threatening eviction, and then the house was targeted and destroyed. Between this Exodus and the current fifth Exodus there are many stories and sufferings.

We now live in plastic tents, which are thermal ovens, which are not suitable for living and do not provide the minimum necessities of life, in addition to the spread of epidemics and diseases, which puts our lives in danger.

Through this campaign, we are trying to collect enough money to meet our needs and get us out of the Gaza Strip safely. We ask you to stand by us and protect us from this severe danger.

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Luigi Mangione could be getting the death penalty…

This man is innocent, his appearance and build doesn’t match that of the killers, the only “motive” he had was a convenient written confession showing that he supposedly viewed healthcare companies as “parasitic” and too expensive (which does somewhat contradict the actual killers actions) he had said note and the murder weapon conveniently on him while living his ordinary life, the killer held the gun in his right hand while Luigi is left-handed, Luigi and the Killer were potentially seen simultaneously, they wore slightly different coats.

The NYPD KNOW these are different people, they know the evidence is lacking, this isn’t a mistaken identity, it’s framing, they are trying to make themself appear to still be control by catching this man, humiliating him, killing him, when they know full well that the person they are prosecuting ISNT EVEN THE RIGHT GUY! This is an injustice! This is not a fair trial! This is downright tyranny!