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The 40-Second Blueprint: How to Kiss a Lady Confidently & Respectfully 🧠✨
Most men think making an instant connection is a superpower. It’s not. It’s behavioral psychology, timing, and decoding non-verbal cues.
Stop wasting time on boring small talk and learn to read the room. Our latest guide breaks down the exact 6-step blueprint to mas
🔗 Read the full step-by-step guide here https://wondrer.com/how-to-kiss-a-lady/#DatingAdvice #BodyLanguage #Confidence #Psychology #Charisma #NLP #AttractionTips
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The 40-Second Blueprint: How to Kiss a Lady Confidently & Respectfully 🧠✨
Most men think making an instant connection is a superpower. It’s not. It’s behavioral psychology, timing, and decoding non-verbal cues.
Stop wasting time on boring small talk and learn to read the room. Our latest guide breaks down the exact 6-step blueprint to mas
🔗 Read the full step-by-step guide here https://wondrer.com/how-to-kiss-a-lady/#DatingAdvice #BodyLanguage #Confidence #Psychology #Charisma #NLP #AttractionTips
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If You Do These 12 Things Naturally, Psychologists Say You're More Charismatic Than You Think
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If You Do These 12 Things Naturally, Psychologists Say You're More Charismatic Than You Think
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Here are a number of articles based on my interviews I did recently in #Vilnius, #lithuania wherein we discussed Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, #populism, and my book on #trump . #philosophy #religion #sociology #psychoanalysis #psychology #Iran #war #charisma #authoritarianism #fascism https://dustinjbyrd.org/2026/06/26/interviews-from-vilnius-talking-authoritarianism-in-lithuania/
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Here are a number of articles based on my interviews I did recently in #Vilnius, #lithuania wherein we discussed Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, #populism, and my book on #trump . #philosophy #religion #sociology #psychoanalysis #psychology #Iran #war #charisma #authoritarianism #fascism https://dustinjbyrd.org/2026/06/26/interviews-from-vilnius-talking-authoritarianism-in-lithuania/
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#Supergirl Forgot She Was Supergirl
source: themoviedb.org/movie/1081003-s…
There is a strange emptiness at the center of Supergirl. Not because the film lacks explosions, aliens, or cosmic road trips. It has all of that. The problem is simpler. It never knows who its heroine is.
At first, the movie promises something fresh. Supergirl arrives like a punk-rock cousin of Superman. She drinks too much. She gets into fights. She distrusts people. She looks like she escaped from a 90s coming-of-age movie and wandered into a comic book. For a moment, it feels exciting. Like Tank Girl crashing into the #DC Universe.
Then the film loses its nerve.
What follows is a familiar #blockbuster smoothie. One part Guardians of the Galaxy. One part Star Wars. Add a pinch of trauma, a cute animal in danger, some slow-motion shots, and stir until all flavor disappears. The result is a film assembled from spare parts. Like a lightsaber built from IKEA instructions.
#MillyAlcock does her best. She has #charisma. She has #presence. She sells every emotional scene she is given. But even a talented #actress cannot save a #character written without conviction.
The biggest problem is Supergirl herself.
The film wants to tell us this is a female hero with her own identity. It constantly signals rebellion, vulnerability, and emotional scars. Yet whenever the story moves forward, she behaves like a standard male action lead wearing a blonde wig.
She drinks whiskey.
She punches first.
She boasts.
She seeks approval through physical dominance.
At one point she even demands fist bumps like an overgrown fraternity brother.
None of this is inherently wrong. #Women can fight. Women can drink. Women can be rough around the edges. But characters need internal consistency. #Ripley from Alien felt believable. #SarahConnor evolved naturally. #Furiosa carried strength without pretending to be Max Rockatansky.
Supergirl never feels like a woman shaped by her own experiences. She feels like a male screenplay that had the pronouns changed during a late production meeting.
Imagine Wonder #Woman behaving like Tony Stark after six vodkas. It would not make her stronger. It would simply make her less interesting.
Ironically, the film already had a better idea.
The opening scenes suggest a story aimed at young women. Something messy. Something emotional. Something loud and unapologetic. A superhero movie with safety pins, broken hearts, and teenage anger. A cosmic punk fairy tale.
Instead, the movie retreats into familiar territory. Flashbacks explain everything. A #sidekick exists only to ask questions. The #plot revolves around a simple antidote hunt stretched far beyond its natural limits. Every few minutes someone gets captured, poisoned, or interrupted so another memory can play.
#JasonMomoa 's #Lobo appears and almost steals the film. He has attitude. He has energy. He also looks strangely cheap, as if his costume budget disappeared into another dimension. Watching him ride around feels less like meeting the Main Man and more like seeing a convention cosplayer who won second place.
#JamesGunn 's fingerprints are everywhere. The rotating action shots return. The needle drops return. The quirky space creatures return. At this point these tricks feel less like style and more like a magician repeating the same card trick because the audience applauded three years ago.
None of this makes Supergirl terrible.
It is watchable.
It is occasionally fun.
It expands the DC universe in interesting ways.
But it never becomes its own film.
And that is perhaps the saddest part.
Supergirl can fly faster than light. Yet this movie keeps her trapped in someone else's orbit.
By the end, she is not a symbol of feminine strength. She is not a #punk icon. She is not even a fully realized character.
She is a collection of borrowed gestures.
A Superman cover band wearing Doc Martens.
And that simply isn't super enough.
#Cinema #movie #entertainment #news #criticism #fail #problem #story #comic #hero #drunk #men #storyline #violence
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“There was something about Cohen. People caught optimism off him as though it was the common cold.”
Terry Pratchett; Interesting Times
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“There was something about Cohen. People caught optimism off him as though it was the common cold.”
Terry Pratchett; Interesting Times
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Loyalty can't be bought, but it does sometimes have a monetary value
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Loyalty can't be bought, but it does sometimes have a monetary value
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Loyalty can't be bought, but it does sometimes have a monetary value
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Loyalty can't be bought, but it does sometimes have a monetary value
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Loyalty can't be bought, but it does sometimes have a monetary value
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Loyalty can't be bought, but it does sometimes have a monetary value
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🍺 Hanoi's beer glass is apparently a monument to national memory 🏛️, overshadowing the Eiffel Tower of fine dining with its incomparable "state-owned" #charisma. 🎨 It's the kind of article that makes you wonder if the writer has ever heard of an actual story. 🍺💤
https://sundaylongread.com/2026/05/15/hanois-humble-beer-glass-and-the-memory-of-a-nation/ #HanoiBeerGlass #NationalMemory #FineDining #StateOwned #HackerNews #ngated -
🍺 Hanoi's beer glass is apparently a monument to national memory 🏛️, overshadowing the Eiffel Tower of fine dining with its incomparable "state-owned" #charisma. 🎨 It's the kind of article that makes you wonder if the writer has ever heard of an actual story. 🍺💤
https://sundaylongread.com/2026/05/15/hanois-humble-beer-glass-and-the-memory-of-a-nation/ #HanoiBeerGlass #NationalMemory #FineDining #StateOwned #HackerNews #ngated -
Als Start-Up-Gründer Investoren finden: 5 Tipps für den erfolgreichen Pitch - Die beste Idee ist sinnlos, wenn es ein Start-Up nicht schafft, Investoren davon zu überzugen. Wir zeigen Ihnen, wie Sie in 5 Schritten ihre Idee erfolgreich Pitchen! #Charisma #Finanzen #Geschäftsideen #Kreativität #StartUp #Vertrieb
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Als Start-Up-Gründer Investoren finden: 5 Tipps für den erfolgreichen Pitch - Die beste Idee ist sinnlos, wenn es ein Start-Up nicht schafft, Investoren davon zu überzugen. Wir zeigen Ihnen, wie Sie in 5 Schritten ihre Idee erfolgreich Pitchen! #Charisma #Finanzen #Geschäftsideen #Kreativität #StartUp #Vertrieb
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Werbung & Marketing im Digitalen Wandel: Tschüss Kontrolle, Hallo Change! - Wir leben in einer Zeit des Umbruchs. Täglich zeigen uns die Veränderungen in den Medienmärkten und digitale Innovationen wie Facebook und Twitter, wie sehr sich unsere Welt verändert. Was können wir tun? #Authentizität #Charisma #Digitalisierung #ECommerce #HermannHWala #Image #Kommunikation #Kunde #Marketing #Psychologie #SozialeMedien #Vertrieb
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Reich werden & bleiben ohne Arbeit: Tipps zur finanziellen Bildung - Ohne finanzielle Bildung geht es nicht, denn wer reich werden will, muss handeln wie ein Reicher. Diese Tipps helfen dabei! #Authentizität #Charisma #Finanzen #Gehalt #PersonalSkills #RobertTKiyosaki #Verhandlung #Vertrieb
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MIRROR
Anson Lo 盧瀚霆 《Charisma》Dance Version
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This Is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like
You stop thinking of it as surveillance. It becomes “the system.” Just part of how things run. -
This Is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like
You stop thinking of it as surveillance. It becomes “the system.” Just part of how things run. -
The Borrowed Saint: The Book That Watched Me Back
I have been thinking about mirrors for forty-eight years. The thinking started in a dressing room at a community playhouse in Lincoln, Nebraska, where a row of mirrors lined the wall above a counter cluttered with spirit gum and cold cream and the residue of faces that had been built and removed hundreds of times. I was thirteen years old and I was watching an actor apply a prosthetic nose, and the thing that struck me was the moment when his own face disappeared under the new architecture. His eyes changed. The man in the mirror stopped being the person I had been talking to thirty seconds earlier and became someone whose bone structure carried a different social signal, a different set of expectations, a different gravitational field. Same eyes. Different face. Different world.
That image has been sitting in my head for nearly five decades, paying rent in the form of a question I could not discharge: what is the relationship between the face and the person behind it? Is the face a window or a wall? If it is a window, what passes through it, and in which direction? If it is a wall, who built it, and what is it defending?
The Borrowed Saint: A Horror in Five Skins is now available from David Boles Books Writing and Publishing as a Kindle ebook and a trade paperback. It is the answer to that question, and the answer is worse than I expected.
The Mechanism
Asa Greer is five years old when he stands in a bathroom in Decker, Ohio and watches his reflection change. His cheekbones soften. His jaw loses its angles. For three seconds, he is wearing the face of the boy next door on his own skull. Then the face collapses, his features rush back, and the bathroom is loud again.
Asa can copy any face he sees. He can build composites from dozens of sources. He can walk through a room wearing the face that room requires, and the room will respond to the face without checking whether anything exists behind it. Each transformation extracts a sensory capacity he will never recover. Over fifty years, the ledger of things he can no longer smell, taste, feel, or hear grows longer than the ledger of things he retains.
I wanted the horror to be specific. Each loss is granular and irreplaceable: the smell of his own skin, the texture of his winter coat, the taste of tap water, his heartbeat’s internal sensation, the tonal distinctions that give melody its emotional contour. These are the small, unremarkable anchors that tether a person to the life they are living as opposed to any other life, and Asa severs them one by one and replaces them with borrowed faces that connect him to other people’s responses and sever him from his own existence.
The mechanism is supernatural. The cost is not.
The Kindness Problem
At twenty-eight, Asa discovers that performed goodness is the most powerful face he can build. Competence generates compliance. Charisma generates admiration. Authority generates obedience. Goodness generates worship. A room that witnesses an act of apparent compassion will defend the person who performed it against any attack, because the attack threatens the room’s belief that compassion exists.
Asa builds a kindness persona. He deploys it across a career that ascends from political consulting to the corridors of institutional power. The warmth that other people’s trust generates in his body is narcotic. His body is allergic to it. Every deployment produces an inflammatory response that begins at the jaw hinge and spreads through the muscles the performance recruits. The threshold contracts with each use. By his fifties, the margin between the face the world needs and the face his body can sustain is measured in minutes.
Writing this section of the book required me to think carefully about something I have observed across thirty years in theatre, publishing, and public life: the distance between a person’s performed concern and their actual capacity for being affected by another human being. Asa is an extreme case. The condition is not extreme. Every public figure, every institutional spokesperson, every person who has stood at a podium and projected the appearance of caring about something they were hired to manage rather than moved to address, operates on the same spectrum. Asa sits at the far end. The spectrum itself is ordinary.
Harlan Moeck and the Ditch
Every book needs a counter-argument, and this book’s counter-argument is a boy named Harlan Moeck who sits in the front row of Asa’s second-grade classroom and performs no performance at all. Harlan is kind because Harlan is kind, the way a heart beats because a heart beats. Asa can see it. He can catalog it. He cannot replicate it. He tries. The result is a window painted on a wall. Every measurement is precise. Light does not pass through.
Harlan appears three times across fifty years. Each appearance finds him doing invisible work: maintaining water systems, testing samples, keeping the infrastructure alive that the public consumes without awareness of the labor that produced it. The dedication reads: For the good men who dig the ditches. The water flows. No one applauds.
I have known Harlan Moecks. Every writer has. They are the people who do the work that makes the visible work possible, whose names appear in no coverage, whose labor sustains the systems that the public credits to the faces standing in front of cameras. I wrote Harlan because the book needed someone whose goodness was structural rather than performed, and because the horror of Asa’s condition is legible only when measured against a person for whom goodness is a condition of being alive rather than an overlay applied to a composite.
Cordelia’s Secret
Asa’s mother, Cordelia Greer, runs the household with efficiency and without affection. Touching her son only when logistics require it. Pushing his hair from his forehead with the heel of her hand. Washing a glass that is already clean, alone, in the dark, in the middle of the night, while the rest of the house sleeps.
The book’s final section, On the Lability, includes a clinical appendix: case notes of uncertain provenance describing Asa’s condition in medical language. Filed separately, an addendum describes a woman who presented at a clinic in 1987 asking whether the condition could be passed to a child. She said her father had possessed the ability to move his face and that it had eaten him from inside. She had spent her life holding still so it would not start.
That woman is Cordelia. The reader connects the dates and the details without being told. Every scene of emotional distance, every closed face, every hand that withdrew, is retroactively reframed. Cordelia was containing the same condition that consumed her son. The holding still was an act of will maintained across an entire lifetime. The coldness was a firewall.
I am proudest of this element of the book. The revelation arrives in a clinical register that has no capacity for grief, which is exactly why the grief hits as hard as it does. The driest language in the book carries the heaviest weight. If the mechanism works, the reader finishes the appendix and then sits for a moment and thinks about Cordelia washing the glass.
The Mirror on the Back Cover
One design detail I want to mention. On the paperback’s back cover, the title of the book appears reversed, as a mirror image. Letters flipped. Name reading backward. Below the reversed title, two amber eyes stare out, the same eyes that appear in the dissolving face on the front cover. Asa Greer is five years old in the first scene, standing in a bathroom, looking at a mirror. Turn the book over, and the mirror looks back.
The Borrowed Saint: A Horror in Five Skins is available now from David Boles Books Writing and Publishing at BolesBooks.com. Kindle eBook and paperback.
David Boles is a writer, dramatist, editor, and publisher. A member of the Dramatists Guild since 1984 and a graduate of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University, he has published novels, nonfiction, and dramatic works through David Boles Books Writing and Publishing since 1975. He lives in New York City.
#audiobook #charisma #columbiaUniversity #face #fiction #hiding #horror #kindness #literature #lying #mechanism #novel #psychiatry #shapeshifter #success #tech -
MIRROR
Anson Lo 盧瀚霆 《Charisma》Official Music Video
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有片丨Anson Lo新歌百變造型
自度西裝吊帶look
爆發男人紳士魅力
挑戰吊帶舞被考起▶睇片：https://youtu.be/ewqu-PQ5QME
#盧瀚霆（#AnsonLo）推出最新單曲《#Charisma》MV，以百變造型登場，包括紅玫瑰教主、型格神秘撈、性感吊帶撈等，教主親解以「魅力」作新歌主題的原因：「《Charisma》係講一段關係裏面你追我逐嘅感覺，仲有一個深層意義，只要夠自信，你就充滿魅力，可以追逐自己想做嘅事、想見嘅人，甚至追尋夢想，所以自信好重要。」
擅長跳唱快歌的教主，新歌挑戰中板曲風，監製Edward Chan加入富民族色彩的樂器，歌詞由王樂儀操刀。教主自度西裝吊帶造型，展示男人魅力：「呢首歌除咗講求愛過程，同時要表達出一位紳士點樣有風度地追逐自己想要嘅愛情，點樣自信又優雅去追求心儀對象，於是我就諗到搭配西裝吊帶，性感得嚟又優雅，展現紳士魅力。」
為配合歌曲，教主挑戰Sexy吊帶舞，坦言被考起：「其中一part舞，要捉實8位舞蹈員嘅西裝吊帶轉圈，之後再一次過...
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A personificação do Carisma está chegando! 🎭✨
O anime Charisma estreia em janeiro de 2027 pela Pierrot Films. 7 personagens, 7 atributos divinos, uma casa compartilhada. Qual o seu lado: Ordem, Rebelião ou Amor-próprio?
Assista ao teaser e escolha seu líder! 👇
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OSINT Isn’t About Skill Anymore. It’s About Systems
There’s a moment, if you spend enough time in this space, where your attention changes. You stop looking at individual data points as things to extract. You start seeing them as inputs to a larger structure.https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/osint-isnt-about-skill-anymore-its-about-systems/
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OSINT Isn’t About Skill Anymore. It’s About Systems
There’s a moment, if you spend enough time in this space, where your attention changes. You stop looking at individual data points as things to extract. You start seeing them as inputs to a larger structure.https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/osint-isnt-about-skill-anymore-its-about-systems/
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"Truly charismatic #people often don't need to list everything they've achieved, because their presence and #communication do the #work."
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"Truly charismatic #people often don't need to list everything they've achieved, because their presence and #communication do the #work."
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Menschen, die uns fesseln, mitreißen oder begeistern können, haben #Charisma. Das kann inspirierend sein, aber auch zerstörerisch. Die #NANO-Doku heute: https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano-doku/260312-sendung-nano-doku-superkraft-charisma-ndk-100.html?at_medium=Social%20Media&at_campaign=Mastodon&at_specific=3sat
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Menschen, die uns fesseln, mitreißen oder begeistern können, haben #Charisma. Das kann inspirierend sein, aber auch zerstörerisch. Die #NANO-Doku heute: https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano-doku/260312-sendung-nano-doku-superkraft-charisma-ndk-100.html?at_medium=Social%20Media&at_campaign=Mastodon&at_specific=3sat
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@daviddoel.bsky.social discusses #Conservative "leader" #PierrePoilievre, EVER the big boy when @[email protected] is away, once AGAIN aligning with Trump, got ROCKED during #QuestionPeriod, and has absolutely ZERO #charisma to cover for HIS political incoherence 🇨🇦 youtu.be/7usH_ecG4zE?...
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Jasmina Neudecker auf den Spuren des #Charisma: Sie trainiert ihr akustisches Charisma, analysiert mit Emotionsforschern charismatische Reden und füttert Tapire auf der Suche nach Charisma im Tierreich: https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano-doku/nano-doku-webreihe-charisma-ndk-100.html?at_medium=Social%20Media&at_campaign=Mastodon&at_specific=3sat
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Jasmina Neudecker auf den Spuren des #Charisma: Sie trainiert ihr akustisches Charisma, analysiert mit Emotionsforschern charismatische Reden und füttert Tapire auf der Suche nach Charisma im Tierreich: https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano-doku/nano-doku-webreihe-charisma-ndk-100.html?at_medium=Social%20Media&at_campaign=Mastodon&at_specific=3sat
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@PoliceStateUK
This is weird.
We are weird.
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https://www.donna-anna.org/de/charme.html Charme ist nicht anderes als ein Aspekt des numinosen Charismas. #Charme #Charisma #Dämonologie #Metaphysik #Lexikon
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Endless Conversation: The Ultimate Guide To Never Running Out Of Things To Say In Another Language
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In a stunning revelation, it turns out that Peter Thiel's secret lectures on the #antichrist are less about the end times and more about his own #charisma 💁♂️. Apparently, the real #apocalypse is having to sit through another tech mogul's existential ramblings 🚀.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures #PeterThiel #TechMogul #ExistentialRamblings #HackerNews #ngated -
Rebecca Dai has graced us with 50 mind-blowing "truths" that could fit on a fortune cookie 🥠—if fortune cookies were pretentious. Apparently, discipline is a hoax, and not caring is the secret sauce to #charisma 😎. Spoiler alert: Being fake famous leaves you empty inside, who would have thought? 🙄
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The difference between #dragperformers and strippers is classiness. You can evoke deep emotions and sensations in your audience while fully dressed. Case in point: this #dragking was the fan favourite. She walked to the crowd in the middle of Civic Plaza at #BurnabyPride and was the best performer there #charisma #PublicDrag #CommunityFestivals
