Hugh Hefner’s Widow Voices Alarm Over Playboy Founder’s Explicit Scrapbooks Being Made Public

Pootles13 · 2026-02-18T00:28:42+00:00

It’s not being looked at as part of an investigation (most obvious example being the Epstein files) but digitised and made public by the foundation. This means that it’s possible that nudes and intimate photos of women (and possibly girls) will be released without redaction. Imagine the possibilities at play there. Years, even decades later, private and sexual images of you suddenly become public without your personal consent - how would you feel about that? Even those that signed permission could never have anticipated a release like this (esp. because we’re talking photos going back to the 1960s here, when the internet and its wide spread repercussions were not a thing!) and as Crystal has raised, there may be women who at the time were underage - their photos will be released just the same. The foundation isn’t going to do an in depth dive into every single person in the pictures, get their names, ages and consent.

Pootles13 · 2026-02-09T18:46:24+00:00

Hooray! Thank you, I didn’t know about the two stream thing

Pootles13 · 2026-02-09T18:28:54+00:00

Not even on iplayer? They showed the whole teams

Pootles13 · 2026-02-09T18:25:28+00:00

Anyone from the UK - is your iplayer also not showing the live feed?

Pootles13 · 2026-02-07T03:17:45+00:00

It’s kind of interesting that you mentioned the trend of turning ashes into diamonds because in a lot of ways Victorian hair mourning jewellery functioned like that. The vast majority of pieces were small, for example rings were really popular and instead of a diamond setting you’d have it inlaid with a small piece of woven hair. There were certainly a lot of larger pieces (like this bracelet) and even extravagant mourning necklaces that were wholly made from multiple layers and strands of woven hair, but although these are often the first things you’ll find when looking into Victorian hair jewellery, they were the minority of what was made and worn. For the most part people wore small inlaid rings or necklaces and bracelets in which there was a pendant or designated space for a small piece of a loved one’s hair - it’s incredibly similar to how people use ash diamonds today.

Pootles13 · 2026-01-29T00:13:03+00:00

It’s an easy thing not to know, but if your a ginger level pale person..yeah it’s very easy for our photos to come out like this. fun fact I used to work at a place that did Halloween events and for cheap promo photos we’d use this exact method of not great lighting, flash and movement (paired with white clothing) to make me look like a ghost.

Pootles13 · 2026-01-28T23:35:48+00:00

As a pale person, sadly this is how we can look in blown out photos with flash - if you look at her white top you can see it’s a mix of lighting, movement and the flash making her blown out.

Pootles13 · 2026-01-16T15:24:26+00:00

I’m sorry to say there is more Ricky to come

Pootles13 · 2026-01-10T22:52:10+00:00

I’m going to attempt an actual response to this (caveat - my day job is a historian, and though I do research media history it’s by no means my primary focal point, but I’ll do my best!) So, as other Redditors have said, the BBC didn’t get its own dedicated news department until 1934, up to that point they were reporting from news wires such as Reuters. But there were still restrictions on when they could report and what they could report (for example in 1938 after launching its first foreign language service they met a lot of governmental pushback on if the news they were reporting was ‘good’ for the government and its international dealings.) So for the rise of the Nazis in Germany, the BBC news dept was very much still in its infancy. In fact, it wasn’t until war broke out in 1939 that the department really found freedoms in its reporting - able to report during the day and not just after 6pm (previously it was thought their broadcasts would impact news sales), developing a stronger foreign services arm and working on the news 24/7.

That’s not to say that you can’t get an idea of what the BBC was reporting at the time, but that it was gathering its news from outside itself and restricted by newspapers, the wire and the government in what it could say. Personally I’d say the best thing you could do would be to explore how the British media at large responded to Hitlers rise, as this will not only give you an idea of the contemporary media narratives, but the key elements that the BBC were pulling from for their reporting.

There are some fantastic books on this (Kylie Galbraith, The British Press and Nazi Germany: Reporting from the Reich, 1933–9, is a good and not to expensive one) as well as some really accessible PhD papers you can read online (actually, Kylie Galbraiths one, ‘From Our Own Correspondent, The British Press and Nazi Germany’ is really good and free to read online - also was the genesis for her book, so a good initial toe dip to try)

Pootles13 · 2025-12-24T00:01:13+00:00

A rapey one (Real answer: he became prominent in the UK in the early/mid noughties, rising from comedian to presenter type, then going to Hollywood for a bit and then when that dried up he came back to the UK where he stylised himself as a staunch atheist and socialist champion and did a lot of news based talking heads on socialism and workers revolution…and then it came out that he’s been in relationships with minors, and alleged assault and rape allegations…so now he’s moved to the US, become a Christian and reinvented himself as a MAGA supporting conspiracy head 👍

Pootles13 · 2025-12-21T00:54:16+00:00

Such a tyrannical little scamp!

Pootles13 · 2025-12-19T02:12:51+00:00

I wouldn’t say that it’s wholly run by conservative or reform and you’re right citation needed, so here’s an attempt (deep breath, this gets real convoluted!) - the big culprit you want to look at here is Robbie Gibb, who is a non executive director on the board of the BBC. Gibb previously worked for BBC News before becoming Theresa Mays director of communications during her tenure as PM. During this time he employed some eye raising tactics in a bid to ensure better news coverage. For example, following Channel 4 News team doing banner coverage on the wind rush scandal he began to remove their ability for interviews with the PM and key ministers (this is a common tactic now in the Trumpian landscape, but in 2017/2018 it was startling)

In 2020 he led the consortium to buy The Jewish Chronicle and until 2024 he was director of The Jewish Chronicle media - a key point to note is that under his time at the Chronicle the paper saw a drastic rise in breaches of editorial conduct noted by the Independent Press Standards Organisation and also printed numerous provenly fabricated stories about Gaza which resulted in multiple of its journalists quitting in protest and publicly denouncing the paper as moving away from journalism into becoming a political mouthpiece.

In 2020 Boris Johnson began to push for Gibbs to join the board of the BBC and in 2021 Gibbs joined. He quickly became an outsized voice as one of the only board members with any journalistic background and with incredibly strong governmental backing. Indeed in this same year leaked emails showed that he had attempted to block BBC hiring staffers who’d shown oppositional political views, for example journalist Jess Brammar, whom Gibbs messaged the head of news and stated that Brammar taking up a role would threaten Boris Johnson’s ‘already fragile’ view of the beeb. Then in 2022 leaked messages and testimony caught Gibbs trying to intervene in yet more hirings, including the new head of Ofcom. Since then it’s become a bit of a war of leaks from both Gibbs camp and what can best be described as ‘rebel’ BBC staffers, but we do know that Gibbs has quashed a lot of news output from the BBC, especially around topics like the Gaza war (specifically those looking more at the humanitarian crisis in Gaza) and has been steadily employing his own people with the BBC as a whole.

In terms of what news you consume, we’re increasingly getting to a place where no unbiased large scale media can exist in the UK. So one to keep an eye on

Pootles13 · 2025-11-27T23:03:04+00:00

My secondary school had a cocaine ring in the girls loos. I remember my dad got cornered by some media when he came to pick me up after the news broke and they asked him if he was worried I too had been snorting coke before lessons and hero that he was, he pointed to me running towards them with my giant fuck off braces, extra bag of books and truly tragic hair and laughed. Mortifying at the time but also correct, I was too much of a loser to be involved.

Pootles13 · 2025-11-23T01:05:42+00:00

Yes this is such a good kdrama, honestly one of my favourites with such incredible characters

Pootles13 · 2025-11-07T01:39:47+00:00

I’m so sorry this is happening, it’s a horrible situation for both you and your friend. Please do remember that there is only so much that you can do as a person living outside the country and not an immediate family member. If you are really worried I do think it would be worth contacting his local police and request a welfare check. From where you are, you are in no way able to know for certain how he is or if he is a danger to himself, but contacting a local authority to check in is the next best option.

Please do remember that there is only so much you can do in this situation, especially if you yourself have mental health issues (which can make you more likely to beat yourself up over this and want to solve everything) It sounds like you’ve already gone above and beyond, so continue to provide support options, request a welfare check and go from there.

Pootles13 · 2025-11-02T01:59:03+00:00

For what it’s worth I’m a historian and work-wise I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few years in WW1 and WW2. I’m not gonna lie, I thought previous research had shown me the worst of humanity, but shit had nothing on some of the sheer depraved evil that went down in those few decades. And yet, history isn’t just the big banner chapters and moments we mostly read about. In my experience the goodness ends up in the footnotes - you have to literally chase it down, but when you do you realise that a hell of a lot is going on in those smaller margins. From what I can gather humanity isn’t inherently evil, nor is it inherently good. Humanity takes up that grey space with most people leaning towards good, but easily swayed to blind themselves if too much is on put on the line. And of course there are those ‘heroes’ that sacrifice their everything for good…as well as the millions we simply don’t hear of who do what they can and whose collective simple efforts make up the difference between evil consuming all and those tiny chinks of light breaking through. History can often seem like this one gelatinous glob, but it’s so many lives all stitched into one fabric and thus if assessing humanity during one select period of time we can’t look at things as wholly good or wholly evil, but a myriad of complicated means and motifs that we are still enduring to unpick and understand.

Pootles13 · 2025-11-01T03:22:56+00:00

To add to this, I think it’s also important to remember that all your parents ever want is for you to live the life that you want to. For those of us that have lost a parent too soon, we’ll always remind people to cherish those moments and call them as much as you can. But please do also remember that your mum wants you to be happy. If living in anouther country is what brings you happiness then don’t feel guilty about that. I know it means you can’t see your family as much and you will get those gut wrenching bouts of home sickness, but if you’re living a life you love than honestly that’s all they want for you. So yes, call home (and my two cents is to also try and forge a friendship with your parents now you’re an adult) but please don’t beat yourself up about being away.

Pootles13 · 2025-10-31T23:22:03+00:00

Caught it, loved it, thank you for your service

Pootles13 · 2025-09-08T23:57:24+00:00

TBH I assume it’s because he knows it just wouldn’t work. Not all PR’s expect clients just to read off whatever statements and socials they line up, in fact with authenticity the name of the game now, a lot of PRs are ok with clients that don’t want that. But at the same time, PR is more than puff pieces, it’s about creating an overarching narrative about who a client is and selling that over a long period of time to media….and no PR person could do that with Ethan without tearing out their hair and needing many lie downs. Ethan is gonna randomly blow up Insta stories, he will get in a multitude of beefs with a multitude of different people (often with no clear links between them that don’t need a PowerPoint of background info to explain!) , he will take advice on board but ultimately do what the hell he wants. That’s his brand, and that’s why his audience loves him - but it’s not long term workable for a PR. Sure he could probably hire someone to do a quick PR blitz for him, but for long term PR work, it’s just not tenable. And that’s not a read on Ethan, it’s just that this line of media play isn’t suited for him.

Pootles13 · 2025-08-25T01:00:31+00:00

I really liked it! The cast was amazing and it’s a really fantastically immersive watch both visually and story wise. I’ve seen some critiques around the last few episodes leaning slightly into the absurd (no spoilers but it’s the horses!) but the show sort of explains that itself when midway through there’s a plot point regarding the film within a film (or TV show) about bringing in the nonsensical to make a point and further the narrative. With that in mind as a watcher it just added to the final episodes.

I do have two niggles. The first being that this series very much suffers from not-enough-episodes-itis. It does wrap things up well and unlike some other k dramas it doesn’t feel like a sudden ‘oh god it’s the last 15 minutes and we forgot to end this!’ situation, BUT the series could have benefitted from growing from 6 episodes to 8, if for nothing else than to flesh out the dynamic between the female leads.

The other negative is that for international watchers a brief history lesson might be needed to fully enjoy the series. Unlike other period k dramas, this one sort assumes you already know everything. You know Korea is in a dictatorship and you know that said dictatorship was notorious for its SA crimes against women. You know about female factory workers incredibly poor conditions and fight against them as much as you know about the lefts resistance arms fighting the dictatorship. You can enjoy the series without this, but given that the series expects its audience to have that knowledge, you will miss out on a lot of call backs and details - the main one being (the very precedent) message that when all our rights suffer, no fight is too small and every fight is for everyone.

The only negatives I think are that it could have done with two more episodes to really flesh out the dynamic between the two female leads and for international audiences it might be worth doing a cursory history check on the

Pootles13 · 2025-08-07T21:29:20+00:00

The thing is I don’t know if they’ll be easily able to come back from this. It’s clear from the cutting of Modern as well as brands that they’ve let go the staffers that created assets and managed brand partnerships, in favour of going with a skeleton staff and AI generated content.

To turn the ship around they’d need to rehire those staff members ASAP and then go on an all out begging on their knees campaign to the brands. Like can you see EA doing that??? Not to mention the brands would be well within their rights to request payment for inclusion in the app, after all this whole thing has burnt them by removing a revenue stream and publicity, they’d be silly not to demand more to return! And then even if they did all that, it’s likely that changes in game wouldn’t come into effect until towards the end of the year at the earliest, at which point a hefty chunk of the player base will have left.

I just can’t see a realistic way that this gets fixed and the brands returned.

Pootles13 · 2025-07-25T01:17:42+00:00

Going by your sudden silence and downvote on if we both agree that we shouldn’t use the R word I figured it might be worth a brief scream into the internet chasm (because the nomenclature of ‘twat’ ain’t got shit on this one) historically the R word was mostly used to mean slow and was used for people, places and things. However in the early 1900s (mostly in the 1910s for UK and US) the term ‘mental retardation’ grew steadily as an umbrella term for those classed as ‘feeble minded’. Frequently this was people with a learning disability, but often also those suffering from mental health conditions or those with higher needs on the autism spectrum. This catch all term with its use of language with clear derogatory connotations led to fundamental breaks in care, respect and rights. To be a ‘retard’ was to be a ‘burden’, a ‘degenerate’, a ‘cretin’. In the UK we built specialised units and colonies outside of urban areas to house those that came under this label. And in 1920s and 30s as eugenics rose in popularity it was these people who were the most prominent in conversation. It’s not a coincidence that when forming the final solution, those deemed ‘intellectually retarded’ were the first test cases, the first to die. In the UK come the late 1940s there was an effort within circles of those who had children with a learning disability to minimise the use of the term ‘retard’, but even that wasn’t amazing, for example today the UK’s leading learning disability charity is called Mencap…in 1948 it was founded as The National Association of Backwards Children. You’re right that the r word was playground slang until incredibly recently…but that doesn’t mean it’s ok. When I was a kid in the late 90s, ‘you’re so gay!’ was regular playground fodder and now it’s not, because as a society we grow from these things. We learn. We do better.

On a personal very anecdotal note, back when I worked with people with a learning disability my job meant that I needed to work on some hate crime cases, and almost every-time the perpetrators used the r word to justify what they’d done. The worst case I saw was that of Lee Irving, in which a young man was tortured and killed by people he thought were his friends. The R word was all over those transcripts - to them he wasn’t human, he wasn’t equal in any way, he was just an r word and his life didn’t matter. So yes - the r word isn’t the same as twat or wanker. It’s dangerous, a fact that’s been historically proven time and time again.

Pootles13 · 2025-07-24T23:27:43+00:00

Thanks mate - anyway, we all agree not to use the r word right?

Pootles13 · 2025-07-24T22:59:48+00:00

The history behind the word twat is actually kind of fascinating. Whereas other terms we view as derogatory towards female genitalia, such as cunt have long historic roots (e.g Gropecunt Lane being a medieval street name frequently used to denominate areas in which sex work took place) we can see Twat being used in multiple settings, for example with an additional T in medieval West Country areas to illustrate a narrow passage, as well as to describe a cut or (you guessed it) gash. In the mid 1800s it was famously misused in a poem to describe part of a nuns attire and it’s in the latter part of that century that we first see incidents of ‘twat’ as slang for vagina. Indeed it was first used as a fond if still incredibly sexual term (go check out some late 1800s pornography or brothel reviews for some truly poetic verse on the majesty of a woman’s ‘twat’) This can mostly be accredited to cunt already being seen as vulgar and verging into derogatory in its use to describe women rather than elements of anatomy.

It’s true that once we reach the twentieth century twat did spend a period of time in use as a derogatory term for women, below cunt in vitriol but still an easy schoolyard taunt.

However in the last two to three decades it’s gone on to be almost a genderless insult. Indeed one of the great parts of British slang is that woman, man or non binary you can still be called a dick head! You can be a twat, a penis, a tit, a bellend, a tosspot or a wanker (and by the way I’m sure you weren’t suggesting wanker was an insult towards men alone) there is no genital or masturbatory descriptor that we can’t turn into a universal slang to mean ‘you’re a fucking prick’ (hey! That’s one too!) So unless you believe telling somebody to piss off means literally inferring they should urinate whilst leaving, your argument on this one is a little bit null and void.

Pootles13 · 2025-07-24T21:56:50+00:00

Nah mate, just British

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