❣️We are all Taylor Swift yelling at a security guard❣️

+ Elections in Turkey & Thailand, & a new Twitter SHE-EO???

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• Taylor Swift yelled at a security guard and I’m losing it

• Twitter has a new SHE-EO

• 🗺Around the world🗺

  • Elections in Turkey and Thailand, & Cyclone Mocha

• Harry Styles played Stockholm Syndrome and it made us all a bit emoshe

• Today’s mundane poll: Do you get irrationally angry when someone is in the kitchen with you?

Taylor Swift yelled at a security guard and I’m losing it

BECAUSE IT WAS DURING BAD BLOOD WHICH COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE PERFECT:

@_shityoushouldcareaboutthe way i would die of embarrassment if this was me

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For those of you who aren’t going to watch the video (you should) basically during ‘Bad Blood’ Taylor notices something happening in the crowd between a security guard and some fans, where apparently all night the security guard had been overly aggressive to this group who were just having fun. One of the fans who was being harassed by the guard jumped on TikTok and explained what happened and said that ‘it wasn’t some big crazy thing,’ but that the guard got removed, and that Taylor’s team had given her and her friends all tickets for the next show too!

All I’m saying is that if you listen to the video, Taylor’s angry remix low-key hits harder than the Kendrick Lamar Bad Blood remix, and if I know Swifties, they’re about to turn the ‘HEY, STOP’ into something they do at every show.

Also, just imagine being told off by Taylor Swift?? I’d be so embarro.

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Twitter has a new SHE-EO

Content warning: I’m using SHE-EO sarcastically here.

Some of you might remember that last year Elon asked Twitter (via his own mundane poll) whether he should step down from being in charge of the company, and 58% of people said yes. So now he’s stuck to his word (I know) and appointed a new SHE-EO to run his dumpster fire company, and it’s Linda Yaccarino (who used to be in charge of advertising at NBCUniversal.)

Elon himself is stepping down to focus on other stuff (which is probably for the best considering the company he bought for $44 billion is losing money and advertisers like they’re going out of fashion) and is gonna be an executive chair and chief technology officer.

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🗺Around the world🗺

Myanmar/ Bangladesh

Deadly storm hits Bangladesh and Myanmar coast (The Guardian)

Cyclone Mocha - which has far too much of a delicious name for how devastating it is - has hit the coastlines of Bangladesh and Myanmar after becoming the equivalent of a category-five storm. It’s hitting Cox’s Bazar, the world’s largest refugee camp, and 500 bamboo houses there have already been destroyed.

Thailand

Thailand elections: Vote counting shows Thaksin's daughter as frontrunner (BBC)

So voting just closed in Thailand’s general election and the daughter of the former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra - who got kicked out of office - is the favourite to win. More on this story here!

Turkey

Turkey’s President Awaits Results After Tough Re-election Fight (The New York Times)

Turkey is also having an election (tis the damn season!) and we’re currently awaiting the results. This is an important election for the country, as the current president (Recep Tayyip Erdogan) has been in power for two decades and a lot of the country is unhappy with the state of the economy and “concerns among many voters that he has pushed the country toward one-man rule.”

Live updates here!

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Harry Styles played Stockholm Syndrome and it made us all a bit emoshe

Just leaving this in here in case it’s important to you x

@twentieskatalogWe won with this one #hslot #harrystyles #stockholmsyndrome

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Also a note on my tiktok FYP rn:

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Today’s mundane poll:

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