i've had sleep debt since a preteen, my first day of high school i stayed up over 40 hours because of summer homework i avoided, and 30 hours is all too familiar to me :(
i'm often sleep deprived and feel like shit, but if i closed my eyes my thoughts and impulses wouldn't quiet down. i might have adhd or something, trying to get tested
i don't understand how most people are able to nap. you guys can just, lay down and quiet your brain down in the middle of the day? my mom says i stopped napping at 2 years old and haven't done it since
would be nice if i could cus i'm always tired from not being able to fall asleep at normal hours lmao 
i can't be the only one weirded out by kamala pretty much exclusively being referred to as a "black woman" despite her being twice as south-asian, right? like her mom is indian, and her dad is half-white half-black
feels very one drop rule where whatever visible heritage seen as being at the bottom of the racial construct hierarchy takes over everything else
wasn't this the lady who was racist and transphobic on the set of AHS
didn't they exclusively complain about millennials until like 2017, when the oldest were approaching 40? generations are over 15 years wide!
but most of us are still teens or early 20s who wouldn't even consider late 20s or middle schoolers in-group even if they technically are
12-28, so average age 20. but still includes all teens
i think people at the cusp are kinda in between gens so 26-28 are more zillennial and 12-14 are more zalpha
i think the industry boomed around lockdown, heard a couple people talk about them in HS in 2021 and so far in uni i've been to 3 dorms with record players (mostly those shitty suitcase ones). sometimes i see a bunch of vinyls hanging on someone's wall so i think some rich kids just get them for decoration 💀
personally i find them expensive as hell so i go for more CDs depending on the genre/sound
when i first worked as a grocery store cashier my manager consistently robbed me of the daily two 15 min paid breaks i was supposed to get
she also made me the only worker at the front in the morning, so i was running back and forth between my checkout lane and helping demeaning old people at self-checkout. soul crushing anxiety type shit
I'd eat virtually anything except only three things: a human, a monkey, or a dog. I think I'd eat anything besides that.
did the worm in your brain not consider the optics of this? cat? elephant? tiger? polar bear?
connecticut is the worst imo
i hate that we're stereotyped as only a bunch of rich white people with wicker furniture. we're actually by far the worst state for income inequality in new england, and potentially the whole country. we're also 40% poc.
CT is where you go to see overwhelmingly white towns where every household makes 200k next to redlined cities with extreme poverty, decaying infrastructure and schools, and cop cars at every block. it's hard to fucking survive here, my mom was working overtime as an LP nurse raising my brother and i in a one bedroom apartment
takes credit for high quality produce you sell him
also implied when you give him really shitty, slightly rotten produce he'll feed it to his family to save a few pennies. abigail mentions having the thing you sold him for dinner last night and goes "I guess it was starting to go bad and my dad couldn't bear to throw it out!"
yea it's implied he's very controlling over his (young adult) daughter. when you talk to her in a cutscene in the mini graveyard at night, he comes after her and starts being a pig
stayin alive by the bee gees
i've found a lot of his voters are literally just the most uninformed people imaginable who saw 3 of his campaign ads and were won over by cheap/vague populism (and the family name)
i saw a bunch of likely progressive types supporting him in a tiktok comment section and i mentioned how he was zionist, transphobic, anti-vax, etc. and got a couple replies seeming genuinely surprised. one person with a watermelon emoji (palestine) in their name replied to me something like "omg, i was supporting him and had no idea!" and got over a hundred likes.
aave from a man who grew up in compton is cringe to you?
if you wanna tell apart american gen z from gen alpha, ask them if they know what this is:
gen z used these smartboards and the teacher always made someone recalibrate the touchscreen to the projection when it was off
afaik the new spoiled shits all get these in every classroom, they were rolling em out when i was graduating:
at least in places that can afford it. this might be more true in a few years
Owens and her boss had been publicly beefing for months over the Israel-Hamas war, with Shapiro at one point daring her to quit.
> The feud began last November when Owens tweeted that “no government anywhere has a right to commit a genocide.” Soon after, Shapiro publicly called Owens’ behavior “disgraceful”
Spoiler: she doesn't actually care about Palestinians, she's just anti-semitic.
> Owens posted to X a series of Bible verses suggesting “you cannot serve both God and money.” That pointed remark was viewed by many as a not-so-subtle use of the antisemitic “dual loyalty” trope against Shapiro, who responded: “Candace, if you feel that taking money from The Daily Wire somehow comes between you and God, by all means quit.” Owens hit back that her boss was “utterly out of line” and “acting unprofessional and emotionally unhinged for weeks now.”
btw, pretty sure he couldn't fire her because the CEO wouldn't let him
> Owens later liked a social-media post asking conservative rabbi Shmuley Boteach whether he is “drunk on Christian blood again” [and] defended Kanye West's remarks.
> [She previously suggested] that 'secret Jewish gangs' control and perpetrate 'horrific acts' against people in Hollywood
> Hunger Games is about revolutionary anti-imperial class struggle
> George Lucas said the Empire is inspired by America and the Rebels by the Viet Minh
> The Matrix was created by a trans woman and at least partly an allegory for being trans
> Divergent is shitty lib fanfiction but very obviously anti-conservative
> Alan Moore was a communist or anarchist
wow these movies are just like January 6th when we resisted communism by smearing our shit on the capitol walls!! !so-true !biaoqing-copium
Heard My Chemical Romance was created after witnessing 9/11, so I looked up the band's political beliefs and came across this thread about Frank Iero
> he's literally so confusing. remember a few years ago when he had a 'don't tread on me flag' on his basement wall? he also was totally voting for bernie sanders. ... when blm movement got its biggest attention in 2020 he published some shitty depoliticizing note. its one of the worst notes i've read back then
> > He's definitely not a right winger. Maybe moderate leftist. Not everyone needs to fit into a neat little box.
> > He is an "Italian American" style leftist from NJ. Definitely socially progressive and left of center on social issues, but still sees value in some traditions. It makes sense if you know anyone from New Jersey
I hate liberals I hate liberals I hate liberals I hate liberals I hate liberals
The 25-year-old actor was among 30 demonstrators taken into custody during Joe Biden’s appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, organisers confirmed
https://www.instagram.com/p/C31D99SOJuq/?utm_source=ig_embed&img_index=1
> Hundreds of anti-Zionist Jews and allies just took over NBC’s famed 30 Rockefeller Center headquarters in NYC to disrupt President Biden’s appearance on @LateNightSeth
Trump later claimed he was intentionally mixing them up key background Biden has had a series of physical and verbal slip-ups throughout his presidency, which critics ...
> Biden, 81, recalled a 2021 conversation with world leaders regarding the Jan. 6 riots:
> “And then Helmut Kohl turned to me and said, ‘What would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the London Times and learned that 1,000 people had broken down the doors of the British parliament, killed some bobbies on the way in, to deny the prime minister to take office?"
> Kohl served as Germany’s chancellor from 1982 to 1998 and died in 2017. Merkel was the country’s leader at the time of Biden’s conversation.
(He made this same mistake twice in the same meeting)
> Earlier this week, Biden confused French President Emmanuel Macron with late President François Mitterrand—who led the country from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996
> Biden claimed he declared “America is back” in 2021, and “Mitterrand from Germany — I mean France — looked at me and said, ‘How long you back for?’”
There's certainly a larger anti-zionist crowd on the app, but western tiktok is 100% still run by neoliberal ghouls
I've reported blatantly fascist stuff on the platform before; a comment saying race mixing is immoral, a comment saying desegregation ruined America, a video saying Gaza should be turned into a parking lot, and I've ALWAYS ended up getting the "we've reviewed your report and found no violation" thing. Exact same shit I've gotten with Instagram, Reddit, and pre-Musk Twitter
Meanwhile today I commented this at a The Strokes fan with an Israeli flag in their name, and fully ratio'd them before getting this notification a few hours later:
CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan reports.
Not sure what to make of this. TikTokers' first anti-imperialist "theory" being from a far-right anticommunist religious zealot with valid criticisms but no real analysis and a bit of "Jews control everything" seems perfect for the mainstream media to weaponize. On the other hand, people are realizing America are the bad guys and terrorists don't hate us for our freedom, and will hopefully learn more, far better stuff?
Tiktok took the videos down but I screenshot these two comments lmfao: !joker-laden !
Edit:
CNN article (the thing I linked in the post was a video)
FOX News, NBC, New York Times, Forbes, Washington Post, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, CBS, Reuters, TIME Magazine, The Hill, etc. all reported on it in the past few hours. You got headlines like "Bin Laden's Letter to US Stuns Young Americans: 'He Was Right'"
In a letter first shared with NBC News, progressive leaders said the administration's position on Gaza "risks millions of young voters staying home or voting third party."
> The leaders of progressive groups focused on mobilizing young voters are warning President Joe Biden that his handling of the war in Gaza could depress turnout in a demographic that’s already notoriously difficult to energize on Election Day.
> "We write to you to issue a very stark and unmistakable warning: you and your Administration’s stance on Gaza risks millions of young voters staying home or voting third party next year.
> “We mobilized the record youth turnout in 2020 that pushed your ticket over the finish line... Many of us worked to provide the critical source of support for Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections that prevented the Red Wave.
> "Young people are a cornerstone of a winning Democratic coalition, and the vast majority of young people in this country are rightfully horrified by the atrocities committed with our tax dollars, with your support, and our nation’s military backing.
> “We did not spend hours upon hours knocking doors and making calls to turn out the vote so that you could support indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and violations of international law. Your legacy hangs in the balance.”
> Signers include the heads of groups like March for Our Lives, United We Dream, Gen Z for Change, and the Sunrise Movement.
> A New York Times-Siena College poll of five swing states found that among voters under 30, who lean heavily Democratic, just 5% “strongly approve” of how Biden is doing his job and 25% “somewhat approve.”
Literally has a lower approval rating with the most Democratic generation than the most Republican generation. Zero chance his ass is getting reelected
> Your first mistake was commenting or even being part of "World Politics." It's just full of clueless yanks and Israeli sympathisers.
a few months ago I was dating a girl. my cat loved her, she purred a lot when I had her over.
and I'm bi, so now I'm seeing a guy. first time I bring this dude over, she seems chill with him at first... until we start making out.
we're sitting, facing each other on my bed, and a few seconds into kissing my cat jumps on the bed and BITES HIS TOE. he laughs it off but it kinda ruined the mood so we just played some videogames and flirted. a couple days ago, I try bringing him over again: my cat GROWLS at him when he pets her. we tried kissing again and she attempts the same shit of attacking him. I shooed her away and she just stared at us in the corner all upset (I'm in a studio apartment)
for the most part she's so well-behaved around anyone else. why is my cat cock blocking me?? I'm probably gonna have to wait til our semester starts and I can come over to his dorm
As states across the country move to make sure students are well fed, Republicans have announced their intention to fight back.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230622233542/https://newrepublic.com/post/173668/republicans-declare-banning-universal-free-school-meals-2024-priority
