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The image is a screenshot of a tweet by @/SOFIALIVE. It reads: âplease share this itâs so importantâ. Underneath is a still from the video.
The video is from TikTok, made by a user called @/joshconnects. Visible on the screen is an iPhone open to the home screen and the text âMust have police shortcut IOS 13â. The video is narrated by a male-sounding voice.
The only thing visible on the iPhoneâs screen is an app called âshortcutsâ.
Narrator: âHereâs a shortcut thatâs a must have, and let me tell you what it is. Here we just go to shortcuts, and this is the basic layoutâ
He clicks the app icon and the shortcuts app opens.
The application has a dark background. At the top of the screen is the app logo. Underneath the logo are the words âadd shortcutâ and âreview the contents of this shortcutâ. There are two headings underneath, the first titled âwhen I runâ, and the second âdoâ.
The first, âwhen I runâ, has one gray box underneath it, for the title of the shortcut to be typed in. The one he has open is called âpoliceâ.
The second, âdoâ, has several gray boxes underneath, each of which has an action to be done if the shortcut is activated. Two are visible on the screen. The first has the logo for the messages app at the top and the command âsend text âIâm getting pulled over by the cops. Itâll send u a recording of it all afterââ followed by an option to add recipients. The second box has the camera app logo at the top, and gives the command âtake video with back cameraâ.
Narrator: âThis is how you make a shortcutâ
He indicates with his finger the title âpoliceâ under the heading âwhen I runâ
Narrator: âso this one is called âpoliceâ. So I can tell Siri to run this shortcut right when I get pulled over. And then I can set my phone down and do whateverâ
He scrolls a little bit further down the page.
Narrator: âwhat this shortcut does is it sends a text message saying âhey, Iâm getting pulled over by the cops. Iâll send you a recording of it all afterwardsâ to a recipient of your choice. And then afterwards it is going to send the video and the current date to the recipient of your choice.â
The screen now shows the third and last gray box under the heading âdoâ, which has the messages logo at the top, and dictates the command to send the video and the current date to a recipient of your choosing. Underneath the gray box is a disclaimer from Apple saying: âApple does not review shortcuts outside of the Gallery. Running shortcuts from untrusted sources can put your personal data at riskâ. At the bottom of the screen is a large red button labeled âadd untrusted shortcutâ. Smaller blue text underneath gives the option âdonât addâ.
Narrator: âAnd then afterwards it is going to send the video and the current date to the recipient of your choice. Now, this was built by one of my buddies so there it is right there.â
He points to the âadd untrusted shortcutâ button.
Narrator: âadd untrusted shortcut. But this is how you make it. You can make it yourself. I think this is really really important, especially with everything going on right now. We can all benefit by this running in the background, and itâs incredibly simple. Hereâs the overview one more time.â
He scrolls up so that all three of the gray boxes under the heading âdoâ are visible on the screen at once.
Narrator: âso make this, and add it to your shortcuts, and make sure youâre safe out there. If you want more shortcut videos, leave a comment down below.â
The video ends on a dark screen that shows the logo of the TikTok channel, which is the letters âJCâ surrounded by a circle that is made up of a plug chasing its tail, followed by the channel name âJosh Connectsâ and the account handle â@/joshconnectsâ. The TikTok logo is visible at the bottom of the video.
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This is harrowing to watch, but you must watch it.
for people who are unaware of why the riots in minneapolis started happening, hereâs the facts:
- it wasnât george floydâs protesters who started reacting violently; it was the cops.
- the protest was peaceful until the cops showed up in riot gear, and started using water cannons, followed up by tear gas and rubber bullets. i got videos from friends who were there, of people screaming and running away from the cops shooting the water cannons, rubber bullets and throwing tear gas at them. they were even shooting at the protesters dragging people away to get medical attention.
- speaking of medical attention, dispatch refused to provide any medical attention to the protesters. people literally had to drive their bleeding friends to the hospital because they refused to send ambulances.
- cops are using non-lethal weapons in a lethal way. they shot rubber bullets into peopleâs heads and injured them. thereâs dozens of photos of protesters with bleeding head wounds from the rubber bullets.
- multiple people used police scanners and heard that there were undercover cops pretending to be violent protesters who were throwing rocks and whatnot at the police, with dozens of eyewitness accounts confirming that information.
- the person who instigated all the chaos last night (it was a fire at an autozone) with the looting and burning buildings is highly suspected to be an undercover cop pretending to be a protester, because the video of him keeps getting taken down. protesters tried to stop him but couldnât because he had a hammer and they were scared for their safety.
- the cops jammed cell phone towers and cut live streams to interrupt broadcasts and to prevent people from seeing what was really going on and who actually started the violence.
- the cops lied about protesters being armed and about throwing rocks and are literally trying to continue the violence happening and yet no one is holding them accountable for that.
- and during all this, the cop that murdered george floyd still hasnât been arrested. he has had more than ten complaints filed against him and was involved in three other civilian shootings in the past. and yet heâs still out free along with his three other buddies involved, probably sitting on his couch while all this chaos is happening.
so donât get it twisted. the cops just want to change the narrative to make it look like theyâre the wounded and righteous party, when theyâre the ones who started reacting violently in the first place and are still acting violently. so donât you ever forget who started this tragedy and murdered someone, and who are continuing to react to the situation with violence.Â
you know, the older i get, the more i hate cynicism. isn't it exhausting to always be so bitter about everything? why don't you try a little genuine kindness and understanding and maybe you'll calm down
does anyone else feel like theyâre in this weird state of being on tumblr where you dont even know if youre genuinely enjoying the site anymore or if anyone here is actually paying attention to you as a person or just your presence in general and youre just floating in this odd in-between place, only coming on here solely out of habit???
Have faith in your dreams and someday, your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true.
Gfriend Labyrinth performanceÂ
Is it feminist or was there just like⊠a woman in itÂ
did she actually have internal motivation and agency or was she just likeâŠ.strong
Was it actually girl power or was it justâŠa girl in a position of power?
200429 gwsn @ show champion // miya đ
me: Music videos are getting more and more sexual. 20 years ago they would have been considered softcore pornography. The objectification and hypersexualization of women are harmful. Dozens of studies show the negative consequences they have on young girlsâ mental health. For example, girls as young as 5 and 6 years old are developing eating disorders, and one in four girls have depression before they hit 14âŠ
liberal: Ok but these artists choose to make these videos? Maybe stop shaming them? uwu
me: You have a weird definition of choice. You can only make a choice if you have valid alternatives. Women in the entertainment industry do not. Only 3% of creative directors are female. This means that 3% of the decision-making in media comes from women. That means 97% of how women are portrayed is decided on by men. How long do you think female artists would last in Hollywood if they refused to comply with menâs demands? How long would any woman last if she gained weight, stopped shaving, stopped wearing makeup, stop styling her hair, stopped doing her nails, stopped wearing revealing outfits and stopped catering to the male gaze? How long? She would be thrown away like trash within a week, and then immediately replaced by a younger, hippier woman willing to show even more skin. This is not an exercise of free choice but an accommodation to oppression. Refusing to comply would be socially and economically suicidal.
liberal: OMG stop victimizing women and stop denying their agency! They are expressing their sexuality and that should be celebrated!
me: It is not their sexuality they are expressing, but menâs. The women photographed are not actually responding sexually to anything. Theyâre not showing any desires of their own, they are objects of desire. Menâs desire. Men are the ones who will watch those videos, masturbate to them and get an orgasm, not women. These videos teach us nothing about female desire. They teach both men and women to eroticize only the womanâs body and the manâs desire. This is not good. It leads to women being exaggeratedly sensitive to male desire for their own arousal, and to men being exaggeratedly insensitive to female desire for theirs. This renders women more insecure about their sexuality, not more confident. It renders them vulnerable. Surveys show that young girls are already under enormous pressure to have anal sex and send their boyfriends nudes, even when theyâre scared and donât want to!
liberal: Jesus Christ, stop being such a prude! have you ever considered that some girls actually like sending nudes? not everyone feels pressured! Feminism is about choice, which means you have to respect all womenâs choices!! #stopslutshaming2018
me: Ok⊠I donât think you understand the scale of the problem. One in ten teenage girls has an eating disorder, 20 percent of college women binge and purge on a regular basis. 5 to 15 percent of hospitalized anorexics die in treatment, and forty to fifty percent of them never recover completely. Thirty-one percent of nine-year-olds think they are too fat, and 81 percent ten-year-olds want to go on a diet. On any day, 25 percent of women are on diets, with 50 percent finishing, breaking or starting one. In a recent study of high school girls, 53 percent were unhappy with their bodies by age thirteen, by age eighteen and over, 78 percent were dissatisfied. One in four young girls is depressed before they turn 14. The suicide rate among women between the ages of 20 and 24 is at its highest point on record, with a rise of 76 percent since 2006. More than 20% of young men and women are having anal sex, despite both men and women believing it likely to hurt the woman. Thatâs one in five straight couples! Researchers have also found examples of non-consensual penetration either with a finger or penis in a âtry it and seeâ approach, with the boy hoping the girl would not stop him. âSome events, particularly the âaccidentalâ penetration reported by some interviewees, were ambiguous in terms of whether or not they would be classed as rape, but we know from one interview that âaccidentsâ may happen on purpose, after a respondent admitted telling his girlfriend that he had accidentally penetrated her anally, when in fact he had done it on purpose.âÂ
In light of all of this, I have to ask: So what if celebrities - who are the most privileged of the privileged - want to make sexual music videos? What if they âchooseâ it? What if they âlikeâ it? Their choices still harm millions of women all over the world. Why are you defending celebritiesâ right to pose half-naked instead of defending 5-year oldsâ right not to starve themselves to death? why are you not defending teenage girlsâ right not be anally raped by their boyfriends? Where are your fucking priorities?!!!
liberal: Girl, byeeee. Block and stay safe everyone <3 <3
The power of choice. If there is such a thing.
Just putting this here. Every argument you made about the sexual objectification of women in music videos has been duly noticed, and noted. In fact, In other words :Academic Validation.
Thatâs a very powerful video that makes very powerful points, however, as a word of caution to my followers that link contains both clips from music videos that allude to sexual assault and actual video footage of women being sexually harassed and assaulted. If you can handle that content I highly recommend giving this a watch, itâs only five minutes long and makes powerful points about the sexual objectification of women in music videos.
If you canât handle that content then the gist of the video is: women are hypersexualized and objectified in music videos while male power is played up in often the same music videos which feeds a culture of toxic gender norms around sex and power and feeds into real life rape culture.
*sucks guys dick* *dies of nut allergy*
did you know that proteins in brazil nuts can be transmitted sexually so if someone had an allergy and the guy had eaten brazil nuts then they could literally suck dick and die of a nut allergy
now I do