because I saw this all of you have to as well
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Serenity "🜔🝆🜌🜂" Dee 🍜
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![Kevin Smith pitched Jon Peters his story outline in late 1996, and he was allowed to write the screenplay under certain conditions:
• Peters did not want Superman to fly, arguing that the character would "look like an overgrown Boy Scout". Smith wrote Superman flying as "a red-and-blue blur in flight, creating a sonic boom every time he flew".
• Peters also wanted Superman to fight a giant spider in the third act.
Smith accepted the terms, realizing that he was being hired to execute a preordained idea. Peters would go on to insist [on] further additions:
• Smith was also forced to write a scene involving Brainiac fighting a polar bear at the Fortress of Solitude.
• The Star Wars 20th anniversary re-release in theaters prompted Peters to commission a "space dog" that Brainiac could present to Luthor purely for merchandising appeal and toy sales.
• Peters also insisted that Brainiac's robot assistant L-Ron was to be voiced by Dwight Ewell, calling the character "a gay R2-D2 with attitude".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g3bg7tg75rvqs34gg5finxng/bafkreigcv67axb63rm5nftswdqu7rkmgrkpgzjou54uwykjuau7cais6sm)
![A judge who presides in Family Court has learned that an attorney representing a parent in a custody matter sent the following message to a court officer: “Hey – you don’t have to say a thing, just wondering how the Lincoln hearing went with my client’s kids? [My client] was so upset they had to go through that.” The message was directed to the specific court officer who provided security during a closed, ex parte hearing at which a court attorney-referee conducted separate interviews with each child.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g3bg7tg75rvqs34gg5finxng/bafkreigsr4oun6ai47y67ornjxsrutmf4asse42v5v3rkivtqla2jtfsnm)
![Backlash and hate crimes
In weeks following the attacks, there was a surge in incidents of harassment and hate crimes against South Asians, Middle Easterners, and anyone thought to be "Middle Eastern-looking"—particularly Sikhs, because Sikh males usually wear turbans, which are stereotypically and erroneously associated with Muslims by many Americans. Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh man, was one of the first victims of this backlash; he was shot dead on September 15 at the gas station he owned in Mesa, Arizona. Mark Anthony Stroman, a white supremacist, killed two men and injured a third in a shooting spree beginning September 15 in Dallas, Texas. His victims, including Bangladeshi American Rais Bhuiyan, were all targeted because they looked "of Muslim descent". His motive for the killings was revenge for the 9/11 attacks.[14] In New York City itself, the only death possibly related to post-9/11 hate violence officially recorded as a homicide was Henryk Siwiak, a Polish immigrant shot in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on September 11. His family theorized he may have been the victim of a hate crime in the wake of the attacks, since he was wearing camouflage clothing, had dark hair and spoke imperfect, heavily accented English.[15] The case remains unsolved; police are open to the family's theory but have not classified the killing as a bias crime.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g3bg7tg75rvqs34gg5finxng/bafkreidvptpjru46fjs5xtw3yibg46r7nya7elsai6ndi2vofcq4vu5q6e)
![In many cities there were reports of vandalism against mosques and other Islamic institutions, including some cases of arson.[17][18][19][20][21] In the year after the attack, anti-Muslim hate crimes jumped 1,600 percent.[22] The FBI and other government agencies arrested and deported Arabs and Arab Americans in higher numbers after the attacks than before, often with limited or insufficient evidence to connect them to purported terrorism.[23]
As memorials were set up all over NY and even in the 9/11 museum, Talat Hamdani's request to honor her son, Salman Hamdani, was denied.[24] Salman Hamdani was an off-duty EMT and an NYPD cadet who died as he went to the towers to help save others. Salman Hamdani was Pakistani-American and his mother, Talat Hamdani, received public assaults of his character as they believed because of their Muslim faith, he must have been involved with the attacks as he was missing. Talat was questioned and asked about the reasons Salman joined the NYPD, his travel experience and who he was in contact with. News outlets like the New York Post published a story, "Missing or Hiding? — Mystery of NYPD Cadet from Pakistan",[25] and multiple "Wanted" posters that had pictures from his cadet days stating "Hold and detain. Notify: major squad case".[26] His body was found a month after the event and he was post-humously declared a hero by Congress 45 days after the attack, although his name was originally placed under the list of non-first responders.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g3bg7tg75rvqs34gg5finxng/bafkreigcwt2iuy2brnmh7ufvwgkydzdc4b34boxvgktxcmbij4vye5qrha)
![Clockwise from top left:
An octopus arm hook
A small white child wearing a T-shirt that reads "I got my DADDY'S TEMPER — and my — MAMA'S [cut off]"
A possibly AI, and if not definitely retouched, photo of a well-tanned conventionally attractive white woman in glasses, white trousers, and a baby doll sleeveless white top
A different white woman holding a strange plastic object in her open mouth, between her front teeth, with three of the same object on the left side of the image labeled "Masseter muscle trainer"
A black T-shirt with white text that reads "[very large text] MY WIFE IS PRETTY [much smaller text] AWESOME FOR LETTING ME HANG OUT IN THE MAN CAVE ALL WEEKEND"
A white person's hand holding a red round object with distressingly wet and organic surface that one eventually concludes, based on context clues in the background, is a roll of patent-leather-like material](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g3bg7tg75rvqs34gg5finxng/bafkreigsdd6ibb6m2hqpyndvv7u6rhqngizg57yxweks6fwovvenxcty5q)
![Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told lawmakers during closed-door testimony before the the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday that Israel is “destroying more and more houses [in Gaza and Palestinians accordingly] have nowhere to return,” according to quotes from the session leaked to the media.
“The only obvious result will be Gazans choosing to emigrate outside of the Strip,” Netanyahu continued. “But our main problem is finding countries to take them in.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g3bg7tg75rvqs34gg5finxng/bafkreid5xoj5kd7gcnewspupwcvi3ehauxgyla7isouvw6fxn37dksnxmm)
![May Golan, the Minister for Social Equality, said after the October 7th attacks that "All of Gaza’s infrastructures must be destroyed to its foundation and their electricity cut off immediately. The war is not against Hamas but against the state of Gaza.”[79] Golan later said "I am personally proud of the ruins of Gaza, and that every baby, even 80 years from now, will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did."[80] In a speech before a rally advocating for Jewish settlements in Gaza, Golan called for "another Nakba."[81]
Israeli energy (later defense) minister Israel Katz said: "All the civilian population in Gaza is ordered to leave immediately. We will win. They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world."[82][83]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g3bg7tg75rvqs34gg5finxng/bafkreied5mrksn6pkutglc5czudjrncwnk2mdwz3f265n3czn2vggvw3xy)
