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can i come over and implant false memories of us being childhood friends?

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normal hockey tournament equipment… they really went fivehole

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I am running a 5k in stripper heels for your amusement

ask not what your country can do for you. ask which race you can dress like a stripper at and fundraise for their causes lmao

just know y'all are going to get so much content out of this. I used to race 5ks on a BOAT in costume so I'm going to tear this shit up and maybe, if I'm real real lucky, end up on the NB podium in this fit 🤷

(also I prommie podcast is coming soonish ((like a few months)) it just has to take a back seat bc I'm starting a stripper owned business first)

#donations #gay community #atl #atlanta #stripping #personal

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I am running a 5k in stripper heels for your amusement

Donate to support gay/HIV related causes and make the foot pain worth it?

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AMEN

"It's working BETTER after it broke" sounds exactly like something one of Elmu's companies would say.

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the "canon isn't real we make our own rules" to "i am begging you people to revisit the source material" pipeline

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let's talk racist algorithms

i have a weird relationship with music for reasons i won't get into, but as an example, despite loving music, i have not been able to make myself listen to music on purpose in about 6 months. Music is weird for me. BUT I DO LOVE IT

I'm a poet, if i'm really feeling myself i'd even say i'm a word-smith, so rap has a really special place in my heart

The first rap artists i heard and bought an album from them on tape cassette and would listen to all the time were Snoop Dogg, McHammer, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (that's Will Smith for you young ones) De La Soul, and Vanilla Ice

This was 7th and 8th grade. Rap was the new rock, the kids were going wild for it, and because my school let students select the lunchtime PA music, Vanilla Ice was played at lunch almost every day at school.

We had zero black students at that school.

(I still remember the exact day Vanilla Ice stopped being popular at school, but that's about the severe homophobia of the time and a different story)

Now let's come back to today. When I listen to music it's often on Youtube, or Pandora. And i noticed a problem with these platforms pretty early on.

See, I had taken a big break from rap. Like i said, i have a weird relationship to music i don't have time to get into, but i didn't pay much attention to what was happening in rap for a long time. I'd had a friend geek out with me about Eminem a few times, and i went through a phase where i was in love with Digable Planets (high key recommend if you like an indie feel with a smooth jazz sound and east coast vibes)... I had a secret love for that one verse by Left Eye in Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls, could sing every word of Shoop, and i adored every Missy Elliot song that i heard on the radio. And that was about it. As a lyricist myself, the one that stuck in my head the most from this time was eminem, because lyricism is his whole thing.

I don't go to concerts. I don't buy albums. I tend to like specific songs more than specific artists. I know, i know, but that's not the point. When i can listen to music without it fucking me up mentally, I listen to music on Youtube and Pandora

And lyricism is my main attraction to rap, so when i came back to it on Youtube I put in Eminem first.

And right away, Youtube started recommending other rappers to me. And very quickly, i discovered that i was being recommended mostly white rappers.

I really like Hopsin, I went through a Dumbfounddead phase, i was into Dax for a minute, i like Domo Wilson, the J. Cole songs i like I REALLY like, I'm obsessed with Snow tha Product, I love the first Janelle Monae album i heard, i still fangirl over Missy Elliot, it's no surprise i like Joyner Lucas...

All of these i discovered and listened to via Youtube.

But because i like eminem, because I had a phase where i enjoyed a couple indie artists like Watsky, Wax, and Dan Bull, and because my depressed ass was drawn to NF and now a little Ren, when Youtube recommends rap artists to me, 90% of the algorithm recommendations are white artists. White men, specifically.

I had a similar problem with Pandora.

I actually had to create a special Pandora station that i seeded with three black artists and then ONLY liked non-white artists AND disliked every white artists that came up, just to get a station that wouldn't turn itself into a white rap channel.

It makes me furious, because i don' want to care about who is a white artist and who is a black artist!!!! I just want to listen to music that i like!!! But these bullshit music platforms make me have to care a lot about who is white and who is black just to not be pushed into racist music tastes and i fucking hate it.

And, if i'm being super honest, one reason i really hate it is because i know i probably really do have some internal racist tendencies when it comes to music, because i was raised white in america, and i really resent having to fight these fucking algorithms instead of, idk, being helped by them. I need to be able to look at my feed and assess it for my own unacknowledged racism... like, if there was no algorithm, and i looked at my music history and saw all white artists, i could be like, OH. I need to look in the mirror about this. But instead i have to play this weird tug-a-war with the platform about it and i can't tell what's my own deficiency and what is being forced on me. But SOME of it is being forced on me.

I mean for fucks sake, Snow tha Product does half her lyrics in spanish and the algorithm sees me love her and STILL recommends mostly white men. Hundreds of hours of listening to her, and zero spanish artist recommendations. Its infuriating.

Anyway, if you're curating your music tastes mostly online, and you start with white artists at all, then you really really gotta work to not fall deep into the bias.

And if that's what's happening with the music, how much more insidious must the social commentary content bias be

#screaming crying throwing up #I hate it here y’all

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(when it has to)

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dw we’re still getting a sep discord for this podcast 💕

👀

#atlanta #atl #cabaret #burlesque #art #dancers apply 👀 #artists apply

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the kids don’t want to vote for me so I guess I’ll finally reclassify weed 🙄😶‍🌫️😤

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Guillotines often backfired, leaving the victim's head even more strongly attached than it was before the attempt.

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https://facts.didyouknowfacts.com/

Lewis and Clark brought mercury chloride, a strong laxative, with them on their expedition across the US.

Because the mercury it contains passes right through the system, archaeologists have been able to find their trail by locating what’s left of their makeshift latrines and testing the mercury content.

More than 100 years later, their footpaths are overgrown, but their poop remains.

(Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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thank god tumblr is really the bastion of free speech of the internet

anyone know how much tumblr is going for these days? I’ll buy it for the employees if y’all fire the CEO and stop being weird about harry potter and trans women

I’ll have the money together in less than 6 months 👀

@staff @staffs-secret-blog let me be ur daddy I’m a better one than Musk