She was doing the “Apple Dance” at a Charli XCX concert.

I guess that’s a thing. I’m too old to know what kind of thing. Apparently Charli XCX picks somebody to do it at every concert. Whatever it is, props to Chuck 90-10 for picking an attractive, nearly-topless female celebrity to do it. Better Gracie than Dick Van Dyke.

(Although Dick probably still has some moves.)

Well, it is somebody’s crotch. We assume, but don’t know for sure, that it is hers.

Original post (not removed – usual Instagram nonsense):

Original post (a video):

Original IG post

Drama. French-Belgian-Swiss co-production. (Original title: L’Âme du Tigre)

Alex Chen is rock-climbing with his girlfriend when their blissful weekend escape is interrupted by shocking news: Alex’s brother, Jun, has suddenly dropped dead. As Alex returns to Paris to mourn and investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding Jun’s death, he begins confronting his long-ignored Chinese heritage. Believing that Jun’s fate is tied to visits to China, Alex enlists his Chinese cousin, Lili, as a kind of cultural emissary/translator to find out more. As he digs deeper, Alex becomes enmeshed in cultural conflict, torn between Lili and his steady French paramour, and finding himself mediating a rupture between his Chinese father, who seeks refuge in rituals, and his inconsolable French mother, who wants to grieve privately.

Defoe’s film clip is here.

Russian dramedy series. Cyrillic: 50 оттенков брака (50 Shades of Marriage)

An ordinary Russian couple, mired in the routine and dullness of past years, is trying to save their marriage by purchasing a course of sexual resurrection. From this moment on, the Konovalovs plunge into a cycle of intimate experiments that seem strange, funny, and some even frightening to them. In the process, the Konovalovs understand that intimate life is just part of the puzzle, and the reason for their discord lies much deeper.

This busty babe is a real life PhD neuroscientist who has become viral on TikTok (750K subs) by giving mental health advice.

Allegedly.

The nudes and the advice videos certainly look like the same woman. Could be, I guess. I assume getting naked pays much better than neuroscience.

(That’s not a great reflection on the reality of human existence.)

The woman he is talking about used to post on TikTok as neuroscientist Rachelle Summers. That account is now empty, but it’s difficult if not impossible to scour all traces on the internet. There was a bot that used to forward her posts to Twitter, where the entries still exist under that name. She is now posting on TikTok as Dr. Rachel Barr, although her descriptor says she is just a PhD candidate. (Perhaps she has now earned her degree and failed to update the description.)

Climate change fantasy/drama from Scandinavia

At the beginning of Eternal, an earthquake in Iceland opens a huge fissure in the ocean’s floor, raising the water temperature, destabilizing the tectonic plates, altering the electromagnetic field surrounding Earth and allowing lethal space radiation to reach the surface. In short: the end of the world is suddenly visible, and mere decades away. Part of the planet’s population starts partying, other people try to find a solution. Elias, a brilliant Danish student, is obsessed with news surrounding the fissure, writing papers about its effects and possible ways to avoid them. He meets Anita, a beautiful young singer, and the two fall in love, even prepare to get married. But when Anita gets pregnant, Elias has just been allowed a scholarship in MIT and he wants nothing to distract him from his mission to save the planet. The couple decide to have an abortion, break off the relationship, and Elias moves to the United States.

Many years later, Elias is an experienced captain on a scientific submarine, helming Mankind’s attempt to plug the fissure. But whenever the hole in the ocean’s floor is approached, weird phenomena start taking place. One of them is that Elias inexplicably gets glimpses of the alternate life he would have led if he had stayed with Anita and raised a family with her. Confronted with the sacrifices he has made, the fissure seems to allow him a choice: sacrifice even more… or not.

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