That's a fair point.
I'm still going to celebrate the gays.
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that putting emphasis on the "Gay" description is reductive?
I don't necessarily disagree, but headlines need to be short, capture attention and accurately summarize the content of the article. I think this headline succeeds in all these aspects.
Also it's worth noting that this cruise was chartered by a company that advertises itself as specialising in gay & LGBTQ+ holiday packages. I doubt anyone taking part in this cruise would object to it being described as gay.
To me headline highlights the intersectionality and solidarity shown when of one group of historically oppressed people (refugees) is rescued by another historically oppressed group (gay people).
The fact that the rescuers were from a gay cruise doesn't make their actions inherently more special than if they were from any other kind of cruise, but there's an importance in having positive media portrayal for LGBTQIA+ folks when the current political climate in many countries is turning more towards intolerance and oppression of queer people again.
Why would the fact that it's gay put a bad light on it?
Hah someone on the post I cross-posted this from said the same thing 😂
A gay cruise liner has rescued 11 refugees adrift in a small boat in the Gulf of Mexico in an “emotional” moment.
I think this counts as uplifting news!
Does this mean there might be a possibility of an Excession adaptation if all goes well? 🥹
I'm not sure how you'd go about adapting that, but I love that book so much.
Considering this is a GrapheneOS community I'm assuming OP intends to replace the default OS with that.
Isn't this is exactly the outcome Trump and Musk want though 😕
If these departments can no longer function because there aren't any capable employees it gives Trump's administration the excuse to replace those institutions with new ones that are directly accountable to him.
It's admirable that the people who have resigned did so because they don't want any part in what's happening, but I don't think it counts as uplifting news 😢
The only minus to this is that the bass on this is so heavy I have to crank it up until the windows rattle to get the full audio image.
Sounds like this is working as intended! 😂
Yeah I'd like to avoid that import tax if I can. And same, I'd love World Coming Down on vinyl! I'll finally find out if the legend of "Skip It" being different across the different formats is true.
Appreciation for Right Where it Belongs
I want to take a moment to share my appreciation for Right Where it Belongs. Lately I've been coming back to With Teeth, and I'm feeling a newly-discovered affection for it. Don't get me wrong, I loved it when I first heard it, and listened to it to death. But it didn't stick with me the way the previous albums had. Or so I thought.
A bit of background: With Teeth came out in 2005, when I was halfway through my first year of university. I'd moved out from home and to a different country to study. I was already a NIN fan, having first bought Things Falling Apart and The Fragile 5 years earlier, and quickly catching up with the discography after that. I loved NIN: I started listening right at the time I was forming my own identity and sense of who I was and wanted to be, and those albums really affected me. I would listen to The Fragile every night as I went to sleep, and it's a testament to that album's layering and composition that I can still find something new in that album, 25 years and hundreds of listens on.
There was so much excitement in the NIN fan community in the run-up to With Teeth. NIN lore suggested there would be a new album in 2004 (there were 5 years between The Downward Spiral and The Fragile, so it stood to reason that the new album would be out 5 years after The Fragile, right?). Trent and Rob (Sheridan) had been teasing us with updates to the official website: the new album was called Bleedthrough, it was going to be more raw sounding than The Fragile, less dense. We had already had the live album And All That Could Have Been and a surprise companion release with that: Still, a collection of stripped-down versions of some NIN songs plus a few new original pieces. And the original tracks were heartbreaking. They felt open and honest and they were crushing. Would Bleedthrough be a continuation of that style?
Then things went a bit quiet, and all of the sudden the nin.com teasers disappeared. Then a new update: the new album wasn't going to be called Bleedthrough anymore, its new name was With Teeth.
NIN dropped The Hand That Feeds not long afterwards, and that set the scene for my expectations. I got With Teeth the day it came out and devoted the rest of the day to listening to it
I loved it. It didn't hit me the same way as The Fragile or The Downward Spiral, but it spoke immediately to the kind of things I was going through at the time. I was away from home, studying, trying to find myself. I had recently gone through a break-up that had shaken me, and I was feeling lost. This album came at the perfect time. I was in a bad place and this album was there with me through it.
The first time I heard Right Where it Belongs, it all clicked.
As I was coming out of that space, I stopped listening to With Teeth because it was too connected to those life events. It took a few years to shake that off.
Right Where it Belongs still makes me tear up though. Now it reminds me that I got through those times, and that I'm still here.
Haha thank you, I hit this when I upgraded today.
Das Experiment.
Genuinely one of the most unsettling films I've ever watched.
I think the majority consensus is that none of the Gospels were written by contemporaries of Jesus, and they were edited and changed up to 200 years after his death.
As someone who loved basketball, I get how this can be frustrating.
All I can offer is that they might find different aspects of the sport fun than you do: for them it might be more about feeding the ball to their friend to reinforce trust and solidarity with them.
I feel like this post might unintentionally become a place for well-meaning weirdos to reach out and introduce themselves to each other 😆
Hi! I'm gid. Nice to meet you, fellow weirdo!
Weirdos will be the most interesting people you meet. They'll introduce you to things you never imagined.
Embrace them.
Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral exhibition in New York
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Jonathan Rach's photo exhibition "Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral" is being shown in New York between 21st - 23rd February at Morrison Hotel Gallery, 116 Prince St #2nd, New York, NY 10012.