#kasia babis

[mlekom3]

[guiltywisdom]

Progressive Taxation: How Does it Work? by Kasia Babis

[immaterial-pearl]

Guys pleaseee watch this video made by my favourite polish youtuber. She made an english channel and this is a banger.

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[heresiae]

[fat-fem-and-asian]

dagmara dominczyk + kasia warnke in the rzeczy niezbedne trailer (x)

[droughtofapathy]

"Welcome to the Theatre": Diary of a Broadway Baby

Fashionspeak Fridays: The Gilded Age

October 25, 2024 | National Arts Club | Evening | Talk | 1H

Head costume designer for The Gilded Age, Kasia Walicka-Maimone, participated in an hour-long talk at the National Arts Club this past Friday. Here are a few things I learned for all us Gilded Age gals.

Over 7,000 costumes for the background actors across season one. Hundreds for the principals.

All of the principal female characters' costumes were crafted right here in New York, though regrettably, the entire industry is disappearing at a rapid rate in America.

Most of the menswear and some of the background costumes and hats were done in Europe, where they have much more resources.

Season one featured shoes that were all period-accurate and crafted especially for the show. This was a costly affair, and anything they didn't reuse for the next season was done on a simpler scale because the camera really never sees the shoes.

Most of the designs are inspired by House of Worth.

While the layers of undergarments were all period-accurate, they were also largely not camera-ready, instead simple and functional. Only a few characters had one or two camera-ready corsets.

They're taking some creative license with Ada's mourning attire, and she's going to be in colors a little sooner than realistic.

There are only a few designers for the many hats, and they really upped the ante for seasons two and three. Last season, there was a hat so large that the actress couldn't get through the door for the scene and they had to adjust.

Actors typically do two-to-three fittings, the first being with the initial muslin draping. And apparently the person responsible for actually tailoring Christine Baranski's costumes now knows her body so well that they only need one fitting to get everything right.

Kasia's team operates out of Manhattan, and can be anywhere from 65 to 100+ people.

They have 22 massive trucks that shuttle costumes from location to location.

They'll sometimes reuse principal actor costumes for background actors, so I guess this means the drag queen wearing Anne Morris's dress means nothing in-universe.

Highlight of the night was one lady asking if they used AI to design and research the costumes at all and Kasia blinking at her and saying, "I have a human researcher," before proceeding to talk about how many museums have digitized their archive and it makes research much more accessible for her team.

Verdict: A Lovely Night

A Note on Ratings

[korovamlecznybar]

kocham nieudane kuchenne rewolucje

[pajorko]

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[vancilart]

mwa

[softietrait]

i got toddler skins and my default eyes to work for infants. idk how i managed to follow it correctly but i did thank GOODNESS. also, i did NOT expect kasia & brycen to generate such a cute infant...i could cry. ya'll in for SUCH a treattttt~ ‹𝟹

[mlekom3]

[phoenixyfriend]

Ko-Fi prompt from @kayasurin:

Economy topic - Trickle Down Economics, why they work/don't work

HI it's been two months since I got this prompt, so. Sorry about that. been a lot going on in my personal life, so let's hope this makes up for the wait.

(To anyone who was considering doing a ko-fi prompt... I promise to get to them, but I cannot promise a reasonable time frame, sorry.)

So, Trickle-down economics, and if they work.

Short answer: They absolutely don't.

Longer answer that you actually paid for:

Trickle-down is basically a propaganda-driven hustle that rich people run against the working class. It's an economic theory that is known to not function, but since it serves the people up top to keep pushing it, we still have to deal with people pretending it's a real thing.

The basic concept of it is that if the capitalists at the top are allowed to retain more money (less taxes), then that money will naturally find its way lower down the pyramid through natural market forces. If a wealthy individual is allowed to keep an extra 50% of their marginal income, then the bulk of that 50% will go into their businesses, reinvested to generate more wealth by purchasing new equipment, running R&D, and paying more money to more workers. By not paying the taxes, they wealthiest classes can direct their money as they see fit, so really they don't end up with any more money than they would have if they paid their taxes!

As you can guess, this is not what actually happens in almost every possible application of the theory.

First, let's address the concept of marginal tax rates. They get a lot of hate, but I find this infographic explains the reality best:

(source: This post, but originally from Kasia Babis on The Nib/@thenib)

To summarize for those using a screen reader:

Let's say you earn 50k every year, and we're not going to bother with currency, because this is a simplified explanation. In this scenario, there is a national/federal income tax of approximately 20%. With that, you give 10k to the government, and retain 40k for your own purposes.

You have a neighbor who makes 500k every year. In this hypothetical, a marginal tax rate applies to earnings over 100k. The marginal tax rate is 70%. What does that mean for your neighbor?

They pay 20% on the 100k, which is 20k. Then they pay 70% on the remaining 400k, which is 280k. Combining the base tax and marginal, they are taxed 300k. At the end of the day, they are left with 200k. The total tax on their income is 60%. If you're following along, you can tell that regardless of the final percentage, anyone that the marginal tax applies to is always going to get to keep at least 80k, the amount left of the pay that is taxed at the base rate.

The more you earn, the more you are taxed. Again, this is super simplified, but this is the most basic way marginal taxation works. (Tax brackets are related but not entirely the same thing.)

With a marginal tax, exorbitant wealth is curtailed by forcing that wealth back into the system. The understanding is that nobody can actually perform hundreds of times more labor than their lowest-paid worker, and so all that surplus income was in some way not distributed properly. They get to keep enough to live on, quite comfortably, but not all of it.

There may be some companies that are willing to cap their highest wages in relation to their lowest, but those are far and few between. There's a reason the average ratio of CEO to entry level worker in the US is nearly 400:1... up from 1965's 20:1. (source)

Trickle-down theorizes that, if allowed to keep that exorbitant wealth, the Capitalists will distribute that wealth back to their workers or reinvest it into productive enterprise, and do so in response to market forces or out of fear of a return of the marginal tax.

This is not what happens, basically ever. People do not earn that much money if they are already paying a living wage and distributing wealth properly. You cannot get exorbitantly wealthy through anything other than wage theft, system abuse, or capital-based market manipulation (see: hedge funds, housing market).

I suppose you could inherit the money, or win the lottery, but the latter is actually taxed higher than the former, believe it or not. The United States federal government doesn't have an inheritance tax, and most states also don't. There might be various legal fees and such, but not any actual taxes.

Where we end up is that those taxes the rich don't have to pay go instead towards 'passive income' schemes and market manipulation like the housing market.

(That is an entire separate rant, but yeah, most of the housing market at that income bracket is, to some degree, deliberately manipulated by those involved in it. We are all 100% watching for that bubble burst that is inevitably heading our way.)

The wealth does not trickle down to the workers. It is guided by those who have it, and they are significantly more likely to put it in foreign bank accounts, liquid assets, and real estate that they hope will gain value for a capital gain at sale.

Trickle-down economics relies on the goodwill of the wealthy, but almost nobody gets that wealthy by having goodwill to spare.

(Prompt me on ko-fi!)

[immaterial-pearl]

My favourite polish YouTuber has an English language channel now!!! She used to do long form videos (and still does some on her polish channel), but rn she's mostly doing some 20-40 minute stuff. She's great here's a link to her video on unschooling. https://youtu.be/CZQqwuL3_Lc?si=bNdUF0CIRRjS1Yhi .

(She's also made one about booktok, that's a pretty silly video, one about passport bros and one about the facebook group I love my polish heritage).

[historicxllexi]

if you are wondering how is antisemitism doing in modern poland, especially in leftist spacies then i can assure you, it hasn't changed much

(screens of the chat from kasia babis video, a polish youtuber, artist and activist)

kasia was talking about the rules of shabbat the jews need to follow

mako_tek: what a weird cult

bartekkfx: xDD it's so stupid. it's so hard to believe that anyone can actually live like this

Krejtek: I've never heard of a more exhausting method to not do anything

cyjon72: even if it wasn't written i would still be afraid of doing anything because it could be considered forbidden and i didn't know about it

"syjoniści" is a polish word for zionists

[apocalyptichearts]

So, hi! I hope this message finds you well!

I know you might’ve moved on from the AoS fandom, but I’ve come from your TikTok, and I love your May & Daisy edits! The fics that accompany a few of them as well are simply glorious! And the captions are mini fics in and of themselves as well so they’re lovely (if heart wrenching at times) to read, too!

I was hoping, if you wouldn’t mind, could you rec some of your favourite May & Daisy fics? Doesn’t matter whether it’s complete or how long it is :)

Thank you for your time! And for your wonderful edits and works!

Have a nice day/night!

thank you so much for your kind words anon, they really do mean a lot :))

as for maydaisy fic recs, boy do i have some for you!!

now for the sake of not making this post too long here are some of my favourite maydaisy authors:

Book_freak I don't think we can talk about maydaisy fics without mentioning them; of they're 90 or so maydaisy fics, you're bound to find your cup of tea!!

PanicMoon15 for when you need a little fluff and lightheartedness. also, they're Baby Mine, Rest Your Head Close To My Heart series? a must read, no one does AU like they do.

cassiopluto for when you want something a little darker and want to read some insanely good writing <3

daisyqiaolianmay they have so many good fics to choose from and I think I mention The Framework later in this post, but others worth checking out are A Daisy By Any Other Name  and The Parts That Make A Whole Series!!

Inkquillery i can't express in words how beautiful her writing is, all of her maydaisy fics are such joys to read <33

marvelthismarvelthat would've ended up listing all their fics in the following section so I listed them here. they write so many cool concepts it's hard to summarize them, but each and every one is incredible

agentmmayy a lot of sweet philindaisy content as well as a handful of maydaisy angst bcus sometimes that's just what you need.

here are some more specific fics that I (obviously) love:

It’s a Long Road Out to Recovery From Here by PanicMoon15 I enjoy most fics that deal with their relationship post the season 2 finale, but this one is quite something else. the writing and the themes and the characterization and just omg I cannot stress how good this fic is!!

Hold Her Close by StillTryingToWrite I'm a sucker for character studies and introspections and this one is just so beautiful.

silent secret sacred ground by Inkspinner a post-coulson's s5 death fic that is just so sweet and so gentle and I lose my cool a little whenever I think about it.

In Kasias' arena, no one wins… by Axolotl7 read this so long ago but I remember it being just jawdroppingly tragic and such a cool concept. insanely vivid writing <3

Mother’s Day/Father’s Day Series by agentquakingskye philinda becoming grandparents?? yes please. this series is so fluffy and so happy and even if you aren't into daisy x sousa, i think it's still worth reading.

Exposure by agentquakingskye now this isn't maydaisy focused, but they do have quite a few scenes and honestly, I'll take any opportunity to recommend this fic because oh my god. life-changing, I'm telling you.

and if you're into AU's that deal with baby/younger daisy some of my favs are:

from your head down to your toes (and your tiny nose) by agentmmayy of all the "daisy getting turned into a baby somehow" fics, this one is my absolute favourite. sadly I think it was discontinued but I think it's worth reading the 18 chapters posted!

Just a Walk in the Park by Bdoyle1807 I remember lovinggg the dynamic between May and (a much younger) Daisy in this and I'm pretty sure I read it in one sitting so.

The Framework by daisyqiaolianmay such an interesting take on the whole Framework stuff, I can't recommend it enough.

honestly, despite going through my bookmarks pretty meticulously, I'm probably missing some I would absolutely recommend as well, but I hope you find something you like out of the ones listed :))

[neine]

Listening Kasia babis' summary of that new gaiman article..holy shit i dont think i was ever this close to throwing up from words