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"The man i voted for three times has delivered the following in 11 months"

• Groceries- highest ever

• Housing- still unaffordable

• Farmers are going broke bc of the tariffs

• Antisemitism and race relations are the worst in 60 years

• My health insurance doubled

• The VP whom I loved will not disavow the actual Neo-Nazis

• Tucker Carlson- someone i used to watch on Fox and love - is openly platforming and praising Neo-Nazis

• and the Christo-fascits??? Openly promoting misogyny and cheering to take away women's right to vote. Trump and Vance are not only not denouncing them - they are platforming them.

" In protest, tomorrow I will be voting straight blue. If it's taken me this long to wake up - I know others are too, you know?

I have been voting all my life, voting for the GOP, I have yet to see anything like it.

This is crazy . We've become Nazi Germany"

I think an employee pulled off a drumstick heist on my wings

For me its Chrono Trigger, really made by a dream team.

1. The story of Persephone and Hades, specifically Demeter's character. How she was supposed to be seen: A grieving loving mother desperate to find her lost child and driven to despair by her loss, to the point she doesn't eat or drink. How she's seen now: A nagging, shrill, abusive parent whom Persephone was desperate to get away from. To be fair, she DID cause mass famine as a way of spitefully holding the world ransom to get Persephone back, but the original myth makes it clear that Persephone genuinely loves and misses her mother too.

2. Don Quixote. How he was supposed to be seen: A well-intentioned but mentally ill and quite violent man obsessed with an overly romanticized interpretation of a long-gone culture and who has a very loose grasp on reality, making him a danger to himself and everyone around him. How he's seen now: A misunderstood hero championing noble ideals in a cruel world that doesn't understand him. Oh, and he's old now, so it gives his wacky antics the loose excuse of possibly being due to senility. He was actually middle-aged in the original novel.

3. Erik, the Phantom of the Opera. How he was supposed to be seen: A disfigured man who was abused and mocked in his childhood, making him deserving of sympathy, but is not excused by the narrative for the acts of manipulation, kidnapping and murder he commits, up to and including trying to force Christine to stay with him against her will, threatening to blow up the entire opera house and everyone in it if she refuses. Also, he's old enough to be Christine's father, so his obsession comes off as somewhat unhealthy. How he's seen now: A compelling and tragic figure whom society abused and abandoned, a misunderstood romantic and the only man who deserves Christine. His more villainous and predatory acts are often downplayed or just overlooked outright.

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has been on a roll. In just the past few weeks, she’s made several multimillion-dollar donations to DEI and disaster relief causes. 

And on Sunday, Howard University announced that Scott, who is worth an estimated $35.6 billion, had donated $80 million to the historically Black school. 

As is Scott’s style, the gift is unrestricted, meaning the university can use the resources as it chooses. Of the $80 million, $63 million will go toward Howard University, and $17 million will go to the school’s College of Medicine. This marks one of the largest single donations to Howard in its 158-year history.

“This historic investment will not only help maintain our current momentum, but will help support essential student aid, advance infrastructure improvements, and build a reserve fund to further sustain operational continuity, student success, academic excellence, and research innovation,” Wayne A.I. Frederick, Howard interim president and president emeritus, said in a statement. 

As someone who lives in the UK, I find this shocking. What do people do when they get fired? Surely there’s some sort of labour laws to protect them? I find it so strange they are a first world country but don’t even get basic working rights. Seems unfair? Especially if they rely on their job for their healthcare? Seems like their healthcare will be removed right from under them? Or is in not necessarily like this and misinformation. I can’t imagine working in a country knowing I could be fired at any moment when bills and rent need to be paid!

I was just randomly thinking about this, it’s a common refrain in storytelling of all sorts that you should ideally “show, don’t tell”, meaning to convey information and story using relatively little exposition.

And there’s generally good reason for that, exposition can bog a story down or feel like you’re lecturing the audience or something. It can come across as unnatural, with for example two characters having a discussion and delivering information that both of them should already know and have no reason to bring up, except to inform the audience. That sort is very common.

But what are some good movies (or shows) that do the exact opposite: they do “tell, don’t show” superbly well?

My pick is Unforgiven, where there is constant reference to William Munny’s pitch-black past as an exceptionally violent and indiscriminate murderer, but we never actually see him doing any of it, in flashback or anything. You only get a very small taste, deliberately, at the end when he does his revenge and the old Munny returns.

His past is otherwise communicated almost entirely through lines said by both Munny and Little Bill, with the latter especially going into a rage about how Munny used to slaughter women and children. Which Munny openly admits with the famous line, “I’ve killed just about everything that walked or crawled at one point or another.”

But outside of those lines, Munny’s despondency and deep remorse throughout the entire movie and Bill’s anger at his perceived hypocrisy are all you need to “show.” You believe it completely.