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Hi folks. There seems to be a lot of confusion about what we as fans can and can't do with the striking happening. So I made a flowchart.

Let me make this SUPER DUPER EXTRA CLEAR. Unless an AMPTP studio reaches out and says "We would like to give you X (money/swag/whatever) to create content for us" (that would include writing or acting in anyway on your part) you will NOT be crossing a picket line.

Cosplay, fanart, fanfic, going feral, sharing marketing posts, watching your favorite show, getting your friends to watch your favorite show, etc does not count.

It is ONLY scabbing if you are getting REIMBURSED by the STUDIO.

Please take this flowchart, repost it, spread it everywhere!

The studios benefit from us being confused. The studios benefit from us not promoting and not watching and cancelling our subscriptions. The unions, the actors, the writers, they all benefit from us promoting in their absence, they get paid when we watch the shows, we bolster their argument when we boost the shows numbers. If we make the media popular and successful the studios have to meet the writers and actors at the table, and the writers and actors will be in the position of power.

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Happy #316Day

#316Day #wwe #stone cold steve austin

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This #SpiderManNoWayHome Funko Pop where Spider-Man wore that suit at the end of the film also came in recently. Like the other Funko Pop, this will remain in box until otherwise. #SpiderMan #FunkoPop #PeterParker #TomHolland https://www.instagram.com/p/CoGRKgwrbmq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#spidermannowayhome #spiderman #funkopop #peterparker #tomholland

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Got these #SpiderManNoWayHome Funko Pops set of the three Spider-Men a while back where MCU, Raimi, and TASM are all in one box. For now, they’ll be staying in the box. Once I get it out, I’ll share updated pictures. #SpiderMan #Marvel #FunkoPop #MarvelStudios #SonyPictures #Peter1 #Peter2 #Peter3 #TomHolland #TobeyMaguire #AndrewGarfield https://www.instagram.com/p/CoGQ6hvLJyH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#spidermannowayhome #spiderman #marvel #funkopop #marvelstudios #sonypictures #peter1 #peter2 #peter3 #tomholland #tobeymaguire #andrewgarfield

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Happy New Year! Welcome to 2023 #HappyNewYear #Welcome2023 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm3C3N1NVfB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#happynewyear #welcome2023

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Funko Photoshoot ——————————- Goku: Hey! What’s your name? Yami Yugi: My name is Atem, but please call me Yugi Carol: Okay, why do you have two names? Yami Yugi: It’s hard to explain, but millennia ago when my mortal coil was perished, my soul remained in this Millennium puzzle. Centuries later, a boy named Yugi solved the millennium puzzle. Since unlocking it, I’ve reawakened in his body for certain occasions Goku: Ohhh! So you have two names because you live two different lives. Gotcha! Carol: I lived two different lives too, but wasn’t very proud of it. Goku: What?! Carol: After I hit my head, the Kree took me from Earth and wiped my memories. Lived a life as Vers for a number of years doing their bidding. Fortunately, I regained my memories as Carol and now fight to protect those who are less fortunate. Yami Yugi: Sounds like we all have a story Goku: Yeah. I remember Master Roshi told me that I hit my head as a toddler after arriving on Earth, I lost all of my memories. However, I’m glad I did because I was told I was sent to destroy the planet. Carol: I guess we both have something in common of us hitting our heads Goku: I guess so Yami Yugi: It was nice meeting you two Carol: Likewise Goku: You betcha! #FunkoPop #Funkos #Goku #CaptainMarvel #YamiYugi #Marvel #Dragonball #YuGiOh #CarolDanvers #SeanSchemmel #BrieLarson #DanGreen #FunkoPhotoshoot https://www.instagram.com/p/CTYisOJLJVy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#funkopop #funkos #goku #captainmarvel #yamiyugi #marvel #dragonball #yugioh #caroldanvers #seanschemmel #brielarson #dangreen #funkophotoshoot

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I know I’m late on this one, but props to Funko for getting the fight pose designs right on these Funkos. #Goku #CaptainMarvel #SonGoku #FunkoPop #CarolDanvers #BrieLarson #TheMarvels #DragonBallSuper https://www.instagram.com/p/CRurMOVl_1Z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#goku #captainmarvel #songoku #funkopop #caroldanvers #brielarson #themarvels #dragonballsuper

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My Christmas gift to all of you. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! #FunkoPocketPops #SpiderMan #CaptainMarvel #ScarletWitch #Thanos #Thor #IronMan #Hulk #CaptainAmerica #BlackPanther   #Groot #RocketRaccoon https://www.instagram.com/p/Cml99HlLCMm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#funkopocketpops #spiderman #captainmarvel #scarletwitch #thanos #thor #ironman #hulk #captainamerica #blackpanther #groot #rocketraccoon

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#FunkoPocketPop Christmas progress so far. #SpiderMan #ScarletWitch #CaptainMarvel #CaptainAmerica #Groot #Thanos #Hulk #Thor #BlackPanther #IronMan https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPxjb-rGIN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#funkopocketpop #spiderman #scarletwitch #captainmarvel #captainamerica #groot #thanos #hulk #thor #blackpanther #ironman

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New Across The Spider-Verse images from the trailer release after party!

1. Jess Drew aka Spider-Woman 2. Pavitr Prabhakar aka Spider-Man India  3. Hobie Brown aka Spider-Punk (fun fact - Gwen’s new shoes in the trailer are formerly Hobie’s!) 4. Mayday Parker 5. Mumbhattan (based on 70s comics in India) 6. Gwen’s world (based on the gouache watercolor style of Gwen’s comics) 7. Nueva York 2099 (based on 70s and 80s Syd Mead drawings of the future)

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Common edicate says you gotta warn a girl before you cover her in web like this Spider-Man… now ya gotta go get a towel…

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Damage CTRL 💞

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Old blog post, but worth resharing

Apple and Twitter

My friend and co-worker Tom has a thesis about Apple’s biggest problem: Google is getting better at design faster than Apple is getting better at web services.

I’m a long-time Mac user and a diehard Apple fan, and even I will admit that Apple’s approach to the web has been a clusterfuck. iCloud, née MobileMe, née .Mac, has only ever been adequate at best. I’ve heard (or been victim to) countless stories of duplicate or lost contacts, calendar syncing errors, or email downtime. Outside of sync services, Apple has other web problems. Here are a few examples:

Apple can’t update its online store without taking it offline first.

A popular Game Center game was able to bring down the entire network.

Apple requires you to re-friend everyone on Game Center, Find my Friends, and Shared Photostreams.

Notes requires an email account to sync.

The iTunes and App Stores are still powered by WebObjects, a mostly dead framework written almost 20 years ago.

iMessage for Mac lives in an alternate dimension in which time has no ordered sequence.

Ping.

Almost anything Apple does which involves the internet is a mess, save for their excellent web browser teams.

Meanwhile, Google, specifically Android, has been steadily improving its entire platform. To me, it still doesn’t have the same quality of polish and feel that Apple software does. However, it’s getting harder to argue that point, especially since their web services all tend to Just Work. Features like Google Now and near-instant voice commands are starting to give Android a serious leg up on iOS. Design is coming along as well. Android is still ugly, but it’s much less ugly than it was a few years ago. Google seems to be actively addressing this, and if Apple isn’t worried, they should be. Tom is the first friend I’ve had who has switched from iOS to Android, and he is unlikely to be the last.

Here’s what I’m getting at: Apple should buy Twitter, and they should do it now.

I’m hardly the first to suggest such an acquisition. Apple and Twitter have talked before and much speculation has already been made. Most, if not all, of this speculation centered around how Apple needed to buy a social network, because Apple needed “Social” – whatever that means. Owning a social network only solves one of the aforementioned problems (finding friends) and it only does so only partially: Both friends must already be a part of that social network for it to work. It seems ludicrous to suggest paying billions of dollars for half a solution to the symptom of a problem.

So that’s not that argument I want to make.

I would posit that the cause Apple’s lackluster web skills stems from their inability to recruit or keep talented web engineers. Historically, if you’re into databases, servers, or web application frameworks, then Apple was probably pretty low on the list of places you aspired to work at. Apple has always positioned itself as a consumer products company, and even killed off its server hardware over the years. Mac OS X Server remains, but who knows for how long.

Where Apple falls short, Twitter flies. Not only does Twitter use some of the most advanced web technology, they invented it. They own scale. They know how to send hundreds of thousands of tweets a minute. Further, Twitter is social network with values that (used to) reflect Apple: focus and simplicity.

Apple should buy Twitter not for its social network, but for its talent and technology. That talent and technology could undoubtably help bring Apple and iCloud into the 21st century. The social network is basically an added bonus.

Twitter is a company struggling to make financial sense. With over $1B in funding and over 1500 employees, they need to figure out how to stay in the game for the long term. Hence, the disappointing pivot and the user backlash. Exhibit A, exhibit B. While Twitter may make a lot of money for its investors, having many of your original users abandon ship isn’t good for your long term prospects.

Apple has boatloads of money, and although it’s extremely conservative with it – you don’t get rich by spending money, after all – I don’t think it’s out of the question for them to make a heavy strategic investment like this.

An Apple buyout of Twitter wouldn’t be welcomed by all. With so many Twitter employees, I imagine at least a few hundred of them are dedicated to Twitter’s advertising arm. Since Apple is unlikely to be interested in that aspect of Twitter’s business, many of those jobs would likely disappear. It wouldn’t be pretty. (Then again, maybe they could help turn around iAds?)

If it doesn’t happen soon, it likely won’t happen at all. The larger Twitter gets, the more likely an IPO, and Apple isn’t dumb enough to pay the grossly inflated market prices for a publicly traded social media company. Further, the more Twitter becomes a “media company” the less engineering talent it will retain. Anecdotally, I’ve already heard of quite a few key engineers leaving the nest.

All said, I think this is pretty unlikely to happen. Maybe I’m just jaded, but Twitter probably thinks of itself as being too big and too primed for money-making to be acquired at this point. Also, stomaching the layoffs of much of it’s staff doesn’t sound like something their leadership would be up for. Apple is probably too in denial about the failings of it’s antiquated approach to the web to consider dropping such a huge amount of money.

The fit seems so good, it’s hard to not wish for.

Update: A previous version of this article referenced a statistic about Twitter handling hundreds of thousands of tweets per second. This was an error, the rate Twitter quoted was 327,452 per minute. My apologies. Still, it’s quite an impressive number, considering the one-to-many nature of Tweets.

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Happy Birthday to Roxanne Perez!!! 🎂🎈

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Liv Morgan vs Sonya Deville