#nov 26 2024

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Badboyhalo is live on Twitch! Title: Building Murder Mystery in Minecraft @_@ (Beating this hard parkour or Bust)

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peanut butter crackers - 200 cals

pirate's booty - 140 cals

(homemade) piece of sweet potato choco chip pumpkin bread - ??

white cheddar popcorners - 240 cals

high chew - 260 cals

melon ramune - 80 cals

grape ramune - 80 cals

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And his economically struggling voters keep saying they chose him over Harris because they think he'll lower prices and taxes for them.

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How will Tariffs effect the Historical Costume Community?

How will Tariffs effect the Historical Costume Community?

Maybe it was divine inspiration that I chose the summer of 2025 to semi-retire, because textiles are about to increase, ya'll! - so are avocados, strawberries, and fruits and vegetables from Mexico; electronics (from China) - like your cell phones and computers, televisions. But it doesn't stop there: building supplies, car parts, clothing, toys, medical supplies, medications, and much, much more is about to increase!

Why?

Because of Trump's brilliant economic plan to implement tariffs on countries like China, Mexico, and Canada on "Day one," to quote him directly.

Yes, that was sarcasm. For those who haven't been following the dire warnings economists worldwide and in America were shouting to the rooftops, i.e., that tariffs will cause economic disaster for many companies in the USA, and you still think the cost of gas and eggs and groceries are going to decrease in the Trump administration, boy oh boy are ya'll gonna have a huge awakening come January 20, 2025.

The way tariffs work is like this: American companies, who purchase goods outside of America, "are the ones who pay the tariffs" - NOT the companies sending goods to America for American consumers to buy. American companies will be paying MORE to import goods from other companies, and that increase will be passed on to the American people. These large corporations, who have already been recording record breaking profits since 2020, will use Trump’s tariffs as an excuse to raise their prices even more! – because there are no regulations on what they can charge the public. ALSO, they will be receiving more tax cuts, while the rest of us, especially the middle class who already carry the burden of the majority of the taxes in the USA will see an increase in our taxes. These tariffs will cost us an additional $2500 a year per household. That doesn't sound like much, but it adds up, especially for many who are already barely scraping by - myself included.

How will these tariffs impact the historical costume community specifically?

While Mexico, China and Canada are our top exports (places we buy from), the following countries are the most popular sources that USA consumers import textiles and clothing:

Vietnam

India

Bangladesh

Indonesia

Honduras

The majority of fine woolen textiles are exported from the UK. The cost of wool will also be affected, with costs going up from 10 to 20%. Maybe that doesn’t sound like much, but when you’re already paying $30 to $40 (and more) a yard for a good wool product an additional $3 to $6 per yard will carry a punch on my client’s budgets.

Companies like Silk Baron, who import silk fabrics in bulk from places like India, will have to increase their prices by a minimum of 20%. The price of silk is already $20 to $30 or more a yard through Silk Baron, and we can expect their prices to increase to $22 to $24, or $33 to $36 a yard.

Fabric-Store.com, used to only charge $12 a yard for linen, but beginning in 2020 they have raised their prices every year and are now charging $18 a yard. The impacts of tariffs will only increase these costs.

Trump’s tariffs on China will raise prices by 60%, and 10 to 20% to other countries who import goods to the USA. Tariffs impact consumers, NOT the companies who produce the products and ship them to American businesses.

Walmart and Lowes have already rung a warning nell that their prices are about to increase. According to an article by Reuters, a Walmart spokesperson stated, “We're concerned that significantly increased tariffs could lead to increased costs for our customers at a time when they are still feeling the remnants of inflation"…"Trump has vowed to make tariffs, which are a fraction of U.S. tax collections, central to his economic agenda. Executives have been increasingly fielding questions on the subject, with many noting ongoing efforts to continue to diversify their supply chains, particularly away from China, Trump's top target.”

Additionally, the CFO of Lowe’s, Brandon Silk, said: "Roughly 40% of our cost of goods sold are sourced outside of the U.S., and that includes both direct imports and national brands through our vendor partners"…"And as we look at the potential impacts (of tariffs), it certainly would add to product costs." These tariffs will impact the cost of appliances and building supplies, which means the cost of new construction will increase.

Grocery stores, who were already price gouging consumers since the pandemic are beginning to raise their prices. By the way, the President of the United States does not control the prices that big corporations charge consumers, it’s greed on the part of these companies like Albertson’s, Fred Meyer, etc., who set the prices. Harris planned to institute regulations to control their greed and lower the cost of groceries, etc., but Trump’s “tariffs,’ WILL absolutely affect American consumers.

Furthermore, voters, pissed off about Biden’s handling of Hamas, voted for Trump in protest. By the way, Trump and his entire administration are 100% pro-Israel, and support the atrocities Netanyahu has perpetrated against innocent civilians who have nothing to do with the terrorists of Hamas.

Voting is the equivalent to an open book examination in college or high school. All the information needed to educate yourselves on the issues are available at your fingertips, but you have to open the damn book! Voters, angry about Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, chose not to educate themselves about what control or influence on world politics a Vice President actually HAS. Harris was not pro-Israel, but publicly stated she was against Palestinian and Israeli aggression.

When textile and supply prices go up, those increases affect the cost for costumers. The tariffs that will be implemented will increase costs by 60% from any goods purchased from China. For my business, this will impact such items as “freshwater pearls,” that I use on my costume embellishment. China is the world’s largest exporter of pearls, which are “grown” or farmed in that country.

Coates embroidery thread, which I use in my embroidery machines, are based in Mexico. With Trump’s tariffs the cost will go up 20%. A spool of Coates gold metallic thread is $12.99 at JoAnns. That will increase by roughly $2.60 per spool.

Faux Baleen from Germany, used in corsetry, will go up anywhere from 10 to 20%.

American Duchess, who contracts with shoemakers in China to produce their historical shoes will have to raise their prices by 60%!!  

Buttons, thread, fabric, notions, everything you can imagine used in the creation of historical costumes are imported from China. Tariffs will have a noticeable impact on the entire historical costume community, which is already an expensive hobby.

At a time when American’s are paying more for goods and groceries than other countries, not only will tariffs impact the economy, but Trump and the Republicans as outlined in Project 2025, plan to cut Social Security by no less than 20%, but they also are planning to do away with it entirely, to include social security disability, which millions of disabled and retired Americans depend on to exist.

In a word, and I don’t give a flying fig that I’m bringing politics into historical costuming, you voted for more inflation and higher cost of goods. It would behoove all ya’ll among the younger generations to use Google and research how the stock market crash of 1929 happened, and how tariffs played a significant role in exacerbating the Great Depression.

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, passed in June 1930, was a key factor. This act raised tariffs on thousands of imported goods in an attempt to protect American industries and farmers, which had unintended consequences such as:

Retaliation by Other Countries: Many countries responded by imposing their own tariffs on American goods, which led to a significant decline in international trade.

Reduction in Exports and Imports: American exports and imports fell by about 67% during the Great Depression. This decline in trade worsened the economic downturn.

Global Economic Impact: The tariffs contributed to a global economic slowdown, making it harder for the U.S. and other countries to recover from the depression.

These consequences ended in joblessness, as companies closed down. Read about the how the banks went under, people lost their jobs, resulting in widespread foreclosures, and the rise in shanty towns to house millions of homeless who were once productive members among the middle class.

Is this hyperbole? No! If you do not educate yourselves, history will repeat itself. Trump’s tariffs will impact Americans on a catastrophic level, as well as impact the global economy.

So, next time, maybe study for the “open book test” rather than sourcing your information from word of mouth like, you know, Fox News.

Hang on to your butts, it’s gonna get rough for all of us.

P.S: If you voted for him, and your fee-fees are hurt by this article, don't you dare say one hateful thing in my blog or my Facebook page or you will be blocked. FAFO.

[mikeywayarchive]

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[Nov 12, 2024]

[msbarrows]

Nov 26 - Didn't do much today other than running the vacuum and some crochet and gaming. For supper I did pasta with tomato veg sauce to finish off some veggies that needed using up. Threw in capers because why not. Cooked some tail ends of frozen bags of both shrimp and haddock fillets in butter for the protein.

Nov 27 - Lots of crochet sessions today. Finished playing around with another map in Timberborn.

Supper was chili and rice.

Nov 28 - Slept in stupidly late after staying up to the wee hours to finish the rainbow infinity scarf I've been crocheting.

Just me for supper so I made a grilled cheese sandwich, cooked in bacon fat because why not. I'll worry about veggies tomorrow.

[heldinhishands]

I think this lover heart will be the death of me. This hopeless goner of a romanticist, this stupid blind longing that never has a place to land. It's going to kill me one day. I should pluck it out like the splinter that it is. It's going to kill me. But then again, I'm sitting at this bar, blowing up my friend's phone with all the insane thoughts that come with rum. She doesn't mind. I'm looking at photos of my niece, no not the baby with a smile that glows my insides, but the teenager with so much life coming for her. I make a joke with a stranger and he doesn't hear me, I laugh for the both of us. I wonder if he is a father, a uncle, a husband. I wonder if he has ever cried about the same thing every night before. I wonder if he has it right now on his back. I have mine in my chest. It knocks, and I weep until it shakes out of me. People are so beautiful, so beautiful it hurts.

[freshthoughts2020]

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LET'S GO LIVE! Nov 26, 2024 Episode Replay #IsraelCeasefire #TrumpTarrif...

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[stickkitty]

Stickfigures/Species HCs/Info

SECTION 1:

Animated Stickfigures are called Animasticks for short. Sticks created by Alan are Animasticks/Hollowheads, but are sometimes called Noogaisticks (surely, stick figures with hollow heads didn't just come from Alan). Powerful Animasticks have sharp fingers, sharp teeth, and fangs. Animasticks’ secondary color (for example, TCO's is red) is in their eyes, mouth, and a little bit in the hair (if they choose to have/grow hair). The secondary color is a reflection of the soul. The secondary color fades when the stick dies. If the stick is plural, the secondary color will change color based on who is fronting. (For example, If TSC’s secondary color is gray, Star (the cowboy tsc) is fronting.) (Oh and btw I won’t really explore the whole TSC being plural HC much because I am not plural and is afraid of possibly doing something wrong.)

Sticks created in the Internet are Intersticks. Intersticks range in a lot of variety. Sticks born in the Outernet are Outersticks.

SECTION 2:

Stick figures can be born/determined-at-birth as male, female, bigender, nonbinary, agender, demigirl, demiboy, gxrl, or bxy. Unlike humans, being anything other than male or female is more common (around half of the population for stickfigures is not born male or female). Stickfigures sexes just work differently compared to humans.

I label their sexes using “M” and “F.” For example, females are “FF” and males are “MM.” Bigender is “FFMM” and agender has nothing (I would sometimes use X to show a symbol, but really it’s actually nothing). Nonbinary is “FM”, demigirl is “FFM,” and gxrl is “F”. You can only be a mother with two Fs, and you can be a father with one or two Ms.

Any two sticks can have biological children (I won't explain much about how that works other than code-science was used to make it possible. It is not naturally possible though.).

Since born sticks evolved from animated sticks. An unborn baby stick also goes in a symbol conversion process, making them considered "symbols" despite not being animated. All stick figures have game-like stats. They have hearts/hp, a strength bar, energy, and level. Most sticks only have one heart/life. TCO and TDL have 10 lives. TSC has infinite lives. Sticks do not have muscle, just stats showing their strength.

SECTION 3:

If you read TSC and Greenscreen’s bios, they have a glitching condition by being converted into symbol incorrectly. You are probably wondering how meds even exist. It is called "Unstable Symbol Syndrome" or USS for short. The reason meds exist is because it is not just TSC. It can happen to born sticks too, because they are symbols too (read section above). So, people have already been working on making life better for sticks affected by USS. It usually has glitching from not being fully stable. Glitch attacks can also happen, which is massive glitching (and lots of pain). A really bad glitch attack can make a stick go to the hospital and even die if it is bad enough. Life spans for sticks with USS tend to also be much shorter. Other Possible symptoms that are: Insensitivity, problems with the body functioning (like processing food and air for example), low intelligence, no face or loss of facial features, moments of brain fog, reduced emotion, no hair, no voice, no teeth, no physical growth, no mental growth, paralysis, and more. Some sticks may have some of the extra symptoms, some may have one, and some may have none (only glitching). TSC and Greenscreen just have the glitching kind. TSC’s powers make it better, though (they can’t die).

[tswiftupdatess]

taylorswift: Our 6 shows in Toronto were so incredible. It was awesome to play in Canada after so much time. As always, the fans in Toronto treated us like it was a hometown show. Couldn’t have asked for more love or generosity from the people who came out. I got to play a mashup of the *Grammy nominated* song ‘us’ with @gracieabrams, mashed up with ‘Out of the Woods’ and I just adore her. She’s been giving the most amazing performances every night on this tour!! The emotions have gotten pretty heightened for me and the rest of the team because it’s gotten extremely real for us: Our next city will be the last one of The Eras Tour, and the closing of the most extraordinary chapter of my life so far. See you 🔜 , Vancouver. We can’t wait to give you all we’ve got for three more shows. 🥲

AND for all International fans, I’m excited to tell you The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology will be available to you online starting 29 Nov at 1pm GMT along with The Official Eras Tour Book starting 7 Dec at 1pm GMT 🫶

(via Instagram | November 26, 2024)

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DnP Interview Masterlist

This is a work in progress! If you have any other links, send them to me!

Jan 2025

Shut Up I'm Talking Podcast (video) 26/1/2025 | mirror | add-on

Dec 2024

RNZ (audio) 10/12/2024 | mirror

Radio Adelaide (audio) 10/12/2024 | mirror | mirror

Junkee (article) 6/12/2024

Junkee (video) 6/12/2024

Today Show (video) 5/12/2024 | mirror | mirror

Nov 2024

Buzzfeed (article) 22/11/2024 | mirror | mirror

People (article) 1/11/2024 | mirror

Oct 2024

People (article) 6/10/2024

YourEx (article) 5/10/2024 | mirror | mirror

Master up to 2023 (courtesy of @stillarchivingdnp)

YWGTTN promo master (courtesy of @dailydnp)

May 2024

Dan: Times Radio (video) 11/5/2024

2023

Dan: Anthony Padilla (video) 17/1/2023

Dan: DNA Magazine (article) 9/1/2023

2022

Dan: Santa Barbara Independent (article) 30/11/2022

Dan: Gay Times (article) 11/11/2022

Dan: heatworld (video) 1/11/2022

Dan: Hits Radio (video) 21/10/2022

Dan: The Star (article) 5/10/2022

Dan: Buzz (article) 12/9/2022

Dan: Manc Union (article) 18/8/2022

Dan: Square Mile (article) 29/7/2022

Dan: metro.co.uk (article) 9/6/2022

2021

Dan: How To Academy (video) 1/7/2021

Dan: 1883 (article) 30/6/2021

Dan: RNZ Nine to Noon (audio) 30/6/2021

Dan: GQ (article) 30/5/2021

Dan: Waterstones (video) 24/5/2021

Dan: Amazon (article) 12/5/2021

2020

Dan: Guardian (article) 26/12/2020 | mirror

Dan: Pink News (article) 4/12/2020

Dan: Attitude (article) 7/10/2020 | mirror | mirror | preview

Dan: ITV Britain Get Talking (audio) 7/10/2020 | mirror

Phil: Evening Standard (article) 3/2/2020

2019

Dan: BBC (video) 5/9/2019 | mirror

2018

HMV (article) 10/12/2018

Toy News (article) 5/3/2018

2017

Edinburgh TV Festival (video) 24/8/2017

2016

Penguin Platform (video) 10/11/2016

Stand Up to Cancer (video) 15/10/2016

Variety (article) 4/10/2016

The Big Wakeup Call (audio) 21/4/2016

2015

Star Sessions (video) 20/11/2025

Huffington Post (video) 19/11/2025

WOCA Radio (audio) 17/11/2015

Sunday Times (article) 8/11/2015

SugarScape, Pt. 2 (video) 11/10/2015

SugarScape (video) 9/10/2015

2014

Rock Forever Magazine (video) 19/4/2014

2013

The Independent (article) 1/6/2013

The 4:01 Show (video) 17/3/2013

Dan: Elision (article) 13/1/2013

2012

Dan: Huffington Post (article) 26/11/2012

[mikeywayarchive]

dodgerstadium: Welcome to the Black Parade! Join My Chemical Romance as they play The Black Parade in its entirety at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, July 26 with special guests Wallows.🖤Tickets on sale starting this Friday, Nov 15th @ 10AM local.🕙

[Nov 12, 2024]

[yeehawpim]

Hey y'all!🤠

I'm in the 2024 juried art exhibit this year at Coquitlam public library! You'll be able to find my submission "A Secret Third Thing" at the city centre branch (1169 Pinetree Way), go check it out along with all the other cool pieces!

The theme is "openness" and "curiosity," and the art will be up Sept. 26 - Nov. 6😊

[yoohyeon]

Now having (sadly) a lot of lists of fvndraisers I will like to make a post to share all of the in one go :

2024

List #1 : Oct 17th

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List #3 : Oct 19th

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List #21 : Dec 2nd

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List #25 : Dec 28th

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2025

List #27 : Jan 7th

List #28 : Jan 18th

All of them are under the tag : #gzdnpt please look into it from time to time to see more of them in the future !

Other than this please do your click ! And if you can donate only a few dollars and can’t choose this site will help !

PLEASE REBLOG ! Especially all the lists or any post you see ! AND DONATE if you can, I personally can’t for now so that’s why I do my best to share it’s the least we can do for them they need all the help they can have ❤️