A thing I think may be good to emphasise right now is you don't individually need to witness each horror and that posting is not, in fact, praxis. If you want to do something find a local mutual aid group cuz there's actual stuff you can fix and help.

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

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jbba’s force ghost 🐀@notkellymarie.bsky.social · 2y ago

trying to figure out how i could get less politics here and more shitposts because i might actually die from anxiety before they can actually get me

my granny era starts tomorrow!! i may peek in here now and then but not for more than an hour! i'm off. take care of yourselves 💕💕

❄️🎄sarah ann (granny era semi-hiatus)☃️🎀@pinkautumn.bsky.social · 2y ago

starting the week of the inauguration i'm going to viciously trim my online experience and change my app timers on social media so that i can't use them for more than an hr a day. i'm replacing doomscrolling with catching up on shows/movies, more reading, more writing, & cozy gaming my granny era

so I had planned on having a nice first day back to school today!! but when i decided to treat myself with takeout turkish food for lunch, it turned out that the restaurant doesn’t give a single shit about cross-contamination in their kitchen lmao

who, me? oh, just remembering back to 2 days before the 2024 election when i recorded a 7 minute long tiktok trying to appeal to folks’ humanity and asking them to care about poc, lgbtq people and disabled people, hitting “post”, then watching it disappear without a trace from my page 5 mins later

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2y ago

Twitter, Meta, and Tiktok are all state media now. They will suppress and censor narratives, beliefs, and views opposed by the administration. Act accordingly. www.bbc.com/news/article...

For all the flak George Lucas gets for his writing, pretty hard to deny the "so this is how liberty dies" line is an unfortunately spot on banger.

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

i hadn't seen it had since been removed.....she was right and they don't want people to hear this. spread it more.

Casey@mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 2y ago

A German citizen on Tiktok warns US users about the similarities between Hitler’s rise to power & Trump’s collision with Tiktok, goes viral, then when her prophecy comes true, the video is removed for community guidelines violation. Draw your own conclusions. I grabbed a screen recording. 👇👇

my granny era starts tomorrow!! i may peek in here now and then but not for more than an hour! i'm off. take care of yourselves 💕💕

❄️🎄sarah ann (granny era semi-hiatus)☃️🎀@pinkautumn.bsky.social · 2y ago

starting the week of the inauguration i'm going to viciously trim my online experience and change my app timers on social media so that i can't use them for more than an hr a day. i'm replacing doomscrolling with catching up on shows/movies, more reading, more writing, & cozy gaming my granny era

AOC: “We are on the eve of an authoritarian administration.” 🇺🇸

anyway tiktok being back up so quickly is more dangerous to my mind than any perceived danger that prompted the ban in the first place. ain't no way that algorithm isn't about to start pushing a trump approved narrative.

I have been thinking a lot about how becoming more informed and aware over the next four years in a way that’s really useful might mean more books about history and less getting sucked into the daily firehose of bad news which is the present

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2y ago

I was raised in a multi-generational organizing family and I can say with firsthand knowledge that 20th century organizers read theory and they studied history and literature quite closely The need to do that hasn’t changed If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that

Sorry if I’ve been weird it’s just the unprecedented times

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Right now, my general game plan for the next four years is: 1) make sure I have everything I need, because I can't help others if I don't 2) make sure my friends & family are okay 3) make sure my community is okay 4) repeat from step 1. if at any point, I find someone not ok... try to help.

this thread is very good and very necessary, and definitely aligns with my plans for my relationship with social media and the news this year.

Leslie Mac@lesliemac.com · 2y ago

Also - please spend time deciding how you are going to engage with the content this administration and the complicit media are going to be putting out from here on out. Our nervous systems are precious resources and keeping them in a hyper-reactive state is BAD-real bad. We need to be intentional.

I’m gonna miss how smart and funny people were on that app. People were putting you onto grant applications, deconstructing biases about America, teaching you about neurodivergency…

btw I'm making light, but I can not believe I had to get booted out of that app with an alert that praised Trump for promising to fix everything. 2025 is truly the comically worst possible version of everything.

y’all told me i was crazy when i downloaded all of tiktok and put it on blu-rays but who’s laughing now

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It’s always a good time, but especially now, to bookmark the websites of artists you like. Maybe even have an offline list of names of folks you want to keep up with/support in your notes app or whatever. Never know what app, website, etc will be banned next. 🤡

@thebaddestmitch.bsky.social don’t miss honey 🤣😂🤣 because WTH is Bebo doing

i've been anxiety spiraling/hyperfixating on the ban all day and haven't eaten a single real meal since i woke up this morning, so i think i should go do that 😵‍💫

so my last official tiktok was def of me crying lmao no regrets

never forget that kpop stans publically humiliating him led to this tantrum

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

i literally just said i wasn't going to download rednote a couple of hours ago but i'm about to go get it rn bc fuck it we ball