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by Alex Billington September 1, 2021Source: Vimeo Dating sucks these days. But everyone knows that already. Dating is Shit is a lovely animated short film made by filmmaker Adeena Grubb. The story follows a young woman who struggles with dating and all the strange men she encounters. Based in London, Adeena makes hand-crafted animation, with puppets and miniature sets and models. This short, in just under three minutes, has "around 50 characters" seen in "14 miniature sets," and it took her over two years to complete this short. She adds: "I have had a love/hate relationship with this project for a long time, I've almost given up on it a few times over the last few years, thinking it wasn't good enough. I kept at it and recently gave it one final push to get it finished." I highly recommend it - there's so much going on in here. Also: "Watch til the very end for a sneaky happy ending!" Thanks to Vimeo Staff Picks for the tip on this. Brief description from Vimeo: "In a world of apps, dick pics and commitment issues, dating can be tiring and can start to take a toll on a person, this animation…

Kim Kardashian shared a sweet snaps of her daughter Chicago embracing her cousins Stormi and True in celebration as she reached 250 million followers on Instagram.The 40-year-old reality Tv star marked the achievement with an adorable snaps, captioning them: '250 million followers on IG. I love you guys! I wanted to post this pic because if I could get 250 million kisses from our babies my life would be complete.'Chicago is Kim's youngest daughter; she is also mom to North, Saint and Psalm. While, True is the daughter of Kim's sister Khloe Kardashian and her on/off ex Tristan Thompson; she is pictured on the right in the images.The 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians' star is reportedly working on her relationship with Kanye West.

WhatsApp is one of the fast messaging applications that many people like to use in the world to chat with whoever they want regardless of the time or distance. In it you can also send all kinds of documents in Word or PDF as well as multimedia elements of a trip, family or a clip that contains something viral. On WhatsApp It is also possible to send photos and videos and have them shown only once to all your contacts, without the need for them to download it to their cell phone or take a screenshot. Now the app also has important and curious data such as emojis or emoticons. Do you know what the shining heart or the heart with stars means? If someone sent it to you, then this is what you need to know. It should be noted that for this we must resort to one of the websites that is responsible for compiling all the icons that have been added by Unicode. Is about Emojipedia And for this we will tell you what exactly it is if your friend sent it to you on WhatsApp. WhatsApp It currently has around 500 emoticons on its chat platform.…

Daniel Obaweya aka @nigeriangothic playing dress up at James Veloria.Photo: Courtesy of Liana Satenstein / @liana_avaThe Instagram account @nigeriangothic is one of the most information-packed archive feeds on the platform. There you’ll find an old JanSport ad from the early 2000s, a photo of Missy Elliott smoking a joint from a 2000 issue of Vibe magazine, the animated opening of Toni Braxton’s “He Wasn’t Man Enough for Me,” and a black-and-white photograph of a Hajendoa warrior from Sudan that dates back to 1938. Dazed editor in chief Ib Kamara, fashion label Wales Bonner, editor Dan Thawley, and model Paloma Elsesser are all followers, though the mysterious owner of the account has never revealed himself, preferring to let the images speak for themselves (a rarity in the fashion industry). The account is run by Daniel Obaweya, a 23-year-old from Lagos, Nigeria, who spends hours on the Internet, clicking through and amassing stellar images. His curation has gained him gigs too: He’s worked with the London label Mowalola and Dazed, and researched extensively for a shoot about auntie culture in Nigeria that was styled by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson and published in the November 2020 issue of Vogue.Obaweya has been in New York for…

Jonathan Neman, co-founder and co-CEO of sweetgreen.David A. Grogan | CNBCSweetgreen CEO and co-founder Jonathan Neman wrote a LinkedIn post Tuesday connecting obesity to the ongoing pandemic, saying "no vaccine nor mask will save us" and proposing taxes on processed food and refined sugar.The post was deleted Wednesday, several hours after Vice published a story about it. Even before Vice's article, commenters on Neman's original post were calling his argument "fat-phobic."Sweetgreen confidentially filed for an initial public offering in June, making this an inopportune time for controversy surrounding the company. Consumer backlash could hurt both its reputation and sales, turning off investors.Neman's commentary comes as the U.S. battles another wave of new Covid-19 cases, leading some localities to impose vaccination or mask requirements. As of Aug. 31, the seven-day average of daily new U.S. cases reached 160,455, up 6% from a week ago, according to a CNBC analysis of Johns Hopkins University data. Health officials have pointed to the highly contagious delta variant as the culprit, particularly in regions with low vaccination rates."78% of hospitalizations due to COVID are Obese and Overweight people," Neman wrote in the post. "Is there an underlying problem that perhaps we have not given enough attention…

A 43-year-old Nottingham man charged with storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is facing additional charges after investigators found illegal firearms and drugs as part of their search for evidence of his role in the insurrection. Elias Nick Costianes Jr. was charged in March for entering the Capitol, after a tipster referred the FBI to Costianes’ Snapchat account. Those videos showed him climbing scaffolding outside the building and entering the balcony of the Senate chamber. Authorities unsealed a new criminal complaint on Wednesday, detailing how they found two unregistered guns during a February search of the home where Costianes was staying, as well as evidence that he was involved in dealing marijuana and heavily used cocaine and testosterone. During a search of his iCloud account they found hundreds of conversations about buying and selling drugs, they wrote. Costianes’ attorney, Joseph Conte, declined to comment on the new charges. Costianes allegedly told authorities that he took testosterone for a medical condition, and obtained it illegally because he did not “believe in prescriptions.” But the FBI says he was not only buying but selling testosterone, as well as cocaine. He joked with another person that the FBI seized his marijuana, and…

I’m really damn stoked to see the 2021 Los Angeles Rams and the wait, the countdown, the torture of another long NFL offseason will end in barely more than 10 days. That’s when the Rams will host the Chicago Bears on Sunday Night Football (September 12th, NBC, right up in that evening time situation) and Sean McVay will FINALLY unveil what his starting offense and defense is going to do to the league this season. We’ve barely seen any of the starters or important reserves throughout the preseason and the only thing we have to go off of is training camp reports and hunches. But I can tell you this: I believe the Rams have as good of a team as any in the NFL. And I KNOW that Turf Show Times has a writing staff and community of commenters and readers that is more educated and entertaining in all things LA Rams than any other home for the team on the internet. Which now includes an Instagram page, too. You can now follow us on Instagram at the expected destination: Instagram.com/TurfShowTimes From there, we’ll have regular updates on the LA Rams and ongoing conversations between the writers and the…

Australia’s QIC has appointed a new chief investment officer as its current investment head, Jim Christensen, is planning to retire.  Allison Hill, who had been the deputy CIO, will succeed Christensen, taking responsibility for managing QIC’s state investments team and about A$58 billion (US$42.8 billion) in assets for the state of Queensland, according to a Wednesday announcement.  “QIC State Investments is fortunate to have Allison, an investment professional of high caliber and experience, to manage the investments of the state,” QIC chief executive Damien Frawley said in a statement.  The A$93 billion manager, which is owned by the Queensland government in Australia, manages the state government’s assets, as well as investments on behalf of other institutions. Hill will specifically manage Queensland’s investments, according to the announcement.   Her predecessor Christensen has been with the fund since 2016 and is now retiring, according to the announcement. He had been the state CIO since March 2020, and prior to that was managing director of the fund’s global multi-asset portfolios, his LinkedIn profile shows.  Christensen had worked for QIC previously, from 1997 through 2009, most recently as a managing director in the active management division. He left the fund for five years to serve as the CIO at…

Muscarella James F. Of West Chester, PA, on August 31, 2021. Loving husband of the late Alice M. (nee Smith); loving father Alyson Muscarella (Anthony) and James W. Muscarella; grandfather of Mason, Destinee, Anthony, and Wyatt; brother of Theresa Kelly (Neil), Peter Muscarella (the late Diane), and the late Michael Muscarella (Beverly); also survived by many nieces and nephews; predeceased by his parents Salvatore and Jennie Muscarella. Relatives and friends are invited to his Visitation 9:45 to 10:45 A.M. Saturday, September 11, 2021 at St. Maximilian Kolbe Church, 15 E. Pleasant Grove Rd., West Chester, PA 19382, followed by his Funeral Mass 11 A.M. The Funeral Mass will be livestreamed at 11 A.M. here: https://vimeo.com/596075420. Interment SS Peter & Paul. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions to The ALS Foundation 321 Norristown Road, #260, Ambler, PA 19002 or to Penn Medicine Hospice, 3535 Market Street, Suite 750, Phila., PA 19104. Arr. by The Donohue Funeral Home, 1627 West Chester, Pike, West Chester, PA 19382, 610-431-9000. Online condolences www.donohuefuneralhome.comPublished by The Philadelphia Inquirer on Sep. 5, 2021.

Texas is on the verge of passing a new law that would crack down on social media companies Republicans say are censoring conservative speech.The GOP-controlled state Senate passed the bill Tuesday night. If it heads to the desk of Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican who has publicly backed the bill, he's expected to sign it.The new law, passed in the final days of the second special session called by Abbott, would allow any Texas resident banned from Facebook, Twitter or Google's YouTube for their political views to sue the companies. The state attorney general  also would be able to sue on behalf of a user or a group of users. It is similar to a Florida law that was blocked by a federal judge one day before it was set to take effect.Trade groups representing the technology industry have pledged to challenge it as unconstitutional.“By ignoring the First Amendment,  » Read More