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I’m a huge fan of yours
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For context: In that production of King Lear by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sir Ian McKellen, playing the titular character in a scene where Lear has essentially gone round the bend, strips completely naked right there on stage. New York critic Michael Portantiere, noted in his review, “Special note for those who care about such things: In a brief nude scene, McKellen amply demonstrates the truth of Lear’s statement that he is ‘every inch a king’.”

#wow go ian mckellan #also a+ flirting there taron

The above scene is amazing but I also feel we need to take a moment to appreciate the fact that a respected theatre critic took time to mention in their review of this production of King Lear that Ian McKellen has a truly impressive penis

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spicyhamsamson:

One thing I really appreciate about Into the Spider-Verse that I don’t see people talk about very often is how competent they portray Peter B as.

Like, in any other movie, you’d have a similar character whose live has become a mess, and they’re sad and kinda pathetic to look at, and when the time comes for them to step up, they just sorta…flop. They’re held back by everything, and they just become incompetent.

But Peter B is different. Yeah, he’s a sad, lonely, middle-aged man who cries in the shower while wearing a spandex suit…

Originally posted by ransomflanagan

But despite all that…he’s still shown to be extremely good at being Spider-Man.

He escapes from being tied up while still holding a casual conversation

Originally posted by saiyef

He takes down Miles in less than 10 seconds.

Originally posted by jurneesmolletts

He strolls along the side of a building like it’s nothing.

Originally posted by soniatera

And when you think about it, over the course of the movie, he kicks a LOT of ass. He’s a badass super hero, despite his flaws.

You ever notice how, when he puts on the mask, his gut sorta disappears? That’s too big of a detail to be an oversight. That’s intentional. I mean, in-universe, it doesn’t make too much sense, but to us, it’s meant to show that it’s not holding him back from being a hero.

He’s not held down by everything. Yeah, he’s a jaded, depressed, mid-life crisis Spider-Man. But he’s still Spider-Man.

Originally posted by bucky-of-the-opera

They easily could’ve made Peter B sort of pathetic and had him be more of a hinderance than a help during battles. But they didn’t. And I feel like that was a really good way to pay respect to the character while still showing that he’s a heavily flawed individual.

And that’s not even mentioning when he managed to memorize a password instantly while watching from an air vent or the way he was deliberately animated in ones not twos to show how smooth and experienced he was!

Peter B Parker was many things, incompetent as Spider Man isn’t one of them!

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himbofisher:

I’ll do you one better.

It’s a letter from Date Masamune (yes, that Date Masamune) to pope Paul V, written in 1613. :D

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mycroftrh:

memeuplift:

Ooh ooh ooh! This looks like an excellent excuse valid reason to talk about one of my favorite topics, matriarch trees!

So, when you see trees in a forest, they stick up outta the ground, some distance from each other, and you’re like ‘these are unconnected critters,’ right? But! The thing is! Just like the trees in the picture are connected above-ground, trees in a forest are normally connected below-ground. There’s this whole complicated thing involving a symbiotic relationship with fungi, but we’re gonna simplify it to this: trees connect to each other through their root systems.

And they use it to share resources, across the whole forest.

If there’s a tree over here growing in soil with a lot of, like, potassium, they’ll pull up more potassium than they need, and send it out through the root system to other trees that are living where there isn’t much potassium.

And one of the coolest things? Trees communicate their needs. If a tree is sick or damaged or starving, they send chemical messages out through the root system that tell the other trees to send them more food and tree-equivalent-of-immune-system.

Trees will share so much of their resources, they’ll even keep trees alive that are almost entirely dependent. Like this tree! The tree above is getting some energy from its leaves, but no other nutrition of its own. And it wasn’t able to link up to the shared root system. So the other tree reached out and hooked up to it directly, feeding it all of the nutrients it needed!

You see it more commonly the other way around: in an old-growth forest, where the roots are well-established, you can find stumps where a tree was cut down a century ago… but if you scrape the stump it’s still green wood. The tree’s still alive, without a single leaf. Because all the other trees in the forest are feeding it.

I promised to talk about matriarch trees, so here’s where we get to them.

In a very old forest, you have very old trees. You have some trees that are so very, very old, their own roots cover entire regions of the forest. Their leaves reach up to the sky over everyone else. And after so long, they’ve developed to where they can take in way more resources than they need.

So what do they do?

They feed baby trees.

Baby saplings in an old forest can’t reach up to the sun. There’s no light down there. And their roots are too small and shallow to dig down to the nutrients they need. So the matriarch tree will draw energy from its towering canopy, and nutrients from its massive, ancient roots, and feed them to the little trees that are too small to feed themselves. For anything she can’t get on her own, she’ll act as a central hub, taking in spare resources from the rest of the forest and giving them to the little ones.

And one of the best parts - she won’t just do it for her own species. She’ll connect to all kinds of trees, because they’re all necessary for the ecosystem to work. She’ll adopt the whole forest’s children.

Sometimes in forests you’ll find a spot where there are a lot of small trees in an open space around an old, fallen tree. People generally assume they could find more light there, or maybe the soil’s more fertile from the decomposition.

But no.

They’re her children, and she’s spent centuries keeping the whole forest alive.

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commievoltie-deactivated2021070:

Boss makes a thousand and I make a dime that’s why I browse on company time. Lol

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blackgirlsreverything:

I need to print me out a list of everything they own so I don’t buy it when I go to the store

I gotchu, and anyone else who were curious:

Thank you!!

Johnson & Johnson just needa go out of business at this point 💁🏽‍♀️

J&J really got a chokehold on the entire industry. Them, Disney and the Kraft corporation. They definitely got bodies in the basement.

…..*washes sunscreen off my face*

Need everyone to know J and J was one of those groups that argued that talcum powder (which included aesbestos) wasn’t hurting anyone.

(If you’re sitting there like hey wasn’t talcum powder for babies?  yes it was. There was an entire litigation about them arguing that actually using talcum powder for babies which included asbestos wasn’t bad.If you’re sitting there going hey wow wouldn’t that include babies from decades ago who are now adults with sever cancer??? YUP YEAH YOUR’RE FUCKING CORRECT).

Like actually J&J should have gone out of business almost 30 years ago and its a god damn crime they still exist and can sell medicine now

J&J also has a class action lawsuit against them for their shampoo brand OGX which is arguing that many shampoos and conditioners from that brand contain formaldehyde, which causes cancer when exposed to water. Which is a vital step in showering. So I just changed shampoo brands entirely and will do my best to avoid J&J products because this is terrifying

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odinsblog:

A Texas man who thought vaccines were “poison” died from COVID-19 after spending 17 days in hospital on a ventilator.

Alan Scott Lanoix, a father of three boys from Katy, Texas, was too afraid to get a coronavirus shot and believed he had some level of immunity after he was exposed to the virus at work, according to 4WWL TV.

The 54-year-old tested positive in late May and became very unwell with COVID-19 and eventually died on June 9. His sons had to bury him on Father’s Day, the local broadcaster reported.

His sister, Lisa Adler, is now urging others who are also “on the fence” about getting vaccinated to get a shot in her brother’s memory, she told the local broadcaster.

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chismosite:

July 17, 2021. Los Angeles

Police shoot, beat, chase, and arrest anti-fascist counterprotestors yesterday. The counter-protestors began demonstrating outside a Proud Boy anti-trans rally at WiSpa. The police beat clearly marked press and shot either a rubber bullet or bean bag at a woman at point blank range. The police even got an AMBER alert sent out citywide as part of their suppression of the ant-fascist protest.

Police explicitly protect fascism and fascists.

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juicetrump:

ANY public school teacher works harder than Tucker Carlson.

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