Shire is working on his first album

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⛔️Watch Randy Fine (@RepFine) while illegally voting in Congress on tape several times. He has been doing this for 2 years now. This is a federal crime and it should be investigated‼️

I've been quietly watching this one with concern for awhile but I'm very unsurprised at the outcome. Last year when this was all getting started, Vex and I were approached to meet in person to discuss Luminara. Genuinely, we were curious about it and wanted to learn more, but given how vague a lot of the posts by the organization were, we had no idea what Luminara was actually offering. The meeting in person was friendly enough. Camana seemed like a nice dude with some genuine dreams at the time to run... some sort of organization. But we've also seen genuine people lead to absolute disaster in indie management firms if they don't really understand what they're getting into, and so Vex, in her infinite wisdom, slipped in probing questions to figure out what the heck they actually offered. By the end of the meeting neither of us understood. They wanted to put on events, and they wanted to provide youtube editing, but they had no intention of taking any form of payment from their clients. When we asked how they were going to pay their editors, they just said that everyone would be paid, and they had investors. One of the investors right away we'd had issues with in the past, so that was a large red flag in itself. Red flag two was having absolutely no plan to sustain the organization, no matter what questions we asked. All the money was coming from investors and basically having talents host events, which I assume the hope there was to attract sponsors to help fund the costs of. Red flag three was Camana continuing to bring up his connection to Zen and also bragging about how he'd signed multiple talents that weekend. It was very "look who I know!" heavy and immediately flagged to Vex and I as leaning on someone's name, probably without their knowledge, to gain influences on others. Halfway through the meeting where we still had absolutely no idea how their organization would function, Vex was asked if she was interested in joining. "So what do you think? Do you want in?" or something like that. We were so shocked Vex had to do a double take and ask for clarification that we were indeed being asked on the spot to join. She politely declined and said she'd need to see contracts and understand more about how the organization would work before we could proceed in either direction. We could tell immediately the conversation turned after we declined, and became more about pleasantries - which was fine, it transitioned into being a comfy convo and a walk back to the convention in the end. They didn't seem like bad people at all, just very misguided in how any form of management organization should run. But we later found out through other friends that they had also been approached, or had been sent contracts online and then pressed about joining IRL before anything could be reviewed or discussed. People we had been told had been signed had not, in fact, been signed, and a few other tales of behavior and uncomfortable situations, actions taken at others' expenses that I'm not at liberty to discuss, ultimately left us with a very sour taste in our mouth. In my experience, organizations without this kind of plan but with ideals to run merch, run events, and promise the world to their talents are often set up for disaster when it comes to paying contractors, or when an investor realizes they're not going to make any money off this venture. Once the well dries up, money gets stolen from others, until nothing's left, or talent begin to talk, and everything falls apart. When that happens, talent are typically isolated from each other to prevent said talking, threats about career damage and legal action loom overhead, or the owner up and vanishes without a word to protect themselves. Legally speaking, it's often prohibitively costly to get those amounts of money back, so when they run, they often get away with it. We absolutely did not want to be a party to that kind of fallout, so we declined and moved on with our lives, while watching the organization quietly and hoping for a different end. So this outcome ultimately doesn't surprise me at all. It sucks seeing people hurt. I hope everyone can land on their feet. But I want to express two important, relevant things I have learned from my time in this industry and on this planet. 1: Management organizations are incredibly difficult to sustain. Be very careful and really study an organization's track record before you consider joining. 2: If something seems too good to be true, such as someone offering you free management services, it absolutely always is. DO NOT TRUST THIS. DO NOT ENGAGE. Wishing nothing but the best for everyone moving on from this phase of their journey. <3

Worst administration in history

@Bluto2U2 Thought that said "slut" at first.

Goodbye, Atlanta.

IT’S POPPING. THIS IS NOT A DRILL, IT’S ACTUALLY POPPING

An American woman was confronted by sheriff deputies at a checkpoint in Lafayette, Louisiana, who told her her ID and Social Security card were fake. They turned her over to ICE, who shackled her & took her an hour away. Even after a lawyer convinced ICE of the woman's citizenship the sheriff wont admit wrongdoing. Lafayette is the same town who allowed their mayor to govern from REHAB for drug and alcohol addiction back in 2022 and who just pled guilty THIS MONTH for malfeasance in office after being finally arrested despite every exception being levied towards him. But an innocent woman? LINK: thelensnola.org/2026/05/23/u-s…

The Crunchwrap Supreme has existed for 5x longer than the Confederacy

I don't remember any FIFA World Cup host country ever declining to host a team whose matches were held on its soil. Do you still believe that football is separate from politics? @FIFAcom @fifamedia @FIFAWorldCup #Iran

He raped a woman for three hours straight.

It’s tragically comical how all the hyper evil fictional corporations from 80’s and 90’s media like Skynet and Shinra now sound indistinguishable from real world billionaires and corpo heads

In 1894, a hungover Wall Street stockbroker walked into the Waldorf Hotel in Manhattan and ordered something that was not on the menu. The maître d' liked it so much he put it on the menu immediately. One hundred and thirty years later, it is on every brunch menu in the Western world. Lemuel Benedict was, by every account, a man who knew how to have a good time and was occasionally required to deal with the consequences the following morning. A retired stockbroker, heavy partier and generous tipper, he walked into the Waldorf Hotel one morning in 1894 in urgent need of a hangover cure and ordered something that did not exist yet: buttered toast, crisp bacon, two poached eggs and what he called a hooker of hollandaise sauce. A hooker in 1894 American slang meant a generous pour or a slug, not whatever you are thinking. The maître d' Oscar Tschirky, the same man credited with inventing the Waldorf salad and popularising Thousand Islands dressing, was so taken with the combination that he immediately put it on the breakfast and luncheon menus, substituting ham for the bacon and a toasted English muffin for the plain toast. He named it after the hungover banker who had improvised it at the table. We know this because Lemuel Benedict told a reporter from The New Yorker in 1942, less than a year before he died, and the Talk of the Town piece that resulted is the primary documented source for the story. There are competing claims. There always are with origin stories this good. A Mr and Mrs LeGrand Benedict, completely unrelated to Lemuel, reportedly requested something similar at Delmonico's restaurant sometime in the 1860s and chef Charles Ranhofer published a recipe called Eggs à la Benedick in his 1894 cookbook The Epicurean. A Commodore E.C. Benedict claimed his mother had the recipe before anyone else. The American Egg Board, which apparently has opinions on this, backs the Lemuel version. © Eats History

Please be sure to thank Ken Paxton for making sure his pedo buddy got out of jail, lickity-split, so he can get right back to molesting other children.

Trump and his MAGAts are weak little bitches.

He’s decapitated two 1980s neoliberal platitudes in one week, doesn’t he know he can’t do that?

@PresidentToguro @avi_falafel No no, that was onstage, important difference

@avi_falafel And eating a bat

Dennis Rodman would go party in Vegas, take enough cocaine to kill a bear, drink copious amounts of alcohol and them fly back to an nba finals game and lock up Karl Malone. This guy drinks a glass of wine and can't podcast for 3 days

Such a revealing statement.

the pope wrote a 42,000 word manifesto declaring war on AI. we are so freaking back.

Welp! She just won $485,000 btw.