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The worst trick a childhood anxiety disorder pulls is, you spend your early years being applauded for being so much more mature than your peers, because you aren’t disruptive, you don’t want any kind of attention, you don’t express yourself, you keep yourself to yourself - this makes you a pleasure to have in class, etc etc - and you start to believe it’s virtue. But you’re actually way behind your peers in normal social development, and who knows if you can ever catch up.

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KENDRICK LAMAR poses with his five Grammy awards for "Not Like Us" at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards — February 2, 2025

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This is grim but if you can't bring yourself to make a will, PLEASE at least write up what you want to happen to your stuff in the event of an untimely demise. At the absolute bare minimum you need a list of steps people need to take to get rid of anything you don't want your parents seeing. PLEASE. Please. Plan ahead. I know it's scary but facing mortality means that those grieving your death can actually grieve instead of floundering helplessly.

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Okay all -- few quick thoughts about the Elon Muskifying of the government, especially the takeover of the Treasury and associated financial data for every single US citizen and organization, that we are learning about in detail today.

Don't panic. This sounds bad, because it is bad. It's really, really bad. It's outrageously fascist bad. But we've still gotta take a deep breath and get through it.

This is the kind of shock-and-awe exercise of untrammeled fascist power where they are absolutely counting on gleefully terrorizing, paralyzing, and stunning you into mounting no resistance, or just giving up and giving in. They are literally live-tweeting it in real time and boasting about all the access and influence they have right now. They want you to know about it and feel like you can't do anything, so you might as well let it happen.

We have to show them that's not true.

TIME TO MAKE SOME NOISE. Because it's Sunday night, I've gone ahead and contacted my state Attorney General and both senators by email (but come Monday morning, we should all be calling). Here is the email that I wrote to my AG:

Dear Mr. [AG],

As you will be aware, today (February 2, 2025) the Trump administration has granted wide-ranging access to sensitive US Treasury data, including the personal and private information of [state] citizens, to Elon Musk's so-called "Department of Government Efficiency." Musk is an unelected private citizen who has no legal right to access this data, and is engaging in extensive intimidation and coercion to fulfill his personal and harmful ideological agenda. The present and material harm that this causes to US citizens, [state] residents, and basic laws of government, privacy, and financial security is direct, unconscionable, and actionable. I strongly urge you, in your capacity as [state] Attorney General, to file direct suit against the Trump administration, Elon Musk, the "DOGE" office, and any identifiable individuals who have taken part in this action, in order to protect consumer data, citizen privacy, and basic faith and trust in government.

All the best,

[Qqueenofhades]

Short! To the point! Doesn't waste time, tells him what I want him to do, how Elmo's nonsense directly harms the residents of my state, and why he should take action to stop it! And frankly, given how on-the-ball blue-state AGs have been thus far, they're probably already working on it. You are very welcome to copy-and-paste this message and fill in your AG's last name and your state as appropriate. Super easy to do. Takes five minutes. Call tomorrow.

If you are in a red state, your voice is particularly important right now. The Trumpsters are counting on and are even emboldened by blue state pushback, but you really need to make it start coming from Republican strongholds. Congressional Republicans will only feel the slightest amount of unease about docilely enabling this BS when it starts threatening their own personal power. Hit them where it hurts.

Other lawsuits are coming. Marc Elias, Democratic lawyer extraordinaire, is well aware of this situation and has noted on Bluesky that more lawsuits are in the works. He often wins his cases. This does not mean that you shouldn't loudly make noise elsewhere, but please remember that this is one of those 24-hour periods where, as noted, they are counting on demoralizing you with a nonstop blizzard of bullshit. It does not say anything about how this will play out long-term or the opposition that can and will be mobilized to stop it.

Once again: courage. Take the small steps that you can do today. Then take a breath and get off social media for a little while. Try to take the long view. One step at a time, we will get through this.

Courage.

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pink pony club full performance at grammys 2025

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I made a mistake and thought too hard and hurt myself.

I was thinking about the Nigerian Job payout, and how everybody reacts to it. Yknow, It’s “THE score.” “Retirement money.” “Go legit and buy an island money.”

And all Nate says is “woah,” and then just kinda goes quiet… and after awkward goodbyes he actually shoves his way past Eliot to get out of there as fast as he can. Cause you know what that money is to Nate?

Too late.

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"Atwell’s lengthy break from the stage has coincided with her tenure on Mission: Impossible, where she plays Grace, the light-fingered, morally ambiguous heroine drawn into Ethan Hunt’s latest mission. The franchise has, she says, been all-encompassing, even though the last film, Dead Reckoning Part One – described by critic Mark Kermode as a “genuinely breathtaking romp” – was delayed by Covid. The eighth film in the series, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning comes out this May, “which means I’ll have been working on Mission for five-and-a-half years, which for me is unheard of. I mean, thank God I loved it.”

Even now, they are still doing reshoots which involve “fleshing out scenes or changing things around. They’re always tinkering and looking to make things better. So even while [working on Much Ado], I can get a call at any time.” Working with Cruise has been a delight: “When I started, I was very aware of the rarefied air around him and how there is no one like him. And there never will be because actors aren’t made like him any more. He is a one-man studio and, to me, very kind, very professional. And because of that, I felt I was able to try lots of different things. There was never a risk of failure or being unsafe. Tom really likes people to thrive on set.”

You can see why Cruise and Atwell work well together: both have a fierce work ethic and take their art incredibly seriously. Unusually for an action movie, there is no script when Mission: Impossible starts shooting and improvisation is actively encouraged (it was Atwell’s idea that Grace should be a pickpocket). “There’ll be Tom going: ‘From five years old I’ve always wanted to jump from a cliff on a motorbike’, and realising his dream. But with the rest, they’re kind of making it up as they go. When I auditioned, they were clear they were looking for someone who likes to work in this way, and that it’s not for everyone. I also had to be prepared for five months of full-time physical training and to be dynamic enough to learn fight sequences, to drift in a car with Tom, to be able to shoot a gun and work with knives.” Can Atwell confirm that this is the last film in the franchise? She pauses. “I mean, look, they called it The Final Reckoning. On the other hand, ‘Tom Cruise’ and ‘final’ are oxymorons, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he goes: “Wait, maybe …’ Although he has so many things he is working on, so I can’t see how another Mission would fit into that.”

When Atwell was growing up, the acting seed was planted early. Her mother named her after the Whistle Down the Wind actor Hayley Mills and regularly took her to the theatre. A pivotal moment came when she saw Ralph Fiennes in Hamlet at east London’s Hackney Empire when she was 11."

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5 simple exercises to awaken dormant muscles

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this randomly blew up on twitter so i figured i’d post it here bc lord knows everyone on this app is neurodivergent

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How much of this shit do I have to learn from tumblr dot com what do you MEAN Love Händel is just??? Coming back?

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Op casually leaving out that the entire thing has been organized by Lindana’s children

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HUH?

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Just to clarify you mean like. THE Lindana. As in the pop star from the 80s.

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I do! Bobbi (who has been running a hair salon since the band’s breakup) updated the website saying he’ll be out for a reunion concert. And that he was convinced after speaking with two kids—Phineas and Ferb Flynn-Fletcher, who want them to come back to perform at their mother, Linda’s anniversary.

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Ohhh so nepotism 🙄

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No, not nepotism. You guys don’t get to hate on these kids, they’re super cool. They came into my shop & asked me to perform for their parents. They made no mention of their mom being Lindana. We’re literally prepping for the concert right now and I just learned this from tumblr. Had to fact check it with Bobbi. Point is, at no point did they try to leverage their mom’s fame. They genuinely just wanted to do something sweet for their parents. I doubt they even thought to try and use their mother’s status. They simply explained how passionate their parents were about the band.

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DANNY?

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Ok so tonight we have learned:

Love Handel is coming back

Lindana’s children asked them to come back

Lindana’s kids apparently don’t even realize the implications of their mom having previously been famous

Danny of Love Handël uses tumblr

Danny ALSO is getting his news from tumblr

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#also I did some digging #and like #her kids also wrote gitchee gitchee goo??!! #but then just #never did music again #and again did Not mention their mom

HELLO??

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Ohhh help help! I'm hurt need help...

FUCK BRIAN GET LOST...

Ohhhh I am hurttttt heeelp... 🐦

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this puppy currently being fostered by a rescue i follow makes me feel like. like. i don’t know. she’s a bug

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my only crimes were loving too much and confusing love with violence and so also extreme violence too i guess also i stole a few things too

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how’s that house that raised you?

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i am actually insufferable once I get comfortable with someone