Turn the sound on, the only thing better than this dog’s joy is that people stopped what they were doing to share his joy, and you can hear them all groan when the water dies down….
Nine of Cups
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Turn the sound on, the only thing better than this dog’s joy is that people stopped what they were doing to share his joy, and you can hear them all groan when the water dies down….
Nine of Cups
Aujourd'hui je me suis fait vacciner contra la covid-19 🙌💉
Today I had my first dose of my covid vaccinations. I felt it was worth marking.
In France, the only way for those of us aged 18-50 with no co-morbidities to get vaccinated in France is to use up the 'left overs'. Last night I finally found a centre with leftovers and jumped on it.
However, it was a 1hr 30min drive away... So I made a day trip out of it.
The vaccine centre was a massive operation with pompiers (firefighters) operating it all. I managed to use my french to explain I had no 'carte vitale' (health card) and they were fine with it! The vaccine was quick and painless but I had to wait for 30mins because of my past allergies- but snacks were provided 💁🏼♀️
After, I decided to have some lunch in the nearby town of Beauvais. I had never heard of the place so I was totally shocked when I saw the cathedral!
The place was empty bar myself, the guide and the organist.
The city was beautiful and I'm looking forward to returning for my second injection.
Vive la France 🇫🇷
“A variety of wild animals visiting a water fountain”
(via)
Omg they’re all so small and thirsty and they know where to go to get a drink why am i crying
Women around the UK have reacted to the disappearance of Sarah Everard by sharing their stories.
Aunties, can you please explain the whole GameStop stock debacle in normal-people terms?
Bahahaha! I’m fucking STOKED you asked. This is the kind of absurdity that I live for, cry over, and reinforces my belief that MONEY IS FAKE. Ok here goes...
First a definition: What does it mean to “short a stock”? Shorting or even short-selling stocks is when you borrow shares in a company then immediately re-sell them in the hopes that you can buy them back later at a lower price. You then return the shares to the original lender they were borrowed from and pocket the difference. It is a STUPIDLY RISKY way of making money on the stock market, and has traditionally only been used by Wall Street Evil Knievels and people so hopped up on cocaine they thought the housing collapse of 2008 would be a great fucking idea. None of you should try shorting stocks. Buy stocks, invest for the long term, and go about your business.
Mmkay, so with that out of the way, let’s talk about what’s going on with GameStop.
Hedge fund managers (people who run big conglomerations of investors and investments) are betting on GameStop to fail, business-wise. They think the stock is crashing and that the company is in trouble. Why? Not important for the purposes of this explanation. They have just made certain projections that show GameStop is failing on the investment front. So the hedge fund managers want to capitalize on this failure (read: get rich off of GameStop’s demise) by shorting GameStop stock. With me so far?
This is all business as usual for the world of high stakes investing. But heeeeeere’s where it gets interesting. There’s a Reddit forum called /r/WallStreetBets. Their whole thing is sharing stock tips and hot investments. It’s for people who know the stock market well enough to literally play with it on a small scale. They found out about the plan to short GameStop stock. And they took evasive maneuvers.
Suddenly, members of this Reddit started buying up GameStop stock en masse. These purchases drove the price of the stock way up (that’s how the stock market works) AND it prevented the stock shorters from fulfilling their scheme AND it forced them to lose a ton of money. For example, the professional hedge fund managers lost $1.6 billion in a single day last week. By contrast? One of the WallStreetBets dudes turned $50,000 into $11 million.
But what does any of this literally have to do with GameStop? ALMOST NOTHING. The company itself is not doing anything any different. Its value and stock prices are soaring not because of anything GameStop has done to improve itself... only because people who play with money are artificially inflating its value through this weird war.
In my opinion, the heroes here are WallStreetBets. They are demonstrating, in real time, how fucking arbitrary the value of something can be. They are calling Wall Street’s bluff and fucking with the people who--FOR A LIVING--just regularly decide to drive an individual company out of business and its employees out of jobs.
Whatever your thoughts on GameStop as a company, this is an abject lesson in how capitalism is not some hallowed law of the universe, but an arbitrary system we made up. That system can be hacked. It can be broken. And it can be fun!
Anyway, hope that helps. This is as close to a simple explanation as I could get, and a LOT of nuance is missing so please don’t @ me. If you want a way more in-depth read that’s still simple enough for those who don’t know shit about investing, I got my information from Vox. And if you enjoyed this explanation, maybe read these ones too:
A Brief History of the 2008 Crash and Recession: We Were All So Fucked
Dashit Just Happened, Equifax?
Here is the link! What an amazing idea ❤️
Um, It Makes Total Sense We’re All Into Sea Shanties Now
Every time I go on tiktok (maybe too much...) I hear sea shanties! They are quite soothing 😌
Early morning walks in the snow. A good way to end a bad year.
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This is one of the funniest holiday cards I have ever seen.
this has been in my queue for an entire year
Myrna Loy, 1929
'You remember young Peter O'Loughlin, of course,
Well, now he is here at the head of the Force.
I met him today, I was crossing the Strand,
And he stopped the whole street with a wave of his hand.
And there we stood talkin' of days that are gone,
While the whole population of London looked on.
But for all these great powers he's wishful like me,
To be back where the dark Mournes sweep down to the sea.'
- The Mountains o' Mourne, Percy French.
I said goodbye (for now) to geneva a few weeks ago now. I'm back to the greenness of home. Trying to relish it before heading off to Paris next week.
Haven't travelled much recently because I've been pup-sitting. It's my last week here so I've been appreciating some of things closer to the studio.
Drying clothes on a line is just aesthical pleasing- let's not think about why it is too deeply.
There is no better feeling than a pup drifting off to sleep on your lap.
Sunflowers have suddenly sprung up everywhere.
I picked the fruit growing in the garden (apricots I think) and made a simple pie.
I helped the family move house it's been great to see the girls excitedly explore the place. Also they brought me along to a birthday party in a house pretty much on Lake Léman- so damn picturesque.
Life is good rn.
Just need to get through the airport next week and I'll be enjoying a month with my own puppers back in Ireland.
Nothing lasts forever, Felicia Chiao
Fiery evenings
Immaculate vibes Annecy.