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I'm Millie. This website is a place for me to stick some words.

alternate cuts of superhero movies

I saw another fucking "release the such and such cut" thing about some superhero movie. I feel these campaigns exist because fundamentally there's this realisation that superhero movies are bad, but people are foolishly hoping that there's an imaginary good version of them. This is…

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a hot take

Lots of people getting kinda indignant about how they're definitely staying on twitter and suggesting that they should look at other websites is bad or cruel or whatever. Lots of people still watching netflix despite dave chappelle and ricky gervais. Lots of people still keeping…

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The standards of content on social media

Time will tell whether the bad man will ruin everything quickly, slowly, or somehow things will survive. But I just wanted to observe that on the allegedly really important and good bird site I just saw a post that was one of those "hey, remember…

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The nature of posting

I write stuff here, and like, potentially nobody sees it. As far as I know at least. Everywhere else one posts stuff, there's all sorts of stuff you then get with regards to who's seen it, like "hey, so and so liked your post" or…

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fuck I'm 35

as of yesterday, I have aged to 35. This should not bother me AND YET I think there's like a thing where I'm thinking "this is it, this is what point I reach in life, that's what there is" and like I dunno how to…

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I'm a bit grumpy so it's time to blame externalities

The following prevalent things in the world are scams Any product being advertised by a youtuber Clickbait titles for youtube videos Tiktok creators who make videos with a "part 2" Streaming services The release cycle and lifespan of mobile phones Nonreplaceable batteries Lock-in contracts A…

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Just some brain and updates

I'm working on trying to get back into the swing of things with regards to engaging in IRL social activities. I have a bit of stuff planned to look forward to so that's good. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to make more plans. We…

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The real end of Evangelion

I feel like no film has given me the same sense of release and catharsis as Hideaki Anno's Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0: Thrice Upon A Time. Even more than a year after I saw it (apparently it was a year yesterday, according to my records),…

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The problems with algorithmic social media

Social Media is Bad because since the algorithm tends to preference certain flavours of Contentâ„¢ to surface it tends to end up resulting in content that's been tailored in some way to get popular being what we see. So if you go on Tiktok for…

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How did I not write about this?

It almost feels like a pretty lazy omission for me to only be documenting this here after the fact, but I feel I should do so anyway. Over the last week, I was unfortunate enough to contract the dreaded Spicy Cough. As a result, I…

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