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*guy who doesn't know anything about sports and has never cared about sports in his life* hey did you know womens professional baseball is returning after 70 years and the games are going to be streamed for free on youtube and the season starts august 1st
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Our time is now. The inaugural season of the WPBL begins August 1st, 2026.
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I think this is so cool and it's awesome they're streaming games for free! I also think it's incredible that this picture is the one they used to advertise the opening day. It's like those videos where someone threatens the camera while their partner shows off their collection of rocks they found.
Reading LM Montgomery has got me thinking that in some ways weāve gotten more restrictive about what a ānormalā family structure is. Itās not at all uncommon in her books to have households and families made up of groups rather than a couple and/or children. Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert are brother and sister. Rosemary and Ellen West are sisters. Marilla Cuthbert and Rachel Lynde are friends who move in together. Aunt Elizabeth, Aunt Laura, and Emily all live together at New Moon well into Emilyās adulthood and career as an author.
Now, a lot of this is related to the restrictions that women did face in terms of career options and social respectability. Living alone and being self-supporting is a much more common option for women now than it was in the late 1800s/early 1900s, and thatās a very good thing. I think singleness and living alone has become more normalized than it was then for both men and women (modern appliances probably helped with that shift!).
But the flip side is that living with adults other than your spouse ā siblings, or other relatives, or friends ā on a long-term basis was treated as much more normal then than it is now! Now itās taken for granted that if youāre single and without kids, youāll live alone if economically capable of doing do. And I feel like that could he contributing to increases in loneliness. For most of human history, in most societies, I have the impression that it wasnāt typical for single people to live alone. Having the freedom to do so is great! But having it feel atypical to not do so could be guiding people who are genuinely unhappy alone to think that loneliness or finding a romantic partner are their only options.
The "nuclear family" is a fiction, a structure invented by mid 20th century marketing to help sell ugly suburban houses to newly married people who were in the US making more money than previous generations had earned.
No human society anywhere is arranged around this "husband + wife + children" structure. There have always been extended family groups we belonged to. Either under one roof if the famiy was poor or in neighborhoods/homes near each other if they had the means.
Pallas's Cat aka ManulĀ (Otocolobus manul), mother and kittens, family Felidae, Tibet
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Not to sound like a broken record but does it make anyone else viscerally angry how we realized in the very recent past that we can successfully eradicate devastating human-specific diseases (smallpox) yet now there's a million people telling you not to vaccinate your kids against measles. I know I know "everyone will not just" but also for real we could never have measles again if everyone would just be cool
Repeat after me : during the 90s WHO had estimated measles would be eradicated by 2020
No more measles. Eradicated. Forever.
Viscerally angry? Talk about being absolutely furious every fucking second of every fucking day.
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neopronouns are all well and good but as long as we're adding words to the english language there's much cooler things we could add too. lets add inclusive and exclusive "we." a variant of "we" that distinguishes between "we (including listener)" and "we (including the speaker but not the listener)". other languages have this. Let's add the obviative case to our third-person pronouns so that we can distinguish between two people of the same gender - a him-[salient] and a him-[less salient]. this would make it much easier to write sex scenes where two people use the same pronouns. why aren't our proud pronoun warriors working on this
White Fear has always been funny (ironic) to me. It's like, imagine a white person walking in the room, perpetually paranoid of everyone of Color around them, of being The Murderer because "look how strange they're all acting around me, they must be suspicious. And yet, THEY'RE the one covered in blood and holding the knife, the body count number floating over their head.
Like, Buddy, yeah we're acting weird, YOU'RE the one that WE gotta be worried about š. I'm scared of YOU.
To use a US specific example, it's like how there's so much fearmongering of being victims of Black and Latino men with guns and gun violence, a violence that white people usually don't even experience because they're not even in the same spaces.
But the demographic most likely to be a domestic terrorist, the mass shooters, the ones that find diverse places and murder people... Are white men. When I go to the store, to church, to work, to the movies, to school, the odds that the person who will walk in and decide to Let Fly is a white man! That's something we have to keep in our minds every day!
But somehow this has not made everyone that "matters" (I.e., other white people) deathly afraid of white men, despite actually, statistically fitting the mold, in comparison to the heightened stereotype of Black and Latino men being gun wielding thugs. Goes to show the power and projection of white supremacy.
On principle, if I am in a space and I see a white man with a backpack, I go to another space.
The thing is i feel like the majority of white ppl know that theyre the murderer. They know theyve got blood on their hands, either from their own actions or from the actions of other white ppl that they condoned. Theyre apathetic to violence committed against other races so they assume everyone else feels the same way which is why the project so much. The fear justifies the violence which justifies the fear which justifies the violence and so on so forth.
When white ppl go out in public theyre not looking for the person who's poses the most danger to them, they're looking for a person who they can endanger with little to no consequences. Im thinking of all those "karen" videos where a white person is approaching, following, or even explicitly chasing a black person while on the phone with the police making up some story abt how theyre being attacked by a big scary black person. So that when the police get there they see a anxious and/or aggravated black person who they can victim blame for any violence that follows.
White ppl in these situations know that they are not in any physical danger. Which is why they feel so comfortable getting in Black ppls faces, knocking on car windows, or even physically harassing ppl. I've been hear a lot of ppl encourage Black women especially to arm themselves bcuz of the current political climate. But on top of the fact that owning a gun poses a danger to you more than anyone else, white ppl who want to see you be hurt know that the US Justice system is baised in their favor. They know that a Black person is running the risk of being killed or imprisoned simply for having gun (or even just a white person thinking they have a gun). Im still thinking about Rihanna Kelver who had literally been knocked to the ground and was on her back with 3 men standing over her when she pulled out her gun. She didn't even fire it, in fact none of her assailants even pressed charges and she's still facing up to 15 years for simply taking it out of her purse. Even though Wyoming, where this happened, is a stand your ground and open carry state but ofc that means nothing when your Black. Ive just been hearing a lot of ppl talk like a gun guarantees your safety when it actually just gives you a new set of problems.
White American dont "love" an underdog, they love to be the underdog or at least to be seen as one. Which is why they can believe theyre the supreme master race while still constantly positioning themselves as the victim.
I'm at the point where I refuse to believe that white ppl are unaware of the threat they pose or that theyre genuinely "scared" of Black ppl. Their ignorance and obliviousness is strategic if not completely fabricated.
The fear is just the set up. Its the premise for the violence about to be committed.
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i think cars should be alive like animals and they should choose their companion instead of the other way around. and it should be a matter of mutual respect and trust as you will trust that the big heavy metal beast will not kill you and the car trusts that you will guide it safely. it should be like how to train your dragon or something. i think this will solve the issue of careless SUV drivers.
"oh what if i get choosen by a stupid ugly car when i wanted something cool" there are hundreds of childrens coming of age movies about being assigned a role or a something and the protagonist hating it until they go on an adventure and learn to appreciate that which they have. it happened to tinkerbell and its going to happen to you when you go on your epic emotional adventure with your fiat multipla.
on the eve of gaining your licence your car will find you. we dont know how they can sense this but they do. it doesnt matter if you get your licence at 17 or 57 your carpanion (car companion) will find you and you must accept them as you are now intrinsically connected to one another and gain a full in-depth understanding of the vehicle. the car will sometimes reflect your own traits. sometimes it will contrast them. but either way you work together as one. its like the average horse girl fantasy but translated to horsepower.
What if your carpanion is like a twongi but you're american, how would your twongi find you
well you see a twongi is capable of many things as they are known for operating under toon logic where they can do anything as long as its funny. so if you live in a state near a coastline the twimgi will appear outside your door covered in water and seaweed and a starfish and if you live inland a large crate with "ORIGIN: FRANCE" stamped on it will be sitting outside and after you open it a comically large amount of baguettes will spill out and once you you processed the situation you will turn around to see that the twingo is just standing there watching you with this expression
the cybertruck occupies a similar role to the oarfish in japanese folklore as they tend to appear, sick and dying, in numbers before a catastrophe. it also loves to lock you inside while it catches fire and kills you both. many such cases.
I am cordially inviting all of you to post this in the comments/reblogs of any and every Al post you come across, on any platform. Especially useful for accounts who āteachā people how to use Al.
Thereās an emotion only unlocked when you live in a house with multiple stories. I call it āthe stair emotionā and itās when you realize the object you need is on the other side of yet another trip up and down those goddamn stairs. Itās the closest I get to transcending the desire for material goods. Maybe I donāt need that notebook. Maybe I donāt need anything.
You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?
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And the rest, as they say, is history. ER (1994-2009) 1.01, ā24 Hoursā
Creationism and Christian fundamentalism feeds into the medical skepticism we are seeing in the U.S. and, once again, the main victims of phenomenon like vaccine hesitancy will be children who are helplessly dependent on their adult caregivers.
Infants are given a vitamin k shot at birth because they cannot synthesize vitamin k or get it from their diets, it is vital in preventing vitamin deficient bleeding which can cause death or permanent brain damage. Administering the injection is a bog standard preventative measure done on newborns immediately after birth, usually automatically. More and more parents are denying it and more and more babies are having totally preventable complications in their first 6 months of life just because the vitamin k shot has a black box warning. Doctors are repeatedly trying to explain to parents that babies need vitamin k and parents just keep asking āWhy? Why are babies born needing vitamin k? Humans survived for thousands of years before it was invented. This must be a conspiracy.ā
Infants, the human life stage notorious for randomly dying with no easily discernible cause. I donāt say that to be flippant, human babies are so incredibly fragile that before the modern era, about half of them died before adulthood. That is a natural 50/50 of making it. Humans did not evolve to be perfectly designed and efficient, we are just functional enough for some of us to survive to adulthood and reproduce. We donāt have to live like that! Looking at the human body through the lens of infallible intelligent design and allowing that to inform your medical decisions is so fucking dangerous.
If you believe God created us, you must know he created us to be imperfect, he created us to be imperfect so we could have the pleasure of discovery and progress and improvement and repentance and growth and learning, he did not create human infants capable of synthesizing their own vitamin k but he created humans intelligent and driven and loving enough to want to ensure that the majority of children make it to adulthood.
The Creationist insistence that babies and especially childbirth have been optimized somehow is maddening. It's the number one sign that someone does not know the first goddamn thing about the history of medicine.
"Well if childbirth is so dangerous, how did humans survive so long?"
Because 1 in 100 is not an extinction-level rate of maternal mortality, next question.
"What do you think people did before Vitamin K shots if babies are so vulnerable?"
Infant mortality was 16.5% in 1900 and even higher before that, next question.
"Women have been giving birth for thousands of years, don't you think they know how to do it by now?"
Women have been dying in childbirth for thousands of years, next question.
They just have no goddamn clue how bad things used to be. It's such a spoiled, ignorant perspective. And when they do acknowledge the difference, they claim it's because of hygiene, not 'modern medicine.' Don't even get me started on childhood vaccines.
I love you Bamf but that was just dumb
see i think when a Final Girl kills a Slasher she should automatically inherit his mantle
the sequel should reveal that the previous movie's Final Girl is the sequel's Slasher. like a curse
wait. make it a metaphor extended allegory for transitioning
going from being seen as the all american teen to being viewed as something violent and dangerous and not quite human. your very existence a threat to civilized society. the only acceptable outcome your death or imprisonment. treated like you murdered someone (the version of you that existed in other people's minds) by giving into your monstrous nature (trans). maybe do a Carrie with it and kill the transphobic bullying classmates