Yep.
well the iphone was done by choice. The galaxy was accidental and they’re replacing it for anyone who brings the phone in as well as giving them some reimbursement. One phone chose to be severely inconvinient in order to force the people to shovel more money to them while the other made a mistake and is trying everything to fix it.
the part of howl’s moving castle where he cries WHAT’s THE POINT OF LIVING IF I CANT BE BEAUTIFUL and generates gallons of ectoplasmic slime from every pore because he accidentally messed up bleaching his hair is INCREDIBLY relatable
A leading news reporter for Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ, has been “overwhelmed” by the support he has received from his employers and the public since he revealed that he identifies as “gender fluid.”
After 16 years of service, the 44-year-old journalist, Jonathan Clynch, asked that he now be referred to as Jonathan Rachel Clynch by RTÉ.
Not sure if anyone missed this but I’m so happy to see this!!! It’s wonderful to see the various gender identities appear in big names and not just seen as a “tumblr thing”This is really exciting. Especially since this person is older–it’s really nice to see an out older nonbinary person in the media
This was the crossword puzzle in the New York Times yesterday.
Tausig’s crossword is a so-called Schrödinger puzzle, named for the physicist’s hypothetical cat that is at once both alive and dead. In a Schrödinger puzzle, select squares have more than one correct letter answer: They exist in two states at once. “Black Halloween animal,” for example, could be both BAT or CAT, yielding two different but perfectly correct puzzles. Only 10 such puzzles have now been published in Times history.
It’s the theme of Tausig’s puzzle, though, that makes it special. Four entries in Thursday’s crossword can include either an “F” or an “M.” Both are correct; neither is wrong. For example, “Part of a house” can be either ROOF or ROOM. The long “revealer” answer, tying those select entries together and spanning 11 squares smack-dab in the middle of the puzzle, is GENDER FLUID.
This puzzle, with “M”s and “F”s that aren’t fixed, is a masterful blend of subject and structure. “It potentially really evokes what gender fluidity is, which is not moving back and forth between two poles, but actually not being committed to either pole, and potentially existing in many states at different times,” Tausig said.
This is … really cool.
Whoops, Charmer seems to have ended up with one of @askmaracoarco‘s hypno goggles, how about we humiliate him. Don’t hold back.
Blame @silver-tongues-blog for this
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“It’s not just the factual errors, like describing Disney’s Moana as ‘another oceanic epic from Pixar’ (which was corrected after publication); it’s the author’s hard-line views on an industry that he hasn’t properly researched or taken the time to understand.
To top it all off, the piece falls back on an old canard that somehow pops up again and again in entertainment reporting: that there’s too much animation being made. Bloomberg quotes entertainment analyst Doug Creutz, who says, ‘There’s a glut of these type of films at the moment. It’s highly unlikely they’re all going to work.’
Certainly there are going to be animated films that perform poorly in 2016, but that will not be proof of an excess of animated content. In fact, as the Bloomberg lackey points out — and this might be the only thing he got right in the entire piece — animation is the most consistently profitable type of film at the box office.
And what exactly qualifies as a glut? According to Bloomberg, there’s 16 major animated titles being released this year. This ‘glut’ of 16 films conveniently overlooks the fact that there have already been over 40 major live-action releases through April and 100 smaller live-action releases — and only a relative handful of these 140+ films have been hits. If the mainstream media held live-action to the same impossible standard that they use for animation, then there’s been a glut of live-action films for, oh say, the last century.
Through April three of the top five U.S. releases have been animated films. The only legitimate question any business piece should be asking is, Why does Hollywood continue to produce so few animated films when audiences have expressed a clear desire to see more of it?”
