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THE NEW ME

@strohller27

Is pretty boring actually
Здорово ребята!
Давай поговорим на русском! Я не знаю, когда у меня будет возможность вернуться в Россию(( Так что помогите мне, пожалуйста, не скучать так сильно) (Also: Tumblr decided to kick me off my old blog due to this stupid new update, so I have to start over now) D: Previously Harrimaniac27-blog Art Blog: Harrimaniac27Art

here’s why vine was and will always be superior to tiktok you can’t really spread a lot of misinfo in 6 seconds you had to go viral on the strength of your humor and not on the allure of insane conspiracy theories or MRA talking points it’s why vines legacy will be shit like “back at it at krispy kreme” and not the downfall of democracy

To be clear I am not denying that vines was superior.

But if you think tiktok is the downfall of democracy you're either not paying attention or on the WRONG side of tiktok. There are tons of people over there dedicated to making sure the masses have access to accurate information, exposing corruption, and organizing against fascism. Tiktok is not the problem. For every bad actor there's a good one and as we like to say here at the tumblr dot com: curate your experience.

Reading comprehension quiz (unit 2):

  1. Please summarize the argument of original post in your own words. Is the main point of the post about democracy, or something else? What other issues might the the author be trying to address?
  2. Define hyperbole. Why might the author deploy this rhetorical device here? What features of Tumblr may have encouraged this style of post?
  3. How can algorithms disincentivize or prevent users from fully controlling their experience on social media platforms such as TikTok? How might the architecture of these platforms —including longer-form video options — facilitate radicalization or fringe beliefs? (See Becker, A. (2021, August 24). On TikTok, misogyny and white supremacy slip through 'enforcement gap'. PBS. Retrieved April 23, 2023, from https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/on-tiktok-misogyny-and-white-supremacy-slip-through-enforcement-gap; Keith, M. (n.d.). From transphobia to Ted Kaczynski: How TikTok's algorithm enables far-right self-radicalization. Business Insider. Retrieved April 23, 2023, from https://www.businessinsider.com/transphobia-ted-kaczynski-tiktok-algorithm-right-wing-self-radicalization-2021-11; O’Connor, C. (n.d.). Hatescape: An In-Depth Analysis of Extremism and Hate Speech on TikTok. Retrieved April 23, 2023, from https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/24/ISD-TikTok-Hatescape-Report-August-2021.pdf).
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My specialty at work (eg, what I tend to get thrown into) is wrangling clever but extremely poorly behaved children. (The children are adolescent, but children nonetheless.) They tend to be boys. They tend to have ADHD. (It's possible that the focus on the clever rules out the ADHD girls, who have cleverly developed better masking skills by adolescence.)

The current bright and terrible-on-purpose disaster, A, is aware of the ADHD diagnosis but has apparently been told nothing about the disability. So a lot of our conversations go like this:

Me: Well, I'd ask you why you decided to start making richly detailed but extremely inappropriate jokes during class, but I'm pretty sure the answer is that someone started yelling at you for doing it before you realized that you were.

A, leaning backward, looking concerned: Are you following me?

Me: Yes, that's what I do with the spare time I don't have during the day, follow aggravating children around. We have so few of them here.

A, put out either because I've called him aggravating or because he's not special and aggravating: Sarcasm isn't very nice, Ms. T.

Me, sarcastically: I'm so sorry. Maybe you looked at the work first, thought boring, and then decided to be an enormous brat.

A: You can read minds?!

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Me: Clearly we need executive dysfunction strategies for you, because if we don't get in front of it you'll be an adult who sits on their sofa for forty minutes yelling at herself to do the dishes and never does them.

A, trying to politely muffle laughter: Are you doing all right, Ms. T?

Me: Out of dishes, but fine. What's working in your classes? Your Literature grade is good, why are you doing the reading?

A looks left. Right. Up. At his phone.

Me: ... You aren't doing the reading, are you? The other kids ask questions because they don't understand it, and you figure out what it has to be about from the answers and never read.

A: Are you in my Lit class??

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Me: Okay, look, ADHD brains are weird, and we tend to get them from our families, so these -

A, immediately: My dad.

Me, derailed from my drug interaction speech: Yeah, okay. When your dad has coffee, does he get calmer?

A, backing away: You're stalking my whole family now?!

Barely a peep about this anywhere.

“After four months of investigation, House Republicans who promised to use their new majority to unearth evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden acknowledged on Wednesday that they had yet to uncover incriminating material about him, despite their frequent insinuations that he and his family have been involved in criminal conduct and corruption.”

the fucked up thing is how "Creep" by Radiohead will really get your ass if you hear it at the wrong time. that shit can be stupid and overdramatic or it can have the weight of an atomic bomb dropped on your heart it just depends

people on tiktok don't even KNOW the addams family .. they're not murderous evil violent hateful people they are a loving and caring and goofy family who love humanity they just happen to be goth and can't die and have a pet lion. you will never be them.

wednesday straps her brother into an electric chair

they’re literally just having fun and playing

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ADS THAT SUDDENLY TAKE UP THE WHOLE PAGE

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sonia-nevermind

ADS THAT SUDDENLY TAKE UP THE WHOLE PAGE AND PLAY MUSIC

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sylveonsaccharide

What about ads that play music, but you can’t find them anywhere on the page?

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sonia-nevermind
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Still hearing the ads music after you close the page

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having adblock

Sites that forbid adblock

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askfrisktherandomblogger

When ads pop up even when Adblock is enabled

When porn ads pop up unexpectedly

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neko-crimson

this post gets better everytime i see it

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satanicedition

When you try get rid of the add really fast but accidentally click on the link that sends you to seventy different pages before you can go back.

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nishinoyaspeaks

THIS POST KEEPS GETTING BETTER

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satanicedition

When the ad shows something you’re actually interested in.

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randomfanposter

When you have to wait to skip the ad

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shitadriensays

When the ad is about abused/animals needing homes

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doublerainbowcosplay

I dub this post “The Legend of Advertisements”! 

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balance-is-here

when you get rid of the add but it keeps coming back.

It got better.

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askchibirainbowgate

Making it my goal to reblog this once every day lol

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otaku-gamer-matt

When you get so many ads at once that the site you’re on crashes and you have to reload the page.

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mahoshojoelise

When an ad plays awesome music

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evronix

reblogging again because its back and better than ever.

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fnaffandom2098

When the add says you can skip it but it doesn’t let you skip

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When the ad shows you something you’re interested in, you click it, and it opens two tabs with one being a clear phishing scam and the other for some fuck app

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facebookmovie

When the same ad has played so many times that you can recite it word for word in time

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smolpatrol

When the ad is fiNALLY OVER

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butterflygineer

One of the best post ever.

This just gets so much better every time it shows up on my dash.

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AfterMASH: Mulcahy’s hearing is immediately cured with surgery

Me: So anyway Mulcahy teaches Klinger sign language and the two of them absolutely talk shit and gossip in sign language right in front of other people all the time.