@badgate@matticure It’s not ai, this guy makes cringey art. He’s famous as the “balloon guy” and I happen to know he makes all of his art. I don’t like his art but that is a real photo
@Amunous@aspiringpeasant@thewillwitt Killing individual whales and causing an entire species of whales to go extinct are two different things and you know that. You’re the one being fake, you obtuse little bitch
@khazarAntlers I’ve been playing since Gen 1 but am not a genwunner. I’d throw on a couple more that others of my generation bring up but this is broadly true. You hate to see it. Every gen is worth love
Shifting Baseline Syndrom. Eins der großen Probleme in der Wahrnehmung des Artensterbens. Kurz gesagt: Das was wir als Heranwachsender kennen, wird als der Normalzustand empfunden. Damit verschiebt sich aber die Baseline von Generation zu Generation, und viel Information geht verloren… der tatsächliche Verlust an Vielfalt ist viel dramatischer als wir ihn wahrnehmen.
Thomas Massie is not backing down:
“The White House Chief of Staff worked for a lobbying firm that accepted money from Monsanto/Bayer and that is wrong.”
I have my disagreements with Massie, but this man is fighting back against one of the most corrupt corporations in the world, Bayer, that is knowingly poisoning us and giving us cancer with RoundUp weed killer.
There are currently over 170,000 lawsuits against Bayer for giving Americans cancer and now the Supreme Court is hearing a case that could limit Bayer’s liability.
Making matters worse, the US House is set to take up the farm bill this week that includes new protections for the corporation poisoning us after Bayer spent $9 million lobbying Congress to eliminate liability for Roundup cancer victims.
The fact that big corporations are allowed to buy off politicians in both parties so they can get away with poisoning us for profit tells you everything you need to know about how corrupt our government is.
The okapi has the head of an okapi, the stripes of an okapi, and the body of an okapi
Its on the verge of extinction today because of the belgium-intiated, and now european/american facilitated destruction of the last free indigenous societies of Africa who resided in the Congo.
@IkerTorterra I met Finn at an event and he was rude to the employees of the venue and the guests all night. That was just before they cast him as Danny. I was so upset. And his American accent is worse than his barely passable acting. Horrible casting, shitty dude
@AdequateEmily@Dei0710 I saw it like 9-10 years ago and it was one of the worst plays I’ve ever seen. If I hadn’t been on a date, I would have left. I hated it. The concept was great the execution was ass
There was a time in America when being gay wasn’t just dangerous — it was illegal. Careers could vanish overnight.
Roles revoked. Reputations destroyed.
But in the middle of that fear stood Cicely Tyson — not just a groundbreaking actress, but a sanctuary.
In 1976, on the set of the MLK miniseries King, actor Paul Winfield found the courage to tell Tyson the truth: he was gay… and terrified. His ex-boyfriend had threatened to out him — a threat that, in Hollywood, could end everything.
Tyson didn’t judge.
She offered a home.
“Come live with me,” she told him.
And he did.
Fans assumed they were a couple. They never corrected anyone until the project was finished — because silence was safety. Tyson chose protection over publicity.
But Paul Winfield wasn’t the only one.
Tyson had already opened her home and her heart to Earle Hyman — known years later as Grandpa Huxtable — and his partner Rolf Sirnes, who would remain his great love for half a century. She gave them privacy. Dignity. Safety. A place to simply be.
Hyman later introduced Winfield to architect Charles Gillan Jr.
Winfield and Gillan built a life together for 30 years — until cancer took Gillan in 2002. At the funeral, Tyson and Hyman stood beside Winfield, holding him up in grief.
Paul Winfield would finally come out publicly after losing the man he loved. And when he did, Cicely Tyson was still there — exactly as she had been since the day he whispered his truth.
Cicely Tyson once said:
“You don’t get to tell me who I can be friends with. We are all God’s children.”
She didn’t need parades or headlines.
She didn’t perform allyship.
She practiced it.
Behind closed doors, when cameras were gone, when acceptance was scarce — she made space.
Space to breathe.
Space to exist.
Space to live without fear.
Hollywood knows Cicely Tyson as a legend of stage and screen — the woman who transformed Black representation in film.
But for many closeted Black actors, she was something even greater:
A protector.
A sister.
A lifeline.
Long before “inclusion” became a slogan, Cicely Tyson lived it — one open door at a time.
@ElonBachman Teriyaki and American Chinese probably the best genres of American cuisine in my estimation. Pizza is great but I don’t know if it has enough distinct dishes to be a “cuisine”. Even teriyaki is pushing it a bit