Ms Phalange

Jolly good fellow. | To wine, laughter and *never* catching feelings. | Opinions and views are my own.

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

After watching the Michael movie yesterday, I realise I am still grieving that man's death.😭😭😭

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

Meanwhile, this person can be feminine all they want. Nobody will beat you for living your truth.

[Oloye. @Ol0ye]

Men do not care about your Msc or PhD.

Are you feminine?

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

This is DISRUPTIVE!
Love your work. ❤️

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

I’ve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s.

Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, — one searchable graph.

You too can connect the dots: https://t.co/faIfzWfAIp

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

Meanwhile...Lupita is a favourite in film and beauty circles because her appearance disrupts many historically narrow Western beauty standards while simultaneously fitting classical ideas of beauty and presence due to her unusually strong facial symmetry.
Una will be alright.

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

"She would have hairs"
🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

@Olu_Utd14 @TheGodfessional LMAO! O ga gan o. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

I always admire people who use a lot of words to say nothing.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This is what I call "The Death of the Reader".

Authors write for readers, who aren't authors. Artists paint for non-artists. Musicians play for non-musicians.

This keeps fiction, art, and music grounded.

But when any group stops creating for an external audience, and starts trying to impress only each other, they create a weird, self-reinforcing feedback loop.

This isn't clothing, or even fashion. It's a costume party. They're all trying one-up each other with something weirder and more eye-catching.

So when an athlete, of recent and topical celebrity, who isn't a part of their Bored Billionaires' Club, shows up in a dress that's just a dress, of course they are going to mock her. She's just revealed that she didn't get the memo. That she's not an insider.

How she looks to the world at large is not the point.

This is why 99.999...% of copies of "Infinite Jest" have never been read. This is why John Cage "wrote" four minutes of silence. This is why competitive bodybuilders from the 80s looked like Greek gods, and modern ones look like gargoyle freaks.

It's all the Death of the Reader.

Hollywood doesn't make movies for you now. They hate you. They make movies for each other.

And then cry about how you didn't buy a ticket, because they think your only role is to pay for their onanistic circle of self indulgence.

This game isn't going to stop. It's just going to keep getting weirder until someone's dress malfunctions and catches fire, and the rest of us all have a good laugh.

[Drebae @Drebae_]

Are we ready to admit we shoulda kept cable instead of paying for 10 different streaming apps? 😭😭 It’s gotten OUTTA HAND

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

@CharlotteCGill @TheAcademy Yes!

[Joe Vogel @DrJoeVogel]

Fellow journalists, just as a thought experiment:

Consider, for a brief moment, that Michael Jackson is innocent. We can return to regular programming (the default assumption of guilt) soon. But just for a moment….consider it.

From someone who has spent a lot of time researching the artist, interviewing those close to him, trying to approach the subject fairly, there are some legitimate things to consider, among them:

- I’ve personally spoken to some of Jackson’s accusers as adults and they vehemently defended him. This shouldn’t be too surprising as they have also defended him publicly and in some cases on the stand under oath, before later changing their positions.

- MJ, of course, faced an exhaustive criminal trial and was acquitted of all charges in 2005. That case, when removed from salacious headlines, was actually quite weak. The posthumous cases are objectively weaker.

- I’ve always felt the most compelling allegation would be one not attached to millions of dollars. Every posthumous allegation has been tied to changed stories and enormous sums of money, which would seem to at least invite some level of scrutiny.

- The vast majority of people who spent time at Neverland as children continue to assert that nothing sexual took place. That matters when trying to establish patterns of behavior and grooming.

- Multiple unannounced raids on Jackson’s properties revealed nothing incriminating. Not the case obviously for other recent high profile cases (Diddy, Epstein, etc.), where the evidence is clear.

- Nobody was clamoring for “complexity” and the “whole story” when Leaving Neverland came out. The media left its premier at Sundance in complete lockstep even though it intentionally left out hundreds of conflicting accounts.

- MJ was and is a target because of his differences/eccentricities and because of his wealth.

- Race continues to play a role. We can deny it or rationalize it but it’s always been there. James Baldwin saw it as early as 1985. White journalists have always been quicker to judge, malign, and assume his guilt. Even the “Wacko Jacko” tabloid nickname has racist roots.

Is none of this context relevant? If MJ was in fact not guilty as he asserted, as his family and friends believe, as a jury determined, the treatment he received in his lifetime (and still, decades later) would be reprehensible.

It’s at least worth considering…

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

In the end, there was a wolf. But no villagers came when the boy cried.

When are American mid-terms again?

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

Da Grin.

[кєνín @notcee_fan]

he died but his music is still alive, name the artist

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

Justin Timberlake will be fed for life from that song alone.

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

Oh yeah!
That song was a masterpiece.

[Keara Sullivan @superkeara]

Just discovered that a lot of people do not play when it comes to Mirrors by Justin Timberlake that song has real shooters

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

For a "critic", you sure are sensitive.
Pele.

[Luis A. Mendez @MendezMovieRPT]

You guys realize audiences liking a movie more than we did doesn't make us feel we screwed up right? We aren't going to magically regret a bad review of a movie we genuinely didn't like.

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

Awon were meji.

[Sage Steele @sagesteele]

If someone walks away from you over politics they were never truly your friend. Real loyalty survives disagreement.

@stephenasmith

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

Of course. 🙄

This is my cue to go the movie.

[The Hollywood Handle @HollywoodHandle]

‘MICHAEL’ debuts with a 27% score on Rotten Tomatoes 🍅

Read our review: https://t.co/U5bramAjhY

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

Wow. His nose actually works?

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

I smell bullsh*t.
Resignation-level bullsh*t.

[Ms Phalange @99wlv]

Lmao. Wow.

[darthwabbitt.bsky.social @DarthWabbitt]

@SuDharmapala He just can't be arsed to hide it anymore.

[Abiodun @bin_gbada]

If we finally get an empathetic and sincere leader after these locusts, it’s then you’ll realize Nigerians are not adaptive as we assume.

They’ll demand for things they didn’t demand under the leaders that hate them.