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perfettamentechic · 9 months

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26 luglio … ricordiamo …

26 luglio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2021: Gogó Rojo, nome d’arte di Gladys del Valle Rojo Castro, attrice argentina. Sorella di Ethel Rojo. (n. 1942) 2020: Olivia de Havilland, nata Olivia Mary de Havilland, è stata un’attrice britannica naturalizzata statunitense. Sorella maggiore dell’attrice Joan Fontaine. (n. 1916) 2020: Claudia Giannotti, attrice e doppiatrice italiana. Fu moglie del doppiatore e attore Carlo Valli. (n.…

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rhetthammersmithhorror · 3 months

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Overdrawn at the Memory Bank | 1983

#Overdrawn at the Memory Bank #Douglas Williams #Barry Bergthorson #John Varley #Raul Julia #Linda Griffiths #Donald Moore #mst3k #hammersmith horror #science fiction #Canadian scifi #80s scifi #dystopia #the matrix #sov #nirvana #film stills

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sapphicsukeve · 6 months

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Kellie Bright is such an angel.

#eastenders #sapphicsukeve #linda carter #kellie bright #matt di’angelo #dean wicks #keanu taylor #mitch baker #roger griffiths #danny walters #day in the life #eastenders bts

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grandmastv · 2 years

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high-fructose-lesbianism · 2 years

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hardtickettohomevideo · 6 months

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Schlocktoberfest XIII - Day 30: The Demon Murder Case

Wow. Two years can go by so quick, yet here we are still watching made-for-TV horror movies. See? This is why all our cool shit is under fire. All our fucking metal albums, our D&D, what’s next? Yeah I’ll watch it, but under protest. The Demon Murder Case (1983) Trailer: *Spoilers Throughout* What’s This About: Kevin Bacon getting into some sort of trouble. Not with dancing but with demonic…

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themakeupbrush · 1 year

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Actually, one of my absolute favorite dresses of the night is the one the golden globes ambassador (person who hands out the trophies) is wearing, which for the record, is one of the most nepotistic positions possible, though one isn’t listed this year so I don’t know who it is:

“Chosen by the HFPA, the Golden Globe Ambassador - previously known as Miss or Mr. Golden Globe - is traditionally the daughter or son of one of the industry's most respected actors/actresses/directors/producers and assists during the Golden Globe Awards ceremony. The tradition started in 1962 and over the years has introduced many second and third-generation stars; among them: Linda Evans, Anne Archer, Laura Dern, Melanie Griffith, and her daughter, Dakota Johnson. ”

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kmomof4 · 9 months

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For Self Promo Sunday…

I decided to highlight a fic that got a bit of attention on ao3 last week…

In the Vipers Den

Posted almost two years ago for the @cshistfic event, this WWII spy fic was inspired by the movie Shining Through, starring Melanie Griffith, Michael Douglas, and Liam Neeson. If you haven’t read it, I hope you do and let me know what you think, and if you have read it, maybe have a reread!

Summary: Emma Nolan, age 22, goes to work for attorney Killian Jones in the fall of 1940. Over the next year, she comes to believe her boss is a spy, only to have her suspicions confirmed when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. When a German spy working for Killian turns up dead, Emma kisses her lover goodbye and attempts to continue his work of finding and stopping the development of a flying bomb that could spell disaster for the Allied forces.

Find the fic here on ao3.

Below is the original movie poster @suwya maniped with Emma and Killian for her Once Upon a Movie collection after reading the fic. Please go give her all the love!!!

Tagging the usuals, please let me know if you’d like to be added or removed.

@jrob64 @teamhook @winterbaby89 @hollyethecurious @artistic-writer @xarandomdreamx @undercaffinatednightmare @the-darkdragonfly @stahlop @superchocovian @pirateprincessofpizza @tiganasummertree @anmylica @cosette141 @motherkatereloyshipper @zaharadessert @jonesfandomfanatic @ultraluckycatnd @jennjenn615 @allons-y-to-hogwarts-713 @kymbersmith-90 @booksteaandtoomuchtv @wistfulcynic @mie779 @snowbellewells @lfh1226-linda @aprilqueen84 @whimsicallyenchantedrose @pirateherokillian @elfiola @ilovemesomekillianjones @justanother-unluckysoul @poptart-cat-78 @myfearless-love @goforlaunchcee @searchingwardrobes @gingerpolyglot @gingerchangeling @djlbg @cocohook38 @cs-rylie @thisonesatellite @donteattheappleshook @deckerstarblanche @veryverynotgoodwrites @wefoundloveunderthelight @fleurdepetite @alexa-fangirl-forever

#self promo sunday #in the vipers den #krystal writes #art by krystal #art by suwya

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conradscrime · 5 months

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The Murder of Linda Agostini: Was She Really "Pyjama Girl"?

November 26, 2023

Florence Linda Agostini (Platt) was born on September 12, 1905 in South East London. She travelled to New Zealand at the age of 19, and lived there until 1927, when she then moved to Sydney, Australia.

Linda worked at a cinema and lived in a boarding house on Darlinghurst Road. It was said that Linda liked to drink and party a lot. She married an Italian man named Antonio Agostini in 1930, and it was not a happy marriage.

The couple moved to Melbourne, believing to be because her husband wanted Linda to get away from her partying friends.

In late August of 1934, Linda disappeared. A week later, an unidentified body of whom would later be dubbed "Pyjama Girl" was found in Splitter's Creek, near Albury.

The woman's body was found by a man named Tom Griffith, who was leading a prize bull along the road. Tom saw the body in a culvert running under the road and noted there had been a strong smell of kerosene present.

The body was badly burnt and had been hidden by a hessian grain sack, making it impossible for drivers to be able to see the body.

Pyjama Girl's head was wrapped in a towel, she had been beaten extensively, and upon an X-ray it was discovered she had a bullet in her neck. She was dubbed Pyjama Girl due to her wearing yellow silk pyjamas with a Chinese dragon motif. This clothing was known to be luxurious for the time.

It was determined that Pyjama Girl was petite and in her 20's, though her identity could not be found. The body was taken to Sydney, where it was put on public display. She was preserved at the Sydney University Medical School until 1942, where she was then transferred to police headquarters until 1944.

Some people suggested that Pyjama Girl could be a couple different women that had gone missing in the area, including Linda Agostini. Linda matched the physical characteristics as well as the age. However, New South Wales police did not believe Linda could be Pyjama Girl.

In 1944, 10 years since the discovery, forensic evidence was re-examined, and the body was matched to be Linda through dental analysis.

Linda's husband, Tony, had recently gone back to Sydney, after being held in internment camps from 1940 to 1944. Police commissioner, William MacKay, who had known Tony from before the war, interviewed him and noticed that Tony was quite nervous.

Tony then confessed to killing his wife, Linda, stating that he had accidentally shot her when they lived in Melbourne. Tony drove Linda's body over the state border to Albury, and had dumped her in the culvert. He set Linda's body on fire to destroy the evidence.

Tony was charged with murder and extradited back to Melbourne and tried for murder. He was acquitted on the murder charge but found guilty of manslaughter. Tony was sentenced to 6 years in prison but served only 3 years. He was released in 1948 and deported to Italy, dying in 1969.

While the case is technically solved, many doubt that Linda is the true identity of Pyjama Girl. In a 2004 book, written by historian Richard Evans on the case, he believes that Tony's conviction was the result of police corruption.

It was also stated that Pyjama Girl had brown eyes, while Linda had blue eyes and the two women had different bust sizes and different shaped noses. Richard Evans also claims that 125 women were on the police list of possible identities, and not eliminated or traced.

#true crime #crime #unsolved mysteries #unsolved #murder #homicide #unsolved murder #unsolved case #solved #mystery #jane doe #pyjama #girl

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olreid · 2 years

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would you perhaps be willing to post a syllabus of sorts for your tag "a long wish to be elsewhere"? i'm curious what sorts of things you consider essential to it!

hi! that one's fairly new as far as tags go so i don't have anything resembling essential readings compiled yet, but i can tell you what's on my list so far!

i guess the first thing to say is that the phrase itself comes from louise glück's poem unpainted door, which includes the line "i remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere." i started thinking about childhood while watching paper girls and - what else? - shameless tv, and thus the tag was born. as i've done more research it has sort of morphed into family abolition research storage, which i'm not mad about tbh!

things i've read/watched/listened to so far that have been helpful:

everything for everyone: an oral history of the new york commune, 2052-2072 by m. e. o'brien and eman abdelhadi

histories of the transgender child by jules gill-peterson

jgp's gender reveal podcast episode

the queer child, or growing sideways in the 20th century by kathryn bond stockton

raised in captivity: why does america fail its children? by lucia hodgson

the idea of children by madeline lane-mckinley

recorded sessions from this psychosocial foundation course on the family, particularly the sessions with m. e. o'brien, sophie lewis, and fred moten

reliving childhood? the temporality of childhood and narratives of reincarnation by akhil gupta

abolish the family: a manifesto for care and liberation by sophie lewis (this was not actually incredibly helpful but the bibliography was so. whatev)

things i haven't gotten to yet but that are on my list to check out:

full surrogacy now: feminism against family by sophie lewis

children's liberation: autonomy and control course taught by sophie lewis

heroes of their own lives: the politics and history of family violence by linda gordon

family abolition: capitalism and the communizing of care (forthcoming june 2023) by m. e. o'brien

the children's rights movement by beatrice and ronald gross

the case for children's liberation by john mcmurtry

kinderkommunismus: a feminist analysis of the 21st century family and a communist proposal for its abolition by k.d. griffiths and j.j. gleeson

alexandra kollontai's writing on communism and the family

the anti-social family by michele barrett and mary mcintosh

unthinking the family by madeline lane-mckinley

the child to come: life after the human catastrophe by rebekah sheldon

family values: between neoliberalism and the new social conservatism by melinda cooper

its all in the family: intersections of gender, race, and nation by patricia hill collins

imperial leather: race, gender, and sexuality in the colonial contest by anne mcclintock

black 'feminisms' and pessimism: abolishing moynihan's negro family by tiffany lethabo king

that's it so far! others are welcome to add topical recommendations if they have any. this was fun to compile, i didn't really realize i'd read so much relevant stuff already : ) hope this answers your question !

#asks #anon #a long wish to be elsewhere #ETA didnt think i would have 2 say this but obv i cannot vouch for anything i havent read yet do NOT @ me.#wanting to read about something does not equal an endorsement of said thing. thank you and goodnight

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celebrateeachnewday · 9 months

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Artist Linda Hill Griffith

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perfettamentechic · 2 years

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26 luglio … ricordiamo …

26 luglio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2021: Gogó Rojo, nome d’arte di Gladys del Valle Rojo Castro, attrice argentina. Durante gli anni sessanta e settanta è stata una vedette del teatro di rivista in Spagna e Sud America. Al cinema è apparsa in alcune produzioni spagnole. La sua carriera cinematografica si è conclusa alla fine degli anni settanta. È apparsa anche sui palcoscenici argentini. La sorella maggiore Ethel Rojo è stata…

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mostlysignssomeportents · 2 years

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The eye-glazing scam of Medicare drug plans

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article erroneously claimed Simon Lovell had passed away; I misremembered my contribution to a 2015 medical fundraiser for Mr Lovell as a contribution to a funeral expenses fundraiser. My sincere apologies to Mr Lovell (and I’m delighted to learn I was wrong!).

Indie bookstores can change your life. In 2007, I wandered into NYC’s St Marks’ Bookstore (RIP) and picked up a book from the recommended table: “How to Cheat at Everything,” by Simon Lovell, and I learned how to spot a scam. It’s a skill I use every day, especially when analyzing how corporate America works the US government:

https://memex.craphound.com/2007/02/02/how-to-cheat-at-everything/

I grew up in countries — Canada, the UK — with universal health care and now I live in the US. The NHS and OHIP aren’t perfect, but neither set off my scam-meter the way that the American system does. The whole thing is a scam, top to bottom.

Here’s a key lesson from Lovell’s book: “complexity in a proposition bet is only there to make it harder for you to figure out the odds.” In other words, if a grifter at a bar tells you that they’ll pay you 3:1 if you can do X, and 5:1 if you can do Y, and 9:1 if you can do X and Y, all of those different payouts are solely there to confuse you.

If you want to see this in action, just visit any casino and ask a croupier to explain the craps payout lines to you, and try to do the odds in your head while you get that explanation. What’s the least-worst bet on the craps table? (There are no good bets on a craps table). Without a spreadsheet and several hours of analysis, you probably can’t know.

The flamboyant, mind-clouding complexity in US health care starts with health insurance. Insurance, after all, is just a proposition bet: “If you contract this illness, we pay this much; if you need this drug, we pay this much. Pay an extra $20/month, and we’ll reduce your co-pay by this much, but only once you’ve covered your deductible. Pay $3/month more and your deductible goes down by this much. Oh, and here’s your HSA, which will accrue tax-free savings you can use for some of this. What’s a before-tax dollar worth? Sorry, that’s another spreadsheet.”

You’d think that government health insurance — Medicare and Medicaid — would be immune to this kind of gamesmanship, but you’d be wrong. When you become Medicare-eligible, you still need to buy a drug plan. Those drug plans are provided via private-sector companies like Humana. They are a scam.

Twice a year, Medicare has an “open enrollment” period, just like other US insurers. During open enrollment, you are encouraged to use the Medicare Plan Finder to sort through all the different plans. You feed in your prescriptions, it pops out a recommendation. You can even talk it over with a trusted broker before you pick. It feels like a straightforward transaction, but it’s still a scam.

Here’s how the scam works. Remember that you can only change plans twice a year. Given that, you’ve likely assumed that once you choose a plan, its rates remain constant for that duration: if you agree to pay $X for your prescriptions from January to June, then the pharma plan operator is agreeing only to charge you $X over that period, right?

Wrong. As Susan Jaffe writes for Kaiser Health News, even though you guarantee that you will use your pharma plan provider for the next six months, your pharma plan provider makes no guarantees to you about how much that will cost you.

https://khn.org/news/article/medicare-drug-plan-prices-open-enrollment-rise/

Jaffe opens with the story of retired construction accountant Linda Griffith, who signed up for a Humana plan last December that promised her a $70.09 co-pay for her monthly prescription, but when the plan kicked in a month later, Humana cranked the price up to $275.90.

This isn’t an anomaly. As an AARP study found, the pharma plan providers routinely lower their payouts to something close to list-price just before open enrollment, so that the plan-shopping tools show that they’re a good deal, then, as soon as the open enrollment closes and patients are locked in, they crank the prices up.

https://blog.aarp.org/thinking-policy/prices-for-most-top-medicare-part-d-drugs-have-already-increased-in-2022

These companies will tell you that they’re bargaining hard with the pharma companies to get prices down, and they are, but only so that they can shift a larger proportion of the scam’s winnings from pharma, to pharma benefit managers, to insurers. You don’t share in the bounty. You are the bounty.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/11/number-eight/#erisa

For decades, Democrats have been campaigning to repeal the law that prohibits Medicare from directly negotiating with pharma companies, but they’ve failed — thanks to Republicans, and thanks to sellouts in the Democratic caucus, like Cory Booker, who says he’s not going to let his pharma industry donors dictate his votes anymore:

https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/12/cory-booker-presidential-run-pharmaceutical-industry-ties/

Meanwhile, the scammers continue to add complexity to the proposition bet and use the obscuring effect of all those bizarre odds to cloud our ability to calculate the odds. Some drug plans have six tiers of benefits, each with their own co-pay (a flat fee per prescription) and/or co-insurance (a percentage of the drug price). Sometimes it’s cheaper not to use your insurance to buy drugs at all, because the cash price is lower than the co-pay.

There is no amount of plan-tinkering that can substitute for allowing Medicare to directly negotiate with pharma companies and set a price, the way all the other national health-care plans do. There’s a reason Americans pay 200–400% more for their prescriptions than Canadians.

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-282

An insurance plan that you can’t change, but the insurer can? That is a scam that’s visible from orbit. Any insurer that does this is permanently disqualified from being trusted with anyone’s health. It doesn’t matter how many tiers are offered, or how many rebates, or what the co-pay is. It doesn’t matter how many price-comparison tools there are. If the insurer can change the payout at will and you can’t change insurers when they do, all of that stuff is just window-dressing, lines on the craps table, there to distract you while you’re ripped off.

Image: Chris Martin (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/cjmartin/11331819423

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[Image ID: A craps table surrounded by excited gamblers; amid the casino chips are various pharma tablets, some spilling out of a pill bottle.]

#pluralistic

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70s80sandbeyond · 1 month

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Kene Holiday, Andy Griffith + Linda Purl on "Matlock" (1986-1995)

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pencil-amateur · 8 months

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📣 + any of ur ocs for that oc ask game!!

📣 MEGAPHONE - how loud are they? what do they speak like? got a voice claim?

I'm gonna do a bunch of the characters from my unnamed mad scientist story!

Ms. Corkscrew- A slightly loud, sort of nasally voice- a bit like Fran Drescher or Linda from Bob's Burgers. She talks faster when she gets excited about something. It's very easy to pick up on her emotions through her voice.

Mary Stein Salerosa- Warm, clear voice, not especially high- similar to Enid from OK KO. Bit of a Southern accent. Infectious, bubbly laughter. She tends to mispronounce words she's only read and never heard.

Anne Atomic- Sounds like Linda Ronstadt. People are sometimes surprised that she doesn't have a high voice. Very precise, yet casual way of speaking. Easy to have a conversation with, even if you don't know her.

Dr. Vrach- Bright and cheerful, sweet voice. Russian accent. Talks about frightening and unethical mad science without blinking an eye. Bothers people (Ms. Corkscrew) sometimes with how chipper she is.

Ed Fang- Low, soft voice. I can't think of any characters who sound like him, but I hope I can one day. Tends to forget words and sometimes repeats sounds or stammers when he's excited or nervous. She's also usually pretty quiet, only talking when necessary.

Sara- Little kid with a higher pitched Appalachian accent- I imagine it sounding just like Opie from the Andy Griffith Show. Very talkative and inquisitive. Will go up to people unprompted and compliment them or ask them about something.

#this got kind of long haha! hope you enjoy!#ms corkscrew #mary s #anne atomic #dr vrach #ed fang #sara #tysm for the ask I had fun :]#mad science #reanimation rules

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cressida-jayoungr · 1 year

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Coeli's Picks: Not a Dress, part 1

(Multiple movies listed left to right)

One Dress a Day Challenge

Anything Goes December

Tonight Is Ours (1933) / Claudette Colbert as Princess Nadya

Murphy Brown / Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) / Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa

Once Upon a Time ("Snow Drifts," s3 e21) / Lana Parilla as the Evil Queen

"I wish I had thought about this show, and this character, earlier. Absolutely amazing costumes. Yes, those are black leather pants with that long red velvet coat."

Knives Out (2019) / Jamie Lee Curtis as Linda Drysdale

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) / Denise Nickerson as Violet Beauregard

Black Panther (2018) / Danai Gurira as Okoye

Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia

Mlle Modiste (1926) / Corrine Griffith as Fifi

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) / Carmel Myers as Iras

Male and Female (1919) / Gloria Swanson as Lady Mary Lasenby

Grease (1978) / Olivia Newton-John as Sandy Olsson

Wonder Woman (2017) / Robin Wright as General Antiope

#coeli's picks #anything goes december #not a dress november #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #movie costumes #television costumes #tv costumes

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