Tip of the Scepter

you'll have to forgive me for not weeping for a billion dollar company's trademark being violated

Go nuts. The point is that this isn't a company trying to dogpile on a drag queen, it's a company following a standard legal practice to protect its trademark. Disney does it all the time.

... yes, and I also hate Disney? I don't understand what you think you're selling me on here

and what part of Miss Gonia's schtick is doing the harm equivalent of tricking someone into drinking ditchwater exactly?

They are suing because she filed for her own trademark for similar use (apparel and maybe others?) so they have to defend their trademark for this or they might lose the trademark/be unable to defend it in the future - so it's not just "she is selling merch" it's "she is selling merch AND is trying to trademark essentially our trademark" which is when it moves from options to necessary. (This is the extent of my understanding of the specifics I have just gleaned this from a lot of IP lawyers lmao)

Power of Attorney is a completely different thing than a will! POA just means someone else can act in your place for various issues/transactions *while you are alive* - it can help in situations with getting affairs in order or for when you are elderly otherwise incapacitated and know you will be less able to see to your own affairs due to physical limitations, physical location, or mental deficiencies, (and can even be good to have one ready to go that has a clause that it only goes into effect when a doctor has declared you cannot make decisions due to physical or mental incapacity) but it is not estate planning and (as Jaime noted) POA ends at death of the person you have that power over - you can't do anything anymore! You need a will or to be certain that every asset you have is going to pass outside of the estate via beneficiaries, joint owners on accounts, or transfers on death on file!

today was the deadline for justin baldoni’s crisis pr smear people to release their client list oh everyone else they’ve done smear campaigns on behalf of btw. that’s why they settled

This is so DISAPPOINTING this was a theme you could really have fun with and people aren't doing SHIT with it.

my friends what if it’s really, he was resentful of my success, he was holding me back from going out and living a life, he became cold and uncaring about my feelings to the point where I felt like I wasn’t allowed to cry, he didn’t want to marry me after saying for years that he did, oh AND he cheated

hahahaha this just got a note. written based on the mashups before the album came out!!

guys i’m so sorry to say this but exercising and indulging in hobbies rather than scrolling on your phone for 200 hours actually does improve your mood and overall mental health, this has deeply upset me more than anyone

michael b jordan you are so talented and so hot

wait everyone out in the tags where u were when u found out about the nationwide/global covid shutdown. i was eating a bag of chips on the roof of the remote building where i was leading a retreat and i had to help break the news to 50 high school students who didn’t have their phones

"do you have any hobbies" lately i have been into overthinking and panicking

one thing about taylor swift that i can assuredly say puts her head and shoulders above a lot of women in the world, not just pop stars but women in general, is that she's never said or endorsed any bullshit about how ovulation be making you crazy and ladies are just slaves to our hormones. not that she isn't crazy but she's very clear that she's crazy because of the circumstances of her life being impossible to survive without going crazy, and not some woo woo bullshit about how god designed women to give birth and his design was perfect except how it makes us fucking crazy or whatever, and it is still just so reassuring that the most famous pop star in the world does not ascribe her behavior to this kind of dangerous ideology

so many women these days will be like "i love baking bread bc it puts me in my divine feminine cherry bow bunny era" and she's like "i like baking bread because baking is fun and i don't have to leave my fucking stalker-proof minor warlord's fortress to do it" and yet people insist on saying she's some kind of crypto-maga tradwife even though she's probably the most famous Woman With A Job in the world and has never endorsed any of the dangerous rhetoric surrounding things like baking or having kids. but whatever

and like not to belabor the point but i saw a dumbass post on threads this morning (likely place for such a thing to be) basically saying that taylor has always been a right-wing tradwife bc she has talked about her hobbies being like, baking and fiber crafts ever since she was a teenager, and i do just feel like the thing that goes unspoken here is that these are pretty average hobbies for someone who literally cannot go outside. "they're tradwife hobbies" yeah and they're also stereotypical hobbies for retired and sometimes disabled people who have slowed down a lot and don't go out as much bc they're productive/creative, engage your brain, and you can do them in the comfort of your home!!! "tradwife hobbies" they're OLD LADY HOBBIES!!! like this is someone who can't go to a friend's wedding without attracting swarms of paparazzi drones and who carries quikclot and gauze on her person any time she leaves the house. putting aside the fact that baking sourdough and knitting shitty blankets for your friends' babies are not inherently right-wing activities no matter how you slice it (if you think the fiber craft community is maga by nature you've clearly never experienced the discourse on ravelry) and some people just like making stuff... the list of potential hobbies and pastimes really gets whittled down when you factor in the whole "literally cannot go outside without being mobbed by dangerous crowds of strangers and always needing huge bodyguards with her" thing. like don't get me wrong based on my understanding of her personality i guarantee that taylor alison swift would be an avid birder if that were something accessible to her but unfortunately. she can't go outside

You guys call anything Catholic just because it's christian and vibesy. "oh he's southern and makes me feel bad about myself" girl that's a baptist