#12 December 2023

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Jamie Dornan: Actor pays tribute to late dad as he receives honorary degree from Queen’s

The star of The Tourist has come back to Northern Ireland to be honoured as an honorary graduate at the university his late father attended.

Co Down actor Jamie Dornan has been awarded a Doctorate for distinction in the arts at Queen’s University, Belfast.

The Holywood man is the recipient of two Irish Film and Television Awards and has also been nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe Award.

His father Professor Jim Dornan passed away aged 73 in 2021 after contracting Covid in Dubai, but Jamie could not see him because he was in Australia to film The Tourist.

The retired obstetrician and gynaecologist had considered a career in acting before turning to medicine, but he later had small parts in The Fall, in which Jamie played serial killer Paul Spector, and the third series of Marcella, starring Anna Friel.

Speaking at the Queen’s ceremony, Jamie said: “It’s a huge honour. My dad went to this university, there are pictures in my house of my dad wearing a similar robe. I’m very proud to be involved in this great university.”

Belfast Telegraph

Remember… my dad went to this university, there are pictures in my house of my dad wearing a similar robe. — Jamie Dornan, DUniv

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The Spanish Royal Family released their official Christmas card on December 12th, 2023.

The portrait was taken during on Princess Leonor's eighteenth birthday, October 31st.

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Image Description: tweet from The Spectator Index (@.spectatorindex) dated December 12, 2023 that says:

BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal reports that the Israeli military has begun pumping seawater into Hamas tunnels in Gaza

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Israel doesn't know where the tunnels are and the tunnels themselves aren't interconnected so flooding won't work. They tried this before and it failed.

This is just them salting the earth, making it impossible for Gazans to plant crops. This will ensure that Palestinians starve even after the Israeli army withdraws

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Live Review: The Darkness at New Century Hall in Manchester 12 December 2023

Words: Ben Forrester Back in 2003, a bunch of dudes from Lowestoft pretty much took over the world with a flamboyant, throwback cock-rock record called ‘Permission To Land’. No one saw the gargantuan rise of The Darkness coming, but when they hit, they hit hard and that record was absolutely everywhere! It makes sense then that the 20th anniversary of the record this year would see the reformed…

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Saleman

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Pac: You know, Quackity– like, he does strange things when it comes to love, right? [Laughs]

Fit: Yeah. [Laughs] Yes...

Pac: Which I kinda like see, 'cuz everyone loves somebody on the Island, right? And at the same time, Quackity is left aside, unfortunately. Right? He's kinda like, lonely, he doesn't have his children anymore–

Fit: Mhmm...

Pac: So I kinda have a few... pity? Is the right word for it? I dunno.

Fit: Oh yeah, pity. Yeah yeah, exactly.

Pac: Yeah, I feel a little bit pity for him, you know? I wish he kinda like had a– [He clicks his tongue] I wish things were different for him...

Fit: You know, I never thought of it like that. Yeah, he's got- he's got nobody.

Pac: Yeah... That's why he doesn't like love, I guess.

Fit: Hmm...

Pac: Maybe one day he's gonna find his true love! You know?

Fit: Yeah, maybe like, he won't be so bitter if he finds the right person. You know?

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Today's Card Is: 6 of Clubs

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12 December 2023.

[ID: White text on a red background reads “BDS works. PUMA forced to drop sponsorship of Team Apartheid Israel.” A dark red silhouette of a cougar walks towards the right. A link at the bottom reads bdsmovement.net/boycott-puma. End ID]

It’s true. And it’s big.

PUMA won’t be renewing its contract with the Israel Football Association (IFA).

This is a BDS win, a win for Palestinian rights, and a win for people-powered pressure on corporations complicit in grave crimes.

This is also your win. You protested outside PUMA offices and shops. You convinced teams, athletes, artists, and stores to dump PUMA. You filled PUMA’s inbox. You jammed PUMA’s phone lines. You hijacked PUMA’s online presence. You called out PUMA’s hypocrisy. You boycotted PUMA products. You ruffled PUMA’s CEO to the point he inadvertently said “BDS” while talking about the Better Cotton Initiative at last year’s shareholders meeting.

We’ve demonstrated, once again, that together, via long-term strategic campaigns, we can force even multinational corporations to end their complicity in Israel’s regime of military occupation and apartheid.

Companies and institutions that still support Israeli apartheid and enable Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza are on notice. There will be consequences. We can and will cause reputational damage. And we won’t stop until they fully end complicity.

This boycott win is a bittersweet victory as Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians continues. But it gives us hope and determination to hold all genocide enablers and apartheid supporters accountable until all Palestinians can live in freedom, justice and equality.

PUMA’s contract with the IFA expires in June 2024. Let’s make sure PUMA ends all complicity in Israeli apartheid.

In solidarity,

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

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'Cnidaria'

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Ocean Queen lizzie and her seabling maybe? :3

[19] It’s not much, but it’s them!!

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Yesterday during the finale you had a choice... But what if you chose differently?

We posted the other ending's cinematic on our Patreon! 👀

It doesn't stop there - eventually, we'll be sharing BTS, alternate timelines, alternate faction names, and more!

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I drew Rayman when I was with my dad for Christmas break!

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