Marilyn Starkloff

getting an apple watch to record my health data so the military knows i’m worthless

a woman recommending something to her friend group has a higher conversion rate than your entire paid ads budget

Wikipedia is the only website whose marketing strategy is threatening to kill itself if you don’t pay

Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.

@VinBoySmith Nooo! I should watch it though!!

Rewatching (500) Days of Summer and realizing Tom not ending up with Summer was for the best. The heartbreak pushed him out of cards and back toward architecture- the dream he abandoned. Sometimes the person who breaks your heart is the reason you become who you were meant to be.

Dear Iranian women, I hope you never have to live in a bag again. I hope you get to decide what modesty means to you. I hope you get to feel your hair blowing in the wind. I hope no one ever again measures your morality in inches of fabric. I hope you can choose or reject tradition freely. I hope you can walk outside without crippling fear. I hope your ambition is not policed. I hope you never again have to pretend compliance to stay safe. I hope love is chosen, not arranged. I hope your body is never a battleground again. I hope your daughters grow up confused about why this was ever controversial. I hope your sons grow up embarrassed it ever existed. I hope you live long enough to watch this era look primitive. I hope freedom for you becomes so normal it’s boring. Love, an American woman who thinks women owning their own bodies is not a culture war issue, just baseline civilization

“It’s not our war. Iranians should fight for themselves.” I’ve heard this argument frequently. It sounds logical, but is it really? No. This statement can be refuted from three different perspectives. 1. Historical perspective. Throughout history, nations have helped one another when a tyrant was killing or oppressing people. US interventions in World War II, the Korean War, Yugoslavia, and Cambodia are examples often cited as necessary and successful interventions. 2. Humanitarian perspective. When a regime slaughters its own people, the free world has a moral responsibility to step in and stop the killing. Historical examples include Libya (2011) and UN peacekeeping interventions in South Sudan and Kenya. 3. Strategic perspective. Is this really only Iran’s war? No. The IRGC and the regime in Iran do not hesitate to kill anyone who opposes them. Look at their recent actions toward Arab nations in the Middle East. Despite various forms of engagement and diplomacy, they have launched rockets and supported destabilizing activities. If they had the capability, there is little reason to believe they would hesitate to threaten the EU or even the US. This demonstrates their potential to harm the free world in the future, especially if they complete advanced missile and nuclear programs. This is not simply an internal matter. It has humanitarian, historical, and strategic dimensions that extend far beyond Iran’s borders.

iranian women will finally not face capital punishment for existing as a human

I want to thank all of you who sent me and my people kind messages, congratulations, and support! I hope my country, Iran, becomes free and that everyone in the world can live in freedom. Everyone deserves the right to choose their opinions, their clothing, their religion and their identity. Here’s to the day when all people can live side by side without hatred blinding their eyes 💜🫂

that would be cool if I could get like a news feed with a chronological summary of world events with verified facts only and no AI generated videos that would be super tight given we have a new event to digest every hour

Your childhood IRANIAN friend is trying to literally educate u. But you know better clearly right?

Saw a TikTok saying the smartest people are usually the quickest to say “I don’t know.” And honestly… the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. This world feels full of people who would rather sound certain than admit they don’t know. And that says a lot.

🙋‍♀️Hello - Iranian here. For those fixated on 'legality' to excuse the regime in Iran - F*ck You. No, I will not let you be my voice. You don't get to narrate my story, you don't get to claim moral superiority. You don't get to tell me my feelings are wrong. Is it legal to throw women in prison for strands of hair? Is it legal to mass execute people? Is it legal to turn a fertile land into a parched desert? Is it legal to rape? Is it legal to shoot innocent people? Is it legal to kill children? Is it legal to torture people to death? Is it legal to spread terrorism? Is it legal to deprive people of a livelihood? Is it legal to shoot people in the eye to blind them? Is it legal to silence people and take away all of their human rights? Is it legal to shoot down a passenger plane? Is it legal to drive millions to leave their country? Is it legal to jail women for singing and dancing? Is it legal to disappear people including children? You will never experience anything like Iranians have experienced for the last 47 years. Iranians have fought barehanded and they've paid a price. All up to 1,000,000 (one million) Iranians have been murdered since the regime came to power. Your books on 'civil disobedience' and 'collective protest' are useless against an armed opposition that is ideologically driven and will kill all that stand in its way. You want legality? The world has a duty to protect innocent lives. It's enshrined in R2P. Some people seem to think Iranians aren't humans. The murder, genocide and massacre of Iranians receives scant media attention - hence scant sympathy. Those who proclaim to care about 'human rights' must think Iranians are animals and not worthy. Their hatred of Israel and US is so great they've lost all perspective. Yes, Iranians are happy. They're happy someone took out Ali Khamenei and many others directly responsible for so much pain and agony. And you know what? We're unashamedly hopeful that with the help of the world's superpower, we can reclaim our country and build a better tomorrow. We know there's a long way to go, but give us this brief moment of reprieve, because daily we sit and try to tell the story of the lives lost, those at risk of execution, those under torture. We've seen the pictures and videos of massacres taking place. Our dance and happiness comes with a heavy weight. We do so, in knowledge of the many who never lived to see this day. The day of freedom will come to Iran, it's glorious - and we're not sorry if some outside help contributed to making that happen. So don't speak on my behalf and stop excusing this regime on grounds of 'anti-colonialism'. and 'anti-Zionism'. #Iran

hey guys thank you for your lovely messages, I'm totally fine, it's the blackout that i couldn't respond and still can't. we ALL are celebrating the death of khamenei, what no one can understan (except us, iranians) is what we're going through for 47 YEARS+

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X should have a filter where you can choose to only see posts from people actually in Iran right now. Everything else is just noise. The only voices that matter on this are Iranian ones.

Homosexuality: alive Khamenei: dead 1/3/26