so the first screenshot is trying to look this up on tiktok normally, “donald trump rigged election” and it says that search violates community guidelines.
the second screenshot is looking up the same exact thing, but with a (australian) vpn on. canadian vpn didn’t fix it fyi.
THIS is exactly the type of censorship to be looking out for on tiktok. this actually is crazy.
TikTok is now censoring / removing videos that mention anything anti tiktok / trump or are even remotely political and making it harder for vital information to spread. I have an AUS vpn turned on and get multiple messages telling me to ‘check my sources’ before sharing and limiting the amount of people I can directly send the video to. Absolutely fact checking is important, but make no mistake, this change is NOT about stopping the ‘spread of misinformation’ and more about containing the fire that’s been lit.
Turns out even though I moved out, the old house drags the past behind us. We have some unpaid bills after the mom died. I’m a disabled trans woman who can’t work. I had to move in with my brother and his gf - he’s the only one who earns a full wage, his gf is paid quarter of minimum wage because she’s disabled. Everyone in household has mental health problems for that matter.
Between water bills (503 PLN), property taxes (338 PLN), negative bank balance (728 PLN and 146 EUR), last internet bill (145 PLN), internet cancellation fee (1152 PLN) we have… a lot on our plate. Total 3488 PLN, which is easily entire monthly paycheck for one person.And only one person in this house earns a full paycheck.
That’s 837 US Dollars.
If you can help at all, anything will be appreciated. I hate that I have to ask for help again, but also I can’t leave my brother alone with these costs.
Join me on my journey to finally unbalance my hormones, toxify my body, boost my inflammation, maximize my cortisol and absolutely destroy my gut health.
I just realized it’s literally just the fucking humors again. We’ve arrived back at the starting line.
if you’re aware of the Vulture article on Neil Gaiman, there’s not much i can add; if you aren’t and you go looking, my only advice is that if you hit a point where you’re wondering if you should bail, do so, because the details of his behavior only get more vile as it goes along.
however, one thing i WILL say is to be on the lookout for smear campaigns against the sources and/or the journalist, Lila Shapiro, in the coming weeks and months. i cannot stress enough how brave this article is. if there’s one thing more hazardous to your reputation than blowing up a rich and influential serial predator in the entertainment industry, it’s making the church of scientology look bad, and she’s managed to do both in one stroke. remember Lila Shapiro’s name, and be extremely skeptical if it suddenly turns up later this year as the target of some slimy allegation.
since it’s a scary time to be trans: refuge restrooms is an app which maps gender-neutral/single-stall restrooms. it’s community-mapped, so it’s possible you might be the first person to log the restroom locations, but hopefully it’ll help some people.
please reblog this post if you’ve got trans followers. stay safe.
For my non-trans followers: please consider getting the app just so you can add neutral restrooms to the map when you run across them. Simple way to help.
This is absolutely still a thing, for anyone wondering!
If a company writes off a product for a tax break it should be public domain. Made a movie but wrote it off? Then the whole public, who is subsidizing your taxes, should get a free public domain copy.
That distopian company that made bionic eyes that shut down leaving blind patients with useless tech and brain implants should have at least be given the programming so a community could form to keep it going. Protecting the code serves only to give the current owner an opportunity to profit from it if they wanted to (they said they don’t) and to keeps the victims with unsupported brain modifications.
Discontinued products should have their designs published for repair or modification purposes.
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Panel 1: Grey says “Stop pirating our products”. Their expression is neutral.
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alright everyone is being sassy but nobody has brought up the actual reason why scientists are interested in the titanic in the notes
Per wikipedia:
The Titanic was made of steel, presumably to resist corrosion (i mean. thats why boats are made of steel i assume) but even when iron/steel rusts people did not expect to find like. decomposition. bacteria are EATING the titanic.
and there’s wood furniture from the titanic that isn’t decaying. hell, there are wood ships at the bottom of the ocean that archaeologists study. so the expectation people have for the titanic is not that the steel would decompose at the bottom of the ocean. Even in 100 years, since there are much more ancient preserved wooden ships iirc.
(im not particularly knowledgeable about ships, i just had heard about the science going on around the titanic so i wanted to clarify that on this post for people)
people that act like Britain’s colonial past is ancient history, here are some facts:
Afghanistan’s independence was in 1919.
Egypt was in 1922.
Iraq was in 1932.
Jordan was in 1946.
India and Pakistan were in 1947.
Myanmar and Sri Lanka were in 1948.
Libya and Oman were in 1951.
Sudan was in 1956.
Ghana and Malaysia were in 1957.
Singapore was in 1959.
Cyprus and Nigeria were in 1960.
Cameroon, Kuwait, Tanzania, and Sierra Leone were in 1961.
Jamaica, Uganda, and Trinidad and Tobago were in 1962.
Kenya was in 1963.
Malawi, Malta, and Zambia were in 1964.
The Gambia and the Maldives were in 1965.
Barbados, Botswana, Lesotho, and Guyana were in 1966.
Yemen was in 1967.
Eswatini (Swaziland), Nauru, and Mauritius were in 1968.
Fiji and Tonga were in 1970.
Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates were in 1971.
The Bahamas was in 1973.
Grenada was in 1974
Seychelles was in 1976.
Dominica, Tuvalu, and the Solomon Islands were in 1978.
Kiribati and Saint Lucia were in 1979.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines were in 1979.
Vanuatu and Zimbabwe were in 1980.
Antigua and Barbuda and Belize were in 1981.
Saint Kitts was in 1983.
Brunei was in 1984.
In addition to that: Northern Ireland is still a British territory. So are the Falkland Islands and Bermuda.
This is in the lifetime of ancestors we have that are still alive. Many of these countries were left in financial ruination after colonization with their resources drained. Many of these countries have been repeatedly bombed by the UK and their allies since independence as well. The very act of independence often resulted in massive loss of life (see the partition of India and Pakistan which resulted in 2 million people dead, 20 million people displaced, and countless others never recovered). Calling it ancient history or underplaying the sheer cruelty of what the British empire did is such a slap in the face to the people who suffered for centuries.
im surprised no one is talking about how elon musk paid people to make high level hardcore characters for him so he could claim it was all his work on livestream only to be immediately exposed as he couldn’t even play the game right
its called irony poisoning bc it makes u sick in the head
yeah man sorry for caring about this thing i like too much. it wouldve been much cooler if i pretended not to give a shit about anything at all actually. this makes me better than everyone who expresses feelings which are inherently a sign of weakness as you already know
its called irony poisoning bc it makes u sick in the head
yeah man sorry for caring about this thing i like too much. it wouldve been much cooler if i pretended not to give a shit about anything at all actually. this makes me better than everyone who expresses feelings which are inherently a sign of weakness as you already know
its called irony poisoning bc it makes u sick in the head
yeah man sorry for caring about this thing i like too much. it wouldve been much cooler if i pretended not to give a shit about anything at all actually. this makes me better than everyone who expresses feelings which are inherently a sign of weakness as you already know
its called irony poisoning bc it makes u sick in the head
yeah man sorry for caring about this thing i like too much. it wouldve been much cooler if i pretended not to give a shit about anything at all actually. this makes me better than everyone who expresses feelings which are inherently a sign of weakness as you already know
I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.
Like. People are learning mandarin to join this social media site. I’m not joking. There are tutorials going around to show people who don’t speak Mandarin how to sign up for this app. They’re all talking about how they’d rather learn a new language than join instagram reels and it is not a thought in ANYONE’S mind that tumblr is also potentially an option
To be clear im not mad about this. I’d rather see a generation of people learn a new language and engage in cross cultural connections than have a wave of tiktokers flood this app but I still think this whole thing is very funny
no because that is quite literally what is happening on Red Book right now like. All of the Chinese users went “hey why are there suddenly a gazillion Americans on here?” to which the Americans went “they’re banning TikTok and we’re moving out of spite” and the Chinese were like “oh cool send us pictures of your cats and help us with English homework and we’ll send you pictures of our cats and help you learn Mandarin” and as far as I can tell everyone is having a genuinely very nice time together.
What I’ve seen looks very promising! It’s a lot of Americans telling each other to behave and not fuck this up for everyone, plus cat pictures (I think cat pictures in exchange for asylum is becoming a meme over there)
yeah so I’ve seen this picture like twenty times now it’s definitely a meme
Ive seen people be like in modern fantasy like “oh the pritagonists can just look up spells on their phone how do you solve that”
Imma be honest most people who go on recipe websites and book every recipe they see don’t even use them lmao why would with be different
Given how terrible most recipe websites are i can only imagine how bad spell websites would be
Having to navigate someone’s entire life story of how they became a witch in order to get to the part where they actually talk about the gods-damned banishing ritual
the number of ‘easy 3 step spell to fly’ that at best do nothing, and have a good chance of doing something very bad to you is non zero
Three words “BuzzFeed Spell Hacks”
five minute witchcrafts
the scry guys
Actual good spellcasting instructions but in the comments there are folks given it low ratings because they completely substituted the components needed and their spell did something completely different
Oh this is actually an incredible urban fantasy worldbuilding thought. Love it.
Rebecca Sugar cooked with “Character whose entire existence is devoted to the service of another character who’s now dead and now they have no idea what to do with themselves except live.” I love that shit. I forged myself into a tool for you and now you’re gone. I’m sniffing this like a bloodhound
“I swore I’d die for you but now you’re dead and I have no conception of what it’s like to live outside of my devotion to you but now I’ve no choice but to learn” is already so delicious. But giving that character “Fumbled a BBW and now has to raise her kid” is so much better. There’s umami in this
Hey hey hey listen to me [snaps my fingers in front of your face] you’re not going to be mean to kids joining Tumblr because TikTok got banned right? You’re not going to make fun of them because they’re ‘cringe’, especially on the supposed ‘cringe is dead’ app, right? You’re not going to go out of your way to just be hostile to children because you don’t like them, right?
“Oh but they deserve it, they’re annoying” cunts were saying that shit about you when you were ‘uwuing’ and ‘smol beaning’ on here in 2015. Kids will always be annoying and your generation, nor will you, ever be an exception to that rule. This app isn’t like an exclusive club, be fucking nice for once.
If China can be nice and engage in a fun cultural exchange with everyone spitefully joining Red Book, Tumblr can be nice to everyone coming here, alright?
gender-affirming surgery is a months-long dark comedy. what the fuck do you mean you’re charging me double for everything. what do you mean they itemize the bill by left and right ball. what the fuck.
Concept: fratsonas. Create a self-insert that’s a douchey frat bro. Mine’s name is Josh
Everyone keeps tagging this saying they’re Chad but listen guys. We can’t all be a Chad. If you really want your fratsona to be a Chad you have to earn it
Ok so like I don’t usually add to posts on here but I’ve got a story about fratsonas:
I used to work at a cafe/crepe place and right before I left for school I was telling my coworker (Kyle) about how I had been thinking about joining the wakeboard club. It was funny to me because I am a very tiny lady and the rest of the club are all big buff bro dudes with long hair and backwards snap backs. So Kyle and I got to poking a little fun at them and began talking to each other in the “bro voice” at work, saying things like “bruh boutta flip this crepe bruh it’s gonna be gnarly, boutta shred this cheese like I shred the waves bruh” “yeah bruh you gotta SnapBack?? Cool cool” and so on. This went on for a couple days and eventually we came up with names for our frat boy alter egos. I was Chaz Michael Skyler and Kyle was Javelin Reviol Mcdermitt the Second. Our shenanigans ensued for like a week as we developed personalities and backstories for our fratsonas. Eventually the rest of he staff got in on it. One girl went by Shredder Cheese and would do the rock on sign, stick her tongue out and yell “SHREDDER!!” And we’d all cheer in the back room. Another guy went simple by Legend. He was the coolest frat guy by far. A real strong silent type. A personal favorite of mine was our assistant manager joined in as an exchange student from Ireland nicknamed Shotgun Shamus who could shotgun literally anything. We’d be making batter in the back room and he’d drop to his knees and shotgun the left over milk before crushing the carton against his forehead and slamming it into the recycle bin. This went on right up until my last day.
