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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi
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Two truths and a lie. Before I was 20, I had: A) learned four languages fluently; B) received a gold medal from the Marine Corps Leauge; C) snuck across the Soviet Border. Note: none of these are related / causal. Go!
*League. Dammit. I can spell, honest. (I turned off spellcheck on my phone ages ago so I could text in French...)
Also, I’ll reveal the lie tomorrow morning. Guess away.
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Positivity counter-balance! Twitter, what actors / actresses do you see in a leading role and are like “wow, this person makes interesting choices / does good work, this film is on my radar now”?

(Be honest if it’s just ones you’re thirsty for & will watch in any old garbage)
Me: Jake Gyllenhaal. Rachel Weisz. Increasingly, John C Reilly. Channing Tatum. Margot Robbie.
Also, I’m not thirsty for any actor. I’ve met too many of them.
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2019 comics projects:

* weird, angry YA fantasy but w too much mom / family in it to be real YA, done as 6 quarterly 60-page ‘zines

* the Mayday sequel

* uh, another weird YA fantasy about Nonviolent Superman?

* a quarterly 72-100p art zine w 1 comics & 1 prose story / issue
* A very dark action comedy / Roadtrip of Vengance story I keep describing as “Martin McDonagh’s DIE HARD”

* And finally some cool WFH books and other comics-adjacent stuff not yet announced
About half the creator-owned stuff doesn’t have a publisher yet but YOLO, we’ll figure it out somehow, we always do

Oh, I’ve also got a super-creepy J-horror book that’ll be four super big ‘zines or just... a graphic novel. Prefer just a graphic novel.
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At this moment I’d like to remind you of a frequent tactic of abusers when confronted with their actions:

DARVO = Deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.

(1/3, and source: dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/defineDARV…)
Abusers are often extremely manipulative and self-loathing people who will do anything to blame others for their behaviour. They are the real victim!

If they can’t straight-up accuse their victims of lies, exaggeration, or vindictiveness— (2/3)
—thereby adding to the already high feelings of self-blame victims struggle with, they will blame LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE as to blame for their actions.

They’re especially fond of blaming things unable to fight back...

...such as fictional characters. (3/3)
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Gold: Back in the office for the first time since before Christmas, its time to look back on #gold's recent performance and what may lie ahead.

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But as this chart shows, #gold has run ahead of the weakening dollar.

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#YuriMilner #Facebook #Twitter #Russia #Kushner #Cadre
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Gold: The COTR for #gold, released on Friday, for positions as of last Tuesday, show that the Net Managed Money position flipped back into positive territory for the first time since 10 July.

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Gold: After drifting slightly lower on Monday, #gold has recovered much of this weakness and is trading around $1248.50/oz in early London trading on Tuesday.

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This is Pratap who hails from a small village in Karnataka. He is just 22 years old. Last year, during the same period, he had received a gold medal in a science competition in Tokyo. His work is in 'Modular Wireless Sensor Network' for Multiple drones/drone networking.
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