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Spotted tonight in Ypsilanti, doubled back to take a pic for @amtrak-official

#ypsilanti #trains #think train

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La Fortuna season 1

#library #dvds #television series #la fortuna #alvaro mel #ana polvorosa #clarke peters #stanley tucci

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More of y’all need to see this movie, it’s excellent and weird and Eddie Redmayne is delightfully unhinged in it. It’s an original concept sci-fi banger from the women who gave us The Matrix and also Channing Tatum is literally part dog in this movie I promise you that’s not a joke. Not every movie has to be Citizen Kane or whatever, let movies just be fun.

#movies #jupiter ascending #wachowski sisters #this movie is so fun #just go watch it

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#FOR REAL THOUGH

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i think a big reason that I get frustrated with the "liberals have never made anybody's lives better" is that in the US it used to be legal for insurance companies to charge you more if you were sick or even just straight up deny you the ability to sign up for them if you already had a "pre-existing condition", and this was only stopped by the passage of the ACA during Obama's term. but a lot of people who talk about politics on here are too young to really be affected by that since they would have been on their parents insurance (which the ACA required insurers extend until you're 26). and this was all done via politicking and not blowing up insurance CEOs mansions or whatever.

I'm not saying that the ACA fixed insurance forever, god no. but "you can't deny someone insurance for being sick" is a massive change and people don't realize it!

Most adults want the law’s prohibition on insurers from denying coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions to stay. Two thirds (67%) of the public say that it is “very important” that this provision remain in place, including most Republicans (54%) However, only about 4 in 10 people (39%) are aware that that provision is part of the ACA.

#I need the younger generations to understand how huge this was #health insurance in America is still horrible but it’s so much better than it was #Joe Biden was right it WAS a big fucking deal #health insurance

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"why do I feel so terrible?"

-person who forgot to take their not-feeling-terrible medication

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Wizard worm just emerged from a wizarding hole! Lucky you!!!✨🪱🪄🍀

#wizard worm take the wheel

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abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn't be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao

#as an artist this is so accurate it hurts #stop shitting on modern art already it doesn’t make you interesting

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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Having anotheg 'gork we have got to get out of bed faster then this' morning

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Time: series 1

#library #dvds #television series #time #sean bean #stephen graham #siobhan finneran #sue johnston

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i think everyone needs to adopt "i didnt say it was good, i said i liked it" into their vocabulary right now. it did me wonders

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You know what I am gonna rant about this. Long-winded ramble under the cut.

2016 Ghostbusters was a good movie- it kept the spirit of the original Ghostbusters intact, and it was funny. The ghosts were kinda creepy and fun without crossing into full horror. The cast was STACKED. But because whiny nostalgic manbabies let their misogyny and racism show, it tanked. And it’s not just that these guys (and let’s be real, it was mostly guys) watched the trailer and said, I’m not interested, oh well. No, they took time out of their lives that could be spent doing literally anything else and actively bombed it on YouTube and IMDb. Side note, clearly no one has ever told these people that simply shutting the fuck up and ignoring something you dislike was an option. You don’t have to engage with media you don’t enjoy. This isn’t your online class that requires a certain number of comments.

People were out here acting like a Ghostbusters reboot was gonna somehow erase the original movie from existence. That’s not how it works! Your movie is still out there, and you can still watch it and love it! Female Ghostbusters do not diminish the original movie. And we see this shit time and again with reboots/sequels/etc! ESPECIALLY the ones that dare to include women/POC/LGBTQ+ characters in the cast and story (see also: Star Wars). And it goes well beyond the sequel issue, look at Captain Marvel! It made a literal billion dollars but there was so much review bombing on Rotten Tomatoes (which I personally think is a dogshit site but that’s irrelevant here) that they actually changed the info you see for each movie.

BUT I DIGRESS. Making movies from beloved franchises with more diverse casting and stories doesn’t take anything away from the original movies! Expanding a movie universe in a way that makes more people fans IS A GOOD THING. If little girls watch the 2016 Ghostbusters and love it, there’s a good chance they’ll eventually watch the 1984 one and dig that too. AND THAT IS GREAT! Stop fucking gatekeeping fandom like this, who cares if you see the 2016 one first. Whatever gets you into a franchise is cool, because the more fans something has, the more likely we all are to get more movies! Which means WE ALL WIN. And dammit, the more people there are in the world who wanna bust ghosts, the better!

We need mirrors AND windows in media. Everyone should be able to see themselves in a book, or a movie, or whatever. But we also all need to see people who DON’T look like us. Little boys need to see that women can bust ghosts just as much as little girls do. That’s how you get grown men who don’t throw a fucking tantrum over a MOVIE.

I spent my whole childhood attaching myself to the one (or in rare cases, two) female characters in a lot of my favorite shows. If I wasn’t a straight white woman, my representation would have been even worse. I’m both jealous of and psyched for all the kids coming up in the world who get to see themselves reflected in media. If the fullness in my heart when I first saw the movie A League of Their Own is what other people are feeling when they connect to a character, then I want EVERYONE to have that feeling. That movie made me feel normal as a kid when I didn’t. We all deserve that.

I wanna be clear, I’m not saying the 2016 Ghostbusters was perfect. It didn’t redefine the genre or anything, but it was FUN. Sometimes that’s enough. If you haven’t watched it yet, give it a try! And more importantly, if you watch it and still don’t like it, that’s fine, but don’t ruin it for people who DO like it.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

I saw Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and I really liked it, but I’m getting real fuckin sick of the 2016 Ghostbusters erasure.

#ghostbusters 2016 #ghostbusters #back on my bullshit #let people enjoy things

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I saw Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and I really liked it, but I’m getting real fuckin sick of the 2016 Ghostbusters erasure.

#ghostbusters #ghostbusters 2016 #ghostbusters frozen empire #stopping myself from a rant about the 2016 ghostbusters #a truly Herculean feat

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Just an FYI for those in the US with insurance issues

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Vivaldi played by the South African elementary school Goede Hoop Marimba Band

Turn ON the sound

#this is so fun