#What are DNS records?

[corfidbizna]

KHIII Chapter 35 (Eng): https://www.mediafire.com/file/x9bwpgt8ucsswr3/KH3_Ch35.zip/file Chapter List

I think this is the first time where Gangan Online and I made the same decision about what's the most iconic moment from the chapter XD.

[courtillyy]

moodboard: wesley x lilah

[patchodraws]

life is strange: double exposure is a cynical attempt by square enix to capitalize on fans’ goodwill and nostalgia for DN’s original game, and it feels a bit scummy that they announced it to release around the same time as lost records: rage and bloom

so of course i preordered one and will be preordering the other 😤

[hostitsmartcanada]

MX Record is critical to your email delivery system. It routes the emails to their correct mail server. Read this blog for in-depth info.

[poipoipoi-2016]

Apropos of nothing

If you are the techiest person in the house (and for many of you, this is not techy at all), today is a good day to build a pihole thanks to Google's new TLDs.

For the record, this straight up stopped Dad from getting computer viruses when coupled with the Ublock browser extension, so I will volunteer my time to get you set up. We will find an evening and do a Zoom call. I am serious.

Prerequisities:

Before you start, this will be way way easier if your router has a magic way to:

Set static IP addresses

Set a custom DNS server

If you can't do this, I'm not saying you're stuck, but there's some non-obvious failure modes and maybe it's time to buy a better router.

Parts:

Raspberry Pi 4B. 2GB if you just want to set and forget, 8GB if you want to do more things on this than just your pihole (Coughs in a MarioKart box) -> https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/

Spare USB-C charger if you don't have one already. I'm a fan of https://www.amazon.com/Argon-USB-C-Power-Supply-Switch/dp/B0919CQKQ8/ myself

A microSD card at least UHS class 3 or better. 32 is fine for just a pihole, I have a 512 in some of mine that I use for more stuff. https://www.tomshardware.com/best-picks/raspberry-pi-microsd-cards

Some method of flashing the card if you don't have one (Some come with SD to micro-SD adapters, if not a USB to SD/micro-SD adapter is about $10 off Amazon)

If you really feel like going nuts, go buy yourself an Argon case and then very very carefully never ever install the software for the fan that does nothing. The value is entirely in having a big giant brick that is self-cooling. If you want to play MarioKart, I would consider this a requirement. https://www.amazon.com/Argon-Raspberry-Aluminum-Heatsink-Supports/dp/B07WP8WC3V

Setup:

Do yourself a favor and ignore all the signs telling you to go get Raspbian and instead go grab an ISO of Ubuntu 64-bit using RPi Imager. Because Raspbian cannot be upgraded across version WHY U DO THIS

Download Rpi Imager, plug the microSD card into your computer,

Other General Purpose OS -> Ubuntu -> Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

So now you have an operating system on an SD card.

Assemble the case if you bought one, plug in the SD card, power supply, ethernet cable if you have one or mouse and (mini) HDMI cable if you don't. If you bought that Argon case, you can just plug a keyboard (server OS means no mouse gang; In this house, we use the Command Line) and HDMI cable into the Pi. Turn it on.

Gaining access

The end state of this is that your pi is:

Connected to the internet by cable or wifi

You can SSH to it (Also not scary)

If you plugged in an ethernet cable, once it's done booting (1-2 minutes?), you should be able to ssh to "ubuntu@<the IP of the system>". Look it up in your router. It may make sense to give the static IP NOW to keep it stable.

If you've never used SSH before, I think the standard is Putty on Window or you can just open a terminal in Mac. (And if you know enough Linux to have a Linux computer, why are you reading this?)

If you didn't plug it in, and need to setup the wifi, there's magic incantations to attach it to the wifi and to be quite blunt, I forget what they are.

Your username is ubuntu, your password is ubuntu and then it will ask you to make a new password. If you know the meaning of the phrase "keypair-based access", it may make sense to run `ssh-copy-id` at this point in time.

Router settings (part 1)

Give your new Pi a static IP address, and reboot your pi (as simple as typing in `sudo reboot`).

Open a new SSH session to the pihole on the new address.

Installing pihole

Open up an SSH session and

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

This is interactive. Answer the questions

When it's done, on your other computer, navigate to <the ip>/admin

Login with the password you just set. Router settings part 2

Give your new Pi a static IP address then point your router at that address

Set the DNS servers to the static IP

Then ensure you're blocking something. Anything.

Then do what you want to do. You'll probably need to whitelist some sites, blacklist some more, but the main thing is going to be "Adding more list of bad sites". Reddit has some lists.

And... enjoy.

/But seriously, there's some stuff to do for maintenance and things. I wasn't joking about the pair setup.

[ntrlily]

via @metamatar

#who is ao3 hosted by btw

Moving this to a second post for reasons, Ao3 self-hosts, but what's affecting fanfiction.net isn't a host issue (indeed, if you modify the dns records you use to point fanfiction.net to the correct IP address, you can still access it!) but the domain registrar flipping out on them

And on that topic, the DNS Ao3 uses appears to be amazon.

[dailyanarchistposts]

Author: CrimethInc. Topic: technology

“The future is already here,” Cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson once said; “it’s just not very evenly distributed.” Over the intervening decades, many people have repurposed that quote to suit their needs. Today, in that tradition, we might refine it thus: War is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed.

Never again will the battlefield be just state versus state; it hasn’t been for some time. Nor are we seeing simple conflicts that pit a state versus a unitary insurgent that aspires to statehood. Today’s wars feature belligerents of all shapes and sizes: states (allied and non-allied), religious zealots (with or without a state), local and expatriate insurgents, loyalists to former or failing or neighboring regimes, individuals with a political mission or personal agenda, and agents of chaos who benefit from the instability of war itself. Anyone or any group of any size can go to war.

The increased accessibility of the technology of disruption and war[1] means the barrier to entry is getting lower all the time. The structure of future wars will sometimes feel familiar, as men with guns murder children and bombs level entire neighborhoods—but it will take new forms, too. Combatants will manipulate markets and devalue currencies. Websites will be subject to DDoS attacks and disabling—both by adversaries and by ruling governments. Infrastructure and services like hospitals, banks, transit systems, and HVAC systems will all be vulnerable to attacks and interruptions.

In this chaotic world, in which new and increasing threats ceaselessly menace our freedom, technology has become an essential battlefield. Here at the CrimethInc. technology desk, we will intervene in the discourse and distribution of technological know-how in hopes of enabling readers like you to defend and expand your autonomy. Let’s take a glance at the terrain.

Privacy

The NSA listens to, reads, and records everything that happens on the internet.

Amazon, Google, and Apple are always listening[2] and sending some amount[3] of what they hear back to their corporate data centers[4]. Cops want that data. Uber, Lyft, Waze, Tesla, Apple, Google, and Facebook know your whereabouts and your movements all of the time. Employees spy on users.

Police[5] want access to the contents of your phone, computer, and social media accounts—whether you’re a suspected criminal, a dissident on a watch list, or an ex-wife.

The business model of most tech companies is surveillance capitalism. Companies learn everything possible about you when you use their free app or website, then sell your data to governments, police, and advertisers. There’s even a company named Palantir, after the crystal ball in The Lord of the Rings that the wizard Saruman used to gaze upon Mordor—through which Mordor gazed into Saruman and corrupted him.[6] Nietzsche’s famous quote, “When you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you,” now sounds like a double transcription error: surely he didn’t mean abyss, but app.

Security

Self-replicating malware spreads across Internet of Things (IoT) devices like “smart” light bulbs and nanny cams, conscripting them into massive botnets. The people who remotely control the malware then use these light bulbs and security cameras to launch debilitating DDoS[7] attacks against DNS providers, reporters, and entire countries.

Hackers use ransomware to hold colleges, hospitals, and transit systems hostage. Everything leaks, from nude photos on celebrities’ phones to the emails of US political parties.

Capital

Eight billionaires combined own as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the world’s population. Four of those eight billionaires are tech company founders.[8] Recently, the President of the United States gathered a group of executives to increase collaboration between the tech industry and the government.[9]

The tech industry in general, and the Silicon Valley in particular, has a disproportionately large cultural influence. The tech industry is fundamentally tied to liberalism and therefore to capitalism. Even the most left-leaning technologists aren’t interested in addressing the drawbacks of the social order that has concentrated so much power in their hands.[10]

War

Nation states are already engaging in cyber warfare. Someone somewhere[11] has been learning how to take down the internet.

Tech companies are best positioned to create a registry of Muslims and other targeted groups. Even if George W. Bush and Barack Obama hadn’t already created such lists and deported millions of people, if Donald Trump (or any president) wanted to create a registry for roundups and deportations, all he’d have to do is go to Facebook. Facebook knows everything about you.

The Obama administration built the largest surveillance infrastructure ever—Donald Trump’s administration just inherited it. Liberal democracies and fascist autocracies share the same love affair with surveillance. As liberalism collapses, the rise of autocracy coincides with the greatest technical capacity for spying in history, with the least cost or effort. It’s a perfect storm.

This brief overview doesn’t even mention artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), robots, the venture capital system, or tech billionaires who think they can live forever with transfusions of the blood of young people.

Here at the tech desk, we’ll examine technology and its effects from an anarchist perspective. We’ll publish accessible guides and overviews on topics like encryption, operational security, and how to strengthen your defenses for everyday life and street battles. We’ll zoom out to explore the relation between technology, the state, and capitalism—and a whole lot more. Stay tuned.

Footnotes

[1] A surplus of AK-47s. Tanks left behind by U.S. military. Malware infected networked computer transformed into DDoS botnets. Off the shelf ready to execute scripts to attack servers.

[2] Amazon Echo / Alexa. Google with Google Home. Apple with Siri. Hey Siri, start playing music.

[3] What, how much, stored for how long, and accessible by whom are all unknown to the people using those services.

[4] Unless you are a very large company, “data center” means someone else’s computer sitting in someone else’s building.

[5] Local beat cops and police chiefs, TSA, Border Patrol, FBI… all the fuckers.

[6] Expect to read more about Palantir and others in a forthcoming article about surveillance capitalism.

[7] Distributed Denial of Service. More on this in a later article, as well.

[8] Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison. In fact, if you count Michael Bloomberg as a technology company, that makes five.

[9] In attendance: Eric Trump. Brad Smith, Microsoft president and chief legal officer. Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. Larry Page, Google founder and Alphabet CEO. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO. Mike Pence. Donald Trump. Peter Thiel, venture capitalist. Tim Cook, Apple CEO. Safra Catz, Oracle CEO. Elon Musk, Tesla CEO. Gary Cohn, Goldman Sachs president and Trump’s chief economic adviser. Wilbur Ross, Trump’s commerce secretary pick. Stephen Miller, senior policy adviser. Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO. Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO. Chuck Robbins, Cisco CEO. Jared Kushner, investor and Trump’s son-in-law. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee and White House chief of staff. Steve Bannon, chief strategist to Trump. Eric Schmidt, Alphabet president. Alex Karp, Palantir CEO. Brian Krzanich, Intel CEO.

[10] We’ll explore this more in a later article about “The California Ideology.”

[11] Probably a state-level actor such as Russia or China.

[kim-jongin-s]

svt fic recs (mostly nc-17; jeongcheol, minwon, wonchan, jigyu + other)

JEONGCHEOL

"running home (to your sweet nothings)". oneshot, 1k. pg-13.

There's always someone who wants something from Seungcheol. Jeonghan wants nothing.

"happy hour". oneshot, 2k. pg-13.

No one could ever have Seungcheol or Jeonghan like they have each other. No one ever will.

"but i need affection". oneshot, 3k. nc-17.

“Did you like it? How I said your name?” Seungcheol dips a finger into Jeonghan’s boxers.

He’s shocked by a hand gripping his hair, pulling his gaze to Jeonghan’s face.

“Find out for yourself.”

"if it's forever (it's even better)". oneshot, 4k. pg-13.

It’s as simple as a three second moment in their choreography.

"who am i to ask for more?". oneshot, 8k. pg-13.

Jeonghan seems to flirt with everyone but Seungcheol.

Seungcheol wishes that wasn’t the case.

"you are the unexploded bomb to me". mpreg. oneshot, 21k. nc-17.

If Jeonghan gets pregnant, he's no longer eligible for enlistment. Seungcheol does his best.

MINWON

"birthday pup". au. oneshot, 3k. nc-17.

Mingyu was excited to give his boyfriend the one and only thing he'd been asking for for his birthday, which was sex. It was something they did annually, Wonwoo's favorite part of his birthdays. Though, this time, Mingyu decided to incorporate one of their newer kinks into it, dolling himself up with accessories, makeup and a pretty little outfit.

"what money can't buy". au. oneshot, 4k. nc-17.

Mingyu can go anywhere in the world, but he keeps returning to one particular resort in the hills of South Korea.

"dangerous". roommate!au. oneshot, 6k. nc-17.

a one-night stand between Wonwoo and Mingyu turns into two.

"lady vera". au. oneshot, 25k. nc-17. ♡

It starts with poker. Wonwoo finds an opponent who is, annoyingly enough, extremely prone to winning.

And then they proceed to spend an entire week together. In the middle of the damn ocean. Wonwoo has a feeling this trip is going to fuck him up beyond repair.

WONCHAN

"seventy-eight". + svt/svt. oneshot, 3.5k. pg-13.

“OK, if we’re really doing this,” Mingyu says, in his most Organising voice, “we’re going to need a spreadsheet. Someone,” he adds, imperiously, “pass me my iPad.” And he gestures to it across the Beijing hotel room.

"ache". omegaverse: alpha!ww, omega!dn. oneshot, 3.5k. nc-17.

It’s strawberries—bordering on overly ripe. Delicious and sweet. It’s been clinging to Chan’s skin for the past few weeks, only noticeable if you were close enough to touch.

The scent made Wonwoo’s teeth ache.

"welcome to the zoo!". + dino/svt. hybrid!au. 5 chapters, 63k. nc-17. (pls check the tags!)

Chan is full of love and ready to help when zoo keeper Jihoon explains the impasse he's found himself at in his hybrid breeding project.

JIGYU

"grounding techniques of the unofficial variety". zombie apocalypse!au. oneshot, 5k. nc-17.

After holding everything in to stay strong for the others, Mingyu finally breaks.

"i'm around, be around, come around, be around me". au: single dad!mg. oneshot, 30k. nc-17.

”we found someone safe like you told us to.”

it’s all so… personal. jihoon comes to the mall to watch people, but this is too close. he kind of wishes he’d slipped away after all.

“i meant a security guard or police officer, but”—he looks up at jihoon with relief still on his face and mouths a quick thank you—”good job. and he bought you ice cream?”

OTHER

"limited supply". s.coups/mingyu/seungkwan. omegaverse: omega!sc, omega!mg, omega!sk. oneshot, 6k. nc-17.

Omega Seungcheol is missing his alpha boyfriend Jeonghan more than he ever has, so Mingyu and Seungkwan offer to have an omega threesome with him as a distraction.

"swallow your tears". seokhoon. oneshot, 7k. nc-17.

There's only one issue that comes with recording a new song with Seokmin - he's beautiful when he cries, and Jihoon sort of wants to make him cry all the time.

"i keep closing my eyes but i can't block you out". booseok. volleyball player!au, rule 63. oneshot, 11k. nc-17.

When did “I want to be her” become “I want her”?

"it's just that i'll always choose you". verkwan. omegaverse: omega!sk, alpha!vn. oneshot, 12k. nc-17. ♡

Hansol and Seungkwan have been broken up for two-hundred and twenty three days.

"peaches and jasmine". seokwoo. omegaverse: alpha!ww, omega!dk. oneshot, 20k. nc-17.

Call him old-fashioned, but Seokmin can only see himself being with a good, strong alpha. Too bad every alpha he’s met thinks he’s not omega enough. Too bad Jeon Wonwoo is an omega.

[ai-the-broccoli]

(so I was reminded of this by @kiyomitakada's post about Sayu potentially liking girls, but it's off-topic and I didn't want to derail it entirely so)

if I had a nickel every time there was one scene in a piece of media I love where:

a teenage character (who I'll call T) is shown coming home very late to their family, and -- because they were actually doing something very unusual which they cannot reveal to their family --

either claims that the reason for the late return is that they are actually in a heterosexual relationship with someone (a lie),

or is asked by a family member as to whether the reason for their late return is that they are actually in a heterosexual relationship with someone (a wrong guess),

when actually, the real reason is that T has been engaged in unusual secret activities with a group of people... but also most especially specifically with a certain person with the same gender as T, with whom T has a legendary, intense, obsessive homoerotic rivalry (I'll call this rival R).

R -- a manipulative schemer with noticeably eyebags and a characteristic fondness for sweet food (including or especially ice cream) -- has a relationship (general meaning of "relationship"; not as in they're canonically dating) with T that is not known to these family members in question.

and later in this scene, T also makes a remark (in relation to the "girlfriend/boyfriend" matter that is brought up) at one of their family member, which was definitely not at all meant to imply that said family member is queer, but could be taken that way if you wished to

...I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice considering how specific this description is

for context:

Juri’s Father: …By the way, you ain’t staying out late ‘cause of some man, right…? Juri: Why would I bother with men when my old man ain’t finding women? -- Juri Ooba MSS (video / script), from Magia Record

(note for DN fans:

Juri is very gay and has like... a basically canon relationship with Yuna, with whom she has a very homoerotic rivalry going on. Like... remember the Japanese version of Playing His Game? Imagine that, but with heated physical duels between two magical girl gang leaders, instead of two supergenius' tennis match. Yuna and Juri basically do that like every time they fight each other. A lot of other stuff too, though.

No matter how gay you think they are, it's probably even gayer. The extremely suggestive dialogue aside, they have stuff like y'know. canon neckbiting and "you're going to be mine", and by now they have canonically lived as a married couple raising a child together for 14 years. No, really.)

as for the scene in Death Note, I'm referring to the post linked prior about Sayu here, in which the below panel is shown:

(note for MR fans: ...well I mean. DN is rather well-known so chances are that you probably already are familiar with Light Yagami's alloheterosexuality or rather the lack thereof, and you probably also have heard about his rivalry with L and/or the fact that it is an extremely popular M/M ship, so. I don't think I need to explain much lol)

but anyway yeah. now same as with Light's comment towards Sayu, I'm pretty sure that Juri's words were not intended to suggest that she's calling his dad gay, but rather more of a "no bitches" thing, but I mean. this whole scene and by extension this entire character side story is about how Like Father, Like Daughter they are -- AND this extends to Juri's father also having a rival (<- a guy) that he has had a grudge on for a long time (<- you know what they say; "it is a truth universally acknowledged that someone entangled in a passionate and obsessive rivalry must be gay". I can confirm there's truth to this statement because it happened to me) and is going to fight against at the same time Juri is fighting Yuna (<- cinematic parallels), etc. and we know for sure that Juri is very gay as far as rivalry is concerned, so well, honestly, who's to say that her dad is definitely straight?

[madisonmccoy]

Teo’s interview with Bergens Tidende

translated for y'all below!!

[https://www.bt.no/kultur/i/bgRJ1A/17-aaringen-spiller-hovedroller-baade-paa-nrk-og-paa-dns?utm\_source=kopierlink&utm\_content=deleknapp&utm\_campaign=topp](https://www.bt.no/kultur/i/bgRJ1A/17-aaringen-spiller-hovedroller-baade-paa-nrk-og-paa-dns?utm_source=kopierlink&utm_content=deleknapp&utm_campaign=topp)

This 17-year-old goes from dream role to dream role: He was thrown into it

By: Frank Johnsen and Maria Aarekol (photography)

Published: 27. February 2024

It is not easy being a school student when you also have to handle major roles on TV and in theater.

17-year-old Teo Tomczuk has experienced this in the last few years.

Teo Tomczuk will soon premiere on Den Nationale Scene (DNS, or The National Stage, the largest national theater in Bergen, Norway.)

When Bergens Tidende met him at Den Nationale Scene (DNS) in the morning, he had already been to school, Bergen Private Gymnas (a videregående skole, upper secondary school, in Bergen). He is in his second year there.

Right now, theater rehearsals await him. Teo has been given one of the main roles in Frode Grytten's “Menn Som Ingen Treng" (Men that no one needs), which premieres on the big stage on 6. April 2024.

Won a prize

The recording of seasons three and four of [the NRK series "Rykter"](https://www.bt.no/kultur/i/Qy17gA/her-denger-de-loes-paa-hverandre-i-nrk-satsingen-fra-bergen) has just finished. It took up a lot of the fall and winter.

“Fortunately, my school is supportive of my work in acting and music. My days will be packed, so I have to work in a structured way, be at home a lot of the time, and use Sundays for school work”, says Teo.

Teo Tomczuk has busy days.

His parents are Polish. He grew up in the island municipality of Solund in Ytre Sogn and moved to Espeland three years ago.

The 17-year-old also has a growing music career underway, with concerts and releases planned. 

One of his songs has been A1-listed on NRK P1. Last year he also received the “Luttprisen” prize for best newcomer. This is an award that celebrates the music scene in Sogn og Fjordane.

Teo Tomczuk grew up in Ytre Sogn, while Sisilja Garen, who plays Thea in “Rykter” is from Øystese. PHOTO: ALICE BRATSHAUG (ARKIV)

This year he will return, as a presenter, together with Kjartan Lauritzen (a Norwegian Rap artist), among others. The party will be in Balestrand.

“I love playing music. The goal is to release an album this year. Then a new song will be coming out soon, which is a bit more rock. And in Norsk. I'm really looking forward to putting it out. I'm playing with a band now, so there will be more pressure”, says Teo.

Barely knew what alcohol was

He was only 15 when he got the role of Mathias in the Bergen-produced series "Rykter", which follows a fictional 10. klasse (final year students of lower secondary school) on an island outside Bergen. It is about everything from drugs and alcohol to developing romances and sexual identity.

“There are adult themes, but it was just a matter of getting into the character and listening to the director. I come from a small island and barely knew what alcohol was. So a lot of it was new to me”, says Teo and smiles.

Teo Tomczuk, Sisilja Garen, Martin Storebø Koh, and Alisah Süssmann also have main roles in the next season of “Rykter”. This photo is from the recording of “Rykter” in Telavåg this autumn. PHOTO: ALICE BRATSHAUG (ARKIV)

In the next seasons, the group of friends have started videregående skole (upper secondary school).

“The recording was maybe even more fun now, I felt safer as an actor. At the beginning everything was new, like we were thrown into something. But I actually learned very quickly. It's a fantastic group, everyone supports each other”, says Teo.

The last episode in season two ended with him and his friend in the series, Erik (played by Benjamin Ebbesen), suddenly kissing each other.

“People are very curious about what will happen next. This was the first time I had kissed a boy, and then I also had to do it on camera and with someone I know very well. But it felt natural for the role”, says Teo and he smiles.

A hit in Italy

The first seasons were seen by 200,000 people in Norway and were also a big hit in Italy.

“Italian fans are eager to send emails”, says Teo and he laughs.

Teo Tomczuk plays Mathias in “Rykter”.

Germany is another important market for "Rykter". German funds were also needed to pay for the new seasons, a total of 30 episodes, which are scheduled to be released on the national tv channel in the fall.

Frode Grytten's play ["Men that nobody needs"](https://www.bt.no/kultur/i/XbkPnn/frode-grytten-sitt-nye-stykke-faar-urpremiere-paa-dns-i-bergen) is another step forward.

In the play, the audience meets seven very different men who tell their stories, almost monologues that run parallel with each other. Cover songs are also played throughout which intertwine with the stories.

Teo has done some musicals in the past. Among other characters, he has played Jean Valjean in "Les Misérables" in Nordfjordeid when he was 13.

A mystery

Acting at Den Nationale Scene (DNS) is still not something he would have even dared to dream about.

“I never thought I would get this far”, says Teo.

Teo Tomczuk pictured two years ago, when he released the song “Trust". PHOTO: JANNICA LUOTO (ARKIV)

But it just so happens that the lighting master at "Rykter", Poul Iversen, is married to theater director Solrun Toft Iversen. A recommendation was made, and Teo received a phone call.

Suddenly, the role was his, without an audition.

“It was very good.”

“What role are you playing?”

“I am a man, 19. The role will have a bit of mystery. It starts with me having a conversation with the headmaster at the school about a short story I wrote. It can also be perceived as a message of concern. Then things happen that I cannot reveal.”

“Do you get nervous thinking that 450 people in the audience will watch you on stage every night?”

“No. When I first read the script, I thought it would be difficult. But the script flows naturally, it's really just a matter of reading it over and over again. And to try to understand everything that has happened. Now I feel free, honestly, and can't wait to get started”, says Teo.

Tall for his age

He is the youngest of the actors in both "Men som ingen treng" and "Rykter", and has always been mature for his age. Not so surprising, perhaps, because Teo was already 1.75 tall (5’8” ish) in 4th grade.

Here is Teo in the 7th grade with his classmate Borgar Espeland. PHOTO: PRIVATE

“I have pictures of me and my best friends when I was little, and I'm like two heads taller than the whole gang. And was sure that I was going to be 2.20 (7” ?? 😳🤯). But I stopped growing, so now the others are catching up with me”, he says, laughing.

He has 50,000 followers on Tiktok and 22,000 on Instagram, and he reports a lot of positive feedback.

“I grew up with almost no neighbors, so it's a bit of a strange time that I will be well known again.”

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[whentherewerebicycles]

I worked so hard today but also had some great early morning time with the baby, got to kiss his beautiful bald head between meetings, and then took him over to liz’s for dinner where he was very sweet and chatty with everyone. I then stayed up too late reading about rare complications for the septoplasty surgery I’m having next week 😵‍💫 I think I just need to choose to set the worry aside and trust that everything will be fine. I think my fear is mostly just like, the current state of things is not great (can’t breathe through my nose most of the time especially at night and have barely any sense of smell) but I’ve been living with that for 35 years so it’s obviously bearable. but it seems like if things go wrong it can become extremely unbearable in life-ruining ways (and of course the internet is rife with horror stories). and I think that I also just have this new terror of like, if something happens to me what happens to owen? what if this routine surgery ends up wrecking my life at a moment where he is so so vulnerable and utterly dependent on me? if I look into my heart of hearts I don’t actually think anything bad is going to happen and I’m not actually that genuinely worried about it. but it’s weird and new to have this extremely strong sense of, I must be extra extra cautious because a tiny being needs me to be fully present and there for him. ANYWAY I’ll discuss it with my therapist tomorrow blah blah blah but it’s on my mind a bit.

ok. tomorrow—two appts in the morning, then shower/get ready, then go for a walk with my siblings and the babies and the dogs probably. then I must must must finish:

JW’s cornell essays x 2

SD’s northwestern essays x 3

NF’s personal statement

MN’s AD doc + possible final edits to harvard and the long essay

I should also listen to the recording of the training I need to make up. I HAVE to finish one of those before I meet with KB on wednesday and I should really finish both. oh also I think I am having Liz & A over for dinner so I’ll have to make food, maybe something easy like roasted veggies + pesto tortellini. I have lots of work this week, but I’m so close to the finish line with most of my students!MN, DN, SD, and JW will be over the first huge hurdle by Friday with only cleanup work left to do before 11/1. NF will be done by Sunday, I hope. EP is done with his 11/1 schools and it shouldn’t be too hard to finish the rest of his stuff. TW I am committed to through 11/1 but then I can dial it back. we are getting there!!!!!!!!!

[freackthejester]

sad and drunk and drunk and sad and alive and should have done more and okay and home and sad and drunk and dead.

been really feeling a lot like i am looking at life and not living life and it's amazing. how good i am at living life. I used to be sad and not leave home and now i am sad and don't leave home and i have friends who miss me while I am out.

sure it is empty, and it's not fine and i need to do better,

but i know what is wrong and there is at least something waiting for me.

it hurts because i am not funny right now.

see the thing is that comedy comes from suffering, and i am not working and so i am living too kindly, and i am not suffering. the suffering is boredom and the boredom is going to be over soon so i have to enjoy the time that i have . but there is no comedy in staying home. no jokes in just watching youtube all day clean house no money fresh new nothing blue screen

dead gut. pay me. i have a reason to be home. and dreams and thigalk;jhdklghdl;kgnreatlgngo;akngksba;v;rngt;sla;llkgjan3howitgoehoe it be how it go how it be how it go how it be how it go how ie ts,grakgnbgkjnfdghddddont be a bitchfefdafnfojaland then screaming and the kids anrea comign back and it is how is tis iand how it be and paddintgotng doaidnsla fnae

iiiiiiiiiiiii'm not okay but i am going ot be so it;s nothing to worry about but it would feel good to know someone was worried. it would be nice to say that i am sad and not immediatlhy follow it with "bit nothing serious!" but i can;t because my problems are nonexistent. there is nothing and ther is nothing and it's nooooothing. and that is the concerna dn it will be fine because i will have real problems soon so the current is no concerrn but wowllllllllll

wite more. come up woth something record what little does exist of your stupid small little life its fine its not goof but its fine good;kfhdfkgnadfgodfuckingdammiteven talking to thiese screens that are nobody you can;t even tell them that it is bad without feeling bad crrrrazy

[omarera]

A little from the Interview in DN:

It was a nice interview covering g YR, Karusell, music and SMB. A little bit of everything. It’s cute it says that he is excited and is glowing when talking about all the things going on. Some takes from it below. Noting about his “special project” was mentioned.

On Off My Mind:

It has a reggaton beat and is very flowy. It’s a warm song that you could have heard at an Island in the Caribbean. He says he grew up with Latino music and says he sings 70% in English and 30% Spanish.

On music in general:

He is working in a new album with the plan to be able to release it during 2024.

The interviewer state he seems proud of what he creates and ask if he has always been. Then he says he is not always proud of his music 🥲. It is closest to him and he is his own biggest critics. And that he sometimes look back and wonder why he released some songs, not regretting it but more “what the hell?!”

On Karusell:

It is sold to over 50 countries. And he finds it exciting to do a feature film, with a classic premiere and big screens and more intimate feeling to watch it together.

A funny anecdote

A pair of designer pants were sent in from Milano for the premiere (same evening as the interview) but fitting was wrong so a new pair were sent.

On YR:

The series has changed my whole life. There are so many doors that have been opened that would never have been opened if I hadn't been given that role. It has been a sick journey.

On S3: There will be a lot of tears, but also very beautiful moments. Bring tissues!

On SMB:

“In addition, Omar Rudberg is current in the upcoming season of TV4's "So much better", which starts airing next Saturday. He describes the recordings as a challenge, that he didn't know how to behave. - It was a lot of fun and everyone was very kind, but it's difficult when it's reality. It took a while to get into it, it was a little weird. How? - When you do something that is spontaneously fun, the team might just: do that again! Then you have to redo it, you have to fake it but it should look natural. So it was a fusion of reality and acting.

At the same time, "So much better" was like a vacation in comparison with the work on the new "Young royals" season. During the filming of the Netflix series, there was full focus and extremely quiet shooting with a gigantic team. - In "So much better" you could chat, talk, laugh, it was music. I just sat there and sat back and enjoyed. Except when I was going to sing, it was so fucking scary. The interpretations he performs came about in hectic forms at the same time as "Young royals" was recorded. Omar Rudberg says he got a lot of help from the record company and its producers. - During the breaks, I had to make calls, listen to demos and texts, approve, rewrite. Then it was just a matter of flying into the studio and recording everything. It was a hell of a stress but it turned out well in the end.”

[readingsquotes]

"There’s quite a bit of preexisting solidarity between Ireland and Palestine. An early November 2023 poll found that 71% of Irish people saw Israel’s response to October 7 as “disproportionately severe,” a response that a review by a Utah State University student described as an outlier within Europe. While many Irish protesters as well as UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese have criticized the Irish government for not taking a meaningful enough stance, Irish individuals, representatives, artists, and writers have loudly advocated for Palestine.

As Coughlan told Teen Vogue editor in chief Versha Sharma, “There's a huge connection between Ireland and Palestine that maybe a lot of people aren't aware of, and a shared history.” That includes a “shared history” of hunger, as noted by Irish TD (Teachta Dála, or representative) Catherine Connolly last week on Democracy Now! (and echoed by Harris in the statehood recognition announcement).

“Our solidarity is immediately with those who suffer in any way, but particularly from famine,” Connolly told DN!’s Amy Goodman.

In Gaza, the head of the UN World Food Program has declared “famine is already here,” according to the New York Times, which quoted the president and chief executive of Save the Children US, Janti Soeripto, as saying of the conditions in Gaza, “We have never ever seen anything like this anywhere on the planet.” Almost three months ago, Oxfam described the conditions in Gaza as “catastrophic levels of hunger and starvation…the highest ever recorded on the IPC scale, both in terms of the number of people and percentage of the population.” Just under half of Gaza’s population is under 18.

“Our history of being colonized, our history…we know how to speak truth to power,” Connolly told Goodman. “At least I would like to think that we have learned that lesson and we are gradually freeing our own minds from being colonized and realizing that our role in the world is to speak truth to power, to call out injustice when we see it happening.”

Ireland’s 19th-century Irish potato famine was a byproduct of colonialism, which forced Irish peasant farmers to produce potatoes for English and Anglo-Irish landowners, leaving them exposed to crop failure and resulting in mass starvation.

...Conversely, the Irish have been furious with President Joe Biden, who since the war began regularly claims his Irish heritage. Clare Daly, Ireland’s representative to the European parliament, has gone viral repeatedly for condemning the war in Gaza, but as early as January was sending a message to Biden: “Keep our country out of your mouth, @JoeBiden. Your ancestors disown you.”

[theintelligenceoflove]

For that Happy Day

Summary: You (FTM!reader) and Danny have been together for three years. You've were happy being Danny's girlfriend, until you weren't, and being seen as a woman was worse than the possibility of losing Danny.

Pairing: Danny/ftm reader

Warnings: Danny uses readers' dead name (y/dn) twice. At this point, the reader has not come out, and Danny does not know he's dead naming reader.

A/N: this is self indulgent, I've been sitting on it for a while but am uploading it from my phone so we'll see. (Also I'm literally always taking queer requests)

You snuck out of bed untangling yourself from Danny’s arms and going to the bathroom. You pushed your hair out of your face, that had been the first to go, not telling Danny before you chopped it all off. He’d loved it in the end, said it made you look spunky, you were going for masculine but then— your breath shook thinking about all the reasons why Danny didn’t think you you as masculine. You brushed your teeth and then, upon leaving the bathroom and seeing Danny still asleep you snuck to the kitchen to start breakfast. Your plan was to talk to him during breakfast, to keep from worrying about it all day.

First you went to the record player in the corner, putting on Cat Stevens Tea For the Tillerman. It was one of Danny’s favorite albums, one that reminded you so much of him. A comfort when he was gone on tour and right now it was keeping you calm enough to make breakfast. You didn’t have a lot planned, pancakes, eggs and bacon. But it was more than the usual coffee, cereal and a protein bar that you two usually started your day with. 

You had finished the bacon and pancakes when two big arms encircled your waist, pulling you up against a wide, familiar chest. “Morning sweetheart.” Danny mumbled, he sounded sleepy and  was so, so warm. His hair fell around you as he kissed the top of your head, a curtain that hid you from the world. 

“Breakfast and Cat Stevens,” You blushed, you had meant to change the music before he woke up. “Either it’s my birthday and I forgot, or it’s our anniversary and I forgot except-” Danny took the spatula from your hand and turned you around so you two were chest to chest as he towered over you. “It’s not, our anniversary is in the winter, November 12th.” You rolled your eyes and leaned your head on Danny’s chest. It had been three years now and Danny had never forgotten an anniversary. 

“I’m pretty sure my birthday is in the winter too.” Danny said his hands running up and down your sides under the shirt you were wearing. When he started tracing your sports bra you wiggled, not having anywhere to go between Danny and the stove. 

Danny gave you an inquisitive look but moved his hands down, resting on your waist. “So what’s with breakfast?”

“I can’t just do something nice for my boyfriend?” You asked, turning around in Danny’s hold not wanting the eggs to burn. Danny let you go, standing right behind you as you finished breakfast. 

“You can, but I know you hate waking up early.” Danny was less handsy than he usually was in the morning, likely sensing your tenseness, remembering your uncomfortable wiggling. You were glad he hadn’t decided to leave you all together. His familiar weight at your back calmed you down just enough to get you through the eggs. 

“Get me plates, please?” You asked, your voice wavering. Danny kissed the top of your head but did as you asked before getting mugs for coffee and forks, setting up the table as you put together plates and brought them to the table. As the two of you took your seats you felt Danny watching you. 

“Hey, what's wrong?” Danny reached across the table, lifting your chin with his hand. Looking into his deep brown eyes you could feel tears burning in your eyes. You could see the love he had for you in those eyes and wondered if this would be the last time you saw it. 

“Hey- hey sweetheart don’t cry what’s wrong?” You pulled away from Danny’s hand wiping away tears and feeling all too childish. “If you don’t tell me I’ll have to guess.” Danny teased, but you could hear his worry. 

“I love you so much.” You said not looking at Danny, instead looking down at the eggs on your plates. “I’m scared of losing you.” 

“y/dn,” It was not fair that Danny speaking so softly hurt you so much. But in truth that had been part of it, when you realized no matter how softly and sweetly your boyfriend spoke your name, or called you beautiful you hated it. “I’m not leaving, what’s wrong?”

You took a breath, trying to organize your thoughts. It had seemed so easy in your head, you would say your piece and after that— well that was the hard part the after you had no idea what might happen. You might leave this house, your house, and not be welcomed back except to get your stuff. Maybe not even that. 

“Are you pregnant?” Danny asked, his voice was soft, it wouldn’t be impossible condoms broke, sometimes there was no condom to be found. When you shook your head you almost smiled at Danny’s relieved look. 

“Did you cheat?” His voice was the same as it had been for the last question, when you looked up he didn’t look upset, in fact he looked worried and you knew, in your heart, that it would be worry for you. You two had talked about cheating early on, what counted, what didn’t, how talking about it was the best way to resolve issues. When he admitted he’d kissed a girl he met in a club you hadn’t been nearly as angry or upset as you thought you would have been. He’d told you the next day, had sounded sorry. The anger faded quickly when you realized, what ever it was that had gotten him to kiss her it was you he loved. You wished you could count on that love now. 

“Are we,” You watched Danny’s face fall, “y/dn are you breaking up with me?” 

“Please stop calling me that.” You said, not looking at him. He looked confused. 

“Your name? I don’t understand, baby please tell me whats going on.” You took a breath, glad for the pet name in place of your dead name, his tone was one that he would normally use your name with. But, you took a breath, he loved you enough to keep to a request as unreasonable as “don’t call me my name” without any explanation. 

“I’m not breaking up with you, I told you, I’m worried you’re going to leave me.” You said, you wanted to just tell him, but the way he was looking at you, love and worry all mixed up, you didn’t want to lose that. 

“Did you sell my nudes to some sleazy magazine?” Again he was joking but his voice was strained. 

“It’s- give me a second,” Danny nodded. “I need-” You stood up and walked to the record player taking Tea for the Tillerman off the turntable replacing it with your comfort album. Taking a deep breath before going back to the table. This wasn’t unusual for you and Danny, you almost always had music in the background. 

“I’m going to say it all, and I don’t want you to interrupt me.” Danny nodded, holding a hand out halfway between you and him. You were grateful for the life line. 

“Since I was in highschool at least,” You started, never had you meant to go that far back, but you couldn’t start over now. “I’ve known I was queer. I, well this isn’t news to you, my ex girlfriend introduced us.” 

Danny nodded, the worry and love had not left his face, but he sat listening. You knew, from your three years with him he was actively listening. Sometimes you expected him to have a notebook and pen out taking notes, he always remembered what you said as if he had. 

“When I was in college I started, I was queer but I was also- I dated this transgender guy.” You knew your sentences were getting mixed up, but you trusted Danny to follow you were ever you went, at least for now. “And he, the way he talked about his gender it opened something up in me and I-” 

You bit your lip looking down at your cooling food. You hadn’t taken a single bite, and looking at Danny’s plate he hadn’t either. Danny must have seen you looking at the food, he squeezed your hand. “I stopped thinking of myself as a woman after that. We didn’t stay together much longer but I-” 

You closed your eyes, didn’t want to even think about seeing Danny right now. But he hadn’t taken his hand back, and instead was rubbing his thumb along the back of your hand, soothing little motions. “It wasn’t supposed to be a big deal.” you said, “Gender is fake, society made up boxes and some people like those boxes some people don’t and I was just supposed to- I don’t know, be enlightened enough to disdain the boxes but I wasn’t ever supposed to-” 

You took a deep breath, feeling the tears burning behind your eyes again. “When I met you it was still like that. I didn’t care because they were just fake little boxes and we even talked about it once, and you seemed to agree but said you liked your box and I, when I said I thought the boxes were stupid you agreed but I couldn’t tell you I didn’t like my box, not really. So I just,” 

You jumped when you felt Danny’s hand on your cheek, when you opened your eyes Danny was leaning over the table wiping away your tears. He had pushed breakfast over so he could lean forward. You leaned into his hand. 

“We fell in love and I didn’t know how to explain it, didn’t know what was going on or I wanted to think I didn't know what was going on but of course I did. I just wanted to ignore it but it didn’t go away.” 

Danny’s face softened at that, “oh sweetheart,” he whispered. 

“I came out to my friends.” You said, “As nonbinary at first and maybe that’s still it but I, a few months ago I- I heard Josh call Harry his boyfriend and I thought ‘I wish Danny would call me his boyfriend.’ but in that very same conversation you didn’t, of course you didn’t, you called me your girlfriend and I-” You closed your eyes again, knowing that for the moment Danny was blaming himself for your pain, you weren’t angry at him but didn’t have it in you to deal with it, to promise him he wasn’t at fault. 

“I threw up in the bathroom.” You watched Danny bite his lip, could almost see the gears turning as he figured out exactly when this was. “I called a friend to come pick me up and they, well they told me I had to tell you but-” 

This, this was the hard part. You knew, deep down, Danny was not transphobic, you knew Danny loved you very much. You also knew that Danny had dreamed of being a rockstar his entire life, having a boyfriend who used to be your girlfriend might get in the way of that. No matter how much Danny wasn’t transphobic or he loved you. 

“But you’re a rockstar, and I- I’m a transgender man.” your voice broke. “And that makes things hard.” leaned your forehead on the table for just a moment, wishing you could go back to waking up in Danny’s arms, the moment before you remembered you wanted to come out to him. 

“People know about us, and I- I do want to transition physically I don’t know exactly what that looks like yet, but I’ve been looking at hormone replacement therapy and I could just go down to the planned parenthood but what would happen when all of a sudden your g-girlfriend had a mustache or-” you took a breath not daring to look at Danny “I guess that assumes you’re, that you’d be, that we’re still together” You finished. The tears had never really stopped so Danny wiped away a few more, he had not, this whole time, let go of your hand which you wanted to believe was a good sign. 

Danny waited for you to keep going, but you didn’t know what else to say. It was quite for a while, when you looked across the table at Danny he wasn’t looking at you, his eyes were closed in thought. But he never let go of your hand, his other hand too had come to cover your hand. A nice warm cocoon, a smaller version of his hugs. After what felt like forever Danny opened his eyes and looked at you, he didn’t look angry, or even upset. Instead he looked worried again, and so very in love with you. 

“Is it my turn?” He asked and you nodded, not trusting yourself to speak without crying. 

“A few things off the top.” Danny said, “I’m just as in love with you as I was when I woke up, or maybe more in love with you. That box conversation was one of the first conversations we ever had, it’s been more than three years and you’ve kept this all bottled up.” You wondered if Danny understood the way your heart swelled at his language. How he didn’t make it seem like you were hiding something from him or lying to him. 

“I’m also not breaking up with you,” he said very matter of factly, “on account of being very in love with you, it would break my heart if I did that.”  You took a breath, it was shaky, you felt like you weren’t out of danger yet, but what more could there be? He loved you, he was staying. 

“So, first things, you don’t want me calling you the name I know you by,” Your heart swelled at the way he avoided saying it even now. “Is there a name I should call you?” 

“Um, yeah Y/n.” you said and Danny’s face lit up. 

“Y/n,” You felt your heart swell as he said it. “You said, you’d like me to think of you as my boyfriend,  and you said you are a transgender man, does that mean you use he/him pronouns or-” He trailed off and you smiled, feeling your heartbeat out of your chest. 

“Yeah he/him.” Danny nodded, going quiet again for a moment whispering your name to himself, you didn’t catch much else other than the stray pronoun as if he were practicing right there in front of you. 

“This is my boyfriend,” Danny said waving towards you as if he were introducing you to someone, the words sounded odd, like Danny was concentrating very hard on them. “His name is y/n.” despite the way they sounded practiced you couldn’t help but giggle tears forming in your eyes. 

“Baby whats wrong?” Danny asked not for the first time that day, “is it- oh!” he grinned at you as he caught you smiling. “You’re happy.” You nodded standing up from your seat taking your hand out of Danny’s so you could walk around the table and sit on Danny’s lap stradling him. He wrapped his arms around you grinning just like you were. 

“I have about twelve thousand more questions.” Danny said kissing your cheek. “And we’ll get to them but I- I actually have something I was going to tell you tomorrow, that I think-” Danny’s cheeks lit up as he ducked his head, his hair falling around his shoulders. 

“I was going to make you steak tomorrow.” Danny said, “And I was going to put on the very album we’re listening to now, and I was going to tell you that it has come to my attention that straight men don’t, they don’t really ever think of other men when they’re-” 

You giggled, your face in Danny’s shoulder. “Jake says he’s never- well I probably shouldn’t tell you what my band mates think about when they’re going at it solo. It's not that important but Ive thought about, well, men. It was that conversation we had years ago actually that I kept coming back to. Everything you had said about boxes, i thought if it was so easy for gender to not fit in boxes then why should sexuality?” 

You smiled at Danny, urging him on, “Well I was going to tell you that I’ve decided I’m definitely bisexual, and it didn’t change anything but it would be nice for you to know. It still doesn’t change anything but, well, I’ve already had my ‘i’m attracted to men’ crisis, so there’s no need to worry about that.” 

Danny leaned down and kissed you, it was slow and sweet. His hands were holding you at your waist, and you couldn’t keep yourself from giggling. 

“What’s so funny hmm?” Danny asked, but his eyes were twinkling, he was glowing with happiness. 

“Next time we should just tell each other instead of planning on making meals that are just going to get cold while we talk.” You said, Danny laughed, a full laugh as he reached under you, holding you tight while he stood up. You wrapped your arms around his neck as he walked you to the bedroom dropping you on the bed. 

“Next time?” Danny asked leaning over you to kiss you. “I don't know if I can ever handle you that nervous again y/n.” He said your name like it was scared. 

“I’m sorry I-” Danny shook his head leaning down to kiss you his hair forming a curtin blocking out the whole world. 

“Don’t be sorry, I can’t imagine,” Danny trailed off running a hand up your side, when he got to your sports bra he pulled his hand away like he had been burned, as if earlier this morning was finally clicking. 

“We’ll figure everything else out later.” Danny said rolling over and pulling you into his side. “Right now, I’m exhausted because I woke up all alone in bed while my g-boyfriend was making me a breakfast we didn’t even eat.” 

You snuggled close to Danny, there were conversations that needed to be had. But Danny was right, sleep seemed a much better choice than hard conversations about language, and how this would change the relationship in small ways. 

“I love you y/n” Danny said and you grinned. 

“Love you too Daniel.” Danny kissed your head again, a sure sign that he was more asleep than awake, you followed him, letting the late morning sun warm you both as you fell back asleep. 

[coolsomejet]

Could Mitchell Peterson solve the Kira case?

Just a dumb thought I had - since Mitchell is a detective (well, a wannabe detective), could he solve the Kira case?

Light Yagami is the protagonist and villain of the anime series Death Note. He can kill people using a notebook called the Death Note. Because of his mass killing sprees, he became known internationally as Kira, which means "killer," but no one knows that Light is Kira. Throughout the series, Light plays cat-and-mouse games with detectives who are trying to figure out who is Kira.

So, if Death Note and Ready Jet Go took place in the same universe, could Mitchell find out that Light is Kira?

(For the sake of the argument, let's forget that RJG and DN take place in different countries)

Things to consider:

Mitchell is actually not that good at solving cases on his own. He only solved his cases in episodes like "Detective Mindy" and "Mindy's Mystery" because the other kids helped him. Whenever he tries to figure out if Jet is an alien, he always loses the evidence/no one believes him.

Mitchell is a child, probably around 5-7. Due to RJG, being a kids' show, he mostly focuses on exposing Jet's alien identity and not murder mysteries, which would probably taint his innocence. But given that he is a fan of Sherlock Holmes (see "Jet's First Halloween," "That's One Gigantic Pumpkin, Jet Propulsion," "Sean's Robotic Arm") and has canonically read Treasure Island, a book with murder in it (see "Treasure Map"), he definitely knows what murder is, and would likely be eager to take on such a big and serious case.

Light has no scruples. He will do anything to achieve his goals, purge the world of what he perceives to be "evil," and become the "God of the new world." While he never kills any kids in the series, he would most definitely kill one if they got in his way.

How does the Death Note work? To kill someone, you have to write their full name in the notebook, and if you want, the way they die. Otherwise, they die of a heart attack. The Death Note only works on humans. Mitchell is obviously a human, and he has something of a habit of announcing his full name. Take these choice quotes from Space Camp: "0900 hours. Mitchell Peterson leaving for Space Camp where I will observe Jet Propulsion and record more proof that he is an alien." "1600 hours! Mitchell Peterson reporting to Dr. Chandra."

In conclusion, Mitchell has a very low chance of solving the Kira case (by himself), and could even be killed. But he COULD solve it with the help of Jet, Sean, Sydney, and Mindy - none of whom are at risk because it is doubtful that Light would know their full names, and Jet is not human.