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ebonygirlfromghana · 1 year

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I certify that this is a legitimate blog run by a real person. 🙋🏿

Why pay for it when you can screen shot it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

#blue tick #egfg #west africa #ebony #ebonygirl #ebonybeauty #black beauty #dark skin #black girls

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medjoul · 1 year

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Twitter Blue is coming

#twitter #verified #twitter blue #twitterblue #blue tick

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dragonwolfcrane · 1 year

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I really appreciate that tumblr requires getting multiple blue ticks at a time, really its unethical to get just one as they are social animals that need a friend to provide enrichment and companionship. I hope other social media follow suit

#blue tick #twitter #verified #elon musk

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hyrule-warrior-411 · 1 year

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Now I too am one of the little sillies

These checkmarks were a good spend

I feel so important

#elon musk #anti twitter #tumblr vs twitter #important internet checkmark #blue tick

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thepastisalreadywritten · 1 year

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Armageddon to wet lettuce: The phrases that defined 2022

Agence France-Presse, 5 December 2022

PARIS — A year of extraordinary upheaval, from the war in Ukraine to catastrophic natural disasters, AFP looks at some of the words and phrases that have defined 2022.

ARMAGEDDON

With the war in Ukraine and increasingly strident threats from Russian President Vladimir Putin, the specter of nuclear warfare is stalking the globe for the first time in decades.

"We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis" in 1962, US President Joe Biden warned in October.

Experts warned of the most dangerous situation they can remember, with fears not limited to Russia: North Korean nuclear saber-rattling has reached new heights, with the world bracing for a first nuclear test since 2017.

LONDON BRIDGE

At 6:30 p.m. on September 8, Buckingham Palace announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died, bringing to an end the longest reign in British history and sending shock waves around the world.

For 10 days, Britons paid respects to the only monarch most had known, following a carefully choreographed series of ceremonies.

The program of events, famously codenamed "London Bridge", set out in minute detail every aspect of the protocol -- down to BBC presenters wearing black ties.

In the event, she died in Scotland, meaning special provisions came into force -- Operation Unicorn.

LOSS AND DAMAGE

World leaders and negotiators descended on the Egyptian Red Sea port of Sharm el-Sheikh for the latest United Nations summit (COP27) on tackling climate change.

After a fractious summit, widely seen as poorly organized, a deal was clinched on a fund for "loss and damage" to help vulnerable countries cope with the devastating impacts of climate change.

Behind the institutional-sounding name lies destruction for millions in the developing world.

The COP summit was hailed as historic but many voiced anger over a lack of ambition on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

WOMAN. LIFE. FREEDOM.

The chant screamed by protesters in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman arrested by the Tehran morality police.

Protesters have burned posters of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and women have appeared in public without headscarves, in scenes scarcely imaginable before the uprising.

The demonstrations have lasted 3 months and appear to pose an existential challenge to the 43-year rule of the clerical regime.

BLUE TICK

The tiny blue tick (it's actually white on a blue background), which certifies users on Twitter, became a symbol of the chaos engulfing the social media platform in the wake of its $44-billion takeover by Elon Musk.

The mercurial Tesla boss announced that anyone wanting the coveted blue tick would have to stump up eight dollars, only to scrap the plan hours later.

A month on from the takeover, Twitter's future remains up in the air, with thousands of staff laid off, advertisers leaving, and its "free speech" platform hugely uncertain.

ROE V. WADE

In an historic ruling, the conservative-dominated US Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 "Roe v. Wade" decision that enshrined a woman's right to an abortion.

The Supreme Court ruled that individual states could restrict or ban the procedure -– a decision seized upon by several right-leaning states.

Protests erupted instantly in Washington and elsewhere, showing how divisive the topic remains in the United States.

The overturning of "Roe v. Wade" became a critical battle in the US mid-terms in which candidates in favor of abortion rights won several victories.

QUIET QUITTING

One of the "words of the year" in Britain and Australia, the phrase refers to doing the bare minimum at work, either as a protest against your employer or to improve your work-life balance.

The trend, which has sparked debate about overwork, especially in the United States, appears to have surfaced first in a TikTok post in July.

"You're not outright quitting your job but you're quitting the idea of going above and beyond," said the post which went viral, drawing nearly a half-million likes.

WET LETTUCE

As Liz Truss approached the end of her chaotic and short-lived tenure as British prime minister, the Economist weekly mused that her effective period in office had been "roughly the shelf-life of a lettuce."

The tabloid Daily Star leapt on the idea, launching a live web cam featuring said vegetable -– complete with googly eyes -- next to a picture of the hapless Truss.

Her premiership lasted just 44 days and featured a mini-budget that collapsed the markets and generated extraordinary political upheaval. In the end, the lettuce won.

TOMATO SOUP

Environmental protesters seeking to draw attention to the role of fossil fuel consumption in the climate crisis hurled tomato soup at Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" painting at London's National Gallery in October, touching off a series of similar stunts.

Since then, activists have smothered mashed potato on Claude Monet and glued themselves to works by Andy Warhol, Francisco Goya and Johannes Vermeer.

For some, the campaigners are heroes bravely drawing attention to the climate emergency.

For others, the attacks are counterproductive and lose force by becoming commonplace.

A4

Protests erupted in China, initially over COVID restrictions but later widening to broader political grievances, posing the greatest threat to the Beijing authorities since 1989.

The demonstrations became known in some quarters as the "A4" protests as protesters held up blank A4-sized sheets of white paper in a sign of solidarity and a nod to the lack of free speech in China.

#Armageddon #Ukraine #Operation London Bridge #Queen Elizabeth II #COP27 #Mahsa Amini #Woman Life Freedom #Iran #Twitter #Blue Tick #Elon Musk #Roe vs Wade #Quiet Quitting #Wet Lettuce #Liz Truss #Tomato Soup protest #A4 China protest

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genuflectx · 1 year

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hounds abound ☀️🌾🌳🌷

#hound dog #beagle #blue tick #from a few weeks ago #rudy has come a long way since i grabbed him off the street as a lost dog #taking the hounds to the park is just like SNIFF SNIFF SNIFF SNIFF SNIFF SNIFF.. SNIFF

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antisocialturtlebender · 1 year

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I love how tumblr itself trolls other social media platforms and the people who place it on high value

#twitter blue tick #twitter #social media #elon musk #blue tick

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vriskamcelroy · 1 year

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Every Tumblr user who clearly has hundreds of dollars to spend on lots of blue checkmarks is now obligated to buy me a video game instead.

#tumblr #fuckery #verified #blue tick

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gaykarstaagforever · 1 year

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Also about friendlyjordies:

He calls corporate journalists "blue ticks," i.e., people who are 'verified' on Twitter, and MORE IMPORTANTLY, give a shit about that in the first place.

He did this years ago, so we'll have to see how the current Twitter chaos settles out to see if it remains a relevant appellation.

But I think it certainly still works at the moment. And I'd extend it to all of those in that weird Western "adjacent-to-wealth" class that is privileged enough to think their snarky comments and general Twitter interactions count for anything whatsoever outside of that horrible little platform.

Like corporate journos, consultants, PR and marketing people, lawyers, influencers, YouTubers. People who make lots of money by sucking it out of systems that derive it from actual productive labor exploitation.

They are also to a point obsessed with status and notoriously ethically flexible, to that end. In the past they would have been called "courtiers." Political groupies. WASP mosquitoes.

...Okay, WASP mosquitoes is cool. But "blue ticks" works, because of the Twitter thing, and also, like tick, the blood-sucking insect. Plus it is two syllables.

#friendlyjordies #blue tick #communism #leftist #late stage capitalism

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ivovynckier · 1 year

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