[that-edm-life]

[nomehablen2]

shut up lmfaoooooooooo

[swdyww-deactivated20210428]

Stop

[colachampagnedad]

a timeless classic

[grapefruitmimosa]

this is my favourite audio clip of all time

[favedump]

Mr. Rogers had an intentional manner of speaking to children, which his writers called “Freddish”. There were nine steps for translating into Freddish: 

“State the idea you wish to express as clearly as possible, and in terms preschoolers can understand.” Example: It is dangerous to play in the street. ​​​​​​

“Rephrase in a positive manner,” as in It is good to play where it is safe.

“Rephrase the idea, bearing in mind that preschoolers cannot yet make subtle distinctions and need to be redirected to authorities they trust.” As in, “Ask your parents where it is safe to play.”

“Rephrase your idea to eliminate all elements that could be considered prescriptive, directive, or instructive.” In the example, that’d mean getting rid of “ask”: Your parents will tell you where it is safe to play.

“Rephrase any element that suggests certainty.” That’d be “will”: Your parents can tell you where it is safe to play.

“Rephrase your idea to eliminate any element that may not apply to all children.” Not all children know their parents, so: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play.

“Add a simple motivational idea that gives preschoolers a reason to follow your advice.” Perhaps: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is good to listen to them.

“Rephrase your new statement, repeating the first step.” “Good” represents a value judgment, so: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them.

“Rephrase your idea a final time, relating it to some phase of development a preschooler can understand.” Maybe: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them, and listening is an important part of growing.

Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children - The Atlantic

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Rogers brought this level of care and attention not just to granular details and phrasings, but the bigger messages his show would send. Hedda Sharapan, one of the staff members at Fred Rogers’s production company, Family Communications, Inc., recalls Rogers once halted taping of a show when a cast member told the puppet Henrietta Pussycat not to cry; he interrupted shooting to make it clear that his show would never suggest to children that they not cry.

In working on the show, Rogers interacted extensively with academic researchers. Daniel R. Anderson, a psychologist formerly at the University of Massachusetts who worked as an advisor for the show, remembered a speaking trip to Germany at which some members of an academic audience raised questions about Rogers’s direct approach on television. They were concerned that it could lead to false expectations from children of personal support from a televised figure. Anderson was impressed with the depth of Rogers’s reaction, and with the fact that he went back to production carefully screening scripts for any hint of language that could confuse children in that way.

In fact, Freddish and Rogers’s philosophy of child development is actually derived from some of the leading 20th-century scholars of the subject. In the 1950s, Rogers, already well known for a previous children’s TV program, was pursuing a graduate degree at The Pittsburgh Theological Seminary when a teacher there recommended he also study under the child-development expert Margaret McFarland at the University of Pittsburgh. There he was exposed to the theories of legendary faculty, including McFarland, Benjamin Spock, Erik Erikson, and T. Berry Brazelton. Rogers learned the highest standards in this emerging academic field, and he applied them to his program for almost half a century.

This is one of the reasons Rogers was so particular about the writing on his show. “I spent hours talking with Fred and taking notes,” says Greenwald, “then hours talking with Margaret McFarland before I went off and wrote the scripts. Then Fred made them better.” As simple as Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood looked and sounded, every detail in it was the product of a tremendously careful, academically-informed process.

[witchyfaekin]

That idea is REALLY worth learning to talk to the kiddos. Mr. Rogers still has a lot to teach us–especially for our own kids.

[closet-keys]

One thing I think is useful to conceptualize when thinking about the severity of depression is figuring out what counts as a ‘task’ to your brain

for example, healthy people outlining the tasks they need to do that day might be something like 

- class - work - homework

if a healthy person is having a low energy day, maybe it becomes 

- make breakfast - go to class - class - go to work - work - come home from work - work on an essay - do 2 readings 

a depressed person, on a high energy day will probably see that same day as 

- make breakfast - eat breakfast - take meds - shower - get dressed - walk to bus - take bus … etc

a depressed person, on a low energy day will see that same day as

- wake up - get out of bed - walk to bathroom - use bathroom - stand back up - walk to kitchen - open fridge - take out juice - set on counter - go to cabinet - reach up arm - take down glass - unscrew lid of juice carton - pour juice - drink the juice - finish the juice …etc

the sort of chronic exhaustion manifests in how each ‘task’ takes a certain amount of energy and when you have depression, what begins to take that amount of energy- and thus, cognitively count as a ‘task’- are smaller and smaller subdivisions of what other people consider tasks. 

And the more ‘tasks’ you do, the less energy you have, and the smaller the subdivisions must be to take equivalent amounts of energy. And the longer that “to do” list of tasks is, the more exhausting and overwhelming and hopeless it feels, which creates a feedback loop of dysfunction.

So say our depressed person on a low energy day gets all the way to finishing their glass of juice. They’ve actually gotten through a lot of tasks! They’ve tried really hard. 

But to a healthy person, even on a low energy day, that probably looks like not having done anything- not having gotten through any tasks. And when our depressed person is surrounded by healthy people, they will likely internalize that they haven’t done anything, and further that they can’t complete any tasks no matter how hard they try. And that feeds worthlessness and suicidal ideation 

That, I think, is why it’s so important to encourage your depressed and chronically low-energy friends when they accomplish tasks, even if they’re operating at a level of subdivision that you don’t recognize. It is an accomplishment to get water and actually drink it for some folks. It is an accomplishment to get to class or to work. 

And acknowledging how hard someone is trying and how much energy they’re putting towards accomplishing those tasks can make a huge difference in whether they feel worthless and hopeless or whether they feel like it’s worth it to keep doing what they can.

[endangered-justice-seeker]

 the only criticism of millennials l accept

[dramoor]

 “Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing what you are only thinking about doing. It is tempting to remain in the comfortable theater of our imagination instead of the real world, to fall in love with the idea of becoming a saint and loving God and neighbor instead of doing the actual work, because the idea makes no demands on you. It is like a book on a shelf. But, as Dostoyevsky says, ‘Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams’ (The Brothers Karamazov).”  

~Peter Kreeft

[in-catz-we-trust]

why cant more people realize this?

[recordplayersandsoul]

Whoa…

[pre-party]

[black-kids]

[asongofopposites]

!!!!!

[purephaser]

OMG ITS THE LUCKY SENSEI! REBLOG AND MONEY WILL MAGICALLY APPEAR IN YOUR ACCOUNT!

[dlove13]

Make me rich.

[blackaudio25-1-deactivated20200]

Need that $$$

[purephaser]

Man nigga. Me too

[thingsfordenzeltosee]

I know that my refund is coming tomorrow but y'all can use the luck too

[joqatana]

Reblogging for that last comment. And miracle money.

[moodyspacebabe-deactivated20180]

drop the song tho

[blaqheart-deactivated20180818]

Some people who observe me in my everyday life express that I’m “soft-hearted”, kind to the point of naivete, or foolish (especially when it comes to giving away money with full knowledge that I make very little, or giving away my time for no tangible thing in return). And I do try hard to be a kind person, but I think this idea masks my very deliberate and thoughtful choice; I would even go so far as to call it strategy. Not in the way that I am expecting something in return, but in the way that I feel there is a very purposeful, fulfilling, and sustainable end in the things that I do for others.

The implication is that giving and investing time and energy and resources in others is, more often than not, somehow a miscalculation or a thoughtless action that puts me at a disadvantage in the race toward my goals. The truth contradicts such a statement.

My actions are very calculated. If I give money to someone that may or may not spend it in a way that I agree with, I am doing so with the knowledge that what that person needs is not paternalism, but community and resources. I am doing that with the knowledge that I may not, at that moment be capable of providing those things. I am doing it with the knowledge that bootstrap philosophy is also mythology. I am doing it with the knowledge that getting by day to day on next to nothing erodes the mind and the body. I am doing it with the knowledge that every little thing counts.

I do it with full knowledge and experience telling me that people take kindness for granted, that they take kindness for weakness, that they take my kindness for their own advantage. I am also doing it with full knowledge and experience telling me that this too is a survival tactic. I am doing it with the knowledge that being displaced, addicted, unpleasant, or unstable are not things that are solved by manners or good feelings or cops or prisons. These things are managed, fought, and defeated by having all of our needs meet. So yes, my kindness is calculated. My kindness has never been a mistake. Yes, I have planned, and researched and debated with myself about what is to be done.

Investing in the people around me, even the strangers, is simply the cost of living, and the very real cost of community building. It’s the cost of freely, or not, walking the earth as a person - that by nature - needs the other. To try to not live life at the cost of another is an investment in a world that is entirely possible, but unrealized.

One thing I understand well is that I do something most people have already, and will continue to do. Most people give. Most people have given, even to strangers. The other thing I understand is that many mis-understand the strategy and the necessity of why they should. They mis-understand the sustainability in learning to give in ways that build bridges and communities; learning to give as strategy and in turn, learning to receive.

[bellygangstaboo]

[msladyjay]

GO 👏 THE 👏 FUCK 👏 OFF. Also, the American educational system is trash. I applaud this child’s parents for giving her a voice and standing up against bias authority.

[fridakahloblvd]

(Can someone caption this?)

[nico-incognito]

Classroom full of mostly black and brown students:

Black student: [unintelligible—and then]  …and then throwing everything away beneath it because it doesn’t pertain to you. I’m sorry —

White teacher: —you know what, I’m sorry -I’m sorry…

Black student: —No, no, no…I let you talk -I let you talk, you’re gonna let me talk.

[Other students gasps]

White student: Go ahead. Finish.

Black student: I’m sorry that this is the way that it is. You’re right, it is fucked up. But white people control everything…and that’s not fair. And when anybody, any other minority tries to say anything about it or change it, we’re complaining or we’re ungrateful or all this other stuff because we still have this or that. But then you say something about ‘Oh, I don’t want—there’s too many Latinos and there’s too many—’

White teacher: I didn’t say that—

[Various students disagree]

White teacher: I said I want to control the border!

Black student: You said you don’t want this to turn into a Latin country because there’ll be too many 

White teacher: I did not say that.

[Various students disagree]

Student 2: You said you want to preserve the American culture.

Black student: There is no American culture. American culture is EVERYTHING.

[Various students agree]

Random: Mayonnaise!

[Students laugh]

Black student: And because you are white and so closed-minded, you refuse to accept that, you refuse to accept—

White teacher: Don’t tell me I’m closed-minded—

Black student: Everything you’ve said to me is closed-minded.

White teacher: Just because I don’t agree with you doesn’t mean I’m closed-minded.

Black student: You don’t need to agree—I -I’ve had conversations with people that don’t agree with me, but if they at least listen and try to accept—you’re not accepting the truth.

White teacher: Why do I have to accept what you think is right?

Black student: You need to accept the truth! Not what I think is right, what is actually happening right—

White teacher: Well, let me tell you what I think. You said white people have been in control of everything….who is the president of the United States right now?!

Students: A black man!

*Various sounds of incredulity*

Black student: WITH A WHITE CONGRESS! WITH A WHITE SENATE! WITH WHITE EVERYTHING ELSE! HE DOESN’T HAVE THE CONTROL OF EVERYTHING!

Random: GO OFF 

Other Random: GO OFF–

*The class is in an uproar*

Random student: YOU ARE SO PRIVILEGED THAT YOU JUST DON’T SEE IT!

White teacher: Do we have to yell?!

Black student: Yes, because I’m mad.

[asongofopposites]

Yes, because I am mad 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Tired of this emotionless intellectualism that wants you debate things as if they don't affect lives.

[tsunamiwavesurfing]

this is the funniest shit in the universe

[asongofopposites]

lmao

[brazilianism]

A city counselor was shot dead in Rio last night.

A black, female, lgbt city counselor was shot dead in Rio last night.

A black, female, lgbt city counselor that came from a poor neighborhood and used her position to defend all those causes was shot dead in Rio last night.

They fired 9 times towards her car. They hit her in the head more than once. 

A city counselor was shot dead in Rio last night, with more than one gunshot to her head. Her driver too, shot in the back. 

A city counselor that had just created a way to investigate on the military intervention in Rio last week - a city counselor that had just unveiled yet more cases of police violence - was assassinated in Rio last night.

If you’re not scared for Brazilians right now you’re not paying enough attention. 

[brazilianism]

By the way, this is what the streets of Brazil looked like last night, in protest of her assassination

pics originally from the midia ninja twitter. 

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[rjzimmerman]

'Beast From the East' Drives Sea Life Die-Off

Hundreds of thousands of lobsters, starfish, crabs and other creatures have washed up dead or dying on beaches on the UK's eastern coast.

Such as these thousands of dead starfish and other sea animals on the beaches of the UK:

Excerpt:

March certainly came in like a lion in the UK and Ireland, as “the Beast from the East” brought freezing temperatures, up to 20 inches of snowfall and travel disruptions to the British Isles.

But what was disruptive for the region’s human inhabitants was deadly for its marine life. Hundreds of thousands of lobsters, starfish, crabs and other creatures washed up dead or dying on beaches on the UK’s eastern coast, Buzzfeed News reported Monday.

“There are places where you are ankle-deep, or calf-deep, in animals,” Yorkshire Wildlife Trust worker Bex Lyman said.

The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust worked with local fisherman to separate live lobsters from the dead, with the aim of returning them to the ocean when the weather warms.

[realcleverscience]

This is what climate change looks like. And if we fuck up the marine ecosystem, it won’t be long till we’re fucked. So yeah… what’s Trump’s position on climate change again?

[seawitchedd]

Donald Glover for New Yorker Magazine

[strandscience]

Baby

[sergle]

i’m reading why does he do that and this last part has been ON FIRE, i am hollering in my house.