Holy Mother Of Nuggets

icon is my first cat Puna. I'm an adult trying to figure out what that means so if anyone can figure out what life or this blog is about please tell me. Multishipper. Leverage my beloved. #spoonielife. but also cool science things and memes? but also literally anything that makes me laugh? oh and a bunch of cats. good luck.

[cumslutshane]

kings of being nonchalant!!

[tylerposey]

ORVILLE PECK Paper Magazine — Brett Loudermilk (2024)

[handsywoman]

my favorite Shanebug moments [ pt.1 ]

[i-sveikata]

surprised I haven't seen more ppl talking about the montage at the beginning of ep 4 too because yes it is such a masterful way of showing the difference between their day to day lives obvs and how their drives and personalities come about in different ways- party boy ilya and walking advertisement shane sure sure- but its also amazing at showing the slow impact of what their secret relationship/ongoing hook ups is having on them as people too.

Because interspersed throughout these snapshots of shane and ilya training and winning cups and doing commercials, partying etc and just being around friends and family were also seeing that over time they're becoming not as present in their day to day lives anymore because they're too busy texting each other or staring at a screen and waiting for a text from the other person.

Like we see Svetlana having to briefly pull ilyas attention back into the world again when they're out partying and then we immediately see hayden pulling back shanes focus when theyre out running together because the both of them were distracted by their phones. We see ilya shift from kissing women and dancing and drinking and being present to rejecting a woman at the bar when hes sitting down staring at his phone instead (where we also see svetlana clock this straight after) then we shift to hayden glancing at shane whilst hes serving dinner with his family and noticing shane is sitting there too on his phone, checking texts from ilya.

Its such a subtle and interesting way of showing how gradually the stakes are beginning to change over time for them as their feelings deepen and it begins to affect where their attention and focus is. And its not just affecting personal lives too, we see a few commercials with shane where he is engaged and asking questions or looking straight at the camera screen before we shift to the director having to ask for shanes focus when he's looking down and texting during the filming of another commercial- suddenly shane isnt even present when hes supposed to be 'on' and working. And these are the two things theyve just set us up to show as intrinsic parts of their personalities!!!: ilya is the playful, party playboy and shane is the serious, workaholic good boy. But now they're so caught up in each other that neither of them are fully present to enjoy or focus on those things that took up such big space in their lives beforehand.

and even with the casual sounding overlay of music playing throughout the whole montage we are getting a very clear shift from these scenes over time which are saying that its actually not as casual between them anymore as the tone of the song wants us to believe. And the closest people in shane and ilyas lives are starting to notice this!!! so to me the fact that they managed to convey all of that in like the first five mins or so of the episode is kind of wildly impressive.

[hudconvent]

shane hollander doing a bunch of anti smoking billboards for city of montreal that ilya loves to send a photo of himself in front of with a lit cigarette between his lips every time hes in town

[handsywoman]

still can’t believe we had this

[dragon-in-a-fez]

hey parents: there is literally no non-abusive reason a person would want the ability to read someone’s emails, track their location, and go through their calls and text messages without their knowledge or consent.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I want to address the person who tagged this “what if they’re missing??”

Google Trusted Contacts.

that’s it, that’s the answer.

what this does is allow you to set up a list of people who are able to request your location. when they do so, you have five minutes to either refuse or grant the request. if you don’t respond within five minutes, the request is automatically accepted, in case you’re hurt or otherwise unable to get to your phone. your trusted contacts can also see how recently you used your device.

in other words: if someone genuinely wants to know if you’re okay, they can check the app and see that you’ve used your phone five minutes ago, and that can be the end of it. if they want to be doubly sure, or it says you haven’t used your phone recently, they can request your location. if you want them to know where you are, or you can’t answer, they’ll have your exact location within five minutes. if you don’t want them to know where you are, you click deny, and they still see that you got the request and responded to it, meaning, again, they know you’re okay. this is safety with accountability: you can’t track someone’s location without their consent unless they fail to respond to the notification, and you can’t do it without them knowing about it.

if you want to track a friend or loved one for genuine safety reasons, set this up. it gives you all the access you need if your concern is actually for the other person’s well-being, rather than a desire for control. (it’s not out for iOS yet, but Google says that’s coming soon).

(also: don’t be the jackass that makes a rule that someone has to accept all your location requests because that makes you just as bad as the people who install tracking shit covertly.)

[vashtijoy]

It’s not abusive in any way for a parent to want to know where their underage child is and who they’re talking to, and saying so is a foul misuse of the term “abuse”.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

anyway like I said there is literally no non-abusive reason a person would want the ability to read someone’s emails, track their location, and go through their calls and text messages without their knowledge or consent

[vashtijoy]

I’m glad you live in a world where adults don’t groom kids on the net, or by calling them or sending them text messages.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I live in this world:

a world where parents are an order of magnitude more dangerous to children than “adults grooming them on the internet”, and giving parents unchecked powers of surveillance is for that reason alone more likely to put kids at risk than to keep them safe.

I live in this world:

a world where the psychologically debilitating effects of surveillance are well-established and well-known, yet adults do everything in their power to invade young people’s privacy and then ask dumbass questions like “why are kids so anxious?” and come up with answers like “it’s probably because of selfies”

I live in this world:

a world where invasion of privacy is recognized as an integral part of emotional abuse, but parents still get away with it because “they’re just doing it to keep them safe uwu~”, despite the fact that this is the same line the goddamn NSA gives us and most of us don’t take that sack of lies from them.

tldr, I live in a world where you’re not just wrong, you’re promoting attitudes that are actively harmful and you need to sit down, shut up, and listen when people are trying to educate you about issues of justice and safety.

[nalivaa]

the mexican football team has a 17 yrs old player and one of the funniest outcomes of this is that he cannot appear in any ad for gambling or drinking so he only appears in candy and milk advertisements. his first world cup and he's not even legally allowed to drive. his nickname is "morita" (little berry). he's three apples tall.

[lelouch]

they couldn't put him in the beer campaign so he was represented by a bunch of berries

[samehere-onlyone]

[pmamtraveller]

Bathroom floor is a mini pool.

[jesterlesbian]

❤ HOLLANOVA FIGURE SKATING AU ❤

(for hollanova week! @hollanovaweek)

[lavenderprose]

For the consideration of the forum:

Rose and Shane (who are both closet cinephiles; Shane because he thinks it's embarrassing to have hobbies and Rose because being a cinephile as an actor just seems cringe to her) are working their way through one of those "100 movies to watch before you die" lists and finally get to Dirty Dancing.

"I can't believe you haven't seen this," Rose says, and Shane grumbles something about not really being a fan of the genre and well, their rule is that if they think the movie is stupid they can turn it off after an hour so Rose finds it on one of the 6000 streaming platforms Ilya pays for (the Fast and the Furious movies keep jumping around) and starts the stream fully expecting for Shane to exert his veto power in an hour.

And then he just doesn't. He sits there and watches the whole thing, mouth slightly open. Usually they talk at least a little bit about the plot or the cinematography (Shane has developed some opinions in that regard, mostly adopted from Rose whose opinions he takes as gospel by consequence of knowing next to nothing about the industry) but Shane is just. Rapt.

Then Ilya comes stalking into the living room towards the end of the movie and by pure coincidence he's wearing a black shirt and pants and Shane looks away from the TV for the first time in 90 minutes.

"Shane," he says, and puts two fingers on Shane's jaw, entirely chaste but extremely proprietary. "Have you seen my iPad?"

"Den," Shane says softly. "It's in the den."

Rose darts a look between Ilya, Patrick Swayze on the screen, and Shane's open-mouthed expression. Laughs for about four straight minutes.

[graffitinight]

When you try to talk about enshittification, it sounds like conspiracy theories. (I'm not crazy)

Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.

Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)

I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)

YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)

The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)

The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)

The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)

It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)

Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???

To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)

So I talk about enshittification (it sounds crazy), so people don't forget that things have been made worse on purpose (it's true), even though I sound crazy. (maybe I am)

[grimboigio]

It's called planned obsolescence and it was invented when lightbulbs could still run for 1000 years. Enshittification is the web-specific (and more specifically social media) version of that.

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

#AbolishICE poster design by Phoebe Wahl

[the-supernatural-atheist]

if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills

[the-supernatural-atheist]

where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*

[makaeru]

I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".

[marzipanandminutiae]

this is exactly why I love talking about historical passive heating and cooling techniques

oh wow the glass-tower office buildings we constructed when we thought air conditioning and central heating would never have downsides...have downsides?

and we're still building them?

while the Victorian house museum where I work, with thick walls and small windows and big wooden shutters stays ~10 degrees above (winter) or below (summer) the outside temperature for days on end with no help at all?

uh. okay then

(also public transit. the history of public transit in the US is infuriating, because we had it! and then we destroyed it!)

[headspace-hotel]

THIS IS SO TRUE

[cuneiformkey]

In a better world the American southwest is covered in wind tower

[offonaherosjourney]

Yuna Hollander who also thinks her son might be gay, but is not as convinced as David, because she is the one who goes with Shane to nearly every single photo shoot and most of the ads he's filmed, and she has personally witnessed people of all genders and roles in the entertainment industry trying to flirt with various degrees of brazenness with her son and all had failed miserably. They were all met with the utmost indifference, David. Surely, if Shane is gay, there would have been a model or actor or hairdresser or make-up artist or light technician who would have caught his eye. And Shane is very polite and considered, but surely if he had been interested he would come up with some excuse so she'd have to give him some privacy and he could shoot his shot (he never has, but just in case, since trying to flirt with someone while your mom is in the room is weird, Yuna at least makes sure to come up with reasons to leave or avoid going at all as often as she can). Besides, David, we both know that boy can't lie to save his ass so there is no way he is managing to be all suave when someone he likes flirts with him. So, since he never shows the tiniest of reactions, Yuna's main theory is that yeah, Shane might not be into women, but it certainly looks like he isn't into men either.

And then years down the line, as Yuna Hollander is telling all of this to Ilya Rozanov, Ilya gleefully decides to clear this up, and tells her that well, you see, Shane isn't just super gay, he is also super bad at realizing when people are flirting with him. "In fact, Yuna, during the CCM shoot I had to..." And then Ilya never gets to finish that sentence because Shane jumps over a sofa and a table and tackles him to the ground to get him to shut up, shUT UP, ILYA, I swear to god I will divorce you right nOW.

[omens-of-what-is-to-cum]

[firstprinced]