#peter donat

[mariocki]

The China Syndrome (1979)

"I may be wrong, but I'd say you're lucky to be alive. For that matter, I think we might say the same for the rest of Southern California."

[tuttle-did-it]

Murder She Wrote ‘The Dying Game’ guest stars,

Kate Mulgrew - best known for ST:VOY, ST:Nemesis, ST: Prodigy, Mrs Columbo, Cheers, Dallas, Throw Momma from the Train, Roots: The Gift, Ryan’s Hope, Warehouse 13, Orange is the New Black, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Murphy Brown, Batman: The Animated Series, Mercy. 3 of 3 appearances. (god this woman looks so fucking good in white.)

Peter Donat (The X Files, Mission Impossible, The FBI, The Waltons, Mannix, Hawaii Five-0, Godfather Part II, Charlie’s Angels, Lou Grant, The Outer Limits, Mrs Columbo, Dallas, Father Dowling Investigates, Murder She Wrote TV movie)

Andy Lauer - Caroline in the City, Iron Man 3, Jane Doe series, Matlock, Doogie Howser MD, 21 Jump Street. He’s moved into directing and producing, as well.

Martin Milner, started as a child actor in Life with Father, The Land Ranger, Dragnet (TV show 1952-1955), Science Fiction Theatre, The Life of Riley, Gunfight at the OK Corral, Rawhide, US Marshal (TV), The Twilight Zone (1960), Gidget, Valley of the Dolls, Dragnet (TV series 1967), Columbo, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Adam-12, Fantasy Island, MacGyver, the New Adam-12, Diagnosis Murder. 4 of 5 appearances.

Musetta Vander - best known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate SG1, ST:VOY, Boy Meets World, Diagnosis Murder, Babylon 5, Wild Wild West (film), O Brother Where Art Thou?

10.17 Episode aired Mar 13, 1994

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

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L'équipe de la saison 2.

[loveboatinsanity]

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have The Babe 1992

[ckret2]

obviously i had to hop on the latest dtiys meme

(and if you haven't heard about the charity stream/auction yet, have a link)

[reasonsforhope]

"The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, has announced plans to ban political donations from state elections, paving the way for nation-leading electoral reforms.

The state’s electoral amendment bill announced on Wednesday [June 12, 2024] night will ban electoral donations and gifts to registered political parties, members of parliament and candidates. The state will provide funding to allow parties and candidates to contest elections, run campaigns and promote political ideas.

Malinauskas said his bill would put South Australia on the “cusp of becoming a world leader in ending the nexus between money and political power”.

“We want money out of politics. We know this is not easy. These reforms may well face legal challenge,” Malinauskas said.

“But we are determined to deliver them, with this bill to be introduced in the parliament in the near future.”

In a subtle challenge to his federal and state counterparts, the premier told Guardian Australia he thought it was “something that democracies everywhere should be pursuing”.

The Albanese government pledged to introduce spending and donation caps, and truth in political advertising laws, as revealed by Guardian Australia after the 2022 federal election and confirmed by a parliamentary inquiry that reported last July.

The special minister of state, Don Farrell, said last month an agreement between the major parties and the crossbench had not yet been reached. An amendment bill is still expected by the middle of the year.

In order to level the playing field for newly created parties and independent candidates, the South Australia bill will allow candidates to receive donations up to $2,700, although they will remain subject to campaign spending caps.

Those spending caps have been set at $100,000, multiplied by the number of candidates up to a maximum of $500,000.

If the bill is passed, a registered political party will be entitled to a one-off payment of $200,000 before 31 August 2026. Whichever is lower out of $700,000 or the number of party members of parliament multiplied by $47,000 will also be given to parties for operational funding.

Membership fees will be allowed to continue but will be capped at $100 or less a year.

To deter attempts to circumvent the proposed changes, a maximum penalty of $50,000 or 10 years’ imprisonment will apply.

The guide acknowledges the proposal would lead to a rise in the cost of South Australia’s electoral system, but says a tightening of expenditure and party registration rules will keep costs to a minimum.

The Albanese government is under crossbench pressure to introduce electoral reforms before the next federal election.

Lower house independents, including Kate Chaney, Zali Steggall, the Greens, David Pocock, Lidia Thorpe and the Jacqui Lambie Network, joined forces to introduce a bill for fair and transparent elections in March [2024].

The bill contained a suite of reforms including truth-in-political advertising, a ban on donations from socially harmful industries including fossil fuels, and tightening the definition of gifts to capture major party fundraisers, including dinners and business forums."

-via The Guardian, March 18, 2024

[eastofedean]

"This, I feel, is the advantage to creating art at this point in time: When we realize that we are temporary, we are facing our self-destruction, we are realizing our fate and we must confront it. Art is the only sensible primal response to an outlook of possible destruction."

[bertolt brecht || unkown || dead poets society (1989), dir. peter weir || all things end, hozier || andrew garfield in an interview for 'the believer' || free, florence + the machines || give yourself permission to be creative, ethan hawke || dead poets society (1989), dir. peter weir || road to hell (reprise) hadestown || keith haring]

[kamaluhkhan]

🍉 fics for gaza

while @ficsforgaza is focused on animanga and video games fandoms, it's inspired me to do something similar to help raise funds for palestine ! click here to learn more about this amazing initiative (how to participate, creator masterlist, etc.)

other ways to support palestine:

boycott companies complicit in israeli apartheid

click this website daily; generated ad revenue is donated to palestinian causes

follow palestinian journalists like bisan owda, plestia alaqad, and hind khoudary; al jazeera is a news outlet that reports on what's happening, without an western bias

learn more about the history of palestine (some resources are the palestine academy and decolonize palestine)

check out this post (updated regularly) for donation links and petitions to sign

how does it work?

🍉 send me a message/ask with your request ! if i accept, then please send a screenshot as a proof of donation; remember to cover any personal information.

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other charities like palestinian children's relief fund or medical aid for palestine

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last updated: 08/06/24

[unbfacts]

[mammoth-clangen]

Do you have any source websites about mesozoic wildlife/ecosystems? I want to make a clangen or just comic thing about some form of dinosaur (either the microraptor, velociraptor, or kulindadromeus) and I'd like to figure out what other species were a part of their life

Nope sorry, research is rarely that easy buuuuut...

*cracks knuckles*

H'okay I have some advice but it'll probably be long and rambly.

Disclaimer:

I am a professional Nothing and am not an authority on anything. There is no right or wrong, this is just how I Personally do research.

Short answer:

Work out what geological formation(s) your chosen main-character-species is found in and Wikipedia it. (E.g. Kulindadromeus is fron the Russian Ukureyskaya Formation). Then go to Wikipedia's sources and skim at least the abstracts of scientific papers to get an idea if things.

If the Formation is lacking info, try searching the Epoch they're from. By that I mean "middle Jurassic" not just "Jurassic" 'cause each of these is already Huge, you want a decent idea of the overallworld they lived in! (Better yet, get it to stage, like Callovian or Maastrichian)

Also learn to draw ferns, lots of ferns, there's no grass in the Mesozoic so the groundcover is Weird cx

Long answer

(to be considered before even getting to the above step):

When choosing a setting for a story, particularly a paleo one, I find it useful to decide on what kind of story I want to tell first, then pick a species that compliments that.

A clangen, for example, relies heavily on the species being very social (such as herding hadrosaurs or sauropods). Telling a story about a lone traveller might be better with a large pterosaur or wandering ceratopsian. A story about warring factions would be better set a high competition environment like the Kem Kem or Morison, with several fighting predator guilds. Conversely a story about working through personal differences may be better with different species of herbivores living in symbiosis; hadrosaurs and ornithomimids acting like modern gazelles and zebras.

Etc etc

Choosing a species first is fine, but you'll likely have to work the story around what makes sense within that! Otherwise you end up with the aforementioned social tigers and patriarchal hyenas.

Also don't shrink-wrap your dinosaurs im begging on my hands and knees

tl;dr: research everything, choosing a species before a story is climbing ass-first up a tree, Wikipedia is your friend because they compile and summarise primary sources

[tuttle-did-it]

The excellently titled 'From Russia, with Blood' of Murder She Wrote, S5 E14. Guest stars David McCallum (Man from U.N.C.L.E., VR5, NCIS, Sapphire & Steel) and Jeremy Kemp (Star Trek TNG, Z Cars) And Peter Donat (The X Files, The Outer Limits)

[aq2003]

hey doctor who fans! warchild and children in conflict (two charities supporting children in multiple different countries like palestine, lebanon, DRC, south sudan, and many others; you can read more about them here, here, and here) are running a sweepstakes and an auction for doctor who magic the gathering cards signed by various stars on the show, including peter capaldi, david tennant, jodie whittaker, and billie piper (general info here).

pcap also got into character as twelve for a "don't blink" bit with carey mulligan, who played sally sparrow in blink and is an ambassador for warchild :)

right now they've raised £2,960 of their £50,000 goal, which translates to $3,884.50/$65,616.50 in USD

the prizes are only available to people in the us/uk but you can still always donate to the charities normally. also both the sweepstakes and the auction close in 10 days, so get in your bids/draw entries while you can!

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Elmo (Peter Donat)

[svu-barisi]

Fellow Fans, Let’s Be Savvy Consumers on Social Media--Share the Hell out of this post, please.

3/11/25 Update: On the set of SVU, Mariska has confirmed to an intern that she has not been active on Facebook in about five years, that she does not ask fans to send her private messages, that she does not look at fan pages, never has used social media to individually solicit money from fans for Joyful Heart, has no knowledge of people identifying themselves as her manager and making statements on her behalf, does not ask people to call her on Zangi, and she is definitely not stupid enough to send a copy of her driver's license on social media. To much relief, at least the address on the fake license was not her real address.

So to all the impersonators on social media, consider this a big FUCK YOU!!!

Share the hell out of this post, please. This post was created in light of the rampant impersonations of L&O/ SVU cast members on Facebook, Instagram, & Zangi (Mariska Hargitay, Peter Scanavino, Chris Meloni, Kelli Giddish are the primary victims, but I've seen BD Wong and Ice T are now joining the ranks). This applies to ALL FANDOMS on ALL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. I'm especially furious because some of these scammers have included some of the edits I've created for my fanfics in their posts and more importantly, they are using the name of the Joyful Heart Foundation, a foundation that is near and dear to my heart, in their financial scams...so yes, I'm a little fired up about this.

Yes, it would be so cool and exciting to be chatting it up with your fav stars on Facebook, Instagram, etc.—but unfortunately, you’re most likely chatting with an imposter.

RUSES

A VERY common ruse is for someone to create a fake celebrity account and then respond to a comment you made on a fan page. They start off by thanking you for being a fan and then ask you to directly message them or to click on a link. They proceed to politely chat you up and then gather intel on you including personally identifying information. Some impersonators will go as far as to ask for a picture of your driver’s license (a specific rouse that I have seen used is, “I bet your driver license picture looks better than mine…here’s mine, now let me see yours”). Other impersonators will attempt to get money and claim that they’re collecting donations for a charity (In the case of Mariska Hargitay, impersonators are using her Joyful Heart Foundation as part of the rouse). They’ll send you a link to a website that looks similar to the real charity’s or organization’s, but once you enter your credit card information, the impersonator gets access to your credit card and will max it out spending your credit and money on things that they want—said charity never sees a penny of your money. Other impersonators are sending links that are embedded with a virus. When you click on them (several are disguised as Zangi links), the virus collects personal data including but not limited to passwords, credit card numbers, bank account information, personally identifying information, and pictures. THEY DO ALL OF THIS SIMPLY BY LURING THEIR TARGETS (POTENTIALLY YOU) INTO A SEEMINGLY HARMLESS PRIVATE CHAT.

RECENT HAPPENING

After calling a person out for impersonating Mariska Hargitay and trying to scam a grandmother age person out of money under a ruse using the Joyful Heart Foundation, the impersonator proceeded to private message me trying to convince me they are the real deal (as in the real Mariska Hargitay) and they sent me a copy of Mariska's driver's license. Who the heck is stupid enough to send a copy of any form of ID on social media? The real Mariska is a very intelligent woman and has more than enough brain cells than to do something that stupid. There are so many things wrong with the info on this driver’s license making it an obvious fake (Did you know that our brown-eyed Mariska Hargitay developed blue eyes overnight? She did according to this fake driver’s license!). The imposter was so adamant that they really were the real Mariska and they were really upset that I was encroaching on their money-weaseling operation. It is so scary how far these impersonators will go. Mariska has a job and a family and I highly doubt that she spends all her free time creating hundreds of profiles and trying to lure fans to privately communicate with her...which by the way is a shady practice in itself. If a celebrity actually would speak with a fan, they do it in a public venue (in person around others or on a public social media page), not in a private message on Facebook/Instagram, etc. or Zangi.

Anyhow, one of my besties will be on the SVU set this week for her internship and she's going to try to talk to Mariska (if she's on set that day) and get her take on all these profiles pretending to be her (as well as the ones claiming to be her managers), along with this fake driver's license that I received. Let's see what the real Mariska has to say about her impersonators.

Common Indicators of a Fake Profile:

Using a checkmark as a profile picture. Superscripted blue check marks after a username or handle PREVIOUSLY meant that the account was real and verified (today anyone can purchase a verified mark on certain social media platforms so the verified checkmarks are not really all that meaningful anymore). Now sometimes impersonators are using checkmarks as their profile pictures hoping that you’ll just buy that they’re the real celebrity using a verified account.

Using the words, “real,” “official,” “private chat,” “only [celebrity name]”, in the profile name or handle. For example, “The Real Mariska Hargitay,” “Official Mariska Hargitay,” “Mariska Hargitay Private Chat,” “Only Mariska Hargitay.”

When a profile name and handle do not match. For example, the profile name may say “Mariska Hargitay,” but the handle name says “@Lucy_ann.”

Profiles names or handles using the celebrity’s middle names when they typically do not use or are addressed by their middle name in everyday life.

The celebrity’s name being misspelled or using abbreviations. Some impersonators get reported so often that they are unable to use the celebrity’s correctly spelled name. For example, “Marishka” instead of “Mariska,” “Hertigay” or “Hartigay” instead of “Hargitay,” “MH Private Chat.”  For Kelli Giddish, some impersonators are using “Kelly” or “Kellie” instead of “Kelli.”

Pages that claim to be “Fan pages” but use the first person “I” when commenting or posting on their profile page or other fanpages. Fan pages are pages created by fans—not pages created by celebrities/imposters to communicate with a fan base.

The celebrity’s communication skills are lacking or inconsistent from what you’ve heard in interviews or on TV. For example, if the celebrity’s native language is English, but the profile posts or comments indicate or reflect syntax or grammar errors of a non-native speaker.

Begging for likes or follows on a profile page. Seriously, celebrities just don’t go on fan pages poaching people for likes or follows for their own profile. They also don’t beg for friend requests or direct messages!

Profiles that are new.

Profiles claiming to be using “Backup” accounts. Sometimes they will even claim they are using a backup profile account because of imposters---but in actuality they are just one of those many imposters!

Profiles that have posts that ask people to comment “Yes” if you want a show to continue or if you love/like them.

Use AI content and deep fakes. Deep fakes come in the form of both photos and videos.

Pronouns. If the pronouns on the social media page do not match the pronouns the celebrity is known to use or identify with.

Sending identifying documents as proof of who they are. These documents can look legit, but they are most likely just fakes. No one should ever send personally identifying information or documents out on social media.

Asks you for money/credit card, bitcoin, etc. Mariska Hargitay has a charity, called the Joyful Heart Foundation. Impersonators are trying to scam money under the ruse of this organization. If you want to support the Joyful Heart Foundation, go to the organization’s official website and make the donation directly to the foundation. Celebrities don’t ever collect money on social media on behalf of a charity organization (even their own charity organizations). Never donate money through a link sent by a profile claiming to be a celebrity.

Profiles that claim to be a celebrity’s manager. Several seemingly ordinary profiles are posting messages on fan pages claiming to be a celebrity’s manager and if you want to contact the celebrity that they manage, click on a link (usually has a virus that collects your data). Some will also acknowledge imposters of said celebrity that they manage and falsely claim that the FBI is hunting these imposters down, but in the meantime they offer to put you in contact with said celebrity (who really is just another one of the imposters that the FBI is supposedly hunting down).

Profiles that send links claiming that you can communicate with a celebrity personally. Many of these scams involve Zangi.

Celebrities who are known technophobes or are so old that they probably never even operated their own personal email address probably are not going to create a social media account after they’ve retired from the business. They could, but it’s very unlikely.

These are just the bare minimum signs of a fake profile impersonating celebrities. There are some fake profiles that look really legit, but if you are contacted by one of them, stop and think. Sure, one might say thanks for being a fan, but a real celebrity will not go out of their way to lure you into a private form of communication, ask for personally identifying information, or ask for money. Be smart and safe fans!

When you see fake profiles, report them. It usually takes MANY REPORTS and MULTIPLE PEOPLE reporting the same profile for it to be deactivated by a social media platform.