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The thing about Love is Blind is that it's actually very possible to find your match and fall in love in the pods, but the show is less likely to teach you that than things like:
- there are a lot of people who don't know themselves very well or are actively lying to themselves, and so self-describe as the person they wish they were/hope they'll become
- many people don't actually know what they want or what's required of them to have it (or what they're genuinely willing to do to have, build, and maintain it)
- these are things you can only uncover by spending time together and learning their character first-hand in a normal environment
- there are a lot of people who are very willing to waste their own or another person's time
- a show like this would probably be a lot better if the concepts of marriage and family (and time wasting for fun and profit) were taken much more seriously
Caught an early screening of Wild Horse Nine last night, I'm 2:2 this week on crying in my seat 🥲
Be the right level of paranoid. WILD HORSE NINE is nine days away. Get tickets now. #WildHorseNine searchlightpictures.com/wild…
my controversial opinion is that she does, in fact, beat eggs in a very weird and ineffective way and if it weren't for all the other stuff I'd argue it's valid to take the bowl
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The absolute funniest thing in the official Scrabble dictionary is *by far* their inconsistent stance on cheeses:
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I generally avoid political posts on here, but I really hope we can move away from this creeping rhetoric where half the country is getting punished based on who they voted for. We've already seen tangible examples with how Colorado was treated. I don't want the next Democratic administration to stiff Florida on hurricane funding to "punish" them for voting red. This attitude is antithetical to the whole concept of the Union and really needs to be addressed (I think it might be something actually worthy of impeachment). We're all Americans regardless of who you voted for. Sadly it feels like bipartisanship is dead sometimes, but we have to try.
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There's been a lot of people (who all clearly know better) who have greased the wheels to getting Trump elected again by making a mountain out of a molehill (see: Hunter Biden, laptop).
So many average (dumb) voters were led to believe that 'everyone's corrupt, so it doesn't matter.' And now, despite the Biden admin being perhaps the cleanest admin in recent history, the country elected the most corrupt administration in history (x100).
Anyway, picture unrelated.
Neither Nicki Minaj (not a citizen), her husband (registered sex offender), nor her brother (serving 25 to life for predatory sexual assault against a minor) are able to vote in the US
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we may have found the new White House Press Secretary! @NICKIMINAJ
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I don't even know where to begin but I'm feeling ranty today, I guess, so lfg.
in 2024, the US had a trade surplus with Brazil to the tune of $7.4bln, a 39% increase over 2023. Trump is proposing 50% tariffs on Brazil, ostensibly over trade. transparently, we see it's to punish them for prosecuting a criminal he likes while claiming we have a "very unfair trade relationship."
Brazil is currently a significant exporter of beef to the US, making up for shortages in domestic production, but I'll get to that later.
along with an earlier decree of 10% tariffs on any country that aligns with the "anti-American policies of BRICS," he rants today in an open letter to Lula about "hundreds of secret and unlawful censorship orders to US social media platforms" (a move he calls "insidious attacks on... the fundamental Free Speech Rights of Americans") and the "witch hunt" against Bolsonaro.
in the letter, Trump refers to Bolsonaro as "a Highly Respected Leader throughout the World during his Term, including by the United States."
as a reminder, during Bolsonaro's term, he: relaxed gun control restrictions, weakened protections for indigenous lands and communities, transferred the oversight on indigenous land to the Agriculture Ministry (a conflict of interest with grave outcomes), enabled illegal mining, increased Amazon deforestation to the highest level in more than 15 years, weakened environmental protections and cut budgets for key organizations, reduced support and protection for LGBTQ communities, falsely claimed people who were vaccinated for COVID-19 were at a higher risk of contracting AIDS, and had to pay damages for slandering one journalist and making sexual comments to another. the "witch hunt" Trump refers to is regarding multiple charges related to allegations he formed a criminal organization and attempted a coup to remain in power when he lost the election to Lula in 2022.
how familiar.
ftr, he's also told a congresswoman she wasn't worthy of being raped, said in an interview he wouldn't love his gay son, said "a policeman who doesn't kill isn't a policeman," and is nostalgic for Brazil's military dictatorship.
how familiar.
(shout-out to I'm Still Here, a 2024 film/bp nom based on a true story and set during Brazil's military rule - you should see if you haven't)
back to the beef: I'll be a bit of an opportunist here for a topic close to my heart and take this moment to post a map of the companies in the US and abroad who are the largest contributors to Amazon deforestation. these are some of your importers who will see a 50% tariff.
beef is the primary driver of deforestation in the Amazon (Brazil is the world's largest beef exporter and could become the largest producer - replacing the US - in 2026).
in April 2025, Brazil exported a reported 48,000 metric tons of beef to the US (up from 8,000 tons in April 2024) and, because of the US obsession with beef products, this is largely attributed to a cattle shortage and the "need" for foreign meat not being produced domestically.
Trump declares the 50% tariffs are needed to "level the playing field" and "rectify grave injustices of the current regime," claiming Brazil can avoid them by building or manufacturing in the US. but he's simply attempting to bully a trade partner - with which we have a surplus! - to save a dictator with a deplorable record in ecological and social/human rights that he tries to justify with arguments of economics.
how familiar.
This was the obvious motivation, he's going to try to wedge Grok into the film industry to make the cinemas match his deranged twitter feed here's the first step.
Elon Musk has reportedly invested around $1 billion into Skydance (the merged Warner Bros/Paramount company).
(Source: semafor.com/article/10/22/20…)
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"Wildwood" took nearly 15 years to make, with 231 puppets and 136 sets, making it the longest stop motion film ever made.
No offence to the Clankers but I want to learn more stuff from more humans. I went looking for a site or something for this but there isn't one? The closest thing I found was Trade School which had a barter system but closed in 2019. Maybe I'll make one?
Basically I want to trade lunch for something you love. If we're in the same place (in the next few months I'll be in Ireland, Portugal, NC, NYC, Colorado, Seattle) let me buy you lunch while you tell/show/teach me something. Online could also work I guess, and I'll send a delivery gift card?
I'm up for learning lots of things, some examples
- getting better at coding with agents
- playing guitar (or if you can teach me asalato it would change my life) or some sort of craft
- improving my writing practice
- being a gaffer
- personal finance
- probably anything else you're passionate about
I'm leaving my company at the end of the year and this also seems like a good way to find inspiration to decide what's next.
Comment or DM if you want to talk about it 🧡
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As a business owner, I'd add five more keys from my own marriage:
- My wife and I always choose fun. There's an option to have fun in everything we do, even the boring things, and we have a much better time when we don't take things too seriously.
- We never let anything slide. When something frustrates either of us, we address it as soon as possible, so nothing builds up in the background until it blows up.
- We're not afraid to confront each other. We love each other enough to bring up a struggle, make it about the behavior or the issue, and solve it together.
- We always find new adventures together, and travel is something we both really enjoy. It's a privilege that my work takes me everywhere and that I get to bring her along a lot of the time.
- We never talk badly about each other to anyone else, and any frustration is for the two of us to figure out. Whatever we say about each other to other people forms the thoughts and beliefs in our own heads.
Keys to a happy long-term relationship:
- be obsessed with each other
- be very affectionate
- laugh together
- eat together
- want ~the same things out of life
- support each other’s dreams
- don’t blame your partner for your bullshit
- figure out how to both get great sleeps every night
- learn how to co-exist in a space, manage chores + orderliness in a way that feels good for you both
- actually listen to each other
- take responsibility for yourself
- be curious about each other’s worldview
- apologize + admit when you’re wrong
- talk about money, figure out your shared / differing beliefs about how you want to generate, save, spend
- always expand each other’s sense of what’s possible
- speak to the highest version of each other
- give gifts and gestures that show your partner you see + understand + think about them
- connection + quality time that do not center logistics / life operations
- build shared good habits
- fall in love with the life you’re building together