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millionsofbooks · 15 days ago
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something about the tiktok ban that i haven't really seen people here talking about is the experience of tiktok users not from the usa, which was, as far as i can tell, on the whole, very positive. it was actually really nice to, for a short period of time, be on a major social media network and able to interact with people across the world without usamericans constantly inserting themselves into every conversation.
usamericans kind of take over people's fyp regardless of where you're from. this is partly to do with the fact that the creators fund is only available to usamericans so most of the shitty content farms are from the us. then there's also the cultural aspect of the fact that being a citizen of the most powerful empire in the world is a significant privilege, and also a privilege that 99% of usamericans are seemingly unable to acknowledge, plus the us centrism and exceptionalism, plus the constant need to cast themselves as the underdog, and, well. it's annoying.
so, like. everything of what i've seen (which is not to say that other opinions don't exist, just that i haven't seen them) is that it was really nice when the usamericans were gone, and it kind of sucks that they're back.
#tiktok ban#<- for those who are (very justifiably) sick of hearing about this#anyway also important to note that 99% of what ive seen has been from europeans canadians and australians#and i can guess that for people from asian african and south american countries it was probably just their feed being taken over by#other annoying english speakers rather than usamericans#and the 'commonwealth tiktok' thing (especially the fact that its referring to specifically uk canada and australia#and NO OTHER COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES)#is uh. not great!#so im not saying like. magical utopia where everyone was equal#but im just saying that. idk there is no global major social media that isn't overrun with usamericans#and for about a day there was#anyway would be cool to hear from other non-usamericans!#especially if you're not european nor from from a european settler state#question is there a specific word/phrase that would include the citizens of countries like the usa/canada/australia/etc#but not the indigenous people of those places?#and no just saying white doesnt work because in those countries non-indigenous minority ethnic groups are still there under#the authority of a colonial government#and also im talking about privilege along the axis of nationality here as opposed to race/ethnicity#and the question of nationality gets complicated when we're talking about specifically the indigenous people of#an area currently controlled by a settled colonial state#ALSO also in regards to the fact that the whole thing was a trump propaganda stunt#and that there's now censorship of things trump doesnt like#its yet another example of how everyone else in the world gets directly affected by us politics#despite the fact that in this case the social media isnt even a us company#and not to say that it doesnt also suck for usamericans#many of whom voted for harris#but also. at least you got a vote.#the rest of us just have to live with the fact that whoever you guys elect will have a direct impact on our lives#and usamericans just don't experience this. like e.g. british elections have no impact on your lives#but your elections have a massive impact on our lives (and even worse for countries in the global south)
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green-tea-crow · 6 months ago
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If I see a non-passing t woman in the women's bathroom I feel the need to compliment her, even if I don't love her hair or what she's wearing all that much, because I cried the first time I heard somebody on a show use they/them pronouns and if I can make somebody in real life feel a fraction of that safety and acceptance, I will
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Me to Google: I think my new hyperfixation isn't a new tv show or book, but A Literal Person
My phone: *notification pops up* Get Help
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faaun · 9 months ago
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procrastination is starting to have its consequences finally
#on my friends living room floor they love together but one of them has been london for weeks or maybe months#to be with her love. im on a foam mattress from one of their beds next to a glass bottle of water opened by one of them#in a mug given to me by another. the weather felt like my childhood today and it also felt like 2 years ago.#(put space in the heavens Einstein's idea and hes your friend too so nothing to fear) around the table they drank and laughed and i thought#i hope you keep growing so full with the love you receive . i hope your appetite becomes insatiable from how used to it you are#and i know youre all leaving soon but i hope one day you miss this and that youll be happy you miss it#its worth missing i think#i thought he didnt care but he said after exams hes going walk around this area over and over#(this is near where he lived and where we visited almost daily for a year)#(hed come across the bridge on a lake)#we went where she used to live and at the entrance a fox sat calmly. it just yawned and stared.#it felt important somehow. i think maybe their impressions of me will never be close to how i feel inside but i think#i love them enough for that not to matter. i dont think theyll ever know this. i dont think if they did it would change much.#and seeing them smile makes my heart glow anyway. today i tried their malaysian tea the ginger burned my throat#they warmed my heart. hes going to canada soon and hes going to the US soon and shes going everywhere soon ill never understand#how were supposed to live with memories and with seperation and with the past but we do it anyway so i think it doesnt matter much#i wanted to write a poem for the lab rats with the fibre optic wires lit with blue forcing them to turn around and around#something about how im sorry that the two photon arrays burned the inside of your brain. im sorry about the sharp points of multielectrode#arrayes. im sorry about everything we do to you. she asked to see me tomorrow. im trying to have self control but i miss her so awfully#last night my friend talked to me and i updated on everything that happened with love and the lack of it and she just started laughing#and she told me about the same thing from her side. and she told me about how she loved london because she would walk the streets#and she felt like the people were her. and her eyes would go over the people and the bag of bagels and the construction men they probably#have a kid at home maybe shes a daughter. this kid is crying for her mother and the building you just walked past caused#blisters and pain and people died in it and very likely people were born in it. we talked for hours and i felt like#i was holding her hand just like that time she held mine watching a horror film. i love her so much#my friend is a genius and i remember her picking up the charms of my phone and staring at the leaf hanging from them. shes side stepping to#music drinking dangerous cider and cocktails from a movie and chit chatting with billionaires and undergrads#i love her dearly. his head covered in electrodes. she tells me about a syrian guy shes in love with and she says#what you feel and what i feel is like cocaine. ive tried a lot of fucking cocaine.#she says ive reminded her of what living actually feels like and to never put energy into someone who doesnt see me this way.
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koko2unite · 7 months ago
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angremlin · 1 day ago
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Like what am I supposed to do. Lol.
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skateisawesome · 29 days ago
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i promise myself that one day i will see it snow.
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apple-coring · 1 year ago
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ouh carrie underwood ur so right. i should key his car
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gutsfics · 5 months ago
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[MEIKER]
uh oh girlies it looks like im starting to send Neel through a cunt era !!!!!!!!!!!!!
im kinda obsessed w the idea of him becoming That Bitch after he starts acting. hollywood's new it girl <3
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thepileofclothesonyourdesk · 10 months ago
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I can't believe there are still people who support Israel in this day and age. They are literally committing a genocide, which you can watch from your phone. How could you possibly fall for the propaganda??
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0mega-x · 1 year ago
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3 headcanons that I have that diverge from canon because i can't let go of history:
- Matthew hasn't been raised by Francis, they only vaguely know each other ;
- HRE grew up at practically the same rate as everyone around him, him being Ludwig is still something I'm thinking about though.... ;
- Same goes for Veneziano and Romano, no staying kids until the XIXth century. They are also not born during the Roman period.
Doesn't mean I don't like when I see Matthiew and being like Francis' son or HRE and Veneziano being kids, I just don't like it when I do it 😭
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charnel-doll · 9 months ago
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lives in canada. has cold weather as an asthma trigger @ the universe; am i a fucking joke to you
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aturinfortheworse · 1 year ago
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Man I'm so disappointed that I like my principal. My whole anti-authority thing really falling apart here. (and also he's disgustingly pro-military which is inevitable at this particular school but still an extremely bad trait in a principal)
but i like him! I walk past him about three times a day, always late to wherever I'm going, and I was feeling so defensive about how late i am to everything, and then one day he stops me to ask if I'm feeling okay because I'd seemed so happy on the previous days.
and then today on my way past (late) i was like "Hey I saw a rat??? in the daytime?? it was chilling" and he said "Oh that's a common mistake. A lot of people don't know this but we have squirrels in Australia, they're just a bit smaller and they don't have those big fluffy tails. But it's really a squirrel. People keep them as pets!"
and then I had a really shit afternoon (for reasons outside anyone's control) and he called me just now after I got home to tell me to take tomorrow off. I said no, I like coming to work, bc I do, but still it's a lot nicer to go to work when you know it's optional.
he also seemed to think that what i normally do of a friday is go ice skating at the beach???? This is about typical for how well we normally communicate: great, except for the part about how we live in completely disparate realities.
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oniongarlic · 2 years ago
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Man
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james-p-sullivan · 1 year ago
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im sorry excUSE ME?!?!
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salon-maiden-anabel · 2 years ago
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EUGH .
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