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    <title>phoebebridgers &amp;mdash; Erica Rivera</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[length: 3,469 words&#xA;&#xA;content/trigger warning: references to and discussions of suicidal ideation, assault, capitalism, sociopathy, abuse, racism, misogyny, worker exploitation, drugs (codeine, methamphetamine), mass shootings, defecation, pornography, and U.S. imperialism&#xA;&#xA;---&#xA;&#xA;brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr&#xA;&#xA;me walking into my new era.&#xA;&#xA;am i really supposed to spend&#xA;&#xA;my life&#xA;&#xA;same things&#xA;&#xA;same apps&#xA;&#xA;every day&#xA;&#xA;in hopes that&#xA;&#xA;something life-changing meaningful&#xA;&#xA;can&#39;t be all there is can&#39;t be&#xA;&#xA;\[megaphone emoji\] Big News \[megaphone emoji\]&#xA;&#xA;for now this program will only be available from California because funding for it comes from the state of California&#xA;&#xA;Toxic thoughts&#xA;&#xA;it&#39;s not that your feelings don&#39;t matter it&#39;s that mine matter more!!!&#xA;&#xA;i don&#39;t wanna cry without an audience&#xA;&#xA;then why are you alive???&#xA;&#xA;everybody&#39;s so boring all the time and i&#39;m the only one that&#39;s fun!!!!!&#xA;&#xA;Idk if it&#39;s even experimental anymore I&#39;m just on a different realm&#xA;&#xA;i wanna talk&#xA;&#xA;about the things we&#39;ve gone through&#xA;&#xA;i am enraged&#xA;&#xA;that i can&#39;t do what this man is doing&#xA;&#xA;this would be literally the only thing in the entire world that would alleviate the pain that i&#39;m feeling&#xA;&#xA;that would cease my grief&#xA;&#xA;that would give me a reason to live another day&#xA;&#xA;i&#39;m enraged&#xA;&#xA;my favorite book is the clickart user&#39;s manual and graphics sampler from 1998&#xA;&#xA;the cover is very good&#xA;&#xA;i know&#xA;&#xA;disagree with the rejection of the sapir-whorf hypothesis&#xA;&#xA;what&#39;s being rejected is the extreme version of this hypothesis that posits that language literally, like, can shape and limit your perception&#xA;&#xA;the way you actually are perceiving your sensory environment so&#xA;&#xA;hi um this is a message for any map app, you know, Google Maps, Maps, Waze if you&#39;re a freak&#xA;&#xA;we need a setting for&#xA;&#xA;that when you look up for directions&#xA;&#xA;for walking&#xA;&#xA;that is a... Cute setting&#xA;&#xA;i don&#39;t wanna walk down an ugly street&#xA;&#xA;i want a Cute setting&#xA;&#xA;so it&#39;s called Northlandz with a Z at the end&#xA;&#xA;here&#39;s some of the artwork&#xA;&#xA;what on god&#39;s green earth is that&#xA;&#xA;a naked woman reaching down a cliff for a naked man and then three german shepherds screaming at them&#xA;&#xA;press this button and watch the action fly!!&#xA;&#xA;it&#39;s so macabre&#xA;&#xA;very macabre&#xA;&#xA;why would you do an indoor picnic??&#xA;&#xA;this is the blair witch corner, this is jesus with crimped hair, this is the tomb of the unknown hobo, a woman vacuuming in a cardigan, this woman just so sad about having a baby in her lap, this woman fell down the fucking stairs!!!&#xA;&#xA;and i don&#39;t understand why this artwork was there at all&#xA;&#xA;is that... rod stewart... and...?&#xA;&#xA;rachel hunter.&#xA;&#xA;i am dreaming i am train&#xA;&#xA;U.S. leftist firefighters getting ideas..&#xA;&#xA;i&#39;ll see like gays making art and they&#39;ll be like THIS IS MY QUEER BODY MAKING QUEER ARTUHHH!!!!!!! i&#39;m like girl that&#39;s porn, like, that&#39;s chill, but like lean in, like put your whole arm in there!!!&#xA;&#xA;It&#39;s crazy to me Guitar Center uses this guitar as a G in its logo, because it barely looks like a G.&#xA;&#xA;capitalism is a scam: a visual diary&#xA;&#xA;the older i get the more i realize how brainwashed i am&#xA;&#xA;WHEN FILIPINA TITAS RUN A RESTAURANT IN LA&#xA;&#xA;the next time you guys are in the market for some new skincare check out the mad hippie line at ulta&#xA;&#xA;EXCELLENT 100/100&#xA;&#xA;i use my yooga app to scan beauty products to check and see how clean the ingredient list is&#xA;&#xA;part 23 UNLISTENABLE MUSIC&#xA;&#xA;very interesting. makes me feel like i&#39;m intruding on something&#xA;&#xA;personally i believe i&#39;m not meant to work, i&#39;m meant to do this all day&#xA;&#xA;&#34;guess you&#39;re overdrawn&#34; and she was&#xA;&#xA;humor as terrorism&#xA;&#xA;send the skankiest drag queens in town to his house and have them yell fashion insults to his wife!!! or get some meth gay guys and have them hide in the woods and scare a boy scout troop, they deserve it!!!&#xA;&#xA;land of the free, home of the brave? land of the ar-15, home of kids in the grave did i wake up in 2013 the song makes me want to vote for the most far right candidate possible real same here omg bro what \[skull emoji\] Jesus Christ The musical Hamilton and it&#39;s consequences have been a disaster for the human race Millennial (derogatory) This should affect his credit score Didn&#39;t Logic retire 5&#39;5&#34; energy Maybe a song wasn&#39;t the best way to get this point across late stage capitalism did this to us BRUH \[sobbing emoji\] \[sobbing emoji\] \[sobbing emoji\] \[sobbing emoji\] \[sobbing emoji\] White I actually like this how do I delete someone else&#39;s post&#xA;&#xA;My plan to MAKE IT in HOLLYWOOD I wanna get cancelled&#xA;&#xA;i would like to stop knowing now&#xA;&#xA;we&#39;re going pretty fast now&#xA;&#xA;so much worse&#xA;&#xA;flesh image&#xA;&#xA;sea,&#xA;&#xA;fr&#xA;&#xA;i&#39;m not straight, i&#39;m not bi or gay either, i&#39;m actually um... i&#39;m actually just depressed&#xA;&#xA;and i had no lines. and for an actor, i just got scared.&#xA;&#xA;dead airspace is dead airspace.&#xA;&#xA;will i be enough?&#xA;&#xA;i am enough.&#xA;&#xA;be honest.&#xA;&#xA;they may.&#xA;&#xA;moment.&#xA;&#xA;I did.&#xA;&#xA;for&#xA;&#xA;Why that PERFECT time will NEVER come&#xA;&#xA;my best, tom. i do my best, okay?&#xA;&#xA;some not so fun facts&#xA;&#xA;did yall know that after they excavated ground zero as they were preparing to rebuild the world trade center, they found a slave ship buried underneath??????&#xA;&#xA;i just fell to my knees in target&#xA;&#xA;What&#39;s a scam that&#39;s become so normalized that we don&#39;t even realize it&#39;s a scam anymore? Profit. Profit.&#xA;&#xA;Why the hell would Lea not be able to read. She can obviously read.&#xA;&#xA;original music is worse than music that&#39;s already been made and already on spotify&#xA;&#xA;so let&#39;s just listen to led zeppelin and mac demarco only from now on&#xA;&#xA;if i only could i&#39;d make a deal with god and i&#39;d get him to swap our places running up that road i&#39;m running bulletproof up that hill nothing running up to lose that building fire away fire away if i only could shoot me down i&#39;d make a deal with god but i won&#39;t fall and i&#39;d get him to swap i am our places titanium running up that road shoot me running up that down hill running up but i won&#39;t fall that building i am titanium say, if i only could&#xA;&#xA;This might sound weird but... &#34;blabadsusdfohdf&#34;&#xA;&#xA;hey lord you know i&#39;m tired&#xA;&#xA;camp is actually an acronym&#xA;&#xA;Cunt&#xA;&#xA;Attitude&#xA;&#xA;Medical malpractice&#xA;&#xA;Poppers!!&#xA;&#xA;you&#39;ll be 23 i&#39;ll be 19 in june i&#39;m in the gap and you are in your prime i could be rotten you&#39;d still be sweet oh, Candace, the woman i&#39;ll never be&#xA;&#xA;my favorite reality show: MORON TV&#xA;&#xA;First date with NPC&#xA;&#xA;which is about 3 friends who bond over a shared determination to change the world with their art&#xA;&#xA;what good has voting done so far? what could voting do for us now?&#xA;&#xA;Pan-African Anarcho-communist STEM major&#xA;&#xA;when the art starts looking like you could&#39;ve yourself&#xA;&#xA;stalph HAND(fucking)MADE in America&#xA;&#xA;\[irritating scratching sounds, some of the whitest people you&#39;ll ever see\]&#xA;&#xA;it&#39;s cuuuuuute&#xA;&#xA;Gang gang i post whateverrrrrr Add my snapchat I told night shift to mop the floors I told the night shift to clean the bathrooms Why go to the apple store when I have a trap phone vending machine&#xA;&#xA;a tiktok girlie with 1M followers hosted a meet and greet and nobody showed up...&#xA;&#xA;there&#39;s a lot going on here&#xA;&#xA;booty is great because it sort of satisfies the need to eat um nuts&#xA;&#xA;TikTok for business&#xA;&#xA;Get big customer love without spending big bucks&#xA;&#xA;Advertise on TikTok&#xA;&#xA;where small businesses sold millions of products in 2021&#xA;&#xA;your unpaid internship at Del Taco will not give you time off to get your appendix taken out&#xA;&#xA;that&#39;s not how i remember this&#xA;&#xA;it sure isn&#39;t you old fuck&#xA;&#xA;excuse me what song are you listening to&#xA;&#xA;the urgent need: restful release from pain&#xA;&#xA;sedative-enganced analgesia&#xA;&#xA;To each &#34;according to his need&#34; – maximum safe analgesia through time-and-pain-tested synergistic formulations&#xA;&#xA;PHENAPHEN WITH CODEINE&#xA;&#xA;Richmond, Virginia&#xA;&#xA;me losing my eyes on the journey and guessing where i am&#xA;&#xA;They can delete Wendy&#39;s YouTube this will never be forgotten&#xA;&#xA;fire everybody&#xA;&#xA;how DARE the family&#xA;&#xA;how DARE them&#xA;&#xA;can i just&#xA;&#xA;how DARE you&#xA;&#xA;you had me fooled&#xA;&#xA;DEATH TO ALL OF THEM&#xA;&#xA;oh my god in LA it is not this easy have you heard of gays? have you done horse tranquilizer? i&#39;m gonna play some charli xcx have you&#xA;&#xA;oh yeah what&#39;s her name what&#39;s her name she&#39;s the scourge of tiktok she puts nerds in stuff she calls herself like trudy, or something.&#xA;&#xA;getty! her name&#39;s getty! getty&#xA;&#xA;ya figured it out you are the chosen one who has figured out how to get inside the matrix and changed the code for your own game&#xA;&#xA;A nomad with a split personality Join our Discord!&#xA;&#xA;GOD HELP ME need a lift? name&#39;s dark, dark like absence of light&#xA;&#xA;or dork as we call him.&#xA;&#xA;i&#39;m sorry your face card seems to have declined&#xA;&#xA;hey bro! what the hell just happened how did you do that? WTF is happening? we don&#39;t have time anymore wake up please wake up!&#xA;&#xA;The WORST haunted house ride EVER&#xA;&#xA;oh is it gonna drop?&#xA;&#xA;oh that doesn&#39;t count&#xA;&#xA;I overcame my depression :) It&#39;s the small things.&#xA;&#xA;RECOGNIZE LIFE AND GIVE IT MEANING&#xA;&#xA;Average Average HOPE NIHILISM enjoyer fan WOW, I FUCKING a better future HATE BEING possible? splendid. ALIVE!&#xA;&#xA;microplasticjunkie&#xA;&#xA;why do you think when you invite straight people&#xA;&#xA;Not happy with how your life is going? disappear and start a new life and take care&#xA;&#xA;Part 2 - How to Disappear How To Disappear - Part 1 So... You need a new identity &amp; It&#39;s time to run... When you lose your spouse to the metaverse&#xA;&#xA;I actually just read a book, Lea Michele wrote it, lots of blank pages&#xA;&#xA;Hi mamas let&#39;s let everybody trickle in it&#39;s just been a really really difficult day&#xA;&#xA;Girl in a pyramid scheme spiraling out&#xA;&#xA;she&#39;s a girlboss these are not uhhhh FDA approved which is not a problem for me i think it&#39;s genius&#xA;&#xA;now i&#39;m going to talk about how we&#39;re quite literally witnessing the formation of a pipeline in real time before our very eyes&#xA;&#xA;I wanna crash my car into a telephone pole standing on the gas with no seatbelt on&#xA;&#xA;I am your daughter! what did I do wrong? #mitski #lanadelrey #phoebebridgers #pinterest #tumblr #moodboard @mommyissues #daddyissue... See more&#xA;&#xA;like save and follow for more enjoy&#xA;&#xA;This is why I live in New York guys, yeah... this city is my fucking place&#xA;&#xA;bro seriously using charcoal to get consumption&#xA;&#xA;Just deleted everything&#xA;&#xA;there&#39;s something what inside the you fuck it&#39;s is hard a to 4 explain chen&#xA;&#xA;Things to do instead of being on your phone&#xA;&#xA;tiktok&#xA;&#xA;I wish I could go back and stop 2020 sam from downloading this app&#xA;&#xA;The cycle of tiktok is everlasting.&#xA;&#xA;beep beep breakfast cars beep beep I breakfast wanna be the next SNL cast member and here&#39;s if why i only could I&#39;d be a make a deal with a God what would you Chrissy wake up and get him to saw me at the red light swap our places what would you say? beep beep&#xA;&#xA;listen&#xA;&#xA;i will pay 2000&#xA;&#xA;i will pay 3000&#xA;&#xA;i will pay 4000&#xA;&#xA;before i live in Indiana&#xA;&#xA;use anything but self checkout&#xA;&#xA;It is estimated that 100,000 disappear without a trace every year, many after divorce, loss, failing, or&#xA;&#xA;Desperation test Me 1 day after watching Breaking Bad&#xA;&#xA;hi everyone i brought some donuts&#xA;&#xA;pov: you organize a union at your nonprofit&#xA;&#xA;we love unions i&#39;ll speak for myself i love unions a really vital profoundly relevant feature of our communities but i don&#39;t know that they&#39;re the right fit here&#xA;&#xA;so much flexibility here&#xA;&#xA;donut?&#xA;&#xA;other side gigs&#xA;&#xA;you don&#39;t have benefits&#xA;&#xA;that is working for all of us&#xA;&#xA;i think there&#39;s a misunderstanding if it were up to me&#xA;&#xA;in our field you all are being paid far more than most, most.&#xA;&#xA;it&#39;s not the industry standard.&#xA;&#xA;we have a very very small endowment, we have a small, small amount of money that we have to budget so, so carefully&#xA;&#xA;why did no one say we&#39;re having a hard time? well, that was different&#xA;&#xA;this is just a learning opportunity&#xA;&#xA;you and you and you and me and you and you and you and you and me and you and you and you and me and you and you and&#xA;&#xA;the response is to ongoing trauma&#xA;&#xA;She came a long way from buzzfeed.So proud!&#xA;&#xA;BEEN A FAN SINCE BUZZFEED this is exactly what believe in yourself looks like!&#xA;&#xA;tech job propaganda on tiktok if your insides look like this please hmu&#xA;&#xA;maybe she&#39;s a nerd for books&#xA;&#xA;i wish i had my soulmate&#39;s lifestyle&#xA;&#xA;something about this seems strange&#xA;&#xA;You Have $5,420 You Need $69,420&#xA;&#xA;th cost of giving birth is $4,000 to $15,000&#xA;&#xA;up yours woke moralists&#xA;&#xA;You can&#39;t throw a brick Che Guevara \[red face tongue out sweating emoji\] \[fire emoji\]&#xA;&#xA;Fidel W \[crown emoji\] Survived 638 CIA assassination attempts explains structural racism 6 years later&#xA;&#xA;Sometimes I think this account is a project that is trying to understand the way algorithm works people do this kind of thing in speech therapy he&#39;s been posting videos like this since 2015 I think you just solved this entire thing&#xA;&#xA;Thanks to all my fans for my 36th birthday wish&#xA;&#xA;instant follow preach \[smile surrounded by three hearts emoji\] 100% agree&#xA;&#xA;yeah and i think they will always find a way to weaponize our identities&#xA;&#xA;You&#39;re my favorite senator and nothing can change that&#xA;&#xA;what does twerking have to do with trans rights?&#xA;&#xA;Hope?!?! ACTION!&#xA;&#xA;MISFITS&#xA;&#xA;M&#xA;&#xA;O&#xA;&#xA;O&#xA;&#xA;M&#xA;&#xA;A&#xA;&#xA;I love all my fans I love all my fans I love all my fans&#xA;&#xA;if covid never happened i would be a completely different bitch&#xA;&#xA;i absolutely use tiktok as a search engine&#xA;&#xA;hey yall so a lot of people know me more so from my writing that has to do with identity and stuff like that but i also sometimes write about things that i love and one of the things that i love um is music and one of my favorite bands is beach house i am obsessed with beach house this is my favorite album of all time like hands down 