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watched HTTYD (the original animated one) this morning because

well

apparently

that's my reaction as an American millennial to finding out what bullshit the country i'm stuck living in is up to now

joy /s

may watch all 3 tbh... tbd

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Okay y'all I just need to rant and it's gotta go some where

Mother fucking Samsung and it's mother fucking OneUI 7.0 update

What the ACTUAL fuck

Completely rearranging where things are, who they work, moving the fucking app search bar to the BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN under the guise of "better one handed usability" well what if I don't fucking WANT that Samsung? What if MY hands are so fucking small I couldn't use your phone one handed even if I WANTED to, huh?

Huh?

What if I want the fucking OPTION??????

The whole reason I'm on Android and specifically a Samsung android is the fucking customizability

Samsung has (had?) all these fun little extras that really let you make your phone your OWN

If I wanted a company to tell me how to use my phone I'd get a fucking iPhone (gag)

Also the now-have-to-swipe-SPECIFICALLY-from-the-top-right for settings is absolutely FUCKING with my muscle memory and it's beyond infuriating

I'm very VERY used to just swiping down twice to get to all of that shit.... And now you tell me I gotta do it in a specific SPOT? Not my generic "wherever my hand is"? What the actual fuck

I'm so fucking pissed right now and I'm honestly on the verge of looking up how to roll back the OS version on my phone

They very obviously didn't have anyone neurodivergent as a beta tester because holy fuck... 10 min with the new UI and I want to both scream AND cry which is not good for a device I use for an extended period of time each day

And don't fucking tell me I'll get used to it. I changed to Linux on my computer because I got mad at changes to Windows... I can and I will fucking jailbreak my phone and fix it, I fucking swear I will

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just saw something on tiktok that honestly made me so mad (and no it's nothing to do with tiktok itself)

someone had left a comment on a video saying that parents letting their kids get the Chicken Pox was basically child abuse and they should be jailed

well fucking excuse ME smartass, i guess my parents should be in jail, because I caught it from a classmate (unintentionally) at the end of the school year when i was 6?

because it was fucking 1994 and the mother fucking vaccine DIDN'T EXIST YET????? (the vaccine was approved in the US in 1995 btw, so it was technically in progress, but it wasn't approved yet)

oh sure it's preventable NOW

but what about those of us who got it before the vaccine?

my parents didn't want me to get it, but i got it anyways, so yeah, I have a risk of shingles, but y'know what? my parents don't deserve jail for that

you wanna go back in time and jail every parent whose kids got smallpox because the vaccine didn't exist yet?

millennials and gen-x had it fucking BEFORE the vaccine was a thing, don't judge our parents for not giving us something that didn't exist

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hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed a "security app".

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

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Getting trained as a pharmacy tech at work..

One of the acronyms in the computer system is ICQ

...I've been on the internet way too long because fuck if I can remember what it stands for at work, because the IMMEDIATE association in my brain is ICQ Messenger

Y'know .. this thing:

Yeah... That's ALL I can fucking think of when I read that acronym

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Had a dream where Johnny from “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” came out as a trans woman and the response was so unanimously positive it reversed nearly all of the transphobic bills in the South. She played live in Georgia to an audience of about a third of the US.

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Keep your messaging simple:

“Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.”

That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.

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‘don’t be political’ ‘I don’t want to see that on my dash’ ‘keep your opinions to yourself’

NO. Absolutely not- over my dead fucking body, you hear me?!

Don’t you dare try to make yourself small, don’t you dare be passive and roll over while they run your country to the ground. I’m not even American and this makes my blood boil, watching all the horrible things happening over there. They have taken your rights. Do you understand me? It is propaganda, plain and simple. Staying quiet just to appease other people is exactly what they want. They want you to remain passive, they want you to hope that things will get better on their own.

here’s the simple truth- it won’t. not unless you do something about it. we all saw it with the UHC shooter, citizens being abused and refused for years, but the second someone leaps into actions, suddenly the gears start turning. I understand that politics isn’t for everyone, and it may very well mentally affect you. but I believe this isn’t the time for that.

YOUR PRESIDENT JUST PUT A BUNCH OF LGBTQ KIDS AT RISK. THE WORLDS RICHEST MAN DID THE NAZI SALUTE AT YOUR INAUGURATION. YOU ARE WATCHING THEM TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS IN REAL TIME ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.

for fucks sake, that doesn’t bother you?

this is the time for action. Do not let them take away your voice. Be inconvenient. Be angry. Be a public menace. Be as fucking difficult to the government as you could possibly be.

it could actually save a life.

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And remember kids, the next time someone tells you "the government wouldn't do that!" – they're gaslighting you. Bark at them. Bare your teeth and let them know that you know what you saw and what you heard. Don't move an inch from the standpoint you have, don't let anybody talk you out of the picture you've made yourself. It's not "oh yes they would", anymore. It's "they do and they will continue to do so." Be attentive. You know what's happening. Be loud about it.

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For the people who left TikTok after the “TikTok ban” and wonder if it’s going down hill. Yes!

Since it came back I’ve seen on my fyp

Swastika jewelry, shirts, hats, etc recommend in the TikTok shop

More Maggots (trump supporters)on my fyp

A guy doing a Nazi salute to an anti Nazi song

People are having to refollow leftist creators because TikTok made them unfollow

Hashtags are being removed/no longer exist that are critical of Trump and republicans

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Yes, you saw what you saw.

Yes, you saw what you saw. Yes, he did what you thought he did. Yes, they aired that with their whole chest.

The next thing they will do is deny that it happened. (you saw wrong, it wasn't what you thought it was, etc) After that they will try to downplay it (it was a joke, he didn't mean it like that, it's a "roman salute," etc) They will try to claim it was the work of AI. (its a deep fake, it's a smear campaign, it's hate speech, etc) They will do everything they can to sweep it aside. Then they will try to bury it. Then they will distract you with meaningless bullshit.

Do not fall for it. Do not believe it. Do not be gaslit.

You saw what you saw. He did what he did. And we need to make sure that we do not forget.

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"bUT mY eGGs and CHeeSe"

you poor sorry sons of bitches. honestly you were played like fools if you ever truly believed the rich give a flying fuck about you and your grocery bills.

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"But if we resort to violence we're just as bad as them!"

One man did with 3 bullets what decades of peaceful protesting failed to do. It sent a message. For the first time in decades, the ruling class was afraid.

And now, barely 3 months later, things are back as they were. Not because Luigi's act of violence wasn't effective, but because it was forgotten as a one-off thing and treated as a trend. People Idolized him for his actions but not for the reason they were done.

One man's act of violence was enough to shake the foundations on which this country is built, the rot that had eaten away the hearts and minds of the people had been pushed back, and for the first time, there was clarity in the minds of everyone. There was no Left or Right, there was simply the Working VS the Ruling.

One man was enough to cause the closest this country has ever come to class consciousness, to solving real problems. Imagine ten, a hundred, a thousand more just like him.

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To quote my mother, who grew up under a dictator:

"Dictatorships are born in whispers."

Pay attention to every bill or executive order. Don't ask how it'll benefit the country. Ask how it'll benefit the one trying to get it passed. You'll start noticing the whispers.

To those who say, "Stop reading between the lines." No. Always read between the lines. Never take a politician at face value. This goes for all politicians regardless of party.

Look at their history, listen to their words, and ask yourself, "How is this benefiting them?"