Puff Ball the Guinea Pig + Stardew Valley 1.6
my best pal Puff Ball is loving the 1.6 update as much as I am, but David the Guinea Pig is still her favorite.
Any Stardew fan artists need a guinea pig model u w u
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Fave Five: New Queer Holiday Romances (2023 Edition)
For the 2022 edition, click here.
Finding My Elf by David Valdes (m/m YA)
It’s a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer (f/f)
Mistletoe & Mishigas by M.A. Wardell (m/m)
The Christmas Swap by Talia Samuels (f/f)
Secret Heir for Christmas by LaQuette (m/m)
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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.
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Speculation: Bullet Farmer Recast
As of the time of this writing, we don't know who will be playing the Bullet Farmer in "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga." We don't have hard confirmation that the character will even appear, but since we're seeing a younger Joe and a location that could be the Bullet Farm, I think it's reasonable to speculate that our dearly beloved bandolier-clad warlord could return. And speculation can be fun, so let's dive in.
Who would be playing the Bullet Farmer? Glancing at the cast list on IMDB and some leaked photos, something stood out to me. I think it's possible that David Collins is our new Kalashnikov.
Let's start with some basics. Collins is a 54-year-old Australian comedian. Richard Carter, the OG Bullet Farmer, also had a background in comedy. (Hoping this means we get some more deadpan snarking and hammy moments in the film.) Also, Collins' facial structure is vaguely similar.
A degree of likeness is no guarantee, of course. However, there are some leaked set photos and social media posts that have me wondering about the nature of Collins' character. Mad Max Bible, a fairly reliable source for leaks, has speculated that Collins could be playing the Farmer. (Again, just speculation.)
Let's see how Collins will look in the movie.
These are images he posted on Instagram. Seems like his character will have long-ish hair and a beard. Not very Kalashnikov, so who knows. Now let's look at some leaked set photos.
Interesting goggles, wish we could see them better. Here's another look.
...Interesting headgear. The headgear, goggles, and overall outfit are kind of giving Kalashnikov. Kind of like a stripped-down, bullet-free version of his usual look, with the baggy combat fatigues seen below all those bandoliers.
It's also worth noting that Collins was flown to the set along with Matuse Paz and CJ Bloomfield, two guys who would look fantastic as Bullet Farm imperators. These three seem to be hanging out a fair bit, based on what Collins has on his Insta page.
And again, it's entirely possible that we haven't seen the Bullet Farmer yet. Or that the character won't be in the film. Collins could be playing someone completely unrelated. But hey, no harm in speculating, especially if we acknowledge we're just taking shots in the dark. Pun intended.
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