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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 15h

Water is super choppy and wind is loud..supposed to be a storm and suddenly I remember why I don't choose cruises for vacations ( scary )

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 17h

Are the concerns of surveillance use and propaganda ( even if it won't impact you ) negligible enough to continue providing usage numbers to the app even with those things happening? Not trying to sound demeaning - genuinely curious what tiktok users personal lines are.

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 18h

Lrt

If you're a tiktok user, do you plan to leave when the trump admin takes it over? Or do you think you're above being influenced by propaganda and going to remain because it's silly brain serotonin sometimes? Or are you going to tolerate it to "see how it goes" before leaving?

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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 1d

do those of y'all tiktok junkies have a plan to get off that app before the government takes it over?

social media is an addiction and I know there are some of you who cannot stop. make a plan to quit now.

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 18h

Pretty sure the boat is sold out cuz we tried to upgrade to a suite prior to leaving but the bid didn't go through cuz it also sold..but we're also too settled and too tired to move lol I'm.just baffled as to how/why the ship was designed so poorly for an entire floor of guests 🥲

Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 19h

( we haven't been on a carnival cruise in a long time and havent/aren't going to for a long time. We picked msc cuz it's not American and flew into a port not in the states... but man...pls fix the screeching chairs. My migraine....🥲 )

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 19h

I'm so tired from less than 5 hours sleep...it's so bad...they were screeching around til 1:45am last night and started right at 6am for breakfast..😭 i think carnival is carpeted so this isn't an issue there but hot damn it is a severe design flaw. An entire floor of people unable to sleep...insane.

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 19h

I wonder if @msccruisesofficial.bsky.social know about those little felt circles you can put on the bottom of chairs...I would like to tell them about it as someone whose room is directly below the dining room filled with wooden chairs on a wooden floor that are constantly screeching from 6am-1am.

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 20h

2 little monkeys (?) gave us a departure song... Osaka is lovely. 🥹

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 22h

Osaka Eorzea cafe was sooooo much better than akihabaras. It was SO CUTE. I had the sabotender churros, emet drink ( fine) and zenos drink ( tastes like zenos armpit sweat ) and a lot of orange juice cuz our cruise doesn't have free juice and it's the best value per coaster. 🤣

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 22h

We were in osaka last night and today and the transit was way less crowded but way more confusing than tokyo to me but we made it to dotonburi and eorzea cafe last night and today went to Nara, hung out with the deer, went to Osaka Castle ( just the outside ) and did the Tempozan ferris wheel. 😵‍💫

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 22h

I can't even keep up with posting everything we've done and seen. It continues to be a massive whirlwind but we are feeling extremely accomplished. There really is just....so much....to see and do in Japan, it's impossible to leave without fomo, I think. But we're definitely giving it our all!

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 1d

The journey from Port to Nara is...a long one omg. Google maps also failing us for train instructions...the kind of transit time and distance thats making me nervous lol

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 1d

You could tell me this was estinien and I'd believe you.

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 1d

Imo all the more reason for people with privilege to take a stand. Those pay to pay and uninsured people deserve better.

Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 1d

And i truly hope that those instances can inspire an even stronger uprising to do good rather than do nothing. Silence is the compliance they want and it only aids and abets their agenda. I do hope and believe change can happen as long as movements remain active. 👏

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 1d

I promise I do see the good too! My goal is moreso charged by the lack of compassion and understanding I see from my fellow Canadians in favor of just living their own best life at the cost of others. I absolutely agree there are some powerhouse moves happening from leaders and citizens in the US.

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 2d

Still thinking about the Amano art exhibit/sale we stumbled upon in Japan... seeing the reproductions up close in such detail was incredible...I love final fantasy.

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 2d

This is true. Admittedly, I knew of these instances but not the precise scale. Here's hoping the numbers don't catch up. Depressing to add todays state of being to the list or consider it part of a cycle at all though.

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 2d

On this scale? With kids being dragged naked and zip tied in the night? And 15 year old being sent 500 miles from home? And thousands disappearing from said camps with no records as to where they went? Genuinely asking for the comparison and instances because I'd like to educate myself further.

Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 2d

The glaring thing to take from it is even if we in Canada have the freedom and options to have alternative markers, it cannot be overlooked that our own freedoms are now, already, being impacted by the US in this instance and this could very well just be the start.

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe we'll start seeing a shift in the next year or so ( considering trumps last term was...bad but unremarkable compared to this, I don't blame people for thinking "it'll be fine" and now being trapped ).

Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 2d

There are so many other non-authoritarian countries with social hot spots - i can't help but see companies who do continue going to the US as either ignoring it or quietly supporting it. Definitely not contributing to a resistance. Of course, like you said - things are signed in advance so..

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Aelynn 🇨🇦 @aelynn000.bsky.social · 2d

What was "bad" before is small now. The US has not gone through building equivalents of concentration camps and severing multiple ally/trade relationships before. The US is no longer respected or trustworthy and the fact that it got this bad this fast means those things will not be easily regained.

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— jules 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @heavenly.photo · 2d

Starting Oct 14th, anyone without M/F marker on their passport will be barred from entering/leaving the US via plane per Trump’s new ruling.

seeing many Canadian mutuals touting trans-allyship only to pack up to go to the US bc ✨ katsucon✨, is incredibly disturbing

www.reddit.com/r/law/s/SWyh...

From the law community on Reddit: Starting October 14th, the Trump administration bans Non-Binary+Intersex people (including citizens) from entering/leaving country (on plane) via CBP passport changes

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