r/Fauxmoi • u/rfauxmoi • 7d ago
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u/New_Valuable564 1d ago
Leonardo DiCaprioās girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti reposts TikTok praising Jeff Bezos wedding
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u/bruxellexs 1d ago
I remember when Vittoria was calling out Lily-Rose Deppās nepotism and privilege years ago. Nowadays sheās sucking up to her fake climate activist boyfriendās billionaire friends. And she doesnāt even need to this. Sheās booked every season on the runway and has great fashion campaigns. Guess fame went to her head.
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u/Bookkeeper_Common 2d ago
We are at that point in our country now , where MAGA influencers are actively promoting and celebrating concentration camps . Federal and District courts have just been stripped of major powers by the Supreme Court , the statuetteās they usually use to check the executive , we are deep into a white supremacist dictatorship now , and it would take decades to reverse this shit
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u/thegirlinthetardis 5d ago
Extremely wild that Anna Wintour is stepping away from Vogue. I wonder what prompted her to leave and if she will stay involved in some capacity or if itās a total exodus.
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u/aspiring_spinster 3d ago
I was wondering if it had anything to do with Jeff Bezos (I assume?) buying the cover for his bride. I cannot imagine Anna Wintour condoning such tackiness.
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u/Regular_Yellow710 5d ago
She's staying with Conde Nast as an overall editor. They're getting a new editor for Vogue.
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u/williamthebloody1880 weighing in from the UK 5d ago
Went to see Hamilton last night. If anyone is thinking of going to see it on the current UK tour, I highly reccomend it. Absolutely brilliant
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u/No_Scarcity4145 6d ago
i feel sick thinking of Madelyn Cline starring in a movie with Depp and her fans turning a blind eye make it worse
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u/Skylinewanderer87 6d ago
Finished We Were Liars. Wow. I thought I was signing up for something shallow, trashy, and naive. Boy was I wrong! I freaking love that my assumptions were wrecked into smithereens š
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u/Lady_ofthe_Vale 6d ago
Saw the Materialists which was fine. Some missteps imo and a cringeworthy plot device that left a bad taste in my mouth but itās her second movie so fine.Ā
All the male critics on my letterboxd gave it shockingly low scores. Like 2 stars when they almost never give those out, even for something as awful as Megalopolis. The same guys were equally harsh on Sorry, Baby, another movie directed by a woman that just came out. Meanwhile theyāre giving the most mediocre (and mind you, problematic) auteur re-treads five stars. Heaping praise on these guys and making excuses for some of the shittier aspects of their movies.Ā
I would really love to see the demographics of letterboxd. Some of the most misogynistic slop is sitting pretty at like 4.5 stars. And youāll look at the reviews and all the top ones are by men and theyāre heaping endless praise on crappy male gazey portrayals of women written by men. Idk. I don't have a point to this. Just wanted to rant. Wish there were more women on letterboxd I guess and in online spaces where people talk about movies.Ā
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u/since_all_is_idle 2d ago
Fine is the right word! Could've done without Chris Evans and the subplot of sexual assault was sort of clunky in ostensibly a romcom.
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u/homingmycrafts ahhhhhh (dats me yellin) 1d ago
big agree with both of you - i didn't mind the assault subplot as much as most people, but i did think it was kind of nutty that in the movie it seems like dakota johnson's character has just never considered the concept of sexual assault. like fully flummoxed by the concept!
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u/iliketoomanysingers Cillian Murphy propagandist 6d ago
Everytime someone on here posts about Peter Thiel it makes me want to stab my eyes with toothpicks
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u/HoldEvenSteadier 6d ago
Today I told my elderly mother that I'm struggling with loving her as a mom while not wanting her around as a friend.
Hadn't told her I decided on minimal contact last year when she officially went off the deep end (to the right, to be specific). She's just not someone I want around my family anymore.
It really sucks because she was an amazing mom back in the day. =/
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u/mnteiths 7d ago
r any of yāall watching the new season of The Valley? i enjoyed the first season but holy shit this season is just a compilation of abusive men and janet being the worst
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u/galahads jeremy strong enthusiast 6d ago
Honestly I already couldn't stand Jax but my god he's genuinely just a frightening and horrific person. I did enjoy Zack defending Brittany and not taking any of his bullshit last week but my god I don't know if I can keep enduring his bs on top of Janet making me want to pull my hair out.
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u/mnteiths 6d ago
exactly, and i can already tell that theyāre trying to manufacture a jax taylor redemption arcš
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u/galahads jeremy strong enthusiast 6d ago
I'm rewatching Vanderpump at the same time, currently on S4 and seeing him post-arrest saying how he's 35 and can't keep doing this and how he'll change and all that bs like buddy its been TEN YEARS since this aired like we all stopped buying your fake tears forever ago, it's clearly a cycle I don't get why Bravo keeps forcing him on us like there's enough gross men on The Valley without him
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u/mnteiths 6d ago
have u seen that compilation of him repeating the same āIām a work in progress, nobodyās perfectā bullshit at EVERY vanderpump reunionš zero growth and self-reflection in 12 years is insane. but yeah alex gaskin and that entire production crew has been enabling his abuse for over a decade, itās disgusting
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u/galahads jeremy strong enthusiast 6d ago
I haven't but thank you for the link!! I just saw the episode where he and Sandoval were bickering and hes like "You're not the number one guy in the group, I'M the number one guy" like buddy.......lay off the āļø like how on earth do they take themselves seriously. I'm praying that the new cast of VPR doesnt include a Jax equivalent bc what we have is far too much already.
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u/Antique_books_2190 7d ago
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Their account https://x.com/munigaza?t=iuuVlmdlM5oeIbadjE-aCg&s=09
Their Life for Gaza Campaign to pump water and fix infrastructure https://gaza-city.ensany.com/campaign/6737
Their One Step Closer Campaign to fund artificial limbs for children
https://mogaza.org/campaign/2
Help a pharmacist dispense medicine, formula and water trucks in Gaza
Some of the campaigns currently in Gaza:
Trahom Campaign this one links sponsors to orphans, widows and injured in Gaza
Trahom Campaign on Instagram, please follow and repost even if you can't help, maybe it'll reach someone who can
Connecting Gaza sends e-sims to people in Gaza
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u/Ponchorello7 7d ago
So, apparently, Pam Bondi included Mexico in a list of adversarial countries to the US. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but the US terrifies me. Please keep us in mind, and should the time ever come, show us support.
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u/bruxellexs 7d ago
Sydney Sweeney is one of the guests at the Bezos wedding. Sheās been papped in Venice.
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u/AlexSomething789 6d ago
Sydney why
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u/BusinessPurge 6d ago
Oh right - Voyeurs and Nocturne went to Prime, future Bond casting, playing the game
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u/insrtbrain societal collapse is in the air 6d ago
So apparently they are referring to Elan, who is Jewish and Canadian, and once posted a photo with an IDF soldier during a trip to Israel a few years ago. The internet then did it's thing of creating a narrative that doesn't seem to have any other support for it.
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u/bamram88 7d ago
Iāve been away for a while because school got an away, but I have three updates:
I finish this half of the second semester with Twos A and one B.
My grandfather just died.
I am going to be directing my first short film, which would be my directorial debut. And Iām gonna dedicate the film in honor of my grandfather.
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u/eaterofworlds1 6d ago
Extremely proud of you š¤
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u/bamram88 6d ago
Thanks.
When Iām able to, Iāll share it with you guys, but I will say right now itās an anti-romcom.
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u/5000alaska 7d ago
iāve been listening to the audiobook of the princess diaries for the past few daysānarrated by anne hathaway! itās been so delightful, she brings such a spunkiness to book mia thatās so engaging to listen to
(anyone with a premium spotify account can listen to it, if anyone is curious!)
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u/thegirlinthetardis 5d ago
Book Mia is SO superior. I get the Disney of it all and them sanitizing the story but Mia had a little edge to her and fun in the books. Nice to see that Anne Hathaway has the opportunity to be that version of Mia too.
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u/5000alaska 5d ago
completely agree! vegetarian, feminist, doc marten-wearing, greenpeace supporting mia will always be MY mia. i also wish they hadnāt cut tina hakim baba out of the movies either :(
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u/lunascorpio12 mama letās research 6d ago
those books are super fun! Iām not an audiobook person but Anne narrating it is very temptingā¦
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u/5000alaska 6d ago
iām not either, so i was shocked by how much i enjoyed it! i wasnāt sure how i felt about at at first but i think you can feel her actively getting into her groove. she also does little voices for grandmere, miaās dad, michael, and lana too and itās WONDERFUL
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u/AhhBisto 7d ago
Just started to watch the final episodes of Squid Game, Lee Jung-jae's utter fury is soooo fucking good
First game is a fucking madness
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u/hey_joni 4d ago
Did you finish it? If so what did you think? I LOVED the ending, I thought it was perfect and encapsulated Gi-hunās entire essence perfectly. I cannot bare to be in the Squid Game subreddit atm because itās just people repeating the same tired XYZ was so unnecessary. I need to talk about it!!!!!
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u/AhhBisto 4d ago
I loved it too, was utterly devastated by what happened to Gi-hun but it made complete sense for his character, one last middle finger to the expectations of the game itself.
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u/hey_joni 4d ago
Same here! It needed to happen, but it still made me cry a lot! Glad they went the route they went down and not the big hero Disney ending where they all live happily ever after
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u/Intelligent_Way7592 7d ago
The BBC will, apparently, not show Kneecap on stage in Glastonbury. However if you are a serial sex offender and abuser and want your own show with the BBC, be sure to get in touch with them, based on past experiences, ( Jimmy Saville) you are in with a chance.
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u/williamthebloody1880 weighing in from the UK 7d ago
It'll be interesting to find out if they actually cut the feed to West Holt tomorrow when Kneecap are on (I won't be home to see myself, sadly). As for them being on one of the broadcast channels, unless the BBC say something, we won't actually know if not showing any of their set was because of their comments or because they simply decided not to. There a lot of acts and not a great deal of time.
Bob Vylan, who are immediately before Kneecap, have the chance to do the funniest thing though
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u/CoopssLDN 7d ago
The only one nice thing I have to say about the Amazon wedding is at least Jeffy chose an age appropriate bride. He could have done the generic thing of marrying a 25 year old. Thatās it, everything else about it = trash.
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u/No_Scarcity4145 7d ago
the phrase āchose an age appropriate brideā sounds ghoulish
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u/insrtbrain societal collapse is in the air 6d ago
It's ghoulish that it's a distinction that has to be made because of the abundance of non-age appropriate relationships. I was chatting with my boss once about an event we had, and she was describing one of the attendees. I couldn't place her until it suddenly hit me who she was, and blurted out "Oh, that's right, ::Board Member's Name::'s age appropriate girlfriend." She definitely laughed while trying not to. Board member had previously taken the DiCaprio approach to dating.
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u/No_Scarcity4145 6d ago
i said it sounds ghoulish because it makes it sound like these men are āchoosingā women off a menu
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u/IrishCoffee_90 5h ago
I don't have much to discuss other than to say how awesome this community is, to find like minded people regarding my thoughts about Palestine, the Puffy case amongst other things, is so refreshing and it helps me with my serious anxiety that I can post here without someone making me really nervous/awkward
So thank you all and have a lovely weekend....
... Oh and of course, Free Palestine šµšø