Grave cleaning videos are going viral on TikTok. Are they honouring the dead, or exploiting them?
Cleaning the graves of strangers is the latest content trend taking over TikTok. But as millions tune in to watch the videos, it’s becoming clear not all of them are created equal. Two grave-cleaning creators in particular seem to reside at opposite ends of the trend.One of the first accounts to gain popularity for grave cleaning was @ladytaphos. This account is run by Alicia Williams, a Virginia resident who treats the graves with great dignity. Williams will often share the story of the person residing within, and acts with grace and kindness as she restores beauty to the graves.
On the other end of the spectrum is Kaeli Mae McEwen, or @the_clean_girl, who leans into more clickbait-y tactics. McEwen is known for throwing a pink spiky ball through a graveyard and cleaning the grave it lands on. She also uses her videos to promote her own pink foamy cleaner (which at one point could be purchased via a link in her bio).
The #LoyalMountaineers of #EastTennessee keep faith with the Republic and Union of States.
You don’t need to get excited about it, but the Southern Appalachians are going to be a humanitarian disaster in a matter of days.
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Canada: Wet’suwet’en Chief Dsta’hyl declared first Amnesty International prisoner of conscience held in Canada
I don't know if this will be appreciated or obnoxious but here's the #Bash script I used to #toot a LOT of things in a single thread.
The script can do listed or unlisted replies, with or without content warnings.
But does require the #toot #Python package from #pip
Any suggestions or improvements are welcome.
. @ThePSF #python shit show continues:
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- at least two persons banned
- a bunch of postings flagged and hidden
- suppression of opinions
- moderators hiding behind the CoC
- moderators hiding behind the Discuss system
- the CoC committee is hiding, as always
- the typical "either you are with us or you are our enemy" attitude
- no further communication in Tim Peter's case
As said: the SC and CoC committee have to step back. Their attitude sucks, their behavior sucks.
There are no participation ribbons for voting. There is only winning and losing. And the only thing worse than losing is knowing you could have changed the outcome if you hadn’t stayed home on election day.
#vote #voteblue #KamalaHarris #election2024 #democrats #democracy
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In an Ohio town, a "retired gas industry executive, a shadowy 'grassroots' group and a controversial media company are spreading misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other.
The media company, a notorious "pink slime" operator, bought the local newspaper and turned it into a propaganda machine.
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Superb reporting from a collaboration including ProPublica, Floodlight, and Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
Yeah
dunno about the 'shadowy' bit
but here where we live, state college, pa.us, after a long and rather arduous process, we're in the final stretch for a large solar energy purchasing agreement.
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Those opposing it are coming out of the woodwork,
remarkably uniform in the details of their opposition, and very well organised.
I can't be arsed to imagine this is 'grass roots'
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Official statement from the Disintermedia DataFarming Abolition Committee.
For immediate release.
Disintermedia spokeshuman Danyl Strype says "F%&k this shit."
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Climate change made Helene more dangerous. It also makes similar storms more likely
Researchers found that Hurricane Helene was stronger, rainier, and significantly more likely because of climate change. The U.S. can expect more such storms in the future as warming continues.
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Tom Grzybow
in reply to Andrew Pam • • •Liquid grave-cleaner? There can't be much demand for that.
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