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AI “art” and uncanniness

TOMORROW (May 14), I'm on a livecast about AI AND ENSHITTIFICATION with TIM O'REILLY; on TOMORROW (May 15), I'm in NORTH HOLLYWOOD for a screening of STEPHANIE KELTON'S FINDING THE MONEY; FRIDAY (May 17), I'm at the INTERNET ARCHIVE in SAN FRANCISCO to keynote the 10th anniversary of the AUTHORS ALLIANCE.

When it comes to AI art (or "art"), it's hard to find a nuanced position that respects creative workers' labor rights, free expression, copyright law's vital exceptions and limitations, and aesthetics.

I am, on balance, opposed to AI art, but there are some important caveats to that position. For starters, I think it's unequivocally wrong – as a matter of law – to say that scraping works and training a model with them infringes copyright. This isn't a moral position (I'll get to that in a second), but rather a technical one.

Break down the steps of training a model and it quickly becomes apparent why it's technically wrong to call this a copyright infringement. First, the act of making transient copies of works – even billions of works – is unequivocally fair use. Unless you think search engines and the Internet Archive shouldn't exist, then you should support scraping at scale:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/

And unless you think that Facebook should be allowed to use the law to block projects like Ad Observer, which gathers samples of paid political disinformation, then you should support scraping at scale, even when the site being scraped objects (at least sometimes):

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/06/get-you-coming-and-going/#potemkin-research-program

After making transient copies of lots of works, the next step in AI training is to subject them to mathematical analysis. Again, this isn't a copyright violation.

Making quantitative observations about works is a longstanding, respected and important tool for criticism, analysis, archiving and new acts of creation. Measuring the steady contraction of the vocabulary in successive Agatha Christie novels turns out to offer a fascinating window into her dementia:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/apr/03/agatha-christie-alzheimers-research

Programmatic analysis of scraped online speech is also critical to the burgeoning formal analyses of the language spoken by minorities, producing a vibrant account of the rigorous grammar of dialects that have long been dismissed as "slang":

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373950278_Lexicogrammatical_Analysis_on_African-American_Vernacular_English_Spoken_by_African-Amecian_You-Tubers

Since 1988, UCL Survey of English Language has maintained its "International Corpus of English," and scholars have plumbed its depth to draw important conclusions about the wide variety of Englishes spoken around the world, especially in postcolonial English-speaking countries:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/projects/ice.htm

The final step in training a model is publishing the conclusions of the quantitative analysis of the temporarily copied documents as software code. Code itself is a form of expressive speech – and that expressivity is key to the fight for privacy, because the fact that code is speech limits how governments can censor software:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-established-code-speech/

Are models infringing? Well, they certainly can be. In some cases, it's clear that models "memorized" some of the data in their training set, making the fair use, transient copy into an infringing, permanent one. That's generally considered to be the result of a programming error, and it could certainly be prevented (say, by comparing the model to the training data and removing any memorizations that appear).

Not every seeming act of memorization is a memorization, though. While specific models vary widely, the amount of data from each training item retained by the model is very small. For example, Midjourney retains about one byte of information from each image in its training data. If we're talking about a typical low-resolution web image of say, 300kb, that would be one three-hundred-thousandth (0.0000033%) of the original image.

Typically in copyright discussions, when one work contains 0.0000033% of another work, we don't even raise the question of fair use. Rather, we dismiss the use as de minimis (short for de minimis non curat lex or "The law does not concern itself with trifles"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis

Busting someone who takes 0.0000033% of your work for copyright infringement is like swearing out a trespassing complaint against someone because the edge of their shoe touched one blade of grass on your lawn.

But some works or elements of work appear many times online. For example, the Getty Images watermark appears on millions of similar images of people standing on red carpets and runways, so a model that takes even in infinitesimal sample of each one of those works might still end up being able to produce a whole, recognizable Getty Images watermark.

The same is true for wire-service articles or other widely syndicated texts: there might be dozens or even hundreds of copies of these works in training data, resulting in the memorization of long passages from them.

This might be infringing (we're getting into some gnarly, unprecedented territory here), but again, even if it is, it wouldn't be a big hardship for model makers to post-process their models by comparing them to the training set, deleting any inadvertent memorizations. Even if the resulting model had zero memorizations, this would do nothing to alleviate the (legitimate) concerns of creative workers about the creation and use of these models.

So here's the first nuance in the AI art debate: as a technical matter, training a model isn't a copyright infringement. Creative workers who hope that they can use copyright law to prevent AI from changing the creative labor market are likely to be very disappointed in court:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sarah-silverman-lawsuit-ai-meta-1235669403/

But copyright law isn't a fixed, eternal entity. We write new copyright laws all the time. If current copyright law doesn't prevent the creation of models, what about a future copyright law?

Well, sure, that's a possibility. The first thing to consider is the possible collateral damage of such a law. The legal space for scraping enables a wide range of scholarly, archival, organizational and critical purposes. We'd have to be very careful not to inadvertently ban, say, the scraping of a politician's campaign website, lest we enable liars to run for office and renege on their promises, while they insist that they never made those promises in the first place. We wouldn't want to abolish search engines, or stop creators from scraping their own work off sites that are going away or changing their terms of service.

Now, onto quantitative analysis: counting words and measuring pixels are not activities that you should need permission to perform, with or without a computer, even if the person whose words or pixels you're counting doesn't want you to. You should be able to look as hard as you want at the pixels in Kate Middleton's family photos, or track the rise and fall of the Oxford comma, and you shouldn't need anyone's permission to do so.

Finally, there's publishing the model. There are plenty of published mathematical analyses of large corpuses that are useful and unobjectionable. I love me a good Google n-gram:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fantods%2C+heebie-jeebies&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3

And large language models fill all kinds of important niches, like the Human Rights Data Analysis Group's LLM-based work helping the Innocence Project New Orleans' extract data from wrongful conviction case files:

https://hrdag.org/tech-notes/large-language-models-IPNO.html

So that's nuance number two: if we decide to make a new copyright law, we'll need to be very sure that we don't accidentally crush these beneficial activities that don't undermine artistic labor markets.

This brings me to the most important point: passing a new copyright law that requires permission to train an AI won't help creative workers get paid or protect our jobs.

Getty Images pays photographers the least it can get away with. Publishers contracts have transformed by inches into miles-long, ghastly rights grabs that take everything from writers, but still shifts legal risks onto them:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/19/reasonable-agreement/

Publishers like the New York Times bitterly oppose their writers' unions:

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/new-york-times-stop-union-busting

These large corporations already control the copyrights to gigantic amounts of training data, and they have means, motive and opportunity to license these works for training a model in order to pay us less, and they are engaged in this activity right now:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/technology/apple-ai-news-publishers.html

Big games studios are already acting as though there was a copyright in training data, and requiring their voice actors to begin every recording session with words to the effect of, "I hereby grant permission to train an AI with my voice" and if you don't like it, you can hit the bricks:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d37za/voice-actors-sign-away-rights-to-artificial-intelligence

If you're a creative worker hoping to pay your bills, it doesn't matter whether your wages are eroded by a model produced without paying your employer for the right to do so, or whether your employer got to double dip by selling your work to an AI company to train a model, and then used that model to fire you or erode your wages:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/09/ai-monkeys-paw/#bullied-schoolkids

Individual creative workers rarely have any bargaining leverage over the corporations that license our copyrights. That's why copyright's 40-year expansion (in duration, scope, statutory damages) has resulted in larger, more profitable entertainment companies, and lower payments – in real terms and as a share of the income generated by their work – for creative workers.

As Rebecca Giblin and I write in our book Chokepoint Capitalism, giving creative workers more rights to bargain with against giant corporations that control access to our audiences is like giving your bullied schoolkid extra lunch money – it's just a roundabout way of transferring that money to the bullies:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/what-is-chokepoint-capitalism/

There's an historical precedent for this struggle – the fight over music sampling. 40 years ago, it wasn't clear whether sampling required a copyright license, and early hip-hop artists took samples without permission, the way a horn player might drop a couple bars of a well-known song into a solo.

Many artists were rightfully furious over this. The "heritage acts" (the music industry's euphemism for "Black people") who were most sampled had been given very bad deals and had seen very little of the fortunes generated by their creative labor. Many of them were desperately poor, despite having made millions for their labels. When other musicians started making money off that work, they got mad.

In the decades that followed, the system for sampling changed, partly through court cases and partly through the commercial terms set by the Big Three labels: Sony, Warner and Universal, who control 70% of all music recordings. Today, you generally can't sample without signing up to one of the Big Three (they are reluctant to deal with indies), and that means taking their standard deal, which is very bad, and also signs away your right to control your samples.

So a musician who wants to sample has to sign the bad terms offered by a Big Three label, and then hand $500 out of their advance to one of those Big Three labels for the sample license. That $500 typically doesn't go to another artist – it goes to the label, who share it around their executives and investors. This is a system that makes every artist poorer.

But it gets worse. Putting a price on samples changes the kind of music that can be economically viable. If you wanted to clear all the samples on an album like Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back," or the Beastie Boys' "Paul's Boutique," you'd have to sell every CD for $150, just to break even:

https://memex.craphound.com/2011/07/08/creative-license-how-the-hell-did-sampling-get-so-screwed-up-and-what-the-hell-do-we-do-about-it/

Sampling licenses don't just make every artist financially worse off, they also prevent the creation of music of the sort that millions of people enjoy. But it gets even worse. Some older, sample-heavy music can't be cleared. Most of De La Soul's catalog wasn't available for 15 years, and even though some of their seminal music came back in March 2022, the band's frontman Trugoy the Dove didn't live to see it – he died in February 2022:

https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/de-la-soul-trugoy-the-dove-dead-at-54.html

This is the third nuance: even if we can craft a model-banning copyright system that doesn't catch a lot of dolphins in its tuna net, it could still make artists poorer off.

Back when sampling started, it wasn't clear whether it would ever be considered artistically important. Early sampling was crude and experimental. Musicians who trained for years to master an instrument were dismissive of the idea that clicking a mouse was "making music." Today, most of us don't question the idea that sampling can produce meaningful art – even musicians who believe in licensing samples.

Having lived through that era, I'm prepared to believe that maybe I'll look back on AI "art" and say, "damn, I can't believe I never thought that could be real art."

But I wouldn't give odds on it.

I don't like AI art. I find it anodyne, boring. As Henry Farrell writes, it's uncanny, and not in a good way:

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/large-language-models-are-uncanny

Farrell likens the work produced by AIs to the movement of a Ouija board's planchette, something that "seems to have a life of its own, even though its motion is a collective side-effect of the motions of the people whose fingers lightly rest on top of it." This is "spooky-action-at-a-close-up," transforming "collective inputs … into apparently quite specific outputs that are not the intended creation of any conscious mind."

Look, art is irrational in the sense that it speaks to us at some non-rational, or sub-rational level. Caring about the tribulations of imaginary people or being fascinated by pictures of things that don't exist (or that aren't even recognizable) doesn't make any sense. There's a way in which all art is like an optical illusion for our cognition, an imaginary thing that captures us the way a real thing might.

But art is amazing. Making art and experiencing art makes us feel big, numinous, irreducible emotions. Making art keeps me sane. Experiencing art is a precondition for all the joy in my life. Having spent most of my life as a working artist, I've come to the conclusion that the reason for this is that art transmits an approximation of some big, numinous irreducible emotion from an artist's mind to our own. That's it: that's why art is amazing.

AI doesn't have a mind. It doesn't have an intention. The aesthetic choices made by AI aren't choices, they're averages. As Farrell writes, "LLM art sometimes seems to communicate a message, as art does, but it is unclear where that message comes from, or what it means. If it has any meaning at all, it is a meaning that does not stem from organizing intention" (emphasis mine).

Farrell cites Mark Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie, which defines "weird" in easy to understand terms ("that which does not belong") but really grapples with "eerie."

For Fisher, eeriness is "when there is something present where there should be nothing, or is there is nothing present when there should be something." AI art produces the seeming of intention without intending anything. It appears to be an agent, but it has no agency. It's eerie.

Fisher talks about capitalism as eerie. Capital is "conjured out of nothing" but "exerts more influence than any allegedly substantial entity." The "invisible hand" shapes our lives more than any person. The invisible hand is fucking eerie. Capitalism is a system in which insubstantial non-things – corporations – appear to act with intention, often at odds with the intentions of the human beings carrying out those actions.

So will AI art ever be art? I don't know. There's a long tradition of using random or irrational or impersonal inputs as the starting point for human acts of artistic creativity. Think of divination:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/31/divination/

Or Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies:

http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html

I love making my little collages for this blog, though I wouldn't call them important art. Nevertheless, piecing together bits of other peoples' work can make fantastic, important work of historical note:

https://www.johnheartfield.com/John-Heartfield-Exhibition/john-heartfield-art/famous-anti-fascist-art/heartfield-posters-aiz

Even though painstakingly cutting out tiny elements from others' images can be a meditative and educational experience, I don't think that using tiny scissors or the lasso tool is what defines the "art" in collage. If you can automate some of this process, it could still be art.

Here's what I do know. Creating an individual bargainable copyright over training will not improve the material conditions of artists' lives – all it will do is change the relative shares of the value we create, shifting some of that value from tech companies that hate us and want us to starve to entertainment companies that hate us and want us to starve.

As an artist, I'm foursquare against anything that stands in the way of making art. As an artistic worker, I'm entirely committed to things that help workers get a fair share of the money their work creates, feed their families and pay their rent.

I think today's AI art is bad, and I think tomorrow's AI art will probably be bad, but even if you disagree (with either proposition), I hope you'll agree that we should be focused on making sure art is legal to make and that artists get paid for it.

Just because copyright won't fix the creative labor market, it doesn't follow that nothing will. If we're worried about labor issues, we can look to labor law to improve our conditions. That's what the Hollywood writers did, in their groundbreaking 2023 strike:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/01/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship/

Now, the writers had an advantage: they are able to engage in "sectoral bargaining," where a union bargains with all the major employers at once. That's illegal in nearly every other kind of labor market. But if we're willing to entertain the possibility of getting a new copyright law passed (that won't make artists better off), why not the possibility of passing a new labor law (that will)? Sure, our bosses won't lobby alongside of us for more labor protection, the way they would for more copyright (think for a moment about what that says about who benefits from copyright versus labor law expansion).

But all workers benefit from expanded labor protection. Rather than going to Congress alongside our bosses from the studios and labels and publishers to demand more copyright, we could go to Congress alongside every kind of worker, from fast-food cashiers to publishing assistants to truck drivers to demand the right to sectoral bargaining. That's a hell of a coalition.

And if we do want to tinker with copyright to change the way training works, let's look at collective licensing, which can't be bargained away, rather than individual rights that can be confiscated at the entrance to our publisher, label or studio's offices. These collective licenses have been a huge success in protecting creative workers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/26/united-we-stand/

Then there's copyright's wildest wild card: The US Copyright Office has repeatedly stated that works made by AIs aren't eligible for copyright, which is the exclusive purview of works of human authorship. This has been affirmed by courts:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/20/everything-made-by-an-ai-is-in-the-public-domain/

Neither AI companies nor entertainment companies will pay creative workers if they don't have to. But for any company contemplating selling an AI-generated work, the fact that it is born in the public domain presents a substantial hurdle, because anyone else is free to take that work and sell it or give it away.

Whether or not AI "art" will ever be good art isn't what our bosses are thinking about when they pay for AI licenses: rather, they are calculating that they have so much market power that they can sell whatever slop the AI makes, and pay less for the AI license than they would make for a human artist's work. As is the case in every industry, AI can't do an artist's job, but an AI salesman can convince an artist's boss to fire the creative worker and replace them with AI:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay-no-attention/#to-the-little-man-behind-the-curtain

They don't care if it's slop – they just care about their bottom line. A studio executive who cancels a widely anticipated film prior to its release to get a tax-credit isn't thinking about artistic integrity. They care about one thing: money. The fact that AI works can be freely copied, sold or given away may not mean much to a creative worker who actually makes their own art, but I assure you, it's the only thing that matters to our bosses.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand

#pluralistic #ai art #eerie #ai #weird #henry farrell #copyright #copyfight #creative labor markets #what is art #ideomotor response #mark fisher #invisible hand #uncanniness #prompting

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robronpolls · 1 month ago

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staydandy · 6 months ago

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Adventure Behind the Bronze Door (2024) - 藏海花 - Whump List

List by StayDandy Synopsis : Five years after Wu Xie's last adventure his peaceful life is interrupted again. Wu Xie and Wang Pangzi set off on an journey to the snowy mountains to uncover the mystery behind Zhang Qiling's origins. Along the way Wu Xie realizes that the path of clues he's been following was not accidental but it was planned by someone. Wu Xie and Pangzi find out more about Zhang Qi Ling's background, but they get caught up in a conspiracy unlike anything they've ever encountered. (MDL) AKA : Tibetan Sea Flower

Whumpees : Wu Xie played by Edward Zhang (top left) • Zhang Qi Ling played by Zhang Kang Le (top right) • Wang Pang Zi played by Chen Ming Hao (bottom far right) • Young Wu Xie played by Xu Zhen Xuan (not pictured)

Country : 🇨🇳 China Genres : Action, Adventure, Mystery, Horror, Bromance

Notes : This is a Full Whump List • Adapted from the novel "Zang Hai Hua" (藏海花) by Kennedy Xu (南派三叔) • Chen Ming Hao is another great Pangzi! First seen (as far as release date goes) in Tomb of the Sea, and they don't recast him and use the same actor for the rest of the Lost Tomb shows (the 2 Reunions, and Bronze Door) • My favorite episodes are pink • Suggested watch order of series (not including movies & spin-offs) : – 1. Mystic Nine (2016) – 2. The Lost Tomb (2015) – 3. The Lost Tomb 2: Wrath of the Sea (2019) – 4. The Lost Tomb 2: Explore with the Note (2021) – 5. The Lost Tomb 3: Ultimate Note (2020) >> 6. Adventure Behind the Bronze Door (2024) – 7. Tomb of the Sea (2018) – 8. Reunion: Sound of the Providence (2020) – 9. Reunion: Sound of the Providence 2 (2020)

Related Lists : The Lost Tomb (2015) - Full List • The Lost Tomb 2: Wrath of the Sea (2019) - Full List • The Lost Tomb 2: Explore With the Note (2021) - Full List • The Lost Tomb 3: Ultimate Note (2020) - Full List

Episodes on List : 21 Total Episodes : 32

*Spoilers below*

01 : [memory/dream] Zhang Qi Ling fight … bleeding, unconscious, (young) Wu Xie hallucinating … [present] wakes from nightmare … [flashback] knocked out

03 : [flashback] Zhang Qi Ling tied up

04 : [present] Wu Xie doppelganger hit with slingshot stone.. both Wu Xie's tied up.. doppelganger hit again.. back of Wu Xie's neck cut, passes out

05 : … continued from previous ep. ... Revealed not cut, just tricked into thinking so with local anesthetic … shoulder squeezed … (@ 21:43 I seriously love the friendship of these 2 😆) … Wang Pang Zi head grazed by a bullet, bleeding and knocked dizzy for a moment

06 : Wu Xie's hand bit by insects, cuts his own hand, Pang Zi attacked & bit by the insects .. Wu Xie unsteady, Pang Zi dizzy from insect poison.. Wu Xie & Pang Zi freezing, Wu Xie shivering, Pang Zi passes out … revealed that Wu Xie & Pang Zi were stuck in an hallucination that entire time

09 : [past] Zhang Qi Ling cuts his hand … [present] Pang Zi drunk (pretending) … hallucinating (semi-comedic)

10 : [past] Zhang Qi Ling drinks a poison, passes out, entombed alive … pain

13 : [present] Wu Xie's vision blurs

14 : Pang Zi's arm grazed by bullet.. Wu Xie's finger cut by a wire.. Wu Xie & Pang Zi briefly knocked out … Wu Xie falls into a crevasse, briefly knocked out

15 : Knocked out by an explosion (not really shown), wakes in hospital, bandaged, unsteady, confused, rips out IV.. Pang Zi hospitalized, oxygen mask, comatose … revealed to all be Wu Xie's hallucination (starting from the attack/explosion)

16 : Wu Xie & Pang Zi hallucinate

17 : Wu Xie stabbed, collapses.. knocked out … stumbling around, still wounded, bandaging himself … despair, banging his head on the floor … stumbling around, holding his wound

18 : Limping, hallucinating, passes out.. stumbling.. passed out … Pang Zi tied up … Wu Xie (masked as Zhang Qi Ling) knocked to the ground, blown back by an explosion

19 : Coughing from corrosive gas, lying about current state, collapses from compound wounds, stumbling & unsteady, collapses, tossed & knocked out briefly by an explosion.. helped to walk.. collapses, coughing, passes out … (@ 17:23 legit made me cry) … wakes, coughing

21 : (near end) Hallucinating

24 : Cuts his own hand, forces his hand to bleed until he passes out.. wakes with his hand bandaged, Pang Zi's hand also bandaged after cutting it (not shown) … Wu Xie tied up, leg cut.. bandaged.. choked, blown back by an explosion

25 : Hits himself in the face with a rock to knock out a tooth (semi-comedic) … arm dislocated.. nearly falls down a crevasse, blown back by an explosion … arm set.. Wu Xie & Pang Zi fall down a crevasse

26 : Wu Xie in a fight.. scratched by monster & bleeding (faking)

27 : Blown back by an explosion

28 : Giant explosion, Wu Xie & Pang Zi injured (kinda hard to tell what's going on).. Wu Xie wakes, Pang Zi bandaged; neck brace & broken leg

29 : Injured by an explosion

#whump #whump list #full whump list #Asian whump #China #Adventure Behind the Bronze Door #藏海花 #Tibetan Sea Flower #Wu Xie #Zhang Qi Ling #Wang Pang Zi #Edward Zhang #Zhang Kang Le #Chen Ming Hao #Xu Zhen Xuan

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#Ecogradia #solarpunk #sponge city #floods #flood #climate crisis #climate change #climate collapse #global heating #global warming #green infrastructure #blue infrastructure #China #Indonesia #thailand #denmark #Singapore #USA #Youtube

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myreia · 9 months ago

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Sketches of Times Lost

ao3 | tumblr tag | my writing

short stories include spoilers from a realm reborn to endwalker. all stories are set in aureia malathar's canon. [❤] = fave entry/fic that I am proud of [g] = general (all audiences), [t] = teen (some language, more difficult themes), [m] = mature (implied sex, sensuality, strong language, and/or violence), [e] = explicit (mature themes, explicit sex scenes)

Week I

Week II

Week III

Week IV

#ffxiv #ff14 #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv fanfic #ffxiv fanfiction #ffxivwrite #ffxivwrite2024 #writing tag #myreiawrites2024 #aureia malathar

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funmintix · 12 days ago

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PECCO BAGNAIA BIOGRAPHY 29/04/2016 (Ⅰ)

FRANCESCO BAGNAIA #21

Date of birth: 14/01/97 – Turín – Italy Age: 19 First Grand Prix: Moto3 Grand Prix of Qatar 2013 First victory: Last victory: First pole: First fastest lap: Moto3 Grand Prix of France – (2014) First podium: Moto3 Grand Prix of France – (2015) Victories: Poles: Fastest laps: 2 (Moto3)

Podiums: 3 (Moto3) Best championship finish: 14th World Championship Moto3 2015 Total GP appearances: 55 (Moto3) SPORTING CAREER 2009: European MiniGP Champion – Italian MiniGP Championship runner up 2010: 125cc PreGP Mediterranean Championship runner up 3rd in 125 PreGP Catalan Championship 2011: 3rd in 125cc Spanish Championship 2012: 3rd in Moto3 Spanish Championship Championship 2013: Moto3 World Championship debut 2014: 16th in Moto3 World Championship 2015: 14th in Moto3 World Championship

BIOGRAPHY

Francesco Bagnaia, known affectionately to his friends as 'Pecco', is one of the most exciting young racing talents to emerge from Italy in recent times. Originally hailing from Turin, he now lives with his parents and two siblings in Chivasso, a small town some twenty kilometres from the capital of the Piamonte region. His father works for an accessory company, as does his mother, and together they form a tight family unit.

Like most young racers, Pecco fell in love with motorcycles watching his father compete alongside his uncle in amateur championships. On the occasion of his sixth Christmas, Santa brought Pecco a 50cc Beta motocross bike, which he would gleefully ride on wasteland close to the family home. At the age of eight he received his first race bike, a minimoto that he took along to the Italian Championship – a series he qualified for at the first attempt and would continue racing in until the age of ten.

2009 was a year of change – a slightly bigger bike with gears. He won his first 50cc race on the ZPF in Viterbo, finishing runner up in the Italian Championship but taking the title in the three round European Championship. It became clear that if he wanted to take the next step and compete against the best young riders on the continent he would have to turn to Spain and in 2010 he focused his activities on the Iberian Peninsula, under the guidance of Emilio Alzamora. Whilst he continued to live in Italy he made frequent trips across the Mediterranean to race, taking third place in the Catalan Championship and finishing as runner up in the Mediterranean Championship.

After stepping up to the Metrakit PreGP 125cc class in 2010, the moment arrived for him to truly test his mettle as a potential Grand Prix rider, as he made his debut in the Spanish Championship. He certainly didn't look out of place, finishing third in the championship in both 2011 and 2012 as he collected five podiums, including two victories. Those two seasons also served as a major learning experience as he first competed on a two stroke 125cc Aprilia before making the switch to the four stroke Moto3.

His achievements in the CEV did not go unnoticed back in his native country and the Italian Federation swooped for his signature to contest the Moto3 World Championship with Team Italia in 2013. It was a typically tough debut season for Pecco, a season of adaptation, learning and experience. However, his riding caught the attention of national hero Valentino Rossi, who headhunted Pecco for his VR46 Academy. In 2014 he lined up on the grid in the distinctive and powerful black colours of the Sky Racing Team VR46.

That second season as a World Championship rider was going well up until a crash in warm up for the Dutch TT that left Pecco with a broken wrist and out of action for a number of races. It was a cruel setback that did not deny Pecco the chance to build on his fourth place finish and circuit record at Le Mans early in the season. At the same circuit, the Italian reached his first ever Moto3 podium in 2015, a third place.

Nowadays Pecco lives in Pesaro, close to the Valentino Rossi Ranch – a unique training facility that gives young Italian riders a magical opportunity to ride dirt track alongside a legend of the sport whilst also completing a rigorous physical training programme. Amongst all those determined young faces at the ranch, Pecco Bagnaia is the 'boy next door.' He keeps his feet on the ground and does his talking on the track.

#pecco bagnaia #motogp #aspar team #vr46 riders academy

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thescaryhyperfem · 8 months ago

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New sona. Stupid alien!!!!

Resume:

Name: Xem / Zip / SCP-3214-J

Pronouns: any

From: SCP-321-J (The Awesome Universe)

Gender: alien

Sex: "quem é vc"

Sexuality: No attraction, Yes relationship. (I hope there's a term for this)

Text Transcript:

SCP-3214-J "With the power of PLUR!"

Containment Class: Euclid

Secondary Class: Joke

Risk Class: Caution

Disruption Class: Vlam

Special Containment Procedures:

SCP-3214-J is kept in a bedroom cell in Site-19, as requested by the anomaly. The room must be refilled with 2000s or 'scene' aesthetic related things every month, or the anomaly will start to get less happy over time. The room must be cleaned every day, but nothing in it sha'll be taken from the room besides trash.

Internet access and free roams around the facility are allowed unless unsupervised by a higher up.

Description:

SCP-3214-J is a white, bald and fat humanoid creature with green alien-like antenna on top of it's head. The only faces they make resemble old online memes, such as the troll face. SCP-3214-J seems to take a big interest in old media and memes, and also things that relate to what the anomaly describes as "PLUR" media.

SCP-3214-J is a peaceful creature, as it doesn't show any type of aggression, anger or sadness. who claims to be from SCP-321-J but somehow landed here.

SCP-3214-J's anomalous properties comes in when they physically interact with anybody of any species. The touched person will feel an immediate wave of peace and a calming feeling, and they will forget everything stressful for them for aa certain amount of time, which seems to be controlled by the anomaly.

SCP-3214-J is also able to shoot rainbow lasers out of it's body, causing the shot individual to be stunned, and then happy for a few seconds.

SCP-3214-J is often used as a therapeutic object for other foundation personnel. The anomaly is as helpful as SCP-999 when it comes to free therapy.

SCP-3214-J is capable of speaking every language, including the ones that are no longer spoken and alien speech. The anomaly's accent resembles that of Dr. Gears, but if it was "mixed in a blender".

Addendum 1 (12/11/2015):

SCP-3214-J was found wandering around in Japan, trying to buy candy from a local store. The anomaly was forcefully captured, but people were sad about the foundation's decision.

SCP-3214-J was locked in a cell in Site-##, where multiple tests were made.

Addendum 2 (01/01/2016):

SCP-3214-J breaches containment, releasing multiple rainbow lasers at whoever tries to attack it with a smile on it's face.

SCP-3214-J ran to the O5's council, then begged to be taken to Site-19, while speaking fluent English, shocking the O5.

Addendum 3 (02/01/2016):

SCP-3214-J was relocated to Site-19 at a common cell, where it started to attempt more containment breaches. It was, apparently, trying to get the materials to decorate the wallpapers.

Addendum 4 (12/02/2016):

Its room is decorated. It is happy.

Addendum 5 (13/04/2016):

Tests were made regarding relationships. Any attempts of sexual, romantic or other interactions were met with a big hug, which made people forget what they were doing.

Addendum 5-1:

SCP-3214-J tells the foundation regarding it's orientation. It says, in German, that it doesn't feel attraction but does enjoy relationships of any kind.

Addendum 6 (14/04/2016)

SCP-3214-J starts going by the name of "Xem" and "Zip", and starts using any pronouns.

Addendum 7 (16/04/2024):

haiiiiii intermnet!!?

- Xem, 2024

Addendum 7-1:

Xem was allowed to have internet access.

(the numbers on the image were slightly wrong)

#scp #scp fandom #my art #my ocs #scp sona #scp oc #scp-321-j #scp 321 j #scp 3214 j #official xem tag

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caroletheperfumeaddict · 3 months ago

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Harry's 'dating' history

A non-comprehensive list of the women Harry has been linked with.

2011 - age 17

Aug: Lucy Horobin (15 years older. DJ, 2 nights only - married, claimed he almost broke up her marriage) three-month affair that ended when he started ‘dating Caroline Flack’.

Aug: Harry, via XF site, lets it be known he fancies Caroline.

17 Sept: CAKEGATE!!! 1D perform at GAY.

Nov: Caroline Flack (15 years older, TV presenter.)

2012 - age 18

Feb: Pixie Geldof (4 years older, model). Seen ‘partying with’.

Feb: un-named blonde woman (older than him, younger than Caroline).

March: Taylor Swift (5 years older, singer, re articles from Oct 2012)

April: Lily Halpern (3 years older, singer, ‘it’s getting serious’, ‘been going on for months’. Harry’s rep said he denied even knowing her)

April: Jillian Harris (15 years older, ‘TV personality’) - claimed Harry asked her out and she turned him down.

April: Sarah-Louise Colivet (6 years older, Irish photographer, it’s ‘serious’, claimed to have spent night with him then deleted her post)

April: Emma Ostilly (1 year older, model, kissed goodbye at door, also said to have been ‘thrown out’ of his hotel [refused access] with another girl and Harry ‘fought’ his security over it). She is the unknown girl mentioned in NZ interview. H denied she was a GF. Said to have caused a spat with TS.

May: Emily Atack (5 years older, actress, said: ‘the only direction he’d be going in is the bedroom’). Claimed it was a fling and they both moved on.

June 24: Mirror headline on Des saying Harry dates ‘three women at once’ (article does not say this).

June 24: Same day, Lucy Horobin article breaks about affair in 2011.

June 26: Caroline Flack ‘overheard’ saying she’s afraid ‘private snaps’ of her and Harry will be leaked.

July: Caggie Dunlop (4 years older, Made in Chelsea). Said to have been going on for nine months, on and off. He denied it was romantic.

Sept: Pixie Geldof again.

Nov: Taylor Swift again (official start, till Jan 04)

Nov 06: articles about Harry being scared the first time he had sex in case he got the girl pregnant and stressing that he now always wears a condom. Also once ‘got into bed with a friend’s mum’ (it was a dare). Articles resurface in summer 2023, reprinted multiple times.

Nov 11: Article saying Harry saying he won’t date anyone older than his mum. (Story resurfaces around Jan 5 2021 in many outlets).

2013 - age 19

March 11: Shaniece Nesbitt (18, Megan Fox lookalike). ’Spends night’ with him in Culloden Hotel. She firmly denied it and said a male friend was there the entire time.

March 17: Daily Star publishes article saying Harry sleeps with 3-4 girls a night and has 12 waiting for him at any given time. Article is picked up and widely reprinted.

March 20: Jade Thirlwall (2 years older, singer, Little Mix). Harry is ‘sexting’ her despite apparently fucking 12 girls a night.

April 13: Harry ‘asks’ events manager Michelle Mooney (17 years older) to come backstage and she refuses.

April 27: Kimberley Stewart (14 years older, VS model). Rod’s daughter.

July 02: Kara Rose Marshall (2 years older, model).

Aug: Paige Reifler (4 months older, VS model)

Sept: Cara Delevingne (2 years older, VS model, later came out as pan)

Sept 30: Pix released of ‘steamy embrace’ with Paige Reifler.

Nov: Kendall Jenner (year younger, till Sept 2016 on and off, VS model)

Dec: Nicole Scherzinger (16 years older, at end of TXF)

2014 - age 20

Feb 05: Haley Giraldo (9 years older, Pat Benatar’s daughter). Said to have cheated on Kendall with her. Have been dating for a year!!! She denied rumours.

Month??: Cara Delevingne (2 years older, model)

Unknown date: Kate Gallivan of The Batchelorette. Date, ‘proper’ kiss, heavy making out, drinking, talking, rolling around, but she ‘had her period’ so she didn’t sleep with him.

Month?? Alexandria Morgan (acc. her - but she also said 2015 and 2016, one failed date after he saw her golfing tiktok, 2 months older, model)

April: Harry linked with actress Gemma Chan (12 years older than him) despite her boyfriend Jack Whitehall literally being with them.

Oct: Erin Foster (12 years older, writer, creator of Bumble. Few dates, were papped picking pumpkins in ‘matching’ skinny jeans)

Nov: Nadine Leopold (same age, VS model. Dated until March 2015)

Dec 12: Barack Obama - rumours rejected by Harry.

Dec 14: Roxie Nafousi (4 years older, stylist) ‘few dates’ ‘taking it slow’

Dec 14: Sinitta (31 years older) “Harry Styles constantly chats me up at parties. He’s definitely got that Mick Jagger vibe going on — he’s a horny little devil.”

Dec 20: un-named swimsuit model (Inquisitr)

Dec 20: Nadine Leopold again. He wore her coat. She ‘left his apartment at 9.00am’.

2015 - age 21

Jan: still Nadine, who attended his birthday party in ‘January’

Jan: Inquisitr asks if Harry is dating Meghan Trainor, with whom he recorded a song.

Jan: Inquisitr article says Harry datedEmma Watson (‘in recent weeks’) and has a reputation as a lothario.

June 17: Sara Sampaio (3 years older, model, brief, said to have spent a night together.)

Sept: Georgia Fowler (2 years older, model, spa trip. Ended in Oct.)

Unknown date: tried to hook up with the daughter of one of the Slipknot crew.

Entirety of year: Megan Smith, air hostess, three years older.

Dec 30: official start of Hendall (yacht off st Barts for new year)

2016 - age 22

Jan 24 Pandora Lennard, stylist, five years older

July 06: Kendall Jenner on and off till Sept

August 23: seen with mystery woman.

Unknown date: Nicole Scherzinger again

2017

May-June Tess Ward (4 years older. Harry said he was ‘single’ at this time)

July: Camille Rowe (4 years older. Till July 2018)

2018

July: BUA with Camille Rowe.

2019

Feb: Kiku Mizuhara (4 years older, model). She claimed she’d never met him but photos later emerged showing they clearly knew each other.

Unknown date: Nicole Branch (model and actress) said to have dated ‘for a year’ until he met Olivia and they were living together.

2020

March 1: Harry seen out on the town in NYC. Looks drunk.

Sept: Harry is cast in Don’t worry darling.

Oct 26: shooting begins for DWD.

Nov: Olivia Wilde (10 years older, actress) says she did a ‘victory dance’ after casting Harry.

Nov 04: Shooting shuts down for two weeks on DWD. Harry, Pine and Florence Pugh all quarantined.

Nov mid-month: OW announces she has been separated from Sudeikis ‘since beginning of year’.

During shooting: rumours later surface that HS and OW were MIA for much of shooting and the film was really directed by Pugh and the DP. Rumours also emerge later that H had an affair with Florence before Olivia.

Late in year. Unofficial start date of Holivia.

Dec 10: Harry is in ‘no hurry’ to date during Covid though he has ‘options’. (Us Weekly).

2021

Jan 04: Holivia official start date. Papped holding hands at Jeff Azoff’s wedding, both wearing Gucci. Harry officiates at the wedding and calls OW his ‘girlfriend’.

Jan 07: H&OW say they have been dating ‘for a few weeks’

Feb 06: H&OW are ‘very happy together’.

Feb: OW praises HS as DWD wraps.

Feb: OW and Jason are ‘trying to build a friendship for her kids’

March: OW subtly supports H’s grammy win for WMS

April 21: OW and HS enjoy downtime in London. Jason is there ‘for work’.

June 04: HS and OW have ‘grown closer as a couple’

July 07: H & OW yacht kissing pix, Italy, by Backgrid.

July: Us Weekly says H&OW are ‘smitten’ with each other

Sept 05: OW ‘supports’ HS at first night of his stadium tour in Vegas.

Nov: OW is seen wearing a necklace like H’s gold cross necklace.

Dec 9: OW says she is ‘happier than she’s ever been’ (Vogue)

Dec 21: HS is ‘getting to know’ OW’s kids

2022

Feb 02: OW posts selfies to show she and H are celebrating H’s birthday in London. He is not in the pix.

Feb 04: OW and HS attend a Francis Bacon exhibition in London.

March 15: HS and OW papped out and about in Soho, London

April 25-28: OW is served custody papers at CinemaCon

May 18: H on H Stern. Will not be drawn on ‘falling in love’ on a movie set.

May 20: OW plays a Harry track on her IG.

May 23: Olivia is pregnant!!! Rumours on Twitter (baggy t-shirt)

July 15: Daily Mail asks why did HS and OW split up

Aug 18: HS and OW kiss at gym and then are out on town NYC, him in crochet top. He plucks his face.

Aug 22: Harry Rolling Stone ‘most wanted man’ article. OW praises Harry. He says: “I don't think I've publicly been with anyone."

Aug 24: OW says she and Harry go out of their way to protect their ‘deep love’. Variety cover article, + People.

Sept 05: Venice premiere of DWD. Harry and OW visibly at odds.

Sept 08: OW says she did not leave Jason for Harry. (Vanity Fair Oct cover issue)

Sept 19: OW and HS go to after-party for NYC launch of DWD. He’s in Gucci.

Sept 20: HS and OW go to DWD IMAX screening. NYC. Photographed separately. OW posts pic on IG of herself with H, Pugh, etc.

Sept 21: OW attends Harry’s concert at MSG.

Sept 22: HS and OW papped kissing in street in NY. Peaches jacket. She attends his final concert at MSG.

Sept 23: DWD released to cinemas. Same day, Vulture outlines production angst on DWD with Harry and OW ‘disappearing constantly’.

Oct 24: OW’s nanny says H had affair with Florence Pugh on set before OW. OW is papped wearing Harry’s merch.

Oct 25: DWD released to video on demand.

Nov 07: DWD released to streaming on HBO.

Nov 15: OW and kids attend Harry’s LA concert.

Nov 18: HS and OW announce they are ‘taking a break’. That night, Kendall Jenner attends Harry’s show with Hailey Bieber.

Nov 22: OW says she is ‘disappointed’ about the split.

Nov 23: ‘Is Harry dating Kendall again?’

Nov 29: DWD released on blu-ray etc.

Dec 08: OW is ‘still very upset’ over the split.

2023

Jan 11: OW posts cryptic message on IG ‘I’d hate to die without ever having loved’.

Feb: Yan Yan Chan (7 months younger, influencer). Had ‘secret getaway’ in Byron Bay, Oz. (This news emerges later.)

Feb 14: H is exchanging ‘flirty text messages’ with Jennifer Aniston following trouser split at his show.

Feb 23: OW says she and Harry are ‘still very good friends’.

March 04: Yan Yan Chan again. Harry ‘slid into her DMs’ after a concert.

March 16: Yan Yan Chan is pregnant!!!

March 25: Emily Ratajkowski (3 years older, actress) fish-kissing, Tokyo

April 04: Emrata has been ‘secretly dating Harry’ for two months. (Turned out not to be Harry).

June 14: Yan Yan Chan again.

June 20: OW steps out in one of H’s old shirts

June 23: H seen walking with Taylor Russell (5 months younger, to 03 December.) Visiting art gallery. Fans note the ‘stunt jacket’.

July 8: TR attends Harry’s show in Vienna.

July 9: TR and HS seen wandering round Vienna together. Not holding hands. He’s in the stunt jacket again.

Aug 9: TR and HS seen ‘cosying up’ at gala for opening night of her London play, The Effect.

Aug 10: Lottie Tomlinson posts video of a safari park and Louis and maybe Harry can be heard in the background.

Aug 17: Us Weekly says Harry is ‘always smiling’ when he’s with TR.

Aug 21: rumours repeated that HS and OW constantly snuck off while filming DWD.

Aug 28: HS and TR seen holding hands and sprinting off Oxford St. Fans note this is near a Loewe store.

Aug 29: Harry seen riding a Lime bike near Waterloo.

Aug 30: TR does interview in The Face with playwright Lucy Prebble.

Sept 05: Harry filmed riding a Lime bike.

Sept 11: Harry papped swimming at Hampstead Ponds.

Sept 16: Harry papped Lime biking with James Corden.

Sept 19: Harry photographed with a Lime bike.

Sept 24: TR and HS seen holding hands while crossing road. He appears to be wearing the blue bandana. Same day, seen riding Lime bikes.

Oct 6: Harry seen out with Kit and Tyler in London.

Oct 12: things are ‘serious’ and H sees a ‘future’ with TR (Us Weekly)

Nov: Taylor Russell pregnant!!! (Deux Moi rumours).

Nov 7 onwards: Big Pleasing drop

Nov 15: Harry buzzcut photo for Pleasing with swan jumper

Dec 03: BUA with Taylor Russell seeded - she is in London in a hotel and he’s at home in Hampstead. Sun later takes down article.

Dec 05: Taylor russell Fashion Week articles. It’s mentioned that H doesn’t see her during her visit from the US.

Dec 31: Hampstead Pond swim with TR. Her leg is badly photoshopped.

2024

Jan 03: Pix emerge of Harry in Anguilla for new year, with his hair growing out. Other pix are posted of him from behind with TR - clearly not him as there are no tattoos. Pic of him in the Louie shirt.

Jan 18 : Pic posted on Twitter of Taylor Russell at one of Harry’s Wembley concerts, dated from before their museum walk pix.

Jan 20: Taylor Russell is at the Loewe show, without Harry.

Jan 25: Pix published of Harry in London with TR ‘recently’. Pix by Eroteme.

Jan 30: Daily Mail prints article on TR riding round London on a Lime bike. Pix by Beretta Sims.

Feb 01: Several articles appear in media, all talking about how Harry needs to settle down and have children.

Feb 10: Harry papped through a car window walking with TR and Root in the road. Pix look photoshopped.

Feb 12: Harry ‘goes out to dinner’ with TR and they both ride home on Lime bikes with a Pleasing bag in the pannier - pix by Backgrid published the next day. Harry is wearing a North Face jacket identical to Louis’.

Feb 18: While TR attends the BAFTAs, Harry appears in public with his new hair - short but growing surprisingly quickly - attending a match at Luton between Luton and Man Utd. Rob Stringer (club director) in attendance.

Headlines appear focusing on lonely TR without her boyfriend.

March 14 Harry attends Mitch’s concert in NYC. TR turns up after her performance and is papped leaving the venue with him. Looks like an argument in the car. Her play, whose sales were low, sells out immediately.

March 15 Harry rumoured to be seen on crosswalk with TR. Rumours dismissed.

March 16 Harry is photographed on a crosswalk with TR. Very clear pic.

March 18 Harry and TR papped leaving his NYC apartment wearing The Row clothing. Clearly a pre-arranged shoot. Harry also papped inside and then outside a bookshop in NYC with Max Ritz, Xander’s brother.

March 19 Pix emerge of Harry and TR in the cab after Mitch’s concert - they may be arguing. Video emerges of Harry stomping into Sony in NYC.

April 17: Pic of Harry with TR on a train in Japan - echoes the pic of him and Louis so many years ago.

April 19: Pix of Harry and TR emerge in Japan. He’s wearing a blue shirt identical to one posted in manips of him on the 18th.

May 03: People publishes article on how H & TR are really serious.

May 04: Pix are published of Harry riding a Lime Bike ‘recently’ in London - it’s assumed that these are from the 29th. He is wearing the Umbro tee visible OVER a hoodie over another tee. Daily Mail publishes article using these pix, lots about Harry’s wealth and not one word about Taylor Russell.

May 06: Met Gala. Taylor attends without Harry. Some magazines joke about him being out on his bike.

May 19: BUA for Harry and Taylor hits the headlines.

May 20: Tabloids full of Haylor II breakup, all using the timeframe of 14 months (it’s a year).

Harry leaves for Italy and is repeatedly papped there. Officially 'single' since the BUA.

To be continued...

#harry styles #dating #relationship

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mostlysignssomeportents · 5 months ago

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Object permanence

I'm about to leave for a 20+ city book tour for my new novel PICKS AND SHOVELS. Catch me on Feb 14 in BOSTON for FREE at BOSKONE , and on Feb 15 for a virtual event with YANIS VAROUFAKIS. More tour dates here.

#20yrsago Toronto subway station badges cum route-map https://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/4497496/

#20yrsago Flickr CEO interview on O’Reilly Network https://web.archive.org/web/20050209034531/http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/5607

#15yrsago Iceland’s paper of record bans linking https://web.archive.org/web/20100207133022/http://mbl.is/mogginn/hofundarettur/

#15yrsago Sony Pictures layoffs explained https://web.archive.org/web/20100210071332/http://themediawonk.com/2010/02/04/alarm-bells-come-too-late-for-sony-pictures/

#10yrsago An Adventure To Pepperland Through Rhyme & Space: hip hop/Beatles mashups https://monkeyboxing.com/the-beatles-vs-hip-hop-legends-an-adventure-to-pepperland-through-rhyme-space-2015-free-download-double-album-exclusive/#more-31098

#10yrsago Charles Addams, uncredited co-creator of the Haunted Mansion https://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2015/01/charles-addams-and-haunted-mansion.html

#10yrsago Modern farm equipment has no farmer-servicable parts inside https://www.wired.com/2015/02/new-high-tech-farm-equipment-nightmare-farmers/

#10yrsago Having the brakes removed from your car is a personal decision https://robertmoorejr.tumblr.com/post/110101466091/im-an-anti-braker

#10yrsago I PARKED IN A BIKE LANE stickers https://iparkedinabikelane.bigcartel.com/product/i-parked-in-a-bike-lane-sticker

#10yrsago Cop who switched off traffic cam in order to make illegal threats will keep his job https://web.archive.org/web/20150208070715/http://wkbn.com/2015/02/05/niles-cop-disciplined-after-questionable-traffic-stop/

#1yrago Big Tech disrupted disruption https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/08/permanent-overlords/#republicans-want-to-defund-the-police

#pluralistic

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seoul-bros · 1 year ago

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Jikook Week 18 Complete ✔️(09/04-16/04/2024)

Their eighteenth week in the military is now complete. It's time to celebrate this milestone with a look back at this week in 2020.

The world was at the beginning of the COVID pandemic lockdowns and nations across the world were seeing a sharp rise in fatalities from the disease. The US leg of the Map of the Soul tour was on indefinite hold and to fill the gap, on 09/04, BTS announced Bang Bang Con a streaming event of their concerts between 2015 and 2018 to be held on 18th -19th April 2020.

On 14/04, the one hundredth episode of Run BTS was released. BTS had hired out the whole arena used for the ISAC games (IYKYK hee hee). It was sponsored by and they were all kitted out in FILA.

As with most BTS big days there was a cake to celebrate. Jimin suggested they cut the cake together (like VIPs) which was a cute idea but didn't quite work so the maknae had to do the honours and promptly got told off by RM for turning his back to the camera. The injustice!

Then it was on to team selection. A quiz about previous episodes of Run BTS was held to see who would be the team leader.

Taehyung wiped the floor with everyone. He really was the Run BTS mastermind. He then got to pick his team - JK, Jin and Jimin. It was rap line (100 jin) against vocal line (seok 100).

The teams have to play badminton with weird rackets.

All is going well until Suga hits JK's team members twice in a row. The first time it was Jin and the second it was Jimin. At this point JK springs into protective mode and I wouldn't have wanted to be Suga at this point. Check out Hobi's reaction.

Cr. to OP

First round the rapline dominate but the vocal line stage a comeback and take all three games and the match. Man of the Match though has to be J-Hope whose skill with the pot cover was outstanding. The 95 line really enjoyed it.

The second game was Foot Volleyball. It was the hopeless three moment for 100 jin. Needless to say seok 100 won again.

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Finally this week, Boyfriend had Jimin choosing their massage chair over JK's capable hands. Yeah that's believable (heavy sarcasm) 🤣😂🤣😂

Post Date: 16/04/2024

#jikook #bts in the military #bts in 2020 #jimin #jungkook

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hsslilly-blog · 10 months ago

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This is a masterlist of Claire-related posts/edits/art. This follows a somewhat chronological order of events, with the first link being the earliest point on her timeline (so far). Only plot/character development posts. I’ve organised it in three different parts: pre-Hollywood U, throughout the game's timeframe, and post-Hollywood U. My timeline for Hollywood U has her freshman year in September, 2012, and her graduation in May, 2016. Most of it is canon compliant but I change things I dislike to fit my interpretation of events. This list will be constantly updated/modified.

General

• Claire Swanson OC tag • Claire Swanson inspo side blog • Claire’s introduction post (03/10/24) • Claire’s ref sheet (04/25/24) • Swanson/Stewart family tree • Claire’s playlist • Claire's Letterboxd list (09/19/24) • Claire’s filmography (03/25/25) • Claire lore dump (10/18/24) • Claire design notes (11/18/24) • Claire Swanson Week (02/08/25 - 02/14/25)

Web Weaves

• Death and Eros (Is it not confusing?) • Dream Girl Evil • But my Father; my beloved and most wretched Father? • Cemetery Sweetheart

Pre-Hollywood U (feb/1990 — sep/2012)

• Claire's First Holy Communion (1997) • Newspaper clipping of Claire’s first big role (apr/2002) • Claire and tennis (2005) • Claire and her father in Lucerne (2006) • Claire and Werner Swanson (2007) • Claire and Sebastian's photobooth photograph (feb/2008) • Claire and Donna by Sebastian (mar/2008) • Claire's early modelling career + The Swansons (2008) • Claire’s Myspace profile page (sep/2009) • Claire and Sabrina at the Monterey Bay Aquarium (feb/2010) • UC Berkeley's Insect Expo: Claire's butterfly showcase (2010) • I'm only here for your entertainment (2010)

Hollywood U (sep/2012 — may/2016)

• Welcome to Hollywood (U) (2012) • Hollywood U outfits, part 1 (nd) • Hollywood U outfits, part 2 (nd) • Claire as Frankie for Chateau Marmont (2013) • Claire’s driver’s license (ago/2014) • "Clash at Sunset" credit cards (jan/2015) • Claire for Vogue: "What's In My Bag?" (july/2015)

Post-Hollywood U (may/2016 — present)

• "Ticket to Ride" film poster (july/2016) • Claire for Vogue: "Ticket to Ride" (aug/2016) • "Out of Time" Letterboxd page (2017) • Claire at the 70th Cannes Film Festival (may/2017) • Claire for Vogue, marie claire, NYLON and Vanity Fair (2017) • Claire for wonderland.: "Your Toxic Valentine" (2018) • Claire’s Films Credit Cards (2017-2019) • Claire’s Wikipedia Article (2019) • "Wild Flowers" film poster (2019) • Claire Swanson Dress Up Game (2019) • Claire at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival (may/2019) • Claire’s Award List (up to 2020)

#oc: claire swanson #hollywood u #hwu mc #masterlist #updating as we go

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staydandy · 6 months ago

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The Lost Tomb 2: Explore With the Note (2021) - 云顶天宫 - Whump List

List by StayDandy Synopsis : The iron triangle: Wu Xie, Zhang Qi Ling and Wang Pang Zi find themselves on a train headed for the mountainous Korean border in search of a mysterious, mythical palace in a world of glaciers, avalanches, and blizzards. They have no idea why Wu San Sheng has sent the message that brought them all together again, but they soon discover that they are not alone in their search for the peak that holds the palace. As they move deeper within the maze of mountain tunnels, all of them begin to wonder if this adventure will be their final quest. (MDL) AKA : The Lost Tomb 2: Heavenly Palace on the Clouds

Whumpees : Wu Xie played by Bai Shu (center) • Zhang Qi Ling played by Zhao Dong Ze (right) • Wang Pang Zi played by Zhang Bo Yu (left)

Country : 🇨🇳 China Genres : Action, Adventure, Mystery, Supernatural, Bromance

Notes : This is a Full Whump List • Adapted from book 4 of "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" (盗墓笔记) by Kennedy Xu (南派三叔) • I think this is my least favorite Wu Xie actor, but I love the actor who plays Pang Zi (it's the same one as in Wrath of the Sea) • Favorite episode is pink • Suggested watch order of series (not including movies & spin-offs) : – 1. Mystic Nine (2016) – 2. The Lost Tomb (2015) – 3. The Lost Tomb 2: Wrath of the Sea (2019) >> 4. The Lost Tomb 2: Explore with the Note (2021) – 5. The Lost Tomb 3: Ultimate Note (2020) – 6. Adventure Behind the Bronze Door (2024) – 7. Tomb of the Sea (2018) – 8. Reunion: Sound of the Providence (2020) – 9. Reunion: Sound of the Providence 2 (2020)

Related Lists : The Lost Tomb (2015) - Full List • The Lost Tomb 2: Wrath of the Sea (2019) - Full List • The Lost Tomb 3: Ultimate Note (2020) - Full List • Adventure Behind the Bronze Door (2024) - Full List

Episodes on List : 17 Total Episodes : 24

*Spoilers below*

01 : [flashback] Wu Xie trapped in collapsed tomb rubble … [present] hospitalized, conscious but unresponsive, [flashback] trapped in the rubble.. [present] wandering around barefoot, unsteady, dizzy, in & out of consciousness … attacked, cloth over mouth, injected with something; pain, seizure, dropped out of car unconscious … nightmare … rolls down a hill, hits a tree … ensnared in a trap, thrown around & tied up.. Wang Pang Zi tied up & dragged in the same trap … bit by a snake

02 : Face swollen from bee stings … scratched by a poisoned arrow, passes out … cared for, fever

04 : Wu Xie dizzy, unsteady … Wu Xie, Zhang Qi Ling, & Pang Zi exhausted … Wu Xie & Pang Zi knocked out with gas

05 : (at end) Wu Xie & Pang Zi almost fall into a ravine

06 : … continued from previous ep. ... Wu Xie & Pang Zi almost fall into a ravine

08 : Wu Xie exhausted, unsteady … collapses, suffering from hypoxia (low oxygen), passes out.. hallucinating.. dragged down a hill

11 : Falls off a cliff, caught by the safety line

14 : Kicked, hit his head, knocked out … Pang Zi hallucinating … Wu Xie in a daze, unresponsive … (@ 26:30-28:57, 38:43-40:45 gross many-legged bugs, including a giant one .. I srsly had to skip most of this .. I can't with these things) … shock

15 : Pang Zi grabbed by a nasty giant bug … (at end) Wu Xie choked

16 : … continued from previous ep. ... Choked

17 : Qi Ling not feeling well.. cuts his own fingers

18 : Wu Xie grabbed by a monster (thankfully not another bug) & dropped from a great height … (@ 5:14-6:50 more fucking bugs) … wakes, hurt from the fall … passed out/sleeping, wakes coughing, dehydrated, passes out again.. wakes coughing again, chest pain, helped to walk … weaker, blurry vision … wakes from sleep with pain … rib pain, coughing.. Pang Zi sore from being dropped from a great height … Wu Xie has nightmare, pain

19 : (@ 8:23-8:51 gross bug stuff) … Coughing, rib pain … pukes

20 : (near end) Bit

21 : Panic, hyperventilating … attacked … (@ 31:23-32:40, 33:59-35:32 bugs!) falls off a platform, spits up blood.. cared for, chest pain

22 : Coughing, pain

24 : (big bug demon thing) … Held hostage, gun to his head.. Pang Zi tied up

More Whump Lists for this show: love-me-a-lotta-whump

#whump #whump list #full whump list #Asian whump #China #Lost Tomb 2 Explore With the Note #Lost Tomb 2 #Explore With the Note #云顶天宫 #Heavenly Palace on the Clouds #Wu Xie #Zhang Qi Ling #Wang Pang Zi #Bai Shu #Zhao Dong Ze #Zhang Bo Yu

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