My name is Saeshan pronounced(Sayshawn). I don't like the way my name is spelled. I love to sing and play the piano. I'm random and love making new friends and I post anything that makes me laugh or something that catches my eye.
SOMETIME IN THE LAST WEEK MY SCHOOL PUT UP A LARGE BANNER DEDICATED TO THE :-) EMOTICON
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happy birthday :-) face
it’s that time of the year again everyone say happy 40th birthday :-)
This is apparently what was contained in the original message that invented the :-) and I’m obsessed with Fahlman’s diction here
a giant, glass shattering noise comes from the sky that is unmistakably the smash bros announcer saying “KING DEDEDE”. it makes headlines worldwide and people are scared. scientists find that the source of the noise was a dead star 2.7 billion light years away
The worst part of normalized surveillance is the normalization.
It’s the thousands of followers who react to your secretly taken videos of noble good deeds with encouragement. It’s them feeling cheered up, day made, hearts filled with warmth by your brazen voyeurism.
It’s scrolling past a Tumblr post of a reddit post of a Twitter screenshot of a father and daughter sharing an intimate, family moment, oblivious to the tweeter taking a photo of them.
It’s minding your business at the grocery store, hearing a weird noise, and realizing some teens are filming a tiktok dance and either did not notice or did not care that you are in the shot.
It’s walking home with a mask on because every single condo and floor apartment in your neighborhood has Ring and you don’t know what that means for you yet.
It’s thinking about talking to a PR person just in case your recurring nightmare of your mental breakdown in the parking lot suddenly going viral comes true, hoping against hope a professional knows the magic set of words that will mitigate the harassment, stop you from losing your job.
It’s that reddit post of the Sikh woman who found her and her mustache on the frontpage, forced to turn public humiliation into a teaching moment. It’s some jackass redditor posting a couples photo, ostensibly to mock that his fly was down yet 70% of the comments target his girlfriend’s appearance. It’s seeing a top reddit pic with a headline demonizing a person in it months after you saw this same pic taken down after mods discovered op was lying. It’s a lot of reddit.
It’s wondering how many times your face has been posted online and if it was in a positive context at least.
It’s that this is all normal, that so many of these things feel neutral to individuals, not a risk they’re taking on behalf of a stranger.
people are always like “i have face blindness but i’m good with names” or “im terrible with names but i never forget a face” well baby idk how to tell u this but i am . bad at both.
yesterday i didn’t recognize my coworker bc he was wearing a purple shirt and im used to him wearing all black
15 an hour is 31k per year. No one working FT should make less than at least 45-50k and should have full health benefits and I’m willing to die on that hill.
We should also be doing what some other countries have always done: it should just be a crime for a boss or business owner to pay themselves a certain amount more than any other employee, so if they do want to give themselves millions of dollars they have to start paying all of their workers more first.
