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[cordspaghetti]

I’VE GONE ACROSS THE OCEAN

:D

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

ADHD & Sensory Sensory Seeking

Future ADHD

[simulation-dreamer]

My fandom character Sims 4 save is genuinely fucking cursed because Dan Heng, Welt Yang, Marius Von Raum, Daan Von Dutch, Leon Scott Kennedy and Luis Serra Navarro have all procreated with aliens via abduction like what's wrong with them

[snippydippy]

So, Tiktok's back. After only about ten hours.

When it went down (several hours ahead of schedule, as if plans had to be moved forward), we got a notice praising trump for trying to help the app, and a video from Tiktok's CEO expressing the same sentiment.

This was already a massive red flag to me. Trump was the one who started the TikTok ban idea in the first place. It was literally a part of his campaign after TikTok was used to prove he was lying about his rally attendance numbers.

Despite this, Tiktok has been given a 90-day extension by the Trump administration. This 90-day extension is contingent on a deal already being in motion to sell Tiktok (in full or in majority shares), to an American company.

The CEOs for both TikTok and Meta are expected to be at Trump's inauguration tomorrow. Facebook also started pushing a "link your meta to Tiktok" option the day before the ban took place, and they now have an official Tiktok page after keeping the two companies as strictly separate competitors for years. It is my belief that this all points to Mark Zuckerberg having bought/merged with TikTok. Something that had likely been planned for a while, with last night's brief and early shut-down being a stunt to upset all of us who've come to rely on TikTok for a variety of reasons.

Whether you're one of the 7 million content creators or small business owners who legitimately earned your living off the app, or simply a part of the 170 million Americans (half the fuckin' country) who became attached to it from healthy community interaction, news dependency, or even a toxic addiction to it's quick and easy dopamine (I am a mix of all of these, personally), the ban going into affect last night likely caused you an amount of stress. Anguish, even, depending on your situation.

But now, as of this morning, Trump is suddenly our savior. After about two years of him pushing his opinion that Tiktok should be banned, now one of the richest men in the country and his company stands to benefit from Tiktok sticking around. And so will Trump, with Zuckerberg's money in his pocket.

I'm glad it's back, truly. I love Tiktok and the people I've met there, the communities fostered and the hard-working Americans who've found success on the platform. However, selling to Meta is NOT good.

Zuckerberg is nothing but an elite POS. He does not care about you, his company and all of his apps have ALWAYS been more predatory with your data than Tiktok EVER was. Meta has collected more of it, sold it to more advertisers and private investors with an interest in the public's free-time habits, and has done nothing if not try to monopolize your presence online.

Tiktok's algorithm may end up changing. It may end up having to bend to Meta's whims. Less personalization, more of your data being sold to advertisment that we might see an increase in. Shadow-bans, community muffling, news censorship and political biases being promoted, etc.

I don't know what I suggest doing about this. Even though it would be the best move, I would be a hypocrite to say "remove all meta associated apps from your phone." I can't delete my Facebook/meta account. Not without dedicating a flashdrive or several to saving pictures, videos and posts as pieces of my life from the past 15 years I have been on this website. I know many others feel the same, there isn't really anywhere else we can go. That is by design.

I know RedNote is where a lot of folks went, and I genuinely think the cultural exchange on that app between American and Chinese citizens is a wonderful thing, but I do not feel right about signing up for an app that is explicitly owned by the Chinese government anymore than I would on an app explicitly owned by our own (which, Meta practically is. They just get to hide behind a thin veil of a "private company". One that can pay to control political decisions. Our government is its own private company, but I digress). Bluesky might be the best alternative, but its Twitter-like format is annoying to me, personally.

TL;DR

I guess all of this is just to say; Don't fall for this shit. It's all extremely fishy and smells like Trump raising his approval rating with young voters, and Zuckerberg extending his reach over the way we all connect with each other and raising his net worth. Please stay as aware as you can.

More than just a "haha funny app", TikTok grew to be the most important way that hundred of millions of Americans connected with each other.

It is how WE THE PEOPLE connect. Potentially losing it to yet another leading company in the oligarchy our country truly is, its a blow to all of us, regardless of what political party you identify with.

[vanalex]

[wildstar25]

[blujayonthewing]

how do people fucking use facebook for anything regularly, you can't type LITERALLY two fucking words without it popping up over the text box like 'are you Mentioning a friend? are you Mentioning a celebrity? are you Mentioning a page? is this A Page? would you like to tag A Page? you don't follow this page would you like to follow and tag this Page?????'

[frameconfessions]

What I love about Warframe as a newcomer is that there doesn't seem to be any sort of shipping wars or fandom discourse at all. I've been into a lot of shooters before (ie. Overwatch, Apex Legends, etc.) so Warframe is a huge breath of fresh, clean air.

💯

[prettyvintageafternoon]

Friendly reminder that some of the biggest allies of the anti-abortion agenda are for-profit adoption agencies. Women having less kids directly cuts into the profit margins of people whose job it is to sell babies.

Remember that the next time people in the anti-abortion movement try to compare abortion access to slavery or criticize the "Abortion Industrial Complex."

[stolentrekblr]

Tumblrinas: Thanks for letting me know

Reposters: Hater!

Me:

[icewindandboringhorror]

examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

What Is Stimming And How Does It Relate To ADHD?

Future ADHD

[meloneta]

hey so do you realize making posts like "reblog this to get/not get ---" is actually harmful. like do you know that me as a person with pretty fucking bad ocd would very much like to not see these types of posts on my dash in the year of your lord 2023. please stop. please don't exploit people's fears (or worse, actual mental illnesses and struggles) for notes. please stop showing me that goddamn fucking gold potato. thanks.

[oiblackestsheep]

i made a new thing that i think is really funny

[vanalex]

So why did Peter Steele have fangs implanted? Well, according to a now archived interview, the catalyst wasn't what you'd think: ⬇️

Peter, after being asked if his canines were real:

"Well, one was knocked out, but they were both real until one was knocked out. There was a car in front of me. Apparently, he was driving a clutch and he must have taken his foot off of the brake pedal. He was bending down looking for something under the seat and he backed into my car and he thought that I rammed him. So he got out of his car and came up to my window and started saying sh*t like. "Hey man, why'd you hit me?" I'm like, I didn't hit you. You f*cking backed into me. You were looking for your drugs under the seat and you backed into me. " I'm like, whatever, and to shut him up I turn and reach over to turn the radio on. All of a sudden, I felt... not even pain, but some kind of hot pressure on my face. When I turned around he was running back to his car with a hammer in his hand. I thought he slapped me and the hammer just happened to be in his hand. I chased him and he got away. As I drove away, I'm like a son of a b*tch, the f*cking guy slapped me. I'm tasting like this iron in my mouth and playing with my teeth (as he sticks his tongue over his teeth) and there is a f*cking tooth missing. The guy hit me with the hammer in the face. Ripped my lip open. I picked the tooth up off the floor and it couldn't be put back in. Well, I did put the tooth under the pillow and ... no, I did not get a dollar."

It's not known, at least publicly, when exactly Peter Steele had his legendary fangs installed. I'm sure his sister's dentist, Dr. Wasserman knows, as he was the one who had them implanted. Initially telling his sister that he had a "tooth problem." The family later recalled that they learned of his fangs over dinner one night, to much shock.

[sovereign-of-dawn]

Me looking at literally anything that is Anderson related

I also made one with a Nokia, because honestly I feel like he would have trouble using a smartphone LDÖSNWPQN