#Instagram Profits System

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

HOW CHRISTIANITY SUPPORTS MULTIRACIAL, MULTICULTURAL DEMOCRACY

'The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick' — This pastor perfectly explained how the values expressed in Christianity can support a multiracial, multicultural democracy instead of right-wing extremism (via jamestalarico on TikTok)

#christianity #religion #democracy

[intellibooks]

Unlock Your Restaurant's Full Potential with IntelliBooks

In the bustling world of restaurants, managing daily operations efficiently while delivering exceptional customer experiences is crucial. IntelliBooks, a cutting-edge restaurant management software solution, is designed to streamline your processes, improve efficiency, and elevate your restaurant’s performance. This blog explores how IntelliBooks can transform your restaurant operations, from point of sale systems and online ordering to inventory control and customer engagement.

Comprehensive Restaurant Management with IntelliBooks

Running a successful restaurant involves handling multiple tasks simultaneously. IntelliBooks simplifies these tasks by integrating all aspects of restaurant management into a single, user-friendly platform. This all-in-one solution covers everything from POS systems and mobile ordering to kitchen management and takeaway services, ensuring seamless operations and improved efficiency.

1. Point of Sale (POS) Systems:

At the core of IntelliBooks is its robust Point of Sale (POS) system, designed to handle everything from order processing and payments to sales tracking. This system ensures quick and accurate transactions, reducing wait times and enhancing customer satisfaction. Real-time sales tracking provides valuable insights into your restaurant’s performance, allowing you to make data-driven decisions to optimize your menu, staffing, and inventory.

For dynamic setups like food trucks or outdoor cafes, IntelliBooks offers a mobile POS system. This feature allows staff to take orders and process payments from anywhere, improving flexibility and customer service. The mobile POS system syncs seamlessly with the main POS and inventory systems, ensuring real-time updates and accuracy.

2. Online Ordering:

In today's digital age, offering online ordering is essential for any restaurant. IntelliBooks integrates seamlessly with your existing operations to manage online orders for delivery and pickup. Customers can place orders through your website or app, customize their meals, and pay online, providing convenience and boosting sales. This system reduces errors associated with manual order taking, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.

3. Inventory Management with IntelliScan:

Efficient inventory management is critical to a restaurant’s success. IntelliBooks' IntelliScan feature uses scanning technology to quickly update inventory levels, track usage, and manage stock efficiently. This feature reduces errors and optimizes supply chain management, ensuring that you never run out of essential ingredients.

IntelliScan improves coordination with suppliers by tracking stock levels and reorder points. This ensures timely reorders and prevents stockouts, which can disrupt service and affect customer satisfaction. Efficient inventory control leads to cost savings and better operational planning, helping you manage your restaurant more effectively.

4. Enhancing Customer Experience:

An organized kitchen is key to a restaurant's success. IntelliBooks’ kitchen order management system ensures smooth communication and workflow. Digital orders are clearly displayed for kitchen staff, reducing misunderstandings and errors. This system helps prioritize orders to ensure timely preparation and delivery, keeping the kitchen running efficiently. Additionally, it synchronizes with the POS and inventory systems to track ingredient usage and manage stock levels effectively.

For restaurants offering takeaway services, IntelliBooks provides a comprehensive solution to manage orders and ensure customer satisfaction. The system efficiently handles takeaway orders alongside dine-in and delivery services, keeping customers informed about the status of their orders with automated notifications. It allows customers to schedule their pickups, reducing wait times and enhancing convenience. This organized approach ensures a smooth takeaway experience for both customers and staff.

5. Customer Engagement and Loyalty Programs:

In the competitive restaurant industry, building strong customer relationships is essential. IntelliBooks offers tools to enhance customer engagement, including personalized service, loyalty programs, and targeted promotions. By understanding customer preferences and behaviors, you can tailor your offerings and marketing efforts to improve customer satisfaction and retention.

Real-Time Analytics and Insights

IntelliBooks provides powerful analytics tools that offer detailed insights into various aspects of your restaurant’s performance. These analytics help identify sales trends, best-selling items, and peak sales times, allowing you to optimize menu offerings and staffing. By analyzing customer data, you can understand preferences and tailor marketing efforts, enhancing customer engagement. The analytics also monitor operational efficiencies, helping you reduce costs and boost profitability. With IntelliBooks, you gain a comprehensive understanding of your business, empowering you to make informed decisions that drive success.

The platform generates detailed reports on sales, inventory, and employee performance. These reports can be customized to focus on specific areas of interest, providing you with the information you need to make strategic decisions. For instance, you can identify which menu items are most popular and adjust your offerings accordingly. You can also monitor employee performance to ensure that your staff is meeting expectations and contributing to the restaurant’s success.

Benefits for All Stakeholders

IntelliBooks is designed to offer benefits to all stakeholders within the restaurant ecosystem, ensuring a seamless and profitable dining experience. 

1. For Restaurant Owners:

Restaurant owners can leverage IntelliBooks to gain comprehensive control over their operations, enhancing efficiency and profitability. The platform integrates all aspects of restaurant management into one, making it easier to use. Detailed analytics allow owners to make informed business decisions and optimize performance. Improved inventory management and reduced waste result in significant cost savings.

2. For Staff:

Staff members benefit from IntelliBooks' user-friendly interfaces and efficient workflow management tools. Simplified interfaces make it easy for staff to learn and use the system effectively. Seamless integration between the front of house and kitchen ensures clear communication and order accuracy, enhancing productivity and allowing staff to focus on providing excellent customer service.

3. For Franchisees:

Franchisees can maintain consistency and streamline operations across multiple locations with IntelliBookss. The platform ensures uniformity in operations and customer experience across all franchise locations. It is scalable, allowing franchisees to manage multiple locations from a centralized platform. Performance metrics for each location can be tracked to identify areas for improvement.

4. For Customers:

Customers enjoy a superior dining experience with the convenience and efficiency provided by IntelliBooks. Faster order processing and reduced wait times enhance the overall dining experience. Customers can easily customize their orders, ensuring satisfaction. IntelliBooks provides a seamless experience from online ordering to takeaway, ensuring smooth and convenient service.

Why Choose IntelliBooks?

IntelliBooks stands out in the restaurant management software market for several reasons. It offers a comprehensive solution that covers all aspects of restaurant management, from POS systems to inventory control, ensuring that all operational needs are met within a single platform. The intuitive design of IntelliBooks makes it easy for staff to learn and use, reducing training time and enhancing productivity. Powerful analytics tools provide valuable insights into sales trends, customer preferences, and operational efficiencies, enabling informed business decisions. Seamless integration with other systems and tools ensures that all aspects of your restaurant’s operations are connected, enhancing workflow efficiency and reducing the risk of errors.

IntelliBooks is also scalable, supporting the management of multiple locations from a centralized dashboard, ensuring consistency and control across your entire operation. Robust customer support helps you get the most out of the platform, from onboarding and training to ongoing assistance, ensuring your success.

Conclusion

In the competitive restaurant industry, efficiency and customer satisfaction are key to success. IntelliBooks provides a comprehensive, user-friendly solution that integrates all aspects of restaurant management into one powerful platform. With features designed to streamline operations, enhance customer engagement, and provide valuable insights, IntelliBooks empowers restaurants to thrive in today’s market. Whether you run a dine-in restaurant, a quick-service outlet, a cloud kitchen, or any other type of dining establishment, IntelliBooks has the tools to help you succeed. Visit us at intellibooks.io and take the first step toward a more efficient and profitable restaurant.

Read More at IntelliBooks.io

LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/company/intellibooks/

Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/intellibooks?mibextid=LQQJ4d

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/intelli_books/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D

Pinterest- https://in.pinterest.com/IntelliBooks/

Medium- https://medium.com/@intelligentblock2018

#RestaurantManagement #POSSystems #FoodServiceTech #CustomerSatisfaction #RestaurantSuccess #EfficiencyBoost #TechInRestaurants #HospitalityTech

[drdemonprince]

So that was the DNC. The young liberals, white feminists, and leftists-in-name only have gladly fallen in line behind Kamala Harris, because she makes them feel good, and because all they have wanted was to find sufficient reason to stop feeling bad and get back to brunch. They've abandoned Palestine, the same way they abandoned the immunocompromised and abolition of the police, because these and so many other left political movements were little more than fashion to them. They were never interested in seeing the destruction of a political system that many of them could, theoretically, make themselves comfortable inside. They just wanted to be seen as current and good.

Did you know that there are 24 million millionaires in the United States? 24 Million. Millionaires. 24,000,000 millionaires. Up from 22 million in 2022. That's about 7.2% of the population. So much for "we are the 99%." There is a sizeable segment of this population that benefits from economic inequality and imperialism, increasingly so, as both the size of the lower class and the upper class expand.

Many millions of additional people have no interest in changing the U.S. political paradigm, because they have been propagandized to believe all compassion and competence fall away under "anarchy," or because they lack community in any meaningful sense and have no conception of how to act collectively. This is not their fault, but it means they act in ways counter to leftist organizing: calling the cops on people, refusing to show up for others, hoarding what property and wealth they do have, demanding that all acts of resistance be peaceful and brief, and pouring all of the political energies into exhorting others to vote (no matter how dyed blue or gerrymander red their districts are, no matter how genocidal, transphobic, and xenophobic all the options might be).

People think that participating in community is buying a $355 Chappel Roan ticket. The big voices for leftist organizing, supposedly, are individuals who market themselves as such on Instagram and TikTok in order to sell books, tarot decks, subscriptions, and workshops.

The sole method for social or political engagement that most people know of is making posts online, on an overblown advertising platform, and then complaining that they did not receive enough attention on their (monetized) posts. A person with shrewd social media instincts and a strong writerly voice can fake an entire political identity, professional connections, and expertise, and be followed by tens of thousands while doing nothing constructive in their day to day life or even being the person they claim to be. The more actively they post and generate revenue for Meta, the more lucrative their grift becomes for themselves and the more social power they accrue. Chasing power and profit for oneself is definitionally counter to leftist ideals. Even if they do not believe in electoralism, people like this produce endless content about the subject, because people follow it like it's sports. They're glorified entertainers, selling politically themed content, never taking themselves off the stage.

Challenge any of this and people will lash out at you, because you've attacked their cloth mother, and they're very lonely and afraid. The corporately-moderated semblance of connection is nearly all they ever get. You can't talk about sex, drugs, death, or any difficult human realities. If you don't present a disneyfied version of yourself you get accused or being a degenerate predator. If you don't participate at all, you must be apathetic, which is very bad, because having the wrong emotions or thoughts makes you evil.

The protests at the DNC were all either ill-conceived PSL honey traps leading dozens of 19-year-olds into arrest via Signal chat, or bloated 3-hour fundraising attempts miles away from the United Center and corralled by the police and Department of Justice marshalls and their collaborators. Everybody else is far away, enjoying brat colored cocktails and picking out demure tradwife clothing to disappear into for the fall. Dreaming of not having to worry anymore is akin to longing for death, and many liberal Americans have gladly embraced total obliteration.

It's not just conservatism that is a death cult. It's also the preservation of the nation-state. State-making obliterates whole cultures, languages, lands, traditions, and unique, person-to-person modes of relating. You get your food from a corporation or a government bureaucracy that does not know you and makes you fight for it, never from a person. This makes you forget that it's just persons, like the ones you know, like yourself, who do everything. It makes you cling to the state, and to normalcy, rather than speaking openly and messily to anybody else.

This is where it all begins and ends. The hope of a revolution rising up to somehow liberate Palestine was always a fantasy, the stuff of kid's movies. The truth is much darker, but more bearable, because it's real. We are very far from a dramatic political change. Most people aren't willing to even let a stranger into their homes to keep them sheltered. Did we really think they were going to rise up and put their body on the line to fight the state? Give up Starbucks and their PPO? Break the law? Lower their property value? Of course not. Get real.

And so, where do we start? By moving far, far away from the individualistic, capitalistic, clout-based avenues of political "participation" that do nothing but benefit people who present themselves as influential voices. By doing the small, slow, humble work of actual community building. Talking to your neighbors, feeding people, housing people, sacrificing something for others, driving a senior to the doctor, building a way outside of your own head.

We have to become more reliant upon one another and less moved by big personalities who will never know us or give a damn about us as people. Instagram pays me the more of you look at my posts and share them on their app. It pays every other high follower account you take political guidance from, too. You should be suspicious of me. And all the rest of them. You should place more trust in your friends, your neighbors, and the power of your own mind.

The way out of all this will not be easy. And it will not happen on here.

[inthisuproar]

Was going to write this as a reply to something but realized it needed its own post.

The tl;dr is that, from the looks of it, Automattic absolutely has every intention of turning Tumblr into a marketing media platform.

I work for a marketing company. I build websites.

Specifically, I build websites on Wordpress.org, which is operated by the Wordpress Foundation.

The Wordpress Foundation is the non-profit counterpart to the for-profit company Automattic.

Automattic, as we know, is the company that currently owns Tumblr.

Now, the thing about Wordpress.org (not to be confused with Wordpress.com) is that it's very, VERY popular amongst small businesses. Not only can you build a fully-customizable website with relative ease, you can also add an online shop using another Automattic product: Woocommerce.

Not too long ago, I noticed a new feature was added to Woocommerce: A button next to each Woocommerce product which allows you to Blaze them to Tumblr right from the comfort of your dashboard:

This is what I get when I click that little "Blaze" button...

As someone who understands these tools, I understand the potential implications of these features:

The Blaze feature is basically an up-and-coming ad campaign system that's directly integrated with Woocommerce websites, which I think is the first ad marketing system of its kind. You don't have to log into a social media account to advertise your products, use a second-party integration, or even pay another service to manage your social media ads. It's all baked right into your business's website.

THIS is their planned money-maker, folks, not the rainbow checkmarks or crab armies. And the reason why Automattic would do this kind of thing is simple: Businesses are wealthier than individuals. By implementing a B2B service, Automattic can make more money off of Tumblr than user subscriptions and shoelaces will ever provide.

It's all the same song and dance. Businesses can now shove more ads into your face in a new, convenient fashion. It'll be ads that don't look like ads disguised amongst ads that do look like ads, just like it is with Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and literally every other marketing media service that calls itself a "social" media.

(Tumblr's new video feature? My guess is that it's there to prepare for video-format Blaze campaigns. Influencer-style videos are the only kind of ad format Gen-Z is receptive to, which is why you're suddenly seeing videos on every platform.)

All they really gotta do now is make Tumblr look appealing to the normies so they can draw in a userbase that isn't trying to escape the onslaught of commercialism that plagues other sites.

Tumblr is one of the last true social medias we have; a place where content is made purely for the sake of talking about it. But given the writing on the wall...I doubt it'll stay that way.

[peterdoane-blog]

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised — But It Will Be Clicked, Scrolled, and Forgotten

By Peter Doane

1. The Spectacle of Luigi Mangione

Luigi Mangione’s story is everywhere right now �� wild headlines, chaotic clips, and social media’s endless appetite for spectacle. You’ve seen the TikToks. You’ve read the comments. “This dude is wild,” they say, but that’s all they see. It’s just another character in the never-ending reality show of online content.

Here’s the problem: Luigi isn’t content — he’s context.

What people see as a wild man moment is actually a warning shot. But warnings aren’t profitable. Warnings don’t go viral. Wild behavior? That does numbers. This is exactly what Gil Scott-Heron was talking about in his 1971 classic The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

Back then, Scott-Heron was talking about TV, but the same logic applies today. TV has been replaced by TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram feeds. And just like TV, social media wants to give you a clean, tidy story — a spectacle you can consume in 30 seconds. But the story of Luigi Mangione isn’t tidy. It’s messy, unresolved, and way too real to fit into a 30-second clip.

This is why his story is being treated like a wild moment of “content” instead of a sign of collapse.

2. Why Luigi Feels Like Content Instead of Context

People have no problem seeing Luigi as content. They point, they laugh, they scroll on. But they’re missing the bigger story. Luigi is not just “a wild man” — he’s a person cracking under the weight of a broken system. He’s not unique. He’s just the latest person to break in front of a camera.

Gil Scott-Heron had a line about this too:

“The revolution will not be right back after a message about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.”

Translation: Corporate media will never show you real change because it doesn’t fit into a commercial break. Today, the commercial break is the scroll. TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram are endless commercial breaks disguised as content feeds. If something doesn’t fit the vibe, people scroll right past it.

Luigi should have been a moment where people stopped and said:

• “Why is this happening?”

• “How many people are cracking like this?”

• “Is this a sign of something larger?”

Instead, he became a TikTok moment. Funny, chaotic, easily forgettable.

If you’re still scrolling past people like Luigi, you’re not in the revolution — you’re watching the content.

3. Symbol and Timing Matter More Than Morality

Here’s a truth people don’t like to hear:

Being “right” doesn’t matter. Timing does.

This is the part people forget about John Brown. When Brown raided Harpers Ferry in 1859, people didn’t see him as a hero. They saw him as a lunatic, a terrorist, a wild man with a God complex. But after the Civil War started, everything about his story changed. Suddenly, he wasn’t a terrorist — he was a prophet of abolition.

The key wasn’t John Brown changing. The key was timing.

Now think about Luigi Mangione. Right now, he’s just another “wild guy” in the eyes of the public. But if healthcare collapses, if desperation becomes more common, if people start recognizing these “wild moments” as signs of something bigger, Luigi’s story could shift. He could be seen as a symbol of the system breaking down.

This happens all the time in history. People seem “crazy” at first. Then, after things change, those same people are seen as early warnings. John Brown didn’t “free the slaves” with his raid, but his story shook people. It set the tone for what was coming next.

4. Why People Don’t See Luigi as a Symbol (Yet)

The reason people don’t see Luigi Mangione as a symbol is simple:

People think revolution is supposed to look clean.

They want stories with:

• A clear villain.

• A clear hero.

• A clear ending.

Luigi’s story doesn’t fit that formula. He’s not a villain, but he’s not a hero either. His story is unresolved, still ongoing. He’s not a headline — he’s a question mark.

But here’s the part that people miss:

Revolution never looks clean when it’s happening.

John Brown looked crazy before he looked prophetic. Rosa Parks looked like a random woman on a bus until she became a symbol. Revolutions don’t announce themselves. They feel random, messy, and hard to understand in real time.

This is what Gil Scott-Heron meant when he said:

“The revolution will not be brought to you in 4 parts with commercial interruptions.”

There’s no “final episode” of revolution. No clear “ending.” No “season finale” where everything wraps up neatly. The mess is the point. The confusion is the revolution.

If you’re waiting for a perfectly clean, digestible “revolution,” you’ll miss it every time. You’re waiting for a Netflix miniseries — and that’s not how revolutions work.

5. The Revolution Will Be Live — But Only If You’re Living It

The most famous line in The Revolution Will Not Be Televised comes at the end:

“The revolution will be live.”

Most people misinterpret this. They think it means “live-streamed” or “broadcast live.” It doesn’t. It means:

Revolutions happen in real life, not on screens.

If you’re watching, scrolling, and commenting — you’re not part of it.

This is what’s happening with Luigi Mangione. People think that by liking, sharing, or commenting on his story, they’re “engaged.” But that’s a lie. Scrolling is not revolution.

When people watched George Floyd’s murder on their phones, they were spectators. The people in the streets, however — they were living it. Gil Scott-Heron was telling us that real revolution happens in the streets, in real life. It’s not something you watch. It’s something you live.The Core Takeaways

1. Luigi isn’t content — he’s context.

2. People think scrolling is participation, but it’s not.

3. The system turns stories into spectacle to distract from their meaning.

4. John Brown wasn’t seen as a hero at the time — neither is Luigi.

5. The revolution will not be televised — it will be live.

Right now, people are treating Luigi like a wild man for clicks. But he might be part of something bigger. People who are breaking under healthcare pressures, mental health crises, and isolation aren’t just “wild men.” They’re the warning shots.

John Brown’s raid didn’t free a single slave. But it changed the story. Luigi might not “change the system” alone, but if people stop treating him like content and start treating him like context, he might end up being part of the story that finally changes everything.

The Revolution Will Be Live. But you won’t see it if you’re just watching.

[interactyouth]

I want to join the interACT youth program so badly, when is that available?

Well, you're 100% allowed to join if you so desire! The youth program is simply a combination of our community spaces (Facebook and Discord) and our advocacy program (such as our yearly advocacy cohort). While our advocacy cohort is application and interview-based, the youth program spaces are accessible to intersex youth ages 13 to 29 after simply answering a demographics questionnaire! interACT is focused on empowering intersex youth to advocate for themselves and their communities--whether interpersonally or against systems, in-person or online, and potentially in solidarity with other advocacy movements--so that's the focus of several of the questions. As a 501(c)3 non-profit advocacy organization, we adhere to different guidelines in running our community spaces. However, if that's not to your preferences, our partners at InterConnect have been hosting all-ages intersex online support group meetings, conferences, and regional hangouts for 25 years that I would highly recommend!

If you're curious about some of interACT's recent accomplishments, we have a 2023 annual report (I'm eager for our 2024 report!) and our Instagram account is actively run by our lovely communications director! We recently hosted a health and wellness retreat in California earlier this month for 20 intersex youth, for instance. <3 This is our Discord invite, and the demographics survey link is also sent to newcomers automatically:

[slavghoul]

Hey Slav!! I didn’t really wanna bring it back up but I’m completely confused on when and why this happened so I’m asking you! Why was Tobias yelling at people exactly? I saw someone say it was because his equipment was being destroyed by the storm but I haven’t heard anything else :(. Anyway thank you!!

There's a detailed explanation of the situation on the band's Instagram page. To give you an idea of the gravity of the situation: consider that just the sound system that the band uses is valued at around $250,000. I’m excluding lighting equipment, instruments, screens, etc. that together make up another +$200k. The equipment is leased and typically right after a tour ends, another artist picks it up. Having it damaged to any extent not only jeopardizes the entire tour but also strains your relationship with the equipment lender, who is also put in a compromised position. I’m assuming they have a force majeure clause in their insurance contract that, hopefully, will cover at least part of the costs, but it’s still a fucky situation to find yourself in, and cancellations must have generated en enormous loss for the band (who believe it or not doesn't actually make millions of profit off touring, quite the opposite). From my experience I can say it's remarkable they were able to secure new equipment on such short notice and no more dates were affected. Things must have seemed dire in the heat of the moment, and I'm pretty sure Tobias was the most stressed man on the planet that day, so if he raised his voice, it was certainly warranted.

[laughtalelogs]

modern aus - strawhats✧₊⁺

I have a lot of little ideas that are too small of details to write an entire fic about, so here are some of my ideas! I'll keep updating this list over time with more strawhats!

Luffy

okay, I agree slightly with Oda

Luffy being a firefighter would make absolute sense

I don't think much about his family and home life would change

but, I think it would change after suddenly going viral, from a video Usopp took of him and posted online.

He'd become an internet sensation overnight

He'd be like Snoop Dogg, Markiplier, or Steve Irwin

just always everywhere that you least expect him and always incredibly wholesome

headlines constantly are like, is Luffy crashing the met gala? Luffy finds woman missing for 17 years! Luffy opens an animal sanctuary in Madagscar. Luffy cancellation ongoing after saying "For sure, I'd hit a woman," sources say. Luffy found in Antarctica, "It really is cold here!" Details inside.

Sometimes people will ask does he actually ever firefight or-? 

loves streaming horror games with Usopp, Chopper, Zoro, Sanji, Law, and Ace. sometimes the others join, but it's mainly them.

is a food reviewer on the side, but he'll always give it a good rating like Guy Fieri

either you love him, or you hate him, he's still a household name and there's no escaping his influence.

but he doesn't really care about all that stuff, anyway. 

Nami 

Main professions: travel influencer, and amateur meteorologist.

Side professions: Luffy’s financial advisor and lesbian icon

probably has one of those million follower Instagram pages where she posts mainly candid shots of her and Vivi and their travels shot with a digital camera

specifically, those aesthetic pics where her hair is covering her face, with a healthy amount of tasteful side boob

Sells Luffy's merch, takes 50% of the profit. 

Definitely sells those thousand dollar workshops on how to be a better a girl-boss and how to awaken your divine femininity

 but makes up for the scam since she donates it to children education programs.

During any severe weather storm, she can be found alerting people before any weather channel through social media and donates funds to relief programs

is working on an international weather alert system with Vivi.

has an account on the RealReal

Robin

I don't think she'd be an archeologist 

she'd be a doctor in anthropologist with a focus in revolution and social change that she completed as a child

went back to school for linguistics in her teens, and gained her first masters at 18.

polyglot

Teaches anthropology courses at her alma mater

Adopted Chopper and takes him with her to uni every day for his research study

has a lengthy criminal record

Met Luffy at a protest he thought was a parade and decided to join, have been friends ever since

Met Franky during her undergrad for linguistics while he was studying engineering.

they bonded over both being youngest in their departments, just two delinquents that were too smart for their own good

I just know she loves her a good purple velvet couch, a nice dark red, TJ Maxx, and classic horror

Her Goodreads and Letterbox’d is god tier too

Is the one who coordinates hang out times in the group chat

Pulitzer prize winner

collects sonny angels

[usafphantom2]

Once F-4 crews told the SR-71 couldn’t go vertical after takeoff. They gave up after a Blackbird did a high-performance takeoff (with sensitive equipment replaced with ballast).

The SR-71

The SR-71, the most advanced member of the Blackbird family that included the A-12 and YF-12, was designed by a team of Lockheed personnel led by Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, then vice president of Lockheed’s Advanced Development Company Projects, commonly known as the “Skunk Works” and now a part of Lockheed Martin.

CLICK HERE to see The Aviation Geek Club contributor Linda Sheffield’s T-shirt designs! Linda has a personal relationship with the SR-71 because her father Butch Sheffield flew the Blackbird from test flight in 1965 until 1973. Butch’s Granddaughter’s Lisa Burroughs and Susan Miller are graphic designers. They designed most of the merchandise that is for sale on Threadless. A percentage of the profits go to Flight Test Museum at Edwards Air Force Base. This nonprofit charity is personal to the Sheffield family because they are raising money to house SR-71, #955. This was the first Blackbird that Butch Sheffield flew on Oct. 4, 1965.

The Blackbirds were designed to cruise at Mach 3.2, just over three times the speed of sound or more than 2,200 miles per hour and at altitudes up to 85,000 feet.

Throughout its nearly 24-year career, the SR-71 strategic reconnaissance aircraft remained the world’s fastest and highest-flying operational aircraft. From 80,000 feet, it could survey 100,000 square miles of Earth’s surface per hour.

So, it comes as no surprise if, thanks to its astonishing flight characteristics, the aircraft has set numerous speed and altitude records throughout its career.

Blackbird high performance takeoff

An SR-71 Blackbird mechanic who wishes to remain anonymous tells the following story;

‘I won’t say Who, I won’t say when, but I did see the SR go vertical ONCE and that was at Kadena [Air Base]. The F-4 jocks used to tell us when they were going to do a high-performance takeoff during an FCF (Functional Check Flight) so we could watch a “real takeoff”!

‘Our DET Commander had chewed his lip long enough and the stage was set. We finally had the kind of flight scheduled where the plan could be put in to action.

‘All sensors were removed and replaced with ballast. That included the ballast nose. This didn’t lighten the aircraft, but removed sensitive equipment, gyros and such. On the morning of the launch, the Fighter wing was notified. The SR did its thing getting ready to launch. Brakes released, burners on and once it was up, it accelerated just above the runway. And then, IT HAPPENED. It went vertical in full afterburner. It was loud AND impressive! Needless to say, it shut the F-4 lads up for a while.

‘Written by somebody who knew.’

Be sure to check out Linda Sheffield Miller (Col Richard (Butch) Sheffield’s daughter, Col. Sheffield was an SR-71 Reconnaissance Systems Officer) Twitter X Page Habubrats SR-71, Instagram Page SR71Habubrats and Facebook Page Born into the Wilde Blue Yonder Habubrats for awesome Blackbird’s photos and stories.

Photo credit: Linda Sheffield Miller, Boeing and U.S. Navy

Linda Sheffield Miller

Grew up at Beale Air Force Base, California. I am a Habubrat. Graduated from North Dakota State University. Former Public School Substitute Teacher, (all subjects all grades). Member of the DAR (Daughters of the Revolutionary War). I am interested in History, especially the history of SR-71. Married, Mother of three wonderful daughters and four extremely handsome grandsons. I live near Washington, DC.

@Habubrats71 via X

[letthebookbegin]

useful explanation on the different boycotts BDS is supporting! image IDs under the cut.

[ID: A series of photos taken from the BDS Instagram page. They read:

1. Act Now Against These Companies Profiting from the Genocide of the Palestinian People (this same title is the title for every slide)

The slide is split into four sections as below:

Consumer boycott targets:

AXA

Puma

Carrefour

SIEMENS

AHAVA

HP

Boycott Israeli goods sticker

RE/MAX

Sodastream

Divestment targets:

Elbit Systems

CAT

Barclays

CAF

Chevron

Volvo

JCB

HD Hyundai

TKH Security

HIK Vision

Pressure (NON-BOYCOTT) targets:

Google

Amazon

Airbnb

Booking.com

Expedia

Disney

Organic boycott targets:

Domino's Pizza

McDonald's

Papa John's

Burger King

Pizza Hut

WiX

2. Consumer boycott targets:

AXA

Puma

Carrefour

SIEMENS

AHAVA

HP

Boycott Israeli goods sticker

RE/MAX

Sodastream

The BDS movement calls for a complete boycott of these brands carefully selected due to the company's proven record of complicity in Israeli apartheid.

3. Divestment targets:

Elbit Systems

CAT

Barclays

CAF

Chevron

Volvo

JCB

HD Hyundai

TKH Security

HIK Vision

The BDS movement is pressuring governments, institutions and investment funds to exclude and divest from complicit companies listed in the UN, WhoProfits, and AFSC Investigate databases of businesses enabling Israel's occupation. Above we give some of the targets we are campaigning against.

4. Pressure (NON-BOYCOTT) targets:

Google

Amazon

Airbnb

Booking.com

Expedia

Disney

The BDS movement actively calls for pressure campaigns against these brands and services due to their complicity in Israeli apartheid. We have not, on strategic grounds, called for a boycott of these brands and services, instead we strategically call on supporters and institutions to mount other forms of pressure on them until they end their complicity in Israeli apartheid.

5. Organic boycott targets:

Domino's Pizza

McDonald's

Papa John's

Burger King

Pizza Hut

WiX

The BDS movement did not initiate these grassroots boycott campaigns but is in support of them due to these brands openly supporting Israel's genocide against Palestinians.

[shoppinghauer]

My main issues with online feminism, which includes hispanic instagram (LatAm and Spain) and tumblr anglosphere (think Europe + USA sometimes Australia) are:

They think of non single women (married or with a bf) as the primary pick me in society. I dont doubt a lot of them priorize their man but also, the way feminist depict them as "brainwashed" is just childish. My main problem is that obscures the fact that you can priorize men even if you're not in a romantic relationship with them. Boymoms, male relatives such as brothers or fathers are constantly excused or justified just as much as romantic partners. Yet Ive barely see criticism against this. Whats more is that mothers are excused as if the pressure of maternity excuses throwing under the bus your own daughter (why is never the other way around?? Fucking over your son bc of your daughter). Even women have justified horrendous actions made by their male friends (trans or gay) in cases where there is no attraction involved. Just social leveraging.

Speaking of attraction. The way they talk about assault as being a result lf violent sexual desire aka pretth privilege doesnt exist because hot women are more attacked. This is by far the most imbecile of all takes. Assault and sexual violence are a result of control and domination, not attraction. The more vulnerable a woman is, the likelier she will be assaulted. This includes older women, girls, runaways, homeless, sick, disabled, immigrants, addicts and poor women. This has nothing to do with how you look and everything to do with how much will men get away with assaulting you. The fact ive read "are you saying elderly or poor women arent attractive" when talking about assault is proof that even among so called feminists, the idea that sexual violence stems from attraction is still ingrained. Stop it for the sake of god.

I know fish can't see water but american feminists really really ignore how much of their culture affects misogyny worldwide. The impact of the american worldview on misogyny is not little stuff. The consumerist, hollywoodesque point of view is native to the USA. American feminists call this "liberal feminism" to distance themselves from what is just plain american misogyny. This shitshow of "eyeliner sharp enough to kill a man" is a product of the american perspective of making everything a marketing campaing. This goes back to Max Revlon, Edward Bernays and other PR gurus who knew that the best way to make profit was to market everything. American feminists are limiting their analysis by thinking this is a matter of contradictory branches of feminism (lib vs rad) and not a matter of americanized misogyny. Lets remember radfem stems from marxism, the actual one not the tumblr version.

The way how no one actually read books but everyone wants to say something smart. From "capitalism of words" to "you can escape from labor exploitation by being a tradwife " everyone loves to post half assed essays who say stupid shit or not saying anything at all. Ive been accused of being a russian psyop, an spanish white woman with guilt, or even wishing rape on another woman just for stating sociology 101 points. Basic knowledge of marxism is a must if you call yourself a feminist. Im sorry but how else are you gonna understand women's oppression today (in a capitalist system) if you think tankies are psyops. Gimme a break, some of you are worse than breadtubers.

The lack of interest in women's news around the world. Basically if it isnt a major tragedy in Europe or USA or a fucked story about the Middle East (which for the majority, those countries are interchangeable, see: "if she's from Algeria why isnt she in a hijab" even tho Algeria is in Africa but whatever), no one cares about women. The North American continent got its first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, and everybody in here was busy whining about a stupid pop princess poll bc a nobody TIM got the upperhand. Cmon. Spanish feminist were more preoccupied about a fat woman announcing New Year's Eve than the historical election of a woman in a hispanic country. And that is just the most egregious example.

If i think of anything else Ill add it but this is my experience as someone who has been on feminist circles for a decade.

[mariacallous]

Six months ago, Jewish groups celebrated a policy win when Meta banned the use of “Zionist” as a coded slur against Jews and Israel. Now, the same organizations are condemning the company for dramatically loosening restrictions on speech across its social media platforms.

“It is mind-blowing how one of the most profitable companies in the world, operating with such sophisticated technology, is taking significant steps back in terms of addressing antisemitism, hate, misinformation and protecting vulnerable and marginalized groups online,” the Anti-Defamation League’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, said in a statement.

Greenblatt was responding to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that the company would do away with its fact-check program and broaden the terms of what can be said on Facebook and Instagram. It will also stop using automation to detect and remove hate speech — limiting its use to catching terrorism, child sexual exploitation and other offenses.

“This is a trade-off,” Zuckerberg said in a video message. “It means that we’re going to catch less bad stuff, but we’ll also reduce the number of innocent people’s posts and accounts that we accidentally take down.”

Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, said the moves respond to what he called a “cultural tipping point” following the U.S. presidential election. Conservatives have long alleged that Meta suppresses right-wing speech, and Zuckerberg’s advisors and detractors both explained the move as a strategic pivot toward accommodating a political era increasingly shaped by Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

To replace its fact-checking program, Meta said it would introduce a “community notes” feature similar to the one on X, the social media platform owned by Trump ally Elon Musk, and otherwise favor allowing users to rebut posts they view as objectionable over removing them entirely. 

“We want to undo the mission creep that has made our rules too restrictive and too prone to over-enforcement,” the company said in its announcement. “We’re getting rid of a number of restrictions on topics like immigration, gender identity and gender that are the subject of frequent political discourse and debate. It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms.”

The changes could significantly affect what users see on social media. Last year, Meta’s automated systems detected approximately 95% of hate speech violations on Facebook and 98% on Instagram, according to data self-reported by the company. Millions of posts were removed as a result.

That was a positive sign for advocates who have battled the proliferation of antisemitism and other hate speech online. Meta has historically invited outside input when faced with content questions, and Jewish groups, such the ADL, the World Jewish Congress and a nonprofit focused on online antisemitism called CyberWell, have lobbied the company for years hoping to rein into online antisemitism.

Now, those groups are balking at the social media giant’s retreat from policing the content on its platforms, which it announced after a six-week post-election policy overhaul reportedly conducted by Zuckerberg and just a handful of confidantes.

The World Jewish Congress, for example, criticized Meta’s new reliance on user-generated “community notes” to combat misinformation, arguing that it shifts the burden of addressing hate speech onto marginalized groups.

“In an online environment already rife with hostility, reducing protections and clear guidelines will open the floodgates to content that fuels real-world threats, including violent acts targeting Jewish communities,” said Yfat Barak-Cheney, executive director of the organization’s Technology and Human Rights Institute.

The debate of how to police misinformation is a matter of enormous consequence for Jews given that studies show a strong link between the spread of conspiracy theories and antisemitic attitudes. 

“This change means one thing, very in line with the trend of both the quantity and quality of content that we have seen on X since Musk acquired Twitter – more hate speech, more politicized content, more silos and less effective responses from the platforms,” Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor, who heads the Israel-based CyberWell, said in a statement.

“This change particularly undermines the safety of all marginalized communities, including the Jewish community which is currently experiencing one of the worst onslaughts of widespread Jew-hatred in both online and offline spaces,” Montemayor added.

Soon after Meta announced the policy shift — first in an Instagram Reel by Zuckerberg, then in a Fox & Friends appearance by Joel Kaplan, a Republican operative who has long worked for Meta and was recently named president of global affairs — leaked training materials surfaced with examples of derogatory statements that will now be permitted on the company’s platforms.

The materials, obtained by the left-wing news organization The Intercept and not disputed by Meta, include antisemitic examples, such as “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians.” Other examples of permitted hate speech target other groups, with statements like “Gays are freaks!” and “Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit.”

Some hateful statements about Jews remain prohibited under the new policy. For instance, content moderators are instructed to remove comments such as “Jewish women are slutty” under guidelines addressing “insults about sexual immorality.” Similarly, Meta’s rules continue to ban the use of certain curse words directed at protected groups; for example, “Ugh, the fucking Jews are at it again” would not be allowed.

Meta did not immediately respond to a request about the fate of the ban on using “Zionist” as a proxy for Jews and Israel in hate speech.

The company also did not signal any changes to its ban on Holocaust denial in its announcement, and the leaked materials also did not address the ban, which Zuckerberg announced in 2020, reversing a previous position under pressure from Jewish groups. Some education and advocacy groups say automatic detection of hate content has ensnared their efforts to create educational content about the Holocaust; nearly all “algorithmic overreach” of that nature would be a thing of the past under Meta’s new approach.

[shark-myths]

tell me more about the writing class!

I would loving nothing more!

so my long-time writing crush @alienfuckeronmain (seriously, we became pairing rivals in a now-deceased fandom more than 20 years ago) runs an amazing writing class annually. It is fully virtual and recorded, so you can attend synchronously (I recommend this because the Q&A after the lecture is invaluable!) or whenever works best for you. It focuses on writing as a LIFESTYLE, something sustainable and full of joy, healing the productivity/perfection trauma many of us come to associate with the craft. it focuses not on sharing and critiquing writing but on how to support yourself and your life so that you can DO it, for fun and for love, in a way that works for you. it is such a healthy and beautiful approach to my favorite thing in the world, I highly recommend the course. The website is here and the instagram account, bloodinkbonewriting, also has a lot of info and promo material. Phoenix herself is an incredible talent with some recently published books I highly recommend. She’s most famous for being canceled in various fandoms, writing the finest one direction fic you can imagine, being the master of dead dove and fucked-up dynamics, and of course, humanized Cars fic.

self-disclosure / soapbox time: I work as a psychologist, and I so frequently encounter grown-ass adults who made all the right choices. They put away ‘childish’ things like hobbies and passion and silliness and intensity, they prioritized all the values our culture prizes, and they end up feeling so fucking empty and bleak. I constantly connect to gratitude about my daily writing practice, about my relentless and unprofitable pursuit of writing for joy. I have been writing rpf since I was thirteen years old. I thought I *invented* it and would certainly go to hell for my ingenuity. And it is the richest part of my life. I meet all the best people this way. I love who I am and the way I live because of being connected to art and community—a community of transformative work and creativity and passion, of screeching about our favorite things without self-consciousness or self-erasure. I genuinely believe this is the best part of my self and life. (except for my cats.) and when I encounter the dullness and misery of a life at the grindstone, I know beyond doubt that writing and fandom are my #1 protective factor. They are the reason I don’t feel that burned out and hollow way about my good, good life.

if you do one thing for yourself, find a way to create and connect joyfully and without the evaluative eye of others upon you. and if you have lost the way to doing that with writing because of the world we live in or, worse, the educational system and endless pressure to make your art profitable—blood ink bone has my highest recommendation as a gentle way to recover that path within yourself!

[brian-in-finance]

Video 📹 from Instagram

We were talking, me and my husband* and a friend** of his who's in the hospitality and drinks business, and we were talking about the Arts and how it's been so underfunded here, abroad, everywhere l travelled. Governments are slashing support for the Arts left, right, and centre, and we were talking about "what if we did something where we could use a percentage of the profits to give back, and that the whole ethos of the brand would be that it's about getting artists to help?" We would fund them, we would support them, and in their turn we could have artists use their art and promote it.

We were just riffing and we were "let's try one batch and see what happens." We did something like 2000 bottles and it sold within a day, and were were "that's kind of cool, let's go and do more of this." And when we did that, were were able to take the order, ship it, get it to anywhere in Europe within two days. And then Brexit happened, and it was like, "well you can't do that." And then to ship to the U.S. there's a lot of complicated loopholes because there's a very strange system in the U.S. that still exists since prohibition. And then I got pregnant, so you can't really be flogging booze when you're pregnant, so we just put a pause on everything. And we're about to launch... well, I don't want to give a time because there's still stuff we're sorting out, but we're going again. It's coming soon. Forget Me Not is not (forgotten). — Caitríona Balfe, April 2023

FMN DRINKS (UK) LIMITED, incorporated 14 December 2022. Directors: Caitríona Mary Balfe, Duncan Glen Frew**, Anthony Gerard McGill*

Brian 11 April 2023

Remember… when she talks about “we” in the video, she’s talking about Tony and Glen.

[drdemonprince]

wellllll my following on here has gotten large enough that i now receive the kinds of divorced-from-any-political-awareness messages and comments that provoked me to lock down my insta. it is actively bad for myself and the world to platform that kinda shit.

somebody's gotta be patient and explain introductory concepts to large masses of people but i know its not my calling. i get too impatient. we all have our skills and thank god the whole world isnt filled with people like me.

this app is where i come to have in depth, non introductory discussions about anarchism, queer theory, neurodiversity, abolitionism, systemic analysis of oppression, etc for my own enjoyment and others'. and to get future article suggestions and to shitpost. none of this is advocacy, posting is not ever activism no matter who stands to make a profit by convincing you it is, and i dont want to lead anyone, i want you to read and think about things for yourself. if you want more introductory level talk itll be on instagram, medium, and in my books.

keep the genuine questions and autistic advice article suggestions coming! i will answer things that i want to, but deleting all the stuff that sounds like its coming out of an instagram comment section for a loosely social justice branded influencer

[starlightscythe]

Raining in Manila

Greg Hirsch x f!Reader

Also includes an instagram!AU (idk what it's called but I added some insta interactions)

Plot: you're the Chief of Financials at Waystar Royco and also Logan's Goddaughter, tasked to go with Greg to the Philippines to check up on the xerox business, not knowing some budding feelings will grow along the way.

Warnings: stressed!reader, will add more later.

P.S: purely written for Greg. Fuck Nicholas Braun, man. What a prick.

"So you're half Filipino? All this time?" Greg asked, trailing you from behind. Pushing your heavy baggage cart as you walk with hands free, clutching your phone with your right hand.

"I am 1/4th Filipino, Greg. My grandma, Nerie is the Filipino. Lucky wife to my Grandpa, Victor whose a European." You explained, steps hasty as you walk towards the exit of the NAIA airport.

Greg tried to catch up with you as best as he can with his long legs, pushing the heavy cart with force to walk side by side with you.

You were sent here by Logan to check the Xerox copy machine side business and to evaluate the profit and if it's still considered to be operational by income standards. Waystar is apparently looking to cut their losses even if it means a thousand people would lose their job just to pay off Peirce.

"That's interesting. So you speak the language? B-because you know, what if we got lost and none of us speak the language? Google Translate isn't exactly eh- exact?" He pushes his hair back, adjusting the sleeve of his suit, "Is it normally this hot here?"

"I told you to lose the suit dumbass. It's a tropical country- and you know what-" You paused, stoping by a souvenir shop a saw an English-Tagalog Dictionary, "learn the language while we're here."

Quickly purchasing the book and throwing it at him which he catches clumsily mid-air.

The ride to your hotel was short, doesn't help that Greg was complaing about the tropical heat and how he's sweating underneath his suit.

"Honeymoon?" The Uber driver asked. Smiling at you and Greg from the rear view mirror.

"Uh- oh- no. No. Just work- work mates. Happy workmates" He laughed, "here for work."

"On valentines day?" The driver raised his eyebrow.

"Yeah, unfortunately." You replied, pulling your lips in a tight line as you message an unresponsive Roman about the hotel reservation.

Exiting the Uber and going straight to the hotel lobby whilst Greg was left alone to unload your bags from the trunk. A couple minutes of waiting for him, he finally emerges besides you, tapping your shoulder lightly.

"Oh, took you long enough. Show them the reservation." You spoke, returning your attention to your phone.

Greg stood there confuse, pushing his hair back and wiping his sweat from his forehead, "What reservation? I thought Roman sent it to you?"

"I thought he sent it you?!" You whispered to him, "well, call Kendall and have him sort this out."

"Is there a problem?" The receptionist finally arrived in front of you.

You quickly turned to her and smiled, "no. No. We're all good. He's just sorting out the reservation paper. Such a klutz, this one."

"Well, Ma'am if you just have a name for the reservation and an I.D I can verify it even without the papers." She assured you.

Rummaging through your bag as Greg tried calling Kendall behind you. Taking out your Waystar employee I.D and showing it to her.

"Can you try, (Y/N) Abberdon? I think my collegue might've put it under my name."

The receptionist typed for a bit and shook her head, "we don't have that name in the system Ma'am. Is there any name? Maybe under the name of your collegue?" She gestured to Greg.

Grabbing the man by the I.D which dangled from one of those laces with the retractable strings. "What- hey!" Greg exclaimed, hand still on the ringing phone.

"Try Gregory Hirsch?" You desperately looked at her. The woman did the same thing only to looked up at you once again and shook her head.

Mentally punching Roman in your head at this point, "Ok well, we don't have his I.D but, Roman Roy?"

"I see a Roman Roiland but no Roman Roy, miss. I am sorry."

"Oh my god," You backed away from the reception desk, "I am sorry- just give me a minute" Excusing yourself. The woman nodded her head and returns to her work.

You grabbed Greg by the arm and dragged him away from the desk, looking up at him for an answer.

"They won't call back. I tried Kendall, Shiv, and Roman." He panicked, "I could try Tom?"

"Then try Tom." You deadpanned, "I am going to call Roman. But keep calling whoever is in that flip phone of yours Greg or I will throw that ancient thing in the trash."

"No need to be stres-"

"Don't tell me what to do." You suddenly flipped out at him, making him flinch, "I am- I am sorry. I am just stressed, you're right. This is not big deal. If we can't reach out to any of them we'll just have to book it ourselves."

Greg nods, "yeah. Ok. I'll keep trying to call Tom."

A couple more minutes of you guys looking like anxious rats on your phone trying to contact everyone. Greg finally got a hold of Tom over the phone.

"Tom! Oh thank God. Listen I am- we- yes me and (Y/N)- we're stuck in the Philippines- yeah- can you just- Is Roman with you?- oh- right- uhuh- well, here." Greg hands the phone to you.

You took it out of his hand, "Jesus I forgot how these things work," Fiddling with the flip phone for a bit, "Hello? Tom? What the fuck is going on? Where the fuck is everyone?"

"Enjoying your vacation with my assistant? That you stole by the way. How dare you?!"

"We're not on vacation, dipshit. What's happening over there? We can't get a hold of everyone and we're stuck in another country with no hotel reservation."

"Oh yeah, well. There's been an emergency and Shiv just told me you guys might be stuck in there for another week or two because they're using the private jet to go to the bahamas."

"What the fuck?!" You exclaimed, quickly returning back to your normal tone, "well can you atleast have Roman call me b-"

The phone suddenly crackles and Roman's voice was heard though the phone, "hey god-sis. Yeah listen, I did an oopsie and I kinda forgot to put in a reservation..."

"What's happening...?" Greg tried to ask but your head was running a million miles per minute.

One thing you hated was when plans didn't go as planned and mostly being stucked in another country where you barely speak the language and your American Express might not work.

You raised your hand out of frustration, an attempt to throw Greg's phone onto the ground. But he was quick to catch your arm with his tall physique, snatching his phone out of your hand.

"He-hey. Ok. How about you sit and calm down. Ok?" He tries to comfort you, "I'll handle this. I know you're stressed out so just relax. Ok?"

You nodded, sitting by the nearby sofa of the hotel lobby. Frantically typing into your phone whilst running a hand onto your hair out of frustration.

"Yeah- ok- I can manage that. Ok. Thanks- bye" Greg ends the call and sat on the couch parallel to yours, "ok so, we'll book a hotel and have it on the company card. Shiv said we could do whatever we want for the next two weeks as an apology for your distress and inconvenience. So...there you go. Don't stress ok? Cause youre kinda freaking me out too."

Slowly nodding as you bit your lip, preventing yourself from laughing at the distressed Greg as he sighed and lean back onto the white sofa, putting his earphone on to calm himself down. You sneakily took a picture of him and posted it on Instagram.

"Well I'll just see if they have a spare room available." You pull a tight smile , touching his shoulder as you move past him. Greg gives a nod in response.

"Hey," You greeted the receptionist again, "looks like my collegue might've missed it in his brain to book a reservation, is there a room available for two weeks? Two room separately...preferrably for me and him" Pointing at Greg behind you.

The receptionist tuts as she tapped at her keyboard for a bit, looking appologetic up at you, "sorry, looks like we're all fully booked at the moment. That's normal for valentines Day- oh wait- we have an opening for a honeymoon suite... I am afraid that's the only room available."

"Oh..." You scrunched your face. Scratching the back of your head in frustration, "is there like...another hotel?"

"Well you can try the love hotel from across the street but at valentines week I am afraid all of the hotel right now are fully booked too, miss."

Glancing at your watch, it reads 6:37 pm. And the jet lag was getting to your system. Not really wanting to go out there and dragging Greg around the block you were forced to weigh your options.

"Does it have a couch atleast?"

"Yes ma'am. But I am afraid it only has one bathroom."

"That's fine." You sighed, taking out your business card, "just do it. We're way too tired."

The woman apologized again as she took your card before handing you two keycards for the room. Telling you that your bags will be delivered in your room shortly.

Dragging your feet back to where Greg was, you handed him the other key card by shoving it in his face. Greg took it and read;

"Honeymoon suite?" He asked, looking up at you with wide eyes

"Yeah, not alot of options at valentines day, buddy." You scoffed at him, "you're welcome to run around the block for a new hotel room. They're all fully booked apparently. and I am too tired to argue for separate room. So either suck it up or get out."

Greg grunts in annoyance, standing up and following you anyways.

You turn back at him, "there's a love hotel full of jizz across the street. You're welcome to that"

"Uhuh, and if I get sick because of it, you'd have to be Tom's assistant for as long as it takes."

"He wishes, Greg"