#not sure don’t share

[nyssabong]

‘Is social media useful in spreading information on Covid-19 in Malaysia or your home country?’

Older media, like newspapers and other publications, are gradually being replaced by more and more new social media platforms. According to Hussin, Rahman, and Azudin (2021), the government of Malaysia has been using various social media platforms to spread messages to the public, while staying current. Social media use has expanded, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic, and it is undoubtedly helpful in spreading awareness of the virus in Malaysia. The government uses social media during the pandemic to provide the most recent information, data on daily cases, and advice on safety precautions. Social media use during the COVID-19 shutdown may have some negative aspects, though.

Daily case Information

We are not permitted to leave the house until further notice during COVID-19. Our daily status and whether our city is in a red zone, yellow zone, or green zone is announced by the government every day. Certain platforms share information on social media when the government makes an announcement about it. Following that, we spread the word about the news on our social media accounts so that a larger audience may view it. As a consequence of people talking to one another, this outcome demonstrates how effective social media is at spreading information about COVID-19 in Malaysia.

In addition, we are unable to attend school because of COVID-19, and we are unsure of when we will be able to return. On the other hand, because social media is so effective at spreading information, everyone will know as soon as the government announces that we may return to school.

Furthermore, even though it is not allowed for us to leave the house, we still have to go grocery shopping. A lot of businesses had to temporarily close during the pandemic due to workers having direct contact with Covid-19 cases or customers who had previously visited such locations after getting the virus. We can easily determine whether or not we have close touch with them once we go out. Because social media will play an important part in the information's spread.

Types of Vaccines

We may also find out more about the Covid-19 vaccinations available in Malaysia through social media. Following the government's announcement during the pandemic that vaccinations are now available, several bloggers started sharing topics related to vaccines, such as the differences between the various vaccines, which Covid-19 vaccines are recommended, side effects of the Covid-19 vaccines, and the number of vaccines that are available.

Fake News

Nonetheless, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of fake news was spread over social media. Many spread fake news throughout the outbreak, such as "Today got a new virus", “Start from tomorrow no more MCO”, "Today got more cases", and similar rumours. There are false reports concerning vaccinations when we need to take the vaccine. Fake news is constantly being circulated on social media, which may contribute to public tension, worry, and panic, as well as vaccination phobia. Our Deputy Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Zahidi Zainul Abidin arrested several people or groups for spreading false information on Covid-19 and the Proclamation of Emergency (Kkd.gov.my 2023) in an effort to stop the spread of false information.

However, a number of people continue spreading fake news. Even if a piece of news may have had a lot of views, we still need to be able to determine if it is real or fake. The public was thus advised by Zahidi to utilise the sebenarnya.my portal and KKMM Quick Response Team alerts to verify the veracity of articles of news and to report any false news that concerns public or national interests by sending it to sebenarnya.my/salur/ (Kkd.gov.my 2023).

Conclusion

In conclusion, I personally believe that social media is useful in Malaysia for spreading information about COVID-19 in light of the previously shown reasons. The usage of social media is growing every day, and we also rely heavily on it for information during pandemics. Needless to say, it is not only Malaysia; because the social media has become so popular and it is so useful in our everyday lives, I believe that a lot of other countries are also using it for spreading information on COVID-19. Finally, remember to verify if the information we obtain from social media is real or fake.

References

Hussin, R, Rahman, SH & Azudin, N 2021, ‘Social Media Approach to Crisis Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis from Malaysian Perspective’, Ulum Islamiyyah, vol. 33, no. S5, pp. 77–88, viewed 27 October 2023, <https://uijournal.usim.edu.my/index.php/uij/article/download/404/242/1232>.

Kkd.gov.my 2023, ‘Spread Of Fake News Cases Down By 83% During MCO 3.0 - Deputy Minister’, 15 June, viewed 29 October 2023, <https://www.kkd.gov.my/en/public/news/19175-spread-of-fake-news-cases-down-by-83-during-mco-3-0-deputy-minister>.

Abdul Rashid, A, Mohamad, I & Mohd Haris, AF 2021, ‘The Role of Social Media in Making an Impact to Health Knowledge and Behaviour on COVID-19 in Malaysia’, Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 155–157, viewed 28 October 2023, <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8260071/>.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

The Hidden Cost of Being an Autistic Adult

Neurodivergent_lou

[deadsetobsessions]

REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPT BY @out-of-jams

ACCIDENTALLY KIDNAPPING A MAFIA BOSS

In Tucker's defense, he thought he was doing someone a favor. A life saving favor, in fact.

"What the fuck-!” The red helmeted guy yelped as a deceptively strong Tucker yanked him onto the bike and sped away. Before Tucker could explain, the GIW agents behind them got in a lucky shot and hit the helmeted liminal with a strong blast to the head.

Clearly, his gear wasn’t equipped with anti-ecto protections, because the guy slumped over on Tucker’s arms. This was bad, because Tucker now had to maneuver about 230 pounds of Gotham muscle while speeding away from government agents. He flicked on the jammer so they couldn’t track his and red helmets’s ecto signature.

“STOP!”

“Ah, shit.” Tucker cursed as he somehow managed to gather up red-helmet’s body and stabilize the bike. “C’mon, Tuck, you can do this.”

Blasts of anti-ecto tech slammed into buildings around him. Luckily, Gotham was used to this kind of shit so people just moved out of the way before going back to their day. Tucker wove around traffic, trying to lure the agents into slamming face first into some signposts.

“Stop damaging the local infrastructure!” Tucker yelled back at them, speeding up.

“WELL REIMBURSE THE PEOPLE AND THE CITY LATER! TELL US WHERE PHANTOM IS!!”

“Over my dead body, you jerks!” Tucker took a sharp right, catching red helmet before the man could slip off. He sped up and took the ramp downwards, heart beating loudly in his ears as he strained his senses to figure out- ah, they took the ramp upwards. Good. Now, all he has to do is bring red helmet back to home base.

“Oh my god. I kidnapped him,” Tucker groaned, slapping at his face before quickly placing his hands back on the handle bar once the bike teetered over with red helmet’s weight. “I’m a criminal. Oh my god.”

Then, as he found his way back, “…Well, it’s not like I wasn’t a criminal before, with the whole resisting arrest thing.”

——

Tucker dumped the red helmet liminal onto the couch of their shared apartment and went to take a shower. When he got out ten minutes later, he found Danny and Sam staring at the helmet guy. Tucker pushed up his glasses (after letting them defog from the shower) and greeted them.

“Hey, guys! I found him while I was running away from Agent L and J.”

“You okay?” Danny asked, eyes immediately flicking over Tucker for injuries.

“Yeah, I’m good. They’re horrible shots.”

“I thought Danny was the one who brought home strays but you…?” Sam commented, arms crossed and a purple painted nail tapping at her arm. “Wait. Isn’t this… that crime lord? What was his name?”

“Red Hood?” Danny offered, turning back to look at the guy on their couch.

Tucker paled. “Oh, no.”

Guns? Check.

Red Helmet? Check.

Bat-Symbol? Check.

Shit.

They collectively stared at the guy in silence.

“…Tucker,” Sam slowly said. “Did you accidentally kidnap a crime lord?”

“Hey, I didn’t want him to get killed! He’s liminal! Even more than us, except for Danny.” Tucker grumbled. “Man, this is why I leave the hero-ing to Danny. I do one good thing and suddenly I have a crime lord on my couch.”

“My couch,” Sam corrected, as she was the one that furnished their apartment.

“What do we do now?”

“Eat dinner,” Tucker said. “I’m famished.”

Sam nodded. “Wait for him to wake up and hope he doesn’t shoot us the moment he wakes up. Then, we explain.”

Danny grabbed all the visible guns he could see. Tucker went to start dinner. Sam supervised, because her boys were idiots and now she had a crime lord in her apartment.

——

Jason groaned, head swimming in a sea of dull throbbing pain as his eyes fluttered open.

Then he remembered he was abducted, and bolted up right. He paused as a series of quick observations made its way to his consciousness.

One. He’s not tied up. Weird, because everyone knows that he’s a weapon even without his weapons.

Two. His weapons were right there, just in reach.

Three. He was surrounded by teenagers and/or young adults who were all scrolling along on their phones.

“Oh, hey, he’s awake! Hi!” The Wayne bait said, electric blue eyes fixing itself on Jason. “Were you aware you died?”

Jason went rigid, hundreds of way to-

“Danny!” A scolding tone cut of Jason’s immediate panic. Two couch pillows slammed into Danny’s face, courtesy of goth girl and nerdy but strong.

“Dude, why do you start with that? Why are you like this?” His… possible kidnapper? asked, exasperatedly flinging his hands into the air as he rolled his eyes.

Goth girl scowled. “Boys. Crime lord, couch, remember?”

“Hey, in my defense, I died too!”

And that- as Jason remained dumbfounded in this circle of tomfoolery- was what snapped Jason out of his daze.

“You what?” He rasped out.

And when he saw them open their mouths at the same time, Jason just knew his headache was going worse.

——

Tucker, effortlessly plucking the actual red hood from the streets: and I whoop-

Jason, whose type is strong, nerdy, and tall: *heart eyes* *but not really because he’s unconscious*

——

Sam: “this is my boyfriend Danny and our other boyfriend Tucker.”

Jason enters chat:

Sam: “this is my boyfriend Danny and our other boyfriend Tucker and his boyfriend, the Red Hood.”

——

[spamgriffinsect]

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🇵🇸🍉 May Allah SWT protect your family

[spacedace]

Okay but the Justice League finds out their new baby hero teammate Phantom is the Ghost King by virtue of the Fright Night showing up while they're in the middle of a meeting, looking terrifying and such and scaring the shit out of everyone- even more so when Constantine starts freaking out over the fact that the sworn night of the King of the Infinite Realms is in the Watchtower what the fuck that's apocalyptically bad Pariah Dark is supposed to be locked the fuck up forever - but instead of trying to smite them all or yeet them into the nightmare dimension he just pulls out a space themed packed lunch??? And gives it to Phantom??

And the mildly eldritch giant murder ghost is talking about how "The Queen Mother commanded me to ensure you ate my Lord, she says you missed your morning meal."

And Phantom is just grumbling about over protective sisters and "there's a cafeteria i would have been fine" what the fuck is happening right now?

What do you mean "oops you forgot" Phantom I thought the ghost thing was just a theme!

[zu-is-here]

i hope this isn't blasphemy but imagine a Genesis!Dreammare AU? With Night being the one to eat the apple (Eve) and Dream following him (Adam)— maybe Nim could be the version of god?

The Fall

[cowardlykrow]

Despite herself, the Emma is wooed

[cordiallyfuturedwight]

kim line boys with luv for @aprylynn (cr. 0613data)

[phoenixmetaphor]

so i saw [this post] of @colesabi ‘s custom leon doll and instead of thinking of a sexy reason for leon to have his shirt open and be barefoot, i thought of this.

[themoonunderstoodmydadjokes]

✨ I don’t know what this is so don’t ask ✨

[weep1ng-will0ws]

mmm. Hello!!! 😊 First Incredibox arts post that isn’t from 0xeyedaisy’s ask box(/lhj). That said uhhh..,,,

Lilac, anyone?

Just a little doodle to try and figure out how to draw her (with headcanons and interpretations)

My fixation on her waxes and wanes. However, this time around, it has me in a combination headlock chokehold!

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autistic Callum

I forget things like this often. I feel guilty for it because I think it makes me look cold or uncaring.

[vasilissadragomir]

my hot take is that making a canonically jewish character explicitly secular/detached from judaism is more often than not just lazy writing in shows not devoted to exploring religious themes

i can think of countless jewish characters across entertainment media, but i can name maybe two whose connection to judaism extends beyond their last name, mentioning hannukah during the christmas episode, and a few thrown-in jokes with yiddish words. that would be fine to a degree, but there’s always some sort of “explanation” for why they don’t connect more to their jewish identity, and that explanation is almost always appropriated from dechristian atheists/non-religious people and ill-matched to judaism (usually it’s that they don’t believe in god or the bible story, which isn’t required in judaism anyway)

it’s perfectly acceptable and necessary to show secular jews. but there is a massive spectrum of and between secular and extremely devout jews, with varying beliefs, perspectives, and cultural identities. if you don’t want to do the research to properly represent a group, then don’t do it at all. half-assed representation has the potential to be even more harmful than not representing in the first place

[napping-sapphic]

Breaking news!! Tomorrow’s forecast indicates that it would be a GREAT day for us to hold hands 👉👈

[notshphnxx]

you deserve something (maybe) so if you wanna know what it is in an edgy way then here’s a quiz i made for it

[ebechnasheim]

Just- ah I can’t

📸 G. L.