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Their all mascots here 
from lift to right
Neve (Torino 2006)
Gliz (Torino 2006)
Silviya Petrova (Hare)(Sochi 2014)
Vadim Pak (Leopard)(Sochi 2014)
Oleg Seredechniy (Polar Bear)(Sochi 2014)
Miga (Vancouver 2010)
Hidy (Calgary 1988)
Howdy (Calgary 1988)
Soohorang (PyeongChang 2018)
Quatchi (Vancouver 2010)
Powder (Salt Lake City 2002)
Copper (Salt Lake City 2002)
Coal (Salt Lake City 2002)
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Precaratize bosses
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I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me SUNDAY (Apr 21) in TORINO, then Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!
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Combine Angelou's "When someone shows you who they are, believe them" with the truism that in politics, "every accusation is a confession" and you get: "Every time someone accuses you of a vice, they're showing you who they are and you should believe them."
Let's talk about some of those accusations. Remember the moral panic over the CARES Act covid stimulus checks? Hyperventilating mouthpieces for the ruling class were on every cable network, complaining that "no one wants to work anymore." The barely-submerged subtext was their belief that the only reason people show up for work is that they're afraid of losing everything – their homes, their kids, the groceries in their fridge.
This isn't a new development. Back when Clinton destroyed welfare, his justification was that "handouts" make workers lazy. The way to goad workers off their sofas (and the welfare rolls) and into jobs was to instill fear in them:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/welfare-childhood/555119/
This is also the firm belief of tech bosses: for them, mass tech layoffs are great news, because they terrorize the workers you don't fire, so that they'll be "extremely hardcore" and put in as many extra hours as the company demands, without even requiring any extra pay in return:
https://fortune.com/2022/10/06/elon-musk-jason-calacanis-return-to-office-gentlemens-layoffs-twitter/
Now, there's an obvious answer to the problem of no one taking a job at the wage being offered: just increase the offer. Capitalists claim to understand this. Uber will tell you that surge pricing "incentivizes drivers" to take to the streets by offering them more money to drive during busy times:
https://www.uber.com/blog/austin/providing-rides-when-they-are-most-needed/
(Note that while Uber once handed the lion's share of surge price premiums to drivers, these days, Uber just keeps the money, because they've entered the enshittification stage where drivers are so scared of being blacklisted that Uber can push them around instead of dangling carrots.)
(Also note that this logic completely fails when it comes to other businesses, like Wendy's, who briefly promised surge-priced hamburgers during busy times, but without even the pretense that the surge premium would be used to pay additional workers to rush to the restaurant and increase the capacity:)
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/feb/27/wendys-dynamic-surge-pricing
So bosses knew how to address their worker shortage: higher wages. You know: supply and demand. For bosses, the issue wasn't supply, it was price. A worker who earns $10/hour but makes the company $20 profit every hour is splitting the surplus 50:50 with their employer. The employer has overheads (rent on the shop, inventory, advertising and administration) that they have to pay out of their end of that surplus. But workers also have overheads: commuting costs, child-care, a professional wardrobe, and other expenses the worker incurs just so they can make money for their boss.
There's no iron law of economics that says the worker/boss split should be 50/50. Depending on the bargaining power of workers and their bosses, that split can move around a lot. Think of McDonald's and Walmart workers who work for wildly profitable corporate empires, but are so badly paid that they have to rely on food stamps. The split there is more like 10/90, in the boss's favor.
The pandemic changed the bargaining power. Sure, workers got a small cushion from stimulus checks, but they also benefited from changes in the fundamentals of the labor market. For example, millions of boomers just noped out of their jobs, forever, unwilling to risk catching a fatal illness and furious to realize that their bosses viewed that as an acceptable risk.
Bosses' willingness to risk their workers' lives backfired in another way: killing hundreds of thousands of workers and permanently disabling millions more. Combine the boomer exodus with the workers who sickened or died, and there's just fewer workers to go around, and so now those workers enjoy more bargaining power. They can demand a better split: say, 75/25, in their favor.
Remember the 2015 American Airlines strike, where pilots and flight attendants got a raise? The eminently guillotineable Citibank analyst Kevin Crissey declared: "This is frustrating. Labor is being paid first again. Shareholders get leftovers":
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/american-airlines-flight-attendants-bash-citi-analyst-who-put-shareholders-before-workers-14134309
Now, obviously, the corporation doesn't want to offer a greater share of its surplus to its workforce, but it certainly can do so. The more it pays its workers, the less profitable it will be, but that's capitalism, right? Corporations try to become as profitable as they can be, but they can't just decree that their workers must work for whatever pay they want to offer (that's serfdom).
Companies also don't get to dictate that we must buy their goods at whatever price they set (the would be a planned economy, not a market economy). There's no law that says that when the cost of making something goes up, its price should go up, too. A business that spends $10 to make a widget you pay $15 for has a $5 margin to play with. If the business's costs go up to $11, they can still charge $15 and take $1 less in profits. Or they can raise the price to $15.50 and split the difference.
But when businesses don't face competition, they can make you eat their increased costs. Take Verizon. They made $79b in profit last year, and also just imposed a $4/month service charge on their mobile customers due to "rising operational costs":
https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/1c53c4p/79bn_in_profits_last_year_but_you_need_an_extra/
Now, Verizon is very possibly lying about these rising costs. Excuseflation is rampant and rising, as one CEO told his investors, when the news is full of inflation-talk, "it’s an opportunity to increase the prices without getting a whole bunch of complaining from the customers":
https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/11/price-over-volume/#pepsi-pricing-power
But even stipulating that Verizon is telling the truth about these "rising costs," why should we eat those costs? There's $79b worth of surplus between Verizon's operating costs and its gross revenue. Why not take it out of Verizon's bottom line?
For 40 years, neoliberal economists have emphasized our role as "consumers" (as though consumers weren't also workers!). This let them play us off against one-another: "Sure, you don't want the person who rings up your groceries to get evicted because they can't pay their rent, but do you care about it enough to pay an extra nickel for these eggs?"
But again, there's no obvious reason why you should pay that extra nickel. If you have the buying power to hold prices down, and workers have the labor power to keep wages up, then the business has to absorb that nickel. We can have a world where workers can pay their rent and you can afford your groceries.
So how do we get bosses to agree to take less so we can have more? They've told us how: for bosses, the thing that motivates workers to show up for shitty jobs is fear – fear of losing their homes, fear of going hungry.
When your boss says, "If you don't want to do this job for minimum wage, there's someone else who will," they're telling you that the way to get a raise out of them is to engineer things so that you can say, "If you don't want to pay me a living wage for this job, there's someone else who will."
Their accusation – that you only give someone else a fair shake when you're afraid of losing out – is a confession: to get them to give you a fair shake, we have to make them afraid. They're showing us who they are, and we should believe them.
In her Daily Show appearance, FTC chair Lina Khan quipped that monopolies are too big to care:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDTiWaYfcM
Philosophers of capitalism are forever praising its ability to transform greed into public benefit. As Adam Smith put it, "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." The desire to make as much money as possible, on its own, doesn't produce our dinner, but when the butcher, the brewer and the baker are afraid that you will take your labor or your wallet elsewhere, they pay more and charge less.
Capitalists don't want market economies, where they have to compete with one another, eroding their margins and profits – they want a planned economy, like Amazon, where Party Secretary Bezos and his commissars tell merchants what they can sell and tell us what we must pay:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/01/managerial-discretion/#junk-fees
Capitalists don't want free labor, where they have to compete with rival capitalists to bid on their workers' labor – they want noncompetes, bondage fees, and "training repayment agreement provisions" (TRAPs) that force their workers to stay in dead-end jobs rather than shopping for a better wage:
\https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/04/its-a-trap/#a-little-on-the-nose
Capitalists hate capitalism, because capitalism only works if the capitalists are in a constant state of terror inspired by the knowledge that tomorrow, someone smarter could come along and open a better business, poaching their customers and workers, and putting the capitalist on the breadline.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/18/in-extremis-veritas/#the-winnah
Being in a constant precarious state makes people lose their minds, and capitalists know it. That's why they work so hard to precaratize the rest of us, saddling us with health debt, education debt, housing debt, stagnating wages and rising prices. It's not just because that makes them more money in the short term from our interest payments and penalties. It's because it de-risks their lives: monopolies and cartels can pass on any extra costs to consumers, who'll eat shit and take it:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/02/its-the-economy-stupid/#overinflated
A workforce that goes to bed every night worrying about making the rent is a workforce that put in unpaid overtime and thank you for it.
Capitalists hate capitalism. You know who didn't hate capitalism? Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels. The first chapter of The Communist Manifesto is just these two guys totally geeking out about how much cool stuff we get when capitalists are afraid and therefore productive:
https://pluralistic.net/SpectreHaunting
But when capitalists escape their fears, the alchemical reaction that converts greed to prosperity fizzles, leaving nothing behind but greed and its handmaiden, enshittification. Google search is in the toilet, getting worse every year, but rather than taking reduced margins and spending more fighting spam, the company did a $80b stock-buyback and fired 12,000 skilled technologists, rather than using that 80 bil to pay their wages for the next twenty-seven years:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task
Monopoly apologists like to argue that monopolists can rake in the giant profits necessary to fund big, ambitious projects the produce better products at lower prices and make us all better off. But even if monopolists can spend their monopoly windfalls on big, ambitious projects, they don't. Why would they?
If you're Google, you can either spend tens of billions on R&D to keep up with spam and SEO scumbags, or you can spend less money buying the default search spot on every platform, so no one ever tries another search engine and switches:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi
Compared to its monopoly earnings, the tech sector's R&D spending is infinitesimal:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/11/nor-glom-of-nit/#capitalists-hate-competition
How do we get capitalists to work harder to make their workers and customers better off? Capitalists tell us how, every day. We need to make them afraid.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/19/make-them-afraid/#fear-is-their-mind-killer
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Cynical and bitter but I've been wondering if the League getting such a downer ending was indeed the plan all along.
Originally, Horikoshi never wanted to do Villain profiles. He wanted the Villains to be scary. Maybe he always intended death to be the answer to them, even as he expanded on their backstories.
In an old interview from 2018, when asked if Shigaraki is a villain who should be saved, Horikoshi does answer 'yes', but then follow it up with: "I think that we have gotten to the point where Shigaraki can no longer turn back though."
Movie 2 ending - which Horikoshi said was the ending he originally planned - has Deku and Bakugou punching Nine (pseudo-Shigaraki) to death-as-they-know-it.
Once again, technically, Shigaraki's heart was saved. Deku smashed his hatred. Deku took Tenko's hands. Unfortunately Shigaraki didn't immediately convert to Heroism and still wanted to fight for the League - point where he didn't turn back - so Deku gave up trying to save him physically.
A few weeks before, I thought that Horikoshi just got tied and wrapped things up in the quickest and sadly weirdest way possible. I still am willing to allow that, but ever since Horikoshi started Act 3 three years ago, he never actually wrote Heroes giving the Villains' grievances any serious consideration until it comes out during the confrontation and the Heroes giving a few words towards it at best, and at worse, not even knowing the problem (quirk counseling, Tenko's Walk). He let Uraraka and Deku still adhere to insisting on practically dehumanizing their opponents/Villains the day before the final battle (probably so that when Uraraka and Deku realize they still can't ignore the pain they see in their Villains and finally reach out a bit, that's the height of compassion and heroism.)
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But really, sorry not sorry to sound like a broken record, Act 3 had Deku acting like a dipshit the entire time. He says he wants to save The Crying Child he saw inside Shigaraki's heart, and not necessarily Shigaraki the person, and never actually takes killing off the table. He only vaguely keeps up this idea. He never reveals this desire to anyone, never involves his friends or adults in this plan. He doesn't even have a concrete plan, and all he never did was just to keep punching Shigaraki to kingdom come. He never actually protested when Gran Torino told him he should kill Shigaraki, he never opposes the creation of a battlefield called "Sky Coffin", he does not speak up when the Heroes says they prefer the AFO persona to be in possession of Shigaraki. During their whole fight, Deku barely talks to the guy.
The best Deku ever does is to hold back on giving Shigaraki an annihilation blow until he could find out why The Crying Child was crying, which he does by literally smashing into Shigaraki's core to pry his trauma open. And even then, when Tenko is spilling out his guilt and grief that he killed his family, as well as his fears that his existence is cursed, all Deku has to say is "Well, holding hands feels nice, so I'm here." I get that's supposed to be like, Deku accepting Tenko despite Tenko having a deadly quirk and blood on his hands, but come on. As an act of Greatest Heroism that it's supposed to be, that's so... low bar, to put it mildly.
(Then when Shigaraki gets repossessed, Deku gives up any thinking on saving Shigaraki, and then readies up the annihilation punch. Volume release even expands on just how much power and preparation Deku is using to smash Shigaraki's body to pieces. There's no intent to figure out if Shigaraki is still there to bring back or minimize harm to Shigaraki's body so there's something left after AFO is gone. It's not an accident. Deku fully goes in for the kill.)
It all feels like truly saving Shigaraki - from possession, from AFO, from his distorted worldview, from a Hero System that hurt his friends, from his belief that the world isn't worth preserving - just wasn't a real goal for Deku. Never was, in Act 3. He wanted to understand The Crying Child and give some relief there, but that's it. Like exorcising an evil spirit and then forcing them to move on, never actually wanting the spirit to remain and continue existing - because there's no place for them in this world. (Which is why Deku also never has a vision for what comes after, for Shigaraki. Shouto wanted a meal with Dabi, Uraraka promised her blood to Toga, but Deku? Nothing.)
Overall, the ending actually does fit Deku's writing in the last act. He wants to save the ghost of The Crying Child but nothing else. He expands minimal effort in actually connecting with Shigaraki the adult man. He has no interest in addressing Shigaraki's grievances (nor in also saving the rest of League that Shigaraki is doing all this for) (and also it turns out Shigaraki's grievances aren't real because AFO made most of them up). His strategy is just to beat up Shigaraki until Shigaraki throws up his trauma.
Adding to that, Deku's last words to a dying Shigaraki is that he can't forgive him, so basically he's considering Shigaraki as having past the point of return - exactly as Horikoshi stated in his interview. There might be something to Deku regretfully telling All Might that he couldn't save Tenko's life, but when he follows it up with "Even after I smashed his hatred, he still wanted to stay the League's leader," that really can't be anything but Deku basically putting some of the blame on Shigaraki, for not ditching his friends (who, to Deku, apparently don't deserve to be saved alongside Shigaraki). Sticking with the League is being past the point of turning back... which is the same conclusion Hawks comes to with Twice, in Act 2 (...so it seems that's been there all along.)
The ending fits Deku's writing - and overall - in the last act (and even before that.) Deku's utter non-progress fits Shigaraki's conclusion. His half-hearted actions made sense and so of course led to his final battle of just giving Shigaraki a giant Smash (but with pity and some sympathy, because he's not an cold killer but a Hero who can even spare emotions towards a monster).
I really had toyed with the idea that maybe Horikoshi got tired and just ended it this sad way. Now I'm no longer so generous.
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ilcontephotography · 4 months
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Fata headquarters, by Oscar Niemeyer and Riccardo Morandi (1976-1979).
Pianezza (Torino), Italy.
© Roberto Conte (2018)
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polkadotmotmot · 1 year
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Guillermo Muñoz Vera - Reentrada En Torino, 2018
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mydaddywiki · 11 months
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William Hill
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Physique: Average/Chubby Build Height: 5'8" (1.73 m)
William Hill (born March 30, 1961) is an American actor best known for Gran Torino, Boardwalk Empire, and House of Cards (US). He has been a stalwart of various Law & Order series playing twelve different characters in Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial by Jury. Hill also does a lot of theatre work.
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The slightly stocky character actor has managed to become more and more gorgeous with each passing year. Not only is he a lovely shape, Hill has the sweetest face I have ever seen. A sort of a hot Jerry Mathers (The Beaver) look. He does his finest work in Odd Mom Out (2016) when he is in the buff to show off his jolly belly and creamy buns. He poses for a sexy photo, putting a hat in front of his junk. He gives the camera coy, flirty eyes and it makes us absolutely melt.
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Lets see, he was born and raised in the North Ward of Newark, NJ and other than that, there is not much to say as I can't find a lot of information on him. So there is no need to disown my delusion being gay and waiting for me to sweep him off his feet. And he's fairly young so someone might give him another nude role down the road. Come on William, get your cock out next time!
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RECOMMENDATIONS: (1996) Striptease (2008) Gran Torino (2010) Boardwalk Empire (2015–2017) Odd Mom Out - Shirtless, rear nudity (2013–2018) House of Cards
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luluemarlene · 8 months
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UN DOTTORE
Ho conosciuto Marcello nel Luglio 2018 mentre cercavo disperatamente di rimettere insieme piccoli luridi frammenti di me. Uscivo da una relazione dalle dinamiche complesse Adesso si chiama BDSM, ma a pensarci, forse sono solo istinti primitivi, primordiali . Era una relazione che puzzava di rancido già dal Natale precedente, ma per chi conosce questo tipo di pratiche , sa bene quanto sia difficile scollegarsi e farne a meno, ed io ero proprio nella fase della disperazione totale, per il pensiero che mai più avrei potuto sentirmi la puttanella di qualcuno.  L'ho conosciuto su Tinder, unico incontro avvenuto tramite questo social che non mi aveva mai entusiasmato molto. Le sue parole si agganciarono al mio solo neurone non impegnato ad autocommiserarsi e chattando, venne fuori quasi subito che il suo matrimonio era alle battute finali.
Ho sempre cercato di stare lontana da queste situazioni:
mi indispone la tristezza e l'odore di sconfitta che inevitabilmente aleggia nell'aria, e non mi piace pensare di trovarmi a fare da catalizzatore, accelerando una reazione pur non facendone direttamente parte, proprio come fa un enzima in chimica. Insomma, decisi di incontrarlo solo per scrollarmi di dosso la mia, di tristezza.
Ci vedemmo in un bar di Piazza Statuto e, proprio come mi aspettavo, parlammo soltanto delle nostre "disgrazie" personali . Ricordo che andai in bagno a levarmi le mutandine, giusto per rendere quell'incontro un po' più trasgressivo, ma non fu sufficiente.
Cercavo un uomo che dominasse le mie voglie e trovai un uomo inconsapevolmente affascinate, ma risucchiato dal corso degli eventi. Fintamente disponibile
La sua vera natura non si rivelò per molto tempo
Ci scrivemmo per tutta l'estate senza incontrarci più e ad un certo punto iniziò a piacermi essergli di conforto. Mi faceva sentire importante in un momento in cui la mia autostima era ridotta ai minimi termini.
Una volta decisi di raggiungerlo a Torino, solo per sostenerlo dopo l'ennesima discussione coniugale; priva di mire erotiche pensavo solo al modo di farlo ridere.
Mi piaceva quando mi scriveva che gli alleggerivo il cuore con le mie battute spregiudicate, che gli piaceva la contrapposizione tra la brava mamma e la donna mentalmente libera che coesistevano in me
Quel giorno, mentre lo aspettavo nel parcheggio dell'Auchan di corso Giulio, mi masturbai. Tirai fuori il mio vibrox snodabile, alzai la gonna, scostai le mutandine quel tanto che bastava per infilarvi una estremità in fica e appoggiare l'altra sul clitoride. Iniziai a stringere e rilassare le gambe ritmicamente, nella mia personale danza erotica.
Cominciai a colare e quasi involontariamente le mie dita partirono a raccogliere il succo viscido e a portarlo alla bocca, per assaporarlo. Avevo capezzoli come chiodi che puntavano sul vestitino leggero e tanta voglia di scopare. Infilavo e sfilavo il vibratore velocemente e sentivo arrivare l'orgasmo, lo aspettavo incurante di chi parcheggiava vicino o dei passanti.
Mi infilai un dito in culo ed esplosi quasi subito, portando immediatamente il giocattolo alla bocca per leccarlo e riappropriarmi di quella parte di me appena scivolata fuori.
Un attimo dopo vidi Marcello parcheggiare ad una ventina di metri da me. Mi ricomposi velocemente e con le mutandine zuppe gli andai incontro. Entrammo in un bar, ma era chiaro che, nonostante il motivo per cui avevamo deciso di vederci, nessuno dei due aveva voglia di tristezze e iniziammo a ridere e a bisbigliarci nell'orecchio come adolescenti. Piano piano le nostre bocche si avvicinarono e ci baciammo. Lui dopo un attimo mi guardò e sorridendo disse " Perché sai di figa? "
"Fica!"
"Come? "
"Si dice Fica"
Scoppiò a ridere
"Cazzo, ma dove sei stata tutto questo tempo?"
Nei giorni successivi ci sentimmo spesso e una sera decidemmo di andare a cena
Cenammo nella Galleria Umberto I e, arrivati al dolce, mi comunicò che aveva una sorpresa...
Quello che segue è il racconto che pubblicai un anno fa, quando ancora non sapevo quanto possa restare nascosta e quieta la natura umana, prima di venire provocata al punto di non ritorno.
NH Santo Stefano... Siamo entrati in questo albergo, in pieno centro. Il mio respiro accelerato, mi faceva ridere come una bambina eccitata e imbarazzata
La cena era stata divertente, ma non mi andava di entrare in una camera e fare del sesso. Ero aperta alla possibilità ma non mi sentivo ancora pronta
Siamo entrati in ascensore e stavo per palesare il mio stato d'animo, ma un dito sulla bocca mi zittì e il suo sguardo divenne malizioso e dolce "Non dire niente, sei entrata nella mia vita come una burrasca, venti freddi e mareggiata..." Lasciò la frase in sospeso come per lasciare a me la giusta interpretazione.
Ero davvero una cosa buona o complicavo tutto?
Il suono che accompagna l'arrivo al piano dell'ascensore mi strappò dai miei pensieri, lui mi prese la mano e mi accompagnò fuori
Non trovai stanze ma la cima di una torre, circondata da una vetrata. Potevo ammirare la struttura interna dell'edificio e una terrazza esterna ci catapultò in mezzo alla notte.
"Ecco, quelli sono vecchie mura ( Porta Palatina), quella è una chiesetta su un cucuzzolo (Basilica di Superga) e quello è Marte" . Ridevo e improvvisamente mi venne caldo e il nebbiolo che avevamo bevuto mi salì in testa e mi fece vacillare, mi appoggiai al cornicione e lui si mise dietro di me in un abbraccio rassicurante. Ho sentito il suo sesso contro il mio culo e le sue mani appoggiarsi sui miei seni, quasi distrattamente. Sapevo che poteva salire qualcuno, esattamente come eravamo saliti noi, ma volevo che mi guardasse e sentisse le mie carni calde. Non succedeva da troppo tempo ed io avevo bisogno di un uomo che mi facesse guardare il buio dritto in faccia da una posizione privilegiata, che me ne parlasse come se fosse pieno di cose semplici ma bellissime, facendomi sentire al sicuro.
Mi tolsi Il golfino bianco e rimasi davanti a lui. Immediatamente afferrò la mia bocca, mi spinse la lingua in gola, giocando con le mie labbra, mi sussurrava che da un mese a quella parte nn aspettava altro.
Iniziavo a liquefarmi e a sentirmi vogliosa e a desiderare di regalare quello in cui sono più brava: donare piacere.
Gli leccai la faccia, gli occhi, le labbra e lasciò che le mie mani scivolassero nei pantaloni, toccassero il suo cazzo gonfio. I suoi occhi grandi mi guardavano famelici. Misi a disposizione i mie capezzoli, che iniziò a succhiarmi avidamente e, mentre rovesciavo la testa all'indietro, con la schiena sul cornicione, mi apparve una Torino al contrario. Il cielo, che faceva strada a sensazioni goderecce mi suggerì di alzare la gonna e abbassare leggermente le mutandine. Credevo ci infilasse le mani e invece si aprì la patta e senza farmi allargare le gambe infilò la punta del suo imponente cazzo tra le mie grandi labbra. Senza penetrazione, iniziò a sollecitare il mio clitoride che divenne grande come un cervello, con milioni di neurotrasmettitori impazziti che mi urlavano di venire.
Avanti e indietro, come nelle più classiche delle scopate, mi ricordai che poteva arrivare qualcuno... volevo arrivasse qualcuno!!
Fu il pensiero che fece esplodere il mio piacere e d'istinto strinsi forte le cosce. Lo sentii trattenere il respiro e in piedi, l'uno davanti all'altro, mi venne tra le gambe, aumentando il ritmo e portando il suo seme su tutto il mio pelo, pube, gambe.
Mi guardò
"Non sei umana, donna".
La serata finí così è non ce ne furono altre.
Il passato tornava ciclicamente a bussare alla mia porta ed io restai circa un anno nella totale incapacità di lasciarlo fuori.
Dall'ultimo incontro con Marcello si sono susseguite grandi perdite personali e umiliazioni psicologiche di cui probabilmente sono l'unica responsabile. Sempre più consapevole del tempo sprecato dietro ad una relazione che ormai era incapace di dare un qualunque tipo di conforto ,ho trovato il coraggio di contattarlo. È stato felice di risentirmi e nella sua voce ho sentito nuovi colori, grandi speranze. È un uomo separato, adesso. Rinato.
Ho dovuto ovviamente sorbirmi tutta una serie di rimproveri per il modo in cui ero sparita, ma col senno di poi e con il percorso che aveva dovuto fare, ci siamo trovati d'accordo su quanto il mio allontanamento fosse stato necessario.
Ci siamo scritti e come sempre è riuscito a farmi ridere molto ed io ho capito quanto quell'uomo mi piacesse e di come il suo modo di parlarmi fosse cambiato: più deciso e sicuro, perentorio a volte, duro.
Mi eccitava?
Giovedi scorso Torino annegava sotto una pioggia che minacciava di girare in neve ed io uscii da un edificio di via Santa Chiara, al termine di uno dei miei tanti impegni...
Trovai inaspettatamente Marcello dall'altro lato della strada con un grande ombrello, e il suo dolcissimo sorriso
"Divento vecchio ad aspettare che tu ti decida a darmi un appuntamento e credo di aver aspettato abbastanza , vorrei che tu prendessi in seria considerazione la possibilità di essere mia, solo mia. "
Ho sorriso guardandolo con una delle mie smorfie sornione perché sapevo che aveva pronunciato quelle parole conoscendo benissimo l'effetto che avevano su di me.
L'ho preso per mano e arrivati in via dei mercanti mi sono fermata.
Notammo come la poggia avesse reso deserta una Torino solitamente brulicante di gente
"Chiedimi di fare qualcosa per te"
Non si è nemmeno guardato intorno, si è aperto la patta dei pantaloni e mi ha chiesto di succhiarglielo
Diluviava e faceva freddo, ma mi sono accovacciata e gliel'ho preso in bocca.
Ho succhiato quel cazzo impreparato, colto di sorpresa, fino ad ingrandirlo nella mia bocca. Lo accoglievo tutto e lo rilasciavo producendo bava che colava dal mento
"Brava la mia puttana, prendilo in gola"
Ero stranita a sentirlo parlare in quel modo ma così eccitata e bagnata dai miei umori e dalla pioggia, incurante di chi potesse arrivare. Mi esplose in gola e mi premette la faccia contro i pantaloni, quasi a soffocarmi
Dovetti fare forza con le braccia per liberarmi da quella presa, che rischiava di farmi vomitare
Ha vacillato e si è appoggiato al muro e quando ha ripreso il controllo mi ha chiesto di seguirlo nel suo studio, non troppo lontano da lì
Ho annuito e quasi di corsa abbiamo raggiunto il posto e salito le scale ansimando, eccitati.
Il suo studio era già caldo: c'era del vino, un divano sormontato da un grande specchio, carte e planimetrie sparse su un grande tavolo .
Nell'aria un vago odore di diluente sintetico e, sui muri, foto satellitari di luoghi irriconoscibili, paesaggi naturali interrotti dall'ingombrante presenza antropica , il tutto scarabocchiato da cerchietti e frecce rosse.
"Sono un dottore forestale", disse anticipando le mie domande
"Ora dovrò punirti. Lo sai vero?Non so come tu abbia potuto pensare di lasciarmi sospeso tutto questo tempo e non pagarne le dovute conseguenze"
Ero divertita, preoccupata, ansiosa, e ovviamente eccitata
Spostando le carte sul tavolo mi ha chiesto di avvicinarmi
"Chinati sul tavolo e culo in fuori , per favore.
Alzati la gonna, abbassati le mutandine"
Eseguivo ogni ordine senza fare obiezioni e sentivo la mia fica liquefarsi nell'attesa di quello successivo
Ha preso le mie mani, me le ha portate dietro la schiena e le ha appoggiate sulle mie natiche
"Allargati il culo, bambina, tieni il tuo buco esposto per me"
Avevo la faccia appoggiata sul tavolo, girata da una parte, lho visto prendere una scatoletta piena di elastici, di quelli verdi, spessi. Non capivo davvero dove volesse arrivare
Per come mi sentivo mi sarebbe bastato mi inculasse subito!!
Invece si è seduto dietro di me, ha infilato la faccia tra le mie natiche aperte e ha annusato, ha inspirato forte.
Poi ha preso un elastico, l'ha allungato un po' e l'ha rilasciato dritto sul mio buco del culo
D'istinto ho lasciato la presa ed emesso un gridolino, ma uno schiaffo fortissimo su una natica mi ha rimessa in posizione!
"Stai ferma e allarga sto culo, puttana "
Ho ripreso il mio posto come un automa, e un altro elastico ha colpito, sta volta più forte
Poi un altro, un altro e un altro ancora
Ogni volta ne allungava di più l'estensione e faceva sempre più male! Cercavo di muovermi, ma arrivava sempre uno schiaffo a riportarmi a posto
Ho iniziato a frignare e a chiedere di smettere, col culo che mi bruciava e pulsava
Non mi ha risposto, lo sentivo solo ansimare forte e improvvisamente una mano mi si è infilata tra le cosce
"Lo sapevo: urli, frigni ma Cristo stai colando come una cagna"
Era vero, per quanto male sentissi, avevo solo voglia di farmi sodomizzare.
Si è chinato su di me, sulla mia faccia schiacciata sul tavolo e mi ha leccato le lacrime, mi ha baciato la bocca, poi si è spostato nuovamente sul mio culo e con la lingua si è messo a lenire il buchetto martoriato e gonfio
Prima piano, poi con forza si faceva strada
Ci spuntava, leccava, baciava, ci spuntava di nuovo
Saliva mi colava dal culo e andava a congiungersi con i sughi della mia fica, che continuava a rilasciare umori , come un rubinetto rotto
La mia mente iniziava a perdersi!
Poi improvvisamente ha preso un altro elastico e, a buco bagnato, l'ha colpito di nuovo fortissimo
Ho urlato e sta volta ho iniziato a piangere come una bambina.
Le gambe hanno ceduto e sono finita in ginocchio, davanti al tavolo
"D'ora in poi ti comporterai bene, vero?"
Ho annuito
"DILLO!"
"Mi comporterò bene"
"Mi comporterò bene padrone, stupida cagna!! "
"Mi comporterò bene, padrone"
Mi ha fatto voltare, avevo la faccia all'altezza del suo cazzo, ben al sicuro dietro la cerniera , ma già pronto
Lo vedevo gonfio, tirare la stoffa dei pantaloni
Avevo l'acquolina come davanti ad un vassoio di pasticcini , ma sentivo il culo pulsare e nn riuscivo a smettere di piagnucolare
Mi ha schiacciato la faccia sulla stoffa e macchie di mascara si sono sparse ovunque
"Ecco, con gli occhi gonfi e mascara sulla faccia , sei bellissima, sei stata brava a sopportare. Torna a chinarti sul tavolo, meriti una ricompensa, ma basta con gli elastici "
Mi ha aiutato ad alzarmi e mi sono trovata nella posizione precedente
Si è assentato un attimo e quando è tornato aveva un collare di pelle marrone in mano.
D'istinto ho inarcato la schiena ed esposto il collo
Me l'ha allacciato da dietro, strofinandosi il cazzo sul mio culo dolorante
Avevo davvero male!!
Al collare ha poi attaccato una corta catena
"Ora stai ferma e allarga sto culo !"
Ho obbedito. Mi ha messo davanti alla faccia un gancio di metallo, poi mi ha fatto vedere tre sfere di diverse dimensioni e mi ha chiesto di scegliere "Sei ancora in punizione, ricordalo!"
Nonostante la dimensione, e un po' preoccupata, ho scelto la più grande
Diametro 7 o 8 cm! Ma la mia eccitazione continuava a crescere e mi passavano davanti immagini di scantinati bui, e catene legate al clitoride, di gogne e fruste che mi lasciavano segni. Cristodio, ero dolorante e volevo ancora più male, ancora più umiliazione
La sua faccia compiaciuta, la sua gratificazione era l'unica cosa a cui aspiravo. Ha avvitato la sfera lucida al gancio che aveva in mano e si è posizionato. Ha sputato sul mio buco gonfio e ha iniziato a spingere
"Allarga di più, fallo entrare!"
Cercavo di aiutarlo , ma era grande e avevo male!
Con le dita mi stuzzicava la fica e gemevo da vera troia arrapata.
Poi una spinta forte. Sfera e gancio mi si sono infilati dentro facendomi mancare il fiato.
Dio che goduria!
Ha attaccato il gancio alla catena costringendomi a tenere la schiena inarcata e ogni volta che perdevo posizione il gancio mi si conficcava sempre più in culo!
"Dio, scopami per favore, scopami padrone, farò la brava, promesso"
Lo stavo implorando con le cosce zuppe del mio succo!
Invece mi ha fatto mettere in ginocchio e col cazzo libero da costrizioni mi ha obbligato a succhiarglielo di nuovo
Il gancio tirava, la bocca era piena e poi spingeva giù, in gola!
Ero ad un passo dall'orgasmo, ma si fermava e poi riprendeva facendomi sbavare ovunque
Poi mi ha messa carponi e in quella scomoda posizione mi ha infilato il cazzo in fica, facendomi trasalire
Dio, mi pompava come un pazzo, mentre con le mani tirava il gancio
Scopata in entrambi i buchi ho goduto da vera puttana, urlando e gemendo!!
"Si puttana mia, godi! La prossima volta porto un amico ad ammirare la splendida schiava che sei! "
Pompava ancora mentre la mia fica fradicia si chiudeva ed apriva ad ogni colpo
Poi improvvisamente ha sfilato il gancio facendomi urlare di dolore (piacere) e ci ha infilato subito il cazzo
Siamo caduti in avanti e sono rimasta schiacciata sotto il suo peso, con il cazzo in culo, che premeva
Ha continuato a scoparmi in quella posizione e ho sentito la mia fica squirtare sul pavimento
Ero zuppa e mentre mi sussurrava parole oscene all'orecchio sono venuta di nuovo.
"Ti sborro in culo, mia piccola troia!"
Ha grugnito e urlato e mi è esploso dentro!!
Il culo largo e colante mi pulsava
Ero esausta, ma prendendomi per i capelli si è alzato e mi ha costretta a pulirgli il cazzo dal mio schifo e dal suo sperma!
Poi si è chinato e mi ha baciata.
"Devo finire un lavoro. Tirati su le mutande, e torna a casa
Quando arrivi scrivi per dirmi che sei arrivata, con questa pioggia non voglio stare in pensiero! E Ricordati di pulirti la faccia!"
Ho raccolto le mie cose e sono uscita
Ho chiuso la porta, mi sono appoggiata al muro e ho sorriso
Finalmente, appartenevo.
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libriaco · 1 month
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Il cane ansima
L’importante non è la singola parola, ma il gruppo di parole retto da relazioni interne.
A. Allora, Prontuario pornogrammaticale. La punteggiatura, Torino, Lindau, 2018
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chancerei · 10 months
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(MHA) GRAN TORINO SIMS 4 CC
Hey folks! It took me a bit, but I finally got everything done for the CC I've been working on! It's Gran Torino from My Hero Academia! I'm honestly surprised I couldn't find CC for him already, seeing as we've had models to base it off of since One's Justice in 2018. The wait is over, I guess!
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CC GUIDE:
Costume (10 swatches) in Full Body
Cape (10 swatches) in Necklaces
Mask (10 swatches) in Glasses
Beard in Facial Hair
Hair (including hat cuts) in Hair
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princesssarisa · 5 months
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Opera on YouTube 6
Pagliacci
Franco Enriques studio film, 1954 (Franco Corelli, Mafalda Micheluzzi, Tito Gobbi; conducted by Alfredo Simonetto; no subtitles)
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 1961 (Mario del Monaco, Gabriella Tucci, Aldo Protti; conducted by Giuseppe Morelli; Japanese subtitles)
Herbert von Karajan studio film, 1968 (Jon Vickers, Raina Kabaivanska, Peter Glossop; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)
Franco Zeffirelli film, 1983 (Plácido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, Juan Pons; conducted by Georges Prêtre; English subtitles) – Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI
Metropolitan Opera, 1994 (Luciano Pavarotti, Teresa Stratas, Juan Pons; conducted by James Levine; Spanish subtitles)
Ravena Festival, 1998 (Plácido Domingo, Svetla Vassileva, Juan Pons; conducted by Riccardo Muti; Italian subtitles)
Zürich Opera House, 2009 (José Cura, Fiorenza Cedolins, Carlo Guelfi; conducted by Stefano Ranzani; no subtitles)
Chorégies d'Orange, 2009 (Roberto Alagna, Inva Mula, Seng-Hyoun Ko; conducted by Georges Prêtre; French subtitles)
Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2011 (Marcello Giordani, Angeles Blancas, Vittorio Vitelli; conducted by Daniele Callegari; English subtitles – ignore the silly references to Norse mythology and aliens that the translator threw in, they're not in the actual libretto)
Latvian National Opera, 2019 (Sergei Polyakov, Tatiana Trenogina, Vladislav Sulimsky; conducted by Jānis Liepiņš; no subtitles)
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Dresden State Opera, 1977 (Armin Ude, Carolyn Smith-Meyer, Barbara Sternberer, Rolf Tomaszewski; conducted by Peter Gülke; no subtitles)
Bavarian State Opera, 1980 (Francisco Araiza, Edita Gruberova, Reri Grist, Martti Talvela; conducted by Karl Böhm; English subtitles)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1988 (Deon van der Walt, Inga Nielson, Lillian Watson, Kurt Moll; conducted by Georg Solti; English subtitles)
Salzburg Festival, 1989 (Deon van der Walt, Inga Nielson, Lillian Watson, Kurt Rydl; conducted by Horst Stein; no subtitles)
Théâtre du Châtelet, 1991 (Stanford Olsen, Luba Orgonasova, Cyndia Sieden, Cornelius Hauptmann; conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; French subtitles)
Vienna State Opera, 1989 (Kurt Streit, Aga Winska, Elzbieta Szmytka, Artur Korn; conducted by Nicolaus Harnoncourt; Hungarian subtitles) – Act I, Act II
Teatro della Pergola, 2002 (Rainer Trost, Eva Mei, Patrizia Ciofi, Kurt Rydl; conducted by Zubin Mehta; Spanish subtitles)
Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2012 (Christoph Strehl, Diana Damrau, Olga Peretyatko, Franz-Josef Selig; conducted by Ivor Bolton; Catalan subtitles)
Bankhead Theatre, 2018 (David Walton, Alexandra Batsios, Elena Galvan, Kevin Langan; conducted by Alex Katsman; English subtitles)
Theatro São Pedro, 2023 (Daniel Umbelino, Ludmilla Bauerfeldt, Ana Carolina Coutinho, Luiz-Ottavio Faria; conducted by Cláudio Cruz; Brazilian Portuguese subtitles)
Un Ballo in Maschera
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 1967 (Carlo Bergonzi, Antonietta Stella, Mario Zanassi; conducted by Oliviero di Fabritiis; Spanish subtitles)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1975 (Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli; conducted by Claudio Abbado, English subtitles)
Teatro alla Scala, 1978 (Luciano Pavarotti, Mara Zampieri, Piero Cappuccilli; conducted by Claudio Abbado; Italian subtitles)
Metropolitan Opera, 1980 (Luciano Pavarotti, Katia Ricciarelli, Louis Quilico; conducted by Giuseppe Patané; no subtitles)
Royal Swedish Opera, 1986 (Nicolai Gedda, Siv Wennberg, Carl Johan Falkman; conducted by Eri Klas; sung in Swedish; Swedish subtitles)
Salzburg Festival, 1990 (Plácido Domingo, Josephine Barstow, Leo Nucci; conducted by Georg Solti; Spanish subtitles)
Leipzig Opera House, 2006 (Massimiliano Pisapia, Chiara Taigi, Franco Vassallo; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; English subtitles) – Part I, Part II
Teatro Regio di Torino, 2012 (Gregory Kunde, Oksana Dyka, Gabriele Viviani; conducted by Renato Palumbo; no subtitles) – Part I, Part II
Chorégies d'Orange, 2013 (Ramón Vargas, Kristin Lewis, Lucio Gallo; conducted by Alain Altinoglu; French subtitles)
Arena di Verona, 2014 (Francesco Meli, Hui He, Luca Salsi; conducted by Andrea Battistoni; no subtitles)
Cavalleria Rusticana
Giorgio Strehler studio film, 1968 (Gianfranco Cecchele, Fiorenza Cossotto; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)
Metropolitan Opera, 1974 (Franco Tagliavini, Grace Bumbry; conducted by John Nelson; no subtitles)
Franco Zeffirelli film, 1983 (Plácido Domingo, Elena Obraztsova; conducted by Georges Prêtre; no subtitles)
Ravenna Festival, 1996 (José Cura, Waltraud Meier; conducted by Riccardo Muti; Italian subtitles)
Ópera de Bellas Artes, 2008 (Alfredo Portilla, Violeta Dávalos; conducted by Marco Zambelli; Spanish subtitles)
Zürich Opera, 2009 (José Cura, Paoletta Marrocu; conducted by Stefano Ranzani; no subtitles)
Chorégies d'Orange, 2009 (Roberto Alagna, Beatrice Uria-Monzon; conducted by Georges Prêtre; French subtitles)
Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2011 (Marcello Giordani, Ildiko Komlosi; conducted by Daniele Gallegari; Spanish subtitles)
Mikhailovsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, 2012 (Fyodor Ataskevich, Iréne Theorin; conducted by Daniele Rustioni; English subtitles)
Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Younghoon Lee, Elina Garanča; conducted by Graeme Jenkins; English subtitles)
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Paparazzi Fotografi e divi dalla Dolce Vita a oggi
Photographer and Stars: from the Dolce Vita to the Present
a cura di Walter Guadagnini, Francesco Zanot
SilvanaEditoriale, Cinisello Balsamo 2017, 136 pagine, 190 illustrazioni, 23x28cm, ISBN 9788836637874, Brossura con alette,
Italiano, Inglese
euro 38,00
email if you want to buy [email protected]
Pubblicato in occasione della grande mostra a CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, il volume ripercorre la storia e la leggenda dei “paparazzi”, fenomeno fotografico e di costume nato negli anni in cui Roma era diventata “Hollywood sul Tevere”. Attraverso oltre 190 immagini, si susseguono le figure dei protagonisti di quella stagione, soprattutto i divi e le divine del cinema, e i racconti fotografici delle notti brave di Via Veneto tra gli anni cinquanta e sessanta. Le fotografie di Tazio Secchiaroli, Marcello Geppetti, Elio Sorci, Ron Galella e di tanti altri protagonisti di quelle vicende compongono – insieme alle pagine delle riviste in cui furono pubblicate – un affresco della comunicazione popolare del tempo. Terminata la stagione eroica dei paparazzi, quel linguaggio diviene un codice, utilizzato in diversi contesti artistici e commerciali, come dimostrano le immagini di protagonisti della scena fotografica odierna come Alison Jackson, Armin Linke e Ellen von Unwerth, che chiudono il volume.
Torino, Camera, settembre 2017 - gennaio 2018
08/03/24
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nitroglycerin-a · 7 months
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Ho ordinato immediatamente una caraffa con depuratore perché in neanche 3 giorni bere l’acqua del rubinetto di Torino mi ha fatto venire fuori i peggio brufoli dal 2018
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Journalist Andrea Joly attacked outside club in Turin
La Stampa journalist Andrea Joly was attacked in Turin near a venue called Asso di Bastoni, according to Italian media.
The media report that the place is frequented by national-oriented militants. The journalist reportedly walked in front of the venue during a party. Some people allegedly came out, asked him who he was, demanded his phone and then threatened and kicked him when he tried to leave.
Italy’s former PM and head of the 5-Star Movement (M5S), Giuseppe Conte, condemned the attack on Joly on X, noting “anti-democratic tendencies” in the country.
“The squad attack suffered by Andrea Joly, journalist of the newspaper La Stampa, demonstrates once again the need to strengthen democratic antibodies every day to fight hatred, intolerance and neo-fascist violence. It is a serious and unacceptable episode, but it is not an isolated case: the alarm bells about some anti-democratic tendencies in our country have already rung several times. Politics and healthy forces have the task of intervening to put an end to these delirious regurgitations of arrogance and violence. My solidarity and that of @Mov5Stelle goes to Joly and the entire editorial staff.”
Marco Tarquinio, Italian journalist and former editor of Avvenire, also denounced the attack.
Total solidarity with @AndreaJoly_, who was attacked on the night between Saturday and Sunday 21 July in #Torino by Casapound militants while he was doing his job as a reporter for @LaStampa. Firm condemnation of fascist aggression. We need a clear response from the State, colleagues and citizens.
Andrea Joly is a young journalist living in Turin. After graduating from the Cattaneo scientific high school in the Piedmontese capital, he studied at the University of Turin and attended the Ferdinando Rossi School of Advanced Studies.
He has been working for La Stampa since 2018 and, as indicated in his social profiles, writes about everything, with a particular focus on international affairs, as evidenced by his reporting on Ukraine and the Salis case in Hungary.
Read more HERE
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Trick or treat? (For the ficwip game!)
We know from Yuri on Ice ep 12 that Stéphane Lambiel won silver at the Torino Olympics. Year not stated onscreen; in RL this was 2006. RL Lambiel also came in fourth in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
One of Victor's gold medals seen in ep 10 looks suspiciously like the ones handed out in 2006 in Torino.
We know from the Ice Adolescence preview trailer that ten years before the show, Victor participated in the Olympics in Paris.
Conclusion: Stéphane Lambiel won silver in Torino in 2010. Victor may have won gold in both 2006 and Torino, we're unlikely to know until we actually get Ice Adolescence, but he definitely won gold in at least one of the two.
(Evgeni Plushenko and Daisuke Takahashi, who took two of the 2010 medals in RL, probably don't exist in YOI; if Evan Lysacek does, then probably something about competing against Victor knocked him down to bronze or below. Christophe Giacometti may or may not have medaled at the 2010 or 2014 Olympics, but probably not both; the fact Victor remarked on sharing multiple Grand Prix Final, Europeans, and Worlds podiums with Chris tells me they have never shared multiple Olympics podiums and may never have shared the Olympics podium at all.)
And since 2006 Paris Olympics is far from the only example of YOI setting an event somewhere other than where the RL event that year was: in order to avoid having two significant-to-Yuuri competitions in Sochi, I can move the 2014 Olympics to wherever I like! Since one of the losing bids for the RL 2014 Olympics was Jaca, Spain, which lost partly because Spain was going to host only the mountain events in Jaca, with the ice events and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies in Zaragoza—the problem being that the bidding city has to host both those ceremonies—I have therefore switched Spain's 2014 bid from Jaca to Zaragoza.
(I'm on team "Yuuri came in like eighth in the 2014 Olympics". He therefore wanted to burn his Olympic team jacket out of shame, but Minako stole it before he could. It's stored either with the rest of his old costumes or with hers, possibly both on account of Minako stores the lot at her studio.)
(2018 and 2022 Olympics in YOIverse are definitely in Pyeongchang and Beijing, same as RL, though. We have official art showing Beijing, and though RL 2017 Four Continents was in the same venue as RL Pyeongchang Olympics figure skating and therefore could plausibly be what Seung-gil's coach was talking about, that venue is in Gangneung and the Olympics are by far the more important competition.)
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“ Il primo dei “lupi solitari” a entrare in azione è stato il norvegese Anders Breivik: il 22 luglio 2011 ha compiuto la strage di sessantotto giovani radunati per un seminario nell'Isola di Utoya in Norvegia. Gesti come questi fanno scattare l’emulazione. Pochi mesi dopo, il 13 dicembre, c’è una strage a Firenze in pieno centro: due migranti senegalesi, Samb Modou e Diop Mor, vengono uccisi da un estremista di destra, sostenitore di Casa Pound, Gianluca Casseri, che si suicida per evitare l’arresto. Un altro “lupo solitario”, David Sonboly, un diciottenne tedesco di origine iraniana, il 22 luglio 2016 uccide nove persone nel centro commerciale Olympia di Monaco. Il 3 febbraio 2018, a Macerata un raid razzista: Luca Traini, ventottenne leghista e ammiratore di Hitler, spara dalla propria auto in corsa in alcune zone della città, ferendo sei persone, tutti africani, colpevoli di avere la pelle nera come l’assassino della povera Pamela Mastropietro. Al suo arresto fa il saluto romano. Il 13 maggio 2019, il suprematista Brenton Tarrant uccide a Christchurch in Nuova Zelanda quarantanove musulmani che pregavano in due moschee e ne ferisce altri quarantotto. Sul fucile, usato, c’era scritto il nome di Traini. Prima di compiere un tale orrendo gesto, aveva messo in rete il suo manifesto: “Il genocidio dei bianchi, causato dall'immigrazione di massa”. Il 28 settembre dello stesso anno l’americano Patrick Crusius uccide ventidue persone a El Paso (Texas), ferendone altre ventiquattro. “Difendo il mio Paese dalla sostituzione etnica e culturale portata avanti da un’invasione.” Gli stessi messaggi di odio che si ritrovano sul social di Tarrant. Pochi giorni dopo, il 9 ottobre, un attentato antisemita: Stephan Balliet, ventotto anni, estremista di destra, durante la festa ebraica dello Yom Kippur, prende d’assalto la sinagoga di Halle (Germania), dove si trovano cinquantadue fedeli. Non riuscendo a entrare, uccide a caso due passanti e un ragazzo di vent’anni in una tavola calda. Prima dell'azione aveva pubblicato un documento nel quale affermava che “la radice di tutti i problemi sono gli ebrei”. Per poi aggiungere: “Gli Stati hanno l’obiettivo di uccidere il maggior numero di anti-bianchi, meglio se ebrei”.
Sembra che, nella sola Germania, siano oltre dodicimila le persone appartenenti a gruppi neonazisti. E questi gruppi sono spesso armati. Sempre in Germania, un’altra strage di nove stranieri è avvenuta a Hanau il 20 febbraio 2020. Morto anche il “lupo solitario” che aveva scritto: “Alcuni popoli che non si riescono a espellere dalla Germania vanno sterminati”. Nel solo 2020 sono stati sciolti tre gruppi neofascisti pronti alla lotta armata. Ritornando nel nostro Paese, vorrei sottolineare l’arresto il 22 gennaio 2021 di Andrea Cavalleri, un ventiduenne di Savona. Voleva imitare Anders Breivik e Brenton Tarrant, mosso da un’ideologia suprematista. Contava di realizzare stragi tramite il suo gruppo il “Nuovo Ordine sociale” che propagandava sul canale Telegram “Sole Nero”. È accusato di associazione con finalità di terrorismo, di incoraggiare a compiere massacri nelle scuole. “Io una strage la faccio davvero. L’unica cosa da fare è morire combattendo. Ho le armi. Farò Traini 2.0.” Oltre agli ebrei, il giovane savonese aveva preso di mira anche le donne. “Gli ebrei sono il male primo da eliminare.” In quel giorno saranno dodici le perquisizioni nei confronti di persone legate al giovane ventiduenne, nelle città di Genova, Torino, Cagliari, Forlì, Cesena, Palermo, Perugia, Bologna e Cuneo. Questa è la chiara manifestazione di quanto sia esteso il fenomeno dell'estrema destra e del suprematismo bianco anche nel nostro Paese. “
Alex Zanotelli, Lettera alla tribù bianca, Feltrinelli (collana Serie Bianca); prima edizione marzo 2022. [Libro elettronico]
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Hi! I have been desperately wanting a skk figure skating AU and was expecting I’d have to write it myself but then I found out you have one! Please take this as an invitation to ramble about it, I am listening intently and taking detailed notes like this is a college lecture.
OMG HELLO
1st of all you must know that i actually have 2 versions of this au: skk medal count goes more or less the same but there's a diference
The au I have more worked and developed is a figure skater chuuya only, he's the skater, Dazai is his #1 fan and best friend since dippers, he ends becoming a teacher but he quite likes music, so some times he makes the arrangments for Chuuya's programs
That one is a simple one, Chuuya is adopted by Verlaine when he's 4 or 5, Verlaine is France top skaters, but he suffers an injurie during Torino 2006 and had to retire, so he become Chuuya coach
I love figure skating, I follow it all season so I know more or less about how ISU works and I wanted to keep it more or less realistic: under and over scorings, disliking some music, styles and all that
The only thing I'm more or less ignoring about the ISU is that here they're transfrindly weeeeeeeee Chuuya is trans here
Anyway back to the details Chuuya is also inspird by Yuzuru Hanyu, I'm biased and I'm not sorry
He wins a lot, gets a lot of world reconds and, since he's my fave and this is my self indulgent au, 3 consecutive medal titles: 2014, 2018 and 2022
He'll retire around 26 or so, becuse his style is really agresive, like he has a good technique and he takes care of his body, but he's been hiding injuries and trying quads since his junior days
he's such an artistic skater, deep edges, can do figures, so so so flexible and adaptable... he knows ballet, so he's really a pretty clasic 90s like skater, but with a punk side
Well, you've already seen my post about his programs: he chooses the music he wants, not the one the ISU would like to hear
This happens because, when he was still a junior, he made a deal with Verlaine: If i win the gold at junior worlds, I get to choose my music ALWAYS
AND HE WON
oh and kouyou also trains him, she's his choerographer
but like his brother he gets a bad injury during the Olympics, hide it, and it gets worst at words, so he needs surgery and he takes a whole year to heal
anyway after retiring he goes into coaching, and skk get to get marred and have a kid
also he's terrible at intweviews during his whole carrer, he doesn't have a filter
and he's plushie is of course a tinny dog
The other au is: ice dancers skk
because listen, I love ice dance, and I've been in this fandom since 2016 so you know, the moment i sat in front of my TV watching VirtueMoir skating to Moulin rouge I KNEW THAT WAS SOMETHING MEANT FOR SKK
I know dazai is strong, but I choose ice dancing for them instead of pairs becase I still think that, even if he's strong, Dazai is quite lazzy
They're insane in ice dance, they lifts are, so SO SOSOSO ACROBATIC, they're so in sync that it's scary
also win a lot, they retire a little latter becuse ice dancing is """""easier"""" so they stay in top until their 30s and retire
and well, the kid happens here too because it's my other self indulent thing, he borns during the covid seaons, so they only miss a season and half as they recover and adapt, do a few more seasons where a whole horde of uncles and unties take care of the kid while his parents win medals, and when they finally retire, it's in part so they can foccus on the family they're creating
oh and this chuuya (because i can never leave him alone) gets a small plot of having fribromialgia
the diagnosis is actually what makes skk switch from pairs to ice dance, so it won't take such a tool in chuuya's body
inspiration?? VirtueMoir, SuiHan, Smart/Diaz, Sara/Kirill (can you tell I love pair events???) they're so elegant
Like Poirier/Gilles?? I may have not liked them this season, but the last ones??? the elegance in their Vangoh one?? god insane, i want that for skk
they're elegant and risky and bold, as they get older they lean more in the Daisuke/Muramoto style, older figure skaters everyone looks up to and everyone loves
they're glued by the hip, never seen apart
The base of this one would be their kid in the futyre giving an interview about his parents, like a 10 aniversary thing of skk first OLympic medal, and we'll see their storie like a docuentary
(this is fun because one scene is the reporter showing an old video of skk to the kid and the video is an interview that goes like:
Reporter would you like it if your kid become a figure skater?
skk: no, they would like a sport easier and more natural for the body for the kid.
cut back to the kid in the docomentary sayinf that teehee, he did become a figure skater in the end)
and well that's more or less everything
SORRY IF IT¡S TOO MUCH
also my dms are open if you want to talk
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