Ya'know, Maybe The Reason Rural, Small-town People Don’t Trust National Media Is Because National News

ya'know, maybe the reason rural, small-town people don’t trust national media is because national news outlets pretty much ignore 85% of the country.

nebraska is literally flooded, at least one person has died and three are missing, 60 thousand have evacuated… and the first cnn article about this went up like ten minutes ago and only mentioned flooding around omaha.

like. i’m from omaha and i’m frustrated by the lack of attention the rest of our state is getting. someone died, and you’re not going to mention that? how was this not a story worth reporting this morning? are nebraskan farmers and small-town citizens not just as important as the californians displaced by wildfires, or southern/east coast people affected by hurricanes?

when we complain about nebraska being ignored, we’re not really talking about not having shows set in nebraska, as much as we might want that. we’re talking about this — thousands of people losing their homes, their livelihood, and yet no one seems to think it’s worth mentioning.

when hurricanes devastated the south last year, nebraskans donated what we could to help those affected. we sent trucks filled with donated items and coordinated with shelters and organizations to make sure we actually sent things that were needed. i’m just saying, it would be nice to see some of that support in turn. even if it’s just bringing attention to this.

Harry Potter Headcannon

One year at Christmas Ginny is opening presents and she opens the one from her mom. It is a much too large crimson sweater with a G on it. She holds it in her hands out in front of her. Her brothers walk in wishing her a merry Christmas all wearing theirs. George’s midriff is showing.

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6 years ago

I feel so guilty and bad for blocking spam accounts with URLs that obviously once belonged to a real user, like an obvious fandom URL or a clever pun, something obviously once chosen by a real blogger and not auto-generated. It’s like shooting a shambling zombie in the head when you can still tell what kind of person they were before they died. Maybe they’re wearing a slogan tee you can still read pretty clearly or their hair is still dyed and you had FRIENDS with pink hair… Auto-generated URLs like @drawerlampungulatesparklewillowcord are clearly just faceless nameless drones with no actual person behind them and no history. There’s zero guilt involved with blocking those. It’s actually pretty satisfying, shooting those sick imitations of humans dead. But @sasukeisapowerbottom?? That was once somebody. Somebody’s kid, somebody’s friend. And now their corpse is tottering around trying to get people to click on their links with pictures of skinny white girls in frilly bras. It’s so sad.

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Me when i see a wild animal in a metropolitan area: reclaim your space, we are the invaders, retake what is yours

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10 years ago

If you think about it potatoes don’t really get all that much credit

they’re fucking awesome

this one thing here