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Stockard Channing Fan Account

[arianna @mrtaytoofficial]

Always meet your heroes, kids x @missgemcollins

[Grace @graceyldn]

Reposting this on his 100th birthday

[Marie 🪭 @EvilBarbieDoII]

Cherishing the day

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

[Lisa Vanderbump @confideinm3]

got hit by the sudden fear of the passage of time

[lou @lousaysthings]

i physically cannot stop quoting this

[Variety @Variety]

Guillermo del Toro says AI is a form of "natural stupidity"

“We are on the verge of image illiteracy. We are on the verge of cinema illiteracy... The pact between man and image is sacred, but we are in a time when that is in danger... We are told images can be generated by artificial means. The existence of an image is not just to be there. It is to connect us, to make us feel beauty,” he said.

https://t.co/h1bAYmAQKa

[thinkingcap @chrisheatherly]

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.

The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.

There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.

What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.

Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.

This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.

That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.

What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.

Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?

No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

[Lisa Vanderbump @confideinm3]

this is what life feels like if you accept that there's a little bit of Carrie Bradshaw in all of us

[Andrew @Dub__A]

Covers of The Angolite, the news magazine edited and published by inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola

[kit @lesbian_fleabag]

charlotte telling miranda she's not progressive enough to have nonbinary sex whilst carrie highkey disassociates. i've seen enough. academy award

[Jon Mackenzie @Jon_Mackenzie]

14th June 2017 - still no justice

[breno @industrielegie]

in honor of David Hockney's death today, I'm sharing a few of his photo collages that I really love

[Divine @DivineOfficial]

RIP David Hockney.
Divine (1979)

[JP @jpbrammer]

I'm not on here much but I wrote an essay about how I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week and how it fixed my brain. If you want to read more, but are struggling to, I wrote this for you! link in the reply

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Adam Hamawy describes what he wishes people could understand from his time treating patients in Gaza:

"Much worse" than what we see online.

"The smells, the full senses…crying children, the families…to see this every single day…you just can't even describe it well enough."

[˙⋆✮ cj ✮⋆˙ @orlocksdaughter]

This is still my favourite letterboxd review of all time

[mary @elaine_stritch]

due to personal reasons I have decided to start dressing like Nathan Lane in The Birdcage

[Corey Atad @CoreyAtad]

really says it all lmao