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[twinky boyfriend defender 👑 @she_lena]

Come with me as I spitefully outwalk my entire department for this steps challenge. I did 18 miles in days and a manager is only 1 mile behind this morning

[marina ✮⋆˙ @bea_lovedd]

i strongly believe that they found luigi through facial recognition software….. he was so covered up and he was sitting in a very inconspicuous part of mcdonald’s….it just doesn’t sit right with me

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

My old high school teacher tried to cancel his $40/month corporate gym membership last month after moving across town.

The gym informed him he couldn't cancel online or over the phone…..he had to send a physical, certified letter to a corporate PO Box in another state, 30 days prior to his next billing cycle, along with a $75 "account termination processing fee."

When he disputed the charge with his credit card company, the gym sent his $40 balance to collections and flagged his credit report.

Modern corporate subscription models aren't designed to provide a service…….they're legal extortion traps built to make quitting harder than applying for a mortgage.

[twinky boyfriend defender 👑 @she_lena]

@imeanyeahbabe @toncatssu You do know ball!!! Leather + geometric clean shape you ate with this

[twinky boyfriend defender 👑 @she_lena]

@imeanyeahbabe Wait no this is so cute i think a friend of mine has this exact bag. This friend makes jewelry and went to school.for industrial design so dont worry cosigned x10

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

if i could go to the past to enact an insane law, i would ban companies from using real words as names. you read old books: they use words like ‘amazon’ freely in a way we cannot. you notice it. we lost this word. perhaps this is why advanced sci-fi societies use names like zorg

[sunny🔞 @sunskcrypt]

Congratulations to han jisung on his successful enemies to lovers arc

[Ruby 🧛‍♀️ @jenfiIIed]

Megan thee stallion has also unfollowed BTS after RM and Jhope publicly supporting Chris Brown

[Keläriél Grey | Modern Sarah Connor @Epsilon356]

I can't believe it, but I'm actually with the Boomers on this one.

[Cyclops the X-Fella @FreddieFlower12]

They should probably go with a darker shade... noone should be seeing his eyes, no matter how cute they look. lol.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Jeffries announced his opposition 72 hours after Yale released a study showing the proposal would save $1 trillion and 114,000 lives every year.

[Kathrina @vindicatedtruth]

I love as he’s saying this, SEVENTEEN’s youngest member is doing EXACTLY that.

In the best of ways, Dino is being an industry trailblazer in completely embracing their Korean music roots, including vintage Kpop and trot.

THAT is the real core and purpose of Pi Cheolin.

[adnine @userlinoring]

its the cat in him

[Slim Dyke @notmaryshea]

i can’t stop saying it’s all corrupt girl but like. it is all corrupt girl

[Joe Wrote @joewrote]

Contrary to media claims that Francesca Hong's loss proved DSA's limits, we had a great night on 8/11.

DSA-endorsed candidates went 15/20.

[Moon the 역전재판 @Moonismean]

Vernon’s point here is actually much more nuanced than “old K-pop was better” or “K-pop is becoming American.”

K-pop has always been hybrid. Its history is deeply connected to American and European pop, R&B, hip-hop, dance music, and also to the Japanese music industry. Even the formation of what we recognize as modern K-pop in the 1990s happened through taking foreign musical forms and recontextualizing them within Korea’s own language, industry, performance culture and audience.

That’s why the important part of what Vernon is saying is not that K-pop suddenly started borrowing from American pop. It has ALWAYS done that.

The interesting change is how much the distance between the source material and the Korean reinterpretation has narrowed.

Think about the difference between earlier generations and now. A 2nd-gen song could be heavily influenced by an American genre and still sound unmistakably like a Korean production because the influence was being filtered through a very particular Korean arrangement style, vocal structure, songwriting approach, choreography and idol-production system.

Wonder Girls, BIGBANG, 2NE1, Girls’ Generation, etc. were absolutely not “uninfluenced” by Western music. Quite the opposite. But you could often hear the process of localization more clearly.

And that localization was actually one of K-pop’s strengths.

Korea didn’t simply import American pop and reproduce it. Producers took global trends, adapted them to Korean audiences, combined them with Korean industry practices, and eventually developed a system capable of exporting that localized product back into the global market.

That is basically the fascinating paradox of K-pop’s globalization: something can be heavily influenced by global pop while becoming more distinctly Korean through the way those influences are reorganized.

What Vernon is noticing now is almost the reverse side of that process.

The global music industry has become so interconnected that producers, songwriters, choreographers and labels are working across the same international networks, using the same DAWs, sample libraries, trends, genres and songwriting camps, and responding to increasingly similar global market expectations.

So naturally, the “filter” becomes less audible.

It’s not that K-pop stopped being influenced by American pop. It’s that the global pop vocabulary has become so shared that sometimes there is less sonic distance between “K-pop” and “Pop” to begin with.

And honestly, this is why his comment about the 2000s/early 2010s makes sense to me. He isn’t necessarily saying those songs were more original. He’s talking about a period when the process of taking a global influence and turning it into something recognizably K-pop was easier to hear.

That distinction matters.

And honestly, I could yap about this for much longer if anyone is interested 😭 There are some genuinely fascinating articles and discussions on K-pop’s musical hybridity, localization, globalization, and the changing relationship between K-pop and global pop.

The more you look into the history, the more interesting Vernon’s observation becomes.

[★ machineboy ★ @Axxvplind4]

I feel so bad for this woman omg

[FnuLnu (commissions open) @estrellasadie]

Really do think changing a residential property into an air b&b constitutes a change of use, and should require planning and public consultation. You're running a hotel now, and we've got random people in and out of our building. It's not a residential property anymore.

[CODEPINK @codepink]

Today in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson was booed out of a town hall on the data center being built on the South Side.

The project is backed by Israeli companies and the Pentagon, but Illinois taxpayers are footing most of the bill.

Chicagoans want to invest in the people, not more tech for war.

[Mike from PA @Mike_from_PA]

Hasan is 100% right to purse defamation against Fox News, never has there been a more clear cut case of Malice.

[halifax man @lexisfriend]

good night