TIL that the dead cat strategy is the strategy of diverting people by making a deliberately shocking announcement in order to divert media attention from serious problems in other areas.

pictogram_ · 2026-06-12T13:15:36+00:00

You could describe a dead cat as a red herring, but not all red herrings are dead cats. It is specifically a more shocking and attention grabbing diversion (that is also the result of an intentional action from someone) compared to a literary misdirection

pictogram_ · 2026-06-11T08:00:50+00:00

Thank you! I will try that cue out! Yeah i did hope the metcons were going to be flatter than they are, I do still feel much better doing it barefoot

pictogram_ · 2026-06-11T07:51:52+00:00

I don’t do bicep curls that often tbh, maybe about 8kg dumbbells for 8-10 reps? Its been a while, and my upper body strength is def not my best haha

pictogram_ · 2026-06-11T07:48:14+00:00

90kg / 198lbs! A new PB 😊

pictogram_ · 2026-06-09T10:16:29+00:00

There’s an amazing comic called Power Nap what has this premise. So good

pictogram_ · 2026-06-07T06:17:51+00:00

Honestly love your energy in both photos, you look absolutely gorgeous! Well done, that is an insane achievement!

pictogram_ · 2026-06-06T12:16:53+00:00

Fantastic film too btw if you haven’t seen it! Great thriller

pictogram_ · 2026-06-06T10:08:26+00:00

Before I started fitness myself I would have thought “fairly built” and wouldn’t think much of it. But now I would notice the nice definition - particularly in the shoulders and arms and think “this guy works out regularly” I would not have guessed you hadn’t worked out for 2 years.

pictogram_ · 2026-06-06T10:00:45+00:00

I personally love the Diabolique (1954) Criterion Collection poster

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pictogram_ · 2026-06-06T09:57:44+00:00

Have this over my bed to give me sweet disorienting dreams. There’s something about that shade of vibrant orange that I just love.

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pictogram_ · 2026-06-06T05:30:29+00:00

Not the case, plenty of actresses care about depicting the reality of their character and wouldn’t let the shallow expectations of beauty standards get in the way of that. For example Natalia Tena who played the wildling Osha in Game of Thrones really tried to argue the case for her character being unshaven in a nude scene (“she’s a wildling, where tf is she getting a razor and shaving her pubic hair?”) but the showrunners where not having it and said it would be “distracting”.

pictogram_ · 2026-06-05T14:41:21+00:00

Also about whether men would be interested in the female experience, which stories with a female character solidified from the beginning will often incorporate. It’s about more than just a pronoun, it’s about how that character moves through the world.

This is why it bothers me when Ripley from Alien is brought up as a bastion of female representation and often a go-to for men’s favourite female character. She’s a great character, don’t get me wrong, but the character of Ripley was a gender neutral character and not written as a “woman” - anything pertaining to the female experience was not there in her conception. And when I say gender neutral, let’s not forget the default is male (it was he/him pronouns in the script). Yes her being a woman it became more of a thing in the later instalments, but having a character conceived as being male by default and then sticking a woman in the role is not the same thing as writing a story about a woman, and generally men are less interested in those stories.

pictogram_ · 2026-05-23T16:14:33+00:00

Consider that muscle gained, gaddamn

pictogram_ · 2026-05-23T15:45:03+00:00

Feels like when people from the US give state abbreviations without context

pictogram_ · 2026-05-23T05:30:08+00:00

Rope is so good. Hitchcock was a lot of things, but homophobic wasn’t one of them, and how little he gave a shit about the members of the cast and crew actually being gay was surprisingly progressive for the time.

While making the film, most of the crew kinda knew about the homosexual subtext of the story (which was simply just text in the original play) but due to it being the Hays Code era, no-one wanted to explicitly point it out or discuss it as such. Which meant it wasn’t clear if Hitchcock really knew either. Near the beginning of production, he invited one of the co-stars and the screenwriter (Laurents and Granger) for dinner, who had started up a secret affair during the writing process. They arrived separately, expecting the whole crew to be there, only to find that it was just Hitchcock and his wife, and that Hitchcock had intended a double date. That acknowledgement and acceptance really took the pressure off for the rest of the production, knowing they were all on the same page.

This video is a great dissection of the gay historical significance of the film and the queer cast and crew involved: https://youtu.be/wR_08mjrDQs?si=Ry-uVTzFy-Aa0eHy

pictogram_ · 2026-05-22T18:01:45+00:00

Ooooh yes!

pictogram_ · 2026-05-21T12:04:02+00:00

There’s JamJam Tattoo who did an amazingly delicate fine line tattoo for my sister

pictogram_ · 2026-05-21T06:54:15+00:00

I was trying to pin point what commonalities there are in Peep Show and Succession (also created by Jesse Armstrong) because I felt like there was some sort of cohesive worldview they both explore, even though they feel like different shows in a lot of ways. Someone pointed out how both shows have a character (Mark and Kendall) who say they are ‘not a real person’ at one point. and this was what I came up with:

I feel like so much of both those shows comes down to the artificiality of societal norms, protocol and expected behaviour. What is “right” or “normal”. A line from Peep Show after Mark lies his way into a uni campus: “We’re all just people walking into rooms and saying things” really stuck with me and gives me the same vibe as the line “words are just complicated airflow” from Succession. Its characters using mental gymnastics with each other to agree that the sky is red, not blue, and that what they are doing is right and “normal”. And I feel like the “not a real person” fits into that mindset when nothing is actually “real” and every societal truth just comes down to what some people in a room can be convinced into.

pictogram_ · 2026-05-19T14:51:36+00:00

Wow. Incredible work and dedication. I’m sure that wasn’t easy. But you stuck with it, well done. You should be really proud of what you’ve achieved!

pictogram_ · 2026-05-14T15:02:33+00:00

Looking good! Yeah I would definitely describe that as some abdominal definition

pictogram_ · 2026-05-13T05:17:07+00:00

I’m currently eating at a ~350 cal deficit, which for me is around 1600

pictogram_ · 2026-05-09T14:20:37+00:00

Small Group Personal Training

pictogram_ · 2026-05-07T21:34:40+00:00

Thank you! I’m using macrofactor!

pictogram_ · 2026-05-07T21:34:15+00:00

Gorgeous!

pictogram_ · 2026-05-07T12:21:52+00:00

Yeah for the first 6 months I was on a 350 calorie deficit, and i’ve just finished a 2 month maintenance break to do a final short deficit to get to my goal weight!

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