Meme - "You're suddenly declared a king. You may only choose one of these queens as your wife.
*Lagertha from Vikings, Daenerys from Game of Thrones, Margaery from Game of Thrones, Padme from Star Wars, Galadriel from Lord of the Rings, Arwen from Lord of the Rings, Freya from The Huntsman, Mera from Aquaman, Alien Queen from Aliens*"
For some reason people in the group I saw this in were talking about the Scarlet Witch
Meme - George R.R. Martin wrote, 2010-06-09, A Casting We Will Go:
MOOD: horny
Auditions continue in Dublin, Belfast, and London for a whole bunch of parts, both major and minor, on HBO's GAME OF THRONES. Sometimes it is a very hard job. I've just reviewed the tapes of twelve young women reading for the part of Shae. Excuse me. I need to go take a cold shower now.
TAGS: game of thrones, hbo"
Meme - "GOT SEASON 8
It's so over
HOTD SEASON 1
We're so back.
HOTD SEASON 2
It's so over
AKOTSK SEASON 1
We're so back."
westerosies on X - "George R.R. Martin intends to make a blog post about “everything that’s gone wrong with #HouseOfTheDragon.” “I do not look forward to other posts I need to write, about everything that’s gone wrong with HOUSE OF THE DRAGON… but I need to do that too, and I will.”"
Beware the Butterflies | Not a Blog
Meme - "*Lord of the Rings* Ended almost 20 years ago. Fandom going strong and millions still rewatch
*Harry Potter* Ended 10 years ago. Fandom going streng.and millions still rewatch
*Game of Thrones* Ended 1 year ago. Fandom is dead and nobody wants to rewatch"
Meme - "A proud father"
Fabrizio Laurenti: "Going through my daughter's highschool yearbook. They grow up so quick. She's going to be on tomorrow night's Game of Thrones. She told me not to watch it because she thinks she can't act well but I told her I'm proud of everything she does."
*Rosabell Laurenti Sellers as Mia from Mia and Me*
*Rosabell Laurenti Sellers as Tyene Sand*
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Woke the Dragon on X - "Following Alicent's confession, HotD season 3 will have Rhaenyra questioning whether her birthright and ambition, her worth within the patriarchal system of Westeros, are the essence of her existence."
Condall's wild ride continues. : r/freefolk - "framing a civil war between two factions of a medieval incestuous and genocidal dictatorship family as a fight against patriarchy. interesting choice."
"Ryan really went:
Book theme - the cycle of violence once taken place cannot be stopped, from human beliefs and positions, even such a thing as a slight or a dress rivalry can lead to a war that kills thousands and destroys all involved.
"Nah dog, my 0iq audience can't possibly understand that, let me make it more interesting by turning our leads into inactive angsty pseudo-lesbians who are suffering under the evil patriarchy, now that's something any 4th grade dumbass can understand."
It's so fucking done to death at this point, writers believing their audience is brain-dead and adding the most bottom of the barrel social good v evil themes to compensate."
"At this point, I’m just sick of showrunners using book adaptations as an excuse to promote their mediocre fanfiction, and then act like book readers are the problem when we don’t like their crappy adaptations. I knew HotD season two was going to suck by the end of the first episode."
"Its a show made for the "slayyyy queen" TikTok audience. Don't think, just react exactly as the show tells you to. And if someone dares notice how shit the writing is, you accuse them of lacking media literacy, then write the most nonsensical defense of Condal and Hess' fanfic."
"Critics are often part of the problem with many praising media that pushes their agenda of choice and bashing anything that doesnt explicitly reinforce their world view. And I might argue that the audience loves it despite these writing flaws not because of them."
Condall's wild ride continues. : r/freefolk - "My least favorite quote about HotD was (I’m paraphrasing) “At the end of the day it’s about these two women (alicent and rhaenyra) just trying to figure things out”. Like… figure out what?? You guys are killing each others children. This isn’t a brain teaser for you to ponder, it’s a fucking war. Can you imagine any war being described as the two leaders just trying to figure things out?"
‘Can’t compete with S-E Asia’: China’s home-grown durians scarce and pricey for now - "Mr Zhang Mingming, 35, will soon be harvesting some 1,000 durians from his orchard in Hainan island’s leafy Baoting county, a haven for tropical fruit. They spell a windfall for the businessman-turned-farmer: His durians, of the Thai Ganyao variety, are priced at 200 yuan (S$37) per kilogram. If all goes well, Mr Zhang will be around 700,000 yuan richer by the end of the durian season in September. The bounty will grow further when his Malaysian Musang King and Black Thorn trees start bearing fruit in the next year or two. These varieties can fetch higher premiums, he said, with some even selling for up to 2,000 yuan each. Across southern China’s Hainan province, savvy farmers like Mr Zhang are driving a rise in home-grown durians, which are not native to the country. It is a lucrative business opportunity – Chinese consumers love the fruit, eating some 1.4 million tonnes of fresh durian imports from South-east Asia in 2023, up more than 70 per cent year on year. But while 2024 marks the second year that domestically produced durians are available on the market, from Monthongs to Musang Kings, very few Chinese will actually get to taste them, as their small yields and high prices render them largely inaccessible for now. China planted its first durian tree in 1958, but for years, it barely bore fruit. It was only in 2018 that commercial durian farming began in earnest. Most of this is taking place in tropical Hainan, and there are scattered pockets of growers in Guangxi region and Guangdong province in southern China, as well as in Yunnan province in south-western China. The country’s first major durian harvest totalled 50 tonnes in 2023. And yields in 2024 are expected to reach 200 tonnes, said agriculture expert Feng Xuejie. “The output is still very small because the trees have not been growing for long enough,” explained the director of the Institute of Tropical Fruit Trees at the Hainan Academy of Agricultural Sciences. “It takes six or seven years for the yields to start flourishing.” That Hainan is prone to typhoons also does not help... Growers are working to step up not just production quantities, but also the fruit’s quality – which Mr Feng describes as “unstable”. Mr Zhang said the taste of Hainan’s durians right now varies widely. “There are delicious ones, but these are very few. The majority don’t taste good.” He recalls that his first crop in 2022 had “no taste whatsoever”. It took an adjustment to the fertiliser’s formula before the durians’ taste drastically improved the next year... The scarcity of Hainan’s durians – amounting in 2024 to just 0.014 per cent of what was imported in 2023 – has driven up prices. Some sell for between 120 yuan and 140 yuan a kilogram, local media reported. Some farmers, like Mr Zhang, charge 200 yuan a kilogram. Prices will probably come down in two or three years when there are more Hainan durians on the market, said Mr Feng. At a store named Hainan Quality Goods And Local Specialties at the Xinfadi wholesale market in Beijing, located outside a hall selling durians from South-east Asia, there was no sign of Hainan durians when The Straits Times visited on a Saturday morning. “Too expensive, can’t sell them,” said Mr Ai Dong, who works at the store. “They are 60 yuan a jin (500g)! Those from Thailand are just 20 yuan to 30 yuan a jin.” Durian lover Li Panda said he feels proud that China can grow its own durians. He and his 35-year-old wife visit the wholesale market every week or two to buy the fruit. But Mr Li also expects them to be priced more competitively – cheaper than imported durians – in the years to come. “When Chinese people grow things, they drive down costs,” said the 40-year-old, who works in the manufacturing industry. While China’s durian production capacity is projected to increase as more trees are planted and mature, “home-grown durians cannot develop to a very large scale”, said Mr Feng, the tropical fruit expert. This is because durians are a notoriously finicky fruit to grow, and need specific soil and climate conditions to flourish. “Very few places (in China) can grow durians,” he said. “We are restricted by the land available.” Even on Hainan, durians can grow only in the south of the island, Mr Zhang said. Mr Feng noted that this, coupled with Chinese consumers’ voracious appetite for the fruit, means that local production is unlikely to affect sales of South-east Asian durians in China. Domestic durians, he said, serve more as a supplement to imports. In 2023, China imported 929,000 tonnes of fresh durians from Thailand, 493,000 tonnes from Vietnam, and 3,763 tonnes from the Philippines – with total shipments valued at over US$6.7 billion (S$9 billion). Imports of fresh Malaysian durians will commence soon, after a bilateral deal allowing for this was inked when Chinese Premier Li Qiang visited Kuala Lumpur in June. Malaysia has hitherto only been able to export frozen whole durians and durian products to China. “We cannot compete with South-east Asia on quantity. Land and labour costs are also higher in China,” Mr Feng said. “So the aim needs to be high-end, high-quality durians.”"
From 2024
Can anyone name the 23 flavors : r/DrPepper - "The 23 flavors are cola, cherry, licorice, amaretto, almond, vanilla, blackberry, apricot, caramel, pepper, anise, sarsaparilla, ginger, molasses, lemon, plum, orange, nutmeg, cardamon, all spice, coriander juniper, birch and prickly ash."
Captain Jack Sparrow to the rescue as Johnny Depp helps London schoolgirl - "When nine-year-old Beatrice Delap wanted to organise a mutiny against her teachers, she knew who to call on. And it took just one letter to enlist the aid of the world's most famous pirate: Captain Jack Sparrow. With only 10 minutes warning, Johnny Depp arrived at Meridian primary school, Greenwich, in full high-seas regalia with four other cast members. Beatrice sent her appeal when she found out he was filming the latest instalment of Pirates Of The Caribbean at the Old Royal Naval College nearby. The letter said: "Captain Jack Sparrow, at Meridian primary school we are a bunch of budding young pirates. Normally we're a right handful but we're having trouble mutinying against the teachers. "We'd love it if you could come and help. From Beatrice Delap, aged nine, a budding pirate."... "Then Johnny Depp walked in dressed as Captain Jack. There were gasps and screams. He pulled the letter out of his pocket and said he was going to frame it. Then he called me down and gave me a hug." Depp, 47, spent 15 minutes performing for pupils and dancing with fellow cast members. "He said the pirates were going to take over the school and only eat candy and our teeth would turn black and fall out," added Beatrice. "But he said we shouldn't mutiny against the teachers because there were police outside and we might get into trouble.""
Meme - "r/mildlyinfuriating
I forced a bannana into a pvc pipe with butter and now I cannot get it removed, it can't push through the pipe and it refuses to come back out the way it came inside.... Does anyone have any ideas how to remove it?"
"Now, the real question. Is the banana really his penis or is the PVC pipe actually his rectum?"
Meme - "My cat has become OBSESSED with sitting in on my zoom calls and has now perfected the art of glaring straight down the camera
Abby Tomlinson @twcuddleston: "this could've been an email" her face says"
Instagram - "Go to Disneyland OR clean the windows ? Good thing he can’t read 😂"
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Reveals the Disgusting Origin of His 'Hercules' Beard - "Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stopped by "Live with Kelly & Michael" today to talk his new movie, "Hercules," out Friday. He revealed that the film was actually the first project he pitched when he arrived in Hollywood 14 years ago... He also revealed the origin of his glorious beard in the movie, as he explained that it took more than 3 hours to get ready to film every day. It's the hair from a yak's testicles, Johnson said -- "the softest, yeah." "It’s the commitment to which I will go to" for a film, Johnson added."
Thread by @mhp_guy on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I revisit this incredible Reddit post every month or so. Below are my 8 favorite answers of boring and unique businesses that print money:
Specialized concrete hole cutting and X-rays. The higher the percentage of people that never knew this business existed = the higher probability that this business needs more competitors.
Mailbox replacement services. Your customers are freely advertising themselves out by the road. A couple organic FB Marketplace posts per week should keep you busy.
$1.5m per month of aquarium sales. Compliance paperwork for large chemical companies. Livestock transport.
Providing washers and dryers to apartments for "free." They get paid by keeping all the quarters.
Selling clean water in a rural area with unsafe drinking water. $6m per year from importing O-rings with no employees.
Below is the exact post if you'd like to read for yourself."
Meme - Worm 1: "N-NOT A SINGLE BITE TO EAT, SINCE WE GOT HERE. NOT ONE... I-I DON'T THINK I CAN GO ON MUCH LONGER, BUDDY."
Worm 2: "JUST TRY TO HANG ON, GARRY. JUST TRY TO HANG ON."
Worm 1: "I-I DON'T THINK I CAN GO ON MUCH LONGER, BUDDY."
Worm 2: "G-GARRY? NNOOOO!!!"
Waiter: "MENU, MISS OLSEN?"
Miss Olsen: "JUST WATER, THANKS."
Meme - "NOTICE: HUSBANDS CHOOSING PAINT COLOURS MUST HAVE A SIGNED NOTE FROM THEIR WIFE."
Meme - Amherst, Ohio Community Forum: "Can anyone help me find a local baker willing to make this cake for my daughter this upcoming Saturday. She just needs a smaller cake. turning 18"
"FINALLY LEGAL"
Meme - Shirin Khan @ShirinKhan _13: "A reminder that individual do not represent the entire religion."
Shirin Khan @ShirinKhan_13: "A Muslim risked his life to save Jews. This is Islam"
Generalisations and stereotypes are only accurate if they make "minorities" look good
Meme - "r/rightwingBDSM
Are trans/nb people welcome here?
Hi there! I'm a queer poly enby little <3 I got into kink as a way to explore my fantasy of being someone's little girl, but I haven't felt very welcome in any of the mainstream BDSM subreddits because there's too many blacks and jews."
Le Constellation: Memorial for victims in deadly Switzerland bar fire goes up in flames
Pimp Master Broda on X - "DC Comics is releasing a Harley Quinn fart themed comic in 2025. A full 32 pages dedicated to her farting. This isn't a barely disguised fetish of the writers. It's fully in the spotlight."
Meme - "Sam's birthday is this Saturday, right? What do you think I should get her?"
"Well, she's turning 4, so maybe just a stuffed animal or something"
*Girl getting teddy bear*
Man with stuffed bird: "damn"
Meme - Pop Tingz @ThePopTingz: "Selena Gomez has unfollowed Zayn, Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid and Dua Lipa on Instagram."
Pop Tingz @ThePopTingz: "Hey guys. I'm giving myself the day off today! I won't be posting any updates unless it's something major. Thanks for understanding"
Meme - "THREE BROTHERS LAWN SERVICES
Scott Murphy. 1/5
Fantastic work! The team pruned our live oak and pecan trees beautifully. Although I had to leave for work while they were on site, they took the time to clearly walk me through the plan beforehand, which gave me complete confidence in their business. Fairly priced, professional, punctual, and left the site spotless! Had to dock a few stars because I came home from work early to find one of the brothers banging my wife. Other than that, happy with the service!"
Meme - "Be with someone who hugs you like Heath Ledger hugged the Gyllenhaal sibling *The Dark Knight* *Brokeback Mountain*"
Rapid improvement in Alzheimer’s disease symptoms following fecal microbiota transplantation: a case report - "Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, is a leading cause of death and a major cause of morbidity in older people. The disease is characterized by progressive memory loss, cognitive impairment, and the cerebral accumulation of amyloid-β peptide. Given the health and economic impacts of AD, treatments that target the underlying etiology of AD or modify the course of the disease are of significant interest. The gut microbiome has been increasingly implicated in the pathogenesis of several neurological diseases, including multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. Furthermore, emerging evidence has demonstrated that there are alterations in gut microbiome composition in patients with AD, suggesting involvement of the microbiome–gut–brain axis. We present symptom improvement in a patient with AD following fecal microbiota transplantation for a Clostridioides difficile infection... An 82-year-old man presented for opinion and management of recurrent CDI following hospitalization for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia... Following a detailed discussion regarding the potential risks and benefits associated with the procedure, the patient underwent a single 300 mL FMT infusion (per the Borody method) using stool from the patient’s 85-year-old wife as a donor. The patient’s wife was intellectually acute, with normal affect and stable mood. Following the procedure, the patient’s CDI symptoms resolved, and repeat stool testing 2 months later was negative. At the follow-up visit 2 months post-FMT, the patient’s wife reported improvements in the patient’s mental acuity and affect. The MMSE was re-administered by the gastroenterologist (and subsequently by the neurologist) and the patient scored 26, indicating normal cognition. Four months post-FMT, the patient reported continued improvement in memory, with no progression in symptoms. The patient now remembered his daughter’s birthday, which he had not been able to recall previously, and was able to correct the physician’s recollections of his symptoms. Six months post-FMT, the patient reported a marked improvement in mood, was more interactive, and showed more expressive affect. Readministration of the MMSE revealed that the patient’s score had further increased to 29."
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on X - "I was just explaining to someone that one of the main problems Arabs have in dealing with Western culture is that they can't seem to discern or discriminate between its internal codes or understand that Western culture is not one, single aesthetic regime. It's a densely stratified system of class codes, generational codes, racial codes, subcultural, ideological codes, that natives read instinctively and outsiders flatten into a single undifferentiated signal called "the West." (I think Indians have the same problem) So you'd find, in the 2000s, grown-ass Arab men, I mean really middle aged serious artists, established musicians, earnestly copying NSYNC or Britney Spears. They didn't register at all that this was music for 14-year-old American girls. They just saw successful Western pop with sleek Western aesthetics. The aesthetics code was completely invisible to them. The Gulf is the ideal laboratory for this because wealth removes all economic friction from consumption. When you can buy anything, the only remaining filter is taste, and taste is precisely the thing that requires a cultural literacy you cannot purchase. So you get the famous Gulf aesthetic: a villa combining Louis XIV gilding, Dubai modernist glass, Versace furnishings, and a Rolls Royce with ghetto-fabulous chrome, all experienced by its owner as a single coherent statement of prestige. But in the West, at least before mass migration and its vape shop aesthetics referred to below, each of these items belongs to a completely different, often mutually hostile, aesthetic world. French baroque is old-money nostalgia or Trump-land glamor. Modernist glass is the aesthetic of rationalist negation, liberal soulless soulcycle people. Versace is the Italian fashion house that Black American hip-hop culture adopted as a signifier of defiant philistinic excess and proud tastelessness. Etc. Etc. These things are not supposed to go together. And this is ultimately why the Third Worlder became the hero of postmodernism and poststructuralism. Not despite this condition but exactly, EXACTLY, because of it. The dissolution of all codes into all other codes, the inability to distinguish high from low, sacred from profane, ironic from sincere, all are floating signifiers that could refer to anything and nothing, etc. this is the fulfilled academic left dream of dissolving Western civ into a one flood of undifferentiated slop. Deleuze wanted the dissolution of all stable identities. Derrida wanted the collapse of all hierarchies of meaning. Lyotard wanted the end of master narratives that organize experience into coherent wholes. Isn't walking through the shopping malls in Louis Vuitton and listening to Lil Wayne, is the living embodiment of all these theories? a subject with no center, no taste, no discriminating principle, chaotic, fragmented, rootless, genuinely believing in nothing because he never had the codes to believe in to begin with."
Dan Burmawi on X - "A couple of weeks ago, a university professor who knows @GadSaad asked me what I think of what Prof. Saad says about Islam and Islamism. I told him it is unbelievable that he would even ask such a question. It shows how far the false narrative about Islam has been pushed, to the point that the plain truth Prof. Saad is stating is treated as questionable. There is absolutely no difference between Islam and Islamism. I was raised Muslim, and the word “Islamism” never crossed my path until I encountered Western discourse. Islam is not a religion; Islam HAS a religion. Imagine a version of communism where Marx is a prophet and the manifesto is the holy book, that is exactly what Islam is: a political ideology with a religious aspect. Islam is a state. Muslims are citizens of that state. It has a constitution (Sharia), it has a foreign policy strategy (jihad), and it has a leader (the caliph). Wherever Islam exists, it exists to rule and to replace man-made law. Stop being afraid to say the truth. Stop debating whether what we say is true or not. You have been deceived into thinking there is a difference between Islam and Islamism, there is none."
He's going to be arrested for Islamophobia
Sama Hoole on X - "Summing up the Blue Zones:
Researcher: "We found 50 centenarians in this mountain village! They eat mostly plants!"
Local official: "Actually we have a pension fraud problem. Many of those people aren't that old."
Researcher: "We're not going to include that in the documentary."
Local butcher: "Also we eat a lot of lamb and cheese here."
Researcher: "We filmed someone eating vegetables so that's what we're going with."
Centenarian: "I've eaten pork fat every day for 90 years."
Researcher: "Can you hold this bowl of lentils for the camera?"
Centenarian: "But I don't eat..."
Researcher: "Just hold it. Say something about plants."
Netflix viewers: "Wow, lentils are the secret to longevity!""
