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And, as Bangtan returns we are going to see this more in our fandom space. We are powerful and there are those who will use our love for nefarious purposes. Please take care to engage your critical thinking skills! 💜

important thread about a crucial online literacy skill! it is a VERY common abuse tactic (not just online) to act charming and fun and harmless to build trust and only later use that trust to get something from you, whether it's your money, your data, your radicalisation, or all of the above.

Really hope you get some good news soon 🫂

Alt text: illustration of the viral video of a teenager who punched another kid at school for boasting about supporting ICE. He's squaring up to throw a punch, light glinting off his glasses. Text shows the ICE supporter saying "you're gonna get in trouble," and the kid calmly replies "OK."

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

You can also vote now AND again during Power Hour!

Power hour is 8pm ET, so if you think you may be too busy then, don't wait to cast your votes. If you do end up free, go vote again 💜

I'd never heard of Keckley before, what a story... thank you for writing this and sharing it!

Madow did a whole piece last week listing all the places where local organizers had spiked the deals on detention facilities, and it's quiet and spread out and not getting a ton of attention but every fucking one is a hero.

Jungkook there's still time!

It's as though ahead of me is a deep blue ocean, but when I turn and look, there's a vast desert waiting behind me.

Maybe there will be different seas and different deserts that await me. but I am not afraid, because the things that have made the me of now are the oceans and deserts I've seen.

YouTube video by iBangtan 0613 방탄소년단 (BTS) - Skit: On The Start Line [Han|Rom|Eng]

I will never forget them, those seas and deserts I have seen.

So fascinating going through old bangtan stuff and seeing the consistency and durability of some of their motifs and imagery. Hidden track from 2Cool4Skool (2013)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPrG...

YouTube video by TV-People 【TVPP】[SUB] RM (BTS) - Umbrella, 랩몬스터(방탄소년단)- 우산 @ Duet Song Festival

This is nice to revisit every now and again.
youtu.be/Ds_OQ-j-2mg?...

begging, pleading, coughing, throwing up

read this whole thread

pretend for a moment that the ONLY way you can engage with images online is with a screenreader.

consider how it would feel to listen to a bunch of links read out letter by letter, or a bunch of hashtags, or the words “a poster” or even just “alt text.”

image after image.

would you feel welcome?

photo of gummy smiling mint yoongi from the most beautiful moment in life promo. he’s running through bubbles with his arms out as if he’s pretending to be an airplane and is wearing a red jacket over a white button up shirt and black silk neck bow.

it’s MINT YOONGI MONDAY! ♡

These davs, I'm thinking about how long should grow my hair out I'm going to grow it out quickly, right? I can wear earrings, right? 1 hope it's not blocked? Should I change my outfit style? I've never used perfume before. Should I use it But since you worked out, it won't be hard to dance, right? What song should I sing What kind of album will we start talking about What kind of journey will my 30s be? I want to perform for a long time without getting sick

Thinking about this weverse comment Jimin made after seeing his beautiful Instagram pictures
#bts

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

That’s literally a golden retriever

YouTube video by WaleVEVO Wale, Leon Thomas - Watching Us

Speaking of love songs, the latest from Wale is so catchy~
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYIV...

MAP: All 23 industrial warehouses ICE wants to turn into detention ‘death camps’ In an apparent attempt to avoid public outcry and scrutiny, ICE has sought to secure these leases in private. So we made a searchable map of every proposed site.

🧊 had secretly bought up warehouses across the country to use as detention death camps. But local residents where the camps would be located have fought back by putting pressure on local officials w/great success. See the map to determine if your town is affected & call your local officials to 🛑 it.

The thing is, it’s not just a drop in the bucket and it hasn’t been just a drop in the bucket.

Every small step we take, even incremental, to support our neighbors in the most local sense adds up in powerful ways.

Do not let perfection diminish the impact.

Shop *more* locally than you had.

Yoongi cat Tangie a black cat is wearing a frilly, white collar with a striped bow

Yoongi dog Min holly a Curly haired brown poodle is wearing round blue sunglasses

Stylish ✨️
#bts

A screenshot from a "What is your love song?" promotional material that's just Yoongi's cat Tang in a ligtle ruffled collar.

Yoongi wearing a frilly maid dress as a punishment from earlier in their career.

Like father like son.

I know Weverse is kind of awful, but what if we made our own What Is Your Love Song playlists and posted them there? I think it’s where the members would be most likely to see them. They shared with us. We should share with them.

this and how they published those racist Topps cards after the Grammys, along with an affiliate link in the article so they can earn proceeds as part of the sale 🙃

Genuinely... it's crazy that one company just has a monopoly over the charts, which then affects everything in the industry... Everything revolves around Billboard, but they're just this random company with their own agenda and prejudices, which they don't bother to hide. It's a farce.

It's SO embarrassing how openly biased they are... and this is Billboard, who are literally in charge of the charts! Who somehow 'randomly' change the rules for one week whenever it can hurt BTS then change them back! Their corruption is so bold it's almost beyond belief.

PLEASE! Companies! Your product rejecting AI features is a huge selling point!!! Please wake up and start adding that "genAI-free" seal of approval, sensible consumers will come running to throw their money at you!

[I'm looking up reviews on phones I'm considering buying]

Review: there's not much in terms of AI features, so that's a bit of a bummer...

Me: ...a BUMMER???? That's a MAJOR FUCKING SELLING POINT GIMME THAT PHONE RIGHT NOW

All this endless AI bullshit is getting me down so much... having it built into phone cameras without telling people... a voice that sounds familiar but wrong... everything being subtly edited and subtly off all the time... it's nightmarish. I wish I knew a more concrete way to resist it.