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Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok They have us stuck inside a lock Scrolling all day through mindless stuff But no one shows the stuff that is rough Highlights of everyone living a best life Ooo look a new baby, she's becoming a wife New homes, new jobs, just full of life's wins And dont get me started on people on LinkedIn Though it has its pros through education My brain feels fried like vegetation Did you know we spend years of our time Just sat on our phones, it feels like a crime Remember what you see isn't even real It's filtered, edited to make us all feel That people are happy but it is all lies We dont see the heartache, the pain and the cries Sometimes it's best to just turn off your phone Stop with the inspo and becoming a clone Live your life without taking that selfie Live in the moment, it's far more healthy This digital world that we currently live in Is stopping us appreciate who we are within Stop living your life for comments and likes Get outside, enjoy nature and go on long hikes So remember this, keep your head ******* on The online you disappears when you're gone The real you is the one that we'll cherish When one day you will eventually perish
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7d ago
May 27, 2026 at 3:11 AM UTC
Mindless Scrolling
When you step outside for dismissal Breeze of warm air against your face The birds chirp and whistle Sleeveless shirts and shorts Crop tops and flip flops Summer’s so **** hot But not too long ‘Till climate change Takes us all away To Hell’s Gates* Nestle and Artificial Intelligence Teaming up to destroy the environment While people watch Ep 30 of “Fruit Love Island” Do people not care What happens to the polar bears “I’m only a singular person, What I do won’t matter!” I’m certain That’s been said by millions of people
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Mar 23
Mar 23, 2026 at 11:59 AM UTC
The Environment
Technology has won, when I was a young child, We used to play out in the Sun, Fresh air and blue skies of a time that we had fun, Running up and down the sidewalk Drawing a hopscotch board with white chalk Walking to the candy store to get some snacks We had a big bargain back when, then we came right back, Boys playing basketball Girls playing doubledutch Times were laid back Oh how I miss it so much But Nowadays, Technology has won, Has brained washed our minds, We have tablets, cellphones, and all that oblige, Computers, Laptops, and consoles galore, We are so wrapped up in technology, It making our eyes sore, GAMING, SHOPPING AND GAMBLING YOUR MONEY, THEN YOU'RE BROKE LIKE A JOKE AND THAT AIN'T FUNNY!!! Staring at the screens, games, and texting, social media, and website searching, FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK, AND X, WRAPPED IN TECHNOLOGY MAN WHAT'S NEXT?? There is nothing wrong with TECHNOLOGY!!! JUST CERTAIN BAD INFLUENCES, SO, MIND THOSE THINGS PLEASE!!! THERE ARE A LOT OF DANGERS, SO, PLEASE BE AWARE, BE WEARY OF SCAMS!! AND PLEASE TAKE CARE!!!! B.R. Date: 10/29/2025
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Oct 29, 2025
Oct 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM UTC
Technology has won
He doesn’t know what to write about. Not many things to be said out loud. He’s sad, the world’s a whirling storm, A place that lost its gentle form. He sat in the bathroom for hours on end, Scrubbing off the guilt—too much to mend. Looked himself up and down with a frown, Wished he could wash those details down. Cut his already painfully short nails, Still couldn’t forget the smallest details. Mindlessly scrolled through Instagram, But didn’t really give a **** He deleted TikTok, Insta, all that noise, Left with google and Wikipedia—no joys. So he scrolls through YouTube shorts, At least it’s not meta or Chinese imports. Still can’t delete WhatsApp, Feels like a trap. But he uses Signal most of the time, And then tries to make his words rhyme.
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Jun 4, 2025
Jun 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM UTC
Feels like a trap
They're for the streets do not forget so Like the man who smiled As reminds them of the time he helped her live But he had done this to many Whether it was the miller’s daughter to pay her bills Or that who slept on the cardboard outside It’s only this time I ask When i do everything for you He cried, As he reminisced The times he said that to the other women And the frog said ogh my what a poten person While the princess  say what a kind prince as to why the frog might have been weird in stating, I questioned was a thought to be pondered upon in time not at time in time we will be late and at times people who you call your friends will be the last you want to be with it's real work of real hypocrisy they do their work well they are distinguishable because they are hypocrites they may speak english or not at all! it's a real gamble guessing what they speak they may even be dedicated to the wrong things but soon they'll find their direction and they get married and it will   come and find them The hypocrisy they handed out Oh how hard it bites them again and yet we have people stamping their feet but take no heed for they're just incompetent and lost But feel for them as they are the vulnerable They are picked up by those who roam the street it's such a shame that people appear amazing are left to roam the streets while the are the villain of the streets And what’s a bigger shame than so? But do not forget they're for the streets and do not forget so
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Jul 25, 2025
Jul 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM UTC
They're for the streets do not forget so
They're for the streets do not forget so Like the man who smiled As reminds them of the time he helped her live But he had done this to many Whether it was the miller’s daughter to pay her bills Or that who slept on the cardboard outside It’s only this time I ask When i do everything for you He cried, As he reminisced The times he said that to the other women And the frog said ogh my what a poten person While the princess  say what a kind prince as to why the frog might have been weird in stating, I questioned was a thought to be pondered upon in time not at time in time we will be late and at times people who you call your friends will be the last you want to be with it's real work of real hypocrisy they do their work well they are distinguishable because they are hypocrites they may speak english or not at all! it's a real gamble guessing what they speak they may even be dedicated to the wrong things but soon they'll find their direction and they get married and it will   come and find them The hypocrisy they handed out Oh how hard it bites them again and yet we have people stamping their feet but take no heed for they're just incompetent and lost But feel for them as they are the vulnerable They are picked up by those who roam the street it's such a shame that people appear amazing are left to roam the streets while the are the villain of the streets And what’s a bigger shame than so? But do not forget they're for the streets and do not forget so
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From the alarm to Instagram, FB, TikTok and beyond… The external world is screaming: Watch me! Follow me! I’ll show you where you belong! We’ve been led, by the (dark web) piper, into 'other' consciousness — Happily, we submit to its authority Because this world is too much. We stuff every gap, every silence with psycho-fanatic thoughts, snap! Running further from our true selves — How did we get swallowed up in this chasm of chants; That say we are not good enough? It’s time to do something revolutionary! It’s time to sit in silence; Befriend the bewildering quietness, And accept ourselves with loving kindness.
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Jan 25, 2024
Jan 25, 2024 at 5:29 PM UTC
Silence (Sitting With)
I’m chilling and doing homework tonight. Leaning into it. Last night one of our suitemates (Julia) turned 21 - she’s barable. Not that we get carded anywhere - I’ve never had trouble getting into clubs or ordering drinks - I mean never have I ever. She had her birthday party at a place called Mory’s, in New Haven, which is very Yale themed. We ate dinner in the “captain’s room,” where every picture on the wall is a Yale team captain of some sort. They even have a whiffenpoof plaque. It’s so Yale-core it’s funny. Have you ever heard of a drink called a “Singapore Sling?” Me neither, until last night. Then, somehow, there were undrinkable oceans of it. I had six of them, sitting at a bar and I felt nothing. Then I stood up and my bones seemed to liquify. Leong and Anna reeled me in. I was hangin this morning though, I mean rocky-socks drunkover. My senses seemed sharper, my optical nerves dialed up all the way. The air seemed bright and I swear I could’ve heard the sun burning if people would’ve just stopped all that annoying breathing. I had a biochemistry quiz at 9am and I can’t wait to see how I did. Later, at breakfast (I had a piece of toast), Peter felt free to offer his sensible, 26-year-old, bropinion. I said, “You’re so wise,” as I steel-eyed him, “I-guess-you-never.” By the afternoon I was back on my toes. Almost every night my roommates and I sit around a low table in the common room of our suite, crossed legged, on cushions and do our homework. It’s less claustrophobic than sitting in our rooms alone and we usually have some music on, lowkey, in the background. We’d just heard “Love Story,” by Taylor Swift. “I like songs that make love sound easy.” I stated. “Oh, because it IS easy,” Anna says sarcastically, “grab yourself a physicist and make a TikTok song.” “Hey! I’ve got a beef with TikTok artists, I said. “At first, they release these stripped down, intimate, acoustic songs that feel personal, and then, if a song hits, they put out a new version that’s totally overproduced.” “Right.” Leong agreed.   “Oh, yeah,” Sophie said, putting her hair back out of her face with a comb, “and some artists' voices are suited to simple accompaniment and the newer versions just don’t hit as hard.” “I think Phoebe Bridgers is an example of production done right.” Anna said. “Her material continues to sound intimate and stripped down even though it’s no longer just her and a guitar,” “On Tiktok,” Lisa adds, “when a new song works, I feel a connection, like it could be me recording a song with my guitar - so, I support them.” “Don’t get me wrong,” I updogged, “there’s a place for overproduction but sometimes the instruments don’t even sound real, like when they go all out electronic - then they lose me.” “The big-music might drown-out the artistry we liked,” Anna opined, “but maybe that’s how they heard it, as songwriters, in their imagination, but they couldn’t afford it - the new version rectifies it.”
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Feb 22, 2023
Feb 22, 2023 at 10:07 PM UTC
tiktok songs
I’m chilling and doing homework tonight. Leaning into it. Last night one of our suitemates (Julia) turned 21 - she’s barable. Not that we get carded anywhere - I’ve never had trouble getting into clubs or ordering drinks - I mean never have I ever. She had her birthday party at a place called Mory’s, in New Haven, which is very Yale themed. We ate dinner in the “captain’s room,” where every picture on the wall is a Yale team captain of some sort. They even have a whiffenpoof plaque. It’s so Yale-core it’s funny. Have you ever heard of a drink called a “Singapore Sling?” Me neither, until last night. Then, somehow, there were undrinkable oceans of it. I had six of them, sitting at a bar and I felt nothing. Then I stood up and my bones seemed to liquify. Leong and Anna reeled me in. I was hangin this morning though, I mean rocky-socks drunkover. My senses seemed sharper, my optical nerves dialed up all the way. The air seemed bright and I swear I could’ve heard the sun burning if people would’ve just stopped all that annoying breathing. I had a biochemistry quiz at 9am and I can’t wait to see how I did. Later, at breakfast (I had a piece of toast), Peter felt free to offer his sensible, 26-year-old, bropinion. I said, “You’re so wise,” as I steel-eyed him, “I-guess-you-never.” By the afternoon I was back on my toes. Almost every night my roommates and I sit around a low table in the common room of our suite, crossed legged, on cushions and do our homework. It’s less claustrophobic than sitting in our rooms alone and we usually have some music on, lowkey, in the background. We’d just heard “Love Story,” by Taylor Swift. “I like songs that make love sound easy.” I stated. “Oh, because it IS easy,” Anna says sarcastically, “grab yourself a physicist and make a TikTok song.” “Hey! I’ve got a beef with TikTok artists, I said. “At first, they release these stripped down, intimate, acoustic songs that feel personal, and then, if a song hits, they put out a new version that’s totally overproduced.” “Right.” Leong agreed.   “Oh, yeah,” Sophie said, putting her hair back out of her face with a comb, “and some artists' voices are suited to simple accompaniment and the newer versions just don’t hit as hard.” “I think Phoebe Bridgers is an example of production done right.” Anna said. “Her material continues to sound intimate and stripped down even though it’s no longer just her and a guitar,” “On Tiktok,” Lisa adds, “when a new song works, I feel a connection, like it could be me recording a song with my guitar - so, I support them.” “Don’t get me wrong,” I updogged, “there’s a place for overproduction but sometimes the instruments don’t even sound real, like when they go all out electronic - then they lose me.” “The big-music might drown-out the artistry we liked,” Anna opined, “but maybe that’s how they heard it, as songwriters, in their imagination, but they couldn’t afford it - the new version rectifies it.”
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It's become a crazy world Grown men addicted to TikTok watching girls Pretty wives now ignored Single and aware how last year changed me Gained weight and now feeling a bit shy And the world's gone crazy shootings everyday People still confused we all are not sure of what's ahead and here , I am still wondering will it all end soon will all the music not be heard and will I ever feel pretty again will all the media hores stop teasing the men and put on some clothes and will we start reading books and enjoy it It's got to change Or we will just go insane where's the days when men acted like men Where's the days women felt desired When people cared when we got together not in vain when family's gathered to share and catch up When neighbors watched out for each other When we could feel safe we could live really live How , I miss it How , I miss me guess it's all changed can't rewind So move forward trying to navigate the craziness remembering the way it used to be So , I sit write a letter and make a call and think about how crazy it is now Funny how it has all gone a bit crazy © Jennifer L DeLong 🦏 10/6/2021
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Oct 13, 2021
Oct 13, 2021 at 11:41 PM UTC
Crazy isn't it
midnight and i'm still here tapping out words in the hope that i'll write something worthy of reading. the instructions aren't clear: am i supposed to sleep or work on word therapy and...feelings? i don't care now just turn on tiktok and i'll slip into my beloved mind coma
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Jun 10, 2021
Jun 10, 2021 at 5:24 PM UTC
"Word Therapy"
Why do u hate me What have I done that is so atrocious. I can see through even Your most perfect Disguise. Happiness seems so vague Like a distant euphoria. The Thought of it anguish's Your entire entity. It harms Your very existence. Your soul bleeds compassion and rages Like a whimpering caged tiger. It hurts so fierce, I worry you May lose yourself in the pain of it all My dear friend.
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Jun 7, 2021
Jun 7, 2021 at 9:12 AM UTC
Poison
Fireflies dance pretty well, byte-sized fairies' tale long & twistle: a tongue's whistle In the dark, dark arts made bright lights sing like a clock: "Tik Tok, Tik Tok" This chime, time circles red like Asian kings: vultures tightening the noose like Zeus on Douyin's long neck. Hands dance, bytedance on a fairytale clock "Tik Tok, Tik Tok"
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Sep 18, 2020
Sep 18, 2020 at 8:10 PM UTC
A Fairytale Clock
where's my mobile, i been missing you if you were here, i would be kissing you where's my mobile, i been missing you if you were here, i would be kissing you where's my mobile, without you, i'm not global if i'm not global, i'm not really mobile good heavens! it's twenty-four to eleven i have to call shannon but i can't find my mobile what can i do without my mobile? life is trite don't know the difference between day and night without my mobile! i freak out, suffrin' from a black out i'm prayin' to god, lightin' up a candle, hopin' to find it where's my mobile, i been missing you if you were here, i would be kissing you where's my mobile, i been missing you if you were here, i would be kissing you
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Sep 15, 2020
Sep 15, 2020 at 7:59 AM UTC
Where's My Mobile?
suddenly i completely understand tiktok it is a direct result of the time and is responding to a clear demand
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Aug 31, 2020
Aug 31, 2020 at 11:22 PM UTC
tiktok
A couple likes here, and a few comments there. All I want you to know is that I actually care. When I look for your follow, I'm constantly asking "where?" All these newbies, posting some pics, you follow them instantly I swear. Not even four hours on the gram, and you follow her. I'm goin five days now, I ain't no ****** amateur. I tell myself to be patient, but it's getting harder everyday. I swear things are turning gray.
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Sep 6, 2020
Sep 6, 2020 at 6:08 AM UTC
I'm There
(a Senryu story) Trump is attacking TikTok - let him **** goodness, let him be a **** He works for Russia, is that news? He cages children - some adults love that. That fat bag of lust has put his soiled, immoral hands up the law's skirts. Now he attacks youth, - no, fun itself - in TikTok - there is no justice.
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Aug 19, 2020
Aug 19, 2020 at 7:14 AM UTC
immoral hands
TikTok comps Russian bots Makeup tutorials "I'm not like other girls" Trolls and incels BuzzFeed articles Gay fan fiction Many a pun Demonetization Censorship People hiring hitmen Buy some hair clips Twitter ramblings Anti-vaxxers Flat earthers And a partridge in a pear tree
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Aug 2, 2020
Aug 2, 2020 at 8:52 PM UTC
The Internet
Teens In Kilts Trying Odd Kicks
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Jul 29, 2020
Jul 29, 2020 at 5:24 PM UTC
TikTok
TikTok is pure trash Except for the girls and gays All of them are lit
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Jul 18, 2020
Jul 18, 2020 at 3:06 PM UTC
TikTok
Wo khte lhja bdlo bolne ka or filter bhi lgaya kro Kahte Aap ** jaoge mashhoor, mahfil toktok pe lgaya kro Hmne bhi keh diya unhe agr raye achi de na sko to faltoo me muh na chlaya kro #carryminati #itssadyboy #skirtmen 😂😂
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May 22, 2020
May 22, 2020 at 2:48 PM UTC
Tiktok vs YouTube (support carryminati)
Common sense challenge Ok GO!
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Feb 26, 2020
Feb 26, 2020 at 9:53 AM UTC
TikTok challenges
There is a trend of a chain hanging off a man's neck Tickling the face of the girl underneath him But you don't wear jewelry You don't need to with me Your hair tickling my face is all I need
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Feb 16, 2020
Feb 16, 2020 at 11:50 AM UTC
Chain
Ever sweet and ever loving- The times were ever changing. Malicious and fearsome- The times were dense with resentment. Tainted and taken; Downward and mistaken. Disillusions and inner turmoil- Took control and destructed with mayhem. The ever loving and sweet things were long forgotten, And twisted and made rotten, through the illusions you’ve spoken. The question remains, what have you to gain? Perception has been warped and lies wired and reword with the intention to disarray. The cloths of fabrication wrap perfectly along your body. The deceit. The resentment. The lies; The ill intentions- have coveted the means for resonance and rehabilitation In the sense of self preservation- In the sense in which you lack and cannot maintain.
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Sep 15, 2019
Sep 15, 2019 at 1:27 AM UTC
#ForYou