#Donald Osborne

[realnormanosborn]

[kzele]

TSSM What If. . .Ock Triggered The Bomb Earlier?

Summary: For once, Peter Parker is in crosshairs and is forced to become the hero. Naturally, this puts him back in the crosshairs by reminding him just WHY he has two separate IDs.

Peter was used to being dismissed by adults. They took one look at his face and saw his age instead of him as a person. So when Mr. Osborn politely told him to get lost, he would've normally taken it stride. If it had been about normal business stuff, that is. Norman had practically superglued himself to Peter's side whenever they were in the same room for just about everything else he forced the teenager into. Be it brain-frying corporate meetings or neat trips and lab experiments.

Heck, considering he had been essentially browbeaten into accepting this "apprenticeship," Peter might've been ecstatic to get away and, you know, RELAX AROUND CHRISTMAS. But, noooo. Not with Norman Osborn. Because Norman Osborn doesn't have fun. He has money.

Alright, maybe that was a bit unfair to think about the senior Osborn like that, because he was and has always been MUCH nicer to Peter than apparently everyone on the planet. (Which brings up its own problems where Harry is concerned.)

But that's not the point here.

The real point is that Norman's assistant/flunky Donald Menken, who either doesn't like Peter or ignores everybody with an income below 250k as standard procedure, was going to say something about Toomes aka Big Bird's goth grandpa.

Ever since the guy escaped from prison along with his buddies, he's been laying low for some time. Which is quite an accomplishment if we're taking into account all his very public past murder attempts. The first of which he literally screamed at his target before attacking. Despite his flight suit being almost completely silent in use. And having the element of surprise already. It sucks to know that his villains were learning subtlety. Or just learning in general.

Annnd since the Vulture is nowhere to be found, any information about the jerk is necessary. Unfortunately, arguing the point with Norman isn't going to get anywhere. Not unless you can count ticking him off as "getting somewhere." And Peter would rather not do that. . .Especially when he could just sneak back in and eavesdrop, regardless of his marching orders. Lots of pillars to hide behind plus his enhanced hearing will hopefully equal one enlightened spider.

Peter produced the expected agreement and made it about two steps before-

His brain was on fire. Spider sense!

"Nonononono, countdown activated! Thirty seconds to implosion!"

The teen whipped his around to see Morris the demolition guy frantically inputting what could only be the deactivation codes.

Norman was firm, "Shut. It. Down."

The timer didn't even slow.

Well, crap.

He basically teleported himself next to the panicking blond right at that moment.

Okay, focus and then think. It didn't seem likely that this was an accident but even if this was supreme bad luck, the codes were shown to not work. Bomb squad would be clean up by that point. Revealing himself as Spidey and saving everyone would endanger his loved ones regardless of whether he survives this or not. But Peter couldn't do this. He couldn't save everyone in time as just plain, old Peter Parker. He couldn't. . .

Wait. In time?

Of course. The timer.

Peter was done thinking in seconds and relayed his thoughts, "Mr. Bench! Can you reset the timer?!"

"I'll-I'll try," the frazzled man nodded as he worked.

But the machine was only on the new time for moment before it reverted back to half a minute. Somehow, it felt almost mocking in its false hope.

"It-it wo-won't-"

"Is there a manual way to disable the timer so it can't revert back," Peter asked in a voice calmer than he felt.

Morris' voice was almost inaudible, "Blue wire at the bottom right of the screen. Pull that when I go again."

And then there was waiting. . .

Waiting. . .

. . .

. . .

Now!

"NOW!"

And then there was silence.

29:59. . .29:58. . .29:57

He would've collapsed onto the old and dirty tenement floor right then like Morris. (And Menken, too, if the gasping sounds from behind were an indication.) But his adrenaline hadn't worn off and the danger was still present the longer they stayed here if the muted buzzing in his cranium meant anything.

"Well done, son."

Norman Osborn's approving smile followed Peter the rest of the way out of the building.

End of Part I

Next Time (possibly) : Ock Goes WTF happened and Peter Receives the Credit for All The Things. Also, Stalking Ensues.

[onebadpunspoilsabunch]

well that escalated

[hellomystraightlacedfriend]

Amazing Spider-Man #260

[issacharmastersdp18]

You ever have one of those moments watching a movie or tv show?

But you can’t place the person

And when you look to see who it is

where you know them from

You only have more questions ?

Because that’s exactly how I felt during this scene

The very first time I watched The Hunger Games.

I was sitting in the theater thinking

The obvious answer would be that I’d seen Donald Sutherland in something before.

I went through his IMDb page THREE times.

I had not seen him in a goddamned thing before that.

Not. A. Single. Thing.

How the hell do I know him?

Maybe he reminds me of someone else, but who that could be has not come to me in eleven years.

So I’ve just kinda been searching for the answer ever since.

I’ve consumed every piece of Donald Sutherland media I can get my hands on.

So……

If I ever meet him, we’re damn sure gonna get to the bottom of this mystery.

It crosses my mind at least once every day or two. It bothers me that I can feel so strongly that I know someone with no explanation for it.

The more I learn about him, the more sure I am that we would be friends.

Did I know him in a past life? Seriously. How the hell do I know him?

Of course, if someone on here does know him and comes across this, I would appreciate it if you’d point him in this direction.

I really, really want to know the answer.

[readerviews]

"Where We Land" by Donald Osborn with Anna Henkens Schmidt

Insightful Perspectives from a Professional Pilot #books #bookreview #reading #readerviews

Where We Land Donald Osborn with Anna Henkens SchmidtIndependently Published (2024)ISBN: 979-8990283305Reviewed by Richard Bist for Reader Views (05/2024) Many people think the life of an airline pilot to be nothing but amazing travel adventures, exotic locales, and rubbing shoulders with famous passengers. Donald Osborn has seen some of that, but he’s also seen the hardships that go along with…

[redistrictgirl]

As of September 8th, 2024, Republicans are heavily favored (93% chance) in the race for control of the US Senate.

The topline is depressing for Democrats, but the state-level shifts are divine for them.

Both parties seem to have built up a wall of Senate races where they're favored, with the Democratic wall being more vulnerable to breaking. This means that the state of the Senate rests pretty comfortably at 52-48 in favor of Republicans, and that gap is more likely to widen in their favor than narrow up. Let's look at the closest races (such as they are):

Nevada (78% chance for Democratic Senator Rosen) - Like in the Presidential race, the Democrat is polling around 49% here. Things are a little more uncertain due to more undecideds, but again, the model hones in on the path to victory being so narrow for Mr. Brown.

Arizona (80% chance for Democrat Gallego) - Mr. Gallego is also hitting 49% in polls here fairly regularly. This is basically the exact same story as Nevada, just with fewer undecideds.

Michigan (80% chance for Democrat Slotkin) - Michigan has worse fundamentals for Republicans than the southwest states, primarily thanks to those horrendous 2022 results for the GOP. But the polling is actually a little better here for Mr. Mike Rogers - Representative Elissa Slotkin is only polling at 47%, giving him much more room to strike.

Wisconsin (84% chance for Democratic Senator Baldwin) - Tell me if you've heard this one before - the Democrat is polling at 49%. The difference here mostly lies in the incumbent here being stronger than in the previously-mentioned Southwest states, and the model thus liking her chances more.

Texas (84% chance for Republican Senator Cruz) - Before this week, there wasn't a lot of polling in the Lone Star State, so we were mostly relying on fundamentals here, which are similar to the presidential race. However, Mr. Cruz is showing unique vulnerability here that Donald Trump isn't struggling with - he's only polling at 46%, four points lower than the top of the ticket. It's likely that undecideds come home downballot, but Republicans would like to see that delta close as soon as possible regardless.

Overall, this cycle looks weirdly noncompetitive on both sides, both in individual races and on the topline, but a big shift in environment could always shake things up.

Oh, and here's a peek at how the experimental model applies in the Senate:

Now, this is much more interesting than the House. Notable swings in Democrats' favor include:

Montana - Incumbent Democrat Jon Tester has had a mixed pair of polls here (one where he hits 49% and one where his opponent hits 51%), but that's better than we'd expect from a safely Republican state.

Florida - Republican Senator Rick Scott is struggling to crack 46%. Too early to say for sure, but this looks analogous to Texas.

Nebraska - We only have one poll in this typically safe state, but it's a doozy - neck-and-neck. There were plenty of undecideds in the poll, but fewer of them were Republicans than one would expect. Note that this is a race between a Republican and Independent Dan Osborne, who is fiercely nonpartisan, so it's hard to say whether this would actually act as a Democratic flip.

Notable swings in Republicans' favor include:

Minnesota - Only two polls here, and one of them had lots of undecideds. The case for this seat is still tough in theory, given how strong an incumbent Amy Klobuchar is.

Maryland - Former Governor Larry Hogan is probably the GOP's top recruit of the cycle, and while Maryland is fundamentally deep, deep blue, the polls we've seen are genuinely impressive for him, holding Ms. Angela Alsobrooks to 46%.

On net, this model is definitely better for Democrats, bumping their chances of winning the chamber to 11%, but there's still no easy flips for them, so the overall picture isn't that different.

[sizhui]

I am so autistic about my books if I don't take them out and rearrange them once a week its over for me 🙂‍↕️ listed under the cut for the like minded

Mo Xiang Tong Xiu: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (1-4), Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (1-5), Heaven Official's Blessing (1-8) [Legally buying MXTX's entire opus may just be the worst thing I have ever done, and I ran Stardoll scams of young children when I was in middle school]

Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou: Remnants of Filth (1-2), The Husky & His White Cat Shizun (1)

Meng Xi Shi: Thousand Autumns (1)

Gothic & Lolita Bible, volume 45

CLAMP: Cardcaptor Sakura (Collector's edition), volume 3

Min Jin Lee: Pachinko

Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre

Nakahara Chuuya: Collected Poems (Translated and edited by Paul Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama)

Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis (and other stories) (translated by Cristopher Moncrieff)

Pat Barker: The Silence of the Girls

R. F. Kuang: Babel

Masashi Kishimoto: Naruto (volumes 22 & 24)

Yoshihiro Togashi: Hunter x Hunter (volumes 8, 14 & 36)

The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Translated by Richard Bowring)

Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Mexican Gothic

Milivoj Solar: Literary Theory

Sophocles: Tragedies (volume 1, edited by David Greene and Richmond Lattimore)

Liu Cixin: Death's End, The Three-body Problem (translated by Ken Liu)

Veljko Gortan, Oton Gorski & Pavao Pauš: The Latin Grammar

Masashi Kishimoto & Shin Towada: Sasuke's Story [Sunrise]

Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human (translated by Donald Keene)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust (1-2)

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem

Oyinkan Braithwaite: My Sister, the Serial Killer

Toni Morrison: Love

Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne & Kadija Sesay: This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books

Ovid: The Metamorphoses

Zen Cho: Black Water Sister

Judy I. Lin: A Magic Steeped in Poison

Sue Lynn Tan: Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Heart of the Sun Warrior

Xiran Jay Zhao: Iron Widow

Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara and the Sun

Toni Adeyemi: Children of Blood and Bone

N. K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season

[realnormanosborn]

I hate my son + I'm high

[eaglesnick]

THE BIG CON: VOTE REFORM, VOTE BIG BUSINESS

A vote for Nigel Farage’s Reform Party is essentially a vote for big business and the super-rich.

Reform promises to lift 7 million people from paying tax at the lower end of the pay scale to  “save every worker almost £1500 per year.” Although I am sure this saving for low earners would be very welcome, it is the rich who benefit most from Reform’s income tax proposals.

 At the moment people earning over £50,000 pay a 40% tax rate on earnings above this figure. The Reform Party promise to raise the threshold to £70,000, a saving of £3,588 a year for the 15% richest people in the country.

Reform and the far-right favour business over individual workers.  It is therefore no surprise that Corporations are to receive the biggest tax breaks. Corporation tax will be reduced from 25% to 20% for the first 5 years, and then down to 15% after that.

For year ending 2022/23 corporation tax brought in £79.9billion. Under Reform, corporations would be in receipt of tax breaks worth £47.94billion. In November 2022, State of Tax Justice reported that

…”the world was losing over $483 billion a year in tax to multinational corporations and wealthy individuals using tax havens to underpay tax. That’s equivalent to losing a nurse’s yearly salary to a tax haven every second.” 

The only reason Reform would want to legitimise corporate tax avoidance is because Reform is essentially a political party for the already wealthy. They might throw a few crumbs to the ordinary worker but the real rewards are to go to the rich and powerful.

Many large corporations are foreign owned so  tax breaks for big business are just as likely to go to overseas shareholders as they are to UK owners. Does the British taxpayer really want to be subsidising foreign share ownership by cutting tax revenues?

Richard Tice, leader of Reform until replaced by Nigel Farage a few days ago, is a multi-millionaire who made his money in property development.  Both he and Farage have their own TV shows on GB News, which is bankrolled by the hedge-fund billionaire Paul Marshal and the Dubai based investment company Legartum, founded by New Zealand billionaire Christopher Chandler who made his fortune in Russian gas.

Reform's links to the super-rich goes further. Multi-millionaire Jeremy Hosking has given £2.578,000 to Reform coffers. Is it coincidence he is funding a party that campaigns to scrap UK emission targets when he is “the director of a company with tens of millions of pounds invested in oil and gas” ? (Open Democracy: 22/03/22). I think not.

Another major donor to Reform is the ex-Bullingdon Club member George Farmer. (Other members include David Cameron and George Osborne the architects of Tory Austerity and the liar Boris Johnson who brought us Party Gate). An “ardent supporter of Donald Trump”, Farmer was CEO of the far-right platform Parler, and is married to Candice Owens, a woman who “promotes far-right ideologies”, In 2023 he joined the board of GB News.

The biggest single donor to Reform according to Electoral Commission records is Chris Harborne, handing over £10 million to Brexit/Reform. Harborne owes his fortune to the sale of aviation fuel and technology investments. He gained notoriety when his name appeared multiple times in the Panama Papers. These documents revealed:

 “…off-shore holdings of world political leaders, links to global scandals, and details of  hidden financial dealings of fraudsters, drug traffickers, billionaires, celebrities, sports stars and more”. (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: 03/03/2016)

These wealthy backers of Reform are not spending millions of pounds in order to benefit ordinary workingmen and women. They see these millions as an investment, an investment on which they expect a return for their money.

[gerardpilled]

Just now put together that the Kelly Osborne from “then who is going to be cleaning your toilets, Donald Trump?” Is the same Kelly Osborne who dated Bert McCracken

[hellomystraightlacedfriend]

Amazing Spider-Man #239

[theaawalker]

His Little Lamb [Harry Osborn x OC]

ACT I. Snippet "What's your name again?" "Demetria. Demetria Jones." "Tell me, Demetria, what's a little lamb like you doing in a wolf den like OsCorp?" -- HARRY OSBORN, DEMETRIA JONES

ACT II. Synopsis Demetria Jones is your classic model citizen. Smart, helpful, organized, sophisticated, and above all innocent. But that changes when she gets a new boss, Harry Osborn. She's not looking for trouble, but that might be what she's in for. Unless, maybe, she can change Harry... that is, if he doesn't change her first.

ACT III. Cast Dane Dehaan as Harry Osborn (aka the boss) Cara Delevingne as Demetria Jones (aka the employee) Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker (aka the superhero) Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy (aka the best friend) Jamie Foxx as Max Dillion (aka the coworker) Joel Kinnaman as Cole Blanchard (aka the ex-boyfriend) Colm Feore as Donald Menken (aka the a-hole attorney)

ACT IV. Chapters chapter i | chapter ii | chapter iii | chapter iv

[tssm-my-beloved]

TSSM Height Masterlist:

Main characters in blue, supporting characters in green, side characters in pink, villains in red

If character’s height has a decimal, their true height will be in parenthesis. For the ‘official’ height, it will either be rounded up or down.

Some heights are estimated, which will be indicated by ‘est.’ before the height itself.

Some characters have multiple heights.

I will add more heights as I find them.

Dr. Otto Octavius / Doc Ock: 5’0

Fancy Dan / Ricochet: 5’2

Silver Manfredi / Silvermane: 5’4 (under review, might not be correct)

Gwen Stacy: 5’5 (5’5.5)

Liz Allan: 5’6 (5’5.75)

Harry Osborn: 5’6

Hammerhead: 5’6

Aunt May: 5’6

Peter Parker / Spider-Man: 5’6 (.5)

Betty Brant: est. 5’7

Black Cat: 5’7

Montana / Shocker: 5’8

Dr. Curt Connors: 5’8

Maxwell Dillon / Pre-Accident Electro: 5’8 (.5)

Flash Thompson: 5’9

Quentin Beck / Mysterio: est. 5’9

JJJ: 5’10

Donald Menken: 5’10

Pre-Venom Eddie Brock: 5’10

Alex O’Hirn / Pre-Experiment Rhino: 6’0

Norman Osborn: 6’1

Green Goblin: 6’1

Flint Marko / Sandman: 6’1

Adrian Toomes / Vulture: 6’3

Ox: 6’3 (.5)

Kraven (without hair): 6’4 (.5)

Tombstone: 6’8 (needs to be double checked)

Post-Accident Electro: can get up to 6’9 with electric hair

Kraven (with hair): 6’9

Post-Experiment Rhino: 7’6

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 7.17

Beer Birthdays

James Pawley Dawes (1843)

Anthony Straub (1882)

Joshua Bernstein (1978)

Five Favorite Birthdays

James Cagney; actor (1899)

Erle Stanley Gardner; writer (1889)

Vince Guaraldi; jazz pianist (1928)

Peter Schickele; music comedian, composer (1935)

Donald Sutherland; actor (1934)

Famous Birthdays

Berenice Abbott; photographer (1898)

Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Ukrainian-Israeli writer (1888)

Ron Asheton; guitarist and songwriter (1948)

John Jacob Astor; zillionaire (1763)

Lou Barlow; guitarist and songwriter (1966)

George Barnes; guitarist and songwriter (1921)

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten; German philosopher (1714)

Luc Bondy; Swiss film director (1948)

Tim Brooke-Taylor; English comedian (1940)

Mark Burnett; television producer (1960)

Geezer Butler; English bass player (1949)

Diahann Carroll; actor (1935)

Niccolò Castiglioni; Italian composer (1932)

Elizabeth Cook; singer and guitarist (1972)

John Cooper; English car designer (1923)

Chris Crutcher; writer (1946)

Spencer Davis; rock musician (1942)

Paul Delaroche; French painter (1797)

Phyllis Diller; comedian (1917)

Cory Doctorow, Canadian author (1971)

Lyonel Feininger;, German-American painter (1871)

Lionel Ferbos; trumpeter (1911)

Wolfgang Flür; German musician (1947)

Wendy Freedman; Canadian-American cosmologist and astronomer (1957)

Elbridge Gerry; politician (1744)

Sergei K. Godunov; Russian mathematician (1929)

Gordon Gould; laser inventor (1920)

David Hasselhoff; actor (1952)

Hermann Huppen; Belgian author and illustrator (1938)

Bruno Jasieński; Polish poet and author (1901)

Scott Johnson; cartoonist (1969)

Darryl Lamonica; Oakland Raiders QB (1941)

Nicolette Larson; singer-songwriter (1952)

Thé Lau; Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (1952)

Georges Lemaître; Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (1894)

Art Linkletter; humorist (1912)

Pierre Louis Maupertuis; French mathematician and philosopher (1698)

Robert R. McCammon; author (1952)

Angela Merkel; German chemist and politician (1954)

Craig Morgan; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1965)

Luis Munoz-Rivera; Puerto Rican patriot, poet (1859)

Frank Olson; chemist and microbiologist (1910)

Barbara O'Neil; actor (1910)

Mary Osborne; guitarist (1921)

Quino Spanish-Argentinian cartoonist (1932)

Christiane Rochefort; French author (1917)

Jason Rullo; rock drummer (1972)

Jimmy Scott; jazz singer (1925)

Ephraim Shay, American engineer (1839)

Phoebe Snow; singer (1952)

P.J. Soles; actor (1950)

Red Sovine; country singer (1917)

Christina Stead; Australian author (1902)

J. Michael Straczynski; writer (1954)

Mick Tucker; English rock drummer (1947)

Isaac Watts; English hymnwriter (1674)

Alex Winter; actor (1965)