Marlon Wayans spoke to Variety about his support for his transgender son, Kai, who is 25
“It taught me true, unconditional love. I’ve never been married because I was never ready for marriage. And I went through this journey with my child, and it taught me to love unconditionally. At the end of the day, are my children happy? And if they’re happy, then I’m happy for them. My job as a father is to protect, respect and honor my children, and make sure they feel supported. It’s not my job to judge them; it’s my job to love them.
All of my kids are gifts, and our love is the wrapping paper. I’m not here for hate. Transphobia is a form of hate. Homophobia is a form of hate. Racism is a form of hate. All those small-hearted, small-minded people, there’s a hell for you. And if you think you’re gonna bully my child, go somewhere else. It’s not going to happen. I won’t stand for it.”
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On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the brave men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country that we love. It is a debt we can never fully repay, but we must never stop trying. I’ll always be grateful to our fallen heroes and their families, whose sacrifice reminds us of what it means to live for something greater than ourselves.
If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.
The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.
A great way to see Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is to stare at the center of the spiral for 20 seconds and then look at the painting.
Why Starry Night was so famous: https://t.co/P8BvRGohvu
🚨 do you understand what happened to Stephen Colbert..
24 hours after his final Late Show, Colbert hijacked a tiny public access channel in Monroe, Michigan with Jack White, Eminem, Jeff Daniels and Steve Buscemi.
Now Paramount - the company that just cancelled his show - is mass-blocking every reupload worldwide via Content ID. And the deeper you dig, the worse it looks:
- The finale pulled 6.74M viewers - a weeknight record over 11 years
- Eminem cameoed as "Marshall, the fire marshal" to greenlight torching the set
- The same day Trump posted an AI video of throwing Colbert into a dumpster, Colbert aired footage of himself burning a real one
- Mayday Network and verified journalist Matthew Keys both got blocked globally - for sharing a community access show
Paramount cancelled his show to silence him. Instead they handed him a Streisand-effect comeback 10x bigger than the show ever was.
This is Edward. He was given 6 months to live after being found as a stray. His family was determined to give him the best few months possible, so they introduced him to the ice cream truck. That was 27 months ago. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday
En la antigua Grecia, las mujeres tenían prohibido estudiar medicina, hasta que alguien rompió la ley.
Un día Hagnódica se cortó el pelo y entró en la facultad de medicina de Alejandría vestida de hombre. Mientras caminaba por las calles de Atenas tras completar sus estudios de medicina, oyó los gritos de una mujer de parto. Sin embargo, la mujer no quería que Hagnódica la tocara, a pesar del intenso dolor, porque creía que Hagnódica era un hombre.
Hagnódica demostró su identidad femenina desnudándose y ayudando a la mujer a dar a luz. La historia pronto se extendió entre las mujeres, y todas las enfermas comenzaron a acudir a Hagnódica.
Los médicos varones, envidiosos, acusaron a Hagnódica, a quien creían hombre, de seducir a sus pacientes
En su juicio, Hagnódica compareció ante el tribunal y demostró su identidad femenina, pero esta vez fue condenada a muerte por estudiar y ejercer la medicina siendo mujer. Las mujeres se rebelaron contra la sentencia, especialmente las esposas de los jueces que la habían condenado a muerte.
Algunos decían que si Hagnódica moría, morirían con ella. Incapaces de soportar la presión de sus esposas y otras mujeres, los jueces anularon la condena de Hagnódica , y a partir de entonces, las mujeres pudieron ejercer la medicina, siempre y cuando solo atendieran a mujeres.
Así, Hagnódica dejó su huella en la historia como la primera médica, ginecóloga y especialista en medicina griega.
Esta placa que representa a Hagnódica trabajando fue excavada en Ostia, Italia.
Paramount is apparently trying to suppress copies of "Only in Monroe" from appearing on other social platforms by filing frivolous copyright notices, even though the show was produced by a public access TV channel and doesn't use their intellectual property...
One of my favorite passages from The Catcher in the Rye, the 1951 novel by J.D. Salinger.
When I first read The Catcher in the Rye in high school, I strongly identified with Holden Caulfield and thought I saw “phoniness” everywhere in my own life. I felt misunderstood, isolated, and convinced the world was against me.
After college, I traveled through Southeast Asia and spent time around people living in poverty who were still generous, welcoming, and focused on simply getting through everyday life. That experience made me recognize how privileged I had been, especially in having the freedom to travel at all. From that perspective, I stopped relating to Holden and instead found his cynicism, blame, and sense of superiority frustrating. He came across as spoiled and deeply self-absorbed.
When I revisited the novel in my mid-30s, though, my reaction changed again. I found myself feeling far more compassion for Holden. Rather than seeing him as arrogant, I saw a deeply confused and emotionally wounded teenager struggling with grief, neglect, and loneliness, with a great deal of pain beneath his behavior.
Because of that, I’ve come to think a person’s reaction to The Catcher in the Rye — whether they connect with it or reject it — often says as much about where they are in life as it does about the book itself, especially in how they engage with its deeper emotional themes.
Sebastian Stan teases his role in ‘THE BATMAN: PART 2’, saying that he will play “many roles in this one.”
“‘I’m excited, I’m nervous and trying to keep surprising myself,’ he says of taking on Two-Face and working with hair & makeup teams who have devised how his disfigurement will look.”
(Source: Deadline)
Teenagers have started calling AI art "boomer art" and consider it cringe, and YouTubers have stopped using AI-generated thumbnails because teenagers find them cringe and won't click on them. I honestly couldn't be happier.