stephanyyyyy

Chicana. Occasionally cool, really into pop culture. Definitely care too much. 1/2 of #StamThings.

[stephanyyyyy @Stephjazmin]

Movie lovers, we are up

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘THE ODYSSEY’ allows users to play the trailer in each theatrical format that the film is available in.

[lucia @kissyearly]

I will choose what to believe.

[stephanyyyyy @Stephjazmin]

catch me back in Los Angeles expeditiously omg

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

First look at a movie theater in the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art 🍿

It has 299 seats

(via @voguemagazine)

[c ❀ @crazyinIqve]

“i was sitting there being like no wonder the french had this revolution. if i saw this id be mad as hell too”😭😭

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Christopher Nolan says movie theaters will be around forever 🍿

"Theaters are part of history, and they’re part of the future as well"

"When you watch a comedy in a room full of laughing people ... a tragedy where everybody’s sad at the same time... that’s very, very important and very unique to cinema"

"The idea of the movie as a communal experience, as a place where we come together to experience a story, I’m fully confident that that’s a part of our culture forever"

(via @60Minutes)

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨do you understand what just happened..

Trump sued his own IRS for $10 billion over leaked tax returns.. then settled with his own DOJ.. and the settlement created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded fund to compensate his political allies

the president filed the lawsuit.. the president's DOJ settled it.. the president's allies collect the money.. and you're paying for it

the fund covers Jan 6th defendants.. Mar-a-Lago raid claims.. the Russia investigation.. anyone who says they were a victim of "lawfare" can file a claim and get a check

they named it the "Anti-Weaponization Fund".. and made the number $1.776 billion.. they even made the corruption patriotic

in 1974 Nixon resigned for using government agencies against political enemies.. in 2026 the government is cutting checks to political allies and calling it justice

[stephanyyyyy @Stephjazmin]

that man just loves to run

[bunny @babybunnyrry]

i’m crying what’s his problem

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

34,000 dead people on North Carolina's voter rolls..

and everyone's screaming fraud..

These aren't people who died in North Carolina.. the state already removes those weekly through its health department.. these are people who registered in NC.. moved to a different state.. died there.. and NC had no idea..

because America runs 50 separate voter systems that don't talk to each other... fifty states, fifty databases nd completely zero sync..

Visa knows you're dead within 48 hours.. your bank freezes your account before the funeral.. but the system that runs American democracy can't share a spreadsheet across state lines..

every time someone proposes a national voter database both parties kill it.. Republicans call it federal overreach.. Democrats call it voter suppression.. and the dead stay registered..

the only fraud is convincing 330 million people this is the best system the richest country on earth can build

[stephanyyyyy @Stephjazmin]

@harryscowgirI thank god someone finally said it !!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that.

Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion. Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday.

Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab. Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers.

Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too. Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets.

Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did.

Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this.

Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

[stephanyyyyy @Stephjazmin]

@randommermaid Apparently she contacted the maker of the power point!

[stephanyyyyy @Stephjazmin]

monumental news actually

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Lena Dunham shares that she cheated on Jack Antonoff in her new memoir ‘Famesick.’

She adds that it was around the same time Jack had developed a “closeness” with a “teen pop star”, which she says “struck an odd note.”

The pair dated for years around 2012-2018.

[THE WOKER @bIkwmnlvr]

This tour is gonna be a massive success and all your friends, family and faves will disappoint you.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: NYC MAYOR MAMDANI ON IRAN WAR:

We are speaking about a war that has killed thousands of civilians.

We are spending tens of billions of dollars to kill people. Money that could be making life easier for working people.

The things we’re told are unrealistic would cost a fraction of this war.

We always seem to have money for war, but not to feed the poor.

[stephanyyyyy @Stephjazmin]

This is incredibly accurate, but she should be in it

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Brenda Song tells @AP that her Disney Channel 'Mount Rushmore' is:

• Raven Symone
• Miley Cyrus
• Hilary Duff
• Selena Gomez
• Dylan & Cole Sprouse

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.

[Brunette Bohemian @Jane_Doe82]

We see pictures of the beautiful gift we’ve been given from outerspace, and we’re down here nuking it with bombs. How undeserving we are

[stephanyyyyy @Stephjazmin]

the moon is so tumblr coded

[freckxi ⋆˚࿔ @freckxi]

i’m sick she is so beautiful

[Tommy Stella @tommy_stella]

It’s kind of insane that we’re all lucky enough to live on this insignificant blue ball floating in an endless void that can somehow keep us alive indefinitely and yet a huge chunk of people want to ruin it forever in the name of an economic concept that we made up ourselves

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Imagine if Iran bombed and destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge in California, what would you call it? TERRORISTS

The U.S bombed and destroyed the highest bridge in Iran, the B1 bridge, why do you call it “PEACE”?

Bombing a bridge is a war crime under international humanitarian law