it's always darkest before the dawn

AU·RA. Noun. A distinctive but intangible atmosphere that seems to surround a person or thing. Twitter

[auraofdawn]

Not leaving here necessarily, but it’s obvious I’m only around in waves so here’s what I get up to these days:

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[kominfyrirkattarnef]

Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. O click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Power is a funny thing.

[phantomrose96]

*sends out email I've been putting off* ah finally :). ah that's a weight off my shoulders :). ah I can relax an-- *receives response to email* what the fuck. what the fuck. what the fuckkkk

[dragongirlteeth]

I am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising

[dragongirlteeth]

I am skipping your ads as fast as I can. I'm skipping past your sponsor read. I'm muting the tv. I'm muting the tab. If they get too annoying I will simply stop trying to watch.

If advertisers can use every manipulative trick in the book to get me to buy their product, I am fully within my rights to do everything I can on my end to make their job impossible

[fairycosmos]

my 5 year plan? find the energy to use my human body to participate in the world in some form or fashion

[ferocioustrout]

how it feels to not care about stranger things

[wiiwheel]

ugh tea is so good

tea heals

tea is wow

tea heals

I love tea ugh

[nitewrighter]

We talk a lot about "if you're sick stay home from work" but I feel like we also have a lot more control over "If you're sick stay away from that social function."

If you're sick, stay away from that social function.

If you're almost sick, and going to this social function is going to wear you out and probably push you over the line into actually sick, you should probably stay away from that social function and get some rest.

If your kids are sick, don't drag them to the function. Stay home. Put a funny movie on. We do not need to perpetuate this culture. We do not need to have our kid's cold turn into Grandma's pneumonia just to keep up appearances. We do not need to have our kid's cold turn into 20 other kids' colds just to participate in a craft at the library that you could easily replicate at home by googling for 2 seconds.

[wizardarchetypes]

genuinely and i’m so tired specifically of parents acting like kids with colds is like, baseline healthy. all the time adults who know i’m immunodeficient invite me over and when i ask if the house is healthy they say yes! and neglect to mention that actually their toddler is sneezing up green snot and their 6 year old has a cough. this happens all. the. time.

i know it’s normal for kids to have gunk all the time (although i do think we should take children’s immune health more seriously too but that’s another post)

and i love spending time with children and i get it sucks to have to raincheck every time your kid catches another bug but if your kid is sick you need to tell me. and if your kid is sick i don’t want to hang out with you one on one until your kid is better because you might have it too more mildly. i need to know if anyone in your household is sick and for some reason a lot of people think that doesn’t include kids.

sure we need to protect grandma ofc! but some of us are 32 and also prone to pneumonia. so unless you plan on covering my hospital bills, just reschedule!!

[goldcrescent]

and not to sound like a conspiracy theorist but another reason I hate the return of 2000’s th*nspo shit is bc starving does make women frail and has longer term consequences like early osteoporosis, brittle bones/teeth, insomnia, ect. Your muscles will start eating themselves. It also makes you extremely emotional and severely lowers your capacity for critical thinking not bc you’re a girl but because your brain isn’t getting any fucking nutrients so idk I just feel like its very convenient that every time there’s an uptick in fascist rhetoric and women’s rights are being stripped suddenly it’s peak fashion for women to be starving, weak, and exhausted

[kidnovaseeghosts]

I'll definitely be checking this out!

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Got it for My Son and he took to it without being told to which is high praise for him; Favorites so far are Clifford: Puppy Tales and Maya & Miguel

[saintemiliosandoz]

doomed by the narrative and haunted by the narrative and a secret third thing (narrating the narrative)

[saintemiliosandoz]

YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON I RESPECT

[subsequentibis]

not an apologizer but a contextualizer. yes the character did that but please understand the Circumstance. yes they had other options but they had to make this choice in a sea of available bad choices. and also it made the narrative more interesting. won't anybody think about the narrative!!!!!

[inpotatoeswetrust]

Good thing no one is asking me what my career aspirations are anymore because they've turned into writing a fanfic so good someone makes fan art of it. High aspirations indeed.

[fifthnormani]

I don't know how many of y'all still drink Starbucks, but if you do, you should know:

The Unionized Workers have called for a strike, starting today (November 13, 2025). This is peak selling season for Starbucks, so they chose this time on purpose. They are striking over unfair labor practices.

Do you remember seeing some headline about how Starbucks is failing financially and closing down stores because of it? The Unionized Workers say that's a load of garbage and it's just an excuse to shut down unionized stores.

Please don't cross the picket line. Don't buy Starbucks again until they say so.

Follow their Instagram here.

Starbucks unionized workers go on strike, demanding labor contract

Starbucks Workers United is calling the strike the "red cup rebellion," since it coincides with the coffee chain's annual Red Cup Day promot

[espanolbot2]

Link to the article itself.

[redcurlzbychoice]

From the article:

The past: “On a budget of just twenty-four dollars per American—out of the fifteen thousand dollars in taxes paid per person last year [or less than a fifth of what E.M. reportedly paid for twitter, or less than 1/100th of the yearly US military budget] —they had saved lives at an almost unimaginable scale. An independent, peer-reviewed analysis in The Lancet estimated that U.S.A.I.D. assistance had saved ninety-two million lives over two decades.”

The present: “We are now witnessing what the historian Richard Rhodes termed “public man-made death,” which, he observed, has been perhaps the most overlooked cause of mortality in the last century. ... As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children. The toll is appalling and will continue to grow. But these losses will be harder to see than those of war. For one, they unfold slowly. When H.I.V. or tuberculosis goes untested, unprevented, or inadequately treated, months or years can pass before a person dies. The same is true for deaths from vaccine-preventable illnesses.”

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

[birdsareblooming]

it's been like 2 years. i havent touched it. never needed to. "you don't really have a choice," are you so swift to forget the recent past? Bitch i still use itunes to download mp3s to so i have them forever and any song i want, then my sister burns them to CDs. When boycotts rolled out my other sister got no thanks to scan what products we shouldn't buy. i still use corded headphones not because "its older" but because it's easier. a fool criticizes those who buy candles 200 years after the invention of the electric light until the power goes out. become ungovernable. you are not immune to propaganda. you've never had Chatgpt forced upon you, the only thing forced upon you is the idea that Chatgpt is forced upon you. why claim you need something today that you didn't need yesterday. little bitch.

[teophan]

[clementine-kesh]

i do think it’s funny when you’ve been into a thing long enough that you’ve done all the serious analysis you can do so now you’re mostly just thinking up looney tunes scenarios to put the characters in