JD Vance: "I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents"
(2025)
"Lovers"
Arthur Tress
San Francisco, 1964
This image was revolutionary at the time; gay men were sexual outlaws. This image was powerful and one of the many reasons I moved to San Francisco. Young men in small towns did not expect to live freely and find a same-sex partner. It was unthinkable.
The gay rights some people take for granted today didn't exist when I grew up in the 60s and 70s. It took until my mid-twenties to shake off my religious coat of shame. Equality came in fits and starts, and it took a lot of hard work, and blood, sweat, tears of gay men and lesbians. So the audacity of queers telling us that, if it weren't for "trans women color, gay white men," is ludicrous
All I wanted was everything every American enjoyed, and that's to live my life freely without fear of losing our employment or housing, because we, men, loved and had sex with other men. And now that those barriers are no longer there, I'm living a life I created. And I'm neither oppressed nor the oppressor.
“Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me.”
Arthur Tress is a gay American photographer renowned for a diverse body of work that encompasses surrealism and homoerotic fantasy. He was one of the first artists of the 1970s to move away from documentary street photography and create staged, dreamlike images.
요즘 미국에서 한국 화장품 광고 진짜 많이 보이는데
광고 문구 볼 때마다 좀 웃김 ㅋㅋㅋ
“Say goodbye to wrinkles 👋”
“Glass skin”
“Younger-looking skin”
한국에서는 그냥 주름 개선, 피부 탄력 이런 느낌인데
미국 넘어오면 갑자기
한국인처럼 동안 만들어드립니다✨
이런 느낌 됨
이제 동안도 K-뷰티의 일부가 된 듯 ㅋㅋ 🤣
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Four Guys, One Relationship:
Tekky, Joel, Peter and Dan went from being two separate couples to become a four joint relationship couples.
They started out as two separate couples who met on vacation in Thailand. After spending time together, they decided to join as one group.
Moving from a traditional couple structure to a four-person quad is something not everyone can do.
Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are breaking away from the United Kingdom – a memorandum of self-determination has already been signed: the regions see their future within the EU.
The leaders of these regions will demand the right to a referendum from London.
"For the first time in history, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are being led by First Ministers who support independence. There is no clearer evidence that the current status quo is unsustainable and that the government in London must prepare for a future after the dissolution of the United Kingdom," said John Swinney, leader of the Scottish National Party.
If this happens, Britain will lose: 12 million residents, 50% of its territory, industry, military bases, tourism, leading universities (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, St Andrews), and much more.
Now, it's definitely "Little Britain."
🚨 NEW: The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland say the future of their nations "belongs in the European Union" as they call for independence from the UK
Daniel Radcliffe was trying to film one of the quietest scenes in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when Alan Rickman and Michael Gambon decided to have a little fun with him.
They were filming the Great Hall scene with all the students sleeping in bags on the floor. Daniel had asked director Alfonso Cuarón if he could be placed next to a girl he fancied, which made what happened next even worse for him.
A fart machine was hidden in Daniel’s sleeping bag, Michael Gambon had the control, and they waited until everyone was deep into this long, serious take before setting it off. The sound echoed through the Great Hall and the cast completely lost it.
Daniel later said he first thought one of the other kids was messing around and they were all going to get in trouble. Nope. It was Dumbledore and Snape setting him up in front of the girl he liked. 😂
Getting embarrassed in front of your crush is bad enough. Having Alan Rickman and Michael Gambon behind it is another level.💀😅
🚨 WOW! Leadership from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are meeting to move toward SECEDING from the UK — demanding the right of referendum to become independent
This is perhaps the first time all 3 have had major pro-independence parties acting simultaneously
There will be a summit in Cardiff where a joint declaration will be declared
The UK PM opened up a can of worms by saying be might allow a referendum in Scotland if there’s enough support for it!
BREAKING:
The Telegraph writes that the leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will meet in Cardiff tomorrow sign a deal on starting cooperation breaking up the UK.
They will demand the right to independence referendum, or in the case of Northern Ireland, on the right to become part of Ireland.
After Plaid Cymru routed Labour in the last Welsh election, separatist parties are now for the first time in power in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland at the same time.
The three first minister will also meet in Cardiff with Mary Louise McDonald, the President of Sinn Féin and leader of the opposition in Ireland.
The new drive for independence referendums comes after UK PM Andy Burnham spoke about what’s needed for a new independence referendum in Scotland and made a parallel to the Good Friday Agreement mechanism in Ireland which requires the UK government to consider a referendum in Northern Ireland if public opinion clearly changes.
Previous UK PMs had completely shut the door on a new independence referendum in Scotland, saying that the failed independence referendum in 2014 had closed that issue for decades.
If Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland were to leave the United Kingdom, leaving only England, the remaining country's population would decrease by 15.5% and its GDP would decrease by 13.5% compared to the current total United Kingdom figures.
It would also create a number of geopolitical and geoeconomic dilemmas:
1. London would lose the physical home of the UK’s independent nuclear deterrent.
The UK's entire fleet of nuclear-armed submarines is permanently stationed at HM Naval Base Clyde on Scotland's west coast.
There are no alternative deep-water ports in England that are geographically, politically or logistically suited to house nuclear submarines and their warheads within the foreseeable future.
2. Losing control of the GIUK Gap.
Geographically, Scotland provides the UK with naval and aerial positioning to guard the North Atlantic and the so-called GIUK Gap (Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom).
It’s a vital maritime choke point for tracking Russian submarine activity entering the Atlantic Ocean from northern Russia.
3. Destruction of the Defense Training
Estate.
The British Armed Forces require vast expanses of uninhabited land for live-fire combat training.
England is too densely populated to accommodate this scale of preparation and the Ministry of Defence relies heavily on the Scottish Highlands, the Sennybridge Training Area in Wales, and the Abercorn facilities in Northern Ireland for multi-domain military training exercises.
4. Loss of North Sea oil and gas.
An independent Scotland would get ownership over the vast majority of the current UK’s northern waters, with England losing direct geopolitical control over the bulk of the North Sea oil and gas reserves, as well as massive offshore wind-generation territories located in Scottish and Welsh waters.
5. The emergence of a new "Western Flank"
For over a century, the UK has operated under the assumption that its western border is entirely secure.
If Northern Ireland reunifies with the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland and Wales depart, the Irish Sea becomes entirely surrounded by foreign nations.
While a unified Ireland or independent Scotland would likely friendly Western democracies, they might opt for strict military neutrality (similar to Ireland's current geopolitical stance) rather than joining NATO.
This would create a massive security vacuum right on England's doorstep and would require London to reconfigure its military defense plans.