Yokopilled (for real)

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>live action modern retelling with celebrity casting and 3 pop songs

>cast black ppl and 1 (one) gay or lesbian (no transgenders)

>cut multiple scenes from the source material

>"6/10 mid as fuck movie" critics say

>black and queer actors get death threats while ceos make hundreds of millions

#context for this: he didn't actually walk away #he broke his leg in four places and got knocked out #but his first question when he woke up was "is my grandson okay?" #because before the bison charged (some teenagers had been provoking it earlier) #he and his grandson were taking videos and photos of it from a fair distance #they did not engage with the bison inappropriately #< prev tags are important!! #also saw someone else's reblog mention that he did get the bisons attention as it was charging at them so it wouldn't go for his grandson #mans actually a hero for that I'm glad he survived with minimal harm for the hit he took #also they were hundreds of feet away taking pictures so they were being respectful of the animals #fuck the people who antagonized it and put him and his grandkid in danger like that #yellowstone #bison

As a correction I will add: they were definitely NOT a safe distance away.

Yellowstone's MINIMUM recommended safe distance away from bison is 75 feet for this exact reason, because they can close smaller distances very quickly. Still a genuine case of "wrong place, wrong time," because outside of rutting season (for bison, it's summer, which is peak Yellowstone tourist season; for deer, rut is in autumn, so if you hunt/live in deer country, don't assume it's true for all ruminants and let that catch you slipping), you would not expect them to be super close to areas like the dining tables the way this bison was. So by the time this family saw this bull, they were already too close (ballpark, probably 75-100 feet away, is my guess), and it was already too late for them to do anything about it. It's a wild animal. It happens.

Secondly, there is no evidence that this bison had been agitated or provoked by teens. It did CHASE some teenagers earlier that day, because rutting season makes bison aggressive and territorial. We know that's the case because if they had been close enough to provoke this bull, he'd have gored them before ever crossing paths with this 65 year old man, because bison are fast when they're pissed off, and all the teenagers got away safely. Just like this man, it was "wrong place, wrong time."

Thirdly, Carl Isom-McDaniel's broken leg was his femur in four places at the hip and femur head. That's a severe injury that required surgical repair. He's up, walking around, and no TBI, wasn't trampled, so still way better than it could have gone, but the photographer who filmed this encounter and other park attendees nearby had to scream and run at the bison to chase it away from killing this man. So, it's not minimal harm, this is a life-changing injury, especially for an older patient, but everyone is very aware that if you're going to be charged by a bison, this is pretty close to a best case scenario for the outcome.

Lastly: the bison is not going to be euthanized! Park attendees did nothing wrong, and neither did the bull. And no one died. Which is a win when it comes to wildlife. :)

this behavior is nothing new. the global south and everything in it - the people, the culture, our heritage - is seen as nothing more than a decoration or commodity to colonizers. i don't even need to bring up the koh i noor or the entire british museum; these examples are recent and egregious enough on their own.

Portion of a Letter Michael Jackson Had Anonymously Written To a Philosopher He Had Befriended Online In May 2009

imagine experiencing the birth of two little stars, unsophisticated yet shining astonishing bright, sacrificed by melodious angels playing thin guitars, adventurous and brave yet holding on tight, convenient in writing historical memoirs, while navigating their lives into the eternal light, turning aside to prevent accidental scars, with the only desire to duel upon the 12th night

According to a blogger by the screen name “Jasmin de virginie” who had previously hosted an online philosophy forum, she had befriended a man on that site going by the name “Jack” around 2007-2009.

As the blogger tells it:

“Soon, Jack and I found out that we had much more in common. Not only philosophically spoken, but life didn’t always serve us the way it should have been. That said as a human being, since none of us know the true reason of life. Perhaps some of us have been given an unhappy or unpleasant life with the sole intention of making a difference to the world. Who will tell?

What I can tell you, is that Jack and I spend many hours online discussing and enjoying philosophical riddles.”

She admits to having developed feelings for this man:

The more I met Jack online, the more I got to know his human side… and probably the more I fell in love with the person “Jack” and his remaining mystery.

And that “Jack” had even written to her in person after telling her, “writing on paper [makes] our contact more real in an already very unrealistic world”. Though he chose not to give her his own address in turn.

But something happened in the course of their writing that changed everything:

Suddenly, there was a break in the continuity of our contact. The last letter received dates back from may 2009 and remains a mystery.

She finished by saying:

Was it worth it? I met a (virtual) beautiful person and received many gorgeous letters. I was capable of experiencing a magical feeling and found a philosophical soulmate yet it didn’t last.

Still I am inclined to say “thank you” because without you, I didn’t do anything by half. You made me build castles in the air and assured that my “work” will never be lost.

She would write a blog post in 2010 sharing the story about what had happened between them in the hopes that he would get back in contact with her or that someone else would know what had happened to “Jack”. However a follower on her blog noticed that the handwriting in the portion of the letter she’d shared bore an uncanny resemblance to that of the late Michael Jackson’s, with the further coincidence in the alias and the stop in letters matching the time when he had passed away. A letter released after his death even revealed that the two shared the same misspelling for words like “Expierience/ing”. The letter is also very similar in tone to other letters he had written to women (also confirmed as being his via Brenda Anderson).

After Jackson’s fans descended on her blog, giving her the kind of attention she’d never wanted, she would delete the post and has not made any further comments on the matter.

Michael was seen as a product/capital rather than a human being by people he trusted, like his own doctors who medically neglected him and through contracts with promoters who honestly didn’t care if he lived or died. So many legal battles and fake greedy rats around him… and then having to deal with the long term social and financial effects publically. The media turning him into a caricature and brainwashing the masses against him. And people really wonder why Michael befriended children… aka some of the few people who saw him as an actual human being!! So much of his personal life and identity became public property. Not to mention, his personal traumas and struggles were broadcasted to the world and treated as a punchline rather than with empathy.

And we HAVE to acknowledge that him being a black man made him even more of a target for the objectification he faced. The media sensationalized everything about him to push their own projections. His body was the site of every social panic and disgusting stereotype they could throw at him. The media has always been obsessed with framing black people, painting them in abnormal lights, and treating everything they do like a form of excess to deviate them from their white counterparts. Let’s not forget that he had more pressure to compete with his own success (with the perfectionism drilled into him since childhood) and reinvent himself constantly as a black artist in the industry, working a thousand times harder than his white peers.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.