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grief is so crazy like what if i forget what her laugh sounds like. does she know i loved her. i miss her so much. i catch myself doing things she used to do. i wish i could call her. i miss her so much. i do a crossword puzzle. i cry while washing the dishes. does she know i loved her? my heart feels like a hummingbird. i miss her so much. what if i forget what her laugh sounds like. what if i forget.

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I mean... in high school I locked myself away and was just on Tumblr when I wasn't working, studying, or going to school. And honestly there's a lot of shit on tiktok that's makes billionares scated shitless. People are starting to connect the dots (algorithm permitting) and i think it caused a of Americans to look at their government, their relationships, and their priorities in a new light after blindly trusting authority for so long.

Of course, that can't be said for everyone, and there's definitely a massive portion of tiktok filled with mindless idiocy or even downright vitriolic disinformation, but we cannot ignore the people who are using it to organize and spread awareness about how severely we are oppressed. I've seen, over the years, an uptick in the number of radfem, pro-science, anti-fascist, pro-intellectualism tiktoks that was certainly not there in like 2016. People were loving luigi. People were realizing our government gives us food that keeps us sick and makes Healthcare so unaffordable that we need a 9-6m job or we need to enlist in their military. People have realized how much wealth the 1% has, and how widespread disasters are. It gave many accurate news when local and major new outlets failed to report on certain topics.

Of course there is a balance to be found with everything and I can also like a 5 page paper on why tiktok has aple room for improvement, but we can't ignore how it helped some people wake up and smell the coffee. I had to go online as a kid, all those years ago, to escape the republican echo chamber I was raised in and without my endless scrolling on this app for all those hours, I might still be a fucking idiot. Tumblr for me, then, is (for some) tiktok now

That said I think we societal are severely lacking in community bonding and we should use tiktok as a tool to connect irl and organize, network, not continuing to isolate ourselves indefinitely. Real life is what happens when we look up from the screens.

i cant stand seeing these ppl say shit like "oh but tiktok has opened up the world for so many people!!" "it introduced me to so many amazing friends!!" "the community on tiktok has saved my life!!" you are sitting in your bed staring at your phone for hours not moving and not having a single original thought. you are SHUT OFF from the world. you're avoiding your life. you're not connecting with people or joining a community you're wasting your life watching strangers who you will never meet pretend to live. its sad & pathetic & we deserve better than this sort of existence

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Doctors get all "Oh, where'd you hear about that? Dr. Google?" then you ask them about something you read in a peer reviewed journal they turn their monitor away from you to use Doctor Google.

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Lily of the valley by Kawarazaki Shodo (1899-1973)

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COLORFUL SUN CATCHERS

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Now that a major publication has confirmed the Neil Gaiman story is true, and in fact much worse than we originally thought, it's time to question why the original source wasn't good enough for you. If you're feeling cognitive dissonance because you believe that the podcast that broke the story is "biased" at best or "hateful" at worst, it's time to sincerely reckon with that.

It's time to sit with that discomfort and ask yourself why you preferred to believe conspiracies about election interference rather than question why the entirety of legacy media was covering for a vile predator.

Neil Gaiman anally raped women. He "didn't believe" in foreplay because he enjoyed seeing women in pain. He committed sexual assault in the presence of his child. He told multiple women he could not become aroused without whipping them and engaging in bizarre erotic "rituals" that demanded complete submission to him. He used his wealth to essentially enslave a traumatized middle-aged woman on his property.

Whether you like it or not, the women on that podcast were the only ones willing to give these victims a voice. Ask yourself: Why did you have a knee-jerk reaction to that?

Ask yourself some more questions. Do you feel guilty? Do you feel like an abuse apologist? Do you recognize the similarities to the widespread harassment campaign against Amber Heard three years ago, or do you believe this is somehow different? Why or why not?

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alright everyone

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New video of Maddy and Gabby skating together

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I deactivated my fb :)

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absolutely completely totally insane how women’s fun little plans are thwarted just by living with a man. my mom wants to use her vintage tablecloths but can’t because her husband won’t stop feeding his dog off the table. my neighbor was telling me about the sewing project she wants to work on but can’t because her husband broke her sewing machine. like women can live with Nice Men who nonetheless are the equivalent of wartime saboteurs

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And why must every woman waking up in films have perfectly styled hair and lip gloss

too many movies have been ruined by not casting ugly people

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“women used to marry young and have a lot of children” VS “men used to marry women when they were still little girls and force them to be pregnant and give birth their whole life”.

“in the past women didn’t get education” VS “in the past, men stopped women from getting education and excluded them from all cultural spheres”.

“muslim women must wear hijab” VS “muslim men force muslim women wear hijab”.

“in this country, abortion is illegal” VS “men in this country made women getting abortion illegal”.

women’s oppression doesn’t happen by itself. women’s oppression isn’t passive. there is an oppressor class that actively chooses to oppress women, and the oppressor class is MEN.

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A renowned stapler

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