#US 🇺🇸 | Japan 🇯🇵

[xtruss]

70 Years After WWII, Japan Brings New Disaster To The World

— Chen Yang | August 24, 2023

Illustration: Liu Rui/Global Times

Japan kick starts discharging the Nuclear-Contaminated Water Stored at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear ☢️ Power Plant into the sea on Thursday afternoon. This move, prioritizing Japanese government's own interests over the common interests of all humanity, will ultimately lead to Japan's isolation and leave another indelible permanent stain on human history.

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan, triggering a towering tsunami that caused a nuclear leak at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear ☢️ Power Plant. As of now, the amount of nuclear-contaminated wastewater stored in Japan has exceeded 1.3 million tons, and it is increasing by 100 tons per day. In April 2021, the Japanese government decided to dump the nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean, choosing the most convenient and irresponsible method among various methods of treating the contaminated water. Since the Japanese government plans to discharge the nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean over a period of 30 years, the impact on the global marine ecosystem and human health and well-being is not temporary, but long-term and enduring.

Since deciding to dump nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean, Japan has consistently faced strong opposition from domestic and international public opinion. On Tuesday, the chairman of the National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations in Japan, Masanobu Sakamoto, reiterated during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, "Nothing will change in our opposition to the release of water into the ocean without the understanding of fishermen and the public."

On July 1, South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party, held a rally in Seoul condemning the Japanese government's plan to dump nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean, urging the South Korean government to clearly oppose it.

Cooperation Needed to Minimize Economic Risk Brought by Fukushima Nuclear ☢️ Contaminated Water Dumping — Hu Weijia! August 23, 2023. Japan's reckless dumping of nuclear wastewater poses a grave danger to Earth. Cartoon: Carlos Latuff

Despite the continuous doubts and opposition to the discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean from Japan domestically and internationally, the Japanese government has turned a deaf ear and insisted on pushing forward with the discharge process. This fundamentally reflects that discharging nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean is a selfish act that sacrifices the public health and well-being of its own country and neighboring countries and regions in exchange for short-term benefits.

In fact, one of the main reasons why Japan has insisted on dumping nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean is the tacit approval and tolerance of the US, which has long claimed to be a "defender of human rights."

The US is Japan's ally and has had a wide range of influence on Japanese politics, diplomacy, culture and other aspects. It can even influence Japan's domestic and foreign policies to some extent. In theory, the US should exert its influence to prevent Japan from adopting irresponsible practices in dumping nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean. However, unfortunately, regarding this public issue that poses a threat to the global marine ecosystem and human health and well-being, the US did not criticize or condemn it, worse, it praised the Japanese government for its "transparent efforts" in dealing with the issue and considered Japan's dumpingplan to be "safe."

Fishers Against Fukushima Nuclear ☢️ Contaminated Water Dumping! Fishers of the South Korea's National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives hold a rally on August 16, 2023, in the coastal area of in Goheung county in South Jeolla Province, to protest against the dumping of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from Japan as Japanese government reportedly is eyeing dumping the contaminated water in late August. Photo: VCG

Perhaps it is precisely because of the support and "double standards" from the US that Japan has the confidence to push forward with the process of discharging nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean without any scruples until a specific date is determined and the discharge is implemented.

During World War II, Japan launched aggressive wars against neighboring countries, bringing great disasters to neighboring countries and regions. Today, the discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater can be said to be a new disaster that Japan, which has gone through defeat and surrender for more than 70 years, has brought to neighboring countries and regions.

The ocean is the common property of all humanity, not a dumping ground for Japan's arbitrary disposal. Regarding the issue of nuclear-contaminated wastewater, Japan should recognize its own responsibility, adopt a scientific attitude, fulfill its international obligations, and respond to the serious concerns of its own citizens, neighboring countries and the international community. If it simply ignores these concerns, it will ultimately leave an indelible permanent stain on Japan in human history.

— The Author is a Guest Research Fellow at the Centre for Japanese Studies, Liaoning University.

[norris55s]

a little party never killed nobody - lando norris

best friend(?) party girl reader x lando norris social media au

a/n: idk this is a brain dump of the feminine urge to party with lando in atrocious ways! this will include obscene amounts implied and photographed alcohol consumption so if ur uncomfy with that, i’d skip this one! fc is alix earle!

--------------------------------- Australia

landonorris

landonorris: straya points and the official inaugural party host, y/nusername

y/nusername

y/nusername: gday mate 🇦🇺🦘

danielricciardo: Never underestimating you again, the hangover on that plane was miserable

georgerussell63: I told you she’s a bloody party animal

y/nusername: that was pretty tame ngl

oscarpiastri: I was right, not joining was a better idea

y/nusername: u just hate fun

landonorris: feels like the season finally started

y/nusername: bring it on

daniel3.jpg

daniel3.jpg: Melbourne introduced me to the Y/N and Lando party world

--------------------------------- Japan

landonorris

landonorris: podiums make me so happy i start singing

y/nusername: i feel like you’re better at karaoke than at racing

landonorris: changing careers fr

yukitsunoda0511: Please don’t

y/nusername

y/nusername: jpop is awesome 🇯🇵

yukitsunoda0511: you're welcome

y/nusername: yuki san you are my idol

--------------------------------- Miami

y/nusername

y/nusername: in miami, bitch 🇺🇸

landonorris: not like my podium mattered or anything

y/nusername: baby girl i bought you your champagne bottles at the club as a congratulatory gift

maxfewtrell: She's right baby girl

landonorris

landonorris: good timessss lfg miami

oscarpiastri

oscarpiastri: Miami was extremely good to us!

y/nusername: when will u let me throw u a party pookie

oscarpiastri: I think the wise answer is never

y/nusername: but it’s FUN and you should celebrate your podiums!

georgerussell63: Do not trust her, you will have a week long hangover

y/nusername: it’s been a YEAR let it go 😭

--------------------------------- Monaco

y/nusername

y/nusername: my best friend is a formula 1 grand prix winner and i’ve never been drunker (or happier). i fucking love monaco 🇲🇨

landonorris: 🧡

carlossainz55: I think I’m still drunk 🥶

maxverstappen1: same

oscarpiastri: same

landonorris

landonorris: last weekend dump. it was a dream come true (and i’m still drunk too)

y/nusername: now that we got your win out of the way, charles_leclerc monaco win when

charles_leclerc: I'm trying

y/nusername has posted her stories

--------------------------------- Spain

lando.jpg

lando.jpg: great weekend, could get used to winning and partying with them

y/nusername: vamos!

carlossainz55: 😛

y/nusername

y/nusername: bailando (bye-lando?)💃🏽 🇪🇸

landonorris: u couldn't have picked a better photo

y/nusername: i was barely able to walk, no

carlossainz55: Looking good!

y/nusername: i'm inclined to believe you're saying you look good, to which i would agree

landonorris: what

y/nusername has added to her stories

--------------------------------- UK

landonorris

landonorris: home gp win. it doesn’t get better than this.

y/nusername: i love you so much winner!!!!!! (fuck u for that photo!!!!!)

lewishamilton: Huge congratuations!

y/nusername: good times innit 🇬🇧

georgerussell63: I will never, ever be bullied into going out with you ever again

y/nusername: ...as i said, good times innit

landonorris: how come george and fernando get that picture and i look like a kpop idol

y/nusername: cause ur my baby girl fr

landonorris: what

fernandoalonso: Too old for this craziness, but thanks again!

y/nusername: what do you mean you were the life of the party!!!

y/nusername has added to her stories

--------------------------------- Netherlands

y/nusername

y/nusername: you think i’m crazy? you should meet maxverstappen1 three jägerbombs in. 🇳🇱

maxverstappen1: Let me tell you that you on five jägerbombs was worse, but you wouldn't remember.

landonorris: she’s like that without the alcohol too

y/nusername: wow okay drag me!

y/nusername has added to her stories

--------------------------------- Mexico

y/nusername: viva el tequila y viva méxico 🇲🇽

sergioperez: Respect!

y/nusername: i promise i don't down tequila like water all the time, i can also appreciate the flavor!

landonorris: she's lying

patriciooward: Can I join you next time?

y/nusername: you can join me any time!

patriciooward: Tonight any good?

landonorris: once again what

patriciooward has added to his stories

--------------------------------- Brazil

y/nusername: eu te amo 🇧🇷

carlossainz55: 😍

patriciooward: 🔥

landonorris: i am once again asking... what?

--------------------------------- Las Vegas

y/nusername: i girlbossed too close to the sun this time but a drunk fake wedding doesn't represent us as people 🇺🇸

user65: you are absolutely kidding THEY DID NOT GET MARRIED

oscarpiastri: Oh Jesus Christ pick up the phone

carlossainz55: Thanks for the invite!

maxverstappen1: That's a way to make controversy

user24: fuck a las vegas win, lando finally bagged the girl

user43: lando to carlos and pato: fuck around and find out

landonorris has added to his stories

--------------------------------- Abu Dhabi

y/nusername: season is over but we’ll be back (no accidental weddings this time) 🇦🇪

landonorris: could you stop posting on ig and come say what you want to eat

user52: cant you see the man loves you why did you unmarry him and say you're not marrying him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oscarpiastri: Don't make promises you cant keep

user 75: HELLO?

user 19: OSCAR?

[kostevysen]

HETALIA ASK BLOG DIRECTORY (PART 1)

CREDITS TO @cafekitsune FOR THE DIVIDER (Please let me know if you want it removed!!)

★ MASTERLIST

Hi! I'm apart of a new and growing community of Hetalia ask blogs, you might have already seen us if you've ever stumbled upon the #hws ask blog or #hetalia ask blog tags! Due to fairly low engagement, we decided having a fully accessible masterlist/directory was a good thing to let you get to know us! Please keep in mind, the blogs on this list DO NOT INDULGE IN NSFW OR 18+ INTERACTIONS. (If you have stumbled upon one, please tell me so I may remove them from the directory!)

THE BLOGS (In Alphabetical order | A - M)

Austria 🇦🇹

— @askthearistocrat

America 🇺🇸

— @ask-the-hero-america

— @ask-hws-america

— @ask-nyo-america (Nyo)

Australia 🇦🇺

— @asktheoutbackhimbo

Belarus 🇧🇾

— @g-rlanachronism

Bulgaria 🇧🇬

— @askbulgaria

Canada 🇨🇦

— @maplesyrupandsnow

— @maplepoutine

China 🇨🇳

— @hws-china-but-awesome

— @ask-the-red-dragon

Cyprus 🇨🇾

— @ask-cyprus

Czechia / Czech Republic 🇨🇿

— @hyphenssuck

Denmark 🇩🇰

— @ask-nyotaliadenmark (Nyo)

— @ask-therulerofscandinavia

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

— @ask-hws-england

— @ask-arthur-kirkland

— @ask-nyo-england-aster-kirkland (Nyo)

Egypt 🇪🇬

— @ask-gypt

Estonia 🇪🇪

— @ask-computer-nerd-estonia

Finland 🇫🇮

— @askfinandhana

France 🇫🇷

— @francisbonnefoyforreal

Germany 🇩🇪

— @nationwholovesdogsja

— @ask-2p-ger (2p/Secondplayer)

Greece 🇬🇷

— @askthesleepynation

Hungary 🇭🇺

— @elizabeta-hedervary

Hong Kong 🇭🇰

— @ask-dork-kong

Iceland 🇮🇸

— @ask-aph-hws-iceland

Ireland 🇮🇪

— @ask-hws-eire

Indonesia 🇮🇩

— @ask-hws-indonesia

Italy (Veneziano) 🇮🇹

— @ask-the-little-italian (Includes Chibitalia as well)

— @ask2pitalyblog (2p/Secondplayer)

— @italy-kin-blog

Italy (Romano) 🇮🇹

— @asking-italia-romano

— @ask-hws-romano

— @romano-kin-blog

Japan 🇯🇵

— @askthesunrisenation

Kugelmugel

— @ask-the-spherical-nation

Knights Templar ⚔️

— @heavens-official-serenade

Latvia 🇱🇻

— @askthelittlegenius

Liechtenstein 🇱🇮

— @thelittleliechtensteiner

Lithuania 🇱🇹

— @asktolys

— @hws-lietuva

Luxembourg 🇱🇺

— @ask-hws-luxembourg

Macau 🇲🇴

— @ask-the-business-man

Mexico 🇲🇽 [OC]

— @askthemexican

Molossia

— @ask-the-most-badass-nation

Monaco 🇲🇨

— @ask-le-rocher

Moldova 🇲🇩

— @ask-the-little-candy-devourer

(If you want to be added to or removed from the list, please contact me!)

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— Navigate to Part 2 (P - W & Others)

[feel free to reblog! <3]

[hetalian-veteran]

Hetalia Sleep Headcanons

Here, have my headcanons about how the Hetalia characters sleep because I'm still awake at this ungodly hour of the night.

🇮🇹Italy needs to cling to something to sleep well. Whether it be a pillow, a plushie, or another person, the poor guy needs something or someone there to cuddle.

🇩🇪Germany has really bad insomnia and can only get at most four or five hours of sleep a night, and that's if he's lucky. But when he does sleep, he probably sleeps on his back, still as the grave.

🇯🇵Japan also sleeps on his back and is so still and quiet that every now and then, someone comes by to check and see if he really is asleep and not dead.

🇮🇹Romano sleeps on his side with his arms sort of stretched outward, almost as if he's reaching for someone. That, or he's dreaming of beating someone up. You know, one or the other.

⚔️Prussia will lay down on his back and fall asleep that way. However, he's the kind of guy who moves around a lot in his sleep. So when he wakes up, he's sort of on his face and stretched out like a starfish.

🇪🇸Spain sleeps like a freaking baby and gets a full nine hours every night. Lucky son of a gun.

🇬🇧England has a pretty hard time quieting his mind down enough to get to sleep. So he spends his nights slowly sipping on a cup of tea to try and calm himself down enough to get some shut-eye.

🇺🇸America moves around, twists, and rolls over so often in his sleep that when he wakes up, he typically finds himself tangled up in his blankets. Sometimes, he accidentally rolls out of bed.

🇫🇷France can only sleep if the room is completely dark. Like, pitch black. He also sleeps on his side and sometimes hums a little in his sleep.

🇨🇳China has insomnia pretty bad and, as a result, will often find himself staying up at night drinking tea. When he can sleep, however, he sort of curls up into a ball under the covers.

🇷🇺Russia sleeps on his back and stays in that position the entire night. Sometimes giggles and smiles a little in his sleep.

🇨🇦Canada needs several layers of heavy blankets to sleep, as well as something or someone to cuddle.

🇩🇰Denmark sleeps on his side and has sometimes been heard singing in his sleep, though nobody has been able to make out what exactly he's singing. He also occasionally snores.

🇸🇪Sweden usually falls asleep whilst looking through Ikea catalogs. They seem to really help calm his mind.

🇫🇮Finland often smiles while he sleeps, sometimes even giggling a little every now and again. He also sleeps best when listening to some of the most intense, heavy metal you've ever heard.

🇳🇴Norway plays white noise and curls up into a ball under a couple of layers of thick, heavy blankets. He probably hugs a pillow, thinking of the days when Iceland used to call him big brother as a little kid.

🇮🇸Iceland can only get to sleep in total darkness and in total silence. He's also a light sleeper, so anybody walking around the room will immediately wake him up.

🇭🇺Hungary sleeps like an actual normal person. I really don't know how else to describe it. Though she has been heard saying some pretty weird crap in her sleep before.

🇦🇹Austria sleeps best if he has soft classical music playing. Unfortunately for him, Prussia hacked into his playlist and threw in some of Finland's heavy metal songs.

🇱🇮Liechtenstein is a fairly light sleeper. She's also afraid of the dark, so she typically has a nightlight somewhere in her room.

🇨🇭Switzerland is also another character with insomnia. This is because he is low-key paranoid about making sure the entire house is locked up before he goes to bed at night. He wants to make sure he and Liechtenstein are safe.

[wouldvebeensweet]

Eras Tour photos masterpost!  ⁺˚⋆。°✩

General eras tour tag → here

Filter by show

US Leg (2023) 🇺🇸

→ Glendale, AZ (3/17, 3/18)

→ Las Vegas, NV (3/24, 3/25)

→ Arlington, TX (3/31, 4/1, 4/2)

→ Tampa, FL (4/13, 4/14, 4/15)

→ Houston, TX (4/21, 4/22, 4/23)

→ Atlanta, GA (4/28, 4/29, 4/30)

→ Nashville, TN (5/5, 5/6, 5/7)

→ Philadelphia, PA (5/12, 5/13, 5/14)

→ Foxborough, MA (5/19, 5/20, 5/21)

→ East Rutherford, NJ (5/26, 5/27, 5/28)

→ Chicago, IL (6/2, 6/3, 6/4)

→ Detroit, MI (6/9, 6/10)

→ Pittsburgh, PA (6/16, 6/17)

→ Minneapolis, MN (6/23, 6/24)

→ Cincinnati, OH (6/30, 7/1)

→ Kansas City, MO (7/7, 7/8)

→ Denver, CO (7/14, 7/15)

→ Seattle, WA (7/22, 7/23)

→ Santa Clara, CA (7/28, 7/29)

→ Los Angeles, CA (8/3, 8/4, 8/5, 8/7, 8/8, 8/9)

Asia, Australia and Latin America (2023)

→ Mexico City, MX 🇲🇽 (8/24, 8/25, 8/26, 8/27)

→ Buenos Aires, ARG 🇦🇷 (11/9, 11/11, 11/12)

→ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷 (11/17, 11/19, 11/20)

→ Sao Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷 (11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

→ Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 (2/7, 2/8, 2/9, 2/10)

→ Melbourne, AUS 🇦🇺 (2/16, 2/17, 2/18)

→ Sydney, AUS 🇦🇺 (2/23, 2/24, 2/25, 2/26)

→ Singapore, SG 🇸🇬 (3/2, 3/3, 3/4, 3/7, 3/8, 3/9)

Europe Leg 2024

→ Paris, FR 🇫🇷 (4/9, 4/10, 4/11, 4/12)

→ Sweden, SE 🇸🇪 (4/17, 4/18, 4/19)

→ Lisbon, PT 🇵🇹 (4/24, 4/25)

→ Madrid, ESP 🇪🇸 (5/29, 5/30)

→ Lyon, FR 🇫🇷 (6/2, 6/3)

→ Edinburgh, SCT 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (6/7, 6/8, 6/9)

→ Liverpool, England UK 🇬🇧 (6/13, 6/14 6/15)

→ Cardiff, Wales UK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (6/18)

→ London, Engand UK 🇬🇧 (6/21, 6/22, 6/23)

→ Dublin, IE 🇮🇪 (6/28, 6/29, 6/30)

**If you don't see photos for your show, don't worry! I'll be going through and adding more. This is just what I have so far!

[headingalaxys-spicy]

can i get a scenario for germany, japan, america, england, and canada where they FINALLY are able to break into their S/O’s house and everything is great and perfect until they find out: their S/O is the most ungraceful sleeper ever. they’re snoring loud asf, drooling, doing cartwheels in bed, about three limbs have made their way off the bed, it’s just embarrassing.

i’ve always wanted to read a scenario like this bc usually they’re sleeping so ~quietly and cutely~ but i saw logs in my sleep and kick so i think it would be pretty funny to see them react to a more ~robust~ sleeper like me

My brain couldn’t think of a full scenario but it came up with these short Headcannons.

Still hope you enjoy though. :)

America 🇺🇸

He’s going to bust out laughing when he sees you with your feet on the wall, knees bent, and head turned to the side, where a snot bubble is coming out. His laughter, of course, is loud enough to rouse you from your slumber.

When you’re captured, he will get you melatonin and an extra large king-sized bed. He doesn’t want to be karate-kicked by you.

Canada 🇨🇦

He has to cover his mouth from almost screaming. Matthew sees you while half of your body is on the wall. At first, he thought you might have been a giant spider on the wall. Your legs were splayed out wide as your arms did the same.

When he takes you, he’ll inject you with a tranquilizer so it can prevent you from kicking or hitting him in your sleep. Just like his brother, he will get a super king-sized bed with plushies to prevent himself from taking damage in bed from your wild-style sleep cycle.

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Mans is shook when he saw he saw you with one leg behind your butt while the other was off your bed while both hands were above you. Your mouth was wide open, drool coming out & you were snoring.

He’s going to take you to a sleep specialist to see why you sleep the way that you do. Arthur will also have you burn yourself out with (inset favorite outdoor activity), give you herbal sleepy tea, and sleeping pills to see if that can get you to sleep properly.

Germany 🇩🇪

At first, Ludwig is going to think had you already survived a break-in/robbery attempt? That worry will quickly subside when he sees your sleeping form move to contort again/

“Mein Gott! Ist das nicht schmerzlich?” (My god isn’t that painful.)

When you’re captured he’s totally going to take you to a sleep specialist. He’s traumatized from seeing you use 60% - 70% of your body weight concentrated on just your neck …. While yuo were upside down. Your legs were also midsplit in mid-air.

“So Y/N is an acrobat in their sleep. Duly noted.”

Japan 🇯🇵

When he sees you he has to prevent himself from screaming when he sees you halfway off your bed. One arm is under your torso while the other was out in front. Your legs were above your head while your stomach was stretched out.

When you're captured, he’s going to have a routine bedtime for you and try to prevent you from turning into the girl who comes out of the TV in “The Ring.” So expect lots of hot sauna time, massages, and fancy herbal teas to relax. He will also have you in a Zazen position to try and quell your chaotic sleep habits.

[swift13s]

Hi everyone I made a Taylor swift Spotify wrapped using @billboard and @google

Here you go , please use credit if you wanna share to a group ;

🎉 Taylor Swift 2024 Wrapped 🎉

Hey, Swiftie! 2024 unforgettable year for Taylor Swift. Let’s take a look back at your most iconic moments, streams, and chart dominance.

📈 2024 Stats & Achievements

Global Streams: Over 40 billion streams across all platforms, solidifying Taylor as one of the most-streamed artists of the year.

Top 2 Most-Streamed Tracks:

"Cruel Summer (The 2023 Version)" – 5.2 billion streams

"Anti-Hero" – 4.8 billion streams

Album Streams:

"Midnights (Deluxe Edition)" – 18 billion streams (new deluxe versions made it the most streamed album of the year)

"1989 (Taylor's Version)" – 14 billion streams, topping charts worldwide after the re-release.

"Red (Taylor's Version)" – 12.3 billion streams (Still holding on strong!)

🏆 Chart Achievements & Awards

Billboard 200: "Midnights" was the #1 album for 11 weeks.

Billboard Hot 100:

"Cruel Summer" entered the Top 10 for the first time in 2024, landing at #5.

"Anti-Hero" held the #1 spot for 6 weeks, becoming one of the longest-running hits of the year.

Grammys 2024:

Album of the Year – "Midnights (Deluxe Edition)"

Song of the Year – "Anti-Hero"

Best Pop Vocal Album – "1989 (Taylor's Version)"

American Music Awards:

Artist of the Year

Favorite Pop Album – "1989 (Taylor's Version)"

🌍 International Dominance

Top 10 Countries where you had the most streams:

USA 🇺🇸

UK 🇬🇧

Australia 🇦🇺

Canada 🇨🇦

Japan 🇯🇵

Brazil 🇧🇷

South Korea 🇰🇷

Germany 🇩🇪

Mexico 🇲🇽

France 🇫🇷

Taylor's influence crossed continents in 2024, as she continued to top charts from Asia to Latin America, while her Eras Tour sold out stadiums in over 30 countries.

🎤 Tours & Performances

The Eras Tour 2024 was a worldwide phenomenon, selling over 10 million tickets and grossing over $1.3 billion.

Iconic performances included the "Midnight Show" at the MetLife Stadium and "1989 Revisited" at the O2 Arena in London, both becoming viral sensations on social media.

YouTube Views: Her concert film, "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" reached 2 billion views, with fans reminiscing about every unforgettable moment.

🔮 What’s next?

2025 is already shaping up to be even bigger, with rumors of a new album, more re-records, and continued chart domination. Taylor’s reaching new heights, and you’ll be along for every step of the journey!

Please note the tortured poets department 🏬 is not added to a lot of these statistics due to most award shows having taken place before the release :)

Enjoy

Xoxoxox fangirl news

Edit : fixed the spelling error thx guys 🤍

[russellius]

🎤 EVERY F1 PRESS PEN INTERVIEW : 2024

for giffing and season-tracking purposes i've done this for 2022 and 2023 as well, you'll find those posts on the links. i've figured it'd be better to be posting this regularly throughout the season, so this post will hopefully be updated as the year progresses!

BAHRAIN 🇧🇭

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.russell-mercedes-need-to-understand-where-impressive-one-lap-pace-has-come-from.1792253962962711016.html

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.russell-beaming-about-potential-of-new-mercedes-after-two-years-of-struggles.1792348016925993121.html

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.russell-reveals-cooling-issue-cost-us-half-a-second-a-lap.1792438678741526812.html

SAUDI ARABIA 🇸🇦

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.russell-brands-fp2-a-scrappy-session-despite-taking-p2-for-mercedes.1792899703636848280.html

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.russell-im-kicking-myself-a-little-bit-p4-was-on-the-cards.1792984366681369555.html

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.russell-sums-up-his-frustrating-day-spent-behind-alonso-in-saudi-arabia.1793079685611911709.html

AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.russell-mercedes-pushing-the-limits-but-under-control-in-melbourne.1794209114321975831.html

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.russell-pinpoints-where-mercedes-need-to-improve-after-qualifying-at-albert-park.1794297525992005322.html

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.russell-talks-us-through-his-dramatic-crash-on-the-last-lap-in-australia.1794389645045177140.html

JAPAN 🇯🇵

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.mercedes-pace-in-fp1-a-nice-surprise-russell.1795482084360186265.html

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.high-speed-is-our-weakness-suzuka-just-doesnt-suit-our-car-says-russell.1795568740324984195.html

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.tracks-like-suzuka-have-highlighted-mercedes-weaknesses-russell.1795662517420094056.html

CHINA 🇨🇳

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.george-russell-discusses-his-role-in-mercedes-forward-development.1796654824527132339.html

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.russell-left-frustrated-after-coming-so-close-to-sq3.1796751031554438839.html

SATURDAY

sprint

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.russell-pleased-with-insight-learnt-from-running-the-soft-tyre-in-the-china-sprint.1796825844662771901.html

qualifying

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.our-fights-with-mclaren-and-alonso-russell-reckons-red-bull-and-ferrari-are-too-strong-for-mercedes.1796843212215529962.html

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.russell-on-his-china-finish-the-result-is-probably-a-fair-one.1796937767109657681.html

MIAMI 🇺🇸

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.ive-got-no-doubt-well-move-forward-in-the-sprint-insists-russell-after-sq2-exit.1798070001061531488.html

SPRINT

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.p12-russell-frustrated-with-lack-of-overtaking-opportunites-in-miami-sprint.1798145008424907367.html

QUALI

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-on-w15-its-becoming-increasingly-clear-what-the-problems-are-and-what-we-need-to-do-to-make-it-go-faster.1798160928380680729

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.russell-reflects-on-pretty-rubbish-race-from-start-to-finish.1798257372147214497.html

IMOLA 🇮🇹

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-reckons-mclaren-are-the-favourites-in-imola-after-friday-practice.1799318652115103111

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-on-his-p6-i-finished-the-lap-with-a-smile-on-my-face.1799405277816018924

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/we-are-making-progress-insists-russell-after-p7-at-imola.1799495198637399756

MONACO 🇲🇨

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/the-whole-thing-was-shaking-to-bits-russell-reveals-car-troubles-held-him-back-in-fp2.1799953015444016999

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-felt-mercedes-car-really-come-alive-in-qualifying.1800039175089462071

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-brands-monaco-gp-one-of-our-best-weekends-after-p5-finish.1800132738543398286

MONTREAL 🇨🇦

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/the-path-were-on-is-the-right-one-russell-on-mercedes-recent-improvements.1801147501640578743

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/car-feeling-good-for-p2-russell-despite-tricky-conditions.1801244708322542675

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/pole-sitter-russell-ready-to-win-in-canada-we-have-the-fastest-car-and-im-feeling-great.1801332022737601714

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-after-first-podium-of-2024-im-so-excited-now-for-the-rest-of-the-season.1801419656263462547

SPAIN 🇪🇸

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-mercedes-and-rivals-have-made-some-big-strides-towards-red-bull.1802396139484338158

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/we-dont-want-to-get-ahead-of-ourselves-russell-cautiously-optimistic-after-strong-friday-for-mercedes.1802490342546535014

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/its-all-to-play-for-russell-really-excited-for-spanish-gp-after-qualifying-on-the-second-row.1802576829379177331

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-explains-the-secret-to-his-storming-start-after-taking-the-lead-on-lap-1.1802666010839250610

AUSTRIA 🇦🇹

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/hamilton-russell-on-heading-into-another-sprint-weekend-in-austria.1803099688354547503

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-p4-in-sprint-qualifying-validation-that-were-in-the-mix-now.1803121115166246694

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-as-a-team-were-making-huge-progress.1803196046749126959

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-another-top-three-grid-slot-bodes-well-for-mercedes.1803210792941604179

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/austria-win-makes-up-for-missed-opportunity-in-canada-russell.1803302560839160100

BRITAIN 🇬🇧

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-excited-to-go-racing-at-home-circuit-after-victory-last-week-in-austria.1803759346057584329

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/absolutely-awesome-russell-beaming-after-taking-pole-at-his-home-race.1803846567686302524

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-talks-us-through-heartbreaking-dnf-at-his-home-race.1803934295384870227

HUNGARY 🇭🇺

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/hamilton-and-russell-react-to-mercedes-turnaround-after-back-to-back-victories.1804932174895206010

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-hoping-to-be-in-the-mix-after-promising-practice-laps-in-hungary.1805030203774069141

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-left-really-quite-angry-with-myself-after-q1-exit-in-hungary.1805111023492891828

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-was-hoping-for-p7-after-fighting-his-was-into-the-points-in-the-hungarian-grand-prix.1805205763856914835

SPA 🇧🇪

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-exciting-time-for-mercedes-after-2024-turnaround.1805567916629699975

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-admits-mclaren-are-definitely-a-step-ahead-of-us.1805661154587896688

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-rain-in-qualifying-made-it-hard-to-find-a-sweet-spot.1805748796019081364

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-explains-why-he-rolled-the-dice-with-strategy-at-spa.1805841025590039357

ZANDVOORT 🇳🇱

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-really-excited-to-be-back-after-topping-fp2-in-zandvoort.1808193659322861345

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-feels-p4-a-fair-result-in-dutch-gp-qualifying.1808280280077520503

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-surprised-by-lack-of-pace-and-feels-like-it-was-an-off-weekend.1808375934956227216

MONZA 🇮🇹

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/george-russell-comments-on-the-talents-of-kimi-antonelli-as-a-potential-future-team-mate.1808736293069198141

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/george-russell-comments-on-the-talents-of-kimi-antonelli-as-a-potential-future-team-mate.1808736293069198141

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/george-russell-found-sweet-spot-in-q3-to-qualify-p3.1808920374685850011

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/george-russell-really-quite-disappointed-with-p7-in-the-2024-italian-grand-prix.1809008380958568090

BAKU 🇦🇿

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/a-tenth-or-two-russell-discusses-the-fine-margins-between-victory-in-2024-and-finishing-in-the-lower-points.1809996301515876513

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-still-looking-for-answers-after-power-unit-change-ahead-of-fp2.1810095196971336785

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-reveals-what-bodes-well-for-the-race-for-mercedes-after-qualifying-p5.1810178590449180856

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-frustrated-with-pretty-infuriating-tyre-issues-despite-podium-finish-in-baku.1810275191135009297

SINGAPORE 🇸🇬

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-explains-what-happened-with-his-crash-in-second-practice.1810728594051058325

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-reckons-p4-on-the-grid-represents-ultimately-a-really-good-recovery.1810817460468642407

COTA 🇺🇲

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-hopes-austin-upgrades-will-be-a-step-in-mercedes-improvement-towards-the-front.1813195809124878112

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/its-great-to-be-back-in-the-mix-again-russell-thrilled-with-p2-in-sprint-qualifying.1813293264831088427

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-left-baffled-after-tyre-struggles-in-the-sprint.1813371592871192858

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/i-was-just-trying-too-hard-russell-upset-after-q3-crash-in-austin.1813388105003998007

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-reflects-on-his-pit-lane-to-points-run-in-texas.1813470975097698839

MEXICO 🇲🇽

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/we-were-sailing-too-close-to-the-wind-russells-assessment-of-his-austin-issues.1813837192354475393

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-explains-what-happened-with-fp2-crash-that-left-him-winded.1813930968763712903

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-left-super-happy-with-his-qualifying-lap-after-friday-crash.1814017043299474238

BRAZIL 🇧🇷

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-reveals-front-wing-damage-hampered-him-on-race-day.1814108955493617279

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-hopes-upgraded-mercedes-can-be-closer-to-the-front-in-brazil.1814457023618582614

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/could-be-better-could-be-worse-p6-russell-reacts-after-challenging-session-in-sao-paulo.1814551223966014257

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/we-finished-exactly-where-we-expected-russell-on-p6-in-the-sprint.1814626010205641107

SUNDAY

quali

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/i-just-put-it-all-on-the-line-russell-on-p2-in-sao-paulo-qualifying.1814705727232479083

race

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-left-pretty-angry-after-vsc-pit-stop-call.1814727406824364856

VEGAS 🇺🇸

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-mercedes-scratching-our-heads-after-incredible-first-day-in-las-vegas.1816406787745589535

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/the-cars-been-on-rails-all-weekend-russell-beaming-after-taking-pole-in-las-vegas.1816501223702829874

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-over-the-moon-after-totally-unexpected-victory-in-las-vegas.1816591885270903195

QATAR 🇶🇦

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-ive-proven-what-im-capable-of.1816992262614054576

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/weve-got-nothing-to-lose-p2-russell-felt-really-strong-in-qatar-sprint-qualifying.1817083152235857702

SATURDAY

SPRINT

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-on-piastri-battle-oscar-was-right-on-the-limit-of-his-defence.1817163236024192870

QUALI

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-braced-for-four-way-fight-in-qatar-grand-prix.1817177281528825944

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-p4-is-probably-a-flattering-result-for-what-we-deserve.1817263446965461168

ABU DHABI 🇦🇪

THURSDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-we-fight-hard-on-the-track-we-fight-hard-in-the-stewards-room-and-its-never-personal.1817609633108209025

FRIDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-experimented-with-radical-set-up-on-first-day-in-abu-dhabi.1817704503788383196

SATURDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-mercedes-left-really-scratching-our-heads-after-drop-off-in-pace.1817797111833372952

SUNDAY

https://www.formula1.com/en/video/russell-admits-ive-not-had-the-pace-all-weekend-after-p5-in-abu-dhabi.1817887267810695149

[twsthc]

twst ethnicity & language hcs 🦇

THANK U EVERYONE ON TWITTER WHO SUBMITTED HCS!! This thread took me forever, pls forgive an punctuation/general writing inconsistencies or spelling errors

warnings: none

last updated: apr 11, 2024

some collective headcanons:

i think the characters who are close to each other share words with each other and everyone kind of mixes things up (projecting)

"que... 为什么 es 你的 kouting 说了吗?!"

???? i hope this makes sense

all of them swear in their native languages when angry (minus riddle)

HEARTSLABYUL 🍓

Riddle: White British & Kinh Vietnamese, speaks Vietnamese

╰Mom: 🇻🇳 Dad: 🇬🇧

this hc is based on my vietnamese friend whos mom is the same as riddles

thank you for the hc nhi ily

Ace: Filipino, speaks Tagalog

constantly using "nanay mo" (your mom) insults

Deuce: Han Taiwanese & Yamato Japanese, speaks (正體字) Mandarin

╰Mom: 🇹🇼 Dad: 🇯🇵

his mom and ahgong speak hokkien and he doesnt, he also struggles to read traditional characters

his mom gave birth to him when she was a teen and she doesn't know the father so he's not too connected to his JP side

Cater: Hispanic Filipino of British Latin descent, speaks Filipino and Spanish

Trey: Malay Indonesian, speaks Indonesian and Malay

SAVANACLAW 🥩

Leona: Tanzanian, Kikuyu Kenyan, Malian (Mandinke)

╰Mom: 🇹🇿🇰🇪 Dad: 🇹🇿🇲🇱

i know he sucks his teeth all the damn time

tsk get out of my way herbivore tsk ugh tsk

ghana is one of the only african countries that still have a monarchy

also the lion king is based off of Mansa Musa the Malian king so YA

Ruggie: Afro-Brazilian & Gullah, speaks Southern Tutnese, Gullah, & Brazilian Portugese

╰Mom: 🇧🇷 Dad: 🇺🇸 

projection beam

uses tutnese to be sneaky, Gullah with his grandma

i know the soul food in his house on sunday goes CRAZY

more connected to his Gullah side because his grandma is AA and he doesnt know his brazilian parent, but does try to learn more about the culture just for himself

Jack: Inuit Alaskan, Tarabin Bedouin Afro-Egyptian, speaks Arabic

╰Mom: 🇪🇬 Dad: "🇺🇸"

no one submitted hcs for jacky wacky...

well he speaks the Masri dialect methinks

OCTAINEVILLE 🐚

HONORABLE MENTION: someone said they hc the octatrio speak Danish with an Omal dialect!

Azul: White Italian/Hawaiian/Afro-Hatian, speaks Hatian Creole and some Italian

╰Mom: 🇮🇹🇭🇹 Bio dad: Hawaiian

His step dad is also Hawaiian so he was able to keep that culture as well

Apparently octopi are very important to polynesian culture! very interesting

The reason the tweels don't let him cook is actually because all of his creations come out so spicy and flavorful it started scaring white customers

Floyd: Okinawan Japanese/Afro-Bajan, speaks Japanese & Patois

╰Mom: 🇯🇵 Dad: 🇯🇵🇧🇧

I think the tweels are more connected to their Japanese side than their Caribbean side, but Floyd says "gwan" all the time so who knows

He often mixes Japanese and common language. Not because he isn't fluent in common language but because he wants to

When cooking he tries to combine both cultures (sooo much curry...)

Jade: Okinawan Japanese/Afro-Bajan, speaks Japanese & Patois

Both Japan and Trinidad and Tobago have really cool tropical landscapes so i think hed be super proud of his ethnicity (AKA the greenery from where hes from)

AH i forgot to mention, but to keep up with the islander theme from the OG movies i think the tweels would be more from the Okinawa region

SCARABIA 🌞

Kalim: Punjabi Pakistani, speaks Urdu

ok i said this on twitter but i think he tries to learn Arabic for Jamil (he's awful at it but he is TRYING!)

i also said methinks he likes how the word for "no" in Arabic sounds like "la"

whenever jamil tries to make him productive he goes "lalalala" and thinks hes the funniest person in the entire world

Jamil: Persian Iranian, speaks the Syrian Arabic dialect & Urdu

always talking shit about people in arabic

especially kalim, but kalim doesnt know how to say "lazy bastard" in Arabic yet so he is oblivious

POMEFIORE 👑

Vil: Jewish German-American, speaks Hebrew, French, Russian, & Spanish

╰Mom: 🇩🇪🇺🇸 Dad: 🇮🇳

looks almost completely white

she speaks so many languages mostly for her acting career

Rook: Zulu South African, Baoulé Ivorian, Canadian French, speaks French

╰Mom: 🇨🇮🇿🇦 Dad: 🇨🇦🇿🇦

when they came to NRC they weren't fluent in the common language but sam (louisianan, speaks French Creole) helped them, as well as vil who speaks french

now theyre more fluent in common language but still has a thick Montreal accent

has that phlegm-y "h" sound in the back of their throat

Epel: Laz Turkish & Southern American, speaks English and Kartvelian

╰Mom: 🇹🇷 Dad: 🇺🇸 

when speaking english he has a little southern accent :3

hes always confusing the languages he knows if the words are too similar, he also has a little Turkish accent

IGNEHYDE 💀

Idia: Romani Greek & Turkish, white Puerto Rican, speaks Greek and Spanish

╰Mom: 🇵🇷 Dad: 🇹🇷🇬🇷 

cursing people out in rapid greek and/or spanish in COD lobbies

i also think he learned like 3 Greek poems just so he could qrt people on twitter who he disagreed with

"those who can not obtain the grape will say it is sour" but like in Greek

DIASOMNIA 🐉

Malleus: Han Chinese, speaks Mandarin, Gaelic, & a shit ton of other languages

mostly speaks Mandarin

can read/write traditional and simplified characters!

HONORABLE MENTION: someone hced him as having Jewish descent and speaking Hebrew!

Lilia: Mongolian & Chinese, speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, Gaelic, and a shit ton of other ancient languages

i think he speaks with a Northern Chinese dialect in Mandarin, I dont speak Canto or Hokkien so idk about that srry :,3

he drawls his 儿s a lot methinks mostly to get a point a cross

Sebek: Egyptian, Nenet Russian, Han Chinese, speaks Cantonese & some Gaelic

╰Mom: 🇷🇺🇪🇬 Dad: 🇨🇳

is trying really hard to be fluent in Gaelic so he can impress malleus

he already knew some Gaelic but just basic words/sentences

Silver: Han Taiwanese, Tibetan, & French speaks Mandarin

╰Mom: 🇨🇳🇹🇼 Dad: 🇫🇷

the difference between Taiwanese pronunciation vs Chinese pronunciation is that it sounds... "softer" (?)

with his character as a whole just having more slurred, soft words makes sense.

maybe he knows how to say like "hello" and "please" in Gaelic because he was pretty young when Lilia brought him in and he naturally picked up like... two words

also i hc he is tibetan because the wiki page said sleeping beauty is set in the himalayas? so i just ran with it LOL

[love-me-a-lotta-whump]

Beaten - Whump Lists

A list of whump lists I've made where the whumpee is beaten. (May also include when the whumpee is shown after a beating)

DRAMAS

🇰🇷Korea

Duel >> {x}

He Is Psychometric >> {x}

Just Between Lovers >>> {x}

W: Two Worlds >>> {x}

I Hear Your Voice/I Can Hear Your Voice >>> {x}

Memorist >>> {x}

Sweet Home >>> {x}

Sweet Home Season 2 >>> {x}

Two Weeks >>> {x}

The Uncanny Counter >>> {x}

Lawless Lawyer >>> {x}

Flower of Evil >>> {x}

School 2013 >>> {x}

The Arthdal Chronicles >>> {x}

Move to Heaven >>> {x}

Sell Your Haunted House >>> {x}

At A Distance, Spring Is Green >>> {x}

The K2 >>> {x}

One Ordinary Day >>> {x}

All Of Us Are Dead >>> {x}

The King’s Affection >>> {x}

Come and Hug Me >>> {x}

The Smile Has Left Your Eyes >>> {x}

Children of Nobody >>> {x}

Snowdrop >>> {x}

Alice, The Final Weapon >>> {x}

Bad Guys >>> {x}

Big Mouth >>> {x}

Blind >>> {x}

Connect >>> {x}

Revenge of Others >>> {x}

The Tale of Nokdu >>> {x}

Iljimae >>> {x}

Island >>> {x}

Doubtful Victory >>> {x}

Black Knight >>> {x}

Joseon Attorney: A Morality >>> {x}

Bloodhounds >>> {x}

D.P. Season 2 >>> {x}

Vigilante >>> {x}

Escape of the Seven: Resurrection >>> {x}

🇨🇳China

The Untamed >> {x}

Reunion: The Sound of The Providence >> {x}

Prodigy Healer >>> {x}

Sand Sea >>> {x}

Broker >>> {x}

Fall In Love With Him >>> {x}

Back From the Brink >>> {x}

🇯🇵Japan

Siren >>> {x}

Bitter Blood >>> {x}

Ouroboros >>> {x}

Aozora No Tamago >>> {x}

Hiru (Season 1) >>> {x}

Smoking >>> {x}

The Killer Inside >>> {x}

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[xtruss]

The First Light of Trinity

— By Alex Wellerstein | July 16, 2015 | Annals of Technology

Seventy years ago, the flash of a nuclear bomb illuminated the skies over Alamogordo, New Mexico. Courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory

The light of a nuclear explosion is unlike anything else on Earth. This is because the heat of a nuclear explosion is unlike anything else on Earth. Seventy years ago today, when the first atomic weapon was tested, they called its light cosmic. Where else, except in the interiors of stars, do the temperatures reach into the tens of millions of degrees? It is that blistering radiation, released in a reaction that takes about a millionth of a second to complete, that makes the light so unearthly, that gives it the strength to burn through photographic paper and wound human eyes. The heat is such that the air around it becomes luminous and incandescent and then opaque; for a moment, the brightness hides itself. Then the air expands outward, shedding its energy at the speed of sound—the blast wave that destroys houses, hospitals, schools, cities.

The test was given the evocative code name of Trinity, although no one seems to know precisely why. One theory is that J. Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the U.S. government’s laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the director of science for the Manhattan Project, which designed and built the bomb, chose the name as an allusion to the poetry of John Donne. Oppenheimer’s former mistress, Jean Tatlock, a student at the University of California, Berkeley, when he was a professor there, had introduced him to Donne’s work before she committed suicide, in early 1944. But Oppenheimer later claimed not to recall where the name came from.

The operation was designated as top secret, which was a problem, since the whole point was to create an explosion that could be heard for a hundred miles around and seen for two hundred. How to keep such a spectacle under wraps? Oppenheimer and his colleagues considered several sites, including a patch of desert around two hundred miles east of Los Angeles, an island eighty miles southwest of Santa Monica, and a series of sand bars ten miles off the Texas coast. Eventually, they chose a place much closer to home, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on an Army Air Forces bombing range in a valley called the Jornada del Muerto (“Journey of the Dead Man,” an indication of its unforgiving landscape). Freshwater had to be driven in, seven hundred gallons at a time, from a town forty miles away. To wire the site for a telephone connection required laying four miles of cable. The most expensive single line item in the budget was for the construction of bomb-proof shelters, which would protect some of the more than two hundred and fifty observers of the test.

The area immediately around the bombing range was sparsely populated but not by any means barren. It was within two hundred miles of Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and El Paso. The nearest town of more than fifty people was fewer than thirty miles away, and the nearest occupied ranch was only twelve miles away—long distances for a person, but not for light or a radioactive cloud. (One of Trinity’s more unusual financial appropriations, later on, was for the acquisition of several dozen head of cattle that had had their hair discolored by the explosion.) The Army made preparations to impose martial law after the test if necessary, keeping a military force of a hundred and sixty men on hand to manage any evacuations. Photographic film, sensitive to radioactivity, was stowed in nearby towns, to provide “medical legal” evidence of contamination in the future. Seismographs in Tucson, Denver, and Chihuahua, Mexico, would reveal how far away the explosion could be detected.

The Trinity test weapon. Courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory

On July 16, 1945, the planned date of the test, the weather was poor. Thunderstorms were moving through the area, raising the twin hazards of electricity and rain. The test weapon, known euphemistically as the gadget, was mounted inside a shack atop a hundred-foot steel tower. It was a Frankenstein’s monster of wires, screws, switches, high explosives, radioactive materials, and diagnostic devices, and was crude enough that it could be tripped by a passing storm. (This had already happened once, with a model of the bomb’s electrical system.) Rain, or even too many clouds, could cause other problems—a spontaneous radioactive thunderstorm after detonation, unpredictable magnifications of the blast wave off a layer of warm air. It was later calculated that, even without the possibility of mechanical or electrical failure, there was still more than a one-in-ten chance of the gadget failing to perform optimally.

The scientists were prepared to cancel the test and wait for better weather when, at five in the morning, conditions began to improve. At five-ten, they announced that the test was going forward. At five-twenty-five, a rocket near the tower was shot into the sky—the five-minute warning. Another went up at five-twenty-nine. Forty-five seconds before zero hour, a switch was thrown in the control bunker, starting an automated timer. Just before five-thirty, an electrical pulse ran the five and a half miles across the desert from the bunker to the tower, up into the firing unit of the bomb. Within a hundred millionths of a second, a series of thirty-two charges went off around the device’s core, compressing the sphere of plutonium inside from about the size of an orange to that of a lime. Then the gadget exploded.

General Thomas Farrell, the deputy commander of the Manhattan Project, was in the control bunker with Oppenheimer when the blast went off. “The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun,” he wrote immediately afterward. “It was golden, purple, violet, gray, and blue. It lighted every peak, crevasse, and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described but must be seen to be imagined. It was that beauty the great poets dream about but describe most poorly and inadequately.” Twenty-seven miles away from the tower, the Berkeley physicist and Nobel Prize winner Ernest O. Lawrence was stepping out of a car. “Just as I put my foot on the ground I was enveloped with a warm brilliant yellow white light—from darkness to brilliant sunshine in an instant,” he wrote. James Conant, the president of Harvard University, was watching from the V.I.P. viewing spot, ten miles from the tower. “The enormity of the light and its length quite stunned me,” he wrote. “The whole sky suddenly full of white light like the end of the world.”

In its first milliseconds, the Trinity fireball burned through photographic film. Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration

Trinity was filmed exclusively in black and white and without audio. In the main footage of the explosion, the fireball rises out of the frame before the cameraman, dazed by the sight, pans upward to follow it. The written accounts of the test, of which there are many, grapple with how to describe an experience for which no terminology had yet been invented. Some eventually settle on what would become the standard lexicon. Luis Alvarez, a physicist and future participant in the Hiroshima bombing, viewed Trinity from the air. He likened the debris cloud, which rose to a height of some thirty thousand feet in ten minutes, to “a parachute which was being blown up by a large electric fan,” noting that it “had very much the appearance of a large mushroom.” Charles Thomas, the vice-president of Monsanto, a major Manhattan Project contractor, observed the same. “It looked like a giant mushroom; the stalk was the thousands of tons of sand being sucked up by the explosion; the top of the mushroom was a flowering ball of fire,” he wrote. “It resembled a giant brain the convolutions of which were constantly changing.”

In the months before the test, the Manhattan Project scientists had estimated that their bomb would yield the equivalent of between seven hundred and five thousand tons of TNT. As it turned out, the detonation force was equal to about twenty thousand tons of TNT—four times larger than the expected maximum. The light was visible as far away as Amarillo, Texas, more than two hundred and eighty miles to the east, on the other side of a mountain range. Windows were reported broken in Silver City, New Mexico, some hundred and eighty miles to the southwest. Here, again, the written accounts converge. Thomas: “It is safe to say that nothing as terrible has been made by man before.” Lawrence: “There was restrained applause, but more a hushed murmuring bordering on reverence.” Farrell: “The strong, sustained, awesome roar … warned of doomsday and made us feel that we puny things were blasphemous.” Nevertheless, the plainclothes military police who were stationed in nearby towns reported that those who saw the light seemed to accept the government’s explanation, which was that an ammunition dump had exploded.

Trinity was only the first nuclear detonation of the summer of 1945. Two more followed, in early August, over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing as many as a quarter of a million people. By October, Norris Bradbury, the new director of Los Alamos, had proposed that the United States conduct “subsequent Trinity’s.” There was more to learn about the bomb, he argued, in a memo to the new coördinating council for the lab, and without the immediate pressure of making a weapon for war, “another TR might even be FUN.” A year after the test at Alamogordo, new ones began, at Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands. They were not given literary names. Able, Baker, and Charlie were slated for 1946; X-ray, Yoke, and Zebra were slated for 1948. These were letters in the military radio alphabet—a clarification of who was really the master of the bomb.

Irradiated Kodak X-ray film. Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration

By 1992, the U.S. government had conducted more than a thousand nuclear tests, and other nations—China, France, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—had joined in the frenzy. The last aboveground detonation took place over Lop Nur, a dried-up salt lake in northwestern China, in 1980. We are some years away, in other words, from the day when no living person will have seen that unearthly light firsthand. But Trinity left secondhand signs behind. Because the gadget exploded so close to the ground, the fireball sucked up dirt and debris. Some of it melted and settled back down, cooling into a radioactive green glass that was dubbed Trinitite, and some of it floated away. A minute quantity of the dust ended up in a river about a thousand miles east of Alamogordo, where, in early August, 1945, it was taken up into a paper mill that manufactured strawboard for Eastman Kodak. The strawboard was used to pack some of the company’s industrial X-ray film, which, when it was developed, was mottled with dark blotches and pinpoint stars—the final exposure of the first light of the nuclear age.

[main-serendipity-sky]

✨These 2 weeks in Jimin news✨

Where has time gone? 😭

•Bb end of year charts were released and Jimin is Bb history maker:

An album that he wanted to give us for free achieved all this. Things feel different when they come from the heart.

•Spotify wrapped...wrapped up too and showed us that Jimin is still a fan favorite. How many of us had our top artists as Jimin and some of the following: BTS, Kodak Black, NLE Choppa, Taeyang, or Jvke? Who would have thought?!

We also found out that:

-Jimin is the most consumed artist in South Korea

-Like Crazy is in the top 50 most streamed songs on Spotify.

-Antis and locals still stream Like Crazy

-If you are looking into a streaming service, consider Tidal.

•This picture of Jimin I found in this thread:

•We were flying high until BH announced the enlistment process of Jimin, Jk, Nam, and Tae. It's coming too soon. But Jimin will have Jk and they will be there for each other...and Jin!

•Jimin and Jk traveled to Japan to record more of their traveling show.

During this trip, Jimin started 3 global trends:

-Using Dior ☆'s as bag charms

-Standing next to a Dior Jimin ad and posing

- Eating at CoCo's in Jiminesque fashion

•PTD content was released and we got lots of Jimin.

He is always so thankful to the fans!

You can watch it here but shhh!

•Jimin's btb!

•Jimin won Best Male Artist at MAMA. More awards should have been his. Like Best Dancer, Album of the Year, Song of the Year...you get it...

The people at the Tokyo Dome are Jimin lovers too because:

Read through the replies! So many people were excited and Tetris shared that excitement with us!

And after BTS was awarded the Bonsang, Jimin came to weverse to thank fans for their support to the group:

•Jimin lost the AAA award, Millions Top 10, and Bonsang because army and karmy didn't vote for him due to Jimin antis running fanbases and people following them. But we will continue supporting him even more so he can have the recognition he deserves.

•Like Crazy was "officially" certified RIAA Platinum in the US. Actually, it reached this status in August and it is one of two songs by a Ksoloist to achieve this.

He is also the first and only Asian solo artist in history to achieve:

🇨🇦 Music Canada Gold Certification

🇯🇵 RIAJ Platinum Certification

🇺🇸 RIAA Platinum Certification

🇺🇸 Hot 100 #1

Cr.

•This clip of one of my favorite BTS songs, No More Dream, where it's focused on Jimin's perfect and precise dancing.

•Jimin posting on weverse for Jin's birthday. He misses his hyung.

•Jimin being a puppykitty.

•Don't forget this magazine is coming soon...

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We are in December. Where is our Jimin!?

•This beautiful Jimin

And that's it for now. Hopefully we get some more Jimin soon so our news can be even better!

[not-thenauts]

4. Dashi 🇦🇺 -

She’s Australian.

What else is there to say?

Growing up, she surfed the waves and even got to teach her little sister that.

She visited the outback at least 32 times throughout her lifetime.

I like to think she breaks out into her “Steve Irwin” (bless his soul) voice with her camera and goes, “This underwater sea creature is venomous! Deadly! But also— stinking cute!” And then cues into educational mode.

She got into surfing competitions and won a few of them, but doesn’t like to boast about it.

5. Tweak - 🇺🇸🇯🇵

I made this one really interesting.

She is Japerican. Half Japanese and half American.

Her father is a giant Flemish rabbit and her biological mom is a fairly tall, but way shorter than Ranger Marsh, lop bunny.

She was raised in America and came to Japan as a teenager. She couldn’t fit in because she barely knew any Japanese and got bullied for it.

So she became part of a gang with school girls who went against the status quo.

Mind you, this was all in the 60s-80s so they were actually sick looking.

Shortly after, Marsh moved back with Tweak in the US for Tweak’s internship and Marsh’s old position as a Ranger for the Everglades.

Tweak has a bit of Japanese in her, but Southern all around.

She got Shellington to love Asian culture more than over. (He’s absolutely obsessed with it)

[justacynicalromantic]

Yesterday, Americans 🇺🇸 turned down GB's 🇬🇧 Foreign Relations Minister, who asked them to pass the bill to help Ukraine 🇺🇦.

Tomorrow, 🇯🇵Japan's Prime Minister is going to talk to the Congress about Ukraine's aid.

The whole world is trying to get the US politicians to wake up and start acting like responsible adults.

It appears that I have inadvertently entered a parallel reality.

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¡”WHO” ahora ha alcanzado 110 puestos #1 en iTunes en todo el mundo!

Es la canción que más rápido alcanzó esta hazaña en 2024: ¡10 horas y 15 minutos!

los 100 puestos se consiguió en 7 hrs 15min

¡“WHO” de Jimin ahora ha alcanzado All-Kill #1 en iTunes en los 8 mercados musicales más grandes del mundo!

1 US 🇺🇸 1 Japan 🇯🇵 1 UK 🇬🇧 1 Germany 🇩🇪 1 France 🇫🇷 1 Canada 🇨🇦 1 Australia 🇦🇺 1 Italy 🇮🇹

todas las canciones de MUSE ocupan el Top 10 de iTunes US

#1. WHO #5. Be Mine #6. Slow Dance #7. Rebirth (Intro) #10. Interlude: Showtime

JIMIN se convierte en el primer artista de K-Pop en lograr que varios álbumes alcancen el puesto número 1 en iTunes de EE. UU. en 2024 (FACE y MUSE).

cr.JiminGlobal cr. iTunes

[tttewolves]

A Little Ramble

Timezone sucks sometimes cause most of my online friends or people I met online are from the US or the UK, and I’m from Australia, so when it’s morning for me, it’s evening for them and when it’s evening for me, it’s morning for them.

Then again, I’m kind of used to it, and that’s how life works, lol.