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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/14/just-stop-oil-activists-throw-soup-at-van-goghs-sunflowers They removed jackets to reveal Just Stop Oil T-shirts before gluing themselves to the wall beneath the artwork, which is one of the gallery’s most important treasures. “What is worth more, art or life?” said one of the activists. “Is it worth more than food? More than justice? Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people? “The cost of living crisis is part of the cost of oil crisis, fuel is unaffordable to millions of cold, hungry families. They can’t even afford to heat a tin of soup.” thoughts?

soooo definitely a content warning cause there are some mildly graphic things discussed in here so at around 1 pm today I decided to go on one of my classic mid-day walks (I live not too far from downtown Denver i and I don't have a car yet so I like to walk everywhere atm) and grab me some starbucks. gorgeous day, very mild. while I'm walking back, since I'm a pretty fast walker (east coasters know what i mean) I walk past a few other pedestrians, which is typical Joe behavior. I eventually get to a relatively busy intersection, which I cross at least twice a day at this point, and I'm waiting right next to this 50-something year old man. he was one of the people I had walked past earlier... all of a sudden... I don't even realize that he's punching me in my chest for about 10 seconds cause it happened so quickly. so shocking. COMPLETELY out of nowhere. HUGE adrenaline rush. he's punching me like RIGHT above my heart, on the left side of my chest. dude. it went on for about 35 seconds at most but holy f*ck. one of the most horrifying experiences ever. all the while he's calling me a f*ggot and seems like he's about to push me over a fence down the hill. this is right beside the South Platte River btw, and like I said it's one of the busiest intersections in south Denver. I'm just cowering and saying "dude please f*cking stop, get off of me!" and he grunts and then eventually complies. he's then walking the same way I was headed. I do go up to a lady in a blue car who is stopped at the intersection after she rolls down her window and asks if i'm okay. that interaction... idk on one hand i'm thankful she did that but her and a few other cars were stopped and no one called 911 or anything. just a few faces of complete speechless awe. I text my sibling group chat and one of my brothers advises me to immediately call the cops. I do so but by the time they arrive the dude is out of sight. I give them a full description of the man, and they tell me they'll go out searching for a few hours and file a report. it's about 5 hours later now and no word, but I really hope they catch his ass and THROW him in jail, toss the key. no f*cking mercy dude. justice hurts. so, at this moment, how i feel... well first of all, I'm furious. i'm so hurt, for all of my other LGBTQ siblings who have ever gone through anything like this. the adrenaline rush made me exhausted so I'll probably be resting up for the evening. I'm so enraged dude. my chest still hurts. lots of soreness right near my nipple and the middle of my ribs. i had extreme blurry vision for about an hour afterwards, and I let everyone in my family know what happened. I wouldn't wish this sh*t on anyone I've ever met. I'm just thankful I'm alive you guys. like what if he had been carrying a blade? he only punched my chest but I could've sworn he was considering going up to my face. I need to get back into self-defense immediately. I'm gonna go buy some pepper spray or mace tomorrow. maybe a new pocket knife. it's a scary f*cking world, and some of us young adults think we're invincible sometimes. we're not. idk exactly why I wanted to make this thread but I just felt like telling y'all. if this has happened to you before too, I'm here to listen and discuss it further. love u guys

I used to take Zoloft 50mg for 6 months, but therapy was helping, so my therapist and I agreed I could come off Zoloft. I weaned off and things were alright until now. I got into my first car accident last month where insurance was involved (car wasn't totaled and insurance covered the repairs, and no one was hurt, which is good), I was in-between two jobs before I landed my current job, entered a new relationship in August, and moved out with a high school friend for the first time in July. However, I still get days where my anxiety is so bad that sleep, my anti-nausea meds, or the occasional benzo are the only successful factors in managing my anxiety. My therapist wants me to give mindfulness another shot (to be honest, I haven't done this, and I really need to), but I feel like time is ticking. I'm getting more fatigued than usual, I'm having unexplainable pains, and I feel like mindfulness is just not sustainable when I have to work 40 hours like everyone else, cook/clean, make time for myself, my partner, etc. It's especially harder now that I have to take public transportation since my car is still in the shop. Honestly, Zoloft helped a lot with my anxiety, and the first week of side effects weren't even that bad. I'm just nervous because while side effects were tolerable, it is a commitment: you have to take this every day, it made my insomnia worse (which is why I took CBD or an OTC sleep aid to fall asleep). What's weird is that I love my boyfriend, I actually like my job, and if I described my life to someone on paper, they'd be like, "How are you anxious?" That's how I know my GAD is pretty bad: I can't even think of a justifiable reason as to why I'm anxious all the time. Anyone been on/off anxiety meds? I don't wanna take Xanax every day, because obviously there's a dependance factor that should be avoided, but my winning combo, previously, was really Zoloft every day and then Xanax for panic attacks.

A neonazi terrorist killed two people and injured one more person during a shooting in Bratislava last night Before he attacked he posted his manifesto on twitter where he detailed his antisemitic, homophobic, and misogynistic beliefs https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63239523.amp?fbclid=IwAR2aRRsEa_6O3xxPneVvmtdUvGNoAVLaVWr4EuMjA80nreSbZm7TTNXqmDs I don't know the victims personally but we share mutual friends, so this really hurts... I blame conservatives, Catholics, and politicians who have spent the last decade doing nothing but spreading hate about the queer community, going as far as saying that gay people are worse than murderers in parliament and on TV. This is their doing and one day they will be held accountable.

After years of Netflix execs spurning the idea of serving up commercials to viewers, the streaming giant is flipping the switch on its first cheaper, ad-supported plan next month. Netflix Basic With Ads will launch in the U.S. on Nov. 3 at 9 a.m. PT, priced at $6.99 per month, the company announced. The cheaper plan will be available in 12 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S. It will first roll out in Canada and Mexico on Nov. 1. Basic With Ads will be $3 cheaper than Netflix’s Basic plan ($9.99/month in the U.S. currently), which provides the ability to stream on one device at a time. Previously, the Basic plan has not supported HD, but with the launch of the ad tier, Netflix will provide video quality of up to 720p HD for both Basic With Ads and the plan with no ads. The ad-supported plan will not include Netflix’s full content catalog, which the company previously had disclosed. A “limited number of movies and TV shows won’t be available due to licensing restrictions, and we’re going to be working on reducing that over time,” Netflix chief operating officer Greg Peters told reporters. Depending on country, about 5% to 10% of titles will be unavailable on Netflix Basic With Ads, Peters said. In addition, customers on the ad plan will not have the ability to download titles for offline viewing. https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-ad-supported-plan-launch-date-pricing-1235402196/

or sweep...? Adele with her worst album? (Metacritic is pointless, y'all have ears, its just not that good or memorable...) Taylor (who'll just look greedy, taking it with an album we already heard 10 years ago) Harry Ed Sheran Kendrick Lizzo ABBA Arcade Fire Brandi Carlile Bad Bunny? Drake ... someone else?

For me, there was this cute couple, Marco and Dylan, in Degrassi: The Next Generation. From S3 to S7. This tribute video makes my heart flutter tbh, lol. Especially Dylan, the taller one, is so charming I think.

…and deletes her tweet

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1580284402328031232?s=46&t=VEzd43VMhhngEt5CZUH_9Q

RIP to one of the best studios of animation

Gen Z sees the thumbs up emoji as rude or passive aggressive, they say The emoji is commonly used in casual and professional conversation People aged 35 and over are more likely to use the symbol but it is alienating According to a recent poll of 2,000 young people aged 16-29, emojis used by 'old people' include the thumbs up, the red love heart, the OK hand and the grimacing face. A 24-year-old on Reddit summed up the Gen Z argument, saying it is best 'never used in any situation' as it is 'hurtful'. 'No one my age in the office does it, but the Gen X people always do it. Took me a bit to adjust and get [it] out of my head that it means they're mad at me,' he added. Others agreed it is bad form, especially at work where it can make the team appear unfriendly and unaccommodating. Business consultant Sue Ellson says it is important to understand the dynamic of your workplace before sending emojis - especially the thumbs up. 'My last workplace had a WhatsApp chat for our team to send info to each other on and most of the people on there just replied with a thumbs up. I don't know why but it seemed a little bit hostile to me,' one woman said. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/real-life/article-11301843/The-worst-emojis-use-2022-Passive-aggressive-thumbs-used-old-people.html ----- Gen-Z'ers of ATRL - do you get offended by emojis? ?

Lucy Letby trial: ‘Poisoner’ neo-natal nurse accused of murdering 7 babies Lucy Letby – described as “the constant malevolent presence when things took a turn for the worse for these 17 children” – is accused of trying to murder some of the infants multiple times. One of the babies is alleged to have been murdered at just one day old – pronounced dead within 90 minutes of Ms Letby coming on duty. An investigation was launched but when a cause could not be found, consultants noticed that the inexplicable collapses and deaths had “one common denominator”. Mr Johnson continued: “Many of the events in this case occurred on the night shifts. When upon Lucy Letby was moved on to day shifts, the collapses and deaths moved to the day shifts.” Child A, a baby boy, was the first to be attacked and murdered at just a day old, on 8 June 2015. The baby was born just a minute behind his twin sister at 8.31pm the previous day. It is alleged that Letby tried to kill child B, the twin sister of child A, at about midnight on 9 June 2015. The court heard that child B required some resuscitation at birth on 7 June but recovered quickly and stabilised. But shortly before midnight, her blood/oxygen levels fell and nasal prongs providing additional oxygen had been dislodged. Lucy Letby trial - latest: Nurse 'killed two out of three triplets' - and 'smiled after killing another premature baby girl at fourth attempt' The prosecution alleges Letby murdered two out of three triplets - these are Children O and P. Triplet Child O died 'within a few minutes' of Letby entering neonatal unit. The Guardian: Nurse Lucy Letby guilty of murdering seven babies at Chester hospital A neonatal nurse has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six more, making her the worst child serial killer in modern British history and raising urgent questions over whether her crimes could have been stopped. Lucy Letby, 33, was convicted of the “persistent, calculated and cold-blooded” murder of five premature boys and two newborn girls on the unit where she worked at the Countess of Chester hospital in north-west England. As ministers ordered an independent inquiry into how Letby was able to carry out her horrifying campaign, a whistleblower told the Guardian that he believed babies would have been saved if hospital executives had acted sooner on concerns about the nurse. Dr Stephen Brearey, who was the first to alert executives to Letby’s connection to unusual deaths and collapses, said he felt bosses had been “neglectful” by failing to contact the police earlier. Letby was in her mid-20s when she preyed on highly vulnerable babies between June 2015 and June 2016, often attacking them just moments after their parents or nurses had left their side. Police were finally contacted in 2017 and she was arrested in 2018. Her victims included two identical triplet brothers, killed within 24 hours of each other, a newborn weighing less than 1kg (2lb) who was fatally injected with air, and a girl born 10 weeks premature who was murdered on the fourth attempt. Bereaved parents gasped and wept in the public gallery as the verdicts were delivered over several dramatic days at Manchester crown court, after one of the longest-running murder trials in recent times.

I had a seizure and my old company is suing me for not working for 15 days and they want a big money settlement (breaking the contract basically, I wasn't in physical/mental shape) to finish the last two weeks of my contract before they fired me Funny thing is, they ended my contract after finding out I was sick last December

https://www.levernews.com/health-insurers-get-government-cash-then-jack-up-prices/

NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft's kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology. Prior to DART’s impact, it took Dimorphos 11 hours and 55 minutes to orbit its larger parent asteroid, Didymos. Since DART’s intentional collision with Dimorphos on Sept. 26, astronomers have been using telescopes on Earth to measure how much that time has changed. Now, the investigation team has confirmed the spacecraft’s impact altered Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos by 32 minutes, shortening the 11 hour and 55-minute orbit to 11 hours and 23 minutes. This measurement has a margin of uncertainty of approximately plus or minus 2 minutes. Before its encounter, NASA had defined a minimum successful orbit period change of Dimorphos as change of 73 seconds or more. This early data show DART surpassed this minimum benchmark by more than 25 times. “This result is one important step toward understanding the full effect of DART’s impact with its target asteroid” said Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “As new data come in each day, astronomers will be able to better assess whether, and how, a mission like DART could be used in the future to help protect Earth from a collision with an asteroid if we ever discover one headed our way.”

I once made a DVD where I saved video files of random family videos that dated back to the 80s and early 00's. Many people who have died had appeared on those videos. One day I realized that I hadn't seen that disc for a while so I began searching for it, but it was nowhere to be found. I lost the only footage I had of certain people.

here's mine based on my last.fm (scrobbling since 2015): #1 "Rain on Me" - Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande 238 plays (#1 overall in library) #1 for 1 week (June 6, 2020) #2 "Shallow" - Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 163 plays (#14 overall in library) #1 for 1 week (March 9, 2019) #3 "HUMBLE." - Kendrick Lamar 102 plays (#95 overall in library) #1 for 1 week (May 6, 2017) #4 "BREAK MY SOUL" - Beyoncé 96 plays (#107 overall in library) #1 for 2 weeks (Aug 13 - Aug 20, 2022) #5 "Bodak Yellow" - Cardi B 93 plays (#115 overall in library) #1 for 3 weeks (Oct 7 - Oct 21, 2017) #6 "Look What You Made Me Do" - Taylor Swift 86 plays (#160 overall in library) #1 for 3 weeks (Sept 16 - Sept 30, 2017) #7 "bad guy" - Billie Eilish 83 plays (#181 overall in library) #1 for 1 week (Aug 24, 2019) #8 "Work" - Rihanna feat. Drake 81 plays (#200 overall in library) #1 for 9 weeks (March 5 - April 30, 2016) #9 "Irreplaceable" - Beyoncé 80 plays (#203 overall in library) #1 for 10 weeks (Dec 16, 2006 - Feb 17, 2007) #10 "Born This Way" - Lady Gaga 78 plays (#216 overall in library) #1 for 6 weeks (Feb 26 - April 7, 2011) just did this out of pure boredom, but now i'm curious to see what everyone's favorite #1's are based on your listening habits. also this was made with BBHot100 in mind, but any offical world charts are welcome here!

Thinking to switch device. What brand do y'all use/recommend?

Thoughts and/or concerns? Kim Z season 5 realness?

So I have a best friend for over 12 years. He's been with me through the lowest points of life and is a pillar of support in my life. We met each other after 2 years and went to watch a movie together. When the lights went out, he started kissing my hand and then my cheek. I got super panicked because I didn't want this but I couldn't bear hurting him or losing him so I let him kiss me. He kept looking at me too like he might kiss me on the mouth but I thank God he didn't. Now he invited me over to the pub and I'm scared he might kiss me when drunk. I don't know what to do, I never want to hurt or lose him but I don't like him romantically. ATRLers please help me and tell me what to do

Transgender women, who were born male, are still required to sign up for the Selective Service in the event of a military draft. The policy, which has already been in effect for some time, gained new attention after the Selective Service System issued a reminder for men between the ages of 18 and 25 to register for the service. "Parents, if your son is an only son and the last male in your family to carry the family name, he is still required to register with SSS," the SSS said in a now-viral tweet sent on Friday. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trans-women-born-male-military-draft I'm not transgender but I'm kinda shocked by this. Are they really scared for WW3 that much?