
u/PandemicPiglet

We had to put Piglet down on Christmas Eve at 12.5 yrs due to kidney failure. I thought it would be easier than putting down our first Schnauzer, but I’ve actually found it more difficult emotionally for some reason.
Idk why. I still feel empty and ruminate about what more I could have done.
I know Julie Andrews deserved the role and that they dubbed her singing, but I think it was mean that Audrey Hepburn didn't even get a nom for My Fair Lady. Her acting was still great and she was the only acting nom the film didn't get.
Why are Dems so polarized between supporting moderate or progressive candidates who are risky choices for general elections rather than supporting semi-progressive candidates who have aspects that appeal to both centrists and progressives?
Why will so many Dems only support progressives or moderates but not someone in-between? Why not compromise and support candidates who appeal to you in some aspects but you know would also appeal to others with somewhat different politics from you? Michigan is the perfect example of this problem because I much prefer El-Sayed to Stevens, but I think both are at risk of losing the general for different reasons, and McMorrow probably would have been the safest bet in the general because she sits in-between the two in terms of ideology and policy.
Lucinda Ruh doing a back scratch spin during her fs at 98 Worlds
TIL that anywhere between 562,000 and 2,000,000 Afghan civilians were killed during the Soviet-Afghan War and the Soviets intentionally targeted children.
Some people (like a certain Hasan) glaze the Soviet Union, but don't let anyone fool you into thinking the USSR was any less evil than the US.
Mariupol, Ukraine after the Russian invasion in spring 2022. Second slide is a before and after
Mariupol was once a city of a few hundred thousand people. It is still occupied by Russia to this day.
The terrorist attack on the Berlin Pride parade came at the worst possible time for Germany with AFD leading in the polls. Do you think people who travel to other countries to join terrorist groups should lose their citizenship or not be allowed back in the country?
reddit.comThis is a good interview by Ana Navarro with Rosie O'Donnell. They begin discussing Trump about 3:25 minutes in. If only everyone had listened to Rosie from the beginning.
youtu.beMy favorite Madonna magazine cover in the past 10 yrs, the April 2017 issue of Vogue Germany
Has your country ever had a leader with terrible/tacky taste?
How would we, Social Democrats, and Democratic Socialists like Bernie, AOC, and Mamdani, be considered center-right outside the US? I know we’d be considered center-left not leftist, but center-right???
This is from under a post I asked the sub r/asklatinamerica
Nicaraguan Leader Says He Plans to Abolish Elections
nytimes.comMaybe this has been asked before as I’m new to this sub, but does anyone else wish Ariana would release a solo version of Side to Side w/out Nicki?
I recently found out that there’s a solo version of Estelle’s “American Boy” w/out Kanye and I wish artists would do the same for songs featuring Nicki
Do you think there's a chance that Trump preemptively saying the midterm elections are going to be rigged and fraudulent will disenfranchise his own voters?
I'm hoping all of his propaganda about voter fraud backfires and much of his base doesn't show up to vote because they think it's pointless.
Daria Kasatkina and Natalia Zabiiako got married 🥰
Source of the screenshots: https://x.com/jonahtennis/status/2077430375929020780
I know Sabrina Carpenter is the current It Girl in pop music, but she still feels out of place on the album. Dua Lipa would have made much more sense given Future Nostalgia was like her generation's COADF
I’ve never really gotten the Sabrina hype. She’s fine, but I think she’s basically this generation’s Katy Perry because most of her music is pretty generic while being filled with sexual double entendres that are less clever than she thinks they are, and she uses the same cutesy pin-up girl image that Katy used for much of her career.
I also wouldn’t classify Sabrina as a dance-pop artist like Madonna or Dua. Some of the songs on Future Nostalgia sound like they’d fit seamlessly into the original Confessions, especially the synth line in “Physical” that sounds very similar to the synth line in “Hung Up.” Kylie Minogue is another artist who would have made more sense as the feature.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m pleasantly surprised and very happy with the album overall given the first two singles didn’t do much for me. I just think Sabrina sounds out of place on the album and the decision to feature her seems forced, like the main reason Madonna chose her is her current commercial appeal.
Why are US influencers attending Iranian Supreme Leader's funeral?
Jackson Hinkle, the “MAGA Communist,” is one of them if you’re unfortunate enough to know who that is.
Bizarre confrontation revealing Trump's obsession with power | 60 Minutes Australia
Trump wants to be remembered as more powerful than Hitler and Stalin and doesn’t mind being mentioned in the same sentence as them.
Evidence that Islamophobia and Antisemitism (not being against Islamic extremism or Israel, but the real things) have both increased in the US since 10/7/23, especially among Gen Z and younger Millennials
People like to say they’re just anti-Zionist or against Islamic extremists/fundamentalists, but this poll I came across from last summer heavily suggests otherwise. These percentages of Americans who wouldn’t vote for a presidential candidate just because they’re Jewish or Muslim is startling and alarming.