#industrial event

[azuremist]

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[sayruq]

[SOURCE]

So when you hear about Biden slowing down arms shipment

It's not because he cares about Palestinians (cutting UNRWA funds, because of confessions obtained through torture, should tell you otherwise), it's because he doesn't have a large stockpile of weapons to send.

[politijohn]

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An unfathomable amount of money

[paintedcrows-caws]

Front row seat to Alex Hirsch's InMotion London Talk!! Aaaa!! (The high quality close up photos were taken by the wonderful @stupidlittlespirit! Who was sitting with me and had a far better camera, haha)

You can watch the full thing here, recorded by the brilliant Topaz Animation!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn_O7CMM67A&t=137s

[world-of-celebs]

Freya Allan attends the "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" UK Launch Event at the BFI IMAX Waterloo on April 25, 2024 in London, England.

[thefirstknife]

:( 220 less Bungie employees

Gaming industry unionise NOW.

Not much else to say honestly, this is absolutely devastating and, unfortunately, nothing new this year in the industry. It also puts an end to the whole spiel people had last year about layoffs and how they were because "game bad." Now it isn't, this is the best expansion ever and layoffs still happened. It's because nothing about the game impacts this; layoffs happen because of capitalist greed. So many studios suffered the same this year. We need to kill and eat every single CEO.

This will once again be really tough for everyone laid off as well as for the remaining employees. As always, I'd advise against preemptive doomposting about the fate (heh) of the game, mostly because of those who remained and are going to be burdened with working twice as hard. We should also expect things to be a little slower and probably also a lot glitchier for a while so please try and be understanding to everyone who still has a job, if you're continuing to play.

But yeah. Unionise.

[hussyknee]

History isn't a disparate collection of stories from long ago. It's the necessary context for the present moment and the forecast for the future. All histories are intertwined, and the narratives of power and privilege, oppression and resistance, adversity and triumph are as constant in their patterns as the laws of physics.

[phoenixyfriend]

One of the insane things I've learned due to bingeing political and news media is why the US has such a high military budget.

Like, don't get me wrong, I still disagree with it, I hate the military industrial complex, I do not THINK we should be doing this...

But finding out that a number of countries have more or less officially contracted their emergency military responses to the US does make more sense. We aren't just the US's army, we're functionally the reserves for all of NATO. Europe gives us good trade deals in exchange for being able to borrow our gun guys.

Again, I don't AGREE with this. I'm just much less confused about the WHY now.

Unless I'm wrong about how the budget works, in which case, please explain using pie charts. I like pie charts.

EDIT: Also it's more than just Europe, some noteworthy others being Taiwan, Israel, South Korea, and Japan.

[emjoy398]

*white knuckle gripping the screen* is there a story mode

[nanoa1foryou]

Obsessed with this notice on the Cable factory training room wall:

Translation:

A few words about behaviour

The Cable Factory is the workplace of around 900 people daily. If they all used the floors as bathrooms and the hallways to store empty bottles, the smell and sight would be quite the thing.

So we ask you to remember, that: - bathrooms can be found the C-stairways basement entryway - you can get money from empty bottles at stores - all the laws that apply on the ground also apply in the basement - there is a recording securitycamera system in place in the building - all wrongdoings and blunders will be reported to the police and if the space in question is an NAK band space to them also - the city has approximately 200 bands without trainingrooms, who would gladly rent the space of a band that was kicked out.

Good riffs and fills,

[hauntedtrait]

bye bye infanthood!

[sayruq]

[politijohn]

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Nothing to see here!

[annabelle--cane]

spotify will play me a song that I've never heard before that actively knocks my socks off and compels me to immediately add it to four separate playlists and take a quick research dive to learn everything about this artist that's available online and then spotify will manage to never play it for me again

[world-of-celebs]

Lily James attends the BFI London Film Festival Luminous Gala at The Londoner Hotel on September 29, 2022 in London, England.

[riverphoenixislove]

Simply himself.

[River @ The Oscar Luncheon, 1989]