#guardian news

[trexalicious]

The @guardian @guardiannews along with Editor-in-chief @katharineviner promote disinformation, foreign influence and interventionism in US policy and politics with their fundraiser AGAINST President Elect @realDonaldTrump. Doesn't Labour, Starmer and the UK have enough problems of their own without interfering AGAIN with the US election? #AlliesDon'tDoThis

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[news4dzhozhar]

[infamousbrad]

Just in case you thought that putting a Democrat in charge would make ICE any less monstrous: Russian men seeking asylum in the United States to keep from getting conscripted into the Ukraine invasion are being sent back to Russia, because fear of dying while being forced to commit a war crime does not rise to ICE's standards for "credible fear." So ICE is literally sending conscripts back to Russia to fight against Ukraine.

Merging Border Protection with the Immigration Service was a dumb-ass idea at the time, and the people managing it have consistently been the most monstrous people from either agency. Abolish ICE.

[soweirdondisney]

So Weird. So Many Milestones.

It’s become a tradition to wrap the past year of So Weird happenings. This year was more quiet than others, but in a blur of convention appearances, new merchandise, and Easter eggs (intentional and not), a few things stood out.

And looking back to compile this post made a recurring theme obvious. It’s in the title, but let’s make it a little more clear.

The So Weird Podcast only uploaded one episode, but it was a memorable one when writer Jon Weisman (and his wife, and their daughter) joined Mackenzie Gray for a live script reading of Strange Geometry with scenes not in the aired episode.

The podcast itself reached over 28,000 downloads and co-host Cat met Mackenzie Phillips real life, in person.

Our Weirdo community as a whole reached milestones too! In 2022 we surpassed

1000 followers on Instagram

800 YouTube subscribers

300 forum members

100 TikTok followers

This pushed our total number across all our platforms to over 7,000 Weirdos! 

Buried and rediscovered nostalgic finds this year were

a Guardian TV review from So Weird’s debut

that creepy wheels on the bus ad

Defunctland including two shots of So Weird in their research

The alumni thrived on and off screen. We celebrated and recognized our favorites when

Both Patrick Levis and Erik von Detten turned 40

Kyla Pratt and her Proud Family castmates won an Emmy

Jewel Staite wrapped s3 of Family Law and s1 finally aired in the States

Jerry Wasserman made a few cameos opposite Staite

Mackenzie Phillips made a Book Authority Top 100 list

Henry Winkler spent the day with Super Bowl Champions

Dionne Warwick began a Vegas residency

C Ernst Harth made it safely through surgery

Alexz Johnson welcomed her second child

Erik von Detten welcomed his third child

Our So Weird crew gave us reasons to be proud too.

Jon Cooksey and Tom Astle recounted history with The Look Back Machine. And with a few days before 2022 was all over, Tom shared that he discovered a new species and co-authored a paper about it.

That’s not a bad way to end a year that was different than recent ones but wasn’t a return to normal either.

👽 And with that, the 2022 season comes to an end. 👽

Thank you for being part of the So Weird fandom. Together we’ve shown what happens when people share and hold to something that gave (and still gives) light in the darkness that is sometimes life. 🔦

Whether it was simply reading posts, voicing your thoughts, or sharing and heart-ing on social media - it all matters. 💗 You make this matter and we want to say thank you for not just remembering So Weird but also not wanting to forget it.

Thank you.

🥂 Have a safe New Year. Keep the faith. And may the next several months include the weird (and not always weird 😉) things you love.

[alphabetsoup-blogposts]

"Mall of America (MOA)"

looks like it should be a simple read and, indeed, the simplest solutions are:

Mao

or

👂🏻All-American

where Mao is either Splash or Decadence and All-American is Merk.

In retail situations, the accessible solution is king.

Almost as straightforward would be:

M fo' all America

Call me fo' Maria

where M and Maria are Mo. ("Nordstrom"—which is featured in all the Press coverage—very obviously incorporates Storm, which is a kind of synthetic Maria, and points north.)

But, I'd also consider one of the following anagrams for multi-targeted meaning:

All Mao came Fri.

All[-American] came OMA, Fri. (Omaha)

Mama or Café—ILL (Wilmar, MN)

Ice, Mama for All

Cali or Meal—AMF (eg Ameriflight)

Cali or Mama—FLE (eg, Flair Airlines)

Lima came for LA

Leaf or Mac—Lima/Mail/Mali

where Mama Coca is Merk; Café, Mac and Meal are Food; Ice is Bolo or Zip; Cali and Lima are Maria; and Leaf is Maria or Merk.

(NB. I also considered rougher solutions with Face, Foil, Fire, Cream, Camara, Ace, Ma'a, Amarilla, Cola, Rim, AAL and MIA, including:

Ma'a Camello, Fri

Rim Camello—AAF (Apalachicola, FL)

where a Camello is a Mule. And, in a similar vein there is also:

[All-American] Camello—AMF air.)

[pricklylittleloaf]

Genius my boy, foolproof! We're promoting you to MI9, you'll be in double digits in no time!

losing my mind over this. are you attending the march that the government is actively opposing? where do you live? upload a picture of yourself.

[marcogiovenale]

8400 years wasted (in israel)

click to enlarge After 8400 years some Israeli people are still considering some HUMANS are not worth a grave, a mourn, and respect. click to enlarge Look. This second image [see above] shows Israeli police attacking mourners at Al Jazeera journalist’s funeral, Shireen Abu Akleh, “who was shot dead whilst covering a raid. Police fired tear gas and attempted to arrest mourners as they carried her…

[bibyebae]

" Men in Gaza do cry.

When they lose their homes that they spend their

whole lives building, they cry

When they see their dreams and hopes getting destroyed, they cry.

When they realise how scary and uncertain their future is, they cry.

And because they are human beings, full of feelings and emotions, they cry."

This is an excerpt from a 35-year-old Palestinian's account of life in Gaza under siege.

Ziad has been writing for the Guardian about the realities of the Israeli bombardment, as he, his sister and their pets, flee their home in Gaza City in the hope of survival.

You can read his diary entries in full via the link:

[garmrheim]

Answer from this : Yes... He's just busy discovering what heart palpitations feels like 🫢

[seafoamdew]

I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.

[xavathun]

this came to me in a vision

[tenth-sentence]

'Is this reality TV gone mad?' wondered the Guardian.

"Humankind: A Hopeful History" - Rutger Bregman

[sournote2014]

This is what inspired the sketch I did of Lupin and Jigen's silhouettes in the Mar-A-Lago ballroom.

[petersong3]

Baseball time...⚾️🍟

Tiempo de béisbol...⚾🍟

#MLB #ArizonaDiamondbacks #AtlantaBraves #BaltimoreOrioles #BostonRedSox #ChicagoCubs #ChicagoWhiteSox #CincinnatiReds #ClevelandGuardians #ColoradoRockies #DetroitTigers #HoustonAstros #KansasCityRoyals

#LosAngelesAngels #LosAngelesDodgers #MiamiMarlins #MilwaukeeBrewers #MinnesotaTwins #NewYorkMets #NewYorkYankees #OaklandAthletics

#PhiladelphiaPhillies #PittsburghPirates #SanDiegoPadres #SanFranciscoGiants #SeattleMariners #StLouisCardinals #TampaBayRays #TexasRangers TorontoBlueJays #WashingtonNationals

[splashdict]

Precious Egemasi: Breaking barriers in African music industry, real estate sector

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[lucabyte]

Different standards