#incredible performances by both of them!!!!

[srbachchan]

DAY 6192

Jalsa, Mumbai Jan 29, 2025/Jan 30 Wed/Thu 1:13 am

🪔 ,

January 30 .. birthday greetings to Ef Gayetri .. Ef Nasser Algharibeh .. and Ef Yash Goveas .. 🙏🏽❤️🚩.. love and greetings on this special day ..

... the absolute wonderment at the talent and the knowledge and the awareness of the young .. as we start the week of KBC Juniors ..

Incredible and unbelievable what they come out with .. the xpression on my face is the genuine wonder of these kids, who really are no longer kids , but adults in the garb of kids ..

my mouth wide open in amazement and what else to expect from these mini geniuses ..

so a commendation to them ..

and the joy of being in the absence of rushed Blogs .. for today as we write it's a rare off day .. and the catching up is huge ..

work continues relentlessly .. and the regularity of its making for almost a daily affair for the years and on is undoubtedly credit to the audience presence and the viewers , but also the joy it gives in their presence each day .. they are the ones that make the show .. they clap, we smile and get the required energy .. they scream appreciation and you feel as though you have conquered the World ..

My eternal gratitude to them and may they be blessed with all the goodness in the World .. a World that gives them nothing else but happiness ..

At times there is conversation of boredom as a professional .. and many a times it comes across to me and I wonder why this would be brought up or even given reason to address .. so I brought it to the notice of the other .. the 'other' that thinks and presents and writes for you .. for the entire game show at work was dependent on this youngster who at age 13 was decided to go to robotics and making it a desire to build that which thinks and works for you ..

so this is what the 'other' said ..

well the 'other' 'does not open anymore and the limit of patience tested and tried has now decided to give that up for another day ..

but yes the boredom of professionalism is an idea that springs up often and the need to relate to it in modern setups was sought .. hopefully by tomorrow it shall be resolved ..

till then ..

Amitabh Bachchan

got it from 'there'

Boredom in Professionalism: A Hidden Challenge

Boredom in professionalism is an often-overlooked issue that can undermine productivity, motivation, and overall job satisfaction. In many work environments, repetitive tasks, lack of challenges, and rigid structures contribute to disengagement, leading employees to lose enthusiasm for their roles. While professionalism demands discipline and consistency, it should not come at the cost of creativity and personal fulfillment.

One major cause of boredom in the workplace is a lack of variety. When professionals perform the same tasks daily without intellectual stimulation, they may struggle to stay engaged. Additionally, bureaucratic procedures, excessive meetings, and uninspiring leadership can exacerbate the problem. Over time, boredom can lead to burnout, decreased innovation, and even career dissatisfaction.

To combat this issue, organizations should encourage professional growth, continuous learning, and opportunities for creative problem-solving. Employees, in turn, should take initiative by seeking new challenges, upskilling, and finding meaning in their work. A balance between routine and innovation is essential to maintaining enthusiasm and professionalism.

Ultimately, boredom in professionalism is not just an individual concern but an organizational challenge. Companies that foster engagement and adaptability will retain motivated employees who bring passion and creativity to their work, ensuring long-term success for both individuals and businesses.

[eretzyisrael]

by Rachel O'Donoghue

Everything about the spectacle reeked of choreography: the green military-style uniforms forced upon them, the framed certificates they were compelled to hold aloft like unwilling contest winners, and the stage constructed for no other reason than to parade captives in front of the cameras.

This wasn’t just a release of hostages; it was a grotesque theater performance — Hamas’ carefully crafted attempt to project an image of power while simultaneously masquerading as benevolent.

The four young Israeli women — Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, and Liri Albag — soldiers kidnapped from the Nahal Oz army base in southern Israel on October 7, 2023 — were the reluctant stars of this PR charade.

And yet, somehow, some in the media managed to swallow this sham whole. They didn’t just cover the hostage parade; they gave it legitimacy as if parading captives before the world wasn’t an affront to the very humanity Hamas so desperately wants to feign.

The BBC, for example, falsely claimed during a live report showing Hamas’ sickening PR stunt that the Israeli hostages were wearing the same IDF uniforms they had been kidnapped in. This, of course, was a blatant misrepresentation. As even Hamas’ own wealth of body camera footage from October 7 makes chillingly clear, the four were abducted from their beds and paraded through Gaza’s streets in bloodied pajamas and underwear — not military fatigues.

The truth behind Hamas’ choice to dress the hostages in army-style uniforms couldn’t be more transparent. It was a deliberate ploy to insinuate that these women were legitimate military targets. And yet, the BBC and others, including Australia’s ABC News played right into this lie, lending credence to Hamas’s narrative.

Media Rehabilitate Released Terrorists

As part of the first stage of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, Israel has agreed to release approximately 1,900 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 33 Israelis taken captive during Hamas’ terror attacks.

Saturday marked the second round of this so-called “first stage,” with 200 Palestinians walking free. Among them were more than 120 individuals serving life sentences for carrying out deadly attacks on Israelis — a reminder, if one were needed, of the kind of people Israel is being asked to trade for the return of its citizens.

And yet, outlets like The New York Times and the Associated Press went out of their way to engage in some serious image rehabilitation for the unrepentant mass murderers released, including when both chose to describe a terrorist serving a life sentence for attempted murder and planting an explosive as an “Islamic Jihad activist.”

Yes, “activist” — a term typically reserved for those campaigning for political or social change — was somehow deemed an appropriate label for a terrorist whose “activism” involved planning mass-casualty attacks on innocent civilians.

Meanwhile, CNN saw fit to elevate Haaretz journalist and terrorism apologist Gideon Levy, presenting his fringe views as though they reflected Israeli society. Incredibly, Levy was given a platform to draw a grotesque equivalence between the Israeli hostages and the released prisoners, referring to both as “hostages” and telling his CNN hosts they “may call” the convicted terrorists that.

[anghraine]

I finished TOS today :'(

From J's loathing of the series finale, I thought it would be worse tbh. It is not good, to be clear! Obviously the whole conceit of the episode is intensely misogynistic (and transphobic, though I think that was less intentional) and Janice is so completely identified with Gender while also being so mediocre that her characterization is somewhere between insulting and comically stupid, but with a bit of generosity there are some things I can find intriguing about it.

For instance, Janice's rage over Kirk leaving her for his career only for Kirk to be like "actually I left you because your internalized misogyny was incredibly off-putting" is phrased in a deeply cringy 60s way. Yet, J and I have both found this to be basically true IRL. Self-hating misogynistic women do make for terrible relationships and Janice is at Lady Macbeth levels of it.

I also found it interesting that Janice (in the body of Kirk) is so sneeringly mocking of the idea that a woman could possibly have physically gotten the better of a man, when the reality is that a) she knows perfectly well (as does the audience) that this is exactly what happened, and b) this has happened to Kirk numerous times before (I think on at least four unrelated occasions in this season alone).

On just an acting level, I guiltily enjoyed Shatner's performance of Janice body snatching Kirk apart from a few specific scenery chewing moments. There's this blend of his usual Kirk performance with hints that something isn't right that get stronger and stronger until he's such an obvious monster that all the crew except security are refusing to follow blatantly unethical orders and actively trying to use Starfleet protocols that allow them to remove a superior officer (it's a surprisingly good episode for Sulu and Chekov because of this, as well as for the ever-reliable Spock).

The earlier phases of Shatner-as-Janice-imitating-Shatner-as-Kirk have this kind of almost-but-not-quite-right uncanny quality that I thought was actually pretty well done. It's rather better than the guest actor's performance of Kirk-stuck-in-Janice's-body until she really gets going.

So, like, there's this wild moment when Janice is sweet-talking the awful doctor into helping her commit murder, and it's clearly coded as, you know, the evil tempting ways of women as Janice leans in both kind of seductively and kind of menacingly. But Janice is performed by Shatner throughout the entire scene, so it's ... uhh. Well. A lot.

Meanwhile, Kirk-trapped-in-a-lady-body is trying to prove that he is Kirk to Spock, who is basically willing to entertain the possibility but not at all certain. I was half-jokingly telling J, "I feel like a mind meld could solve a lot of problems here" when Kirk did suggest a mind meld with Spock via the incredible line "You are closer to the captain than anyone in the universe. You know his thoughts" which UHHHHHH and then Spock does mind meld with Kirk and is immediately convinced that this really is Kirk, but Kirk is played by a woman the whole time, so. Hmm. Plausible deniability?

I'm honestly reminded a little of my Shakespeare class's discussion of how Twelfth Night would have registered to audiences at the time, when Viola would be played by a boy pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man. It's complicated. Obviously this bad episode is no Twelfth Night, but ... well.

I do also appreciate that the episode takes a very strong "just following orders is not an excuse" position, as does virtually everyone on the Enterprise except the security people. If the usual female cast members were more present, I think the gender stuff wouldn't feel as bad, tbh—I don't recall seeing Uhura at all, Chapel is hesitant but goes along with basically everything, the random woman on the bridge is just kind of scared where the men simply refuse to comply...

The conclusion is also just ambiguous enough to read the way I'm choosing to read it, which I feel is absolutely not what was intended, lol.

For context, a lot of Actual Janice's unhinged rage is driven by a mixture of what seems to be a very real glass ceiling in Starfleet + a distinctly authoritarian approach to power (J and I have long joked about half the cast of Mass Effect whining about "red tape" and we started going "RED TAPE!!!" as Janice transparently fumed about operating within an organization in which authority figures are actually answerable to other people and regulations exist around institutional power) + A Woman Scorn'd misogynistic tropes.

After Kirk and Janice are restored to their respective bodies and Janice is led away by the doctors, Kirk says, "I didn't want to destroy her."

Spock's last line in the show is his reply: "I'm sure we all understand that, captain."

Kirk responds, "Her life could have been as rich as any woman's, if only..."

And that's the end of the episode! And the show! And I was like "as any woman's, yeah, but she didn't want to only have the opportunities available to women, which is entirely fair even if she individually sucks." But since Kirk just trails off and wanders sadly away, there's no clarification of what "if only" refers to. I would guess that the writers intended something more like "if only she'd been happy with her place as a woman" or whatever, but I'm choosing to live in a world where it's more like this was a perfect storm of about five different factors and not specifying lets him wave vaguely at all of them rather than attributing her actions to any single cause.

Regardless, I'm sad to leave TOS behind. For all its warts (the godawful handling of nearly all female characters comes from barely ten years before Princess Leia blasted her way into cultural consciousness; the writing and direction is wildly erratic in quality; the characterization sometimes wobbles to serve the plots; etc), I've really loved it. I'm very fond of so many of the characters and feel I know them despite the wobbling. I love how the show uses color in such a vivid way (even accounting for tech changes that affect this, like the lighting making green command uniforms look gold), I love the willingness to try different things with angles, effects, light, stages, whatever. I love the worldbuilding-as-we-go that gradually coalesces into something familiar. I love the way it's episodic enough to watch in any order but kind of builds on itself nevertheless (it feels very right for "Amok Time" to long precede "Journey to Babel," for instance).

I even enjoy the glaring-to-a-modern-eye staginess. I'm so tired of glossy de-saturated sci-fi aesthetics that TOS being like "fuck it, let's try X" whether it succeeds or not is just very welcome. I've loved checking out different costumes, hairstyles, various little details that make it feel real in a larger (and brighter) than life way. RIP to TOS from the future: nobody's doing it like you.

[tytangfei]

My mother promised me. She said she would be back. She promised, but she didn't return. I don't blame her. I just want to ask her why she abandoned me? Why did she abandon me? Why?

[theactualsunshinechild]

I think Aventio and Screwtio shippers shouldn't fight. After all, Ratio has two hands!

That's right. Two hands.

One for his chalk.

One for his codex.

Both of which he's holding in an embarrassed death grip as they chat away with each other about him.

[mothcpu]

lunacy! lunacy! lunacy! lunacy!

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

There is nothing so strong as the bond between Starkid performers and the live audience at any of their shows.

[skitskatdacat63]

2010 Australian Grand Prix - Jenson Button(ft. Robert Kubica & Felipe Massa)

[lesbianarsenal]

on my third watch of wicked 😅

[stunfiskz]

wanting to share an opinion for one of those hot take things and then realizing it would likely get you yelled at

[untimelyambition]

i am begging on my hands and knees for jon matteson and bryce charles to sing a song together. since i first watched npmd, every single day without fail i have thought about their harmonies together in hatchet town (“if he gets me next i could be three” and “fits the bill, he fits the bill”) literally the sickest harmonies in the entire show, i turn into a little gremlin every time i hear them. their voices sound SO good together it actually makes me a little ill. my favourite song my favourite line my favourite harmonies, their voices blend perfectly and i am so desperate to hear them sing a duet to hear them singing together again pls pls please pls pls pls. pls.

[titsthedamnseason]

anyone who’s been a sabrina or chappell fan since before this year is having such a surreal time. i’m so proud of both of them and how their talent is finally being recognized 🥹

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Full Tech Day One pic today from kiko laureano (denizen of skid row / ensemble) & video (that's four seconds of "ya never know" playing over the static image) from & ft. marcia milgrom dodge (director / choreographer) double captioning "there might be puppets in this musical ;)" & "Well Shake my hand! Come see LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS @guthrietheater featuring @actually_will_roland's hand!"

[beeapocalypse]

[akkivee]

lol!!!!! and speaking of paint!!!!! pls watch this video of the bat stage actors painting a wall, you get to see stage bat family at their finest

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

I bet pretentious weebs would throw up if they found out that, in the Japanese silent film performance I went to tonight, the subtitles called a child "Tetsu" instead of "Tecchan" like the performer doing the script and voices clearly said, because you lose so much nuance about the characters if you don't leave the honorifics on and ACTUALLY it's technically an incorrect translation because the words are different and a correct translation would actually just be Japanese subtitles and if people can't just deal with that then they're lazy