#Stephen Carr

[chernobog13]

Oooh, oooh! I know this one!

Clark Kent and John Hadley are flying in a plane full of scientific equipment to track down a deadly device.

Clark finds out via radiophone that Lois Lane is in danger. He knocks Hadley out with a punch to the jaw, activates the autopilot, and exits the plane as Superman.

Later, with everyone else saved, Superman has to catch the plane as it has run out of fuel and is plunging toward the ground.

Clark then gaslights Hadley into thinking he landed the plane while unconscious.

How Hadley didn't have a broken jaw, or at least a huge bruise, we'll never know.

[dbstaches]

Other People, 1984

Edit: photo by Stephen Carr

[insidecroydon]

GLL's library workers in Bromley vote by 86% for strike action

Workers at Bromley’s public libraries have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action. Poor terms: Many of the library workers in Bromley are employed by GLL on zero-hours contracts The library workers, employed by swimming pool operators GLL, Greenwich Leisure, are fighting for better pay and an end to zero-hours contracts. Zero hours contracts are effectively the casualisation of…

[mizgnomer]

David and Georgia and friends at the 2024 Television BAFTAs

...and looking glamourous

David was nominated for Best Performance in a Comedy for Good Omens

With thanks to Georgia Tennant, Russell T. Davies, Lenny Rush, Jo Church, and Mawaan Rizwan for some of these photos

[incorrect-losers]

Richie: Um- 31 years ago I came out of the closet- When’d you- How long ago did you come out of the closet?

Eddie: I’m not out of-

Richie: Oh you’re not out-!

Richie: *looks at the camera*

Eddie: MY WIFE IS WATCHING

[cloudberrylane]

[vincasofvitya]

Hi! Does anyone know any essays, academia articles, journals on the community and aesthetic of Dark Academia?

I'm not sure if any of my followers or mutuals still remember me because I used to be @/missingin4ction during the peak days of Dark Academia (2017-2019 imo) and I know the community barely exists now because we're drowned out by t*ktok people and others who never knew that this used to be just like a mini fandom for a bunch of books with the same theme...

But I'm considering it as a topic for a paper I need to write, and I need CREDIBLE SOURCES preferably focused on the community on Tumblr then! So if anyone knows any literature regarding the matter, please contact me or comment below! Please reblog if you can to spread the word! Thank you <3

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Steve Contorno at CNN:

Donald Trump has lately made clear he wants little to do with Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican president that has attracted considerable blowback in his race for the White House. “I have no idea who is behind it,” the former president recently claimed on social media. Many people Trump knows quite well are behind it. Six of his former Cabinet secretaries helped write or collaborated on the 900-page playbook for a second Trump term published by the Heritage Foundation. Four individuals Trump nominated as ambassadors were also involved, along with several enforcers of his controversial immigration crackdown. And about 20 pages are credited to his first deputy chief of staff. In fact, at least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration had a hand in Project 2025, a CNN review found, including more than half of the people listed as authors, editors and contributors to “Mandate for Leadership,” the project’s extensive manifesto for overhauling the executive branch.

Dozens more who staffed Trump’s government hold positions with conservative groups advising Project 2025, including his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and longtime adviser Stephen Miller. These groups also include several lawyers deeply involved in Trump’s attempts to remain in power, such as his impeachment attorney Jay Sekulow and two of the legal architects of his failed bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Cleta Mitchell and John Eastman. To quantify the scope of the involvement from Trump’s orbit, CNN reviewed online biographies, LinkedIn profiles and news clippings for more than 1,000 people listed on published directories for the 110 organizations on Project 2025’s advisory board, as well as the 200-plus names credited with working on “Mandate for Leadership.”

Overall, CNN found nearly 240 people with ties to both Project 2025 and to Trump, covering nearly every aspect of his time in politics and the White House – from day-to-day foot soldiers in Washington to the highest levels of his government. The number is likely higher because many individuals’ online résumés were not available. In addition to people who worked directly for Trump, others who participated in Project 2025 were appointed by the former president to independent positions. For instance, Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr authored an entire chapter of proposed changes to his agency, and Lisa Correnti, an anti-abortion advocate Trump appointed as a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, is among the contributors. Several people involved in Project 2025 didn’t serve in the Trump administration but were influential in shaping his first term. One example is former US Attorney Brett Tolman, a leading force behind the former president’s criminal justice reform law who later helped arrange a pardon for Charles Kushner, the father of Trump’s son-in-law. Tolman is listed as a contributor to “Mandate for Leadership.”

The extensive overlap between Project 2025 and Trump’s universe of allies, advisers and former staff complicates his efforts to distance himself from the work. Trump’s campaign has sought for months to make clear that Project 2025 doesn’t speak for them amid an intensifying push by President Joe Biden and Democrats to tie the Republican standard bearer to the playbook’s more controversial policies.

[...]

Heritage plan becomes a political headache

Behind Project 2025 is the Heritage Foundation, a 51-year-old conservative organization that aligned itself with Trump not long after his 2016 victory. Heritage is led by Kevin Roberts, a Trump ally whom the former president praised as “doing an unbelievable job” on a February night when they shared the same stage. Heritage conceived Project 2025 to begin planning so a Republican president could hit the ground running after the election. One of its priorities is creating a roadmap for the first 180 days of the new administration to quickly reorient every federal agency around its conservative vision. Described on its website as “a movement-wide effort guided by the conservative cause to address and reform the failings of big government and an undemocratic administrative state,” Project 2025 also aims to recruit and train thousands of people loyal to the conservative movement to fill federal government positions.

[...]

Vast network of Trump allies

However, Trump’s attempts to distance himself from Project 2025 have already encountered credibility challenges. The person overseeing Project 2025, Paul Dans, was a top official in Trump’s White House who has previously said he hopes to work for his former boss again. Shortly after Trump’s Truth Social post last week, Democrats noted a recruitment video for Project 2025 features a Trump campaign spokeswoman. On Tuesday, the Biden campaign posted dozens of examples of connections between Trump and Project 2025. CNN’s review of Project 2025’s contributors also demonstrated the breadth of Trump’s reach through the upper ranks of the vast network of organizations working to move the country in a conservative direction – from women’s groups and Christian colleges to conservative think tanks in Texas, Alabama and Mississippi. New organizations centered around Trump’s political movement, his conspiracy theories around his electoral defeats and his first-term policies are deeply involved in Project 2025 as well. One of the advisory groups, America First Legal, was started by Miller, a key player in forming Trump’s immigration agenda. Another is the Center for Renewing America, founded by Russ Vought, former acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, who wrote for Project 2025 a detailed blueprint for consolidating executive power. Vought recently oversaw the Republican Party committee that drafted the new platform heavily influenced by Trump.

In addition to Vought, two other former Trump Cabinet secretaries wrote chapters for “Mandate for Leadership”: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller. Three more former department heads – National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe, acting Transportation Secretary Steven Bradbury and acting Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella – are listed as contributors.

CNN reports that at least 140 people who worked for Donald Trump’s administration are involved in The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. This should put an end to the nonsensical lie that Trump “know[s] nothing about Project 2025.”

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MMFA: Trump and his allies are denying any association to Project 2025 and its architects. History speaks for itself.

[thenaturalfriends]

It kills me any time someone's like "Who would you like to see on Taskmaster?" and 90% of the replies are lists of straight white dudes in their 40s and 50s who are all established tv personalities.

Like, have you watched the show? Do you... like the show? Cause if you do, maybe you want to expand the rest of your comedy/fandom diet to include the kind of new voices and diverse perspectives that make Taskmaster so fun? Or at least, like, get curious about who's out there?

[ljones41]

Ranking of "STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW" (2024) Episodes

Below is my ranking of the episodes from the Disney Plus/Lucasfilm streaming series, "STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW". Created by Jon Watts and Christopher Ford, the series starred Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Kyriana Kratter, Robert Timothy Smith and Jude Law:

RANKING OF "STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW" (2024) EPISODES

(1.05) "You Have a Lot to Learn About Pirates" - The four lost young heroes from At Attim - Wim, Fern, KB and Neel - and their dubious guide, Jod Na Nawood, arrive at the luxury planet Lanupa in search of famed pirate Tak Rennod's former base and the coordinates back to the kids' home planet.

2. (1.03) "Very Interesting as an Astrogation Problem" - After meeting the kids in the previous episode, Jod offers to help them escape from the brig at a pirates outpost; and serve as a guide and protector in their search for the coordinates home.

3. (1.06) "Zero Friends Again" - Following their escape from their treacherous guide, the kids have a fallout before separating into two groups. Wim and KB follow a group of seemingly benevolent trash crabs in hopes the latter will lead to more help. Fern and Neel attempt to ascend a mountain in order to recover their ship, the Oxyn Cinder. And Jod finds himself captured by his former pirates crew.

4. (1.08) "The Real Good Guys" - In the finale, the kids and their parents deal with the onslaught of invading pirates, who are after the mint inside the planet's vaults.

5. (1.01) "This Could Be a Real Adventure" - In the series premiere; Wim, Neel, Fern and KB stumble across what the former believes is a Jedi temple. The latter turns out to be a long-abandoned starship that conveys the kids away from At Attim after Wim accidentally activates it.

6. (1.06) "Can't Say I Remember No At Attin" - Jod and the kids arrive on the war-ravaged planet, At Achrann, that bears some similarities to At Attin. The crew finds themselves in the midst of a feud between two factions.

7. (1.07) "We're Gonna Be in So Much Trouble" - The kids finally arrive at At Attim, only to find themselves captured again by pirates, now bent upon getting their hands on the planet's mint.

8. (1.02) "Way, Way Out Past the Barrier" - Thanks to the starship's aging droid, SM-33, the kids find themselves on an outpost for pirates. After being imprisoned inside the outpost's brig, they meet the mysterious Jod, who offers to help the kids escape in return for allowing him to join them.

[mikyapixie]

17 years ago today the SpongeBob SquarePants episode Atlantis SquarePants' premiered on Nickelodeon!!!

[ulrichgebert]

Schon wieder stark hinterherhinkend, fangen wir mal mit dem Gedenkfilm für Maggie Smith an. Wie immer hinreißend spielt sie oscarprämiert die selbstredend unwiderstehliche, in Politik und Liebesdingen aber etwas unbedarfte Lehrerin Miss Jean Brodie in der Blüte ihrer Jahre. Es ist ein unvergleichliches Schauspiel- und überhaupt Fest. In Edinburgh!

[letterboxd-loggd]

Evening Primrose (1966) Paul Bogart

August 10th 2024

[pop-sesivo]

En el set de rodaje de la película Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). De pie (de izq. a der.): Stephen Graham, Toby Jones, Colin Firth, Kathy Burke, David Denick, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciaran Hinds y el director Thomas Alfredson. Sentados (de izq. a der.): Mark Strong, John Hurt, el escritor John Le Carre y Gary Oldman.

[sasa-chan]

Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006)

[cloudberrylane]

i used to rent above there