Social Media

WE RESPECT ALL

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Over 350 languages are spoken in the United States. Some linguistic surveys estimate the total can be closer to 430 when including specific dialects and indigenous languages. However, the three main languages spoken are English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.

CITY IMAGES

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We participate in the Internet archives Archive.org and affiliate programs, designed to provide a means for sites organizations to collect media on this Library on steroids. . In more human terms, this means that whenever you find file footage, there are no nefarious "third parties" lurking on my watch or shedding crumbs of the "cookies" the rest of the internet uses.

INTERNET

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The data comes from a 2026 internet freedom index by Cloudwards, which evaluates national policies across four areas: torrenting, VPN availability, adult content, and political and civic expression.

WHCD

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James Christian Kimmel is an American comedian and television host, best known for hosting and executive producing Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC since 2003. He started his career in radio as a morning DJ in high school, and later worked as a radio sidekick in various cities

RIP GEN XYZ

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If you feel muddled by this alphabet soup of names, it is easy to see why there is so much confusion about generational cohorts.
While some individuals are special and do not follow the trend, many appear hyper-individualistic or resistant to responsibility beyond themselves and some in their inner circle, while others are deeply collective and cause-driven. The bottom line is most don’t shive-a-git.

SOCIAL MEDIA & BOOZE

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Social media and alcohol claim to bring people together, but in many cases, it's the opposite. Designed to connect the world, it frequently amplifies hostility, rewards division, and gives a megaphone to negative messaging. What is marketed as community can quickly become conflict, revealing a gap between the image social media promotes and the reality it sometimes produces.

POLITICS & MEDIA

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A clear north star to adopt online. The work of democracy happens online and in person on ground, long before Election Day.

LESS STRESS

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We should all be concerned that stress can have serious health consequences. For mothers, spouses, caregivers, or anyone in demanding emotional roles like looking after an elderly parent, the burden can quietly accumulate and manifest physically and mentally over time.

CREEPS & CLOWNS

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The social media tech bros are abusing power to push hate and division. These platforms are tools for spreading fascist ideologies. We The People should abandon them by suppressing and dismantling these systems of oppression. Enabling this content perpetuates the spread of these ideologies that harm us all. It’s time to take a stand. Users who oppose fascist policies should stop supporting these businesses and delete these apps immediately.
I remember when Ollie was part of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
Are oligarchs going to ruin our government?
Creeps, clowns, or sucker-birds?
Say it ain't so, Joe!
“The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians,
the sachems, the nabobs; call them by what names you please,
sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse,
but all in vain. The decree has gone forth, and it cannot be recalled,
that a more equal liberty than has prevailed
in other parts of the earth
must be established in America.”
-John Adams