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As humans it is natural to seek love and companionship, irrespective of the sexes.
By: Neo R
Tags: LGBT

As humans it is natural to seek love and companionship, irrespective of the sexes. Many gay men have women best friends who turn out to be closer to each other more than their partners despite never having any sexual relationship. The Pandemic has probably been the the hardest experience of enforced isolation for many people and each of us are responding differently to it.

The authors’ experience feels life changing and I am glad he was able to find love amidst the lockdown. Love is Love! and I have no reason to think his love and commitment to his best friend would change post lockdown.. However, in the course of narrating the authors experience – the write up appear to suggest being gay or straight or otherwise is driven somehow by nurture not nature. We know that isn’t true. That someone who identified himself in one sexual ‘Bucket’ switched to the other after falling in love with his best friend seems more an anomaly (a fraction of overall population) and probably doesn’t speak to the sizeable figures of LGBT individuals, who do so because they know they are, and were born this way.

His clarification and summary though does make a valid point.. no one should be forced one way or the other, in one bucket or the other.. Years ago, kids were afraid of coming out to folks and felt the society’s pressure to stay in the closet.. and now it feels they are pressured into somehow coming out prematurely just to seek the seal of parental approval.

Why can’t we let people be..? After all straight souls don’t go-in or come out.
Raised by Ants
By: Basile Lebret
Tags: Flash Fiction, Science Fiction, LGBT, Fiction, Ants

There was something weird with Boris and it wasn’t that he was raised by ants.

Sure, this simple fact was quite out-of-the-ordinary but this wasn’t the point.

Boris was your typical Caucasian teenage boy which meant he watched too much porn, had a second account on twitter which served him to act as a troll and a seriously fucked up love for a girl named Alice. Typical, I said.

But the dude was weird, I mean it. Like it wasn’t just that people would say to girls : Do not date this weirdo, he’d bring you to his house for his parents to eat you. Because people would do this, and it wasn’t only that he’d been raised by ants, surely there was something fucked up about him.

It’s not that I think it’s impossible to be raised by arthropods and still become a good guy. I mean, History would tell you that Boris grew up to run a grocery store and he’d raise three beautiful children and nobody ever talked about insects ever again.

But at the time it was weird. Maybe it was the era. Nobody ever saw someone raised by ants. I mean you’d have this crazy images. Friggin’ giant ants limping across dirt basement in their one story house. Who actually knew what this kind of parents would do to their kids ?

I mean, it was a first. And surely you’d have to be cautious. Those were GIANT ANTS, MAN. Not that I’d have a problem with that. I just never spoke to the kid, not that I hated his guts or anything. It was just like that. And now that I recall there wasn’t a lot of people talking to the boy.

It wasn’t about the parents, let just say the kid was weird. Like fucking silent all the time ; always hanging out with this fat goth chick. Except for this girl, I don’t think anyone ever talked to the guy. I mean, let’s be clear, it’s impossible to start a conversation with the likes of : So your parents are ants but they live in the ground and shit? That’d be messed up, anybody would tell you so.

And so it comes we never spoke to the dude. And the dude was all quiet and stuff. Like alone, like he wasn’t even bothered by his loneliness. This ain’t normal. Not that I think the dude should have suffered or something but it should have at least annoyed him, right ? Like what with being different and all and nobody ever talks to you. I was kinda popular in high school so I know it’d have bothered me.

And there he was, with his parents being ants, not being annoyed as shit nobody wanted to be near him. Just going on with the flow, contempt with himself, that’s how I took it at the time. I still think like that nowadays. Dude was fucked up. Like he didn’t need us, like he didn’t anyone’s company except for that goth chick.

Boris was fucking weird, man, and it had nothing to do with his parents being ants.
How Ghostwriting Saved Me
By: Pedro B. Gorman
Tags: Writing Life, Short Story, Writing Tips, Ghostwriting, LGBT

My Vaporous, Ghosty Legs

How Ghostwriting Saved Me

Let me just state in advance that this is not a quick-fix solution; nor is it the most obvious one, but here’s how it happened for me. It has its pros and cons, and I encourage you to maybe list yours out in writing before attempting the slightly insane base jump of tackling paid fiction assignments with deadlines without ever having done it before.

The Lead-Up to the Leap

For decades on end, I procrastinated writing my first novel, hiding under a plethora of excuses. What if I only thought I could write? I would stick to the more manageable form of bite-sized poems and compulsive journaling — nobody would have to read it but me.

I didn’t consider myself a writer as much as a life enthusiast who took notes. Occasionally, I would allow myself the luxury of falling a little in love with one or another flourish of mine, usually pointed out by a friend — a glory as short-lived as my attention span for compliments — and then fantasize about how great it would be if I had been born with that thing called “drive” or “ambition” that other people seemed to have, and that when it would magically be triggered by Divine Intervention; then yes, I would bloom into a writer after a fortuitous rainy season.

Bullshit.

After a crash-and-burn-I’m-nearly-forty-and-still-not-sorted existential crisis, I had to do a lot of digging. To go easy on my already overtaxed ex-junky brain then in recovery, I opted for juggling between Portuguese-English (and vice versa) translations, English teaching and part-time restaurant work. Though I slightly despised all three options, they were my Plan A until… well, until I got my fucking ass in gear; or rather, until the world temporarily ended.

When Everything You Know Crumbles, Jump.

That’s right. COVID kind of saved my life, in terms of my stalled creativity. Since most of my basic survival money was coming from part-time restaurant/bar work, the bug put me out of a job.

Which is when I realized my Plan B had just been shafted up the bumhole with a barbed wire broomstick.

My Plan B, which was getting paid to shine up other people’s projects, had become my Plan A, though I never would have admitted as much back then.

As I fell into a “what now?” funk, it dawned on me: for us procrastinators, the mere existence of a Plan B, a constant resorting to it, and the end-of-day exhaustion excuse of doing something we don’t like, make the reality of executing Plan A implausible.

Except that now I had no distractions and needed to make money.

I took to Upwork and bagged a few translations. Until a ghostwriting assignment for a gay MM Romance short story popped up on my job feed.

In hindsight, I can see that my one hundred percent certainty of rejection was actually what got me hired.

“A gay-themed, erotic short story?” I thought. “This I can do,” so I opened up a short story I had recently started toying with, picked the best extract and wrote a wildly enthusiastic cover letter. Here they are both.
Oreo’s new campaign makes the LGBTQ+ community feel accepted
By: Max Khudiakov
Tags: LGBTQ, Marketing, LGBT, Oreo

Photo Credit: Image by Sharon McCutcheon via https://pixabay.com/photos/human-rights-equality-rainbow-lgbt-3805188/

Each year the acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community tend to be improving. Openly gay folks are taking higher positions in different offices, more and more celebrities are coming out as LGBTQ+. However, many LGBTQ+ teenagers and young adults are still struggling with being accepted and feeling welcomed by their parents. The question is what do we do to keep improving this situation? Raising awareness that having LGBTQ+ kids is okay is a crucial step. Recently, Oreo, a famous cookie company, partnered up with PFLAG, which is the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people, their parents, families, and allies, produced an amazing marketing campaign that advocates for the LGBTQ+ youth. #ProudParent campaign sets an amazing example of how an LGBTQ+ child feels when their parents are not accepting of them. The feelings of grief, self-doubt, sadness lead to depression, anxiety, various psychological disorders, and even suicide. In the commercial, a young woman brings her girlfriend to meet her parents. On one hand, her mother is welcoming both of them with an open heart. On the other hand, her father is distant and not accepting. When one of her siblings comes home with their family, her father seems to be excited to see them and spends most of the time with them. The protagonist is struggling with her father accepting her sibling’s family with an open heart. After having a conversation with the mother, the father realizes that he has been hurting his daughter’s feelings so much and decides to try his best to show his love and acceptance. He paints their front yard fence in rainbow colors. And the bonding process starts.
An Ending Most Supernatural
By: Michael E. Tenner
Tags: TV Series, TV Shows, Supernatural, Review, LGBT

The final seasons, funnily, was for me just like the whole show. It had some outright terrible writing but some of the best, most heartwrenching moments. The villain’s power went from omniscient to can-be-sucked-out-by-a-nephilim. Did it make sense? No, not really. Telling the big plan in a flashback was a cop-out. But for me, the season was not about Chuck. Sure, he was the big bad, but the show clearly did not want to acknowledge that. There were a good few MoTW (monster of the week) episodes with no focus on… you know… killing God himself. It used Chuck to end its story, and I’m fine with that. Let me be clear: there was no way for the show to ever be able to make a fight with God fair and actually as difficult as it should be.

Even besides that, there was one moment that shook the internet. Right on Election Day even! Seeing the popular ship “Destiel” trending on Twitter alongside hashtags of current political happening was quite something.

Destiel, for those who do not know, is the pairing of Dean and Castiel as a romantic couple. The show had been accused of queerbaiting a few times in the past, and I’ve no intention of addressing that for more reasons than one. All I want to say is that Castiel’s confession of love was, easily and by far, the most well-written segment in the show’s history and a showcase of Misha Collin’s fantastic acting prowess. It was beautiful.

To address a certain section of Twitter calling this homophobic. No. It’s not. The show‘s queerbaiting can be interpreted, and no one but the writers knows for sure, as hints of Castiel’s love. He sacrificing himself for Dean by, for the first time, being happy is a beautiful ending to his character. Stop calling everything homophobic, seriously.

The final part that I wish to say a few words about is the rabid fandom and its reaction to the ending. Saying you will find/write fanfics that “fix” the writers’ dumb mistakes is immensely and hugely disrespectful to the people who brought you your favorite show for the past one and a half-decade. It might come as a surprise to the tween fanbase, but an ending where the boys drive into the sunset (while Dean and Cas are having sex on the back seat of the Impala, of course) is in no way realistic. This is why fanfictions get a bad name. Using them to hurt the writers of a show or a book series is deeply insulting.
hoje sinto que me mudei
Tags: Poesia Brasileira, Poesia, LGBT, Poema Brasileiro, Poema

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360
By: Kadi Medeiros
Tags: Kadimedeiros, LGBT, Mulheres Que Escrevem, Poesia

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[L.M.]
By: Jy Guerrero
Tags: Reflections, LGBT, Youngadult, Poetry, Poem

It was a bad idea

But I liked it.

I was 11,

it was the wee hours

Of the morning

and I sneaked downstairs

Towards the wooden rack

Women’s magazines

have a strange allure to me

Silky flowing gowns

and articles for the modern woman

“How do you please the man?”

But I’ve read to be on the

Other end of it.

I was 15,

and it was prom night

we sneaked outside the gymnasium

In silky gowns & tough fresh heels

We hid behind a block of tetra packs & plastic bottles

“Move in closer, hold my hand.”

as we watched a teacher

Cheat on her man.

I was 21,

and it was a holiday

I was looking for a song cover

Took me a minute to think

But I messaged her

Two weeks later, I was on a bus

At midnight, and 150 miles away from

Learning how to go back home

I am 25,

and 100 days past

Living alone; perhaps, finally found home

in myself; perhaps, writing poems

like this, like you

Looking for nothing in the other; perhaps

just this, just you.
Blue
By: Vaishnavi Kulkarni
Tags: LGBTQ, Lost Love, Love, LGBT

Blue- from the shade of your ripped jeans, to the feelings in our first fight,

Blue ink that spills when you refill to write, to the goddamn turquoise sky,

You say your favourite colour is blue,

And the hue around you is so true, to me

I forget how to breathe when you’re not around.

You’re the addiction I’m forever promised to,

Your arms wrapped around make me feel so bijou…

maybe you love me back because I’m also blue?

The cure to my sadness is the only potion you want to brew, and I’m holding the wand made of bamboo,

and for the first time, I want my wand to be unicorn feather dragon juice, or even just plain wood,

I don’t want to be blue. I want to be the whole fucking rainbow for you.

Still at night, my brain fiddles,

My heart branches out to the thoughts that still dwindle

The magic growing and becoming so hard to resist,

And the crime of thought I must commit,

If I’m not blue, will I still be your favourite?
L O V E
By: Vaishnavi Kulkarni
Tags: Love, LGBT

I like energies, the manifestation of the vibrations make me shudder

That’s the problem with me, you see

I try to connect the dots, and then I see the blunder

My heart gushes out like a puppy running to see their mother, I say I love everyone, and now I’m filled with wonder

So forgive me if I say I’m in love with people, but really, I am

However, do you feel it? Oh, it’s so grand

My brain is an ecosystem,

See it, if you can

Tug on my brittle hair, breaking but aching to be in your hands

Kiss the tears rolling down my eye bags,

Your commanding words lulling me into a trance,

Use my scars as the whips, making me gasp,

Burying yourself in the love handles I dislike,

Tie me up with my stretch marks and know that it’s true,

I’m in love with everyone,

but I can only give myself to you.
Trans Day of Remembrance stings harder this year.
By: Alex Horsey
Tags: Transgender, Trans Day Of Remembrance, LGBT, Queer, Observances

Source: The Gender Spectrum Collection

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance, the last day of Trans Awareness Week.

Trans Day of Remembrance is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.

This year, Trans Day of Remembrance stings particularly hard — and not just because our community is unable to gather to honor the lives of our trans family due to COVID.

By August of this year, more trans people had been reported murdered in 2020 than in all of 2019. That’s at least 37 this year, and the number continues to rise. Just three days ago, Yunieski Carey Herrera, a 39-year-old Latina transgender woman, was murdered in Miami. Losing Yunieski’s life is significant, especially this week. But she’s not alone.

Trans people of color, particularly Black trans women, are disproportionately targeted by anti-trans violence. A 2018 report from Human Rights Campaign (HRC) calls out that four in five victims of anti-trans murders are trans women of color. It’s an epidemic.

Black trans lives matter. We must work harder to protect them.

In that same 2018 report, HRC wrote something that struck me: “It’s not enough to grieve the loss of victims of anti-transgender violence. We must honor their memories with action.”

So, as we close out Trans Awareness Week and Trans Day of Remembrance, I encourage you to start your action with education. Google recently introduced a resource page to help people learn about the Black Trans Lives Matter movement. The video at the top of the page is worth the two minutes — I’ll probably watch it on repeat all day.

Start with this resource and look into the featured activists. They have been leading this fight for a very long time. It’s something I’m still working on myself — I strive to learn something new from Black trans leaders every day.
Not departed, DEPORTED.
By: Sophie B. Roy
Tags: Transgender, Pride, Lgbtqia, LGBT, Queer

Photo by Mika on Unsplash

Through the timeline, we have existed. Through the galleries of memories, we have sustained the variety of attempts of emancipation inflicted upon us by the bigoted heteronormative society.

But, along the way, we unfortunately had to bid quite a few untimely adieus. They, are them who lived, to only pay for their own existence.

Amidst the doom and gloom of the loses that we, as a community stare straight into, we must compel ourselves to strive for the children of tomorrow. The loses mustn’t be left in vain, but rather be learnt from and have taken strength from.

Existing in a world of insatiable heteronormative stereotypes, we most often suffer. In that suffering, some of us rise and walk the talk while some pay with the ultimate sacrifice. In a world, where awareness is at an all-time high, we still struggle, because it isn’t enough. Queerphobia and Transphobia digs it’s serrated heels deep, because that’s pretty much all that ignorance allows it to do. In our struggle, we must remain vigilant for our own while allowing ourselves to evolve with the times. Blind beliefs and ignorant defenses are the Frankensteins that have given us many a monsters under our beds.

NO, they weren’t and aren’t dearly departed, they were and are our dear ones who were DEPORTED. Flung into the abyss, just to intimidate those of us who remain, living our queer lives.

Remember me, when I, too, inevitably perish. A humble request.
Peut-on aimer librement?
Tags: Forbidden, Love, LGBT, Poème

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QUEER & POC VISIBILITY ON SCREEN
By: Rima Baroud
Tags: LGBTQ, Poc, Representation, LGBT, Queer

QUEER & POC VISIBILITY ON SCREEN

Eyes glued to the tv, with a slight reluctance and shame in my stare, I felt an unwavering sense of clarity run through my body. Like a lightbulb sparking on, in a pitch-dark room. I was 17 when I first saw a lesbian, femme, woman of colour represented on a tv-show. Rima Baroud Nov 19, 2020·4 min read

Growing up in a Caribbean-Lebanese household, many of the gender and sexuality norms that were presented, held up a very specific binary. I never questioned that I was a girl, that was supposed to fall in love with a boy — it just was. My understanding of gay women was held up by very strong, unmoving pillars; white, masculine and antagonist. I remember thinking, that’s not me, I don’t identify with these — so I can’t be gay.

I also grew up in the shift from digital media as a distant world, to its omnipresence in our everyday life. The year 2014 saw the height of Buzzfeed quizzes and YouTube coming out videos. No matter how many “how gay are you?” quizzes I did in secret, I always came back to the same conclusion. I am not a white, masculine-presenting woman. I cannot be gay.

One night, I sat in front of the tv and continued with my normal routine — obsessively following the show Pretty Little Liars. One of the show’s main characters started to fall for another woman. Let me rephrase that. One of the shows main POC, femme-presenting characters falls for another Black femme-presenting, woman. For me, everything changed in that moment. I felt seen, validated, and on a scarier level, exposed. Something I subconsciously knew I was, was suddenly projected right in front of my eyes.

Information is most powerful when it is spread to the masses. The more a section of society is exposed, the more normalized it becomes. When diversity and acceptance are the words of the day but by no means the deed for everyone, the ability to generate representation, attitudes and resilience for queer individuals can be partially laid in the hands of the media. Media is not solely a mirror of society’s fixed values — a mirror through which we see ourselves — it is also a superstructure that creates attitudes and representations that will trickle down into society. TV-shows particularly provide sustained emotional connection to characters and their personal developments, which can have an immersive effect on those viewing it.
Выходные с книгой. Читаем
By: Книжное Притяжение
Tags: Books, Telegram, Книги, Список, Lists

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Chapter 16 | List
By: Kumar Anurag
Tags: C Sharp, List

In this chapter, we will learn how to implement list in C#.

The following code (wait for it to load) will explain the same.

I hope you enjoyed this lesson. See you in the next one. Bbye!
Top 10 most harmful foods
By: Everything Cj
Tags: Food, Top 10, Harmful, Top 5, Lists

Top 10 most harmful foods

Junk Food

We love to feast on delicious, almost ready-made products — they do not need to be cooked, peeled, cut, but can be either cooked immediately or eaten. Most often these are semi-finished products, ready-made ingredients for salads, snacks, additives, etc. What is called convenient today brings irreversible harm to health and the body.

Not a single meal is complete without these products, and even among the children’s kitchen you can find the so-called semi-finished products, created especially for babies. I have cited the top 10 most harmful food products, which are better to get rid of, or replace them with natural goodies, which are more useful and cheaper.

10. Alcohol

Alcohol

9. Carbonated drinks

Carbonated drinks

8. Croutons, sauces

Croutons, sauces

7. Chocolate, sugar, salt

Chocolate, sugar, salt

6. Ice cream, yoghurts

Ice cream, yoghurts

5. Chips, pastries, white bread

Chips, pastries, white bread

4. Canned food, smoked meats

Canned food, smoked meats

3. Sausages, semi-finished products

Sausages, semi-finished products

2. Chewing gum, sweets

Chewing gum, sweets

1. Fast food

Fast food

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My 2020 #MusicalAdventCalendar🎶🎅🏼
Tags: Review, Advent Calendar, Lists, End Of Year, Music

There’s really nothing I can say about this strange year that you haven’t already heard/read/thought before. All I’ll say is that it often felt like living through history. Y’know… in a bad way. But at least the soundtrack was great! Despite some of the toughest creative conditions imaginable, artists were able to pull through and reach our ears no matter the adversity, providing something meaningfully normal at a time when the world felt anything but. All the good bits necessary to get through the many, MANY shit bits.

So, now moreso than ever, I implore you: go support your fave artist. Buy from Bandcamp, grab some merch, purchase a ticket, donate to Support Act, because musicians really suffered for their art in 2020.

There’s 25 selections here (playlist and all the write-ups further below), but really, there was so much more that helped me this year in better understanding the reshaped world around me, whether it was offering a unique perspective of it, or simply an escape from it.

If you’ve engaged in any way with the #MusicalAdventCalendar this year — first-time reader or long-time follower — a huge thanks. Leave a comment! Tell ya friends! Let me know how to improve! And until next time, happy holidays to y’all and to y’all good music. Always. 🎶🎅🏽
教練健身菜單｜8個動作打造飽滿渾厚胸肌
By: Fitness Factory_Taiwan
Tags: 健身, 胸大肌, 增肌減脂, 運動, Lists

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Things I’ve Lugged Into My 4th Floor, Walk-Up Apartment with Long, Narrow Staircases
Tags: Apartment, Heavy, Lists, Alon, Carry

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Indie Holiday Songs for a Quieter Winter
By: Élie Ziehl
Tags: Holidays, Christmas, Recommendations, Lists, Music

As this year’s holiday season rolls around, the select restaurants, storefronts, and mall centers that have remained open during the covid pandemic are eager to tune into the festivities, playing classics like Michael Bublé and Mariah Carey over their sound systems. But to steer away from this mainstream track, this list will hopefully provide you with a handful of songs to freshen your queue.

This mix of originals and cover songs range from cozy, singer-songwriter to full band arrangements, though I’ve tried my best to keep them within the broader category of indie music.

You can find the full Spotify playlist of the following songs here.
Recommended Reading List
By: Geoff Maus
Tags: Links, Books, Lists

The following are books, articles, and documents that I have either read personally or have come to me highly recommended by people I trust. Everything here speaks to me in some way, hence my desire to share. The list is always evolving, and categories are in no particular order.

Please Note: These links lead to external sites, and I make no guarantees about safety, pricing, efficiency, accuracy, etc.

Many books contain adult material, profanity, or difficult/sensitive subject matter.

Please read summaries for potentially triggering material before committing to a book, and always check with a parent or guardian if you are under 18 years old. I am not responsible for any content you access or what you choose to read.
My Top 10 Favorite Bands
By: Brett Dunlap
Tags: Rankings, Top 10, Lists, Favorite Band, Music

Here’s a list I’ve been wanting to share with you all for a long time: my ten most favorite bands in the whole wide world. It turns out that settling on my list of ten was a lot harder than I thought it would be, but I love all of these groups a whole bunch. In alphabetical order (I couldn’t begin to rank them), these are ten bands that are my favorites — with a little personal info about them, too:

Arcade Fire

My Favorite Album: The Suburbs (2010)

My Favorite Song: “Wake Up” — Funeral (2004)

Times Seen In Concert: 2 (4/24/11 @ UIC Pavilion w/The National, 8/6/17 @ Lollapalooza Chicago)

Bon Iver

My Favorite Album: 22, A Million (2016)

My Favorite Song: “00000 Million” — 22, A Million (2016)

Times Seen In Concert: 0 (I have bought tickets three separate instances, but could not attend any time.)

Fleet Foxes

My Favorite Album: Fleet Foxes (2009)

My Favorite Song: “Helplessness Blues” — Helplessness Blues (2011)

Times Seen In Concert: 1 (10/3/17 @ The Chicago Theatre w/Nap Eyes)

Radiohead

My Favorite Album: In Rainbows (2007)

My Favorite Song: “The Bends” — The Bends (1995)

Times Seen In Concert: 1 (7/7/18 @ United Center w/Junun)

Tame Impala

My Favorite Album: Lonerism (2012)

My Favorite Song: “Apocalypse Dreams” — Lonerism (2012)

Times Seen In Concert: 1 (5/15/15 @ Riviera Theatre w/Mini Mansions)

The Beatles

My Favorite Album: The Beatles (1968)

My Favorite Song: “Hey Jude” — non-album single (1968)

Times Seen In Concert: 0 (as a band), 3 (Paul: 7/31/15 @ Lollapalooza Chicago, 7/25/17 @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, 6/8/19 @ Lambeau Field), 1 (Ringo: 10/6/18 @ The Chicago Theatre)

The 1975

My Favorite Album: A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (2018)

My Favorite Song: “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)” — Notes On A Conditional Form (2020)

Times Seen In Concert: 3 (7/28/16 @ Lollapalooza Chicago, 5/8/19 @ United Center w/Pale Waves and No Rome, 12/12/19 @ Aragon Ballroom w/Bob Moses and Allan Rayman)

The Rolling Stones

My Favorite Album: Sticky Fingers (1971)

My Favorite Song: “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” — Let It Bleed (1969)

Times Seen In Concert: 1 (6/25/19 @ Soldier Field w/Whiskey Myers)

The Strokes

My Favorite Album: Room On Fire (2003)

My Favorite Song: “Hard To Explain” — Is This It (2001)

Times Seen In Concert: 1 (8/1/19 @ Lollapalooza Chicago)

Vampire Weekend

My Favorite Album: Modern Vampires Of The City (2013)

My Favorite Song: “Hannah Hunt” — Modern Vampires Of The City (2013)

Times Seen In Concert: 2 (6/5/14 @ UIC Pavilion w/Cults, 6/16/19 @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island w/Chicano Batman and Richard Pictures)

There you have it! A few bands that I really enjoy just missed out on cracking the top ten, but I’m certain these groups are the ones I adore the most, without a doubt. Feel free to make your own top ten list and share it with everyone. I can’t wait for live music to hopefully return so I can see these bands again (and maybe Bon Iver finally)!
The Top Fifteen Lists I Never Expected To Experience In My Lifetime
By: Janie Emaus
Tags: 2020, Satire, Humor, Relationships, Lists

HUMOR

The Top Fifteen Lists I Never Expected To Experience In My Lifetime

Compliments of 2020

Photo by Fábio Hanashiro on Unsplash

’Tis the season of lists. Top ten books, favorite movies, best essays, photographs, restaurants, and so on. But 2020 was anything but normal thus I present a new list of Best topics. Feel free to provide me with your answers.

1.The best homemade hand sanitizer.

2. The best bleach for curing Covid.

3. The best Covid Conspiracy.

4. The best handmade mask.

5. The best off-rhythm generational TikTok dance performance.

6. The best tone-deaf generational TikTok song.

7. The top ten foods to consume while binge-watching Tiger King.

8. The best elbow bump.

9. The best bathroom scene witnessed on Zoom.

10. The best irrational reason for not wearing a mask.

11. The best anxious stomach growl while waiting for contactless food delivery.

12. The best hot toddy for dining outside in the snow.

13. The best “Six Feet Apart” design.

14. The best Lockdown Lawbreaker.

15. The best Toilet Paper Tussle.

Please feel free to add any of your own!

Happy Holidays!
Thank you..this
By: Ajay Khanna
Tags: Syllabus, 1 Year, Lists, Course, Data Science

Thank you..this is seriously commendable… I’m bookmarking this..I was looking for something like this for next year..a curated list of all topics for Data Science..have a happy new year to you too..
My List of Books
By: Jack C Lee
Tags: Suggested Reading, Books, List

2020 was an unusual year for all of us. The pandemic and the shut down has given us extra time on our hands. I spent part of that time reading. Here are my top nine books. Not all are published this year.

City Game — This story has a direct connection to me. It is a story about a scandal that happened 70 years ago at my alma mater, CCNY. The scandal was the basketball betting scandal that shocked the NCAA world and changed college basketball for good. I met the author when he gave a presentation at the Great Hall for the kickoff of his book. It is a well written and researched book, and it tells the story behind the scene as well as the wide spread corruption in NYC that touches everything from the police department to the mayors office.

Open Wounds — This book was published a while ago in 2011 and tpthe paperback version came out this year. The author is a fellow fencer at the Fencers Club. It is a fictional account of a boy growing up in NYC in the 1930s-1940s. This is a fast reading riveting story that will entertain young adults and all. It contains many details about life in the city in that time period. For fencers, it is very engaging in the various references to the art of fencing, and theatrical fencing.

Between the World and Me -

The Wonder of Man — This is an obscure book that contains so much information about the amazing human body. If there is one thing that can disprove the theory of evolution, it would have to be the human eye. The complexity involved is so immense, it would be impossible to happen by chance, or by gradual evolution.

Rediscover Americanism — This is one book that all students of history should read. In this new age of globalism and socialism, people needs to understand where our country came from. Our unique founding and the history that lead us to be the only superpower of today.

The Future of the Mind — The human brain is a miracle. With all the advances made in science and biology and psychology, we are still in the dark of how the mind works. This book explores the various level of consciousness and our attempt to simulate and imitate it.

A Generous Life — This is a small book but carries a big message. A message about giving and God and the true purpose of our life.

A New Way to Age — This book explores some new and unconventional methods to deal with common ailments and aging.

Artificial Intelligence — A summary of where we are in the development of AI. As it turns out, it is a lot more difficult than first thought. Just having faster computers and bigger memory banks is not sufficient to achieve intelligence.
Dale’s Triple-Feature — Warrior Women
By: Dale Thomas
Tags: Movies, Movies To Watch, Sword And Sorcery, Lists, Feminism

Today's list looks at three barbarian women from the 80s. After the release of Arnold Swarzenegger’s classic Conan in 1982, movie studios we quick to follow up with female versions.

Hundra (1983)

Hundra (1983)

An Italian-American-Spanish movie in which an accomplished warrior, the last of her matriarchal tribe, sets out to follow her destiny and restart the line.

Barbarian Queen (1985)

An American-Argentine movie. On the eve of a wedding, a barbarian queen’s village is attacked and everyone, including the man she loves and her sister, is taken. A small group of survivors set out to save them and avenge the dead.

Red Sonja (1985)

Red Sonja (1985)

A Dutch-American spin-off of Conan; in fact, Conan is the deuteragonist. A woman goes on a mission to kill the evil queen who tortured her and killed her family.
10 Things I Don’t Miss About Dating
By: Paula Light
Tags: Holidays, Dating, Humor, Relationships, Lists

humor, kinda

Image credit to Sammy Williams | Pixabay

Now that the holidays are here, it’s time for me to sour-grapesify the whole relationship thing again. If you are happily dating or partnered up (or both — hey I don’t judge), this list doesn’t apply to you. But then again, I got divorced after a 20-year marriage, so you never know. The following are items I have given up without a glance back. Well, not a long, longing glance anyway…

1. Having to shave my legs every day JUST IN CASE. I know there are men out there who say they don’t care, but we know they’re lying.

2. Spending a gazillion dollars on a cute and sexy new outfit, just to hear him say “you look nice” or nothing at all. Mostly nothing.

3. Joining a dating site to get bombarded with ego-boosting messages that all turn out to be from liars and cheaters.

4. Messaging that one guy who seems okay and he never responds.

5. Actually meeting someone and having to pretend I like Star Wars, gah.

6. Sitting through hours of mind-numbing TV shows so we can cuddle on the sofa instead of writing alone in my room, which is what I really want to do.

7. Dealing with men who want to split the check when they make triple my salary.

8. Never meeting their family so I am left wondering if they are actually married or ashamed of me or what.

9. Even worse, meeting their family. On a holiday. Shudder.

10. Sex. It’s always better in my imagination anyway.

There, now I feel better about being alone on the holidays, especially during this Covid Christmas when I can’t even get together with my single friends where we pretend that we’d rather play board games and eat random potluck than be trapped with a significant other who wants to decorate the house all schmaltzy, cook nummy foods together, and love us forever. OMG WHO NEEDS THAT WHEN WE HAVE CODENAMES!

Keep my list handy. ;)
Ranking the Episodes of The Sopranos (Season 1)
By: Patrick J Mullen
Tags: The Sopranos, HBO, Television, Drama, Lists

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Top 20 Songs of 2020
Tags: 2020, Blog, Lists, Creativity, Music

This year was very eventful for music lovers. I also think it is a great time for casual listeners to be a little more adventurous with their music taste. There has never been a greater time for a laidback pop genre fan to get hooked to the futuristic genre of hyperpop and just banging your head to 100 gecs or asking for your favorite vocalist to scream in your ear or breathe down your neck… What?

There’s a part of me that feels that this year was a little staler than past years. That is obviously not true when I look back at how much great music was released in these 12 months. So why is it that I feel this way?

I have a theory. This year was no doubt a peculiar year. Time passed so slow yet flew by so quickly. That whole struggle of grasping how time flowed made periods where the kind of music you look forward to was not dropped to be tougher to endure through. Even one slow New Music Friday this past year made me tired.

On the other hand, because there was so much more ‘me-time’, there was a lot more exploring older music and instances where I go ‘let’s give it a shot’. That led to a lot of times where I had to go through music fatigue where for a short lapse of time I was literally sick of anything melodic. But it was very fruitful adventuring and traversing the vast music world. Now every time white noise gets played, I just imagine how crazy if it would be in sync with some beat?

I’ll gladly let someone with a nice voice scream in my ear now, as long as it sounds good. You know what they say, you get wiser as you get older.
Meus discos favoritos de 2020
By: Elson Barbosa
Tags: Música, 2020, Best Of, Lists, Melhores Do Ano

21. SPECTRES

It’s Never Going to Happen and This Is Why

Demência

Ouve essa aqui: “Choucoune Asphyxiate Repeat”
How to not filter a list in Python
By: Timur Bakibayev
Tags: Bugs, Programming, Python, List

Some insights

I will help you with debugging a little here.

Let’s see if we really remove the elements. To make sure we always have the same random numbers, I will use the “seed” function.

Ok, why is the second 9 left on the list? We see, that the first 9 is removed, so there is no doubt it is odd :)

To understand the problem, we refactor our code as follows.

And we get an ERROR! What?! Oh, sure, the list shrinks, so we need to check the length of the list each iteration. Let’s do it.

Well, we at least get the same result now. With the exact indexing, it will be easier to debug. Let’s add some more prints.

Here you can see that after checking the “1”, it skips “9” and goes to “4”.
My Lowest Points of 2020
By: Liz Galvao
Tags: Humor, 2020, Personal Lows, Lists

We’re entering that time in December when everyone shares their accomplishments from the past year: pieces they’ve published, projects they’ve completed, exciting new gigs they nailed. Well, I’m here to say that I don’t want to hear about any of it. Haven’t we suffered enough this year without having to bear witness to other people’s success?

In that spirit, I’d like to share my absolute lowest points of 2020, so that you might find comfort and joy in my misery. Auld Lang Syne, bitches.
Выходные с книгой. Читаем
By: Книжное Притяжение
Tags: Books, Telegram, Книги, Списки, Lists

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10 Best Movies of 2020 by NYT 紐約時報年度十大電影
Tags: Movies, 2020, Best, New York Times, Lists

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5 Fantastic Humour Pubs
By: Victoria A. Fraser
Tags: Satire, Publication, Humor, Lists, Comedy

Slackjaw

They are the biggest humour publication on Medium, so they had to make this list. Edited by Alex Baia and sarah james, it’s a place for only the best humour pieces. Here’s a great piece I love because a) it’s funny and b) the guy in the photo looks like my celebrity crush Jake Gyllenhaal… what? That’s not drool on my face, that’s my uhh clear lipstick okay?

MuddyUm

They are the first humour pub I wrote for and I’ve made lots of friends there so far! Susan Brearley is one of the editors and inspiring captain who is pretty hilarious herself. Send them your stuff and join their ragtag crew. (Side note: they are pirate-themed which is the best). She also shares some fun prompts if you’re ever looking for inspiration.

Jane Austen’s Wastebasket

Edited by Kyrie Gray, JAW is a great humour pub with everything from satire to comics. The doodles are always adorable and creative. Here’s one of my favourite articles by Kyrie (although all her stuff is great and I struggled to pick just one).

The Haven

I get some good laughs when I read The Haven edited and founded by Page Barnes. They’ve got a wide variety and I love writing for them. I never know what to expect! Here’s a great piece by Page herself.

Sex and Satire

This is a darn hilarious publication by editor Ms. Part Time Wino. When I read the ridiculous sex stores I’m usually snorting on the bus hoping no one sees what’s I’m reading on my phone. Check them out!
Create Draggable Lists with JavaScript
Tags: Sorting, JavaScript, Lists, CSS, HTML

What is Draggable list and how can I use it?

=> Draggable list is made with JavaScript that creates a list for you and the benefit of this list is that you can manually sort your list e.g. if you copy the code from this site and paste it in you file then you can create tasks and prioritize them on your need and this may be very useful for you and it is just made with HTML, CSS and JS. The code is very light weight

At first, on our webpage, there is the overview of our blog then there is the example of our draggable list . When you drag the list after visiting our website you can see the lists can change their place, there is a also a button to copy the codes (HTML, CSS and JS).

You can view and copy the source code files through the link given below. View and Copy Source Code
10 Gifts The Little Drummer Boy Could Have Given That Are More Appropriate For a Newborn Than A Drum Solo
By: Laura Maggio
Tags: Humor, Christmas, Funny, Lists, Christmas Songs

10 Gifts The Little Drummer Boy Could Have Given That Are More Appropriate For a Newborn Than A Drum Solo Laura Maggio Follow Dec 19, 2020 · 2 min read

Christmas icon The Little Drummer Boy just boy can’t win.

Sure, the dude was a nice guy and wanted to honor the newborn savior. But like most of us right now, he was poor. And struggling. And maybe wilting under the demands of the season?

But dude messed up with that drum solo thing. Rum pah pah….whaat?

Although he most likely couldn’t spring for that Kate Spade diaper bag, maybe he should have pooled resources with the rest of the drum corps to offer give a group gift that was a wee bit more useful to Mary, Joseph or Baby.

Failing that, homemade gifts do come from the heart and are sure to be treasured by any recipient. However, gifting a drum solo to an infant doesn’t exactly fall into “Nailed It” territory when it comes to homemade gifts.

So I present, for his future consideration, 10 gifts The Little Drummer Boy could have given that would have been appreciated just the teensiest bit more by anyone within earshot of that barn than a drum solo.

Photo by Any Lane from Pexels

1) A microfiber blanket, adorably monogrammed with a fancy “J.C.” in the corner.

2) Clothes that aren’t swaddling rags, e.g., a precious onesie from Etsy embroidered with “Mommy’s Little Savior” across the bottom.

3) A Diaper Genie.

4) An Airbnb gift certificate so the gang can hang somewhere other than a random barn.

5) Gold, frankincense and myrrh, minus the frankincense and myrrh.

6) Marriage counseling sessions for Mary and Joe — A baby “conceived immaculately” is definitely going to change the dynamic of the marriage. They should probably talk it out.

7) A pair of infant-sized Bose noise-cancelling headphones to protect Baby’s sensitive ears when well-wishers gift him a drum performance.

Photo by Tim Mossholder from Pexels

8) Establishing a 529 Plan so baby Jesus can attend Dave Grohl’s Drum Academy For Anointed Rock Legends after he grows up just a bit.

9) A calming pan flute solo.

10) Promising the parents to never play a drum in front of their sleeping infant.