algo diary: tiktok, 8/25/26

hounds of love

        August 25, 2026

algo diary: tiktok, 8/25/26

        young black woman eating a burrito while casually destroying the talking points of a white conservative woman on the street
ad for a bulk mystery box of lithium ion batteries
the musician grace ives plays the "this album or that album" game, eventually landing on hounds of love by kate bush

a young women doing the renegade meme dance in the hospital room of her dying father
chelsea peretti in japan mocking white people in japan
a runner doing the "japanese turn", a fast 180 that preserves momentum

student in a classroom filming their professor experimenting with warp modes in Ableton with a caption referencing the price of tuition being $85,000 a year
ad for a UGK shirt that i already own after buying it from an instagram ad and that recently when i was in a fancy stationery store for deborah a middle aged white man from texas stopped and praised me for it as though i had served in the military and he was thanking me for my service
berkeley student sitting at a dining hall table and solving a rubik’s cube almost instantly
ad for very small, very strong flashlight
live stream of someone playing a video game where superman flies over a city targeting things
episode one trillion of that (very talented) guy who makes beats on the streets of new york and gets passerby to rap on them
young people sitting at an outdoor restaurant showing the behind the scenes of doing the meme where your food instantly appears in front of you
ad for deadstock yeezy gap plug
woman tying a ribbon into a knot with her tongue
ad for an adjustable pullup bar
incredibly cringe live performance of a guy doing a drake parody about using AI coding agents at some tech event in SF
people in baltimore being interviewed about how late lauryn hill would go onstage for her 7 pm show (actual: 9:20)
woman leaving her table at a restaurant to ask for another departing party's cutting board half-full of wagyu steak before the busboy takes it away
hijabi dj toasting in front of a crowd about how there are too many men
woman not really listening to a serious conversation while licking the tajin rim of her cocktail
charli xcx dancing to her own music with her collaborator in front of a ferris wheel on the river in paris
acrobatics-heavy ad for a local cafe in saskatchewan where a young blond woman attempts to juggle an ice cream cone
competitive eater argues that the pizza he has been given for a challenge is unfairly large
woman’s video of her british husband in the front seat of a car unwrapping a paper package filled with french fries and a loose hot dog
gatorade ad about americans being dehydrated in europe in the summer
two guys trying to break a steel beam with “waveform” lifting technique
skater proposes from lip of half pipe to girlfriend who is recording him
sketch comedian i like doing the splitting the g challenge but failing because she is disgusted by the taste of guinness
high school student using a device to test whether the diamonds in his teachers’ rings are real
stuart murdoch improvising a song in response to belle and sebastian’s show being disrupted by the foo fighters
pov of a woman looking down at the precarious footholds of the extreme climbing path she’s on
woman attempting to use a broom, a wig, and a bag to fool a subway turnstile in new york
friend’s review of a BLT in philadelphia

Elsewhere
bisan owda has been making some great videos lately. watch her fly a kite with the palestinian flag despite the israeli government having outlawed kites.
one of my favorite salads is scarlett’s tuna salad (linking to the fishwife version of the recipe since it won’t be paywalled, but also i don’t really like fishwife’s fish tbh). after much experimentation, we have determined that the perfect accompaniment to this salad is a bag of pita chips.
a song i have on repeat: “obaa sima” by ghanaian artist ata kak. hypnotic.

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