#are we the waiting

[mhmeaggizeis]

[leoluvsbilkyjo]

my playlist on shuffle (gif from pinterest)

songs that work

teenage dirtbag - wheatus

minority - green day

are we the waiting/st jimmy - green day

dirty rotten bastards - green day

missing out - maya hawke

baby eyes - green day

killing in the name - rage against the machine

look ma no brains - green day

buddy holly - weezer

the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny - lemon demon

heart shaped box - nirvana

no pride - green day

the american dream is killing me - green day

brat - green day

in bloom - nirvana

fuck time - green day

helena - my chemical romance

the greatest - billie eilish

21st century breakdown - green day

come as you are - nirvana

mama - my chemical romance

staceys mom - fountains of wayne

coming clean - green day

sassafras roots - green day

christians inferno - green day

armatage shanks - green day

let yourself go - green day

disenchanted - my chemical romance

walking contradiction - green day

worry rock - green day

miss murder - afi

in too deep - sum 41

song 2 - blur

dont leave me - green day

songs that dont

THE PERSON WHO MADE THIS IS INVINCIBLE.

[raccoonlovver]

Starry nights, city lights coming down over me

[large-fucking-bird]

Change

(Was listening to Are We The Waiting/St. Jimmy while writing this)

I've been thinking lately (I know, I'm surprised too), mostly about the way the world is right now. Who's in power. How they got there. What things are like.

A lot of that stuff sucks ass.

I'm a trans woman in a country about to transfer its power to an electorate that explicitly hates trans people, with a flimsy backup plan for if things go sideways too fast. I likely won't be able to receive a high school diploma, not because I don't have the credits, but because I won't make it to graduation. I've got some college credits (CIS-style program), but I'll likely never graduate for the same reason I might not get a diploma. Things keep getting worse, and I keep waiting for them to change.

But social environments don't change on their own - people have to change them themselves. I'd equate this to newton's first law (a body at rest will remain at rest, or an object in motion will remain at its velocity, unless acted upon by an outside force), but I'm fully aware that these two fields are completely different in their structures.

All my late-teen and young-adult life, I've been waiting for someone to change things. But no-one does - because they're waiting too.

If we want to see change, we have to make it happen ourselves. We can't keep waiting. It's not feasible, and won't get us anywhere.

You're deserving of rights. I'm deserving of rights. It's time people saw that.

[ramyaknox]

My second quiet cover from yesterday

[monstermonger]

~3 months traveling in my wife’s home-country -> 100 journal pages

[noodles-and-tea]

Haha… yeah… that’d be crazy…

[good-to-drive]

My mom kept complaining that all of a sudden the Beatles are back and they're fucking everywhere and they're so obnoxious and were practically having an orgy in her garden under a cucumber leaf and that's when I realized she meant spotted cucumber beetles and not Paul McCartney

[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.

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[quei]

The ultimate lifeform vs shadow

[leoluvsbilkyjo]

tag game!! finish the green day lyrics!! XD (if you know them)

starry lights, city of lights coming down over me. skyscrapers, stargazers in my head.

@iiiidiotnathanieliii @mochifromthemoon @serpentine-starlight @sylvansaurus @nunyaluvya @n0t-t0mmy-l33 + anyone who knows the lyrics!!

[xinyuehui]

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[kylominis]

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