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      10 Favourite Episodes of Community

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      Maleficent vs Sleeping Beauty

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      What A Real Women’s Movement Could Be

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      How Feminism Has Lied to Women and Men

      It’s Perfectly Okay Not to Be a Feminist

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      Daenerys and Walter White: Same Characters, Different Shows

      Why Game of Thrones Ended Perfectly

      The Genius of Game of Thrones Characterization

      Jon Snow: The Prince Who Was Promised

      Sansa Stark: Girl Becomes Woman

      Why People Love Game of Thrones

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      How To Be Less Self-Absorbed

      A Culture of Self-Deprecation

      A Lesson in Empathy

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      Good vs Toxic People

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      What’s My Political Compass?

      Why you SHOULD NOT vote Tory in the UK election

      Weed Should Be legal

      Abortion doesn’t care about your feelings

      Conservative Snowflakes

      Is Conservatism the New Counter-Culture?

  • Psychology

      On Being Sensitive

      Understanding Mental Illness

      How to Spot a Psychopath

      In Which My Situation Feels Ridiculous

      Alcoholics Anonymous vs Smart Recovery

      Are Personality Disorders Real?

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      Interview with Petrina Binney

      So, here we are.

      THIRD NOVEL COMING SOON! (5th published work)

      Plot vs Character-Driven Stories

      Review of Anne by Robert Fanshawe

      Changing the Way I Blog

  • Young People

      Advice to would-be artists

      University wasn’t for me.

      Generation Y Me

      Facebook’s False Friendship

      Same-Sex Schools?

      Can young people be in love?

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Why I Deleted Instagram

By zarinamacha October 27, 2020April 18, 2023
2020 / Technology

I deleted Instagram recently. (And Twitter, which I seldom used anyway.) My God, it feels so good to be free of it. But why did I do this? Instagram is Time-Consuming I’ve had Instagram since 2013. I had two accounts, a ‘general’ one and one for my hair. Between both […]

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Stop Looking at Your Phone

By zarinamacha October 21, 2020April 18, 2023
2020 / Technology

(Unless you’re using your phone to look at this article, of course.) Smartphones. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Or can we? You’ve probably heard of The Social Dilemma, the Netflix documentary that has got folks deleting their social media accounts. (Yes, I deactivated Twitter and Instagram.) Phonevolution […]

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Could Artificial Intelligence Be Our Saving Grace?

By zarinamacha September 27, 2020April 18, 2023
2020 / Technology

With technological advancements rapidly escalating, it’s not long before the singularity is upon us. Once the stuff of sci-fi, the singularity expresses a point in time where artificial intelligence will become conscious, and sentient, and develop so fast that humans won’t be able to comprehend it. I liken the looming […]

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The Internet Is Terrifying

By zarinamacha June 8, 2020April 18, 2023
2020 / Technology

We all know that Big Tech GAFA (aka Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple) are watching us. I’ve been pretty paranoid about the Internet and compromising of personal data for some time now. Google probably knows me better than I know myself. Those of us born after the year 1995 have […]

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Oh My Amazon.

By zarinamacha June 2, 2020April 18, 2023
2020 / Technology

It is so hard not to buy products from Amazon. They are cheap and apt at delivering fast products. Anything you want can be brought to you within days. Not to mention, they gave me the platform to publish my own books for free. Amazon sure are a trooper. And […]

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Is privacy dead?

By zarinamacha October 29, 2018April 18, 2023
2018 / Technology

The internet has created a whole new world within a world. Opportunities, friendships and connections can be formed via cyberspace. People can find love online, work online and build entire lives online. But with this new age of everything being out in the open, does this mean the end for […]

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Zarina Macha

Zarina started this blog in 2017 to document her general opinions and thoughts on life. Originally on Blogger, she moved it to Wordpress in 2020, and hasn't posted any content since 2021. She is currently updating the blog and plans to resume posting content by the end of 2023.
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    Rating TV Show Endings

  • February 19, 2017

    Sexual Objectification?

  • April 21, 2021

    The Struggles of Being an Anti-Woke Person of Colour

  • March 28, 2021

    Diversity in Fiction

  • March 12, 2021

    What A Real Women’s Movement Could Be

  • March 2, 2021

    10 Favourite Episodes of Community

  • February 8, 2021

    Discussing the Awful Ending of Dexter

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