#BUT LIKE?????

[sunnykeysmash]

ok why isn't everybody else freaking the fuck out about this

bro that's sunny's cameraman (hi bestie love u)

[youcanthandelthetruth]

So this is vagueing on a disability representation post that means well and so I feel like a jerk but ugg GG hgghhhh

They're recommending describing fantasy/sci-fi disability aids like it's a Tom Swift novel or something like ohhhh 'she was in a wheeled contraption that responded to her commands by some means' as if it's the first time the protagonist has ever seen something like that

And like. My kid isn't in school yet. He's a Pandemic Baby and has had extremely limited contact with anyone outside his immediate family his whole short life. And that's its own set of problems for sure but... he knows Three wheelchair users on sight and by name. He's been in quarantine/isolation his entire life and he knows three people in both powered and self-propelled wheelchairs. Why does my baby who has met 15 people total have more experience of disabled people than your hypothetical adult protagonist who is supposed to be modeling disability positivity.

Just say they're in a wheelchair or a hoverchair or have hearing aids or whatever I honestly think it is better to just say the words even if they are not very sci-fi than to present this as the first and only disabled person who has ever visibly existed in that world pleeeeease

[landofourwins]

actually looking for the fucks i give bc everything is pretty great rn actually, 2025 is gonna be a good year, don't start with the "odd years suck" shit, 2025 will be everything

[bikananjarrus]

how tf am i supposed to fall asleep when poseidon and percy scene

[cak3art]

I started dts for the alpine drama, but damn did I stay for the overall drama

[just-a-girl-who-likes-sharks]

I might be gay panicking but I just went to my local bookstore to buy myself a very gay book and when I went to pay for that book (and also order the other very gay book in the series) the girl at the register was all like ��oh I love those books, they’re amzing” and then we talked a little (me, with my social anxiety, talked to this woman like what???) and then she complimented my handbag and like????????? I’m definitely gay panicking

[archivedbyebye]

Are we seriously already doing this???

The seasons only been out for a few hours and you're seriously already hating on it?

[bronsinseele]

HELP ME JUST REMEMBERED ONE OF THOSE MEME ROLE THINGS J SAW THAT CALLED NINGGUANG A COMMUNIST JFJDJD

[mikewheelergayat14]

shout out to conan gray for having 2 of the most byler songs known to man

[fivestoriesfallingg]

i’m starting to be worried there’s something actually hormonally wrong with me lately it’s starting to freak me out a little

[thegeekgene]

Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

[vampiricbisexuality]

like to charge, reblog to cast <3

[ryderdire]

Really interesting thing I glimpsed on rednote today

I think We- we’re developing international class consciousness 

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

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.

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.