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drive through (animated version of THIS snapcube post! :D)

i thought the audio was too silly not to grab hold of my brain and make me make something out of it

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I CAN NOT BELIEVE THIS SJSHJSHSJSGS HOLY SHIT THANK YOU

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i love how this comes back after every shitty update staff makes
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after inputting some complex algorithms into my super computer i’ve determined what tumblr will look like in the year 2020

drbrianbae

i love how this comes back after every shitty update staff makes

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His shirt says Cornedbeef

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You and i are a great combination. The other day I bought a kelp at a convenience store by mistakeing it with corned beef.

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Sooo hilarious but I can completely see this being a real conversation between streaming execs 😏

(original vid: Asif Ali - instagram - https://tinyurl.com/2p8jpkzz)

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“they even put an Indian guy in WandaVision”

hang on a second, I gotta look up something

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yeah, this is really funny

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be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.

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hollowboobtheory

gonna start saying “you couldn’t make x movie today” but for reasons unrelated to political correctness

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you couldn’t make Home Alone 2: Lost in New York today because the strict airport regulations put into place after 9/11 make it nigh impossible for a child to simply walk onto the wrong plane

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You couldn’t make American psycho today because Christian Bale would actually kill Jared Leto for real

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I don’t see that as a deal breaker.

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By 2030, 90% of "funny boys who are good at posting" will have transitioned into women

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This has basically already happened on Tumblr I mean what was the last time you saw a 2010s "funnyman". They've all left the site or transitioned

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Don't worry Ryan I said you have to be good at posting

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This was my barbenheimer

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This was my barbenheimer

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This was my barbenheimer

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.https://www.reddit.com/r/trans/comments/14vjkh5/the_trans_experience_at_zenimax_bethesda/

My name is Leona, I'm a trans woman, and I am a former game dev that worked on The Elder Scrolls Online from 2018 to 2022. I am reaching out to the LGBT+ community here on Reddit in an effort to bring attention to the issues I faced coming out of the closet while working in the AAA gaming industry. My career at Zenimax ended when HR at Bethesda's corporate office used my upcoming gender affirming surgeries as leverage to force me to resign and release the company from any potential discrimination lawsuit. This was in retaliation for raising concerns over how my manager had been treating me unfairly. I collected audio recordings and screenshots of my experiences there, and have now made all of that information publicly available in this video.

I completely understand that four hours is a lot to ask anyone to sit through. I had decided when putting this all together that it was important to keep as much context and chronology intact as possible, hence the lengthy runtime. So here is a list of timestamps to key moments in the timeline for those who wish to skip around the video.

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10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

AAAND WE HAVE LIFTOFF!

HAPPY MOON LANDING DAY!!!

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In a statement to The Post, a spokesperson for NBCUniversal claimed the tree work is simply an annual ritual at this time of year. “We understand that the safety tree trimming of the Ficus trees we did on Barham Blvd. has created unintended challenges for demonstrators, that was not our intention. In partnership with licensed arborists, we have pruned these trees annually at this time of year to ensure that the canopies are light ahead of the high wind season,” they wrote. “We support the WGA and SAG’s right to demonstrate and are working to provide some shade coverage. We continue to openly communicate with the labor leaders on-site to work together during this time.”

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Quick shoutout to the good people at @UniversalPics for trimming the trees that gave our picket line shade right before a 90+ degree week. pic.twitter.com/aZvvPYQ23i  — Chris Stephens (@ChrisStephensMD) July 17, 2023ALT
OH SHIT SON  THOSE TREES ARE CITY PROPERTY  IT MIGHT BE TREE LAW TIME https://t.co/oaoFWQQaNv  — Nome (@NomeDaBarbarian) July 17, 2023ALT
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Here is the weeping fig at Plummer Park that has been left alone because it is in weho. The photo embedded in the tweet is of an absolutely enormous tree with a huge lush shade canopy planted between a sidewalk and parking lot.  — lauren (@aptkr_) July 17, 2023ALT

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If those trees were pollarded annually, the cut areas would NOT look like that. There would be big knobs of old growth at the trimming sites. Not seeing any of that here. The way those trees were topped (not pollarded, which is a very careful process that has to begin when the tree is immature) is excellent way to kill them due to loss of hydration, open sites to infection and parasitism during the best time of year for both, lack of nutrition due to so little greenery and new budding growth being left, sunburn and other exposure damage, and a myriad of other possibilities. Plus, if they were topped annually, they would not have the lovely drooping branches seen in the other picture but would have tons of vertical suckers instead.

This is what an annually pollarded mature tree should look like:

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If this was done by the city, the public works arborists should be protesting in front of city hall and screaming their heads off right now. I'm not hearing about that, so... Tree law!

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The Studios: *speak*

Botanists and other Tree Experts:


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sparkletindi

Update and confirmation of Imminent Tree Law:

Our Office is investigating the tree trimming that occurred outside Universal Studios where workers, writers, and actors are exercising their right to picket.  The trimmed trees are LA City managed street trees.  (Before and after photos below) pic.twitter.com/xczw0bTdh9  — LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia (@lacontroller) July 19, 2023ALT

He mentions later in the thread that not only do they not trim the trees annually, they’re trimmed at best once every 18 years. Supposed to be every five, and only in dormancy, which even my layman’s ass knows about tree trimming.

And yes, Universal can probably eat the fine. But it’s gonna be a whopper even if the trees survive (which is as mentioned kinda unlikely), California is a triple damage state for tree law, and it may increase dramatically if there were nesting birds in the trees.

All this to be a Captain Planet filler villain to some writers. And yes, it’s currently just the writers officially picketing there; SAG-AFTRA recommended against it for petty bullshit like this and the suddenly necessary sidewalk construction.

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I asked my dad— a retired arborist—about TREE LAW and he just kinda blinked and said (i paraphrase because Dad Tangents, amirite?):

"Worst and best case I ever saw was a guy who was caught in the act of cutting down a C&C tree by two Department of Urban Forestry supervisors while they were randomly driving around on a Saturday. Not only did he have to deal with the cops showing up and months of paperwork and bureaucracy, but he also had to pay the fines AND cover the cost of the tree removal + stumping + buying a new tree + planting the new tree + wages for the regular crew plus the extra workers they needed to get the jobs done. That tree ended up costing him upwards of $35K, and that was over 20 years ago."

So yeah, respect Tree Law or pay out the bootyhole.

unpretty

Regarding the tree trimming at Universal Studios -- after looking into the matter with the Urban Forestry Division (UFD), we found that no permit was issued for any tree trimming at this site. UFD and StreetsLA are investigating whether a citation can be issued.  BSS Statement: the screenshot of the statement reiterates what is in the tweet  — Councilmember Nithya Raman (@cd4losangeles) July 19, 2023ALT
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