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Cake day: April 13th, 2024

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  • I get the people here saying “just don’t have any of them”. Recently I decided to wipe my IG account’s likes that I left on all posts. You know - so the algorithm knows less about me. Mind you, this was several thousand likes to remove.

    There is no bulk unliking option, so I did this by hand. Select the same -teen photos, unlike, wait for the reload, repeat. The benefit is that you get a look atwhat you liked, since you’re combing through it by hand.

    What struck me is 99% of those posts were from people I haven’t ever met. They were rando short creators. There is nothing “social” about this medium anymore. It’s a media medium.


  • I’m not Hungarian but I was at Batthany ter from 6PM to 2AM and experiencing history by yourself is much different than seeing it on TV. There was a group of high schoolers in front of me who were hugging among eachother constantly once they knew Tisza won, broke my heart.

    When I was coming back, on the shuttle bus to Warsaw Chopin a Hungarian woman was watching a recap of the election night smiling, and when a bird’s eye video of the crowd appeared she was shaking her head in disbelief/pride. Yes, I was watching her phone from above - standing - while she was sitting, shut up

    With those kind of rosy-eyed stories in Poland we say “and then the bus driver sat up and started clapping” and indeed I may be on an emotional high compared to people who just saw the facts on TV, though I don’t even feel a fraction of some Hungarians may be feeling.

    Also I couldn’t join in on any of the chants but the simplest “-ria, -ria, Hungaria” lol