shafi-eg 👾

샤픽 having no fear, heaven is near

[shafi-eg 👾 @ShafieqAzmi]

I'm totally ready for #REVIVALtourMalaysia 💪🏻

[Shafeeq @Y2SHAF]

Back when people would post a random photo with zero anxiety, see only your friends' posts in chronological order and influencers didn’t exist. We really lost a golden era

[Noorie lova @noorielova]

Turn your iPhone pics into Fuji vibes in a snap! I've shared the settings right here.

🎞️ My go-to film recipe:
❶ Contrast +100
❷ Brilliance +38
❸ Exposure +10
❹ Highlights +15/-15 (depends on your pic)
❺ Shadows +18
❻ Brightness +15/-15 (depends on your pic)
❼ Black Point +10
❽ Saturation +25
❾ Temperature -16

💡 Pro tips:
When it's cloudy, bump up the "Shadows" to +20
For indoor warm lighting, nudge the "Tint" a bit to the right

[Zara Larsson America @ZaraLarssonUSA_]

Zara just performed the first song she EVER released in front of her country for the first time since finally making it big worldwide this year 🥹🇸🇪

“Uncover” was released in 2013 when she was just 15 years old.

[Ali Tekin @alitekintr]

Marvel filmlerini daha iyi anlamak için doğru izleme sırası. Kaydedin lazım olur.

[Noorie lova @noorielova]

Finally cracked the code on this cafe hopping filter!

🍎iphone original camera
•Exposure +16
•Vibrance +5
•Highlights -10
•Contrast +15
•Black Point +5
•Saturation -5
•Sharpness +16
•Clarity +10

[Ikhwan @JatIkhwan]

Siapa ada masalah kelemumur, psoriasis, kulat kat kepala, gatal gatal semua tu- pakai lah shampoo ni. Lupakan Selsun ke Clear ke Head & Shoulders ke. Pergi farmasi kata nak shampoo ni. RM 20+ je. Seminggu pakai 2-3 kali. InsyaAllah hilang semua problems kulit kepala.

[Noorie lova @noorielova]

Dark tone adjustment📷

•Exposure -10
•Brightness -15
•Highlights -20
•Shadows +15
•Contrast +10
•Saturation -10
•Sharpening +5

[Butterbloom✿ @bbutterbl0om]

try this iPhone Color Grading Settings:

•Mono Filter: +10
•Exposure: -17
•Vibrance: -14
•Shadows: -25
•Highlights: +15
•Contrast: +5
•Brightness: +5
•Sharpness: +23

[Abefe @naflasco]

‼️ Languages NOT WORTH LEARNING:

・Italian 🇮🇹 (zero commercial value)
・Catalan / Galician / Basque 🇪🇸 (only for civil service exams)
・German 🇩🇪 (corporate world demands English)
・Arabic 🇸🇦 (what for?)
・Russian 🇷🇺 (disconnected economy)

✅ Languages WORTH LEARNING↓↓

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Spain are #FIFAWorldCup Champions. 🏆

[ryan @thisismeryan13]

AND THE CROWDS IN TIMES SQUARE GO WILD FOR TAY STORY!!! @taylornation13

[dior @statictheory]

revisiting taylor swift’s old instagram - a thread

[sabrina carpenter files | fan account @scarpenterfiles]

“only 200 made??? damn. they really didn’t give a fuck about me” 😭😭😭

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Netflix never owned Emily in Paris. They've been renting it from Paramount since 2020. Now Paramount is buying Warner Bros to take on Netflix directly, so Netflix is killing the show.

Emily in Paris belongs to Paramount Television Studios, the company behind CBS, MTV, and Nickelodeon. Netflix pays Paramount a fee for each season they stream on the platform. The show launched in October 2020. Netflix has never produced a single episode of it.

Each episode costs $3 to $5 million to film. A 10-episode season runs about $40 million just to make, before any of the contract bonuses kick in. Lily Collins reportedly takes home $300,000 per episode plus a producer cut. France refunds 30% of money spent filming there (capped at €30 million per show, around $35 million), which is why the show films entirely in Europe.

The contract terms get worse for Netflix the longer a show runs. Bonus payments to the creator and star stay small at first. After season 3 they spike, sometimes from a few hundred thousand to millions a year. By season 6, the show is at peak cost. Shows Netflix doesn't own cost about 20% more than the ones it makes itself.

The audience also started shrinking. Season 4 opened to 19.9 million views in its first week. Season 5 came in at 13.5 million, a 32% drop. The full season ran 20.5% behind the one before. Still a hit by streaming standards, but not a hit big enough to justify what season 6 was going to cost.

The rival kept getting bigger too. Paramount-Skydance finished merging in August 2025. In February this year, Paramount outbid Netflix to buy Warner Bros Discovery for $110 billion. Netflix walked away with a $2.8 billion breakup payment from Paramount as a consolation prize. Now Netflix is sending licensing money every quarter to the company that just took Warner Bros out from under them.

Two other Netflix hits got the same treatment in May. The Lincoln Lawyer (owned by A+E Studios) is ending after season 5. The Night Agent (owned by Sony Pictures Television) is ending after season 4. Three of the platform's most-watched shows wrapped up inside the same three weeks, and Netflix doesn't own a frame of any of them.

The footprint Emily in Paris built off-screen goes way past streaming numbers. France's film agency found 38% of foreign tourists in Paris said the show was one reason they came. Luxury brands paid €500,000 to €1 million each to get written into the storyline. Season 4 had 480 brands and 25,000 pieces of clothing across the costumes. Paramount kept the marketing machine it built.

When the licensing deal runs out, Paramount keeps the show. Netflix is left with the subscribers it already brought in, and one last expensive season to pay for.

[gomi @parveen__tyagi]

go outside more. set scary goals. drink more water. work hard. play hard. move your body. make your bed. help other people first. ask a stranger how their day is going. write down a few things you’re grateful for. scroll less. cry more. hug your dad. eat more protein. laugh a lot. fall in love. break your heart. try again.
teach someone a lesson you wish you knew sooner. try see the world while you can.

[يارا @RA4rrnh]

"One of the reasons I married my husband is because of his genuine empathy. Empathy sangat penting in marriage ya. Contohnya last night, i terjaga sebab batuk-batuk. Then i pergi toilet. I keluar toilet, i tengok dia pun terjaga. I said i’m sorry if i woke him. He asked if i’m okay? I said i am. And continue to baring. Then he came with vicks on his hand. Ask me a permission to rub the vicks on my back, my nose, my neck & my chest. That’s empathy. Sometimes we don’t need to ask. It’s the little gesture 💖

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[Buzzing Pop @BuzzingPop]

Sabrina Carpenter’s #Coachella headlining setlist:

House Tour
Taste
Busy Woman
Manchild
When Did You Get Hot?
Please Please Please
We Almost Broke Up Again Last Night
Nobody’s Son
because i liked a boy
Man on Willpower
Go Go Juice
Such A Funny Way
Sugar Talking
Don’t Smile
Feather
Bed Chem
Juno
Espresso
Goodbye
Tears

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

30 SONGS THAT WILL HIT YOU DIFFERENTLY AT 3AM WHEN YOU ARE ALONE WITH YOUR THOUGHTS:

1. The Night We Met – Lord Huron – A man begging time to take him back to the moment before everything changed
2. Skinny Love – Bon Iver – Two people who love each other completely destroying what they have
3. Casimir Pulaski Day – Sufjan Stevens – A man watching someone he loves die slowly and singing to God about it
4. Motion Picture Soundtrack – Radiohead – A goodbye so quiet and final it sounds like closing a door forever
5. Fourth of July – Sufjan Stevens – A son singing to his dead mother about the night she died
6. Holocene – Bon Iver – A man standing in a landscape so vast he finally understands his own insignificance
7. To Be Alone – Hozier – The specific feeling of finding someone who makes solitude feel like coming home
8. Death With Dignity – Sufjan Stevens – Grief so raw and honest it feels like reading someone's private journal
9. Lua – Bright Eyes – Two broken people finding each other at the worst possible time for both of them
10. The Night Will Always Win – Manchester Orchestra – The particular darkness that arrives when everything goes quiet
11. Blue Ridge Mountains – Fleet Foxes – Nostalgia for a place and a person that may never have existed
12. First Day of My Life – Bright Eyes – The simplest most devastating love song written in the last thirty years
13. Fade Into You – Mazzy Star – A longing so specific and unresolved it never fully leaves the room
14. Exile Vilify – The National – Written for a video game but it sounds like the inside of a depressed mind
15. Sorrow – The National – A man so accustomed to sadness he has started to prefer it to anything else
16. Videotape – Radiohead – A man recording the last moments of his life and what he chooses to say
17. No Surprises – Radiohead – A man asking for a quiet life so gently it sounds like giving up
18. Black – Pearl Jam – A man watching someone he loved become someone he no longer recognises
19. Bother – Stone Sour – The sound of someone standing at the very edge of themselves
20. How to Disappear Completely – Radiohead – Dissociation described so precisely it feels like a field recording
21. Grapevine Fires – Death Cab for Cutie – A couple watching fires burn on the horizon and choosing to stay
22. I Will Follow You Into the Dark – Death Cab for Cutie – Love as a promise to walk into death together
23. Transatlanticism – Death Cab for Cutie – The unbearable distance between two people who want to close it
24. Such Great Heights – The Postal Service – The specific electricity of believing someone was made for you
25. Soul Meets Body – Death Cab for Cutie – The feeling of a life unlived pressing against the one you are in
26. At the Bottom of Everything – Bright Eyes – Chaotic and beautiful and somehow about accepting everything
27. Poison Oak – Bon Iver – A man apologising to his dying stepfather for not being there the way he should have
28. Re Stacks – Bon Iver – A man returning to a place that no longer holds what he went back looking for
29. Liability – Lorde – A woman told by someone she loved that she is simply too much to be around
30. Someone Great – LCD Sound system – Grief processed through electronic music and it should not work but it destroys you.

Which is your favourite?

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