Axolotl

[axolotlofficial]

I'm not gonna sit passively by and let this keep happening.

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[radioactive-earthshine]

Still yet again thinking about how video games to Bart Allen are tools to calibrate speed. Despite the GAG in the comics that he plays them so fast he breaks them, video games do not behave like this. There is only so fast a video game can go no matter how quickly Bart pushes the buttons.

Bart can play them very well, his reflexes are quicker than the game itself, he thinks faster than a computer, but he cannot make a video game operate faster than it was programmed to go.

The video games in all actuality help Bart slow down and ground him to "normal speed".

Max doesn't understand this, and he never tries to learn this, and that is why it is so frustrating when he claims Bart's skills in games is just because he is fast and he actually doesn't have any talent. Poor Bart doesn't have the ability to defend himself properly from people determined to not understand him or how his powers work.

[the-bisexual-bitch]

*Stares into the middle distance* Anyone ever think about how a lot of normal/encouraged parenting tactics are also textbook abuse? Like...

Tracking (phone tracking apps are getting increasingly popular for parents)

Controlling appearance

Stopping a child from spending time around friends (grounding, taking away communication with people outside of the house)

Making a teen ask before going anywhere

And more that I don't have the energy to write out

The reason these things are considered acceptable for parents and abusive for everyone else is because youth are second class citizens who don't have the right to self determination

[sweetpea67]

Fucked up how young children are expected to be grateful to their parents for giving them basic human rights like food and shelter.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

sorry if this comes off wrong, i just wanna better understand your argument/thoughts because i haven’t really heard this thought process before. can you elaborate on your thoughts on book banning and censorship? — 🪻

Post by @dragon-in-a-fez

💬 2  🔁 77  ❤️ 161 · one of the most insidious forms of privilege is the ability to think of something you’re doing as provocative and revolu

I wrote a longish post about my feelings some years ago here

but basically, I feel like a lot of adults are very self-congratulatory about being anti-book-ban in theory, without recognising that book bans almost always target youth specifically and that you have to engage with that reality if you're going to accomplish anything. an adult "reading a banned book" doesn't fucking mean anything because that book isn't banned for them.

my advice to any adult who wants to do real, practical resistance to book bans is to find out what books have been banned or challenged in your local schools and put up a Little Free Library in your front yard containing all of those books.

[this-is-adultism]

got referred to look at non-carceral crises resources and one of them explicitly states they only help people 18+. a crisis hotline. with a description saying they focus on the marginalized. will not help children not kill themselves.

This is adultism.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

if I see one more "why age verification is bad" post that doesn't even bother to mention that locking young people out of huge sections of the public sphere - literally the stated goal and primary impact of this shit - is wrong in and of itself I will simply start hitting people with bricks

[dragon-in-a-fez]

yes yes biometric data privacy blah blah adults can hypothetically by harmed by this too. what about the immediate and deliberate and not at all hypothetical harm to youth. why are you acting like a potential data leak about what your face looks like, which if it ever happened would at least be generally recognised as a problem, is a more serious issue than cutting millions of people off from information and community and public expression which is happening right now in the open with large scale support

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it's got the stench of fucking "banned books week" on it. thousands of adults congratulating themselves for reading books literally no one is trying to stop them from reading while doing nothing to improve access for the young people who are the ones actually having those books made off-limits to them.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[normal person voice] as we all know, the public sphere consists largely of strip clubs and pools of glowing green acid

[transarsonist]

If door ID checks, and other safety guide rails are functioning, then yes I think the kids could be at the club. My uncle took me to a club that allowed kids a few times when I was young and it was a lark. I drank soda, danced, marveled at the fog and lasers. Literally it was fine.

[artistic-arteries]

The problems that they're claiming to want to solve are still problems that need solutions, though. Roblox is a festering waste pool, YouTube and tiktok pull kids into bad places and encourage bad behavior, Instagram and Snapchat are so incredibly bad for kids mental health. Kids are not mentally equipped for the unfiltered Internet like adults and even teens are (some of the time).

Most parents don't do shit about their kids' Internet habits, many that do don't do enough or do way too much for the wrong reasons (ie block kids from queer support but for some reason not from radicals and other awful things).

I'm generally all for children's rights, but the right to a safe and happy upbringing supercedes the right to tiktoks showing kids shove things in electrical outlets at their schools, so what's a better solution?

[dragon-in-a-fez]

oh well of course, if the technologies and social spaces are destroying children's brains and encouraging bad behaviour, we should definitely worry about that because it's clearly true since the same things were never said about malls and skate parks and arcades and video games and TV and movies and raves and dance clubs and bicycles and novels and

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I'm all for children's rights except if children do things I don't like and the morning news said it was because of SnapTok

[hyperlexichypatia]

Parents, teachers, adults, and society: *micromanage every aspect of kids' lives*

Kids: *react like caged animals because that's what they are*

Adults: This is because of memes.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

if I see one more "why age verification is bad" post that doesn't even bother to mention that locking young people out of huge sections of the public sphere - literally the stated goal and primary impact of this shit - is wrong in and of itself I will simply start hitting people with bricks

[dragon-in-a-fez]

yes yes biometric data privacy blah blah adults can hypothetically by harmed by this too. what about the immediate and deliberate and not at all hypothetical harm to youth. why are you acting like a potential data leak about what your face looks like, which if it ever happened would at least be generally recognised as a problem, is a more serious issue than cutting millions of people off from information and community and public expression which is happening right now in the open with large scale support

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it's got the stench of fucking "banned books week" on it. thousands of adults congratulating themselves for reading books literally no one is trying to stop them from reading while doing nothing to improve access for the young people who are the ones actually having those books made off-limits to them.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[normal person voice] as we all know, the public sphere consists largely of strip clubs and pools of glowing green acid

[transarsonist]

If door ID checks, and other safety guide rails are functioning, then yes I think the kids could be at the club. My uncle took me to a club that allowed kids a few times when I was young and it was a lark. I drank soda, danced, marveled at the fog and lasers. Literally it was fine.

[artistic-arteries]

The problems that they're claiming to want to solve are still problems that need solutions, though. Roblox is a festering waste pool, YouTube and tiktok pull kids into bad places and encourage bad behavior, Instagram and Snapchat are so incredibly bad for kids mental health. Kids are not mentally equipped for the unfiltered Internet like adults and even teens are (some of the time).

Most parents don't do shit about their kids' Internet habits, many that do don't do enough or do way too much for the wrong reasons (ie block kids from queer support but for some reason not from radicals and other awful things).

I'm generally all for children's rights, but the right to a safe and happy upbringing supercedes the right to tiktoks showing kids shove things in electrical outlets at their schools, so what's a better solution?

[dragon-in-a-fez]

oh well of course, if the technologies and social spaces are destroying children's brains and encouraging bad behaviour, we should definitely worry about that because it's clearly true since the same things were never said about malls and skate parks and arcades and video games and TV and movies and raves and dance clubs and bicycles and novels and

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I'm all for children's rights except if children do things I don't like and the morning news said it was because of SnapTok

[dragon-in-a-fez]

if I see one more "why age verification is bad" post that doesn't even bother to mention that locking young people out of huge sections of the public sphere - literally the stated goal and primary impact of this shit - is wrong in and of itself I will simply start hitting people with bricks

[dragon-in-a-fez]

yes yes biometric data privacy blah blah adults can hypothetically by harmed by this too. what about the immediate and deliberate and not at all hypothetical harm to youth. why are you acting like a potential data leak about what your face looks like, which if it ever happened would at least be generally recognised as a problem, is a more serious issue than cutting millions of people off from information and community and public expression which is happening right now in the open with large scale support

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it's got the stench of fucking "banned books week" on it. thousands of adults congratulating themselves for reading books literally no one is trying to stop them from reading while doing nothing to improve access for the young people who are the ones actually having those books made off-limits to them.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[normal person voice] as we all know, the public sphere consists largely of strip clubs and pools of glowing green acid

[dragon-in-a-fez]

if I see one more "why age verification is bad" post that doesn't even bother to mention that locking young people out of huge sections of the public sphere - literally the stated goal and primary impact of this shit - is wrong in and of itself I will simply start hitting people with bricks

[dragon-in-a-fez]

yes yes biometric data privacy blah blah adults can hypothetically by harmed by this too. what about the immediate and deliberate and not at all hypothetical harm to youth. why are you acting like a potential data leak about what your face looks like, which if it ever happened would at least be generally recognised as a problem, is a more serious issue than cutting millions of people off from information and community and public expression which is happening right now in the open with large scale support

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it's got the stench of fucking "banned books week" on it. thousands of adults congratulating themselves for reading books literally no one is trying to stop them from reading while doing nothing to improve access for the young people who are the ones actually having those books made off-limits to them.

[viggooberon]

Commision work through Vgen.

I wanted to draw something of my own for the show but you know, i did not out of insecurity.

But i am gald i still got to draw Elio through a comm in the end. 😆

[xxquilloo]

"teen takeovers are a real issue in this country!"

bro this is my reaction atp.

genuinely though, people being in a place isn't bad. There are only five instances of violence and arrests on the Wikipedia page, and if it were really such a widespread thing and so violent then wouldn't there be more, and if there were hundreds of people participating, then wouldn't there be more arrests if the trend was violent enough to warrant imposing curfews on a whole demographic?

Also the whole like, thing around teen takeovers really seems like an excuse to call teens being in public alone at all a reason for worry even though that's a pretty normal thing since we aren't little kids.

[screwed-in-life]

The argument that "children aren't opressed or discriminated because being a child is temporary" is terrible for a lot of reasons but one of the most obvious (to me) is... Not all children live long enough to become adults, you realize that, right? There's this thing called "child mortality" and in most places the rates are incredibly high, did you know that? Do you even care?

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it is always moral to break unjust laws and that includes teen social media bans

[exposingtroubledteenindustry]

Wikipedia has white washing the troubled teen industry history for decades Here is current article btw

[agent13ronnie]

imagine seeing all of this just to make him a mustache twirling baby killing villain whos worse than the rogues

[dragon-in-a-fez]

when a government bans young people from using social media, and then categorises messenger apps like Signal and WhatsApp as "social media", they are pushing those young people toward using text messages, a fundamentally insecure form of communication. texts are not encrypted in transit and can be read by both the sender's mobile carrier and the recipient's. that also means they can be leaked in data breaches, subpoenaed, or just handed over willingly to law enforcement at the carriers' discretion.

hmm. I wonder why governments might want this

[dragon-in-a-fez]

this is not JUST about destroying kids' privacy by the way, although that is bad on its own! but think about it: if you can push everyone to spend their formative social years communicating through an insecure protocol, most of them are not going to do the work of moving to a secure one the moment they're legally allowed! banning everyone under 16 from Signal and WhatsApp creates a whole population of people more likely to continue, for the rest of their lives, to communicate using a tool the government can access at the drop of a hat

[dragon-in-a-fez]

fantastically poignant that the person in the replies saying "actually WhatsApp IS social media and that means children need to be kept off it" has basically their entire blog dedicated to anti-Palestinian propaganda. like I would have put in the effort to explain how trying to isolate young people from community and information is connected with authoritarianism but thanks for doing all the work for me