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Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 1 #112

guys what the fuck did I just walk into with this cover

Christmas special!

people confusing Felicia for the Black Widow??? okay then AS IF you petty crooks are important enough to get Nat’s attention

Felicia goes hero again and stops a robbery, decided to take the mink coats they were stealing for herself, but then has another change of heart and gives them to homeless ladies to warm themselves. Your honor, I love her.

Peter has lost his fucking mind apparently. Just sitting in his apartment alone on Christmas, only has two cans of *classic* coke in his fridge, props the black suit up in a chair across from him and talks to it like it’s his only friend. Dear God Peter what’s happened to you.

He’s sleeping with a teddy bear MJ gave him though that’s hella cute.

OH MY GOD THE FAN LETTERS AGAIN. “It stinks. Peter David can’t write a script-” and then the reply from the editors is basically a quasi-polite way of saying “yeah what the fuck is up David?? fix your shit” LMAO WHAT

Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 1 #113

ANYONE WHO PUTS THEIR HANDS ON AUNT MAY NEEDS TO MEET ME BEHIND THE DENNY’S AT 3:00 WEDNESDAY I’M SICK OF PEOPLE BEING MEAN TO HER

Now people are confusing Felicia for Silver Sable which is somewhat more reasonable. She was on hiatus for a year so people don’t exactly know the Black Cat is back in action to be fair.

“Stunning objects don’t just drop down from on high” to which Felicia says “sometimes we do” as she jumps from the skylight so yeah she’s back to her original chaotically bastardish self and I’m glad.

she’s kicking ass again too it’s about damn time

Aunt May is so precious. A true blessing to the world.

Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 1 #115

Felicia’s just vibin’. Living her best life. Becoming a modern day Robin Hood. We love to see it.

In all seriousness, it’s truly a great turnaround for her character. She feels closer to her original characterization before they made her an Awful Bastard out of nowhere for the sake of drama. Even if she’s just showing up in one full-page montage of her escapades per issue at this point (this time it’s her workout regimen), it’s a lot better than what they were feeding us across multiple pages. I’ll take these little character building short appearances over multi-page ooc nonsense any day.

Peter’s having a streak of Bad Luck now and she hasn’t even interacted with him again, she’s just admiring him from afar but even that’s not safe apparently. My poor baby :(

OH MY GOD

they haven’t even ran into each other but he thinks she’s somehow doing this on purpose

“oh my stars, after all this time, he’s still gorgeous” and “I’m sure he rarely thinks about me” meanwhile he thinks she’s trying to hurt him somehow and is going to Doctor Strange to see if she’s causing his bad luck or not oh no I guess I came here to hurt today

“It looks like she hexed me somehow, permanently, to get back at me. I don’t owe her anything. Do what you have to. She can look out for herself.” -Peter. Because Strange says that reversing the hex on him could affect the source of the bad luck in an unpredictable way. And Felicia’s right in the middle of her most dangerous heist to date at the moment. This is making me anxious, and what Peter said was heart-wrenching.

It completely reverses it to where FELICIA is having the bad luck now and this villain dude is now destroying her, meanwhile Peter is monologuing about how upset he is that she cursed him on purpose and that he’s pissed because she could have gotten her killed, meanwhile he’s just done that exact thing to her and on his end it’s on purpose :’)

Peter’s so upset that he asks if Strange can erase Felicia’s memories of him. Strange refuses and tells him to go talk it out with her because he’s being too “hard-hearted”.

Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 1 #116

“102 Uses for a Dead Cat” I hate that title so much sdflkj

OOF she’s got a broken nose

Oh she’s definitely concussed too. She’s half conscious mumbling about Peter while this big beefy villain dude talks about how he just broke her nose and how he’s secretly a gentle guy and blah blah whatever idk this guy is weird

Oh no that was gross. Dude tries to take advantage of her while she’s dazed from her obvious concussion, so she kicks the shit out of everyone in the room, as she should.

“Bet you weren’t expecting to sing soprano” YES FUCK EM UP FE FE

Feral Felicia is Best Felicia

Peter’s mulling over whether he should go see her or not because he thinks they’re just gonna argue. Which is fair because he just argued with Aunt May and MJ so poor dude can’t take much more of that today.

She’s patching up at home and Peter shows up. She has NO issue with acknowledging Peter AS Peter, and does so even though he came to her as Spiderman, so hopefully that means the writers have acknowledged how stupid that whole debacle was.

She’s visibly hurt from her fight, broken nose and all, and he wants to know what happened but she keeps dodging the subject. Now he’s fessing up that he had Strange reverse her bad luck powers, she connects the dots in her head that he’s the reason she got trashed by those goons, and she’s PISSED. He wants to know what happened to her so he can help her but she won’t tell him, she’s too upset.

Felicia’s neighbors hear them arguing and they’re just like “ugh HER again” lmfao

“I’ll turn up the radio. I’ll show her what suffering really is.” GOD HER NEIGHBORS KILL ME

she tells him and HE ACCUSES HER OF LYING HOLY FUCK

It’s just because she’s raging at him though and the poor dude is obviously overloaded because this is the third person who was / is close to him that he’s fought with today. So no it’s not right of him to do that but dude I get it.

He leaves. He’s gone for a bit. Felicia’s crying because everything’s going wrong in her life, and just when she thinks it can’t get any worse, Sabretooth shows up and says he’s gonna kill her. Felicia lures him closer so she can ambush him with traps and shit hidden in her aparment. But right before he gets to her, in comes Spidey to the rescue! So wait, did he hang outside her apartment this whole time, or did he leave and come back?

They’re still arguing though because Felicia doesn’t know how to say thank you and firmly believes she could have handled that herself. Honestly, I love her to death, but with her luck powers turned against her, I doubt she could.

Good Guy Peter taking Sabretooth to the hospital because he ripped his own face off

Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 1 #117

so Felicia’s about to fight Doctor Strange? Yeah, THAT’S gonna go well.

this storyline has gotten so fucking juicy I love it

no Black Cat suit this time we fight wizards in our street clothes and protective masks to guard our broken noses

she’s breaking in through the window upstairs and figuring out how to bypass the winds just like in my headcanon about her visiting Bats I feel validated skljdf

she can see his astral form and apparently that’s a big deal to Strange (I don’t understand the significance but okay I’ll take it lol)

no fighting he wants to help her but she’s fussy and leaves. She’s having a bit of an existential crisis on the way home, until she figures out that she’s under attack by Foreigner himself, since all of his henchmen and hired assassins failed to take her out. He takes her down pretty quickly. She’s in no state to fight, and he’s a tough foe anyway.

they diagrammed Felicia doing an entire taekwondo 360 spin kick and I greatly appreciate that

he spared her but in return he wants her to help take down spiderman and she agrees so it’s time to cry some more

Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 1 #119

MJ complimenting Felicia’s boobs is not what I expected but here we are

I’m not sure how I feel about Felicia becoming a villain. I still don’t think she would EVER actively seek to hurt Peter, even if she’s indebted to this dude for sparing her life and calling off his assassins. But I’m interested to see how this plays out.

Sabretooth is back and hunting Peter and Felicia hasn’t forgotten that he tried to kill her either so she’s instantly out to throw hands with this dude, and she knows Peter’s watching it happen too. So is she actually going to try and hurt Peter later or...?

LMAO POOR SABRETOOTH JUST GOT HIS FACE FIXED AND FIRST THING SHE DID WAS RIP IT UP AGAIN SHE’S BRUTAL

She’s saving his life but he can’t sit by and watch her almost get killed for him AGAIN so of course Peter’s rushing to change into his suit and go help her.

SHE’S GONE FERAL AGAIN. LITERALLY. SHE SCREAMED AND BASHED HIS SKULL INTO THE PAVEMENT. WHAT A LADY.

He fucked up her leg but that’s nothing compared to what she just did to his face so fair game. Peter got there in time to see the last of it. She sees him and winks. That’s it omfg.

She’s hooking up with the foreigner now???? Press X to Doubt.

No but seriously everything feels in character until you realize it’s a ruse to lure Peter in to a sense of security around her again which is so weird. I feel like we’re veering off into ooc territory again which is sad because I was liking everything in this storyline up until this point.

Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 1 #123

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENINGGGGGGGGGGGG

First page is Blaze saying that Foreigner hired him to take out both Peter AND Felicia???? But I thought Felicia was on Foreigner’s side now???? And we open with Peter saving unconscious Felicia from a fire?????? I AM CONFUSION

Felicia tearing Keating to shreds for trashing Peter which is great

I hate this suit and I hate this hair it can stay in the trash

her apartment blew up time to hang out with Peter

“We can’t sneak into my apartment while these girls are out here sunbathing” says Peter so Felicia proceeds to scream at the girls and scare them away. Peak Chaotic Bastard Felicia right now.

they’re making Felicia and MJ take digs at each other again because we can’t have nice things

she’s brought Peter to Foreigner now? Willingly? Unintentionally? IDK what’s happening

IS SHE OR IS SHE NOT WORKING WITH FOREIGNER WHAT IS HAPPENING

THEY’RE SHOOTING AT HER TOO IS THIS AN ELABORATE PLOY BECAUSE IT SEEMS SINCERE WHAT IS HAPPENINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

oh she’s got her claws now that’s neat

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING

okay I’m done for now this is getting too contrived

#[comic commentary]#it started so well #got super juicy #and then completely derailed #sad because I was really enjoying the new storyline with Peter and Felicia accidentally ruining everything for each other #oh well at least they've given me a ton of Feral Bastard Felicia Hardy moments

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Eragon Movie Recap Part 4: Great Responsibility

So. Much. Arguing.

We pick up where Part 3 left off. Saphira’s big. Eragon is taking inspiration from a story Brom told about dragons. Brom himself is being disruptive. The Ra’zac are on the loose, hunting for the new Rider.

Under the cover of darkness, Eragon sneaks into Brom’s house. Does some snooping. Opens a book. There are fancy metallic dragon figurines on the cover. Eragon finds a page with a griffin picture, and stares at it as though it were informative. I would like to take this moment to remind you that Book Eragon is confirmed to have been extremely illiterate at this point in the story.

Brom isn’t too happy about being snooped on by some snot-nosed kid. Grumpy, he decides to perform a jumpscare. Eragon doesn’t care. He’s busy asking unsubtle questions about Brom’s dragon story. Brom isn’t feeling very welcoming, so he tells Eragon to put his head in the dirt.

Confusingly, Brom also makes a point of stating his philosophy of “better to ask forgiveness than permission”. That’s a bit of a mixed message in this context, and Eragon immediately tries to exploit it. I wonder if it’ll come up again. Regardless, Eragon doesn’t like Brom’s attitude, so he tries throwing insults at the problem. After a bit more arguing, he finally leaves.

Alone at last, Brom takes a few moments to ponder. Resolving to take some sort of action, he digs out a bundle of unusual belongings and retrieves a suspiciously coloured sword.

As he walks through the town at night, Eragon hears some weird noises. This is strange; the town is fairly deserted, and what people he does see appear to be in something of a hurry. He tracks the sounds to their source. Through gaps in a wall of the offending building, Eragon sees Sloan being threatened and hurt by the Ra’zac. They want information, and what luck! They found the one and only person who would know!

Sloan tells the Ra’zac how to find Eragon. Unable to pull a cardboard box out of thin air to help him complete his stealth mission, Eragon settles for hiding under a table just in time to avoid being noticed.

As soon as the threat passes, Eragon runs home so he can stop the Ra’zac from finding his uncle. Along the way, Saphira picks him up and flies off into the sky so that she can stop the Ra’zac from finding him, instead. Eragon is displeased by this change in plans. They argue for a tense few moments, and high-altitude shenanigans ensue.

Saphira calls Eragon out on his stupidity but eventually concedes, dropping him in a haystack beside his house. But it’s too late! Garrow has been Uncle Ben’d. Eragon blames this development on Saphira and sends her away. She obliges in a huff as a thunderstorm brews up in the distance.

After a few seconds, Brom walks in. Upset, Eragon tries to attack the newcomer, but he is very promptly subdued. Brom sees Eragon’s weird hand scab and deduces everything immediately. He seems surprised, displeased, and more than a little offended that this guy is the One Rider To Save The Land.

Brom sets his feelings aside and works to resolve the current crisis. Eragon is having none of it, and won’t listen to Brom any more than he listened to Saphira. Not one to be so easily defeated, Brom isn’t having any of Eragon’s own excuses, either. He wants to bury his uncle? Well, since the uncle is inside the house, how about we burn the house down? Problem solved! Not equipped with sufficient retorts to combat arson, Eragon lets Brom drag him away.

As the storm breaks, Eragon wants to know why he should even trust Brom with his safety, much less his dragon. Brom doesn’t want to tell him. Eragon does not win this argument.

By the time they stop, they’re in the middle of the forest, and it has long since stopped raining. Eragon is very tired from riding his horse. When questioned, Brom shows that he subscribes to the “because I said so” school of reasoning. Eragon, still miffed at being forcibly prevented from helping his uncle, decides to stir up another verbal fight.

Brom tries to impress upon Eragon the magnitude of the threat they just escaped. Eragon insists without so much as a second thought that he could have killed the Ra’zac himself and then had time for tea. Brom, a professional nonsense dealer, handles all of this masterfully, but his use of silly things like knowledge and logic is no match for our hero. The discussion eventually escalates into a proper argument: in a fight between Eragon and the Ra’zac, who would win? Everybody place your bets!

Through everything, Brom maintains control of the discussion until he makes one small error: he cites Eragon’s age as a source of weakness. This itself isn’t a mistake; younger people are generally less strong, less experienced, less trained, and so forth. All disadvantages in a fight against magic assassins. The actual problem is with the number Brom guesses. Exuding a strong sense of “this is the most disgusting and offensive thing anyone has ever said to me in my entire life”, Eragon forcefully informs Brom that the correct number is, in fact, seventeen, rather than the suggested fifteen or sixteen. This is another book inaccuracy - Book Eragon had his sixteenth birthday during events of the first volume.

Carefully abandoning the topic of age, Brom tries a different angle. Apparently, the Ra’zac aren’t even the real problem. That particular honour belongs to some guy named Durza. Determined to avoid learning anything from people who are clearly more experienced than he is, Eragon resolves aloud to go beat up Durza instead. Explaining that Durza is a Shade, Brom finally crosses the argumentative finish line. One does not simply go beat up a Shade.

Ready to take a risk, Brom decides to introduce the topic of the Varden, those feisty rebels, insisting that he and Eragon pay them a visit. Unfortunately, this was a poor risk to take, and Eragon insists that Brom tell him how he knows all of the Varden’s juicy deets. Cornered, Brom admits to having been a feisty rebel himself, once upon a time.

Brom asks Eragon to call Saphira. Since agreement must by this point be punishable by death, they have a quick spat about instating a no-lie policy, before Eragon deigns to comply. Saphira promptly reveals that she never actually left. If you forgot that this separation happened, I don’t blame you; it was barely mentioned, and according to runtime it only lasted 6 minutes. Together once again, Eragon and Saphira reconcile. Saphira seizes her opportunity to growl at Brom a few times. Finally introduced to the dragon, Brom makes a rather knowledgeable appraisal of Saphira’s physical state, which fails to impress her until he ends it with an unambiguous compliment.

In case we might be getting anxious waiting for our next infodump, it is once again exposition o’clock! Eragon has resolved to never ride his dragon again because of that action’s connection to his uncle’s death. Brom starts up a discussion by playing the destiny card. In a brief moment of sense, Eragon remembers that he didn’t ask for any of this drama. No dragons, no murder, no Shades. But there’s no escape - the king is hunting him now. Apparently, Galbatorix wants Saphira dead. Saphira confirms that the death of her Rider will inevitably and immediately lead to her own demise. Therefore, since Eragon is very easy to kill, he’ll be the one in more immediate danger. Even Galby likes to kill two birds with one stone, and the more literally this happens, the happier he’ll be.

Additionally, the Dragon/Rider mutual death pact issue is one-sided, so Eragon doesn’t suffer from the same handicap. It’s a movie-exclusive rule, so he really dodged a bullet there. And, lest we forget, this whole wanting-Saphira-dead thing that Galby’s doing right now is very much in contradiction with later books.

With their problems clearly laid out before them, and the daily argument quota met at least three times over, Brom, Eragon, and Saphira end their discussion on a tense note.

That’s it for Part 4! So many of the events in this segment could be summarized as “they argue a bunch, someone gets offended, also there’s exposition?” and it was hard to strike a balance between information, commentary, and brevity. I hope the end result is still fun to read. This part covered about 12 minutes of screentime. That’s the longest one yet, by quite a margin! I sure hope we’re past the halfway point on the expository infodump front. But only time will tell, and it will probably do so in a dense and uninteresting fashion.

Remember to tune in next week when we visit such questions as “what are Carvahall’s legal consequences for agreeing on things?”, “how long will it take Eragon to teach Brom that logic is meaningless?”, and “is Saphira secretly a radioactive spider?”. See you then!

#eragon #inheritance cycle #eragon movie #so much bickering in so little time #eragon movie recap #eragon shadeslayer #brom #saphira #ra'zac #sloan #garrow #long post #sorry mobile users #mod zar'roc

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awesomecolorfulcollectorwombat · 6 years

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White House Secrets Top This Week's Internet News Roundup

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White House Secrets Top This Week's Internet News Roundup

Boy, oh boy. Technically, thanks to Labor Day, this past week was shorter work-wise than most. That said, the internet never takes a day off, so it was just as full as the rest. Think we’re kidding? We’re not. As proof, here’s a series of unrelated tweets that represent just a fraction of what people were talking about online over the last seven days:

Hungry for more? Read on.

Fear and All Kinds of Loathing in Washington, DC

What Happened: The newest Trump administration tell-all book might be the biggest—or, at least, the most all-telling, and the most reliably true—one yet. Needless to say, it didn’t come and go without causing some drama.

What Really Happened: It’s been a few weeks since Omarosa’s book grabbed headlines, so clearly it’s time to start thinking about another White House tell-all. This time around, it’s possibly the motherlode: Fear: Trump in the White House is the upcoming release from legendary journalist Bob Woodward, and it’s been breathlessly anticipated by everyone who figured that Woodward would have the true story about what is going on in President Trump’s administration. And with the release just a week away, this happened:

Yes, the Washington Post got its hands on the book early, and let’s just say that the review—such as it was—suggested that this would be everything people wanted and more.

The first excerpts to be released were juicy, to say the least.

And, it turned out, it wasn’t just the Post that got an early copy.

Let’s just say that a lot of people found what was shared to be a little alarming.

Others were more alarmed (or, at least, surprised) by the lack of pushback from the White House over the release of the excerpts and the response they were generating.

As should only have been expected, that didn’t last.

And, of course, it wasn’t too long before the president got in on the action.

There’s only one problem with taking the attitude that you can just pretend this stuff isn’t real: This book comes from Bob Woodward. He really doesn’t half-ass or fictionalize. He’s the real deal, as could be seen by his wonderfully old-school reply to the denials.

Perhaps the oddest part of the whole thing may have been an 11-minute call between Woodward and Trump, which was recorded and then released by the Post.

Seriously, though: If this is just what’s coming from the pre-release hype, imagine what the actual book will be like.

The Takeaway: If nothing else, this whole kerfuffle has proven once again that, for the current President of the United States, there’s no such thing as bad publicity, even when it’s clearly bad publicity.

The Op-Ed Is Coming from Inside the House

What Happened: Bypassing the need for reporters and anonymous sources, the New York Times published an op-ed by an unnamed White House staffer about the goings-on in the current administration.

What Really Happened: As if the Woodward book didn’t make the White House look unruly enough, there was a pretty dramatic second development on Wednesday that was … well, dramatic, all things considered.

The piece was titled, with wonderful overstatement, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration“—although, as the actual piece explained, “To be clear, ours is not the popular ‘resistance’ of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous”; instead, it argued, “there is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first”—and it was, to put it mildly, quite a read.

It should be pointed out that plenty of people were unconvinced by the central premise of the piece.

As further proof that the White House might not be at the top of its game, the publication of the essay appeared to come as a complete surprise to people within the administration, as the by-the-second tick-tock of Twitter revealed.

…It took, apparently, one hour and 31 minutes to formulate a response, judging by the timestamp on the following. Just in case you’re curious.

But what is a response from the White House these days without some extemporaneous riffing from President Trump? As you might expect, he treated this extraordinary event with the nothing but the gravitas and reflection it truly deserved.

There was another, equally obvious, outcome of the whole thing: lots and lots of speculation about who wrote it. Reportedly, the search for the author of the piece combined with the search for those who spoke to Bob Woodward for Fear, is likely creating a very unhappy atmosphere in the White House.

The fact that the Times op-ed editors granted the writer anonymity was deemed troublesome by many, though the reasons why varied from person to person.

While some people had some cunning plans for finding out who was responsible—

—others believed that the identity of the author wasn’t entirely mysterious in the first place, as this much-shared thread on Twitter made clear.

For what it’s worth, Mike Pence denies writing it, which … I mean, he would, wouldn’t he? That’s just what you’d expect him to do. Wait, now I’m getting all paranoid.

The Takeaway: One of the surprising takeaways from the whole thing was just how ready social media was to publish parodies of the piece, complete with any number of pop culture references…

Justice Brett Is So Close to Happening

What Happened: Last week everyone got to meet Brett Kavanaugh, the next Supreme Court justice (probably). As far as meet-cutes went, let’s just say that the Senate and Brett had particularly awkward rom-com rockiness to deal with.

What Really Happened: While all of the above was unfolding, there was a parallel track of intrigue happening in the confirmation hearing for potential Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh, which turned out to be anything but dull. Even before the hearing began, people were excited, and not just because an amazing 42,000 pages of documentation were released just hours before the first day of the hearing began. Why, there was even cosplay.

Things got off to an amazing start. Or, at least, certainly not a boring one.

Oh, but the controversy of the day wasn’t just about what the Senators were saying, as it turned out.

As if the video didn’t disprove the White House version of events, Fred Guttenberg offered his take on what had happened, which was (of course) disputed by the White House.

To the surprise of literally no one, this became a media story pretty quickly. But, wait! That’s not all! On the very same day—this is still just the first day of the hearings, remember—there was also the idea that one of Kavanaugh’s staff was flashing a white power sign behind him for the entire hearing.

Thankfully, this was something that was very quickly put to rest on social media even before it had time to set in.

Bash’s husband took to Twitter to complain.

We’d love to be able to say that, after such a tumultuous first day, the hearings settled down into a nuanced discussion moving forward, but the second day brought up potential hacking connections and confusion over whether he’d been consulted over the Mueller probe, and the third had conflict over documents concerning race, whether or not Roe v. Wade is “settled law,” his inability to condemn Trump’s attacks on judges, and if he’d lied during his 2004 confirmation hearings for the DC Circuit Court. This one, it seems, is going to run and run. But don’t worry, Kavanaugh fans; he’s still likely to be confirmed no matter what.

The Takeaway: If nothing else, Twitter displayed its ability to keep everyone on-topic as the first day of the hearings drew to a close.

InfoVictory May Have Been Declared After All

What Happened: Ding-dong, Alex Jones’ social media career is dead, now that he’s been officially kicked off of Twitter.

What Really Happened: It took a very long time, but guess what? Alex Jones has, a month after being removed from YouTube, Facebook, and Pinterest, also been banned by Twitter.

Many people wondered why it was only now that Jones—who had already seemingly violated the platform’s terms of conduct—was removed. Let’s just say that he gave Twitter a lot of reasons in the 24 hours before his banning.

There’s actual video of this here, originally streamed by Jones and InfoWars on Periscope. It’s somewhat astounding. And then, of course, there was this, but you knew about this photo already.

Of course, Jones being banned from his final mainstream outlet was big news—but more than a few people were suspicious about just what exactly led to Jones’ removal, and how close to home it hit for the social network.

As much as we might want to focus on the Jack Dorsey of it all—and that’s saying nothing about that beard—we really, really, shouldn’t forget [gesturing wildly] all of this, either.

Perhaps we’ll never know what the real reason for Jones’ removal was. Then again, perhaps it doesn’t even really matter.

The Takeaway: Maybe this should just be the start of a multi-pronged effort on behalf of Twitter. Some folks are already offering up suggestions for next steps, after all.

Just Do It to Yourself

What Happened: Nike extended its deal with Colin Kaepernick, the NFL quarterback who famously took a knee during the National Anthem to protest police violence, and everything you might have expected to come as a result happened.

What Really Happened: The ever-controversial subject of NFL protests returned to the fore last week with the news that Colin Kaepernick is the face of Nike’s next wave of “Just Do It” commercials. Kaepernick announced the deal with Nike via Twitter.

It was, as Nike surely hoped, a much–reported–upon deal—and a lucrative one, too.

Whatever the value of the deal, maybe we should take a second to appreciate that Nike is standing up for someone seemingly abandoned by those in his chosen career.

Well, maybe don’t get too excited…

This just in: This issue is a particularly complicated one. Nonetheless, surely it’s good to see someone stand behind Kaepernick, right? Turns out, not everyone thought so.

The so-called boycott didn’t impress everyone, however.

Presumably, Nike wasn’t impressed by—but may have been, perhaps, thankful for—the protests, considering that estimates suggested the news raised $43 million in media exposure for the company in just one day. Curiously, while Nike stock is down 2 percent at the time of this writing, it is also gaining popularity and expected to continue doing so.

The Takeaway: No matter how nuanced the idea of a Nike deal may be, considering the company’s own practices, let’s take a brief moment to enjoy how utterly un-nuanced the enjoyment of ridiculous protests that ultimately both miss the point and serve no purpose can be.