MY MEDITATION TEA HOUSE

I DON'T BUY BULLSHIT! THANK YOU.

[harrystylesdaily]

Harry’s playlist for Beats 1 with Zane Lowe:

1. The Way I Feel Inside - The Zombies  2. San Francisco - Scott McKenzie 3. Jealous Guy - Donny Hathaway  4. Something - Phyllis Dillon (The Beatles cover) 5. Grandma’s Hands - Bill Withers 6. Strangers - The Kinks 7. Just One Look - Doris Troy 8. These Arms of Mine - Otis Redding 9. Right Down the Line - Gerry Rafferty  10. Baby I’m-A Want You - Bread 11. Arrow Through Me - Wings 12. Seabird - Alessi Brothers 13. This Will Be Our Year - The Zombies 14. Life Is Strange - T. Rex 15. Strawberry Letter 23 - Shuggie Otis 16. Yesterday and Today - Yes 17. Everybody Loves the Sunshine - Roy Ayers Ubiquity 18. Please, Please, Please - James Brown & The Famous Flames 19. Cannock Chase - Labi Siffre 20. Up the Junction - Squeeze 21. I Call My Baby Pussycat - Parliament 22. A Sunday Kind of Love - Etta James 23. A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke 24. America - Simon & Garfunkel 25. Oh Yoko! - John Lennon 26. Summer, Highland Falls - Billy Joel 27. I’ll Be Seeing You - Billie Holiday

[thisiskatsblog]

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[meyhew]

do you mind "embarrassing me" and telling me why the fact that ot5 lived in pp is irrelevant to the song? thank you

pricess park manor is essentially an apartment complex. i live in an apartment complex. when ppl ask me who i live with, i say i live with my family — aka the people who live in the apartment with me, not my neighbors who also live in the complex. 

louis lived at princess park with harry. the other boys had their own place in the manor, but harry and louis lived together. they always talked about it as their home. it will always be the first home harry and louis had together.

[harryisart]

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[lucywildheart]

Ah.. porno ))

[mr-styles]

“And you look beautiful! Look at this suit! Let’s have a look at this, give us a little twirl, Harold.”

[ampervadasz]

[universaliststuff]

Agent of Chaos

[okaybutfirstharry-deactivated20]

[willsmithsmackedtheshitoutofme]

He's not having it!

[thicclem0n-deactivated20200108]

he really said im cold tho

[15shadesofshananigans]

Made my night

[arctic-hands]

So I saw a post last night that terrified me but then my app crashed before I could reblog it.

Smart appliances are completely, 100% reliant on wifi? Like if there's an outage or you couldn't pay your internet bill in time and your wifi isn't working, your stove/fridge/door locks etc are rendered completely and totally unusable? The oven doesn't revert back to a basic oven/stove that you just have to operate manually? It's competely inoperable? Is that what you're telling me because that's fucking terrifying. So you're either completely locked in or out of your home if wifi goes down? Who the fuck signs up for this shit?

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

I've read soooo many articles by people in the security industry who are like ALL of my locks at home are manual, always will be. They completely reject this 5G bullshit.

Also, Jesus, if Amazon is cooperating w the police vis-a-vis the doorbell camera bullshit, imagine how they'll cooperate with the police in 20 years by turning off your access to water because you getting shook down to for a donation to a local police charity.

[dirtydirtychai]

P l e a s e stop with the internet of things. Your fridge doesn’t need to be connected to WiFi. Stop inviting unnecessary tools of surveillance into your home.

[systlin]

Listen, I am a Professional Security Person.

And if anyone even mentions any of this smart home bullshit near me I hiss like an offended cat.

A good old fashioned manual lock and deadbolt is the way to go, and I don’t trust my fridge to be talking to my doctor or my washing machine to have internet access, because I promise you that shit will go sideways immediately.

You know who can compromise your wifi enabled baby monitor or security cameras and watch the camera feed of your house? Literally anybody with 10 spare minutes and some freeware.

[nomadicism]

Imagine the possibilities of a hacking a WiFi-enabled gas-powered tankless water heater and telling it to open the valve without igniting the pilot light. This is how the revolution begins.

[afishtrap]

As someone who works in cloud technologies, it’s not the connection to the cloud that gives me nightmares. It’s the storage on the cloud. 

Your rhoomba is a neat and efficient little machine because it stores all of its programmed paths on the cloud: every room it’s been in, the location of every piece of furniture, and most importantly, the hours it’s put to work. Enough data, and we have most (if not all) of your floorplan, the location of every major and minor piece of furniture, the occupants of your household, and a pretty good idea of your household’s usual routines. 

Your cloud-connected thermostat tells us when you’re home, when you wake up and go to sleep, when you’re gone each day, and when you’re away for vacation. If that thermostat also has occupant-sensitivity (ie, turns itself down when no movement is detected), that’s a wonderful datapoint for tracking your routine. And if the thermostat ‘learns’ your patterns enough to make suggestions, that’s because it’s stored everything in the cloud -- along with a million other peoples’ data -- to statistically infer your behavior.  

Your fridge can suggest recipes for the food you’ve stored, which means it’s sending a query into the cloud with the contents of your current fridge. If it’s predictive -- such as, telling you what you normally eat and suggesting a grocery list to resupply -- that means it’s also tracking what you eat, how often, how fast, and when you do most of your shopping. 

With your address, I can get publicly-available data on how much you paid for the house, its age, and its rough square footage. With the rhoomba, I can guess you go out and do things on your days off, that you have at least two animals, that you have a child of walking age, an eat-in kitchen and a formal dining room, hardwood floors, and at least three rugs of high enough quality that you’ve programmed the rhoomba to avoid munching on the rugs’ tassels. The thermostat tells me you’re early to bed and early to rise, that you keep the house relatively cold during hot summers and that your HVAC sometimes struggles to keep up. Your fridge tells me how much you spend, your entertainment patterns, and a fairly good idea of your tastes. 

I now know when, where, what, and how to hit you with advertisements for holiday entertaining, high-end furniture, home remodeling, appliance replacement -- and a fairly well-educated guess on your budget for each. There’s a billion other things I could see, deduce, and use from your collected data. Not every use would be as innocuous as advertisements, either. 

And yes, your collected data is available for purchase by corporations beyond the one who made a single appliance. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something.

Remember, Target was able to use its customer data to set up a predictive system that identified pregnant women before the women were even aware themselves --- and that was just sales data. Imagine what Target, and all its corporate brethren, can learn about you now that you’ve basically put your entire private life on the cloud, right there for the taking. 

[thisiskatsblog]

But Kat.... Always You is Adore You’s counterpart... in a way... and Eroda posted a book with Amsterdam on it... I’m dying

One big piece of gay coded art …

[thisiskatsblog]

OMG. They planned the budget for babygate right then in november as everyone takes breaks for xmas. January is when Ashley cousin said Briana got in the picture and Elounor 1.0 ended then. They plan the finances at least months ahead. 1DHQ response to that month was babygate and RBB SBB was them fighting back and the cancelled concert was them finding out about the extension? Somewhere in there is why Zayn was out. Makes so much sense.

After having left the fandom for a year, and trying to make sense of my muddled memories coming back, a lot of the lines became much clearer to me. It was soooo hectic being part of it. 

In that recent interview, it struck me that Harry said they all knew during that last year that this was going to be their last tour - so I would agree, the future was being drawn in late 2014. 

Edited to add: I should look up when we started to get anons asking what was needed for us to believe that Louis wasn’t gay? Would we believe it if he got married and had a child or something.

[hearttstopper]

— Harry Styles, 2019

[thisiskatsblog]

You know what, if larry isn’t real, I Wanna ask louis why he got the dagger tattoo that is perfectly complementary with Harry’s rose. its so ?? and its not like were making things up that its a matching one. He deadass got one and hets are like ok but L got an E tattoo which points to elk and i’m like uhm u serious it can also stand for edward so 👀

I dig the Edward theory, anon! 

The dagger tattoo is perhaps the most significant of them all. Not because he got it, after a year, but because of the timing that he got it. November 2014 was one hell of a fucking ride. Looking at all the facts, it was one loud scream for freedom and a big fuck you to everyone keeping them in the closet. It was as loud as he could get. And it was necessary. 

A quick recap of the preceding events:

2012: Louis and Harry start getting complimentary tattoos - mostly nautical - here a (non exhaustive i think) overview

Source: 78.media.tumblr.com

September 2013: Harry gets the rose, fans start speculating that Louis might get a dagger, but they get the anatomical heart and arrow. No dagger for a year.

….

30 October 2014: Apple CEO Tim Cook comes out as gay at which occasion the rainbow apple logo is revived by the papers. Interestingly the “not that important” and “don’t knock it til you try it” interviews are taped that same day. The fandom is still blissfully unaware though. 

3 November: The  “not that important” interview comes out - in short, asked which traits they find important in a girl, Liam says “female”, and Harry replies “not that important”. 

4 November: Harry’s statement is all over the papers and speculations become loud, everyone is asking: did he just come out as bisexual? Harry instagrams an armchair captioning “seated”. Might as well have said “where is the popcorn?”

5 November: Rainbow Direction launches the rainbow heart badges to show support to Harry’s “coming out” of sorts and create safe spaces for fans to discuss LGBTQ+issues - 22.000 people download them to their profiles that week - rainbow hearts are everywhere.

Later that same day, the live FOUR hangout is announced for Sunday Nov 9th and fans can send in their questions.

7 November: Louis shows up at the X factor rehearsal wearing a rainbow apple shirt. Considering context of the past week’s events, a LOT of people see that as support to Harry, and Tim Cook

9 November: The Independent’s Jenn Selby ’s article is published saying “Louis Tomlinson supports gay Apple CEO Tim Cook - days after Harry Styles’ comments on gender and sexuality” also referring to the fandom’s support for Harry with the rainbow hearts. This is how it’s featured on the front page:

That evening the FOUR hangout is broadcast and it’s the most akward interview ever. Rather than coming from fans, several of the questions seem to be set up to give Louis and Harry the opportunity to deny their rumoured sexuality/relationship . Except they don’t. (if you’re brave, watch 12 cringy long minutes from 8 to 20). Also, it’s November and it’s cold, but they are in their T shirts, matching tattoos out, and Louis keeps adjusting his boatneck “It is what it is”.  Also Liam asks “Have you read the article in the Independent?” Louis “No, is it good?” Liam “Yeah" 

10 November: We get papshots of Louis at the lawyer’s near Harry’s public house and he’s looking cheerful and therefore so are we, but that doesn’t last long. Late that afternoon shady agenda anons start imbuing the fandom with “it’s just the vintage apple logo” but we’re not having it. That evening, @Louis_Tomlinson tweets Jen Selby the same shit, but worse,it gets personal, it’s homophobic, it’s vicious and I’m not in a mood to recap or link it, may it disappear from the face of the earth. Interestingly a few minutes later followed by the more vague “Ridiculous I even have to tweet that shit” - some people think this is real Louis shading 1DHQ - we’ll never know - but I like to think so. 

11 November: Louis’ tweets to Selby get noticed and suddenly the story about that Independent article and @LT’s homophobic reaction is all over the place. Harry captions the following pic on his IG with “funny money”

???: Lottie :( on Twitter

14 November: Harry instagrams twice, one picture of a cracked wall saying “lovely view”, and another “no such green” which we think links to the funny money. 

15 November: The interview in which Harry says to Niall - “Don’t knock it til you try it” about sex with a man (also filmed 30 Oct) is aired. TMHFN/Rainbow Direction ask for an apology.

17 November: on Elounor’s anniversary, this appears on Jay’s Instagram

It’s is deleted minutes later and her twitter says it was a hack. 

Also, interestingly, Lottie tweets “no point in sorry when the damage is already done. some things can’t be forgiven”  

It’s a hectic few days, as while they are in Orlando, Zayn doesn’t show up for a gig, Harry serenades Louis, oh and news comes out that our beloved security guy/tour manager Paul quits. Supposedly something to do with Zayn. November 2014 was so wild on all levels. 

23 November: At the AMA’s Harry serenades Louis *again* and he also sits next to Louis’ parents. 

26 November: we see that Louis got the long anticipated dagger tattoo, a quote (given a chance), and a  second smiley xx) this time on his wrist

And in case we missed it, next shoot, he’s pointing right at it: 

I call that LOUD, LOUD, and LOUD. 

They were trying to break out of the closet in November 2014. Their family were trying to help them break them out of the closet in November 2014. Everyone wanted to help them break out of the closet in November 2014. 1DHQ pushed back. And Louis responded in the only way he could. I don’t see how you could interpret all of this any differently. 

[whiteknightonasteed]

Harry Styles’ Berlin listening party. Some thoughts.

Harry’s Fine Line listening party in Berlin caused a stir when he showed up and interacted with fans, amongst them, a fan whose asked to see his anchor tattoo. Other fans got upset because they related it to Larry (a subconsciously revealing reaction?) Only some songs were played (not Cherry), and the DJ played Louis’ We Made It at the end, which, by accounts, didn’t seem to upset Harry at all. Much discourse ensued.

Sigh.

At it’s core this is not about the Larries, the hets, the antis, the harries, the louies, the ot4s, the ot5s…. it’s about where these divisions come from. They come from an industry (within a wider economic system) that puts profits and power ahead of artists and their fans.

Quote from ABC interview with Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital, (influential and successful investor):

“Corporations may have reached the conclusion that unbridled capitalism and unbridled profit maximisation is not healthy for capitalism and for corporations, and they may - the pendulum of extreme adoration of capitalism and free markets may be in the process of swinging back and maybe it will ease some of these pressures”

With some foresight and courage (acknowledging that homophobia is a reality), all this could have been managed differently and so much better. This fan base could have been a cohesive powerhouse for all the boys. As artists, the boys could have all been building more authentic bodies of work, and always felt at home on tour. Instead, we got this…..

Sony PowerPoint (from Wikileaks)

….and all that flowed from it.

In the face of the hostility and outright gaslighting of all the fans by label/management we have formed our own individual factions - an understandable response in the situation. It has at times brought out the worst in (sometimes very young) fans. The boys have tried to counteract itS:

This from Harry:

“The tour, that affected me deeply. It really changed me emotionally […] For me, the tour was the biggest thing in terms of being more accepting of myself, I think. I kept thinking, ‘Oh, wow, they really want me to be myself. And be out and do it.

This from Louis:

“…those things I’ve been through, they carry a weight, emotionally, on the fans as well. And I feel their love and support. I remember really clearly when I lost my mum, that support was mad”

“So many people have bullshitted about what they feel about the fans, but they’re like family to me.”

Still, TPTB persist. Stubbornly, cowardly, cruelly persist. This Infighting and division is on your shoulders, Sony./Syco/SJPR et al. And I suspect very much on yours too, Mr Azoff. Good job - not. Very much not.