If Reddit hadn’t seen significant revenue drops, SPEZ wouldn’t be ready to force moderators out of communities. If they were making the same amount of money, he’d be enjoying it while functioning on a fraction of the server load and operational costs. But they’re not. They’re not making the same amount of money. The protests were way larger than he expected, they’re way more affective than he expected, and they’re lasting way longer than he expected. Now he’s using Musk-like temper tantrums as a last resort.
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Ok New Yorkers, quick question coming from the UK:
How frequently do you actually get city-wide powercuts? They're a plot point in so many films and TV shows (Friends, Gossip Girl, Revenge, In The Heights etc etc). I lived in London for years and that never happened.
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Hey!! I'd like to request hcs or maybe an imagine of KK Arnold with an introverted and lowkey awkward reader 😭😭 maybe reader is the type to express her feelings through writing music, im thinking something like house song by searows
introverted- k. arnold
!! - hi! i’m so so so sorry i haven’t been active, a lot is going on and i’m planning on moving to America, which is taking up a lot of my free time
!! - it’s short i’m so sorry
!! - you just stand there silently every time she does something embarrassing
!! - when her and paige are fooling around in public you just stand behind them acting like you don’t know them
!! - you post the cutest stories of her
!! - like the ones that are pinterest themed that take 10 minutes to edit with cute music
!! - you have a journal of poems dedicated to her
!! - you’re embarrassed of them so you don’t let her read them
!! - always listens to you no matter what
!! - you’re like her babysitter tbh
!! - “hey do u wanna game tonight?”
!! - “can’t, y/n says i’m too loud and i’m grounded for the weekend :(“
!! - this turned into golden retriever x black cat but i love that trope so i’m not mad
!! - has a random chill playlist in her spotify that’s just “y/n’s tunes”
!! - will take a nap in between your legs while you’re reading
!! - makes you read to her while she falls asleep, even if it’s in a language she doesn’t know
!! - “i just love the sound of your voice”
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hi! once again, i’m so sorry i’ve been inactive. i’m working on chapter 2 of blackout and some other requests right now (as well as a pert 2 to ‘caught’ with smut!), but feel free to send in asks just to talk!
love, moka
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I've seen some people call Kaito mild compared to movie Shinichi since I made that post and that wasn't my intention. Movie Kaito is just as unhinged, please don't misunderstand.
He caused a city wide blackout just so he find his heist target.
He learned his lover rival's secret and immediately helped him just because said rival looked after his dove and was a dramatic gay ass while doing so
He's dressed up as that lover rival's other identity just to mess with him in front of cops
He jumped out a plane so he could lore the police to a dock to form a runway for said plane to land
He confronted a man with armed guards and then used the guards machine gun and shot out the windows of the building they're in just to inform the police "hey look there's guns here"
He grabbed a bomb off a moving roller coaster so his lover rival didn't die along with his friends
He helped his lover rival get back on a blimp filled with terrorists so his lover rival could terrorize catch them
In order to protect two priceless paintings he made a massive scene in america where he showed off how incredible and acrobatic he was and then jumped out a skyscraper window only to come back into the building as his lover rival
He jumped out another plane just to catch a priceless painting so it wasn't destroyed.
He stayed behind in a collapsing and burning building so he could save those paintings again.
In order to get his lover rival to Singapore to clear his name, he had a special suitcase made to smuggle a child and then kidnapped said child so he could traffic him into the country
Went head to head with Makoto even though he's not a martial artist and had a manic grin on his face most of the fight
He helped his lover rival blow up a hotel to save the day
When I say Kaito and Shinichi are made for each other. I. Mean. It.
They're insane seperately but when they're together they're even more insane and I fucking love it. They terrify the masses and make this heart of mine sing.
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On August 11, day 102 of the 11,500-person Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, which has largely shut down the film industry coast to coast, aided by below-the-line workers respecting picket lines and bolstered by 160,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), who initiated their own strike on July 14, the studios finally returned to the bargaining table.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the organization that bargains on behalf of the major studios, offered counterproposals, a long-awaited response to the WGA’s proposals. The two sides met the following week and continued to exchange proposals.
Then, on August 22, day 113 of the WGA strike, the two sides met again, but with an important addition: previous negotiating sessions had been led by AMPTP president Carol Lombardini, the studios’ hired hand, while at this one, the bosses who make the decisions were in the room.
Disney CEO Bob Iger, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, and NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley came to the table to face the WGA’s elected leadership in the room outside of the AMPTP’s Sherman Oaks, California, headquarters where the negotiations have taken place. Workers, suffering the devastating effects of a months-long strike, hoped that the studios might finally offer counterproposals that meet their needs. Instead, the bargaining session led to further unraveling.
“We accepted [the] invitation and, in good faith, met tonight, in hopes that the companies were serious about getting the industry back to work,” wrote the WGA negotiating committee in a message to members following the meeting. “Instead, on the 113th day of the strike — and while SAG-AFTRA is walking the picket lines by our side — we were met with a lecture about how good their single and only counteroffer was.”
The two sides had agreed to adhere to a media blackout, vowing not to leak information about the proposals to third parties. Yet immediately following the August 22 session, the AMPTP publicly released a document highlighting elements of their counterproposal.
“This was a meeting to get us to cave,” said the WGA leadership, “which is why, not twenty minutes after we left the meeting, the AMPTP released its summary of their proposals.”
The Hollywood Studios Still Aren’t Serious About Ending the Writers’ Strike
These sociopath CEOs are hearing it from shareholders, who want us to get back to work. The shareholders are making it clear that the psychopath CEOs can release the LESS THAN ONE PERCENT of their compensations to get us back to work.
So the sociopath CEOs put on a big show of coming back to bargain and work this out ... and when the WGA sits down to bargain, these sociopath CEOs have the fucking nerve to just lecture the WGA about how great their absolute garbage offer is. The offer WGA rejected because it didn’t address any of the issues on the table.
These sociopath CEOs are the problem:
Disney CEO Bob Iger, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, and NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley
These sociopath CEOs are greedy and entitled. That any one of them thought that lecturing WGA, then gaslighting members (in violation of not just the agreed upon media blackout, but likely in violation of labor law) would move us any closer to getting back to work tells you everything you need to know about who the problem is.
Fuck these scumbags, fuck their greed, and fuck their gaslighting.
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