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51 minutes agoI’d like Ryan to return to more serious roles. He’s a decent actor but he just ends up playing the same character in everything at the moment, and he’s getting predictable and typecast imo.
Challenge Defeatism. Resist Doomerism
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You into masks, baby? Kinky! I like that, baby, yeah! Behave!
2·8 days agoTownscaper vibes
I find it crazy that Black Ops, a series that’d surely sell gangbusters with minimal marketing thanks to word of mouth, gets a marketing budget bigger than the GDP of a small country. Yet a new IP that noone has heard of yet gets a far smaller budget. It seems completely back to front, to me.
3·13 days agoExactly. You’re not missing anything. This is just an example of typical media headline bullshit.
Johnson’s memoir came out in the U.K. on October 10 but is expected to arrive in Brussels only later Monday. Waterstones’ only shops outside the U.K. are in Amsterdam, Brussels and several Irish towns.
The delay means that European officials will have to wait another few hours to fact-check Johnson’s claims about the Brexit negotiations and his (at times difficult) relationship with EU leaders.
So it’s delayed, not actually ‘not on sale’.
Well, can they?
45·15 days agoGive her a medal
3·16 days agoThis was a really interesting article. The parallels with modern day concerns are remarkable.
1·21 days agoI have to say this is my concern as well. Deregulation rarely works well for the environment or climate because it’s shorthand for ‘letting businesses do what they want’ and businesses don’t tend to care about anything other than profit.
When you want to run with that Colossal Weapon build, but don’t want to compromise your fashion.
I guess that’s just an argument for better made apartments.
Negative news has a greater impact on people than positive: https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71516.pdf
Media sites know this, and use it to drive engagement:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/social-media-facebook-twitter-politics-b1870628.html
And so, negative headlines are getting worse: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276367
But negative news is addictive and psychologically damaging: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/202009/the-psychological-impact-negative-news
So it’s important to try and stay positive:
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/benefits-of-good-news
If you want a break from the constant negativity, here are some sites that report specifically on positive news:
Remember, realistic optimism is important and, unlike what some might have you believe, is not the same as blissful ignorance or ‘burying your head in the sand’: https://www.learning-mind.com/realistic-optimism-blind-positivity/
https://www.centreforoptimism.com/realisticoptimism
And doesn’t mean you must stay uninformed on current affairs: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how-to-stop-doom-scrolling
https://goodable.co/blog/tips-for-balancing-positive-and-negative-news/
4·3 months agoYeah, likewise. There’s a shot of the mangled, rotting fish corpse on the sand surrounded in flies and people are just prodding it. Putting aside how bad it must smell, why the fuck would you want to touch it at all?!
Here are some sites to remind you that not everything in the world is bad, friend:
Here are some sites to remind you that not everything in the world is bad, friend:
Hell March intensifies
33·3 months agoHow is Andrew Twat able to say anything? I thought he was in jail, no?
One thing I do find nuts is that the poppys have only just moved to paper stems. Every year they’d be busy handing these things out only for the plastic stem and centre to end up in landfill. I bought one of the reusable metal brooch versions a while ago, and just wear that each year, but it’s sad that the disposable nature of them wasn’t taken into consideration when they were designed.