How are the rest of my poor oppressed brothers spending their last few days on Earth? As for me, I've carted my drum set on to the roof, where I've been playing the interlude from I Can Feel It Coming in the Air Tonight naked while screaming-crying.
These videos show the beginning of the student protest on Tiananmen Square, one month before the Tiananmen square massacre.
April 17th, 1989 Students mourn the death of Hu Yaobang at the Monument to the People's Heroes. They sing the Internationale.
April 22th, 1989 Mourning activity at the Monument to the People's Heroes.
April 23th, 1989 Posters are calling for reforms, fighting corruption and inflation. Students are gathering money to buy equipment for protests, to print handouts and buy megaphones.
April 25th, 1989 More posters, some interviews, people reading the posters, and writing down their contents. A girl is asked (in German): "Are you afraid that the military will step in?" - "To some extent yes, but one should not be afraid, if one intends the right thing."
April 27th, 1989 Student protest march starts from Beijing University (~14 km from Tiananmen), breaks through a police barrier at Liubukou, and arrives at Tiananmen.
Interviews are partly in Chinese, some are in English. Subtitles are available, however, only in German.
I couldn't find a decent link, but I think the payoff of Dwight's joke on Holly about Kevin being mentally challenged at the beginning of Season 5 is one of my favorite things I've ever seen on TV. The little pieces leading up to it in the later episodes of Season 4.. it's such a perfect moment. I enjoy it every time like the first time
Just for fun! If you could change one thing about FF7 Remake, what would it be? Could be as big as changing it seriously to be more faithful to the original, or as tiny as altering a costume/voice actor/background detail/whatever, or any gameplay mechanic in between.
If you include OG spoilers, please tag them! :)
Such a brilliant episode, everything is perfect. Writing, acting, the cinematography, the directing, the music.
Hard to pick a favourite scene but I canโt get over the scene with Tommy and Campbell talking in the bar while the crowd sings God Save the King.
Idk if I'm in the minority on this one or just in disagreement with the Great Dan-boni himself ๐ but I actually LOVE the message of the Spookly movie. The fact of the matter is, a square pumpkin can't do everything a round pumpkin can, just like we see during the competition in the movie, and there are plenty of people who, just like Spookly, were born different in ways that mean they can't always do things the same way their peers can. (To be clear, I'm thinking mostly of differences like neurodivergency, intellectual/physical/emotional disability, etc; idt differences of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc affect things in the same way.) It may seem like it would be better to tell a story where Spookly wins the games and send the message that square pumpkins can do everything round pumpkins can, and in some ways, that's not bad, but otoh, it's not necessarily accurate or helpful. It's okay for us to have different (not lesser, just different) expectations of, say, a kid with autism, than of a kid without autism. Can the kid with autism still live a full, functional, happy life? Sure! But she's going to do it differently than a kid without autism would, just like Spookly helped the farm in a different way than the round pumpkins did. And most importantly, that's okay! :)) We aren't all round pumpkins, and we don't all have to do round pumpkin things; teaching kids only that they can/should strive to do round pumpkin things instead of finding the strength in their squareness (lol) isn't helpful, it's harmful. A square pumpkin is always going to struggle to live by round pumpkin standards, so instead of telling the square pumpkins "Hey if you just work hard enough, you can be like the rest of us!" we should just let the square pumpkins bless us with their uniqueness, and the unique gifts that come from it. I think the Spookly movie actually does a fantastic job of illustrating this point, and I think it could be a great movie to watch with a kid who is ND, or has some kind of disability, as a way to talk to them about the fact that just because they're different doesn't mean they're bad, and just because they can't do the things their peers can or do them in the same way doesn't make them bad either; in fact, as Spookly teaches us, your differences allow you to offer the world things that others can't, and that's awesome!!
Fwiw, this comes from a place of experience for me. I have OCD, and it's made me different in a lot of ways. I can't always
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I quit smoking 413 days ago and have not have a single drag of a single cigarette until day 411. I was at the wedding of two of my oldest friends and had a few cigarettes during the reception over some drinks. Whilst itโs not something Iโm proud of or happy about - it was okay!
Square one was me smoking 20-30 cigarettes a day for 13 years. Having 5 cigarettes in 411 days is one of the greatest achievements of my life. I havenโt bought a packet of cigs since, nor a pouch of tobacco. Iโve not been craving or wanting them, I was casually and socially smoking.
This isnโt the reality for everyone, and some people canโt just have a few one time and stop and thatโs absolutely fine. But remember a blip isnโt back to square one. If every day is a new square, youโre just paused on 411.
Hope this helps someone else who doesnโt want to be defined by one day.
I thought I was doing so well. I hadnโt had a phobia related panic attack in months. I work night shifts with a team, we all have to commute together on a private bus for a hour and a half every shift there and back.
During the night one of the lads on my team started feeling unwell. He said he felt sick, his face changed colour. He was taken off duty and put in another room to try and feel better.
Where we work, you canโt just be sent home. Unless itโs an emergency, youโre basically stuck until the end of the 12 hour shift (incl. commute).
Hours passed and he only looked worse. The end of the shift came around. Luckily, because of C19 rules we have two buses so we can all be seated at a distance. My assigned seat was on the bus with the unwell lad. Just before I got on the bus, I felt my phobia instinct kick in and I quietly explained to my bosses that I needed to go on the other bus or I could panic and blackout. They let me.
Thank fuck they did.
When we disembarked the buses, I was told that the unwell lad did v* and yeah. I havenโt had the full details yet but I think some of the others kicked off and it became and very tense environment on top of the v* (which my friend cleaned up).
Anyway Iโm both annoyed at myself for not being braver but also really glad I listened to my crazy phobia brain and removed myself from that situation. Why canโt I be normal like everyone else I work with?
In January they are ending the two-bus distancing and shoving all of us onto one bus, which is making me freak out and paranoid now. I was โluckyโ this time that I could switch buses, in less than a couple months that wonโt be an options anymore. The unions are fighting it but yeah itโs shit. Plus I feel sorry for my unwell colleague and everyone else on that bus. I think the enclosed environment amplifies my phobia.
Playing on my mind again that I canโt do normal things, I canโt get drunk or be in crowded public spaces, I donโt think I could take care of a sick kid if I ever had one. Got me rethinking all the other incidences in my life where Iโve had a phobic panic/meltdown and itโs grim.
I do feel better just venting here. Thereโs not really anything I can say or do right now but this is the only place where I donโt feel like such a freak and alone.
Thanks if you read this far
We broke up almost 2 months ago. Ive tried moving on and I donโt know why I canโt. Saw today that he updated his profile picture. In the reflection of his sunglasses I saw the other woman. They were kayaking. Something we always said weโd do together but never did. I immediately threw up. How.. how do I stop this pain??????
Iโm single again
