Raptorpat

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Here's a panic attack for you:

another thought about the [original] lion king is that I think it was the basis of my concept of aging. like simba and nala grow up, but everyone else stays the same. so like in my mind, kids grew up and adults kind of just stayed the same. kids would grow up and eventually like 'join' the adults, and at some point adults would just like transition into old people I guess? it sounds really silly to actually say that out loud, but that's basically how the movie is animated - none of the adults age while the kids grow up. but even though I know that's not true, it was enough of a foundational concept in my brain that it factors in when I get all "holy shit i'm watching everyone age in real time and people like my parents who weren't old are old now and people who used to be old are dead and I'm still aging even though I leveled up to 'adult' years ago and we're all just on the same conveyor belt to death".

been on a Lion King binge the past two weeks, particularly the "live reaction" version which is way more traumatic even if it's all CGI in the john candy valley ANYWAYS... mufasa died again and the rescue-desperate escape-death scene always gets me down even when watching it ten times a week

lol is there any example of victim blaming more extreme than that?

Not sure which article I read it, probably the one I linked, but in addition to the stalled out counteroffensive, they were openly disagreeing and it was on the cusp of a bipolar power structure. Almost a little bit like Truman and MacArthur but without 70 years of hindsight.

Zelenskyy replaced Ukraine's top general. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-zelenskyy-replacing-top-general-valerii-zaluzhnyi-to-lead-army/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/jennifer-crumbley-trial-verdict-school-shooting-b2490849.html Mom gets convicted of involuntary manslaughter for son's school shooting.

happy birthday @That_One_Guyand @KatEyes!

Guess whose billing got fucked up and denied again, after telling everyone who would listen not to let the billing people mess up again? This time they put down the name of a provider I've never even met before and probably isn't even be a person in that office.

that's my secret cap, I'm always pooping *transforms into poop hulk*

TOO LATE YARHARHAR

TOO LATE BARHARHAR

happy birthday @PeoplesPoet!

lift me harder, daddeh

doesn't that mean you're below us, forklifting us into the sky

Disney is gonna appeal

It's just across the border - give it ten years and some sabotage and that could be the follow-up story.

Honestly as silly as this story reads, it is a little disturbing to have to think about how pharmaceutical research is based around breeding monkeys to test on.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/28/monkey-farm-breeding-medical-science-research/72339272007/

happy birthday pooooh!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68104203

Crisis averted!