I just don’t see how this move and the timing was not orchestrated to manipulate uninformed TikTok users into supporting Trump. The explicit callout to Trump in the message… I have been fearing the next presidency and this was a blow.

agreed, one cannot “sympathize” with such a destructive ideology

i have been cocooned in bed. don’t know how i’ll be when this burnout is over but i suspect it won’t be a beautiful moth.

Mount Eerie’s album, A Crow Looked at Me, is crushing. Phil Elverum’s wife died shortly after their first child was born. It’s a raw grief album. I listen to this when I need a good cry. https://youtu.be/-1UyUsz0A-A?si=3JY1CLXZIxxKxDl6

Frightened Rabbit’s “Modern Leper” also hits me in the chest.

Well, I crippled your heart a hundred times

And still can’t work out why

You see, I’ve got this disease

I can’t shake and I’m just rattling through life

https://youtu.be/OJNFwGdh4iE?si=e8XZP4fQjH_Naq36

hey new law! 10 second punching a sexual assaulter in the mouth rule!

Let’s keep in mind that TV subtitles were true garbage back then. I have ADHD and often miss dialogue. I remember resigning myself to not using them as there was a huge time delay and the white text on black boxes covered 10% of our 480p screens.