some guy fucked up & now everyone has to live in a blender 2k20

Doll blog: andersonsdollpurpose.tumblr.com 30+, I complain a lot but I'm mostly fine.

[andersonsallpurpose]

My God what a relief. Congratulations, everyone!

[andersonsallpurpose]

Hi, just letting you know that I’m not dead (and not dying either). Real life just became a bit too much for a while there and I haven’t had any energy left. Sorry for going awol for so long, and I hope you haven’t been worried. I will be back.

[bretzkysbs]

It looks pissed

[hailkingcheeto]

Enderman

[deforest]

JOSEPHINE BAKER SIREN OF THE TROPICS (1927) dir. Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

“i made a cyanotype of the bog body poem — it became a great big inside joke between a friend and i. thank you so much for the laughs!”

haha! this is wonderful! im glad i could bring you both laughter!

[champagnemoon]

Take up space!

[closet-keys]

Me, wanting to buy something from a clothing company that pays living wages: god it’s so expensive It is not too expensive, it is fairly priced and I’m just not paid enough.

[rox-and-prose]

Honestly I have a theory that a big reason why corporations hate the idea of higher wages is that their entire business model revolves around having the lowest prices, rather than the best product or service. If we get paid better, we can afford to make a choice.

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

Oh

[computationalcalculator]

this actually isn’t just a theory, it’s an entire deliberate tactic, and if you major in business they literally spend multiple semester-long classes teaching you how to do it

[k-eke]

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[full-to-bursting]

Prickly Pair Chair, Gentleman’s Style - Valentina Gonzalez Wohlers, 2009

[xenosagaepisodeone]

the longer I’m parenting-aged the more I realize how disciplinary oriented parenting styles are significantly more deranged than initially assumed

[xenosagaepisodeone]

me as a teen watching a parent storm across a room to scream at a child for accidentally spilling paint: hm. This is not good.

me as an adult watching another adult storm across a room to scream at a vulnerable and still developing child for accidentally spilling paint: This is my villain origin story

[tachyon-at-rest]

No really: the child DOES NOT know why they did that. Fine neuro-muscular control still developing, impulse control “burped”, a pet tripped them and you didn’t notice. There are lots of reasons that a child is at the center of a mess that needs to be cleaned up but that is NEVER because they want to hurt you as a person.

I’m currently staring at my 20 month old toddler and she is plenty old enough to have the type of tantrum that involves taking whatever she is holding and throwing in on the floor. Sure it makes a mess. And maybe she stared me dead in eyes for an angry second before dropping a glass of milk on the floor but was not an attack on me or my property. She would have no idea why I was angry at her for something that may have already left her underdeveloped attention span.

Children need positive feedback on dealing with their negative emotions and impulse control; hell - lots of adults do too because they never learned from prior generations of hitting parents.

We children of the hitting generation learned Terror. Fear of your parents doesn’t teach you not to behave a certain way, it only teaches you not to get caught.

[telanana]

Fear of your parents doesn’t teach you not to behave a certain way, it only teaches you not to get caught.

[andersonsallpurpose]

You know how scary it is when you’re an adult and someone crosses that line into physical violence?

[brothfan1997]

commission for the wonderful @gardengnosticator​!!! this was a ton of fun :-)

[brothfan1997]

crunch

[medievalthymes]

my love language is the same as a crow. if you’re nice to me i’ll bring you useless little trinkets from my travels that made me think of you

[medievalthymes]

if you’re an internet friend it comes in the form of memes at 2am

[thecollectibles]

The Sound by Carlyn Lim

[unamedwatcher]

[malchay]

So, I looked in the comments, expecting to see discourse or historical background etc, but I found none. Therefore, I decided to learn more and add background. Apparently this machine was used because of polio because polio paralyzes your lungs. According to the wiki article on this bad boy, patients would spend two weeks in there sometimes. They still have these machines, though much, much more modern but they’re barely used at all anymore: “In 1959, there were 1,200 people using tank respirators in the United States, but by 2004 there were only 39. By 2014, there were only 10 people left with an iron lung.” (x)

[meowren-deactivated20190915]

I’ve read about one man who still lives in an iron lung. He taught himself how to breathe again by gulping down air, but it’s quite laborious because of the paralysis. His name is Paul Alexander, and he’s a lawyer. He’s 71 years old and has spent 65 years in an iron lung. Wild, right? He’s been working on a memoir that he was inspired to write by the recent resurgence of cases of polio caused by anti-vaccers.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4414081 (can’t hyperlink because I’m on mobile, apologies)

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

It’s amazing to me to recognize that we only defeated polio in this past century - that my mother’s father had it (he got lucky, it only deformed his feet and thereby kept him out of a couple wars); my mother got the big vaccination that left her upper arm scarred; and by the time I was vaccinated, polio basically didn’t exist. My grandfather must have been born like around 1900, so - in the space of less than 75 years, this was no longer something that parents dreaded the possibility of every summer.

[derryderrydown]

In the 1950s, my mother would go to the corner shop. The owners had a daughter a few years older than my mum. She lived in an iron lung in the back of the shop. Vaccinate your fucking kids.

[shadowphoenixrider]

Reminder that children were in these iron lungs. Children who just wanted their mums and dads, or wanted to cuddle their precious stuffed toy, but couldn’t because of the nature of these machines. Crying because they don’t want to go in this big scary tank, but if they don’t go in the iron lung they would die.

And there’d be hospital wards of these.

This BBC documentary is an excellent one to watch, first as just as a history into the polio vaccine’s creation and why it was important, but also to get a glimpse of the iron lungs in action - 6:58 is when you can see footage of children in these things.

The polio vaccine exists so children wouldn’t have to have a machine breathe for them. All vaccines exist because we don’t want people to suffer. Please vaccinate and get vaccinated.

[karrakazz]

this website is full of people chasing the high of being right in 10th grade english

[karrakazz]

#this counts as bullying

im glad its being taken in the spirit it was meant

[andersonsallpurpose]

I’m ESL so I’ll settle for the high of making myself understood in 6th grade english, but get what you mean

[prokopetz]

I think people often underestimate the potential educational value of senseless memes. For example, thanks to Spiders Georg, literally every teenager on Tumblr has a reasonable grasp of what a statistical outlier is and the sorts of problems that outliers can introduce into a naïve analysis. There are grown adults who don’t get that - I deal with them on a daily basis.

[confusedbyinterface]

“Memes have educational value” actually statistical error. Average meme teaches 0 facts. Spiders Georg is an outlier adn should not be counted

[cari28ch3-me]

Hello I’m a teacher and my mom is currently getting another degree and let me tell you, her classmates are all grown adults that have no idea what a Venn diagram is or how to read it; trust me that without Tumblr I wouldn’t know what it is either so I’ll that one to the list

[neurodiversitysci]

I was originally going to reblog this because of Spiders Georg but then I read that last comment.

Good lord, some country’s education system is failing!

A Venn diagram is one of the key tools for thinking, especially visual thinking. It makes it possible for people with executive dysfunction to quickly, easily compare and contrast things. 

It was  and still is, often in English classrooms, in special education classrooms, and in SLP. 

I’m legitimately horrified that some people aren’t learning what a Venn diagram is.

So here’s a visual example: