If you can run an entire marathon while wearing an inflatable T-Rex costume, you can do anything—including propose to the woman of your dreams! After the London Marathon on April 22, 2018, one Cretaceous Period apex predator took the leap and got down on one knee!
H/T - Mashable, Twitter, @BBCGetInspired
Academy Award-winning actor Halle Berry pushed back against the stigmatization of women and aging in a powerful interview with Fortune magazine.
The 58-year-old Hollywood bombshell established herself as a leading actor in 2001 when she became the first African-American woman and first woman of color to win the Oscar for her captivating performance as a struggling widow in Monster's Ball.
Berry touched on natural beauty positivity, the "gift of aging," and female empowerment against unfair societal norms imposed by the patriarchy.
She began the interview by discussing an annoying male double standard.
"Historically, women, as we age, we just get old, right? Men get sexy," said Berry.
"They get gray hair and they're silver foxes. We're just old...we're haggard."
"Society tells us or has told us that our time is up. Well, I know that we're just getting our groove, we're just starting."
"But women really don't understand that yet because society has told us something different."
She insisted that it was up to women to "reclaim that narrative" and change how they're perceived throughout their lives.
Berry continued:
"Aging is a privilege, and we should see it that way. We should feel that way about getting older. We should feel like the crowned jewels of our society."
"I have always known that I'm more than this shell that I walk around in. I have longed for someone to say something to me other than, 'Oh gosh, you're so pretty.' "
"I've longed to hear other words. I know I'm more than this," she said.
Here's a sample from her interview.
Berry has been a Hollywood sex symbol since the 2000s and was named one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" and "Sexiest Black Woman" by Access Hollywood's "TV One Access" survey.
By being an advocate for women's health, the mother of two is helping other women who are going through menopause to embrace their natural beauty.
In May 2024, Berry joined bipartisan Senators in Washington DC to push legislation that would fund $275 million towards research and education surrounding menopause therapies and medicine.
During her speech in front of the Capitol, Berry unashamedly told reporters:
"I'm in menopause, OK?"
"The shame has to be taken out of menopause. We have to talk about this very normal part of our life that happens."
"Our doctors can't even say the word to us, let alone walk us through the journey," she added at the time.
Berry also spoke out against cosmetic surgery, which Hollywood has long been known to push on female actors.
She said:
"As I've aged, I've been determined to age gracefully and naturally. It's a shame that as women, we're being told that we have to find a way to stay eternally young...forever 30, as though we're not allowed to be human and do what we're naturally born to do."
"We're born to age and die."
"But somehow, as women, we have to do the unthinkable. We have to figure out a way to do it, and unfortunately, we're turning ourselves into monsters trying to do that."
"I'm committed to being a spokesperson for allowing yourself to age gracefully, knowing that you're more than this shell you're walking around in."
Social media users shared their thoughts cosmetic surgery.
Some had a hard time accepting this could apply to everyone.
After discovering a "newfound sense of empowerment and health" through her own wellness research journey, Berry launched a women's wellness business called Respin to help women embrace the natural transition and become "inspired by the eternal beauty that comes with it."
You can see the whole Fortune interview here.
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Aside from her acting career and recent turn as a film director and producer, signing with Range Media Partners in 2023, Berry has continued actively engaging in philanthropy.
She's joined organizations like the Jenesse Center in Los Angeles to help victims of domestic abuse, as well as supporting other causes including Love Our Children USA, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Stand Up to Cancer, and Black Lives Matter.
Singer-songwriter Khalid opened up about his sexuality in a series of candid tweets in response to being "outed" by fellow musician Hugo D Almonte, who implied they'd been in a relationship.
Khalid shared a Pride flag emoji along with the following short and sweet message:
"there yall go. next topic please lol"
You can see his post below.
After one of his followers responded that they "hope Mr Khalid isn’t GEHHH!” Khalid responded with:
"I am! And that's okay."
You can see his post below.
In a follow-up tweet, Khalid shared why he felt the need to address his sexuality:
"I got outted and the world still continues to turn. Let’s get this straight (lmao) I am not ashamed of my sexuality! In reality it ain’t nobodies business! But I am okay with me [heart emoji] love yall."
You can see his post below.
He was also quick to point out in a response to another follower that he "wasn't hiding anything" but that his sexuality is "just not any of your business."
You can see his post below.
Khalid later spoke to Vulture about his decision to publicly speak about his sexuality, saying his tweets were a response to now-deleted tweets fromfellow singer Hugo D Almonte, who implied he and Khalid had been in a relationship at one point.
Almonte allegedly posted on X that he had ended things with a “dumb ass singer” who had falsely accused him of breaking into their home.
The situation intensified when Almonte, in another since-deleted tweet, shared a photo of himself with Khalid, captioned: “Bitch ass lied and said that I broke into his house cause I didn’t want him.”
In his own remarks to Vulture, Almonte claimed he “never” meant to “out someone who’s clearly been out already in the community in Los Angeles.” Almonte said his “intentions” were to “share my story and share how [Khalid] tried to use his power to silence me because I simply ended our relationship, he was afraid of what I might say.”
Many have praised Khalid for coming out regardless of the circumstances.
Khalid's third album, the critically acclaimed Sincere, was released earlier this year.
Courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg's latest sketches of the disbarred former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani have gone viral after she captured him in remarkable detail lashing out in court.
Giuliani appeared in federal court in Manhattan for a case where he has been ordered to pay nearly $150 million to two Georgia election workers he defamed.
The ruling requires him to surrender significant assets, including a vintage 1980s Mercedes sports car and a luxury Manhattan apartment, to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. Giuliani was found to have falsely accused the two workers of ballot tampering during the 2020 presidential election.
Judge Louis Liman suggested that Giuliani had not fully complied with the order to turn over his assets, sparking an angry response from Giuliani, who complained the case had caused significant personal upheaval.
Liman expressed skepticism over Giuliani’s claim of difficulty obtaining paperwork to transfer ownership of the car. Leaning forward and pointing his finger at the judge, Giuliani insisted he had applied for the document, but it had not yet arrived.
Rosenberg's sketches caught the moment Giuliani spoke out of turn and scolded the judge with the following remark:
“Your implication that I have been not diligent about this is totally incorrect. I’m not impoverished. Everything I have is tied up."
"I don’t have a car, I don’t have a credit card, I don’t have cash. I can’t pay my bills.”
Liman scolded Giuliani for his outburst, warning Giuliani's attorneys that Giuliani is "not going to be permitted to speak and the court will take action" the next time he interrupts a hearing.
You can see the sketches below.
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Jane Rosenberg
Rosenberg's sketches quickly went viral and were lauded for capturing Giuliani's fall from grace.
In an interview with CNN host Kaitlan Collins, Rosenberg said Giuliani was "losing it" in court and was even shouting orders at his defense team in the middle of the hearing:
“His decorum has certainly changed from when I sketched him 44 years ago as a prosecutor. He’s losing it. He was wild and I feel bad for anyone who represents him. He blurts out orders at his lawyers who are at the podium and, you know, he’s interrupting all the time.”
Rosenberg added:
“His attorney is turning around like he doesn’t know how to handle it. He’s in the middle of speaking to a judge at the podium and behind him he’s shouting orders."
“That was the attorney who just quit the day after that, and now he has a new attorney, and so this one tried to speak and when the judge told him he’s not allowed to speak anymore after he had that burst, he started shouting at him and pointing at him.”
You can hear what she said in the video below.
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When Collins asked what it was like to hear Giuliani say that he can't pay his bills, Rosenberg said she is "sure he’s managing okay, and these women who he’s defamed are not seeing much of it [the money Giuliani has been ordered to pay] at all.”
Texas Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett is calling out Republicans who've criticized President Joe Biden over his pardon of his son Hunter.
Biden granted “a full and unconditional” pardon to his son, Hunter Biden, covering federal gun and tax charges. Hunter Biden had been scheduled to be sentenced for his federal gun conviction on December 12 and for his tax case just four days later.
In June, Hunter Biden was found guilty in Delaware on three felony counts tied to his 2018 purchase of a handgun. On the purchase form, he falsely stated that he was not a user of illicit drugs. In September, he pleaded guilty to nine federal tax charges in Los Angeles, choosing an “open” plea, which allows a judge to determine sentencing.
The tax charges carried a maximum penalty of 17 years in prison, while the gun charges could have resulted in up to 25 years. However, federal sentencing guidelines likely would have resulted in a much shorter term, and there was a possibility that Hunter Biden might have avoided prison time altogether.
The pardon applies to all “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted.”
The GOP—which used Hunter Biden's offenses in a failed attempt to impeach his father—has been up in arms since then, accusing Biden of abusing his pardon power. However, Crockett shut that down in an appearance on MSNBC, noting that “anyone who wants to clutch their pearls” needs to "take a look in the mirror" over their support for Trump.
She said:
"I won't pretend to speak for the entire caucus but, 'Way to go, Joe.' Let me be the first one to congratulate the president for deciding to do this because at the end of the day, we now have a 34-count convicted felon that is about to walk into the White House."
"For anyone who wants to clutch their pearls now because he decided he was going to pardon his son, I would say, 'Take a look in the mirror' because we also know that when it comes to this Cabinet, this Cabinet has more people accused of sexual assault than any incoming Cabinet probably ever in the history of America."
“So we are living in unprecedented times and we know that this was completely political as someone who serves on the [House] Oversight Committee, this was gamesmanship the entire time.”
You can hear what she said in the video below.
Crockett: For anyone who wants to clutch their pearls because he was going to pardon his son, I would say take a look in the mirror because we also know that when it comes to this cabinet, this cabinet has more people accused of sexual assault than any incoming cabinet
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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 1:40 AM
Crockett's remarks underscore the fact that Trump—who earlier this year was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his hush money case—has promised amnesty for criminals.
Trump has floated the idea of pardoning the more than 1,400 individuals criminally charged for their involvement in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, referring to them as “Great Patriots.” As the first former president to face criminal charges and a criminal conviction, he has also raised the unprecedented possibility of a self-pardon to evade legal consequences and undermine the rule of law.
Throughout his presidency, Trump issued an extraordinary number of pardons and commutations to individuals with deeply controversial records, including close friends, politically connected allies, corrupt politicians, and others whose silence served his interests.
Among those pardoned or granted commutations were Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, and others connected to Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign and its links to Russia. He also pardoned four former Blackwater guards convicted of killing 14 unarmed civilians in Baghdad in 2007.
Trump extended clemency to several former members of Congress, including New York Republican Representative Chris Collins, who had pleaded guilty to insider trading and lying to the FBI.
Additionally, six members of Congress, along with attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, sought pardons from Trump for their roles in the events of January 6—the same events that resulted in Trump’s federal indictment on four counts and his status as an unindicted co-conspirator in several other cases.
And Crockett's point about Trump's Cabinet picks is right on the money considering Pete Hegseth (his Defense Secretary pick) was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2017. Moreover, former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz (his Attorney General pick) was forced to withdraw his name from consideration amid heightened scrutiny over sex trafficking allegations.
Many concurred with Crockett's remarks.
Trump is hiring criminals like temp help for the holiday season.
— rccolaw.bsky.social (@rccolaw.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Trump is going to pardon J6 criminals day one. So these dorks can shut it when they accuse Biden of ANYTHING.
— christianreese.bsky.social (@christianreese.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Don't forget that the going rate for Trump pardons the first time around was a million a pardon. He also pardoned fraudsters and cheats. Don't want to hear about word about Hunter who was targeted by people who spent our tax $ in hearings going after Hunter when they were supposed to be working.
— Kristy (@kris10l.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 2:03 AM
This incoming Cabinet includes more people accused of sexual assault than some prisons.
— Bill Huddleston (@blueabe24.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 3:32 AM
Republicans screaming about Biden pardoning his son is rich considering they pardoned a Twice Impeached, Classified Documents Thief, Election Denier, Insurrectionist in Chief, Adjudicated Rapist, 34 count CONVICTED FELON,found guilty of fraud in NY by electing him President of the United States.
— mistyblue149.bsky.social (@mistyblue149.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Someone Trump pardoned is in his cabinet. Their fake outrage is pathetic.
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@artcandee.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 2:02 AM
They made it clear they were going to exact their revenge on anyone connected to Biden. I think it was the right move considering who is coming to power.
— kramersus.bsky.social (@kramersus.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 2:00 AM
And, pardoned felons. And insurrectionists. And those who have committed treason. And, just evil people.
— The Best Words (@thebestwords.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Trump, in a classic case of projection, lashed out at Biden over the pardon news.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump called the pardon “an abuse and miscarriage of justice” and criticized Biden for not having "include[d] the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years."
Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung later said in a statement that “failed witch hunts against President Trump have proven that the Democrat-controlled [Department of Justice] and other radical prosecutors are guilty of weaponizing the justice system.”
Quite the contrary, it is Donald Trump's pledge to seek retribution as well as his nomination of Kash Patel to head up the FBI that made Biden feel he had to pardon his son despite having pledged not to.
Despite frequently claiming during Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial that the president’s son was receiving preferential treatment, Trump stated late last month that he wouldn’t rule out granting Hunter a pardon if he wins the upcoming election.
Now that Trump has, it should come as no surprise how quickly he's flipped on that.
We're all human here, so we all make mistakes. Most mistakes can be resolved with a genuine apology, hot glue to fix a broken vase, and a good cleaning solution for a big spill.
Other mistakes, like bullying someone or breaking someone's heart, are much more guilt-inducing and harder for everyone to get over.
But there are some mistakes that are so bad, it's hard to imagine ever coming back from them.
Already cringing, Redditor No-Consideration7967 asked:
"What's your biggest 'I f**ked up' moment?"
"In my young 20s, I went to pick up a really heavy object with a coworker. Instead of waiting for him to grab it all the way, I just went for it."
"The thing shifted weirdly and I tore the ligaments that connect your lower back to your butt. My back has never been the same."
"You think you’re invincible in your young 20s, but you are not!"
- sneakytokey
"Yeah, lifting large and/or heavy things is always a team effort and relies on communication. I hurt my back once trying to move a sleeper sofa with a guy."
"We said we would lift on the count of three. In my mind that meant lift when we say three. In his, it meant something a second later, like, 'One, two, three, go!'"
"So we both torqued it at different times. I'm fine now but still p**sed about it. Took two months to heal and we still argue about who was right about the count."
- Gotforgot
"Last night, I blew my nose pretty hard and heard a super loud squeak followed by my hearing being all f**ked up. I hoped to sleep it off, but nope."
"I went to the emergency room this morning and yup, I tore a lil' hole in my eardrum. Gonna take a few weeks to heal. Great."
- FroggiJoy87
"I sneezed soo hard one time that I broke two ribs and bruised three. I feel your pain."
- HARRY_POTTKETTLE
"Not me, but my town's mayor told an EMT to unalive herself during the aftermath of a budget meeting (right in front of me)."
"The regret that washed over his face when he realized it was still streaming to YouTube for the town to see was priceless."
- Horny44Sweetheart
"Regret that it was streaming, not regret that he said it. Great guy."
- diligent_sundays
"My response would've been, 'Sir, we're still streaming. I'm now calling for a vote of no confidence and your resignation.'"
- OutrageousMoney4339
"It took a while, but we may have finally found a worse mayor than the one from 'Jaws.'"
- jajais4u
"I once accidentally created an infinite network loop on my college campus' network and crashed the entire school's internet. This was during my certification program as a Cisco Certified Networking Administrator."
- Sexy5Princess
"You were prepping for the CCNA in a live environment? That's kinda wild."
- christ0fer
"After a delightful shower one evening, I decided to blow dry my hair using the hair dryer that had some exposed wiring. It had always worked decently so I figured no big deal, it's fine."
"Anyway, I got electrocuted and my hand got burned, but on the plus side, I got to see blue lightning go pinging up my arm."
"I no longer own a hair dryer."
- Stunning-Queen5
"I was traumatized for weeks when I accidentally touched the back of the dryer once and got a quick sting. I can’t imagine what you went through!"
- Outrageous-Rope-8707
"Quitting my amazing dream job during a manic episode back in 2019. I got into a shouting argument with my boss."
"Anyway, I was a couple of months into what would turn out to be nine months of ever more desperate unemployment when it finally hit me, 'What the f**k did I do?'"
"I still haven't recovered from that mistake. Bipolar post-mania clarity can be truly heartbreaking. Wreckage everywhere, and no real sense of how it all happened."
- cartercharles
"The top one was probably the time I got fired from my job. I did the one thing you shouldn't do when dealing with the public and called the guy on the other end of the phone (it was a virtual call center) an id**t."
"He pushed all of the right buttons, unfortunately, and looking back, I think he was one of those callers who was deliberately trying to wind me up."
- Dalekbuster523
"I was having a fully blown panic attack about messages my ex (then-girlfriend) had sent me while out partying. I was on the phone with my friend, who was trying to calm me down, and he said, 'Don’t reply right now. Send me a screenshot of the messages, and we can walk through them, and I’ll tell you what I think.'"
"I sent the screenshot right back to my ex…"
- TiktaalikFrolic
"I did this in MSN Messager, and id**t teenager me was gossiping about this girl to another girl, sent a screenshot to the same 'window' instead of sending to the other, and didn't notice!"
"Then she asked, 'What is this?' I proceeded to send many, many screenshots while claiming my computer was going nuts."
"The thing is this girl was having issues with a fake social media (the late orkut) account acting like it was her, harassing other girls. After this, she probably thought the fake account was me (it wasn't!)"
- Wonderful-Morning963
"When I woke up in the hospital to my mother, my aunt, and my grandma all standing above me. I knew I f**ked up bad because my grandma and my mom hadn’t spoken in over a decade, let alone willingly be in the same room together."
"I had totaled my truck and gotten life-flighted to the hospital."
- AtmosphereAlarming52
"Not one moment in particular, but when I realized had fully ostracized myself from three separate friend groups. Realizing that I just kept f**king people over and pushing them away hurt badly."
- BitMixKit
"My grandfather had passed, and I inherited his record collection."
"While attempting to repair a record player, I was testing it and dropped his Johnny Cash Live at San Quentin album on my garage floor."
"I went inside and just laid on the floor and cried."
- Ncheney21
"I looped the network and ended up costing about 100K in downtime."
"I was so tired, was migrating a data center and had several failures during the process."
"I was on about hour 39 of an eight-hour day and plugged a switch into a switch, completely spaced on what I did. IT took a couple of hours to find my f**k-up."
- RubixRube
"Well, now I don't feel so bad about the four for downtime I caused by attempting to deploy a new VLAN on our ancient network. The switches didn't like it and all of them needed to be restarted."
"Okay. Fine. Do all that. But because of the network restart, the HA database pair failed to negotiate for the floating IP for primary, causing the webservers to not be able to find the database."
"I was new to the company and didn't know that the one health check that was still failing was trying to tell me this because I was unfamiliar with the naming of everything. (The previous guy liked to use Transformers and mythology in the making of resources. How the fuck was I supposed to know what "Wheeljack" meant in this instance?)"
"I eventually figured it out after 4 hours of solo panic because I started the work at 1:00 AM."
- cbftw
"Finally coming to the realization of truly how much money I lost gambling, and the more important thing, the girl of my dreams."
"I would give all that money (enough to buy a house) away all over again to get her back."
- rakedully
"My husband is an extremely patient man. His father was an abusive piece of s**t, his mum was a drug addict, and we talked a lot about that. We were best mates before we were husbands. I buddy-punched his arm a few times before he confided in me, it really scared him when I did that. Obviously, I stopped."
"Unfortunately, I was also an addict. For a long time, and he was there for most of it. He was willing to stick with me while I got clean, through all the ugly s**t, as long as I actually stuck to it."
"Well, I relapsed once. Once. Because when he looked at me, he knew I was coming down, he asked if I had more and came to take it from me. And I f**king punched him. Right in the face."
"His expression f**king killed me. I don't remember a whole lot of that night, but that face haunts me. Of all the s**t I put him through, that's the thing that I'm never going to forgive myself for. Even though he says he has."
- metal_mace
"Thinking I could be a doctor."
"I’m now in my third year of the program feeling utterly lost and hopeless. I struggled from the start but kept pushing myself to keep going. I have missed out on so many family/friend events due to hours studying, I don’t have many hobbies anymore and feel like a shell of who I used to be."
"I am extremely depressed and feel incompetent. The only reason I have not quit is because school has put me 300k in debt and there’s no other career I can make a salary high enough to pay it off."
- No-Introduction7977
It's hard to imagine mistakes that are so bad that there's really no going back.
But it's understandable why these were the moments that, when asked these questions, these Redditors immediately thought of.
