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I'm Me. I try not to change for anyone but me. If you want to know my loves, my likes, my opinions, my hates, plus other views of the world and how I see it, well please scroll down ;)MOTTOS: Love thyself first then you will know how you should be...

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Have I found my winner already? Naomi Osaka, oh my god. ❤️

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In Third Place 🥉

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Yseult at the 2026 Met Gala

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Runner up, Second Place 🥈

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Anok Yai attends the 2026 Met Gala

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She WON! 🏆

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Beyoncé's interview with VOGUE at the MET Gala carpet!💎

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Bruh Bey did an interview. It’s been years…a decade since she did one.

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hughie clocked him so hard | THE BOYS 5.02

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This is how every single toxic masculinity red pill podcaster sounds like from Groypers to Andrew Tate

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“The Militarization of the Police Department – Deadly Farce,” an original painting by Richard Williams from “The 20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2014″ in Mad magazine #531, published by DC Comics, February 2015.

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Here’s the original, for comparison. And here’s a bit more about the artist and why he created the piece above for MAD Magazine.

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Richard Williams on Norman Rockwell:

“For most people, he was the painter of ‘America,’” he added. “But even he said his vision was what he wanted ‘America’ to be. It was a mythical ‘America,’ a place where all people were decent, honest and full of good will. His work was full of gentle humor that made you feel a little better; even if you knew it wasn’t really true… you just wished it was. My parody of Rockwell’s painting simply says, ‘That myth is dead.’”

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I think it’s relevant to add that even Norman Rockwell chose to leave his cushy job at the Saturday Evening Post because he wanted to make artwork that was more radical. The Post had rules that wouldn’t allow him to do artwork depicting black people as anything other than servants. The job paid really well and that was a huge reason he continued on. But he wanted change that and so he moved to Look magazine.

A lot of people know about the very first piece he did when he left the post which was the The Problem We All Live With which depicts Ruby Bridges walking to school under federal protection.

But I don’t think enough people know about Murder in Mississippi which depicts three real civil rights activists who were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and sherriffs. The magazine ran the sketch instead of the finished piece because they felt it had a more striking statement to accompany the article. Norman Rockwell would finish that version after publication which is here

Rockwell’s legacy is sanitized because he decided to maintain his job at the Post for so long despite his frustrations with not being able to express himself. The civil rights movement was just his final straw to change what he could with the little time he had left. Look magazine received a lot of hate for Rockwell painting these as well.

Another favorite piece of mine is The Right to Know which depicts an integrated populace questioning their government. In 1968, the year of Vietnam and the year the Fair Housing Act only just got signed in months prior:

But I think it’s important to include the caption Rockwell originally wrote for the piece as well. I think it represents how a 74 year old Rockwell felt about the America he believed in and the people in it:

We are the governed, but we govern too. Assume our love of country, for it is only the simplest of self-love. Worry little about our strength, for we have our history to show for it. And because we are strong, there are others who have hope. But watch us more closely from now on, for those of us who stand here mean to watch those we put in the seats of power. And listen to us, you who lead, for we are listening harder for the truth that you have not always offered us. Your voice must be ours, and ours speaks of cities that are not safe, and of wars we do not want, of poor in a land of plenty, and of a world that will not take the shape our arms would give it. We are not fierce, and the truth will not frighten us. Trust us, for we have given you our trust. We are the governed, remember, but we govern too.

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I’d just like to briefly say even Rockwell’s seemingly feel good Americana pieces are often more political than people today realize for example

likely the most famous picture of a Thanksgiving dinner ever painted and you see it all the time.

What you may not know is its actual title

“Freedom From Want” it’s a part of a series of 4, including this now famous meme

“Freedom of Speech” These paintings were illustrations of FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech where The President laid out a vision that would become what the Allies were fighting for in WWII universal human rights that became a part of the UN charter.

So this homey American Thanksgiving scene was also a bold statement that no one in the world should go hungry

Rockwell’s work was very political, he used that Americana small town America vibe of his work to make what he was saying feel very close to the viewers he was trying to reach and also his optimism of the human spirt but for sure not blind to the need to build a better world.

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Anybody with Tourettes can tell you that this condition does not mean spouting obscenities and especially not no slurs. That's what's inside of you. I have never met anybody with Tourettes that even said foul language. I'm sure that some can and do, but that must be what you have inside of you. In fact, my most memorable people I've known who have this one of them mostly made loud noises, like grunts and uncontrollably spreading out his words with groans, and another often yelled "YEAH!" really loud like he was at a sports event. (There was another who made like a giggle noise and a bell like sound, but I wasn't specifically sure that was a tourettes situation and not something else, because that was mostly the sounds she made period and nothing else in the times that I saw her) But, my point is, outside of TV, whenever I have met or known someone with Tourette's, I haven't known or seen them to blurt out no hate speech. So. I think that's a cop out and everybody on they side need they ass whipped.

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In God, I trust

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Portrait of Josephine Baker by Jas Knight

World-renowned performer, World War II spy, and activist are among the titles used to describe the beautiful and talented Josephine Baker (1906-1975). One of the most successful African American performers in French history, Baker’s career illustrates the ways entertainers can use their platforms to change the world.

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Oh, Kevin. I'm so sorry.

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RIP Catherine

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U.S. Fertility Rate 2007 vs 2025

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Keep it declining ladies. 4-7B

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I’m having a lot of thoughts about a superhero named “Fairplay” being autistic and how interesting that could be if they played on the high sensitivity to unfairness in autistic people, the way that he was abused by Granny Goodness, and how that all might affect him as a character…

but I also know that it’s probably just there to make him seem like a genius savant and it almost certainly isn’t gonna inform any nuance or depth to his character.

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*sighs* It would be so nice to live in a world where I could be excited about this without an asterisk. But this sadly isn’t my first rodeo

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<3 HUGS <3

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Not another penny for ICE.

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Portrait of Josephine Baker by Jas Knight

World-renowned performer, World War II spy, and activist are among the titles used to describe the beautiful and talented Josephine Baker (1906-1975). One of the most successful African American performers in French history, Baker’s career illustrates the ways entertainers can use their platforms to change the world.

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In 2026, Ilia Malinin made headlines for landing a backflip at the Winter Olympics after the move was officially re-approved under updated competition rules.

But this moment did not come out of nowhere.

In 1998, Black Olympic skater Surya Bonaly executed a one-foot backflip at the Nagano Winter Olympics, officials had deemed the move unacceptable at the time. She completed it, on one blade, in an iconic defiance of standards that repeatedly limited her innovation and expression.

What governing bodies labeled as “not allowed” in 1998 is now celebrated as history-making in 2026.

Bonaly’s backflip wasn’t a mistake or a gimmick. It was skill, athleticism, and vision, long before the sport was willing to reward it. And while rules may change, her contribution should not be erased or reframed as an afterthought.

This moment isn’t about taking anything away from today’s athletes.

While Ilia Malinin is being credited with making Olympic history in 2026, the truth is that Surya Bonaly made that history in 1998.

Her one-foot backflip was revolutionary then, and it remains iconic now.

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He also fell but doing a backflip is able to win gold “beating” Japan’s flawless routine.