more good news from tiktok: they’ve started blocking celebrities.
they’re calling it block party 2024. just blocking and ignoring countless celebrities who havent said shit about palestine. influencers, actors, anyone who went to the met gala, whatever, they’re getting blocked. and people keep talking about how cathartic it is, how good it feels, how they never realized they could DO that. there was some kind of subconscious law against blocking famous people, but it’s broken, and people are LOVING it. and it’s WORKING. a social media/digital advertising coordinator was talking about how ad companies are PANICKING, because they can’t accurately target anymore. so many big influencers, including fucking LIZZO started talking about palestine the MOMENT their follower counts started going down. and the best part? no one is forgiving them. lizzo posted a tiktok asking people to donate to palestinian families, and all the comments just said you’re a multimillionaire. put your money where your mouth is. blocked.
i feel like i’m witnessing the downfall of celebrity culture, right here right now. people are waking up.
PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP. so many comments saying “blocking x celebrity was hard until i remembered they don’t care if i die. it got a lot easier then. they aren’t my friends, why should i feel like im betraying them?” what a beautiful thing to see
This orangutan had lots of fun with the sunglasses and the zookeepers managed to get her to trade the sunglasses for some leafy greens when she was done with them. Items like this are not ideal in primate enclosures because they can break and/or ingest pieces, so the orangutan got to have her fun and (not) eat it too.
For 6 months, Israel has been committing genocide in Palestine. They have also been attacking Lebanon and Syria, while sending their sugar Daddy after Yemen.
All this US politicians refer to as self-defense.
But when Iran retaliates after Israel bombed their embassy, they say Iran is “escalating tensions.”
Okay here’s my obligatory post about Tumblr users and their ignorance of rap, as a (white) fan of rap:
Saying “Not all rap music is about violence, here are alternatives” is not helpful, because the violent music ALSO has meaning.
When Biggie Smalls postures about his gang connections and packing heat, he isn’t doing it because wow violence is so edgy, it’s a powerful statement. Youth in urban areas where gang activity is heavy are often treated as lesser than by default, especially compared to black people the same age from a wealthy background. There’s a reason that the “wholesome and respectable” black-lead entertainment of that era was stuff like the Cosby Show, with doctor-lawyer parents, or Family Matters, with a cop dad. There’s a reason why the big joke of Fresh Prince is someone with a more unstable upbringing moving in with one of these model black sitcom families.
Standing up and saying yeah, I came from the mean streets, I was molded by this violence and yes, I did what I had to do to survive in a world that refuses to acknowledge my existence as meaningful or worthy of protection. I protected myself, I made my own way, and fuck anybody who tries to stand in the way of that.
Refusing to demonize that environment and wearing it like armor in a way that protects from the authority that wants you to see them as sub humans incapable of only violence and hatred, and saying HEY. I’m here, I lived this, and there is love and there is pain and there is ART in this.
That is powerful. That is the essence of gangster rap.
It isn’t about hurting people for fun, it’s about holding a mirror up to a society that does the hurting and then calls you a monster for what it’s made you. Its about validating the experiences of the disenfranchised and biting back at authority. It’s about turning a pain that the world say you deserve being one of those people from those places into POETRY. Into ART.
And thats why it matters.
And thats why you need to shut the yell up and stop dismissing it as violence without substance when you all sat on your ass listening to songs about Hatsune Miku eating people in middle school.
Dear god please let housing become affordable here and please make this force the thousands of sitting-duck properties re-enter the market at drastically reduced prices for native families to be able to purchase and then live in their homeland 😭 kū kia‘i ‘āina
“You can portray bad things in fiction if it’s done in a negative light!”
maybe this is just me, but the author shouldn’t have to hold your hand & tell you explicitly that what’s happening in the story is bad.
Sometimes, the narration of the story portrays it as good, or “romanticizes” it because the character narrating is a terrible person. That doesn’t mean the author condones it, it means the *character* thinks it’s okay!
You should have enough critical thinking skills & media literacy to reach that conclusion on your own, and if you don’t, I recommend Disney Junior for your viewing pleasure, rather than adult content.
Don’t worry, they’ll tell you exactly the lesson they want you to learn over there, in painfully explicit detail.
I cannot stop thinking about that being the REAL Gabriel in the TLAES episode and the whole idea that, immediately after getting his ass beat by V1, he decides to try and lick his wounds by bullying a SMALLER blue robot and then still gets his ass beat,, WITH ONLY HOURS LEFT TO LIVE??? what a dumbass i love him
the genocide in gaza has been going on for 6 months and there is rarely a day i don’t think about it or post anything on any of my social media accounts.
i can’t not post about gaza and bring awareness.
and i can’t believe that none of my friends have shared anything, and i’m upset with how little my siblings and mother have.
i’ve known about isntreal’s violent treatment towards palestinians for years. and even back then i was shocked people didn’t give a shit or know about it, which wasn’t their fault. western media is bullshit propaganda that purposely does not educate… so i was like “ok i can see how you wouldnt know about this.”
but now day after day, we are witnessing this ethnic cleansing, while palestininas are living it and for people to say they “don’t know much” about it, or they aren’t educated enough or blah blah.
you have 0 excuses. people are protesting all over the world, palestinians are sharing what is going on all over social media. students are setting up encampments, people have blocked ships, disrupted political events, set themselves on fire..
you had 0 excuses at the beginning of this and you have even less excuses now at month 6
i am so sick of people being willfully ignorant and playing dumb, just admit you didn’t care at the start of this, and you don’t care now. your apathy is disgusting. your indifference is vile.
I’m about to expose the men. Whenever you ask a man’s height, he’ll add an inch. So if he’s 6 foot, he’ll say he’s 6’1 and if he’s 6’2, he’ll say he’s 6’3.
Not me though. I subtract 4. I say I’m 5’9. Especially when there’s other men in the room. And then I just watch them panic. Not only have you exposed his lie, but now he thinks he’s 5’3.
i don’t expect this to be very widely known but here in vancouver we’ve had a barge stuck on shore since mid november
we’re going on day 25 of barge simpson not moving a damn inch and i for one hope it never moves
They put up a sign
WHAT
Ever Given fans reading this post like:
I think it’s really important, for non-Vancouverites, that you know some additional layers of the joke to this, because this shit’s got history:
One of our parks has an abstract statue in it of someone reclining.
In Nov 2012, an artist made a sign as a joke, “Dude Chilling Park”, which looked exactly like our official Parks Board signs (except for the official park boards seal).
The Vancouver Parks Board removed the sign but, after a whole lot of petitions, they put in an official one a year and a half later, also “Dude Chilling Park”, but now with the proper seal attached.
Fast forward 7 years later. We have horrible floods. A barge washes up on Sunset Beach and gets grounded there. It has yet to be removed.
The Vancouver Parks Board, unprompted, adds a “Barge Chilling Beach” sign.
another underappreciated tumblr feature that you dont get on other sites is the queue. i love it when something i thought was funny six months ago and then forgot about a week later crawlts its way out of the processing vortex and i get to see it all over again.
you should queue this post it would be funny and grant me immortality
you motherfuckers put me in the processing vortex
How was the processing vortex, was it fun? It looked like it would be fun.
another underappreciated tumblr feature that you dont get on other sites is the queue. i love it when something i thought was funny six months ago and then forgot about a week later crawlts its way out of the processing vortex and i get to see it all over again.
you should queue this post it would be funny and grant me immortality
you motherfuckers put me in the processing vortex
How was the processing vortex, was it fun? It looked like it would be fun.
another underappreciated tumblr feature that you dont get on other sites is the queue. i love it when something i thought was funny six months ago and then forgot about a week later crawlts its way out of the processing vortex and i get to see it all over again.
you should queue this post it would be funny and grant me immortality
you motherfuckers put me in the processing vortex
How was the processing vortex, was it fun? It looked like it would be fun.
Titanium not only is crazy durable, but it noo magnet! Thas wy Dock chok jjiun spi; surgyr ad pater noster, qui es in cœlis; sanctificetur nomen tuum: Adveniat regnum tuum; fiat voluntas tua, sicut in cœlo, et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie: Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris: et ne nos inducas in tentationem: sed libera nos a malo.
dude got hit with the ol’ Lorum Ipsem beam😞
Fun fact! Titanium is often used for medical implants because it’s *dodges lorem ipsum beam* because it’s strong, nontoxic, won’t corrode inside the body, and best of all, *dodges* bone will directly grow onto it! This is called “osseointegration” and it means that your titanium artificial hip, dental implant, or whatever will have greater *dodges* greater mechanical stability and will ARRRGGH! aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit!
actually. even though ‘a’ is used as a word, it’s still a vowel.
No not the word. The letter 'a’ is not a vowel.
yes it is???
linguistically vowels are defined as letter sounds that are generated without constricting your mouth’s airflow. the sound the letter a makes is one of those.
this post reminded me of this ~scenario~ that happens to me and other fat folks quite often! thin folks that are our friends, support fat folks, but haven’t quite had the time or chance or willingness to unlearn fatphobic ideas in relation to themselves. we know you still think of fatness as inherently unhealthy and unattractive, work on it ♥
leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this
Sometimes something fucked up happens to the guy and their melody gets fucked up too. Sometimes the thing that fucked them up also has its own melody and when the first melody gets fucked up the second melody gets mixed in
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