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Lmaoooo you can see it sweeping in on the right at the start of the video

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This was what I was trying to link in my previous post, but for some reason it wouldn’t let me include this link? Like I mentioned, this is an Islamic lecture that is relevant to the very long-winded previous post so if you don’t want to see you in Islamic lecture, don’t watch this one. It’s just some advice about how to have a good Ramadan and it kind of inspired me to be a little bit more comfortable turning my back on the chaotic mess that is the secular world right now, and focus on my inner world. 

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Re: Trump & Ramadan

One of the things that drains me emotionally the most about trump’s second term is the emotional whiplash going from the satirical evening shows like Seth Meyers to Tumblr. You’ll get a lot of the evening news shows being like “Trump, this jokester just fired an entire section of the US government, but then had to rehire them. What a silly goose!”

Then I will go on Tumblr and they will talk about the same thing as if it isn’t terrifying ominous sign that America is slipping into Nazi adjacent fascism and it’s just creating so much… What’s the word? Cognitive dissonance that I just don’t have the mental energy to suss out which one is closer to the truth.

It makes me feel really grateful that Ramadan is coming. John Starling, An Imam from New Jersey, had an Islamic sermon on his YouTube page that just got uploaded today and my mosque has another sermon that they put up on their Facebook. I can share them if anybody cares. But anyway one of them said that one of the things about Ramadan that’s important is going on a diet from the Dunya. The Dunya is anything in the world that isn’t explicitly Islamic. Some of it is harmless stuff like chitchatting with friends, and some of it is like child molestation and murder. It runs the gamut from sitcoms to football to hustling for that promotion to drinking and everything else.

During Ramadan, the general consensus is Muslims try to turn their back on all of this, and just focus on the Islamic path. That means not watching TV or movies or focusing on keeping up-to-date about the news. Not listening to music or trying to even keep up with what the latest albums released are. Turning your back on social media and not making any effort to keep up with what people are saying or keeping up with those conversations.

Normally, that just seems so extreme and unpalatable. Like just a rebuke of joy, and all of this other kind of stuff but, I don’t know if it’s just me, but the news cycle for the last several months has just been wearing me out. Not to mention the corporate homogenization of the Internet has made the idea of turning my back on all of that nonsense and attention economy film flammery – It just really appeals to me right now. I guess it’s one of those situations where I haven’t really been having fun for a lot longer than I remember. So this Ramadan, I’m actually going to be really happy to be turning my back on Tumblr and the news. Not concerning myself with what’s happening in the world. I am in this world, not of it. I need to be focusing on wholesome things. Trying to memorize Surat Al Kahf, Reading the Quran and listening to audiobooks and not worrying about what music I haven’t heard yet on my phone. I don’t need to worry about what my opinion is on some new hot release. It doesn’t matter if Chappell Roan puts out a new album. I don’t need to concern myself with what Kendrick Lamar may or may not be doing. I can turn my back on the terrible orange man and focus on my faith. I feel like engaging with this news cycle has really mutated me into a worse version of myself and I don’t like that it is turning me into a perpetually angry, hot-tempered, frustrated person. I mean, the horrible truth about Trump’s second term is for all of my frustration and all of the things that I have re-blogged about all of the horrible things he has done, none of that has actually probably helped anyone. Even if I have spread the word or educated people, I don’t think doing that has actually stopped any suffering. I don’t think the average person of the mainstream media is particularly concerned with what he’s doing or where he is taking the country.

I’m just saying all this because I don’t know how much I’m gonna be on Tumblr after Saturday which, at least in America is very close to the beginning of Ramadan. I’ve already started getting myself prepared, by finishing up books and theories that might not be in the spirit of Ramadan (bored gay werewolf, Mephisto). Trying to listen to the albums that I am most excited about. I already finished up the last of my coffee so I can switch to tea for Ramadan because one of the tough things for me is that I generally can’t have caffeine when I wake up so there’s not really much of any point in having coffee that might just end up keeping me up. I guess I’m just saying that four years is a really long time and I don’t think that the Democrats in America have much of a sense of the seriousness of what has happened – well except for Bernie Sanders and AOC. (I really wish Bernie Sanders would write a book about the second Trump presidency.) There are some other really awesome people but I think most of them just have perpetual politician brainrot and I think they’re mainly comfortable not really doing much of anything except for what will give them power two years from now. Like, I’m still a Democrat, but one of the things about the Trump era that makes me so incredibly frustrated is how it has created this culture of mediocrity amongst an entire generation of Democrats that they don’t really even need to be good they just need to be not Trump. So many of them are just so milquetoast or mediocre and they don’t need to be better because they just need to be not Trump.

I was going to include the two sermons below, but for some reason Tumblr won’t let me include the links? I don’t know whether it’s just something weird about my phone or Tumblr mobile or whatever but if I can think of it I’ll maybe do that tomorrow when I have access to my laptop. 

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Not to mention that person is still going to feel that way about their upbringing. They are just going to realize that you are not a safe person to talk about that with, and will probably just avoid you in the future which may be what you want. 

Saying that a certain group of people is too privileged to complain about the way that things are is its own sort of defense of the status quo

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When I say that Trump has no original play in his playbook this is what I fucking mean. This where America is back sliding into Nazi Germany.

With that said to the people who voted 3rd party fuck you, fuck maga, fuck republicans and fuck you to the people who didn’t vote.

Everyone who knows a tiny bit of history saw this coming.

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A former stray very happy to be inside

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look, guys, this may seem ironic coming from a person with Verbose Disease, but I'm about to tell you the secret to winning social media: shutting the fuck up. you have a controversial discourse opinion? shut the fuck up and no one will know. can't participate in a boycott for various reasons? shut the fuck up and no one will know. you think or do something Problematic that has no bearing on anyone but yourself? shut the fuck up and no one will know. you haven't been keeping up on a pressing social issue? shut the fuck up and no one will know. your mind is a wonderful place where you can have all the bad takes in the world and they're all perfectly insulated from everyone and everything unless you try to excise them on a grand scale. you can take the mental L all by yourself without using a public platform as a confession booth and face zero repercussions and it'll be just fine. open up a damn diary and explain yourself there.

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Vague video ID: this is a video from Jessica McCabe, a.k.a. how to ADHD. In this video, she debunks a lot of very common misconceptions about self-care, and how it works, specifically with Neurodivergent people. I don’t know about you, but there is definitely something in this that you are erroneously believe that might be worth reconsidering. she specifically talks about misconceptions involving self-care for herself as a new mother so if you’re a new mom trying to balance at all, then you might really appreciate this video. There are no hardcoded subtitles so you will be at the mercy of whatever is provided by YouTube. She does speak very quickly and there are some visual components that if I’m not mistaken, she doesn’t completely contextualize so if you want this information and you may need some accommodations, you might want to bookmark this video until those accommodations might be available (a friend to walk you through it, or to explain the stuff that you wouldn’t be able to get, etc.) 

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Boys will be boys

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Don’t buy a Tesla and understand it’s very hard to get rid of one, that was by design too

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my dad was outside feeding the slugs cucumber slices earlier

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Will someone please answer the phone

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HAPPY (late) BIRTHDAY DEAR WEEVILMONGER

thank you i am busy monging these weevils right now